As Princess Twilight prepared for a journey she had no idea where, she thought of what could happen if she visit the afterlife. Spike tried to persuade her not to go, lest she would die trying, but Twilight knew better. If she wants to see her friends as much as she thinks, her fate is sealed regardless. It's either she dies, and she will visit them in the afterlife, or they are going to be brought back to life. Such a curse of being an immortal can push them to their limits, and decide on one thing or another.

"I'm sorry Spike, but I have to do this! I must see my friends again!"

"But...Twilight, who knows what will happen if you defy nature!"

"...Friendship is magic."

The alicorn starts to fly all around Equestria, in search of a way to revive her friends. Princess Celestia had watched her very closely, and did not approve of her actions...But she is her own princess now, she deserves the freedom of her own will. First, she traveled to Cloudsdale, the young pegasi were being taught by a Pegasus named Firefly. Second, she sought some counseling with Princess Mi'amore Cadenza, she was heartbroken after Shining Armor's death, but continued to live in a depressing life.

"Cadance!"

"Oh...Hi Twilight," The pink alicorn puts on a semi smile but Twilight can tell she was still hurt after all these years.

"Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!" the two alicorns cheer in unison.

"So you're telling me to help you out and break one of the most important cycles of life?"

"...Yes."

Cadance thought for a moment and agrees on one condition. "I'm going with you...A way you will reach the afterlife is by death, but there is another way."

"And what is it?" Twilight asked eagerly.

"It's only for a limited amount of time, but it's fairly easy...We must contact whoever is in charge of the afterlife."

"I think I saw him before..."

"Rainbow! You're alive!"

"Who are you?" The yellow orange Pegasus's smile stopped dead.

"Soul Light! The uh...stallion who takes care and keeps souls." I didn't flinch, He was almost back to tears, and the crowd breathed with relief.

"I don't remember you..." I rub my head a bit.

"I think his name was Soul Light."

"Great! We just need to find his relative and contact him!"

"I'm not sure it's that easy to just find his relative..."

"Let's go to Ponyville then!"

"But the percentage of finding his relative in that place is 1.3453%!"

"Better than nothing right?" For the first time in several years, Cadance's face filled with excitement.

"Excuse me, do you know this colt?" Twilight uses her magic to show a picture of a yellow orange Pegasus with a ash and blood mane. The mare just shook her head. After several tries later, she found a connection with the Soulkeeper and a bright yellow Pegasus with a blood and blonde mane. Her eyes were not entirely focused on one spot, but they were near it's objective. It reminded Twilight of everypony's favorite mailmare, Derpy.

"He's my great grandfather!" The young filly smiled and introduced herself, "My name is Bright Hooves, and Ditzy Doo was my great grandmother!"

"Okay...Do you know a way to contact your great grandfather?"

"Huzah wha?" Bright's face was confused beyond measure. Cadance stepped in and decided to keep things simple for her.

"Do, you, know, how, to, talk, to, great, grand, father?"

"Of course I do!" Bright's face expression switched to eagerness as she led them to her home.

"Now, we have to talkie on the talkie!"

"...What?" Both alicorns looked at her like she was a maniac.

"This!" Bright handed both of them a green jawbreaker. She unwrapped her jawbreaker and pops it into her mouth. Soon, she dropped dead on the floor with a thud. One of the alicorns was too late to spit it out as her body dropped cold and hard on the ground. Twilight sees herself, a foggy lavender mist in the shape of an alicorn. Bright's voice echoes when she talked, "Now, we go here!" She points to a hole on the floor as they swim in the air down to the core of Equestria.

"I can't see anything!" Twilight's eyes didn't fool her, all she saw was darkness that was even darker than when she closed her eyes.

"We're close!"

Suddenly, the whole darkness became filled with light. Below was a garden of solid translucent entities. The yellow orange mist below looked up at the sky to see his great grandchild falling to the floor in a tad bit slower motion. Twilight heard the echos in her ears as she can hear everything from up close to afar.

"Hey look, it's Bright Hooves again..."

"Who's that with her?"

"I think it's Princess Twilight!"

"Twilight?!" A familiar voice sounding like Rainbow Dash's below. A cyan mist flew upwards towards the lavender princess's mist."It IS you! Twilight! My old flying buddy!" Dash hugs the lavender mist as tight as she could, cherishing every second of it. "Come on! I gotta show you to the others!" Dash flew straight down in a dive bomb and went straight upwards when she opened her wings near the ground. Dash was still the fastest... even in this world. Four other clouds of mist were waiting for her. They all took the shape of her friends as different colored mist clouds.

"Twilight?" A voice echoed similar to Applejack's.

"Hiya Twilie! We missed you so much!" bounced a pink cloud, "Now that you're here! Let's have a PARTY!!"

"Oh darling! I missed you so much..." Twilight tries to smile but proved to be impossible as a mist.

"Hey...How did you get here anyway?" Twilight answers Dash's question by pointing at a small misty filly.

"She gave us some sort of jawbreaker and Voila! We end up here..."

"That 'jawbreaker' is a soul core. I passed them down my family in case if they needed something from me." The Soul Keeper stepped up in front of the misty Twilight.

"Now listen here, and closely. You have defied the life cycle and now you MUST return back!"

"I just wanted to visit my friends..."

"If you don't turn back, your body will be owned by another soul."

A loud bell low chimed.

"Whats that sound?" Twilight queried.

"That's the soul bell tower." The ponies rushed past Twilight, pushing her around and shoving her back and forth while they desperately go towards the sound.

"What exactly dose that mean?" Twilight oblivious.

The Soul Keeper went to the gate, and forced it open from left and right with his hooves. All of Twilight's friends went inside at the same amount of time.

"We hope to see you later Twilight!" all of her friends cheered together.

Suddenly a force pulls Twilight back to the top of the world. As Twilight reaches the surface, she is back in Bright's house and sees Cadance Standing over a body on the other side of the room, she realizes that it is her body. Bright appeared next to Twilight, "Quickly you have to touch your body's forehead with your soul's forehead, like this." Bright explained moving over to her own body, then gently touching her foreheads together. Twilight quickly shielded her eyes from a bright flash as Bright's soul disappeared into her body. Twilight quickly following Bright's instruction, touched her foreheads.

When Cadence saw Twilight slowly opened her eyes, she let out a big sigh of relief. "Oh, Twilight I was so scared I thought you were going to leave me too!"

Author's Note

This segment was written by ultimatekevin1.
Edited by Fonypan.