Just your usual human turns pony story with the twist being Twilight's twin sister that she accidently create.
Hello, my name is Sam. I was in an accident and wake up in the hospital thinking i was very lucky to survive. But life has other plan, now i am a pony, atleast i am a magical unicorn and the twin sister of Twilight Sparkle. Hmmm, why does that sound familiar to me? Nevermind, let's my new life begin.
"GET BACK HERE, SAM. DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE. WHO WILL PAY FOR MY RENT" The woman shouts angrily while glaring and pointing at me.
"PAY IT YOURSELF. I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR SH*T ANYMORE" I shout back while moving closer to my car. I get in and drive away ignoring her continuous shouting.
When i drive far enough that i can't hear her anymore, i slowly breath in and slowly exhale out. A small smile appear on my face thinking to myself. This is it, Sam. This is when your new life begin. You don't have to care about that b*tch every again. You are finally free. I happily think about my future, think about the endless possibility it may hold. Suddenly, a truck comes from nowhere hits me from the side.
Lying my head on the steering wheel, a ringing sound in my ears, my body starts to feel cold, i muster all my strengh trying to keep myself awake until the medic comes. It can't end like this. I was finally free. Why is this happening to me of all people.No i need to stay awake.i need... to... stay... awake... i... need... to... stay...
"Uhm... Argh, my head!" I say, noticing my voice sound werid, i just shrug it off because of the accident, slowly open my eyes. I look from left to right taking in my surrounding. From what my eyes can perceive, i am in a hospital room. Putting a hand on my chest sighing which is when i notice something is off. Why can't i feel my finger? Why i feel a lot of hair on my chest? I look down seeing where my hands used to be, are now being replaced with hoof; my arms are covered in purple fur. My eyes widen in shock. I start to hyperventilate. What in the name of Celestia is happing to me? Wait, who is Celestia?
I freezes up with a vision pouring into my mind. The vision shows me a very tall white alicorn mare name Princess Celestia, who raises the sun and is the ruler of this land. The vision also gives me an admiration feeling to her.
I snap back to reality, shake my head in confusion from what have just transpired. I put two of my hooves to the side of my head trying to access more information about this world but nothing happen. Rubbing my chin thinking Maybe i should think about a question first? Firstly where am i? The vision starts up again.
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"Ok, from what i can gather. This land is called Equestria. I am a pony, which there are three races: earth pony, pegasus, unicorn, populate most of Equestria. But pony aren't the only sentient creature. " I think out loud.
I then look back examing my body. From what i can see, I am a unicorn ,my fur is purple ,my mane and tail have the same color, which is dark purple with pink and black streak, my gender is female.
The door swings open. A unicorn stallion step in wearing a white shirt, having a stethoscope around his neck, behind him is Princess Celestia. The sight of the princess makes my body freeze and my eyes is fixated on her.
"Oh, you're finally awake my little pony. How are you feeling?" Celestia asks.
"Ah... Uh... Fine... I am find thank you for asking princess Celestia." I answer. Why am i feeling nervous?
"Oh, so you know who i am. Very interesting, very interesting indeed." Her word makes me cock my head to the side looking confuse.
Seeing my expression, Celestia askes "So from the look on your face, you don't know how you come to be."
I shake my head. What does she mean by that? Another vision pops into my head. I see a small purple unicorn name Twilight Sparkle. Twilight was trying everything she could to hatch a dragon egg. But despite her effort, she couldn't hatch it until an explosion coming from somewwhere startled her making her magic went haywire. In all of the chaos, i am only focus on the pony with my color palete created from Twilight's magic.
"Are you ok there ?" Celestia asks worriedly putting a hoof on me.
"I am ok, i am ok. I just saw my origin." I answer while rubbing my temple with my hoof. Then i explain to her what i see. Why am i trusting her this much.
"So that mean you have Twilight's memory." says Celestia. Celestia looks over to the stallion then back to me. "Before we continue our converstation any futher, we should check on you first just to make sure you are alright." I nod to that and the stallion goes to my side to check on me.
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The check up was nothing abnormal from human check up. Minus the machine was put on my horn to measure magic. From the check up, we notice my reflect is a bit slow. The doctor answered to this was that my body had been newly created so it still needed time to adjust. And this also answers why i can't exactly walk, either.
"Do you want to meet Twilight and her family?" asks Celestia.
"Yes, I would like to, princess." I answer. Celestia's horn glows golden, before i know want is happening. I am levitate from the ground, my body is engulfed in a golden aura. It actually feels nice and warm.
"Oh, I almost forget, have you chosen a name to call yourself?" asks Celestia.
"No, I am still thinking about that." I answer.
About nearly half an hour ago
"Shining, you make it." Twilight runs over to hug her brother.
"Twily, is the rumor true that you successfully hatch the dragon egg in the entrance exam?"asks Shining.
"Uh-hu" Twilight joyfully answers. "But that isn't all, Shining."
"Oh, can you tell me what else, Twi?" Shining asks raising an eyebrow with curiousity.
"I created myself a twin sister." Twilight answer, which makes Shining freeze for a moment to understand what did him just heard from his younger sister. He looks over to their parents. They nod showing that what he heard was true. Twiligh somehow created herself a doppelganger.
"So where is she, Twi?" Shining asks.
"Oh, Princess Celestia took her to doctor to check if she was ok." Twilight answers. "I am very excited that i gonna have a little sister, i can't wait to see her, Shining." Twilight jumps around.
"Yeah... Me too. Can't wait to see her." Shining answers nervously. They all stay there waiting for Celestia to come back.
At present time
The door opens. Celestia moves forward putting me down infront of Twilight. We both look at each other. So, this kid is the one created me. Then i notice she is fixated at me.
"You have weird eyes." Twilight exclaims.
" Huh. Can you explain, Twilight?" I ask.
" Wait, you know my name. How? I can't believe it. You know my name. I haven't even told you yet. How did you know? Do you know there name? And what's your name?" pointing at the three unicorns behind her.
I look at them. Hey vision, who are they?
Rubbing my temple. I don't know if i can get use to this.
"Are you ok?" Twilight worriedly asks.
"Don't worry. I am fine. Your memory just pops into my head again." I explain. I point at each of the unicorns. "To answer your question that's your mother, Twilight Velvet; that's your dad, Night Light; that's your brother, Shining Armor." So all their name except for her brother have a theme. I know what my name should be now. "You can call me, Midnight Sparkle."
I look to her family now noticing that they are looking at me funny. Maybe seeing a clone of their own daughter is too much for them. Something suddenly bite my tail. "Ahhh" I look back seeing a small purple skin dragon, green belly and green back spike. I can here a chuckle coming from the princess. Twilight then removes the dragon from my tail ,hugging him.
"Well then is everypony here? There are some things I wish to discuss with you and it would be best if we did this at your home?"
"Sam, can you come with me?" Miss May spoke softly offering her hand to me. I simply nodded and held her hand. She walked me to a room. "Don't worry. Just go in. There are people that wanted to see you."
"Oh... ok." I sheepishly answered. I opened the door and spotted two grown up.
"Hello there ." She happily waved at me. "My name is Barbara and this is my husband, Robert. What's your name ?"
"My... my name is Sam." I answered.
"Hello, Sam. From now on, we're gonna be your new parents. She held my hand. "Let's go to your new home."
We finally make it to the Sparkle's household. For some reason on the way here, I saw all the ponies we had passed looking at me strangely. Some of them even looked at me with fear. This reminds me of something Twilight said earlier but i can't remember what. Maybe there is something about me that rubs them the wrong way.
"Oh, sorry for all the mess, princess. If we knew, we would have cleaned up." Velvet quickly picks up all the books ,charts and toys.
"Would you like something to drink, princess Celestia?" Night Light asks while leading her to a seat.
" A cup of tea will be nice." Celestia looks over to us. "I want to talk to your parents alone. So can you take Twilight and Midnight up stair, Shining."
"Understood princess." Shining salutes like a soldier then escorts us upstair. I notice he didn't bring the dragon.
I raise a hoof. "Uhm... Shining." He turns his head toward me. "I can't actually walk, yet. I was literally borned earlier today. So i need some helps here." He uses magic to levitate me upstair.
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"You have a lot of books, Twilight." I answer impressed with the amount of books she has. This room is filled with bookshelf stuffed with books and there are charts, calculation from what i can read, litter around.
"I love to read. Do you want to read something?" Twilight asks then moves to collect a book. "Magic 101: All you need to get start with magic." I don't know if this is mine or Twilight. But i really want to learn magic. "Ok, let's read."
"Shining, Twilight, Midnight please come downstair, dear." Velvet voice comes from downstair. We close the book. I stand up to walk but then stumble onto the floor. "Oh, right. Come walk, yet." I think loudly.
"You go first, Twily. I will help her down." Twilight happily answers back. "Ok, Shining." When she is out of sight. Shining stares down at me.
"Jeez, Shining. I know you are an over protective older brother. But i am only a helpless little clone of your sister right now. I can't even walk so i can not even hurt Twilight physically anyway." I see him tenses up at the last comment. "Lighten up, Shining. I was just joking." I smiles.
"Well... joke or not, i have my eyes on you. I won't let you hurt Twilight in anyway." Shining says seriously.
Quickly, i answer back. "Wouldn't dream of it. I actually want to learn more than anything else. I don't know if it because of Twilight personality or mine or both. So you can assure yourself, Shining , i won't harm her in anyway shape or form."
"You promise." still with a serious tone.
"Promise." I answer back smiling at him. "Now you should bring me down or Twilight will question why we took so long."
A few minutes ago
"So let get right to point, princess. You want us to adopt her, don't you?" Velvet asks.
"Yes, that is indeed what i want. Mrs.Sparkle."Celestia takes a sip of tea.
They look at each other with wary expression then back to the princess. "To be honest, princess. We have already had two children. You can't expect us to take another one out of the blue. We haven't prepared for this. And don't even talk about the baby dragon. "
"You don't need to worry. I will provide for you to take care of them. Everything for my new pupil, Twilight Sparkle." Celestia reassures them.
"Although we didn't interact much with her, we have a gut feeling that she has a mind of her own and not just a copy of our daughter. How is that possible, princess?" Night Light asks.
"Even i don't know how that possible. When i first met Midnight, she explained to me about her memory receiving from Twilight. The way she answered me was like she had already had a personality to begin with and was being combine with Twilight. I don't think she is a bad pony. I see a confusedly new borned little filly that need a family. If you don't want her, I will gladly take care of her." Celestia answers.
"This is all too sudden, princess. We need to discuss thing first. Can you excuse us for a moment?" Velvet asks.
"Very well, i know this is too much to take in so take your time." Celestia answers with another sip of tea. Then Velvet and Night Light walk into the kitchen.
After a while, they come back. "So... have you made up your mind?" Velvet answers. "Yes, princess. Our discussion is..."
"Well, at everypony are here. We have something to announce." Velvet says. "After some talks , we decided to adopt Midnight." Continue with Night Light. Huray, my second adoption. My face shows no emotion while Twilight is overjoyed. "Yay we will be the very best sister." She hugs me. I look around. Atleast somepony is happy about this. Then i notice Celestia. I wonder what she is thinking. She is the only pony that doesn't look at me funny. Well she is a ruler, politicians are good at hiding stuff.
Celestia walks toward me. "Since today is your birthday, Midnight. Do you want me to give you something?"
"Well, i like drawing. You can give me some art supplies, princess Celestia." I answer with less nervous than before i first met her. Maybe, Twilight memory affect on my personality is temporary. Well, there is a good news at least.
"Very well, tomorrow, i will send them to you. Happy birthday, Midnight." Celestia then turns away. "It is now getting late. So i will take my leave. Hope to see you soon, Twilight , Midnight."
After we say goodbye to princess Celestia, we start dinner. I feel hopeless like a baby sitting there while everypony else set the table.
During dinner isn't better either, everypony use their magic to hold spoon. I look down at my soup. I wonder how other ponies eat without magic. I just give up holding the bowl with my hooves and drinking it. I put down the bowl and see that they are still wary of me.
"Well, i'm happy that our family has two new members. " Velvet says with a forced smile.
"Um... Midnight. Do you want something for your birthday?" Night Light asks.
"Well... I did ask for a gift earlier from Celestia. So... i don't have anything in mind right now." I answer.
"What about you, Twilight? Do you want us to get you something for passing the exam and becoming princess Celestia protégé?" Velvet asks. I look at Twilight. Strange that i don't remember this.
"Does that mean you will become a princess, Twilight?" I curiously ask. Everypony look at me with wide eyes. Was it something i said? This is kind of awkward. "So... where will i and the dragon be sleeping?" That snaps them back to reality.
"Oh... Well, we didn't expect to have a dragon and another child. So you can share a room with us." Velvet answers.
"Mom mom can Midnight sleep with me?" Twilight asks.
"I don't see why not." Velvet turns to me. "So, Midnight. Where do you want to sleep?"
"I will choose..." -Twilight looks at me with her puppy dog eyes- "Twilight. I guess."
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After dinner, I spend all my time learning to walk. Twilight sits there observing me and writing down note. Shining keeps his eyes on me. I can see him being a guard in the future. I don't think i saw him blink for awhile.
"Time for bed. Remember to brush your teeth." Velvet turns to me. "Do you need any help, Midnight?"
"Yes, ma'am." Velvet takes me to the bathroom. I look into the mirror and stare blankly at it.
"What's wrong, Midnight?" Velvet asks with an uncertain tone.
I look at her then back to mirror. "Well... Velvet. I haven't looked at myself all day. I thought i only look like Twilight with different color mane and tail. I didn't know i have eyes with turquois sclera ,dark pupil serpent like pupil. Is this the reason why everypony look at me different?"
"What do you mean?" Velvet raises an eyebrow.
"I am very observant, Velvet. I know you and your family are cautious of me. Well... except for Twilight. I understand why you are cautious. I look like an evil clone of your daughter and ponies fear the unknown. But you don't need to worry, my only desire for now is living. Nothing less nothing more."
There was silence for a moment. "*cough* If you said so honey."
After brushing my teeth and taking a bath, i lie next to Twilight.
"Goodnight, Twilight. Goodnight, Midnight." Velvet closes the door
"Sam. Do the dishes. Sam. Take out the trash. Sam. Clean the floor. Sam. Bring this glass of milk to your sister. SAM. SAM.SAM." This is weird. Why do I see myself in third person? Twilight vision didn't act this way. And this is abstract. Oh well, I keep looking then. I keep watching myself doing all the job around the house. Then, my past self fall down, spilling the milk, breaking the glass.
A giant Barbara shouts at me. "You are worthless. I put a roof over your head, give you food and this is how you repay me."
"But... but. Jess tripped me." A giggle I hear from the shadow.
Barbara slaps my past. "Don't blame your sister. You should have been more careful."
"Stop. Mother. I think she learned her lesson." Jess whispers in my ear. "This is for always tattletale on me. 'Sis'."
She turns to my sister with a sweet tone. "It is very nice of you, dear. Caring for your sister like that." Then back to me. "You should feel lucky for having a sister like this. But you are always giving a bad example for her. Skipping classes. Swearing. Getting into trouble. And you always answer the same that you never did any of that. If you never did, so where did she get it from." I wish that I have hands to clench right now. "I should have never adopted you in the first place."
My past looks at me. "Why won't mother love us anymore?"
"It isn't your fault. Barbara didn't want a daughter. She wanted a free maid to take care of the house and her real daughter." I hug and reassure my past.
I see Barbara turn into Velvet. "You are not my real daughter. You are just a clone created to serve her."
I stare and point at fake Velvet. "No, I'm..."
"...NOT" I wake up and look around. It was just a dream.
"Midnight. Are you alright?"
I turn to the voice. "I'm alright. Twilight. I was having a bad dream." I then notice something. I see color emit from her body. The color is yellow. I blink and rub my eyes with my hooves.
"What wrong, Midnight? Is there something on my face?" Twilight tries to wipe her face.
"No, it's nothing. I had something in my eyes. It's gone now. You can go back to sleep."
"Ok, then" *Yawn* "Good night." zZzZzZ
I lie down on my bed, cock my head toward Twilight. Her color changes into pink. Hmm, what does this mean? I then toss and turn. I can't sleep. What is happening to my sight? Is this because of my eyes? Why am I asking so many questions? Maybe, I should do something to forget about it. I get out of bed, stumble for a bit. Right, can't walk yet. I think for a moment. I could practice walking to give my mind of it. Yes, that sound like a plan. "Right hoof. Left hoof. Right hoof. Left hoof..."
"Ok, I think I can walk now." I smile to myself.
"Wakie, wakie. Twilight. Midnight." The door opens. Entering Velvet. "You are up early, Midnight."
"I can't sleep. So I wake up early to practice walking." I answer, not looking directly at her. I know this is rude and she hasn't done anything to me yet, but I can't get the dream out of my head.
"Oh, I can see that you are very persistence. But don't work too hard. Can you walk up Twilight because breakfast is ready." I simply nod.
I nudge Twilight. "Wake up, sleepy head. Breakfast is ready."
Twilight groans, opens her eyes, rubbing one of them. No color. I walk around, examine Twilight from every angle. Her color change into orange and yellow.
"Midnight, What're you doing?" Twilight asks, raises an eyebrow.
"Oh, it's nothing really. Just testing something." Now, it is pink.
"Did you say test? I love test. What are you testing? Does it involve magic? Tell me. Tell me. I want to know? Can I help?" I stand there waiting for her to finish.
I about to open my mouth when I hear a growl from my stomach. "I will tell you later. I think we should have breakfast first." Blue
After brushing my teeth and conquering the stair, I sit next to Twilight, eat something call hay cake which look exactly like pancake. The taste isn't that different. Twilight and the dragon colors are pink. While the other is yellow. Maybe, I can see emotion. I should test this out.
After breakfast, I go back to our share room and ask Twilight to bring the dragon. I tell Twilight about my eye's new ability. Twilight is now happily dressed in a lab coat. "OK, let do some test now. So... Uhm... Where do we start?"
"I am thinking of using the dragon." I answer.
Twilight color turns into yellow. Yellow is fear. "What do you mean using the dragon?"
"Twilight, I mean that he's a baby and baby has mood shift very easily. So I was thinking of giving him a toy or something, then we took it away from him."
Yellow still there with a mix of blue. So blue is sadness. "But that would be so mean. I don't want to make him sad."
"If you won't help me, Twilight, I will do it myself." I take the smarty pant doll from the bed.
Twilight grabs the door from my hand. Purple is anger. "I won't let you use smarty pant for this awful test."
"I'm sorry, Twilight. But I have almost collected everything I need."
Orange is surprise. Twilight cocks her head, confuse. "What do you mean?"
"I have been watching your color change and memorize the color in my head. I'm very grateful for your intellect, Twilight. And there is a spider in your mane."
"What? Get off me. Get off me. Get off me." White is disgust.
"Ok, Twilight. You can stop now. It was a lie. There was nothing in your mane. I have all the basic emotion I need."
Twilight stops panicking and leering at me. "Why would you do that?"
"I have already answered you to finish the test."
" Still. It wasn't very nice, Midnight."
I shrug. "I will make up to you, Twilight. What do you want?"
Twilight considers for a moment. "You have to do my chore for a month."
"A month is too much. How about 2 weeks and I even give you my dessert."
"Deal."
After that, I spend my time learning magic with Twilight, but how much I try, I just can't do it. "Why is this so hard? I'm literally a copy of you, Twilight. And your special talent is magic."
Twilight reassures me. "Don't be so hard on yourself. It took me 2 weeks to use the levitation spell. You just need practice, practice and more practice."
"Midnight, there is a package for you." A voice comes from downstairs.
"Coming" I walk down with Twilight, so she could help me bring it up to our room.
When we are back to our room, I open the box of art supplies, and there is a letter. "Happy birthday, Midnight. From princess Celestia."
"Whoa, I can't believe you get a present from princess Celestia."
"Jealous." I smirk.
"Jealous, who jealous. I know I'm not jealous. What are we talking about again?"
I roll my eyes. "Twilight, you are a bad liar. I don't need my eyes to tell. You are jealous."
"Ok, maybe. I'm a bit jealous. So... Do you want to draw something?"
"Nah, I think I want to learn magic first. I want to draw with my horn, not with my mouth or hoof."
"Ok then let's continue."
At dinner, Velvet speaks up. "So, what did you all do today?"
Twilight answers. "I help Midnight with her magic and help with a test."
Shining raises an eyebrow. "What kind of test?"
I swirl my spoon a bit. "Nothing much. Just testing how my eyes work by using the dragon, manipulating Twilight emotion."
Twilight looks confused. "Wait... You manipulated me."
I look at her. Oh, she didn't notice. "Well, think about it. Remember everything I did and remember how it made you felt. If that wasn't manipulated your emotion to suit my need, I don't know what is." I look at Shining. "Well, Shining, does this mean you trust me less or still the same kind of trust you have for me."
"I still don't trust you."
I shrug. "Ok, the same then. At least I have this new ability, so you don't need to hide your emotion from me. I know all of you don't trust me either, except for Twilight."
Twilight looks back at her family. Her parents look the other way. "You don't trust her?"
Velvet answers. "Well, sweetie, it's complicate."
I buzz in. "It's not that complicate. All of you literally just knew me from yesterday. So it is very reasonable that you don't trust me and combine that with my appearance. I clearly understand why. So don't be too hard on yourself for Twilight’s sake because I don't mind at all. Maybe over time, you will open up and try to trust me." I turn to look at Shining. "Well, you should be more like your son there, he confronted me yesterday about if I have any ill intention toward Twilight. Of course, I said no. But I could respect a brother looking out for her sister well-being."
Shining looks puzzling for the respect I gave him.
Night Light and Velvet look at each other and back at me. "Well, yes, we don't fully trust you. But we would like to try to know you. And, yes, we are taken back of what you said. But like you said, maybe over time, we will trust you." I can see that their fear getting smaller, not by much. Wait, a new color. There are more than six? It's green. What could it be?
Twilight nudges me. "What's up Midnight?"
I turn to Twilight and see green, too. Why didn't I notice before. I look around, only notice Shining doesn't so this color. I look back to Twilight, smiling. "Twilight, I think I discover a new emotion that I can see."
Twilight gasps. "I am so happy for you. What is it?"
"Trust. I can see that you two are giving me a chance." I don't know what but I feel something inside of me, something I was longing for so long, I thought I didn't need it, but now.
"Midnight, are you ok. Why are you crying?" My hoof slowly touch one of my eye, wiping away a tear.
"No, no. It's nothing. You don't have to worry, Twilight." I turn back to her parents. I see yellow, but for some reason I sense their worry is for me. They care, they actually care. Why did I miss this so much.
I lie on my bed looking at the ceiling. Well, that was a day. I didn't expect today would go like this. Twilight notices me. "Why aren't you sleeping *Yawn*"
"I'm thinking of tomorrow. I want to try to get to know your family. Maybe, I can finally trust somepony again."
"That's nice. *Yawn* Midnight."
Thank Celestia for giving me another chance at life.
"Well, at least I know this is a nightmare and not a vision." I look at my past self being rejected by my crush and he even says that he thought I was a good person, but he misjudged me. Then time pass to the future, I am in the bathroom sobbing and overhear my classmate talking to each other that I was a cruel person asking out my crush while knowing my sister also had a crush on him. I see my past self furious of her. My past self screams. "It's always her. Why everybody trusts her. Why does she do all this to me. Whyyyyy."
I put a hoof on my past self. "There. There. Do... Do you want a hug?" My past nods. Well, this is weird. I never thought in all my life, I would give a shoulder for myself to cry on.
I notice something in a distance. Hmm, why is there a purple light? I let go of my past and walk toward the light. I move into a black void. I turn my head back and can only see darkness. I don't know what to think and just keep moving. After a while, I reach the light and see a pony, but I can't make out what it looks like.
"We have been waiting for thou, Midnight." the pony talks with a feminine voice.
"Oh... And you are?" I cock my head to the side and squint my eyes, still trying to see what she looks like.
She steps closer to me. She has eyes like mine. Her mane and tail look like the night sky and flowing like Celestia. Her fur is black. She is as tall as Celestia. And the most surprising thing about her is that she's an alicorn. "Nightmare Moon." I blurt out.
"Oh, thou know of us. Glad that over a thousand year, ponies still remember us."
"Well, I know your name, but I don't actually know anything else about you. So, can you kindly introduce yourself." It's weird. How did I know her name? It didn't even exist in Twilight memory.
Nightmare frowns. I can see her anger growing. "Very well, if thou wanted to know, we will tell thou our story. A thousand year ago, there were two sisters that ruled over Equestria. The older raised the sun, while ourselves raised the moon. No ponies appreciated our night, and no ponies cared about all the work we had done. We didn't only raise the moon, we also protected our subject from nightmare and fenced off the force that dared to invade Equestria. But our 'dear sister' always got the credit for our hard work. So we thought of a plan, our plan was to take the throne and bring eternal night. Our 'dear sister' was powerless before our superior magic. But she cheated, she used the elements to banish us to the moon. We are finished." Well, that explains something.
"So, if I understand this right, you are princess Celestia sister. You feel underappreciate, so you want to take over and bring eternal night. But you fail because princess Celestia used some element thing to banish you to the moon. I have some questions, if I may ask your highness." I bow.
"Thou may."
I lift my head. "What are these elements?"
"The elements of harmony are the greatest artifacts in Equestria. There are six in total. They have enough power to turn the lord of chaos into stone." The name discord pops into my mind. Who's discord? I will think about it later.
"Follow-up question, how did you know my name?"
"We know thy name from Celestia herself. It isn't hard, really. She feels guilty of banishing us to the moon, so she unconsciously gives us permission to enter her dream. Not only that, we also know that she has a new protégé, who is your creator."
"Ok, ok. Last question, why choose me?"
"Thou and we are not that much different. Both are borned from the shadow of our creator. The different here is that thou don't need a host like we." Oh, so she is a parasite. "So, do thou accept our offer to be guided by us? Thou won't regret this because soon enough the star will align and release us from our prison."
"When is it?"
"The star will align at the day of the 1000th summer sun celebration. And we will be freed to bring eternal night. So will thou accept?"
I turn away. "I don't know about this. I could join you, or I could enter Celestia school for gifted unicorn. Because you haven't done anything to show that you are stronger than Celestia."
She furiously shouts. "HOW DARE YOU!"
I turn back, smiling. "Relax. I'm just saying that maybe you can teach me something first to show how powerful you are. I honestly just met you. So proof to me by teaching me something."
She sighs. "Despite thy insolent before us, we will still demonstrate our magic, so be graceful." I roll my eyes. Show me already b*tch. Her horn glows a blue color then touches my horn. A vision enters my mind. "Thou can practice this spell. This spell grants thou the ability to turn darkness into any form thou want. It is like a transfiguration spell, but thou pull the material from darkness itself. Thou can create thorn, haunted wood and even ponies, though they are merely puppets to control. Our advice for thou is to use thy shadow at daytime." Why does all of this sound so familiar?
"Ok, I will practice this spell. And... Uhm... Does Celestia know about this spell?"
She raises a hoof. "Fear not. Celestia's understanding of dark magic is very poor. Yes, she knows some, but it's nothing to compare to our knowledge."
I put a hoof on my chin. So she doesn't know that means I can easily lie saying that it's my new ability, like my eyes. Learning magic from Nightmare doesn't sound that bad to me.
"Midnight. Midnight." Twilight voice calls out to me.
"Ah... Before I go, does your eyes have any special ability?"
"Our eyes can see in the dark, if thou was wondering." Oh, that mean her eyes don't have my ability. Good. I like green already.
In the bathroom, I look in the mirror. I should try out the spell. I close my eyes, remembering the spell. Hmm, the spell requires negative emotion. I smile. That would be easy enough. I have a lot of emotional baggage. Hmm, hmm, hmm, ok let try it now. I open my eyes, concentrate on my emotion. From my shadow, a black tentacle spawns. I make it hold up my toothbrush. But I drop it. I give it several tries.
"Yes, finally." I scream with enthusiasm.
A knock on the door. "Uhm, Midnight, dear, are you ok in there?" Velvet asks.
"Everything is fine. Give me 2 more minutes."
"Ok, dear. Ask me if you need any help?"
At the dinning table, I smile at Twilight. "Hey, Twilight, want to see something cool."
Twilight lights up. "Did you unlock something new?"
I nod. "Yes, let me show you." My horn glows and summons the black tentacle from my shadow, picking up the spoon. I look at their faces. All of them are surprised.
"So, what do you think? Answer me truthy, I hate lie."
"Well, it was great. Midnight, do you think you can teach me?"
"I don't know if I can. Sorry." I don't want to corrupt Twilight. She is the sister I have always wanted. Nice. Caring.
"Oh." She sadly replies.
I look to the other. "So, what are your opinions about my new magic?"
"Truthfully, your magic gives me a bad feeling. I haven't seen this type of magic before. It looks unnatural, like something out of dark magic." Shining answers.
"Thank for your honesty, I'm very appreciated. Yes, I could see how my magic can make other ponies fear me. Nothing is scarier than the unknown. But I don't actually care that much. They can think what they think. I only care if it's from Twilight."
"Oh, why is that?" Shining raises an eyebrow.
"Because first, I have her memory, so I know what she's like. Second, thanks to me eyes, I know she cares for me like a sister. Third, she is adorable. Yes, I know I may look evil, but don't judge me before you get to know me."
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Who could that be this early in the morning?" Night Light gets the door. "Twilight looks who is it, the best foalsitter in all of Equestria."
Twilight gasps. "Cadance." I look at her and Twilight doing their little dance.
Cadance looks at me while I walk toward her. I sense no fear in her. Interesting. She is the second pony that doesn't fear me. Maybe the third if I have this ability when I met Celestia.
"Oh, you must be Midnight. Nice to meet you. Aunt Celestia has already told me about you."
"Cadance, I have a question for you."
"Ok, ask away."
"Why don't you fear me?" This gets her off guard.
She winces. "What do you mean?"
"Well, yesterday, I discover that my eyes can see emotion. So it's surprising to me that you don't fear me."
She composes herself. "Well, why should I be afraid of a nice filly like you." Then she smiles, making feel unease. "Starting from today, I will be your foalsitter, so you have to learn the initiation."
Now, I am the one caught off guard. "NO... I won't do it, you hear me."
"PL-PLEASE." Must resist puppy doll eyes. Don't give in. F*ck, even Twilight joins in.
I sigh. I can't believe I'm saying this. "Fine, I will learn the stupid dance." I can see Shining chuckles at me.
"Yeah, we will have lots of fun today." Twilight hugs me.
"Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake. Clap your hooves and do a little shake. There, are you happy now?" I answer in defeat. Then I hear a click, I turn my head to see Shining holding a camera. "Are you seriously taking pictures right now?"
He smirks at me. "Yes, mom asked me to. You know mom and dad love to preserve memory."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. If they were free today, I could see them taking pictures of every little achievements we made."
"So, what should we do next, Twilight?" I ask.
"We could read a book about..."
I cut Twilight off. "Cadance, do you have any idea?"
"We could go to the park."
"Ok, let's go to the park. I have never gone to the park before." Well, at least not in this world.
"Who want to go to the park, raise a hoof?" Everypony agree to go.
"Ok, I will ask Mrs Sparkle for permission." Cadance leaves the room.
"Ok, is everypony ready?" Cadance says.
"Ready." All speak in unison.
"But to be sure. Twilight. Midnight. Shining. And uh. I forgot to ask. What was his name again?"
"Well, we haven't named him, yet. We just call him the dragon." I answer.
"If that so, anypony have a good name for him?"
"Cuddle. What do you think, little guy?" Twilight suggests, but the baby dragon shows no interest in the name.
"What about Blaze. That sounds cool, right?" Shining suggests, but much like with Twilight, the baby dragon shows no interset.
Cadance looks at me. "What about you, Midnight, have any great idea?"
I think for a bit, suddenly a voice echoes in my head. "Spike." The baby dragon looks toward me.
"I think he likes it." Twilight says.
Shining holds him up. "From now on, you will be known as Spike the dragon." Spike happily giggles and claps his hand.
"Ok, now that's settle. Let's go to the park."
We walk through the city. I notice lots of ponies wear fancy cloth, most of them are unicorn and look smug.
While walking, Cadance asks me. "So, I heard you like drawing, Midnight."
"Yes, I like drawing."
"What do you like to draw?"
"That's a good question. I like to draw mythical creatures, so I feel very lucky to be here. So, Cadance, does phoenix exist in this world?"
"Yes, it does. Aunt Celestia has a phoenix for a pet, names Philomena. Do you want to meet her, the phoenix, I mean?"
My eyes light up. "Really. Can I?"
*click* I look to Shining. "Don't look at me. It was Twilight idea."
Twilight smiles at me. "You look so happy that I can't help it. What were you two talking about?"
"We were talking about letting me in the castle and capturing the essence of Celestia's pet Phoenix."
"WHAT! You can't do that. Do you know what will happen if you did?"
I chuckle. "Nope. Do you?"
"Ah... Uhm... No. But I know it can't be good."
Cadance hits my shoulder. "Stop teasing her."
"Ok. Ok. I was just joking, Twilight."
"So, you aren't going to capture the essence of princess Celestia's pet Phoenix, right?"
"No, I will still do it."
"But. But. You said." Twilight looks confuse.
"Capture the essence means I'm gonna draw a painting of the phoenix and not literally suck the life out of it."
"Oh. So, you were talking about drawing princess Celestia's pet."
"Yes, Twilight, so don't worry your little head."
After a while, we arrive at the park.
"We will be here watching over Spike. So you two have fun." Cadance says. We nod.
"So, what do you want to do first, Twilight?" I turn to Twilight.
"I want to sit under a tree and..."
I cut her off. "Let me guess and read a book." She happily nods. "Twilight, do you ever think about something else beside books?"
"Magic?" She naively answers.
I look at her deadpan. "Well, I should have guess. From your memory, I can see you either read a book or have a picnic at the park. Why don't we try something else instead?"
"Like what?"
"We could play hide and seek." I wonder if she knows she has a huge disadvantage against my eyes.
"Ok. Let's play. I will count first." I hide my chuckle. She didn't realize.
"Why are you so good at this game, Midnight?" Twilight frowns.
"Well. That's easy to answer. Remember my eyes." I grin.
She blinks a few times, then realizes. "No fair."
"I thought you would find out right away because how smart you are. But I was wrong." Twilight is mad at me. "Relax, Twilight. Let play something else. Your choice."
"We could..."
"That isn't about reading books. Really, Twilight, there is more to life than books."
"We could try the swing."
"Ok then. Let try the swing."
We both sit on the swing while I use my shadow to push.
"Whee. Higher. Midnight. Higher."
A butterfly flies in front of my face. I fall back. "Ouch."
"Are you ok, Midnight?" Twilight steps down and checks on me.
"Yeah, I'm ok."
"Let get back on the swing." I see the butterfly on the swing and just stand there. Twilight looks worried at me. "What's wrong, Midnight?"
"Twilight, come here." When she comes close enough, I pull her close. "This is a secret and don't you dare tell this to anypony else, especially Shining." Twilight nods. "Ok then. I'm afraid of butterflies."
She looks at me like I was lying. But when she realizes I was telling the truth, she bursts out laughing. "HAHAHA. You're afraid of butterflies."
I use my shadow to slider behind Twilight. She immediately jumps on me. "Well. I know about a purple unicorn that is scared of snakes." I smirk.
She gets down from me. "Ahem. Fear of snakes is a normal thing. They are venomous and can harm ponies, so my fear is reasonable. So what is your excuse for being afraid of butterflies."
"I don't know myself. I just don't like touching them."
"So, are you afraid of insects?" Twilight wants to rationalize my fear.
"No, I don't think so. I can touch caterpillar, but not butterflies."
"What else are you afraid of?"
"Moth, ladybug and..."
A ball hits me. "Ouch" I look at the ball then look up to see somepony. They look at me with fear. "Is this your ball?" They all scatter away from me. "Hey, Twilight, want to play with this ball?"
"I think we should return it."
"Ok, let return it then."
We walk together with the ball. After a while, I get frustrated. "Oh, come on, do all you want your ball back or what?"
One of them peaks her head out of a tree. "You could have it. Please, just leave us alone." I haven't done anything wrong yet. I don't even know them, so why are they so afraid of me? I use my shadow to drag one of them over to me. She closes her eyes, shaking in fear.
"Midnight, what are you doing? Put her down." Shining approaches me.
I put her down and give her the ball. "Here, your stupid ball." She takes it and runs away. "I was returning a ball, Shining."
"By dragging her with your magic." He angrily says.
"So, what would you do if you returned a ball, but the owner ran from you when you walked close?"
"I don't know, but there could be a better way to deal with this."
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. You're right, Shining. I should have thought about another way."
"You should apologize to the filly, not me."
"Okay. You should come with me. You could talk to them and ask them not to run away from me."
Shining nods, then we all walk to the group. I sit from a distance with Twilight looking at Shining talking to them. He then motions me to come over.
"So, Midnight, you know what to say."
"I'm sorry for dragging you."
"I'm sorry, too, for hitting your head with a ball." An awkward silence. "Do... you two want to play ball with us?"
"Ok." We both answer.
We spend the day playing keep away.
"That was fun." I answer.
"You aren't as bad as we thought."
"What did you think about me?" I raise an eyebrow.
"We thought you would curse us if we messed with you. You have that thing in your shadow."
Twilight protests. "Curses aren't real. There is no evidence to prove that curses are real."
"Midnight, Twilight, it's time to go home." Shining says.