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// Whoever was on guard duty should be fired. 
// Story: Equestria Girls: Symbol Of Undying Love 
// by vortex123 
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(Sunset's POV)

‘Well that's much different then the stories back home. Aren't monsters just an old pony's tale? And how did the writer of this story know about the memory erasing aspect of the spell?’ I think before looking at a mirror nearby. I had light amber fur-er skin and my ma-hair was a mix of red and brilliant yellow. I was wearing a purple shirt with a picture of a red and yellow shimmering sun on it. I was also wearing an orange long skirt with purple and pale yellow stripes on it. I also had on black shoes with purple trimming. I was laying against what I think was a big weird plushy. It didn't feel like it had bones and it was kinda squashy so I don't see a reason to think it was anything else, it was strangely warm though. The plushy looked like those "human" creatures, save for the small goat horns poking out of the plushy's curly black hair. It had light brown "skin" with a few dark brown dots on its face, one big one near its mouth and three small ones just shy of it's left closed eye. It was wearing a green short sleeve shirt, black shorts and white tennis shoes.

‘…Well you don't have a pulse, so I don't think you're alive and you don’t smell so I don’t think you’re dead.. The Princess did say all living  creatures have pulses when my hamster died.’ I think before my mood sours. 'Princess…If she would have just listened to me, I would rightfully be an Alicorn and achieve my true potential. Instead she held me back because "it wasn't something I was ready for". She was clearly afraid of my potential, that's the only explanation I can think of. I am or rather, was, her most promising student! Who cares about friendship when learning magic!? I can't believe she thought I was dumb enough to fall for that "friendship is important" speech she pulled out of her flank.' I think, upset she thought so little of my intelligence.

Flashback

"Sunset Shimmer for the last time, you.aren't.ready! you have a long way to go before I could even consider turning you into an Alicorn! I will admit you are a promising student in almost all areas-." Princess Celestia started before I interrupted her.

"Then why can't you make me an Alicorn right now, since I'm promising in all areas-!" I argue before she interrupted me.

"Almost all areas! And you will not interrupt me again, do I make myself clear young lady!?" she scolded me, I reluctantly nod my head if only to get this stupid argument over with quickly. "You are a promising student in almost all areas, but you are lacking in understanding friendship!" It take every ounce of my willpower to not roll my eyes at that. 'Here we go again with this! How can somepony as important as her, waste so much time with something as trivial and unimportant as friendship.' "You may sadly not see the point of it, but it is imperative you learn it!" She then goes on and on about it, but I've learned how to pretend I'm listening when I'm really thinking about something else. She tried to trip me a few times, but I've heard this spill so many times that it was trivial to deal with.

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I told the Princess about the Alicorn spell that she should have used on me, but I didn’t tell her that I also saw a page about a special mirror. Everypony knows the tale of Monsters, but nopony knows where they came from. That’s what I’ve been told, but apparently certain ponies secretly know a lot more about them than they let on. It’s nothing concrete, but apparently there’s signs that both normal creatures and Monsters aren’t from this world. I didn’t believe in Monsters, but I did believe we weren’t originally here. ‘That makes way too much sense to not be the case. If it wasn’t, then how did we survive before learning how to manipulate the plants, the animals, the weather, the sun and the moon!? Now that I think about it, why has no creature questioned this?’ I think, now more Determined to achieve my goals and find out. And the only way to do that, was to find and enter the mirror in question.

Finding the mirror was even harder then I thought, I knew it wasn't going to be easy but still! Not only did I have to navigate the castle for a room and artifact I've never seen before, but I also had to avoid all the guards! Thank Celes-…thank "a certain mare", it was night and ponies don't normally look up as long as nothing seems out of the ordinary. It was pretty touch and go a few times when a guard got to close for comfort, but I managed to finally find the room I was looking for! I checked my saddlebags to make sure I had everything I needed or couldn't bring myself to leave behind, and thankfully I did. Hearing hoofsteps and the door to this room opening, I galloped to the mirror.

"Sunset? Sunset stop!" I heard Celestia shoutout in rare panic. I didn't stop, I wasn't going to let her stop me from achieving my destiny! The book said this mirror leads to the place where we originated from, so there's gotta be something there that can unlock my full potential! Before she could snap out of her panic and use her magic to stop me, I jumped head first into the mirror. Then my eyes were blinded by different colors, as if somepony decided to shove my head into the rainbow factory's rainbow storage pool. Thankfully, I soon lost consciousness, my eyes were seriously hurting from all those flashing colors.

When I came to, I was near a statue in front of a school. When I looked down I noticed I wasn't a pony anymore, and currently wearing clothes and shoes. After freaking out for what I think was 5 minutes, I managed to calm down. At the time I didn't know how to properly use my new body, so I was awkwardly galloping for a few moments before I saw everypon-everyone else walking on two legs. After practicing a bit, I managed to get the hang of walking like them. Looking at my saddlebags, I saw they turned in what I now know what is called a backpack. Deciding that it would be best to find a place to stay for the time being, I snuck into the vacant school. Sneaking in was surprisingly easy, whoever works here forgot to completely close the back door. I searched around for the one place that would shed some light on this new world, the library. Through shear dumb luck, the inhabitants of this world wrote in the same language as the ponies back home do. All I had to do was follow the signs, and I would reach the library in no time at all.

End of flashback

When I finally got here, I noticed this weird plushy in front of a bookshelf. After checking to make sure it was actually a plushy, I grabbed a few books and began to read. I had just finished this book on an old "wives" tale, it was so bizarre. This story was so ridiculous I couldn't help but think it's ponyfeathers, but at the same time it matches a lot of things from my world. One of the pictures I saw those chimeras turn into were Pegasi and Unicorns, so I can't completely brush it off. As I was mulling that over, the “plushy” started to groan and get up. We make eye contact as I’m frozen in fear, staring into it-his brown eyes.