Outskirts of Canterlot: 1 minute until midnight

Alveretzalia waited under a moonlit sky. He checked his watch again There was no way she would be late. . .would there? No, that unicorn had OCD, she wouldn't be late. As if to confirm his belief, right when his watch struck midnight, a phantom appeared. It was of a unicorn who was seemingly made of stars taken from the night sky. Alveretzalia let out a soft chuckle "Midnight Shine, I'm happy to inform you that your body is intact for when you return"

"Good. I sensed a disturbance in the aetherial balance a few days ago around that little backwater druid village, did you ever follow up on it?"

"Not yet, and I think you mean Ponyville"

"It was a backwater druid village in our time. They helped destroy the mage collage and killed Dawngazer on the night of Nightmare Moon's ascension, then they came after me and my children, that was a good enough reason to surround the town with deadly animals on all sides."

"Still feeling a tang of guilt for that?"

"No, they were earth ponies and they deserved every last cockatrice they got. I would have just wiped it off the map, but that would have been too suspicious."

Alveretzalia smiled, he was about to drop a bomb on the situation "Do you know who your great-great granddaughter is?"

Midnight Shine looked over towards Alveretzalia "I don't know, why would I care about a two-bit hack that just so happens to be related to me?"

"Her name is Twilight Sparkle, she isn't a two-bit hack, she's a princess."

"A princess, like an alicorn princess? Because I didn't think you had the courage to lie to me you little [Censored Racist Slur]. Don't spout [Censored] at me."

"She even trained under princess Celestia. I'm not a liar; remember when we studied the elements of harmony? I could activate the element of honesty."

"Don't remind me. . ." She looked at Alveretzalia, maybe she was too hard on him? His mane had even changed due to the stress she placed on him, it was now a shiny, reflective silver, than the deep blue that it had been. A pang of guilt hit Midnight Shine dead on. He even tore his wings out of their sockets to save me and my family, and I still considered him below me because he wasn't a unicorn, was I really that terrible to non-unicorns? she noticed something odd, he had grown a horn. A smaller, curved horn, but one none the less "Alveretzalia, when did you grow a horn?"

"It happened after I saved your family from those druids and the Moonlight Paladins. After we parted ways. . . Thestrals have a weird natural ability to change from flying to straight arcane magic if their wings are completely removed"

"I see. . ." Midnight Shine considered something unusual; she wrapped her forehooves around Alveretzalia and pulled into some sort of reluctant hug.

"Opening up to me? Don't go too fast. . .you might hurt yourself"

Midnight Shine whispered in his ear "Shut up. I need you to go to Ponyville, and find what the disturbed the aether."

"All right then, this seems a bit out of character for you. . .I thought you hated non-unicorns. . ."

"I've spent 982 years hiding in the void so far. I'm just lonely" she brushed his mane back "And besides, you're close enough to a unicorn" she put a hoof to his horn "With this nice horn that you've grown"

The moment she touched Alveretzalia's horn, his eyes shot open and he pulled out of the embrace whilst making a strange noise. He began to blush "D-don't touch my horn, it's a tad sensitive"

Midnight Shine flashed an impish grin as she began to fade "You know what you have to do"

"Yes ma'am"

Ponyville Hospital: 7 AM, Room 8

Sparrow awoke, lying in a bed. He looked at himself, he was covered in bandages and he had a strange. . .thing hooked up to one of his forehooves. He heard a voice next to him "You're awake." He turned to see Rarity sitting next to his bed, behind her was a curtain.

"Where am I?"

"Ponyville hospital, Sapphirus did a number on you"

"I don't remember any of it"

"You wouldn't, you went berserk and you attacked two foals, leaving one crippled for life. Then you were attacked by Diamond Mind, you knocked him into a fence and broke a few of his ribs. Then Sapphirus pummeled you into unconsciousness"

"I really did that?"

"Yes, you did. I decided to research your 'Condition'. It appears that quite the number of years ago, there were different breeds of pony, you are one that has a 'trigger' that causes you to attack anything nearby, or target one thing. It could have been a trigger word."

Sparrow closed his eyes and tried to remember. 'Just who is that ugly stallion flirting with your sister?' 'Face it Sweetie Belle, your sister is a good for nothing whore' He opened his eyes "The one with the diamond tiara called you a whore"

Rarity flinched. Young foals shouldn't know that kind of language "So you attacked her to defend my. . . image? My good name? Why?"

Sparrow was about to think on the situation when they both heard a scream from behind the curtain. Rarity pulled the curtain back to see Diamond Mind. . . .crying, with holes in his mane, fangs in his mouth instead of teeth, and the white of his left eye changing color to match his iris. His coat was beginning to darken, when a dingy white pegasus with a turquoise mane burst through the door, Nurse Redheart following behind her saying "He isn't ready for visitors!"

The pegasus stopped next to Diamond's bed and turned his head towards her own, and looked him straight in the eye "Diamond, you had that dream again, didn't you?" Diamond nodded. "Focus on me, just me." Diamond's left eye began to return to normal. The pegasus took a talisman out from under her wing and began to hum a lullaby, Rarity, Sparrow and Nurse Redheart noticed that Diamond was returning to normal, then his eyes drooped and fell asleep. Nurse Redheart had a look of surprise on her face "What the heck did she just do?" The pegasus turned around hit Nurse Redheart in the side of the head, knocking her out.

Rarity recognized the pegasus's voice and drew her (stylish and ladylike) stiletto knife and pointed at the pegasus "Well hello. . . .Chrysalis"

Author's Note

This chapter's delays were brought to you by: Carpal Tunnel, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy; which gave me carpal tunnel, Dark Souls ( \o/ ), and Titanfall.
(I will die a happy author if any of my fans understood what the emoticon in the parentheses above means)
I NEED to stop it with the erotic subtext dammit.
Sorry for censoring Midnight Shine, but I found that was a tad bit. . . .uncreative (is that how ya say it?) to use swear words, and her swear words. . . .I can't really write them or pronounce them. (it causes SAN damage)

PLEASE! I NEED CRITICISM!