Peter put Rarity's wheelchair on the left side of the table, the only place where the white pony could actually reach the salad on the table. Peter sat on the floor next to Rainbow Dash, apple in hand, stomach rumbling in anticipation for the round, green fruit.
Twilight sat across from Peter and Rainbow Dash, working up all of her memories from the point after she sent the letter to Celestia. She cleared her throat, holding her hoof out so as to keep the lampshade at a comfortable angle.
"I'm going to show you all my memories of what happened, does anypony mind?"
They all shook their heads in a unanimous 'no', Spike snoring slightly from above them.
"Alright...it'll feel a bit...weird."
Peter shrugged.
Twilight's horn glowed, her memories traveling across her nerve system into the tip, a ball of thought forming where the nervous impulses met. It grew until it contained Rainbow Dash, Peter, Rarity, and even Twilight herself.
They all delved into her memories, watching from beside Twilight.
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Twilight nodded to Spike, the letter flying through the open window, consumed by magical fire.
"Okay. Well, I need to go see Zecora."
Spike looked up at her, confused. "Why?"
Twilight looked at the dragon, exasperated. "Because we just had a vision, Spike! And if anypony knows what it means, it's Zecora. She's been right on many occasions about this...weird stuff. I want you to stay here. If Celestia writes back, just leave the letter on my bed."
And with that, Twilight rushed out, mane billowing behind her, the mid-day sun reflecting off of...
Wait...mid-day? When I had the vision...it was almost mid-night! Did Spike and I just...pass out?
She shook her head, not wanting to think about it, ignoring everything that passed her, running straight past Fluttershy's house, into the Everfree Forest, delving deep into its-
"Uh...Twilight Sparkle!?"
The unicorn in question stopped, shocked by the voice. She ran back to Peter, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity, the latter occupying a wheelchair, the human and cyan pony struggling to hold down laughter.
"Oh! You're out of the hospital, I see! And all laughing! Great...Uh, I need to go see Zecora. Just...yeah. Bye!"
She ran off, blushing slightly at the show she had made of herself.
I just need to see Zecora...that's all I need to be worried about now.
She ran through the dark forest, avoiding the Poison Joke, heading towards Zecora's humble hut.
She burst through the door, the interior of the hut not intimidating her as it had first done, all those months ago.
"Zecora! I need to ask you something! It's really important!"
The zebra looked up from her cauldron, golden rings clinking as she moved, a look of confusion riddled across her striped face. "Yes, Twilight? What is it that you must speak of?"
The lavender unicorn sat down across from the zebra, concentrating her memories, preparing herself to cast a reversed memory spell.
"Zecora, I had a vision. I need to show it to you. Do you mind if I show you my memories?"
The zebra looked at the lavender unicorn, interest sparking in her eye. "No, not at all. I will gladly view the visions of which you speak, and the answers, I shall seek."
Twilight nodded, only concerned with the consent the zebra had given her. She released her memories in a ball, its greedy light gripping at Zecora's and Twilight's minds, pulling them into her memory.
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Zecora and Twilight opened their eyes, adjusting to the light in the room. Both Twilight and Zecora donned looks of confusion and worry, the vision's meaning hidden to them both.
The zebra dropped a few herbs into her pot, the stew bubbling as she spoke in her native tongue, the words' meanings lost to the studious lavender unicorn.
"Mimi naona maono, lakini si maana. Yatangaza kwangu maana, oh busara kuwa."
Repeating the chant multiple times, the zebra stared into the agitated water's roiling bubbles, forming images that only Zecora herself could see, the waters imparting hidden wisdom unto her.
After taking a deep breath, Zecora looked up at Twilight, a serious look in her eyes. The lavender pony leaned forward in anticipation.
"What this means..."
Twilight leaned ever closer, now up on all hooves, eager to learn what the bubbles had to say.
"I do not know."
Twilight fell over, the shock causing her to lose her balance completely.
"You...you don't know?"
The zebra shook her head, looking directly into Twilight's eyes as the unicorn recovered from her fall.
"But I know a certain pony who does."
Twilight immediately focused up, eager to hear who could discern the meaning of this vision.
"While strange, she may seem, she is wise beyond her short years. Her 'doubled vision' allows her to see past reality, into the realms of dreams and visions. However, she uses her strange power only in situations of the most dire. She now lives in Ponyville, a local mail mare."
Twilight opened her eyes wide in shock. "You...you don't mean..."
The zebra nodded. "Yes, I do. No matter how strange her requests are, follow her advice, as it is most certainly wise."
Twilight nodded, holding back laughter at the prospect of talking to the strange Pegasus as a wise pony.
"I will, Zecora. You can count on me."
Zecora nodded once more. "Well? What are you waiting for? Go."
Twilight nodded back, shouting a 'thanks' over her shoulder as she ran towards the house of a grey Pegasus.
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Twilight knocked on the door, patiently awaiting its resident.
The grey mail mare opened the door, speaking in her mystified, dreaming voice.
"Oh, hello, Twilight Sparkle. Come on in, tell me about the vision."
Twilight looked at Ditzy Doo in surprise, shocked by her knowledge of her vision.
"Uh...Ditzy? How did you know that I had a vision...?"
The grey Pegasus looked back at her, eyes crossed, one of them glowing slightly in the iris.
"You were at Zecora's. She told you that I can see into the realm of dreams. I saw it following you, saw the dream leaving its wisps of thought in your wake, and you have many questions. Come with me, Twilight Sparkle."
Ditzy Doo lead her deeper into her house, right into the basement, talking the entire way. She sat down on a pillow, her lazy eye still glowing slightly, its light now more prominent in the darkness of the basement. She lit a match, and lit the candles in the center, filling the air with an aroma that cleared Twilight's mind and refreshed her thoughts. A lampshade sat in the center of the circle of candles.
"Now, Twilight, if you would be so kind as to place the lampshade around your hoof, we may begin."
Twilight looked at the Pegasus in confusion. "Uh...what?"
A sigh. "Put the lampshade on your hoof."
Twilight was about to protest when she remembered Zecora's words.
"No matter how strange her requests are, follow her advice, as it is most certainly wise."
Twilight swallowed her questions, and nodded, walking into the ring of candles. She placed her hoof in the lampshade, which expanded to allow her foreleg in.
Ditzy Doo's eye started glowing somewhat brighter as she angled her head to see Twilight through the lazy eye, using the lampshade as a focal point for her vision, mumbling to herself as she observed the lavender unicorn, the glowing orb seeing past reality and into Twilight's dreams.
"Mhm...you have seen the Sword of Harmony, have you not?"
Twilight sat bolt upright, the lampshade slightly chafing her hoof as she did so. "Yes, Ditzy! How did you know?"
The grey Pegasus smiled, closing her good eye, pointing to the glowing one. "Thus is the strange power of the Eye of Dreams. A curse or a gift, I do not know. But I do know that it was given to me for a purpose. And I believe that the Sword of Harmony is that purpose."
The grey Pegasus looked into Twilight's eyes with her Eye of Dreams, tilting her head slightly to get a better view.
"Twilight Sparkle, Element of Magic. There is one thing you must know. Do not go in search of the Blade of Harmony, as you will not find it. It does not exist."
Twilight stared at Ditzy Doo, incredulous. "But, Ditzy Doo, how can you say that? It obviously does! Doesn't my dream mean that it's going to become real?"
The grey Pegasus shook her head 'no'. "It is merely a sign. A sign of an Element that combines them all to become the sword in the darkness. It reflected light off of the darkness in the dream, did it not?"
Twilight nodded, accepting the wisdom of the grey Pegasus, sitting down in awe at how much she had misjudged the mail mare.
"It is the sign...of the Seventh Element of Harmony. One that combines them all. One that is them all."
Twilight gulped. "Who...who is its wielder?"
Ditzy Doo sighed, closing her Eye of Dreams, the glow still slightly visible underneath her eyelid.
"I do not know. And even if I did, I couldn't tell you. It would be interfering with the natural flow of things, as if I told you, you would try to rush the process...the wielder needs to develop, needs to grow. If you rush that process, all will fail, and the Seventh Element will never appear, but instead be lost forever."
Twilight sighed, amazed at how quickly the mail mare had told her everything.
"Thank you, Ditzy Doo. I'm so sorry that I misjudged you as being..."
"Strange?"
"Yes...strange."
The grey pony laughed slightly, drawing a confused look from Twilight.
"Thus is the curse of the Eye of Dreams. It's what earned me that horrid name, Derpy Hooves."
Twilight suppressed a chuckle at the mention of the name everypony used when they referred to the mail mare.
I really shouldn't laugh...she's wise beyond her years, just like Zecora said.
Twilight nodded and thanked Ditzy, wanting to go back home and talk to Spike about what had transpired. As Ditzy Doo saw her to the door, something strange happened.
"Twilight. Never tell anypony what I'm about to tell you."
Twilight turned, all ears.
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It felt odd to travel next to Twilight in the realm of her memories. First, he saw the strange vision, then, he saw Zecora, and then, Ditzy Doo.
The memory was cut off just as Ditzy whispered something into Twilight's ears, inaudible by pony and human.
He sucked air in, the out of body experience over as he felt the hard floor of the library, felt the apple raised to his lips. He took a bite, his stomach yearning for the green treat. As he swallowed a chunk of the apple, he broke the stunned silence.
"Well? What are the six Elements of Harmony?"
Rainbow Dash shot him a strange look. "How do you know there are six?"
"Ditzy Doo said the 'Seventh Element of Harmony'. She wouldn't say that unless there were six Elements."
Rainbow Dash blushed slightly. "Oh, right..."
Peter patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, warranting a strange look from Rarity and Twilight Sparkle. He blushed slightly as well, not wanting to explain how Rainbow Dash was like a sister to him.
Yeah, might not be the best time to explain that...
Twilight and Rarity looked at each other, dubious expressions meeting, Twilight starting to speak.
"Well, the six Elements of Harmony are wielded by six ponies in Ponyville. I wield Magic, Rarity wields Generosity, and Rainbow Dash wields Loyalty. Pinkie Pie wields Laughter, Applejack wields Honesty, and Fluttershy wields Kindness."
Peter nodded to each one.
"Well, whoever wields the Seventh Element of Harmony will be a great pony, and definitely a powerful magician."
Twilight looked to Peter with a strange glint in her eye.
"Uh, Peter, I kind of thing it's...you."
Peter looked up at her, returning the look with a smile.
"I'm not. I couldn't possibly be the wielder of an Element of Harmony that's a combination of all the other Elements. I may be Kind, I share a Laugh with friends, and I'm Generous to people who are in need. But I'm not Honest. I lie to get what I want, I've lied to my mother countless times just in order to play a game. I'm not Loyal, because if I was, then I wouldn't have left my family for video games all the time. And I most definitely can't do Magic."
The three ponies looked at him in surprise as he broke himself down, proving that he was incapable of being a wielder of the Seventh Element of Harmony.
"I'm sorry if you expected me to be some great hero. But I'm not. I'm a good person, but only on the outside. I recognize that I'm not a good person every time I ignored my family, ever time I lied to my mother. I'm just a bad person with good morals."
And with that, he stretched his arms, releasing a long, wide yawn, not wanting to pursue the matter any further.
"Well, is there anywhere I can sleep? I'm tired as hell..."
Twilight nodded, and led him upstairs to the guest bedroom, next to Twilight's large bedroom. Inside was a neatly made bed, big enough for Peter and then some, and a bookshelf.
"Wait...where will Rainbow Dash sleep, Peter?"
Peter knelt down and looked at Twilight, eyes level. "She can sleep with me. You can trust me."
Twilight nodded. Rainbow Dash walked in just as Peter stood, standing next to Peter.
"I can trust you, Peter."
She walked towards Rarity's wheelchair, shooting one last remark over her shoulder.
"Because you're Honest."
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Hey! Gylden here. Just want to say a few things: First off, Zecora's chant was actually in Swahili. Thank you, google translate. Also, eight thousand views mother of god holy crap. Carry on.