15 years ago, Twilight said goodbye to her friends and stepped through the mirror the last time. Now, it's finally time for a Twilight to once more attend Canterlot High . But she is not THE Twilight - She is her daughter.
15 years ago, Twilight said goodbye to her friends and stepped through the mirror for the last time. Now, it's finally time for a Twilight to once more attend Canterlot High. But she is not THE Twilight - she is her daughter. At Canterlot High, Twilight will meet the next generation of legendary friends, and enemies. But when the pressure increases and the stakes are high, important realizations will be made.
Twilight Shine couldn't believe what her eyes were seeing. It was THE mirror, that she had heard oh so much about as a child. And she was about to step through it.
She looked at the slowly vibrating book on top of it. Once, it had been the connection between her mother and her friends on the other side. However, several years ago, something happened to the book on the other side and the magic connection had been weakened to the point that the only thing it now was good for was to keep the portal open for two weeks every thirty moons, instead of three days.
"Are you ready, Twiny? You don’t have to do this, you know..." Enamorada, a dark pink alicorn with yellow and dark pink mane asked. Though she didn’t show it, she was very nervous. No matter how many times her mother repeated that it was safe, Enamorada would never agree on letting her cousin enter the mirror.
Twilight Shine rolled her eyes at her cousin.
"Yes, I’m ready Enamorada. If mom could do this on regular basis, I can do this once," Twilight Shine answered.
She was awre of her cousin’s worries, but nothing would stop her from going on this journey. When she returns, she'd be considered a grown up, and she'd get to share the secrets her mother collected over the years. Not to mention that aunt Luna had promised her that she’d teach her the secret sleepwalking spell. Only certain ponies, so far Luna exclusively, could use the spell, but Luna thought there were big chances of Twilight mastering it one day.
And so, Twilight Shine trotted up the few steps to the mirror. But before she stepped through it, she hesitated, repeating everything her mother had told her.
'It will be weird, but you'll get used to it. Don't eat the stuff they call meat,or you'll spend most of your trip in a hospital. Try to find an authority figure when you arrive. And most of all, make friends! They can help you arrange the details concerning your staying in their world.'
As Twilight Shine stepped through the portal, the world seemed to fall away. As she looked around frantically, Twilight was blinded by flashing lights of bright, white-hot intensity. She suddenly became aware of her body twisting and changing. It was like being pulled from every direction at once, and caused her such pain, she swore it was bone-deep.
What's going on?! she thought, becoming more and more apprehensive with each passing second. She finally lost it, and with one final scream, which came out as but a feeble squeak, Twilight Shine clenched her eyes shut. Curled into a ball, she prayed to Celestia for the nightmare to pass, sobbing.
When the flashing lights finally stopped blinding her and and her body stopped spinning, she found herself lying on the ground, curled into a ball with her legs pressed against her chest. Everything looked unfamiliar, yet familiar at the same time. She was laying on her back in lush, green grass. Sitting up, she immediately recognised the big horse sculpture.The statue was her ticket home, the portal to Equestria.
"Come on Jackie, stop being so slow!"
Upon hearing somepony talk, she turned her head and saw two fillies, or girls as her mother had told her that they were called here. One filly had a weird pink skin tone and a short, blue mane that made her look more like a colt. The other one had a orange skin tone and yellow mane hanging in two long tresses.
When Twilight looked around, she discovered that, in fact, the whole area was filled with boys and girls, all of which had their own skin tone and mane color, varying from purple to green to blue to white.
Slowly making an attempt to stand up, she took a look at her own clothes. She was wearing a white blouse and a pink skirt with her cutie mark on it: a collection of seven purple stars.
After failing the first two times, Twilight finally managed to stand up on her two thin, unstable back legs and even managing to walk a few steps before stopping, realizing she didn't know where to go. Most of the other fillies and colts were heading for the massive building up front, and Twilight decided to do so too after quickly sorting through her alternatives.
Letting herself get swooped up in the big mass of students heading inside the building, she was almost run over by the orange and pink fillies form earlier, this time accompanied by four other fillies, a white one with a messy yellow mane, a light blue one with a red and purple mane, a yellow one with a pink mane and a dark yellow, almost orange one with a yellow and orange mane.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Twilight shouted, catching the attention of the last girl, the one with the orange and yellow hair.
The girl turned around when she heard Twilight calling, helping her up and dragging her aside so they wouldn’t be in the way of other students. She was dressed in red and black checkered dress with a leather skirt and she had a black bow in her hair that she constantly had to push back up.
Seeing her repeat this motion over and over again made Twilight feel less threatened by her. She just didn’t seem as so much of a ‘bad girl’ as she first thought when she stood there in front of her, pushing that bow back up over and over again.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. You’ve got to look up when there is so many students." The yellow haired girl paused for a minute, pushing the black bow back up again, before continuing. "You know, I haven't seen you before. Are you new?"
Twilight gave her a nervous smile.
"Oh, um, yes. My name is Twilight Shine."
The other girl took her hand a shaked it.
"Nice to meet you Twilight Shine, my name is Sunset Eclipse." The girls suddenly furrowed her brow, seemingly pondering something. "Hey, you don’t happen to know someone named Twilight Sparkle? She’s a friend of my mom, and you kind of remind me of her. I’ve never met her in person, but my mom have showed me photos.”
Twilight resisted a sudden urge to scream and run for her life. She knew that it was possible that any of her mother’s friends would have children her age attending Canterlot High...but she hadn’t thought the first thing she’d do was running into one of them. She face-hoofed. Or face-palmed. What ever it was called in this universe.
“Um, are you alright? Was it something I said?” Sunset Eclipse asked nervously.
“It's okay. It's just that...This Twilight Sparkle you mentioned...She's my mother.”
Now it was Sunset’s turn to resist screaming and running for her life.
“R-really? That’s great! I can’t wait to see what the girls will say about it! They’ll be over the moon! Especially Surprise. But first we need to get you signed up as a student.”
Sunset grabbed Twilight’s hand, taking her with her into the school, ignoring Twilight’s protests. When she finally let go, Twilight had lost all sense of direction and it quickly dawned on her that she had no other choices than relaying on Sunset. In front of them was a massive oak door with a golden sign saying “Principal Luna’s Office.” Sunset opened the door and pushed Twilight inside.
Once across the threshold, Twilight Shine had to stifle a laugh. She had known Luna since she could barely walk, and had been in her chambers many times before. This room was nearly identical to them, and it reminded her of Luna's eccentric nature.
It seemed to be a room made of shadow. Sparse sunlight entered from behind the curtains, and the desk in the room's center had a single dim lamp upon it. As they advanced toward the desk, Twilight Shine began to discern the features of the woman behind it. What seemed to be a 50-something woman with night-eternal youthfulness, skin the color of a clear night sky, long hair that was a sharp indigo, and glinting teal eyes, dipped her head to them as they approached.
"I've been expecting you, Miss Shine. Welcome."
“Principal Luna” Sunset declared. “I met this girl outside school, as you informed me i would yesterday. She claims to be the daughter of Twilight Sparkle.”
Principal Luna smiled, looking at Twilight with amusement.
“And what, if may ask, evidence do you have to support your claim, Miss Shine?” Luna’s voice carried the authority of one who would not tolerate any opposition. Her smile had disappeared and she looked at Twilight, demanding.
Twilight’s mind raced. She hadn’t expected anyone to ask her to prove that her mother was...well, her mother. But then she suddenly remembered something. She had packed them. From her backpack, which was what her saddlebags had been turned into, she picked up several crudely sewn together dolls and tossed at Prince-principal Lunas desk.
“Intresting. truly interesting.” Principal Luna mused, examining the six crudely sewn dolls depicting teenage girls, all of them unique, yet still carrying the same basic features.
If it hadn’t been so dark in the room, then maybe, just maybe, Twilight would have noticed the photo of seven girls, six of them obviously being high school graduates, but she didn’t.
The princess tossed the dolls back to Twilight, who stuffed them into her backpack
"I believe you. Welcome to Canterlot High, Miss Shine. Miss Eclipse will guide you around the school and make sure that you get where you need to be. Now go to your classroom."
Sunset didn't waste any time in doing what the principal told her. Twilight was still trying to sputter a response when Sunset closed the heavy door behind them.
Once outside, she took a firm grip around Twilight's arms and looked her in the eyes.
"I'm sorry for doing that to you. Principal Luna is much more formal than Principal Celestia ever was. She expects almost military discipline from her students, and you better give her what she wants. I never doubted your origins. I grew up hearing stories about your kind coming here through the horse statue. I just think it’s amazing I actually get to..you know...meet anyone like you." Looking into Sunset's eyes, Twilight knew that she meant it. She was honest.
But at the same time, something scared her. Sunset didn't seem to know about her mother’s past. About her mother’s life as a unicorn in Equestria...
Twilight was just trying to come up with a proper response, when someone else spoke up.
"Oh my goodness! there you are, 'Clipse! I've been looking for you everywhere." A girl Twilight's age with a weird light blue skin tone and a dark pink and blue hair that was formed into perfect, natural princess curls came running down the hallway. The girl wore expensive jewellery and was dressed in a royal dark blue dress. Twilight immediately disliked her, she seemed like one of those snobbish girls who'd pick on other students for not having designer jeans.
However, Sunset did not seem to share that opinion as she let go of Twilight and faced the girl, a big smile on her face.
"Hi, Sparkler. Sorry for disappearing, but I got the greatest news. Where are the rest of the girls?" Sunset looked behind the girl.
The girl waved her hand in front of Sunset to get her to focus on.
"We decided to skip PE and take an early lunch. The others are waiting at Surprise's mother’s. what’s the news? You sounded really excited.”
Sunset shook her head, looking at Sparkler.
“It can wait. So, Pinkie’s huh? Seems good. She’s probably the only one who doesn’t complain if her daughter skips a class or two. I remember it annoying the teachers a great deal last term ” Sunset said, glancing over at Twilight and waving her hand in her direction. “Oh, we’ll be one extra. The news kind of concerns the girl Principal Luna gave me responsibility for, Twilight Shine.”
Sparkler’s eyes grew big as plates, hearing Twilight’s name. Several times, she looked like she was going to say something, but simply closed her mouth again. There was no words big enough to describe what she just realized, so she finally settled with ignoring the last part of what Sunset said.
“Oh yeah. I remember them repeating over and over again how she was ‘crazy’ and ‘shouldn’t be allowed to raise a child if so her life depended on it’! Now, come on, let’s get going!”
Sunset nodded and looked over her shoulder at Twilight, motioning for her to follow.
Principal Luna sighted, schootching away from the computer and opening the bottom drawer of her desk. From the drawer, she brought out a pale blue box with a dark blue silk ribbon tied around it. Carefully, minding it’s age, Luna untied the ribbon and picked up what was contained inside.
In her hands she held a small toy depicting a tall, dark blue pony with both horn and wings. The regalia the pony was wearing was unevenly cut out, and the mane was made of dark blue silk with dots of glitter glue on it. What didn't appear as much more than a ugly toy, held the whole reality to which Luna and her sister had been forced to adapt when arriving at Canterlot High.
Looking at the dolls hesitating smile and black button eyes, she once more sighed. She had come back, just like Celestia always said...or not really her, but her daughter. Luna stuck her hand into the box and picked out the little note laying on the bottom, reading it out loud.
“ Dear princess Princepal Luna, All since I met you, I couldn't decide, if you know more about the magic, and about us, than I know, or if you don't believed it exsisted at all. But whether or not you believe, here is a little thing to remind you that it we exsist, and one day we’ll be back. That is a promise I make to you and your sister, and you got my words as one of the four alicorn princesses in Equestria that I WILL keep it."
Directly after reading it, Luna closed her eyes tightly, trying to gather her thoughts and keeping back the tears. She remebered the day when she'd gotten the box and the note like it was yeasterdya, and she doubted she'd ever forget it.
Celestia had gotten similar note in her package and believed every word of it, while Luna had been more sceptical. Luna sighed a third time. Turns out her sister had been right... if only it had been while she was still the principal at this school. Already from the start, from when she had that vision a week ago, Luna knew that the return of the princess was a bad omen. But what would happen or what she should do, she did not know. Because she wasn’t her sister, and she’d never been as good of a principal as she was.
Putting the doll back into the box, tieing the ribbon around it again and putting it back in the bottom drawer of her desk, she sat down in her office chair, trying to mke it as comfortable for her self as she coul, picking up the latest set of reports from the teachers. Immidiatly seeing an all to familiare name on the top of the document and she frowned. Suprise Song Pie had a tendency to be topping the list of the students that skipped lesson with most frequency, but there weren't much anybody could do, as she refused to listen and her mother was known for not carring for her daughter or her schooling at all.
Chapter 2: Twiligth and the friends in the world beoynd the mirror
Eclipse and Sparkler brought Twilight to a small downtown cafe located at the bottom floor of a pink two-floor house.
The cafe was owned by Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle’s eccentric friend from so long ago.
Eclipse immediately dragged Twilight inside, not being able to wait another minute on sharing the fantastic news. It never occurred to her, however, that everyone might not find them as fantastic as she did.
Gathered around the big table by the window were four girls. Two of them, Twilight recognised as the two girls that had ran past her after she had first woke up on this side of the mirror. the third girl, Twilight didn’t notice at first as she was constantly hiding behind the golden haired girl in the middle, and the last one was almost overwhelming, waving her hand frantically in some kind of greeting.
Each of the girls reacted differently as they spotted Twilight. The blue haired girl sitting on the right seemed annoyed and angered by her presence and the golden haired girl in the middle looked at her like a child spotting a exotic animal at the zoo, absentmindedly hugging the third girl, who’s reaction best could be described as ‘intimidated’. The last one, a curly yellow haired girl wearing a dirty chaperon, was practically jumping up and down in her seat.
“Hey, girls, guess what? I got some fantastic news!” Eclipse exclaimed, obviously ignoring the mixed emotions expressed by the different members of the group..
“Finally decided that we’re worthy of your company, princess? And who is the girl that you got in your entourage? Your maid?” The blue haired girl mocked, glaring at Twilight.
Hearing the girl’s mocking, Sunset’s enthusiasm faltered noticeably. She lowered her head and looked down on the floor.
“I’m sorry, Firefly. I had to stop by Principal Luna’s office with Twilight Shine here.” Eclipse apologized, grabbing Twilight and pushing her upfront as to use her as a defense against the other girl and her accusations.
“Nice. I’m Firefly” The girl with spiky blue hair said, smirking.
“I’m Jackie, and my scared little friend here, is Posey.” the golden hair girl said, speaking for the shy girl wearing the green jacket as well.
When it became the last girls turn to introduce her self, she took a deep breath before opening her mouth.
"HIMYNAMEISSURPRISEANDTHISISAWESOMECUZIKNEWYOUDCOMEBUTNOTWHENANDNOWYOU’REHEREANDOHMYGOSHYOURCLOTHESAREREALLYNICE!" The girl screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Uh...um...hi...what?" Twilight sputtered, completely and utterly confused by the girls loud rambling.
"Hi, my name is Surprise and this is so awesome cuz I knew you'd come but not when and now you're here and oh my gosh you're clothes are really nice." The girl repeated, slowly, with practiced ease. "Understand now?"
Twilight nodded. Somewhere in the back of her mind, Twilight remembered that she knew exactly who this girls were, and the others too. She had met them in another universe, in another form. Surprise, Jackie, Firefly and Poesy, all of them were the children of her mother’s friends, back in her universe, and though she wasn’t close to any of them, she had met them several times.
"Anyway girls, now that you introduced yourselves, we can get down to the real news." Eclipse said, the excitement and optimism back in her voice and stature. "Twilight Shine is the daughter of Twilight Sparkle!"
Being so excited over what having Twilight Shine on her side of the mirror possibly could mean, she had totally disregarded if any of the other girls might have another opinion. But no matter what reactions she might have expected, it was not the first one she got. No, it swooped in like a hurricane, almost giving everyone but Surprise a heart attack.
"OH MY GOSH TWILIGHT SHINE LOOK AT YOU YOU’VE BECOME SO BIG AND ADORABLE AND OH YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER WHEN SHE WAS YOUR AGE!”
From the middle of nowhere, a woman in her early thirties carrying two trays with food appeared. She had long curly pink hair and was wearing a pink blouse and skirt combination, with an extremely dirty chaperon on top. Once the initial shock had settled, it was not hard for Twilight to figure out that the mare was Surprise's mother and owner of the cafe, Pinkie Pie.
Ignoring the woman’s intense stare, Twilight took a deep breath and gathered her composure before answering. She knew exactly who the woman in front of her must be, but she prefered to start out from scratch in a try to find the differences between her and her pony counterpart.
“I’m afraid I don’t really understand what you’re talking about, miss. But your name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, right? Nice to meet you Mrs Pie. I’m Twilight Shine, and I believe you knew my mother.” Twilight reached out with her hand and grabbed the pink woman’s dirty hand, shaking it.
The put down the food trays and shook Twilight’s hand, too, smiling.
“Oh, please. it’s Pinkie to you, not Mrs Pie. I’m not even married.” She let go of Twilight’s hand and laughed. Twilight joined in, nervously, and didn’t know what to do. ‘Pinkie’s’ friendly, open manner were just the same wherever you came in the multiverse, it seemed. Unfortunately for Twilight, she had never really felt comfortable around her mother’s eccentric friend. Suddenly, Pinkie stopped laughing, noticing Twilight’s discomfort.
“Oh silly, stupid me. I must have scared you earlier. You couldn’t know that I’ve met you before. After all, you were only…only a baby.” Pinkie said, seemingly realizing something.
Looking slightly concerned, Pinkie picked up a mobile phone from one of the pockets on her chaperon and turned to Jackie, who was slowly eating a simple tomato salad.
“Hey, Jackie, Are you bringing Twilight here to the farm later today? Because if you are then maybe it’d be better if I contact AB or Big Mac, you know, so they’re prepared for your arrival.” Pinkie asked, frowning slightly.
Not looking up from the salad, Jackie fiercely impaled a couple of salad leaves and tomato on her fork and quietly shook her head.
“No, we probably won’t. Dad’s in town again and...Surprise kind of promised I’d get to sleep here.” As she glanced upwards and saw Pinkie’s frightened facial expression, she quickly added “Don’t worry! Uncle promised he’d keep an eye on them so they don’t get...physical. You know he would never let anything happen. Not even mom stands a chance against him.”
Hearing this, Pinkie nodded and left to take up an order from another customer. Jackie put the fork aside and put up her legs on seat, wrapping her arms around them and pressing her legs against her chest, hiding her head behind her knees.
Poesy, who had been peacefully leaning on Jackie, sat up, wrapping her small fragile arms around Jackie’s shoulders and carefully hugged her.
Twilight was just about to say something, do something, anything, just to break the suffocating silence, but before she could do anything something else happened.
Twilight’s backpack started vibrating, almost falling off her shoulders.
The bag vibrated so violently that it opened up and the dolls fell out. But there was something more in the bag that fell out.
Among the dolls that landed on the floor was a white book with Twilight’s cutiemark on the cover. the book was vibrating a glowing, attracting the attention of all seven girls.
“Is it dangerous?” Poesy asked worriedly.
“It looks like it’s radioactive. Why would there be radioactive objects in your bag, Twilight? Have you been to Chernobyl or something?” Sunset said curiously, seemingly not taking into account that it might be magical.
Twilight picked up the dolls and put them back in her backpack before grabbing the book and sitting down on a chair.
“It’s neither radioactive, nor dangerous.” Twilight said, opening up the book. “It’s an enchanted notebook my mom gave me so we could keep the contact and she wouldn’t have to worry about me...which she tends to do.”
The other girls nodded, Jackie even smiling slightly and urging her to read what it said out loud. Twilight nodded and started reading.
“Summer days and summer night’s you are here so it’s alright Summer sun and summer moon Promise you won’t leave me soon!
Hi Twiny, how are you so far? Have you met Celestia? Have you found any friends? Have you been kidnapped? Please tell me you haven’t been kidnaped...anyhow, write back soon, okay? Please? Love you! And please return soon, Miss you already...sorry, got to go now. Aunt found me and she’s mad for some reason. Probably for taking the book. Oopsie! Anyhow, hear from you soon! Enamorada
Twilight looked up from the book, her cheeks bet red. The other girls was staring at her, shocked.
A tense silence stretched out between them, lasting for several seconds, before they started to giggle, the giggling quickly turning into full-blown laughter.
“Twiny? Seriously? Why not Twily or Shiny? And who was that, really? Not your mother, that’s for sure!” ‘clipse exclaimed in between fits of laughter.
Twilight blushed even more and shrunk in front of her friends laughing faces, trying to hide from their bent over figures.
“Twily is my mom’s nickname, and Shiny’s my uncle.” Twilight frowned as the girls laughed even more.
“ Yes, it’s ridiculous, and we tease him every time aunt uses it... Anyhow, that was my older cousin Enamorada. She’s the only one who, if even possible, worried more than my mother when I was going here...” Twilight explained, feeling slightly offended, before quickly scribbling down a small entry as a response to her cousin.
Hi Enamorada, I’m okay, and not at all kidnapped. And don’t even dare consider it being sarcasm, cutie pox! So, now that we’re back on the same page: I haven’t met Celestia, because...well...it think she's dead... and Luna, who I have met, have taken over as principal. Yeah a princess equals a principal here. Kind of disappointing, don’t you think? i mean, a princess… anyhow, stay happy and I’ll see you soon! TS
“Hey, ‘Twiny’? Are you coming with us to Poesy’s? Or do you prefer to go back to school for double hour with foreign language choices?” Surprise giggled, getting up from the chair and dragging Twilight along as she rushed out the door, the other girls alreadyin fornt of them.
On the buss, Twilight had asked Poesy what her house was like. Now that she was standing here, she could tell that Poesy’s description had been pretty spot on.
It was a smaller estate surrounded by an enormous garden located pretty far out side town, in a small village consisting of a bunch of similar houses with surrounding gardens.
"Well, welcome to my heaven. Pretty neat, huh?" Poesy said to Twilight, bending down and picking up a small, grey lamb that came walking up to her.
Twilight just stared at the scene in front of her. Poesy was standing there, in the hallway of her home, holding a small grey lamb in her arms and absentmindedly patting it's head while a big orange cat was stroking its fur against her leg.
“Yeah...um...my mom is teeeny tiiiny bit obsessed with animals...and my dad is a veterinarian, so we got a lot of them around here. Guess I should have mentioned it on the buss, huh?”
Twilight kept staring at her for a moment before slowly starting to laugh. At first, it was quite, barely more than a childish giggling, but it quickly grew bigger and bigger until it filled the hole hallway and the others, even Posey, couldn’t help but join in and laugh with her.
“POESY! Get your friends to shut up! we’re trying to do homework up here!”
From around the corner of the long staircase leading down from the upper floor, a boy with tall, dark blue hair appeared, closely followed by a smaller, brown haired boy and muscular giant with braided blue hair who had a thin, slender, model like girl holding his left arm in a tight grip.
Poesy looked angrily at the blue haired boy and was just about to say something when a third boy came rushing down the stairs.
“hey guys, wait for me!” The boy exclaimed, joining up with the other three persons standing behind the first boy at the bottom of the stairs.
Not caring about the third boy, Posey once more opened her mouth.
“Ocean, i know you and your friends are just playing video games and googling answers off the internet, so don't tell us to shut up! “
“We’re not googling answers! And we finished off the last chapter of Uncharted 3 weeks ago! Besides, mom told me we can’t use the bedroom cuz it’s your turn!” the boy, Ocean, replied, screaming.
“Well it is!” Posey countered.
“is not!” The boy screamed back.
As the two teenagers continued to fight, Firefly quickly dragged Twilight aside, out of the way of the two fighting siblings next to Oceans friends.
“Ocean is Poesy’s half brother, and this is his friends.” jackie said, pointing at the other group. “Everybody, this is Twilight Shine.”
The tall gigant with the slender model like girl stepped up first, each of them shaking Twilight's hand.
“A pleasure to make you acquaintances, Twilight. I’m Clyde of Dale, and this.” He rose his left arm to indicate that he was addressing the green skinned girl beside him. “Is my girlfriend, Ivory Heart.”
The green skinned girl winked her hand at Twilight, but remain silent.
“Well, I’m Thunderbolt Sentinel. Nice to meet you girl.” the third boy, then one who’d been late, said.
Twilight then turned her attention to the last one, the short, brown haired boy with the Hawaiian shirt.
"And who are you, then?" Twilight asked, smiling warmly.
The boy looked at Twilight, a terrified expression on his face.
"I...I...um...my name...I..." The boy stuttered, doing his best to say something. "I...my name...I...I am Silver Screen."
Finally having received the name of the brown haired boy, Twilight was just about to tell him that it was nice to meet him, when someone screamed.
"GET DOWN!"
Everybody quickly bent down, barely avoiding being hit by a big, black school bag that heavily hit the wall behind them, the noise scaring several animals that ran across the room and den the hallway, away from the fighting siblings.
"Okay, that is it! Everybody, up the stairs NOW!" Cloud exclaimed, his voice deep and powerful as he started to try and push people up the stairs.
His suggestion met no objections and the two groups of friends quickly teamed up in pairs of two who fled up the stairs to the upper floor, Thunderbolt standing at the bottom and keeping look out for flying objects and other threats, telling them when it was safe to go.
Eclipse grabbed Twilight, who barely understand what was going on, by the elbow and dragged her up the stairs, Thunder following closely behind, idely telling them to run faster and keeping a look out.
They had barely come around the corner at the top of the stairs when the real threat which Thunder had been keeping a lock out for entered the hallway beneath the stairs.
A middle aged woman with long pink hair dressed in blue jeans and a yellow blouse entered the room. Despite her fragile-looking build, the woman radiated an aura of respect and ever-so-slight fear.
Twilight could literally hear all the people crowding around her take a deep breath as the woman reached the centre of the room and the two fighting siblings, violently separating them.
"Who is that?" Twilight whispered to Eclipse, who was standing next to her.
"Shhhh. She's Ocean and Poesy's mom, Fluttershy." Eclipse whispered back, holding her finger to her lips.
Still processing this new bit of information, Twilight once more turned her attention back to what was happening on the lower floor.
Fluttershy was glaring angrily at her two children, fixing each of their gazes with hers and keeping it for a few second, before starting to talk.
"What do you think you are doing? I've said many times I don't want you fighting, and especially not throwing things! You know the rules and you know who can use the room when. Right?"
Seeing their mother's furious gaze, they both quickly nodded.
“Yes mom. sorry mom.” They said, staring down into the floor. Seeing the ashamed look on her children’s face, Fluttershy’s expression softened and she hugged the both.
“It’s okay sweethearts. I just don’t want to see you fighting, that’s all. “ She said before leaving the room.
Seeing that the danger was avoided, the two groups of friends who’d been watching the scene safely from upstairs quickly made their way back down to their friends.
“So, um, how about me and my friends go to our room, and you’ll be upstairs?” Poesy suggested to Ocean.
“Sure!” Ocean agreed, he and his friends heading back up stairs.
So Poesy lead the way through the house, taking many twists and turns along the way, until they finally came to a big door at the end of a small hallway.
The big room on the other side of the door was designed to be two separate rooms in one, giving each of the two inhabitants of the room a feeling of individualism despite sharing the living space.
The walls on the right side, which was largely covered in gaming posters, had been painted to look like a blue summer sky with fluffy white clouds, and the wall on the left, beneath a couple of music and football posters, had a big, green field spreading out across it.
Beside the wall painting and the posters, the left and the right side of the room was pretty much identically furnitured. Each side had a bed, a desk with a laptop, a chair, and book shelf above the bed. On both side of the room was also a small, white painted door.
“What's on the other side of those doors?” Twilight asked, pointing to the one on Poesy’s side.
The other girls, who’d sat down on Poesy’s bed, looked where she was pointing, puzzled. They had actually never thought about where the two doors might lead.
“Mine goes to a small cabinet with a sink and some random junk. I never checked Ocean’s side.” Poesy answered, shrugging.
“It’s a closet filled with old clothes and boxes and stuff!” Surprise exclaimed, having ran over to Ocean’s side of the room and opened the door before anyone could object.
Firefly, Eclipse, Sparkler, Twilight, Poesy and Jackie looked at each other and shrugged, joining Surprise who was carrying out and opening boxes from the closet.
As they opened the boxes, the girls discovered that most of them contained old books, toys and other stuff that must have belong to Poesy's parents when they were kids.
"Um, girls? I think you should look at this..." Eclipse said slowly, having opened a smaller box which had been hidden in a corner.
The other girls immediately dropped what ever random item they were looking at, quickly gathering around Eclipse to see what she had found.
"What is it?" Jackie asked, looking into the mostly empty box, only seeing a small cartoon cylinder and a stack of envelopes.
Instead of asking, Eclipse picked up a bunch of thin cards from the envelope she was holding in her hand, handing them out to her friends and picking up the small cylinder herself.
The girls eyes went wide in shock as they saw the cards, Sparkler even letting out muffled scream.
"But these are some sort of fan cards for the members of The Rainbooms, the band our mothers had in High School!" Twilight exclaimed. "I didn't knew they had any career beyond the battle of the bands!"
The other girls looked at each other in confusion. They barely even knew their mothers had been in a band, and definitely not that they had had a career playing in that band.
"Well, they obviously had, and a big one, too...or at least big enough for this!" Eclipse commented, waving the small poster she had found in the cylinder in front of her friends.
" 'The Rainbooms - What happened after the stage?'? Seriously? What kind of shit is this?" Firefly said sarcastically, finally getting enough of everything.
"I d-don't know what this is...but can we all agree to never mention it to our parents? P-please?" Poesy stuttered, suddenly feeling afraid of what might happen if any of them tried to confront their parents.
They all nodded in agreement, gathering in a circle and placing their hands in the middle, over the box in which they'd found these items from their mother's secret past.
"We all now promise, as trustworthy friends, not to talk to anyone else about this, unless having permission from the group. Okay?" Poesy said, her voice shaking ever so little.
"Yes, we promise." They all promised, looking each other in the eyes.
As they made this promise, their hands started to glow, the colours of the lightning creating a rainbow which shone down on the box, from which a small object wrapped in dirty clothing rose into the air, the object inside reflecting the beams of lightning coming from the seven girls hands through the clothing.
Carefully raising her glowing hand, Surprise carefully removed the clothing from the object, which revealed to be the shards of a glowing red gem. With one bright flash of lightning, the shards were forged into a complete, perfect ruby which fell down on the floor with a small 'boink'.
Adagio Dazzle looked over the dwarf conifer in front of her, lifting up the hedge scissor with both hands and determinately starting to cut of one branch after another, working to remove all the dead or sick parts of the bush in a halfhearted attempt to save what was left of the parasite infected dwarf tree. She was soon interrupted, however, as several bits of curly, orange hair clouded her vision so much she could hardly see the plant in front of her.
Putting down the scissor, she impatiently brought her glove covered hand to her forward, grabbing the troubling bits of hair and lifting them up, out of her eyes. But as she was about to put them behind her ear, she froze. In her hand, she could see them dancing around on gusts of air blowing past them instead hanging lifelessly in between her thumb and the palm of her hand like they’d been doing minutes ago.
Standing up, the conifer momentarily forgotten, Adagio knew that something was very, very wrong, and because something was so very wrong, she knew she had no choice but to try and do something she hadn’t done in almost twenty years. Because if it worked, and she could sense the magic in her surrounding, then it’d be a miracle in the face of it.
Slowly closing her eyes and letting her body relax, she focused her hole being on trying to sense if there was any magic in her surroundings and trying to detect and identify magic auras in the environment.
To her own great surprise and astonishment, she did not only sense magic in the air around her, but she could also sense a weak pulse of magic inside herself, and an even greater pulse from somewhere in her house. She also imagined sensing an undefined number of pulses further away, but because of her own weak ability, there was no way for her to say anything with safety.
Opening her eyes again, Adagio immediately knew something very extreme, practically impossible, had happened right there and then, in her own little garden. She had regained a smaller part of her magic, more than she’d ever hoped to have, despite not having any use for it anymore.
However, something bothered her: There had been a second, much more powerful magic pulse, she knew for sure, and it had been not far away, in her own house, too. Adagio knew there was only one person who could have been the owner and source of the magic pulse…
