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// Prologue (pt. 2):  Is This Really Happening? 
// Story: A Princess's Sadness 
// by FellFour 
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A Princess's Sadness
Prologue Part 2
Is This Really Happening?


It's been a few years since Ashley died and I just graduated from high school.  I was only a freshman when she died and I still couldn't get over it.  But it wasn't as bad as it was years ago.  I mean, yes, I still miss her dearly.  I had to move on with my life though.  At least we got to spend a lot of time together before she died, so I'm thankful for that.  
I think it was a couple weeks after I graduated and I was on the Internet exploring, bored out of my mind, and I come across something that usually never catches my interest: cartoons.  But this wasn't your average everyday cartoon, like Spongebob.  This was something that I thought was pretty silly at the time:  My Little Pony.  

Now before I go on, I just want to tell you guys right now that I watched some of G 3.5 and I absolutely hated it.  I watched like two to three episodes of it and already did I want to destroy my computer screen.  So, what I'm basically implying is, I'm familiar with the MLP franchise.  But, like I said, this one was completely different.

I look at it for a few moments and already did it catch my interest.  So I look it up and find out that it's called:  "My Little Pony:  Friendship is Magic."  Another thing I have to say, I always look up the reputation of pretty much everything, even cartoons.  To my surprise, critics really like the show and say it's great.  It also received a lot of fans real quick.  They go by the term "bronies."  But the thing that really surprised me was that most of the fans of the show were grown men!  I just couldn't help but laugh at that because I don't think I've ever seen a cartoon get so popular fast and have the fan-base of mostly grown-up men.  I mean, at the time, I thought this was just flat-out silly!  I honestly couldn't see why they would like it.  That is, until I watched the first episode and I finally understood why they like it so much.

Since this was so popular, I thought I would watch the first episode and see why this got so popular in the last couple months.  So I look up the first episode and began to watch it.  The beginning was about two sister putting balance in the kingdom, known as Equestria.  One raised the sun, Celestia, and one raised the moon, Luna, and the cycle continues for many generations.  This is where the story gets sad.  Luna was starting to grow darker and darker as the days went one.  Then, one day, Luna refused to lower the moon and threatened eternal night.  Celestia tried to reason with Luna, but her cold heart took over, I guess, and she become what she was mostly known as "Nightmare Moon".  Then it goes on to Celestia using "The Elements of Harmony" on Luna, or Nightmare Moon, to banish her to the moon for 1,000 years.  
That's when I stopped the video for a brief moment and started thinking.  

Whoa.  A thousand years?  That's a little harsh. I began.  I mean, I could only imagine what must be going through her mind once she gets to the moon.  How is she going to survive?  From what I learned, there is no oxygen, water, or food on the moon.  So couldn't the white one at least thought about it before she sent her to the moon?

I then shrugged it off and began watching it again because it was just a cartoon.  So why start an argument about something like that?  

As the episode went on, I was introduced to a purple-colored pony known as Twilight Sparkle.  I liked this one already because, at the time, purple was my favorite color.  What really caught my eye was her hair and eyes.  They were the same color and that's what I liked about her.  Plus she read a lot of books, which is something I tend to do.  I continued to watch it because it really caught my interest. 


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I just got done with the second episode and I was instantly hooked.  The animation was amazing, the characters were amazing, and the plot was...I don't know.  I still couldn't understand what the message of the show was.  I looked at the title again.  Friendship.  I then realized what it meant.  
I guess they want to teach us what friendship truly means and that you're friends are always there for you, no matter what the problem is.  But there was one problem, I didn't have any friends.  No one didn't like me nor was any girl interested in me.  I was alone to suffer in my sorrow.  That's when I got depressed again and I hate it when that happens.  

I had some plans in mind, but I figured that I would do that tomorrow and watch more MLP.  So I began to watch the third episode.  Then the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and I continued from there.  I watched it up until the sixteenth episode.  All this stuff about friendship was really getting to me.  I enjoyed the episodes, but as I watch more, I grow more and more depressed.  I think it had something to do with the purple pony, which is Twilight.  She really reminded me of Ashley.  She always liked to read books and tell me things that I never knew were true and things I didn't know about.  
I started to bash myself for not having friends.  I really hated doing it, but I didn't even realize I was doing it.  That's how sad and depressed I was.  I knew I had to move on, but I couldn't at the time.  I was constantly thinking about her.  I even had a few nightmares about it.  It's honestly to horrific for me to put it in words, so I don't want to talk about it.  All I can say is that it was about Ashley. 

Anyway, I was in the middle of me bashing myself and that's when something truly shocking happens.

"This is all my fault!"  I began.  "Why didn't I go with her?  Maybe if I would have gone with her, then this would have never happened.  But, nope, I'm too much of an idiot to do such a thing.  Maybe this is my punishment!  A punishment for WHAT?!?!  What did I do to deserve this?  GOD I CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!!!"

I started to sob uncontrollably, not caring if anyone else heard so.  It was in the middle of the night and everyone was sleeping.  Like I said, I didn't care if anyone heard me.  As I cried my eyes out, I felt something that warmed my heart a little bit.  Then, it happened.

"Why do you continue to bash yourself Daniel?"  

The voice sounded so loving and caring, it warmed my heart a little bit.  But that didn't stop me from crying.  I didn't turn around because the shock caused me to stay still. 

"Why would you care?  Who are you anyway and how did you get into my house?!"  I yelled.

"If I didn't care, then I wouldn't be here."  the voice said.

"That doesn't answer my question!  Who are you?"

"I'll give you a hint:  stars."  she said.

I was starting to get angry.

"Stars?  WHAT DO YOU EVEN ME-"

My heart then skipped a beat as I then figured out who it was.  But I had to be sure.  Since the shock went down, I turned around to see who it was and what I saw stunned me beyond belief.  I just couldn't believe it was her, appearing right in front of my eyes.  Is this really happening?