My Tale of Equestriaby LolianTriforceChaptersChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 1To be honest, Lolian didn’t know what happened. One minute, she was leaving an alternate dimension and heading back to Earth, the next minute, she was standing in a train station in Ponyville. Standing on four legs felt weird. She began to panic a little. She stood there, confused. She probably would have stayed there all day, but it was then that the train conductor walked up to her and nudged her shoulder. “Excuse me, your highness,” the conductor began, “Are you lost?” Surprised, Lolian turned towards the conductor. “Yes,” she started, “I just need to know where to go.” “Yes, of course.” The conductor grabbed a map from a stand near the train station building. As he unfolded it, Lolian noticed that it was the map of Ponyville. The conductor studied the map for a minute. When he found what he wanted, he handed her the map and pointed to a small house on the far side of Ponyville. “That,” he explained, “is your house. Just walk through town past both Town Hall and Twilight’s castle and you should find it in no time.” Lolian thanked the conductor as he walked back to the departing train. She grabbed the only bag of luggage (with her mouth) that she had found next to her with her name on it. Quickly, she walked out of the train station and into the street. She found the streets of Ponyville quite empty. She wondered what happened to all the residents. She walked to Town Hall, when she was tackled by a pony by surprise. “Hey!!” she shouted. “Get off!” “Oops,” the strange pony said sheepishly, quickly getting off Lolian. Lolian looked at the strange pony. She had a long dark mane and dark brown eyes. Her fur was very light brown. She wore a yellow jacket with long black and yellow ears. Her black glasses shimmered in the sunlight. She was looking down and away from her. She acted very shy. “It’s my fault,” Lolian quickly apologized. “I should have been paying more attention.” The pony glanced at her and noticed her horn and wings. Her eyes widened and she knelt down on the ground. Lolian felt very awkward and made her rise. “Please don’t do that,” Lolian pleaded. “I’m just a normal person—I mean, pony, like you.” The other pony nodded. “So, what’s your name?” “My name is Pikachew,” she quietly mumbled. “That’s a nice name. Mine is Lolian. Please to meet you.” They shook hooves and parted ways. Lolian continued down the street in Ponyville. She couldn’t help but think how strange this other world was. She didn’t really understand this My Little Pony universe as well as she could have. She had always watched her sister enjoy the show, but she didn’t know much. All she knew was the main town was Ponyville, there were three princesses, and Twilight and the mane six were running around the place. She walked past Sugar Cube corner and found Pinkie Pie and Applejack standing in front of the bakery. Remembering what happened to Twilight at the beginning of the series, she knew she would have to avoid Pinkie somehow. Lolian reached up and felt something soft on the top of her head. She glanced up to find her hat, a Legend of Zelda elf hat, to be exact. The soft green hat might be enough to keep Pinkie from noticing her. Pulling the green hat off her head, she used it to partially cover her face as she walked past them. Using one of her hooves to hold up the hat (with her suit case in her mouth) walking was not easily done. She would stumble a little and tried to regain her balance without trouble, but she ended up attracting attention rather than pushing it away. As she fell to the ground, Pinkie interrupted the conversation with Applejack and walked over to the strange pony. The hat covered her horn, so she mistook Lolian for a Pegasus. Giggling in her misfortune, Pinkie helped the stranger up. “Looks like you are having a little trouble today, Ma’m,” Pinkie said after finishing her laughter. When Lolian took her hat off, Pinkie gasped. She ran around Lolian, examining her to the last detail. After she finished, she stood in front of Lolian and gasped loudly. “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!” Pinkie squealed in delight, “You’re new, aren’t you?!” Lolian, dreading what came next, nodded. “Wow! Another Alicorn Princess in Ponyville! Soon, we won’t have any room left!” Lolian noticed out of the corner of her eye, she saw Twilight and the rest of the mane six running towards them. As Twilight stopped, her mouth hung wide open in astonishment. “Another Alicorn Princess?” She asked aloud. Pinkie turned her attention to her beloved friend. “Yeah! I was confused, too!” she exclaimed. `Being overwhelmed at the situation, Lolian abandoned her luggage and ran towards her house. Reaching the door, she ran inside and locked it behind her. “Things can’t get any worse,” she panted. “There you are, Lolian!” a voice snapped her back to reality. She looked down to find a dark blue and black baby dragon staring at her happily. Her tail swung from side to side. Her amber eyes seemed to see something she couldn’t. “Uh, who are you?” she asked. “I’m Scales, remember?” the dragon reminded her. Lolian didn’t want to blow her cover. “Oh, y-yeah! I remember now!” Lolian patted the little dragon’s head. She purred in delight. Lolian began to look around at her “house.” The walls were blue with tints of gold on the edges. There was furniture in front of a large fire place. There were photos of the Canterlot Castle and its busy streets. There was a set of stairs that led upstairs and a door leading to the kitchen right next to it. The dragon looked at her with a slightly confused look. She began to get nervous and broke the silence. “So, I tried to get the house you wanted,” Scales started, “But this was the only empty one. I hope you like it.” Lolian glanced at the dragon, who was getting close to tears, and sighed quietly. Quickly, she hugged the dragon as tight as she could. “It’s perfect.” Chapter 2Sitting in front of her bedroom window watching the world below was her favorite past time. She was glad one thing had stayed the same. Lolian watched as ponies went on with their lives, as if everything in the world was right. She became sad thinking about the man she had met in the previous dimension; Aiden. She missed him greatly. She almost considered him her colt-friend and—Ah dang it! She hadn’t even been there one day and she was already speaking just like them. Sitting up, Lolian decided to go for a quick walk outside to clear her mind. Quickly, she exited her room and walked downstairs. She found the place darker than night. What cause this? It was only noon. She looked around, trying to find the door. She reached out and her hoof met in contact with the door knob. But before she could even turn it, the lights turned on. “SURPRISE!!” The shout had startled her and she fell over. She lifted her head and looked around to find ponies all around her. In the center of the room stood the mane six; Pinkie Pie was jumping up and down. “Wow!” she shouted. “I guess she really was surprised!” Lolian stood up and dusted herself off. She had forgotten that Pinkie threw a party for Twilight her first day. Why would she not expect this? Adjusting her hat, she looked around and noticed most of the ponies in the room were background ponies in the show. Twilight walked up to her. “Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle,” she introduced. “And these are my friends: Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Apple Jack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. We threw this party to help you feel welcome here.” “It was hard to set this up without you knowing!” Pinkie exclaimed. “You were pretty quiet in your room and your little dragon said you didn’t want to be disturbed! I don’t think I know another pony who LIKES to be alone!” “I’m not very social, either,” Lolian mumbled. Pinkie walked around Lolian and inspected her appearance. Her light blue eyes searched over her curiously. “You know,” she started. “I know all the alicorns in Equestria, but I don’t know you.” Lolian rolled her eyes. Already she was getting annoyed. She had been away from home for too long. She didn’t want to stay here any longer. She grabbed her coin purse full of bits from a small table next to the door and opened the front door, ready to leave. But before she could even walk outside, she was face to face with Celestia, Luna, and Cadence. Her eyes went wide and she backed up, allowing all three to enter her house. They looked around a little, but Celestia turned her attention to Lolian. “So,” she began, “You must be the new alicorn?” Lolian nodded a little. Her whole body was stiff in shock. Celestia looked at her for a while. “Interesting,” she said quietly. “What is your name?” “… It’s Lolian.” “…. Lolian?” She nodded again. “She has a weird cutie mark, too!” Pinkie interrupted. Lolian looked at her flank. Her cutie mark was three gold triangles stacked together to form a bigger triangle. In the Legend of Zelda series, it was called a Triforce. The bottom right triangle stood for courage, bottom left for wisdom, and the top for power. As she inspected her cutie mark, she noticed the tips of her wings were dark blue. She opened her wings a little and noticed that her wings had a gradient of white to dark blue. She liked it. Folding her wings, she remembered that she was surrounded by ponies. She looked up at Celestia, who had a curious look on her face. That’s when it hit her. A sick feeling entered her stomach. It was a homesick feeling. She felt lightheaded and her knees became weak. Her vision became bury and the world suddenly tipped over onto its side. She heard the muffled cries of the other ponies before she blacked out. *** Lolian slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She was in bed with the lights dimmed. She glanced out the window next to her and saw the sun beginning to set in the distance. She couldn’t remember what had happened before she woke up. All her muscles were stiff and they ached in pain. Then it came to her. She had passed out after feeling sick. She was surprised she wasn’t in a hospital after that. She heard someone clear their throat. She looked over and saw the mane six standing by her beside. “Are you alright?” asked Twilight. “You gave us quiet a scare, darling,” Rarity remarked. “It was Twilight’s quick thinking that helped you recover,” Apple Jack added. Lolian sat up and cringed in pain. Her muscles were sore from sleeping so long. Twilight rushed to her side and inspected her. “Oh my,” she gasped. “Looks like you’re still pretty sore.” “You think?” Lolian asked sarcastically through her pain. “…… Where did you come from?” Lolian stopped. She hadn’t really planned out an answer for that particular question. What should she do? She couldn’t tell them she was from Earth. But then Lolian remembered a movie where Twilight visited a High School back on Earth. Maybe she could tell them…. “… It’s a long story,” Lolian replied. “We’re not rushed.” *** Twilight looked at Lolian with a surprised expression. “You mean, you’re from the same world Canterlot High is?” she asked. Lolian nodded. “My friends and I were in a different world before I came here. I just want to go home.” Twilight smiled. “I think I can arrange that trip for you.” Chapter 3Twilight walked over to the machine she had built to travel back and forth between Equestria and Earth, as Lolian called it. She used her magic to levitate the journal with the emblem of Celestia’s cutie mark on it onto the holder. The machine sprang to life and started to open the portal. Lolian smiled. She couldn’t believe that she was finally going home. She watched at the portal swirled open with the glimmer of purple magic. She walked towards it and protruded her hoof into the vortex. There was a sudden flash of black. She saw a face in the vortex that smirked at her. The portal closed and ceased to be. Lolian jumped back, shaking. What did she just see? What happened to the portal? Twilight and her friends were in shock. This had never happened before. Twilight walked up to the portal and brought the journal down. “I can’t believe that happened,” she said quietly. Lolian looked at her. Tears welled up in her eyes. What she really stuck? No, there had to be a way for her to get back. But what was that face in the vortex? Was that the cause of the vortex shutting? Lolian stood up, only for her shaky legs to drop her back to the ground. It was then that reality hit her. She was trapped away from the real world against her will. The overwhelming sound of her heart beat rang in her ears. The tears cascaded down her face in a waterfall of sorrow. It had been too long since she had last cried. The tears she had held back for weeks were now puddles on the ground. Twilight set the journal down and grabbed a paper and quill. She quickly wrote something in ink and rolled up the paper, handing it to Spike. He took a deep breath and spat out green flames which made the paper disappear in smoke. Lolian remembered that was how Twilight sent messages to Princess Celestia. What did she write this time? Using her right hoof, she wiped away the tears and stood up. As fast as Twilight had written the letter was as fast as it took for Princess Celestia to respond. A flash of white light made the ponies cringe as the white alicorn appeared from nowhere. Celestia looked at Twilight and folded her outstretched wings. “What exactly happened?” she asked. “Well,” Twilight began, “We had started up the portal to send Lolian home to her world, when the purple vortex turned black and closed.” Celestia looked alarmed. “I saw a face,” Lolian added. “It smirked at me.” Celestia was quiet for a long time. She was deep in thought. Shaking her head a little, she turned her attention to Lolian. “This is very strange,” Celestia started. “This has never happened before. I wonder what went wrong…” “Maybe I’m stuck here forever,” Lolian concluded. Celestia looked at her with a worried look. “You’ll go home soon enough,” she said reassuringly. “Don’t worry.” “You said you had been in another world before coming here, right?” Twilight asked. “Maybe someone is using magic to keep you here.” Lolian looked at her. There could only be one person with the magic to do that: Herobrine. *** Lolian sighed quietly. She tried to explain to them who Herobrine was, but Minecraft wasn’t widely known in the pony universe. She glanced at Celestia, who was thinking and looking away. “That reminds me of an event,” Celestia finally said after some silence. “It was long before any of you were born. There were two other alicorns that lived at the Canterlot palace. The oldest was Silver Dawn and the younger was Midnight Flight. Dawn made the sun rises and sun sets more beautiful than I could have, and Midnight made the moon glimmer silver. “One day, there were monsters attacking Equestria. Someone had opened a portal from another world and was letting pony zombies and skeletons everywhere. We tried to fight them off, but they got stronger. Dawn knew that a lot of power was going to have to be given up in order to save the world. “In the end, Dawn gave her life and saved Equestria. She and her sister haven’t been seen since. I tried to stop her, but she wouldn’t listen to me. But that’s the way she always was; she was selfless.” Lolian’s eyes were wide. If zombies and skeletons were really here, then there was no doubt that they had come from the same world she had been in. But why attack Equestria? This was truly puzzling. Celestia shook the sad memory away from her and looked at the ponies. “But enough talk,” she began, “It’s getting late. You all should return home. I’ll be back in the morning.” And with that, she disappeared. *** Somewhere in a distant corner of Equestria was a marshland that lay in fog. The gloomy sight was depressing in more than one way. But the real secret of the marshland was beneath the green marsh waters. Below the marsh was a dark and eerie castle that stood silently. A flash of black smoke appeared in front of the castle doors. A yellow pegasus as big as Celestia stood on the paved ground. His black hair shone dimly in the dark atmosphere. He wore a purple crown that covered around his eyes with a red gem adorning it. He wore a matching pendant and hoof covers. His yellow and purple wings folded back into place as he walked inside. His red eyes darted around, surveying his surroundings. The castle had been unused for years. But now he was back and he had matters to attend to. A purple pegasus with demon green and grey wings and ghastly florescent green hair with black hoof covers and fake claws landed in front of him. Her crimson eyes looked at him. “Ah,” he began, “It is nice to see you again, Shadow.” “It’s been too long, father,” Shadow responded. Chapter 4Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Chapter 1To be honest, Lolian didn’t know what happened. One minute, she was leaving an alternate dimension and heading back to Earth, the next minute, she was standing in a train station in Ponyville. Standing on four legs felt weird. She began to panic a little. She stood there, confused. She probably would have stayed there all day, but it was then that the train conductor walked up to her and nudged her shoulder. “Excuse me, your highness,” the conductor began, “Are you lost?” Surprised, Lolian turned towards the conductor. “Yes,” she started, “I just need to know where to go.” “Yes, of course.” The conductor grabbed a map from a stand near the train station building. As he unfolded it, Lolian noticed that it was the map of Ponyville. The conductor studied the map for a minute. When he found what he wanted, he handed her the map and pointed to a small house on the far side of Ponyville. “That,” he explained, “is your house. Just walk through town past both Town Hall and Twilight’s castle and you should find it in no time.” Lolian thanked the conductor as he walked back to the departing train. She grabbed the only bag of luggage (with her mouth) that she had found next to her with her name on it. Quickly, she walked out of the train station and into the street. She found the streets of Ponyville quite empty. She wondered what happened to all the residents. She walked to Town Hall, when she was tackled by a pony by surprise. “Hey!!” she shouted. “Get off!” “Oops,” the strange pony said sheepishly, quickly getting off Lolian. Lolian looked at the strange pony. She had a long dark mane and dark brown eyes. Her fur was very light brown. She wore a yellow jacket with long black and yellow ears. Her black glasses shimmered in the sunlight. She was looking down and away from her. She acted very shy. “It’s my fault,” Lolian quickly apologized. “I should have been paying more attention.” The pony glanced at her and noticed her horn and wings. Her eyes widened and she knelt down on the ground. Lolian felt very awkward and made her rise. “Please don’t do that,” Lolian pleaded. “I’m just a normal person—I mean, pony, like you.” The other pony nodded. “So, what’s your name?” “My name is Pikachew,” she quietly mumbled. “That’s a nice name. Mine is Lolian. Please to meet you.” They shook hooves and parted ways. Lolian continued down the street in Ponyville. She couldn’t help but think how strange this other world was. She didn’t really understand this My Little Pony universe as well as she could have. She had always watched her sister enjoy the show, but she didn’t know much. All she knew was the main town was Ponyville, there were three princesses, and Twilight and the mane six were running around the place. She walked past Sugar Cube corner and found Pinkie Pie and Applejack standing in front of the bakery. Remembering what happened to Twilight at the beginning of the series, she knew she would have to avoid Pinkie somehow. Lolian reached up and felt something soft on the top of her head. She glanced up to find her hat, a Legend of Zelda elf hat, to be exact. The soft green hat might be enough to keep Pinkie from noticing her. Pulling the green hat off her head, she used it to partially cover her face as she walked past them. Using one of her hooves to hold up the hat (with her suit case in her mouth) walking was not easily done. She would stumble a little and tried to regain her balance without trouble, but she ended up attracting attention rather than pushing it away. As she fell to the ground, Pinkie interrupted the conversation with Applejack and walked over to the strange pony. The hat covered her horn, so she mistook Lolian for a Pegasus. Giggling in her misfortune, Pinkie helped the stranger up. “Looks like you are having a little trouble today, Ma’m,” Pinkie said after finishing her laughter. When Lolian took her hat off, Pinkie gasped. She ran around Lolian, examining her to the last detail. After she finished, she stood in front of Lolian and gasped loudly. “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!” Pinkie squealed in delight, “You’re new, aren’t you?!” Lolian, dreading what came next, nodded. “Wow! Another Alicorn Princess in Ponyville! Soon, we won’t have any room left!” Lolian noticed out of the corner of her eye, she saw Twilight and the rest of the mane six running towards them. As Twilight stopped, her mouth hung wide open in astonishment. “Another Alicorn Princess?” She asked aloud. Pinkie turned her attention to her beloved friend. “Yeah! I was confused, too!” she exclaimed. `Being overwhelmed at the situation, Lolian abandoned her luggage and ran towards her house. Reaching the door, she ran inside and locked it behind her. “Things can’t get any worse,” she panted. “There you are, Lolian!” a voice snapped her back to reality. She looked down to find a dark blue and black baby dragon staring at her happily. Her tail swung from side to side. Her amber eyes seemed to see something she couldn’t. “Uh, who are you?” she asked. “I’m Scales, remember?” the dragon reminded her. Lolian didn’t want to blow her cover. “Oh, y-yeah! I remember now!” Lolian patted the little dragon’s head. She purred in delight. Lolian began to look around at her “house.” The walls were blue with tints of gold on the edges. There was furniture in front of a large fire place. There were photos of the Canterlot Castle and its busy streets. There was a set of stairs that led upstairs and a door leading to the kitchen right next to it. The dragon looked at her with a slightly confused look. She began to get nervous and broke the silence. “So, I tried to get the house you wanted,” Scales started, “But this was the only empty one. I hope you like it.” Lolian glanced at the dragon, who was getting close to tears, and sighed quietly. Quickly, she hugged the dragon as tight as she could. “It’s perfect.”
Chapter 2Sitting in front of her bedroom window watching the world below was her favorite past time. She was glad one thing had stayed the same. Lolian watched as ponies went on with their lives, as if everything in the world was right. She became sad thinking about the man she had met in the previous dimension; Aiden. She missed him greatly. She almost considered him her colt-friend and—Ah dang it! She hadn’t even been there one day and she was already speaking just like them. Sitting up, Lolian decided to go for a quick walk outside to clear her mind. Quickly, she exited her room and walked downstairs. She found the place darker than night. What cause this? It was only noon. She looked around, trying to find the door. She reached out and her hoof met in contact with the door knob. But before she could even turn it, the lights turned on. “SURPRISE!!” The shout had startled her and she fell over. She lifted her head and looked around to find ponies all around her. In the center of the room stood the mane six; Pinkie Pie was jumping up and down. “Wow!” she shouted. “I guess she really was surprised!” Lolian stood up and dusted herself off. She had forgotten that Pinkie threw a party for Twilight her first day. Why would she not expect this? Adjusting her hat, she looked around and noticed most of the ponies in the room were background ponies in the show. Twilight walked up to her. “Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle,” she introduced. “And these are my friends: Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Apple Jack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. We threw this party to help you feel welcome here.” “It was hard to set this up without you knowing!” Pinkie exclaimed. “You were pretty quiet in your room and your little dragon said you didn’t want to be disturbed! I don’t think I know another pony who LIKES to be alone!” “I’m not very social, either,” Lolian mumbled. Pinkie walked around Lolian and inspected her appearance. Her light blue eyes searched over her curiously. “You know,” she started. “I know all the alicorns in Equestria, but I don’t know you.” Lolian rolled her eyes. Already she was getting annoyed. She had been away from home for too long. She didn’t want to stay here any longer. She grabbed her coin purse full of bits from a small table next to the door and opened the front door, ready to leave. But before she could even walk outside, she was face to face with Celestia, Luna, and Cadence. Her eyes went wide and she backed up, allowing all three to enter her house. They looked around a little, but Celestia turned her attention to Lolian. “So,” she began, “You must be the new alicorn?” Lolian nodded a little. Her whole body was stiff in shock. Celestia looked at her for a while. “Interesting,” she said quietly. “What is your name?” “… It’s Lolian.” “…. Lolian?” She nodded again. “She has a weird cutie mark, too!” Pinkie interrupted. Lolian looked at her flank. Her cutie mark was three gold triangles stacked together to form a bigger triangle. In the Legend of Zelda series, it was called a Triforce. The bottom right triangle stood for courage, bottom left for wisdom, and the top for power. As she inspected her cutie mark, she noticed the tips of her wings were dark blue. She opened her wings a little and noticed that her wings had a gradient of white to dark blue. She liked it. Folding her wings, she remembered that she was surrounded by ponies. She looked up at Celestia, who had a curious look on her face. That’s when it hit her. A sick feeling entered her stomach. It was a homesick feeling. She felt lightheaded and her knees became weak. Her vision became bury and the world suddenly tipped over onto its side. She heard the muffled cries of the other ponies before she blacked out. *** Lolian slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She was in bed with the lights dimmed. She glanced out the window next to her and saw the sun beginning to set in the distance. She couldn’t remember what had happened before she woke up. All her muscles were stiff and they ached in pain. Then it came to her. She had passed out after feeling sick. She was surprised she wasn’t in a hospital after that. She heard someone clear their throat. She looked over and saw the mane six standing by her beside. “Are you alright?” asked Twilight. “You gave us quiet a scare, darling,” Rarity remarked. “It was Twilight’s quick thinking that helped you recover,” Apple Jack added. Lolian sat up and cringed in pain. Her muscles were sore from sleeping so long. Twilight rushed to her side and inspected her. “Oh my,” she gasped. “Looks like you’re still pretty sore.” “You think?” Lolian asked sarcastically through her pain. “…… Where did you come from?” Lolian stopped. She hadn’t really planned out an answer for that particular question. What should she do? She couldn’t tell them she was from Earth. But then Lolian remembered a movie where Twilight visited a High School back on Earth. Maybe she could tell them…. “… It’s a long story,” Lolian replied. “We’re not rushed.” *** Twilight looked at Lolian with a surprised expression. “You mean, you’re from the same world Canterlot High is?” she asked. Lolian nodded. “My friends and I were in a different world before I came here. I just want to go home.” Twilight smiled. “I think I can arrange that trip for you.”
Chapter 3Twilight walked over to the machine she had built to travel back and forth between Equestria and Earth, as Lolian called it. She used her magic to levitate the journal with the emblem of Celestia’s cutie mark on it onto the holder. The machine sprang to life and started to open the portal. Lolian smiled. She couldn’t believe that she was finally going home. She watched at the portal swirled open with the glimmer of purple magic. She walked towards it and protruded her hoof into the vortex. There was a sudden flash of black. She saw a face in the vortex that smirked at her. The portal closed and ceased to be. Lolian jumped back, shaking. What did she just see? What happened to the portal? Twilight and her friends were in shock. This had never happened before. Twilight walked up to the portal and brought the journal down. “I can’t believe that happened,” she said quietly. Lolian looked at her. Tears welled up in her eyes. What she really stuck? No, there had to be a way for her to get back. But what was that face in the vortex? Was that the cause of the vortex shutting? Lolian stood up, only for her shaky legs to drop her back to the ground. It was then that reality hit her. She was trapped away from the real world against her will. The overwhelming sound of her heart beat rang in her ears. The tears cascaded down her face in a waterfall of sorrow. It had been too long since she had last cried. The tears she had held back for weeks were now puddles on the ground. Twilight set the journal down and grabbed a paper and quill. She quickly wrote something in ink and rolled up the paper, handing it to Spike. He took a deep breath and spat out green flames which made the paper disappear in smoke. Lolian remembered that was how Twilight sent messages to Princess Celestia. What did she write this time? Using her right hoof, she wiped away the tears and stood up. As fast as Twilight had written the letter was as fast as it took for Princess Celestia to respond. A flash of white light made the ponies cringe as the white alicorn appeared from nowhere. Celestia looked at Twilight and folded her outstretched wings. “What exactly happened?” she asked. “Well,” Twilight began, “We had started up the portal to send Lolian home to her world, when the purple vortex turned black and closed.” Celestia looked alarmed. “I saw a face,” Lolian added. “It smirked at me.” Celestia was quiet for a long time. She was deep in thought. Shaking her head a little, she turned her attention to Lolian. “This is very strange,” Celestia started. “This has never happened before. I wonder what went wrong…” “Maybe I’m stuck here forever,” Lolian concluded. Celestia looked at her with a worried look. “You’ll go home soon enough,” she said reassuringly. “Don’t worry.” “You said you had been in another world before coming here, right?” Twilight asked. “Maybe someone is using magic to keep you here.” Lolian looked at her. There could only be one person with the magic to do that: Herobrine. *** Lolian sighed quietly. She tried to explain to them who Herobrine was, but Minecraft wasn’t widely known in the pony universe. She glanced at Celestia, who was thinking and looking away. “That reminds me of an event,” Celestia finally said after some silence. “It was long before any of you were born. There were two other alicorns that lived at the Canterlot palace. The oldest was Silver Dawn and the younger was Midnight Flight. Dawn made the sun rises and sun sets more beautiful than I could have, and Midnight made the moon glimmer silver. “One day, there were monsters attacking Equestria. Someone had opened a portal from another world and was letting pony zombies and skeletons everywhere. We tried to fight them off, but they got stronger. Dawn knew that a lot of power was going to have to be given up in order to save the world. “In the end, Dawn gave her life and saved Equestria. She and her sister haven’t been seen since. I tried to stop her, but she wouldn’t listen to me. But that’s the way she always was; she was selfless.” Lolian’s eyes were wide. If zombies and skeletons were really here, then there was no doubt that they had come from the same world she had been in. But why attack Equestria? This was truly puzzling. Celestia shook the sad memory away from her and looked at the ponies. “But enough talk,” she began, “It’s getting late. You all should return home. I’ll be back in the morning.” And with that, she disappeared. *** Somewhere in a distant corner of Equestria was a marshland that lay in fog. The gloomy sight was depressing in more than one way. But the real secret of the marshland was beneath the green marsh waters. Below the marsh was a dark and eerie castle that stood silently. A flash of black smoke appeared in front of the castle doors. A yellow pegasus as big as Celestia stood on the paved ground. His black hair shone dimly in the dark atmosphere. He wore a purple crown that covered around his eyes with a red gem adorning it. He wore a matching pendant and hoof covers. His yellow and purple wings folded back into place as he walked inside. His red eyes darted around, surveying his surroundings. The castle had been unused for years. But now he was back and he had matters to attend to. A purple pegasus with demon green and grey wings and ghastly florescent green hair with black hoof covers and fake claws landed in front of him. Her crimson eyes looked at him. “Ah,” he began, “It is nice to see you again, Shadow.” “It’s been too long, father,” Shadow responded.
