Creating A Hive

A Cursed Book, REALLY?

If Raspberry were to tell Thorax a cursed book caused the problems, he would assume the book came from Twilight's house. Or that Twilight was behind it all, curse and all. Had she read a spell out loud without studying it, again?

Did she just open a mysterious book hidden behind a secret locked bookshelf in a crumbling hidden room on stairs that broke as soon as the book was removed? Did Twilight do that?

Thorax wouldn't be blamed for thinking that.

Twilight- surprisingly- wasn't responsible for this.

Spike did it.

Spike opened a secret locked bookshelf. He walked up stone stairs to a hidden room. He picked up a stone book. While he did not read the spell aloud, he did read it to himself as the stairs and chamber collapsed around him. Then, oblivious of the world around him, Spike decided Rarity would love it!

If anyone wanted proof of if Twilight and Spike were family, this just confirmed it.

Raspberry explained this to Thorax. Thorax wasn't blamed for his next question.

"And Rarity just...took it?"

For those curious, the book did not look new. It didn't even look like a book. Two stone slabs, held together by brass rings. The symbol on the cover was covered in spikes, protruding out from the stone. No pages. No elegant cover. The words of the spell were etched into the stone itself.

Rarity. Rarity, the fashion designer extraordinaire, looked at it. She looked at it and decided "yes I will keep it". The Rarity that Thorax knew? The same Rarity that tried getting him and his team in actual suits for their relay team? That Rarity accepted that book?

Yes.

Yes she did.

She read allowed the spell?

Yes she did.

She was drunk off ice cream and the consequences of her earlier mistakes, she was allowed this. It's Spike's fault anyway.

But Raspberry explained to Thorax that the book did not stay as two stone slabs. Rarity used the book's magic to make it fabulous.

The book's magic? Not Rarity's?

Good eye!

Yes the book had its own magic. A sickening, disgusting shade of green. It overpowered her own magic. Any blue glow usually associated with Rarity got covered up. If Rarity were more aware, she would notice and hate it.

But she didn't notice.

Spike did.

Raspberry too.

Hence why she ranted to her husband about it over breakfast.

==CAH==

The first sign was actually very obscure, very unlike Rarity. A local fair was starting up again. Rarity had been asked by the puppet master to create a traveling puppet case. Rarity agreed. Her first looked awful: two small, too stylish, the wheels couldn't even reach the ground.

After using that cursed book, Rarity made a new one. Much more simplistic, to the puppet master's request. The curse made sure that all Rarity needed to do was think about her creation, and it would be made so.

The only oddity came from when the puppet master asked how she was able to make it so fast. Rarity said nothing, and ran off.

Raspberry noted that.

==CAH==

The second sign came from Rarity's house the next. Raspberry checked there after seeing about the puppet master's traveling theatre. Thorax apparently thought everything was funny. He walked around town, leading the kids around the fair. Raspberry hunted the suspect down.