The Stars
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Chapter Cover by Lovely Sox
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Twilight finally found out what she wanted to do after constantly complaining she was bored. She decided to clean up for Moondancer when she officially inherits her old library in Canterlot, without her knowing of course. Twilight brought over scrolls with the information of the spells she promised, she balanced them gently on her wings until she reached the top of the stairs, if you didn't know about her royal position in canterlot you would of mistaken her for a circus pony.
She told her friends where'd she be, In fact she asked them to come with her and help her clean up, obviously she couldn't do it alone. They placed new books dusted old ones, organised them by colour, genre, shape, length, and even contents. After just the beginning of this act they cleaned the nooks and crannies till the entirety of the libary was spotless.
"Twilight, dear, I see why you are the princess of friendship you spent your whole afternoon cleaning for a friend!" Rarity was more than delighted to praise her friend.
The rest of the girls nodding in agreement, Twilight blushed in response as she continued walking down the road. As they neared the train station Twilight let the girls go home as she needed to talk to practice flying to prove Discord wrong when he said he could fly better than her.
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In the castle the sister's silence hid the situation that was being.discussed for months, but suddenly started to reach they're greater concern.
"Luna are you sure you can feel it?" Celestia had concern grow in her voice. Luna nodded matter of factly as they argued into the setting of the sun. Luna paced as she had the same level of worry as the elder sister. As they were going to calm down, the feeling of energy surges grew to it's greatest strength. The sisters knew what was happening, and couldn't believe it.
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Twilight woke up to the feeling of magic, and thought that tirek was stealing the magic from ponies again she winced at the thought. She got up and sneaked past the sleeping baby dragon, spike's room. Only alicorns and apparently discord can sense drastic magic change, so this was a foreign feeling, however Cadence taught her what it is and used her magic to demonstrate what it felt like.
She flew to the balcony of her castle and strained to see the sky, yet it was around midnight. Her eyes widened as they met a figure in the sky. It looked like an asteroid, but it had a rough depiction of her cutiemark on it, it wasn't a replica, but it did look like it.
"Mm... Twilight what's goin-" Spike wiped his eyes but was cut off before twilight leapt for him and his under one of the hall tables. She did just this just in time as the ball of light and rock slammed into the ground. near what looked like Fluttershy's house.
"Twilight what was that?" He said cowering under twilight. She shook her head and held him tightly before responding.
"I... I-I don't know spike," she replied her eyes were full of shock, confusion, yet she felt drawn to it.
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Twilight ran through town, but she caught the attention of a certain orange coated pegasus filly who already knew where Twilight was going, and she wanted to be there first. She hopped on her scooter and rode the same path to Fluttershy's house that she made a few weeks ago for their 'cutiemark crusader landscaper cutiemarks' it seems silly that her cutiemark is completely different than that silly idea.
She made it to the chicken coop and saw a small filly in the middle she had a weird dark shade of pink for her coat and her mane was like Luna's, but she had a turquoise colour instead of blue. She was an alicorn too, but the part that really got the interest of Scootaloo was she had no cutiemark.
Scootaloo heard footsteps and knew it was Twilight by the sound of urgency and the faint glow of purple magic coming into view, because of the uniqueness of this filly Scootaloo couldn't let Twilight see her or she'd take her to Celestia and Luna. She knows what they do to fillies with no parents, but she had no more time to think she quickly dragged the filly into a bush along with herself.
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Twilight spent some time looking, but she shrugged off the thought of it being any different from a normal asteroid and that it was her imagination of her cutiemark, she walked off plotting her investigation tomorrow.
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Stirling
Cover Art by Lovely Sox
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Celestia and Luna left the castle at first light, in fact Celestia raised the sun a few minutes before it should of, but first they looked to Twilight for an answer. They flew to the crater, but saw Twilight there already prepared for asking Fluttershy questions, they hid themselves and listened.
Twilight flew to the crater, Fluttershy was curled up around it, curious, but obviously fearful. Fluttershy saw Twilight and spread her wings taking flight trying to reach Twilight for an explanation of the crater.
"Twilight, how is that thing here? Where did it come from? I need to know!" Fluttershy's quiet voice and her panic seemed to make the situation all the more weird. Twilight shook her head saying she had no explanation, Fluttershy just decided to hyperventilate.
"Hey Fluttershy did you see anything last night? It might help me with this crater," Twilight asked calmly, Fluttershy nodded frantically.
"I saw a... a foal, or filly she was pink and I think I saw... no, I did see Scootaloo, she took the filly." Fluttershy explained, Twilight gritted teeth anxiously. Scootaloo had no idea what she was getting herself into.
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The young filly opened her eyes to being stared at by an orange pegasus filly, she had a frightening smile which quickly caused her to shiver.
"Hey are you ok?" Yet the foal ran to the wall terrified. "Umm.... hello? Are you ok?" The filly stared at her and shook her head.
"I... I-I can't go to my sisters... please don't make me do it!" The filly shivered and started whimpering, Scootaloo tilted her head. She looked back and forth nervously before she gulped and asked.
"Sisters?" She tried to get closer to the filly so she didn't try to run and cause commotion, or avoid the question. The filly flinched and answered briefly
"Them... they are," she pointed to a poster with Celestia and Luna on it.
"Celestia and Luna," she turned to the filly, "Those two are your sisters?" The filly nodded, and she got up hesitantly. "I won't if you stop being scared," the filly looked up more than confused, she then let out a slight giggle followed by a soft smile and curled up by Scootaloo.
"My name is Stirling by the way, what's your name?" She said as she closed her eyes.
"Scootaloo," she flatly said as she curled up by Stirling, feeling her eyelids go heavy, yet Stirling was half asleep. Scootaloo then asked her a question without thinking. "What are you?"
"A filly, an alicorn, the younger sibling of Tia and Lula, the pri-"
"Lula?" Scootaloo asked curiously she knew Tia is a nickname for Celestia, but Lula was a different name.
"Lula, she is the princess of the moon, and Tia, the sun." She yawned and closed her eyes.
"Got it, Luna is Lula..." she tried to shake the tiredness from her eyes and looked out to see its dawn yet she still fell gently asleep.
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Celestia and Luna were familiar with the filly known as Scootaloo, they both felt their blood boil and they took flight and made their way to the parents of Scootaloo. Celestia described the information and a way not to bring concern, the only answer that they got from them was the clubhouse, yet Luna saw the clubhouse in her dream walking experiences. And they both led themselves to the filly they had long forgotten, but now wish they hadn't.
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Twilight saw the princesses and decided to back down, but she let her curiosity get the better of her and run under the shadows as they flew above her, once they were given direction to go to the clubhouse Twilight shuddered. She didn't want Applejack to take part in this, she wouldn't even understand it either, yet she decided to try to make it to the former cutiemark crusader's clubhouse before they did.
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Scootaloo woke up to the filly she was resting by missing, her eyes widened in panic. Then reality hit her, the royal sisters had found her, she squirmed and looked out the window to just reveal a concerned Apple bloom running at a great speed.
"Scootaloo what is happening?" Applebloom bellowed as she reached to clubhouse steps.
"I want to know that!" Scootaloo screetched with great concern.
