Chapter 24: trixie returns
EQUESTIRA- MIDNIGHT
it was midnight in equestria as the wind was blowing and the stars were glowing in the dark blue sky. Out of the outskirts of ponyville a figure was walking down the dirt path wearing a hood over it's face, the figure then looked over to it's right side to see a very large wagon store sitting on the side.
The figure was curious about it as it walked over to it and opened the door, the figure looked around to see a bunch of nick-nacks all over the place as the figure stopped and saw a table the figure looked on the table to see a bunch of items in glass cases, the one that caught the figures eye was a glowing red amulet in a small clear glass case.
As the figure walked over to it a gypsy pony popped up from the other side of the counter "no no no. No touching of the merchandise" he said as he the pointed at the amulet. "but you do have a very good eye. For this little item is known as the alicorn amulet. A very rare item that can amplify ones magic abilities that are equal to that of princess celestia and princess Luna combined" he said.
The figure then looked at it then at him as the figure then pulled out two large pouches of bits and laid them on the counter, the gypsy pony then looked at the large pouches and smiled "well in that case. I could sell it instead" he said as he looked at the bits inside the pouches then turned to the amulet and pulled it out of the case and placed it to the figure.
The figure then grabbed the alicorn amulet and placed it around it's neck, the figure then looked over to see an equestira newspaper in a glass case as well.
The figure then looked at it and saw what it said as it read the article:
Equetira's mane six bring home some new faces. For the first time we have a new kind of cretures in our town, they are humans. There names are max, Corey, sam, jack, dillon, and" the figure stopped at the last one to see that his face was crossed out with a red pen, the figure turned to the shop owner "excuse me. But why is this last ones face crossed out?".
The gypsy shop keeper pony turned his attention from counting his pay as he walked over to the paper that was cased in glass, "oh...that. Well you see that one is no more. You see the princess of the moon was taken hostage by an army of alicorns and a war was issued. That human helped out with rescuing the princess albeit with losing his life in the prossess" he finished.
"and the citizens. Do they miss him deeply?".
"indeed. It has been four weeks of his passing".
The figure then turned to him " I would like two things".
"very well. I'm listing".
"I would like this paper. And I would like to know if this amulets power can bring back anypony from the dead?".
He then shook his head "I'm sorry but that's the one thing that it can't do. However there is one spell that it can do that does involve bringing back somepony back from the dead. But why would you want to know about that may I ask?".
The figure then placed another pouch of bits on the counter "because I have an idea for such a spell. And with it I shall become famous once again".
The shop keeper then laid the paper in front of the figure "here you go. And I hope that everything is to your liking umm I'm sorry what is your name?".
The figure then pulled down the hood reviling itself to him.
"it's trixie".
EQUESTIRA- PONYVILLE
Ponyville was busy as always as crowds of ponies were taking care of business and such, fillies were at school, other ponies were selling vegetables and other foods, and construction ponies were making new houses.
Max was sitting on a hill in a tall grassy area as he had his eyes closed. Twilight was walking around him in clericals "now max. I want you to focus on this one. This spell will be using your magic to defend yourself in tight situations" she said as she kept walking around him.
"I want you to focus on something that you can think of that can protect you and your friends".
Max was quiet and still as he focused all of his magic energy from his body as whole body started to glow. He still kept his eyes closed and his mind clam as he then thought of something that could be used to protect him and his friends, "think of something that can protect you" he said in his head he then thought of Percy jackson's shield from Percy Jackson and the olympians, as he then thought of it as it formed into his mind.
Suddenly a small bubble of purple magic glowed over max's head as twilight stopped pacing around him and looked up at the energy above max, she then smiled as she then went back to seriousness "that's good max. Now just keep it up" she said. Max did what she told him as he kept imaging the shield in his mind more until it formed above his head.
Twilight was proud she was proud that in a few days she was able to help max master his magic a bit, and she was very proud to be his teacher.
As she watched him form his shield they both heard a scream.
""NO WAY!".
This alone made max lose his focus as the shield above his head then fell out of the magic bubble and fall to his side causing max to jump as he rolled down the hill, and landing in a puddle of water.
"max!" twilight shouted as she ran down the hill to him, she stopped as she saw max covered from head to toe wet from the puddle. Twilight couldn't help herself but giggle at how max looked as he was getting the water out of his ears.
"hehehe".
"what's so funny?".
"your all wet".
Max then looked at her "yes I am. After my near death experience with a shield no less".
Twilight kept giggling at him as he rolled his eyes at her.
"anyway let's go see what all the fuss is about in town". She then stopped giggling as she then looked at him "right. Let's go see". They both then ran into town to find the commotion.
PONYVILLE CENTER
Everypony was gathered in a large crowd as some were watching from there homes as max and twilight came into the path of the crowd they started moving up to the front to see what the commotion was all about.
"wow. That was so cool" one pony said.
"yea. Can I go next?" another said.
"oh of course you can" trixie said as she then made her horn glow as she then pointed it at the ponies sick filly child as he became fully well, everypony was amazed by this as they stomped there hoofs in excitement.
Max and twilight got in front of the crowd to see that it was none other than trixie.
"trixie! What are you doing here?".
Trixie then turned to her "twilight sparkle! We me again".
"Why have you come back?".
"to gain back my glorious reputation as the greatest pony in all of equestira".
Max then grinned "ah! Well good luck. Twilight is way better than you'll ever be trixie".
"humph. We'll we shall see once I revile to all your friends and the citizens of ponyville what I can do".
"and what may that be?".
Trixie then looked over to see who had said that, she then looked over to her right to see dillon wave his hand in the crowd to signal that it was him as he, fluttershy, corey, rarity, jack, pinky pie, sam, applejack, and rainbow dash walked up to the front of the crowd and stood right beside there friends.
Trixie then had a devious smile on her face "ah. So these are the humans that the great and powerful trixie has heard about i see".
The boys looked at her with unamused faces, rarity then stood in front of corey "and how would you know about our friends trixie?" she demanded.
Trixie simply snickered at rarity "hehe. Oh why by this of course".
She then makes an equestira newspaper appear in front of everypony, showing the humans in the article even the picture of Clayton being crossed out. The mane eleven saw the paper and then looked at her, she then began to speak.
"I must say. I never thought a unicorn such as you twilight would have such a strange and odd looking creature to care for. It is very interesting to say the least".
Max then started to grit his teeth at her "why you!". Twilight then placed her hoof on his leg "max please calm down" twilight asked him, he looked at her and did as she asked her.
Trixie then showed a more darker smile on her face.
"oh how cute. Twilight's little pet does tricks too".
Max then shouted at her "pet!".
Trixie then laughed as she heard max shout at her "hahahahah. Now now you shouldn't bark at otherponies like that. You should show some respect to others if your going to act like that" she said as she then made her horn glow as she had max in her magic grip, she then made him bow down to her with his head down looking at the ground.
"max!" twilight shouted as she turned to trixie "trixie! You leave him alone!".
"oh but what's the matter. I was just making him show more respect for the great and powerful trixie" she said with a smile on her face, rainbow dash then shouted at her "hey! Don't you mess with my friends trixie!".
Trixie looked up at her and then grinned darkly at her making rainbow dash look at her with a confused look on her face as she then went back to her serious face. "oh I wouldn't be talking. After all you should be praising me for what I'm about to do for you and all of your friends and citizens of ponyville".
Rainbow dash was still looking at her with her serious face "what are you talking about? Why in the hay would I want to do that?".
She kept looking at her still showing her dark grin "oh but you shall if you ever want to see your beloved Clayton again".
This made rainbow dash have a look of shock on her face, "w-what? What did you say?".
"the great and powerful trixie said that you should be praising me if you ever want to see your beloved Clayton again".
Everypony in the crowd was in complete and total shock. The mane eleven were speechless for a bit until jack broke the silence, "that's bullshit! You don't have the power to bring Clayton back from the dead. No pony could ever pull that off!" he said.
Everypony in the crowd then started talking amongst themselves about what trixie had said. Trixie then began to clear her throat "ahem. Well true it is impossible to bring somepony back from the dead. But the great and powerful trixie has a better proposition to offer.
The great and powerful trixie knows of a spell that can let your friend cross from the spirit realm to the living realm", everypony gasped did trixie really know of a spell that could enter the other side.
Twilight and max looked at her with a little bit of shock "I don't believe you" max said "and I second that. No pony could be able to know of a spell like that to connect to the spirit realm. It's completely Impossible" twilight said to her, trixie then huffed as she turned around from her line of sight.
"oh really. Not even for somepony that knows the highly advanced spell. Like oh I don't know the void!".
Twilight's eyes started to widen "y-you. You know of the void spell?".
"indeed".
"b-but the void spell is the most hardest and most highly advanced spell to use. It was even banned in some magic books. And some unicorns refuse to even use that spell".
Trixie then walked up to twilight's face "well then.
how about a magic duel. If I win then I the great and powerful trixie will show you that I can perform the void spell. If you win then I shall leave ponyville".
Twilight looked over at her friends, they all smiled at her as they knew that she could do it. She then turned back around to face trixie "ok. ll'l do it" she said, trixie then made the paper disappear as she then made her horn glow as she made max teleport in front of them.
"let's use your pet for our duel" trixie said, twilight was in shock as she then glared at trixie "no trixie! I won't use max for our duel!" she protested, max then looked over at twilight then at trixie who was tapping her hoof on the ground. "awwww. Does twilight not want to hurt her special pet" she mocked, "well then. If you won't use your pet for our magic duel. Then I guess I will just take my leave then".
"STOP!".
Trixie then turned to see rainbow dash walk up to her "I want you to do that spell trixie" she asked her, trixie just looked at her "really now?".
"yes...please".
Trixie then tapped her face with her hoof in thought "hmm I don't know", she then looked back at rainbow dash who now had tears in her eyes.
"please...please do the spell" rainbow dash said in a small tone, the mane eleven and everypony just looked at rainbow dash in a bit of a shock. She was acutely crying and in front of trixie begging for her to do the void spell, trixie knew that this could be her opportunity as she placed her hoof on her shoulder.
"you must really miss him Huh?".
She nodded "yes...more than anything in the world".
She turned to the crowd of ponies.
"tell me everypony. Do you all miss your human friend?".
Half of the crowd raised there hoofs.
She looked at all of the raised hoofs in the crowd "this is wonderful. If I can pull this off then I shall be the most famous pony in all of equestira" she thought, "well then. If you all believe that the great and powerful trixie can perform the void spell then follow me" she said as she walked away from the crowd out of the town.
Half of the ponies that raised here hoofs followed trixie out of the town so they could all see her pull off the void spell and bring back Clayton. Even rainbow dash was following the crowd as well out of ponyville, corey ran up to rainbow dash and placed his hand on her back.
"rainbow dash you can't really believe that she could be telling the truth do you?" he asked her, she simply looked at the ground with her ears flopped down. "rainbow dash...you don't have to do this" he said, she then looked up at him with sad eyes "i'm sorry Corey...all of you I really am" she then pushed his hand off her back "but...I really do think that she can bring him back".
She then flew to the ponies that had left ponyville and was out of sight.
Corey then turned back to his friends who all had worried looks on there faces, "well it's official guys. Were fucked" Corey said. "son of a bitch" the boys said in unison as max kicked the dirt "this fucking sucks! How are we to convince almost half of ponyville that trixie can't pull off that spell?!".
Everyone held there heads low thinking that there was nothing that they could do now to stop trixie. As they were all sulking in there defeat twilight then started to pace back and forth, "come on guys we can't give up now" she said.
"but darling what are we going to do?" rarity said "how can we convince almost half of ponyville that what trixie says is nothing more than a sham?".
Everyone pondered about this for a bit until dillon spoke, "well I have a question. Anybody know what that glowing necklace was around her neck?".
Twilight then looked at him.
"what glowing necklace?".
"it was a red and black glowing necklace on trixie's neck. If anyone has a pencil and a piece of paper on hand I could draw it out".
Pinky pie then pulled a pencil and paper out of nowhere "here you go" she said in her joyful voice.
"thanks pinky" dillon said, he then laid the paper on the ground and started drawing what he saw. Everyone gathered around him as he drew out the necklace that trixie had on, as soon as he was finished he then passed it around.
"this is what i saw on her. Anybody know what it is?". Everyone in the group took turns looking at the drawing dillon had made and shook there heads, "bummer...well...maybe zecora might know" he suggested.
Everyone smiled at his suggestion. "dillon that's a great idea" max and twilight both said in unison, they then looked at each other and stared into each others eyes for a bit before turning there heads away both hiding there blushes from each other.
They all ran out of ponyville on there way to the everfree forest.
EVERFREE FROEST
Everyone stood at the entrance of the forest as they all looked at each other, "well here we are" twilight said. "boy howdy" applejack said "you think that zecora might know how to help us in defeating trixie?" she asked.
"I don't know applejack. But it's worth a shot" she said.
They all then walked inside the forest on there way to zecora's hut all except fluttershy who was still outside of the forest hiding her face with her hoofs.
Dillon walked up to her and leaned down to her side "fluttershy?" dillon said to her in a sweet and gentle tone as not to startle her, she looked up at him showing him small tears in her eyes.
He saw this as he then petted her mane "it's ok. I'm gonna be right beside you fluttershy. You don't have to be scared" he said, she whipped her tears as she sat on her flank and had her face hidden with her hair "b-but..I-it's scary in t-there" she said. "you c-can go on w-without me...I don't want t-to slow y-you down".
He then placed her in his arms and held her close so that she could hear his beating heart. She heard his heart beat it was gentle and soft, she closed her eyes as she listened to the calmness of his heartbeat. She then looked up at him with her big green eyes "I promise you fluttershy. I will protect you no matter what" dillon said.
She looked over his side to see the forest as she quickly then hid her head into his chest, dillon stroked her head slowly so she could calm down. "shhhh it's alright darling. I'm not gonna let anything happen to you".
She then looked up at him "w-what did you c-call me?".
"I called you my darling. Your my sweet little darling flower petal".
"d-do you...r-really mean that?" she asked him.
"yes. More than anything. Your the mere that I want to ma-" he stopped himself as he felt a huge blush come across his face.
She then looked looked at him " you want to what?" she kindly asked him.
"I-it's nothing. L'll tell you later. Promise" he said hopping that she wouldn't ask him what he really wanted to tell her, she nodded at him as she held onto him as tight as she could. He then held her as he got up to his feet and walked with her in his arms into the everfree forest.
ZECORA'S HUT
Everyone was inside zecora's hut as twilight explained her story to her as zecora sat at her table drinking her tea.
"and she started performing magic spells that were completely impossible" she said
Zecora sipped her tea as she heard twilight finish.
"the words of payback I hear. Although there must be something more to fear" she said as she took another sip, max then started to speak "well...theres more". Zecora looked at him "more you say? Then please speak away".
"she's calming that she can bring back Clayton from using the spell called the void".
This alone made zecora's eyes widen as she spit out her tea from her mouth, "the void you say! that spell is forbidden to stay" she said "the spell alone can not be played. For not without the words of kain".
Everyone looked at each other then at her, jack had a puzzled look on his face "ummm who's kain?" he asked.
Twilight then held her head up as she heard the name.
"who's kain. He's the only pony in equestira to have made the most powerful and advanced spells" she said in joy, zecora nodded at her.
"the void was his most powerful spell. And only his words could stop it's prevail".
She then walked over to her books and pulled out a purple book and placed it in front of the group and opened it to a page that was labeled the void of the phenix in capital bold letters, zecora then placed a piece of paper next to the book and a pen.
"write down the words of kain. There you will be able to defeat trixie's rain".
Everyone nods at zecora as twilight writes down the words on the piece of paper.
OPEN FIELD
everypony was gathered sitting next to each other as trixie stood in front of the crowd, they were all waiting to see trixie pull off her spell and bring back Clayton. Rainbow dash was sitting on a tree branch watching trixie as she got ready to begin readying for her spell.
"I can't wait to see you again Clayton" she said to herself "at last I will be in your arms again" she then smiled to herself as she thought about him more and more.
Trixie then raised her hoof in the air signaling everypony to aim there attention at her, trixie then started to speak "citizens of ponyville. I the great and powerful trixie shall perform the most advanced and difficult magic spell and bring back your human friend".
Everypony cheered as trixie then raised her hoof again to silence them. She then turned around as she started to make her horn glow blue as the sky went from light blue to a dark grey, the magic color around her horn then turned from blue into a dark purple as she then shot a burst of magic energy at the sky causing clouds to form above them.
Everypony was scared at what she was doing. But they stayed strong as she continued with the spell, trixie then shot another magic blast at the clouds causing them storm.
This sent shivers down everyponies spine as they all heard the clouds roar and flash with thunder and lightning. She then aimed her horn at the ground in front of the crowd and shot one last burst of magic energy, this last and final blast made the ground shake and start to form crakes under everyponies hoof.
Suddenly the ground split open and started to shift into a spiral like portal as trixie looked down into it.
Inside the portal she saw a small light in the center as it was covered by blue chains, she looked up at the crowd and pointed her hoof at the portal.
"behold! The great and powerful trixie has done it! For you are now looking at the void!" she said in a prideful tone, everypony looked down into the purple hole and saw lighting strike from one side to the other inside the portal. Rainbow dash leaned over a bit flying over the crowd as she looked down and saw the blue chains that covered up the white light.
"there he is" she thought to herself "Clayton is down there. And soon I can be within his arms again". She then looked at trixie who was looking down at the portal, "so how do we get Clayton out of there?" she asked her.
Trixie heard this from rainbow dash and shot her head up from the portal she had no idea on what to do next, all she did was open the portal and thought that was all they wanted to see. she really didn't have any plan whatsoever on bringing what the crowd wanted. All she wanted was her reputation that she had lost from twilight.
"ummm. Well we...w-we just have to wait for the portal to charge until we are able to get him" she said, rainbow dash looked at her with a bit of worry as she looked at the portal then back at trixie, "are you sure?".
"of course I'm-" her words were stopped as there was a violent shaking around them as everypony looked into the portal they saw that it had lighting and thunder blasting from one side to the next rapidly. Everypony was in fear as they all ran back to ponyville hoping to get away from the ordeal, rainbow dash and trixie were trying to gain there balance as the ground shook with tremendous force.
The force of the shaking caused some of the trees to fall to the ground. Rainbow dash flew up into the air so she could get to higher ground, she looked at the portal and saw that it was starting to change in color as it's purplish hue was then turning to red.
Rainbow dash started to get scared "oh man! Hey trixie! How do you turn this thing off!?" she said to her. Trixie was nowhere to be found as rainbow dash looked all over the place for her "hey! Were are ya!?" she called, it was no use no other voice was heard.
"rainbow dash!".
Rainbow dash then heard a voice from a few miles away.
"who's there!?" she yelled trying to make her voice heard over the raging storm inside the portal below her, she then quints her eyes and sees that it's her friends running over to her. She flies over to them.
"guys what are you all going here?" she asks.
Dillon kneels down to her "rainbow dash we have to get out of here so we can stop this thing from getting any worse" he said.
"what. Why?".
"because if we don't then that huge hole in the ground will suck up everything in equestira and destroy it".
Rainbow dash turned over to the raging storm that was over the portal then back at dillon.
"but what about Clayton?. We have to go in there and get him".
"rainbow dash. We can't".
"but".
"I'm sorry rainbow. But trixie lied to you...to everypony. She had no way of bringing him back".
Hearing the words made rainbow dash's heart sink even more. Trixie lied about bringing the one thing that she wanted the most back into her life, she only wanted what she wanted: fame. Not only that but trixie was left nowhere to be found, implying that she ditched the scene so she could save herself.
Dillon held onto her as she cried into his chest as he looked up to his friends " I got rainbow dash. You guys close that void".
They all nodded as they ran over to the portal except fluttershy who was helping dillon comfort rainbow dash.
They all stopped at the edge of the portal and looked down to see inside. There they all saw black and white lightning roar inside the vortex, max gulped as he looked over at twilight.
"you have the paper?".
"yes".
She then uses her magic as a white sheet of paper appears in front of max's face as he takes it and reads what the instructions say.
"ok let's see if we can close this thing" he then reads the words:
"by the darkness within you I shall stop you. No evil will roam this land of innocence. No light shall be put out by your evil touch. No heart will be taken down into your dark embrace. I am the light. I am the saint of this world. I will control you and I shall never fear you. You. are. ABSOLVED!".
Suddenly there was a flash of white light glowing in the sky as it made the whole area shine in it, after a few seconds the light had disappeared and everyone opened there eyes to see that the huge portal in the ground was gone.
"whew. Man that was close" jack said.
"yea your telling me. Shit would have got real if we weren't hear sooner" sam said.
They all walked back to dillon and fluttershy who were still trying there best to comfort there friend.
"rainbow dash. Please stop crying. It's gonna be ok".
"i didn't get to see him" she said as she kept crying "I was lied to by trixie and I fell for it".
Sam kneeled down next to her "hey it's ok. No matter what were here for ya".
She then looked at all of her friends smiling at her as she smiled back at them with tears still in her eyes, they all then came into a warm hugging embrace as they all looked at the warm blue sky.