Twilight Sparkle's Point of View
I stood about looking at the moon when I was approached from behind by one of my dear friends.
"How are you doing, Darling." Rarity asked.
"I can't help but think that its not over."
"Whats not over."
"Princess Luna turned out to be Nightmare Moon and she accepted her sister's friendship, but I feel like there is something shes not telling us."
"Twilight, that was three weeks ago. You have to stop stressing over it. I worry about you sometimes. Well, I have to go. Goodnight, Darling."
I said nothing. I was to focused on my thoughts at that moment to reply to her words. As I turned around to enter the library I noticed something out the corner of my eye quickly fly over the library. At that moment I thought that it must be a late night flyer or somepony just simply going home.
I entered the library which had books lied all over the floor and scattered on the table due to my recent studies into the history of the world. I climbed the stairs, entered my bedroom, and hopped into bed. It took me awhile to fall asleep because my mind kept wondering.
Once i fell asleep I found myself running through darkness. When I got too tired to run any more I slowed to a walk. I froze as a dark but pleasant voice started to talk.
"Hello Twilight, please excuse the darkness. You are dreaming, but I am real. Let me assure you. I have come to warn the inhabitants of Equestria of a coming war. The rulers of my land, the land of legend, Dileria are coming to this world and you will need all your strength to stop them."
"Who are you? What do you mean by war? What is Dileria?"
"I have said to much already. Just warn as many ponies as possible, but don't mention a word to Princess Luna. Good-bye, Twilight."
As fast as it had appeared the voice suddenly vanished without any straight answer to any of my questions.
I awoke with a throbbing migraine. Before I even got out of bed I yelled for spike who had fallen asleep downstairs the night before. He had ran into the room panicking.
"Whats wrong Twilight! Are you hurt?"
"No, I need you to write a letter to the princess."
"You had me freaked out for that. I thought it was an emer..."
"It is an emergency Spike. Take this down. Dear Princess Celestia, I have had a disturbing dream last night and I desperately need to talk to you face to face. Please come by as soon as possible. Your Faithful student Twilight."
Spike rolled the scroll he was writing on and lit it on fire using his green flame. A few seconds later he released a belch of green light that reveled a letter. He picked it up off the ground and began to read it allowed.
"My most Faithful student Twilight, I am sorry to say that I can not make it today I have a very important guest at the castle and he would rather rest for today due to his long and sudden journey. I will be there first thing tomorrow morning. Celestia."
The day went by as normally as I could make it. All day I felt as if I were being followed. That night again I had a dream. The pleasant voice spoke to me once again.
"Hello once again Twilight. I can not talk for long there watching me. I have to get away. Who have you told."
"I messaged Princess Celestia but she says she has a guest. Anyway, why should I trust you."
"You shouldn't. For all I know I could be the impostor. Until the real impostor is destroyed I will not know. We share memories and emotions."
"Answer me, what impostor and who are you?"
Without an answer and without a good-bye the voice was gone. I wondered what the voice meant by impostor.
The next morning I had awoken to a furious knocking at the door. Which wasn't helping my migraine. At first I thought it was the princess, but as I approached the door it swung open. A pink blur flew past, knocked the books off the table, and set a picnic basket on it.
"Whoa, Pinkie Pie. What are you doing?"
"I'm getting a party ready for the princess."
"Wait, who told you the princess was coming?"
"No one. I could just feel it. So I guess what I felt was true. I hope she likes my new cupcake recipe. I think they're great."
Pinkie Pie ran over to me and pushed one of the pastries into my mouth.
"That is amazing Pinkie. What did you put in these?"
In a serious tone she simply said, "You don't want to know."
And suddenly in her playful tone she said, "Just kidding, I added lettuce. Weird huh."
Before I could answer another knock came from the door. This time it actually was the princess accompanied by a blue green coated colt with a fire red mane with dark green highlights. His cutie mark was an inverted black star with yellow stripes coming from each of its corners.
"Hello Twilight, how are you?"
"Good, except for the nightmare."
"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, this is the mare I was talking about yesterday in my letter."
"Hello Twilight, my name is Starlight Shadow and I have come to see you." the dark mare had said in a pleasant voice.
"Wait, your him, the voice from my dream."
A voice came from the window, "He is an impostor!'
We all turned to the window to see an exact copy of the princess' guest. He flew in and landed near the one he called a fake. The impostor was than consumed by a green flame to reveal an odd looking pony-insect hybrid. The dark mare than used an odd magic. The creature was gone.
"Who are you"
Panting, he turned to us and said,"I am the true Starlight Shadow."
Upon these words the dark Pegasus fell over revealing a gash on his side.
Starlight Shadow's Point off view.
I awoke with a pain in my side and a nagging shade of pink in my eyes. It kept bouncing up and down as it said.
"Hes awake, hes awake."
As I looked around I saw the pony I knew as Twilight and the one I guess was Princess Celestia. There also was a pink pony and a light yellow colored pony with a pink mane who was dressing my wounds. I attempted to stand up but was met with emence pain. The yellow pony spoke with a soft voice.
"Don't stand up your very hurt. How did you get this cut."
I was to weak too stand but not too weak to talk.
"I do-don't know." I was panting hard.
"Well don't move. I wrapped it, but I'm not a doctor. I usually don't work on ponies."
"Th-Thank you." still panting hard.
"Are you hungry? I made some lettuce cupcakes." the pink pony asked excitedly.
"Extremely."
I ate one of the cupcakes that she placed near my mouth. Then Twilight spoke.
"Are you too weak to answer some questions?"
"No." I said as I sat up. Wincing at the pain in my side.
"We know your name is Starlight Shadow. Where are you from?"
"I'm from Dileria. I told you that before Twilight."
I saw the princess twinge at the name of my home land. Then she spoke.
"Why are you here?"
"I don't know. Where is here exactly?"
"Your in Equestria. Ponyville to be exact. Want another cupcake?"
I shook my head at the pink pony who had made the offer. Again Twilight Spoke this time showing concern in her voice.
"Are you the one from my dream?"
"Yes I am. I was warning you about a coming war. The impostor was the start of that war. He was sent from the Changling lair to impersonate me as a representative of Dileria."
"A Changling? Whats that? I've heard of them in books but that is not very much recorded knowledge on them."
I was about to answer her question when I was interrupted by the princess.
"A Changling is a creature that feeds off the love a pony feels for others. The more they consume the more a pony loses and the stronger the Changling becomes. Twilight, Pinkie, Fluttershy will you please leave me to talk to Starlight."
They all turned and walked out except for Pinkie Pie who gave me a hug which hurt my side. As she turned and hopped out of the room she said.
"Oops, sorry."
When all of them had left the Princess turned to me and started to speak.
"Do you know what you have done? If Luna finds out you still exist she will hunt you down! What have you got to say for yourself?"
"The pictures we have portray you different than you look."
"What, answer my question!"
"I know but the Shadow mares have been asking questions. They want to see their mother and their willing to go to war if nobody answers their question or if they don't get to see Nightmare Moon."
"Even if the Shadow Mares were to see Nightmare, Princess Luna would reveal herself and kill all of them. Not only that they wou..."
"I sense we've got a couple of eavesdroppers." I interrupted as I opened the door with my magic which had a black-green aura.
Twilight and the pink pony known as Pinkie Pie fell forward. It seems that the yellow pony known as Fluttershy had left. Celestia spoke with slight rage in her voice.
"What are you two doing. I ought to..."
"It's quite all right. They are curious." I said before she went off on them.
"Don't you know curiosity killed the cat."
"Two things. One, they are not cats and two, if you don't want them to be curious then be open with them."
"Fine, but you two still shouldn't eavesdrop."
Both ponies frowned and stared at the ground.
"Sorry, princess." they both said as they lifted there heads.
There was an odd silence which was broken by Pinkie.
"Does anyone want some more cupcakes?"
Twilight quickly scolded at Pinkie, but she didn't notice. She looked at me and spoke.
"May I ask you a question?"
Before I could answer Pinkie interrupted.
"You just did." Pinkie laughed a little. I spoke.
"Yes, you may."
"How are you able to use magic? You don't have a horn." I pondered this question.
"Can't all ponies use magic?"
"Only those with horns, or at least that is what I thought."
Celestia turned to Twilight and began to explain. I found this to my benefit as well because I always thought that all ponies could use magic.
"Well Twilight the three pony races of Equestria are the Earth Ponies, the Unicorns, and the Pegasi. Not including us Alicorns. Though, there are three other unnatural pony races. The Changlings which nopony knows the origin of. The Chaos ponies who were created by an old enemy of mine, Discord. Last, but not least the Shadow ponies who were created by Nightmare Moon when my sister first turned. They were created as an army for her, but I imprisoned her before she could give them orders. I then banished them from Equestria for six hundred years, but when I offered them a place in the kingdom they refused. They live in a land very very far away that they call The Kingdom of Dileria. It is dark all the time."
"But how can they use magic?"
"A Shadow pony has special magic that they use by manipulating their own emotions. The emotions of worry or concern allow them to use healing magics. The emotions of happiness or joy allow them to use basic lift and place magics and the emotions of hate, fear, anger, and sorrow allow them to use offensive magics such as fire and lightning."
"Thats amazing. Why haven't you told me this before?"
"The three secret pony races were supposed to stay secret."
I had enough of this question and answer session so I interrupted.
"I came to warn you that the impostor was sent by the Changelings to lure you into a fake diplomatic meeting so they could take you prisoner. That was their first step of their war plan."
"How did you know that?" the princess asked as she sat on the floor to enjoy one of the cupcakes that Pinkie had brought.
"There was an alliance between the Changelings, Chaos, and Shadow ponies. When the Changelings started to talk about war on Equestria we all were in agreement, but when us Shadow ponies heard that this included the death of Princess Luna we dropped out of the alliance. Knowing that the Changelings would still attempt their plan I was sent to warn you, but got caught by them. They made an impostor and were planning to frame the Shadow ponies so Princess Luna would position the army to combat them. While the army was in Dileria they were planing to attack Canterlot while the capitol was weak."
Princess Celestia was shocked to hear this.
"So what do we do now?"
I was tired and annoyed at the many different questions being asked.
"It's getting late and my side hurts. I'm sorry, but can we finish this in the morning?"
"Of coarse. You can sleep in my bed tonight. You are already in it anyway." Twilight spoke as she blew out the candle.
All three ponies left the room and I fell asleep trying to ignore the pain coming from my side.
End of Chapter One.