As the princesses were walking toward the Canterlot Archives, Twilight was trying to think about this special little filly Celestia mentioned. What filly in history had gotten her special talent thanks to snow falling? And Princess Elsa flying on her own, Twilight couldn’t wrap her head around that one. She was the only unicorn recorded in history to transform into an alicorn. But after many years of having Celestia as a mentor, she has learned that books only have some of the facts. She knew that her teacher would eventually tell her; if not, the books will. When they arrived at the secret office underneath the archives, Twilight let her eyes gaze in amazement for only a minute. Then she quickly went straight the bookshelf while the royal sisters went over to sit down.
“Twilight, it’s the one with all the snowflakes on it,” Princess Celestia told her as she rested on one of the soft cushions in the room. The lavender alicorn nodded, and then began looking for the next book. When she pulled it from the shelf she saw it titled “Making Stars While Making Friends.” It was a dark blue book; the cover was an icy blue vase pouring out multiple snowflakes. Twilight then levitated the book toward Princess Celestia.
“I believe it’s your turn to read Celestia,” Twilight said. Celestia shook her head, and then moved the book toward her sister. “I believe my sister is the one to read this specific book,” Celestia said with a comforting smile toward her sister. Princess Luna looked at her sister, then at the book. A stray tear had escaped her right eye and had begun to fall down her face. Luna then shook her head and passed it back to Celestia.
“Nay, I believe you should read it sister. I do not believe that I can read this one without getting emotional,” the Night princess responded. Celestia was a little hesitant, but she understood how her sister felt and took the book. Twilight sat down next to Luna, ready to listen as Celestia began to open the book.
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Luna woke up early yet again so she could lower the moon on time. Yet another reason why she wanted the night to last a bit longer, so she could at least get some more sleep. “Maybe I should learn to sleep in the day,” she thought.
But unlike other days, she was actually a little happier. Today was the day where they went to Cloudsdale for the 100th spring sunrise. As she made it to the tower where she raises the moon, she saw her brother there waiting. “Eclipse, what are you doing here?” Luna asked.
“I came to see you lower the moon. I want to see how you do it,” Eclipse exclaimed. For as long as he could remember, Luna had always been his role model. Luna smiled at her brother and proceeded toward her spot. Having her brother there to see her do her stuff; she had a feeling today was going to be a good day. Eclipse watched with eyes of amazement (or eye of amazement, his scarred eye is closed), watching every detail. When the moon was gone, Luna turned to go back to bed for a good 10 more minutes of sleep, but she was then interrupted by her brother. “Luna that was so incredible! How do you do it every day?” Prince Eclipse asked. Luna smiled and began to walk past him, but called back to him. “How bout I show you how someday soon,” Luna said to him. She had no idea how happy she just made her brother. Luna had always been Eclipse’s role model; he loved her determination and the beauty of night she creates. When Luna was gone, Eclipse knew Celestia would be there shortly so he decided to practice his gifts for a few minutes.
He closed his eyes and began to think about his family and his friends and how much he wants to protect them. But his mind slowly shifted to his sister that he knew would be there soon. Eclipse’s body began to grow, his hooves became claws, his wings were more bat-like, and two horns grew from the back of his head. When he opened his eyes, he looked down and saw a fire red underbelly along with scales as black as night. He brought his claws to his eyes and he could feel the warmth of his eyes that were now pure flames. Spreading out his wings to see how big they really were. Looking from left to right, he was sure that it was easily a 25ft wing span. He then decided to experiment a little; he closed his eyes again and began to think frost, ice and snow. When he opened his eyes, nothing changed at all. Why not, what was different from last night and this morning? As he asked himself questions, he didn’t even notice Celestia standing 5 ft away from him.
“Eclipse,” the sun princess said trying to get his attention. It worked; Eclipse turned his head toward his sister and gasped a little in surprise. “Celestia, I’m sorry am I in your way?” the big black and red dragon asked.
“Oh no, I was just wondering what you were doing here?” Celestia asked in return.
“Um…I’m just trying to practice a little. I’ve never understood what I could do. And now that I do, I want to be able to control it. Like you and Luna do with sun and moon.” Celestia smiled and nodded, and then she began to walk toward him. She then hugged his front right claw, “I love you brother, and I’m very proud of you,” she said to him. Eclipse smiled back, using left claw to hug Celestia back as best he could without crushing her.
“Celestia,” Eclipse said.
“Hmm,” the white alicorn responded.
“Do you mind if I watch you raise the sun?”
“Are you going to stay in that form the whole time I do it?”
“Yes actually, I told Elsa that she and her family could come with us to Cloudsdale today. They need to get there somehow, right?” Celestia giggled at his comment.
“True, but how are they going to walk on the clouds? There are 3 Earth ponies and one unicorn, neither can walk on clouds.”
“Ah, but don’t you remember the spell Starswirl taught us our first lesson? We can cast that spell that can help them walk on the clouds.”
“Eclipse, then they’ll all have wings. You won’t need to fly them there.”
“Wrong, we could use THAT spell, but I’m talking about the Cloud Walker spell. You know the one that doesn’t involve wings and only lasts about a day. That way they do not have to learn how to fly. Now can I watch you raise the sun or not?” Eclipse whined. Celestia mentally smacked herself in the face. Of course, she remembered that spell from their very first real lesson with the old unicorn. She blamed her ignorance on the earliness of the day.
“Oh, of course you can. And I see you’ve already planned this whole thing out,” Celestia responded with a teasing like gaze. Eclipse blushed; making his night black scales a now more sunset-like color. Celestia then began to raise the sun, with her pink mane flowing in the cool winter breeze. The sun slowly began to rise and Eclipse watched with wonder in his flaming eyes. When the sun was in its proper place in the sky, Celestia then began to leave as Eclipse sat there just waiting for everypony to come back so they could make their way to Cloudsdale. Eclipse waited for a good 10 min when his mother came into view, then he could see the King and Queen of Arendelle behind her. Following them were the four princesses enjoying a little small talk about what Cloudsdale is like.
“Now your Majesty, we are very honored by the invitation to come with you, but there is no way we can walk on the clouds,” King Jasper said to the alicorn Queen.
“That is where I come in. There is a spell that will allow you to walk on the clouds. My son will be able to fly you there. Oh, there he is,” Queen Lauren said pointing to the black and red dragon that was her son.
“Whoa, wait a second, I thought your son was an ice-like dragon,” Queen Maria said.
“Surprisingly, he has two different forms. I hardly understand it myself, so I suggest just leave it be,” Lauren responded. The King and Queen of Arendelle looked at their daughters, they both nodded with overwhelming excitement. They looked back to the alicorn and nodded, “We’d be honored to accompany you,” they said with happiness in their voices. Queen Lauren smiled and her horn began to glow. She pointed her horn toward the four non alicorns’ hooves, causing them to glow with a little red aura.
“Very well, looks like we are all prepared to go. Now if you would just get on Eclipse’s back and we will be on our way,” Lauren instructed. Eclipse crouched down and flattened his wings so they could get on. Surprisingly the dragon’s scales were quite cool, especially for a fire dragon. Princess Anna took the front with Elsa behind her, then having their parents behind them. Each held onto the nearest spike for security. Eclipse chuckled, “Don’t worry; if anyone of you falls I will catch you,” the dragon said reassuring them. He then began to gently flap his wings, lifting them all off the ground. Queen Lauren soon followed him with her two daughters behind her. As they flew toward Cloudsdale, Elsa couldn’t help but feel at peace. She could see her sister just wanting to bounce up and down from how exciting it was to be flying on a dragon’s back. She looked behind her and saw her parents look in so much amazement, they almost let go of the spikes they were holding onto. Elsa loved every second of the ride. Being able to fly with Eclipse again was just magical. It was just a gentle flight with no bumps or crazy turns, with family all at the same time just made it incredible to her. Queen Lauren also couldn’t help but smile as she could see the joy radiating off the ponies on her son’s back.
When they arrived in Cloudsdale, they were in awe. The entire city was made of clouds. Anna quickly tried to jump off and walk on the clouds. But Queen Maria quickly stopped her, they weren’t all that sure if the spell worked. Maria gently let one of her hooves step on the clouds. It was soft, but just as solid as a bed mattress. She then let the rest of her hooves touch and surely, she didn’t fall through them. She turned toward her family still on Eclipse’s back and nodded. “It’s safe, you can get off now,” she said reassuring them. Anna took no time at all to jump off and hop on the clouds. She literally looked like she was hopping on top of a bed. Elsa and Jasper could only giggle, then they decided join them on the clouds. They were all then guided, by the pegasi guards, toward the school where the young foals had prepared their projects for the spring sunrise.
Eclipse quickly changed back into his alicorn body, that way he doesn’t scare anypony. When they arrived at the school they noticed all the foals, their parents and their teacher already there with their projects. Celestia and Luna began to walk toward them, but soon looked back to their mother. “Go on, it’s your day. We’ll be here watching” Lauren said with a comforting smile. They nodded with smiles of their own and proceeded toward the pegasi. They stood in front of the crowd, both were nervous, but Luna’s face actually showed how uncomfortable she was. Celestia decided to begin this thing, “Thank you all very much for your hard work. After a long winter, it is wonderful to see so many young fillies and colts come up with such beautiful ideas to make the season shine. Now we can only choose one as the sentential symbol, but…”
“WAIT!!” All heads turned to the back of the crowd to see a young filly and her mother pushing themselves to the front. The pegasus filly had a light blue coat, with a white and neon blue mane. Elsa looked in close and saw the fillies eyes were a light blue, but they were kind of foggy. Was the filly blind? “Forgive us the interruption, your highnesses,” the filly’s mother said apologizing. “It’s just that…”
“I’ve been working so hard, please. I have a gift for the seasons too. And…”
“Doubt that,” a pink pegasus filly commented. The three other young royal foals began to feel a little anger toward the rude pegasus. Celestia wasn’t too fond of this filly either, and felt somewhat protective of the light blue filly. So she put on a warm smile and asked, “May we see it?” The young pegasus walked up to them, she then lifted up her hoof to show a shape of some kind made completely out of snow. Her fellow students didn’t seem impressed.
“You brought snow?
“And just one little dot of it.”
“Maybe she brought the wrong thing on the way here.”
“Why would you bring snow the spring sunrise?”
“It’s not snow, I made a star,” the blind pegasus objected.
“A star? You can’t make stars; it doesn’t even look like one,” a young gray pegasus told her.
“Maybe it doesn’t look like one, but it’s still a star! It’s a star for winter,” she shouted back at no pony in particular. Then her expression became sadder.
“I can’t see what the stars look like up there. Just like I can’t see what spring looks like. But I can hear it all, and I heard the snow twinkling just like the stars do every night. So…they should be able to grant wishes too, shouldn’t they? Winter has been giving us a gift all this time. A…and we’ve just been ignoring it. Celebrating spring is good, but winter can’t be all bad if it gives us these. It may be cold and dark, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any good to it.” Luna was taken aback from the young filly’s words. This filly was describing Luna and her night, and she didn’t even know it.
“Maybe…maybe winter is sad that everypony doesn’t like it. So maybe we need to make wishes on the winter snow, just as we wish on the night stars. Maybe then we can have a happy winter instead. We already have a happy spring, and summer, and fall, can’t winter be happy too?” the young filly asked. The parents and the teacher were on the verge of tears, they were touched by this young filly’s feeling toward winter. But she wasn’t finished.
“Because winter, its important. Even if it seems useless, it can give us wonderful things,” she finished. Luna was complied to see this filly’s snowy star. “May we see your wishing snow?” Luna asked calmly. The little pegasus raised her arm as high as she could, and Luna grabbed it with her magic and carefully levitated so she and her sister could see. It was really well made, especially for a pony who can’t really see. Celestia smiled and turned back toward the filly.
“Could you make us some more?” Celestia asked warmly. The filly gasped with excitement. She didn’t need to see Celestia’s smile, she heard the joy in her voice. She nodded in response to the Princess. Rain Runner came out of the crowd and walked up to the light blue filly. “Congratulations Snowdrop!” he said with both joy and shyness. Snowdrop instantly shot her head in the general direction of Rain Runner. “Oh thank you Rain Runner,” Snowdrop said recognizing his voice. The male Pegasus wrapped his hooves around Snowdrop which caused her to jump a bit, but the happiness she was feeling over what had just happened overruled her shock. Once Rain Runner let go, she began walking to her home to begin on her wishing snow. After taking just a few steps she heard a new voice behind her ask, “So your name is Snowdrop?”
“Yes, I’m sorry I can’t see very well and I don’t recognize your voice. Who are you?” she said with a timid response. As she stared aimlessly, Rain Runner’s mouth hung open only slightly.
“Oh of course, my name is Elsa, this is my sister Anna and this is Ecl…, Elsa began when she realized that Eclipse was not with them. She turned herself around to see that the alicorn was still with his mother waiting for his sisters to come down.
“I’m sorry; I must not have heard you completely. You were Elsa, Anna and who?” Snowdrop asked.
“Oh, it’s just Elsa and Anna,” Elsa responded seeing that Eclipse wasn’t coming anytime soon. “We just wanted to meet you; you made quite the impression the royal sisters.” Snowdrop blushed with a slight smile on her face. Rain Runner still staring with mouth slightly open, but it did gradually shift to a smile.
“T…thank you, I really didn’t expect them to like it as much as they did. Now I have to ask; did you see my project?”
“Yes, I find it very interesting and…
“It’s incredible; I’ve never seen anyone make snow look like that. So small and thin, it must have been really hard to do something like that,” Anna said interrupting her sister. As Elsa looked down at her sister who had a huge smile on her face, she couldn’t help but smile too. Snowdrop may not have been able to see their smiles, but the very atmosphere that these fillies were bringing helped her feel more confident
“I know I said it was a star, and it still is, but…did it at least look like a star?” Snowdrop asked sounding a little more confident than before.
“To be honest, it looked like what stars would look like up close,” Elsa responded warmly.
“Oh good!”
“Now I do have to ask, I know you can’t see…could we help you make some of your wishing snow?” Snowdrop was taken back, because of all the things that have passed her ears she had never heard of somepony wanting to help her (other than her mother and teacher). While she was trying to find the words to use in her response, Rain Runner mouth still was wide open and his giant wings were drooping onto the ground. He hadn’t moved ever since the princesses had introduced themselves. Before anypony could say anything they heard hoofprints coming their way and were surprised to see who coming their way.
All of Snowdrop’s class was walking toward them with looks of excitement, embarrassment, sorrow and curiosity. Snowdrop turned her head toward to direction of the hooves she heard, but she was unaware of who was coming. A pale pegasus with a dark brown mane stepped forward with a little nervous look on his face,
“Hey Snowdrop…need, I mean, would you like some help?” Snowdrop recognized that voice, but she did not know how to respond. Not long ago, these ponies were making fun of her and her star, now they wanted to help? Before she could respond Rain Runner stepped in front of her and looked at all of them with a face of boldness (which seemed rare from him).
“What makes you think she needs any of your help?” Rain Runner said with a hint of anger in his voice and flaring his wings. The crowd of foals took a step back seeing the size of his wings and realizing that this was an unusual sight; Rain Runner raising his voice. He may be a fighter, but he was like a gentle giant among them. Ponies usually would pick and tease him about the size of his wings, but that all changed after he became a member of the Equestrian team. Snowdrop as well as Anna and Elsa were taken back by Rain’s boldness, but the light blue pegasus put a hoof on his shoulder.
“Rain Runner, it’s alright. Do you all really want to help?” Snowdrop asked. All of the class responded at first with a nod, but soon realizing that she couldn’t see that lead them all to respond with a collage of ‘yeses’, ‘uh huh’s’ and ‘yeps’. The young filly’s smile grew as she could see that she wouldn’t have to do this all on her own.
“Alright, follow me everypony,” she said all cheerful. As she moved forward the crowd followed with smiles on their faces, but Rain Runner kept a suspicious look on his face. Then it hit him; the princesses were there wanting to help along with the alicorn princesses had asked for more of her stars. They didn’t so much want to help; they were just trying to get on the princesses’ good side. Then his anger melted when he saw two things; the pure happiness and joy he saw on Snowdrop’s face and when a shy looking pegasus made his way up to front so he could be in earshot of Snowdrop. The two Arendelle princesses were in the back of the group, so there was no way he was trying to talk to them. This pegasus was the same pale one that spoke up earlier and he looked a little nervous, but determined. Snowdrop could feel his presence and slightly turned her head toward him, but not enough that could disrupt her sense of direction in guiding these ponies.
“I’m sorry, can I help you?” she asked with sincerity.
“No…I mean, you don’t need to be sorry, I do,” the pale pony responded in a whisper. Whisper or not, Snowdrop heard it and so did Rain Runner (both were equally shocked). The young blind pegasus stopped in her tracks and looked more toward the apologetic pony. Even Elsa heard him and was shocked, but the situation made her smile (Anna was too busy being excited about helping make stars).
“Hey Rain Runner, could you guide everypony to my house? I can make it back,” Snowdrop said quietly, but boldly. Despite his shock, the larger pegasus assured her that he could and lead the rest down toward their destination. He took one last look behind them to see if she would be alright. As he thought how bold she had been today, he began to think that she truly was strong enough to handle herself. He then decided to focus on his destination, because there was no need for him to worry much anymore.
“Snowdrop … I am so sorry for I treated you. It wasn’t fair of me to doubt you each and every time,” the pale pegasus said quickly. Snowdrop simply responded with a tilt of the head and a curious look on her face. She seemed to be focusing as if deep in thought and the one apologizing seemed nervous waiting for her response.
“What is your name?” Snowdrop asked innocently.
“Uh…Atlas. Atlas Peak.” They continued to talk until they seemed be friends since forever. Little did they know that Elsa stayed behind at a distance so she could keep an eye on the little pegasus. She couldn’t help but smile at the positive feedback that Snowdrop was receiving, because she knew that this apology was sincere. Soon she noticed that 2 more ponies were coming their way. Princess Luna and Prince Eclipse were making their way towards them and with joyful smiles on their faces. Atlas Peak caught a glance of who was coming their way and almost immediately started dripping drops of sweat.
“W..well Snowdrop, I think I better get back with the g..group. I’ll see you later,” he managed to say before dashing in the direction of Snowdrop’s home. Elsa had a look of…not exactly sure what her expression looked like. Disappointment? Confusion? Disbelief? Maybe a combination of all three. She then began to walk toward the two alicorns, who actually didn’t seem as confused as her. In fact they both seemed to have shrugged it off, which only made Elsa even more confused. Snowdrop didn’t seem fazed at all, but she heard the other hoof steps nearby, so she turned toward them.
“Hello?”
“Greetings my young pegasus, I am Princess Luna and this is my brother Prince Eclipse, we wanted to come and join you in making your wishing snow. I find it really fascinating,” Luna said with a regal smile on her face. Eclipse had a nervous, but happy look on his face as they introduced themselves to the young filly.
“Oh what a wonderful surprise and of course you are welcome to come and join us making stars. Wait, shouldn’t Princess Celestia be with you?” Snowdrop asked with wonder. Luna tried to seem less annoyed by that question.
“Princess Celestia sadly is busy with our mother at the moment. Hope we will do for now.” Elsa looked back to her parents and Queen Lauren; sure enough, Celestia was talking with them.
“O…oh no, I just was just wondering. I am so happy to have you join me and I really must thank you princess.”
“For what?” Luna asked with curiosity.
“The stars that you put in the sky every single night helped me shape mine out of snow. My mother told me of how rare stars were until you and your sister came and even though I can’t see them, I am so glad that you put the effort to put them out every night,” the young pegasus said with enthusiasm. Luna was taken back; she knew that the wishing snow reminded her of the night that she always put up, but this young blind filly seemed to love her night more than those who can see it.
“Y..you are very welcome. Now if you like them so much I would like to ask of one thing in return for me putting them up,” she said with a slightly mischievous smile (which obviously couldn’t be seen).
“Of course!”
“Allow my friends and I to help you make some of your wishing snow.” Snowdrop was taken back; the princess wanted to help her. She not only admired what a little thing she made, but she wanted to help make more with her. She had to be dreaming, but Snowdrop knew better. Words couldn’t form in her mouth even though her mind was full of numerous words that she wanted to say. Before she could come up with the words to say she found herself blurting out, “Yes you can; thank you!” with so much happiness and enthusiasm that it could’ve shook all of Cloudsdale.
Luna smiled, nodded and then began to follow the young pegasus to her home where they could all learn the art of the wishing snow craft. Elsa and Eclipse followed, but as they were on their way, Elsa caught a quick glance at Eclipse a look of sadness and worry. She saw no such look on Luna’s face, even though that one colt acted to same toward them. What Elsa didn’t know was that Luna had started getting used to it; this was Eclipse’s first time experiencing somepony being afraid of him.
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Twilight stared at her fellow princesses as Celestia finished reading the last few pages. She had heard of what snow used to be like, but she never imagined the beauty and care that went into every single snowflake. Especially coming from what seemed like such a frail pony.
“Making snow stars was so much fun, but at the time I feel like my creativity was solely in the night’s stars. Every time I feel like I made progress in a good one, I would easily see a much more creative one made by Snowdrop. Princess Elsa did have some amazing designs, but strangely they all looked very similar,” Luna said with a happy smile. She seemed to be taking a path down memory lane and enjoying every second of it. Although her words were full of happiness, a stray tear began to fall down the night princess’s cheek.
“Well what happened next?” Twilight asked with concern in her voice.
“For some reason it is not in this book, but I think I remember a few things of what happened after that,’ Celestia said with her hoof to her chin. ‘Let’s see… oh, to our surprise the griffin royal family met us on the edge of Cloudsdale when we were ready to depart. What wasn’t surprising was that they didn’t look too pleased to be there.” Twilight did her best to imagine the look on all the members of the griffin family. Just when she got a good picture, Luna began to narrate what she remembered.
“Talon was the first to speak, but to an even greater surprise, he bowed his head.”
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“I…I am so sorry for my behavior ever since I came here. Please forgive me,” Prince Talon said with a little fear in his voice. All the ponies looked in awe, mostly because he was apologizing, but partly because he was almost completely covered in badges. Celestia and Luna looked to their brother, but saw yet another surprise. They expected to see a smirk or at least a smile, but what they saw was a look of discomfort. Eclipse began walking toward the griffin. Sweat began to fall down Talon’s face as he saw the ‘monster’ walk toward him, but most of his fear vanished when he saw the alicorn prince bow his head toward him.
“Thank you. Thank you for being an honorable opponent. I will forgive you, if you can possibly forgive me for my…….behavior yesterday. I hope our kingdoms can still do business with each other,” Eclipse said. All the griffins were taken back. Lauren could only smile at him, how did she get so lucky to have such a mature son. The king and queen griffins walked toward the young alicorn and placed their front claws on his shoulders. The king began, “Of course my young one. What kingdom wouldn’t want to be allies with you? Especially when you have such…special talents.” As Eclipse, the king and the princes talked, Galinda pulled Lauren and the king and queen of Arendelle to the side.
“Lauren, Gasper and Maria I regret to say this, but we will be withdrawing from the tournament,” Queen Galinda said with grief.
“What! Why? Your still have 4 other warriors and even one of them is your son. You still have a chance,” Queen Maria questioned.
“My son is exactly why we are withdrawing. Yes, he and my soldiers are extremely skilled, but after yesterday I realized we do not stand a chance against that…….colt,’ the griffin protested. However, I would also like to say that no ties with any of our kingdoms will be severed.” Queen Lauren did not like the way that Galinda referred to her son, but decided to say nothing about it. With a sigh, she decided to respond to her decision.
“You bring a very valid point and I would hate to see anyone else become severely wounded, especially your son. Thank you for letting us know,” Lauren said with a smile on her face. With that they all departed.
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The two sisters looked at each other as if checking to make sure their stories were right. They had not though back on those memories for a LONG time, but why did they seem to come all once and why now? These thoughts raced through both Celestia’s and Luna’s minds as a puzzled princess of friendship watched them. Twilight really did not want to interrupt their thoughts, so she went to go look at the book shelf. Apparently, there weren’t many books left and the next appeared to be dated MANY years later when they were all completely grown up. What happened in between that?
“Princess, what happened? There seems to be a huge gap the story. The closest book I can find is after you and Luna had become the head of the castle. What happened?” Twilight asked Celestia. As if almost instantly, Celestia’s eyes burst open wide as if she remembered something very important, but they shortly narrowed as if in sadness.
“Sadly Twilight, during one of our previous wars, many were burning to ash. That is why the first book you brought us was so charred up. I wish I could relay the whole story to you Twilight, but I’m afraid that even my memory isn’t that grand,” Celestia explained.
“Nor mine,” Luna added. Just then, the entire library began to glow white until no one could see. It lasted for a few seconds and then faded. As the princesses finished rubbing their eyes from the sudden brightness, they noticed something. The entire bookshelf was full of books and each looked almost brand new, as if freshly made. On the desk with the golden ink was a note that also appeared. Luna levitated it toward them and it read,
“My dear Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, the time has come for you to remember your brother. He has been gone from history for far too long and he needs to be brought back. I will explain everything as you continue to read and we may even meet sometime along the process. I will warn you though; your memories will continue to come all at once and may seem as a shock. Prepare yourselves and I hope to explain more in person. Sincerely, a loved one. PS to make it easier for you, the books have now been numbered.”