//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: What Dreams May Come // by King Dash //------------------------------// The room grew dark yet stays dimly lit with a few candles the Princess had gathered together. Twilight stands in the middle of a circle composed of dirt, ash, and pig’s blood. The smell is horrid of the rotten pig corpse hanging above as it lingers around the halls of the castle and mist’s in the Princess’s room. “Princess, are you sure this will work?” Twilight asked softly as the Princess lays tulips around the circle and drips white wax on each of them. “I am positive this will get you to the afterlife, you will have a short amount of time to say a few things then back you come. Make every word count.” She then uses her magic to infuse Morning Dews personal belongings with the content of the small ritual circle, as Twilight begins to fade away a bright light blinds Celestia. “Ahhh, Twilight? Okay it worked” The Princess said to herself. As Twilight slowly wakes up she can feel something pushing on her chest. She then realized she was winded, as Twilight struggle’s to breathe pressure builds on her chest. With a final blow her heart stops beating. “Twi-Twilight?” A faint voice could be heard. Twilight stands up now being able to breathe normally. “My heart it… It stopped?” As she looks for where the voice could have come from she sees a figure silhouetted in the distance. “Morning Dew is that you! Is that really you?” She yells. "Yes it’s me Twilight…” As Morning and Twilight trot towards each other with tears in their eyes they can’t help but to great one another with a hug. After what felt like an eternity the both separated from each other’s embrace. “I can’t believe it’s really you, I’ve missed you Morning.. Why would you do such a horrible thing to yourself?” Twilight asked. Still with tears in her eyes Morning answer with a soft voice “I was depressed, depressed of not being accepted as a normal pony. Depressed the way my parents blamed everything on me. The divorce, the loss of money, the hate. Depressed because” With tears rolling down her cheek. “I was told I was an accident.” Twilight now understanding but still confused continued “But you had such a wonderful future ahead of you, you were about to graduate Magic academy, you were about to move on and move out. I tho-” Morning Dew cut her off “I know. Now that I see what I had going for me I regret doing what I did. I learned from my mistakes and I only wish I could continue.” Twilight started up again “I came to say my final goodbyes, so I guess this is goodbye.” Both hug one last time but before Twilight let go Morning Dew whispered in her ear. “This mistake taught me something. It taught me that how you climb up the mountain is just as important as to how you get down the mountain. So it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. In the end thought it all comes down to one word. Grace, it’s how you accept winning and losing. Good luck and bad luck. The darkness and the light.” As she finish’s her sentence Twilight waved goodbye as she slowly disappeared, back to the place she came from.