Story of the shadow pony

The next day, Starlight was pretty relieved that she had a free day. It was as rainy as the yesterday and she could cuddle herself into comfy blankets. She had a nice breakfast and was now enjoying some tea, before a couple of letters popped into existence on the small table in front of her. One was from her parents, asking the same questions like any other time, like their little filly was doing and updating her about the newest happenings back home. Then a letter from her three brothers. The trio always taunted her a little about having no coltfriend, but on the other hoof also said every stallion would be a fool that they wouldn't wanna be with her. And then, the last from her grandmother. Granny Glimmer always had an open ear for her grandchild and tried her best to help Starlight when she had any kind of trouble. Starlight didn't even needed to tell her granny what was wrong, her granny would know it. Different then Jazz heard about everything, Granny Glimmer was a fortune teller. Even her cutie mark showed that.

And even now, the old mare still was great at her job.

"My dear Starlight," the letter read "I saw in my cards that you are still sad about being single. And that you fear that you would become to old to become a mother, am I right? Well, sweet child, Granny is here to help ya. Your mother probably would panic if she knew, but I will give you an ancient spell which was in our family for generations. Most used them to get servants back in the very old days, but its centuries ago our family was more then what we are today. You probably didn't knew, but our family once was royal and close to the Blue Blood family. But like I said, that was centuries ago. But we still had our spell. It created shadowy ponies, that would act in the liking of their masters, but had their down sides as well. It can probably help you out with your family wishes. So I hope, that it will cause you to smile again.

Your dear Granny Glimmer"

As Starlight was done reading, she got to the second page of the letter. Granny didn't lie, what she read there was an instruction and a spell. But Starlight had to fought about it. A shadow pony as a possible child? It was tempting, but she wasn't sure.

Especially that her Granny had said something about down sides. What could that mean? So she put the letter aside and got up from her couch, getting ready to go out. She headed to the biggest library in town, hoping to find some answers there.

She looked through some of the oldest books there. It seemed that her family really was former royals. That was until an ancestor refused to marry a mare he was promised to, disappeared and wed another mare he had fallen in love with.

A classic, middle ages romance, kinda like Romeo and Juliet. But no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find out much about those shadow ponies. All she read about the servants was that they would do everything to protect their masters and that they were described as strange, dark and sometimes even scary. But mostly, they seemed to be pretty loyal.

"Maybe it wouldn't hurt" Starlight thought on her way back home "If I give it a try. I can find a coltfriend sometime later."

With that, her decision was made. She would finally get the foal she ever wished for.