Prolouge

Glistening silver eyes had become pinpoints in the soft moon light as Cosmic Light ran through the Everfree forest attempting to escape the hungry hydra that had been chasing her for the past 5 minutes, although it seemed like a hour to the petrified little filly.

Hungry, thirsty, and exhausted, Cosmic light was in bad shape. She might have enough energy to do a little more then a levitation spell, but it would take all of her effort. After living by herself in Everfree for the past week she had managed to teach herself many new tricks in order to not only survive, but also create a temporary home; or so she thought. Sadly this  looked like it might have been the end for her; she was quickly running out of stamina while the effects of the last week took its toll on her weakened body.

She started thinking saying to herself "I thought I was prepared for the forest, but I probably could have read about it more or learned better spells, or even a healing spell while I was at it. If I was smarter I wouldn’t have used so much magic when it wasn’t necessary.”  While lost in thought  the hydra managed to catch her by the end of her tail, throwing her hard into a very large tree trunk. The force of the impact caused 3 ribs to break, and knocking the wind out of the poor thing and with the bark having caused multiple and deep cuts all over her body (making a bloody marinade for the hydras next snack), she did the only thing she could think of. Cosmic used the last of her magic in order to blind the hydra with a white light to try and disorientate the massive beast. Ignoring the blood dripping down her entire body, she barely managed to create a bright enough light.

Finally catching her breath she managed to continue running with her adrenaline numbing the pain of her injuries. She knew she had to do something or she wouldn’t last much longer.  Cosmic light was just about at her final breaking point and was fighting off the urge  to just give up, when a bright flash came from above taking the filly by shock. She ran knowing that the distraction would be her last hope.

A moment before Princess Luna had noticed the bright light and came to investigate, and it couldn’t have been a more perfect timing ironically enough. After making the hydra run away, scared for its life, she turned to help the filly. With only a glimpse of the filly before. She was shocked to discover that she had vanished.  Leaving a confused Luna in one of the most dangerous place in all of Equestria. Needing to lower the moon to make way for her sister's sun, Luna returned to the castle. While lowering the moon, she couldn’t stop thinking about her, and what had happened. She started hating herself for not searching for her, herself.

In hope of finding the filly she saved, Princess Luna had a squad of her Royal Batpony guards and (with her sisters permission of course) a few of the Royal solar guards under  Celestias watch, search the everfree forest in a desperate hope of finding her or any sign of her. For the next three days they searched to no prevail. The guards had very little to go by because Luna wasn’t able to get a good look at the filly. The only description was skinny, short, blue or gray mane and tail, and dark purplish-blue or dark blue fur .She could tell that she was younger then the Infamous Cutie Mark Crusaders. (After a few Crusades went wrong they became well known between both Royal guards and castle staff. Shining Armor is still in therapy).  Luna begged the squad; that was ready to give up the search; to look for one more day. After a moment of back and forth between the guards and Luna they agreed with a “here we go again” sigh. One more day. That was it.

Cosmic light having run away during Lunas distraction, managed to finally rest for a minute. She created a mental checklist of all the components she would need in order to attempt to even survive the next few days. She had survived the hydra, but being so severely injured faced her with a whole different issue that hadn't even crossed her mind before.  Coming to a conclusion that water would be more important, she made a 5 mile hike to the bank of the river, she spent the next minute just drinking all the water she could manage to try and hydrate her dehydrated body, and sooth her throat that had turned raw during the presuit.  Not sleeping that previous day and still being so young, she barely managed to keep herself up. (Cosmic Light was a night owl. She always stayed awake at night and slept during the day, even though it didn’t leave the filly many opportunities to make friends. She didn’t mind though. She was happy being by herself. Or so she thought. She had her books, and her night to keep herself occupied. It was all that she had ever even known).

Her next step was to find shelter to keep herself safe, before a second creature had become aware of the helpless victim that could easily be swallowed in one bite by more then twenty percent of the carnivorous predators that called the forest their home. After a hour of searching for a suitable location and her body feeling like it had been hit by the force of a sonic rainboom, she gave up the search and settled to creating a makeshift shelter. She took two long branches and tied them to a thin but sturdy tree with vine making a A-shelter. She then took several giant leaves in her mouth and wove them together to keep the wind and possible rain out. Under the tree coverings you wouldn’t be able to even tell that there was a shelter there. The whole task took about 20 minutes and the last of her energy. Barely being able to eat a little grass from the surrounding area, Cosmic light finally passed out.

She woke up the next night and couldn’t move her body. It was then she knew she was sick but had no way of healing herself and her magic and stamina still critically low, so both were out of the question. A fever starting to come on leaving the poor filly feeling like she had been traveling in the desert in the middle of summer. Knowing she was out of options all she could manage to do was whispered to herself “Why did it have to be me? What did I ever do to deserve this life? Just Why?”. Barely being able to breath at this with her broken ribs, the young filly was scared for her life, and after only a few minutes in agony from her injuries Her world started going black. Her body when limp, and she could hardly even keep her eyes open. Her last thought was “Could this really have been the end?” Her body went limp as she drifted off into a comatose like state. Knowing it was the end, a single tear fell from her eye. She was out of options.