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// Chapter 4  the beginning of a journey  
// Story: The Element of Empathy 
// by daybreak5465 
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It's been ten years since both Twilight Sparkle, and Sunset Shimmer had been sent back into the past with no way back. Time has indeed changed, and Starlight Glimmer was enjoying  every little minute of this little game.  Just as Princess Celestia told Twilight Sparkle  she should go to Ponyville she told this to Sunset Shimmer who had tried several times that if she did she could completly disrupt time itself. Princess Celstia however just laughed at her star pupil when she wrote back. Sunset Shimmer sighed as she relized she had no choice but to obey her mentor and go to Ponyvillle for the time being.  Her and Spike relived the same events that her friend Twilight Sparkle did. 

Making sure to not completly disrupt time Spike told Sunset Shimmer exactly what happened before she became the Princess of friendship but does that mean that she will take over Twilight Sparkle's role  as princess?  As Sunset Shimmer fears what could possibly happen before she knew it, she has befriended all of her human counterpart friends.  

Sunset Shimmer explained who she was how she was once a rage she demon in another universe, and how  their friend Twilight Sparkle saved her from the darkness. Of course this just made everypony confused.  Sadly though Sunset Shimmer became the barrier of the element of Empathy after she defeated Nightmare Moon with her friends just like Twilight Sparkle once did. However Spike questioned the missing element on one of the artifacts.

"Look , there's still one missing. The element of magic! And we all know who that belongs to!" Spike said happily as  he smiled for the first time since he  became to understand what had happened.


"So this just proves that there are more elements of harmony just as I thought! Starlight Glimmer may have changed time, but she  showed me that anything is possible!, and we will save Twilight I just know it come on girls!"'Sunset Shimmer said.  You may be thinking that this story is coming to and end but this is just the beginning.