Hi everyone! Thanks for your views so far, I really appreciate it! Here's our Generosity chapter, introducing the plot line. I'll bet you can tell who's my 3rd favorite pony now. Anyways, have a Rarity chapter and a rather long one at that. Enjoy!

Chapter 6 – Generosity

Rarity was walking through the Zokolo, admiring various clothes, gems, and jewelry in particular; trying to find an appropriate necklace to go with her saddle she was wearing. She was levitating one particular necklace when she mumbled to herself, perhaps a bit too loudly, "I wonder why they chose to put these sapphires here…"

Dilenn, meanwhile, was looking around the marketplace also, and happened to be within earshot when she heard Rarity. She didn't exactly know why she'd heard Rarity in particular, but she looked over and saw Rarity postulating a piece of Membari jewelry. Not making physical contact with the unicorn, Dilenn said, "They must be there because the center gem is a ruphie, a rare gem from Membar. No other gems may ever be strung next to a ruphie, or it will dent the surface of the ruphie, which is cut specifically so that it cannot be dented by the sapphires surrounding it." Rarity had since spun around, still levitating the necklace, to look at who was talking to her. She was immediately agape at Dilenn's robes. "Those robes… they are absolutely beautiful! Tell me, what are they made from? How are they made? I'd absolutely adore to have some of my own!"

Looking at the form of the alien she was talking to, she doubted that it would be possible to make proper robes for an alien of her stature. But as Dilenn could answer the alien's other two questions, answer them she would. "Before I explain how my robes were made," she started, "May I have your name?" "Oh! I apologize for not telling you earlier! I am Rarity, or, Miss Rarity, if you prefer. And you are?" "My name is Dilenn," she said.

Before Dilenn could continue, a rainbow blur zipped out of nowhere and landed in front of Rarity. Out of breath, Rainbow Dash panted, "Twi'… sent me… to get you… we need your help… Discord… he… COME ON!" She stuttered at the end, and apparently gave up on making coherent sense; so she tugged both Rarity and Dilenn, much to their mutual irritation, extraordinarily quickly to Twilight's quarters.

"Thank you for coming on such short notice," announced to Twilight of her growing group of friends, "But I've just received notice from the Princess that Discord… well, let's suffice it to say that he's not the only draconequus in the universe. And let's also add that maybe, just maybe, and this is just a theory, they may be sided with Mist Flare in an attempt to keep us from our task. I'm not positive as to why they'd like to do such a thing, but the Princess said she'd get back to me as soon as she had more information on the subject."

Gathered around the table in one corner of the room were all of Twilight's now quite confused friends. Pinkie, who was continuously saying, "Achy Knee!" over and over, Applejack, who was trying to help Pinkie, Rarity, who was batting her forelock with one hoof and scratching her chin with her other, Maria, who only Twilight could actually tell was worried, Ivanova, who was staring at Pinkie trying to make out the logic of the pink pony, Rainbow Dash, who was hovering above her chair and scratching her head, Fluttershy, who was too much cowered behind her mane to be any more confused than she was scared, Dilenn, who never really seemed to be worried about any one thing in particular, and G'Kar, who had a blank look on his face and seemed to be poker-facedly absorbing the information Twilight had given him.

"I understand you're all moderately confused as to what I've just told you," said Twilight. "Moderately?" asked Rainbow Dash with dripping sarcasm only she could pull off like that. "Okay, maybe more than just moderately," corrected Twilight, quickly getting back on topic, "I've been doing some reading," "What a surprise, Twilight doing some reading," said Rainbow again, with the same level of sarcasm. "Please, Rainbow, stop interrupting. Now, from what I've read, all your people seem to call the creatures we fought back in Equestria the Shadows. Understandable, given their relative reluctance to share anything about themselves. Well, after the Shadows attacked Equestria, so many fronts needed to be defended at once that we nearly lost half of Equestria to the Shadows because we, myself and my friends I mean, couldn't be everywhere at once. As such, Celestia is forging a new set of Elements. It is extremely difficult, and I imagine it must be difficult for her to do that as well as find out about Mist Flare and the others, but that's beside the point."

"As you all know, we are gathering new users for the Elements because the new Elements will be the ones we will be using," Twilight continued, "But it seems we must do that much more quickly than we imagined. We must all make a concentrated effort to find these new Element users, and we still have yet to find most of them. We have Magic and Loyalty, but not anyone else." "Generosity!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash suddenly. Everyone suddenly looked at her in confusion. "Okay. Let me explain some. I was doing some reading (and that one, however, IS a surprise), and I came across some recent records of the Shadow war. I read of a Membari named Dilenn, who acted in extreme selflessness throughout the entirety of the war. And your name is?" she asked, turning to Dilenn, who blinked several times before answering, "Dilenn." "And you, my friend," said Rainbow Dash, "are now and forever more the Element of Generosity."