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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Rise to Power 
// by ChronicPony 
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  As Celestia awakes, I sit and watch the slowly dying fire. She goes through her normal morning routine of standing up and stretching each hoof one by one. I've seen this routine at least a million times by now. I begin to open my mouth to say something, but have no idea how to even bring up the abandoned hut that I had found. Until an idea hits me, "Celestia maybe I can lead the way for a bit." She looks at me with a skeptical face, and just shrugs too tired to argue. I begin to walk towards the hut, retracing my steps from the night before. I even reenact the part where I jumped from when a Timberwolf's howl scared me. Celestia chuckles as I do that, but becomes silent as we turn the corner and find the hut.

Still sitting in almost complete silence, the only sound coming from the birds high above. Celestia begins to start looking around the hut and investigating. I sit back and silently watch her closely. She knocks on the door, we hear hoofsteps as a pony comes to the door. A stallion slowly opens the door and I can see that he is a Green maned, white Unicorn with big blue sunglasses. As I gawk at him, my sister and him begin to talk, but I can't make out what they are saying. Finally Celestia walks over to me. "He didn't tell me his name, just that we can live if here if needed." she says.

"What if he is dangerous?" I reply worried.

"He is on our side Luna he dislikes Discord just as much as us."

I nod and we walk over to the Stallion. "We will stay!" my sister exclaims. The Stallion just nods. He hasn't said a word since I had got into listening distance. The pony opens the door the rest of the way and we all walk inside.

He has more then enough knickknacks hanging on the walls and shelves. I begin to look at a particular piece that interests me. I study it very closely. A necklace that is gold and has a crescent moon attached to it. There is another just like it next to it, but instead of a moon has the sun. I begin to turn around to ask, but the stallion is already standing next to me, I could've sworn he was in the other room. "I see my necklace has caught thy eye, there on the shelf it lies," he talks in rhyme and it was sorta odd. "I like the moon on it," I say just to break the awkward silence.

"The moon you see, is what you shall be."

"I'd like to control the moon, but my sister says that is impossible. That only Discord can control the moon."

"This is true, but not if Discord is defeated by you."

I walk away from the shelf and go to the room the kind pony is letting us stay in and begin to think. I mull over everything that he had said. The moon you see, is what you shall be. What in the hoof could that even mean? Yet alone him saying I could control the moon! If I controlled the moon who would control the sun? With so many questions I still had and both Celestia and the stallion away in Ponyville getting supplies. I drift off to sleep.