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Mystery of the white filly

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Princess Luna was sitting on the throne as she remembered that conversation. The night princess opened her eyes when a tear emerged from the left eye and trickled down her cheek.

As the sun slowly began to rise, Nyx got out of bed and slowly made her way downstairs into the library's kitchen and started making breakfast. Though Sundays were pancake days, Nyx didn't feel like eating anything else. But then she got an idea, instead of making the pancakes for herself, the filly made them for Twilight. Nyx started the stove, placing the frying pan on top afterwards, then did all the other stuff that was necessary to make the pancakes and waited. until both sides are cooked and edible on all four of them. She then lifted all four pancakes off the frying pan and placed the pancakes on a plate. She then placed said plate on a tray with a glass of orange juice, a piece of toast and some maple syrup. She then tried to carry them upstairs to her mothers room without ruining the meal. Five minutes later Nyx finally got to the bedroom and gently lowered the tray onto the bedside table using her weak magic. She smiled and kissed Twilight on her forehead and quickly rushed back down stairs, putting on her snow cloths and opening the door, stepping outside and closing it behind her.

Once outside Nyx looked around at the still sleeping Ponyville, she looked up at the Nightmare Moon snow statue and smiled at it, acknowledging that it was an impressive sculpture. She then took a step forward preparing to go see Apple Bloom whom Nyx knew would be up at this hour but stopped before she could lift her left hoof. She looked up to see the snow falling and thought that they looked almost like tears, a notion Nyx had never thought of before. Watching it snow gave her that same feeling of sadness she had felt last night, it was like somepony was crying and she couldn't do anything to help. The filly looked down and continued walking, making her way to Sweet Apple Acres.

Nyx stopped and looked up in the sky as the snowflakes continued to fall. She thought she heard a filly's voice, soft and gentle like the snow, echo around her. Believing she was hearing things the black filly shook her head continued down the snow covered path toward the farm. She reached the dirt path which was like everything else, covered in snow though it wasn't as deep as she thought it would be, the snow was shallow and could barely reach halfway up Nyx's hooves. After making her way up a slope that was not too big, Nyx could see Sweet Apple Acres a short distance away. She could also see Apple Bloom helping Applejack collect snow berries from the now snow white berry bushes. The black filly smiled and started running toward Sweet Apple Acres though the closer she got the more slippery the ground became. Within moments Nyx was sliding downhill very quickly with no way of stopping.

As Applejack was explaining how to carefully pick snow berries to Apple Bloom, Nyx's scream gained the attention of both earth ponies while she slid through the arch on a crash course with the barn. Realizing what was about happen Applejack quickly grabbed a lasso and twirled it around in the air and threw it toward the alicorn filly. The loop of the lasso managed to catch Nyx, however, Applejack struggled to slow the filly to a stop before she could hit the barn house.

Applejack was dragged a fair ways forward due to the snow underneath her hooves and the speed of Nyx, however, with the help of Big Macintosh, Applejack was able to stop the filly just inches away from slamming into the side of the barn. Nyx opened one eye half expecting to be in pony heaven or at least the hospital until Apple Bloom came running over to her with worry.

Nyx opened both her eyes and nodded breathing a sigh of relief. Applejack walked up to the two filly's, removing the lasso around the alicorn's waist and wrapping it back up.

"You're up bright and early little Missy, Ah take it ya came to play with Apple Bloom right?"

"Sort of Aunt Applejack, I needed to talk to her and the others in the clubhouse. You know, crusader stuff."

"Ah understand, but Apple Bloom has her chores to do first, ya'll can have ya talk after. You can help out if ya like Nyx."

"Oh and Nyx, next time please be careful coming down that slope. The snow makes it dangerously slippery and you could get hurt."

Apple Bloom walked over to Nyx, watching her sister for a moment then looked at Nyx.

Apple Bloom nodded and got back to her chores with Nyx's help. By 7:00 AM Nyx had returned home to get her glasses and headband only to run into Twilight whom was worried about her.

"You had me worried sick, I wake up with some pancakes... Well made pancakes I must say and then I look into your room and see you missing, I was about to send a letter to Princess Celestia to..."

Nyx looked away slightly at the sound of Celestia's name, reminding Twilight of the resentment Nyx had for the sun princess.

"S-sorry sweetie... I forget you and the princess... Don't get along as well as you do with Princess Luna."

Nyx put on her headband, then her glasses and headed off back down to Sweet Apple Acres. She ran past Fluttershy while she led some group of frogs through town to Ponyville's Reptile Winter Getaway. The frogs were startled by Nyx and began to scatter and jump all over Fluttershy.

Nyx looked back and skidded to a stop. She turned around and quickly ran back to help Fluttershy gather the frogs.

Nyx shook her head. "No no it's not alright, I'll help you gather up the frogs Aunt Fluttershy."

Nyx nodded. "I sometimes catch butterflies with the girls. Now, lets find some froggy's"

Nyx smiled and started looking and catching any frogs she found. Some of the frogs were too frozen to hop away and ended up getting scooped up by Nyx and put in a jar big enough to hold all eighteen of them. Though the filly had only scooped up seven of the hoppers. The alicorn filly sighed loudly and spent the next ten minutes diving, jumping, swinging and scooping half of the remaining frogs and placing them within the jar with Fluttershy's help. Nyx then put a lid with air holes on top of the jar containing the frogs. She then gave it to the yellow pegasus.

Fluttershy lifted the jar onto her back, using her wings to support it. She made sure it was secure before turning to Nyx.

"You're welcome Aunt Fluttershy, you can keep the jar I won't need it. And mommy has more at home so giving one away won't hurt."

Nyx picked up her saddlebags and swung them onto her back looking at Fluttershy with a smile.

"Thank you Nyx, but I can't keep this oh no. I'll return it to Twilight once I deliver these wittle froggy's to the Reptile Winter Getaway."

"That's alright." Nyx smiled. "I have to get going. Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle are waiting for me at the clubhouse. You know, crusader stuff."

Fluttershy smiled then hurried on her way to the Reptile Winter Getaway before the poor frogs became icicles. Nyx slowed herself down once reaching the slope. She looked down the slippery hill and tried to melt away the snow with her magic, however, even after two years, Nyx's magic was still not strong enough. She could barely lift a frying pan let alone melt snow. She sighed and carefully walked down the snowy slope, making sure she wasn't moving too fast. In moments she was at the bottom of the slope and out of risk of sliding down it too fast like she had that morning. The filly looked back at the hill then turned her head forward and walked toward the farm, stepping through the arch. As Nyx was walking in she stopped and stood aside to let Big Macintosh pass, pulling a carriage of seventeen crates of cider ready to be sent off to Canterlot, Dodge Junction, Appleloosa, and Cloudesdale. Nyx waved to Big Macintosh as he walked by.

The red earth pony replied as he continued down the road, passing the slope Nyx always used to get to Sweet Apple Acres in favor of the commonly used path which is the only path the citizens of Ponyville use. Nyx felt silly that she had been using the wrong side of the path this whole time, but that didn't matter to her. The filly continued on her way toward the clubhouse where the C.M.C were waiting.

"Where's Nyx? You said she'd be here Apple Bloom." Scootaloo laid around on the clubhouse porch.

"It's not like her to be runnin late like this, especially when she calls for a group meeting."

Apple Bloom paced around whilst Sweetie Belle was sitting around eating an apple and being patient.

Apple Bloom and Scootaloo sighed with their heads down and their eyes closed. As Apple Bloom and Scootaloo were raising their heads and reopening their eyes, Nyx emerged from the bushes and approached them.

Nyx shook her head. "No, nothing bad happened Apple Bloom. I was just helping Aunt Fluttershy catch some frogs on the way here."

"Oh is that all?" Sweetie Belle thought for a moment. "Hey girls why don't we try catching frogs?"

Scootaloo smiled and thought that it was a good idea. Apple Bloom rolled her eyes and turned her head to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.

"Girls, we're here to hear what Nyx has to tell us not to discuss getting our cutie marks."

"It's alright, but I can't tell you all out here. Lets get inside the clubhouse first then I'll explain everything."

The filly's nodded and got inside of the clubhouse, shutting and locking the door behind them and closing and locking the windows followed by Nyx putting a weak but effective sound proofing spell on the door and windows so that nopony outside would hear them speak.

The other two c.m.c also sat down and waited for Nyx to start talking. The black alicorn filly sat down in front of the three and looked down.

"I don't exactly know how to explain this but..." She took a deep breath and sighed. "...I have been seeing somepony in my dreams and in my memory, a filly with a white coat and pale eyes, no older than us."

"Maybe your memories have some sort of connection with Princess Luna." Sweetie Belle theorized.

Scootaloo nodded at Sweetie Belle agreeing with her. The orange pegasus then turned her head toward Nyx.

"Yeah, you are technically apart of Luna in a special way Nyx. You probably inherited some of the princesses memory."

"I know, I know. But I shouldn't have these memories, Luna took them all back when the long night was ending two years ago. No matter what, she must not know about these memories."

Nyx looked at the pegasus. "Because if she found out she would take these memories away, like she did to the others... And I don't want to lose these memories. I want to know who this filly is... I want to help her."

The filly's smiled at Nyx, and offered to help her discover who the white filly was. Though there was one problem with this, Ponyville's Golden Oaks Library lacked the books that could help the c.m.c discover the identity of the white filly. Twilight had once told Nyx that Canterlot has a library filled with millions of books some dating back to the founding of Equestria. The alicorn had a hunch that the library of which Twilight mentioned may have the books she needed to solve this new mystery. However she could not act on this as Hearth's Warming Eve would be there in two weeks and Twilight was busy preparing for the day and the arrival of Princess Cadence, Skyla, and Shining Armor, whom were planning to visit as Nyx mentioned to Cheerilee before. Nyx lifted the soundproofing spell off the windows and door with Sweetie Belle's help. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom went outside and toward the barn and came back moments later with four apple juice poppers. The two filly's walked back into the clubhouse and rested the drinks on the table underneath the left side window.

"Usually Applejack would hand these out to the kids during the summer months, but ah figured it'd be alright to have some now before we go back outside and muck around in the snow."

The three main c.m.c opened the bottles and drank the apple juice inside, however Nyx only stared at hers. The young alicorn lit up her horn and levitated the drink in front of her as she slowly lowered the temperature of the juice until it had froze like water left in a bucket during a winter night. Suddenly, Nyx's horn stopped glowing, she dropped her frozen juice and stared blankly toward her friends. Apple Bloom quickly took notice upon hearing the sound of the frozen beverage hitting the floor and quickly rushed over to Nyx and began to call her name though the alicorn could not hear her voice, instead she heard another voice, a familiar voice. Nyx's vision blacked out for a moment, she could hear a soft gentle voice addressing her as Luna. Soon her vision returned however she could see she was no longer in the crusader clubhouse but instead a living room made from clouds. She was looking around the room when the same white filly from before walked into her vision and sat on the couch beside her.

Nyx was looking through Luna's eyes. She walked over to a wall which had portraits on it, with each picture being of the filly's family. Her father, mother, and herself.

"Tomorrow will mark the third winter your gift has been used. But I don't think that's important, you're going into high school from what I understand."

"Everypony in school always picked on me because I was blind. I was always the punchline of everyponies blind jokes."

Luna looked at the front door as it opened, followed by a green mare with crimson mane and tail stepping into the house and greeting the princess, however Nyx could not see anymore as everything had gone black. The filly could not hear Luna or the filly's voices anymore, instead she heard somepony else, calling her name.

Nyx opened her eyes a little to see Applejack trying to wake her. The orange earthpony turned and looked at Applebloom and the other two c.m.c.

"We were helpin ourselves to some apple juice and she started starin into space, then she just collapsed. Sorry big sis."

"Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo said you passed out, so they carried ya all the way to the livin room back ere at the barn where it's warmer."

Nyx looked at her friends but suddenly closed her eyes and placed her left hoof on her head, cringing in pain.

Applejack stood up, and hurried over to a rack with snow cloths on it. She pulled off a scarf and wrapped it around her neck. She was about to grab the earmuffs when Nyx stood up.

The black filly carefully climbed off the couch and swayed a little. Applejack had a look of concern on her face, as did Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo. Nyx managed to steady herself and looked at the time.

Nyx levitated all of her snow cloths off of the rack they were on and started putting them on. First her jacket, then her beanie, then her snow shoes. The filly smiled after she had all her cloths on then quickly made her way to the door, only to be stopped by Applejack.

"Whoa there lil Missy, I'll walk ya back to Twilight's. That way I can carry you home if you fall down again."

As the c.m.c got their snow cloths on, Applejack opened the front door and stepped outside with Nyx and stood there, waiting for the other three to hurry up.

The c.m.c came outside in their snow cloths, Sweetie Belle closed the barn doors behind her and followed Applejack, Scootaloo, Nyx and Apple Bloom whom had already began the walk to Golden Oaks.

"Hey wait for me!" Sweetie Belle started running to catch up with them, slipping on snow halfway. "ooof!"

While Nyx, and the others were making their way to the Library. Twilight and Spike were decorating the tree for Hearth's Warming Eve. Spike was decorating the inside of the Library. Putting stockings above the fireplace, tinsel on the window sills and door ways. and many other hearth's warming decoration on other things. Outside Twilight was decorating the tree with much of the same decorations. She used her magic to cover the library with lights and other things making it look like a Christmas tree almost.

"Odd, Nyx is usually home for lunch by now... then again," Twilight looked up at the tree. "I haven't started making lunch yet."

Twilight was suddenly knocked to the snowy ground by none other then Nyx. It took the purple unicorn a moment to realize who had tackled her. When Twilight saw it was Nyx they started to laugh together for a moment before looking at one another.

While the two laughed, Applejack couldn't help but smile as she came closer to them.

"Just droppin Nyx off. She had an accident and Ah couldn't let her walk home by herself in case she started feelin weird."

"This wouldn't happen to be related to the incident that happened yesterday would it??"

"Just like yesterday..." Twilight stood up and shook the snow off her, looking at Applejack afterwards. "Thank you Applejack."

"Anytime Twilight. Well then, Ah suppose Ah should head back with the girls. Ah'll see ya later Twilight, and as for you Nyx, try to be more careful okay?"

Applejack smiled and turned around, looking at the c.m.c. "Alright girls, lets head back to the farm."

Applejack began to walk back to Sweet Apple Acres, the Cutie Mark Crusaders asked Nyx to meet them by Rarity's place after lunch before going to their individual homes. Nyx and Twilight watched as they left, then went inside just as it started snowing again.

Twilight Sparkle set down a carrot sandwich for Nyx on the table, and a gem sandwich for Spike. Twilight made herself a cheese sandwich and had started eating it by the time she had sat down. While Spike and Twilight ate, Nyx stared out the window, at the snow outside. She could hear the wind blowing gently against the trunk of the tree of which the library was built inside of. The wind also blew against the glass. Though the wind was blowing, no branch, nor leaf, nor snow was being blown. The black alicorn filly continued to stare out the window in an almost trance like state. Twilight and Spike were talking as this was happening, however the sounds of their voices, and everything else around her could not be heard. Nyx could only hear a voice, the voice of a filly calling out Luna's name. As Nyx was listening to the wind, Twilight had started trying to get the young alicorn's attention. The lavender unicorn levitated Nyx's glasses off causing Nyx to snap out of her trance and grab her glasses with her magic again, placing them back on her face.

"I was just listening to the wind." Nyx turned her head back to her sandwich and started eating.

Nyx stopped eating and looked up at Twilight confused, she could clearly hear the wind blowing outside yet the unicorn couldn't. She looked at Spike and asked if he could hear the wind blowing but the dragon only shook his head, further confusing the young filly. Nyx continued to eat her sandwich whilst looking out the window curiously. Moments later the snow simply stopped, and once again none of the snow on the ground had been raised, it was as though it had never snowed, Twilight had started to wonder if this was some kind of phenomenon or something. Aside from that, lunch time had already passed and Nyx was getting ready to head out to Rarity's store.

"Heading out already Nyx?" Twilight had just come inside from checking the snow and trying to find an explanation for the "ghost" snowfall.

"I told Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo I'd meet them at Rarity's for something. I think we're gonna try and pry Button away from his video games."

"Oh no! I'm gonna be late!" Nyx hurried and put on the rest of her snow clothes. "Bye mommy."

On her way to Rarity's store, Nyx ran through the snow covered streets of Ponyville, running past Fluttershy whom was still carrying the frogs. Nyx's suddenly running past Fluttershy made the yellow pegasus jump in fright, almost dropping the frogs. Nyx looked back.

Fluttershy watched Nyx run down the street before continuing her quest to take the frogs to the Reptile Winter Getaway. Meanwhile the c.m.c were waiting for Nyx at Rarity's. They all sitting around a fire drinking hot chocolate. Rarity was in her work station making mittens and scarfs. In fact, Rarity was making a particular scarf which she finished as soon as a customer entered.

The white unicorn finished an unnecessarily long and ugly scarf and sighed. "Why would anypony want such an ugly thing? The colors mix and mash, the yellow and red are ugly and it's also unnecessarily long, ugh so not stylish... But it's what the customer ordered."

Rarity exited the back room, entering the store and approaching the counter where she placed the scarf.

Time Turner paid the eight bits for the scarf and put it on. He turned and began making his way out the door passing Nyx on the way out.

"Good afternoon Time Turner." Nyx smiled and stepped into store after letting Time Turner pass.

Rarity looked over the counter to see Nyx and smiled. "Good afternoon Nyx. The girls are in the back room by the fire place."

"We're going to ask Ms. Cherilee if she knows anything about this filly you keep seeing." Sweetie Belle replied.

Before the crusaders could leave, Nyx stopped each one of them by holding onto their tails.

"Girls don't you remember what I said? We can't tell anypony or ask anypony anything... Luna will find out and you know what'll happen..."

Nyx sighed in an upset way. She looked at her friends while they thought of what to do instead.

Apple Bloom and Scootaloo looked at Sweetie Belle and giggled amount themselves. Nyx on the other hoof did not and simply smiled at Sweetie Belle.

"Button Mash and Sweetie Belle sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Apple Bloom and Scootaloo chimed together teasingly.

Sweetie Belle's cheeks lit up like a Christmas tree. "It's not like that girls!" She pouted.

Rarity stepped into the room. "Girls what is all that ruck- Huaaagh!" Rarity gasped.

The white unicorn looked at the crumbs and rubbish in the room. She also noticed dust on the shelves, however, she was more occupied by the mess made by the filly's.

"Look at this mess! I do hope you aren't planning on leaving without tidying up first?"

"No buts Sweetie Belle. look at the mess you and your friends made, excluding you of course Nyx."

Rarity turned around and took her leave, she exited the room and went back into the main store. Nyx looked at the crusaders with a smile of confidence.

The filly's looked at each other and smiled, breaking out into a song about cleaning up the Boutique.

"Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!
Let's make Rarity proud
Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!

Then we can go outside!"

The main three of the c.m.c sound the same as ever but Nyx's voice stood out the most. Her voice was simply beautiful and it eventually dominated the song with her friends as back up singers. Scootaloo starting singing and was eventually joined by Sweetie Belle and finally all four of them sung together.

"Dusting off the shelves
A Pegasus' job begins
And clearing all the fluff bunnies
To let the tables shine and sparkle
We move the pots
And we arrange the cups

When Rarity sees
She's bound to cry!

Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!
Let's make Rarity proud
Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!
'So that we can go outside
Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!
'So that we can go outside
'So that we can go outside!"

"No easy task to clear the floor
Fixin up the carpet
With proper care and and a broom
It's gotten neat and clean
Fluff and dirt and crumbs and all
Clean like a fresh apple
We must work so very hard"

All four of them now started to sing all together, Nyx's voice being the more dominant one for it's melodic tone.

"Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!
Let's make Rarity proud
Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!
'So that we can go outside
Clean the Shop Up! Clean the Shop Up!

'So that we can go outside
'So that we can go outside
'So that we can go outside!"

The song finished when the cleaning ceased. The room shined cleanly, not a spec of dust nor a piece of fluff was to be seen, not a crumb not a crease, not a bit of rubbish or stray hair, not even a pile of dirt. Rarity came back into the room and was astonished to see how spotless it was. She examined everything carefully and could find no dust or pieces of food, nor any fluff. It was like the room was cleaned by angels. The white unicorn looked at the fillies and spoke.

"We sure did big sister. Nyx told us what we should do and helped us out. We also made a new game out of it."

"I see. Well, perhaps you four would like to help clean the rest of the Boutique?"

"Well would you look at the time, we better go.. Uh... Button's waiting for us." Said Sweetie Belle in a nervous tone.

The orange pegasus grabbed Nyx and ran as fast as she could with her. Scootaloo and Nyx eventually caught up with Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom who were already waiting for them at Button Mash's home.

Scootaloo was panting from all the running. She looked up at Apple Bloom and spoke, pausing to breath every now and then.

"Nyx was... About to say... Something that... Would've kept us there... All day."

Scootaloo took a deep breath and stood straight again. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo, suddenly heard the sounds of a filly sniffling as though she was going to cry. The three quickly turned and looked at Nyx. The alicorn was sitting down, her head lowered and her eyes closed. She held back tears and looked up at her friends.

"I-I was only going t-to say that w-we should helped Aunt Rarity clean... I-it would be the right thing to do... I-I'm sorry I made you mad girls..."

Nyx sniffled some more and suddenly burst into one of her crying fits, surprising the c.m.c who all thought she had grown out of it. The girls all walked over to Nyx and hugged her.

"Hey don't be upset Nyx, we aren't mad." Sweetie Belle spoke softly trying to calm Nyx down.

Nyx quickly tries to calm down, she took deep breaths through her nose and wiped her tears.

The three filly's nodded at Nyx, bringing a smile to the young alicorns face. The three of them were suddenly startled by loud music coming from Button Mash's room. The hair on their backs stood up, their pupils shrunk, their eyes widened and they bared their teeth, jumping up and floating for a few seconds before shaking their heads going back to normal. They peered through Buttons bedroom window and saw the colt holding a broom, using it as support as he stood on his hind legs, dancing and singing to "Loves in Bloom" by Twilight Sparkle. The filly's burst into laughter and giggled at how silly the brown colt looked. Nyx cracked her neck cleared her throat, and began to sing the same song in her voice, getting Buttons attention and silencing the c.m.c. The colt turned to look at his bedroom window and threw down the broom in embarrassment upon noticing the four girls. Scootaloo waved at Button Mash who grabbed his snow cloths and put them on and ran outside to meet them.

Scootaloo laughed slightly. "Inconvenient timing? Or perfect timing? I don't know which has more flavor." She laughed harder.

The girls thought for a while, eventually coming up with many suggestions, but neither could agree on the other. As the arguments continued, Nyx began to feel faint. She stood up and walked forward toward the town. Button and the filly's apologized after thinking they had upset Nyx. The alicorn filly had taken only three steps before she collapsed in slumber, her friends ran to her while Sweetie Belle called for help.

Nyx awoke, not in a bedroom, nor in a home. She awoke in a green grassy field, with trees with wet leaves, blue morning sky with few clouds, and snow melting slowly in the sunlight. The filly looked around this beautiful field amazed by the serenity, the flowers, the greenest grass she had ever seen. Just a large open field.

"W-Wow, t-this is..." As Nyx was turning, she noticed a filly looking at her from a snowy patch.

Curious, Nyx carefully made her way down the hill she was on, quickly running over to the filly. The black alicorn suddenly slowed down as she got closer, soon she came to a complete stop. The filly reacted to the sound of Nyx stopping, she got up and slowly put one hoof forward checking if anything was in front of her. It was the white filly from Nyx's flashes, her dreams. The filly pegasus got closer to Nyx, and bumped into her on accident.

Nyx shook her head. "N-no... Luna's not here... Well actually I don't see anypony else around."

"No no no.... W-Why do I always find you instead of Luna... Whenever I look for her I find only you.."

Nyx flattened her ears onto her head with a sad expression. A water droplet dripped from a leaf and became a snowflake as it came to rest on a flower.

Nyx started to shed tears for the filly. Feeling extreme sadness for her. Her sadness caused Nyx to forget all about knowing the filly's name, her talent taking effect on Nyx's mind slowly forming a new goal.

Nyx could hear the faint sounds of her mother in the distance. The alicorn turned her head to see Twilight standing on another hill far away and calling her name. She smiled and looked back at the white filly to see that she was gone. Nyx frowned and looked around as a darkness began to creep in. Everything suddenly went black. Nyx re-awoke on the sofa in Buttons home. Twilight hugged Nyx the moment she opened her eyes, the lavender unicorn was full of noticeable worry.

Button placed some cookies on the table while Buttons mother, Elaina put a glass of warm milk on the table.

Elaina spoke. "You passed out. Button came and got me while Scootaloo. Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom stayed and kept you warm. I came out and took you inside then I called Twilight. After that we waited for you to wake up."

Nyx started sniffling then burst into tears, going into another crying fit. Twilight frowned and hugged the filly closely, slowly calming her down. Nyx sniffled and took deep breaths, calming down slowly.

"Hey... It's not your fault Nyx..." Twilight gave a smile to the young alicorn, getting a smile back from her.

Twilight and Nyx, made their way to the door. Both of them were already in their snow cloths having not taken them off after arriving inside Buttons house. The lavender unicorn levitated Nyx onto her back and began to trudge through the snow back to the library. On the way Nyx could see something moving around the night sky, they looked like sparkling shards, following behind the glowing shards was a snow white and glacial blue trail. It seemed to move as though it were flying. Nyx yawned and blinked.

"You know Nyx, the Hearths Warming goodies I ordered will be arriving tomorrow. Spike and I could use some help unpacking them and putting them in the pantry. Interested?"

Nyx nodded with a smile. They arrive at Golden Oaks Library shortly, Nyx hopped off Twilight's back and darted upstairs to brush her teeth. When she finished she went into her room and undressed, putting her snow cloths on the cloths rack by the door, and her snow shoes just beneath said rack. She put her glasses and headband inside her bedside draw. Twilight had done the same with her snow cloths while Nyx was brushing her teeth. She stepped inside the young alicorns room and helped her into bed, tucking her in. Twilight knelt down beside the bed and looked at Nyx, her face full of worry.

"You've just been worrying me Nyx... It's hard enough dealing with the scorn we get from someponies.. And now ever since winter started you've started passing out at random. It worries me.... You're the closest to a daughter I could ever have. I worry about you everyday.... I worry that somepony might try and take you again... or hurt you..."

Nyx looked down sadly, flattening her ears on the top of her head. Twilight took a deep breath and was on the verge of tears. She cleared her throat and took another breath.

"If... If you're feeling sick, or if you want to talk about anything... Come and find me... I'm always here for you."

Nyx hugged Twilight, closing her eyes tightly. Twilight returned the hug shedding some tears all out of worry for the young mare.

Nyx laid back in her bed and snuggled up to the Twilight dummy she made during her tenure as Nightmare Moon.

As Twilight went to bed, Nyx stayed awake, staring at the window, listening. She could hear the sound of wind again, and the sound of twinkling like stars. She couldn't understand how she was able to hear this and yet nopony else could. She heard the filly's gentle voice being carried on the very wind. Nyx remembered that the filly said she had been looking for Luna yet at the same time waiting. It filled Nyx with sadness but also determination to help the spirit find her way. She stood up in her bed and jumped to the windowsill, opening the window.

The wind began to blow harder, Nyx's short mane flowed as the wind passed her. The shining shards that were the filly's spirit began to flicker and fade until it was carried away by the wind.

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Tears in the Snow

by Chaos Phantasm

03: Mystery of the white filly.