A Different Tale

A young mare scampered through the streets of the royal city of Canterlot. She was a unicorn mare with a grayish-purple coat and a yellow and whitish-blonde mane. Her cutie was of 5 4-point stars and her golden eyes were focused on getting to her home in the castle, till 3 mares walked in front of her. She slipped to a stop and stared at the ponies who had hopped in front of her.

''Dinky, we came to tell you that Twinkleshine is having a big party in the west castle courtyard, we wanted to know if you would come with us?'' asked the apparent lead unicorn of the group.

The unicorn mare, apparently named Dinky, winced under their pleading gazes. She shook her head and glanced at a book in her bag, which had a symbol of the alicorn mare on the cover. ''Oh, I'm so sorry but I have to catch up on my studies. And I have to babysit Twilight today, sorry.''

She darted off, as the lead unicorn looked at her with slight annoyance in her eyes yet she sighed. ''I don't get it, it's all Twilight or books with that mare. And I know Twilight, despite being a filly, she is the smartest of her former classes, I don't think she needs babysitting, Dinky Hooves.''

One of the other two unicorns nodded in agreement. ''Twilight moved up 3 grades in her first year at school when she was, I believe 2 years old. And she already had her cutie mark, granted she had been born with the darn thing but seriously come on! Half of us didn't have cutie marks and we were 10 years old. She in fact skipped magic kindergarten.''

''Studious sisters, what do you expect.'' said the third one, shaking her head. ''Come on, we better not leave Twinkle waiting, you know what she can be like.''

''As soon as I get home, I will inform Twily and look up information on the elements of harmony, and if I find something disturbing I'll inform the princess....that's the plan at least.'' said Dinky, speaking out loud as she pasted by many ponies, seeming to confuse half of them with her ignorance, on her way to the library-bedroom that she and her little sister, Twilight called home.

She ran up the spiral stairs to her 'home' and pushed the door open and it seemed obviously hits something heavy because of the loud clatter it made. Dinky, however, wasn't fussed as she went and called out. ''Twilight! Twilight!''

A groan was heard, and Dinky stopped immediately upon seeing her filly sister laying on the floor in clear plain. ''Oh....sorry, Twilight. Didn't know you had been behind the door....'' chuckled the unicorn mare, nervously.

Twilight was a unicorn filly with a pale lavender coat, a mane of mostly dark bluish-purple strains but running just off from the center were two streaks, one of rose pink, the other of violet. The same violet could be seen in the filly's big eyes. Her cutie mark was of a star like her sister, but with a different design. She had a large pink star in the center, with a slightly smaller white star hiding behind it and surrounding the two stars were 5 different white stars

''It's alright, big sis. But what's the hurry about? Did the princess send a letter?'' asked the filly, as she pulled a pink and purple stripped present off her horn. She looked sadly at it as the bear teddy that she had stuffed inside fell out.

''What is that, Twily?'' asked Dinky, confused by the present.

''Oh....well um, it was my present for Twinkleshine but let me guess, we're not going now. Dinky, I know that your anti-social because you believe that people would use you to get to the princess but the fillies that go to the school aren't too bad......just get to know some of them and maybe you could have friends. I bet Twinkleshine would gladly be your friend, big sis.''

''Twilight.....I would, but being Princess Celestia's prodigy, I need to focus on my magical studies and so do you, after all, you graduated from the school of gifted unicorns pretty early for your age. Most ponies don't graduate till their 18, your only 12.''

''Yea.....I could have been older if your magic had been stronger......I could have been summoned as a filly, that why I wouldn't have had to wait 2 years before I began my studies.'' grumbled the fillies. ''Do you want a book or something?'' She asked noticing that her older sister was clearly getting annoyed because she couldn't find the book she so desperately wanted.

''Yeah, can you find me Predictions and Prophecies?'' grumbled Dinky, looking at her baby sister with pleading eyes. ''...After all, you have a location spell.''

''Oh okay, just give me a second.'' The filly walked up to the second floor to join her sister and looked up at her horn, she closed her eyes and focused her magic which spiraled up her horn which began to glow. She sent a shock wave through the room and and the book in questioned began to rattle and buzz about. ''There, you happy?''

''Thank you, Twily.'' giggled Dinky as she levitated the book off the shelve and placed it on her stand. Using magic, she flicked through the book. ''E...e...e...ah, here we are! The elements of harmony. See 'mare in the moon'?''

''I thought the 'mare in the moon' was just an old mares' tale, everypony knows that.'' questioned Twilight, who was putting the books that Dinky had taken from the shelf in searching for her book. Of course, moving so many books at a time was a toil so it was taking her some time to get them all in the correct positions, if they weren't in the right location then the school's librarian would get on her back.

''That's what I thought....'' mumbled Dinky, as she flipped through the pages in the book. ''Mare. Here we go. mare in the moon. A powerful pony who wanted to rule Equestria, defeated by the elements of harmony and imprisoned in the moon. Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape, and she will bring about night time eternal!''

''Why are you even searching through these, Dinky?''

''I was reading a book called the 'elements of harmony' and it told the story of two alicorn sisters, the younger becoming jealous and falling to her own jealousy because of her older sister getting all the ponies of Equestria's attention, when she got none.......and I knew that I had read the term 'elements of harmony' somewhere before. Now I know where, the story of Nightmare Moon and the legend of the mare in the moon are the exact same.''

''That doesn't sound right....'' mumbled Twilight, agreeing with her sister that something was up. ''I think you should contact the princess about this.........the idea that the mare in the moon, Nightmare Moon could coming back and shroud Equestria in darkness in very scary.''

Dinky nodded, and summoned a piece of parchment and a pen with her magic. She scanned the page for a second before writing a letter to the princess. She detailed about what she had read in her books and about the threat if Nightmare Moon happened to return. She gave the letter to her little sister, who had a group of various teleport spells. Twilight sent the letter on it's way before smiling at her sister.

Dinky, despite being the student of Celestia, had a limited group of spells. Her main spell was to summon objects and creatures, she used it often and it was even her talent. She could also do basic magic. But of the sisters, it was Twilight who processed the arsenal of magical abilities.

Seconds later, a letter dropped to the group just in front of Twilight, surprising the filly a little but she instantly shook her head and levitated the letter up, beginning to read the letter out. ''My faithful students, I understand your concerns perfectly but there is more to life then each other and books. So I have come up with something that you can do. I want you to stay in Ponyville for the next few days to supervise the preparations for the upcoming Summers Suns Celebration. I have arranged for you to stay in a library while your there but I have another task for you, to make some friends.''

''What the hell, does the princess not trust my judgement?'' questioned Dinky, with a concern in her voice. ''Should I message her back?''

''....I don't know, but I believe we should just do as she says, maybe she has a reason for wanting us to make some friends. Plus, we get to live in a library which is good enough for me as we can research the story of Nightmare Moon.''

''True. Well, let's start packing. I'll send a letter to mom saying we'll be in town for a few days, it will make her happy to hear that she'll be able to see her daughters again. I wonder how mom, dad and Sparkler are doing.''

''Well, from mom's last letter to us. Sparkler's apparently got her own foal now, by the name of Toostie Flute. She was apparently raped.''

''Questioned before you continue.'' said Dinky, with a confused and horrified expression. ''How in Equestria do you know what 'rape' means. Your only twelve for pony's sakes!''

''Doesn't matter, remember big sis, I'm a highly intelligent 12 year old who happened to not be conceived naturally because somepony couldn't control her magic as a 12 year old taking a dumb entrance exam that I passed with flying colors. Want the proof?!'' She showed her big sister her star cutie mark. ''This was my cutie mark, it has no real meaning. It just classifies me as magical made. I'm not a true filly.''

''Your a true filly by my standards, Twilight. Remember, you were born as a newborn foal so with the exception of how you were born, your basically a normal foal just with differences like your cutie mark, with does in fact have a meaning. It means your gifted with magic, much like me though my magic is summoning.''

''Oh....whatever, my might as well start packing and get to Ponyville. Hurry up and send that letter to mama. We can't exactly arrived without her knowing.''

Dinky nodded and began to work her magic, writing the letter while Twilight packed both of their stuff up. It took a few minutes all together but they eventually got their stuff together. Twilight sighed to herself, and looked at her older sister. ''Got the letter sorted?''

''Yeah, you got our bags ready....wait I can see that.'' She chuckled, she had definitely got a big of her mother's stupidity. She shook her head and passed the letter to Twilight, who scanned over it and nodded, mostly to herself before sending it with her magic.

''Okay, it's well on the way to mom's now. Give her a minute or two to reply, then we'll leave to our former home, when you were a filly and me a newborn foal.''

''Yeah, I haven't been there for a while. I mean, we went for visits during the summer holidays, like it is now for the younger students but we haven't actually lived there in years and we aren't even going to be living with mom because of it being a short time period.

A letter dropped on the floor a moment after Dinky spoke. Twilight quickly read over it, as she knew exactly who it had been from. Her mother's hoof writing was a bad as ever, but then again, it was natural as pegasi always had bad hoof writing as they had to use either their hooves, when their flying that is or their months. As for unicorns, they had it easy. But she shook her head. ''She simply said that she'll be waiting by town hall for our arrival.''

''I see, makes sense for mom. Let's go now.''

The filly nodded, and the sisters left their home, forgetting to clean it up like the absent minded ponies they were. They just headed straight for the pony pulled carriages and hopped into one of them, of course, after paying the pegasi stallion pulling it. They were now ready to head to Ponyville under the guise they were helping prepare for the Summer Sun, but in fact they wanted to save all of Equestria from the clutches of Nightmare Moon. They didn't know if they could succeed but they knew that they would need to face the troubles, together.