Princess Twilight Sparkle is summoned to Canterlot. There she learns from Princess Celestia the true origins of the pony race and the secret of the cutie mark. Twilight must travel to Saddle Arabia with the dashing and handsome Prince Blueblood and her old friend from The School for Gifted Unicorns, Twinkleshine, to recover an ancient powerful relic.

Will her mission succeed or be thwarted by the complications of romantic entanglement?
This story takes place before http://www.fimfiction.net/story/245320/the-mare-and-the-mirror.