A mysterious pony wakes up in a equestria none of us can imagine.
a thousand years after the time of the mane six a mare wakes up with no memory of herself or the world around her. She quickly makes friends with a descendent of Rainbow Dash herself and together they go on a journey to discover the truth about her and to find the secrets of the past.
A soft summer breeze blew across a large,open field. The sun shone down on a lone figure that was watching several birds drift lazily across the sky. One bird had caught it's attention, it was flying much faster then the other birds and would occasionally dart off in random directions as if to look at something in the distance and then would return to where it had been flying before. The strange bird flew behind a cloud and disappeared. the figure waited for the it to reappear and fly back but nothing happened for several minutes. All of a sudden the bird burst through the cloud, going faster then ever before and began flying quickly in the figures direction. It grew closer and closer until it was almost directly above the figure. Then the bird began to dive, but as it did it grew larger and more strangely shaped. As it shot downward it gained speed and its form became clear enough to the figure for it to see that it was definitely not a bird. The figure began to run away but it was to late. A huge explosion rocked the field as the sky burst into a million different colors and the thing sped away, leaving a rainbow trail in it's wake. the figure staggered from the shock wave of the explosion. Another, unseen force slammed into it and the figure fell to the ground. in the distance the thing was flying back towards the field.
I dream of darkness, deep, crushing darkness. I stumble around, desperately searching for a light in the endless abyss for what seems like an eternity. Finally I spot one, a bright, shining star off in the distance. That’s when I heard the voice. It was warm and encouraging and I immediately could tell the source of the voice meant me no harm.
“Well, come on now it’s about time you awoke don’t you think?” the voice said. Eager to wake up from whatever nightmare I seemed to be living I ran straight for the light, not stopping until I reached it and its warmth surrounded me on all sides. And that’s when I woke up.
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I woke up with a start, not knowing where I was. Then I realized I didn’t know WHO I was. All I know is that I'm a girl and that something is terribly wrong. I somehow jumped out of the bed I had been sleeping in and quickly surveyed my surroundings. I was in a small bedroom with only the bed I had been sleeping in, a small dresser against the opposite wall, and a mirror in the corner. That’s when I noticed that something was being reflected in the mirror, but I couldn’t quite make out what it was. I tried to walk over to the mirror but ended up stumbling with almost every step. Finally I stepped in front of the mirror. Staring back at me from the mirror was a pure white pony, who was obviously female, with dark green eyes and a wavy blond mane and tail.
“Is that me?” I ask out loud. I tilted my head and the reflection did the same. “Yep that’s me I guess.” As I gazed at myself in the mirror I started feeling strange, like there was something I really should know but it was floating right outside of my reach. I shake my head to clear my thoughts. “Alright first off, how did I not realize I was a pony? Maybe I was just so panicked with not remembering anything that I didn’t notice…anyway I guess the next thing I should figure out is where am I and how I got here.”
Just then there was a knock at the door, I jumped, startled. “Come in?” I say nervously. The door opens and a dark, aqua blue pony with dark pink eyes and a black, short mane with bangs and a jagged, yellow streak running down it. Her tail was messy and raggedy, like her mane, and it was black as night with the same yellow streak . “The Streaks almost looks like lightning.” I thought. That’s when I spotted something fluttering nervously at her sides. “H…How are you feeling?” she asks. “You have wings.” I say in awe. “Um ya? Haven’t you seen a Pegasus before?” she asks “Ummmm well…no? Or at least I don’t think so….I…I don’t know.” I say struggling to remember. “What’s the matter” she asks, seaming concerned “Your acting as if you don’t have any…..OH that’s it isn’t it? You have amnesia.” She says. “I guess so…I mean I don’t even remember my own name…” I say. ”What’s your name anyway? And how did I even get here?” I ask. “My names Lightning Dash!” She says like it was a name everyone should know. Seeing my confusion she sighs. “Let’s go downstairs and sit down, I have a lot of explaining to do.” She turns and trots out the door. *****
Once downstairs Lightning Dash tells me to take a seat and if I wanted anything to eat. “Oh yes please!...well I mean if it isn’t a bother or anything.” I reply awkwardly.
She laughs “Are you kidding? I haven’t had anyone stay over here in Luna knows how long! Plus, I’m hungry, so don’t worry about it, give me a few and I will whip up something for us to snack on.” With that she flew out the door that lead to what I guessed was the kitchen before I could ask her who Luna is. Still amazed that she could fly I began looking around the room. It was simply furnished with the couch I was sitting on, and a few chairs arranged around a fire place. There was a trophy case against one of the walls containing a large assortment of awards, medals, and large trophies. There were also a few pictures of who I guessed where family members, along with a clock, hanging on the walls, which were by far the most interesting part of the room. All the walls, except the ceiling and floor, which were made of wood, were made of a strange white material. Curiously I got up and walked over to the nearest one and poked it with a hoof. To my surprise my hoof sank into it slightly before stopping. “What is this stuff?” I thought to myself. “I’ll have to ask her later.” I then went and looked out one of the windows. My mouth hung open as I saw that the entire house was floating on a cloud, a bridge of solid rainbow connecting it to the ground. “So that’s what these walls are” I realized “There some form of solid cloud…weird.” In the distance I could see a large town with the sun setting behind it. “Wow it’s that late already?” I thought, looking at the clock which only said it was 4:00 pm. “Her clock must be wrong.” I thought. I went on to look at some of the pictures. Eventually I came across one that looked especially old. In it a cyan Pegasus with pink eyes and a rainbow tail and main posed, flying in front of a huge castle, five other ponies posed on the ground beneath her.
“Oh that’s Rainbow Dash.” Lightning Dash says around a large tray of sandwiches grasped in her mouth as she walks in. “She’s my ancestor from around 1000 years ago. I’m named after her you know…well the Dash part anyway.” She continues, putting down the tray. “My parents thought I would be as fast as lightning, a lot like her. They were right. I’m the first pony ever since her to make a sonic rainboom.”
“What’s a sonic rainboom?” I ask curiously.
“It’s where you go so fast you shatter the light and sound spectrum to create a rainbow and a sonic boom at the exact same time. They're said to be magical, and whenever they happen, something that’s good for Equestria, which is the name of our world, happens. Actually I found you the same day I pulled off the sonic rainboom.” She says.
“Wait, really?” I ask. “Where?”
“In a field a few miles north of Ponyville, the name of the town nearby. You can see it from the window.”
“Yeah, I already saw it. By the way did you know your clock is off? Its sunset and your clock says it’s only around four.”
“Actually it’s correct. The days have always been shorter and the nights longer ever since princess Celestia died….” She says suddenly looking very sad.
“Who?” I ask confuse, I had no idea who this princess could be.
Lightning Dash sighed. “Here, sit down and have a sandwich. I’ll tell you what you need to know.”
"alright. First things first, our world is called Equestria. Now Equestria has a long and complicated history and if you haven't noticed yet im not the kinda pony to sit around and tell long stories." Lightning Dash says." So here is all the important stuff. There are four kinds of ponies that live in Equestria. There are the Earth Ponies, like yourself, The Pegasi, like me, Unicorns, im sure you'll meet some later, and then there are the Alicorns. They are....were special, They were god like ponies that had both horns and wings, not to mention they were immortal. In all of Equestria's history there have only been two Alicorns at any one time who ruled over all of Equestria. The current Alicorns are Princesses Celestia and Luna, who control the powers of the sun and moon respectively. The reason i keep saying were, as if they don't exist anymore is a complicated and before i can tell you that story, I have to tell you this one."
"Let's travel back a thousand years ago. The Bearers of Harmony, the six ponies you saw in that picture, who wielded the Elements of Harmony that supposedly could banish any evil force that threatens Equestria, were hero's of Equestria. they had saved it from certain doom countless times. That was great and all but they were still normal ponies and eventually grew old. The last time they ever saved the world...well nopony really knows what happened. Some evil force was coming and they set out to stop it. A few days later a giant beam of light was seen coming from the far eastern edge of Equestria. After that the bearers were never seen again and the Elements of Harmony were never seen again. Ok fast forward to about five hundred years ago. Everything was relatively peaceful...well that was until a Evil Cult, who worshiped Discord, the god of Chaos and Disharmony, Appeared, seemingly out of nowhere and tried to take over the world. And when I say nowhere I literally mean Nowhere. One minute everything was calm and quite in our capital city of canterlot." she says, pointing out the window with a hoof at a shining city perched on a cliff. "Then all of a sudden there was a gigantic army just outside the city gates!"
"what happened?" I asked, getting caught up in the story." "They attacked of course. Normally Celestia and luna, along with the royal guards would have had no problem fending off the attack. But it seems as if the cult planned their attack at the perfect moment. Luna had been away on the far side of equestria on diplomatic business,leaving Celestia alone to guard Canterlot. At first it seemed like Celestia and the Royal guards were winning, the cult falling back in retreat...that's when things went horribly wrong. The Cult member all began to chant a horrible incantation that was said to be heard throughout all of Canterlot. By the time princess Celestia realized what they were doing it was to late. The Cult summoned a gigantic Demon right out of Tartarus itself that immediately began destroying everything. Celestia immediately engaged it in battle. The battle was Epic and lasted for hours. Eventually Celestia realized that she couldn't win and that their was only one thing that she could do to save her people. In a huge wave of sunlight that used all of her power, Celestia destroyed the demon and scattered the cult to the edges of the earth. Unfortunately the spell was so power that it used up all of her energy reserves and began eating away at her life force itself. By the time the spell had finished she was nearly dead. Luna returned a few hours later to a destroyed city and a dying sister. Celestia died a few hours later, leaving Luna to rule Equestria by herself and the responsibility of controlling the sun and the moon. She's been ruling over us since. According to most history books, don't get me wrong i don't read much, i blame school for most of what im telling you, Luna was awkward at first and often was unsure about her own decisions. though if you ask me she really has grown into the role. Now a days she's a kind and gentle ruler who always puts us, her people first. and that's really all there is to it." Lightning dash says. she jumps of the couch and stretches.
"so what now?" I ask.
"Wana go down into ponyville? We can get a great view of the moon rise from the town Square."
"moon rise?" i asked a bit confused. "isn't it the moon just rising?"
Lightning Dash laughed "Not exactly, its when Princess Luna raises the moon. Trust me it's really cool."
"Alright then." I say following her off of the couch.
"Lets go then." she says, opening the door and walking out into open air for a moment Lightning Dash hung in midair and then she plummeted straight down towards the ground.
that’s when the moon began to rise. It was beautiful. The aura surrounded it as it slowly rose through the night sky, streams of color flowing from it like water from a fountain. The stars shimmered as they appeared one by one in the sky. Eventually the aura and the colors faded away and the moon began its slow trip through the sky. “That was amazing!” I say still in shock that something as simple as the moon rising could be so awesome. “It’s like that every night?” I ask. “Ya Princess Luna always wants to make sure that every time her moon rises it’s something special for all of us.” Lightning Dash says. She gets up and stretches. “ So has anything you’ve seen brought back any memories?” she asks “not really…” I reply I still felt as if something important was floating in front of me and every time I reached out to grab it it floated farther away. “All right then let’s go.” “Where?” I ask standing up quickly. “To see that friend of mine. He should still be up.” She says as she begins trotting away.
***
Eventually we rounded a corner and came to a stop in front of a house. It looked like any other of the dozens of houses we passes, yellow panels with a hay roof and seemingly random offshoots. Standing in front of the house was a golden unicorn stallion with a shock of black hair with red highlights for his mane and a matching, medium length tail. His cutie mark was a black and white pocket watch, making me wonder if he was a clock maker or something. He was taking a letter from what I guessed was the mail pony, a grey Pegasus mare with long yellow mane and matching tail. As the Pegasus flew away the unicorn turned towards us and I was shocked to see that one of his eyes was gold, darker than his pelt, the other was light silver that seemed to shine in the moonlight.
“Hey Lightning!” the Unicorn called. “Who’s your friend?” he asked.
“Hey Arty!” Lightning Dash replied. “This is….actually now that I think about it we never came up with a name for you did we? Anyway this is Artimas; he’s the local psychic and probably one of the most powerful unicorns on this side of equestria.” I suppressed a laugh. “Arty? Nice to meet you.” I say.
“What? It’s a nickname! Lightning and I go way back. Known her since I was a colt.” Lightning Dash nodded. “Yup. Anyway I was hoping you could help my friend here with a little problem. The kind that you specialize in.” Artimas nodded in understanding. “You’d better come inside. I’ll see what I can do.”
***
Inside Artimas’s house was cozy. The main door led into a kitchen. I noticed that there was a strange cabinet with a plate glass door. Inside were a bunch of strange glowing objects. From the kitchen we trotted into a cozy living room with a few couches arranged around a large fireplace. Artimas took a seat on one of the couches and beckoned us to join him. Lightning Dash and I took seats across from him.
“All right if I’m going to help you I might as well explain how. In order to do that I need to tell you how I got this.” He says pointing at his Cutie mark. “As strange as it might seem, when I was a colt I literally had no magic. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t even cast a simple levitation spell. For years I studied magic, hoping that I would find something. A spark, a flash anything that would hint that I wasn’t the most useless unicorn that ever existed. I never got one. But there was something. I could memorize spells. If I read it or tried it, it stuck with me. Even today I can still remember how to perform spells I learned as a child. Eventually I gave up trying to cast magic and just focused on learning new spells. That’s when it happened. I was walking from the school house one day when an intense light went off in my mind and I collapsed. While I was passed out I experienced a vision. It was strange, like I was watching through someone else’s eyes. The vision was clear, crisp as if I was actually there watching the events unfold. I saw six ponies posing in front of a large castle, laughing, and having a good time. The vision eventually ended and when I came to I was at Lightning’s house. She had found me passes out on the road and took me back to her place to recover. After I woke up Lightning pointed this out.” He says once again motioning to his cutie mark. “Anyway I was confused at first about what it meant, I mean a clock? What did that have to do with me passing out? That’s when I saw Lightning’s picture of the Bearers of Harmony and I realized that I had seen the past. If you’re wondering my eye also changed color after that. After that my vision became frequent. Sometimes I would see the past, sometimes the near future. But never much more then small glimpses. There was another side effect of my Cutie mark appearing that I discovered a few days later. My magic had appeared and it was extremely potent. I had gotten bored one day and tried levitating a small rock. Not only did it work but I ended up almost uprooting a tree by accident. Anyway over the years I have focused my ability to see the future and the past so that I can control when it happens…most of the time anyways. And If I focus enough I can choose whose past or future I see. So just what is this problem of yours?” he asks.
“I have amnesia…well I think it would be better if Lightning Dash explained it. She is the one who found me….” I say. Lightning Dash sighed. “Alright then. It all started after I completed a Sonic Rainboom. I was flying over the fields when I saw her lying in the grass right on ground zero of the Rainboom, not moving. Concerned, I landed there and find her passed out. So I took her back to my place like any good pony would do. She woke up today with no memory of just about anything, not even her name. Heck we still haven’t thought of what to call her. And that’s why I brought her here. I was hoping you could use your talent to see what happened to her.”
Artimas nodded. “Alright how about mist?”
“What?” both Lightning Dash and I asked.
“You needed a name right? Well how about Mist? It kind of makes sense seeing how you appear right out of the well…mist.” He says with a grin.
“Mist huh?” I thought about it for a minute. It did have a nice ring to it. “Sure why not?” I say.
“Cool, now as I was saying a friend of Lightning’s is a friend of mine so of course I will help you. Come on over here and I’ll see what I can do.” He says in reply. I get up and trot over to him. “Alright don’t move. And don’t worry it won’t hurt at all.” He says reassuringly. With that his horn begins to glow with a golden light. The light grew brighter and brighter until I couldn’t see anything. And then everything dropped away until everything was black. A moment later Artimas appeared before me.
“Alright I’m going to start searching for your memories. Generally I can trigger one of my visions from a certain memory or event that has to do with what my client wants to know. Hey what’s this?” he scowled in confusion. “There’s something here. It’s like a barrier inside your mind. I’m going to try to unlock it….what the…it’s fighting back!” I could see sweat breaking out on his face. “This is bad… uh oh…” And then the world exploded with light. When the light cleared the chair that Artimas had been sitting in was on its back, smoking. Artimas himself was slumped against the back wall, a trail of smoke drifting from his horn. Lightning Dash was next to him looking concerned. “You alright?” she asked He shook his head. “Ow that hurts…” he groaned. I jumped up and ran over. “What happened?” “I… I’m not sure. It’s like there is some kind of magic barrier in your mind keeping me from looking any deeper then when you woke up today. It’s a pretty strong one to. Generally I could break right through it but this one literally through me out of your mind.” He said frowning “I’m sorry but I really don’t think I can help. Or at least not right now. I swear I’m going to research this and see if I can find a way around it.”
Lightning Dash sighed “Alright thanks Arty. You sure you’re ok? Do you want us to stick around to make sure nothing happens?” she asked.
“Nah I’ll be fine Lightning, I just have a headache. You girls go ahead. Why don’t you show Mist The Sweet Apple?” he suggested.
“Alright I guess. If anything happens come find us ok?” She said as he showed us out.
“Sure but seriously I will be fine. Bye Lightning, bye Mist.” He says.
“Later Artimas.” I reply as the door closes. “So what’s this sweet apple place?” I ask, not really interested. How could it that the only pony who could have figured out my past can’t do anything about it?
“Oh it’s a tavern a few blocks away from here. ‘Best Cider in Equestria’ is there motto and they sure as heck are right. The Apple family has been running it as a side job for about a hundred years now.” She replied. “Interested?”
“Eh sure why not.” I say.
***
After a while of trotting through the night we came upon the Tavern. It was a welcoming sight. It was lit up from the inside and we could hear the sound of ponies talking merrily. Just for a moment I thought I saw some pony watching us in the shadows of a nearby ally but before I pointed it out their presence, they disappeared. We walked into the Tavern and looked around. Most of the tables were full of ponies enjoying fine cider and everyone seemed to have a friend. I noticed a single, rather large pony, covered in a large black cloak sitting alone watchfully at a table in the back. I noticed he... or she was looking at us. As we went to the bar and Lightning Dash ordered us some drinks the cloaked pony got up and walked over to stand next to us. It slid a few bits across the counter and as it did left a note next to me. It then walked back to its table. I fumbled to open the note and eventually got it open. All that it said is: We Need to talk.
I showed Lightning Dash the note and she shot a look over at the mysterious pony. “Might as well go see what it wants.” She says. We trotted over and sat at the table, the waitress brought over our drinks and we thanked her as she trotted away. I turned to the mysterious pony. “All right who are you and what do you want with us?” I demanded.
“I am…. A friend. And I want you to go on a quest for me.” The pony replied in a dark but clearly female voice.
“You’re kidding, you’re kidding right? A quest just who do you think we are?” Lightning Dash replied skeptically.
“Well I know you,” She said looking at me. “Are a pony that has no memory and is looking for answers. And you,” she says looking at Lightning Dash. “Are a Pegasus that is sick of living the boring town life and longs for adventure, a chance to prove yourself.” She said flatly
Lighting Dash stopped talking after that. “Here’s a bit of incentive for you to go on this quest then. Simply put you will both find what you seek on this quest. There is a folder waiting back at your home with information about what to expect.” With that she got up and swiftly walked out of the Tavern.
Our drinks forgotten we jumped up in pursuit of the mysterious mare.by the time we reached the doors of the tavern and stepped outside their was nopony there. “Wana just go home?” Lightning Dash asked.
“Sure.” I say. I wasn’t sure what to think. The mare had promised answers to my questions but this quest… I don’t even know why but I got chills just thinking about it. We walked home in silence. When we walked in the door we both immediately saw the tan folder sitting on the table.
This is where my story begins. It is the story of how I got here, with these ponies and how I came to be, who I am today. It is also the story of how Equestria was changed forever. If it was for better or for worse? I’ll let you figure that out yourselves. My name is Mist and this is my story.
