//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: A Little Bizarre Adventure: Friendship is Forever // by The Sorrow Of Joy //------------------------------// The golden comet streaked across the night sky with such incandescence the stars refused to compete with it. The sleepy towns across Equestria seemed all but oblivious to the sight as their night skies were already obscured by their own lights in their windows and streets, and it continued to remain unseen as it broke apart in mid-flight, sending pieces of the star scattering in all directions as it continued to fall and fall until it finally reached its final resting place burrowed deep within the side of a mountain. It had fallen with such grace and beauty that one could paint a thousand pictures and still not one would come close to the true sight. However, in truth there wasn’t anyone who saw the comet to begin with, so there would be none that could have even tried to actually describe it. None, except one. A pale blue unicorn stood several miles away from the mountain, staring fondly at the enormous chunk the star had turned to dust. At last, the day he had been waiting patiently for had finally come to be. He hadn’t been entirely sure it would even happen and even had trouble believing it had even occurred when he felt the brilliant splash of starlight on his skin as it crashed. But it had finally happened and he could barely contain his excitement. He began to shake with excitement and contained joy. He trotted left and right on the hill he was standing on picking up the glowing bits of rock that had scattered all over the pasture as he went along. He chuckled and threw them up into the air as the glittering stardust began to settle in the field in front of him like fresh snow. “Finally! The stone tablets were right!” the pale unicorn said delightedly as he looked to the sky. The stars were beginning to reclaim their rightful spots in the celestial plane, but he only caught a glimpse of them for a second before their visage was again obscured by another sight. This one ghostly and strange, unlike anything you would ever see in Equestria. “Oh my! It’s already happening!” he exclaimed. He watched intently as the floating mass started to take a distinguishable form. The ghostly image became sharper and sharper until it fully materialized, floating a foot away from the unicorn. It started pure white but changed to the color of the golden dust raining around it as time progressed. The soul piercing eyes in its head shifted from the skies to the pale unicorn in front of it and cocked its head as it examined the new sight like a newborn. ”Beautiful. Simply marvelous!” he laughed as he leaned forward to get a closer look. It was the strangest sight he had ever seen. It was a creature that stood fully erect on two legs instead of four. The appendages that extended from its torso also seemed to be deformed; at the end of each were what appeared to be some sort of paw, but the digits were much longer. Such a terrifying sight should have been enough to make a normal pony cringe in fear, but to the pale blue unicorn, it was the most beautiful thing in the world. The two stared at each other before the misty visage finally broke its gaze and nodded at the unicorn before rushing towards him. It vanished into the unicorn as he giggled with glee. It filled him with a warm and tingly sensation that proved to be quite enjoyable. “This is amazing! I can feel the sheer power of it!” he said as puffed out his chest. “Oh, I can’t wait to try it out! But where? Bah! I’ll try it everywhere I go!” The ghostly being emerged from his body once more to peek out at the golden fields. The unicorn turned his head back at his new companion and looked at him in admiration. “You and me, friend. We’re gonna rule the world!” A thousand miles away, in the quiet town of Ponyville, a certain purple unicorn was concluding her third late night study session in a row. Tonight, she was concluding the final chapter of Starswirl: An in Depth Study, an astounding book that explained much of Starswirl the Bearded’s more advanced spells. She closed the massive tome with a thud before she replaced it into its proper spot on the shelf with the rest of its companions. Her assistant, a young dragon, was awoken by the sound of the book closing. He yawned and stretched in his little bed as he turned to his friend at the desk. “Are you still up? What time is it?” the young dragon said with a sleepy slur. “Twilight, you can’t keep doing this. It can’t be good for you.” “Don’t worry about me. I’m fine, Spike,” Twilight Sparkle said with the same exhaustion in her voice. “I’ll sleep in later, that’s all. Just go back to sleep. By the way, if I wake up before you, do you want breakfast?” The purple dragon responded with a snore. He was already fast asleep. Twilight shook her head and snuffed out the sole candle that illuminated her desk before she ascended the staircase to her room. She carefully recalled each step from memories of many long dark nights, remembering to mind the tenth step from the bottom, and reached her room without too much trouble. The second she opened the door, she headed straight to her bed and dug right in without hesitation. In mere moments, she was fast asleep and drifted into a deep, dreamless sleep without a slight realization of the golden corona of light that filled the sky for a few fleeting moments, the star that had ripped through the sky a few minutes ago, and of the gold pulse that set the room ablaze with light for a few seconds. And she completely unaware of the ghostly being that stood by her bedside momentarily before vanishing into thin air.