GAAHH! WHY DOES THIS STORY HAVE TO BE SO HARD TO WRITE? *SIghh* Hello readers. Again, I apologize for the incredibley long wait for this chapter, but I am excited to announce that it is quite a bit longer than the last one :)

I want to thank everyone who is still with me after my long breaks in between chapters, and I promise I'll try to speed things up a bit. I think I have enough inspiration now.

So, heres chapter 9

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC! The only characters I own in this story are Olivia, Sadie, and Tara.

"Okay, we're all here now," Twilight announced while closing the barn door behind her.

The six ponies were each sitting in a circle on bales of hay in Applejack's barn. It had been years since they had put together a meeting like this, and they all felt uneasy about starting it up again. The last time they had a meeting; it was before they even knew about Olivia's father.

"So? What's going on? What's all the hub-bub, bub?" Pinkie practically sang in her normal manner.

"Yea, why are we all here?" Rainbow asked impatiently, still annoyed about being woken up from her nap.

Applejack glanced nervously around the room. She was the most uneasy out of them all. These meetings had always been about Olivia, and there weren't any signs of changing them.

Just then, Rarity sat up straight and began to speak, "Have any of you noticed how Olivia is acting… a little strangely?"

"Yes… but the doctors did say she'd be weak for the next couple of days…" Fluttershy half thought out loud.

"But even before she got into the hospital," Rarity continued, "She seems a bit… paranoid, for lack of better word."

"I haven't noticed anything," Rainbow spoke up.

"I think I might've," Twilight pondered, "During her lessons a couple weeks ago. The door opened and a couple of stallions came in. I don't know why, but Olivia seemed to jump right out of her skin. She was acting like she did back when we first found her…"

"Yea! I've seen Olivia do something just like that!" Pinkie suddenly announced, "Olivia had just come home from school and I was just hopping back to Sugar Cube Corner! I guess I just didn't see her walking and I bumped right into her! But instead of jumping back up, she just laid there on the ground! She looked like she just saw a ghost!"

Rarity nodded, this was exactly the behavior she was getting at, "Applejack, she's your daughter. Have you noticed anything?"

Applejack thought back for a moment. She hadn't really noticed anything too strange, nothing really up until the hospital incident, "Not really, I s'ppose. She seems happy as can be when she comes home from school."

"What about the day she was put in the hospital?" Rarity asked, "We never did get around to questioning her about that. What exactly happened on that day?"

Twilight glanced toward the ceiling, "I really have no idea. One minute I'm heading off to see Zecora, the next I find Olivia at the end of this huge trail of blood, half dead."

"But'chya found her pretty early right? School in the human land doesn't end till' four. Why was she even back in Equestria?" Applejack asked suddenly.

"Maybe… after whatever happened, she came back here to get help?" Fluttershy suggested.

"That is a possibility, but even so, what happened before she came back? Was it just an accident? Or was it… intentional?" Rarity exaggerated the last word.

"No! It couldn't be intentional!" Pinkie shouted, "The only person that cruel was her father, and he's dead!"

They all were silent. Was Nickolas Peterson actually dead? The princess said she had put him somewhere where nopony could find him, and he could find nopony, but was he actually dead? Was there a chance he could come back?

"There's… something else though…" Rarity muttered under her breath. Everypony instantly looked up at her. Now, she didn't have the heart to reveal the news about the Marijuana just yet, so she went to another issue, "I was getting rather worried about this strange behavior, so the other day, the day after she got out of the hospital, I went to her to see what was wrong."

"You asked her about it?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"Well… yes, but not quite in a way you would imagine…"

They all stared awkwardly at her, very confused by the statement she had just made.

"As soon as she stepped out of the portal, well, I froze her with magic," Rarity confessed, still not sure whether she had done the right thing or not.

"Rarity-!" Applejack began to shout before Fluttershy put a hoof on her shoulder. She looked over to see Fluttershy with a rather serious look on her face.

"Rarity… we agreed to wait until she was in a better condition to ask her anything," Fluttershy said in an out of character, yet still rather quiet tone, "You saw what happened last time."

"Well, I do realize that now," Rarity said with a hint of guilt, "But the way she reacted this time was far different."

Applejack shot a stern glance Rarity's way, "How did she react."

Rarity fiddled with her hooves, "Well, as soon as I unfroze her back in my home, she seemed fine at first. But, when I looked into her eyes… they were light blue."

Everypony looked at Rarity in shock, especially Applejack. They remembered this happening often when Olivia was younger, but they hadn't seen that color in a long time. Applejack was suddenly having flash memories of when she first tried to bring Olivia home, how many times she had seen that color change.

"Then she started complaining about how everypony was staring at her, like she was some sort of animal," Rarity continued as she relived the event in her mind, "She just… snapped. And before I could even say anything to her, she passed out."

Twilight suddenly stood up, "Something's definitely wrong, girls. And we can't sit around any longer."

"But…," Fluttershy began to protest.

"I know she just got out of the hospital, and none of us want to scare her, but this could be the only opportunity we have. If we wait until she's fully recovered, it could be a lot harder to get her to talk. She may still be harmless, but she's not the insanely fragile little girl she was five years ago."

"So are you saying we force her while she's down?" Rainbow accused, not liking Twilights way of thinking, "What'll she think then? She still trusts us, you know!"

"I think I'll have to agree with Twilight," Rarity said, standing as well, "It may seem cruel, but it is for her own good. Who knows what she could be hiding!"

The two groups argued rather loudly, Pinkie automatically joining forces with Rainbow. They lashed out at each other to a point where it was getting pretty off topic.

"GIRLS!" Applejack shouted from across the room.

Everypony froze except for Pinkie, who continued her rambling, "And then SHE said, 'Yes, oatmeal! And maybe I am'… oh"

"Thank ya'll," Applejack grunted, "If we keep on fightin' like this, we're never goin' to figure this out, are we?"

All four ponies looked down in shame, while Fluttershy slowly came out from behind her bale of hay which she had his behind in all the commotion.

"Now, though it pains me ta' say it, I have ta' agree with Twilight on this one."

Twilight smiled a little before looking back down when Applejack shot another glare her way.

"But," Applejack continued, "We do not need ta' be scaring the hay outta. Yes, we need ta' get off our flanks and start lookin' into this, but there's no need to force anythin' just yet."

"So… what should we do?" Fluttershy asked.

"We need ta' call an expert," Applejack announced.

The other five automatically under stood and all spoke in unison, "Sadie."


"Hello, Tara!" Sadie's mother greeted as she opened the door, "What can I do for you?"

"Is Sadie around?" Tara asked in a polite manner, "I need to ask her a question. It's kind of urgent."

"She's actually in the shower at the moment, but you can feel free to come in and wait for her if you'd like."

"That would be great, thank you."

Tara made her way into Sadie's bedroom with a lot on her mind. Something was going on with Olivia, and it was suddenly obvious that Sadie knew something. She had just made herself comfortable on Sadie's bed, when she heard a strange buzzing sound.

"Weird… last time I checked, Sadie didn't have a cell phone…"

She followed the buzzing noise to a little box on Sadie's dresser that seemed to have a lock on it. Fortunately, it was already open part way. Tara opened the box to reveal a small, golden colored rock.


"Why isn't she answering?" Rainbow Dash groaned as she stared at the little piece of golden rock Sadie had given them.

About a year after Olivia started living in Equestria, Sadie had discovered that not only did the stone allow you to teleport to other dimensions, it allowed you to communicate with other dimensions as well. Ever since then, the ponies had held a piece of the golden rock, just in case there was an emergency.

"Do you think she's in school…?" Fluttershy asked.

"Nah, their school should 'a gotten out over an hour ago," Applejack replied as she tried getting a hold of Sadie again.

"What're you guys doing?" A voice suddenly asked from behind. They all turned to see Olivia standing in the doorway of the barn looking very tired and confused.

"Olivia! I told you to stay in the house!" Rarity scolded.

"I… I wanted to come home. You know, back here…," Olivia said quietly.

Fluttershy quickly took hold of the rock and hid it in her bale of hay while Rarity scolded Olivia.

"Olivia, we've been over this. You shouldn't be wandering around outdoors until you're fully recovered. I mean, look at you, darling, you look absolutely worn."

"I'm fine, Rarity," Olivia replied, still sounding quieter than usual, "I'm just tired, that's all. I think I… I think I'm gonna go to bed."

Olivia began to walk off toward the stairs, when she started to stumble a little. Everypony noticed this, and quickly went to help her.

"Olivia… I'm sorry but… you're obviously not alright," Fluttershy said with a concerned expression planted on her face.

"No, no I'm okay," Olivia tried to convince them.

"Well, I'ma help you up to your room anyhow, sugar cube," Applejack sighed, "I don't need ya' fallin' down the stairs."

Olivia reluctantly agreed and allowed Applejack to help her while the others watched them with worry.

"Something is definitely wrong," Twilight sighed.


Sadie, who was now sixteen years old, carefully brushed her thick, black hair one final time before she stepped out of the bathroom.

"Now, I think I'll head to Equestria to see what's going on with Liv…"she thought out loud as she entered her room.

What she didn't expect was to see Tara not only standing in her room, but holding a certain golden stone that was supposed to be locked up on top of her dresser.

"Sadie, what is this?" Tara asked with a suspicious tone.