Within the expanse of our realm and others, the same people we know can be found in multiple universes either going against each other or coming together as one. The same can be said for a certain boy…or should I say a certain young colt and his three friends.
I fell back into the dirt of the castle courtyard a rubbed my scruffy brown mane with my hove as I stretched out my wings, another training session and I still couldn't get it down; getting back on all fours I got back into my stance.
"You're going to have to try harder than that to be a castle guard Soren." Shining Armor said chuckling in front of me.
"I know but it's not that easy. I mean…you're captain of the royal guards and I'm still just a rookie." Picking up my wooden practice sword with my teeth I put it back in the sheath on my back.
"Even with all that you still hold yourself back, you're one of our best recruits against earth ponies because you fight like one. Try using your wings in combat." He pointed to my sky blue wings as I folded them back in bashfully.
"No, I can't, fear of heights and all." He chuckled as I said that but I couldn't blame him, no one has ever heard of a Pegasus with a fear of heights…well there was one back at the academy but I can't remember her name for the life of me.
"Even so, you can still get some extra distance and height without going to high up."
"What do you mean?"
"Well when you jump try flapping once and you'll get some extra air in your jump, if you run and jump then you can glide for some extra distance." I've never tried that before, seemed obvious in retrospect, "Give it a try." I gave a heavy gulp and crouched low.
"Okay…one, two…three!" As I lifted into the air I gave a strong flap and rose higher into the sky; the good news was that it wasn't high enough to make me queasy, I landed back down with a thud and fell on my butt again.
"Small flaps on the way down would help with that." Right, go to remember that. I got back up and took a running start and when I felt I was fast enough I leapt forward and spread my wings causing me to glide as I slowly descended, when my hooves landed on the ground I tumbled forward onto my face, "Straightening your legs or coming down in a run might help that." Again…obvious in retrospect but my brain couldn't figure it out in time, "Nice job though…now show me what you can do with what I taught you." Right! I pulled my wooden sword back out and swung as he blocked, he thrusted at me and I back stepped before jumping up and flapping soaring over him and before I hit the ground I gave one large flap to make landing on the ground less painful and caught him off guard as I struck his backside. He turned around and shot a beam of magic at me knocking me back a few meters; I ran forward and then glided at him as he shot beams of magic, I curved left and right dodging his shots and as I came closer I stuck my hooves into the ground skidding forward and stopping in front of him as I thrust into his center as my blade was stopped by his armor.
He gave me a wide smile as I panted and brought me in for a noogie.
"That's what I'm talking about, you're a quick learner!" I pushed him back and ruffled my mane back to its normal scruffy consistency; it was true what he said though; when it came to repetitive practice I never caught on quick enough for the normal captains but when I was in practice combat I showed how well I knew the move and it would blow the other trainees out of the water with my skill. After a while Shinning Armor requested that I become his personal protégé and learn from him personally. I will admit that it was better to learn from him then the others, he didn't yell at me for screwing up multiple times; every time he found a method that wasn't working he twisted it around to help me understand it and this was a good example of it.
"Seems he's going to best you one of these day Shining Armor." I looked up to see the ruler of Equestria Princess Celestia giving us a gentle smile; the ruler of the day and the night was visiting us…the one person I respected above all others…well, besides Shinning Armor that is. I bowed and the Princess waved her hoof for me to raise my head, "Shinning Armor may I borrow your protégé for a moment?"
"Of course Princess, you behave now." He said winking at me; he never was a very serious pony when there was no danger and that made him easier to relate to for me and that made him more respectable. I walked off with the princess as we traveled down the long hallway until we came into a room with stain glass widows depicting historical events from when Celestia stopped her sister all the way back to when she and Luna sealed Tirek away in Tartarus. Most people have let these pieces of history fall in legend but my mother and father made sure that I never forgot that these were real events in history and I never forgot that.
"I take it your training has been going well?" When she spoke I came back to this world and looked to see she was already at the end door.
"Well…as well as they could be…few issues on time it takes but I'm getting better."
"That's good to hear, any new friends?"
"Well…friends are kind of hard to come by when I'm Shinning Armor's personal protégé. Other ponies haven't really been very eager to talk with me." It was a bit more than that but since I had been taken under Shinning Armor's wing…metaphorically of course; other ponies were either intimidated or jealous by what I was able to accomplish and being better than them in sparring matches didn't help the situation either. Even before that though other ponies found me kind of dim and didn't like spending time with a Pegasus who was afraid of heights…not an ideal friend situation but as long as I could become a guard I could do what I was destined to do, protect this land and the Princess. My cutie mark was a shield with a unicorn horn, pair of wings and a mound of dirt in a triangle formation with a blade in the center; from the first time I saw it I knew I would be a royal guard who would protect all races of ponies in the land of equestrian.
"Well then I think this might just be the mission for you."
"Mission? I'm still a trainee so I can't be sent off on jobs yet, besides there have got to be better people you could send." She gave a slight giggle and turned back to me.
"Well this is a mission I want you to take on personally and if rank is a problem I could promote you to knight." My mouth was a gape at what she just said; knight?
"Are you sure, I mean, most trainees have to work years to even be considered to become a knight of the royal guards and then there's a giant test you have to take and-"
"Soren." I stood at attention and she gave a slight giggle, "You've excelled farther than most recruits and even Shinning Armor was considering applying you for the knights' test." Really? He thought I could be a knight? It's flattering, "Trust me when I say you are the only one who can do this." She looked me in the eyes with a sense of trust that made my heart thump like a drum.
"Okay Princess, I'll do it."
"Thank you." She touched her horn to my shoulders and stood back up with a regal attitude, "I hereby dub thee, Knight Soren." With her magic she brought over a long black coat and handed it to me, "Your gift as a knight, I hope this coat will help you in your job as a knight and your mission." I slipped my front hooves through the holes and looked back to see it reached all the way to my flank and fell just above the middle of my back legs; it felt cozy and warm…must be coated with some sort of warmth magic because it looked pretty thin, "That cloak will keep your body temperature constant and comes with a pocket so when you put something in it doesn't weigh you down." Functional and cool, I like it!
"What was the mission you wanted to send me on?" I asked deciding we had wasted enough time.
"Of course, do you know my student Twilight Sparkle?" Sounds...vaguely familiar.
I sat in the chariot with Princess Celestia's student as we went over…I wasn't sure actually, looking over the edge was not something I was willing to do; the pony next to me was a purple mare with a darker purple mane with pink lines. She was sulking as we rode to Ponyville and her dragon assistant was reading out the rest of the letter she got from the Princess.
"I want you to oversee the preparations for the sun festival in Ponyville in my absence, make sure everything is going as planned and more importantly, make some friends." As he said that last part she gave a heavy sigh.
"I don't have time to make friends Spike, with Nightmare Moon coming back I need to find out as much as possible to stop her!" Did she say Nightmare Moon!
"Sorry but what was that about?" I asked and she looked down at me.
"Nightmare Moon is coming back on this, the thousandth year since her imprisonment and soon she will bring eternal night. I have to stop her!" By this point she was in my face with wide eyes before backing up, "Sorry. This is a big problem though; if she comes back then we'll all be in big trouble." She was right about that, eternal night wasn't ideal outside weather for…anyone, not even owls or raccoons and if Nightmare Moon took over then I would be out of a job and possibly a life.
"Speaking of the unexpected, why did you come along?"
"Princess Celestia assigned me to accompany you on this trip; she said it would be good for me so here I am."
"Well it seems like this should be pretty simple so let's just check on the preparations and then head to the library."
"Are you sure you don't want to just try talking to ponies in this town?" Spike intervened, he pointed to a pink pony with a poofy mane bouncing towards us, "They might have interesting things to say." With a sigh Twilight approached the pony and gave her a friendly greeting.
"Hello." The pink pony suddenly gave a gasp and rushed right past us towards the far distance, "Well that was interesting." For me it was, that's the first time I've seen an earth pony suspended in the air for more than a few seconds.
We approached the apple orchard to see two ponies kicking the trees making the apples fall from the tops, one was an orange mare with blond hair tied at the end and wearing a western style hat; her cutie mark was three apples shining and red. The other was a brown colt with a black short cut mane and had a red horseshoe covered in dirt as his cutie mark; his eyes were a light red color and gave off the feeling of duty and strength. As we approached them they stopped what they were doing and came over to greet us.
"Hi I'm Twilight Sparkle and-" Before she could finish the orange mare grabbed her hoof and vigorously shook it with such ferocity I was afraid it would fall off.
"Howdy do there Twilight Sparkle welcome to Sweet Apple Acers, my name is Applejack and if there's one thing this farm likes it's making new friends." She quickly let go of Twilight and came over to me doing the same to me, "And what might your name be partner?"
"Soren." I replied as she shook my hoof to death.
"Nice to meet you Soren, meet my friend Gareth, he ain't part of the apple family but he's helped out so much he might as well be, say hi Gareth."
"Good meetin you Soren, where you two from anyway?" He asked as he pushed a few of the barrels around.
"We're from Canterlot, here to check on the preparation for the Sun Festival." I responded as he continued to work.
"So you two are high class ponies huh?" He gave me a smirk, "So I'm guessing you never worked a day in your life."
"I'm not from Canterlot, I'm from Cloudsdale."
"So you're up in the clouds?" He's trying to antagonizing me and it's starting to work.
"I'll show you I'm made of, I'm not a knight for nothing!" He laughed and then pointed to a few barrels.
"I've got about twenty barrels left to get to the barn, if you can get more of them to the barn before I can then I'll admit you aren't just a high class pony who never worked, deal?"
"Deal!"
"Food, check!" Spike checked off something on his list and looked at me then laughed, "You okay there Soren?"
"Owww." I rubbed the red mark on my head from bumping into that last barrel; I managed to get ten barrels before he did but the last barrel was a bit of a challenge as it was his last to, I ended up running into the barrel and leaving a red mark on my forehead.
"Ugh, I ate too much pie." Twilight groaned as she walked; her gut was sticking out under her sloshing around, too much pie indeed, "What's next on the agenda?"
"We're supposed to meet with a pony named Rainbow Dash about clearing the skies." Spike said, I looked up to see clouds all over the sky lazily drifting around without a care.
"She's obviously not doing her job." Twilight said smarmily; suddenly she was run down by a blue blur as someone bumped into me knocking me over.
"Oh sorry, I was trying to catch up to Rainbow Dash when she went too fast and that's when I went to fast. Hehehe, sorry." I looked to see who had crashed into me to see a dark gray Pegasus with soft red hair down to her neck and a white bow on her head, she wore black glasses and her eyes were a silver color that was soft and gentle, her cutie mark was a book with a pencil writing on the page with a pair of wings on the right page bottom corner.
"Don't worry about it; my name is Soren by the way." I said getting up; I've got to stop eating dirt today.
"I'm Lily, I work with Rainbow Dash to clear the skies and keep the weather constant." I looked back up at the sky to see it was still covered in clouds.
"Seems that's kind of difficult today isn't it?" She gave a chuckle and then sighed.
"Yeah but that's because someone seems to be out of focus today." Lily replied pointing to the rainbow colored mane pony…oh…she's Rainbow Dash; she was busting a gut laughing as she tried to help Twilight get clean from the mud. Twilight now looked like her mane was made of cotton candy with how fluffy and frizzy it was; I worked to hold back a chuckle as Twilight gave me a glare.
"Shouldn't you be clearing the clouds?" Twilight said twisting our attention to Rainbow who was lazily lying on a cloud with her eyes closed; could she even do this?
"Dash." Lily called and Rainbow Dash looked down at her; Lily pulled out a small stop watch and waved it at her, "We've got work to do and maybe you can do it in record time." As she said that Rainbow got a gleam in her eye and took off like a bullet as Lily started the stopwatch; she moved too fast for my eye to keep up with her as she struck cloud after cloud making the sun shine down brighter and brighter every second…no…every millisecond! When she hit the last cloud Lily stopped the watch with a click and pulled out a small clip board writing down the number, "4.27 seconds, that's .71 seconds faster than last time." Lily said and Rainbow started doing loop-de-loops in victory; I looked over at Lily's clipboard to see records dating back to almost a year ago with every day having a different time either going faster or slower in that order with some outliers of time being super slow; must have been sluggish days.
"You keep record of everyday?" I asked in shock of her diligence.
"Yep!" She gave me a gleeful smile as she looked over her clipboard, "I love cataloging about people, I'm not always good at talking to new people but listening about what they accomplished gives me a new idea of who they are and what they can do; it's like a new depth to a person that gives me the chills and I have to catalog those depths or else I don't feel complete." She was really excited as she spoke and I gave a small laugh making her stop, "Sorry, I got a little excited."
"It's okay, I can understand being passionate about something, after all that's why I'm a royal knight." Her eyes widened as I said that and she pulled out a small book from her satchel.
"Really?! You look as old as me and you're already a knight? Amazing, how did you do it? Did you have to train for very long? What style of combat do you prefer? Is that black coat standard knight attire?" She spat off question after question too fast for me to answer and I began to feel my head spin with how to answer her because in all honesty I knew none of these answers; I don't even remember any of the rules from the booklet they handed out at orientation.
"Lily, we've got more clouds to bust, come on!" Rainbow beckoned her over and she put away her book taking to the skies to catch up.
"Time for me to work, we'll talk later Soren, bye!" With that she took off and Twilight waved her hoof in my face trying to get my attention.
"Whatever happened to that manual?"
"Soren!" I jumped as she shouted my name, "Let's hurry, we haven't got much time."
"Right…I'm coming." Maybe that's why the other captains didn't like me.
We entered the town center building to see it was beautifully arranged with different streamers and ribbons hanging from areas all drawing your eye to the upper center stage which seemed to stand out as much more adorned.
"Beautiful." Spike said staring at the center stage in front of us.
"The décor is nice." Twilight said taking in the scenery.
"Not that." Spike replied pointing to the pony working in the center, "That." The pony was a white mare with a long flowing mane that had some bounce to it keeping it out of her eyes, her tail was curled making it lift just slightly off the ground and her cutie mark was three blue diamonds that shinned with a regal shine.
"No, no, no, not that one. Ugh certainly not THAT one." She said using her magic to check ribbon after ribbon tossing aside those she found wouldn't work.
"Are my spines straight, how do I look?" Lover boy Spike.
"Excuse me." Twilight said approaching her.
"Just a moment dear." She replied pulling out a red ribbon and tying it to a bare pole, "Just perfect, the sparkles really work here don't they? Oh Rarity, there's no end to your sense of style." This must be Rarity then, "Sorry about that, now how can I- agh!" She gave a slight shriek as she saw Twilight's poofy and disheveled mane and tail, "Whatever happened to your mane dearie?"
"Oh it's a long story; anyway I'll just check up on the decorations and then be off." Twilight responded.
"No, no, no, no, no my dear I cannot send you off looking like that, come with me." She began to push Twilight and I followed curious of what she would do to fix it. We left the building and came to a small glamorous building that seemed to scream that this place had the look anyone was looking for; we entered the building and Rarity pushed Twilight into the back room leaving me and Spike in the main area with a lot of different clothes. There were so many different styles of clothing but it ranged mostly to formal wear and dresses with little of any outside or casual style; then as I browsed my eyes came upon a small rack in the back that had some casual clothing lined on it. These clothes seemed much cooler in my eyes as they were not only clothes that could get dirty and still look good but they seemed tailored for different labor. There were some overalls and rain boots in a dark brown to keep mud from showing and the boots were water proof making them able to last longer; next to it was a light blue body suit that seemed to match the exact color of the sky making whatever pony that wore this blend into the sky above so as not to attract wild birds. Last was a long flowing purple cape that on the inside had multiple pockets and holders that seemed accustom to a unicorn that was very into magic…kind of like Twilight.
"Can I help you?" I turned around surprised to see a dark red unicorn mare with black hair in a medium ponytail that hung off just off her shoulder looking at me with a skeptical look. Her cutie mark was a unicorn horn enchanting a piece of clothing as it was being sewn with a small needle; her eyes were a deep green that gave the sense of cool and calmness that would make even the most hardened criminal shiver, "These aren't for sale at the moment I'm sorry to say. After the debacle and infamy my unicorn cape has attained I have to go back to the drawing board with all of them." She said shaking her head, "Trixie is going to pay the next time I see her!"
"Are you okay?" She came out of her own head and looked at me with a sigh.
"None of these are for sale. I already told you."
"I don't want any of them; I've already got the coolest piece of clothing ever." I said posing and showing off my coat; she gave me a look of disbelief and then started to laugh.
"Maybe it looks cool but it's totally functionless."
"What!?" Was she dissing my coat form the Princess?
"It's too thin to keep you warm and there are barely any pockets making it just a fashion accessory."
"Shows what you know, it has a special enchantment that keeps your body at a constant temperature and the pockets are lined with magic that sends any item to a small pocket dimension keeping it from weighing me down and making it possible to hold as much as I want." I reached in and pulled out my practice blade and she gave me a surprised look.
"Enchantment?" She took the cloak off me and started examining it from every angle as it floated around her, "I've worked with enchantments before but the pocket dimension spell is definitely out of my range and minor heat spells are all I can do, constant temperature is also tough…who made this?"
"I got it from Princess Celestia before I became a knight."
"You got this from Celestia!? Wait…knight!? Who are you?"
"The name is Soren knight of the Canterlot Royal guards and currently on a mission to protect Twilight Sparkle." I said feeling superior.
"So that's why you're here, I was wondering who Rarity was pushing around." She put the cloak down and began digging into the pockets, "This pocket dimension is so deep I can't even reach the bottom." She dug deeper and deeper and then I heard a squish and she gave a surprised look pulling her hoof out. When it came out it was my half eaten sandwich from earlier today, "Really?" She said giving me a judging look.
"I was going to finish it later." She tossed my coat back at me and I put it back on, "Anyway what's your name?"
"I'm Alice." She responded grabbing the unicorn cloak, "I'm currently working under Rarity as her helper while I practice my own garment creation, speaking of I would like to get a better look at that coat when I get the chance." Suddenly I saw Twilight burst in wearing a luxurious looking saddle, "Emerald center…bad choice."
"Let's go Soren; we have to leave before she dyes my man a different color." With that she bolted off with Spike on her back looking back at where they came from with a loving look in his eyes; lover boy Spike.
"I'll see you later Alice."
"You better, I want to know more about that coat." After saying that she started cutting apart the unicorn cloak in an attempt to redesign it; I headed out the door and I turned back to see Rarity looking around with a gem in her hoof.
"Last is the music." Spike said checking the list; after everything that we checked it seems strange that Celestia sent me on this mission at all, nothing was out of the ordinary and the only thing that attacked Twilight was Rainbow Dash and I don't count that as danger in my book. So why was I here? As we walked I could hear birds chirping in perfect harmony making a beautiful song; suddenly one gave a high picked chirping sound off key and the chorus stopped.
"Sorry mister bird but you're the tiniest bit off key." We approached to see a Pegasus talking to a blue jay in a row of different birds; she had long pink hair that would reach the ground if she were standing on the ground, her cutie mark were three pink butterflies, "A one and a two and a-"
"Hey there!" Twilight shouted catching her attention and scaring off the birds, as they scattered I heard someone stand up and looked over to see a unicorn under a tree stretch their back out.
"Birds go flying again?" She said coming out of the shadows, it was a dark gray mare with a luxurious and beautifully maintained red mane that reached the middle of her neck; her eyes were a brown color that made me feel like she was on a whole other level and it made me weak in the hooves just looking at her. She looked over at me and giggled beckoning me over; I shakily walked over trying to stay on my hooves as best I could.
"So you're Soren?"
"How did you know my name?"
"You met my sister Lily a few hours ago right, she told me about a knight walking around with a purple pony and so far you're the only one who matches that description." So this is Lily's sister; if not for her horn I might have mistaken her for Lily, she looks older than Lily which made her older than me, "She's excited to see you again you know."
"Really?"
"Yep, she has a lot of questions for you."
"Ugh my head almost spin with how many she asked last time." She giggled at my response making me blush.
"Well regardless you should talk to her again."
"If I get the chance I will." She nodded and we started walking as she looked around, "So how are you going to get the birds back?"
"My voice of course." Her voice? I looked down at her flank to see her cutie mark was a line of musical notes that seemed to dance on her flank, "My voice is so soothing and beautiful that I can attract any pony and any animal with ease. Listen and be amazed." She started to sing and I closed my eyes getting lost in her song; I felt all my worries and duties float away on the notes as her voice entered my ears and swirled around my insides. As she sang I heard birds begin to swarm as they flapped around, looks like her voice works after all; I felt my body bump into something and opened my eyes to see I had walked right into her stopping singing as she looked and laughed, "See, ponies walk to me without thinking about it, my name is Sukia by the way." She shook my hoof but I still felt my face heating up as she gave me a gentle smile, "Come little birds, let's get back to Fluttershy." We walked back to see they were gone; where did they go?
"Maybe she headed for the library." I said out loud, "That's where we'll be staying for the night."
"You go on ahead then; I'll keep an eye on these birds while I wait for Fluttershy." She said sitting back under her tree, "Hope to see you again Soren."
"Yo-you-you to Sukia." I stammered out feeling my tongue tie just looking at her, why was I so flustered, this isn't like me; she gave a giggle and I walked away quickly not wanting to make a fool of myself.
I came upon the library to see Twilight, Spike and who I could only assume was Fluttershy talking until Twilight rushed inside shutting the door behind her and I heard a click of a lock; I was locked out and I didn't know a way in.
"She just locked me out, great." As I said that Fluttershy seemed to jump almost five feet and backed up into the door, "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you, my name is Soren."
"I'm…Fluttershy." She responded meekly.
"I know, Sukia told me. I heard you conduct those birds; it was great till the blue jay went off key."
"Thank you…" She backed up some more avoiding eye contact, was I that scary? Suddenly I felt a hoof under my left and right arm and looked up to see two young foals grabbing me. I looked to see the pink mare from earlier today fall down on a grappling wire grab Fluttershy making her give out a shriek; where was she hanging from!?
"Into the top window!" I felt my body lift off the ground as we were dragged into the air; when we reached the top window the pink mare opened it and we were dropped in to a dark room, I looked over to see Fluttershy was shivering scared.
"Ugh I just want to do my research without a bunch of crazy ponies trying to make friends all the time!" That was Twilight! I looked around and found a light switch on the far wall and flicked it on; when I did the room lit up revealing a gaggle of ponies surrounding Twilight.
"Surprise!" As they said that I felt myself pushed into the center and looked behind me to see it was the two foals from before snickering as I bumped into Twilight; she gave me a look of shock seeing me.
"Where did you go when we visited Fluttershy?"
"Where did YOU go? I went with Sukia to collect birds and when we came back you were gone."
"I walked to the library when we were done, how did you get in if I locked the door?"
"I was kidnapped."
"Hiya!" We both jumped back in surprise as the pink pony appeared out of nowhere, "I'm Pinkie Pie, we met when you came to town and I looked at you three and realized I'd never met you before and I know everyone in Ponyville so I had a great idea and that's when I gasped and realized I had to throw you a party to welcome you. All the friends you've made are here to." I looked around to see she was right, not only were the other girls we'd met here but Alice, Gareth and Lily as well as Sukia; they were in a group at the punch bowl talking to each other. As I approached them their faces lit up a bit and they welcomed me over.
"How's that bruise on your head Soren?" Gareth said teasing me as he brought me over his shoulder, "You showed guts back there kid, I like you!" He gave me a noogie as I pushed him off.
"I don't think you can noogie someone the same age as you Gareth." Lily said drinking her punch.
"He'd do it anyway." Alice added with a chuckle, "Anyway, how do you like Ponyville Soren?" I grabbed a cup of punch and took a big gulp.
"It's great, it's a small town but full of charm and interesting people." I said pointing to Pinkie Pie who was eating a cupcake covered in hot sauce.
"She keeps this town lively; you ever need a party you go to her for ten times what you expected." Sukia said as she daintily drank her punch…why does my throat burn.
"Did someone…do something…to…the punch?" I grabbed another glass and downed it still feeling the burning sense in my throat, with a sigh Alice handed me her punch which I drank numbing the burning feeling, "Ahh…thanks Alice."
"No problem; but you have to watch out for the twins." She said looking at the punch bowl intently, "They added hot sauce to the punch bowl." She held up a small bottle of hot sauce that was next to the bowl; what twins was she talking about? I heard muffled laughter and lifted up the curtain on the table to see a two earth foals hiding under the table; one was a black colt with silver messy hair and the other was a white foal with deep black messy hair, they both had nothing on their flanks and their eyes each had a mischievous glint to them proving they had a thing for causing trouble. When I spotted them they quickly ran away laughing.
"Denys and Penny have a tendency for pranks and Pinkie isn't any help any." Gareth said giving a chuckle; suddenly Twilight seemed to dash off into the upper room shutting the door behind her as she clenched her mouth shut tightly…hot sauce attack.
Hours passed as the night wore on, I kept my wits about me waiting for whatever might happen that the Princess sent me here for but nothing seemed to be happening. Everypony was having fun and we all passed time as we waited for the Sun Festival to start; hopefully the Princess sent me along for nothing…honestly after meeting these ponies I don't think I'd want to see anything bad happen to them.
"I'm gonna go check on Twilight." Spike said heading upstairs; I'd better check on her to, after all I'm supposed to be accompanying her. We entered the room and Twilight was lying on the bed with a pillow on her face telling me she was trying to drown out the noise, "Come on Twilight it's a party down there!"
"No Spike, all these ponies are crazy!" She yelled looking a bit peeved at everything, "No one sees the danger that's about to happen!" She was freaking out to the point that I was starting not to believe her story.
"You can't worry about it now though, if Nightmare Moon is going to show up then we'll have to wait till she shows up." I said and she gave a sigh, "You might as well just party for the moment."
"No thank you Soren, I'd rather stay up here doing research." She replied; I listened downstairs to hear things start to quiet then I heard the front door open and ponies started walking out in groups, the Sun festival must be starting, "Well you're out of time now, the festival is about to start." She looked out the window in shock and then gave a long sigh jumping off her bed and joining me as we walked to town hall.
We entered town hall to see it filled with every pony in town all talking and waiting for the festival to start; suddenly the room went quiet as a light brown pony in glasses took the stage.
"I'm glade everypony could make it to the Sun Festival and join Princess Celestia in the raising of the sun." I absent mindedly looked out the window and looked at the moon to see the mare in the moon disappear before my eyes, I looked over at Twilight who was starting to panic, "Without further ado I present Princess Celestia!" When the curtain opened we were all shocked to see the princess was missing; something was definitely wrong, I could feel it crawling on my back. As everyone panicked I looked around to see a strange blue mist move along the ceiling and drop down onto the stage shocking everyone. It morphed until it turned into a tall slender mare in strange adornment with a flowing otherworldly mane; her eyes had a deep look that if you looked into them for too long you might be swallowed into an abys of never ending darkness.
"Bow before your returning princess!" As her voice thundered everypony around me seemed to cringe except for a select few; Twilight and I kept our bravery strong as did Rainbow and AJ while Rarity and Fluttershy seemed to back up in fear. Lily looked like her nerves were shot as did the twins while Alice, Gareth and Sukia kept their composer with only Sukia giving a look of surprise, "Does no one remember me, does my name mean nothing anymore?"
"I know who you are." Twilight said catching everyone's attention, "Your Nightmare Moon, princess of the moon who was imprisoned in the moon." She gave a menacing smile to Twilight.
"Good to know someone knows of me." She turned where attention to me and slightly cringed…what was that? She returned to her composer quickly, "I hope you all enjoyed your time in the sun because now the moon will reign forever; this night will be eternal!" This must have been what the princess sent me here to do; the only question was how I was supposed to stop an all-powerful Princess of the Moon…and why does it feel like something worse is behind this?
