//------------------------------// // 2. Learning to reunite. // Story: THE MAGIC OF LOVE // by Twilight_Ragnarok //------------------------------// A few days have passed since the incident. These passed few days Twilight roamed the castle of Celestia and Luna, pondering on how she could move on now all her friends have passed away. She stood still in the long hallway staring blank at the stained-glass window that her and her friends represented. “Twilight. There is someone here to see you.” Celestia said. She walked gracefully towards Twilight. The sun shines with her golden rays through stained-glass colouring the hallway. From behind Celestia, Cadence approaches Twilight as well. She raised an eyebrow. “I heard what you did Twilight.” She said with a stern look on her face. “I know how you feel. I had the same issue when Shining Armor passed away.” Her face turned dark. But as her behaviour switched to dark her ears pointed up and a kind smile appeared on her face. “I know. Although he was your brother... You know what I mean.” She said and produced a difficult smile. Twilight looked. “One of those miserable days.” Twilight reacted. “The fourth in the row of seven losses.” Her voice was vibrating almost breaking again. Celestia and Cadence made eye contact and nodded at the same time. “I leave you two alone.” Celestia said. She turned around and moved towards the throne room. “Talk to me Twilight.” Cadence moved closer to Twilight and sat down next to hear. Embracing her with her right wing. “You know what happened these years. Queen Chrysalis…” Twilight muttered. Twilight looked at the window. Which as well symbolised the last victory when they defeated Chrysalis. “Still… I don’t know where Starlight Glimmer is sent to…” Twilight continued. A soft sunset breeze blows through the hallway. As the princesses sat there… in silence. Approximately hundred years ago Chrysalis took her revenge on the ponies. She used DNA of Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle in combination with artefacts to create duplicates of them. However, the transmutation was a flop and the clones fell apart from degeneration. With her final desperate attack, she planned to fume Equestria with Toxins. These toxins were also highly explosive. But Starlight Glimmer used the transmutation circle with a little change in its design and stopped this action with a major price tag. The same price tag Chrysalis had… they disappeared to where the spell came from. In the throne room the time for the night draws near. Celestia and Luna are changing the charge from day to night. Celestia is already busy to set the sun as Luna enters the throne room. “Luna. I never had the chance to ask. But what did you do with the animatronics?” Celestia asks with a concerned look on her face. “Well sister, I brought them where no pony can go.” Luna replied. “Tantabus is taking care of it.” Celestia nods. “Somewhere were even time can’t reach.” With these words Celestia and Luna exchange the day for the night. “You see Twilight. It is better to feel love and lose it than never feel anything.” Cadence said confident. “I know Cadence. Celestia told me this over and over again.” Twilight replied. Letting her ears and her head hang towards the red-carpet floor. “Maybe it is time to look for the new elements of harmony?” Cadence knew that this kind of research would distract her in sort of a way. Twilights ears pointed up. “I guess you are right. I know a few potential ponies that classify for the task.” Her voice sounded a little less depressing now. “That’s the spirit Twilight. Let’s have a walk outside.” “Ow and Twilight. You are doing great.” Cadence winked at Twilight when she said the last part. “Wait is that.” Twilight stopped walking and looked in a storage room. “The mirror?” “Yeah we decided to storage it here in Canterlot. For safekeeping.” Cadence replied smiling. “I wonder if it still works?” Slowly Twilight walked towards the mirror. “You should leave it alone. No one used it quite a while.” Cadence used a wing to stop Twilight for approaching the mirror. Twilight still curious stares at the mirror. If I am correct it is 1224 moons ago since I used the mirror without the device. On this night it should be possible to use it again without the help of the machine. A sneak peak did not hurt anyone. She thought. “I am tiered.” Twilight pretended to yawn. “I think I am going to bed.” Cadence agreed with a nod. “Sleep well Twilight. Think on what we talked about.” Twilight nodded. Later that night Twilight sneaked towards the mirror. Her eyes Sparkle the more with every step she took towards the mirror. With a leap she jumped through. It worked. The vortex of light carries Twilight to that other dimension. Where she last visited a long time ago. This feeling never changes. She thought, her eyes adjusting to the scenery of the human realm. As she looks around her she noticed that the scenery did change. The atmosphere was tense and apocalyptic. It felt like something horrible had happened or will happen. Canterlot high… What happened? She thought her ears dropped down on her head. The school was transformed into rubble. After adjusting herself she picked up a pamphlet which glided on the wind and stopped when it made contact with her leg. Twilight picked it up. President Sombra Trump. She read. Twilight chuckled a little bit when she saw the picture on the pamphlet. Someone used a red marker to draw funny things on the photo to mock the president. Hundred years did not suit this world well. “Twilight? Is that you?” A voice is heard behind her. Twilight turned around. “Sunset? Is that you?” Twilight rubbed her eyes clumsy with her human hands. Her eyes widened. “Sunset!” Cheerful she ran towards her. “Use two legs Twilight. We don’t run like this.” Sunset laughed. Her appearance now looks like an elderly human. The combination in which that time passes differently in combination that she is a unicorn made her to break the record of the most elderly woman alive. “A lot of things happened since that time… I could not reach you.” Sunset’s smile faded into a frown. “A lot of things happened in Equestria as well.” Twilight replied. “I see that you did not change much.” Sunset smiled again. “Is it because you are an Alicorn?” Twilight nodded, distracted she still looked confused around her. “A long time ago the world turned into a shadow. I blamed the sirens for it. But then out of no where the system of this world voted Sombra Trump as president… I want to go back Twilight… But…” Sunset said, her voice was breaking and glared at the statue. “How is it back there?” Sunset asks, pointing her walking cane to it while adjusting her balance. Twilight sighed. “Not much better. I did awful things.” “The Twilight of this realm had a theory about that with dimensional leaping you can travel back in time.” Sunset grinned. That look on the face of Sunset reminded Twilight from all those years back. “I did it once when I got stuck in a loop thanks to Starlight Glimmer. So, I…” But Sunset interrupted her. “It is just a theory. She got never the chance to actual do it.” “I saw myself… I mean her once. What happened with everyone here.” Twilight asked. “Applejack stayed to work at her family’s farm and modified it, Pinkie Pie became an actress, Fluttershy was a Wildlife manager, Twilight was head of the research facility for the government, Rainbow Dash became a teacher and Rarity did a lot of fashion. However, as time goes by so were they.” Sunset replied while looking at the sky, caught in her memories. Twilight walked closer to Sunset and hugged her. “I am so glad we met again.” A car slowly drove by. “Shall we inform the president?” “SHE. Has returned…”