“You have got to be kidding me!” Rarity huffed looking at Wei WuXian who was clinging to the hem of her dress. “I am not going with you!”

“Please!” begged Wei WuXian looking back at the small group of men wearing white robes. “I don’t want to go back with them alone!”

“I have to get back home.” Rarity retorted stealing a glance at the group of men. “I might need to help plan a wedding for a friend not get dragged along because you don’t want to be around a group of cultivators. Especially after what happened earlier.”

“I thought it would scare them away!” retorted WuXian crossing his arms watching the young men. “Though it might be possible they could help you get back.”

The thought did cross Rarity’s mind before she stared at him with suspicion. Wei WuXian laughed a bit saying quietly. “You should be careful when you open up your mind like that. Those with discipline or a strong mind can tell, I just decided to take a peek back.”

“Are you blackmailing me?” gasped Rarity her own eyes narrowing and WuXian smiled as he got to his feet saying. “You weren’t exactly being subtle. Especially when we were fighting against the Stone Goddess. Though the shield you made was pretty cool.”

“That actually came as a surprise to me.” commented Rarity looking at her hands, she looked back up to see the one called HuanGuang Jun walking towards them. The two young men were following.

“I…” Rarity was unsure what to do, Wei WuXian was the only one who knew her situation. Wei WuXian grabbed her arm gently as he turned around saying. “She’s coming too!”

Before Rarity could protest HuanGuang Jun spoke. “Fine.”

“I never agreed to any of this.” Rarity hissed glaring at Wei WuXian who had a shocked look on his face. “You were not expecting him to say yes were you?”

“Not really.” Wei WuXian replied his face going even more pale than it already was. Rarity glanced behind her towards the male in purple robes. If she remembered correctly he was called Jian WanYin. His eyes were focused on WuXian and HuanGuang showing nothing but anger. Rolling her eyes she glanced towards his nephew seeing a tear in the golden robes. Rarity’s eyes flickered around for a moment before reaching into her bag pulling out a needle and thread.

“Come.” she winced at the cold voice of HuanGuang but turned to follow him. She wanted to fix the robe badly. ‘I highly doubt he is going to take to a tear calmly, with the way he acted before.’ she mused mentally moving to catch up. Lan SiZhui glanced at her with an apologetic glance saying. “My apologies, I am sure you will be allowed to leave once we get to the Cloud Recess.”

“I think I prefer staying with Young Master Mo than being lost in a forest that had a Soul Devouring Deity in it.” Rarity replied not even looking back as the young man, who Rarity had learned was called, Lan JingYi, spoke. “I am surprised you even managed to survive that fight. What were you doing up a mountain this late at night? What were you doing with the stone afterward?”

Rarity was taken aback for a bit, there was a difference between JingYi and SiZhui. Sighing she decided to explain to the best she could without seeming like a lunatic. “I was trying to get back home, I was trying to get around the mountain but I had gotten lost. As for your second question, I was trying to see what kind of inspiration I can draw from it. Despite the terrifying appearance the design of it was quite pretty.”

SiZhui let out a slight laugh at that as JingYi stared at her with disbelief. She did not act like most people not in cultivation. From what he had seen they normally were superstitious and feared the creatures that tried to hurt them. ‘But she wasn’t like a rogue Cultivator either.’ he thought glancing at her, the way she walked and talked was like a noble. ‘Yet the way she acts is different. Plus that shield, I have never seen anything like that before. I don’t think anyone has, yet she seemed almost resigned to it.’

“Is everything alright young master?” Rarity asked peering at JingYi’s face and he almost yelped, managing to refrain from jumping back. JingYi cleared his throat before responding. “Now that the monster has been dealt with everything will be fine.”

“Has anyone seen Rarity? She wasn’t in her shop and no one has seen her at all.” Rainbow asked looking at Applejack and Fluttershy. Pinkie Pie had been nabbed by Twilight to help her with something. Both of them shook their heads causing Rainbow to internally panic. Normally Rarity was the first one there and squealing with joy, now it was weird.

“I’m going to check her shop, see what I can find.” Applejack said moving away and Rainbow nodded her head. “Fluttershy can check with her animals see if they saw anything. You should fly around see if you can spot her from there.”

“Understood.” both of them replied before moving away quickly, Applejack moved off towards the shop hoping she could find something. All of them prayed that Rarity wasn’t in trouble.

Rarity sighed as she settled down for the evening, she hadn’t expected to be let in. After all it seemed like all of the cultivators came from rich families. Looking up at the sky she knew she would have to make herself some form of shelter for the evening. Yet since she had declined the rooms as she did not want any of them to get in trouble. ‘’Honestly I should have said yes.’ she thought, though she remembered the rules upon the wall. Unlike Wei WuXian, who seemed scared at the amount of them, she had read each and every single rule carved into the stone.

“YanLi, are you there?” Wei WuXian’s voice spoke in her mind, causing her to look around. “Don’t worry, I was just calling out. Can’t get away from Lan WangJi and I don’t think he knows about your abilities just yet.”

“At least knock mentally, honestly for a moment I thought you were speaking directly to me.” Rarity replied before focusing on Wei WuXian’s mind, her eyes slipping shut his image appearing in the dark. “I do have a question.”

“Not here.” Rarity spoke her eyes glancing around before the area changed around them. It was the area surrounding her core. A place she knew she could trust.

“Why the name YanLi?” Wei WuXian asked his eyes narrowing and Rarity smiled as she thought back saying. “It was a name that called out to me, not from your sister, it was someone else. She said to take care of you and not to let you get too caught up in your research.”

“Lin Chun.” Wei WuXian mumbled as he paused before shaking his head. “Someone I used to know. What is this place?”

“It is the place where the source of my magic resides.” replied the fashionista, looking around. “Apparently.”

“You’ve never been here before?” Wei WuXian inquired as he approached a pulsing light in the darkness as Rarity shook her head. “So this is the source of your magic. Smaller than I thought it would be.”

“It could be because I am not in my original from or because I have two different sources.” mused Rarity aloud tapping her finger against her chin. Wei Ying looked at her with a raised eyebrow and his head cocked to the side. Rarity cleared her throat explaining. “Seems like you didn’t want anything to do with learning. Core Users generally have one core out of three. For Unicorns it is either Light, Arcane, or Shadow. Light is strong against Shadow, Shadow is stronger than Arcane, Arcane is stronger than Light. Split cores you draw magic from two different cores not as strong than a single core but not as weak either. Then the rarest is if one has all three, I haven’t met one yet though….”

Fluttershy sneezed quietly before resuming her search for Rarity alongside Brandon.

“Either you caught a cold or someone is talking about you.” Brandon told her a grin on his face. “Why is it so hard finding the most dramatic pony in all of Ponyville?”

Rarity sneezed before continuing. “From what I have learned, the reason why they are so rare is because the creatures of our world don’t have the instinct to be fully balanced. Now within each co….”

“We are not going into the Specializations, I got bored listening to the first sentence that your teacher said. Your magic is something to be experimented with not put into a box.” Wei Ying interrupted causing Rarity to look startled. “It’s like the cultivators, their sects, and their teachings. They don’t want to grow and change, they are so stuck in they’re ways that they close themselves off to different ways of thinking.”

Rarity looked at him before laughing earning a raised eyebrow from WuXian before she explained. “You and Twilight would get along, you and Dorian would get along. Hmmm, anyways my Core is a split between Shadow and Light.”

Wei WuXian smiled as he looked around saying. “So we are just not seeing the Shadow Core. Do you think you can do something with the area so I could get a better look?”

Humming under her breath Rarity focused on her room in LiánHuā Cūn, she made sure it was to scale. Once she was done she noticed two pillars before her and Wei WuXian one with a white glowing orb and the other with a black shadowy orb.

“I see the problem already.” Wei Ying said walking over to the pedestals, Rarity following after him her eyebrow raised. “You are only utilizing one of these magics. The light one, from the way the pedestal has a used but clean look to it.”

“While the shadow I haven’t even tapped into at all.” Rarity sighed walking over to the other pedestal. “Ponies are afraid of the shadows, the dark. It is why we sleep, why we want happy dreams, we do not want to see what lies in the shadows.”

“But the light isn’t all friendly either.” Wei WuXian countered as he looked at the contained magic. “It requires so much to not get consumed by your good deeds. It makes you blind to other alternatives and can cause an even greater darkness to grow. You need both in order to be balanced.”

“What are you suggesting? That we try and merge the two cores?” Rarity’s eyes flickered over to Wei WuXian who nodded his head. “They are complete opposites.”

“Why do you think they were made?” WuXian asked looking at her as well. “From what I am hearing it is so one cannot be more powerful than the other. Yet it seems like the thing that made these didn’t want the light to even touch the dark. Nor the dark with the light, nothing can touch… says who? What is there to lose Yue?”

“My magic.” Rarity argued looking away. “I will be useless.”

“Or you can gain something greater.” WuXian said his eyes never moving as he grinned. “Experience, in all the worlds you visited how many had their own magic? Their own sets of rules, if you lose your magic here how are you so sure that you wouldn’t just adapt to the magic of this world?”

There was silence as Rarity weighed the options in her head before answering. “Alright, any sign of anything going wrong we are stopping. I don’t want to be caught up inside of a magical explosion.”

“Yeah, neither do I. I mean I just came back.” mused Wei Ying tapping his finger against his chin. Both of them reached out and grabbed the Cores images flashing before their eyes.

A dragon of white.

A dragon of black.

The Tree of Harmony.

Discord.

Balance.

The Sun.

The Moon.

Gritting her teeth Rarity moved the Shadow Core towards the Light Core meeting it in between the pedestals. Energy sparked between them as the light and the darkness fought for control.

“I am the one who makes the decisions.” Rarity growled her eyes sparking to life with magic. The two Cores clashed before an explosion of both light and shadow exploded from under her hands consuming everything in her mind. Rarity just had a chance to throw Wei WuXian from her mind.

Wei WuXian’s eyes snapped open as he panted worried about Rarity. He was still trapped under the arm of HanGuang-Jun. He needed to know if she was alright. It was his idea and he didn’t want her hurt because of it.

Rarity gritted her teeth as she grabbed onto the Light Core forcing it to stay where it was. Her eyes shut tightly as she was overwhelmed with pain as magic began to overwhelm her.

“NO!” she shouted trying to keep it from enveloping her mind. “I am the Element of Generosity! I am needed by my friends! I cannot lose here!”

Her eyes snapped open revealing a mixture of bright blue and deep purple before she was consumed by the magic.

Author's Notes:

I do not own MLP or MoDao ZuShi