Order, Harmony, and Chaos.
Chapter 7
Old Enemies
(Here we are, Chapter 7! This is where Trixie and the Flim Flams come in! So just make sure to read and review!)
The four spiraled into the town, Where strange voices could be heard. They came closer to the settlement, and saw many gray-tinged ponies, standing in rows outside of their houses, all chanting and circling around 3 ponies on top of a machine, balanching carefully on the very tops of it, as the gray slowly engulfed it.
It was Flim-Flam, their machine, and Trixie.
The three of them were using their magic in vain to keep back the gray. As the Alicorn and Draquess came closer, Twilight and the others notised that Trixie wasn't wearing her usual wizard costume, rather, the same uniforms as Flim and Flam.
"Do you guys need some help?" asked Celestia. The three glanced up when they heard Celestia's voice. Flim and Flam took off their hats and stared, while Trixie shrank behind them, after seeing Twilight Sparkle. Flam began to ramble in his salesman way.
"Why thank you, Dear Princess, your assistence would be wonderful for getting us out of this predicement. You see, whe're just simple mechanics in need of a way out if you would so kindly-" Flim Coughed, inteerupting his brother's ramble.
"What my brother means, m'lady, is yes, we do." Celestia lowered a white wing for the three to hop on. The three then raised an eyebrow when they saw Discord. Flim spoke.
"Not to question your magesty's views and morals-" Flam inturupted.
"No, not at all, we know someone with as much power and wisdom as you has the best judgement, out of all of us, your insight is the best, no doubt-" Here he was interupted by his brother.
"But why would you be consorting in the presence of a Dracequess, someone who is probably causing these strange events to occur right now?" Celestia sighed, and was about to give the fast talking brothers an explination, when Discord interupted.
"Look, I would definitely not do anyting like this. You seriously have my word." The two thought this over.
"You wouldn't?" they asked.
"No. I would have much more destruction, the craziest things happening, and turning whatever I wanted into some sort of candy. So yeah, this isn't me." The two looked even more worried, and moved around on Celestia's back, shifting away from him. Twilight Sparkle noticed something about his flank. Their regular apple and apple slice cutie marks wer replaced by a picture of a bit on Flams flank, and a gear on Flim's.
"what happened to your cutie marks?" asked Twilight. The two brothers shuffled nervously.
"Well, you see, my dear filly that this is a part of our ... Job, if you can say that." Said Flam, shuffling his hooves. The princess narrowed her eyes, looking down at the two in disdain.
"What is it, Flam? Can you tell me?" the two brothers became even more nervous, whispering, shuffling their hooves. Flim then cleared his throat.
"Well...You see, It's a special type of paint that only we manufacture-"
"It's cutie mark make up, specially made for covering up your cutie mark."
"So if you're tired of the one you have-"
"Or just feel like something different-"
"With a steady hoof, and a bit of artistic talent-"
"You can change your cutie marks." Flim blushed.
"We use it for con work, pretending to be what we're not. Our real talents just come from ripping off ponies, and mechanics. Also with the adition of our lovely new assistant, we can even go to magical showbiz." Trixie sighed at this, seeming to be ashamed of her new career.
Celstia sighed. She didn't want to consort with con ponies like Flim Flam, and Trixie. But it would have to do.
"Ponies are ponies. We should take them with us." she thought to herself. She turned her head around to the conponies.
"Come, we need to go to the mountains. But first- we're tired of flying. do you know any clear areas, I have an idea for how we can get around." Flim nodded.
"I could swear that I saw an area of green up on the mountaintop not to far from here."
"Where?" asked Discord.
"South from here. we need to travel fast." They took off, straight into the air. After a few minutes of flying, Twilight sparkle was close enough to trixie to talk.
"Hey! Trixie!" she yelled. Trixie looked around, then shrank behind Flim.
"I can still see you, Trixie!" Trixie turned around.
"What is it, Twilight?" she asked. Her uppity voice was gone, she just sounded weary.
"How did you get involed with the Flim Flam brothers?" asked Twilight Sparkle. Trixie sighed.
"After you chased me out of town, I was rejected in every town since then. I met the Flim Flam brothers, and they took me in, if I agreed to help them with their magic and do some show biz. I get some pay along with everything." she pouted.
"You really did ruin my life." She said. "I used to be respected in the towns I went to, but now I'm just really nothing more than a show girl." Twilight felt a feeling of guilt wash over her. She didn't know she caused that much trouble in Trixie's life. But then she reminded herself, it was Trixie's lies that brought this down on herself. Trixie turned around, grabbed on to Flim, and tried to stay on Celestia's back.
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After a half an hour of flying, they finally reached where they saw a small meadow and pool, that seemed uneffected by the gray. The three landed there, exausted from their flying. Celestia flipped over and turned to Discord.
"Do you remember the spell we used to clear out the gray?"
"Discord nodded." Celestia turned over to where Flim, Flam, and Trixie lay.
"Please, can you three help us?" She asked.
"Anything for the leader of the land." said Flam, standing up, along with his brother, and Trixie behind them, trying not to be seen. Celestia looked around at their surroundings.
"What I don't get is why the gray didn't infect this area too..." She wondered around. The ponies started looking around.
"Maybe there's something in that little lake that keeps it out?" asked Pinkie pie.
"Maybe another powerful pony has been here, and they already cleared it out?" asked Rainbow Dash, circling around. Celestia shrugged.
"Well, never mind that for now. We need to do the spell. Rarity, Twilight, Flim, Flam, Trixie, and Discord, please come with me. As for the rest of you, please stand in front of that lake."They obeyed, and walked over to their positions.
"Now for the rest of you, copy the spell that I am going to perform, and cast it on their hooves." The unicorns nodded, and looked towards Celestia. Celestia cast a powerful spell, her horn glowing, and the others did too, their horns glowing with even more and more intensity, causing the other ponies to flinch from the bright light. They covered their eyes with their hooves, and waited for the spell to hit.
"Now!" Commanded Celestia, and the spell was cast, engulfing the ponies. After the shock of being hit with the spell, they opened their eyes and looked at their hooves, confused.
"Celestia, what did you do to my feet?" demanded Rainbow Dash. Celestia smiled.
"Do not fret. It is just a spell that will enable you to walk through the gray, the gray will avoid your hooves, and you will be able to walk through it unaffected." Apple Jack smiled.
"Hay, Couldn't tha' just mean tha' we could walk all about Equestria, and get the gray out of here?" Celestia shook her head.
"The spell does not work that way. Even though you will clear the gray, the next step you take the gray will come back again."
"Aww." Said Screw ball. "That would've been easy then!" She thought for a moment.
"Couldn't you just put all the gray out? You did that before." she asked. Celestia shook her head.
"No, that spell does not last forever. I bet the area that we cleared out a little while ago is completely frozen now. But this area seems safe. We should rest, and make plans for tommorow." Everypony nodded, and agreed to this.
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The unicorns had created a magical fire, which all the ponies were sitting around and grazing, talking and sharing stories. It seemed that the tension between the former enemies was gone now, even Apple Jack was joking with the Flim Flam brothers about how their machine failed, and Trixie had stopped hiding behind Flim, and Joined the conversation.
But this seemed to be just to ward off their own personal fears, for the night around them was dark and oppressing, The only light for miles was their fire, and due to the freezing of the area around them, not a creature stirred. It was eerily quiet, and everypony felt scared, somehow.
The silence was broken suddenly by a loud, clashing scream, which made everypony jump, and hush immediately. Twilight Sparkle and her friends huddled together, while Trixie grabbed onto Flim's neck in suprise, choking him. Discord gathered up Screw Ball, holding her protectively and huddled with Celestia, the both of them looking even more scared then the others. After a few minutes of waiting like this, Twilight whispered,
"Celestia, what's going on?" Celestia's eye's widened.
"It is the cry of something from the age of when Order was leader of the land. It is a fearsome creature, a trojan horse." she whispered. "Made to find enemies of Order's rules, and to fill in unfrozen parts of the land."
"It won't stop until it finds us." added Discord, now holding Screw Ball so tight that it looked like his teddy bear. "And if it does."
"Wer'e doomed." Celestia finished.
Another scream was heard, along with mechanical clacking. The group huddled together, Put out the fire and waited for their fate.
(Woo! thats another chap done! This one is I think my longest yet. And I love the TrixieXFlim in it. Yay!
Also, later on in this fic I will have more Background/ One episode charactars come in. Such as Derpy, Lyra, Gilda, Feather weight, (from the newest episode) And the CMC's.
If you have any suggestions, Comments, Concerns, Questions, or anything of that sort, then press that button and review! You know you want to!)