My Little Pony: The Blessing of an Alicorn
Chapter 1
Crystal Empire Invitation
Starlight Glimmer was on her way to the Castle of Friendship with a backpack full of her belongings, today was the day she was finally moving in. When she got to the castle, she took a good look at it and she thought the castle was really big. Then she walked in and started looking for the library, she was to meet Twilight in the library for her first friendship lesson.
As she walked through the hall, she sighed and said, "Okay. Library... Library... Where did they put the library?" She sighed again and said, "This castle looked a lot smaller from the outside." As she walked down the hall, she heard loud music coming from one of the rooms. She stopped by the room the music was coming from, she opened the door and saw Neo in the room, he was practicing his dance moves and singing a song. Starlight watched him for a second, but then Spike came around the corner. Starlight closed the door to the room Neo was in, Spike greeted Starlight and she asked him where the library was, Spike said the library was the next room to the left, Starlight thanked him and went to the room.
Starlight walked into the library, Twilight was inside going over a list of what she was going to teach Starlight about friendship for her first lesson. She saw Starlight and asked her to come in. Starlight said to Twilight with a smile, "Sorry I'm late. I got a little turned around. I still can't believe you and Neo are letting me stay here... as your pupil... after everything I did." Twilight patted Starlight and said, "Well, I'm not one to dwell on the past, and neither should you. The castle is your home now, and as far as being my pupil goes, I was just trying to figure out what your first friendship lesson should be!" Starlight saw that Twilight had a long list, she said, "Oh, well, it looks like you're really narrowing it down!" Twilight said, "Oh, these are just the A's. After this, I move on to the B's!"
About an hour later, Neo received an invitation from Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, inviting him and his friends to come to the Crystal Empire to the crystalling of their newborn baby. Neo quickly went and told Twilight about it, then Twilight left the castle and asked each of her friends to come to the castle to plan the trip. Twilight still had to organize her list of what to start with on teaching Starlight about friendship, she said Starlight could join her friends in the throne room while they plan the trip to the Crystal Empire, Starlight had a little trouble finding the throne room, but she eventually found it. She walked in and Twilight's friends greeted her.
Rainbow Dash was excited about going to the Crystal Empire, and she was looking forward to the crystalling of Cadence and Shining Armor's new baby. Starlight didn't know what a crystalling was and Spike explained to her that a Crystalling is a special ceremony for Crystal Empire newborns that culminates in making the Crystal Heart stronger than before, and since this was going to be a royal crystalling, the entire empire was going to be there. Starlight wanted to know what he meant by a crystalling increases the Crystal Heart's power and Spike said it's the energy it uses to protect the Crystal Empire, but Spike wasn't sure what the Crystal Heart's power protects the empire from. Starlight went back to see Twilight and said she wanted to ask her something about the Crystal Empire, Twilight mentioned that she narrowed down her first friendship lesson to a few options, she said she found out that her old friend Sunburst currently lives in the Crystal Empire and for her first lesson, she could reunite with him during their visit. Starlight thought that was a good idea, but deep down, she was very nervous about seeing him again.
Starlight left the room and once again couldn't find her way around the castle. Neo came around and said hello to Starlight. Starlight looked a little distressed, Neo asked her what was wrong and she said, "I don't know, Neo. Twilight's figuring out what my first friendship lesson is, and I guess I'm not exactly thrilled with the options. Well... with one of them." Neo said, "And what's that?" Starlight said, "Reuniting me with my first friend." Neo said, "What's so terrible about that?" Starlight grunted and said, "When we were foals, Sunburst knew everything there was to know about magic. He always knew just what to do. And he was always there to help me. I guess it's not surprising that Sunburst got his cutie mark in magic and... went off to Princess Celestia's school. But when he left..." Neo cut her off and said, "Yes I know, you blamed cutie marks and stripped a whole village of theirs, and when Twilight and the others stopped you, you went back in time and tried to change the past until the Blair Witch did it for you and almost destroyed Equestria." Starlight said, "Not really stuff I'm super eager to tell Sunburst about. I mean, he's probably some big important wizard now, and... I can't even find my way around Twilight's castle."
Neo said, "Well, if Sunburst is that good at magic, maybe he'd appreciate your, uh... exploits. You should talk to Twilight about it. I'm sure she'd want to hear what you have to say." Starlight said, "I know. But I don't want her to think I'm not ready to learn or that I'm not grateful for everything she's doing." Twilight called for Neo and said that she had gotten her crystalling invitation, Twilight was so excited, she said, "Shining Armor's a father! I'm an aunt! Well, this settles it! Since we're going to the Crystal Empire, Starlight's first friendship lesson is going to be... reuniting with Sunburst!" Starlight said with a nervous smile, "... Great." Then Twilight, Neo, Spike, Starlight and the other 5 ponies left the castle and got onto the Friendship Express, and they were on their way to the Crystal Empire."
End of chapter 1, chapter 2 coming soon.