Tails awoke the next morning, the sun shining through the windows. He looked over and noticed Fluttershy sleeping peacefully with a smile as she continued to hold onto him. He blushed at that, but smiled. Happy to see her so at peace.
/though…what in the world got her so scared to begin with?/ he thought, curious as to what this was all about. She began to wake up, yawning softly as she stretched a bit. Her eyes opening slowly to the sight of Tails. She smiled, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you" she said happily before getting up to feed the animals. Tails blushed more when she did that, smiling at her before getting up to help.
Twilight's House
"So Luna had a terrible dream and now Celestia even seems scared?" Twilight asked. Silver nodded. Blaze, Marine and he came to tell them all what happened lately with this mystery.
"If this thing scares even the princesses then that's a good enough reason to worry about whatever this thing is" Twilight said. Shadow was listening, but wasn't taking part in the conversation.
"Twilight!" Spike called out before entering the room
"What's wrong Spike?" she asked before Spiked burped up a letter from the princess.
Twilight opened the scroll and began to read it.
My dearest student,
I have sent this letter to warn you and your friends of the events that may transpire in the near future. I'm sure Silver and his friends have told you all about what's happened, so I'll cut to the chase.
Beware the stars, for they can see.
Please do be careful out there.
Sincerely,
Princess Celestia
Twilight set the letter down and sighed.
Later that day
"Beware the stars, for they can see?" Applejack asked, Twilight having gathered up everypony to tell them about it.
"that's what it said" Twilight said. Fluttershy was thinking for a moment, before looking at Twilight.
"last night…something spooked me..." she said.
"a lot of things spook you" Rainbow Dash said. Earning nods from the others.
"this was different." She said. "I was looking in my mirror and saw a shadow on the wall behind me, but it wasn't my shadow. I couldn't tell what was casting it, all I know is when I looked at it I felt cold. When I turned around, it was gone." She said. The others looked at one another, worried expressions on their faces.
"looks like whatever has the princesses spooked is certainly on its way. Especially if it's casting shadows that can chill you." Knuckles said.
"that must also explain why your Master Emerald was going wacky last night" Applejack said.
"wait, what happened?" Twilight asked.
Flashback last night
Knuckles was doing his usual check of the Master Emerald, smiling as he prepared to head inside for the night. That is until it began to glow brightly.
"what the?" he asked as he went back to it, wondering what was happening. There inside the emerald he could see dancing stars.
"what in tarnation?" Applejack asked as she came outside, having seen the glow.
"I don't know…the Master Emerald is showing me…dancing stars" he said. Applejack had a look of confusion that matched what Knuckles felt about this.
End Flashback
"so it showed you dancing stars?" Twilight asked.
"yes it did. Still don't understand why" he said
"well let's just be on alert for now" Rouge said. Earning agreements from all the others.
Later That night
The stars were shining brightly in the sky, the moon full, and the sky clear. Everypony was getting ready for a good night's rest. The day was done, it was time for sleep. That is until something strange happened. The sky lit up as something fell from it, crashing in the center of the town. The ground shaking fiercely from the impact. The heroes moved as fast as they could to what fell. Gazing at a small crater and something inside of it.
"what the Hay is that?" Applejack asked. It looked like a meteor of sorts. Dash moved closer to take a look.
"careful Dash" Twilight said.
"don't worry, I got this" she said before the object began to twitch and move. She jumped out of the crater as whatever it was began to unfold.
a humanoid, with a shroud of stars connected to his arms at the wrist and running down his arm to his back. Same with his legs, from ankle to hip. The shroud meeting those strands and forming his back. Which was the shroud. A torso could be seen, covering his chest and torso was a large silver bar in a V shape. Though the angle was wide for the v. his jawline was the only thing visible above the neck, said jawline was narrow with a sick grin. A silver bar in the shape of a V covering his eyes, forehead and nose. The shroud meeting the top of his head above the V. The creature's body seemed to be wrapped in some type of suit. Skin tight. it was black and purple in color, tiger stripe pattern. While the shroud was a black purple color, with star like dots on it. His body skinny and limbs narrow, skin pure white. It stood 6 feet tall and grinned at the heroes before laughing maniacally.
"what the Hay is that thing?" Applejack asked, feeling a chill in the air as the creature stood before them.
"my oh my…things have certainly changed in the last thousand years" the creature spoke, its voice male and sinister.
"Who are you?" Shadow asked, rather demandingly. The man turned to him and grinned.
"you may call me-"
"Stargazer!" Luna called out as she descended from above and landed between the heroes and the one she referred to as Stargazer. Growling at him as she stood there. He just laughed.
"nice to know you haven't forgotten me. Luna" he said. "did you enjoy the moon?" he taunted.
She shot a magic bolt at him, which he dodged by disappearing within his cloak and reappearing behind her. Wrapping his arm around her neck and smiling sickly at her.
"come now. That isn't any way to treat me. Especially after I helped you see the truth" he said.
"you fed me lies!" she shouted.
"and you believed them" he pointed out. "all I did was tell you things. You chose to believe them. You chose to do something. You can't blame me for what happened" he said before jumping away from her. She growled at him conjuring a spell.
"don't even think about it" he said, snapping his fingers and causing a few stars to surround her and entrap her with bars of energy.
"you wretch!" she shouted at him. He just laughed before a Chaos Spear that Shadow fired hit him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground.
"that laugh of yours is getting annoying" he said.
"that wasn't very nice" Stargazer said from behind him before disappearing.
"where'd he go?" he asked as he turned around before getting swatted aside by Stargazer who had appeared behind him again.
"Shadow!" Twilight called out.
"my oh my, so these are the ones that hold the elements now?" Stargazer asked as he played with Dash's tail before dodging a buck.
"did you see that? She's so angry" he said in a fake scared tone as he leaned back on Applejack before moving away from her. Fluttershy was kind of curled up in the back of group.
"such a timid little thing" he said as he stroked her mane.
"Get away from her!" Tails shouted as he fired at Stargazer, who was already gone. The shot flew off into the distance.
"such a beauty" Stargazer said as traced a finger around Rarity's cutie mark before jumping away from her buck and picking up Pinkie Pie.
"oh please don't let her hurt me" he said fakely. Pinkie couldn't help but laugh at that. He laughed as well before simply dropping her and going over to Twilight.
"and you must be the brains" he said, poking her forehead below her horn. Laughing as he stood back up and distanced himself from them.
"I have a feeling this is going to be fun for me" he said, disappearing right as Shadow got to him. Shadow growled as the laugh of Stargazer echoed.
"who was that?" Twilight asked.
"That was Stargazer." Celestia said as she descended and went to her sister.
"I'm fine sister. He didn't do anything except impede me" she said as the stars faded.
"who exactly is Stargazer?" Twilight asked.
"a very powerful entity. He's the reason that Luna became Nightmare Moon." Celestia said.
"I sealed him at the center of Orion's Belt before banishing my sister to the moon. I was lucky that I had the strength to do both." Celestia said.
"listen closely. You all must work together, to ensure he never succeeds in whatever sick plan he's got in mind for Equestria" Celestia said, earning nods from them all.
Meanwhile
"poor Discord. Sealed in stone." Stargazer said before picking up Discord. "we can fix that" he said before vanishing with it.
Meanwhile somewhere in Equestria
Something was walking around, black in color with what looked like insect wings. A twisted up horn on its head and silky midnight blue hair. It stood as tall as an adult Alicorn, had fangs and slitted pupils inside green eyes. It was Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings. She was on her usual night stroll when something caught her eye. A yellow gem that was glowing brightly. She went over to it and used her magic to pick it up. A squirrel came near her and shifted into one of the changelings.
"you've returned from ponyville. Tell me everything" she said. Grinning as the changeling began to speak.