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Somewhere in the Everfree Forest was a silver-furred pony, a fine silver mane framing a shining horn of diamond. Chrome Masquerade was his name, a colt that had seen seventeen Summer Sun Celebrations - not that he'd actually been to any of them - while keeping himself secluded from anypony and everypony. And in all of those seventeen years of his life, he had never discovered any special talent to earn a cutie mark... and he didn't care.
Looking around the ruins that he was using as shelter, the Unicorn shinned his glowing horn upon the great stonework to examine he statue that was before him. It was of an Alicorn, a large pony with both the horn of a Unicorn and the wings of a Pegasus, with what looked to be armor covering a body made of stars and a crescent moon upon both sides of her flank. A plaque at the base of the statue read 'Nightmare Moon'.
"Who are you, Nightmare Moon?" Chrome whispered to the wind.
As his whispered question left his lips it started echoing around the ruins, growing louder as it rebounded from shadow to shadow. It continued to echo for minutes, the sound changing from his whispered voice to a more regal, feminine one, and seemed to resonate from the statue before him. With fear of what he had possibly awakened coursing through his veins, Chrome backed away from the statue as shadows and dark purple mist started gathering around the base of the great work of stone structure.
"YOU CALLED UPON US, MORTAL SUBJECT?" boomed the same regal that had taken his whisper and echoed it.
Still cowering, Chrome could do nothing but watch as the shadows and mists started to take shape. Hooves, horn, wings, tail, all formed as the shadows condensed and started to become more solid until finally standing before the silver colt was the same figure as the statue, in flesh in blood, towering over him.
"W-who are you?" Chrome whimpered as he looked up at the frightening Alicorn with a mix of fear and awe.
"WE ARE THE ONE FORMERLY CALLED NIGHTMARE MOON! We are the Princess of the Night! We are... we are Princess Luna," the Alicorn said as her form started to shrink in size, her voice becoming softer as well. "We are sorry for frightening you, our little pony. We have yet to fully adapt to the changes in Equestria."
Chrome continued to cower before the Princess as his mind reeled in shock from the frightening appearance of the Alicorn. As he studied the Princess he noticed that she seemed to be a bit shy, and that she was hiding her face behind her dark blue and starry mane.
"I-I-I am sorry for h-how I re-re-reacted," the colt says after building up his courage and rising to stand before the Princess, "I have been alone for seventeen years, and for the first pony I encounter to be one of such rank and importance as you... not to mention the method of your arrival was a bit... dark and creepy."
"We apologize for our method and would like to start anew, and hope that you will be understanding of our situation," Luna said as she slowly approached the Unicorn, her gaze resting upon his horn, "Being imprisoned in the moon for a thousand years tends to make one a bit disconnected from the social queues of the world."
"I understand that quite well, Princess Luna, as I have been keeping myself isolated, quite on purpose, for my entire lifetime," the silver colt says as he slowly approaches the mare.
As the two meet together their horns touch, a flash of bright light erupting around them at the brief contact. But in that span of seconds, it seemed to be years for the two ponies, their magics met together in harmony. They briefly saw through the other's eyes before it changed to show a vast clearing with a lake resting in the middle. Standing upon the lake were two equine figures, one whose fur shined like a pure beam of light from the moon, the other as dark as the night.
The two figures were standing there with the tips of their horns touching and glowing with an inner light the same color as the marks upon their flanks... which were crescent moons, silver upon the night, night upon the silver. And as the two stood there a horde of Changelings swarmed up to them, buzzing and glowing with a sickly green aura, surrounded them...
And then the connection was broken, leaving the two ponies to collect their thoughts while going over what they had just experienced together.
"Did you just-" Chrome started, to be interrupted by Luna saying, "Yes, I saw that."
Stunned into silence once more, the two stared at one another with wide eyes and their mouths slightly agape for a while. When finally the two gathered themselves they averted their gazes slightly as a blush rose to their faces. It was then that the Alicorn noticed the flank of the shining cold had acquired an addition, a crescent moon cutie mark of a blue as dark as the night sky... and her own fur.
"It appears that the two of us are connected in more than one way," Luna said as she took a step back from the silver colt and pointed a hoof to his flank.
Looking behind him at the mark that had appeared upon his flank, Chrome felt his jaw drop open in shock and surprise as he took in the dark crescent moon there.
"Never thought that I'd see the day where I, Chrome Masquerade, would get my mark or be in the company of another pony," Chrome quietly said, sitting down and closing his eyes.
"Rest, now, Chrome Masquerade. I shall be here to talk more when you are awake, guarding the night as I ever do," Princess Luna said as she stepped towards the colt, her eyes and horn glowing with a spell she was preparing.
When Chrome opened his eyes, it was to see that he was in a great library, laying in a soft bed with his head resting on a plush pillow. Shaking the cobwebs out of his head, the silver colt got out of the bed and started exploring his new surroundings and perused through the books on the shelves, examining the titles and occasionally pulled one down to flip through it. After half an hour of his perusing he suddenly got the feeling that someone or something was watching him, following him through the halls of the library. With another fifteen minutes of perusing, Chrome still had the feeling of being watched and was finally getting frustrated with it to the point where he blurted out, "You know, I really do not appreciate being spied on, so why don't you just show yourself?"
From the shadows came the sound of laughter and giggles as the majestic form of the Princess of the Night, her face graced with a gentle smile. She approached the silver colt and nuzzled him, her smile widening as she said, "We are sorry for keeping ourselves hidden like that, but we desired to know more of you, and we believed that the best method would be to hide ourselves in the shadows and observe you."
Nodding in understanding and forgiveness, Chrome smiled as he blushed slightly at the gentle of the majestic mare. He lingered by her side for a moment until they were interrupted by the sound of somepony clearing their throat, causing the two to jump back in embarrassment as a white Alicorn with a flowing mane and tail of green, pink and a few other colors, a sun upon her flank.
"Sister," Luna said as she approached the shining Alicorn, "we thought that you were still resting."
"I am awake, dear Luna, and have come just in time to see the colt that you informed me of in the note you left me," the other Alicorn said as she nodded to her sister, taking a step closer to Chrome, "Do you believe that he should take the test?"
"We do, Tia. We believe that he would pass it, as your own student had," Luna answered as her eyes glowed with mischief.
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