Age 2

Twilight is just a filly, and crawling through the hallway of her parent's home why'll they are away. She is about to fall over the edge of the wooden staircase, and tumble down to the first floor, but suddenly a small black swirly portal opened up around the size of a colt's hoof, right next to Filly Twilight. A hoof came out from the small portal, and caught her, redirecting her into the other direction, saving her from falling down the stairs. Filly Twilight giggled, and crawled back to her crib. A deeper darker, but kind giggle could be heard from the portal, and the hoof that saved Twilight retreated back into the portal, and it closed with a flash.

Age 4

Twilight is in Magic Kindergarten, and she was being picked on by the more popular unicorn girls. The teacher was gone at the moment, and Twilight was about to cry, sniffling, but suddenly a portal opened. The same dark swirly portal, and then the room suddenly went black for a second. When the light came back, the girls picking on Twilight had their mouths filled with soap, and a cookie was on Twilight's desk with a note that said "Don't cry" Twilight read it, while eating the cookie, and she smiled, hiding the note in one of her folders. The portal disappeared without a sound.

Age 8

Twilight was trying out for Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. Shee was trying with all he might to hatch that little purple dragon egg, but she couldn't do it. The portal opened up behind the cart secretly, and unseen. Whoever was making the portal, could feel all the magic power coursing through Twilight, she had a very strong magic force; all it needed was a small start, a spark if you will. A red strip of magic flew to her horn at light speed, so it could not be seen. The red magic energy sparked her horn, and Twilight made many spells happen at once, parents were turned into potted plants, the egg hatched and the baby dragon grew to a gigantic size, and many other crazy magical things happened. She could have done that power all the long, but her horn wasn't at its full strength since she was nervous. A little while later, Celestia fixed everything, and granted Twilight into her private school. The same sounding dark giggle came quietly from the portal, and it disappeared. Twilight slightly heard it. And it sounded familiar, but she was too busy celebrating about being in an advanced school to really care.

Age 12

Twilight is still in school, and is doing great so far. She was trying to study for a big test, but the book she needs is gone! She's frantic, and starting to lose her mind. The portal appeared behind her, the same one as before. Shortly after opening, a book flew out of it, skidding next to Twilight, she soon noticed the book, and looked around, but the portal was gone. Twilight shrugged, smiling, she opened the book and started to read it.

Age 17

Twilight was already in Ponyville, she was asleep on her bed, Spike was asleep as well, and unaware of whatever was going on around her. The swirly portal opened again, except much bigger. Somepony stepped through the portal, he/she looked like an Alicorn, but his/her wings were not regular feathered ones… they were… different. The Alicorn walked over to Twilight's bed. Only his/her silhouette, and red eyes, which were slits like a dragon, were visible in the darkness. Twilight was shivering slightly, curled in a tight ball. She was freezing. The silhouette pulled the covers back over her, and she snuggled in the blankets. The Alicorn stroked her mane; Twilight smiled, and yawned in her sleep. The silhouette smiled, and walked back into the portal, disappearing.

Present, Age 22

Twilight woke up, throwing the covers off herself, feeling the sun's warm rays shine down on her body. She glanced over at the empty cat-like bed that belonged to her faithful assistant, Spike whom was spending the next few nights with the cutie mark crusaders at Rarity's place, because they had told him that they required his fire breathing abilities for their next attempt at finding their cutie marks. Twilight didn't even want to know what they were planning. Her mane was frazzled, dark rings around her eyes. She stretched slightly, and stayed sitting upwards in her bed, yawning tiredly. Just last week, Twilight Sparkle had turned 22, and it wasn't that special, it just made her depressed. And today was the new day of a new year. Twilight didn't really care, they were all the same. Sure, she had amazing friends who she wouldn't trade for anything, and great assistant, who was like a son to her, but she didn't have a special somepony. She hadn't felt the loving hug of a colt once in her life. No one was interested in her. She was an egghead, a nerd, something that all colts seem to despise. She wasn't ungrateful for all the blessings she had, but she wanted a somepony that she could express her feelings to, somepony to cry on, somepony to stay with her through the night to make her feel safe. A few salty tears slid down from Twilight's eyes, soaking the fur on her cheeks. She felt unloved, to put it short and simple. All her friends had dated in the past, Her brother was married! Rainbow Dash was dating a young colt by the name of Sapphire, Fluttershy was dating, and almost married to another colt named Dameon (see wut I did ther XD) Twilight's other friends had a special somepony in the past, Twilight never did. She was already 22 and nopony had ever truly loved her. She knew her friends did, but she wanted somepony to love her in a more serious way. Twilight put her face in her hoofs, and thought things over. She had to be strong, and try to enjoy today, if that was even possible. She slowly got out of bed, and trotted over to her mirror, to get ready for today, She put on a fake smile. She was still the same book-loving Twilight we all know and love, but this huge emptiness in her heart made her just feel terrible every day.

Somewhere else, in an old abandoned temple-like stone building in a tropical forest, much like the temple in 'Daring Doo' except minus the dangerous beasts, and lava. It had moss growing through the cracks of the outer walls of the building. The door-less entrance had a strange dragon-shaped symbol above it carved in red and black paint. Stone pillars with fire symbols carved on them stood tall in front of the old palace-like temple. There were only two very large rooms. Inside one, was an old stone table with two old stone chairs, and several cabinets which had nothing but dust in them. In the other room, it had very old wooden bed, with a very lumpy, and dusty mattress, it had only one pillow. There was a old wooden cabinet next it, with a single book on it. The title on it read 'A memoir of Nightshadow' It was very thick, and it seemed to have an endless amount of pages. A quill with a beautiful Blood red, and black feather lied on top of the book. There were several cabinets, about four total. Three of them were completely filled with empty inkwells. Hundreds sat stacked neatly, covered with dust, and some cob webs. The fourth cabinet looked more often used, It had three jars, one with what looks like a miniature sun, the second had a miniature moon, and the last one had a miniature star system inside it. the sound of soft breathing and snoring could be heard throughout the room. Somepony slept in the ancient bed soundly. It was an Alicorn, but unlike any Alicorn anypony had ever seen. He had a sharp pointy unicorn-horn, but he also had two curved dragon horns coming from his head, they were slightly shorter than his unicorn-horn. His mane and tail were jagged, and glistened under moonlight, they were the color of dark red and black. His skin and fur were dark as night itself. His fur had a random pattern of blood red blotches. His pupils were differently shaped from any normal Alicorn, they were slits. His eye colour was a deep crimson red, with black slits that ran all the way down his pupils like a long, single slash mark. His canines and other teeth were much sharper than any normal pony. He had a face mark around his mouth which was the same color of his red fur-spots/blotches; it seemed to blend in with his fur coat. His fur basically felt like soft velvet mixed with silk. He wore a slight, and jagged black cape which only covers his back, and was jagged at the edges, he had on black hoof-cuffs/shoes that had gold oval gems incrusted on each side of the cuffs/shoes. The strangest thing about him though, was his wings. They weren't feathered, they weren't insect wings, they were a pair of leathery black, featherless wings. Dragon wings to be more precise.

His name was Nightshadow. And he was the forgotten prince, cast aside, and forgotten in history. His eyes suddenly opened, and he rose to a sitting position in his bed. His back legs, and tail were still under the old blanket. He had lived here for the past 799,999 years. He was abandoned here in the past, and a spell had been put on him, cursing him to spend 800,000 years in this temple. He knew that today it would have been 800,000 years since that faithful night. He would be free, and he knew exactly where he was going to go. He levitated the book into his lap with red magic energy, Nightshadow opened the book to a page that was two thirds into the book. The title of the page read, Ponyville. Nightshadow smiled slightly. He had only one way to connect to the outside world, an ancient spell that even Celestia and Luna rarely used. Portals. Each pony has their own predetermined portal color, shape, and design. Nighttshadow's were a blackish color.

But the very idea of seeing the common pony-folk made him shudder. Back when he had more contact, and was abloe to see the whole world, unicorns, pegasus, and Earth ponies hated eachother, and they were all rude, and also cold hearted. He was a dark Alicorn himself, but to him it seemed that the ponies were to angry at eachother for meaningless things. He turned his attention back to the book he held in his lap. The book was what he did this past 800,000 years. He had written a biography on himself, adding one page each day, as something new he did, he never really expected anyone to ever read it, let alone know of it's exsistance. All the book really was, is something to keep him occupied, and for that matter, sane. He had a picture of a lavender Unicorn on the same page of Ponyville. Nightshadow looked at, and studied the picture over and over, he smiled sadly, and put the photo back into the book, and he set the book back onto the cabinet. He had not eaten much since being trapped in this temple. He had been depressed the whole time, his bones could be slightly scene through his skin, showing how mal-nourished he really was. Nightshadow also knew that once he was in Ponyville, the weakness, and exhaustion from little food, and little movement would begin to really take it's toll. He was about to leave this horrid place for hopefully, the last time, but before he left, he set the book down on the dusty old table, and wrote something down on the cover. It read 'to whoever finds this, enjoy. It took 800,000 years to write.' It would be a long trip until Nightshadow would reach his destination. He put on a large black cloak that completely covered his body, only leaving his red eyes visible through the black porthole in the cloak. He stretched his wings through two small holes on each side of the cloak that were meant for his wings, and he then took off into the air, now able to stretch his wings for the first time in 800,000 years…