A/N: This is for Twi, of TwiLanes!
And, before we get any further, I would like everyone to know that this is where their prizes from Equestria: A Contest from now on. Please though, keep up with my other story, One Hundred Moments!
Ariel hears it first, as she's walking through the grounds of the castle. Her ears prick forwards and she pauses, trying to make out the muted words that come to her, brought by the warm Summer breeze.
It is coming, hisses the wind, wrapping around the young unicorn filly, holding her tight in a way nopony else ever has, and you must stop it.
Brows furrowing, Ariel looks around, searching out the speaker. There is no one else around, the garden empty of any other pony. "Hello?"
Silence, until the wind howls again.
Find them, demands the voice, find the six and set right the wrongs of your other halves.
"Our other halves?" repeats Ariel - and perhaps she should be frightened that the wind has gained a voice, but it is hardly the strangest thing to have happened to her. Hardly as unnerving as watching the world spin around her and waver ad turn to liquid, as colors that shouldn't be there float across the sky and through the trees.
Find them, cries the voice, far more persistant, just a touch frantic, before it is too late!