The Signs of Destiny

Chapter 2

Luna's POV

I sat on my seat next to Celestia's throne, pondering over the dream I had today. I was thinking about what the alicorn had said to me when the door bursts open.

In comes a very frazzled purple alicorn, along with her five best friends, the Elements of Harmony. I immediately sit up, taking my princess-ly position.

All of them seem annoyed, as if they had been dragged out while doing something. All of them that is, except Twilight, and the rainbow-maned one, Rainbow Dash, I knew. One of them seemed especially annoyed with both of them.

"Twilight, darling, could you care to explain why we are suddenly in Canterlot with no packing? I was curling my hair when Rainbow barges in through my window and grabs me by the neck!! Speak about rude!!!" said a very disgruntled Rarity.

Rainbow snorted. "Rarity, are you actually upset that we came to Canterlot? The place with all those fashion-y and snobbish ponies? Besides we're here for something important."

"Oh important!? What is more important than packing clothes and looking beautiful!! And they are not snobbish!!" retorted Rarity.

"A lot of things are more important. Like destroying your dresses." muttered Rainbow under her breath. Thankfully Rarity, who was busy looking around, didn't hear her.

Twilight ignored both of them and hurried up to me. "Princess Luna! We need Celestia!"

Rainbow fluttered up next to her, nodding, her expression replaced with one of pure seriousness. "We need Celestia immediately. Like, right now."

A small part of me was jealous of Celestia being the one ponies asked for guidance and not me, but I instantly pushed the thought away. I have had enough time being a world-taking-over villain.

Instead, I told them what I knew would manage to disappoint them. "Celestia is not here. She has went to Saddle Arabia to settle something."

As I had imagined, Twilight and Rainbow both looked very disappointed, while the rest of the ponies fidgeted on their place, clearly still annoyed of being dragged away from their work.

"Would ya mind hurrying up Twi?" said the impatient farm pony, Applejack. "I have a lot of work to do on the farm."

Twilight spun round to her. "No!! We are not leaving until I tell Celestia!!" she said firmly.

Rainbow agreed.

"Celestia isn't here." I repeated.

"We kno-"

"But I'm sure you can tell me what you need to tell Celestia." I continued, waiting to see what Twilight would say.

Twilight hesitated and fidgeted for a minute, before shrugging.

"It doesn't matter, I guess." Twilight said. "I trust you too, because you are also a princess."

For that one minute, I felt like my sister, dignified, equal to her. The feeling faded away as quickly as it had came.

Twilight trotted up to me, gesturing her friends to come to. They crowded and formed a circle next to me, and Twilight reached into the sack that was hung by her side.

She took out a small but thick leather bound book, and placed it in the middle of our circle.

We all sneezed. It was no wonder we did to. The book was covered in dust and cobwebs.

Twilight looked at us all sheepishly. "Sorry, I didn't really clean it up."

Applejack was looking at the book with a look of disdain and disbelief. "You brought us here because of a book?! shouted Applejack, ticked off. "I had so may chores to do, and now you tell us that you brought us here to show us a book?!"

I had to admit, I was also disappointed. A book? I was hoping that it would be something top-secret and cool!

Rainbow groaned and sighed. "AJ, could you be quiet for-" She was cut off by Pinkie Pie who was popping all over the place and blabbering random things.

"Don't be so down AJ!! Maybe the book is a map that pony pirates drew looooong time ago in the ponyific sea...." blabbered Pinkie.

Rainbow rolled her eyes before turning to Twilight. "Go ahead, Twilight."

Twilight nodded and cleared her throat. "While I was putting back books in my castle library shelves, I made a discovery."

"You mean, BOTH of us made a discovery." interjected Rainbow.

Twilight let out a puff of annoyed breath and gritted her teeth. "I mean, BOTH of us made a discovery."

She gave Rainbow a look that read, 'Don't say anything else, because if you do.'

Twilight turned to face me and the other ponies. "As I was saying, I found this on one of the shelves of my library."

I scratched my head. "Aaaand, what is important about this book?"

Twilight flipped the book to the front. In a bold, hoofwritten print the title read, The Magical Objects and Ponies of Equestria.

A wave of memories slammed into my head out of the blue. But these memories wasn't anything that I remembered.

Memory Flashback

"This will not be know here." Click.

"Why?"

"..."

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"Can't we prevent it?"

"No, just delay it."

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"Ow!!! Too... Bright... Eyes!"

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"Princess? Luna? Are you listening?"

I shook my head to clear my thoughts and looked up and saw that Twilight and the ponies were looking at me worriedly.

"Are you okay? You... Blanked out for minute."

I quickly plastered a fake smile onto my face. "Of course I'm okay! Why shouldn't be?"

"Oookay...?" Twilight gave me a weird look but didn't ask anymore questions.

"The book wasn't-" Twilight started again, only to get cut of by me.

"It was in plain sight? Like it was out in the open?" I asked.

Twilight shook her head. "Actually, It was hidden behind this," Twilight reached into her saddle bag again and took out another book. But when I took it, I instantly knew it was a trick.

The 'book' was actually just a block of wood painted expertly, made to look like a leather book.

"Interesting. It was hidden behind this?"

"Yes, and the cover of this book," Twilight nudged the dusty book on the floor. "Was encased in a silver metal of some sort."

"Silver metal?" I picked up the book and opened the first page. At first glance, it looked like nothing was written on the page, but when I looked closer, I saw that there was five letters written: FOEQI.

"Foundation of Equestria," I automatically said aloud.

The six of them looked at me, confused, but a moment later Twilight's face lit up. "I was right! It does stand for that!"

Rainbow crossed her hooves over her chest. "I thought we figured that part out already."

"We did, but Luna confirms it. Right?" Twilight turns to me.

I hesitated a second before answering. My dream, the book... Why was these strange and mysterious things happening all of sudden?

"Yes. Yes, it does stand for that."

Twilight nodded, satisfied.

I flipped open the book, and it landed on a random page. My eyes widened as I saw what page read.

Raiser of Night

Mark Achieved: Bringing Night forth

Made Worthy: Crushing the Fuscienn

Next to the written text was a drawn picture of my cutie mark.

Once more, a surge of memories rushed into my mind.

Memory Flashback

A urgent voice next to me was talking to someone. "We need it! Now! Can't it finish faster?"

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" A voice that had more worry in it then anger raged across the room at me and someone else.

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"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

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The last memory of the scream made me stagger back. It was as if that someone had screamed right now, the voice of the memory was so clear. The scream was full of pain and regret, sadness and heartbreak.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Twilight looking at me strangely and quickly acted normal. I realized the book was on the floor-I must have dropped it. I was about to pick it up, but Twilight beat me to it.

"I'm assuming that this page is about- Yes, it is."

"What is about what?" Applejack snatched the book out from Twilight's hooves and read the page for herself. "What's the big deal? It's just a page about Luna and her.... History?"

Both confusion and realization dawned on Applejack's face.

I sighed, knowing there was no choice. "Yes, my history. The history that no one knows about except for Celestia and me. But even both of us are forgetting..."

Rainbow turned to me. "Twilight and me have only looked through a few pages, but we still don't understand what a Fuscienne is. Can you...?"

She made a forward gesture with her hooves, and I knew she wanted me to explain.

I scraped my hooves together before starting. It was clear that I would have to continue.

"Well..."

Twilight's POV

I was worried. I was worried about everything.

We haven't even gone to the main reason we are here for, and I'm already worried.

Luna is hesitating a lot, and I can tell she is hiding something from me. Something that could be important. She keeps on blanking out, as if she's getting flashbacks. My mind's meeting with myself is put off, because Luna starts to talk.

"Well..." she started, "I don't remember exactly... But the Fuscienne is a monster."

Rainbow rolled her eyes. "We made it that far. But what type of monster is it?"

"It is a creature made from darkness and shadows, thus earning the name Fuscienne, which means black in Latin."

"Darkness and shadows? Sounds like Sombra." I said aloud.

Luna looked at me with sad eyes, as if she was remembering something horrible.

"Sounds like Sombra, yes, but far, far, worse. Not even the Elements of Harmony could take on the Fuscienne."

My mind takes a moment to process this. "Not even the Elements of Harmony?" I say, aghast. "But... But... The Elements are more powerful then any alicorn, and it says that you crushed it, meaning you defeated, earning your wings! How-?"

Luna avoided my eyes and looked down at the floor. "As, I said, I cannot remember anything about the monster except that I earned my wings by finishing it off." She said, and I had a feeling she was telling the truth, but at the same time hiding anther thing.

I decided not to press it, because I knew that Luna wouldn't give me any straight answers.

I took the book from a speechless Applejack, who was gawping at another page, which happened to be about:

Bearer of Honesty: Defeat of Nightmare Moon.

Element Awakes: Trust on Death.

Mark Achieved: True place of heart.

"It has.. Me.. My cutie mark!! How?" sputtered Applejack.

I ignored Applejack and started talking again. "But we came here for a even more important thing, and we haven't even reached that part yet."

Flipping through the pages, I landed on the one with my cutie mark on it. "Look at this," I pointed to the top of the page, where written in curly hoofwriting, read:

A beacon in the darkness.

Bearer of Magic: Defeat of Nightmare Moon.

Element Awakes: Sparked to Life.

Mark Achieved: Current of Magic force.

Made Worthy: Creating Magic through Friendship

"What does 'A beacon in the darkness mean'?" I asked Luna, who shook her head in confusion. "I cannot tell you, Twilight, because I do not know either."

I went to the page after it and my brain gets even more tangled up. "This book even has Flurry in it!" I exclaimed. Like my page, it has a curly written line on the top.

When the Symbol of Love falls, another rises.

The Symbol of Love in the darkness.

Mark Achieved: Creating Love with enemies.

Made Worthy: Blessed by Birth

Next to the writing was a cutie mark?! My jaw falls open, as I stare at the drawn picture of the cutie mark.

The mark is similar to Cadance's, but slightly smaller, and it was a pink heart instead of blue. The designs around the cutie mark was not gold, but black, as if the mark was withered.

All the ponies start chattering, both alarmed and confused. What was going on? When was this book from? What was happening?

I shushed them and looked around grimly. "I think it's time to go to the dreadful parts of this book, the real reason we came."

Rainbow's POV

I was getting annoyed. Twilight was taking too long to get to the point, and there was to much 'talk' going on. But I had to admit, the book was becoming more of a mystery then it already was, and we had come for the exact opposite.

I was so confused, and I was sure that all the other ponies were feeling the same.

But finally, Twilight shushed the other ponies and said, "I think it's time to go to the dreadful parts of this book."

She caught my eye, and I nodded. It's been to long we put off saying it.

Twilight took a deep breath and flipped to a few pages back. "Look at this," Twilight said, pointing to the page with a cutie mark of a sun. "Read what it say's on the top."

All the ponies lean over the book, trying to read what Twilight was pointing to.

Raiser of Day

Mark Achieved: Bringing Day forth.

Made Worthy: Curing the Infirioum Moon Sickness.

It looked like all the other pages, but on top of the page, like Twilight's and Flurry's, was written: