Bright as a Star

The sun rises, warm sunlight spreads all over Equestria, and Twilight was still fast asleep.

It was a Saturday, and Saturdays is when Twilight has free time to read books or do chores, not sleep in. But Twilight was so exhausted from last night. Twilight tried to wake herself up, she felt that there were important things to do. More important than sleeping. She then remembered that there were no plans today. Probably some reading but Twilight already read all the books in her library. She thought it was okay for her to sleep in, and so she did.

She was asleep for more than three hours, until she felt something fuzzy nudging her shoulder. She slowly opened her tired purple eyes and saw the little filly, smiling at her with those dark blue eyes of hers and shaking her tail wildly like a dogs'. Twilight smiled back and gave a big yawn as she sat up, "Alright, I'm up." She rubbed her eyes and then looked back at the filly. She noticed the filly had a lot of energy in her. Looks like this filly was up for a while now. "How long were you awake?' Twilight questioned the filly. The filly just looked back at her and giggled.

"Still can't talk huh? Well, it makes sense since you're about 3 years old." The filly then giggled once more.

"Alright. Now I need to find out who you belong to little..."

"Mira!" the filly chirped.

Twilight was speechless. Just yesterday, all the filly could say were just sounds. And now this filly just suddenly learned how to speak?

"Wait a minute," Twilight brought her head down to meet with the filly's eyes . "yesterday, you couldn't speak English. So I'm guessing, one; you were afraid to speak, or two; that is the only word you can say."

"Mira." the filly squeaked as she stretched her front hooves up towards Twilight.

Twilight grabbed the little filly and held her in her hooves. "Alright then. Hello little Mira."

Mira squeaked as Twilight held her close.

Twilight went down the stairs to her library and used her magic to levitated hundreds of books into the air. As she levitated the books, she looked through each one. "Where is it?" Twilight can't seem to find it. As she looked through the books, little Mira came down stairs. She looked through the books too, even though some were too high for her to reach.

Twilight kept searching and searching until little Mira nudged her. Twilight looked down at Mira and saw her with a book in her mouth. Twilight put all the books back into its place and levitated the book away from Mira and looked at the title. "Get to Know your Solar System. *gasp You found it!" Twilight beamed as she looked back at the little filly smiling at her. "Wait a minute," Twilight stared at the filly, "you know how to read?" Twilight asked curiously. Mira nodded.

Twilight blinked a few times, "What else do you do that I don't know about?" Mira point to the book Twilight levitated. "You know about space?" Mira tilted her head as if that wasn't all. Mira jumped towards the book Twilight levitated, but Mira couldn't reach. Twilight noticed Mira trying to get the book, so she brought it down to Mira. Once Mira had the book, she then flipped through the pages.

Twilight had a lot in her mind about this filly. This filly just makes no sense to her. Mira continued flipping the pages. She kept looking and looking until she stopped at page 53. Once Mira found the page she was looking for, she then pointed it to Twilight. Twilight looked down and started to read, "Cetus is a constellation. Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called 'the whale' today. Cetus is located in the region of the sky that contains other water-related constellations such as Aquarius, Pisces, and Eridanus." Twilight looked back at Mira. Twilight didn't know what this was all about but thought maybe it's best if she continued. "The most notable star in Cetus is Mira ("the Wonderful"), designated Omicron Ceti, the first variable star to be discovered and the prototype of its class. Its seeming appearance and disappearance gave it its common name, which means "the amazing one". Also..." before Twilight could finish, Mira took back the book.

"Mira what are you trying...to...show...me." Twilight noticed something in both the book and the filly. "The most notable star in Cetus is Mira." That echoed in Twilight. "Your Mira the star?" Twilight whispered. Mira jumped with joy.

It made sense; the big red ball of light, the strange burnt hole in the ground, a little filly that glowed. Mira must have fallen somehow and landed in Equestria. But that didn't explain that small hole, that star is a lot bigger than that. Unless when Mira came crashing down, she then shrank herself? Twilight was getting confused.

There was too much for her to handle. She felt weak. Twilight's eyes rolled back as she fell to the ground; she fainted. All Twilight could see now was darkness.