Cinematic Adventures: The Phantom of the Opera

Rarity's Despair

For the Elements of Harmony, the last few months have truly been quite an experience. In a short period of time, they have explored the most exotic worlds ever imagined and encountering many new, amazing friends. They have traveled to a magical world of talking animals, singing munchkins, and an evil witch bent on total world domination... And vengeance. They then ventured to an island inhabited by demonic creatures, led by one of their fiercest enemies of all time. Then most recently, of course, they returned from an infamous chocolate factory filled with the most bizarre, yet amazing creations known to pony or mankind.

To make a long story short, this had been the most amazing adventure Twilight and her friends have taken part of.

The sun set on another fabulous Ponyville day, many of the denizens of this small town began to close shop for the day. In the past month, fall had already become season for Equestria. The leaves began to change to a lovely shade of yellow and red, as they fell from the treetops. Rarity, the town's resident fashionista, just closed her clothing shop, the Carousel Boutique, ending business for the day. The white-coated unicorn, with the perfectly styled purple mane and triple diamond cutie mark, hummed a tune to herself while folding fabrics and storing them aside for opening time tomorrow. Once she was finished, she breathed a deep breath as she looked before her pristine shop in content.

"I do so love when my shop looks spick and span," Rarity sighed, happily. "Especially after a long day of designing cutting-edge fashion."

It was at this moment, the bell over the front door went 'ding!', and the door slammed shut. She turned around and was greeted by the familiar sight of a little unicorn filly with the similar coat as Rarity's, except her mane was a blend of light purple and pink.

"Hiya Rarity!" Sweetie Belle greeted, excitedly. "You won't believe what me, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo saw today!"

Rarity giggled to herself at her little sister's energy. No matter how many times in the past the little filly would either stress her out or stir some trouble, Rarity nevertheless loved her little sister so dearly. She would never trade her for all the diamonds in the world.

"Oh really?" Rarity smirked. "And just what exactly am I not to believe you and your fellow crusaders have seen today?"

"So today, we decided to pay a visit to the Cakes and Diamond Tiara at Sugar Cube Corner, to see what kind of new treats Charlie delivered," Sweetie Belle explained. "Turns out Charlie finally perfected the hair toffee from your last adventure. Cranky bought a box and now he's finally got hair!"

Rarity went wide-eyed, gasping a bit at the idea. She recalled their previous venture that took them to an amazing Chocolate Factory. She especially remembered the Oompa Loompa who tried the then-unfinished toffee, the poor little fellow never did stop growing so much hair. She also remembered Pinkie Pie later saying he reminded her of some "Cousin It" chap with that same hair style, but Rarity took this as either Pinkie referring to a distant relative or it was just Pinkie being... Well, Pinkie.

Sweetie Belle soon reached into her saddlebag, which she carried with her, and pulled out some pictures for emphasis.

"See, here's Cranky eating the hair toffee," Sweeetie Belle pointed out. "A few minutes later, his hair grew out faster than a heartbeat."

True to her word, the pictures depicted Cranky Doodle Donkey eating a piece of Hair Toffee, as the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Diamond Tiara watched from the side. In another picture, Cranky's hair began to grow much to their shock. The final picture depicted Cranky with a full head of hair, smiling brightly. Rarity couldn't help but giggle over some of these photos.