You ever had this idea...or dream or vision that you really liked but also knew deep down it was impossible or could never happen unless the unimaginable happened?

Sunset Shimmer had that. A dream, the dream every young filly had as a fantasy that by miracle became her possible reality.

It was one of those dreams an infant said and then years later chuckled in embarassment about upon recollection.

She wanted to be a princess. Or, if not that on a more realistic level, at least an influential mage recognized by the Crown.

It was a silly dream, and only just a dream. Till one exam later she found herself meeting the Princess. And all of a sudden that dream stepped out of fantasy and into reality. She became a royal apprentice, the royal student of Her Highness-- and it was and always would be the greatest day of her life, ever.

But it was the same day she met her, her colleague, the other student, Cadenza, and that day would be the beginning of their long rivalry.

An entry in the Chaosverse