"I'm dead?" Ellie gasped.
"In a manner of speaking, yes." Luna stated as she started to walk with Ellie and Twilight, "The other you and Mydnight lived together on a floating island called Pontopia, a land full of alicorns. It was a secret island, it's was constantly moving, my sister and I were the only ones who knew of its location." She stopped as she looked at the fountain in the center of the village before continuing, "However, a sickness ravished the Island, Mydnight called it the "Pobonic Plague". Ellie wanted to protect her sister so she taught herself a medicine spell to protect someone from illness, but the spell she learned didn't protect the user. So she managed to get Mydnight off of the island and put her in an old oak tree on the edge of Equestria. She casted a spell on the tree so, Mydnight couldn't follow her. She went back to the island and burned the island to the ground, with her inside one of the houses."
Ellie eyes started to tear up involuntarily as she heard Luna tell the story, "W-what happened to Mydnight?" she struggled to ask.
"Well, my sister and I saw the smoke in the distance and decided to investigate. I got to Pontopia with the intention of trying to save somepony but there was nothing left. I sensed another presence and I followed it. That's where I found Mydnight, still in the tree. I broke the spell and she looked up at me, I think she was expecting her sister but was shocked when she saw me." Luna looked down at the ground, "She took off towards the island, even though she was still a filly, she flapped her wings so hard to get to the island. She went straight to her house….where she found her sister. I ended up taking Mydnight in, so she had a home."
Ellie gasped as a tear rolled down her face, "Can you take me there? To Pontopia?"
Luna turned to face Ellie and reached her hoof up and wiped the tear away, "That's why I came here. Mydnight found the scroll that Twilight sent me and now she went to Pontopia. She won't leave. I thought that.."
"You thought that I could get her to." Ellie looked at Luna seriously before nodding, "I'll do it."
Luna and Ellie got on the chariot, Ellie waved to Twilight before they left. Ellie was somewhat frightened by heights and she scooted a bit closer to Luna. "Don't worry," the princess said, "You won't fall off, even if you did, I'll get you." Ellie nodded slowly, silently thanking her.
The blue alicorn stepped off of the chariot and stopped before looking at Luna, who stayed. "I'm going to stay here incase Mydnight finds me. The town is just down this road." Luna said as she pointed. Ellie nodded and galloped down the road.
Ellie began to get a feeling of Deja vu, but she shook it off. She arrived at the town and looked around slowly. She walked up to a burned house, which so happened to be her other selves' house. She carefully stepped through the slightly overgrown foliage and burned wood. Stepping into a different part of the house, Ellie stumbled as she saw flash of something. She rebalanced herself, but she saw another flash. This time it was a scene that was playing out before her and that she would follow through.
The other Ellie sat at a desk using her horn as a light source as she was reading magic spell books, a little alicorn filly that was black with a lime green mane ran up to her and smiled, "Ellie!" she exclaimed, "Let's play!"
"I'm sorry Mydnight. Not right now. I'm so close to figuring this out, but you can play in here if you want."
"Okay!" Mydnight smiled as she played with a ball, patting it around with her hooves.
The other Ellie began to quickly write something down, "Got i-!" Ellie started to cough hard, she covered her mouth with a napkin that she held with her magic. Mydnight rushed to her side, "Big Sister! Are you okay?"
The blue alicorn nodded as she started to stop coughing. She looked at the napkin and her eyes widened as she red splotches on the white cloth, Ellie quickly tried to hide the napkin. "I-I'm fine. Mydnight, we have to go somewhere, okay?"
"Okay!"
Ellie picked Mydnight up and put her on her back before running out of the house. The current Ellie followed in suit.
The other Ellie ran down the road, houses were lit up by torches which guided their path. Ellie stopped in the middle of the road and opened her wings. She looked over and saw into one of the houses where a pony was coughing and laying down in a bed. She narrowed her eyes as she frowned before taking off into the air.
The current Ellie watched her other self take off, she stumbled as the scene skipped ahead and she was now in the forest. She looked around until she saw her other self with Mydnight and walked over the tree that she remembered Princess Luna mentioning. She watched as her otherself put Mydnight into the tree.
"Mydnight you stay here okay?" the other Ellie said as she used her magic to perform the spell on Mydnight.
"Why? Big sister?"
The other Ellie hugged Mydnight tightly, bringing tears to her eyes as she once again used magic to seal the tree. Mydnight frowned as tried to hit the seal, but to no avail. "Big sister! Let me out!"
"I can't. I have to make sure you're safe." She started tears rolling down her cheeks, "you be a good mare okay? Can you do that for big sister? Be good okay?" The other Ellie put her hoof to the opening of the tree, against the seal Mydnight put up her own hoof to her sister's.
"I'll be good."
The blue alicorn smiled weakly, "I love you Mydnight. Always remember, big sister loves you."
Mydnight started to cry, "No Ellie! Don't leave! Please! Big sister!" she cried out as Ellie turned around and flew back towards Pontopia. The current Ellie started crying as she watched the scene unfold. The scene shifted once more back to Pontopia, the other Ellie walked down the road with her head down and tears rolled down her face.
"I'm sorry Mydnight….But I had to….Please forgive me…." she picked her head up and had a serious expression on her face. she ran up to one of the houses and grabbed a torch with her teeth. She began to gallop through the town burning the houses with the torch. Then she ran up to her own house, she ran inside and throws the lit torch into the corner of the room, lighting it on fire. Ellie rushed over to the desk, grabbing her book of spells wrapping it in fur. She lifted a floor board and put the wrapped book inside before replacing the board. She then walked over to her bed before getting curled up and closed her eyes.
Ellie stumbled back as the flashback finally ended and she was still in the burned house, "What was that?" she wondered. "Wait. The book." She started to look at the floorboards, trying to see which one it was that her other self planted the book. She stepped on the right one, one end popped up and she moved it with her other hoof. Prying open the wooden floorboard, underneath lay the wrapped book which was completely unscathed from the fire. The alicorn picked up the book my the string binding it with her mouth, though it was completely weird for her to do so.
Now, where are you Mydnight? She thought as she exited the house. Ellie walked around until she stumbled upon a graveyard. Deciding to walk in, Ellie walked by many tombstones until she saw a somewhat familiar green and black filly curled up in front of a tombstone. Ellie slowly walked up to her before going to put the book on her back. She walked closer to the filly and spoke softly, "M-Mydnight?"
The filly quickly raised her head at the sound of her voice. She looked directly at her but almost like she was looking through her. "Big sister?"
