The Lost Shimmering Sun

by Pinkie Pie Sweets


Chapter 44: Dreams Keep Coming

For the past few weeks, snow starts to fall, people are dressed in warm clothes, and are setting up some lights, and put up other decoration. It's christmas time and it seems that everyone in Canterlot City are getting into the spirit of it.

Today, Sun and her friends are in the cafeteria at their school. In around three days, school will be off until next year and all the students can't wait to start their winter break. Of course, students are making sure to wear warm clothes for the cold weather. Even during the cold weather, everyone has some fun and exciting plans for the break and fun holidays too.

"I can't wait until winter break. It's gonna be awesome!" Rainbow Dash says with excitement.

Then Pinkie happily says, "I know. I already helped Mr and Mrs. with the christmas decoration at their store and it's going to be the twins first christmas."

"And I'm doing a special fundraiser for the animal shelter," Fluttershy replies with a smile.

Then she turns to Sun and says, "And Sun said she'll be making some delicious treats for the fundraiser."

Fluttershy look to see Sun not eating her lunch. She is simply staring at her lunch and using her fork to stir her pasta. She seems to be having something on her mind that has gotten her distracted. Fluttershy thinks that Sun isn't hearing her, so she decides to try and get her attention.

Fluttershy says, "Sun,"

But she doesn't say anything. Fluttershy decides to try again to try and get her attention.

"Sun," Fluttershy replies again.

Sun looks a Fluttershy and says, "Yeah. I know."

The girls can tell that Sun is deep in her thoughts again and knows what happens when Sun gets like this. They need to ask her what she has going on in her mind.

Applejack asks with concern, "Are you alright there, sugarcube?"

"Did you have one of your strange dreams again?" Rainbow Dash asks.

Sun look at Rainbow Dash with a straight face and asks, "How you guess?"

"Because every time you go deep in your thoughts it means you had a dream that is kind of confusing to you." Rainbow Dash remarks.

"I guess you're right," Sun replies.

"So what kind of strange dream you have this time? Rainbow Dash asks.

Rarity firmly says, "Rainbow Dash, you know that not a good way to talk to Sun about her dreams."

"But it's true," Rainbow Dash says.

"She's right. Lot of my dreams are confusing and some of them doesn't make much sense," Sun adds.

"Even so, they're your dreams not her's, so she has no much to say in the matter," Rarity firmly says.

"So tell us, please," Pinkie says with a grin on her face.

Sun giggles a bit and says, "Okay. I'll tell you."

"Yay!" Pinkie cheers.

Once Sun see her friends are looking at her, she can tell that they are waiting for Sun to explain about her dreams. Sun does want to tell them, but feels a bit confused about it. Then again, her dreams has been strange most of the time, but knows she needs to tell her friends about.

Sun starts to explain about her dream, "This dream I had has been appearing a couple of times. In my dream, I was exploring this large library and I was reading some books. There was this one book that caught my attention and I was reading it. I found the kind of information I was looking for and seem very excited about it, but then something happened..."

Sun stops as she explains to the girls about her dream. The girls are kind of confused when she says 'something happened' and they want to know what that's about.

"What happened?" Fluttershy asks in concern.

Sun starts to feel nervous and says, "If I told you girls, you... might not believe it."

"It can't be that strange?" Pinkie asks.

"It kind of is in a way," Sun remarks.

Sun can remember what happened in her dream. In the dream she is picturing in her head as she explains to the girls, there is a young mare and she looks a lot like her. According to Sun's dream and her explanation, the young mare decides to sneak into a library she's not supposed to, but really like to learn about something very special. When she finds the book she is looking for, she starts to read it and finds something exciting.

The young mare happily says, "Wow! So this portal is able to open up every thirty moons to a different world. Hmm, I wonder if it's every 30 months or every thirty days."

"When the portal opens every thirty moons meaning it opens every phase of the moon of the month or it opens 30 months," A familiar mare's voice appears.

The young mare can hear the voice and turns to see three ponies. Two of them are stallions with white fur, indigo blue made, and wearing gold armor. The one in the middle looks a lot like Principal Celestia. She has the same hair color, hur like color, eye color, but she's wearing a tiara, a gold necklace, and gold shoes. She also has a sun symbol on her flank. She realizes that her teacher has found her and she looks a bit upset at the young mare.

The young mare surprisingly says, "Princess Celestia."

"I had a feeling you'd be here," Princess Celestia says firmly.

The young mare laughs nervously and sheepishly says, "You're the best mentor and I decided to do some extra reading."

However, the next thing the young mare knows it, she outside in a garden watering plants and pulling weeds. She kind of been punished by taking care of the garden for sneaking to a forbidden library in the middle of the night.

The young mare sighs with annoyance and says, "I hate weeding. This is the worst punishment ever."

"Well, that's what you get for allowing your curiosity get the better of you. I did remind you not to worry about the mirror," Princess Celestia replies with a calm smile.

The young mare hangs her head with a sad look and says, "I'm sorry."

"That's alright. You are a wonderful student, you just can't go into the forbidden library without permission," Princess Celestia says.

"I know. I just really like to learn more about the mirror," the filly says feeling a bit better.

"I understand why you want to find some information about it. It's one of Starswirl's special mirrors," The mare replies.

The filly turns to her teacher and asks, "Princess, does this mirror really can lead us to a different world?"

"It actually does, why are you asking this?" Princess Celestia replies.

"Because if it really does lead to a different world, then there must be something we can learn in the world beyond it," the young mare explains with excitement.

Princess Celestia giggles a bit and says, "As much as I live to explore the other world, but I'm afraid that will not be possible."

"Why?" The young mare asks.

"Having too many ponies sent through the portal will upset the balance of this alternate world and it might end up putting Equestria in danger if the residence are hostl or might have bad intentions," Princess Celestia firmly explains.

"I guess you do make a good point," The young mare says, agreeing to the statement.

Princess Celestia smiles and says, "Well let's not worry about that now, after you're done with the garden, you and I can go out to lunch. I need to go to some important paperwork to get back too."

"Okay," the young mare replies.

With that, the tall mare known as Princess Celestia while the young mare continue to tend the garden. She may not like weeding, but she like tending to the flowers and trees in the garden.

After Sun explains and visualizes her dream, her friends are looking very shocked about the kind of dream Sun has last night. Sun knows something like this is going to happen and not sure how her friends are going to say about it.

Rainbow Dash breaks the silence by saying, "Okay, that's weird."

"I have to agree with Rainbow Dash on this one, Sun," Rarity replies.

"I know it sounds weird, but that's how I dreamt it," Sun replies.

Applejack comes up to her and says, "But why did you dream that Principal Celestia is a horse."

"I don't know," Sun replies.

But then Sun says, "But you know, it kind of explain something that's been bugging me for some time."

Sun's friends are kind of confused to hear Sun's explanation. They don't have a clu on how Sun can dream Principal Celestia like that. Then again, Sun doesn't fully remember about her past and mostly comes up in her dreams.

Rarity gasps realizing what Sun is talking about and says, "Back at the hospital! I remember you saying that you felt like you've met Principal Celestia before."

"Really!" Fluttershy surprisingly replies.

"Yes. But Principal Celestia never met Sun before until they first met there and sady, Sun doesn't remember much at the time," Rarity explains.

Applejack starts to understand this and says, "You know, I remember that once in awhile that Sun called Principal Celestia, Princess Celestia or just princess couple of time."

"I remember, even Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna are confused about it," Fluttershy replies.

Sun and the girls are starting to think of an explanation what Sun's dreams are trying to tell her. One of the things Sun knows is that she feels like she have seen Principal Celestia before, but can't fully remember what that is. Now because she dreams about her and herself some time ago, things are getting a bit confusing.

Sun turns to the girls and says, "I think my memories is getting more confusing every time I dreamed about it."

"What do you mean?" Pinkie asks.

"What I mean is… Lot of my dreams involve with me being some kind of horse and a lot of the one that I feel are close to me are ponies too. I also seem to remember involving the best time with music and studying and learning about the things all around me. I also believe that I end up dreaming of the terrible fire before I was found at Canterlot High and other terrible memories," Sun explains.

She then starts to feel sad and says, "But in all of the dreams I have… I never seem to be able to remember my original name. The name I used to have before my name was changed to Sun."

Sun friends are seeing that Sun is starting to feel concern and a bit stressed. They remember that Sun explanation is true and has these strange dreams and memories. But they know that out of all of the memoires, Sun has never been able to remember her name. They know that amnesia takes time for them to come back or lost their memory permanently. In Sun's case, she seems to be able to have dreams of her memories, but can't really put them together.

Fluttershy shows Sun a reassuring smile and says, "Don't worry Sun, I'm sure we'll figure something out.

"She's right darling," Rarity replies.

Then Rainbow Dash says, "Yeah. We promised you to help you find out about your memories, even if your dreams and memories are confusing."

"Thanks guys, but how can we figure this out," Sun replies.

Applejack turns to Sun and says, "You've been writing your dreams in the journal your dad gave to you…"

"And you have Twilight Sparkle as your special pen pal," Pinkie adds.

"And with all of us being with you, I'm sure we'll figure about who you used to be, but make sure you are still being you," Rarity replies with a calm smile.

Sun smiles and says, "I will, and thanks for trying to help me."

"Any time," Rarity replies.

After their conversation, Sun and her friends have finished their lunch and then they all leave the cafeteria to get to class. Having their classes is alright and there not much homework given since it's almost finals week for the school.

After they have their day at school, Sun is simply in her room finishing her homework and doing her study guide for the finals. Ever since Sun has been attending school, she's been knows at the top brains of the school. She still manage to do her volunteer job at the shelter and still able to study and do her homework.

After her home day is done, Sun is simply sitting in her room reading one of books to study with for the finals. As Sun is sitting in her room, she realizes that it's almost a year since she's been with her family and almost her birthday too. Since she doesn't know her really birthday, her dede make her birthday be on March 8th the day Sun has been adopted and is able to leave the hospital.

Sun yawns and says, "I guess I could continue studying tomorrow."

Sun simple close the book and make sure all of her school supplies she needs to study and for the finals are in her backpack. Then Sun takes the journal that she writes her memories in and puts it in her backpack as well.

Just then, Sun look to the the other book that she writes to her friend can see that is vibrating. She can tell that Twilight has reply back to her. She opens the journal and see she has written something down for her entry.

Sun reads the entry saying, "

Dear Sun,

I received your message and I feel sorry for you to remember something that awful, but I'm glad you were able to get to safety before something awful happen. I'm also glad that you were able to regain some of your memories during the time and able to be with your sister. I'm sorry if I hadn't reply in some time, but I've been busy with some crazy events happening where I'm living at. How to hear from you soon and see if you can keep me update on what you remember

Your friend,

Twilight Sparkle.

After reading the entry, Sun is glad to see her friend reply to her, but can tell she's been kind of busy with some crazy event going on. She thinks it will be a good idea to write to Twilight about it and hopefully to see what she thinks about the situation

She grabs a pen from her desk and decides to start writing about her dream and what she and her friends discuss today.

Sun says in her thoughts as she wrote, "

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

Today I would like to take to you about a dream I been having for a while and some of the confusing ones. A lot of the dreams I've been having involved me and the ones that are very close to me, but the strange this is that they are like horses. In one of my dreams, I dreamt that I was reading a book in a library and I was faced with a mare that looks a lot like Principal Celestia. She had the same rainbow color hair, purplish pink like eyes, and white skin. I also remember that in my dream, her name was Princess Celestia. I don't remember why, but I felt that she's someone very special to me. I really like to know how she relate to my past life and want your opinion on the subject.

I'll get back to you soon and hope write to you again soon.

Your friend,

Sun"

After writing the entry, Sun decides to put the book in her backpack so she can take it to school tomorrow to show her friends. After that Sun puts on her pajamas and make sure she gets her rest for school the next day. Sun really hopes her friend Twilight might know something about her past and wish she can give her more details about it. But she thinks it will have to wait for another time.