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// Chapter 1: Tales Of Legends 
// Story: The Elementals 
// by FireFrasher 
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“Many millennia’s ago, there existed super-natural heroes with the ability to control certain elements, such as gas, fire, thunder and even gravity, but these gifts were dangerous if not trained properly. The powers could corrupt the user and use them to slaughter those who seek to tame it, or worse, remove it. So the founding heroes took it upon themselves to teach the newer generations of their power and how to control it. This was known as the Elemental Training School and continued the pattern for many years, until the Head Master, the elemental of light, sadly passed away, but not before giving his remaining power to his son, Sunburn”   

The projector ended the video and the class lights were turned back on.  “Now, who can tell me why the Head Master passed on his power to his son” asked Miss Cheerilee to her class. One orange hoof rose to answer the question. “Scootaloo, why do you think he gave the power away?” Miss Cheerilee happily asked the orange pony in the back of the class. 

“Because he was the original sun-bringer, who then gave the power to Princess Celestia” answered the magenta maned Pegasus. 

“Very good, Scootaloo, and your right” answered Cheerilee “the Head Master was the original sun-bringer, even before Princess Celestia, who received the power from Sunburn after being granted immunity of ageing by Star Swirl The Bearded, who was actually an elemental of time. Now, who can tell me the name of the first gas elemental” but before anyone could answer, the school bell rang, alerting everyone that it was home time. As everyone was packing up, Miss Cheerilee reminded them of the upcoming project. “Remember class, make sure to have a group of four class mates for your research of an elemental team” she called as they all left the school for home. 



One group of foals, however, headed into the forest towards Sweet Apple Acres, the home of the Apple family. In the group was Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, also known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders to most of their friends and family.  “How come you knew so much about the old elementals, Scoot?” asked Sweetie Belle “It’s usually Button Mash throwing his hand in the air at those questions about elementals and stuff” Scootaloo turns to her marshmallow-coated friend 

“Well actually, I ended up drinking 23 cans of Crimson Buffalo last night and I researched about 5 hours’ worth of info before having a sugar crash” she replied, happily “and they’re actually really cool, did you know that there is a faint connection to the first earth elemental, Crumble Sweet, and Pinkie Pie” but before they could question, they noticed a faint smoke coming from the orchard. 

“Uh oh” mumbled Apple Bloom, as she sprinted ahead towards the smoke. 



As she found the fire, she became trapped, with a burning tree falling behind her. Realising that she was surrounded by fire, she began to panic, she had no way out and the burning flames began seeping closer. Almost fully engulfed in the flames, she began to cry, in fear of death and pain, when the fires stopped, and slowly reverted to a perfect circle around her. As she began to calm down, the flames seemed to retreat back to their source, which was a now-charred treehouse, and vanished. She sat up in confusion and turned to see her friends, but her friends only gave her a look of shock. But as she wiped the tears from her eyes, she still saw water in them. “What?” she said to herself, but as she walked towards her friends, she realised she didn’t have tears in her eyes, there was water floating in front of her. As she walked into it, the water seeped away, creating an exit for her. “What in tarnation is this?” she asked, as she turned back to her friends. As Sweetie Belle gave her a confused look, Scootaloo appeared to be ecstatic by this. 

“Apple Bloom, that was a Water Shield, you made it, do you know what that means!?” she exclaimed, loudly “you’re an Elemental!!” Apple Bloom looked back at the orb of water. 

“I couldn’t have made that, right?” She thought to herself “But it does seem to make sense, considering Scoot just mentioned Crumble Sweet being related to Pinkie, maybe I should check” with that thought, she turned around, held her hoof to the water, and without much effort, the water was flying around in a large orb. In the shock, she dropped the water back onto the dirt. “Ah guess I am an Elemental” she replied, amazed and terrified at the same time. With that, they decided to head to the barn to tell Apple Jack about the newfound power and about the burnt down tree house. 



Meanwhile, in a distant tree, a brown colt sat with a telescope. Amazed by the situation, he dialled a number on his phone, and brought it to his ear. “Hey Flame, you know that little project you were working on?” said the colt, still watching as they were leaving “I think I just found a possible recruit” and with that, the colt jumped down from the tree, and began sinking into the ground. “Yeah, I’ll be there in a minute with the photos” and with that, he vanished into the earth.