After some talk on the yellow dirt road, the friends come across a very interesting down. The houses are made of glass, even the plants, furniture and the citizens are made of special glass and paint.

"Wow this place looks very pretty," Celestia says with amazement.

"I know. Everything's is made of glass," Tin Rainbow says.

The couple and the others are amazed to see that the entire town is made of glass. They can see the ponies and humans walking around doing their everyday thing.

Just then a elegant voice says, "This is Chinatown."

They turn to see a china pony doll and a normal china doll They are both white with purple mane, tail and hair. The human china doll greatly resembled the pony china doll but her hair was styled differently. They are both wearing a blue dress with white socks and mary janes. The thing is, they are made of glass as well, just like every citizen in the city.

"Chinaville?" Lionshy questionably says.

"Yes. This place has a lot of china glass, the houses the roads even some of the citizens are glass, like glass dolls and animals," The white pony says.

"What's your names?" Twilight asks.

"My name is Chinaty," the white pony answers with a smile.

"And I'm Starla Chine." the white china doll adds

Then Chinaty asks, "And do a lady might ask, what are your names?"

"My name is Celestia and Celesto and these are our friends Tin Rainbow, Lightning Tin, Krystin, Applecrow, Buddycrow, , Lionshy and Rhyshy."

Chinaty smile and says, "It's very nice to meet you all in our fair town."

Chinaty and Starla Chine can see that the gang are are not from this area, so she thinks it will be a good time to ask them about their reasons of presence.

Chinaty asks, "I hope if you don't mind asking, what are you all doing here in Chinatown? It's obvious you all must have come from somewhere far."

"Well, we're going to the Crystal City to see the great wizard of Oz," Apple Crow answers.

"We're also wishing that he can help us with our wishes," Tin Rainbow adds.

"That sounds very interesting and exciting to see the powerful wizard, but I think it will be best if you rest for the night," Chinaty says sounding interesting in their journey.

Twilight and the others look at the sun to see that it is setting in the sky. They all realized that it's getting late and they need to find a place to stay for the night.

Twilight turns to Chinaty and says, "I think that sounds like a good idea, but we don't have somewhere to stay."

"Well perhaps you can all be at my house for the night," Starla Chine suggests.

The others are surprised yet kind of glad that Chinaty and Starla Chine have offered a place to stay in their home.

Lionshy shyly asks, "You don't mind, do you?"

"Of course not, it will be unlady like to let others sleep outside in the cold and the Crystal City is still a long way," Chinaty replies with pride.

The gang can tell they are very generous and can tell they are not going to say no for an answer.

Then Celestia says, "I guess it will a good idea to get some sleep. I'm tired,"

"Me too," The others reply.

"Then we'll show you all to our house for the night," Chinaty says.

Then, Chinaty and Starla Chine starts to lead the others back to her house.

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In Chinaty and Starla Chine's house:

Chinaty is making some hot tea and some biscuits for herself and her new friends. The couple and the others are amazed to see that Chinaty and Starla Chine's house is very beautiful and all the furniture is made of pure glass. They knows that the next day, they are going to continue their journey to see the wizard in the Crystal City.

Chinaty uses her horn to levitate the pot of tea with the cups and biscuits as she asks, "So darling, mind if I ask, what are you all going to ask for from the wizard?"

"I'm going to ask or brains," Apple Crow says.

"I want a heart," Tin Rainbow answers.

"I… I want to be brave," Lionshy replies.

"And I want to go back home," Twilight says.

"And we're helping these two before that King and Prince gets their hands on them," Apple Crow acting a bit serious.

Chinaty gasps with horrors and scaredly says, "Not King Vulcan and Prince Nacluv!"

"That's the one," Tin Rainbow bluntly says.

"But luckily the mark Celeste gave to them is what caused the changelings to leave her alone," Lionshy adds.

Chinaty and Starla Chine looks at the couple with a surprised look on her face. "It seems that the mark was able to protect you, but it won't stop those two from getting their hands on you both."

"That's what worries me," Celestia sadly replies to that comment. Celesto holds her in his arms.

Chinaty and Starla Chine can see that the couple isn't feeling alright. They guess that the two don't like the fact that they are being targeted by the evil King and Prince. Then Chinaty suddenly asks, "Um everyone, do you all think I'm beautiful?"

The gang look at Chinaty with confused looks in their eyes. They are very confused when Chinaty asks about her looks and appearance like that and in a nervous tone as well.

"What kind of question is that?" Tin Rainbow asks arching one of her eye brows.

"What I mean do you think my beauty is… skin deep," Chinaty nervously asks.

Now that question is getting them really curious. They are starting to wonder what is Chinaty asking them.

Chinaty takes a deep breath and hopefully be ready to tell her story.

After taking a bit breather, Chinaty says, "Well, you see even though a lot of ponies tell me I'm beautiful, I sometimes wonder… if my beauty is only skin deep. So I was wondering if I can go come with you to see the wizard so that I can ask the wizard if he can help me understand true beauty and to see if I have true beauty and wonder if I have inner beauty."

Celestia smiles at Chinaty and says, "Of course you can come with us."

"The more the merrier," Apple Crow adds.

"Really?!" Chinaty and Starla Chine asks with sparkles in their eyes.

Of course we're sure about it. We can use some more in our group," Lionshy says with a smile.

"But you need to help us bring some food supplies and other stuff we're going to need," Tin Rainbow adds.

"Of course," Chinaty says agreeing to the idea of bringing some supplies.

Throughout the rest of the evening to the night, the gang have been gathering some supplies and decide to make the food and gather the rest of the gear in the morning. After turning in, everyone other than the couple are sleeping peacefully in the rooms and blankets.

Celestia and Celesto are simply laying on their beds and looking at the window to see the moon and the stars. She is still wondering how Mystic Island is doing without them, but they are mostly wondering if everypony's alright.

The two says in their thoughts, "I wonder how everyone's doing back home. I hope the wizard will be able to send us back home."

They then close their eyes and starts to fall asleep for the night. They still can't stop thinking about their friends and family back at home. They still wish the wizard can help them get back home to be with their friends and family again and hopefully soon.

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After some time walking down the yellow dirt road, the 5 friends come across a field which has a big circus tent set up in the middle. There are animal tamers with their animals, acrobats, clowns, and other performers and employees for the circus.

Tin Rainbow surprisingly asks, "What is this place?"

"It looks like a giant circus," Twilight answers looking surprised.

"A circus with a lot of ponies working there," Chinaty adds.

With that, the girls decides to go walk to the circus to see what the show is about. When they reach the circus and walk through the crowd, that they are having trouble getting through the crowd.

"How in the hay are we supposed to get through if there are so many ponies performing in our way?" Buddy Crow asks, looking at the many ponies performing and practicing their tricks.

"Well, we'll just need to be careful while walking through," Celestia answers.

Just then she bumps into someone and accidentally knock her over.

She surprisingly screams, "Woah!"

"Ow!" The pony screams as she rubs her head.

"My head," Celestia says, while rubbing her head with her hoof.

Just then the pony realized and seeing her accidentally bumping into Celestia . When she sees the pony who bumps into her, she can see that it's a pink pony with a puffy magenta mane and tail. She is wearing a green fools costume that has yellow and purple balloons on it and has a purple star on one eye and a yellow moon on the other.

She sadly says, "I'm so sorry."

"That's okay," Celestia says.

"Yeah. We know it was an accident," Tin Rainbow replies.

They both stand up to see each other face to face. Celestia and Celesto can see that the pony looks like Pinkie Pie. "Funny Pie, are you alright?" anothe voice came. Everyone turned and saw a human clown that looked like Twilight excpet she's wearing a yellow fools costume that had purple and pink balloons on it.

"i'm alright, TwiPie and Spot." Another figure came over and the others are surprised to see a baby dragon. The baby dragon is red with yellow spikes and spots on his cheeks. He also has an orange belly.

The dragon names Spot says, "There you are we were looking for you. We still need to work on our act."

"I know Spot. I was just trying to think of a new routine for us to do for the show," Funny Pie answers.

"Did any of them worked?" Twipie asks.

"Some of them seems a bit dangerous and some are kind of to impossible to do," Funny Pie answers nervously.

Spot and Twipie can see that Funny Pie is having a hard time thinking of a new act.

Spot smile at her and says, "Don't worry Funny Pie, I'm sure we'll come up with a new act that will wow the crowd.

Funny Pie smile, feeling a bit better and says, "Thanks Spot. I know I can always count on you."

Funny Pie notice that the others are smiling at her with warm smiles. She then decides it will be right to introduce themselves to Twilight and the others.

Funny Pie says, "By the way, I'm Funny Pie and this is my best friend, Twipie and partner, and an assistant, Spot."

Spot wave his claw and says, "Hello."

Celestia smile and says, "Hi, I'm Celestia and this is my husband Celesto and these are our friends…"

"Howdy I'm Apple Crow," Apple Crow replies.

"I'm Buddycrow."

"Tin Rainbow," Tin Rainbow says.

"I'm Lightning Tin and this is Krystin."

"Lionsy," Lionshy quietly replies. "And this is Rhyshy."

"And I'm Chinaty," Chinaty says with elegants. "And this is Starla Chine."

"It's very nice to meet all of you," Funny Pie says with a smile.

Spot is about to say something until he notice Chinaty and her elegance and beauty. For some reason, Spot seems to be in aw with Chinaty and this is the first time he is meeting her. Spot eyes widen and slowly says, "Wow!"

"Spot? Are you okay?" Twipie asks. Spot then starts to adjust his tails and spikes as he says, "How do my spikes look? Are they good?"

"They're good," Funny Pie whispers to him. The others starts to giggle a little about Spot acting kind of funny in front to them and can see that he seems to develop a crush on Chinaty.

Just then, Funny Pie notice that she never saw the gang here before. Funny Pie looks at them carefully and says, "You know…"

"I never see you guys before," Funny Pie adds, add he takes a look at Celestia, Celesto and the others.

"She's right. Are you guys new here?" Spot replies.

"You can say that," Chinaty says.

"So what are you doing here?" Spot asks.

Apple Crow comes over and says, "We're going to see the Wizard of Oz."

"The Wizard?!" Funny Pie and Spot says with surprised looks on their faces when they hear the wizard's name..

"Yes and we need to see him right away," Lionshy replies.

"How come?" Spot asks.

"We need him to help grant our wishes," Tin Rainbow answers.

"And we need to help Celestia and Celesto get back home before King Vulcan and Prince Nacluv gets her hands on them," Buddy Crow adds sounding worried.

The three clowms are starting to make a scared and horror look on their faces when the witch's name is mention.

The two performers shockley says, "King Vulcan and Prince Nacluv?!"

"Are you serious?!" Spot asks with a horrorly shock on his face.

"Afraid so," Apple Crow sadly answers.

Funny Pie surprisingly says, "Wow sounds like you have a looooooong journey ahead of you."

"And it sounds like you can use some help," Spot adds.

"Which is why we're going to see you," Funny Pie says cheerfully.

Celestia, Celesto and the others look at Funny Pie and Spot with a shock look on their faces about what the two are saying.

Celesto surprisingly asks, "You are?"

"Are you sure?" Chinaty asks with concerns.

"Well yeah. It seems to be a cool adventure," Spot answers with excitement.

"And Twipie could use a break from all her studying." Funny Pie states.

"Hey! Studying is good for the brain!" Twipie exclaims. Spot sweat drops at that, "Yeah right."

"And we were hoping that the wizard can help us be more funny. So we can help make ponies and other creatures laugh," Funny Pie replies.

"Alright, you all can come with us," Celesto answers with a smile on her face.

Funny Pie smiles and cheerfully screams, "Oh boy! This is going to be so fun!"

Celestia comes to Funny Pie and says, "But remember, we need to be careful."

"She's right. Who knows is when those changeling soldiers might be lurking about," Appe Crow adds with a serious look on her eyes,

Funny pine simple smiles and says, "Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be perfectly safe as long as we don't get caught."

"But what about your performance," Lionshy asks with concerns.

"Don't worry, we were given a week off anyway," Spot reassures the group of friends.

Then Funny Pie happily screams, "Now let's go!"

With that, Funny Pie starts to hop away from the friends with a smile on her face.

Then she sings, "Oh! We're off to see the wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. We hear he is a whiz of a wiz, if ever a wiz there was. If ever, oh ever a wiz there was, The Wizard of Oz is one because. Because, because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does. We're off to see the wizard,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

As Funny Pie leaves while singing a song. Everyone excluding Spot are confused about Funny Pie's methods and the ways she is acting chipper.

Apple Crow turns to Spot and asks, "Is she always like this?"

"She's like this a lot, but she's still a great pony to be around," Spot replies.

"You know. She a bit strange," Tin Rainbow says with a weird and confused look on her face.

"And reminds me of someone we know…" Celestia adds.

"A little too much like her." Celesto mutters.

Then Tin Rainbow says, "Let's get going before we lose her."

With that, the girls and the baby dragon follow their new member of the group before she gets too far ways from them. Now that all seven of them are on the journey together, they need to be extra careful and make sure they follow the road to see the wizard and hope he can help them.

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