The Aurora Boreallis

Nightfall approached as I witnessed the last rays of Celestia's sun go down before the moon rose from the other side of the horizon. I yawned, knowing that it was going to be a long night as I saw ponies below me gathering around a house that looked closely related to gingerbread house. I blinked my eyes a couple times and stopped my levitating, opened my wings, and flew up to some clouds that were floating by. I sat down on one of them as I looked down to see the night view of Ponyville.

"....I hope they'll be fine with this....I know they're probably terrified of my coming presence....but I want them to be happy and cheerful.......did Pinkie even tell them that they're celebrating my presence?" .

These thoughts flew through my mind for about several minutes as I gazed off into the night sky.

Suddenly, Rainbow popped in front of my vision,

"So you're ready?!?" .

I reeled back, "AHHHH!!!" .

I apparated hard into thin air in a array of multiple flashes, sending a small sonic boom circle through the sky. Rainbow Dash blew back a few feet,

"...whoops...." .

I apparated in a loud boom behind her.

"RAINBOW!!!!!! DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!!!!!!!" .

Based on the way her hair blew back and stayed that way, I think I used my bass voice too much. I could hear a faint echo of myself through the sky.

I timidly spoke to her, "...sorry...." .

Rainbow's eyes went back to normal and shrugged,

"No, that was on me. My bad. We're ready when you are." .

She pointed down to the gingerbread house below us. There were no ponies outside, meaning probably everypony was inside. I felt butterflies in my stomach.

I mentally slapped myself. "....I'm The Aurora Boreallis! Why am I freaking out over a small little social event like this!?!..." .

I made up my mind, "Yeah....let's get this over with...." .

I feel like I'm going to regret this.

Moments later, me and Rainbow arrived at the gingerbread house, which I later found out was named Sugarcube Corner.....I'm such an idiot. Rainbow and Twilight told me to wait until I was announced inside so I apparated out of sight until ready. I kept close to the building so I could see and hear what was going on inside.

I saw about a good amount of ponies talking about, wondering what the hell was going on. I saw one particular pony that had sunglasses and had a cutie mark of what seems to be two eighth notes.

"....who's that...? She has the same hairstyle like me......I wonder if she knows me......I mean, she does look like one of the more attractive mares in there...." .

My mind stopped wandering as I saw Twilight call to everyone's attention. It was about to begin.

"Greetings everypony.", Twilight began.

"Thank you for coming on this special night. This is a special night because we are here to welcome a pony we all know all too well. I can tell you from my studies of Equestrian history that we have sadly mistaken this pony as a feared individual, but now I want to tell you that he is a hero in many different ways. He is the one that makes sure the weather is safe enough for the Weather Factory manipulate for this town, he gives us a beautiful change of color every time the sun sets and rises, he makes sure that we don't freeze or burn to death in this precious blanket we live in, called the atmosphere. What some of you might see in him is terror and threat, but what I see is a pony who needs a friend, a pony who is compassionate, a pony who is forgiving and loving, no matter what status he holds. He just wants to be like you, a normal pony that helps out in everyway he can. So join me as we welcome our hero in the flesh, The Aurora Boreallis!" .

Time seemed to stop as I heard those last words. I've been hiding away from these ponies for the past 3,000 years. I needed to make a move or I'll never be able to live with myself. I want to be friends with these ponies, and end this confusion that has separated us. I had no more time to think.

I closed my eyes and teleported into the room in front of everypony who was in the house.

I could clearly hear the loud boom when I appeared. It seemed that now my teleportings can break sound barriers in small areas. Loud gasps reverberated throughout the room as I revealed myself to the public once more. I opened my eyes to stare at everypony. All of them seemed to bow at once, except for 3 other ponies, also including Twilight, Rainbow, and Pinkie. I took one good look at the crowd that bowed before me. They were literaly shaking while looking up at me. I don't blame them. I'm freakishly tall for a look of a pegasus, I have wings the size of a manticore, I can sprout massive tentacles, and my eyes are always glazed over with death. Regardless, I needed to make a good first impression and fast.

I looked at the crowd, and for the first time in probably years, I formed a small smile on my face.

"No need for formalities my little ponies, for I've come to thank you for inviting me into you humble and peaceful town." .

Everypony seemed to shot straight up in surprise as they stood on all fours, looking at me with shock and confusion. I turned and walked towards the front pedestal where Twilight stepped down. She gave me a "You can do it" look to me as I took the stand.

I took a deep breath as I thought to myself,

"....Ok Aurora......only you can change history....not them......" .

I began to address the ponies before me,

"What I'm about to tell you was never told before in history, even by Celestia herself...." .

I continued my address to the public.

"For almost a millennium, I've been given the responsibility as the 3rd descendant of The Aurora Family to take control of the Earth's atmosphere. After both my mother and father passed away, I promised that I would make them proud by making sure the ponies would live fruitfully under clear skies forever. On the year 468, the earth became too warm and the polar ice caps were beginning to melt away, threatening to rise the oceans. The water would've killed you all off of existence. I wasn't going to let that happen. So I make the most life-changing decision ever, resetting the Earth's climate. It looked like a simple task. All I had to do was create three Low Pressure systems to send cooler air from the North to refreeze the polar ice caps. That fatally backfired as I couldn't hold the three systems all at once. They began to grow bigger and bigger out of control and soon after, covered the entire Northern Hemisphere full circle. I had to stop it or I was gonna freeze the entire Earth. So I flew into the exosphere and waited for a solar flare from the sun. After a flare burst from the out layer of the sun, I focused my energy towards the Earth's magnetic field. I snapped off 5 lines of the field to allow more heat radiation into the atmosphere. After 5 days of waiting in outer space, I finally saw the storms dissolve, revealing the half frozen over planet. I almost wanted to banish myself. I've probably killed half of the world's population. I had made the biggest mistake of my life. But something kept me from leaving. At that moment, I saw waves of green light glowing over both of the ice caps. It looked so beautiful. At that moment, I finally realized the purpose of my name, to allow Earth's beauty to glow throughout the night. I made the decision to help the Earth warm up without overdoing it. So for the next 3,000 years, I've been creating High Pressure systems from the equator and sending them to the North as much as I could to warm up the Northern Hemisphere at least at mid-latitude. On the night of the year 1971 when I saw city lights across the night side the Earth, I almost cried. I didn't kill anyone. They all survived. However, my damage was done. I couldn't show my face to the people of the world after what I've done. So I've been hiding in invisibility ever since, doing my job to control the atmosphere and the magnetic field to keep everypony safe to this day...."

I finished my speech as I slowly looked up at the crowd. Something wet was running down my face. It was tears. I blinked a couple times to wipe them away, but they started to come out on their own. I saw the same look on everypony in front of me. They were no longer scared. They were crying. All of them, even Twilight was crying. They all seemed to have felt my heart when I told my past. No more did I fear of everypony judging me. We were all the same at this point.

I spoke to them once more,

"So I ask you everypony....please...I wanted to be your hero, your neighbor, your helper.......your frien-...." .

I couldn't finish the last word as Twilight ran up and hugged me. Five other ponies including Pinkie and Rainbow came all into a group hug around me. I couldn't stop crying. No pony has ever hugged me before.

For a minute......I felt.....warm.

Everypony suddenly began stomping their hooves on the ground in applause. I couldn't believe it! They like me! They really like me! All the ponies around me released me and gave me a reassuring look, telling me that I've been understood.

Pinkie popped infront of me to take the stand,

"Come on everypony! Let's have a "Welcome Aurora Boreallis Super Duper Fun PARTY!!!!!" .

The second she said that, loud music began playing from the other side of the room. The crowd immediately cheered and began dancing and making their way around the middle of the room to dance.

A small filly walked up to me.

"Um....hi Mr. Boreallis....I just want to say I like the way you do the whole thunder thingy when it's raining outside. It's really cool." .

I looked down at him and gave him my most warmest smile in years,

"Why thank you young one. Tell you what, you like storms right?" .

The filly nodded his head .

"Well watch this..." .

I contracted my power and formed a crystal ball out of thin air, with lightning that stuck inside of it every few seconds. I gave it to the filly.

He was beaming.

"Wow! Thanks Mr. Aurora! You're the coolest! Hey mom! Look what I got!" .

The filly said as he ran to the other side of the room where his mom was waiting at. I smiled and turned over to Twilight and 5 ponies who were watching me.

"I want you to meet the rest of my friends. You already know Rainbow and Pinkie. Now I want you to meet my other friends, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy."

Twilight pointed to the other three ponies. One had a mane and tail style that looked like it would rival anypony's, the other was wearing a stentson hat, and the one hiding behind the curly maned one had pink hair, almost like Pinkie's.

I spoke to them, "Nice to meet you all."

They all responded in sync, "Nice to meet you too."

"Please forgive us for being so confused for all that time darling." , Rarity said to me.

I shrugged it off,

"It's fine, we all make mistakes in our life." .

Applejack then spoke to me.

"Ah also like to thank yah for making my zap apples the best every year. Ah was wundering who was makin' it rain every 2 hours during zap apple season. It was you all along." .

I blushed, "Thanks. It's nothing actually." .

For some reason, the yellow pegasus didn't want to add in her statement to me. She looked really timid, and shy. Well, I guess it implies in her name. No big deal. I hope she'll come around.

I looked back at the DJ both and saw that same pony with the glasses, having fun blasting some type of music that sounded like the type of music I would hear when I'm flying over nightclubs in Baltimare, except the beat sounded distorted.

Whatever it was, it sounded awesome. But not nearly as awesome as the pony playing it. She looked really good looking. Her hair whipping up and down while syncing to the fast paced beats per minute of the music she was playing. It was like slow motion, so I could see every detail of her beauty. I was in a trance for a second.

"Looks like she's having fun over there." , a pony said to me.

I quickly broke me out of my trance. I shook my head,

"Yeah. Who is she?" , I said as I turned to see who was talking to me.

It was an earth pony with brown hair and had a treble clef as a cutie mark.

"Vinyl Scratch, Ponyville's #1 Dj as said by Celestia herself. I still have a hard time believing that. The name's Octavia."

I shook her hoof, "Nice to meet you. To be honest, what do you call this music?" .

"She calls it Hardstyle, but I call it pure trash." , she responded with as proof of hate in her voice.

I could clearly see the difference between the two ponies. She looks like a pony who enjoys classical, baroque, and romantic era music, while Vinyl looks like she enjoys trance and hardstyle. I wanted to go talk to the DJ, but soon stopped myself.

".....It's too early for me to be making any moves on a mare, especially of the fact that I am looked up to as a supernatural being....." , I thought in my head. I didn't want to tarnish the new reputation I was building, but then again, I was curious. I had to find out more about herself and her music.

"I'm gonna go talk to her when she's done." , I told Octavia.

"Good luck with that. She's too level-headed to talk to ponies. All she cares about is her music. I'll be surprised if she budges from that both to take a break." .

She skeptically replied as she walked off to get some punch from the stands. The lights suddenly went out and strobe laser lights began beaming through the rooms as the bass of the "Hardstyle" music began to increase in volume.

".....It's probably a hardcore session.....".

I sat in one on the chairs on the side of the room as it was probably not a good time to bother her. The chair I sat on was probably the most luxurious one in the room. Probably because of who I am. I watched the group of ponies on the dance floor moving to the beat of the music.

"....I like this music....I mean it sounds really good.....better than trance....." .

I thought to myself as I felt the bass from the music reverberate through the room. I spotted Twilight with her other friends, jumping to the beat and  waving their hooves around while stand on their hind legs. I laughed to myself.

"....They look like they're have a lot of fun....." .

My mind then went on to what happened earlier. I sighed in relief.

".....You did it Aurora.....I didn't even know it would be this simple. You've proven that you are just like them, no matter what standards you had..." .

I still want to talk to Vinyl...........I'll wait about an hour.