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// Chapter Two 
// Story: Bronze Ashes 
// by Mezphel 
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        Princess Celestia was in her private office, reading the last Gryphonia and Equestria’s trade agreement when a parchment scroll materialized in front of her, in a pop of green flames.
        “That’s rather soon for her, the last Report was only five days ago,” she took it in her aura, removing the simple purple seal from the letter, and after opening it, she started reading.

        Dear Princess Celestia.

        Something extraordinary happened today here in Ponyville.
        Just in the morning, when I was in the market buying my groceries, I stumbled upon Rarity.We chatted for a bit, and she told me that her sister, Sweetie Belle, had seen a new pony in town,and as such, I thought about going with Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash to welcome this new pony.
        It was about midday when we went, and after some searching we found where the new pony lived, a cottage on the very outskirts of the town, nearby Fluttershy’s and the borders between the Everfree forest and Ponyville, we thought that this new pony wanted to be either alone or wouldn’t spend much time here, since not only she lived in a almost never sought after area, but she had rented the cottage by mail to the Mayor.
        Apparently the reason this new pony was being secretive is because she is a Kirin.
        After opening the door, she simply shut it on my face, Rainbow got angry, and went inside forcefully, doing that she knocked the pony backwards, revealing a face that before was covered in a hood.This is the first proof that I think this pony is a Kirin, having multiple horns, a set of carnivorous fangs and cat like irises.
        We had a scuffle, she tried to run away, but I managed to pin her down, removing the entire cloak revealed a pair of draconic wings, huge enough that I have to question how she managed to hide it.After talking with her, I’m almost one hundred percent sure that she is indeed, a Kirin, since she didn’t seem deny it.
        I asked for Rainbow to watch the air around her house, since I fear she may escape.
        I await instructions from you.
                                                                Your Faithful Student,
                                                                        Twilight Sparkle.


        “A Kirin? after a thousand and a half years they come back… somehow.” Celestia re-rolled the letter, and attached the same purple seal back on it, together with a silver seal with a crescent moon.Touching her horn on the letter she casted a simple teleportation spell, making the parchment vanish in a bright flash.
        “I’ll have to talk about this with Luna, we can’t let what happened before happen again, I’ll not let it.”

        *Thump* *Thump* *Thump*
        “Aerghgh”
        *Thump* Thump* *Thump*
        “Aerrehhgh… damn it…”
        *Thump* *Thump* *Thump*
        “Alright damn… I’m coming!”
        It was the second day Bronze Ashes woke up on Ponyville.The second day in anywhere wasn’t the best, in most occasions, it meant either you had fooled everyone or you would need to flee, but this time it was something else,something completely different.Not only she had been discovered on her first day, an associate of sorts of the Princess knew about her, and as such, the only thing left for her to do was wait.
        “Cause I’m dumb now the Princesses know about my existence… and maybe about the rest of my kin.Well, that doesn’t matter now.”
        Bronze got up from the floor again, and after putting her cloak on she went to see who was knocking on the door, she had a knack for thinking that it probably was a certain purple unicorn, but then again there could be anyone.
        Opening the door indeed reveal Twilight Sparkle.
        “Well well, if it ain’t the Purple Menace, came here again to do what now?”
        The unicorn sighed, and after a few seconds of staring at Bronze she finally asked, “Can I come in? I want to talk with you for a while, and I think it would be better to do so inside your house.”
        Opening the door, the Kirin slowly walked to the fair end of the main room, and after laying on the ground she motioned for Twilight to sit, “Anywhere’s fine really, heh, I wouldn’t recommend the couch though, it’s pretty uncomfortable.”
        “It’s pretty… bare, if you don’t mind me saying that.”
        “Heh, not like I’ll be staying for long am I?”
        “Look,” Twilight stopped for a moment, apparently steeling herself for what she would say next, “I’m sorry for yesterday, I overreacted after seeing you, and I thought about coming here to apologize.”
        Bronze lifted one of her eyebrows, that wasn’t what she was expecting to hear, “So, what are you really trying to say?”
        “Urgh… okay, the first thing I did after seeing you was pin you to the ground, and I’m sorry for that.There were reasons for me to do it, but now I’m not so sure those are good anymore, yourself said that there wasn’t any attack on the last millennia done by your kind, and I looked around a few books and indeed there weren’t.So in the end all that I really did was attack you because of a preconception about you, and I’m sorry.”
        That, that wasn’t indeed what she was expecting, “So you went and checked the facts? that’s a first,” she rose up from the ground, “and now I suppose comes the catch?”
        “I would like that you came with me to my house and get to meet my friends.”

        “This is probably the dumbest idea I’ve ever had…”
        Clad in her cloak, Bronze was doing one of the dumbest things she had ever done in her life,at least on her opinion, she was walking around, in the full light of midday, in the middle of the Ponyville.
        “At least the fact that i’m only getting curious glances means that either they don’t know what I am, or they don’t care, which I would be very surprised.”
        The town was bustling with activities, ponies walked around, talking, playing and shopping in the main district, the smell of sweets ever present in the area made her remember of a fair she had gone to when she was still a hatchling.Those days, when she could be easily concealed by her mother’s foal satchel were one of the most idyllic on her life, there wasn’t a need to be unseen,and remembering such things made her smile.
        To be fair, Twilight herself had, on a way to convince her to get out, told her that if anything came crashing down she wouldn’t need to worry.Apparently the unicorn had experience with strange individuals that wore full cloaks, a case of a zebra named Zecora, if she had explained it correctly, had made the townsponies more “receptive” towards strangers.
        Not that it made her completely at ease.
        But, if going with the wishes of Twilight gained her credit, she could make herself a way to escape the town without being chased.Again.
        “There it is, my house and the town’s library,” Twilight pointed at a gigantic tree, not far away from them, “I’ll go inside and tell them that you’re here, and then when I tell you that you can come in you may do so.”
        The plan, at least the part that she heard over the babbling, was to get inside the library and let Twilight explain what she was, and then remove the cloak - which would be the hardest part to her - and become… friends with them? “Well if it all comes crashing down, then at least I’ll be the one nearest the door.
        The time she spent waiting outside she did so by watching those that walked around.In the little time she had spent observing the town she had noticed a few interesting facts, the first one is that the ratio from mare to stallion was very much in favor of the fairer sex, and the second one was that there were much more earth ponies than pegasi and unicorn.Probably due to the fact that the town was founded by a earth pony matriarchy.
        On the other side of the door she could hear a muffled conversation, there were many distinct voices, and it seemed to be mostly mares talking, with one voice that could be both female or of a child.
        Finally, after two or so minutes the door opened, and Twilight came out smiling, “Well, they’re all here,should we go in?”
        “Well, it’s now or never.”