A New Eclipse

Celestia:

It was just like any other day. I ate my breakfast, I talked to Luna about the night's events whilst I slept, let her retire to her bedroom, took a stroll in the Canterlot gardens before having tea with the teachers of my school for gifted unicorns, had lunch and began to sign some paper work in the throne room when a guard noticed something from a window, it was heading towards the castle.

I walked to the window to see what my general was talking about. I noticed a glow in the distance, it looked like a blue flame heading towards me, much like Spike's letters that he sent to me for the girls in Ponyville. Spike, however, sent them by green flame. So who other than Spike and Discord could send me a letter by flame? I backed away from the window to let the flame enter, as it landed in front of me, I caught it with my magic sending a pink aura around the scroll. I sat down on my thrown and opened the letter, as I stared at the letter in front of me I could only giggle in excitement. The letter had the words, "Did you miss me?" and was signed "Eclipse."

"Your majesty, is there something in that letter that you find pleasing?" asked my general. I instantly smiled.

"Get the old chamber ready, we have a guest arriving in a few days." He saluted me and went off to carry out his order. Then I suddenly thought of something, next week was Luna's birthday party and I still haven't gotten her anything, mostly because she doesn't want anything. Suddenly another blue flame entered the room and appeared in front of me.

"I know what you're thinking, I will return on the night of Luna's birthday. Wink."

He's always one step ahead of me. I began to laugh at the thought of Luna's reaction. It then occured to me that I should inform Cadence and the girls, as well as Discord. Next week is surely going to be interesting.

Discord:

It was three in the afternoon. I was helping my wife Fluttershy with her animal friends when a letter appeared in front of me. I grabbed it with my claw and opened it.

"What does it say dear?" I heard my wife ask with her sweet voice, I smiled and replied.

"Celestia is throwing a party for Luna next week and a VERY special guest will be arriving."

"Is it princess Cadence?"

"It says she will be there but she is not the special guest"

"Then if it's not her, then who is it? Is it somepony you know?"

"Let's just say it's a very old friend, dear. Would you go tell Screwy and Mothball that we are going on a trip to Canterlot in a few days?"

Cadence:

Shining Armour and I were having some tea in a cafe near the Crystal Palace with our daughter when a letter appeared out of nowhere. It was about to fall in my tea when Shining Armour caught it with his magic. I smiled and gave him a kiss then took the letter from him to read it. When I saw what was written on the scroll I dropped my teacup causing it to collide with the ground and smash. My mouth was now hanging open in shock. Shining Armour ran to my side with a worried expression,

"What, what is it hun?"

"Read this"

He grabbed the letter with his magic and his face mimicked mine, "What does this mean for Equestria Cadence?"

I chuckled a little bit and said with a playful tone. "I guess my uncle is stopping by Canterlot next week. What do you say dear, wanna go?"

He straightened himself and nodded his head, with the shock still remaining on his face. I giggled and pinched his rump with my magic causing him to come back to his senses. This is going to change Equestria forever.

Twilight:

I woke up this morning to see my daughter, Twinkle, sleeping between me and my husband Flash Sentry. She was cuddling Flashes left wing. I could only smile at her cuteness. I kissed her on the cheek, got out of bed and headed to the front of my crystal tree house. I was about to trot over to Sweet Apple Acres to get some apples for my family's breakfast when I noticed a group of ponies that I had never seen before, they looked lost. I walked over to the three strangers to ask what was wrong.

"Um, hello there, are you ponies OK?" There was a Pegasus with a cream coat and a green spiky mane. The second was a unicorn that had long grey hair with red through it, and a smoky grey coat. The third was an earth pony with a cloudy white coat and short blue hair with red ends. The Pegasus looked at me and then noticed I was an alicorn and bowed. I felt a little embarrassed but didn't want to be rude. I thanked him for his respect and he then spoke, but something about his voice seemed odd, like it was coming from a speaker from one of Vinyl's records. Come to think of it, his hair was styled the same why as hers.

"Sorry miss, it's just that we are new in town and don't know our way around."

"Well then, tell me where you ponies need to go."

The unicorn then spoke, "We heard there was an apple farm around here but we don't know where it is."

"Well today's your lucky day. I was just on my way over to the apple farm. I'll walk you over there, my friend runs the farm."

The earth pony then bowed.

"Thank you princess."

"Now now, there is no need for that. Just call me Twilight, what are your names?"

"Oh sorry, I'm Glaze, the unicorn is Mic and the earth pony is Tombstone. It is very nice to meet you Twilight."

"Likewise, Glaze."

I led the way to Sweet Apple Acres and turned my head to Glaze, "You know, you look like a DJ I know, goes by the name DJ-PON3."

He looked at me with an irritated face.

"Yeah, I get that a lot. We are actually rivals in the DJ underground."

"Oh, so are you three some kind of DJ group then?"

"Yep, we have our own work but most of the time we work together." Tombstone and Mic smiled proudly.

"OK then, almost there. I should warn you, my friend gets very excited when she meets new ponies." I giggled a bit, I looked back to see their confused faces.

We reached the farm to find Applejack, Big Mac and Appleblossom bucking apples off their trees. Applejack noticed us and waved.

"Howdy Twilight! Who are your friends?"

"Hey Applejack. I'm just stopping by to get some apples. Oh, let me introduce you to Glaze, Mic and Tombstone, they're new here in Ponyville."

Applejack zoomed over to them and frantically shaked their hooves.

"Howdy y'all, welcome ta Ponyville. Ma names Applejack, nice to meet you!" I couldn't help but think she was over doing it with the accent.

"Now now Applejack, don't scare them off like when Ink Rose and Doctor Wolf moved to town." Applejack then released Tombstones hoof from her grasp.

"Hehehe, sorry 'bout that. I just can't help ma 'self, I love meeting new ponies." I asked Applejack for my apples and then left the three DJ's with her and waved back to them.

"If you need any help getting around town just ask somepony if they've seen me. OK Glaze?" He nodded and returned to his conversation with Applejack.

I returned home and started getting breakfast ready when I felt something grab my leg. I turned around to see Twinkle hugging me. I lifted her with my magic and nuzzled our noses together. I walked upstairs to wake my sleepy husband up. I shook him gently then kissed him on the cheek. He groaned and stretched his legs then opened his eyes.

"Morning sleepy head." I said with a soft smile on my face. We had apple tart for breakfast and then walked into town. A few hours later we met up with the girls in the park and to my surprise Rainbow Dash and Soarin were there with their daughter, Prism, who was the spitting image of her mother. "Rainbow, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with the Wonderbolts?" She laughed and hugged me while Soarin and Flash shared a bro hoof.

"Twi, don't you remember, me and Soarin quit the Wonderbolts after our mission in Afghanisteed?" I gave a sigh of relief and smiled at Prism.

"I bet you're glad to hear that huh Prism?" She smiled and hugged her mother. We were in the middle of lunch when Spike burped out a letter. He then stood up and started reading out loud.

"Dear Twilight and friends, you are all invited to Princess Luna's Birthday celebration next Tuesday, were we will not only be celebrating Luna, but also the return of my long lost friend..." Spike looked as if he was about to faint, and he did. I picked up the letter and continued reading.

"... Also the return of my long lost friend, Prince Eclipse!" I dropped the letter and everypony looked at me in confusion. Rarity spoke up, "Twilight, are you alright darling, who is this Prince?" I could only keep a worried expression on my face, I've never actually met the prince since I wasn't alive back before the thousand years of peace, but I've read a lot about him. I instantly realised why Spike had passed out, as he had read all about Prince Eclipse once, when we were living in Canterlot. It's not like his return was a bad thing, but it was definitely going to change things in Equestria.

"I've only read about him in books before but he was once the prince of all Equestria, he ruled alongside Celestia and Luna. However, after Nightmare Moon's banishment he just suddenly disappeared." They all looked at each other, looking even more confused. Fluttershy then told me that Discord got a letter just like the one I had received. I don't know what's going to happen but I somehow feel it's going to involve the elements of harmony.

I just don't know why the Prince would just suddenly return after one thousand years. I had a feeling, however, the answer would be found in Canterlot.