The Art of Magic trilogy

The Art of Magic is a story written by Raritybell, it is a dark and bloody story about the true origin of magic. It barrows heavy elements of the fiction Rainbow Factory. The story was released two times. The first version on June 20th of 2012 and on November 11th as a re-written version.

Style
The story is told in the thrid person point of view and written in the past tense. The first version was largly unorganized where as the re-written version followed the same style as The Funeral everypony should go to... The story is devided in eight chapter with each of them having text above them, in the same style as Rainbow Factory. There is both an extended ending and an alternative ending.

Summary
The story begin with Sweetie trying her best to preform a blast of pure magic. It doesn't work the first time and Rarity, who was watching from a sideline, gives her an example of one. As the beams shoots in the air Sweetie is amazed and wants to try it again. Rarity gives her the oopertunity and this time she is successful and Rarity believes her sisters future is secured.

A couple days later it is time for Sweetie to be tested on whether she is a True-Unicorn, Half-Unicorn, or the third kind. After a long trip to a unkown Colesium the filly is left alone and meets another filly who happens to be the sister of Twilight, Twinkle Sparkle. Eventually the turn is up to Sweetie but due to her nerves she fails them all and is called 'Unworthy'. Resulting in her being locked up in a cell where she is reunited with Twinkle, who also failed.

Eventually the two of them are brought to the Unicorn equivalent of 'Rainbow Factory', dubbed the 'Magic Facility', a horrible place where Unworthy Unicorns become magic itself. To make matters worse, Rarity, Trixie and Twilight run the place. They explain the true origin of magic and tell the ponies in the cell that it all comes from the Facility, and that soon enough, the they all will be crushed into magic.

But before the time is there, Twilight goes to the office of the manager, which being Rarity, and goes into a discussion with her if it is worth it to crush their sisters. Twilight eventually does agree with the idea, but is still having her doubts about it.

When the time comes, and they are ready to get crushed, Sweetie unleashes a powerful beam of pure magic allowing Twinkle and her make a run for it and damaging the machine. Rarity bursts out in rage and follows close the two on close hoof.

In the final confrontation Sweetie and Twinkle hide in a holding cell only to be found by the mad Rarity. Twinkle is torn to pieces, and Sweetie and Rarity battle it out until Sweetie Belle yields. Rarity orders a personal cell for her, has her hung up by all four of her legs by Twilight who begins to tear up at the sight.

When the time is indeed there, Rarity kills her own flesh and blood in cold blood.

In the extended ending Rarity absorbs the power of the bolt of magic that once was her sister's, thus making her more powerful then ever. She ends by singing the song of the Facility, to which the lyrics are unknown. As Trixie and Twilight begin to fear for the madmare as the take refugde in Twilights quaters.

In the alternative ending, when Rarity stabs Sweetie Belle, Sweetie Belle wakes up from a nightmare whilst calling for her sister. Rarity comes to help, and after she explains that it was just a nightmare, they both sleep in the mare her bed where they curl up with each other. Their horns are touching each other, giving off sparks.

Characters
'Twinkle Sparkle', Twilights younger sister and attendy of the Unicorn tests, she has a blueberry colored coat but her mane is unspoken of. An explanation she give for not being mentioned is because her sister always studies and tends to forget her own reletives.

Through the later chapters of the story there is spoken of Professor Cosmos, it is said that this particulair pony was responsible for the rules by which the Facility lives nowadays. Later on the story Rarity mentions the pony saying she was chosen to lead for how coldhearted she could be. Aside from mentions, no appearence is given.

Creating the magic
Creating magic is a bloody progess by which the blood and tears are extracted out of a pony and mixed with the leaves of the 'Enacra' flower named 'Ci Gam'. Everything is then mixed together before it reached the pipe leading to the chimney of the Facility. Where it shoots out under a roaring thunder, going to Unicorns who need it. The process of the magic entering the Unicorn is not spoken about.

The original
The original version of the story was released on June 20th of 2012 where it stayed there for some time. In October of 2012 Raritybell had announced that all her stories would go through a major re-write, re-edit progress. The versions of the story readable on FIMFictions and google doc are the re-write as DeviantArt is having the original version as released on June 20th.

There are a couple differences between the original and the re-write, mostly being the re-write having more words and is better formated. Certain story elements also have been changed up. Most notable the change of suits. In the original they were wearing black suits as in the rewrite it was turned into hazard masks and hazard suits.

Music piece
On July 20th 2012 (one month after the release of the story) a YouTube user under the name of JustCross7 made a track for the fiction which was originally released under the name 'Rainbow Factory Destruction' on his/her channel. It was also uploaded to Raritybell's channel under the name of 'The Magic Facility' and is featured in both the google doc version of the story as in the discription on FIMFiction.

Trivia

 * Both the words 'Enacra' and 'Ci Gam' are mirrod version of the words 'Arcane' and 'Magic'. If this is done out of pure random or planned ahead is unknown.