Daylights fall

Eclipse trotted playfully into her house, she had a big grin on her face. Her home was in Cloudsdale, a large floating city made of clouds. She had a few friends there so she often had lots to do. "Mummy, Mummy!" the filly called, rushing inside

"Hello Eclipse" her mother, GoldenRay sang cheerfully. "Where have your friends gone?" she asked

"Oh they went home" Eclipse replied " I think they are mad at me..." she said sadly

"Whys that? Did you push them over the edge again?" Her mother asked tilting her head

"no..." Eclipse looked down slightly "Their parents said they shouldn't go near me anymore, I don't know why!"

The filly dragged her hooves up the stairs and closed her door, leaving her mother standing in hallway looking shocked.

"so..." The creamy coloured alicorn dipped her head letting her purple mane fall over her eyes "it has begun..."

Eclipse sat at her desk in the school, Bubbles was too the left and Wish to the right. Both of her friends remained in silence occasionally glancing at each other. Their teacher, an older Pegasus with a white mane opened the classroom door and took his place at the front. "Class today we will be talking about the four races of ponies" His voice was low and grouchy but that was normal for him "As you know each group of ponies have their own talents" Whitebeard said pointing to a colt sitting by the window "What talent do they all have?"

The light blue pony looked up to the teacher, he shook his head as if clearing his mind from his wondering thoughts "Earth ponies tend to the land, unicorns have their magic, pegasi control the weather and alicorns have magic and can fly"

"very good" Whitebeard muttered "The current rulers of Equestria are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, they are both alicorns"

Eclipse groaned, they have had the same lecture yesterday but their old teacher seemed to have forgotten.

"Alicorns are powerfull ponies, that is why they are-" Whitebeard stopped suddenly as if realising his classroom had three of the young alicorns in. "i mean, that's why their species has a strong connection to the throne"

Some of the ponies in the class glanced at Eclipse and giggled not so quiet whispering seemed to surround her. First her friends don't like her anymore, now her teacher spoke weirdly of her. Did she do something wrong?

"Hey wait up Eclipse!" Bubble called, the light grey Pegasus filly flew over to her friend "Hey listen Ocean and I are sorry but-" The filly began but was cut off by another group of pegasi flying towards them

"Hey look its Eclipse and her follower Bubble!" One jeered at them. The group surrounded the young foals.

"why don't you just use your magic and teleport out of here so we can finally get away from you!"

Eclipse tried to back up but the largest of the group pushed her forward so she fell. "Bubbl-" she began to whisper but she noticed her friend had slipped away and left her.

"quiet you!" A heavy impact collided with her face and left her whimpering on the ground. A few drops of blood trickled down onto the fluffy white cloud floor.

"lets get going, this poor accuse for a pony has had her punishment... For today"

'why me... I didn't do anything to them! is it because i'm an alicorn?' Thoughts raced around inside her head. Most of the blood had been wiped away but there was a fresh wound above her eye. How could she explain things to her parents? This was the third time this week she had been hit and yet they showed no signs of forgiveness...