"My dear, readers

A thousand apologies for not posting anything in far too loong, for theri has been trouble and dificulty with being able to post the next chapters and had to make adjustments for the story. But i will post more very soon and not as late as this one took to post, once i finished making corrections and have it as right as i can make it i will post the next chapter" LunarWriter74 May the night let your dreams take you to tranquility and peace.

Rarity and twilight were on their way to the equestrian archives in Canterlot. There, they can find the name of the Stallion Alicorn Twilight had bumped into. Twilight had explained that the archives hold almost the entire name of every single pony in equestrian. From the beginning to the current date and magic is used to update every single one. It even updates their location, their age, and their birth and death. Twilight explained that we they can easily go towards the alicorn hall archive, and find a file of recent alicorn in Equestria. She even said they wouldn't even need a name; just remember the face or the image of the alicorn and magic will do the work for them.

"This seems like allot of work and magic on keeping track of the ponies in Equestria" Rarity exclaimed thinking why they need such a large facility.

"Well the princess told me it's to make sure everything is in order… or something" she said but shrugged on trying to figure out why they do need it.

"In my opinion, maybe their trying to find somepony, just as we are" said Rarity. Twilight was in deep thought about this but she immediately shrugged it off.

"So any way darling, do you remember what he looks like Twilight?" asked Rarity

"well of course" she said smiling and rolling her eyes "I made sure I had each and every detail draw out to my memory and his height, weight, and size should be close to my calculations from my memory" she said as she pulled out a large text book filled with mismatched papers. She opened it revealing many drawings and writing describing how the alicorn looked like. Twilight really took her time to make this; many of the pages were very descripted and marked events from her dream.

As Rarity was looking at the scrap book Twilight had made, a little filly with her mom had climbed towards the window. She tripped and hit the window forcing it open. As wind swooped in the couch cart, Twilights notes went flying out the window as she tried to grab them. She opened her window with her mouth wide open in sheer shock as all her notes went flying out the window.

She climbed down back inside the cart as she took a deep breath, held it for a while, and let it all out.

"Just my luck" she said.

"Not to worry darling, you still have it by memory" said Rarity in try of comfort Twilight.

After a while the train had finally made it to its destination. The two mares grabbed their saddles and climbed down the train and into the beautiful capitol city of Canterlot. They looked upon the castle and took the magnificent gaze all in. they began to walk towards the castle passing the large buildings.

"Anyway darling, how will we know where to start?" asked Rarity "this personal archive must be at least an acre worth of files big"

"Simple rarity, we ask Miss Everword, the archives keeper and an old friend of the Princess, she can help us find where to go" twilight answered. So the two mares walked up and passed the grand golden gates of the castle walls. High and mighty as the princess herself. The gourds let Twilight in with a smile and a greet, most uncommon for them to do. Their usual day consist of watching for trouble and standing still in alert mode at all time. They can't slack as they did once the city was overrun by changelings. But Twilight had once lived in the castle among the princess and being the younger sister of the captain of the royal guard. She was ever so pleasant towards them and would thank them for their hard work or even for just allowing her to enter the premises of the castle or give her a chariot ride. She was some of the kindest faces they would see in their hard work and keeping the city safe. Many have thought about maybe asking her to be their special somepony. But some had preferred not to due to two reasons, her older brother and herself. She is a kind and generous pony, but she also pays far more attention to her studies than to other ponies.

"So many strong and handsome guards around here Twilight, are you sure you never were into another pony before you moved out" she said giving twilight that look, the squinting eyes and devilish smile look. Twilight just rolled her eyes and continued walking towards the castle greeting other guards around her. She walked up to one guard and greeted him as he gave a salute.

"Hey Jeff, how are you" she asked.

"I'm quite alright Twilight, great to see you here again, and your eye and hair back to normal, also not crawling out at night with your assistant spike and that strange other friend of yours" he said. Twilight gave a sheepish laugh remembering of the time she 'broke in' to find the time spell. "So what can I do for you and your friend?"

"We would like to know what the quickest way to the personal Canterlot archives?" she asked. Jeff told them the quickest way towards it without all the hassle of twisting and confusing passages. They tanked him and continued their wake through the castle. After a long walk down a spiral stair case they had reached a large black gate with blue metal hinges. The top of that in blue writing read Canterlot archives, find that who is lost and wanted. They entered through the gates and gasped at the sight in front of them.

The Canterlot personal archives is said to be the largest personal catalog in all of equestrian witch hold all the names and locations of every pony in equestrian past and present. And it showed it was the largest. There were stacks of books and different scrolls; another strange part was that each and every one of them was glowing at different points.

"why hello there, it seems as though I have visitors, please excuse the mess but I had been informed ahead of time I would at least tried to clean the mess of Equestria itself" said a cheerful mares voice "and of course had brewed up some special tea from herbs on the Canterlot garden, and also a batch of specially made brownies" from behind a large book shelf came a ladder rolling towards them, and something was sliding down from it but had taken a while to reach the bottom.

It was a young seeming mad looking mare, she was wearing a dress made entirely out of recycled encyclopedia and wearing large spectacle glasses, her hair tied into a bun. As she looked up at them she gasped in glee and ran up to the two of them and gave them both a big hug.

"Twilight!" she said cheerfully "it's been so long since I have seen you" she said holding tight but not squeezing rib breaking but gentle but holding tight.

"Hi Miss Everword, it's great to see you too" she said returning the hug.

"Well what bring you to my own humble adobe, Ah! Let me get out the tea and brownies. They may be cold but their still nice and fresh as well printed book bonded in freshly dried warm leather straps" she said letting go and going behind the book case.

"Oh! Right, Rarity whatever you do, don't eat anything she gives you" Twilight urgently whispered to Rarity. Rarity looked at her in confusion, was this pony a treat.

"Well why not?" she asked

"If you do then you'll want nothing else to do, time will seem as though it is depleting and you'll be trapped within the bowls of your mind" she said in a strict voice.

"That sound scary" she said with a terrified face.

"It's actually quite nice, you start to fade away into this blissful state of your own nirvana" said Twilight smiling. "I made the accident to eat one when I was young and drank the tea"

"How old is this mare exactly" asked Rarity

"Oh! Right, forgot to tell you, she appears to be my age probably younger but she's actually 218 years old, it a magic spell that they cast on her when she was young, and the lotus flower in her tea and brownies helps her stay this young" she said but yet she's still not sure of how she's stuck to a young age for many years and never evens seemed like she's aging.

"It makes her immortal?" she asked Twilight just laughed.

"Oh Rarity, don't be silly, no one can be immortal, that spell was never found if it even exists" she said.

"Although there are legends of immortals that had once lived amongst us" said Miss Everword popping out of the book shelf on the wall in front of where she went through. The two mares were surprised to see she had made it to one place and into another, just as one of their friends does as well. Maybe they could be related. They thought. "Here tea and brownies" she offered in a silver platter on top was a tray of fresh steaming brownies and a kettle and three tea cups lye next to it. But they quickly declined the treats because of what Twilight had warned about. "More for me!"

She hopped down from the large book shelf and landed on the ground.

"Well what can I help you two?" she asked.

"Well we need to find… someone" explained Twilight

"You too!" she exclaimed with wide eyes looking at Twilight "who?"

"Well we don't really have a name…" said Rarity.

"You know what this mysterious pony looks like?"

"Why yes we do" said Twilight feeling sure of herself.

"Perfect" said Miss Everword cheerfully. She let the tray of treats on the floor and said "come this way girls I know this place like the words of a dictionary" and so they followed the strange but intelligent archive keeper.

"How big is this place?" asked Rarity

"Who knows" said Miss Everword "oh! Wait, I do! Haha, and it's about 20 acres wide and 300 feet high holding approximately 10,92,027,463 files and 20,097,845 books, 10,92,027,464 files, they the number changes as each pony is born but it never depletes, even after death your name will still be kept here for who know how long, possibly till what she is looking for…" she said looking up and smiling. Both Twilight and Rarity were confused of what she had said.

"So you had mentioned earlier of legends of immortals, can you tell us about this?" asked Rarity curious about what she mentioned.

"Why of course… but there are things ponies would rather not want to know of what it truly means to live? Well it was said that Immortals once lived amongst us, pony's that can roam the land forever and ever exploring every single bit, learning everything there was to know, or just being with their own love forever and ever and just simply having sweet sweet long passionate love with each other" rarity and Twilight felt uncomfortable when she said that "well as time went on, ponies started to notice these immortals and began to hate them, because they were afraid, afraid of death and afraid to die, they had wanted to become like them and love forever. So they had captured and hunted down these ponies, they hid and ran for their own sake"

"What do they have to fear, they can't die right" said Rarity

"Well they have many things to fear, such as pain they may not be able to die but they can still feel pain, and they have one fear witch is greater than another above all"

"What is it?" asked Twilight.

"Being alone" Said Miss Everword, with an emotionless tone. Twilight and Rarity looked at each other and said 'Oh' signifying they understood.

"But it's just a rumor; it's not as if they had actually existed, right? Although, it does sound lovely to be young forever" said Rarity.

"I can just imagine the many books that I could read if I had the ability to live forever" said Miss Everword daydreaming as she walked towards where they want to get to. "Ah!, here it is!"

It was a strange circular glowing contraption with many glowing lights and glowing switches. There was a helmet that was hanging from a long wire to where the ceiling was that Miss Everword grabbed.

"Now put this on and think of the Pony you want to find?" she putting the wired looking helmet over her head.

"Are you sure this is safe"

"Why yes. Now think!" she said. As Twilight bean to think of the image of the strange alicorn she met Miss Everword told her to stop. "Wrong helmet" as she strapped on a different helmet, similar to the one Twilight had. Twilight just rolled her eyes and began to wrap her whole mind about the Alicorn. She concentrated on his sight, his smell, and his taste. Her horn had begun to glow as a bright light shoot from the helmet through the wires turning itself into a bright glowing ball flouting in midair. They all looked at it in aww as it started hovering the different direction.

"Well it seems it worked; now we follow that sphere of glowy memory whatchemicalit" She said running towards it and the others followed it. The deeper they went the darker it got till the only light was from the ball of light and some lanterns perched alongside the large book cases. After a wile of jogging the ball of light came to a complete halt. They all looked at it in confusion as why it stopped. Miss Everword looked around and gave a deep gasp.

"Were in the alicorn section, this section hasn't been passed through in ages. But it couldn't have gone here if the pony you're looking here wasn't seen by you personally… well good luck finding this pony's file! Since this section wasn't used in years it'll be a while so the connecting is a bit weak around here" she said happily as she started to trot towards a ladder.

"oh and by the way, the files say their name, current location, and date of birth and death if they are deceased, but these files are so old that they use scrolls and to find a location they use a riddle so it'll still be a challenge to find them but the riddle can be understood by the reader… well see yah Twilight and Rarity" she said grabbing a lantern and climbing the ladder a few feet.

"Aren't you going to help us?" asked Rarity

"Something tells me you would rather not want other ponies know what you're up to even if this is perfectly fine and allowed, and don't worry Twi, I won't tell the princess" she giggle as she kicked the floor and the ladder started rolling through the large corridors of book shelves and into the darkness. After wile silence filled the air.

"Well that was a strange" said rarity "how did she know my name?"

"She knows everypony's name" said Twilight in a cold voice. What does she know? She asked herself. She stood up and said "let's get started and grabbed different old books and scrolls from the shelf and started looking through all of them. As Rarity did the same. To search through the halls of scrolls of lost names.

"this is just another chapter and not much special happen but soon more interesting problems will imerge. And what were these Immortals that had once roam the land you ask? And how did they obtain the power to live forever? this will be answered farther into the story. And also if you are interested i am making a second part to Silent Melody, a sequal. This will have action, war, deception, and dangerous lustful desire." your felow brony and writter, LunarWriter74- were their is light, a shadow will always follow.