My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Two Sisters…One Fate

A/N: Finally! Sorry, but the site has been giving me a hard time this morning, and so I'm finally going to get this darn chapter posted. Anyhow, since I have an opening shift tomorrow morning at the movie theater, I'm posting this today, and because of Star Wars: The Last Jedi coming out this Friday, I'm going to be working more shifts then usual. Most of them are going to be opening shifts, so there might be a bit of a delay with the next chapter. Also, I was asked some neat questions in the reviews about Shadow Star and Twilight Sparkle.

So, the darkness that Sunrise Blossom sensed when she first entered the Apothecary, it's connected to Shadow Star, who will be resurfacing later in the story, and as for Twilight Sparkle, she'll be mentioned in this story, which is a prequel to the series. Also, Twilight Sparkle will move to Ponyville in the next story, and until then, this is primary about Sunrise.

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

CHAPTER THREE: SLEEPOVERS AND RESTORATION

"No, that's too much, Pinkie Pie!"

BOOM!

The boiling pot exploded and knocked the ponies to the floor while the kitchen filled with greenish smoke. Coughing, Rainbow Dash got up and began flying around the kitchen until she was a rainbow twister, sucking the smoke in, and then she shot out the door just as Big Mac opened it to see what was going on, almost getting run over.

Moments later, Rainbow Dash returned to the kitchen, having dispelled the smoke and gotten the soot off of her, and she laughed at the sight of her friends, who were picking themselves up and were also covered with soot. "You all should see yourselves! You all look silly!"

"Oh my poor coiffure!" Rarity moaned, trying to shaking the soot out of her mane and tail with very little success.

"Don't worry, Rarity, I got this," said Sunrise Blossom, her horn glowed green as she used her magic to gather up all of the soot into a massive ball and, with a sly smile, fired it at Rainbow Dash, who yelped as she was knocked out of the kitchen by the soot ball. There was a distant thud and a shout of protest from the pegasus that she was dirty again. "Sunrise Boom for the win!" she cheered and the ponies all laughed as they worked together to clean up the kitchen.

Rainbow Dash came back in after cleaning herself up again, and chuckled. "That was a good one, Sunny," she complimented. "Why'd you call yourself Sunrise Boom?"

Sunrise Blossom snickered. "It's a fun nickname from my filly years, since when I first started making potions, they did tend to blow up on me, and the nickname came to be by other fillies who were trying to bully me, but I liked the name so much, it became fun instead of mean."

"Well, I like that nickname, too," Apple Bloom declared with a big smile. "It's cool!"

"It is a cool nickname," Rainbow Dash agreed, and they worked together to make a large supply of the joint ointment without any more explosions, and stored it away. "Neat, that should last you for a while, AJ."

"Yeah, it should," Applejack agreed and noticed the time. "Oh my, the sun's already setting," she noted as the sky continued to darken outside the windows.

Seeing this alarmed Fluttershy. "Oh no, I'll have to walk home in the dark."

"We'll all have to walk home in the dark," said Rarity, "and I don't even have a cloak to protect myself from the cold."

"What's worse, is that it's a new moon tonight and I'm not that good at flying in complete darkness," Rainbow Dash added.

Applejack could see that her friends were clearly nervous about walking home in the dark. "Well, looks like you're all staying here tonight," she remarked.

"Yippee! A slumber party!" Pinkie Pie cheered, bouncing around the room excitedly and the other ponies laughed at her antics.

After dinner, where Granny Smith declared that Applejack's friends were now part of the family, making said ponies all blush in embarrassment, they went upstairs, and Applejack pulled out sleeping bags from one of the many closets for her friends to use and got them set up in her bedroom. Sunrise Blossom found her trunk in there, and she was looking for something in it while Applejack went to read Apple Bloom a bedtime story.

Rarity was brushing her hair with a brush she'd borrowed from Applejack when she noticed the opened trunk, and she set the brush on the vanity so that she could see what her new friend had packed. "Is this your family, Sunrise?" she asked, using her magic to lift up a framed photograph of the Sparkle family.

"Yeah, those are my parents, my big brother, and my twin sister," Sunrise Blossom confirmed while magically pulling out a brown teddy bear. "This is the first time I've been away from them for more then a few days," she added sadly.

"Aw, don't worry about it, Sunny," said Rainbow Dash with a grin. "Once you're set up at the Apothecary, they'll get to come here to visit you, and you can visit them whenever you want, too."

"So, what's your family like, Sunrise?" Pinkie Pie inquired, taking the photo from Rarity.

Sunrise Blossom smiled at their intent to cheer her up and, after being rejoined by Applejack, she shared stories about her family with her new friends, especially stories about her twin sister, Twilight Sparkle.

She also wrote in a book that had her cutie mark on the front, and it was a gift from Princess Celestia, who'd told her that what she wrote would appear in a book that belonged to the princess and they could keep in touch that way.

'I've arrived in Ponyville safely, and both Mayor Mare and I informed Shadow Star that she needed to leave the Apothecary and go to the retirement village,'Sunrise Blossom wrote. 'She left, but before she did, I sensed something dark within the Apothecary, and it left with her. I don't know what this means, but I fear that Shadow Star may be working with dark magic. Anyway, I've already made five new friends, which was a surprise for me, and we're having a slumber party. That's all for now, and I do have one request that you talk with Twilight about making some friends. I've noticed that she hasn't been socializing with any pony, and that has me concern. Your faithful student, Sunrise Blossom.'

Later that night, the ponies were fast asleep in the farm house. On the edge of the property, located near the Everfree Forest, a shadowy figure stepped out from among the trees, staring at the distant farm house.

'Enjoy your time in Ponyville while you can, Sunrise Blossom,' the figure thought. 'For it won't last forever, not when my plan is done, and then all of Equestria will be mine!' Smiling evilly, the figure turned away, disappearing back into the forest. Who was the figure and what did it have plan for Sunrise Blossom and the rest of Equestria?

The next morning, Sunrise Blossom, who checked her book and found a message from Princess Celestia con-graduating her on making friends so quickly, would talk with Twilight Sparkle, and she would look into the activities of Shadow Star, and her friends had breakfast and then headed back to Ponyville to start working on restoring the Apothecary.

When they reached the building, they found Mayor Mare and a number of other ponies waiting for them with equipment and supplies needed for the restoration project.

"Good morning every pony," said Mayor Mare brightly. "Now that we're all here, let's get to work on restoring the Starlight Apothecary."

For the next four hours the ponies went through the Apothecary, where Fluttershy had been alarmed to see the dead animals and had insisted on giving them a proper burial, which her friends helped her with, and some animals were also found alive, and the shy pegasus made sure they got proper homes outside the town limits.

By the time that lunchtime rolled around, the Apothecary had been cleared out of everything that would either be restored, recycled, or thrown away, and Applejack confirmed that while the entire building did need to be torn down completely, the foundation was still in good shape, so they wouldn't have to change it.

"Good thing the foundation won't have to be dug up," Rainbow Dash commented as they ate the lunch provided by Mr. and Mrs. Cake. "One less problem to worry about."

"Agreed," said Rarity. "The interior was frightful, and I already know what to do to make it more bright and friendly."

"That's great news," said Sunrise Blossom, smiling. "And I have a few ideas that you might want to include, too," she added, and Rarity looked forward to hearing them.

Once lunch was done, the construction ponies went to work on tearing down the Apothecary, and the six ponies decided to go to Rarity's home, which was the Carousel Boutique, to start planning the new interior for the Apothecary, and Sunrise Blossom complimented Rarity on how beautiful the exterior of her home was.

On the outside, the boutique did resemble a carousel: it was a largely cylindrical building shape with decorative pillars and pony sculptures lining the lower and upper exterior, and it was painted in tasteful shades of of blues, purples,pinks, and gold. Inside the boutique, they saw that the main floor was where Rarity did most of her work: it was stocked with materials and supplies such as mirrors, dress form mannequins, movable screens, and a small display stage.

Sitting on the stage and cleaning one paw was a white Persian cat with light yellow eyes, an opal-studded collar, and a purple bow. When the cat saw the new arrivals, she hopped off the stage and approached them in a cautious manner before proceeding to rub up against Sunrise Blossom's legs, purring before doing the same to Fluttershy, who cooed in return at the cat.

"Opalescence likes you, Sunrise," Rarity remarked, impressed since her cat was very picky of who she showed affection to.

"And I like her, too," Sunrise Blossom agreed, smiling and giggling when Opalescence suddenly pounced on Rainbow Dash's tail, making the blue pegasus yelp and shoot up into the air, colliding with the ceiling. "You ok, Dash?"

"Yeah, yeah, just caught off guard," Rainbow Dash grumbled as she returned to the floor while Rarity scolded the cat, which just mowed and walked off.

"I am so sorry that she did that to you, Rainbow," Rarity apologized, shaking her head. "Now, let's see about making those plans for the Apothecary."

Agreeing, they gathered around the table, where Rarity provided papers and markers, and they started discussing what the interior would look like while examining photos of what the inside of the building had looked like in the past before Shadow Star had taken over. As they worked, Rarity also insisted on having Sunrise Blossom try out some of her new dress concepts, and this led to an impromptu fashion show when she convinced their friends to try out the dresses, too.

By the time the sun started to set, the Apothecary had been torn down and most of the basic framework had been completed, and Mayor Mare commented that they were ahead of schedule, which made every pony happy. By the time Applejack and Sunrise Blossom returned to the farm, they were both loaded down with clothing that Rarity had insisted that they keep, and Sunrise Blossom suspected that before the year was out, she was going to have her entire wardrobe overhauled by the fashionable unicorn.

After dinner and showing Apple Bloom how to make some fun potions, Sunrise Blossom wrote about the day's progress in her book, wrote a few personal items in her journal, and then she wrote a letter she would mail to Twilight Sparkle in the morning.

Dear Twilight,

I hope things are going well for you, Spike, and the family back in Canterlot. I do miss seeing you every day, and I hope you're working hard on your studies and making friends. Yesterday I made five brand new friends rather quickly and they are all so different it's amazing: first up is Applejack, who is a friendly upbeat and honest Earth pony and has an older brother Big Mac, who isn't big on talking, a younger sister Apple Bloom, who is looking forward to the day that she gets her cutie mark and loves to ask me about all the different kinds of potions. She also has a grandmother Granny Smith, who has decided to adopt me on the spot.

Up next is Rainbow Dash, who is a highly active pegasus and is prone to pulling pranks, which I learned the hard way when she slipped a whoopie cushion on my seat earlier today, but she's loyal almost to a fault, and I saw this first hoof when a pony came into the boutique earlier today to give Rarity a hard time about a dress she'd made and Rainbow Dash stood up to her and made it clear that being mean wasn't going to help at all.

Next is Rarity, who is a unicorn and runs the local boutique with an eye for fashion that is extraordinary. Her parents live on a farm not far from Ponyville with her little sister Sweetie Belle, who I haven't met yet, but I have seen photos of her, and Rarity is generous with how she helps others. I also suspect that she's plotting to overhaul my entire wardrobe since I caught her poking through my clothes last night.

Next is Fluttershy, who is a shy and friendly pegasus, and she's even more shy then I am. However, that doesn't stop her from being kind to others, especially to animals, and you should've seen her today when she saw that there were dead animals in the Apothecary. I thought she would faint at the sight, but she didn't and made sure that they had a proper burial outside of town, and we all helped her with the funeral and find new homes for the other animals we found inside the building.

And finally is Pinkie Pie, who is a hyperactive Earth pony and she did give me a bit of a fright yesterday by suddenly popping up behind me, resulting in m accidentally teleporting myself onto the ceiling of the mayor's office. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy helped me down and, after I explained about my disability, Pinkie Pie promised that she wouldn't surprise me like that, and she even made it into what she calls a Pinkie Promise.

Princess Celestia was right about how the ponies in Ponyville being the friendliest ponies I've met so far. So far, my experiences have been great, and the framework for the new Apothecary has been mostly completed.

Love your sister,

Sunrise Blossom.

P.S. be sure to give Shiny Armor a big hug from me when you next see him.

Finishing the letter, Sunrise Blossom put it in an envelope, sealed it, and she put it in her book so that she would remember to mail it in the morning.

Over the next week, the construction on the Apothecary went fast, and it wasn't long before it was possible to start working on the interior of the building, much to the delight of Rarity, and the only sour note that keep the whole business from being completely happy was when Mayor Mare received word that Shadow Star hadn't arrived at the retirement village.

No pony had seen her since she'd left the town limits, and some suspected that she'd gone into the Everfree Forest. Hearing this, Sunrise Blossom sent word to Princess Celestia, who promised that she would investigate into the disappearance of the strange unicorn, and life went on in Ponyville.

A/N: And that's a wrap! R&R everyone!