The seventh element of Harmony

Princess Cadence

I brushed my mare to the side and realized how that one of my knights was standing behind me. I turned to him and smiled, "Ah, Franky! What do you need?" Franky stared at me, saying nothing. Something was odd about him though. Like all the angles in his face sharpened. He stared at me harder and I got nervous.

"Frank maybe you should take a couple days off." I suggested.

Franky nodded his head and left. Chills went down my spine and I looked at the clock: 11:24. I had 6 minutes to get down for n important brunch meeting with Celestia and Shining Armor who had left before I woke up. I trotted out the door and down a long flight of stairs into the main dining hall where Celestia and Shining armor were sitting around a small table.

"Hello. Sorry I'm late Aunt Celestia." I said slipping into a chair next to Shining Armor.

"It's fine darling. We were just discussing the Elements of Harmony." Celestia said.

"Well, we were talking about if there is a new element of harmony." Armor said.

I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the idea, "Oh armor, everypony knows there were 6 elements not 7! That is absurd."

"That's what I said," Celestia explained, "but he insists that it's possible." I rolled my eyes and focused on the scrambled eggs and took a bite. Yummy. I looked at Shining Armor who was frowning and appeared to be writing something under the table using his horn.

"Dear…what are you writing?" I asked trying to be as kind as possible.

"Possible elements of Harmony!" He lifted it up with magic so I could see but I swiped it out my face without reading it, getting irritated with him. But when I looked into his eyes I saw a twinkle I had never seen before. I sighed and decided to let him down gently.

"There is no other element of magic." I said sternly looking at him.

He sighed and said nothing. The topic quickly changed to something else that I wasn't quite interested in.

I stared at the clock and realized it was time for another dress fitting. I groaned and started off towards the fitting room. Once down a hallway and up a flight a stairs I peaked around the corner to see Rarity taking out another gown. I took a few steps in and was suddenly knocked down by a sudden flash of grey.

"DERPY! BE CAREFUL YOU JUST KNOCKED DOWN ROYALTY!" Rarity yelled. I stood up and looked at what had knocked me down. It was a Pegasus with a grey body and a blue bubble cutie mark. Her hair was scraggly and blond with strange eyes. They looked in different directions and were not normal. I frowned at the strange pony and she got shy.

Rarity helped me up on the fitting platform and fit a flowing purple dress on me. But I focused my eyes on the back of Derpy's head. She was trying to fix something she had broke earlier.

"Derpy, make sure you don't brake anything this time. Also hand me my pincushion!" Rarity snapped at her.

Derpy turned around and nodded. She grabbed a small red pincushion and handed it to Rarity. Derpy hadn't spoken at all. Was she mute? My heart wrenched when I realized how pushy I was being. But the feeling faded away as Derpy knocked over a box of pins. Ugh. She was so annoying!

"YOU DINGUS PONY? WHY CAN'T YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT?" I screamed. I ran out of the room in a sudden wave of anger and power. I didn't look back even though I know I made Derpy cry. Good. I didn't know it then but I had changed. There was suddenly a voice in the distance and then blackness.