Prologue
Deep in a beautiful and magical forest, one which held waterfalls and secret caves filled with magical crystals, there was a small town hidden away from all of Equestria. This town doesn’t have an official name, as most no pony knows it exists, but the residents call their little home, Silver Valley, after the rare silver crystals that appear all over the forest. In Silver Valley, every pony knows each other, from the new born foals to the wisest elders, but two of the most well-known ponies, were Lucky Shot and Sunny Smiles. Lucky Shot was a pale yellow unicorn filly with dark freckles around her face, ears, flank and hooves, light blue eyes and wavy long blue and light blue striped hair. She may not have the best magical abilities, but she`s got luck on her side, as her name suggests. The other filly was also a unicorn, her name was Sunny Smiles. Sunny Smiles was purplish light blue, with deep violet eyes and short messy platinum blond hair. Sunny Smiles could always be seen with a smile on her face, and she used her magic to give the other residents a little show.
Lucky and Sunny were the best of friends, always doing everything together, in fact they had discovered many mysteries in Silver Valley, but today was a very special day, for today the two fillies were going to see the Full Moon Flowers bloom! Full Moon Flowers were, as their name suggests, flowers that bloomed on the fullest moon, and only once every year! It was also said that if you look into the largest flower of the batch, you`ll see your cutie mark, if you haven’t got it already. For the past three years, the Uni-duo have been looking tirelessly for the mystical flower. And today they were, very, very, very sure they would find the flower, sure they were sure last year, and the year before that, but this year, this year was the one! So they began to get ready for the big adventure in their tree-house.
“C`mon Lucky! This is going to be super, super, super amazingly cool!” Sunny said as she bounced up and down, waiting for the other pony to finish packing the snacks for the trip into her saddle bag.
“I`m hurrying, I`m hurrying- oh should I bring some books and a flashlight?” the pale pony inquired. Sunny nodded, rummaging through a chest filled with books and shuffling through them, picked out her and Lucky`s favorite.
“We have our magic, so I don`t think we`ll need flashlights, but I`ve been eating lots and lots of carrots, so I probably have night-vision now!” Smiles rambled on as she stuffed a few books into her rainbow colored and glitter covered saddle bag.
And so the two fillies made their way off to the meadow of Full Moon Flowers at around after lunch, so they`d have lots of time to find the biggest flower, and so they wouldn’t have to rush, unlike last year.
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“Lucky~ Lucky~! I think I found the biggest flower!” Sunny squealed, circling around a gigantic dark blue flower.
“Golly, I think you`re right.” Lucky exclaimed, “I don`t think I`ve ever seen a flower that big! How amazing!” she looked the flower over carefully, engulfed in her curiosity. Sunny giggled, smiling happily as she watched her friend, it was always nice to see her so excited. She felt a swell of pride that she found the flower, and after all this time too!
“Well, I guess we should just hang out until nightfall!” Lucky said in a sing-song voice as she put her saddle bag on the ground next to her and sat down. Smiles did the same and pulled out their favorite book, which was a book about nearly all the magical beings in Equestria.
“I wish we knew more about Changelings… I think they`re cool…” Lucky said, she sighed dreamily as she thought about what she could discover if she met a real life Changeling.
“Well I wanna meet a dragon for sure! They sound so cool! I mean, they breathe fire! That`s super, super, super awesome!” Smiles squealed, clapping her hooves together.
“But don’t dragons kidnap ponies…?” Lucky asked worriedly.
“Oh don`t worry Partner! I know you`ll come save me if a dragon kidnaps me! Like a prince in those stories!” Smiles said happily, looking at her best friend earnestly. Lucky blushed and looked away quickly, dumbfounded, though she was smiling that Sunny had so much faith and trust in her.
“Hey look at what it says about Manticores!”
“Oh? Did we miss something from our last read, Smiles?”
Soon night fell, and the fillies, who had become engulfed in a mystery book, were now using their magic to light their surroundings… until the wind began to pick up, alarmingly. The book flew out of their hooves and they both flinched and got up quickly.
“What`s going on? It`s not normally this super, super wind!” Sunny stated. Lucky shrugged, a worried look on her face.
“Maybe it`s a wind storm?” she suggested uneasily. But that idea was quickly disproved when their magic fizzled out without warning and the darkness of the night began to creep up on them. “Sunny… I-I`m scared…” Lucky cried out, huddling closer to her friend.
“It`s fine Lucky! We`ll be fine!’ the blue unicorn said confidently, her voice filled with positivity.
Suddenly the wind turned into a swirl of dark smoke, it shoved Lucky Shot away from Sunny Smiles and began to engulf the blonde pony, who shrieked. Lucky screamed in horror and tried to get to her friend, but the black wind hit her, throwing her back by a few feet. Lucky fell onto the ground painfully. Helplessly, she watched Sunny get whisked off by the smoke.
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“LUCKY! LUCKY HELP ME PLEASE!” she cried out desperately. Lucky tried to get up but she began to black out.
“N-no… I need to save Sunny…”
“SUNNY! SUNNY! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!” Lucky Shot called out fitfully as she ran through the meadow.
“Lucky dear… I don`t think you`re going to find her… I`m sorry sweetie, but we need to go home, it`s not safe here…” Lucky Shot`s mother, a silver and pink unicorn mare named Mirror Image, said sadly as she used her magic to lift her foal off the ground.
“B-but I need to find Sunny!” Lucky cried, hyperventilating. Her mother pulled her into a hug, letting the filly sob into her chest.
“We`ll send a search party sweetie, I promise we`ll find her…” she said, though she wasn’t so sure of her words.