Space, that's all she felt, empty space. Floating, she was floating now, floating in empty space. A feeling of weightless surrounded Twilight, she felt she was on a big comfy cloud. She sighed to herself happily all the worries seemed to melt away into her invisible cloud. But suddenly thoughts were racing towards her like a speeding train. What happened to her, where was she, who was that small alicorn, what happened to him, how did he turn to dust, who was those other set of eyes, was he the one who hurt Fluttershy? Fluttershy? That name sounded familiar, who is that? Panic began to ensnare Twilight into its vice grip. Was she loosing her mind? No, she was loosing her memory.
"I need to find a way to get out of here", she muttered. Her plan to escape was interrupted by the space around her beginning to warm, like melting rock and in its place a new environment began to arise.

Green, that was the first color she saw, it surrounded her, but it was all too blurry to see, like the colors themselves were adjusting. Leaves, she could see leaves, and a flower, lots of flowers; she was in a garden but not just any garden the extravagant garden located in the Canterlot Palace. She had been there once but could easily tell she was there; like some unknown voice in her head told her where she was. Everything now was beginning to adjust completely, turning into a solid reality. She could feel the wind dance through her mane, the smell of roses. Twilight sighed happily at the pleasing smell. Suddenly she heard the sound of rustling bushes behind her. She hid in another bush not wanting to be noticed. She suddenly saw a beautiful alicorn emerge from the bushes, her pink mane dancing by some invisible force.

She was white as snow, her bright pink eyes seemed to sparkle like the sun itself. Her hooves had beautiful golden shoes that made a soft crunch as she bounced out of the bushes and around the grass clearing. Her small wings fluttered sparatically as she ran in a circle around the clearing, her eyes searching intently.

The white alicorn giggled, her light pink mane in perfect condition seemingly lacking any imperfection. Twilight could see rustling in the bushes across from her as a yellow pegasus suddenly jumped up from the bushes tackling the young alicorn. They giggled as they fell to the floor.
"Haha i caught you Tia", the Pegasus giggled.
"Hehe alright Naila you got me, now get off me", the pegasus named Naila fluttered her wings flying above her friend. Naila giggled again seeming to lack any control over it. Through the bushes Twilight could see her deep red mane that had large curls in them that seemed to bounce every time she giggled, and on that wild mane was a lovely purple bow that held back most of the chaotic curls. Her tail was just as curly, and through those curls Twilight could see an interesting cutie mark, a cloud being moved by wind

From the corner of here eye Twilight could see another set of bush's rustling, then a green alicorn appeared, her black mane neatly tucked up into a bun with a couple strands hanging loosely on each side. Her butterfly like wings opened gracefully, the sun reflecting off of them making them glisten like jewels. Unlike The white alicorn her bare hooves made no sound of the grass but levitated lightly off of it, even without the assistant of her wings it seemed like she couldn't touch the ground.
. "Ha-ha tia your always the one to get caught first, your really bad at this arent you", she giggled, her ember eyes had a strong familiar glow to them but Twilight brushed it off. The alicorn called tia opened her wings in frustration before folding them back again. "But of coarse if I was it, you'd defiantly be caught within an instant". As she spoke small insects began to flutter around the sky, one gently landing on her horn. She giggled happily and watched as the swarm flew off.
" You know if they find out you're hiding bugs in the garden again Diamond Spade will get really upset", a familiar blue alicorn appeared.
"Oh he is always such a sour colt, don't you think Luna", Naila pouted.
"Where is he by the way", Luna questioned.
Suddenly a swarm of water balloons fell on the group of fillies, they screamed in surprise as they were suddenly soaked from the attack.

"Liiisssoooonnnnn", the fillies screamed angrily in unison, their manes were drenched causing it to fall to the floor covering their faces. Once they finished their yell they began to glow a light sky blue, the water rose from their bodies creating a large ball that formed individual balls, the broken rubber balloons rose up as well, and in an instant all the water balloons were repaired and looked just like new. A flash of blue appeared between the group of fillies and a silver alicorn appeared giggling. Twilight gasped it was the same one from the forest, she needed to do something but being surrounded by the other fillies made her carefully plan her judgement.
"Ha-ha you guys should have seen the look on your faces", the alicorn named Lison laughed loudly. "Oh no my precious mane", he mimicked in a girly voice laughing afterwards. He was pushed by the insect loving alicorn.
"Listen you little runt, just because you her brother doesn't mean I won't pumble you to the ground, that water almost got one of my friends", she stared angrily at him, a butterfly fluttered by landing on her horn and she was automatically calmed down.
"You need to work on your temper Phetora", Lison sighed rubbing his back, unlike the others he stood upright for a small amount of time before falling back on all fours, even when he stood tall he was still shorter then the rest. "Plus you know I could always just bring it back."
"Thats not the point", she growled.

"whats going on here", a deep voice boomed causing everyone's ears to go down. Through the garden a tall figure approached them from the path. It was a unicorn, the tallest of the group, on the verge of becoming a full grown colt. A golden crown with purple jewels decorated his head, reminding Twilight of Princess Cadences's crown, could it be the same one. His crown rested on his striped Mohawk that was as black as night with orange streaks. But his hair wasn't what surprised Twilight, his body was not a single color but one of different colors, one was black and the other, was stripes, bright orange stripes, much like a zebra. In Twilight's books never had she read about a pony that was both a unicorn and a zebra...were zebras able to posses horns.
But sadly Twilight couldn't get a a full view of this magical creature since most of his body was covered in armor His silver armor glistened in the light covering his forehead and jaw going down his neck and back he also had metal plates on his shines and flank, only his cutie mark of blue glistening spades showed.
"Nothing brother we were just having fun", Tia said smiling nervously at Diamond Spade who glared at the insect lover.
"As royalty you all need to behave yourselves, you have to prepare for your kingdoms to rule and acting like spoiled fillys will not get you anywhere." Everyone could tell he was upset and could only look down. "And you", his voice boomed again as signs of puberty were already relevant. "How dare you leave from your duties and enter the Royal Garden, it is forbidden". The pegasus Naila lowered her head to the floor as he approached her, Twilight felt the sudden urge to rush out the bushes and didn't realize it untill she was already cleared from the safety of the bushes. She didn't realize she had called out until she had already finished her sentence but to her surprise nopony paid any attention to her, only Lison's ears perked up.
"I-I was", she stuttered not daring to look up at him.
"I told her to come", Tia said stepping between them two, "I told her i wanted to play with her and she couldn't say no",there was a slight stare down between the two till he suddenly turned around, his eyes scanning the garden.
"Are they still watching us", Luna said cautiously. Diamond Spade shushed her quickly nodding his head. This made the whole group uneasy. Everything seemed to become very quiet, no more rustling in the bushes, the insects seemed to quickly stop their chirping and an eerie feeling filled the group, even Twilight felt the awkward tension.
"Come quickly now", he said not bothering to look at the group as they followed.
Twilight didn't know why but she felt the need to follow them as well. It was confusing her nopony conversed with each other as they made their way to the exit Lison suddenly stopped in his tracks, Twilight froze seeing him stare intently at her his ears bent back and cautious. Twilight didn't know what to say as the silver alicorn stared intently at her. Suddenly his eyes widened and his ears perked up, Twilight felt a strange feeling creep up her body, this wasn't like the feeling she felt at the forest this one was different.

Fear appeared on Lison's face and Twilight looked down to see a black point protruding from her chest, she screamed but was surprised to not feel pain, she didn't feel anything actually. The point moved forward growing, it was a snout, as the source of the snout moved forward Twilight could see a large pointed head with only the white iris as another source of color that surrounded its black pupil. She jumped back running quickly behind Lison it phased through her but seemed oblivious to her, its eyes solely on Lison.
Its body was completely black with a black aura surrounding it, white teeth glistened through its overly wide grin passing under its eyes. It possessed no ears, its head was elongated and ended at a point much like its face. Its body was slender and seemingly anorexic. It did not have hooves or claws but its slender legs became narrower till each of its legs ended at a point much like a scythe even in the dirt the sound of metal could be heard with each of their movements. It long black tail swayed as it approached Lison.

"D-Diaammoo", he stuttered in complete fear, he turned hoping to see his companions but horrified to realize he was the only one. As the creature became closing in more appeared from the bushes beside it, following their leader like a pack of wolves. The alicorn was in a trance unable to speak, his hooves buckled and pure terror covered his face. Twilight didn't know what to do, she tried using her magic but it wouldn't work she did the only thing she could think to do. She shook him hard, at first she thought it wouldn't work since it seemed everything would phase through her but with Lison she was solid and he gasped in surprise.
"You have to leave", she yelled at him, even though he was aware of her shaking him he didn't seem to fully comprehend it was her. He closed his eyes, his horn facing the creatures. His eyes and horn began glowing bright blue from the burst of magic that suddenly erupted from his being, the trees and bushes were pushed by the force. Twilight covered her eyes with her hooves as the creatures screamed angrily running off.
By the time Lison had finished his outburst the group had just returned, Tia and Luna quickly ran to their brother when everything froze. Twilight looked around puzzled.
"You shouldn't be here", a voice from behind her boomed, this voice was different from any she had ever heard, it was a mix of many voices.. She quickly turned around and saw a black form of a alicorn standing before her. Its coat looked like the galaxy and was constantly moving, a comet grazed through his coat of into the darkness of his fur. It was as if Twilight was looking through her telescope back home.

"You should know you arent aloud to see these things.
"Where am I", she asked, "Who are you"
"I have many names", the alicorn replied. "Some call me The Guardian The Time Keeper, but you can call me Galaxias." He paused. "I cannot tell you where you are but I can tell you that you are here for a reason Twilight."
"Wait how do know my name"
"That is not important", he wings outstretched almost eclipsing the sun, "you are here for a reason, remember that.
"Who are those alicorns, who was the pony i saw in the forest that hurt Fluttershy," Twilight was running on with questions she wanted answered and the alicorn patiently looked down and her listening to every word she said before pausing to reply.
"There are thing i cannot tell you", Twilight's ears went down at the sudden thought she might not be able to fix this. "But what I can tell you is the colt you saw in the ruins you call the Everfree forrest is now a empty shell of a colt. His mind has been broken and curse. He has gone through unspeakable things and has been awoken by your dear friend." He paused again allowing Twilight to fully comprehend what he was talking about. "He is the only one who can save your friend. And you are the only one that can save him". Twilight did not understand what this alicorn was talking about, save him how could she save him after what he did to Fluttershy, what could he even need help with. "Twilight", she stared at him intently. "You must return where all your questions can be answered." His head began to lower toward her.
"Will I ever see you again", he smiled at her.
"I am always there whenever ponies need me, I am there when you look into your telescope every night trying to find my mysteries, when you arise every morning and slumber every night." He lowered his head gently resting his horn on her surrounding her in a swirl of colors. She closed her eyes feeling total and utter piece, the images of her friends danced in her mind. Every happy moment she every experienced merged into one utter feeling of joy. For these few moments Twilight was peaceful.