Life has a way of screwing some ponies over and rewarding others. To me I was rewarded in life when Princess Luna took me in as her student a year ago, to advance my knowledge of magic, stars and the night in general. At the begging, when Celestia told Luna to take me in as her student, Luna would tell you she got screwed by life. Now she would joke about it but never mean it. In the year, she taught me about advanced magic, stars and basic lessons about the night so I would give up, that never happened. After the first three months she gave up trying to get me to quit and began seriously teaching me, as well as her teaching me I taught her on modern Equestira. But I'll start at the start, from the day I was taken as her student to now.

I was the one you probably wouldn't notice at a first glance, I was the strong silent type in life that would stop the thief, early on in my life I took up sword fighting around the time my little sister, Twilight Sparkle, was taken in as Celestias student. Earned my cutie mark in sword fighting. To most I was the one with the cloak or the ninja pony who could sneak in to a prison, break out all the prisoners and get away with it. To my family and few friends, I was Shadow Seeker or to my friends Shadow The Ninja. The day started like most waking up at noon from staying up all night long like always, grabbing my cloak and looking at my planer to see what I had to do today, today was the day I was summoned to the princesses at 5 pm. That was all I had planed for the day, so after a quick breakfast of bread and oats, I decided to head off to the castle. Canterlot is a very big place that's easy to get lost, unless you know your way around the city. The castle is the easiest place to find. Most of the time the main part of the castle is open to the public, but on busy days the castle is closed to those who have been summoned or have a task to do in the castle. Today, surprisingly, it was open to public. The guards didn't care when I walked through the main gate. Since today was a semi-busy day there was a pony giving others directions to where they need to go. The time was now 4:30. I already knew where I had to go so I slipped by the stallion and headed to the lunar study. If I wanted to I could have stayed in the shadows, but I didn't for I knew that it would make a bad first impression. The study was the last door on the right, right before the spiral stairs that lead to a private area that almost nopony goes to, the time was now 4:50. The note said to arrive ten minutes before and wait at the door, that's exactly what I did. Shortly after my arrival I saw princess Luna and Celestia walking towards the study, with Celestia talking to her younger sister. As they got closer I could hear them.

"but sister, I don't need a student." Luna protested.

"yes you do, more than you realize." Celestia countered. "and your first applicant seems to be here already, and I think he is eavesdropping on us."

That last part spooked me a little bit, but not enough to jump.

"a student would just get in my way, I don't need a distraction in my life."

"yes you do, you are to focused on helping other that you haven't started trying to get help for yourself, a student would open you up to that. Also, you saw the stained glass, having a student is your destiny, this one seems to have many similarities to you, I can tell that he prefers the night over the day, and he… reminds me of my student."

At this point they were close enough that they could hear me.

"who is this student you speak of, princess?"

"well she no longer your ordinary student, her names it Twilight Sparkle, do you know her?"

"twilight is my young sister."

"I knew that there was something similar about you."

"ok my sister, go easy on him. He is very promising."

"what ever you say, lets get this over with."

And with that Celestia was on her way while Luna lead me to the study. The study was essentially a dome, a glass dome. It is perfect for star gazing.

"this is going to take to long. Name?'' Luna asked.

"Shadow Seeker."

"Talent?"

"stealth, sword fighting, stealth related magic."

"Night or day?"

"night"

"so there is a similarity."

"there might be more then you think."

"whatever, I doubt it"

1 Year Later

"you're a fast learner" Luna was in front of me. "there is now nothing I can teach you, except one thing."

"what would the be princess?"
"that would be friendship, but I don't want you to report to me on that, I want you to report to your sister."

"its been a long time since I've made any contact with my family, are you sure I shouldn't report to you?"

"I wouldn't be able to teach you that, even your sister wouldn't but she can help you. Tomorrow you go to ponyville I will send word that my student is visiting, however I wont say the time or your name."

"thank you princess."

"NEXT STOP PONYVILLE"

The conductors yell woke me up, thankfully. When they say that it means really soon. The train platform had no ponies looking for me, which is good. My destination is very easy to locate. A crystal castle is very easy to locate. My black cloak made me unrecognizable to locals, and hard to notice from them. The area around the castle was relatively empty except for two pegasus's blue one and a yellow one, who entered it. Seeing them enter it made me stop for 5 minutes.

After entering it I used my magic to sense were the others are. I sensed 6 ponies and 1 baby dragon were in the center of the castle in a circle. I wandered until I found the area.

Using my silent teleport and cloak I was able to get in undetected.

"I'm telln you twilight there is a pony out there who is very suspicious looking." the blue one said.

"yes I don't think I could trust him." the yellow one said.

"well I think this might be another 'Zecora' incident." a purple Alicorn, who must be my sister.

"its not like that, this guy looks like trouble."

"fine do you know where he is?"

"only that he was outside"

"he not outside now" I stated.

All of them jumped and the yellow one disappeared.

"who are you, where are you and what do you want" my sister demanded.

"I am here on business, as for who I am" I dropped my invisibility spell and removed my hood.