A/N: Ok so this will not be fill chapter. I really don't like doing fill chaps but sometimes I just need to get from A to B. Now that that is over lets get to the story, please review.

Chapter 12: The elements.

It was Friday and Heart's Vision was exiting Ms Cheerilee's classroom. "What should I do Scoot? I have no clue what I should do for the mid year project."

Scootaloo wished that Heart didn't worry so much. "I am sure that you will think of something, you always do."

"But I don't know how to represent harmony. How am I suppose to represent something like that without making a mockery of it?"

"You are making it too complicated. Me and the girls are just doing a small play." Scootaloo had an idea. "How about you go to the library and ask Twilight?"

Heart hadn't caught onto the Pegasus' idea. "How would she help me?"

"Duh! She wears an element of harmony. She is the perfect pony to ask."

Heart face hoofed at his own stupidity. "I am so dumb. Thank you Scoot. I would have spent all day and made no progress."

"Your not dumb, you just need my superior mind." Scootaloo held a dramatic pose to emphasis her playful spirit.

Heart smiled at her display and shook his head. "If you don't stop then you are going to have to stop hanging around Rainbow."

Scootaloo hit Heart in the side. "There is nothing wrong with Rainbow Dash."

It was a playful hit and didn't hurt but Heart was growing accustom to messing with his favorite pony. "Oww, I never said there was. You must think that there is if that is what you automatically assume."

Scootaloo gave a partially serious look. "Do you want me to really hit you?"

Heart put his up in surrender. "No, I am sorry. Praise the almighty Rainbow Dash."

Scootaloo laughed at the silly unicorn. "You are lucky that your cute."

"Don't lie, you love it."

"*sigh* Let's get to Twilight before one of us gets hurt."

"That sounds like a good idea." Heart and Scootaloo went to the library. They found Twilight Sparkle inside reading a book rather intensely. "Hey Twilight, what you reading?"

Twilight quickly turning to the ponies that entered her home. "Hello. I didn't hear you come in. I am simply reading a book that the princess assigned to me. What brings you two by?"

"I am doing a project on harmony in school and was wondering what you could tell me."

"Oh well, I can tell you what I know about my element but you need to ask the other bearers."

"I will do that but what can you tell me about your element?"

"I am the bearer of magic. My element is kind of complicated. The basis for it is that friendship is magic. Together with my friends I can do anything."

"So your element is a manifestation of friendship?"

"Yes and no. I don't know all that much about it myself but I know that friendship is the key. Without my friends the elements can't work. It takes each and every one of us to make them work. When we stand alone we are powerless. We all have to work together or we will accomplish nothing."

"But aren't you the most important?"

"No I am just as important as the others."

"But you are a princess. From what I understand you became a princess after you discovered the elements and you have the only element that is different than the others."

"I became a princess long after I discovered the elements. They had nothing to do with it. My element is different but that makes no difference."

"I know the elements didn't make you a princess but the elements made YOUR element look different than the others, marking you as more important. The elements knew you were more important."

Twilight was becoming angered with the persistent colt. "I am not more important than any other pony."

Heart could tell that Twilight was in no mood to discuss this. He had the information he needed. "Who are the other bearers of the elements?"

Twilight was taken by surprise in the change in the subject. She was glad that it was changed though. "There is Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity."

"Thank you Twilight." Heart left with Scootaloo. "Which should we see first?"

Scootaloo didn't answered but gave Heart a look for asking such a stupid question.

"I know I know, I was messing with you. Where would Rainbow be though?"

Scootaloo began scanning the sky. Not for from the library was Rainbow Dash sleeping on a cloud. "Rainbow Dash!" She didn't budge. "RAINBOW DASH!" Still nothing.

Scootaloo was about to try again but Heart stopped her. "She obviously can't hear you. How about I try something?"

"What do you have in mind?"

"I will freeze the cloud, the cloud will fall waking her."

"Couldn't she get hurt?"

"No, I will catch her with magic if she doesn't wake."

"Why not just float her down here?"

"Because the further away an object is the harder it is to move it. I might lose my concentration and drop her. I would rather not risk it."

"I don't think yelling at her will wake her so go ahead."

Heart readied himself. He pointed his horn at the cloud. A beam of cold shot from his horn. It hit the cloud. After a few seconds the cloud began to fall. It started slow but quickly gained speed. Rainbow sensed this waking her from her slumber. She realized she was falling and jumped off the cloud spreading her wings. She backed off and watched the now frozen cloud crash into the ground and shatter. Some of the ice was headed for Heart and Scootaloo. Heart's reaction was form a protective bubble around Scootaloo. The ice that would have hit her bounced of leaving the orange filly safe and sound. What Heart failed to do was protect himself. A ice shard the size of his hoof impacted his face. It knocked him back and left a gash under his eye.

Scootaloo was focused on the falling ice. She saw the ice shard fly past her. "Heart!"

Heart heard Scootaloo. He did not want to worry her so he regained his composer. "I am fine." His gash was decently deep. Blood flowed from his face.

"You are bleeding."

Heart checked himself. He then used his magic to heal himself. The wound fully closed. "See, I am perfectly fine. Told you." The entire time Heart had held his focus on Scootaloo's shield. He would not risk the ones he loved, no matter what befell upon himself. He dropped the bubble releasing Scoot.

She quickly went to his side and examined where his wound had been. "Don't do that again! I know you could have shielded yourself."

Heart was happy that Scootaloo was not harmed. "I am sorry. I did not think of myself. I was only concerned with you."

Rainbow hovered where she had been. She watched all that took place and heard ever word that was spoken. She lowered herself to talk. "What the hack happened?"

Scootaloo looked to Heart. Heart would not lie about his mistakes. "I used a spell to freeze your cloud and wake you up. I did not think about where it would land. I am sorry."

Rainbow wanted to hit the colt. "You could have hurt Scootaloo."

Scootaloo defended Heart. "But he didn't. I am safe, nothing bad happened."

Rainbow let hurt rage burn into Scootaloo "He was lucky, but luck runs out! If he is going to do things like this I don't want you hanging around him."

The unicorn would not let his Scootaloo receive the scolding for his mistake. "It was my fault. Do not punish Scootaloo for my actions. It would not be right. I accept full responsibility for what I have done. You may punish me how you see fit." Heart lowered himself in submission.

Rainbow wasn't sure how to react to this. "Pick yourself up. I am not going to punish you. Now why did you wake me?"

Heart raised himself up. "I wanted you to tell me about your element of harmony."

"Ok. I can do that. My element is loyalty. I don't know anything about the element itself but I know what it means to be loyal. It means that you stand by your friends. You do whatever it takes. You don't hurt or betray them. You put them before yourself. You need to be there for them whenever they need you. That is loyalty, you got it?"

"Yes, I think I do. Thank you."

"No problem."

Heart turned and was about to leave when he realized something. There was no snow on the ground. "Hey Rainbow you work weather don't you?"

"Yeah…"

"Why is there no snow? It was suppose to be here Wednesday."

Rainbow rubbed the back of her neck. "About that, well we were suppose to move the clouds but I didn't uhh…"

"You didn't what?"

Rainbow wasn't going to tell this colt that she didn't feel like doing it. "Don't worry about it. The snow will be here tomorrow."

Heart didn't know what to think of her reaction so he dropped it. He walked away with Scootaloo. "So who should we visit next?"

Scootaloo wanted to see another cool pony, not any of the frilly ponies like Rarity. "How about Applejack, Apple Bloom's big sis."

"How about we see the ponies that I already know?"

"We could go see Pinkie Pie."

'Not that pony. She makes my brain hurt. She does things that make NO sense.' "Why don't we go see Rarity. I would rather not see Pinkie Pie."

"Really? She is so girly though."

"Look, we have to visit her at some point. It would be better if we get her out of the way now."

Scootaloo wasn't any happier. "Fine, let's get this over with."

Heart and Scootaloo arrived at the boutique. Heart was going to knock but Scootaloo barged right in. Scootaloo looked around but found no Rarity. She was not coming back here today. "Rarity!"

Heart was shocked at Scootaloo's behavior. "Shh, I know you don't like it here but that is no reason to be rude."

Scootaloo was about to say something when Rarity came into the room. "Hello darlings. Sweetie Belle isn't here right now."

Heart said something before Scootaloo made an ass of herself. "We aren't looking for Sweetie, we here to talk to you."

"What do you need me for?"

"I wanted to ask you about your element of harmony."

"I see. My element is generosity. Generosity is giving without expecting anything in return. It is doing for others without thinking of yourself. This not only applies to your friends. It means giving to every pony. Some ponies may take advantage of this but you cannot abandon your giving spirit. If you do then they win. In showing this other ponies will follow your example and bring happiness to others."

"Thank you Rarity. I think I understand." Heart left with his companion.

As soon as they were out the door the Pegasus had something to say. "Thank Celestia that is over. I am not sure how much more I could take."

Heart let it slide. "Let's go see Pinkie. Maybe she will how a treat for us."

That instantly cheered Scootaloo up. "Come on then." She ran ahead of Heart.

"At least she is in a better mood." Heart ran after her. The two didn't make it to Sugar Cube Corner. Scootaloo stopped in the street. "Why did you stop Scoot?" She said nothing. She pointed to where she was looking.

In the middle of the street was Pinkie Pie. She faced towards the two children. "Surprise!" As she yelled her party cannon blew confetti and streamers all over the filly and colt.

"What? Surprise?"

Pinkie was immediately in his face. "Do you not know what a surprise is? I did surprise you didn't I?"

"You did, but why?"

"Well you were coming to see me so I wanted to surprise you."

"How did you know we were coming?"

"How couldn't I?

Heart was more confused than before. 'I am obviously not going to get a straight answer out of her. I better ask her about her element.' "Do you know why we were coming?"

Pinkie smiled "Of course silly." She stuffed a cupcake in each of the young ponies mouths. She explained her element while the colt and filly chewed. "My element is laughter. It is all about making ponies happy! I love making ponies laugh. One must always remember to laugh, even if things aren't looking so great. NEVER, I repeat NEVER forget to laugh."

Heart finished chewing. "I won't, thank you." 'I have to leave before I have an aneurism.' Heart grabbed Scootaloo with his magic and ran away from the pony.

Scootaloo was wondering why Heart was running. "Hey, you didn't want to ask if she had more cupcakes?"

"I am sorry Scoot but I can only take so much Pinkie."

"True, she is a lot to take in. Who are we seeing next and can you put me down?"

Heart wasn't paying much attention. "Sure." He placed Scootaloo on the ground next to him. He had stopped to sit once he thought he was far enough away from Pinkie. "You mentioned Apple Bloom's big sister?"

"Yeah, she is a pretty cool pony. Not as cool as Rainbow Dash but it is kid of hard to beat her."

"Does she live at Sweet Apple Acres?"

"Yeah she shouldn't be hard to find."

The two ponies went to search for Applejack. The found her hauling apples with a wagon. She was an orange earth pony with blonde mane and tail. Heart greeted the new pony. "Hello I am Heart's Vision. I came here to ask you about your element of harmony."

Applejack gave the colt a strange look. "That old thing-ah-mah-bob. Mine was honesty. You know telling the truth all the time. You have to be honest to ponies, especially the one you care about. This goes double for how you feel. If you can't tell a pony the truth how can they trust you? That is why you have to tell the truth, so that ponies can trust each other and work together."

"Thanks, that is great, got to go." Heart was gone as soon as he came.

"That was a weird pony." Applejack went back to work.

"What pony haven't we seen?"

Scootaloo tried to remember which pony the were missing. "We need to see Fluttershy."

"Who is that?

"She is a pony that lives near the Everfree forest. She has a cottage and takes care of animals."

"I will follow you."

Scootaloo led Heart to Fluttershy's cottage. They found her outside feeding chickens. "Hey Fluttershy. I have a friend here that wants to talk to you."

Fluttershy stopped feeding her animals. She could see the colt shortly behind Scootaloo. She normally would have been nervous but it helped that A pony she knew was with him. "Hi Scootaloo. What is your friend's name?"

"His name is Heart's Vision. He has something to ask you."

Heart stepped forward. "I wanted to know about your element of harmony."

"My element? My element is kindness."

"What does kindness mean to you?"

"It means to be nice. You need to be nice to everything. If you are kind to them then they will be kind to you, but sometimes it is hard being kind. Sometimes you have to be a little mean. It can be the kindest thing you can do sometime."

"What do you be mean to be kind?"

"Well I had to make some little creature leave my home so that they could go to theirs. They didn't want to leave but they had to. In that sense I had to be mean to be kind."

"I understand, thank you."

"If you need anything else tell me."

"I will." Heart left with Scootaloo. The two would have talked but Heart was thinking and Scootaloo didn't want to interrupt. "I think I have it."

Scootaloo had wasn't sure what he was talking about. "Have what."

"I know what I will do for the project."

"What will you do?"

"I would tell you but I want it to be a surprise."

"Really? You are going to make me wait?"

"Hey, it will be better that way, you will see."

" You are a mean pony."

"No I'm not. You are an impatient pony."

"Don't be name calling."

"What! You started it."

Scootaloo put her nose in the air. "I would never do such a thing."

"This is payback for Rarity's isn't it?"

"We have a winner."

"Let's go see if the others are at HQ."

The two found the rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and spent the day playing games and having fun.

A/N: Nothing big happened but information was learned. Everyone have a good day/night.