HELLO EVERYBRONY! I am so excited to be your narrator for this story and I just can't believe what an honor it is. We are soooooo going to be the best of friends after this chapter. WOW, and I mean wow! Wasn't that prologue exciting! I'm just twitching in my seat to get this started. I should probably get some snacks, maybe cupcakes and popcorn, but then I would get thirsty so I would probably have to get something to drink. Should I get water, or pop? Water or pop? Water or Pop?

Pinkie Pie?

Water or Pop? Water or Pop? I think I'll get pop, but what kind of pop? Grape or Orange? Grape or Orange? Grape or Orange?

Pinkie Pie.

But I also like Root Beer. Grape, Root Beer, or Orange? Grape, Root Beer, or Orange? Grape, Root Beer, or Orange?

PINKIE PIE!

Hu? Oh! HIIIIII TWILIGHT!(waves frantically)

What are you doing? (walks over closer with a smile)

I'm having trouble choosing what to drink with what I'm about to narrate. (points to wall)

(looks at wall) …Pinkie Pie, that's a side of my castle.

Well duhhhhhhh. I'm not going to narrate to the wall. I'm narrating to the people through the wall. (smiles brightly) Wave hi to them. (waves wildly)

(looks strangely at Pinkie Pie but waves to the wall anyways) Hehe. Hello? I think I'll be going know. Good luck with your dilemma Pinkie.

Thaaaaaaanks! Oh! I know what I want know. Hold on. (rushes off)

(Rushes back with a bowl of cupcake flavored popcorn and apple cider) Alright lets get started!

Our story starts in Kansas City, Kansas. As we focus in closer you will see that we are starting to single out one teenage girl. Her hair is curly, frizzy fluff like cotton candy but is a bright orange red pulled back into a ponytail. Freckles dot her face like Princess Luna dots our night sky. She is a lanky kind of gal; walking through the streets. Around her neck hung a camera. In her hands was a stack of books, so tall that her green eyes almost couldn't see over them. In her back saddle thingy she was carrying more books. She's a bit of a bookworm like Twilight. Anyway she was maneuvering through the busy street on her last stop to the bookstore to buy herself a new book for the week when she accidentally knocked into somepony.

Books scattered, the girl and the person she ran into hit the ground. The other person landed into an old small puddle.

"Oh, I am so sorry. I didn't –" the lanky girl stopped mid apology for fear of whom she just ran into.

The black and blue haired girl looked upon the red head with rage. Her black spiky clothes were all wet and dirty.

"What. Is. Your problem!" the Goth complained.

"I'm sorry," she apologized again quietly, daring not to look away.

The Goth got up out of the puddle, "Ugh, it took me weeks to gather the money I needed to buy this skirt."

"I said I was sorry. I didn't-"

"You didn't what? See me? Because of all these stupid books," she said kicking one, "You owe me a new skirt, Mouse."

"No she doesn't, Goliatha!"

The red head's face lit up as the Goth turned to the opposing voice, "It's Gothika, Nerd."

The girl had short brown hair. A scar crossed her face and even though she was shorter than the Goth girl she still stared her down through her glasses with her dark brown eyes.

She chuckled, "Oh yah, like that's any better. You okay, Joy?"

"Yah, thanks for asking, Piper," she answered in a low voice as she gathered her books up.

"Well she is not leaving until I get a new skirt," Gothika demanded.

"Um, Gothika," the Goth turned on Joy.

"I don't have the money to buy you a new skirt, I do have enough money for you to go to dry cleaning," she said quietly while handing Gothika some money.

She didn't take it, "No. I deserve-"

"Well she deserves an apology," Piper interrupted loudly while grabbing the money and shoving it into Gothika's hand, "Now you better get going. That muddy water seems to be caking up on your clothes."

"Oh no! If this doesn't work I'm coming back for you, Mouse," Then Gothika ran off.

"Dang it Joy, is this why you took so long to get to the books store?" Piper asked referring to the books.

"Yah, I stopped off at the library," Joy explained while picking them up, "Thanks for getting rid of her for me."

"No problem, she's just an angry stubborn person. So you checked out all of these books?" Piper asked while taking half of the book stack to carry.

"No. I only checked out five. The rest are old books the library didn't want to keep any more so they gave them to me. Thanks, short stuff." Joy explained further as they walked to the bookstore.

"No problem, tall stuff. So how's that pony show?" she asked.

"It is amazing! You need to see the Power Ponies episode. I think you'll like it," Joy suggested kindly.

"Yep, already saw it. Loved the Flutter-Hulk part. You're just a BIG MEANIE!

The girls chuckled at that part.

Hahahaha! That was funny now that I think about it. I was sooooo surprised to see Fluttershy go super angry strong. Hahaha! Snort. (stops laughing suddenly) Oops. Sorry. Back to the story.

"Have you seen any of the Avenger or Spider-man shows?" Piper asked through her laughter.

"Well… I'm not really into that sort of stuff, but I've seen some of them. Like the first couple of episodes of Spiderman, I haven't seen any of the Avenger shows," Joy answered truthfully.

Piper nodded her head in understanding as they entered the bookstore.

"Hello girls," the old book storekeeper greeted.

"Hello Mr. Asher," Joy replied.

"Hey, what's up old man," Piper asked cheerfully.

The man had a head full of gray short hair. Wrinkles covered mostly the corners of his eyes and showed deep smile lines. He wore a blue plaid shirt with an old pair of jeans and tennis shoes.

Mr. Asher chuckled, "I'm only sixty years old Piper."

"Yep and that makes you older than me so that makes you an old man," Piper said with a smirk as she and Joy set the books on Mr. Asher's counter.

"I see you girls brought some new books for me to sell from the library," he stated eyeing the books for what they could be worth.

"Yes sir. We would like to trade these for some new books here," Joy said sweetly.

"Hmmm. How many books do you girls want?" the man asked.

"I would like two comic books," Piper stated without hesitation.

"I just want one book," Joy replied nicely.

"Well then, that's more than fair. I don't see why not. Go on and have a look. I got in some new comic books and chapter books," Mr. Asher said kindly.

"Saweeet!" Piper said excitedly and dashed of to the comic section.

"Thank you, Mr. Asher," Joy said to the man and then walked off to the young adults used book section.

Joy looked at the tall and wide bookshelf with a puzzled look, "What to get. What to get," she murmured to herself, "No I've read that one. That one looks good but I don't really want to read it as of now. I already have the Chronicles of Narnia and that book is too thin to last me the week. Hmmmmmmm."

Joy walked with her hand behind her while grazing the spines of the books like you would with a piano. Suddenly she stopped when she felt a tingling sensation go through her hand. Curious she went to where her hand was. Her hand was on top of the spine of a Twilight book. Joy gave it a stink eye but pulled it out anyway.

"You must of given me a shiver of disgust," Joy said jokingly to the book.

She looked up to put the book back when she saw a glitter of something behind the other books. Pulling out some more books she saw a leather bound thick book.

"Look what we have here," Joy said with a smile, "another book."

She pulled it out and her smile vanished as she saw that gold bound its brown leather spine and jewels were set into its cover. More gold surrounded the letterings of the book title.

"The Book of All," she muttered to her self, "what a weird name."

Despite that she was mesmerized by the book and wanted to know what it was about. Setting the books back into the shelf Joy gently laid her hand on the cover of the book.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

Joy shrieked and jumped a bit in the air and quickly spun around. She turned to see Piper chuckling at her reaction. Joy gave a sigh of relieve. Then glared at her friend.

"You almost gave me a heart attack," Joy said scolding her friend.

"Hey, it's not my fault you don't pay attention," Piper stated with a grin, "I said your name twice and you were too absorbed in what ever you got there."

Piper pointed at the book in Joy's hands with the comic books she chose from.

Joy chuckled awkwardly, "Sorry, but I found the book I want. Check it out," she said while holding up the cover to show Piper.

"The Book of All? That's a stupid name and are those jewels real?"

"I don't know," Joy said then looked up at the clock near the bookshelf, "But you better hurry. Or you'll be late for dance class."

Piper quickly looked at the clock herself, it showed to be 3:50pm, "Oh sweet Marmalade. I'm going to be late!"

Quick as a whip Piper rushed off to the counter to show Mr. Asher what she was taking and then ran out the door to get to her dance class as soon as possible.

Joy shook her head slowly at her friend with a sympathetic smile, "That girl would lose her head if it wasn't attached to her shoulders."

"Have you found what you want, Joy?" Mr. Asher asked.

"Yes I have," Joy walked over and set it on the counter, "I would like this please."

There wasn't a reply. The man was frozen at the sight of the book.

"Ummm? Mr. Asher?"

The man got down to eye level with Joy, "Where did you find this?"

"Hiding behind the other books in the young adult used book section? Why?" she answered while giving Mr. Asher a strange look.

"Are you sure you want this," Mr. Asher asked her seriously.

"Indubitably," she answered, "Are the jewels and gold real or something?"

"Oh no, no, no, no," he said standing back to his full height, "Go on and take it….. Just—Just be careful."

"Uh-hu," Joy replied as she walked out of the bookstore awkwardly.

She paused outside the closed door and looked at the book in her hands.

"…. Nope. Not going to over think it," she said as she put the book into her backpack.

It was five o'clock when Joy finally got home. Joy lived in the suburbs so school was a way away but Joy took her time coming home taking pictures of the city fauna. Her house was basically like the rest on her street, a single story house for a family of three with a front yard and white picket fence. It was a pretty mondo big place with three rooms one for her parents, one for a guest and Joy's room, two bathrooms, a kitchen/dinning room and a living room. The outside wall colors were pretty bland being of robin blue eggshell and light brown. Inside was colored with white and soft greens and yellows. A spicy smell came into Joy's nose as she walked into her house.

"Welcome home sweetheart," Joy's father called from the kitchen.

Joy walked into the kitchen to get a snack from the fridge, "Hi Dad. Cooking up burritos for dinner to night?" Joy asked as she pulled an apple from the fridge.

"Close. I'm making Enchilada's with Spanish rice and baked beans," her father replied.

"Aren't they the same thing?

"I don't think so. How was school today?" Her father asked.

"It was okay. I got a lot of book reports to do but it's nothing I can't handle. I'm going to go to my room know to up load my new nature pictures."

"Alright sweetheart. I'll call you when your Mom get's here.

"Thanks Dad," Joy said as she walked towards her room.

Joy's room was baaaaaasically like a picture of a jungle. Well mostly like piece of pictures of her photography and places she wants to go taped to her wooden like walls. Pictures of the Nile River, swamps, the Amazon rainforest, and the arctic tundra of Alaska. Then there are her pictures of trees shining in the city lights, birds in their nests and dogs in the dog park. So basically it's not a picture of a jungle but it's definitely a jungle of a mess. Joy's bed was in a corner of her room to the right with her computer desk at the foot of her bed beside the window looking out to the street. A small bookshelf was behind her computer desk and a her closet was across from her bed beside her door to her room.

Tired from the day Joy unloaded everything from her backpack onto her bed then taking off her school clothes she put on a pair of black sweet pants and an old black t-shirt. Taking her camera and USB cord to her computer she got everything plugged in and ready to go.

"Let's see now," Joy muttered to herself, "Ooh, that's pretty. Keep that one. Darn, that bird picture didn't come out like the way I thought it would. I was so lucky to get that setting sun picture. That was great."

As Joy scrolled through her pictures without her notice the bejeweled book started to glow. It glowed brighter and brighter yet still Joy didn't notice. Then the book still aglow started moving around. It wasn't much but inch by jerky inch the book pushed itself off of the bed.

BANG!

With a start Joy looked away from her computer and looked to the sudden sound. Eyeing the book on the ground Joy got up from her desk and picked up the book.

"How the heck can a book glow?" Joy asked herself.

As she looked at the glowing cover Joy was once again enchanted by the look of it and once again had the desire to see what was in it.

The pages glowed gold, black ink was scrawled across the pages beautifully and carefully, and the book had that old book smell. The book showed measurements like a cookbook but the ingredients weren't for normal food. There were also writings of small rhymes.

Joy chuckled to herself, "It's a spell book. How enchanting… What's this?"

Take me to the place

Full of magic and grace

Take me to where I seek

Magic flowing as I speak

"Well that's sort of a vague spell," Joy mumbled to herself after she read it aloud.

Suddenly there was a flash of light so blinding that Joy could see her shadow through her closed eye lids as she covered her eyes with her hand.

Somebody help me! I don't know how to do the fancy separation thing-y that you can do like you can do with the lines that I have in my story already. Somebody please, if you know how to do the fancy things please tell me.