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no_vampires_plz) wrote2014-02-08 04:52 pm
no_vampires_plz) wrote2014-02-08 04:52 pm
Keep Calm and Flutter On, part 5
"She's really alright with him staying there?" remarks Rarity after Twilight comes out of the cottage.
"That's what she said," replies Twilight with a shrug. Not that she entirely believes it, but she's not about to second-guess Fluttershy's judgment... yet.
"Personally," says Rainbow Dash, "I think we should come up with a backup plan, in case this whole 'befriending' business doesn't work out."
"Rainbow Dash is right," says Rarity. "This is Discord we're talking about, girls. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have another trick up our sleeves."
Twilight smiles. "And I think I know just the trick..."
...well, Twilight wasn't lying. She thought she knew just the right spell to use on Discord as a backup plan. But finding it is proving to be harder than she anticipated.
"That's weird," she remarks to no one in particular as she pages through The Magic of Moods: Better Living Through Mind-Changing Spells. "The spell I had in mind isn't in here. Spike, where are the other books I asked you to pull?"
"Right here, Twilight." Spike is staggering under the weight of a stack of books twice his height.
Twilight levitates the stack out of Spike's hands and lifts them up in a circle around her, flipping through each one in rapid succession. "I really want to have a reforming spell up and running pronto."
"But what if he makes the Elements of Harmony disappear like he did last time?"
"Princess Celestia cast a spell protecting them, remember?" No reforming spell in Arcana Mens Mentis, none in 1,001 Extremely Useful Enchantments, none in Extremely Advanced Magic for Eggheads. Twilight swears she saw a reforming spell in that book just last week, but--
Wait a second.
Twilight drops all the books in alarm. "Uh oh..."
"What's wrong?" asks Spike.
"Princess Celestia didn't cast a spell protecting our books! Everywhere I thought I'd find the reforming spell..." Twilight picks up Extremely Advanced Magic for Eggheads again and fans out the pages. Sure enough, someone has torn a page out of the book.
And it doesn't take an egghead to figure out who.
"That's what she said," replies Twilight with a shrug. Not that she entirely believes it, but she's not about to second-guess Fluttershy's judgment... yet.
"Personally," says Rainbow Dash, "I think we should come up with a backup plan, in case this whole 'befriending' business doesn't work out."
"Rainbow Dash is right," says Rarity. "This is Discord we're talking about, girls. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have another trick up our sleeves."
Twilight smiles. "And I think I know just the trick..."
...well, Twilight wasn't lying. She thought she knew just the right spell to use on Discord as a backup plan. But finding it is proving to be harder than she anticipated.
"That's weird," she remarks to no one in particular as she pages through The Magic of Moods: Better Living Through Mind-Changing Spells. "The spell I had in mind isn't in here. Spike, where are the other books I asked you to pull?"
"Right here, Twilight." Spike is staggering under the weight of a stack of books twice his height.
Twilight levitates the stack out of Spike's hands and lifts them up in a circle around her, flipping through each one in rapid succession. "I really want to have a reforming spell up and running pronto."
"But what if he makes the Elements of Harmony disappear like he did last time?"
"Princess Celestia cast a spell protecting them, remember?" No reforming spell in Arcana Mens Mentis, none in 1,001 Extremely Useful Enchantments, none in Extremely Advanced Magic for Eggheads. Twilight swears she saw a reforming spell in that book just last week, but--
Wait a second.
Twilight drops all the books in alarm. "Uh oh..."
"What's wrong?" asks Spike.
"Princess Celestia didn't cast a spell protecting our books! Everywhere I thought I'd find the reforming spell..." Twilight picks up Extremely Advanced Magic for Eggheads again and fans out the pages. Sure enough, someone has torn a page out of the book.
And it doesn't take an egghead to figure out who.