My name is Forge Fire and if you are reading this, I am dead. This is the only way I could think of to leave my mark on this world. In this series of books I have chronicled the adventures of my youth. Whoever reads this please learn from my mistakes. So that you may leave my story with a better understanding of your own life. This is the story of how I met the four greatest ponies I have ever had the privilege of knowing and the night I fought possibly the stupidest fight in my life. Oddly enough this was also the first time I had ever visited the gala.