The sun shined brightly overhead, as Ponyville was filled with the sounds of ponies, going about their day. The train station was especially noisy, as ponies began to disembarked, or board the train. The mane six stepped off the train, and look a quickly look around. They all looked exhausted, and worn out. Even Pinkie was exhausted and barely able to stand up. As they headed into town, they saw a familiar wagon parked next to town hall. When they got closer they could hear the sounds of a crowd, and a very familiar ponies making an announcement.

Trixie began to cast a spell, her horn glowed brightly, as a blue mist began to gather on the stage. Which slowly took on pony-like forms, that became more and more detailed. Soon creating the illusion that several different pony, were on the stage next to Trixie. They looked so real, everyone thought Trixie had just teleport several ponies onto the stage. Trixie then began to walk off the stage, horn still glowing, and let the illusions she created perform. The pony illusions quickly took the forms of leaders of the three pony tribes. They then began to perform the story of Hearts Warming Eve. As the play went on, everyone was really impressed by Trixie’s spell. Even the mane 6 decided to stay and watch the show, despite how tired they were. After the Hearts Warming Eve play, Trixie put on a few more plays. All of them reenacting history that was common knowledge to everyone. Yet, the audience was still mystified by the pony illusions. After the sixth play, Trixie returned to the stage, and bowed along side her pony illusions. The audiences exploded into applause, as the illusions began to disappear.

As the crowd began to dissipate, Trixie notice the mane 6, sitting in the back. She smiled widely, quickly jumped from her stage, and ran towards them.

Twilight just rolled her eyes and headed towards her castle. As the rest of them, when about their business. The rest of the mane 6 went home to get some rest, after their friendship mission. While Trixie returned to her stage to practice her performance for tonight. She picked up some books in her magic and began studying them. After reading through the books, she began practicing the show. Later that night, the mane 6 met up next to Trixie’s stage to watch her show. They were all excited to see what Trixie was going to do. After her introduction, which was the same as everyone of her other show. Starting off by boasting about how great she is and how great the show is going to be. The show was mostly based around historical events, and repeated some of the plays from this afternoon. Despite that the show was still amazing, and everyone was mystified by it. After the final play was over and the curtain fell, fireworks shot up into the air. Exploding in a beautiful display of color against the night sky. Trixie came back on stage, being greeted by an explosion of applause, and took a bow. After the show was over, Trixie and the mane 6 went together to get some dinner.

“We can see that, your new shows look absolutely stunning,” Rarity said, before a lady-like bite from her food.

They all began to talked and discuss about all they recent adventures. They talked till the restaurant closed and it started to get very late. So after finishing up their stories, they all head home for the night. The next morning, Twilight was in her library reading and sorting her books. She floated them to their proper places on the shelves, before long most of her books were in their proper place. As she placed the last book on the shelves, she heard a knock at the door. When she answered it she saw her friends and Trixie standing on the door step.

They walked into the throne room, Twilight directed Trixie to the library, before entering the room herself. Trixie soon found herself in a massive library, surrounded by books. She quickly began to look through the shelves. Finding all sorts of books, that were filled with information, but nothing that help give her ideas for a show. As she returned the books to their proper places, she notice a large case sitting at the end of the room. She walked up to it and looked at the contents. Inside was a few badly burned book, nothing to special, but one of them stood out among the rest. The book was in decent conditions and it puzzled her. Why was it locked up, after staring at it for a few minutes, she decided to ignore it and continued to look for other books. Unfortunately in the back of her mind, was a growing sense of curiosity. She found herself looking back at the case repeatedly, as we fought back the urge to look inside the book. Soon she found herself staring at the case, she bit down on one of her forelegs. In an effort to fight off her curiosity, she was suddenly spooked by a vibrating sound. She looked around and saw a small glow coming from a large desk sitting at the far left side of the library. Trixie soon heard the doors of the library open. It was Spike, Trixie watch as he walked over to the desk and pick up a medium size book. It was glowing, vibrating, and had a small sun shape mark on the cover. Exactly like Celestria’s cutie mark, Spike opened it up and began to read it. He seem to be reading aloud quietly to himself.

Now Trixie’s curiosity was even worst now, a huge host of theories began to flood into her mind. She held off, as long as she could before her will power broke. She quickly ran over to the case and unlocked the magic seal. That held the case closed, lifting the case up, she carefully levitated out the book and began to flip through the pages. Most of the interior was in pretty good condition, all though the writing was pretty faded. Also a few of the pages were so burned, the words were beyond recognition. Trixie turn to the cover and tried to make out the title of the book. Although it was almost illegible she could make out the words. Star Swirl the Bearded's journal, her curiosity only sky rocket from there. Right in front of her was the book of one of the most powerful unicorns of all time. She carefully turned each of the pages and glanced at all the spells. When she reaching the final page, she saw the spell Twilight helped finished several years ago. Trixie was belong excited, she began looked through the book a second time. This time with more detail, soon reaching a page, that was so badly burned much of the words destroyed. In an effort to try and figure out what the words could be she began reading it aloud. Filling in the blanks with words that could fit there. As she reached the last word, she hear a deafening explosion, that threw her off her hooves.

They quickly arrived at the library to find Trixie on the floor, lying next to her was the book. A few feet in front of her was a large array of sparks.

Before Trixie could answer, the sparks blended together creating a huge portal. That began to drag them in, they tried to grab hold of anything solid, but it was too late. They all were dragged into the portal, and disappeared into it’s abyss. As fast as it opened the portal suddenly slammed closed. They all tumbled through the portal, being deposited on the other side. Blacking out for a few seconds, when they awoke, they found that they were laying on top of one another. With Twilight and Trxie on the bottom, as they all looked up, they saw they were on top of a very large building. When they looked around their eyes soon met the eyes of six shocked ponies. Well 5 ponies and a zebra, what was most noticeable was, that some of them carried odd shaped devices. Either hanging from their sides like saddlebags, or levitating in their magic.

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