A dozen wishes

A lavender alicorn with a dark purple mane and tail, in her mane and tail was a pink and purple streak. Her purple eyes fixed on the book in front of her. "Hey, twilight. Um, Twilight… hello, Equestria calling twilight sparkle. Okay time for plan b." Spike, twilight's number one assistant, and a purple and green dragon nudged an ink bowl out of place.

"Huh, oh spike, sorry I didn't hear you." "Yeah I noticed, what are you reading?" "I'm reading a book on real live myths and legends." "But I thought you said you don't believe in things like curses, ghosts, and zombies. Isn't what you reading 'just a bunch of hooey'?" "Ha, ha very funny, I said real myths and legends, not fantasy."

"So where did you get that book from, because it doesn't look like you got it from your new library." I watched as he looked around in my new library room in my newly made castle. "It's from the non-fiction section, way over in the tenth aisle." "Oh, so what legend or myth you reading about right now?" "The legend of the genie's bottle."

"A genie? Really, I thought you said this book was about real legends and myths? Isn't a genie a magical creature that grants wishes?" "Well according to this story a genie is really real. We get things like constellation animals, like the Ursa Minor, immortal alicorns who raise the sun and the moon, and changelings that can transform into other ponies and steal love. Is believing in a genie really that hard?"

"Ah, hmm, good point." "This story tells of a pony who found a genie's bottle and the genie inside. See it even shows you the picture of the lamp the genie was in." "Wow, that's one fancy looking bottle! Rarity would go gaga over a bottle like that."

The picture showed a bottle with a round golden bottom with different colored gemstones in it, a golden neck with tiny gemstones in it and the golden cork was diamond shaped with a diamond on top. "Those gemstones on the bottom are huge, and that cork isn't even the normal kind of cork that bottles have."

"Your right, it's made of gold, not wood, and look at the rims on the bottle, they are all made out of silver." "Who ever made that bottle really went all out." "Actually, according to this story, every genie's bottle is perfectly matched to suit the style of the genie, so no two genie's bottles are the same."

"So does it have a picture of the genie that came with the bottle?" "Yes it does its right here." "Not to sound rude, but she looks like a regular unicorn to me." "Do regular unicorns wear this kind of outfit?" "Not really." "Then she's not a regular unicorn." "What else dose the book say?" "The genie's name is Jewel, and she granted twelve wishes to her master."

"Wait, twelve? Don't genies grant only three wishes?" "Her master asked the same question, and Jewel said the more powerful the genie the more wishes they can grant. But twelve is the maximum number of wishes a genie can grant." "So this pony somehow got the most powerful genie ever by luck alone?"

"I guess so." "So what happened to Jewel?" "The story says after her master made her final wish, she went back into the bottle and it disappeared. Waiting to serve her next master who has the bottle." "Where are you going?" "To the market, if someone found that bottle they would think it was just a decoration, and sell it."

I looked all over the market hoping to find that bottle, my luck held out when I saw a bottle shop. "Hello, anyone in here?" "Hello, welcome to my stall, looking to buy a bottle to go with your castle princess?" "Um, yes I am. Got any bottle's that have jewels in them?" "Yes many, come and I'll show you." She led me farther back of the stall.

"In this room I keep all the more expansive bottles." She opened the door and I saw a lot of bottles. "Just call when you find the one you want." She left and I took out the book turned it to the genie's bottle picture and got to work. "Not the right gems, not made of gold, not the right shape." "Ahhh, this is taking too long. At this rate I'll never find it."

I looked over the bottles again and noticed a shine coming from one of the corks. "It that what I think it is?" I moved aside some bottles for a better look. "That's it, the genie bottle. I can't believe it's here." I took it out to get a better look at it. "Same shape, same gems, and the same top. No mistake it's the same bottle from the book."

"I found the one I was looking for." "Good, let me see it so I can give you a price." I showed her the bottle. "Leave it to the princess to find the most expensive one, and that will be one medium diamond." I took out my gem purse and took out a diamond. "Is this big enough?" "Yes, it is. Enjoy your bottle now."

I took it back to the library to show spike. "Wow, I can't believe you found it. But are you sure it's the real deal, and not a copy?" "Only one way to find out." I popped the cork and gold smoke came out of the bottle. I watched as the gold smoke turned into Jewel the genie from the story. "Greetings master, my name is Jewel, and I am a genie."