AN: I hope you enjoy this story. It is a collaboration with my best friend Xathanjon. If you would like to hear the original song that is sung in this chapter then stop by my profile for the link. The story will change from Equestria Girls universe to Equestria. To those of you who have read my previous stories I'm sorry for not updating for a long while. I will hopefully finish "Lovely Madness" on Valentines and I'll put out the one shot series for "April Fools" on April Fools.


There are some who say heroes are made. Through trials and hardship their characters are formed. There are others who say heroes are born. Destined from birth to serve their purpose in the greater scheme. Often these kind of heroes are born into a dynasty or destined to be discovered and whisked from their ordinary lives into the role they are meant to play.

But what if the legend is never found? Or, what if the hero was found by one who was not intended to find them? What might this entail for the world our hero inhabits? Some say that if one soul should refuse their destiny, it would be given to another. But what if this other was never even meant to exist?

This brings us to the Prophecy of the Elements. They believed it had already come to pass. They were wrong. And with no one else searching the kingdom for their savior, another found the prophecy and set out to fulfill it. She spent most of her life searching for the one. She was convinced the world had it wrong and the one was still out there.

This is the story of the hero's journey and rise to their true calling. And how she found the one thing she didn't realize she needed all along. But to fully understand, one must be given all the pieces to the puzzle. And what better way than to begin with the Prophecy of the Elements.

Oh thou who seek and those who search,

for harmony in distant lands,

would solemnly and woefully urge,

to fear the beasts on foreign sands.

Our peace at last? A sham a farce!

For shadows dwell the darkened path.

Beware the ones desiring hearts,

and fear the stirring of their wrath.

A dark and broken gifted mare,

who understood by not one soul.

And tender heart with love and care,

whose love is held by one young foal.

A single spark ignites the flame.

The two will clash strong wit, strong will.

The power of a spoken name,

let's tree to rest, purpose fulfilled.

The mirror found, the quest begun,

yet danger lies in hidden past.

When hoof meets stone, the six now one.

Equestria to fall or last.

When hope is lost the one shall rise.

Knows not the land but fights the same.

But careful for ye must be wise.

If choice be wrong then yours the blame.


It was a cool day in early spring. Most schools were holding gym class outside and why wouldn't they? The sun was out, all of the snow had melted a few days back, and the weather was perfect. It was early morning before most schools started classes.

The students of Griffon's Pride High however, a school not too far away from Canterlot high school, were already out on the field spread out in lines. One girl in particular with yellow skin and bluish green hair was shouting instructions while the rest of the students were finding their spots. "Okay, start the music Afterglow!" she shouted to an orange skinned, yellow haired girl wearing earbuds.

The girl couldn't hear her and so kept bobbing her head to her music. A girl nearby her poked her on the shoulder causing her to take out one earbud. "Mist wants you to turn on the music." the coal skinned teen whispered.

"Oh okay! Thanks Jennifer!" she yelled much louder than necessary due to the loud music coming from one ear. She reached over to the CD player and shouted, "A one! A two! A one two three!" she then pressed the play button and the background music began. Mist stepped back into line and cleared her throat preparing to sing.

As the background music began the two kids in the front of the line ran to each other between the lines. They spun around each other to the music and continued to run ending on opposite sides as the next group started. The first two walked out farther and stood waiting.

The second group copied but stayed in a little closer. Then the rest of the two lines walked towards the center intertwining. They formed a straight line for a moment then continued to spread out front to back.

As the last three were revealed the two boys lifted the girl up into their hands. As the sixteenth count ended they landed the lift and the group of kids was now formed into a v formation.

Our school, is totally the greatest ever.

The kids sang out loudly, projecting their voices as they did the motions to the song. They spread their hand right first and then left gesturing to themselves. Then they pumped both arms into the air creating a v with their arms.

You could say, that it is the best.

They continued leaving there arms up to show off the costume's wings as the pivoted around themselves. Then as they faced the front every other kid in line jumped up as the rest bent down and put their wings down. When the jump landed the kids who were down copied spreading their wings again as they jumped.

We'll prove, that we can all work together.

The people from the back of the v ran up to the middle line and the ones from the front ran back. They did a cannon from the middle outwards and ended facing out.

Go ahead, put us to the test.

The horizontal line split from the middle and they rapidly formed two circles. Each group had one kid be lifted, spun, and then lowered before the lyric finished. The music changed a bit as it headed into the chorus and everyone spread out again.

When we're all side by side,

Each kid had a partner to lean on back to back with their arms folded.

we'll show, you what we can do.

They spread their arms out as they stepped back facing front again. The five kids on the end of each sides ran behind the line.

When we're all hand and hand,

Each person reached out a hand towards the person next to them right, then left.

We'll build, a wall, that none can break through.

The kids all lifted their arms in unison to resemble a wall as behind them a lift was done. It revealed one girl kneeling on top of two other girls who were on top of four other boys. The hand lowered and the lift was slowly deconstructed behind the line as the music went back to its original tune.

Our school, is filled with true determination.

They each reached their hands out then brought them back putting a fist in one hand.

Your school, just cannot compare.

They pointed out to the imaginary audience then brought their hands back waving them in front of themselves while shaking their heads.

You could say, we're best in the entire nation.

They brought their hands to a v then quickly down and back up with a jump.

How's this, contest even fair?

They brought their hand individually out next to their shoulders and dramatically shrugged. The music changed again back to the second melody.

When we work as a team,

The kids split into groups of three and they did a fireman's carry.

a loss, just can be the case.

The kids in the arms each pushed off landing back on the ground in front.

With our diversity,

They each did their own different funny pose.

we're sure, that we, will land in first place.

The kids continued their motions as two of the kids jumped up and slid down in front. The melody changed again for the bridge.

We're not all alike,

Each of the kids turned to each other and did a variety of things. Some turned back to back comparing height, others compared different colored wings and different hair, and other various things for the few seconds they had.

but that's totally fine.

Every group turned to face their partners and hugged.

We work as a team,

Then each of the groups gathered into each other.

stronger than we might seem.

The middle group spread into a spread out line and they put their arms up in a show of strength.

We're griffons soaring high,

Each the groups surrounding the middle lifted one of their kids in the air and moved them forward.

you'll never take our pride.

Two of the outside group's kids who were lifted did a flip midair while landing. The others lowered to the ground as everyone quickly formed a line again.

Now show us all what you can do,

They spread their arms out gesturing to the crowd.

or prepare to lose.

The music stopped as they all stomped and spoke the last line.

"And that's a wrap!" Mist called out. Everyone sighed in either exhaustion or relief. Some flopped onto the ground and others just got ready to leave. "Awesome job everybody! If we keep this up we'll do great at the games! If you haven't gotten your wings yet the last groups came in and are at the front office and don't forget to practice. Remember this is the hundredth games so it's super important to practice and study." she shouted out to the group. "Hey, Firelight! Great job on the lift! Just remember to keep yourself lifted." she told the girl next to her.

"Okay, thanks Mist." she said slipping her backpack onto her shoulder. Mist began to unclip her wings and walked over to another girl.

"High Note, you did great today but I think you went a little high on the bridge." High Note turned to Mist.

"Oh yeah, I know, I'll practice." she explained. Mist went over to a group of kids who were grabbing their things.

"Guys the wall was perfect this time." they nodded in acknowledgement. She turned to one of the boys. "Great job fixing your timing. I can tell you've been practicing."

"Um, thanks." he awkwardly replied. Mist turned to some other kids.

"Hey Feather Step, your timing is a bit off on your jump. I think you might have forgotten the rhythm."

"Oh, well I have the music now, so I can fix it up at home."

"That's great, and don't forget to grab your wings. They just came in." Mist reminded her. Feather Step nodded and walked to her next class. Mist walked to the stairs and grabbed her book bag. "Giovani, good job improving your emotion."

"Oh, about that. I was won—" she was cut off by the principal.

"Mist that performance was spectacular!." She called out running over from the bleachers. "Thank you for all the hard work you've done."

"Oh, because she did all the work." Giovani sarcastically whispered only loud enough for Mist to hear.

"It's amazing how you were able to get all this done." The principle continued. Mist frowned.

"Mrs. Gretchin, thank you but I wasn't the one doing the hard work. Everyone had to, and still has to practice every day. It's everyone working together that made it so good, not me." She said while gesturing around her.

"But if it weren't for you, no one would be working together." She countered. "You're doing an amazing job. Keep up the good work." She finished and walked back into the building. Mist sighed in defeat.

Giovani scoffed, "Of course Mist gets all the credit when we're the ones working." She said to the light brown skinned boy standing next to her.

"Doesn't she always?" he replied. Mist walked away from them and into the school. She passed by two guys and overheard their conversation.

"How am I going to be ready for the test?" the one boy sounded panicked.

"Don't you have study hall?" the other one asked.

"Yeah, but only an hour before I have to take it."

"You should have studied before."

"I totally forgot. Can you help me?"

"Dude, I have class. Good luck." he finished walking away. The guy ran a hand over his forehead in defeat as Mist walked over.

"I can help you study if you want. I have study hall and if you need help I can." she offered kindly. He scoffed.

"Help from you?" he asked in disgust.

"Um yes?" she answered slowly.

"What's the catch?" he asked rudely.

"There is none." she answered a bit confused. He rolled his eyes and turned around.

"Never mind, I'm fine on my own." he said walking away in the direction of the library. Mist sighed, a little disappointed, and walked to a chair in the hallway. She sat down and looked into her bag. She grabbed a book and began to study on her own.

It was right before lunch and Mist was heading outside with her lunch bag. She didn't notice a lot of students outside at the picnic benches. She walked over to an empty picnic table and looked around. Seeing no one else around, she sat down. As she set her lunch down she turned her head to the elementary school building not to far from where she sat. She smiled as she saw her sister running towards her. When her sister neared the picnic table she stopped suddenly , put her hands on her knees, and sucked in a deep breath followed by coughing. "Careful." Mist told her sister standing up and walking over. Her little sister stood up straight and stopped coughing.

"I'm fine." she told Mist. "Sorry I'm late. Class went a bit over time." she explained.

"It's okay Lily, I just got here anyway." they both smiled and walked to the picnic table. Lily took her lunch off her shoulder and sat down. "How was practice this morning?" Mist asked. Lily sighed and opened her lunch.

"Well, uh? How do I put this?" she sucked in a deep breath, "There's this one boy in the group who wants to do some type of rap but to be honest I could rap better then he could in my sleep, and then these other girls wanna do some ballet dance in the back around that really doesn't fit the theme or mood at all, and then there is this one girl who wants to sing really high and she really believes in herself but I'd rather listen to a screeching barn owl giving birth to two adorable little owlets while having my ear drums blasted off by a sonic boom rather than be in the same city as her when she is attempting to sing,"

She gasped, completely out of breath.

"Lily! Are you okay?" Mist asked concerned.

Lily held up one finger for about 3 seconds as she caught her breath.

"but other than that," she paused to breathe "were still awful. There's no way we'll be ready by Monday."

Mist attempted to retain the information giving to her in the 10 seconds her sister had spoken but she was used to this by now.

"Maybe I could come by and help?" Mist suggested taking a bite of her food.

"Really?" she asked excitedly starting to regain her composure. Mist nodded. "That would be awesome! Thanks!" she wrapped her arms around her sister hugging her. Lily grabbed an apple from her bag and took a bite. "So how's your practice going?" she asked, her words muffled by the food in her mouth. Mist breathed a laugh.

"We're doing great. Just a few more little fixes and it'll be perfect."

"I wish it was the same for us." Lily muttered.

"You'll be fine silly. I'm sure it's not that bad." Mist said grabbing her sandwich.

"You still haven't seen it." Lily reminded her.

"Come on, you all have great talent I'm sure you'll do fine. You just need a little push in the right direction." Mist nudged her sister jokingly. Lily rolled her eyes.

"So how do you think you'll do in the rest of the games?" Lily changed the subject.

"Well I don't really know. Since we don't know what the games are, we've been practicing and studying a lot. Everyone seems to be putting in their all and working extra hard."

"But how do you think you'll do?" Lily asked again.

"Well, all I know is we'll do our best." Mist answered smiling. They continued eating their food for a little while. Lily looked at Mist smiling brightly.

"Aren't you excited about the games?" Lily asked filled with happiness. Mist giggled.

"Of course I am. I'm also a little nervous. It's the first time all the schools are coming together to compete." Lily shrugged.

"If everyone is working as hard as you are we're sure to win." Lily said determined making Mist smile.

"We'll have to wait and see." Mist told her. Lily nodded and bit into her food again. "So Lily, how was class this morning?" she asked Lily. Lily swallowed her food and looked down.

"Oh, um, normal?" she said with a shrug, clearly hiding something.

"Hey what's wrong?" Mist asked.

"Nothing." Lily muttered.

"Normally you're excited to tell me every little detail. Come on, what happened?" Lily sighed.

"Well, Holly sparks and her friends said some mean stuff at school today." Lily said with a sniffle. Mist gasped.

"What'd they say now?"

"They said I was stupid because I had to skip a class." Lily sniffled and stopped for a moment but continued. "And they said I was weak because I don't go to gym class." Lily stopped as a tear slid down her face.

"Hey that's not true, and you know it." Mist told Lily who looked back up. "It's not your fault you can't do gym. It's not safe because of your," she paused. "illness. Besides, you're probably stronger than them anyway. Your medical condition hasn't been able to stop you from going to school. Plus, you study twice as hard as anyone else in your class to make up for the classes you aren't in. You're not weak or dumb. If anything they are." Mist finished. Lily breathed a laugh.

"Really?" she asked with a small smile on her face.

"Yeah, and don't let anyone make you believe otherwise. Next time anyone tries just show them how strong you really are." Mist told her. Lily nodded proudly. Mist smiled brightly. "Good. Now we should finish up our lunch and remember, if anything's wrong, you can always tell me."

"Yeah. I remember." Lily agreed grabbing the last of her lunch.

Mist walked to their meeting spot at the end of school. Lily sat waiting with a huge smile on her face. When she saw Mist she got up and walked over. "Mist! The funniest thing happened!" Mist smiled.

"What?"

"We watched a video about the history of clowns. It was really funny at the end." Lily told her sister. "One of the boys was so scared of clowns he squealed and ran out the door." Lily and Mist giggled. They began to walk away from the school in the direction of the dorms. "I told our teacher you would come tomorrow to help. She said that would be amazing."

"Great, maybe you can show me a bit of what you have when we get home." She suggested.

"Um, I can try but it's kinda confusing." Lily explained.

"That's okay. We'll fix it up tomorrow." Mist reassured her.

"Oh yeah Mist, when I was in study hall I found out that Daylilies aren't actually a type of Lily."

"Really?" Mist asked, interested.

"Yeah, Lilies have bulbs and long stems, but the Day Lily has straggly roots and short stems." Lily explained.

"Wow, where'd you learn that?"

"Just in a book in the library." she answered.

"Oh really? What was it…" Mist's voice drifted as she stopped walking and turned her head squinting. As her head turned she saw something black out of the corner of her eye disappear behind a building. She turned her body and stepped back quickly in hopes to see what it was. She almost caught a glance when she was pulled back into reality by her sister tugging on her arm.

"Mist what are you doing?" Lily asked in extreme confusion. Mist turned to Lily.

"Oh, I just thought I saw something."

"What was it?" Lily asked, curiously.

"I don't know." Mist answered looking warily back at the spot and it was as if nothing was there.

"You coming miss daydream?" Lily asked sarcastically. Mist nodded assuming it was just a hallucination or trick of the light. She caught up to Lily and continued to their apartment.

Meanwhile a dark hooded figure stepped out of the shadows revealing herself as she looked at the two girls now racing home. Her smile grew as she held out a scroll in front of her. "Finally." she whispered to herself in relief. As the two girls were obscured from her view she rolled up her scroll tucking it away and dashed back to the building she had been previously hiding behind.

Mist poured her milk into the two bowls of cereal and brought them to the table. She grabbed two spoons from a drawer and stuck them into the bowls. Mist sat down at the table. "Lily! Breakfast!" Mist called to her sister.

"Coming!" Lily called back. She ran down the stairs and slipped into her chair looking winded.

"How did you sleep?" Mist asked.

"Good." Lily replied starting to eat her food.

"What'd you dream about?"

"I dreamt about the games. Me and my friends did great somehow and you guys were awesome!" Mist smiled at the table awkwardly at the mention of lily's friends. Lily noticed since Mist obviously wasn't trying to hide it. "So Mist, have you made any new friends?" Lily asked testing the waters.

"Not recently no." Mist replied.

"Have you made any friends?" Mist frowned fidgeting with her cereal.

"That sounds like a loaded question."

Lily sighed, "Come on Mist you need to open yourself up a little a bit or you'll end up a hermit in the woods with no one who loves them because they were too closed off to the outside world."

"Lily! who is telling you things like that? Just because I don't have friends doesn't mean I'll separate myself from society!"

"I just really think you need to learn to give people more of a chance,"

"Lily you remember what happened in December." Mist stated almost emotionlessly.

Lily's enthusiasm all but vanished. "Yeah but you can't let things like that defeat you. Maybe there's someone who really wants to be your friend. Just because one person—"

"It was more than one." Mist pointed out.

"Okay, so a few people were mean like really mean, like so mean they essentially decided to ruin your social life for no real apparent reason!" Lily slapped a hand over her mouth, " Sorry, that really doesn't help does it? What I'm really trying to say is that doesn't mean you should just give up. Imagine all the things that would happen if everyone just gave up after their first failure."

"Lily it's different." Mist argued.

Lily met her sister's eyes "Mist, it's okay. I understand that you have reservations, but could you please promise me that you'll at least make an effort to make a friend today?" She stared up at her big sister putting all her effort into that one look. Mist only lasted for a few moments before she cracked.

"Alright fine, but I can't promise I'll make a friend, just that I'll try okay?"

Lily pumped her fist in the air then ran over and squeezed her big sister "Thanks Mist! Trust me you'll find a friend soon, I just know you will." she smiled walking to get her backpack, "Besides, can't you just ask someone if they want to be your friend?"

Mist laughed, "It really isn't that simple lily. You have to build up trust." she looked away for a moment, "And trust is something that takes time to gain but can be lost in an instant."

"Eh, you'll figure it out Mist. You always do!" Mist laughed.

"I wish I could live in your simple world Lily. It sounds a lot more fun than real life." suddenly, the clock in the stove started beeping. "Oh Lily it's almost eight we have to go!"

"Alright I'm almost ready." the two sisters ran out the door in a hurry.

"Do you have your backpack?" Mist asked Lily as she locked the door.

"Yep." Lily answered.

"Your lunch?" Mist asked looking around Lily's pack.

"Yes." Lily replied annoyed, holding up her lunch bag.

"Did you pack your homework?" Lily sighed in exasperation.

"Of course I did. Do we really have to do this every day?" Mist bent down and pushed a piece of Lily's hair back into place.

"Of course. The day we don't is the day we forget." Mist explained standing straight again. "Now do you have your extra paper?"

"Yes, I don't really see why you have to do this." Lily groaned.

"Because I am your big sister and I can." Mist said matter of factly, "Now are you sure you have your extra backup paper just in case you lose your extra paper."

Lily face palmed, "If I ever needed that Mist I am sure I would have it, how do you even remember all of these things every morning? Do you have some kind of list?" she asked sarcastically.

Mist smiled and pulled a long piece of paper out of her pocket. "Of course I do silly! But after doing this every morning I pretty much have it memorized. But just in case I hit my head and got amnesia or something I still have this list for backup."

Lily sighed, "You and your backup, maybe you should just back up yourself and slowdown."

"We can't slow down we have to get to school! Now do you have your extra backup pencils?" Lily groaned.


AN:

Oh no! What does this prophecy mean? Who believes it wasn't fulfilled? Who was that shadowy figure watching the two sisters? And does Lily have her extra backup pencils?

Find out next time on "The Quest for Magic".

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