The Other Elements (mlp:fim fanfic)

Chapter three: Lunch with the Princess

A/N: I DON'T OWN THE PICTURE I USED AT ALL! ALL CREDIT GOES TO IT'S CREATOR! Without further ado- the chapter!

"Hold up now... there are other elements?" Applejack asked.

"Yes." Twilight answered.

"And they're similar to the Elements of Harmony?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"Yes."

"And nopony knows who the bearers are?" Rarity asked.

"Yes." Twilight answered distractedly. "I mean no! Yes?"

Twilight sighed and put a hoof to her forehead. She had been trying to explain what had happened back in the Crystal Empire and trying to get ready for lunch with Winter Frost at the same time. As if explaining the concept of the Elements of Wilderness wasn't hard enough, she wasn't even sure how in the hoof she was going to find out if Winter was in fact the bearer of the ice element, much less hold a conversation for that long. She's just so reserved!

"Look, like I said before Winter Frost could possibly be one of the bearers. The other Princesses think that I should gather some information before jumping to any conclusions. So, I arranged to have lunch with her to-" Twilight stopped in the middle of her sentence when she saw Spike run into the dining room.

"Twilight!" Spike exclaimed, still running.

"What is it, Spike?"

"She... the..." Spike trailed of trying to catch his breath. When he finally regained his breath he spoke. "Winter Frost is on her way here! I saw her through the window walking this way!"

"What?!" Twilight yelled. "But I'm not ready! I haven't told you everything yet, I haven't worked out what to say, and I haven't even finished setting the table!"

"Don't worry, Twilight." Starlight Glimmer comforted. "I'll set the table."

A light blue aura surrounded her horn as well as all the plates, silverware, and napkins as the soft pink unicorn levitated them. Everything zoomed into place faster than anypony could utter the words, "Sweet Celestia." Starlight beamed as the light blue magic faded away and Twilight turned to her pupil.

"Thanks Starlight." Twilight sighed. "Well, there's one thing on my list done... now if I could only figure out what to say."

"I'm sure you'll figure it out." Fluttershy soothed.

"Yeah, we've dealt with way worse than just having lunch with somepony!" Pinkie Pie pointed out. "We've dealt with monsters, crazy power hungry ponies and even a crazy unicorn who thought replacing other ponies' cutie marks with equal signs was a good idea!"

Starlight looked down to the ground, ashamed and embarrassed of what she had done in the past. Pinkie Pie lowered her ears and looked over to Starlight apologetically.

"No offense or anything, Starlight. I just meant we've dealt with really bad ponies before and you were just awful. I mean, not anymore but back then-" Pinkie's rambling was then cut off when Rarity spoke up.

"What I think Pinkie Pie means is that we've been through our fair share of challenges before, and we got through them all right. This should be easy." Rarity assured. "And no offense to Starlight of course."

"None taken." Starlight sighed.

"Boy am I glad to have friends like you." Said Twilight.

Just then there was a knock at the door that echoed throughout the long hallways of the sparkling castle. Twilight began to run nervously in place, her eyes darting around apprehensively.