Enigma

It’ been three whole years since any of us had seen the Elements of Harmony. They just up and disappeared one day. Then Princess Celestia sent Discord out to find them, and poof! He’s gone too. So there goes Equestria’s protection. Yeah, embarrassing, I know. Our main defenses are six teenage mares and an insane draconequus. So for three years, we were plagued by monsters that the Royal Guard were barely able to hold off. More and more stallions were being drafted.

Through these dark times, no one had been able to rise up and bear the mantle of Harmony. I’m sure eventually someone else would come along and save us, but I’m not just gonna stand around and wait, and neither are my friends. We have to help save Equestria, it’s the only way my best friend, Soul Dust, will ever be accepted as one of us, as a real pony. See, Dust has wings and a horn, but she isn’t an alicorn… she’s a changeling.

Yeah, I know, changelings are eviiiilll! But Dust is different. She had nothing to do with the siege that Chrysalis made on Canterlot, in fact… it was the opposite. When Dust was a filly (around one thousand years ago) , she was just a normal unicorn in Canterlot. Dust was a member of Mare Scouts, and one night, the were on a camping trip down by Neighagra Falls. She accidentally became separated from the other fillies. She was discovered wandering around the falls by Mutatio, the Queen of the changelings at the time. Mutatio captured her and flew her back to the changeling hive. That’s when she began converting her into a changeling. Dust described the transformation process to me once… I didn’t sleep for weeks.

For the following 1000 years, she was in the dungeons, all alone. It was enough to drive anypony beyond insane… but not Dust. She knew the dangers of being cooped up alone in the dark for so long, she understood the price would be her sanity. So.. she skipped it.

Dust was a unicorn of insanely powerful magic, because, she was the daughter of Princess Luna. Her father was unknown, because she was born on the moon, in the earlier days of Luna’s imprisonment. Luna used the little magic she had left to send her daughter safely back to Equestria. Anyway, though she was just a unicorn, she still contained Alicorn magic, which she used to speed up time. At least, in her mind’s eye anyway. This was not an escape attempt, but merely a way to save her mind from being broken. She skipped forward a thousand years to present day, right after the Siege of Canterlot.

The changelings had moved the location of their hive years ago, and the dungeon walls were all but eroded away, making an easy escape for Dust. She flew up, out of Neighagra Falls, just in time to see the changelings launched out of Canterlot. She quickly realised what was happening, and cast a protection spell on herself, but in doing so, she greatly weakened her magic, since she has to keep up the spell at all times.

So, Soul Dust went to Ponyville, met me, I didn’t care that she looked different, we became great friends, blah, blah, blah. You don’t want to hear about that part. Now that you’ve heard Soul’s awesome and terrifying tale about shape-shifting monsters and royal conspiracies, let me tell you my tale, of an ordinary, good for nothing pegasus who couldn’t do anything right. I was mostly just a normal pegasus, a face in the crowd, cheering on Rainbow Dash at flight school. I didn’t have many friends, and I hardly did anything noteworthy out of school, or even in school, for that matter. I never really had any friends, that is, until Dust came around.

My name is Enigma, and I’m 15 years old. I don’t have my cutie mark because… well, because I’m no good at anything. Dust says I just haven’t found my calling, but… I know she’s just saying that. But, me and Dust aren’t the only ones, we have other friends too.

Sugar Cube is an earth-pony baker. We met a long time ago, but didn’t become friends until we recently decided to find the elements. Sky High is a pegasus pony that I became friends with in Flight School. Coal Rock is an earth pony miner. Soul Dust met him while she was hiding out in a cave in Everfree. And lastly, Heart Sings, a unicorn musician  from Baltimare, who moved to Ponyville to get away from the big city life.

But I am Enigma, and this is my story about how I stopped being a nopony, and became somepony.