Mysterious Arrival

It was exciting to look how Fiery and Chrysalis spent their first day as mother and daughter. The pegasus was asking questions so fast, that the queen had to give up for a minute and accept Twilight's offer for a cup of tea. Eventually, the whole afternoon turned to a very pleasant tea party. The lavender alicorn decided to invite the poor guards, that still stood outside, guarding,inside, and they gladly accepted. The noon almost past with their stories:

" And so, enough with these war stories. Don't you have a fun story? For an example, like the thing, that happened with me and Discord? " Fiery asked one of the guards.

" But of course, Princess Fiery. " the guard, a beatiful stallion with dragonfly wings ( actually, the leader of the Changeling Royal Guard, Dragonflight) , smiled and started telling his funny story.

" Our lives before we were changed was mostly filled with tragic stories of broken hearts, or battle stories, as the ones you heard, but sometimes there were also funny stories. And some of them even had a happy ending! Don't think, that after we are changelings, we don't appreciate love. It's the polar opposite, in fact, and we hated ourselves for what we did to feed.

However, as I mentioned, some funny stories with a happy ending are worth a mention. For an example the case with the, pardon my speech, The Cannonball Mare! "

" Isn't that a bit... rude? " Twilight asked. The guard just smiled and replied to her:

" Believe me, if you saw that mare, you would see, that this name fits her perfectly.

The Cannonball mare was, well, wasn't a very skinny pony. It was hard to move her love interest from candy to me - well, it took me about 2 months of pretending - to - be - the - candy - deliverer. However, eventually I failed again and Mr. Candy replaced me. However, I contacted a colleague mare, who had a simillar case with " The Stallionball " . We made sure they knew of eachother's existence and - voala! We only had to sit there, watching them share mountains of sweets! Love is such a strange thing! " the changeling exclaimed.

Since all of the guards were inside, spending their afternoon in the cosy library, no changeling noticed the chariot, that moved across the sky and landed near the Everfree forest, nor did Twilight, Fiery or Spike. There was no mistake, that was Celestia's chariot. The Princess of the Day graciously walked out of the chariot and nodded to the guards, who pulled the chariot while it was in the sky. They nodded back and freed themselves from the parts, connecting them to the vehicle, and stood on the princess's both sides.

The alicorn slowly examined the field between the forest and the town. There was a big area, where the snow was missing, with a black hole in it's center. Celestia supposed the change of colour was because of extreme temperatures. It was exactly what she was expecting. Somepony was bothering with the sun. HER sun. She frowned and spoke:

" Exactly as expected. The troublemaker is here. Follow the orders! "

At her command the guards surrounded her, so that she could remain hidden, and slowly moved to the explosion site.

" I haven't got a single idea what thing could have caused that. " the stallion's face gave expression of his confusion. The mayor knit her brows and hit the ground with her left forehoof. If they didn't know, who knew anything at all?

Being the mayor was never easy, she admitted it. But the last two years she wasn't a mayor, she was more like something like a clean-up crew for the heroes. Most of the time everything was OK... but when the heroes failed it was up to her to calm down the ponies of Ponyville. She still was the mayor, after all. And usually, she apreciated what the Avengers, the lords and the Mane 6 did for the town. But when things got reaally wrong, like it happened with the Mandarin explosion, it was all on her.

Today it was the same. A huge explosion, much bigger than the one, that was " caused " by the Mandarin, shook almost the whole town. Luckily, there was no damage at all, but still... nopony could give the mayor an explanation she could herself give to the ponies. The only things she knew, was that Twilight was knocked out by Sunset Shimmer, her friend tried to save her... and boom. If this was caused by Sunset Shimmer, ponies would still wonder how did she get such power. But... it wasn't her. Ponies had reported of a unicorn, burned to the skin, running to the forest, yelling with Sunset Shimmer's voice. So the only logical explanation left to Mayor Mare, was that Twilight used an extremely powerful spell to protect herself from being killed and later, worried for her wounded friend, quickly flew away.

But this wasn't the truth either. After consulting several magic experts ( the best was Princess Twilight herself, of course, however she refused to cooperate. Ponies told her, that her door was locked and the view from her windows was blocked by drapes) , the earth pony was surprised to find out, that no other but Princess Celestia herself should have been able to perform a spell, connected so closely to the sun. And even worse, after contacting several of her friends in Canterlot, she found out, that there is no reported case of Celestia using the inner power of the sun in any way.

.... for the whole period Equestria's history had been recorded!

Back than, the mayor's mind was filled with her deepest fears and doubts. What if Celestia turned to something different? What if something like the case with Luna turning to Nightmare Moon happened? What awaited them than? Incineration?

Luckily, after a few quick letters, sent by some of her unicorn friends, she found out, that the both of the princesses were in their palace, and there wasn't any reason for worrying until the shockwave reached Canterlot.

Than the solution came to her mind, or at least she thought so minutes ago. Probably she should have called out for some scientific experts. The mayor remembered how relieved she was only 5 minutes ago, when she thought science would explain everything.

A.I.M. were at the site first, and Stark Industries sent ponies only half a minute after that. Sadly, as she understood right now, neither of the two group of specialists had an idea what caused the explosion ( or supernova, as they called it). There were no signs of Unstable Extremis explosion, and no parts of a machine, leading both of the groups to the conclusion, that the cause of the blast was magical.

The research by magic led to scientific explanation. And the scientific research showed, that the reason was magic. What was the true reason?

" Ma' am? " somepony called for her. The mare raised her head and saw something, that made her heart stop from the huge relief for a second. Princess Celestia herself, along with 6 royal guards, were closely examining the crater. The mayor put on a big smile and neared the alicorn.

" Princess Celestia? " the mayor called for the ruler of the day.

The alicorn stopped examining the hole and looked at the earth pony with an nnoyed expresion on her muzzle.

" I prefer not getting interrupted while I'm examining. " the princess looked more cross than usual, but Mayor Mare had no choice but to ask:

" D... do you know what might of caused that explosion, your majesty? "

Now the princess looked more annoyed. She sighed, knit her brows and angrily told the mayor:

" It is magic, don't you see? I thought it's obvious! Pffrt! "

The unsure pony made a step back. Why would Princess Celestia, who was always in a sunny mood, behave like that? Probably it was because of the stress. Sometimes stress took the best of ponies. Mayor Mare guessed the princess was extremely worried about something. She would have also been if she was Celestia, probably, so she just smiled warmly and made a few steps back, saying:

" OK, I would just let you finish with your work, your majesty. "

" Fine! " Celestia's reply sounded almost like a yell.

After a minute of carefuly studying the place with magic, Celestia turned her gaze to the town. The small trail of solar magic left behind led to the center. She said something only her guards had heard and all of them headed to the town.

" So, as you see, not everything was being a love vampire! " Dragonflight finished his last funny story. Nowadays changelings were adapting even easier than expected. Ponies gladly acceppted them into their society and some were even sorry they didn't look at the things from their point of view.

" I never knew changelings were so... gentle and kind. " Fiery replied.

" We are. " the guard assured her

" All of you had... a wrong perspective because of the curse upon us. Luckily, now it's away and we're able to be ourselves again..."

A sudden thud interrupted Dragonflight. The ponies, the changelings and the dragon gasped in horror, as the thud was heard again.

" Is anypony else coming along? " Twilight looked at Chrysalis, but the beatiful queen shook her head. Nopony else was expected. That ment it was...

" Princess Celestia. " the purple alicorn spoke her suggestion out loud. Both Spike and the changeling queen nodded sadly.

" Well... I think she would understand all if we gave her a proper explanation... " Twilight walked to the door, but found herself being stopped by Fiery, who stood in front of her with a scared expression on her muzzle. The lavender mare could see the panic in her eyes, the same panic that ruled her when she first arrived and they met. Her eyes were begging her not to go, but Twilight knew she was doing what was right. If she tried to hide something like this from Princess Celestia, her mentor could even gather the army. She surely didn't want this to happen, so she spoke with her pegasus friend:

" Fiery... you have nothing to worry about. Celestia... well, she'll understand. She is more understanding than Luna. She's probably just curious to know what happened and will be eager to meet you once I tell her the truth. "

" What if she doesn't? " the pegasus was panting. She seemed very worried, as if something horrible awaited her behind the door.

Twilight just couldn't think of Celestia the same way Fiery thought. For her Celestia was a mentor, a mare she could always turn to for advice. She had helped her make the right decision not once or twice, and she was one of the reasons for her to be an alicorn right now.

For the orange- maned pegasus, who never got to knew the princess of the day personally, Celestia posed a threat. The frightened mare imagined how furious she would be when she found out the truth and how she would cast one of her most horrible spells upon her for showing greater control over the sun than herself.

Twilight smiled warmly and hugged Fiery, whispering, that everything was going to be OK. The unsure pegasus made a few steps aside and the path to the door was now free. Putting on her best smile, the purple alicorn held the handle of the door with her magic and opened it.

As she had expected, Celestia was standing in front of her with her guards on her two sides. The annoyed princess moved her gaze to the door and noticed the purple alicorn. She gasped and made a step back, her expression revealing surprise and confusion.

" Princess Celestia! Nice to see you! " Twilight's greetings sounded lame, but it was the best she could currently think of.

" Twilight Sparkle? " though Celestia had put on an angry muzzle, her surprise was still obvious to the lavender mare. She revealed it with her voice.

" Is.. something wrong, Princess? " the purple alicorn seemed confused from her behaviour.

" Nothing at all. " Celestia replied

" However, there is a trail of solar magic, leading from the accident site to your house. As you should know, I am highly concerned from the fact, that somepony uses solar magic. It is dangerous for everypony. So I've came here to ask you do you know anything that could help us eliminate the threat as soon as possible? "

Fiery, who was hiding up to this moment,, literally froze. Chills went down her spine and her heart beat with a faster pace. Celestia concidered her a threat! She had no way out. Except probably...

The pegasus realized the thing she was going to do would permanently mark her as an enemy of the princess, but she couldn't help herself listening to her instincts, who told her to get away from there as quick as possible, before Celestia makes her words come true. She had never tried it before, because she never had the guts. Well, now she wasn't afraid and she needed it.

The mare with the yellow coat concentrated and imagined how a big fireball broke the window and granted her an escape route. For the first horrible seconds nothing happened. Fiery shook from fear. And just when the tension was so big she thought she would cause an explosion again, it was suddenly released. A ball of molten plasma materialized from her front right hoof and flew towards the window with great speed. Upon contact it exploded, melting the glass right away and freeing her way out. She spread her wings and flew to her freedom. She preferred being a fugitive, not a prisoner.

While Fiery was still trying to summon her powers, something she had never done before, Twilight was trying to reason with the Princess, who today was extremely stubborn:

" Didn't you hear me, Twilight? Threats are to be eliminated! Solar magic is something dangerous for everypony! Do you want to wake up in a world set on fire? If this happens it won't matter if your friend says " I'm sorry! " ! We have to deal with this while there's still time! "

" She can learn to control it! " the purple alicorn didn't agree with her ex- mentor

" Why can't you see what I mean? Why do you see everything as a threat? "

" Because it is a threat! " the princess of the day yelled at her.

Just than they were interrupted by the sound of a blast and Fiery flying out of the window. Both were so shocked they just stood there and observed. Even more, something was holding for Fiery's tail. Twilight recognized Spike. The pegasus stopped for a second, taking Spike on her back, and than continued her flight towards the Everfree forest.

Twilight knew there was only one thing she could do. She spread her wings and flew after them.

" Follow them! Don't let them escape! " Celestia commanded her guards, who flew after them, while Celestia chose to gallop instead.

The moment Fiery flew away she realized some extra weight was holding her back. She glared to her back and saw Spike barely holding on her tail. Worried he would fall, she stoped, shook her tail and Spike fell down, but while he still hadn't reached even the height of the roofs, the pegasus flew below him, allowing him to land on her back. She than flew to the Everfree forest.

" I just couldn't let you fly away like that! " Spike said her after she saw her dissaproving muzzle expresion.

" Thanks. " she smiled and looked forward again.

" I never thought I would see Princess Celestia like this! She is totally not the pony she usually is! " the baby dragon commented.

" She isn't? " the orange- maned mare was surprised.

" No! Usually she is kind, understanding, something like Twilight after 3000 years, if I can make a comparison. " Spike still didn't get why was Celestia so angry and unforgiving today.

" I guess I bring out the ponies' bad side. " Fiery noted.

Spike decided to spare his friend the information, that Twilight and the Royal Guards were following them. Probably those were his last minutes with her. He didn't want to ruin them with a reckless rush.

After not very long Fiery landed on the edge of the Everefree forest and Spike got off her back.

" This is the time when we say good bye. " Fiery told the dragon.

" I'm sorry, Spike, but you can't come along. You've got a normal life, keep it at any cost. Don't let your life turn to a series of disasters, as it happened with mine. Actually, this visit also had it's bad sides. Now I know I'm immortal and Celestia will chase me to the end of the world. "

" You don't think Twilight and I would let her do so, do you? " Spike smiled unsurely.

" And don't think your father and brother would just leave it that way. "

" What can they do? " the mare frowned

" Nopony on this world is more powerful than her. "

" No. But they are as poweful as her. And I doubt they would just sit and watch. " the dragon's smile turned to a grin.

" So... this is it. Good bye. " Fiery turned to the forest, when she heard a voice behind her.

" Nooo! " Twilight landed nearby. The pegasus turned around and probably she would have smiled, if she hadn't seen who stood behind her friend: all the royal guards and Celestia. Only 20 feet separated them with Twilight from her and Spike.

" Behind you! " Spike shouted.

The purple alicorn turned around and faced her ex- mentor. She flew in the air, so that she could look directly into Celestia's eyes and literally yelled:

" Princess, beg my pardon, but you cannot arrest ponies just like that, especially my friends! Such act is inexcusable! I refuse to stay away and I will oppose you with all my strength! "

Celestia smirked maliciously and the only thing she said was:

" Fine. "

Than the thing, that nopony thought would ever happen, happenned. The princess's horn glew and with a strong blast of her yellow magic Twilight was blown 10 feet away. She lay away from everypony, on their right, unconcious. Spike couldn't hear if she was breathing or not, and the sheer thought of it made him almost faint, but he reminded himself he had to help her. He rushed to her, so worried that his spinal spikes' tops swayed to the left. Luckily, she was still breathing.

Than the dragon realized what clever tactic Celestia had used. She had eliminated both Spike and Twilight with a single strike and now she was facing Fiery. Spike knew there was no use of going back, so that the princess could knock him out too, so he stayed by the unconcious Twilight, observing the confrontation between the two mares and hoping everything would turn out well for his friend.

" Don't let them interrupt me. " Celstia commanded her guards. They silencely nodded and stood on their positions, now looking at Twilight and Spike instead at Fiery. The princess of the day neared the orange-maned pegasus, speaking loud and mockingly:

" You are charged with use of forbidden magic. Sentenced to a life-long stay in the dungeons. Is there any point of retilliating? "

Spike was shocked, that instead of running in the forest, which began literally one foot behind her, Fiety made a step forward and declared:

" I've been running and hiding my whole life. But it's no more. I don't care who you are and what you want, but I know one thing: ponies, who hurt my friends, I never leave without having my revenge. "

" You? " Celestia mocked again.

" A pegasus, having small powers related with the sun. The control is subconcious. How would you have your revenge upon me? "

Before the alicorn could continue mocking, a sudden shockwave blew her and the guards of their hooves. Spike looked at Fiery, guessing she had caused the shockwave.  He had guessed right. Pure anger was irradiated from her eyes. The dragon had no idea how she could gain control over her powers, so he threw a quiestioning gaze at his friend. She only replied with a grin.

Suddenly, her eyes started changing their colour. At first some parts, but than her whole eye rings lost their green colour and became orange like her mane. Spike guessed it was the colour of the sun's surface as well.

Fiery was raised and hung a foot over the ground, but obviously didn't notice it. Her now orange eyes looked much more malicious than their green version. An oreol in orange, yellow and red appeared around her and it became a little darker around them. Fiery was gaining power from the sun. Spike guessed she was going to blast that energy at Celestia, but this time he was wrong. The oreol grew bigger and bigger and Fiery herself began shining. Eventually she shone so strong Spike couldn't look directly at her, but with his peripheral vision he noticed something strange: the pegasus's body was growing bigger, while her hooves were becoming longer. Suddenly, the oreol and the shine dissapeared and a new Fiery landed. She was taller than before, actually now she was as tall as Celestia herself, and had the figure of a princess as well. She spread her wings, which were also longer than before. They matched the size of Celestia's wings, but were still smaller than the ones Hase had. Her eyes had regained their normal colour, but suddenly the oreol glew again, but this time only around her head and her rump. It somehow sunk into her mane and tail, and instead of falling freely, they waved behind her as Celestia's mane did. However, something, that worried Spike, happenned a second after that. Her mane and tail got on fire and Spike nearly rushed to help her, but the pegasus made him a sign to stay where he was. After her mane and tail were burnt away, the dragon saw they were replaced by a cloud- like mane and tail as the ones Celestia and Luna had, but it's colours were the same as before - mainly orange and some red and yellow. It looked beatiful and Spike thought, that if somepony erased the mind of a random ony and asked him to choose the princess of the sun, while standing in front of Fiery and Celestia, if the pony ignored the fact, that the princess of the day was an alicorn, he must have admitted Fiery had a much more... solar look.

" Let's see how subconsious is it. " the changed Fiery spoke to Celestia who was just getting up from the ground.

The guards needed no sign. They rushed at Fiery, shouting, while holding their swords in their mouth. The result was a bit strange, but Fiery's counterstrike wiped the confusion of Spike's mind.

The pegasus smiled and a streak of her mane separated from the main part. However, it didn't look exactly as mane anymore. The peak of the streak suddenly returned to the rest of the mane, while the streak now looked more like molten stone. However, Spike knew those were heat rays ( which were visible) and molten plasma. The result resembled a miniature solar flare, something that Twilight had once observed from the Canterlot Observatory and didn't stop speaking about it for the rest of the week. However, it was more exxciting to see one in action and Spike felt sorry, that his friend missed such a sight. The solar flare clashed with the guards, sending them 30 feet away. If Fiery didn't decrease the power of the flare the guards would evaporate as soon as they contacted the solar, but since she did they only looked like struck by lightning.

" Impressive. " Celestia commented.

" However, filly, I have 3000 years of experience behind my back. How many do you have? "

Spike frowned. Celestia would never boast with her experience, otherwise it would have been a nightmare for Luna, who had 1000 years less experience. This Celestia was nothing like the one the dragon knew and he wondered if the princess wasn't getting a bit crazy ( Celestia forbid).

" None. But what power do you really have over the sun? None. So we're equal. " Fiery mocked in responce. Not giving her any time to answer, the pegasus spread her right forehoof and a beam of hot light was shot at the Princess. It would have melted any shield, but the clever princess jumped aside and fired a bolt of magic at Fiery. Another flare blocked it and redirected the pegasus's attention from the place, where Celestia used to be to her current location. She shot a ball of plasma, that would evaporate anything in contact, but the alicorn managed to dodge this strike too. Angry at her miss, Fiery shot another beam of heat, but Celestia jumped over it and shot a bolt at her opponent. This one nearly hit, but the yellow- coated mare shielded herself with her mane in her last second.

The bolt jumped off Fiery's mane and fired at Celestia. Obviously she didn't expect that, since she was struck by her own magic and fell down on the lane, mumbling something like:

" Should.... her....  like us. "

The pegasus neared her with a ball of plasma on the end of her mane. She hesitated for a second and that was enough for Celestia to jump back on her hooves and force Fiery to back off with a really simple, but effective tool - her hoof.

After she punched her enemy, Celestia raised in the air and fired a beam of light at Fiery. For a moment to Spike it looked like if it would hit Fiery, but in the last second she blocked it with her wings. The beam somehow broke and turned to miniature sparks falling down from the air. The destruction of the beam obviously also had an effect on Celestia, since she nearly fell . The princess of the day frowned and fired an especially big ball of light. The pegasus didn't see it coming, because she was just folding her wings back on her back, and when her eyesight stumbled upon it, it was 3 inches away from her muzzle.

Fiery fell down on the grass and panted, while Celestia neared her with a victorious smile. She mocked:

" I don't need power over the sun to show you the difference between me and you, you pathetic replica! Why do you think I was pronounced princess of all lands? How do you think you control an entire race? Without power... you're doomed. I don't see why your parents, or should I say creators, hoped, that you could resemble me, the master of the light and the day? The inner power of the sun is nothing matched to my strength. All you stand for is nothing for me, you're just one pathetic copy of me.

You could never hope to reach the greatness I have reached. You cannot hope to earn the trust I have earned. All you can do is to remain the monster you are right now... and hide from the eyes of the ponies. However, you won't have to, as soon as you're sent down to Tartarus! "

Spike didn't believe the words, that got out of the princess's mouth. Was she always so mean? Was her other side just a disguise?

The dragon told himself to shut up. This was nothing like princess Celestia. What if that wasn't her? Sadly, this wasn't the truth either. Nopony but Primal Shine and Celestia herself possessed such strength. But her got to do something! He couldn't just sit there and watch his friend being banished to Tartarus!

Spike got on his feet and closed his claw in a fist. Just when Celestia's horn started glowing in red and black, he ran,jumped and did the thing he never thought he would do. He punched Celestia, her royal highness, right under the eye.

The alicorn lost her concentration and her horn returned to a normal state. She angrily glared at the dragon and her horn shone again, this time with a blinding white light.

" I won't waste my magic to banish you too, beast, when I can simply take the flesh off your bones! " she spoke. The dragon closed his eyes and got ready for the worst.But a sudden sound of explosion caused him to reopen them.

Somehow Fiery was back on her hooves. Her mane, now looking more like the surface of the sun, held Celestia in a tight grip. Only her hindhooves, tail and head could be seen outside of the hot plasma cloud, that was Fiery's mane. The desperate princess fought to get out and tried to use magic for that purpose, but one of the miniature solar flares, that came out of the pegasus's mane, that went less than an inch near her muzzle caused her to give it up.

" Let's see how much princess material is there in you exactly. I seriously doubt there is any. " the smile of the pegasus was nothing like Celestia's evil grin, but was a playful smile. Fier looked at Spike and nodded slightly.

" Perhaps those, who had sent you, don't know much about Celestia. "

" What do you mean? " the voice, that was once angry and threatened to banish Fiery and take Spike's flesh off his bones, now was full of fear and confusion.

" I mean Celestia doesn't behave anything like that. You know, being the stepsister of Sunset Shimmer has some advantages... and one of them is, that you get to know the princess very well during the countless after school tea parties. My little sister insisted, that I join her every second Friday to drink tea with her and her mentor. Of course, that ended when she messed up everything, but I still got to know Celestia as good as probably my friend, Twilight. Even if I didn't know her so well, I would still be sure Princess Celestia wouldn't just break into her ex- student's house and try to terminate her enemies just like this. It was true, prejudice fooled her in the past, when she denied redemption to my parents and Uncle Sombra, but that was probably because back than they still wanted me and my siblings to substitute Celestia and Luna. Honestly, I wish nothing like this - being stuck in the throne hall for open court every second day. Also, I am not Celestia's copy. My powers are totally different. I don't pretend to be as powerful as her - I've still got a lot to learn - but I am proud I am the daughter of my parents. Finally I have found my place under the sun and you, should I say " pathetic replica " , are not taking it away from me. You forget I am a changeling from my mother's side and I can perfectly recognize when somepony is concealing something. I didn't detect such magic around you - I guess you and your guards or those who sent you are powerful wizards - but your behaviour gave it away. When you pretend to be Celestia, at least behave like her.

Now tell me, how to undo your magic? "

Celestia's muzzle curved into a sarcastic grin and spoke:

" I shall tell you nothing, creature of darkness! You have foiled our scheme, but this... "

Suddenly something shone from the forest. A small bolt of magic, coloured black and white, hit Celestia right in the horn. She stopped talking and her head fell down. Surprised, Fiery relinquished her from her mane's grip and she fell down on the ground. The air around her became hazy, as the concealing spell was broken and Celestia was revealed to be fake - it was just a normal uncorn mare with a grey coat and a dark- green mane. There were two streaks with different colour - one was white and the other was black.

Since the mare didn't move, Fiery placed her hoof on her neck. After a second the pegasus removed it from there and told Spike:

" She is dead. I guess somepony wanted to silence her forever. "

" The guards! " the dragon exclaimed in reply

" Perhaps they will know something! "

Fiery shook her head in responce.

" Whoever got rid of her porbably has gotten rid of them too. We'll only find more corpses. "

" What happenned here? I remember seeing Celestia... and than grass. Who's that? " the mare and the dragon turned around and noticed a curious Twilight peeking between them. She moved her eyes from the corpse to Fiery and for a second she looked like if she had swollen a whole cupcake without chewing.

" Celestia, when did you become so high? "

" Twilight! Are you OK? " Spike and Fiery spoke in unison. That made the purple alicorn laugh:

" I'm fine, guys, thanks. The ony thing that bothers me is what happenned while I was out, and where did Celestia go? "

" It wasn't Celestia, at least not the real one. " after a few seconds of looking at each other , deciding who should tell the story, finally Spike nodded and Fiery spoke.

" It was an extremely well - concealed unicorn mare. The spell wasn't cast by her.

However, she carried a medalion. Obviously it gave her enough power to be equal to Celestia herself. Though it was broken by a mysterious bolt of magic, that came out of the forest, that also murdered the pony and prevented her from giving us more information, when I held it with my mane, I still felt an extremely strong stream of magic, flowing out of it.

At first we didn't know that and I was foalish enough to think I could face Celestia on my own. I was only saved by Spike, who stopped her from banishing me to Tartarus in the last second... "

" Banishing to Tartarus can only be performed by Luna or Celestia, it has a magic seal. " Twilight interrupted her.

" What? " Fiery got confused

" Than what was the point of all this? With the power of the medalion she could have just take the flesh of my bones, as she almost did with Spike. "

" I guess she didn't want you killed... or at least her master, whoever he or she is, wanted you alive, but with a wish to kill Celestia. " Twilight concluded.

" This whole situation is horribly strange. We need to talk to the real Celestia right away. " Fiery replied

" Are you sure you want to meet her? "

" I know her as good as you, Twilight. I think she'll understand. Now... perhaps my transformation has made my mind more clear. Now I realize, that no matter of it's power, Celestia would never kill a pony before at least taking him or her to court. " the pegasus didn't waste any more time talking, but headed towards Ponyville.

" Wait, what do you mean? " Twilight and Spike could barely keep up with her

" Ask Spike, he saw everything. " Fiery responded.

" And by the way, Spike, take this as a gift from me. A gift as a sign of gratefulness for saving me. I don't care if there was something to be saved from, the point is, that you saved me and you were ready to die because of me. " before she said that, the pegasus mare stopped and went back to her friends, taking Spike on her back. After she thanked him, she gave him a special gift.

A golden medal, with " Spike, my hero"  written over it. The O of hero had a big round ruby in it's hole. Spike happily put it around his neck.

" And never dare to think you aren't a hero again. " Fiery smiled warmly

" Being a hero isn't wielding a magical hammer, being a tech genius or having any superpowers at all, Spike. It is putting the others' needs before yours. "