A mare with a black mane and tail, with red streaks running through both the mane and tail, lay sleeping on top of a bed within a room. The mare's light brown fur gently swayed as she awoke from her deep slumber, her now open red eyes began to scan the room she found herself in. All the room contained was an oak wardrobe and a dresser with a mirror resting above it. The light brown mare steadily stood up only to collapse back onto the bed felling a dizzy; she slowly tried again once the dizziness subsided.
'Owe my head, that was one crazy dream.'The mare thought to herself as she slowly walked towards the nearby mirror.
Half way to the mirror realization struck her, she had no idea where she was or who she was. She instantly quickened her speed so she may reach the mirror quickly. She looked at her reflection upon reaching it, the first thing she noticed was the unicorn horn upon her forehead, and the next was a pair of wings sticking out of her back.
The brown Alicorn sat there staring at her reflection like she was trying to remember something important but couldn't for some unknown reason. Then she noticed something in the top right hand corner of the mirror, it was another reflection but it wasn't one of another pony though. It was one of a black shadowy creature; it had an ember effect to it like it was from a fire of some sort. The strange shadow like creature was beginning to creep out the Alicorn, and just when she thought the creature couldn't get creepier two evil looking eyes opened in the middle of the creature.
"What!" The Alicorn said surprised while quickly turning around to look at the corner of the room the creature should have been, but she found no trace of the said creature.
A little creeped out and bothered about how the creature had disappeared as fast as it appeared, what really bothered her though was the fact that the creature seemed familiar somehow. The Alicorn turned her attention back towards the mirror to only be drawn away from it immediately afterwards. A door she failed to notice upon her waking up was wide open, and standing in the door way were two Alicorns. The brown Alicorn continued to look through the mirror, this time not to look at herself, but at the two strangers standing behind her.
"Aurora?" The shorter of the two asked causing the brown Alicorn to turn her head slightly towards them in response.
Somehow that name got the Alicorn's attention; it sounded familiar to her but was unsure why. Thoughts began to run through her mind, trying to figure out if these two strangers actually knew her or not and if they did how. She was quickly brought out of her thoughts when one of the strangers began to speak again.
"I'm Twilight Sparkle, and this is Princess Celestia ruler of Equestria." Twilight said introducing herself as well as Celestia.
"Yeah nice to meet you....care to explain why I can't remember anything about myself?"
"We have reasons to believe that upon your release of the crystal you lost all of your memories about yourself and any pony you came in contact with." Celestia answered calmly despite how rude the Alicorn before her was being.
"Right that stupid crystal I was trapped in, oddly enough that’s the only thing I remember about my life, being trapped in that stupid crystal. Why did you call me Aurora is that my name or something?"
"Yes it is....well your full name is actually Flaming Aurora, you always liked being called Aurora though." Celestia answered once again, showing that she knew the most about her.
"OK then....how do you know me?" Aurora asked trying to confirm her suspicions.
"That is something that has to be answered at a later date, now if you two well excuse me I have a sun to rise." Celestia said walking out of the room.
'If that wasn't trying to avoid a question then I don't know what is.' Aurora thought to herself before turning for attention to the purple Alicorn before her.
"OK on to more important matters.....Princess Celestia wanted me to see if you wanted to go to Ponyville with me." Twilight said.
"Do you mean to stay or to visit?" Aurora asked needing a few more details.
"To stay, she thinks that you may be able to regain some lost memories there with the help of me and my friends." Twilight answered.
Aurora sat there for second trying to decide if she goes with Twilight, a pony she just meet today, or to stay here, where ever here was. Aurora took a deep breath in before giving Twilight her answer.
"I guess I'll go with you, it's better than staying here in this boring old room." Aurora said lowering her head a little.
"OK then fallow me." Twilight said leading Aurora out of the room.
Aurora began to look around her new surroundings; every detail of the halls intrigued her. The numerous banners that hung on the walls each one with a different imagine upon it. She would be focusing more on her surroundings if it wasn't for a headache she had since she woke up from her slumber. Then she began to wonder, how long has she been disconnected from the world and how much did she miss.
"Hey Twilight?" Aurora asked knowing that if anyone would know the answer to her question it would be her.
"Yes?"
"Do you know how long I've been a way?" Aurora asked not entirely sure if she wants to know the answer or not.
Twilight stopped for a moment to calculate the number of days, months, and years. After a good minuet or two later, Twilight finally had an answer, the only problem was that she wasn't sure how Aurora would react to the news.
"You've been gone for more than 900 years, and to be more accurate I'd say about 950 years ago, give or take a few years of course." Twilight said slowly preparing herself for any negative reactions to the news she delivered. She found herself surprised a second later, Aurora had taken the news well and seemed to be unaffected by the fact she was gone for so long.
"Thank you Twilight." Aurora said quietly as she began to walk down the hall, hoping Twilight would fallow.
"Aren’t you upset about this?" Twilight asked unsure why Aurora took the news so well. Aurora stopped in her tracks upon hearing Twilight's question; she took a moment to think about Twilight's question. She turned around to face Twilight eye to eye, She took a deep breath before she finally ready to give an answer.
"Well yeah....It's just that I'm choosing not to dwell on it.....mostly because I can't remember anything that far back, but that’s beside the point. Right now the best thing I can do is to keep moving forward and hope that my memories from my life before the crystal returns to me, until then I'll make new ones along with any new friends I come across." Aurora answered turning back around to continue her walk down the hall.
Twilight smiled as a response to her answer, she quickly caught up to Aurora and continued their walk down the hall. A few minutes later they found themselves walking out of the castle and unto the busy streets of Canterlot. Aurora once again found herself looking around her new surroundings; she looked at all the different shops and restaurants as they passed them. She looked at the at all the different ponies they passed as well, and by the looks of the city was mostly made up of a bunch of stuck up and selfish unicorns. Aurora decided that the best course of action was to try to avoided anything to do with the unicorns of the town, but that would be hard considering the fact that very pony in the area has taken a notice of her as soon as she walked past them.
"Hey Twilight....why is every pony staring at me like that?" Aurora asked taking notice of the staring unicorns.
"I'm not sure....but just in case I think we should get to the train station as fast as possible." Twilight answered while quickening her speed, with Aurora quickly matching her speed.
They continued their fast walk through the streets of Canterlot until they reached the city square, for some reason Aurora felt uneasy about the city's square, like she knew something bad long ago has taken place there. As a response to this unnerving felling Aurora stopped right before entering the said square, she looked around the city square before her. She could see the different shops, restaurants, and unicorns walking back and forth between two unknown destinations. Aurora's eyes came to a halt upon seeing a fountain resting in the middle of the square, it was made from marble as well as gold, and the main part of the fountain was a statue depicting an earth pony getting ready to charge into battle. Under the marble hooves of the statue were four golden water jets, each one pointing in a different direction. The water coming out of the water jets was crisp clean water flowing gently at an upward arch into the water below. Aurora was, for an unknown reason, flooded with lost memories of the night of her imprisonment in the crystal.
Twilight quickly noticed Aurora was no longer beside her, she looked back to see if Aurora was behind her or not. What she saw was Aurora with a look of despair and sorrow. Twilight quickly went to the side of her fellow Alicorn; she gently tapped the shoulder of her depressed friend. Aurora slowly looked towards Twilight with tears in her eyes, she remembers everything of that night; the night of her imprisonment, the night that she hurt thousands of innocent ponies, the night that she was erased from the history of Equestria.
"Aurora what's wrong....you were fine a minuet ago, and now you look like your about to cry." Twilight said a little concerned.
"I'll tell you on the train, I just need to think about this first." Aurora said walking towards the nearby train station, but before they left the Square Aurora looked back towards the fountain. For some reason the Earth Pony the statue was depicting seemed familiar somehow, that's when she noticed a plaque at the base of the statue.
It read 'Blazing Armor the Trustworthy: Hero of Equestria'