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"Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria…" a soft female voice began narrating.

"Oh! A fairy tale? I love fairy tales!" said Pinkie pie "especially those with houses made of sweets. With walls made of chocolate, marshmallow on the roof, gardens of lollipops, nougat fences, and all that cream…"

"Pinkie you are drooling" said Rainbow Dash snapping her pink friend out her fantasies.

"He he…sorry" apology the girl as Fluttershy gave her a handkerchief.

"Hey the video stopped" someone mention from the crowd.

"Well of course it stopped…that way we can said our opinion of what is going on, and after that it will resume" explained Pinkie "that is normal in this kind of things"

"What kind of things?" asked Rainbow wondering what her friend was talking about.

"Duhhhh…reaction fics. What else?"

"What? !"

"COULD YOU THEN SHUT UP SO WE CAN FINISH THIS QUICKLY? !" yelled Trixie shutting Pinkie from answering Rainbow and confusing everyone even more.

A book was shown laying on a field. Then it opened showing a cloudy sky that broke apart to show a town near a meandering stream. Up in the sky a second town, this one made of clouds and rainbows, floated higher than the peak of a nearby mountain where everyone could see a third city, this one made of white and gold buildings.

Two winged unicorns appeared standing back to back on a cloud; the left one was white, with a pink mane and long tail, while the other one was dark blue with a lighter blue mane and tail.

"…There were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn and the younger brought out the moon to begin the night..."

As the narrator continued, the sun raised behind the white unicorn followed by the moon and stars ascending behind the blue one.

"How that even work?" asked Cheerilee.

"well…Equestria is rule by magic and the sun and the moon had been raised by unicorns even before princess Celestia, the white one on screen, took control of the sun and did it alone for a millennium or so" answered Sunset.

"So, in this other world my sister rises an entire celestial body and rules the entire land?" asked Luna.

"For what I see" said Celestia pointing the now freeze frame "you too do that my sister"

"For some reason I feel a little less important right now" Luna said in down tone. Celestia hugged her sister and put her head in her shoulder

"You and me both sister" she said in a whisper "you and me both"

" ...Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects. All the different types of ponies."

The two appeared on opposite sides of a slowly rotating a yin/yang symbol.

"Hummm…for some reason this sound familiar to me" said Sunset as she tried to think "but from where?

The scene dissolved to shown a sunny clear sky with the younger unicorn with her head lowered, and eyes flashing briefly, observing a group of ponies playing, eating and working the fields.

" But as time went on, the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth…"

Then it suddenly turned nighttime and the previous playing ponies were now sleeping in the field.

" …But shunned and slept through her beautiful night."

"Well duhhhhh, for what else could be the night but to sleep?" said Rainbow dash.

"To throw wild parties" answered Vinyl.

"Go to wild parties" Cherry crash and Mystery Mint yelled together

"Watch fireflies?" asked Fluttershy timidly.

"CAMPING!" shouted the CMC.

"Have a romantic encounter with your special one" said Cheerilee with a dreaming look on her face.

"Enjoy the cool breeze as you sing" Sandal wood added.

"perfect time for the art" Golden Hazel said in dramatic tone getting claps for fellow Drama students.

"Watching the starts" Amethyst Star said.

"Find inspiration in the stars" said someone from the art class.

"Travel to the stars on board a blue box" said Derpy. A lot of people gave her a funny look.

"Perfect atmosphere for a monster movie marathon" said Norman.

"You could use it to study a little more" said Luna feeling, for some reason, a little annoyed "something that you could use to improve your notes miss Dash"

"One fateful day, the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn." The two sisters were show facing off for a moment before the younger one turned away in defiance. "The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one's heart…"

"I have a bad feeling about this" said Flutthershy a little scared.

"Yeah me too" said Scootaloo.

"Me three" continued sweetie bell.

"Eeyup" said the three Apples.

The younger sister`s eyes opened to show pink irises and fiercely narrowed, catlike pupils.

" …had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness."

"A REALY, REALLY BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS"

A violet mist washed over the body of the unicorn for a second before parting showing the younger sister now had a dark blue/almost black coat, and long blue mane and tail. Her entire body was covered with a blue armor on her head and chest.

" Nightmare Moon!"

As in command, lightning struck behind the mare and the image shifted to frame the Equestria settlements under a starless night with a crescent moon.

Apart for the scream of terror of both Fluthershy and the CMC, no one else even move when the nightmare appeared on the screen.

" She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night"

The image changed to a sunlit hall in a palace where a group of five jewels were on radial shafts attached to a golden hub, on which a glowing white sphere rested.

" Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom… The Elements of Harmony!"

The elder sister was shown now wearing a gold tiara and shooting a pastel rainbow-colored beam from her horn against Nightmare Moon. Which seemingly transformed into an image of the moon with a darken zone shaped like the younger sisters head.

" Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister and banished her permanently in the moon."

"That's so sad…her own sister…" cried Fluttershy forgetting the fear she felt two seconds ago.

"But it was necessary sugar cube" said Applejack trying to console her friend "if that mare had her way I can assure you that no plant will survive without the sun and food would scarce"

"Plus, with an eternal night, things would have become really cold in that planet" said one of the eco kids.

"Oh, oh, was she going to throw a its ok to have an eternal night because now we can have a night party that will never end party?" asked Pinkie "because that is the only way a can think for this forever night thing to become cool"

"He said cold Pinkie pie. Not cool" said Rainbow.

"So it will be a late night ice cream party?"

Facepalm

Celestia and Luna grabbed each other's hand and lead towards each other for comfort.

The moon shrunk to the upper right corner of the screen, the silhouette fading away. Then the older sister appeared in the center sitting on a golden throne; Wings spread and dressed with a gold collar/necklace and tiara, with the sun appearing at her top left.

"Now I remember... That's the story of the mare on the moon." said Sunset "an old pony tale that mothers tell their foals" she added seeing the faces of confusion on everyone's faces

"oh great…we are supposed to learn about that Twilight…what a fairy tale for baby horses had to do with her?" asked Trixie annoyed from losing her great and powerful time.

Suddenly a younger female voice gradually took over the narrator

" The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since"

"Hey… that voice sound familiar" said Rarity and wasn't the only one that thought that. Everyone tried to get closer at the screen.

A purple hoof moved the pages of the open book looking at the pictures from the story.

" Hmmm…"

The reader was revealed to be a light violet unicorn mare sitting on her belly, intently hunched over the book on the ground before her. Her mane and tail were straight and dark blue, with one streak each of dark violet and deep pink. Her eyes were large and purple, and her haunch bear a "cutie mark" consisting of a six-pointed pink star overlaid on a white one with five small white stars surrounding the two.

"Elements of Harmony…I know I've heard of those before. But where?" she wondered from her position on a meadow surrounded by white and golden architecture.

"ITS TWILIGHT" shouted the Rainbooms.

"Well look at that she really is a horse" said Trixie on a mocking tone.

"A pony actually" pointed Flash feeling a little nervous for seeing his crush as an animal "but I think the correct term is…"

"UNICORN!" screamed Lyra while trying to push hers and Bon Bon's face closer to the screen. "SEE I TOLD YOU THEY EXIST"

"In another dimension Lyra" replied her friend while trying to apart them both from the computer.

"A unicorn?" Asked Mystery mint.

"She is right I don't see wings" noted Rainbow Dash.

"That's because this is from before she become a princess" clarified Sunset "so she probably had yet to gain her title and her wings"

"She is cute" shouted the eco girls.

"I like her hair" said Sweetie bell.

"Don't you mean fur?" asked Scootaloo.

"I think mane is more appropriate" said Applebloom

The screen faded into black before showing a stretch of road, on which Twilight walked up over a hill. The book was in a pair of saddlebags slung on her back. Suddenly two other ponies stepped in front of her. The horns of their heads told the viewers that they were unicorns too.

"ahhh…no theme song?" asked Pinkie disappointed.

Everyone gave her a funny look.

"A theme song?" Asked Sunset.

"Well duuhhhh…since this is a movie I was expecting some sort of intro" explained the pink haired girl as it was the most obvious thing in the world "maybe something that starts calm then explode on energy, with a catchy music and lyrics…ohoh…and the lyrics could sound a little childish and make any men cringe but then they also start liking it and start to sing too"

"That's…oddly specific" commented Rainbow dash.

"That's Pinkie pie for you" said AJ and everyone nodded.

"There you are, Twilight!" one of the mares (Twinkleshine) called out. This one had a white coat, curly pink mane/tail, bright blue eyes and a cutie mark of three blue stars. "Moondancer is having a little get-together in the west castle courtyard. You want to come?"

Alongside her were two unicorns. One with medium blue coat, two-tone blue mane/tail, and deep blue eyes. And other with a yellow coat and blue mane.

Twilight recoiled a bit from them; allowing everyone to see the blue unicorn's (Minuette /Colgate) cutie mark, which was an hourglass.

"Hey that pony looks like Minuette!" exclaimed Pinkie pie.

"Your dentist friend?" asked Fluttershy.

"YEP, same hair, same eyes, and look! even the same tattoo she was dared to have" pointed the pink girl.

"She isn't the only one"

"OH, HOW SICK" yelled Vinyl in excitement "everyone there has one too"

"Even Twilight has one" said Applebloom pointing at the six-pointed pink star on the purple unicorn.

"That's not…exactly a tattoo" mentioned Sunset "it's a cutie mark"

Everyone gave her a blank look.

"Ah what mark now?" asked Rainbow.

"A Cutie mark" clarified the red head "it's a mark that everypony receive at certain point on its life usually when they are young"

"So are you saying that they can have tattoos from young age on Equestria" asked Applebloom before she and her friends shared a conspiracy look

"Hey Pinkie pie do you think that if you manage to go through the portal…" "NO Applebloom NO" interrupted her sister "you ARE NOT going to another dimension to mark yourself.

"The same goes for you Sweetie Bell" added Rarity in warning tone.

The two girls groaned in disappointment. While Scootaloo looked at Rainbow Dash with hopeful eyes. The athlete thought for a moment.

"Eh maybe" she ended up saying making the smaller girl cheer on happiness.

"RAINBOW DASH" her two friends yelled at her.

"What?!…I want one too" she moaned.

"That's not exactly how a Cutie mark works" said Sunset with a sweat drop.

" Oh, sorry, girls. I got a lot of studying to catch up on" she said eying her bags and then galloping away.

"Does that pony do anything except study? I think she's more interested in books than friends." sighed Twinkleshine in disgust before she and the other two walked away.

"HEY! Careful there you horse-lady that's my friend you are talking about" said Rainbow dash

"Although it seems that Twilight doesn't really wanted to go to that party on the first place" pointed Rarity.

"WHATTTTT?" yelled Pinkie pie making everyone to cover their ears.

"Miss Pie, lower the volume" reproached Vice principal Luna.

"To be honest I think I will be more interested on continue the exploration about that reading from before that going to a party" said Micro Chips fixing his glasses, only to step back in fear as Pinkie Pie, literally, growled at him.

The purple mare raced past two other ponies, up a few flights of steps, and into a tall tower, while talking to herself.

"I know I've heard of the Elements of Harmony"

Inside the tower, a small, light violet dragon (a shade darker than Twilight's coat) with green spiny plates running from head to tail, a yellow/green underbelly and darker yellow/green ears shaped as tiny bat wings; walked upright towards the doors carrying a present. However, before he could reach the doors, they bursted open, throwing him backward as Twilight emerged from the doorframe.

" Spike! SPIIIIKE!" she called before looking surprised at the fact he didn't seem to be around "Spike?" the dragon was flat on his back for a moment before sitting up with eyes spinning, moment where the purple unicorn finally took noticed of him "There you are"

"Bwa HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" laughed Rainbow Dash "it's that supposed to be a great fire breathing dragon…HAHAHAHAHAHA..."

"Ohhhhh, he is so cute!" Fluthershy, Rarity and almost every girl on the room got closer to the screen to give the little guy a good look.

"uhh look at those cute little ears" Rarity can't help but coo.

"And the pretty color he is" Sweet Leaves said.

"He is so tiny I want to hug him" Rose heart added.

"Check those rad spikes" Cherry Crash mentioned in excitement "bet those can become quite pointy and sharp"

"Hahaha, just wait until he gets older" Sunset said "some dragons can cut through rocks with those things and their claws"

"Awesome" the rocker said in awe.

Twilight galloped past as he cleared his head. A library was shown filled with various scientific instruments (including a large hourglass) and of course shelves filled with books. The woozy dragon walked up the stairs, with the present now impaled on his tail.

"Quick! Find me that old copy of Predictions and Prophecies." Said Twilight before looking at the gift with a puzzled expression "What's that for?"

"Well, it was a gift for Moondancer" Answered Spike pulling the box loose. " but..." The bottom fell out, dumping a damaged teddy bear that squeaked when it hit the floor.

"Oh, Spike..." said the unicorn knocking books off a stack with her head "...you know we don't have time for that sort of thing"

Applejack and Rainbow managed to cover Pinkie´s mouth in time, causing her hair to inflate like a balloon for a moment.

" But we're on a break!" the dragon protested.

Twilight eyed a book lying on the floor; her horn flared brightly and one on the top shelf floated free and down to her.

"No...no...no...no, no, no! Twilight groaned as she used her magic to summon several books before her "SPIKE!"

"It's that real magic? !" Trixie yelled in awe as she parted from the crowd and tried to get closer to the screen. Suddenly she realized the looks others were giving her "I...I mean…ehem…the great and powerful Trixie!…was only making sure that was real magic, after all… the great and powerful Trixie! is the great expert on the mystic arts and was just curious about it!" she gave a quick gaze at the screen "yeah she is using magic...not as great and powerful as the great and powerful TRIXIE!" she ended up on a dramatic exclamation.

Everyone just decided to ignore her although some were actually caught by the first example of magic outside the two incidents.

Unconsciously Sunset brought a hand to her forehead with a nostalgic look on her face.

The dragon answered from a ladder at another high shelf, holding a book.

"It's over here!" Spike called before being drag alongside the book by the unicorn`s magic.

"Ah!" Twilight exclaimed happily while the other books hit the floor, released of the unicorn´s telekinesis. She then trotted off, levitating the chosen book with her, while Spike (reluctantly) began to pick up the remaining books.

"Elements, Elements, E, E, E...aha!" Twilight used her magic to pass the pages until she found the one she needed "Elements of Harmony. See 'Mare in the Moon'?"

"Mare in the Moon? But that's just an old ponies' tale." Said Spike from a ladder.

Twilight flipped through more pages before stopping in one.

"Mare, Mare...aha!" She called as the page showed Nightmare's silhouette framed by a crescent moon, surrounded by four stars (one at each corner of the picture) "The Mare in the Moon. Myth from olden pony times." Twilight read "A powerful pony who wanted to rule Equestria. Defeated by the Elements of Harmony and imprisoned in the moon."

Meanwhile, Spike was re-shelving books, slowly losing his balance on the ladder.

"Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape, and she will bring about nighttime eternal." Twilight straightened with a gasp. "Spike, do you know what this means?"

"No." The dragon answered before gravity took him and the tomes down with a yell. Fortunately, he landed on Twilight's back, who presented the dragon a scroll and quill pen that he quickly took.

"Take a note, please" Twilight said on professional tone, snapping her tail straight "To the Princess"

"Okey-dokey" said Spike bouncing off to the floor.

Twilight began dictating while pacing.

"My dearest teacher: My continuing studies of pony magic have led me to discover that we are on the precipice of disaster."

"Precipice of disaster…well isn't she a dramatic one" said Trixie. Everyone looked at her with blank looks "what?" she asked confused.

"Yeah what?" Asked Luna wondering why her sister was looking at her with a funny smile.

"Hold on…Preci...preci..." He gave her a lost look, clearly he was not familiar with the word. The unicorn thought for a second.

"Threshold" Twilight tried.

" Thre..." No good.

"Uh...brink?" he looked confused making her groan. "That something really bad is about to happen!" she snapped in frustration.

He wrote this down quickly and she resumed her pacing while continuing her dictation.

"For you see, the mythical Mare in the Moon is in fact Nightmare Moon, and she is about to return to Equestria and bring with her eternal night. Something must be done to make sure this terrible prophecy does not come true. I await your quick response. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

"Twi-light...Spar-kle." Spike finished writing "Got it!"

"Great! Send it" Twilight ordered.

"Now?" Spike asked both confused and surprised.

"Of course!" the mare answered clearly in hurry.

"Uh...I don't know, Twilight. Princess Celestia's a little busy getting ready for the Summer Sun Celebration, and it's, like, the day after tomorrow" he said but then the unicorn got in his face.

"That's just it, Spike" Twilight said straightening up "The day after tomorrow is the thousandth year of the Summer Sun Celebration. It's imperative that the Princess is told right away!"

"Not to insult her or anything, but that sounds like a bit of a stretch there" Wiz Kid said looking a bit nervous at the rest of the Rainbooms

"No, I totally get it" said Rainbow Dash "imagine if I suddenly said a big monster was going to attack because I read it on a comic or something like that. Everyone certainly would think I am nuts" she suddenly realized everyone was looking at her with surprise expressions "what?"

"Nothing it's just…that was really logical for you" said Applejack.

"Hey!…. What's that supposed to mean?" asked the athlete.

"Well darling its jus…we all think you will immediately jump into believing that knowing your …ehem…aptitude to run towards danger" Rarity said with everyone nodding around.

"Hey! Even I would think the idea of evil magical monster coming to town to be a ridiculous one" she defended herself with a red face.

"I must say I agree with you Rainbow" said Sunset "I have heard that tale many times when I was a small filly so I don't know why Twilight its even considering it this seriously"

" Impera...impera..." Spike tried to write.

"Important!" Twilight yelled strong enough to throw him off his feet and against a set of bookshelves.

"Okay, okay!" the dragon said standing up and taking a deep breath holding the rolled parchment in front of his mouth. What happened next surprised the audience since he blew a burst of green fire over the parchment, making the message to burn away, leaving only a tendril of sparkling pink smoke that snaked out a high window.

"Wait, wait, wait" Rainbow Dash interrupted "what was that?" she asked towards Sunset

"Burping magic" answered Sunset "is the closest thing we have to cellphones in Equestria, usually involves a magic fire to send letters or messages through great distances"

"You guys use dragons to send texts?" Ringo said taking off his shades looking at Sunset in shock "dude that is radical"

"It's not all dragons" Sunset said as everyone looked at her as she was some sort of dragon trainer "Spike must be a gift or something from the princess and she must have been enchanted him to be able to do that"

"Still the fact she has one" the rocker continued before smiling and look at his band leader "hope your furniture is fireproof Flash from when you want to text your girl-friend" he ended up rising his eyebrows

The blue haired rocker couldn't help but blush at the giggles that followed.

"There! It's on its way" said Spike not looking too convinced of this "But I wouldn't hold your breath."

"Oh, I'm not worried, Spike. The Princess trusts me completely" Twilight said in a smug tone "In all the years she's been my mentor, she's never once doubted me."

In that moment Spike's cheeks bulged as if he is about to vomit; instead, he belched up a burst of green fire that forms into a sealed scroll.

"I knew she would want to take immediate action" Twilight said with pride while Spike opened the scroll and cleared his throat.

"I won't count on that" said Sunset "if the Summer sun celebration is close Celestia will be very busy"

"Oh, can I ask the reason for?" asked Principal Celestia wondering about the responsibilities of her counterpart.

"The celebration commemorates the summer solstice. Ponies everywhere throw raucous parties the previous night and stay up until dawn to watch Princess Celestia raise the sun" said Sunset "and in places like Canterlot the parties can be really large and need a lot of planning"

Celestia nodded, she knew that celebrations can be full of responsibilities…especially if said celebration end up with the full destruction of the front entrance of the school.

"An all-night full party that continue the next day?" asked Pinkie pie exited "when it's the next one?!" she yelled grabbing Sunset by her jacket.

"Ehhh Next summer?" Sunset answered a bit nervous at the crazy look on her friend´s face.

"Ok" the pink girl said returning to her happy nature "will put it down in my calendar" she did pull out a calendar to write down on a date remember text Twilight for next summer…. ready" she smiled and returned to her place.

"My dearest, most faithful student Twilight..." read Spike "You know that I value your diligence, and that I trust you completely." the unicorn hummed with a smugly face "But you simply must stop reading those dusty old books!"

She gasped as that sentence hit her.

Then the screen snapped to black.

A small pause then…

"Well that was…." Sunset started.

"Anticlimactic" ended Trixie rolling her eyes.

Everyone around nodded in agreement.