Dark Light

The sun shone through the window and gleamed though Dark Light’s eyelids, waking him up, much to his annoyance. He and Shimmer were overjoyed with their new foal a year ago but now all he did was keep them up late at night. They loved him but sometimes Dark Light wondered why he had stayed to be with him, until he looked at his wife, her beautiful free flowing silver mane and her perfect silken pale blue coat that her husband loved so much. Her eyes were a brilliant gold colour, shared by her son, whereas Dark Light’s were ruby red in colour.

“Morning Shim, Get any sleep tonight?” Dark light said with a smile. Shimmer chuckled and kissed him. “Come on, you go have a shower. I’ll check on Flash and make some breakfast,” He said kissing her again. She walked off to the bathroom and had a shower as her stallion walked over to their son’s crib. “Hey colt, how are you?” He said in a hushed and playful tone, as the young colt put out his hooves to get a hug.

“Dada!” The young foal said with a smile. Dark Light’s jaw dropped and the he shouted in the direction of his wife.

“SHIM! FLASH JUST SPOKE!”

“REALLY? WHAT DID HE SAY?!”

“Dada,” There was a happy exclamation followed by a ‘Dammit’.

“I was hoping he’d say mama first,” They both laughed and Dark Light took his son down stairs and put him in his high chair as he made breakfast. Shimmer trotted into the kitchen and walked over to her son and kissed him. The little colt giggled in an adorable way as Dark Light put his and Shimmer’s breakfast on the table. He put a bowl of what looked like mush on the table as well and started to feed it to his son, holding the spoon with his magic and put it into his son’s mouth who then swallowed the mush. After the three of them had finished with it their food Shimmer noticed a rolled up scroll and retrieved it. Seeing it was for her husband she handed it to him and he broke the wax seal and unrolled it.

Friends,

I have an urgent matter to talk to you about. We need to meet up in the library at 4:00 today. It is vital that you are there as this concerns all of you.

Twilight Sparkle

Dark Light was puzzled by the letter but could think of no reason not to be there.

“Shim, is it alright if you look after Flash this afternoon? Twilight needs to see me apparently,” He said. His wife frowned but agreed.

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Later that day Dark Light left to go to the library under Twilight’s instruction. When he arrived, at about ten to four, the once unicorn now alicorn ushered him in.

“Good you’re early. We still need to wait for the others though,” She said.

“Who else is coming?” Dark light responded, slightly confused.

“Well there’s you, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinky Pie and Big Macintosh,” She listed.

“Wait, Big Macintosh?” asked Dark Light, even more confused.

“Hang on, I need to show you something, this’ll all make sense when I do,” The purple princess said, grabbing a scroll from across the room with her magic and passing it to the grey father who grabbed it with his magic and unrolled it.

“What is it with you and scrolls?” He said with a smile then read the scroll.

Princess Twilight Sparkle

I am afraid there is no time for sentiment. All of Equestria is under threat, but this time it is different. I need you and the elements of harmony along with two strong ponies to come to canterlot as soon as possible. There I will brief you all about the threat. Your brother and sister-in-law will also assist you in this task. Luna will watch over the crystal empire for the time being and I will work on the sun and the moon during the task.

It is of vital importance that you do this. The lives of all Equestrian citizens are in the hooves of you and your friends. You will be away from Ponyville for at least a month so make sure you say your goodbyes to everypony.

Princess Celestia

P.S. Do NOT let Rarity pack more than one Brief case

Dark Light sat down, his smile diminishing to a defeated looking frown. His heart sunk and he felt a lump in his throat.

“Why me and not some other stallion?” He said looking woefully at the alicorn.

“You carried a labouring mare half way across the town in a few minutes; you are probably one of, if not the, strongest pony in Ponyville,” He sighed, nodded and started to pace about the room. Suddenly all the other ponies Twilight had listed earlier arrived and twilight showed them the letter, all of them reacted differently. Big Macintosh just stood there with his mouth agape, Fluttershy just lied down and quivered, Applejack tried to shrug it off but ended up crying a little, so Dark Light walked over and comforted her with a hug.

“A whole month?” Rainbow Dash Exclaimed.

“Oh no, I won’t be able to foal sit the baby cakes!” Pinky said.

“ONE BRIEFCASE?!” said drama queen - uh, I mean Rarity - right before she fainted, only to be caught by a dragon that seemingly appeared out of nowhere but collapsed under the mare’s weight. Twilight poured a glass of water over her which she had ready realising she would faint as soon as she read the last line of the letter. The mare awoke slightly startled and fairly soggy.

“Ok, Everypony,” The alicorn said. “This is important. We are going to leave tomorrow!”

“TOMORROW?!” All the other’s shouted.

“Yes, tomorrow,” The slightly miffed Princess repeated. “I am sorry for the short notice but this is important. If Celestia went to the trouble of getting Shining armour and Cadence then something awful is happening. She asked for the eight of us to go as soon as possible, so pack your things and say your goodbyes. This is going to be a tough ride,” she turned to her draon friend and handed him a scroll. "Spike, send this to Celestia, it tells her we;ll be leaving tomorrow, and keep the library tidy and look after awlicious whilst I'm gone," The baby dragon nodded and the other ponies all agreed and went either to their house or to their partner’s house. Applejack went to Clover’s house; Rainbow flew back to her house, in which Soarin currently resided, Rarity went to speak to caramel and Pinky and Fluttershy walked back to their own homes, being the only two of the main six not to be in a relationship with somepony. Big Macintosh stayed with Twilight and just as Dark Light was about to leave Twilight stopped him.

“Ok, I don’t know the reason why she wanted two strong ponies to come along as well, but the main reason I chose you two was because you are the two strongest ponies who live here. Big Mac, Dark Light, I am sorry to have to drag you from your homes and Dark Light I am so sorry that I had to take you away from your son, and your wife but I need you two to do this,” She said. Dark Light agreed and the red stallion that was stood near him leant over to twilight and whispered something in her ear that made her blush and he kissed her. Dark Light said good bye and walked back to his family.

The morning was not easy. Shimmer was tearing up every few minutes and that only caused her son to join in as well. Dark Light comforted them and with a small case he had packed he wished the good bye, giving his son a kiss on the cheek and his wife a long passionate kiss on the lips. When he told her the night before, she gave him what she called a ‘parting gift’ which he enjoyed greatly. As did she. He left the house and waved at his wife and child, and walked to the station where the eight ponies had agreed to meet. They found each other and got on the train, saying good bye to their home town together.

It was a sight they would all miss.