When I blinked the blue light from my eyes, I found myself in a room not unlike the guest rooms in the Crystal Empire. The main difference was that the bed inhabiting this room was white and sparkly, with pink stripes in the middle. The letters "SH" were engraved on the headboard.
"Probably not our room Clipsy. Let's keep looking." Sprite said.
We slipped out of the door, and I noticed the initials were in shining gold. I looked across the long blue hallway to see a purple R on the door.
"Maybe our room has our initials on it." I thought aloud. The pink half-sprite hybrid nodded, her black hair bobbing.
After an hour, we finally found a door that had the letters "EL&S"
Sprite knocked on the white door, only to have it magically melt at her finger's touch. The young sprite flew into the room, which had all of our stuff neatly organized as if it was my room in Canterlot. When I walked in the room, a note popped into my view, reading, "I thought you would like a small reminder of home. Mom," then it disappeared.
I decided to explore the tiny town. Sprite just laid down on her purple bed and started to snore. LOUDLY. Just like her father, Spike.
As I flew down the stairs of Friendship Palace, I started to wonder, What qualities do me and my father share?
Thirty years ago, my father was the king of a deadly kingdom of silence that threatened Equestria, until the last known siren, Treble Melody: creator of the Elements of Harmony, used her music to dispel the evil.
Talk about embarrassing.
I bumped into a large door, breaking my train of thought. After shaking myself off, I opened the door which lead to a beautiful place I took to be Ponyville. How the heck did it get so big?
Standing right outside stood two ponies; a yellow pegasus with carnation pink hair and a star over a cotton-candy cloud as a cutie mark; and a white unicorn with rose-colored hair and a purple diamond heart for her cutie mark.
Both mares looked surprised, even before noticing my horn and wings. The unicorn started stammering," Oh I am so sorry your highness," at which point I winced," We didn't expect anypony new, especially not royalty."
I stood there for a second, trying to decide whether to try the formal or casual approach. I chose casual, mostly 'cause I was going to live here for a while.
"My name is Eclipse Light, although you probably already knew that, and I'm going to live here for a while." This was the most awkward conversation I've had since I tried explaining to my mother's stupid secretary, Book Bound i think, that my birthday was the winter solstice, NOT the spring equinox.
Then, out of nowhere, Discord spirit of chaos (and one of my god fathers) appeared, and bowed.
"Princess Eclipse Light! How wonderful it is to see you again after, what, ten years?" he said in his dramatic tone.
The pegasus mare looked at the draconequus incredulously, "Wait, you know the princess?"
The lord of chaos returned the look as best he could and said, "How do you not know your own god sister?"
"God sister!" Me and the other two shouted, making nearby ponies stare.
I looked at the winged pony, confused. Does he mean that this mare is his daughter? I thought.
"Uh, Duh," she said, "and 'this mare' has a name. It's Cloudstars."
My draw dropped at her sarcastic words. Did she just read my mind?
"I inherited some of his chaotic powers, cause he's my dad and all. Soooooo, yeah."
I looked at Cloudstars' eyes, seeing for the first time that they were different colors, one red one yellow.
"Cloudy, I think we should leave her be. This is a lot to take on for one pony, even in Ponyville," the unicorn said. Then she turned to me, her emerald eyes reflecting the sunlight. "My name is Shimmering Heart by the way. I live here in the Friendship Palace. I honestly look forward to seeing you again."
"Uh, thanks, I guess."
I trotted off to, I don't know, anywhere. My hooves left prints on the dusty ground. My black eyes swept my peaceful surroundings until they saw a large area of land filled to the brim with beautiful apple trees. I sniffed the air and the smell of apple cider and pies filled my head.
Over by one of the trees, two earth ponies looking almost identical were bucking some rainbow striped apples off of the trees. One of them, from what I could see, had a gold bow holding her tail in place. The other had a scrunchie in her mane.
I decided to go to the small house in the middle of the orchard which, according to the sign, was called Sweet Apple Acres.
Before I got to the house, however, a scarlet coated earth pony with violet eyes stopped me.
"Who are ya? What're ya doing at this here orchard?" he asked angrily, then gasped, "Are you a Buffalonian spy?"
"I'm not even a buffalo." I replied.
"Apple Pizza get yer tail over here right now Pie. Ya can't go around suspectin' ponies of bein' spies." an orange mare shouted.
The colt shot a warning glare at me and cantered over to the mare.
The two had a little stare-off (the mare won) and she removed a large brown hat from her head.
"Ah'm sorry fer the way mah son acted. He spends too much of 'is time bein' suspicious o' ponies. Can't say ah blame 'im, ah always told 'im ta be honest. Name's Applejack by the way, and he's Apple Pizza Pie."
Apple Pizza Pie was still glaring daggers at me, although he stormed over to give me a hoof-shake. He squeezed my hoof until it was numb and nearly shook my arm(?) off.
"LOOK OUT BELOW!" There was a crash and a small plume of dust formed a mushroom cloud in the air.
"What was that?" I coughed.
"Mah friend. I wish he'd stop crashin' into stuff like that." Apple Pizza Pie said, half to himself.
When the dust settled, a pegasus colt was shaking himself off, probably regaining himself.
"Hey A.P.P. Sorry I crashed into the ground. Again. I was practicing this wicked trick mom showed me. Sadly, I don't know how to- who's this?" he asked looking at me.
A.P.P. said,"Mah mother, Speed Blitz."
"Speed Blitz? That's pretty redundant if you ask me." I remarked.
"I was talking to the beautiful princess beside you."
"I'm terribly sorry but I have to go." I said and flew away from Sweet Apple acres.
"Are you trying to avoid me? Because, Eclipse Light, I like you. A lot." Speed Blitz's deep voice said behind me.
I blushed, my white cheeks looking like they had sunburns. "Ummmm... No I'm not avoiding you in particular. I'm just not a pony pony, if you get what I mean."
Speed Blitz, who had moved in front of me, looked at me deep in the eyes and said simply, "See you around, Princess."
