Celestia watched as what was before a mostly empty conference room turn into a much more lively place as three new ponies sat down. One of them was Hollow who still creep out Celestia to no end. It felt uncomfortable thinking that she was sitting next to a living zombie in many ways, but she really was when it came to this pony. She knew that the idea of Estrails now was that they weren't suppose to be natural, but that didn’t keep her from feeling uncertain about the pony.

Not that the other two weren’t any weirder, especially the one known as Jinx. She looked overly dressed up in a colorful outfit on the outside with a mask and glowing white eyes, but that’s all she was. She was literally a pile of living clothes with the strange ability to give a day's worth of bad luck to anyone she touches again. For that reason she kept herself distant from the others and sat at least three seats away from both Celestia and Twilight.

The other one, Fang, was thankfully much more natural. She had a fur wolf coat instead of a normal pony coat. He was still a pony, but much like Aqua in Ponyville, he was once an entirely different animal (take a guess at what), but was thankfully more excepting at first to his change. It wasn’t that bad of a change for him, even if his craving for meat was out of place here.

“We are so sorry we didn’t send a letter ahead of time,” Jink said, her British sounding voice muffled due to the mask (which is strange considering there's nothing behind it). “But we honestly didn’t expect to find her majesty so soon. We knew that she was not on the Estrail continent but to think this entire time that she had been the daughter of a princess already. Well, I think you can imagine the face on our king when he found,”

The idea of a king was not something Celestia had heard in a long time. Sure, there was Shining Armor but he was the captain of the guards and not a full on King. It was crazy to think that their was a non-female ruler out there, especially considering that about eighty percent of Equestria's population is female.

“Speaking of your king why could he not attend this meeting?” Celestia asked. “It surely doesn't set a good example if he isn’t able to attend,”

“Trust me your highness he would've come if he so could,” Hollow said, his calm and collected manner somewhat haunting them all. “I can’t say exactly why but know that if our king really wishes he could make himse-”

“For goodness sake Hollow, please,” Fang said cutting of his colleague. “If you're not going to tell it to them straight then I will,” Fang looked at the princesses as we continued. “In truth, no Estrail has ever been able to directly meet King Solstice. He is as hot as a sun, and that’s completely literal,”

Celestia looked to Twilight for advice, but at the moment the princess was in a complete state of shock. The young alicorn was amazed by the ponies around her, having of course never seen them before, as well as just how unique they were. Fang saw this next to him and felt increasingly uncomfortable about the princess. In many ways he thought she was wanting to experiment on her.

“Um… Princesses,” He said slowly trying to inch away from Twilight. “You have a little advice on dealing with this here?”

Luna hadn’t been paying much attention, at the moment she was just really concerned about Stardust and how she was doing. These Estrails had referred to her as the “Child of the Sun” and she wasn’t so sure about why they were calling her that. Celestia seemed to notice this and nudged her sister, bringing her back to reality.

“Stardust is okay,” Celestia said trying to calm down Luna. “I think we can trust these Estrails, and besides she has Sonnet and the others with her,”

“I know,” Luna said looking at the ground. “I’m just so concerned about her. I don’t think it’s about Estrails, it just not being able to see her that much. I know she's my sister but I want her to be treated normally and not like loyalty,”

“If you want I can turn you into a normal pegasus?” Jinx proposed, having overheard the princesses discussion. “If you really are that worried about miss Stardust we Estrails have the magic talent to do it,”

Twilight shot forward towards Jinx in surprise, Fang holding her back to keep her from touching the masked pony. “What’s Estrail magic like? How does it work? Can normal ponies use it too?”

“Don’t ever think about trying Estrail magic,” Hollow said. “Our bodies are able to contain much more magic than a normal pony. Even those who take the form of an Earth Pony has the ability to use magic, of course it’s only equal to that of a normal unicorn. Estrail magic is far more advance and tends to break rules of normal physics or such,”

“Aren’t most spells like that forbidden?” Luna asked concerned.

“Only because of how taxing it would be on a normal Unicorn,” Fang said holding down Twilight with a hoof. “It could devastate a normal body and even has the possibility to kill you. Earth Pony Estrails like me can’t do spells that advance because of that reason. However, Hollow here is able to do spells that alicorns can do since Estrail pegasi have the same level of magic in them, and while you can’t tell it Jinx here is actually suppose to be a unicorn,”

“That came as a shock to me honestly,” Jinx said. “But I guess because of the mask it’s really impossible to tell,”

“So is Stardust stuck as an pegasus then for the rest of her life?” Luna said nervously.

“Oh heck no” Jinx replied, emphasizing it with her hoof. “Just because she was one when she unlocked her “inner power” I guess you can say doesn’t mean that she is stuck that way for the rest of her life. She was the first and only naturally born alicorn after all,”

“That not true actually,” Twilight corrected, surprising all of the Estrails. “Sure she may be the first naturally born alicorn, even though the way of birth that you described isn’t natural at all, but the second one arrived three years ago.”

“Really?” Cadance nodded in response to Fangs misbelief. “It was only a matter of time but still, I’m surprised it took this long for it to happen,”

“And Jinx,” Hollow spoke up, having been quiet for most of the time “I would highly advise against performing any of your… Experiments on these ponies. We have no idea if they can handle the magic you possess. Also, saying that falling to the ground as a flaming ball of gas and taking the shape of pony is not something you would really call natural,”

“Yeah I guess that’s true,” Jinx agreed, sounding sad under that expressionless mask. “Still, more than a thousand year and not a single alicorn born until so recently. Seriously how have you two not gotten at all lucky in those years?”

Luna and Celestia felt very uncomfortable answering that question, Jinx was obviously one who didn’t care about the ponies status in society. She asked anything she wanted, and she always expected an answer. The princesses had been warned about this by Hollow. The last pony who didn’t answer her almost got incinerated by the crazy pony. Jinx was definitely the one that scared the princesses the most.

“We always thought it was against the royal code,” Celestia said, looking for a way out.

“You are the royal code,” Twilight said, not realizing that she turning against her former mentor. Celestia gave a stern look at her former apprentice, feeling infuriated and betrayed. Twilight saw the look on Celestia’s face, and it was one she was not familiar with seeing. Realizing what she had done, Twilight lifted herself from her seat. “I… Think I should go,” Celestia nodded as Twilight finished speak. With that the young princess left the room.

Fang look took his gaze off of her to see the eyes of his companion staring at him. He knew what they were telling him even without word, and he realized that this might just be his chance to get to Ponyville. That wasn’t his full destination, but it was the closest he would be able to get to the Everfree Forest. He slowly got up out of his seat and look to the princesses, Celestia had relaxed a bit after Twilight left the room.

“Excuse me princesses but have something I have to attend to elsewhere,” He said as formally as possible, something Jinx wish she was able to roll her eyes at. “I won’t be returning, or even be in the castle for that matter so don’t bother with saving me a room,” Before Celestia or Luna could respond, Fang had left with the door still open.

The two sister didn’t know what was so important to the Estrail and turn to Hollow for answers. “Do you the reason he just left?”

Hollow looked at the three remaining alicorns. “His past,”

Author's Note

After eighteen chapters I think that I have finally introduced every main character in the story. It took some time, but it was completely worth it for the sake of smooth story telling. Now then, on a completely unrelated note, how many of you here know this song.

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In case your wondering why, it's mainly because the lyrics reminded me of Stardust and the kind of pony she is. Heck if I was able to I would make this her theme song it works so well for her. Let me know what you think about it. Also, like and follow and check out the two other stories I'm currently working on if you haven't yet (yes, I haven't given up on Equestrian Despair, I just haven't been in the right mind set for it, which is necessary when you work on a crossover fic)