A/N this will be hard not to reveal to much about what already happened here and what is about to happen in the other story. Wish me luck.

Starlight was confused as she looked at the empty necklaces. She knew the elements were supposed to be contained in the necklaces but where in Eguestria are they now. This is what they all were thinking. Wait there is a crown here. They had Twilight's crown in the museum. If it was here then that meant the one in the museum is fake.

If the one in the museum is fake then just what else was fake about Twilight. Did she truly wield the element of magic? Did they really go through all the adventures they say? It had thrown Starlight off so much that she sat down staring at the crown. The rest looked worried about her so the each picked up a necklace and then Knightlyshine spoke out loud how they were ready to come back. Suddenly there was a feeling of being squeezed through something that usually came from teleporting.

After they saw Luna they all looked down. They had found the necklaces but the actual elements were not in them. Luna must have expected this because she said she had expected that. She explained that element itself was an idea not an item that can be held. They had to be found within the wielder and only then did it take physical form.

"Wait if that is true then why are the necklaces still here?" Starlight asked.

"The necklace does not actually have a connection to the element but rather it held the physical form of the element. The gem can't exist without the element but the thing holding the gem can," Luna explained.

"So why did you have us get the necklaces if you knew the elements were already gone?" Dawnshatter asked.

"I needed to know if any of you would discover your element down there," Luna said with a sigh, "now you all should get to bed. You do need your rest."

They all said good night and went back to where they were staying. Almost all of them went to sleep right away. Not Starlight though. She was thinking about how they had lied about retrieving Twilight's crown. Dawnshatter couldn't sleep either. She was thinking about her family and how she had to betray them to save them. She drifted off still thinking about that.

As Dawnshatter walked around looking for her family of earth ponies so that she could make sure they are ok she saw a dark robbed pony after dark because she had to work late again. She tried to just walk past him but he grabbed her and took her into a dark alley and threatened her. He said something along the lines of, do this for me or your family will die. If you sgueal your family will die. Now I want you to give me half of what your families makes each month.

She went home and found everypony was asleep so she quickly got a paper and a pen. She had let them believe that she had never liked them and that she was never going to comeback. She gave one last look at her house and went back outside to confront the pony who was threatening her family. She walked out and saw the man waiting for her across the street.

She walked up to him and said, holding back tears and letting the anger she felt free, "I am no longer part of that family. I will still not let you harm them in any way. If you take a step toward the house I will kill you with just my hooves."

The pony shocked at what Dawnshatter had said but he recovered quickly and said, "fine you have made your choice. Now hear your family die," said as he tried to bolt for the house only to be bucked by Dawnshatter.

"As I said you will not go near that family," Dawnshatter said with some much determination that the guy jumped.

"Fine then it is you who will die," the man said as he lunged at Dawnshatter which she nimbly dodged and then hopped on the pony.

"Guards please help. I need help," Dawnshatter screamed at the top of her lungs.

"I either drugged or paid them all off. Now it is just you and me," the pony said trying to buck her off.

"Then you shall die for trying to hurt my family," she said with complete seriousness.

"And you shall be convicted of murder."

"If that is what it takes to protect my family then I am willing to pay that price."

It was then she grabbed the colt's neck and twisted as hard as she could. He stopped moving instantly. He dropped like a fly from her weight. She watched as the guards then came over and hoof cuffed her. She didn't resist the arrest.

Sometime later she had been thrown in the dungeon. Sometime after that she woke to here the guards talking of her. Apparently one of them had seen her on the street before and knew this is not how she acted. She later was awoken to find that she had been requested for an audience with Princess Celestia. It was that big. I only protected my family. Dawnshatter said.

After being brought in before Celestia said to Dawnshatter, "You know what you have done right?"

"If you mean defend my family then yes," Dawnshatter said.

"You have killed somepony in cold blood," Celestia replied.

"I was defending myself and my family. He had threatened to kill my family if I didn't get him some money. And then after leaving a note that I did not want leave I left my house for the last time and confronted him on the street. He tried to charge my family but I bucked him. He then turned to me and he wouldn't stop until either he or I was dead so I will take any punishment you wish to give me," Dawnshatter said crying a little when she got to the part about her family.

"It is ok Dawnshatter. I understand so I will let you go. You were brave to sacrifice yourself like that," Celestia said.

"I don't think my family will ever accept me though," Dawnshatter said still sad.

"It will be ok. You did what you could," Celestia said.

"That is when your whole life changed isn't it?" Luna said approaching Dawnshatter who was watching the whole thing.

"Yes it was it was also the day I received my cuttie mark for defending others," Dawnshatter replied. Her mark was one of a shield and a sword behind it.

"Well my sister was right about one thing. You defiantly brave to sacrifice yourself like that," Luna said.

"Yeah but then I could have been killed that day and it wouldn't have help anypony."

"You would have given us the evidence we needed to that horrible pony away for a long time. Now look at you gave all then, and I bet you would do all again in a heartbeat."

"Yes and not for just my family but also for anypony with a just cause."

"So do you know your element of harmony then?"

Dawnshatter said without any doubt, "I am the element of…"

Starlight stayed up for a couple hours later that the rest because she was used to it. She was the element of magic. So why didn't the element respond when I picked it. She dozed off after thinking of Twilight for a bit. And that is all she could dream about. When she woke the next morning she found everypony else was already up and about. After she had gotten something to eat the others wanted to do something though Dawnshatter seemed a bit out of it. Knightlyshine was still in the royal guard so he had to leave.

"I want to see where they train the guards," Fireband said.

"ok we can stop by that later but maybe after we see the gardens a bit. I have seen them from a far but never close enough to see even a little detail," Nightflight said.

And so they spent the rest of the day pretty much exploring the castle. They continued for a while until they got hungry for lunch. The strangest part of the tour was when nightflight saw the library. He quite literally flew up to and hugged a bookshelf. They almost had to leave him there. After they had finished exploring they went back to the room where they were staying. Later that evening Luna called them again.

"I have some important news to share. One of the elements has been found," Luna said.

"Which one was it, magic, loyalty, generosity, laughter, kindness, or honesty. Who does it belong to?" Starlight asked as soon as Luna finished.

"I believe that Dawnshatter knows the who and what," Luna said with a smile.

A/N oh the suspense is killing you isn't. Don't worry I will tell you next time. As long as I can still write.

Furthermore I will probably slow way down on the posting now. I don't want it affecting my schoolwork.

Until next time Akira out

QotC: can you guess what the elements are? If you can take it a step farther and match it to a person (–starlight)?

I will announce the top three who got the closest next chap. Which will probably go up in about one week.