//------------------------------// // The Different Tale // Story: A Frozen Nightmare // by xLapis Lazuli //------------------------------// A cold breeze blew past Iridescent Pencil, a dark grey unicorn with pale pink eyes and a flowing wavy iridescent mane, the mare shivered as she adjusted her scarf and trotted towards the local library. Now that the Golden Oak's Library was Princess Twilight's new castle, they needed a library. Iridescent Pencil's best friend Page Bound had founded the new library and wrote most of the stories there. Iridescent Pencil trotted inside the warm library and found Page Bound hidden in a huge pile of about a dozen books. "Hey there Dess." Page Bound's voice came from the wall of books. Page Bound knew it was Iridescent Pencil because she could always guess who entered her library. Iridescent liked to think of that as her friends super power while hers was being able to sharpen pencils perfectly. "Hey Page. Working on a new book?" Iridescent asked. "Nope. Just reading for inspiration." Page Bound replied, trotting out from the wall of books. Page Bound was a pretty light brown unicorn with a long flowing choppy brown mane with wide dark cocoa streaks. Her cutie mark was an odd open brown leather book with strange markings on the cover and blank pages. "Its awfully chilly out." Iridescent said. "Oh yeah it is. This morning when I went to Mochalee's cafe it was freezing, and its summer! So, do you want to take out a book?" Page Bound asked. "Oh, yeah. Just looking for a good book." Iridescent replied. "Okay Dess. You need me, you know where to find me." Then the mare was off behind her giant wall of books. Iridescent Pencil scanned the bookshelves. Her pale pink gaze rested on an old dusty brown book that looked promising. An iridescent aura surrounded her horn and the book, the dusty book floated off the book shelf and onto a nearby desk. Iridescent took off her pale pink scarf and her pale pink saddlebags with her cutie mark on them. Her cutie mark was a pencil drawing a hot pink coloured heart with a bunch of stars twinkling around it. The mare sat down and scanned through the pages of the book. There was a pretty pink ribbon bookmark but the pages were all blank. Hmm weird. Just like Page Bound's cutie mark. Well whatever. Somepony probably forgot to write the words. She thought. Then she flipped to the page the bookmark was on when a page fell out. "Huh?" Iridescent levitated the page from the ground and examined it. "What's this?" It was an old page yellowed with age and had a few rips. Iridescent carefully read it. Wait this is the tale of some pony named Frightmare Frost! Hmm sounds like Nightmare Moon. Maybe theres a connection? She thought. "Hey Page Bound! Whats this doing here?" The brown mare trotted out from the great wall and blinked. "Wait that looks a lot li-" Page Bound was interrupted by Iridescent. "Whats this mean? Who's Frightmare Frost? Why is this here? W-" Page Bound snatched the book with her blue aura and examined it. "Wait I don't think I've ever seen this book before! It must be one of the books that Twilight left for me." Iridescent still levitated the page, waiting for the answers she needed. "Page, not the book. I'm talking about this!" Page Bound looked at the yellow piece of paper carefully. "Frightmare Frost? Sorry no idea who she is. And no idea why thats here." "But! What is this though?" "Calm down with the questions. Usually I'm the curious one. Well let me look more closely." Page Bound read it and gave a confused look once she reached the bottom. "Whats it say?" "It says this Frightmare Frost is supposed to be banished by Celestia and it says that she will come back when the time is right and that the windigos will aid in her escape." "Hmm. Well how are we supposed to know if the time is right?" Page Bound thought for a moment. "Well I don't know but you said that it was cold and I said it was freezing and its summer so.. Don't know about you but I think the time is close." "Your right but it could be an old mares tale." "Well lets forget about this old piece of paper. Wanna head to Mochalee's cafe for lunch?" "Sure!" The two unicorns trotted off, without a care in the world. What they didn't realize was the frost covering the old yellow page.