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// Shift: 3 
// Story: Streaming Ponies 
// by Ponyess 
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    I live in a castle with mom, Twilight Sparkle and just like her, I am a Sparkle.  Just like her, I am also an Alicorn.  This is who I am, it is what I was born to be.

My name is Shift.  At first, I guess it is from how I shift from one general outlook and into another.  I never look like any other Pony.  I am just shifting from one general type and into another.  It is confusing, but most so to others.  I am scaring the Ponies of the village, when they don’t understand.

At first I just shifter randomly, then I got more control over these shifts, I never do this in public anymore.  I don’t like how it makes the other Ponies feel, maybe I can’t blame them, not after the story my Mum told me about how the Changeling Queen Chrysalis had her hive trying to take over Canterlot.

If it isn’t clear to other Ponies, I am no Changeling.  I am merely an Alicorn.  With Twilight as my mother, one should have expected something out of the ordinary, something more than the generally expected.  Having Pinkie Pie and her daughter Mirage just amped it all up to an entirely new level.

Being an Alicorn sound fun and it is, most of the time.  Living in a Royal castle with a Princess of friendship certainly can be fun, particularly with an out of control Party Pony as a friend.  If you are an Alicorn, there are a few things you need to think of, Ponies doesn’t naturally trust the next Alicorn.

Speaking of Ponies, good thing I have Aunt Pinkie, if there is any Pony who knows Ponies better than her, I wouldn’t even trust Celestia of Luna on that one, as well as Luna knows us through our dreams.  We do after all dream repeatedly each and every night.

Princesses, yeah, I do see them all on a regular basis, not just because Twilight is one, I can hardly avoid seeing her each and every day, just as I commonly see Luna at night, for some reason, she seems to love bumping my dreams.  It is as if there is something pulling her in towards me.  I hope to learn what it is, as I grow up, but I guess I could wait a few more years, for it.

I plan to apply for Celestias school for gifted Unicorns, hoping they wouldn’t mind an Alicorn in their midst, though.  Aside from asking Rarity to create a suit for me, like the one she made for Nyx, I could always hide who I am with my regular trick.

Cadence is a fun Pony to be around, maybe she just enjoys having an Alicorn around, at least more so than most Ponies, but I guess it may be from her element of Love too.

Speaking of elements, as much as we represent them, but it is in how we inspire others that is the core of bearing an element.  In this case, I guess I am the element of change or adaptation.  In this regard, I guess I am closest to Luna, who could take on numerous guises as she split up her self.

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