Dawn and Dusk

In a crystal hall, 2 alicorns faced each other. One was lavender colored with a purple streak through her dark mane. The other was the color opposite, a yellow base with a silver mane with an orange streak. Both sat in a dead silence, each sipping their tea refusing to meet the others eyes. The lavender alicorn drew a shaky breath and asked, three simple words, starting the interrogation.

"Who are you?"

The other pony shuffled up straighter as if she was trying to look regal and spoke in an unwavering tone as if reciting from memory"I am Crescripularity Glimmer, apprenticed to Princess Luna, adopted by the Equinox house of Canterlot.

"Miss Glimmer, the royal Equinox houses were abandoned hundreds of years ago, and Princess Luna never had an apprentice. A plethora of emotions went through the young alicorn's face. First came anger, then fear, and finally resignation; the kind of resignation that mimics that of a dying man accepting the end.

"What do you last remember," asked Twilight, trying to brighten up the depressing mood that was cast.

"Falling asleep in my room on the night of the 12th full moon."

"You were found stumbling out of the Everfree Forest. What were you doing in there?"

"I honestly have no idea." She said

"More and more curious," thought Twilight

"Crescripularity-" Twilight began

"Cress. My friends call me Cress," as a look of despair slid on her face

Twilight was bewildered, a pony, no, an  alicorn no less was her friend in under 10 minutes, and why was she so depressed? "Is there anything you would like to add, Cress."

"That's all that I remember," she replied in a monotone.

"Well, then what about your family?"

"I never had a husband or a special somepony, and my daughter can handle herself."

"Is she adopted?"

"You could say that," she said fidgeting with her bracelet again.

"Anyway, what is your birthday?"

"The first day of spring."

"When was your last memory?"

"My birthday, year 1009"

"Cress, the day is the second day of spring 2015. You have been asleep for 1,000 years. I'll ask again, Who Are You?"

(----)

Princess Celestia yawned in a very unroyal manner. "Maybe it's time to call it a night," Celestia thought, " Luna can start night court." She lowered the sun, as she always had for centuries, only this time she waited, and the luminous moon crested over the eastern horizon. It had happened for the last year, but every time it took Tia's breath away.

Celestia shuffled down the grand Canterlot hallways, her ethereal mane in knots, bags under her eyes, and to put it gently, frazzled. She was too tired to care about her godly image, and she didn't need to worry anyways, the staff was well aware of the overworked monarch. As Celestia reached her chambers a telltale puff of green and gray smoke swept into the letter funnel that Tia had installed after the "hiccup fiasco", it took her days to change the teleportation co-ordinates. Why was her faithful student writing to her now? Tia opened the letter that reads as follows:

Dear Princess Celestia,

I apologize for writing to you unannounced, but there is an unforeseen circumstance that requires your immediate attention. A pony stumbled out of the Everfree forest and asked to speak to you, Luna, and I. I'd that was not peculiar enough, the pony forgot everything between waking up and having a conversation with me.

She also claims to be apprenticed to Princess Luna, could you look into her claim? Her name is Crescripularity Glimmer.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

P.S

Could you enclose a crystal for spike when you send your response, he gets cranky when he has to receive letters that interrupt his naps, and I don't seem to have any nearby.

Celestia read the last line, then re-read it again. Tia ran out of the room, fatigue forgotten searching for her sister.

"Lulu, where are you?", She frantically called out.

"Right here sister."

Tia charged into the hallway that held her sister. " Lulu, she has come back!"

"Who has come back, Tia?", The confused alicorn replied.

Tia lifted the letter with her magic, and while Luna read the letter she wondered how her sister would feel. "Well, I wonder how the

Ponyville troupe will react to this news, Pinkie Pie would throw they a party", thought the alabaster alicorn, remembering her faithful students' Ponyvillian welcome, Rarity would design new outfits, Rainbow Dash would probably challenge her to a race, and the rest would give her a warm welcome, too warm although well natured.

As Luna reached the last sentence, her eyes grew to the size of saucers. Her mind overflowed with emotion and collapsed. Celestia, prepared this, supported her collapsing sister who muttered a single name, "Cress." Celestia walked her unconscious sister and lay her on her bed, and thought "I'll take over Night court for one night, because Lulu has a lot on her mind, although first I have an old friend to visit."

(----)

Buuuurp

"A response from the Princesses, what does it say?"

The purple dragon stood up as much as his little frame let him "well, it says

To my faithful student Twilight Sparkle,

Please bring your guest to Canterlot by tomorrow, I will dispatch a royal escort to accompany you, also open the rest of this letter in one of the nearby hallways to Spike's chambers

Not wanting to disappoint the Princess, Spike walked into the hallway and opened the rest of the letter

Boom

"Spike, what ha----?"

In the hallway spike was hugging, and eating a gigantic crystal, that was twice as big and  tall as Twilight, from the crystal caverns, and it was Spike's favorite flavor, emerald.

"The Princess does have a soft spot for Spike," grumbled Twilight, shuffling back to her room. As she slept Twily's mind wrestled with the question of what does the princess want with the mysterious pony that it's staying in one of the guest bedrooms, and the bigger question of "Who is she?"

"Who is she?"

(----)

The orange alicorn crawled into the guest bedroom with a dimsal mood over her like a malignant thunder head. "I thought that she cared. I thought that I meant something to her." Cress walked into the room her bracelet and her eyes started to burn with ungodly flames. "I TREATED HER LIKE A MOTHER AND THEN SHE GOES AND FORGETS ME!" The room burst into flames as archaic symbols whirled in a torrent of hatred and fire. As quickly as it began, the flames doused themselves, and Cress wasn't a royal, regal, Princess, she was just a filly lost in a grown-up world. All of the walls that Cress had made broke, and she collapsed into bed crawled under the covers and sobbed, long and hard. In the hallway, a pair of clawed hands, silently closed the door, thinkIng, "This is a problem that Twilight can't solve."

(----)

Meanwhile, in Sugarcube Corner a puffy punk mane suddenly burst and deflated. "Oh, that was probably the new pony, I'll get everyone together tomorrow after my morning sugar rush." The party pony pied her signature item out of nowh----

" Oh silly, it didn't come from nowhere, it came from my invisible saddlebags."

Alright Pinkie, can I continue with the story?

"Oops sorry, Carry on."

As I was saying, Pinkie opened the bottom half showcasing her greatest creation, the improbability drive. The hyperactive party pony put on a moustache and inched towards the lever on the end of the cannon. She moved it past the 3 balloons, past the broken wall with a 4 on it, and past the tank with a grilled cheese sandwich cut at an angle, all of the way up to the highest setting, 3 balloons in the same configuration like the lowest setting except for one difference, all the balloons were in the shape of pony skulls.

"This is gonna be good."

Yes, Pinkie, yes it will be.