Dawn Before Twilight

by Dawn Darkness

Epilogue: Dawn of the Century, Finale

While it was fine to live here in Equestria, seeing as my grandparents enjoy the quiet life rather than that of a human, I’ll admit that.

As we were trotting through the street of Cloudsdale, I was getting restless. Eventually we came to the decision of leaving the cloud city, and we returned to Crim’s parents’ house.

“I hoped you had a good time, Dawn,” Red Pearl spoke to me.

“Eh, could’ve been better for a more exciting day,” I replied honestly.

Blue Sapphire chuckled. “You’re one pegasus who enjoys the thrill of excitement, aren’t you?”

“You could say that.”

While I enjoyed being able to see Crimson’s parents after so many weeks of living in Equestria, I was feeling better, if I am to be honest. But now I was getting a lot more bored of doing the same stuff each day.

I was in my thoughts as Crim and I were flying back down to Ponyville. Although I enjoyed being with my pony friends, I would rather have an adventure of my own. What would I ever do to be able to experience such a thing? Probably nothing, I guess. However, I’ll be more than happy to journey across Equestria to spread friendship around the land and get their trust in ponies.

“What are you thinking, Dawn?” came Crim’s voice.

“Oh, nothing,” I replied.

“You can tell me, you know.”

I sighed. “It’s just…the more I think about it, the more I would like to experience something exciting for a change.” I was being honest, of course. “I had the idea of spreading the friendship across Equestria, though I doubt Twilight would approve of this.”

“I think that’d be an excellent idea,” Crim said. “If you could get everypony in Equestria to accept friendship, that’d be much better for everypony.”

“What about those beyond Equestria?”

“Well…I would avoid them,” Crim told me. “They’re more to themselves than anypony in Equestria.”

“You don’t know if they’ll accept friendship,” I spoke.

“But they’re different.”

“So?” I raised a brow, as if I, too, was offended by the statement. “That doesn’t mean if I am given the chance to change their views of us ponies.”

“I suppose you’re right.”

As soon we landed on the ground of Ponyville, I trotted forward to the Golden Oak Library that were in sight. While I got inside, Spike looked at me. “Oh, hey, Dawn!”

“Spike? Twilight’s not here?”

“Nope. She and the girls are dealing with something.”

I was curious. But I didn’t ask him the details, as I went to my room.

…

“Dear diary,

Today has been a good day for me. I’ve been at Cloudsdale for some weeks ago. After that there has been Winter Wrap Up during the spring, and I’ve been a part of the pegasi team as we helped clean the snow alongside the Earth ponies.

As the days passed by, I was involved with my friends’ activities. One day there has been an incident with creatures known as Diamond Dogs who wanted Rarity to dig up diamonds for them, but Spike and I, along with the rest of our friends, managed to stop them from their ‘scheme’. I also met Apple Bloom’s two friends, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. I must say, I enjoyed their company.

There had been a competition between Rainbow Dash and Applejack called ‘Iron Pony competition’, to see which of them was better than the other. Of course they apologized after the sportsmanship competition.

As for the then upcoming Grand Galloping Gala, Rarity was tasked with making dresses and a suit for us. It went well in the end.

And then there was the situation with Pinkie Pie and her ‘Pinkie Sense’. I must say, I was intrigued by her ‘ability’ to sense danger in the future, however Twilight didn’t believe it at first.

Then there was the Best Young Flyer competition in Cloudsdale. I was among the pegasi who was present, as I accepted Rainbow’s proposal of participating in the competition. It didn’t go well at first, but I caught up with Rainbow’s speed, which surprised both her and the Wonderbolts. Nopony had been able to catch up to Rainbow as she was faster than most.

After the Best Young Flyer competition, I helped Fluttershy in getting the Crusaders out of the Everfree Forest before anything bad had happened to them.

The week afterward, the Crusaders participated in a talent show as the ‘show stoppers’. I was amused by their performance.

When all seemed well, a pony by the name of Photo Finish wanted Fluttershy to be her model. I was not present, however, as I had dealt with a more personal subject when Princess Celestia summoned me to the palace in Canterlot. I met Shining Armor again, which was a relief to know somepony I had previously met.

There had been an incident in a western pony town. However, I was still going on by myself to someplace else, and it was Dragon Lands to learn more about Equestria’s dragons from Dragon Lord Torch. I must admit, I was intimidated by his presence, due to I was smaller in comparison to his size.

After a while of other events, I was intrigued ti learn my friends’ histories of when they gained their cutie marks. They explained in eagerness, of course, as the Crusaders and I were listening to each of their stories.

Then I met an owl I had previously gotten to know in Bloodonia by my friend Solar Eclipse. At the same time, Twilight had gotten an owl as well, and Spike was jealous by her ‘new assistant’.

And then finally, the Grand Galloping Gala had arrived. I confessed who I was to Crimson when we were alone, and she accepted me as who I am. I was happy, and we began dating soon after the Gala was over.

Yours truly,

Dawn Darkness.”

Author's Note:

Okay, this is the final part of this story. I have some announcement below, but before getting to that, I just want to say thank you to Edward Sapphire for helping me on this reboot of my first big retelling of a show.

The Announcement:

I am going to remake this story, everypony. That's right. Since I chatted with one of my friends, I realized I shouldn't just end this story, but rather leave it open-ended. And thus, the idea for a remake came upon me.

So, this isn't the end of Dawn Darkness' journey in Equestria. The remake will be an improved version where I have a clear goal for our human-turned-pegasus protagonist and get him to journey across Equis to experience lots of new things. I am going to keep him as a human in the remake, however, as that makes it a true HiE story. It won't be a retelling of the Friendship is Magic show, but it'd be having its own plot regarding Dawn's journey.

End of Announcement

I don't have a title for the story remake yet, though. So, for now, I'll be writing on my other projects to complete much of their progress, as I have about 7 stories in progress... yeah, I know. That's a lot.

Have a good day, everypony!