“Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night. Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But as time went on, the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth but shunned and slept through her beautiful night. One fateful day, the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon. She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponykind: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently in the moon. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since.”
As the story ended, a purple unicorn with a dark indigo mane with streaks of purple and pink closed the book and used her magic to put the book back into her bag.
“Hm, the Elements of Harmony, I feel like I’ve heard of them, but where?” The unicorn inquired to herself.
“Twi!” An earth pony called out. She had a pinkish-orange coat with a dark purple-ish magenta mane with streaks of red, yellow and blue with rollerskates on. “Come on, we gotta get ready!”
“Sunny, we don’t have anything to do today.” The unicorn, now known as Twilight, said.
“Uh, yeah we do. Don’t you remember? I kept reminding you about it for the past 2 weeks!” The earth pony, now known as Sunny, said.
The unicorn still had a face of confusion.
“You know! The get together?”
“Oh, uh, right, that reminds me, I’ve gotta get back to the library to uh, research for homework? ” Twilight feebly lied as she tried to walk away.
“Twilight, it’s summer vacation, we don’t have homework.” Sunny deadpanned.
“Um, would you believe me if I said Princess Celestia gave homework to me herself?”
“Twilight, come on! You never come to these parties, even the Winter Wishday party your mom threw!” Sunny said.
“Sunny, you know that I had assignments coming up! I had to do them, and the party just happened the be around that time!” Twilight argued.
“You mean the diorama? Let’s face it Twilight, you make dioramas in one hour flat, and one about Starswirl the Bearded? You probably did it in thirty!” Sunny sighed. “If I help you with whatever you’re doing, then will you go to the party?”
“Fine,”
“Yay!” Sunny cheered. “So, what’re you doing anyway?”
The two ponies walked up to the old private library that Celestia had given Twilight. She looked up at the peering tower over her, she felt like something was wrong but brushed it away and entered the library with Twilight.
“Spike! Spi-i-ike!” Twilight called out, she turned back to Sunny. “How fast can you find books?” Once she said that, Sunny stepped back once.
“Uh, Maybe he’s here somewhere?” Sunny nervously said before trotting around.
“Spike! Spi-i-i-ike! Spike Sparkle, where are you!?” Sunny called out, before a light lavender with green, spiny plates that ran from head to tail stepped on the stairs from the second floor.
“Hi, Sunny! Are we going to the party yet?” The dragon asked as he walked down the stairs.
“Nope, you see, Twilight promised if I help her with... whatever she’s doing, she’ll come with us.” Sunny explained.
“Really? All right!” Spike said as he set foot on the first floor. “What’cha need Twilight? Need help with a new spell? Potions? Books?”
“Well, can you find that old book we got, what was it called again... Predictions and Prophecies, volume one, I presume?” Twilight said. Her horn lit up with magenta light as she grabbed books with her magic.
Sunny, going to all the books classified as “P”, started grabbing books from that section in a hurry.
“Potions and How to Brew Them, no. Parenting a Teen, nope. Princess Celestia’s Guide to Baking Pancakes of Each and Every Flavor Known to Ponykind: Recipe Books 1 - 26? Okay, 26 books is overkill. Starry Trotter and the Alicorn’s Crystal? This doesn’t even start with P!” Sunny said with an exasperated look on her face. “A History of Ponykind!? Arrgh!”
“Found it!” Spike was running towards Twilight with a copy of Predictions and Prophecies.
“Yes!” Twilight levitated the book from Spike’s claws and started flipping throughout the pages. “E, E, E, E... aha! Elements of Harmony, they are said to be incredibly powerful artifacts lost to ponykind, for more information, see “Mare in the Moon”, page 169.”
She flips to page 169, and reads the entry above. “The Mare in the Moon, a myth from olden pony times.” She continued onto the next page. “The Mare in the Moon was a powerful pony who wanted to rule Equestria, but she was defeated by the Elements of Harmony and was imprisoned in the moon. Legend has it on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape, and will bring about nighttime eternal.”
“Nothing like hearing a story you’ve heard since you were a foal, huh?” Sunny said.
Twilight didn’t respond to that, looking like she was deep in thought. “Uh, Twi?”
After that, Twilight returned to her senses with a gasp. “Spike, Sunny, do you know what this means!?”
“Uhh, no?” Spike responded.
“Take a note please,” Twilight said, giving Spike a quill-pen and a scroll. “Ahem, my dearest teacher, my continuing studies of pony magic have led me to discover that we are on the precipice of disaster!”
“Hold on, uh, preci... preci...”
“Uh, threshold?”
“Threh... nope.”
“Uh, brink?”
“Okay, anything else you wanna put in your letter?”
“Right. For you see, the mythical Mare in the Moon is in fact Nightmare Moon, and she is about to return to Equestria and bring with her eternal night. Something must be done to make sure this terrible prophecy does not come true. I await your quick response. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.”
“Done,” Spike said, rolling up the scroll and wrapping it in a red ribbon.
“Great! Send it, please. Then we can go to that party, just like I promised.”
“Oh, now?”
“Of course, now. What, do I wait until I hear a message that says: “Send your letter to me now - Princess Celestia.”.” Twilight said sarcastically.
“Twi, Spike’s right. The Princess is busy, getting ready for the Summer Sun Celebration. It’s like, the day after tomorrow.” Sunny said.
“That’s just it! The day after tomorrow is the thousandth year of of the Summer Sun Celebration! It’s imperative that the princess is told right away!”
“Fine,” Spike encases the scroll in dragonfire, a second later the scroll is gone from Spike’s claws. “but I wouldn’t hold your breath.”
Just after he said that, Spike burped up a scroll. “Huh, it’s like she had this on standby.”
“Well? Read it!” Twilight said. Spike unfurled the letter, reading the first few words.
“My dearest, most faithful student Twilight. You know that I value your diligence, and that I trust you completely.”
“Mhm,”
“But you simply must stop reading those dusty, old books!”
As Spike read that last line, Twilight gasped.
“I’m gonna take it we’re not gonna make it to that party any time soon.”