As Hope ran through Canterlot, she had forgotten about her change into an Alicorn. She felt like she had been in a battle, but how come she couldn’t remember it? “Spike! Spike, where are you? Astrana? Celestia? Luna? Twilight, where are you all?” She then decided to rush to the palace to see if they were all still there. As she ran, she used her magic to cast healing spells to all she passed. She rushed through the wrecked doors of the palace with a golden fire in her eyes, her wings spread slightly. Her cutie mark was no longer covered by a bandage. Her coat was no longer a dusty pink but instead a pristine pearl like pink, similar to that of Celestia only, if possible, pinker like Pinky Pie’s. Her cutie mark glowed a little for some strange reason. No one ever knew what it meant, but she always had felt it gave others hope.

As she ran through the halls of the palace as though it had only been yesterday that she had once been a young filly running through the palace to play with her sisters and brothers. As she entered the throne room, she noticed that the royal guard and the princesses were bruised and had their horns glowing. As Hope entered the room she was covered with a cloud of darkness for a brief moment and came to a stop in front of a creature that made Astra look gorgeous. “Get away from them!” Hope’s shout made everyone in the room notice her as she charged the Nightmare Queen.

The Nightmare just laughed as she flew up out of her way. Hope skidded to a stop just in front of her sisters and Twilight. She noticed Spike wasn’t with Twilight. She glared at the true Queen of darkness with a golden light in her eyes. “Oh, the poor baby looks like she wants to cry, are you going to take a nap now little one? Don’t worry about that pet of yours, he’ll be fine. After all, it’s you I want…” Hope’s golden power leaked out of her eyes. “Did you know he cried for you when I grabbed him? No, of course not, but I must admit, your energy and fighting strength, even when you were trapped in my nightmare, well it was indeed something to behold. You are quite powerful, young filly. I do believe that if you tried, you could easily overthrow your sisters in their reign and even lead them all, but then again, your fear of power stops you, doesn’t it?” The nightmare princess was barely able to dodge the alicorn that had once been Hope Healer.

Hope was now a bright pink alicorn with wings of pink with golden tips and a shockingly midnight black horn. The only thing that had stayed the same about her was her blue tinted glasses that lay on her snout. She concentrated her horn and aimed a blast at the flying Nightmare.

“Why can’t you just leave everyone alone? We didn’t do anything to you!” Her voice was no longer shy and soft like Fluttershy, but more of an outburst like Rainbow Dash. ‘You already killed one of my brothers…’

“Because, you have no right to exist anymore! But that will soon be solved once I figure out how your little friend saved your sorry little life!” The nightmare princess shot an immensely dark blast at the enraged alicorn and then disappeared in a puff of black smoke, leaving the princesses and the royal guards and court in shock and dismay.
Hope collapsed to the ground as the blast hit her. She was once more unconscious. None of the ponies recognized this clean alicorn to be the dirty old unicorn that had been Hope Healer. Luna was the first to react. She quickly rushed to the fallen alicorn’s side and tried to wake her up.
It only took a few seconds for her to wake up. The alicorn was no longer Hope in any perspective that the ponies could recognize. She looked around her at the shocked faces and then muttered under her breath, “By the crystals of Sombra… I’ve failed again!” She then galloped out the doors leaving the group of shocked ponies in her wake.

Author's Note

Okay, so this is short, I know, but I'm hoping you'll get interested, I mean, usually a pony says something like "Oh for Celestia's sake..." or something like that, well, this alicorn knows more beings who were around longer. You'll understand more later. Don't worry :D