A couple days passed since the celebration, Ghost found himself going on lone patrols around the outskirts of the city and practicing techniques and spells in the forest nearby. One day while he was on night time patrol he ventured deep into the forest out of curiousity. He never went this way before, he wanted to turn around and go back but he turned around to see dead branches that appeared to be blocking his path mysteriously.
“Well look who it is” a voice said in a joking tone behind him. Ghost turned around to see a silver pegasus with a black mane appear from the darkness. Another pegasus appeared next the stallion, her mane shone as if it was made of priceless gems.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve last seen you” the stallion chuckled.
Ghost backed up “who are you two?” he demanded as he was ready to draw his sword, but it wasn’t at his side.
The two pegasi walked slowly towards him “why we’re your parents” the mare said with a smile.
Ghost looked at them “no, you two abandoned me and left me to go live up in the clouds” he said anger rising in him.
The two pegasi frowned and looked down “we’re sorry look, there wasn’t much we could’ve done, we couldn’t stay on the ground or bring you up to cloudsville” the stallion said softly.
“We left you with some close friends of ours that were earth ponies, we thought you would be better off there” the mare spoke.
Ghost looked at the two of them “well I wasn’t but I probably should thank you, without that I wouldn’t have found my true purpose in life and I wouldn’t be here” he said walking slowly up to the two of them. He paused and hugged them both, they responded by wrapping their wings around him.
Ghost smiled at the embrace, a tear rolled down his face “I…I love you” he whispered to them.
“We love you too…Ghost” they smiled.
He backed away from them in shock “you know my name…” he said looking surprised.
“Of course, we would know the name of our own son who is head of the elite royal guards and personal guard of Princess Luna” the stallion smirked.
“We have to go now son, please remember us and we’ll be checking up on you now and again” the mare said smiling and backing up.
“Wait I—“ Ghost tried to say but they already vanished and he woke up to find himself by the entrance of Canterlot with a guard looming over him.
“Are you alright sir?” the guard asked.
Ghost rose up slowly and shakily “yes, I just was a little tired, maybe I should go back to my room” he said turning the other way and heading back to the castle. The guard nodded and turned back to stand watch.
Ghost was shaken by the dream he had “Slayer..and Starlight” Ghost whispered to himself. Not watching where he was going he bumped into Luna “sorry” Ghost said looking at Luna.
“Oh hey Ghost I was just coming to look for you, I wanted to show you something” she said happily.
Her horn shined brightly before letting loose a bright blue light of magical energy that teleported them to atop a mountain.
Ghost looked around “where are we?” he asked feeling nervous.
Luna smiled “we’re ontop of a mountain that is said to contain a gem called the midnight crystal, and I found it and wanted to show you something it does” she said excitedly galloping into the nearby cave.
Ghost followed behind her slowly before he found himself looking at a huge dark blue gem jutting out of the cave wall. Luna looked back at Ghost “watch this” she said before shooting a beam of magic at the crystal. It shone as bright as the sun and caused it to glow before it changed colors to steel silver and then it turned to a harsh bright light. Once the glowing subsided
Ghost looked to see an inscription on it and Luna had vanished. He walked slowly up to the inscription and read it carefully, each sentence making him even happier than the last. He came to the last sentence as smiled and looked around for Luna. He found her outside the cave waiting for him.
She looked at him “well did you like what you read?” she asked smiling. “How did you even do this or find this?” he asked smiling and looking down at his hooves.
“I found this one night, I tried blasting it just the other day and that inscription showed up” she said in a playful tone before she teleported the both of them back to the castle.
As Ghost was ready to go to his room he turned back to face Luna “I seem to be thanking you for a lot” he said chuckling.
Luna smiled “well it’s no problem, get some sleep you could use it” she said before walking into her room. Ghost smiled and went into his room and laid on the floor before falling asleep.