Yet another day in canterlot goes by as Twilight Sparkle continues magic academy. A monthly visit from her mentor and teacher Princess Celestia keeps her at ease with her practice, Princess Celestia starts up.
“Awe my faithful student, how has your training come along?”
Stumped and confused Twilight answers “ Well Princess I have been working on this spell but can’t seem to get a hang of it..”
As she looks towards Celestia, the Princess has no doubt in her.
“ Let’s see what you can do, show me this spell..”
As Twilight turns back to her coffee table her horn glows, being very nervous and shaky she begins to lift it up. Profusely sweating she gives it her all and fails under pressure dropping the coffee table making a loud crashing noise.
“ I’m so sorry Prin-“
“ No need to apologize my faithful student” As she giggles softly afterwards, “ Just keep practicing and you will be able to conquer any object thrown your way."
With a smile Twilight continues practicing as Celestia watch’s, after a few hours and a few more coffee crashing tables they say there farewells but before Celestia could leave Twilight stops her.
“Princess I have a question… Do you remember my friend Morning Dew, the one that passed away about a month ago to suicide?”
as she says quietly with a whisper. The Princess looks down and answer’s after clearing her throat
“ Yes I do remember her, she was also one of my students.”
Twilight hangs her head low and response in a low tone
“Of course, well you see I was wondering could… Could I see her? As in travel to the afterlife?"
The Princess perks her ears as she begins to think the worst
“You’re not thinking of killing yourself are you?”
With a stutter
“ Wh-what! No, oh my goodness no! What I mean is… Can I see her now? Is there a spell that could get me to the afterlife and see her without actually dying?”
With a calm voice
“I’m not sure my student. I need to get going, its late I will talk to you again tomorrow, goodnight.”
“Goodnight Princess..”
As Twilight answers in a cold sorrow tone, Princess Celestia flies off and Twilight begins to softly cry all night.. She slowly closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep.
The midday sun beams down on canterlot as everypony works in the hot weather. Twilight walks the streets of canterlot slowly with bag in magic, trotting to the canterlot castle for a visit to her mentor Princess Celestia.
“Halt! Identification please.”
The guard speaks strongly with intention. As he finishes his sentence the second guard jumps in
The first guard now in shock in awe with a nervous smile
“My apologizes Miss Sparkle.’’
“Its fine is the Princess around?”
She replies,
“She’s up in her quarters Miss sparkle…”
Twilight then giggles softly at both of the guards as she trots by
“Twilight would be just fine.”
With a grin she continues on walking and heads upstairs to Celestias room only to stop and over hear an argument between The Head Counsel and Princess Celestia, she listens in.
“Yes I know she couldn’t stay long but-"
“But nothing! It’s too risky anyways she could get trapped and everything wouldn’t go as planned! Now if you’ll excuse me I have important business to attend to in Saddle Arabia, good day!”
And with a poof he was gone. After hearing the whole argument on which she knew who it was about, she enters the room and surprise’s the Princess. With a shocked voice the Princess turns around in a hurry
“Twilight! How long have you been here?”
Twilight looks up with a sadden frown upon her face.
“Long enough to know that you have tried to help me, with what little help I needed anyways.”
The Princess looks up and with a choke to her words
“I am so sorry it had to be like this. Look I am determined to help you see your friend but it’s very dangerous, too dangerous for both of us to go.”
Twilight perks her ears and in a heartbeat she answer’s
“Really? What’s so dangerous about it?”
“Memory loss, getting trapped and even death… On top of that if you survive and we are caught in the action of this you could be imprisoned and I would be revoked from my status as Princess.”
She then notices the bag Twilight brought with her.
“What do you have there?”
Twilight uses her magic to lift up the bed and take out the belongings of Morning Dew that were left at her home.
“I thought maybe it would make it easier to get to the other side and maybe contact her…”
“This could help us in a way yes” The Princess muttered under her own breath. The room grew silent as both student and teacher gaze at one another. After a short period of time Twilight spoke up,
“Princes?” Celestia broke from the gaze and quickly answer
The room grew dark yet stays dimly lit with a few candles the Princess had gathered together. Twilight stands in the middle of a circle composed of dirt, ash, and pig’s blood. The smell is horrid of the rotten pig corpse hanging above as it lingers around the halls of the castle and mist’s in the Princess’s room.
“Princess, are you sure this will work?”
Twilight asked softly as the Princess lays tulips around the circle and drips white wax on each of them.
“I am positive this will get you to the afterlife, you will have a short amount of time to say a few things then back you come. Make every word count.”
She then uses her magic to infuse Morning Dews personal belongings with the content of the small ritual circle, as Twilight begins to fade away a bright light blinds Celestia.
“Ahhh, Twilight? Okay it worked”
The Princess said to herself.
As Twilight slowly wakes up she can feel something pushing on her chest. She then realized she was winded, as Twilight struggle’s to breathe pressure builds on her chest. With a final blow her heart stops beating.
“Twi-Twilight?”
A faint voice could be heard. Twilight stands up now being able to breathe normally.
“My heart it… It stopped?”
As she looks for where the voice could have come from she sees a figure silhouetted in the distance.
“Morning Dew is that you! Is that really you?”
She yells.
"Yes it’s me Twilight…”
As Morning and Twilight trot towards each other with tears in their eyes they can’t help but to great one another with a hug. After what felt like an eternity the both separated from each other’s embrace.
“I can’t believe it’s really you, I’ve missed you Morning.. Why would you do such a horrible thing to yourself?”
Twilight asked. Still with tears in her eyes Morning answer with a soft voice
“I was depressed, depressed of not being accepted as a normal pony. Depressed the way my parents blamed everything on me. The divorce, the loss of money, the hate. Depressed because” With tears rolling down her cheek. “I was told I was an accident.”
Twilight now understanding but still confused continued
“But you had such a wonderful future ahead of you, you were about to graduate Magic academy, you were about to move on and move out. I tho-”
Morning Dew cut her off
“I know. Now that I see what I had going for me I regret doing what I did. I learned from my mistakes and I only wish I could continue.”
Twilight started up again
“I came to say my final goodbyes, so I guess this is goodbye.”
Both hug one last time but before Twilight let go Morning Dew whispered in her ear.
“This mistake taught me something. It taught me that how you climb up the mountain is just as important as to how you get down the mountain. So it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. In the end thought it all comes down to one word. Grace, it’s how you accept winning and losing. Good luck and bad luck. The darkness and the light.”
As she finish’s her sentence Twilight waved goodbye as she slowly disappeared, back to the place she came from.
The next day as Twilight wakes up from what seemed like a terrible dream she couldn’t remember she realizes the Princess was watching over her.
“How ya feelin?”
The Princess asked.
“I had this weird dream that I can’t even seem to recall?”
With a tear in her eye and a choke to her voice
“I’m certain you’ll be fine. You had banged your head pretty hard yesterday. Do you remember that?"
“No quite frankly I don’t remember anything that happened in the last couple of months at all.”
Twilight answered. Now realizing her faithful student had suffered memory loss she stands up and puts a hoof to Twilights forehead.
“I’m pretty sure you will come around don’t worry. I have to get going though I have some important business elsewhere. I will check up on you tomorrow, oh and Spike is fixing you some tea so don’t be too stubborn and drink some. I love you my faithful student.”
Princess Celestia gets up and flies off the balcony as a breeze flows through the room carrying a piece of paper into Twilights home in which she picks up and reads aloud.
“Your gentle face and patient smile, with sadness we recall, you had a kindly word for each and died beloved by all. The voice is mute and stilled the heart that loved us well and true. A bitter trial to part from one as good as you. You are not forgotten loved one, nor will you ever be. As long as life and memory last we remember thee. We miss you now our hearts are sore, as time goes by we miss you more. Your loving smile your gentle face. No one can fill your vacant place.”
She puts the paper down and remembers one thing from her dream to what she thought was a heartfelt lesson. From this point on she continues her training and practicing with magic, with not many friends she is alone a lot of the time. Until one day she is asked to supervise the summer sun celebration in ponyville.