Hi! Hyena King here! This Chapter is where our heroes try to defeat Discord with mix results. So, without further ado, here's chapter 11!
"Keep Away!"
This was not looking good. First, Twilight, Thunder and Lightning had to herd the others into the library, which was like dragging goats...anywhere, frankly. Then they had a devil of a time trying to find the book containing information on the elements, (Hopefully, this would yield info on the Elements of the Guardians as well.) Spike had found the book, but it had been taken from him by Fluttershy. Now she was playing keep away with AJ and Pinkie.
"Applejack, give me that book!" Twilight said as the book was passed to her.
"I don't have any book." Applejack responded, before she passed it over to Pinkie who, with as little enthusiasm as possible, passed it to Fluttershy, who started the chain all over again.
"You guys! Stop it right now!" Twilight cried as she tried to retrieve the book with little success. This continued for a bit, until Spike tackled Fluttershy, which left the book that was just then being passed to her to fall to the ground. Before Twilight could get it, though, Rarity grabbed it with a cry of "Mine!"
"Hey! Do you even know what you just stole!?"
"No, but if you want it, I want it." Was Rarity's response. This led to a merry chase around the room, which was slowly driving Twilight over the edge. The chase concluded with Rarity crashing into Thunder, who had purposefully placed himself there, and the book flew over to Pinkie and Applejack. Before they could do anything, Lightning pounced forward, grabbing the book. This made Pinkie and Applejack dog-pile the pegasus, causing a wresting match on the floor.
Twilight, Thunder and everypony else joined in, which led to a dust cloud that lasted until Twilight emerged with the book.
"Get back! All of you!" Twilight cried as her former friends surrounded her. Meanwhile Thunder, armed with a book, Spike, armed with a scroll, and Lightning, for some reason armed with a rake, surrounded Twilight like bodyguards, keeping the ponies at bay.
Twilight quickly flipped through the book and found, to her complete surprise...
"The Elements! they were here all along!"
"That's great!" Spike said, joining her. "Now you guys can defeat Discord!"
"You here that guys?" Twilight turned to her friends, who were lounging around the library. "We found the Elements! Together!"
There was a silence, then Twilight said. "You don't even care, do you?"
"Nope." All the ponies said at once. Twilight sighed.
"I never thought it would happen. My friends...Have turned into complete jerks!"
"Glad you finally noticed." Lightning said, sarcasm dripping from his voice.
"Never mind that!" Thunder said. He took the book from Twilight. "Maybe this will have some info on the Elements of the Guardians."
"That's a little bit of a stretch, don't you think?"
"Lightning, can you be skeptical some other time?"
"Why can't I be?! Somepony has to pick up the slack while you just blindly follow whatever you're told."
"What're you talking about, Lightning?"
"Let me say it like this. You just do whatever you think you need to, on the principle of, "Never give up." When there's no point to even doing anything because, let's face it, You and I are just background ponies for all the important stuff that happens! We're never going to get any recognition for the stuff we do, so what's the point in doing anything here when it won't make a difference!"
"Well, Lightning, I,m not doing this so I can go out and say, "Oh, look at me, look at me, I,m a hero!" You,ve never wanted to help other ponies, you just want to show the world you're hot stuff and think you're important!"
The pegasi were facing off at this point and coming close to physical violence when they noticed that Twilight was gone. A note hung on the door, which read plainly as, "Went to stop Discord. Try to find you're elements. Twilight."
"That's great! See, they clearly don't need us!" Lightning said with a snort. Thunder sighed.
"look just...make yourself useful and see if you can find anything on our Elements. I'll keep looking in here." Thunder turned to resume reading the book on the elements. Lightning just grunted and went to a book shelf. No sooner had he done this though, then a red energy surrounded him and he disappeared in a flash, leaving a stunned Thunder staring after.
There you go. I,m aware that the mares didn't exactly fight Discord in this one, so sorry about that. I hope you enjoyed this chapter nevertheless. R&R please!