The Alter Accords

Chapter Eighteen: Secrets of The Past and Duels.

The girls were all happy after they seen the impromptu show last night in the sky, well at least most of them were. Applejack was nowhere to be seen as the rest of the girls headed over to Star’s place wanting to know how his date went.

“Do you think she liked it? I mean it was obviously for her after all.” Twilight asked the girls.

Rarity just tossed her head and flipped her mane into its proper place with a smile. “Of course she loved it; Dash loves those kinds of showy displays.”

“Oh do you think she got all smoochie with him?” Pinkie said bouncing in place as they were almost at his door.

“I-I don’t think it is polite to ask that Pinkie Pie.” Fluttershy said barely heard by the group.

Knocking on the door Twilight just smiled. “I am sure they had a great time.”

The door eventually opened with a tired and wet looking Novo coming to the door “Hello can I-oh hey girls, what brings you all here?”

Twilight just giggled at seeing him wiping the sleep from his eyes. “You must be tired from your date last night if you slept till noon.”

Giving a brief smile he joined in on the giggling with a chuckle of his own. “Y-ya I am, just got out of the shower too.”

Rarity started to walk into the door and into his living room. “Oh you must do tell us what it is you did.” With the rest of the girls following her though when they did Novo seemed to start getting nervous.

“Um girls, mind if I wake up some before-.” But Pinkie was already heading to the kitchen yelling out she would make coffee for him.

Sitting down on his couch all the girls smiled looking up at his nervous face. “Now now dear, don’t be shy and give us all the details.”

He was going to say when he woke up some more but he found Pinkie already giving him a cup of coffee, mixed in such a way that he was surprised that it wasn’t so bitter. “Mmm nice, Pinkie I will want to know how you got this flavor after this. Normally I don’t like coffee but this is rather good.”

So he began telling them how the date went, how at first it was a disaster as their reservation had ‘vanished’. Next came when D showed up and helped them out, something that they all agreed was a great thing to do and to go see the restaurant themselves one day for such good service. He chuckled when they said service and continued onto how he was served a watered down drink as him and Dash talked about where he had visited.

Rarity practically swooned after learning he could speak and understand Prench and even went on to squeal giddily with knowing that he had actually been to Prance. Twilight was taking notes on how the date went as well on what he knew when he came to the part about the undercooked trout making them all look confused except for Fluttershy and Twilight who gasped.

“What is wrong with undercooked fish?” The purple maned pony asked her friends while Pinkie had a thoughtful look on her face.

Pinkie spoke up as if she had solved it. “Is it cause it doesn’t taste as good? I mean if you don’t bake cupcakes long enough they just remain as batter and can give somepony a belly ache.”

Shaking her head, Twilight looked over to Novo. “You didn’t eat any of it right?” When he shook his head she sighed in relief. “Good, for anypony who doesn’t know, eating undercooked fish can lead to some very serious complications, salmonella being one of them, food poisoning, and over all just other problems that can be serious.”

Pinkie and Rarity gasped though they all seemed to calm down when Novo told them the rest, how D had come by and checked it out after Dash had spoke up. How he called the chefs out and fired the one who did it, on purpose he added cause he didn’t like Novo. After words the meal went off without a hitch and D oversaw everything even as Dash and he shared both their meals and how she actually enjoyed fish.

“After that, we went to the hill where I had hired a few pyrotechnic specialists to put on a fireworks show for us. We sat on the blanket I put out before and enjoyed the show.” Twilight knew it, she knew that it was for them when she had seen the finally. It was at that point they all heard creaking from upstairs and Novo’s eyes went wide. “Anyways you girls need to head out so I can get ready for the-.”

“Novo who are you talking to?” The voice was tired sounding but easily recognizable to Twilight and her friends. “I thought you were going to stay in bed a bit long-.”

They all watched as Rainbow Dash had come down the stairs wiping the sleep from her eyes before she stood shocked at seeing her friends there. However that wasn’t all that made all the ponies there go wide eyed, it was the smell coming off of Dash as all at once they looked back from her, to Novo who was blushing, back to her as her wings were suddenly stiff and a huge blush on her face.

Twilight understood now why they didn’t smell it on Novo when he answered as he had just gotten out of the shower. “Rainbow Dash, Novo, did you two…”

She couldn’t bring herself to complete that sentence as everypony felt their face light up. “And I think you girls need to go now, sorry to be rude but-” they all felt themselves levitating and brought out of the door. “-thank you for visiting.”

Outside the door they all looked to each other than to the closed door then back to each other before their shock was broken by the party pony. “Guess they did more than smoochies.”

“PINKIE!” They all cried out at the same time.

Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria, afraid of nothing, and lover of Daring Do books, was suddenly surrounded by her friends in the library as they all looked at her expectantly. They had caught her almost five minutes after she had showered and left Novo’s place and were looking for answers on why she was there…even if the smell she had gave off when they first saw her told them all they needed to know.

“W-we had dinner and then watched the fireworks show that is all.” She was looking left and right and she knew they didn’t buy that as she was looking for a way out.

“Dash.” They all said as one.

Sighing and thinking back to yesterday night she told them. “Fine, when the show ended I felt so much love for Novo I told him how I felt after he already told me he did all this cause he loved me. He seemed happy to let it end there as we got back to his place giving me a kiss goodnight and closed the door. But I wasn’t ready to let it end, so I may have flown up to his window and surprised him, by waiting for him up there after taking off my dress.”

Rainbow Dash had never felt more embarrassed then she had right then telling her friends what she did. “And then?”

It was Rarity who asked but they were all on the edge of their seats. “Then well…” The moment she started to remember it she couldn’t keep a smile off her face as the feel of his body against hers, of his breath and hers mixing as one, the passion, her own cries mixing with his pleased grunts right as they both achieved the moment when they were one pony. “W-we made love.”

She was suddenly hugged from all sides as her friends all gave sounds of excitement. She wasn’t sure why they were hugging her but for some reason it made her feel nice. Eventually though they broke up the touching moment and no doubt they wanted to ask for some details, except that Spike just walked into the library.

Spike was looking over some letters as he looked up to them all. “Hey everyone, Twilight we got a letter from your Mom and Dad in Canterlot, something from Cadence and Shining Armor in the Crystal Empire, and finally a weird letter that doesn’t say who it is from.”

Twilight levitated all the letters over to herself and started to read them while Spike seen Rarity and went over to her. “Anyways I have to get going everypony. Was supposed to be my day off but I was woken up and now that I am up I might as well train.”

There was plenty of giggling before she zoomed away.

‘Dear Twilight.’ The letter started. ‘We have been keeping up with your exploits and any time you are in the papers we have clipped the article as we couldn’t be more proud of you and your friends.’ Twilight loved hearing from her parents. ‘We are doing well; your father is worried about you though with that one stallion in Ponyville who is a changeling or something similar.’ She didn’t like hearing that as it really wasn’t supposed to be common knowledge outside of Ponyville, but she supposed gossip will spread. The rest of the letter was how they were doing and about random happenings in Canterlot.

The next letter was from Shiny and Cadence and she loved hearing how the crystal ponies were getting along. Though they did mention it was hard getting them used to some of the things now similar to what Princess Luna was going through only for the whole Empire. She was also excited to hear that they were going to copy some books and send them her way to add to her collection which she was thrilled about.

Finally was the mysterious letter. ‘Dear Twilight Sparkle, I regret to inform you that I may have done something horrible. It seems I sold a cursed item to somepony that I caught saying they wanted revenge on you. I was blinded by money and am truly sorry but without that money my shop would have closed. I regret what happened and I hope that nothing happens that is irreparable.’

Twilight didn’t like how that sounded though now she was thinking about who would want revenge on her, she didn’t think she crossed anypony that badly. This of course led her to start panicking about all the ponies she might have hurt unknowingly.

“Twilight what is wrong, here breathe!” Spike said having seen her panic attack, handed over a bag for her to breathe in. She took it and started to rapidly breathe in and out rapidly expanding and compressing the bag till her nerves leveled out.

Smiling she gave the bag back to him. “Thanks Spike.”

“No problem, but what was that about?” He asked only to be given the letter to read. “Weird I don’t think you have made many ponies made, I mean the only ones I can think of off the top of my head is Discord and the queen of the changelings.”

Twilight was about to ask if he could think of any others when he burped out a green flame that turned into a scroll. “Oh what does Princess Celestia want?”

Spike came over and chuckled. “Maybe it’s another test.” His chuckling died out when he seen the serious look on her face. “What is it Twilight?”

“Spike, tell the others I am leaving for Canterlot, right away and I will be back in a few days.” She said moving upstairs to pack her things. ‘This can’t be true, she wouldn’t walk right up and surrender herself like that. It has to be a trick.’

Velox was out and about, he was giving it one last try, though he knew already how it would end. This time though he was flying higher than normal so he wouldn’t be spotted.

‘Don’t do this Velox, it’s really only hurting yourself.’ Novo said from within their mind. ‘I like AJ too, not in the same way you do, but if you do this it will break your heart.’

Lego was silent as Velox just looked down at the ground of Sweet Apple Acres looking for the mare that was breaking his heart. “I have to, if I don’t try at least once more then I will hate myself. If she avoids me this time…maybe I will just hang back in our head and try to fade away or something. I mean the only reason we are all here is cause we loved two mares.”

Settling on a cloud he waited, and waited. He had gotten up early just for this before the sun rose, before anypony woke up cause he knew that if he came winging in any later she might have seen him and vanished on him. The sun started to rise, giving off lovely violets, reds, oranges and more before turning golden, and though he didn’t want to admit it a part of him was thinking this might be the last sun rise he will watch before vanishing if Applejack rejected him, though the other part of him held out hope.

His heart started beating quickly as he saw her, followed by the ache. Velox missed her so much that just seeing her was like a cool drink of water in a desert, until the sandstorm of uncertainty came and started to bury him again. He waited longer then he wanted to though for a one reason, to engrave in his heart her image just in case this didn’t work, that and to make sure she was well into the field so if she did run she couldn’t hide before he caught her.

Making a silent freefall he wouldn’t open his wings till he was ready to start after her. Problem was he didn’t take into account one thing, the position of his cloud verses where the sun had risen to. He had seen his mistake too late though, as his shadow ran over the mare he was going to causing her to look up.

The wide eyed look she gave him when her eyes locked onto him gave him the answer he was looking for though even though his mind was still made to try. Flaring out his wings as he watched her take off towards the nearest shelter of the barn he tried his best to get to her, but no luck, she was just too fast.

He came skidding to a halt in front of the barn doors only seconds after she had shut herself in there. “AJ…please…just tell me.” ‘Tell me why you hate me.’

“Ah’m sorry Velox…Ah just cain’t.” Her voice sounded so strong to him that he knew that she had a firm grasp on her reasons, so much so that it finally caused those last unshed tears to drop off his muzzle.

“Ok.” He said that without emotion at all and those were his last words as he did something he shouldn’t have been able to do. He threw Lego into the pilot’s seat as he changed without permission.

Lego was confused as all hell when he appeared in front of the barn door, usually when they changed the one in control had to relent before the other took control. ‘I will have to look into this later; right now I need to move from the barn so as not to cause any more grief to Velox.’

She could hear him out there waiting she was surprised that he nearly got the drop on her and ran harder then she had ever had before, her heart nearly popping out of her chest.

“AJ…please…just tell me.” She could hear the emotions in his voice, it wasn’t of hate, it wasn’t of malice, it was of pain and sorrow and that made what she was going to do that much harder.

Taking in a deep breath to steady herself and mustering up as much courage as she could, she made her voice sound as steady as possible. “Ah’m sorry Velox…Ah just cain’t.” ‘Ah’m sorry Sugar, this is for the best. Ah cain’t force myself to share ya even if ya are different ponies, it’s still the same body. Plus it’s not fair to make anypony share their special somepony, so just go to Rainbow Dash and be happy…for me.’

“Ok.” The way he said it, she wanted to hear something in that tone, what she wasn’t sure, but hearing nothing at all tested her resolve not to just rush out there and change her mind. She had to be strong and closed her eyes missing the light of transformation as she curled up trying not to cry.

‘This is for the best of everypony…right?’ For once, The Element of Honesty wasn’t sure if she was lying to herself or not.

A robed figure was marching towards Ponyville; a smile could be seen beneath the robe as well as a red glow that is before she threw back the hood of the robe she smiled. “The Great and Powerful Trixie will have her revenge Twilight Sparkle; she has obtained a new power that will make sure all will know she is the greatest and most powerful unicorn that no pony will dare laugh at again.”

“You really need to stop talking about yourself in the third person like that.” Trixie turned to see who it was only to smile as she seen a familiar face.

She could only chuckle as her horn started to glow. “You were on my list to find eventually but seeing as you are here, The Great and Powerful Trixie will show you her power Starshifter.”

She watched as the Earth Pony glared at her and readied a fighting stance. “Bring it you whorse, this is for that hex you put on me.”

Twilight had arrived at Canterlot and to her surprise had been expected seeing as guards were waiting to take her to the palace as soon as she arrived. She wasn’t too surprised after she gave it some thought though seeing as what the letter said. The path to the palace was one she could have walked in her sleep which gave her a lot of time to think and think she did.

‘Why would SHE just show up and surrender like that. It has to be some kind of trap or scheme to take control of Canterlot. OH maybe she is the pony that the letter warned me of, it has to be. It just means I have be on guard and alert and-.’ The world kept moving without her, even when she was lost in her own little world.

“Twilight Sparkle.” Came a distance voice she would have recognized if not for being lost in her thoughts.

‘-make sure I can quickly cast any counter spells or at least some shielding spells to neutralize what it is she will try.’ Twilight wasn’t even aware she had stopped moving and was in front of the ones who called her to the unicorn city and the palace itself.

“Sister, are you sure she is ok? Maybe We should do something to awaken her.” Another voice said sounding formal and concerned.

Instead there was just a giggle and a wink only the other saw. “Watch my sister. Ahem.” A brief glow happened as a spell was cast and something appeared in front of Twilight. “OH NO, the rare first edition of Star Swirl’s memoirs is burning!”

Faster than anypony could blink Twilight had instantly come out of her thoughts and had teleported a bucket of water to extinguish the burning illusion of a book in front of her. “NO, SAVE THE BOOKS!” When she seen the books were still burning and no heat was being produced she heard her teacher giggling as she let out a simple what.

“Sorry about that my most faithful student but it was the only way to bring your mind to current affairs, namely our ‘guest’ as it were.” Celestia spoke motherly to her before making the illusion vanish.

Nodding and moving to give the ruler a nuzzle she smiled. “Of course Princess, I am sorry that I let my mind wonder.” The smile that was on her face slowly vanished and was replaced with a frown as she got into the proper frame of mind for what was to come. “Do you know why she came here and surrendered, I can’t help but think it’s a trap or a trick of some type.”

The sun raiser just shook her head as her horn glowed before a popping sound was heard by both of them as the obvious sign of teleportation. “I have asked her my own questions but I thought it may be best that you ask her yourself.” Twilight found herself face to face with one of the ponies she would admit she hated. “My faithful student Twilight Sparkle, this is Chrysalis former Queen of the changelings.”

Applejack was mindlessly bucking apples, truth be told her heart wasn’t in it. After the surprise encounter with Velox she stayed in the barn for a good hour crying before deciding she had to get to work. She reared back and struck the trunk of her next target and listened for the sound of objects thudding into the baskets she had placed.

‘Velox, ah care for ya but ah just don’t have the heart to share ya.’ The apple mare placed the baskets down and reared back and struck another tree. ‘Dash even went so far as to suggest herding.’ Logically she knew herding wasn’t a bad idea, many herds were around cause of the massive gender ratio difference but problem was one simple thing. ‘Ma and Pa always said, that if ya love a stallion and a stallion loves you with all their heart, then ya don’t need no others with ya. Ah won’t sit by and throw away my parents teachins.’

“Applejack.” She heard her granny call out to her. “Why in tarnation are ya buckin that bare tree fer?”

AJ turned to look at the tree she had been bucking and bucking to no avail to get apples from to see it was indeed bare, she had been in a patch that had already been harvested. “Sorry Granny, my mind just was wanderin’ is all.”

The old green mare came over and smacked the farm mare’s nose. “Don’t ya give me that younging. Ah been toleratin’ yur rushin’ off and hidin’ yurself whenever that changin’ stallion comes by. Ah also saw and heard ya two this mornin’ and ah am right disappointed in ya Applejack.”

Still rubbing her nose AJ looked to head of the Apple Clan with a frown. “What are ya goin’ on about Granny, that stallion is with Rainbow Dash t’ain’t right to go with him like that.”

She watched as the look on Granny Smith’s face changed from a look of disappointment to one of sadness. “Ah see yur still goin’ on about what yur folks told ya before their passin’. Did ya ever wonder why they told ya that?”

She shook her head. “Ah don’t need to wonder Granny, it is obvious cause they were meant for each other and needed no other dang stallion or mare with them.”

Granny shook her head and motioned for her to follow her. Follow she did to walking upstairs and into the old mare’s room. She watched as Granny struggled to reach for a book on the top shelf of her bookcase.

“Let me get that for ya Granny.” AJ told her only to be smacked away with a grumpy ‘Ah got ‘er’.

When at last Granny got the book down she went to sit on her bed. “This is our family photo album where ah put all mah pictures of ya youngins.” Flipping a few pages she smiles as she comes to some recent years ones. “Ya recognize this feller?” It was a small foal that had a red mane and orange body.

AJ smiled and nodded. “It is Pa as a foal, darn cute he was for sure.”

Granny flipped a page or two which Applejack could see as many of the family as they were growing up till she came to a stop. “What about this pretty filly at his side there?”

This time it was a picture of her father grown up a bright red apple with a yellow spot on it and next to him was the picture of beauty that was her mother. A lovely mare was by his side that had a love of apples that rivaled the clan itself with a dark pink mane with a green body and breath taking golden orange colored eyes. Her cutie mark was a lovely apple that was three quarters whole with a slice missing showing a pink interior.

“Ma, they look real young there, must have just gotten together ah reckon.” She sniffed a bit starting to miss them a lot.

Turning the page AJ watched as her Granny pulled out another photo hidden behind one of her parents; this one had a picture of her father and at each of his sides: her mother and another mare she had never seen before. “This was Kanzi’s herd. Yur Pa was in a herd Applejack and these two were his wives.”

Applejack couldn’t believe it, she would have called her granny a liar if not for the fact her ability to sense those things. “But how come ah never heard about this before?”

The mare in the photo was lovely and even if AJ refused to look at her for long. “Santana here was a lovely mare it broke yur Ma and Pa’s heart when she passed, they done burned all their photos with her in it cause they couldn’t stand ta be reminded of what they done lost. A stubborn and firey one she was too, didn’t know when to give up and darn loved apples ta death. Yur a lot like her ya know that, but then that a’int no surprise considerin’.”

“Considerin’ what?” She watched as Granny just started to laugh.

Calming down some Granny pointed to the picture. “Really deary? Why don’t-cha take a good hard look at the mare.”

Leaning in close she looked at the photo as she was told. ‘What is so special about this that Ma and Pa would tell me never to get into a herd for? Ah sure she is pretty, those blonde braids are rather fetchin’ kinda makes me wonder if ah could do that with my mane. Those dark freckles are nice too on her muzzle gives an accent that ah am sure drew in Pa for sure. She even has the same hat as Pa and Ma and with her orange coat heck she could even be my sist…’ The notion started to take hold of her as she started to really look at the picture now. ‘No can’t be, same mane color, same coat color, the only differences is her cutie mark is three apples held together by a single green leaf and her eyes are a darker shade then…then mine.’

“Ah can see by yur face that ya see it don’t-cha.” She looked up to Granny as she asked her that. “Yur not wrong either. Applejack, Santana is yurs and McIntosh’s mother. She died right after givin’ birth to ya from a rare sickness that she couldn’t fight off from bein’ weak after the delivery.”

The hard working family mare looked towards her Granny scanning and rescanning her face and body for any signs of a lie but could only tear up when she seen neither. “But Big Mac never said anythin’, and what about Bloom?”

Putting the picture back in its secret spot she closed the album and looked to her granddaughter. “Big Mac promised yur Pa and Airlie that he wouldn’t. As for Bloom she is Airlie’s daughter and yur half sister. Least by blood, but do ya think any different knowing now?”

She felt insulted and more than a tad bit of rage towards her Granny for even asking that. “Bloom is my sister, no matter what, why would you even ask that Granny?”

“Then it doesn’t matter who yur mothers were huh?” AJ started to shake her head but stopped as she went wide eyed. “Do ya get it now ya stubborn mule, they are both yur mothers, Mac’s mothers, and Bloom’s mothers. It hurt them so much that when one of them passed it nearly broke their hearts, now are ya goin ta let yur own heart go the same way without a fight?”

The moment the question was finished was the moment her hooves were flying. The orchard was forgotten, her work for today was forgotten, the lesson her folks taught her was forgotten but for an important reason. She knew now what they were saying was not that they needed only themselves but were trying to spare her from any heartache in case her loved ones passed.

She found the door to the home of the changing pony and was rapidly knocking on it. “Velox, Novo, Lego, any of ya in there?” There was no answer though. She tried again and again only with the same results only to be stopped by a familiar voice.

“Hey there Applejack, what’s wrong?” Turning to see who spoke she found Pinkie Pie right behind her. “If you’re looking for Velox, finally I might add, he isn’t here.”

“D-do you know where he is?” AJ was still a little out of breath from the rapid pace she set to get over here from Sweet Apple Acres.

“Sorry haven’t seen him yet today, why what is-.” However before Pinkie was finished saying whatever it was her body started to twitch, first it was her right ear, then her tail. Next she started to twist her left forehoof into the ground as if to itch it, followed finally by a full body wave of a shiver. “Ut oh, that isn’t good.”

Applejack was worried, she often seen the Pinkie sense in action and have come to understand it somewhat in that the more actions or the more violent they were, the worse of what was to come. “What is it Pinkie Pie?”

For a moment Pinkie said nothing as her head was down as if thinking about the combination before her head came up and her eyes wide. “We need to get to the square quickly.”

It took them a moment but as they got there they met up with the others except that Rarity was running towards them in an outfit that even AJ could tell was horrendous. “She’s a mad mare I tell you, a mad mare. I mean just look at these colors, they clash so horrible and this style of clothing isn’t in season.”

“Who’s a made mare Sugarcube?” she asked the prim mare only for her to be pointed in the direction that the crowd was and at the center juggling several towns’ ponies was none other than a mare they all knew. “Trixie, what brings ya back here, ah thought Twilight done kicked your flank hard enough as it was.”

Center stage Trixie was looking at them, apparently she was watching Rarity flee when they caught her. “Oh if it isn’t the welcoming committee, but no Twilight Sparkle I see. She must have been scared off when she heard The Great and Powerful Trixie was here to challenge her.”

Something was off about Trixie this time that Applejack couldn’t put her hoof on. “Twi would never do that, she had some business to take care of in Canterlot.”

“PFF likely story, but for now it will have to do. After all The Great and Powerful Trixie is in a good mood after subduing an enemy of hers and making him submit to her after so long isn’t that right servant.” A clop of her hooves together made a beat up looking Lego appear in front of them all with a flash of light. “Go on servant bow before your mistress.”

All the girls gasped as it looked like he struggled with himself for a moment before bowing before her. “What’s going on here Lego?”

Trixie looked up to see that Dash had said the question to which she smiled and moved over to ground Lego’s face in the dirt as he seemed to be shivering. “The Great and Powerful Trixie has had a long standing grudge with this pony and when she found him outside of Ponyville she thanked her good fortunes that she could also cross him off her list. Now this miserable spawn of a changeling here serves The Great and Powerful Trixie. Isn’t that right, what did she call you, Lego?”

The shiver came again as he just ground his teeth. “Buck you.”

“Aww don’t be that way Lego, Starshifter, or whatever you call yourself now.” Trixie seemed to smile as a couple of shivers ran through him.

AJ was angrily staring at the former showmare as she used a hoof to lift his face up and whisper something to him. “QUIT IT!”

The farm mare tried to charge her only to find herself running the other way after a flash. “Oh please do you really think The Great and Powerful Trixie would be so foolhardy to let you finish your charge? However she does applaud your effort. Lego if she or any other pony tries that again give them a taste of their own medicine.”

AJ was just about to do that again when Lego called out to her. “Please don’t, she has control of my body if you do try it again my body will defend her.”

She could hear Fluttershy whispering to Spike telling him to send a letter to Twilight. “Cain’t you fight it?”

Lego just shook his head. “I have been trying, the most I do is stall for half a second before I can’t anymore.”

“Exactly.” Trixie said stepping forward. “Nopony can stop The Great and Powerful Trixie when she gives a command. Watch, Lego why don’t you show these mares one of your other forms, I bet they would be surprised to see you change.”

Lego seemed to be shaking but ended up closing his eyes and starting to glow before the red became green and the muscle mass was replaced with a horn. When all was said in done Novo was standing there looking defeated with a guilty look on his face.

AJ could hear the gnashing of teeth and could see it was coming from an angry and red faced Rainbow Dash. “Do you all see now, this changeling has been among you all this time, he has lied to you and told you things that aren’t true, I bet he even spun that lie about his brothers or some such.”

“We already knew about Novo and his changing ability you WHORSE!” Dash exclaimed. “We know and accept him.”

That seemed to hit a nerve as it was obvious Trixie wanted a hostile reaction to his open display of shifting. “No matter The Great and Powerful Trixie will find other ways of punishing this stallion for the crimes he has committed.”

“I have had enough of this!” Dash moved in to give a flying tackle to the powerful unicorn only be tackled down as Novo jumped up and pulled her down to the ground.

Novo seemed to have tears in his eyes as he looked down to a surprised Rainbow. “I am sorry my Spectrum, I can’t stop myself.”

“’My Spectrum?’ oh does somepony have a sweet spot for this mare?” The showmare said with a grin. “Why don’t you show everypony how much you care for this mare, give her a kiss.”

Novo seemed to be struggling with himself even giving a tear off before Dash spoke placing a hoof at his cheek. “Novo, it’s ok, I don’t mind showing others I care for you.” He seemed to be shivering for a moment but before he could do anything she reached up and kissed him before his body seemed to relax.

Trixie didn’t seem to care for this response. “THAT’S ENOUGH! Now toss her away after giving her a few hooves to the stomach that should satisfy the likes of you.”

Novo’s eyes widened before his hoof drew back. “NO!” his horn started to glow as he suddenly seemed to be thrown off her by several feet. “You can control my body but not my mind, and with my mind is my magic. Let’s see how you-”

“Change back to Lego right now.” Trixie said seemed to have already been caught off from the fact his magic could work without her permission gave the command that would cut off that option.

Before he could complete whatever spell he was going to do Lego was back in the drivers see at his red coat seemed to dull slightly and his panting could be heard. He looked strangely drained and his eyes seemed slightly unfocused for a second before they locked onto Trixie. The empowered mare smiled as she had outsmarted him and went back to her impromptu stage.

“Lego, come guard me till The Great and Powerful Trixie’s opponent arrives. Then she will have somepony to really entertain her besides a murderer.” She seemed to throw that out there.

“TRIXIE! I told you I tried my best and as for him well he isn’t dead!”Lego shouted though the rest of the group seemed confused.

It was strangely Fluttershy who spoke up first. “What is she talking about Lego?”

The illusionist just gave a sneer of a smile of those who think they have one over somepony they truly hate. “Oh don’t you know? This ‘pony’ killed both my sister and brother.”

AJ looked towards Star as he seemed to look tired. “Trixie, I tried my best to save your sister, if I had moved we both would have died.”

“That is a load of horseapples and you know it!” She screamed at him. “You created that tunnel to save yourself after she was going cold, you only wanted to save yourself! And what of my brother, you cut him down right out of the sky.”

Applejack wasn’t the smartest mare but things were adding up rather quickly, that and when the third person talking mare suddenly was saying ‘my’ it helped to drive home the point, and she wasn’t the only as Fluttershy was also tearing up, though it seemed Dash hadn’t realized it yet and neither had a strangely quiet Pinkie Pie. “Trixie, your brother was insane, he enjoyed kil-”

“QUIET!” Lego had to be quiet from her order. “My sister paid for her kindness when she took you in fed you and gave you a place to sleep even when she could barely do it for herself. Then my brother trusts you and even travels with you when you two find each other only to be betrayed and be cut out of the sky by your traitorous ways!”

Seems that Dash finally connected the dots as well as she was the one who voiced out loud what they all had been thinking before. “Lego, she can’t be. Is she saying what I think she is saying?”

Lego nodded and sighed. “Trixie Lulumoon, is the youngest sister to Star Bound and Cascade Nights.”

A.K. Yearling, aka Daring Do, had just finished her quest. She had beaten Dr. Caballeron to this hidden temple, through a crazy journey across two continents and through more cities then she could remember at the moment, though she was sure that she would remember when writing it up for her new book that would come out of this particular adventure.

Coming up to the hidden chest she couldn’t keep her excitement to herself. “Finally, the hidden treasure that has been stored in ‘The Ancient Tomb of Lost Civilization’ oh that is a good title got to write that down.” Pulling out a notebook she wrote down that title with a smile. “Alright let’s see what this is.”

Opening the sealed chest that was the only thing in this room she smiled as an ancient book came into view, perfectly preserved. She couldn’t help herself and opened up the book only to find out it was completely written in Ancient Equestrian, a dead language. Sure there were words they used from the language however it was the grammar and sentence structure of the language that made it so no one, pony, dragon, griffon or otherwise understood its fully written form.

Sighing Daring stowed away the book in a bag that would keep it preserved while she took it back to a university for study. “Well may not be a breath through discovery but it should be a good museum piece.” Pulling out some charcoal sticks and some paper she smiled. “Now I need to take some rubbings to bring back, after all its not every day you find a tomb with Alicorns all over it that isn’t related to the two sisters.”

Author's Notes:

*Flips the bird to some of the writers block* HAHA take that you piece of shi-
*Sees several more blocks*
Well...Touché world, touché.