Here I am with my brand new story. Big thanks to Spirit of Fantasy for providing me help for the story. And as for you guys, hope you enjoy the new story.

As always reviews and criticism is welcome as long as you're polite.

Prologue: That's How It Begins…

This was just another morning in the beautiful land of Equestria. The sun had just risen a few moments ago. The royal sisters could be seen standing on the balcony of the castle after doing their first duty of the day. Celestia smiled and looked towards her little sister. As she looked towards her, she saw that she seemed really sad.

"What's the matter Lulu?" Celestia asked

"It's nothing…" Luna shook her head "I'm fine." She tried to show a smile.

"Lulu, you know you can tell me if anything is bothering you." Celestia said, putting her wing on her sister's shoulder. "So… if there is anything…"

Luna took a sigh and giggled slyly "It's just…" Luna thought of the best thing to say "I think I just need to get a nap." Luna said

Celestia gave her a concerned look before she smiled and said "Alright Lulu." She gave her a wing hug. Luna returned the hug and smiled. "I'll see you later then." She said before releasing her.

Luna nodded and yawned as to reassure that she was tired. Celestia knew that something was surely bothering her little sister, but she didn't want to force her to say something she wasn't wishing to reveal at the time. Without any further talk Luna went back inside the palace towards her bedchambers.

After some moments Celestia also headed towards the throne room. It was the beginning of just an ordinary day for the Princess of Sun.

Celestia was strolling in the royal gardens humming to herself. Much to her joy, she was free from her royal court for some time before the evening, so she just decided to enjoy her time in the company of nature while her little sister was asleep in her chambers. She went to the bank of the lake to enjoy the cool breeze.

"Such a wonderful afternoon," She said "I should relax like this more often."

Then she sat there and closed her eyes, listening to the chirping of birds along with the sound of many other creatures of the garden. Then suddenly a thought came to her mind.

Does Lulu still feel guilty over what was happened a thousand years ago? Is that the reason she likes to be quiet all the time? I thought she came over this but... I guess I should give her a little time before asking her about all these…

She pondered over these thoughts for a while. After that she opened her eyes got up and continued strolling in the gardens. Once again she was preoccupied by the beautiful sceneries. She still had a little more time before she had to get back to the palace.

Then all of sudden a blinding flash erupted from a bush in front of her surprising her in the process. WHAT WAS THAT? This was the only question on her mind that time. When she was able to see again she rubbed her eyes with her front leg and looked towards the creature lying in front of her at a little distance. The area around the creature was burnt because of sudden burst of energy. The creature lying in front of her was the one she never expected to see in her wildest dreams.

What?! Her eyes widened at the realization.

It was unconscious at the moment. That creature didn't have the hooves like pony did; instead he had strange limbs coming out of his front and hind hooves. And his back legs were also of different stature. He looks a lot like a shaved ape, but his face was significantly different than an ape. Moreover, the creature had fair skin, seemingly furless, except a little patch on head and was stark naked. She was sure that it wasn't creature she'd ever seen before. Yet, she was very curious about his mysterious arrival.

She went closer to the unconscious creature. By the looks on his face, it looked like he was in a relaxing slumber. She couldn't help as a smile came on her muzzle. There were many concerns on her mind, but for now she was only concerned about one thing. He was unconscious and he might be hurt as well even though no visible injury could be seen.

"I can't leave him here." She said and placed the creature on her back "Here little one, let me take you to the palace." She said and headed towards her palace.

He felt as he was going through an endless void of darkness, no darkness would be something, he was floating into nothingness. He could hear some voices still echoing around him.

… we don't have much…

… are you sure about…

… at least we can try, and maybe…

That feels like he was there for an eternity. But all of sudden he started to hear voices which were different then he was hearing before and much more vivid. There were two voices he was hearing quite clearly now. One of them seemed to be an adult male and other was soft motherly voice of an adult female.

"Don't worry your highness, even though I don't know much about this creature's anatomy, I can assure you that he's physically healthy and fit."

"Are you sure Doctor?"

"I'm quite sure, your highness." Doctor said "However, we can't be exactly sure until he comes to senses."

"So, how long it'll take him to come around."

"I'm not sure about that, I think he should be coming around within next few hours… or I could be wrong."

"Goodness, he's finally waking up."

He could clearly saw himself falling towards the light; he could feel himself waking up from this seemingly never ending dream.

Celestia was standing alongside a white unicorn stallion with black mane, who was wearing white lab-coat and had a stethoscope around his neck. They both were looking at the creature that was lying in front of them on the bed; while white a light grey blanket was covering his lower body. The creature was finally coming around. Celestia and the Doctor were both happy to see this. Finally the creature flutter opened his eyes and looked towards the creatures in front of his eyes…

"Are you alright little one?" Celestia said

The creature kept staring her for some moments before finally nodding in confusion. Celestia realized this and extend her wing towards him and caressed this on his cheek.

"Don't worry now, no pony will hurt you." Celestia said

The creature felt a little relief at this and this could be seen through his expressions. "You… you promise… right?" He finally spoke and by his voice, it was reassured that he was still a child.

Doctor couldn't help but put a toothy grin on his face along with a surprise expression. "My words, he talks in such a clear tongue."

Princess also giggled at his question. "If this makes you feel better, than yes." She smiled and caressed his cheek with her hoof. "Let us know each other, my name is Celestia. Now, do you remember your name?"

"Name…?" he asked "Mm… Max"

"Max?" The creature nodded in confusion "I must say, it suits you so well." Princess giggled at this and then looked towards the doctor "Our friend here would like to ask you some question; you think you can answer him?"

Max nodded in response to this. "Okay my dear boy!" Doctor said "You aren't having any trouble in breathing, do you? Such as pain or anything" Max shook his head in no. "Do you feeling any pain at all?" Doctor asked again "Such as headache or something." Max shook his head again and kept looking towards the unicorn doctor. "Great," Doctor said in joyful tone. "As I said, Max is fine." He said before packing his stuff using his magic. "Well, looks like my work here is done for now, I should be leaving now."

"Thanks Doctor!" Princess said

"It was my pleasure your highness." He replied "If you need me ever again, I'll gladly be here." Saying this he looked towards Max "Farewell boy."

After this he left the room leaving only Princess and creature in the room. Then all of sudden, a grumble coming from a hungry stomach was heard from both of them. Princess giggled and gave him an obvious look before saying, "Hungry?" Max blushed at this and nodded reassuring that he was really hungry. "I see…" Princess said and smiled before gesturing towards the tray with sliced apples beside the bed. "I hope you like apples." Max picked up the sliced pieces of apples, and began to munch on them happily.

Max smiled and looked towards Celestia with gratitude. "My pleasure," she saw that he was still a little confused. "Any problem?" she asked with the softest of her voice

"No," he replied

"It's alright Max; don't pressure yourself that much." She said "I can't promise but I'll try to help you to figure the things out for you."

Max nodded sadly at this. Celestia was well-aware with the fact, that without the knowledge about his origin or even his arrival in their land she could only do so much for him. But that wasn't the main thing to be worried about for now. The important thing was that he was safe and sound and that meant most to the co-ruler of Equestria. As she once said to one of her former student's friend Fluttershy:-

As Princess, I care about all creatures big and small.

Celestia noticed that it was almost evening now. In a while she had to set the sun to make for Luna to bring the night. Luna, I wonder how she'd react to this discovery. "I need to attend my duty for now." She said and turned towards the door.

She was about to leave the room when she was stopped by a call. "Wait, don't leave me here alone." she heard him said "Can I… can I come with you?" He said and get down from the bed getting out of the blanket, only to realize something really embarrassing. As he realized that he wasn't wearing anything he quickly covered himself again. For some reason he knew that he shouldn't… be like this. Princess looked at him in surprise for a moment before she realized the problem. Of course, he doesn't have any natural coat or anything, he needs... to wear something I guess.

"It's alright Max." She giggled "I know somepony who can help you with this problem." She reassured "I hope you'll like to have some new clothes, don't you?"

Max nodded and quickly got on the bed quickly covering his private area. Celestia smiled at this, before turning towards the door. As for the biggest question why he was there in first place, she thought to leave it… for now.

The sun had been set and a large silvery ball was now rising to take her place in the night sky. After the moon was completely rose stars began to appear there as well. At last night sky was presenting all her beauty in front of all the creatures beneath it.

"Now, tell me Tia! What did you want me to know?" Luna asked her sister as glow on her horn was disappeared. "Don't tell that Equestria is in danger once again?"

"I hope not, Lulu." Celestia giggled "Actually," then she told her little sister all about that human and his mysterious arrival in their land. "… it amazed me how did he reached here at first place."

"Didn't he tell you something about that yet?" Luna asked her

"Not really," Celestia sighed with a saddened tone "I scanned his memories while he was asleep… everything was so much hazy." She said "I doubt that he could remember anything either."

"Hmm…" Luna made a thoughtful expression "You sure he isn't dangerous, Tia."

"I can't see how such an innocent creature would be dangerous." Celestia giggled "Believe me Lulu, once you'll talk to him you'll know for yourself."

Luna smiled to hear this. Both sisters were heading towards Celestia's bed chambers, where she'd left the creature. In a while they were standing in front of the door. Luna was a little curious to see their new guest as well. Celestia opened the door and both sisters headed inside. There they saw the human, who was in his new clothes now while a unicorn mare was standing in front of him. She had rosy coat and a pink mane and tale and was wearing a red vest with pink laces around her torso and had a cutie mark of colorful thread roll with a needle.

"Okay, they look alright." The mare said to Max, while he was wearing a dark blue hoody and a slightly lighter blue pair of jeans. "My, you're looking good." She didn't notice the arrival of the Princesses in the room.

"Thank you!" Max replied. It was clear that he was feeling much cozier now. "I… really liked this."

"Your welcome," she said softly "I never worked with your proportions before so, I wasn't sure if you'd like them."

"Good job my little pony," she heard the voice of Princess Celestia and looked behind, "It looks like he really likes his new clothes." Princess was looking towards him.

"I tried my best your highnesses." She said bowing before her

"I can see that." Princes said with a smile. "I hope dressing him wasn't much problem."

"Not at all, your highness," She replied "Beside, he's very well-behaved colt." She said looking towards him "It was quite a new experience to make clothes for an… exotic creature." She smiled "Alright, I shall be leaving now." She bowed before Princess once again and left leaving only Princesses and the creature in the chambers.

The Princess of day looked towards Max who was sitting on the bed dangling his legs at the edges. She smiled to see this, while her little sister gave human a look of concern. It doesn't look like he's dangerous, instead he looks… cute. I can see that. Luna thought. Both sisters went towards the creature, as he looked towards the one whom he was familiar with. A cute smile of gratitude appeared on his face.

"It looks like you're feeling better now."

"I… do."

That was his reply before he looked towards Luna, who was already looking at him curiously. That was until her big sister decided to break the ice.

"Luna, this is Max." She said "Max, this is my little sister, Luna."

"Hi," Max said to her looking towards her in wonder.

"Hello, Max." Luna said as a smile appeared on her face "You've such a cute name."

"Thank you." Max blushed "I… like your name too."

"Well, thank you." Luna replied "It was nice to meet you, Max."

She said and almost suddenly extended her hoof towards him. Max looked towards her hoof and then towards her in confusion before Luna realized his mistake and pulled her hoof back and giggled at her own silliness. Her big sister also chuckled to see this. Then Celestia asked:-

"You must be hungry by now, aren't you?" In response he gave his head a simple nod.

Meanwhile at Ponyville, in Sugar-Cube corner, a pink mare with even more pink mane was standing beside her bed in her sleeping PJs. She was about to get a relaxing nap after a wonderful day. Suddenly she felt a nibble at her tail. She looked towards her tail and saw that a toothless baby alligator was nibbling on it.

"Oh Gummy!" She giggled as she grabbed the alligator "Are you here for a goodnight hug?" She said before hugging the alligator. "There you go!"

After this the alligator went towards his own resting spot. "Goodnight Gummy!" She said before lying on her bed and yawning relaxingly. Then all of sudden she felt a coldness creeping down her spine and giving her a shiver. "Whoa!" She said all of sudden "My Pinkie sense! It's telling me…" She said as her expression became somewhat surprising "Somepony has arrived here recently… you know what that means." She said as she looked towards Gummy "Another super-duper Pinkie Pie party!" she shouted. She said and closed her eyes and went to a sleep all of sudden.

Next morning she was woke up by not the sound of chirping birds but by the sound of lightening and thunder. She was waked up by the loud noise of lightening. Rainbow Dash! She thought that it was Rainbow's prank to scare the willies out of her. She loved to pull pranks with Rainbow and so quickly came out of the bed. She removed her sleeping PJs and headed outside to say hello to her best friend. But she wasn't expecting to see what she saw there. It wasn't Rainbow, it wasn't any pegasus, or anypony at all, and instead the sky was covered with a large nimbus cloud. All of her friends were also there trying to understand the situation.

"It's strange!" She heard the voice of Rainbow who was with many other pegasi was flying up there "A storm was not in our today's schedule!" then she looked around and shout "Discord! Is this you again?"

"I'm not doing anything!" Discord said as he appeared there with a bucketful of popcorns "I swear!" Then all of sudden a lightening bolt hit where Dicord was standing, burning his popcorns in the process. "See!"

Then all of sudden a lightening bolt strike the ground where Twilight was standing. She was shrouded by dust as this happened.

"TWILIGHT!"

All of her friends shouted in huge shock as they saw this. But to their relief as the dust was cleared they saw Twilight in a purple force field bubble. They ran towards her as they joined her in group hug.

"Twilight, thanks heavens you're alright!" Said Rarity

"Fer one moment, I thought…" Applejack said in relief and then looked towards Discord "So, if yer not behind all this mess." Said Applejack "Then who in the hay is that?"

"Look!" Said Fluttershy as she pointed towards the mountains where Canterlot castle could be seen clearly. The clouds were getting dense right above the palace.

"Oh no!" Twilight spoke "Princess Celestia, Luna!"

A while ago in Canterlot Castle...

Max was sleeping in Luna's bed chamber while she was guarding the night. It was near morning when she came back from dream realm. Now it was time to set the moon and raise the sun. The time to start a new day.

...

The sun had been raised and a new day had been started. Both royal sisters had done their first duty of the day. For some reason Luna was not looking as quite as tomorrow. Her big sister was really happy to see this.

And when both sisters were about to head back to the palace they heard the sound of stormy wind and…

Back to recent time…

A dark cloud was covering the sky as far as their eyes could see. It started as small clouds gathering together own their own to make a huge dark cloud. It seemed to be because of some kind of evil spell. The sharp sound of thunder and stormy wind was all around them.

"Sister, you know what this is?" Luna said loudly

"I am afraid… I don't!" Celestia replied

They were trying to stop this by using their magical attacks while dodging from its lightening. It wasn't normal, that cloud was uncontrollable much like the clouds of Everfree but much bigger and more dangerous. They were looking at cloud when suddenly to their shocks that cloud above their palace started to get a definite shape: a shape of a creature's head or something. That was definitely a shape of some strange creature's head, as two dark eyes and an ugly face like structure could be seen clearly in it.

Then to their great shock they heard as that shadow in clouds was saying something in a strange language. As he spoke the sound of thunder and blowing wind could also be heard.

"Échei perásei tóso polý apó tóte pou écho dei aftó to thliveró méros!"

"What… No… It's…!" Celestia looked even more shocked than the others. It almost feels like she knew something about this whole situation. But before she could comprehend that what that creature was saying she heard another sound which feels like a very dark and intimidating chuckle. That added to the fears of the royal guards, other ponies, and even the Princesses themselves. Then it spoke again.

"Oi pýles tou tártarou den boroún pléon na me kratísoun!"

A frown started to appear on Celestia's face as she looked towards that awfully ugly smile of that shadow.

"O chrónos sas érchetai sto télos!"

"NO!" Celestia said in her Royal Canterlot voice. She was really furious now. She charged her horn once again with full power and attacked on that shadow's face. As magical solar beam was connected to this it began to disperse in the air.

Luna and others just looked towards her in complete shock as she said this. Then they heard another intimidating chuckle from the shadow. The Celestia gritted her teeth to see this, but that chuckle ceased away along with the disappearance of that dark cloud. The sun cloud be seen in the clear sky once again. It was much to their relief.

But in a moment Luna saw that her big sister was still breathing heavily, not in fear but more like in fury. By her looks, it seemed like she was in a deep thought.

That's what I feared most; I wished those words to be not true but it seemed like…

"Tia," Luna called her

But if they were accurate then maybe…

"Tia," She called her again

Then hope is still here and we can…

"CELESTIA!" She at last shouted knocking her out of her head.

Celestia, all of sudden looked towards her and shouted "WHAT!"

"What happened to you?" Luna asked and after a little pause "It... looks like you know something about that shadow."

Celestia didn't reply and kept looking towards her sister with an expression full of anxiety and fear. Then Celestia closed her eyes lowered her head for a moment and then looked towards her sister again. That was enough to reassure Luna that her sister definitely knew about something very important.

"You do… don't you Tia."

"We need to go back to palace." Celestia said "I've to check on something."

Saying this Celestia went towards the gates of the palace while Luna was went after her in confusion. Then Celestia looked towards her little sister and told her. "You should go and see Max." She said in caring tone "He must be waking up now."

Luna stared at her face for a moment before nodding and going towards her chamber. Celestia watched her as she went away and then sighed and kept walking towards a certain direction to a special door. At last she was standing in front of a door with a sun emblem on it. She lit up the magic in her horn and emblem started to glow along with her horn and eventually a door was opened revealing a room inside. She walked inside the room with only thought on her mind.

I must find the way to prevent the upcoming disaster.

I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of new story and I hope it wasn't that bad. Stay tuned for more my dear readers.