Editor's side note: Now, the part where the main character is asleep i had to write from another perspective. It didn't make sense to use the I and my in there when the character was unaware of what was happening around her.

Author's response: Sorry, couldn't figure out exactly how to write it up myself. So I just stayed in perspective, disregarding the lack of consciousness. As long as it's written right in the end, though, right?

We had just finished walking the trail from the old castle when Spike finally decided to wake. "Huh, wha? Twilight, when did I fall asleep?" he asked, wiping the crud from his eyes.

"You slept through half of my backstory, silly dragon!" I remarked before Twilight could answer.

"You are quite right... Samuel was it?" replied Twilight questioningly.

"It's okay if you call me by Sam. Besides, I think that Samantha would be a more fitting full first name for me now that I'm a mare... however that happened," I stated with a hint of matter of fact-fullness in my voice. We all fell silent after that statement.

We arrived in Ponyville several minutes later, and I began to feel self-conscious of myself as ponies began to stare in wonder at the new Alicorn arrival walking down the street with the purple ex-unicorn. I wished I could blend in with them as I did not want the stares and, somehow, they stopped staring.

I walked up with Twilight as she looked around for me, nearly facepalming... well, facehoofing, I guess, when she didn't see me, assuming I got distracted and went sightseeing. I was standing right next to her. How could she not see me?

"Sam? Sam where are you?" Twilight spoke in a worried tone.

"I'm right here, Twilight!" I replied in response to her calls.

She looked back at me in confusion, telling me, "You're not Sam. You don't look or sound anything like her!"

Twilight’s remark caused me to look down. I noticed that instead of the light orange coat I had almost become used to seeing on myself, I had a lime-green coat in its place, and I looked behind me, only to notice I had a feather for a Cutie Mark and a completely different tail style.

When I had wished to blend in, I had unknowingly used magic to turn into a different pony. I didn't quite like the new look, especially since Twilight couldn't recognize me through it, and suddenly I was back to normal.

I noted that my horn suddenly felt something like the pins and needles you get when you shift away from a position that makes your legs go numb. That was all I could think of before I lost my balance and nearly passed out from sheer exhaustion. I had never passed out or blacked out or anything in my whole life, so I wasn't surprised when I saw Twilight standing over me telling Spike something about taking a letter for Celestia. I was exhausted from the transformation magic that I had pulled off, so I wished for sleep.

When sleep didn't come, I worried that I was in too much pain for the moment. I tried to get up, only to be successful for half a second before my hooves all went outwards and I ended up in an uncomfortably stretching position on my stomach.

I could vaguely see Twilight's surprise from me not passing out yet through my half opened eyes, only to hear her tell me the same thing verbally. I managed to get back onto my side and began to do an improvised army crawl so as to remain mobile.

As suddenly as Twilight's face of surprise and worry distorted to show even further surprise and worry due to my struggle, a large white pony with a blended pastel multicolored mane suddenly appeared next to her. Princess Celestia herself, if I wasn't hallucinating.

About five seconds later I felt a horn touch the side of my own and I suddenly felt extremely tired, finding and willingly accepting sleep after spending so much energy.

~~~~~~~

As the sleeping body of Sam laid in a freshly prepared bed, four princesses assessed the situation carefully.

"Luna, you were not the only one affected by that spell that day," Celestia started, "I was also affected by it, only I hadn't known it at the time. When the soul began trying to corrupt my thoughts and bribe me to fall into its trap, I immediately recognised it, and, knowing that I would eventually fall for its temptations if I didn't cleanse myself of it, I hired a team of the best unicorns in Equestria to develop a spell that would banish the soul from this plane of existence.”

Luna glanced at her sister, an eyebrow raised.

“The spell itself was quite simple, but for a lasting effect I added roughly a thousand years worth of duration enhancement sub-spell,” Celestia continued. “When the thousandth year hit, the spell began to weaken and I’d guess that the soul attempted and failed to take control of a newborn child, and, when the spell finally gave in completely, which seems to be what the case is, the maliciously evil soul was eager to return, but was unable to separate from its now sixteen-year-old soul-companion-prison.

The soul has created this body out of the ashes of the remains of the room I was in when I originally sent it away, not unlike a phoenix. But like before, was unable to withstand the force of the human soul that had already trapped it within a body once. And now we have this."

As Celestia finished her long explanation, the now twenty-two-year old Stellar Nova turned to her aunt and questioned, "Kinda like what happened with me. So, does that mean I get a new cousin?"

"It seems so, my dear niece." Celestia replied with a sense of happiness, partly because she didn't have to be jealous of her sister for having a daughter anymore. True, she’d always had Twilight, but now she had a daughter by blood. She loved Twilight no less, but it was something else to have one of your own.

The young Alicorn shifted in bed to find a more comfortable position in her sleep.

"Samantha doesn't sound fitting for her," Luna finally choked up the will to say. "Perhaps a new name for the Princess of the Sun's Flame?"

"Very well. We shall name her Star." Princess Celestia decided.

"Hey, what about Fire? Star Fire? Rainbow Dash would like it I bet!" Twilight brainstormed aloud.

"Very well. Star Fire seems to be a fine, fitting name for the Hellmare Sun turned good." Celestia finalized.

"The Hellmawha?" Twilight said in confusion, dismissing the thought seconds later.

Star Fire giggled in her sleep.

"Good dreams, my little Star." Celestia said as she heard the faint giggle.

Author's Note

Maybe I got the right chapter this time. Actually, I know I did, I double-checked this time.

I guess that's what I get for being inattentive.