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// A Reference Guide 
// Story: The Love of a Mother 
// by Ashen Heart 
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“Twilight, help me!” A vision of Princess Celestia wavers in front of Twilight. Instantly she starts galloping over to her mentor. The path extends out seemingly stretching on forever as she tries to reach her beloved mentor. A familiar maniacal laugh could be heard in the background as Twilight kept racing to her mentor.
“Princess! I’m coming, just hold on!” Twilight yells out, reaching out for her mentor. 
“Twilight!” Princess Celestia yells out as she starts to fade.
“MOM!!!” Twilight yells out as she reaches Princess Celestia, just a moment to late. The laughing gets louder as another figure appears in front of her. Black as night with gleaming silver armor, Twilight looks up at the slitted turquoise eyes of Nightmare Moon. Panic fills her heart as she turns around to run, only to be confronted by Nightmare Moon again. 
“You will never see your precious sun, or your princess ever again. The night shall last FOREVER!” Nightmare Moon booms out, lightning cracking down from the darkened sky. 
“No!” Twilight cries, lashing out with her magic. As the magic strikes the Nightmare Moon clones, another continues to appear beside it. “Please Mom, make it stop!”
“Oh sweetie, why would I make it stop?” More Nightmare Moons appear all laughing that same maniacal laugh. 
“No!” Twilight breaks down crying, as she huddles up trying to drown out the laughing.
“Twilight!” Rainbow Dash crashes in through the window as glass shatters and scatters around the room. She quickly stands on her back hooves holding up her front hooves in an attack position. “I won’t let you hurt her!” Rainbow shouts, before looking around the room realizing that it was just the two of them. “Oh,” quickly scanning Twilight seeing she was fine. The door to the library crashes in as splinters and wood chunks get flown across the room, the orange mare responsible running in first. Four sets of hooves thunder up the stairs, as they quickly rush into the room. 
“Twilight, darling, are you okay?” Rarity asks, as Fluttershy runs over checking for any injuries.
“Yeah, I’m fine. What are all you doing here?” Twilight as confused, as Fluttershy grabs her face and tilts it back and forth.
“We were on our way here to discuss what we were going to do, when we heard your screams.” 
“Why were yah screaming, anyhow?” AJ asks, as she looks around the now crowded room. 
“It was just a nightmare, I’m fine.” 
“Didn’t sound like it from outside, dearie. Are you sure you’re okay?” Rarity asked glancing over at her with concern all over her face.
“Yes I’m fine.” Twilight huffed getting out of the bed.
“Alright, well if yah say so. But what are we gonna do ‘bout the whole Nightmare Moon problem?” Everypony following Twilight downstairs, waiting for an answer.
“I don’t know, but the book I was reading about the legend said something about the Elements of Harmony. I still don’t know how they work, but I have a feeling if we find out more about them we can defeat her.” Twilight sighed as she started looking through the books for anything about the elements.
“Are yah sure yah want to defeat her?” 
“Why wouldn’t I? We need to bring Princess Celestia back and end this eternal night.” Twilight asked incredulously as she continued to look, huffing. “Why can’t I find anything on the elements? This library has such little variety of books.”
“Twilight, she’s your mother. Do you really want to defeat your mother?” Fluttershy asked meekly. Twilight stiffened a little at the mention of her supposed mother. Her ears drooped down as she muttered, “that’s not my mother, my mother is Twilight Velvet. What Nightmare Moon is, is a monster that needs to be stopped.” 
“Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide,” Pinkie says, before getting shoved out of the way abruptly by Twilight.
“How did you find that?” She asked grabbing the book.
“It was under E,” Pinkie sang out as she pranced around. Huffing, Twilight opens the book beginning to read out loud.
“Oh. There are six Elements of Harmony, but only five are known: Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty and Loyalty. The sixth is a complete mystery. It is said, the last known location of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters. It is located in what is now the Everfree Forest.” 
“Well we already knew most of that,” Rainbow huffed out.
“We may have known where they were yes, but we didn’t know about what they represented. Maybe this is the key to unlocking their powers. They said a spark would cause the sixth to appear, so already we know what the five elements are and how to get the sixth.” 
“But your spark idea didn’t work last time dearie. What makes you sure it’ll work this time?” Rarity asked.
“I don’t, but we have to try something. We can’t just let her win,” Twilight said hanging her head low. 
“Are yah sure ‘bout all this? Ain’t yah the slightest bit curious if she really is your mother?” Applejack asked, sliding her hoof over her neck in a comforting hug. 
“No, I don’t even want to entertain the idea that monster could be my mother.” Twilight said before shrugging the hoof off her neck.
“Don’t you think we should talk about this a little before going out there again? I mean this is pretty big issue.” Rarity suggested.
“I said I don’t want to talk about it!” Twilight huffed out, getting frustrated quickly.
“Ya come on guys, it’s completely absurd anyways. Like Twi could ever be related to that monster.” Rainbow said, trying to get everyone else to lay off Twilight.
“But what if she’s right Twilight? This shouldn’t be glossed over,” Applejack asked, trying to push the issue.
“I said I don’t want to talk about it and that’s final!” Twilight said, clearly frustrated at this point.
“Yah don’t have a choice Twilight, this concerns all of us and the rest of Equestria for pony’s sake!” Applejack said starting to get in Twilight’s face.
“I said NO!” Twilight shouts before teleporting back to her room away from everyone else.
“Jeez AJ, who’s side are you on?!” Rainbow huffed out before going to check on Twilight.