Lyra Heartstrings had gotten excellent grades and was a prized student at Celestia's schools for gifted unicorns. She`s always been good at magic, even if her special talent is playing her insrument, but after she had been living in Ponyville for a few months, she began to have theis mysterious magic surges and outbursts that she herself can`t come to explain. Until one night where she has a horrible dream of her father dying and Celestia comes to her home to interveen.