Prologue

Twilight was in her library, was reading her bookOfLegendsandTalesand she noticed a story called "The Moon's Student". In response, she was dumbfounded. Twilight read this book over thousand time, it's possible that she skipped over or it appeared the same day as The Day of Solstice? Twilight questioned this as she read it and the Tale went like this:

"Long ago Princess Luna had a student and the student was the most wise unicorn since his master or her sister and on the day his master rebelled he was put into stone."

That all what the story said no name of student nothing just a sentence with a caption of Luna with a black unicorn. Twi was puzzled of what the unicorn's name could be, was thinking where the stone unicorn could be, and came up with an idea

"Hey Spike I'm heading out", Twilight said to him

"What for?", Spike asked her while he was going through a list

"Investigation", Twilight said

"Can I come?", Spike asked her looking at her

"No I have to go alone", Twilight said heading out the door

Twi then walked to Stone Gardens and begun to look at every statue carefully and being careful as well. Twilight then noticed a statue named The Warrior and was cracked a little bit along the hooves and legs. The cracks also looked very recently and not of decay. Twi wondered if this was The Apprentice of the Unicorn looked like it was taking a defensive stance, as if protecting something, though it was not known what. Twilight moved along and continued looked at more statues. However, the statute was, in truth, alive. There was unicorn inside, trapped. He had gone by the name Eclipse, and he was the apprentice of Princess Luna, and then Nightmare Moon. But like Discord, he was turned to stone by Celestia. Inside, he saw nothing but darkness. No sounds could penetrate his stony prison. He also had no ability to talk. Yet he tried to call for help, multiple times over the years. He gave up hope several years earlier and wanted out so badly he even tried to move, but to no avail. He would also go to sleep, for how long he wasn't certain. He felt when he dreamt, it lasted days, if not weeks. He had no concept of time, and for some reason he couldn't die. He was centuries old, but he still felt young as ever. His mind, though, was the opposite, it was about thousand years old. He was bitter, and each day he swore revenge on Celestia for putting him in stone and sending Luna to the moon. That hateful driving of force was why he continued to live; it was hope. Hope to escape his prison. Hope to see Luna again. It was true that, in recent years, he was starting to give up, began to wish for Death to claim him. He knew that if Death was going to get him, it would have done it by now, which was another reason that he continued to live. Plus, he didn't know where he was or what was happening, for all he knew he could be in a dungeon, the castle's basement, or watching over a cemetery. Twilight returned to the statue and was now certain this was the statue and tried to lift the statue with her magic, but he was too heavy for some reason. Twi went to to get some returned with AppleJack and Rainbow Dash.

"So want us to help carry this here statute?", Applejack asked Twilight looking at the statue

"Yes", Twilight responded back to AJ

"Why not use your magic to wake him now and we'll carry him to your library?" Dash asked Twilight

"I want to talk to him in a concealed area and I don't know if he's awake or asleep underneath all that stone. He might go crazy", Twilight said to Dash. "So can you two help me lift this statue?"

They nodded and Twilight lifted the statue with a struggle and Dash and AJ lifted the statue with their backs. Twilight's magic help then carry it and wasn't as heavy, but still kinda heavy for them to carry to the library

"Why do you want this statue anyway, Twi?",Dash asked carrying the statue

"To understand more about Equestrian History", Twilight answered proudly

"Could you just ask Celestia?", AJ asked

"I tried to ask her, but she remains quiet about it. I don't know if Celestia doesn't want to talk about it or she doesn't want anypony to know, even me", Twilight guessed with a frown across her face.

The finally got back to the library and put the statue down with loud thump Spike immediately went to statute as AJ and Dash cracked their backs.

"What is that?",Spike asked

"The appropriate question is who is it?", Twilight corrected him, "And to answer your question it is Apprentice of the Moon."

"You mean this, here , statute is your opposite?", AJ asked in almost argumentative voice.

"I guess you can say that", Twilight said inspecting the statue

AJ and Dashed rolled their eyes in response to that

"I say this is a bad idea" ,Dash whispered to AJ

"Same", AJ replied to Dash, "But I say we stay here and see what happens."

Twi went to go get her spell book and found a spell to awaken to awaken any stoned pony and went back to the statue. Twi knocked on it and put her ear against it , begun the spell , and the statue part of Eclipse was melting like ice.

"How long will this take?", Dash asked

"A little bit",Twilight said with horn lit up, "It appeared to be made of 3 layers of stone."

Meanwhile, inside the statue, Eclipse was thinking about his life in review as felt he was getting free.

"Where to begin?", he thought,"I guess at the beginning."