One second, I was standing in the School of Magic's atrium, with Princess Celestia herself. The next, I was in some vast room, the walls of which I couldn't see. There were what appeared to be stars off in the distance, and below me, far away, I saw a blue and green ball. On the sides of me, there were square "holes" that formed some sort of hallway. Each square was like a painting, except that they were moving. It was as if each square was an eye, looking out upon various landscapes and villages. Some of these squares showed images that I still try to find out the meaning of, but some showed familiar images. One that I caught a glimpse of even showed my shack, standing in the middle of the forest. Seeing it brought back strong feelings of nostalgia.
My attention returned to Celestia, my feeling of danger growing ever stronger. She started singing some sort of song, but my memory fades around this period in my life. I do seem to remember being lifted off of the ground somehow, surrounded by the lights of the stars. The last decent thing that I remember is the sudden feeling that my fears had been proven. Something was going horribly wrong.
Then, I was surrounded in golden light. I wish I could remember more of this event, but my lingering memory has stifled my curiosity. I remember that for the longest time, all I could feel was pain. The pain felt like it was going to tear me in half. I think I may have cast some sort of spell, but again, my memory can only go so far.
The next non-pain thing I remember was falling to the floor. The entire place shimmered, and faded like a reflection in a pool. I found myself lying on the cold stone floor of some inner room, most likely inside of the royal castle. I still had a bit of pain, mostly a giant headache, but there was a very unusual feeling, something that at the time I couldn't place. Celestia was standing over me, a whole bunch of feelings mirrored clearly on her face for the first time. There were quite a lot of emotions flowing through her, but the three I remember were expectation, anxiety, and anger. Then her face returned to the normal, regal gaze. "Not again", those were her last words that I heard, then suddenly, she hit me with another beam of her magic.
If you have never done it, phasing through walls is not a fun experience, especially when you don't expect it coming. It's SUPER disorienting. Celestia's beam of golden light pushed me through castle walls, rooms, and other ponies who were standing in the path of the beam. At this point, I had lost all feeling, and I started thinking that I had nothing to worry about. It wasn't until I left the courtyard until I started to panic. My memory fails me again, I don't know if I told you yet or not, but I have an awful fear of heights. Celestia's beam of magic had taken me above the castle grounds by now, and the height was frightening. Eventually, I got so high up in the air that I just simply had closed my eyes and waited to die.
When I had opened my eyes again, I was greeted with blackness all around me. Since I had also been surrounded by stars, I guessed that I was in the sky. The blue and green ball was way below me, and that's when I came to the conclusion that this ball was Equestria. I mean, that was where the golden beam still shone from, projecting me into the void of the sky. I struggled to turn to see where I was going, but the magic was holding me very firmly in it's grasp. But that's when I saw them. Two wings. And they appeared to be attached to me. i remember my mind furiously trying to connect the dots. For some unexplained reason, Celestia had turned me into an alicorn! Or something with wings, I think I did check my magic but I'm not sure if at the time it felt different. Either way, as soon as my mind made this connection, I landed with a heavy thump onto a dusty surface. Celestia's horrible beam of magic returned on it's course, back to Equestria. Back to home.
Judging from the color and terrain of the place I was at, I came to the conclusion that I was on the moon. The moon was the only place I'd ever heard of that had the color of the ground this amazingly white-grey. I had heard of the legends. Celestia banishing Nightmare Moon to, well, the moon. It was a story my mother had told me quite a few times when I was a little filly. Well, I was living the legend. The place where I had landed was somewhere in the middle of a well-sized crater, the walls of which went high into the sky in a straight line. There was no way I was going to scale that.
That's when it caught my eye. There was a special pattern overlaying itself onto, ok that kinda sounded weird. Let me try that again. I looked over to see my cutie mark. Had I not been in my present situation, I would have probably cried out in joy. It was a majestic-looking stopwatch with a hourglass in the middle. Of course, looking there also reminded me of my wings.
I had no idea how to use my wings, however. I decided to hop and try to get myself over the edge of the crater by furiously beating my wings, I drew from my time watching Dareasus fly around. I wasn't able to get my wings in the right angles, but that didn't matter. Apparently on the moon, you can jump much higher than in Equestria. My hop carried me well over the edge of the crater's lip. I decided that pulling myself back down to the surface using magic would be the best, but when I did, I pulled too strongly and 'bounced' off of the surface. Something was not right with my magic at this point. Most likely my magic had been changed when I was turned into an alicorn.
Holding off on using magic had seemed the best choice for the time being. When I had touched down again, I noticed a whole line of huge black rock, stretching to both corners of my vision. They were wider than they were high, and I scaled the rock with no effort. I saw a cave in the distance, and even though I don't remember walking that far, all of a sudden I was at the mouth. Deep within, I saw a faint glow of a torch or some other light. Having nothing else to do, and nowhere else too noticeable to go, I had decided to go towards the light.
There were some rocks in the dark that squished rather unpleasantly whenever I would step on them. That's something I forgot to tell you as well, curse my forgetfulness. It was really quiet on the moon. It was peaceful and unnerving at the same time. I tripped over another squishy rock and drifted across the room, smacking awkwardly into a stone pillar hanging from the ceiling. That made no sound either. I had tried to say something, but I couldn't even hear my own voice.
Then, I was caught in the orange glow of somepony's magic. This magic didn't look like Celestias' so I calmed down a bit, but there was only one pony that I knew of that lived here. My confusion only deepened as I was drawn into the room with the light. The source of said light was a torch placed on the front of a house, embedded in the rock wall. Standing in front of the house was an orange mare with a bright white mane, staring at me with an expression of puzzlement.
I'm not sure what she was. She had a horn, which made me think unicorn, however she was the same size as an "average" alicorn would be. And some kind of aura about her suggested alicorn, but she didn't have wings. Nonetheless, she was quite remarkable to see. I awkwardly waved to her, and she nodded and carried me into the house. Then, she released her magic on me, and I drifted down to the floor.
The mare's house was actually a lot smaller than I had originally thought. The walls were made of the moon rock, and her sparse furniture was also made of moon rock. I heard the door close behind me, and all of my senses returned to normal. The mare must have created some kind of magical field inside her house. "Thank you for catching me there, my name is Horologium." At first the mare's voice sounded rough, like she hadn't used it in a while, but her voice got clearer by the second.
"Greetings, Horologium, my name is Falling Star." I had come to the conclusion at this point that she was also an alicorn, I had then seen the pieces falling into place. Falling Star had been turned into an alicorn somewhat like me, but we had both been sent to the moon for some unknown reason. I was determined to find out why. I figured asking wouldn't hurt.
"Do you know why we are here, why Celestia would do this to us and send us here?"
"Yes, Horologium, take a seat and I'll tell you exactly why you are who you are and why you are here."