“Stardust,” Luna opened the door to see her sister still asleep, “School starts today, time to get up,”

One week has past since the day Stardust learned about Luna and Celestia being her sisters, and so far things have been very interesting. Celestia hasn’t yet addressed Equestria about the young pegasus, as fear that many of it’s citizens would protest and revolt against it since it is a city with more than half its population unicorns. She decided it would be best to wait until Stardust regains her state as alicorn. Luna has spent a significant amount of time over the weeks trying to teach manners to the her amnesiac sister, slightly wishing she would have regained some after that day in Ponyville. Overall, I guess it would be better to say it was more boring than it was interesting.

That being said, today was the first day of school for her, or rather her first day after over 1000 years of absence. Stardust was excited, not because of the new experience she was about to have, but because she was going to see Dandelion again. Being the first full on friend that Stardust could say she made, she was excited to see her again. She also wanted to help Dandelion, as it seemed she was rather lonely considering what she had said about Stardust being the first pony she could trust.

Getting up out of bed, Stardust rushed to the door, only to be stopped by Luna. The princess had to do this if she was going to get her sister to brush her teeth and everything. It’s not the hatred of the bathroom Stardust had after all, it was her fear of water that had stayed with her even after learning the past she remembered was all a dream. After a few minutes Stardust came out of the bathroom, the smile she usually had was a mix between anger and fear. It was one of the few times Luna could do nothing about it, but if it is what it would take to get her ready, she wouldn’t do anything about it.

“Ready,” Stardust said, looking at Luna for approval.

Having heard the commotion that had gone on in the bathroom, Luna didn’t have to ask if she forgot something. Moving aside, Stardust rushed out of the room and down the hallway, greeting the guards and servants as she passed by them. As she arrived in the dining room, she looked to see that Celestia was already there, much to her amazement. Stardust has been trying to get there before her, and even when Luna had to wake her up an hour or two early so they could get to Ponyville on time she still couldn’t beat the princess.

“Come on,” Stardust said amazed, “The sun isn’t even up yet, how did you get here before me?”

Celestia giggled a little, finding it funny to see the young pegasus so worked up about something like that. “I wanted to see you off,” She explained “This is your first day of school, do you think I’d let you go without saying goodbye?”

To Stardust, that was a fair enough reason, but she had to admit that it was kind of weird. As far as she knew both of her sisters were over 1000 years old while she was only around 7 years old. Even if she did know about the whole Nightmare Moon thing she felt like Luna and Celestia where incredibly old to be her sisters, but she knew the reason why. The sleep spell she was but under must have kept her from aging somehow. Not that she knew how magic worked, but it made sense to her.

Luna entered the room as the food did, sitting down next to Stardust. Stardust almost started shoving her face when the chef put the food down, but stopped when she remembered what she was told. Luna sat there, amazed at how far Stardust has come in just one week. She definitely still had some bad habits from her sleep, but most of the big ones had been fix, except for her fear of water, which Luna didn’t feel like trying.

“Sense you will be Ponyville most of the time,” Luna said, explaining to Stardust what the weekdays were going to be like. “I have asked some friends who live in the area to help you with certain things. While you will be learning a lot of things at school, I have asked Twilight to help explain things I haven’t had the chance to go over, and when the time comes she will also help you with magic. I also have asked a professional to teach you how to fly since you don’t know how,”

“A professional?” Stardust asked, a little confused about the title “Don’t all pegasus have the same amount of talent to fly,”

“Not exactly,” Luna replied, thinking of a certain mail pony “What I mean is that they have a specialty in that section,”

“Huh,”

“Also,” Celestia said “Remember what we said about the whole sister thing?”

“I know,” Stardust rolled her eyes as she repeated what the had told her “Until I’m an alicorn again I am to say that I’m your adopted daughter. You told this to me a hundred times,”

While she didn’t exactly enjoy lying about her relation to the princesses, there was a good reason for it. Most ponies wouldn’t believe her if she said that they were her sister, being a pegasus at the moment and since she for the longest time believed that she was someone else it made sense to stick with the disguess for right now. There was a few ponies who knew, mostly the elements of harmony (how has Pinkie kept this a secret I don’t knows), the servants at the castle, spike, the CMC, and Dandelion unknown to Luna. That being said, Stardust doesn’t think it would be that big of a problem since it was only one pony.

They finished breakfast and left the table as some of the servants (though Stardust called them janitors for some reason) picked up for them. They headed to the train station where Luna explain that Twilight would be waiting for her when she got off. Celestia grabbed a ticket (for free, of course) and handed it to Stardust. As the train arrived, Stardust waited for everyone to get off before getting on herself, finding that she had the car all to herself. She looked back to Luna and Celestia, waving to them as the train started, and before she knew it she was off to Ponyville.

Twilight and Spike waited patiently at the train station for Stardust, who would be arriving any minute if the times were right. Twilight looked at the railroad in the direction of Canterlot, running in place as she waited. Spike could tell a million things were going through her head, and at least 99% of them were just the part of her that constantly worried. Spike couldn’t do anything about it except just sit there, as he once saw her go completely crazy from him speaking up about her weekly letter to Celestia.

Finally, after a few more minutes seeing her pacing around going “what if this happened to her, what if that happened instead” Spike couldn’t take it. He had to at least try, besides this was a completely different situation then that one a few years ago.

“Twilight calm down,” Spike requested, his voice showing signs of annoyance “We’ve been here for less than half an hour and you’re already acting crazy. Stardust is okay, the train will arrive on time, you don’t need to freak out,”

“It’s not like that Spike,” Twilight acted like she hadn’t heard a thing, still nervously walking in place. “This is Luna’s sister we’re talking about, if something happened who knows what Luna would do to me,”

Spike didn’t have to try again to get Twilight to calm down, as the blaring sound of the train could be heard in the distance. The two watch as the train came into view and stopped in front of them. The door opened and Twilight and Spike watched as Stardust got off the train, being the only passenger, with a bag filled with things Luna told her to bring.

“See,” Spike said, pointing at Stardust as she put down the bag which seemed to be very heavy for her “She’s fine. Will you stop worrying now?”

All Twilight did was give Spike a glare before looking back at Stardust. “Hello Stardust,” She greeted. “Need some help carrying that bag,”

“Yeah,” Stardust managed to say through the heavy breathing she was doing, showing how much it weighed her down. “I didn’t expect it to be that heavy,”

Twilight easily lifted the bag with her magic and handed to Spike, who easily carried it. Stardust felt a little guilt for having him carry it for her, but compared to her it seemed to effortlessly carry it as they made their way to the castle. Stardust looked behind her to see the sun rising in the hill, amazed at the wonderful mix of colors that it gave off. To know one day she would hold a power like that, it was hard to believe. Then again, what had she learned one week ago that anyone would be able to believe. She heard Twilight give of a purposeful cough and looked back to see her waiting for them. Not wanting to stall, she ran up to Twilight, a question on her mind.

“Hey miss Twilight,” She said

“Just Twilight,” Twilight corrected her, “Miss is too formal for my liking, that goes for Princess as well,”

“Oh,” Stardust blushed a little from embarrassment, “Sorry, I was just wondering if you have heard of a pegasus by the name of Rainbow Dash before. I heard she was going to be teaching me how to fly,”

Twilight stopped at the mention of that name. Stardust and Spike looked back to see her looking up at the clouds. It’s been two years since she heard full name Rainbow Dash, as most ponies knew her as “The Great Rainbow” due to her incredible skills as a stunt flier. If that wasn’t enough, it has been three years since they have actually talked together, and there were things Twilight had long since forgotten that she wanted to say. To hear someone say the name Rainbow Dash, it had become a long lost memory of hers.

“Rainbow Dash,” She whispered “How long has it been since the day Spitfire retired? Am I finally going to see you again?”

Stardust looked on in confusion, not having any clue what she was talking about. Looking for an answer, she turned to Spike.

“Rainbow Dash is an old friend,” Spike explained “We haven’t seen her for three years. She had to take over as the captain of the Wonderbolts after their former captain, Spitfire, retired due to a bad wing injury. I just hope you’re prepared to meet her,”

“Why do you say that?”

“Because last we saw her she had the ego the size of Celestia’s castle,” Spike joked, remembering how Rainbow reacted when she heard the news about taking. “I doubt anything has changed really. She’s pretty famous actually,”

“When’s your first lesson?” Stardust and Spike looked up to see Twilight standing only one inch away from her face. If it had been any other pony, Stardust would have kicked them, but that probably wasn’t the best thing to do to a princess.

“Tomorrow,” Stardust answered, understanding exactly why Twilight wanted to see her.

Twilight jumped around with excitement. “This is perfect,” She said excitedly “Maybe I can get the girls together to greet her. This is amazing,” Twilight stopped as she saw the sunrise start to die away and realized that ponies were going to be waking up soon. “We better get moving, or else we won’t have time to drop off your stuff at the castle,”

As they made their way to Twilight’s castle, she reflect on the day she lost truly talked with Rainbow Dash. The day before she went off, and told Twilight the hard truth.

3 Years ago

“What do you mean I won’t be able to talk with you again?” Twilight yelled, not understanding what Rainbow Dash had said. She remembered it so well, Rainbow Dash seemed so excited at first, but when Rainbow Dash said she wouldn’t be able to stay as the element of loyalty, no one could believe.

“Listen, I don’t want this to happen either,” Rainbow Dash admitted. “But the problem is that I’m going to be taking on huge responsibility with this new job. Twilight, I know you want to believe that Spitfire is just in the hospital for a short time, but you heard what the doctor said. It isn’t her wing that was really broken, that hit she took broke her wing bone where it connects with the rest of her body,”

Twilight couldn’t face this, she knew the answer, yet she still asked. “They can fix it… Can’t they?”

Rainbow Dash looked down, her wings and ears dropped as she answered. “No,” was her response. “The spot it was broken made it so they couldn’t do anything without damaging her spine. In other words, she’s never flying again,”

Twilight just stood their in fear. This couldn’t be happening to her, it couldn’t be.Yet no matter what she said, she new the truth. She stood there as Rainbow Dash walked past her, unable to say anything to Twilight in her current state. She walked to the door before turning around.

“I’m sorry,” Was all she could say, before closing the door, and leaving Twilight alone.

Present Day

Since then, thing seemed to grow more and more distant between her and the other elements of harmony. Applejack had to take on more farming responsibilities as Granny Smith got older. Rarity had to make constant trips to Manehattan because of her success as a dressmaker and Twilight found that she spent more time traveling every year. Fluttershy was with Discord of course, which was more understandable to her. The only one who really stayed the same was Pinkie Pie, but being as crazy as she is Twilight had to wonder if she could change all that much.

Now, she had a chance. A chance to make things right and to see her friends again after so long. Of course Twilight had to admit some of it was her fault, as she had become more isolated from the others after Rainbow Dash left. That was in the past, however, and now she had the opportunity to get them all together again. Even if it was only for a day, it was Twilight needed to make her feel better.

Twilight looked at Stardust, who walked in front of her at the moment. She had no idea how much of an impact she was making on Twilight’s life right now. She managed to bring Rainbow Dash back without any knowledge of how much Twilight had missed her. The time of the old elements of harmony have past, but she knew that Stardust was linked to them, and had the power to do things she doesn’t even know. It was time for new elements of harmony to come together, for a new group of friends to be made and take control. All of Equestria relied on her, and Twilight was going to make sure that her gift doesn’t go to waste.

Author's Note

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