The Puzzle Queen (Part 1)
"Minty, shouldn?t you be doing something more important?" asked Pinkie Pie.
"Huh? Oh right, the decorations. Sorry but this book Kimono let me borrow is amazing," explained Minty.
"Let me read that," requested Pinkie Pie.
"Well okay but I?ll probably have to start from the beginning," warned Minty as she handed the book over.
"Long ago, there lived a pony called the Puzzle Queen. She had her subjects solve puzzles in order to gain the right to even talk to her. Everyone feared her but knew the only way she could possibly be reasoned was to solve her puzzles," read Pinkie Pie.
"I?d be great at solving puzzles. This sounds like a fun book. What?s it called?" added Puzzlemint.
"Tales from the Rainbow," answered Minty.
"Minty, you do know these aren?t actually true, right?" questioned Pinkie Pie.
"They aren?t?" echoed Minty.
"Of course not. What makes you think they would be?" replied Pinkie Pie.
"Well didn?t we think pegasus ponies not exist and then we were proven wrong?" asked Minty.
"Well, yeah but this seems even less likely than that. What are the odds we?d see someone like that in Ponyville. It just sounds silly," giggled Pinkie Pie.
"I don?t know about that. It seems pretty real to me," noted Minty.
"What else does it say, Pinkie?" asked Puzzlemint.
"We don?t have time to read more. We have to get ready for tonight?s Friendship Ball," replied Pinkie.
"I hadn?t even started putting up the decorations. The book was too good to put down," sighed Minty.
"Dahling, you?ll be fine. I?ll help you put them up," assured Rainbow Dash.
"Thanks, Rainbow," replied Minty. *That evening...*
"Are we all ready for that special dance that only the Friendship Ball can bring?" asked Pinkie Pie.
"Special dance, special dance, special dance!" chanted the others.
"Well you asked for it. Twinkle Twirl, will you do the honor?" asked Pinkie Pie.
"Sure. Everyone, it?s called Sunshine and Rainbows with Skywishes, Star Catcher and Thistle Whistle!" announced Twinkle Twirl. *The trio appears*
"Everyone ready?" asked Star Catcher to her butterflies.
"Ready!" replied the butterflies.
"Stop the party! This party is out of line!" shouted a voice.
"Who said that?" asked Minty.
"It didn?t sound good," remarked Pinkie Pie.
"Now this is a real puzzle," stated Puzzlemint.
"I am the Puzzle Queen and if you want this party to resume, you?re going to have to solve a puzzle," explained the Queen.
"No-no-no. There?s no way that?s true. It was just pretend," protested Pinkie Pie.
"You DARE accuse me of being a phony and make believe? Allow me to show you the puzzle. If you fail to solve the puzzle, you?ll never have the Friendship Ball again!" declared the Queen.
TO BE CONTINUED...
