Rainbow stared at the pony who had taken control of her body. Phoenix Flower, as she called herself, claimed to be Rainbow Dash. It wasn’t possible, nothing about it was possible. She heard about restless spirits before, but what made this one believe they were one in the same? She was about to question Phoenix, only for her to predict Rainbows question.

“Don’t believe me?” Phoenix asked, seeing Rainbows disbelief “Then tell me the name of your parents,”

Rainbow tried to say the name, but she didn’t remember it. She tried to remember it a few more times before finally giving up. What was Phoenix trying to prove to her by saying that? It wasn’t like she would have known them either.

“I thought so,” Pheonix said mockingly “Don’t worry about that, neither you or me have any to begin with,”

“And how is that possible?” Rainbow asked demandingly. “How could either of us be born without-”

“I was made by a pony who wanted a friend to stay with them through the ages,” Phoenix explained. “The pony you see now was once just a stone statue in the gardens of Canterlot castle. I wasn’t made for any purpose other than to show off the spectacle of the royal family. I kind of have memories of that time. Then one of the three alicorns sisters asked for a friend, and said that the ponies that occupy their kingdom see her as royalty and nothing more. When she saw the statues in the royal garden, she used her power to create two ponies. One of them was me,”

Rainbow still didn’t get what this had to do with her. There was so many things she didn’t believe that this pony was saying. Of course, something about this stuck out to her, the fact that she knew about Stardust. Was she a friend of Stardust who couldn’t rest? It was hard to believe, but considering what Heart Anchor had said, maybe that part was true. She still didn’t believe most of what this pony was saying.

“What does that have to do with me and you being the same?” Rainbow continued to ask.

“My life force is made of magic from when Stardust first made me,” Phoenix said, “The reason my name is Phoenix is because of that. You see, when I die, my body doesn’t stop living. As long as Stardust lives, whether she is a alicorn or not, I will be reborn to stay by her side as a friend. The reason I am able to inhabit your body is because it is the same one I had 1000 years ago, but reformed from the last time I died,”

Rainbow didn’t know what to say anymore. She still had trouble believing Phoenix, but something told her that there was some truth in her words. She hasn’t seen a spirit do this to a pony before, so maybe she was right. That being said, she didn’t want to think she was just some thousand year old statue brought to life by magical powers of a pony she didn’t even know. There was so much stuff hard to believe in it.

“I still don’t fully believe you,” Rainbow addressed, “And can I please have my body back?”

“Why do you need it?” Phoenix asked, “Because you have a date with a princess? Because you need to train Stardust to fly? Oh please, I can do that second thing just as good as you can. Why do you think you were assigned by the princesses to train her? They knew that I had been with Heart Anchor for a long time but didn’t need me to be have a body until she woke up,”

“Phoenix,” The two arguing pegasi looked to see Heart Anchor coming down the hallway. “Allow Rainbow to continue to use her body. You two can share it and we both know it,” Phoenix was about to reply when Heart Anchor yelled, “ALLOW RAINBOW DASH ROOM IN HER BODY,”

Shaking in fear (which was something Pheonix hadn’t done in a long time) she nodded her head and walked up to Rainbow. As she did Rainbow felt her field of vision change to see herself once again looking through her eyes. She let out a long sigh of relief before she unknowingly slapped herself in the face.

“What the,” Rainbow looked in shock at her hoof not knowing what had just happened.

“I’m still here remember,” Phoenix said, the voice of Rainbow shifting to sound like the other pony in her body. “We may have to live in the same body but I am going to tell you right now that I hate your guts,”

Rainbow realized exactly what was happening. Since they both had to share the same body, they also had to work together in order to do anything like move, walk, and fly. This meant that Phoenix could do anything she wished to do to Rainbow by simple using her body. Heart Anchor was trying his best not to laugh at the two’s misfortune.

“Why do you hate me?” Rainbow asked, feeling like she was going crazy.

“Let’s see,” Phoenix said, raising a hoof as she thought. “You live for your work, you abandoned your friends, your ego is ten times too big, you are dating a princess, the list goes on and on really,”

“That’s your ego to,”

“Does it feel like I care. Does. It. Feel. Like. I. Care,”

Heart Anchors fell down laughing, this is exactly as good as he thought it would be. While he knew in his heart (don’t say anything about his name okay) that Phoenix was going to ultimately mess with Rainbow and her career, friends, etc. He couldn’t help but laugh at the two ponies trying to get along. If ponies thought Pinkie Pie was crazy, they were about to think she is sane.

“Okay, I think we may need to think of a system here,” Rainbow addressed, not wanting anything bad to happen. “Who here is going to control what?”

“Simple,” Phoenix said “You get to talk, I get to walk,”

“But doesn’t that mean you can hit me,”

“That’s kinda the point,”

“What about Twilight and the others,”

“Oh, Twilight already knew about this. Man she is going to feel stupid once she realized what she has done,” Phoenix took the opportunity to turn Rainbow’s head toward Heart Anchor. “Hey Heart, what sounds cooler, Phoenix Dash or Rainbow Flower,”

“Phoenix Dash if you ask me,”

“You hear that Rainbow,” Phoenix looked up at the ceiling, “Since we are one in the same now, everypony you meet will have to call you Phoenix Dash, got it?”

Rainbow started thinking about writing a letter to the Wonderbolts telling them that she might have to take a vacation, a very long vacation.

Luna had promised to spend time with Stardust during her night watch, going into her dreams and chatting. It was the only time they would have to chat during weekdays and it made Luna feel better having a pony to talk to that didn’t respond like she was royalty. She had expected a lot of the things that Stardust had say tonight: friends, school, the possible chance of a romantic relation. She had expected all of it until Stardust brought up her incident with Dandelion earlier that day.

“She seemed kind of depressed when I found out,” Stardust explained. “I invited her to walk to ponyville with us but she simply smiled and said no. I can tell when a smile was fake, but I had seen the same thing when I met her a week ago to. Something was bothering her, that's for sure,”

Luna wasn’t exactly sure how to respond. Part of her wanted to say to never talk with Dandelion again, but a bigger part of her said that this changeling meant no harm. She had never seen a normal changeling express emotions before. The fact that she stayed that way even after revealing who she really is, or the fact that she revealed herself at all, was an incredible thing. Luna knew that Chrysalis was going to Stardust, but she didn’t think Dandelion had anything to do with it, at least right now.

“Stardust,” Luna said, shifting away from the current day’s events “Do you want to know what the past has been like over the past few years? I just thought you would want to know since you don’t remember anything,”

“Not really,” Stardust said “Sure, it is nice to know about the past, but why remember something that you had nothing to do with? I mean, there might be certain events that I might want to know about if it has to do with something going on now, but other than that not really,”

Stardust smiled, reminding Luna about the innocence her younger sister held now. She didn’t remember any clear events about her Stardust a thousand years ago, but she knew that Stardust was happier now than she had ever been all those years ago. In truth, the only thing she really remembered was Phoenix, who Stardust had created and was one of only two friends the pony ever had back then. It really brought to mind if it was a good thing or not for Stardust to regain her memories. Of course the answer had already been made, but it still bothered her from what Twilight had said to her when they had first found out Stardust’s past.

“What’s your day been like?” Stardust asked.

“It’s been rather boring honestly,” Luna said, “It’s fun keeping up my royal act and everything but it just not the same when everypony around you is bowing in respect and acting like you are the ruler of the world,”

“Oh,” Stardust replied, “I didn’t think it would have been that bad being a princess. I mean, I knew that it wasn’t all glamour and show after the week I spent with you and Celestia before coming here but still. Besides I thought everypony saw Celestia as the ruler of the world and everything,”

Luna did like it when Celestia was taking care of things, but she had been spending some time helping Flurry Heart over in the Crystal kingdom since Sunburst was away and the young crystaling was such a handfull. She felt kind of sorry for her sister, having not realized what her normal day had always been like.

“Technically they do,” Luna agreed “But they also think the same thing about me to,”

Luna and Stardust looked to see a door appear in front of them, confusing Stardust at exactly what was going on. Luna sighed, sad that they weren’t able to talk for as long as she wanted to. In the end, duty called and she was stuck having to deal with nightmares whenever they appeared.

“Sorry Stardust,” Luna apologized “I have work to do. I’ll see you tomorrow night,”

“Okay,” Stardust said in reply. “Bye,”

Author's Note

This will probably be my last upload before summer vacation, and I'm don't think I will have another chapter up during that time. Sorry about that, but I will be continuing to write over vacation to get as many chapters done ahead of time as possible. Like usually I want you to like and comment and that stuff to show me your love for this story and I will most likely see you after summer vacation.