Author's Note

This is a story I've been working on for a while so I hope you guys enjoy it.

Prologue

Many years had passed since Nightmare Moon was banished to the moon, Princess Celestia had to do two jobs at once of both raising the sun and the moon and keeping peace and harmony in the land of Equestria, and defending the land from danger when it occurred.

The Princess used the help of Star Swirl the Bearded to call upon ponies true in spirit and heart to help protect the land from certain danger, many ponies came to Canterlot to provide help in any problems the land faced.

Among the ponies was a young teenage Pegasus named Lightning Bolt, he was blue with a brown mane, and his cutie mark was a bolt of lightning.

Lightning special talent was to conjouring lightning controlling it with his wings, he also was good at playing music and it made ponies happy, his family, his friends, and others happy too.

Many ponies thought his talent was dangerous and would be harmful, but he told them that he wanted to use his powers for good, Princess Celestia felt that he would be a great warrior against evil, she left him in the presents of the great Star Swirl The Bearded and told him to teach lightning how to use his talent for good.

Star Swirl gave him immortality so he could live on for many moons to come, the only way he keep his immortality is that every time he makes ponies happy while he plays music they harmlessly give of a power that makes Lightning happy and he consumes it and keeps on living.

Lightning had gone against monsters and dark villains and he would stop them with his lightning.

Most of his fights were not as big as Nightmare Moon, they were ones that would harm single towns but nothing big never happened for him.

Many moons past and Lightning had been a great pony for giving the others hope, he had friends that liked him, he traveled a lot and even play his wooden guitar, sometimes he would not seem himself, he would seem... Depressed, Lightning always thought there was something missing in his life, but he didn't know what it was, Star Swirl couldn't figure out anything wrong with lightning, then one day Lightning just disappeared.

"YOU'LL NEVER STOP ME, MY EVIL WILL FIND YOU!" Screamed a voice that was being flushed through a black hole.

"Star Swirl!" Lightning screamed, "Shut it down!"

The black hole was sucking everything in insight, "I can't!" He screamed "It's too powerful..."

"Sir...sir...excuse me sir." Said a waitress waking a young man up who was sitting in a booth at a roadside diner at 11 o'clock at night, "Would you like more coffee?" she asked.

"Nah no thanks, I'm good." the young man said, this young man who was about the age of 18 and had blue skin and brown hair tuck into a knitted hat, "Could you tell me how far Canterlot city is?"

"About a 60 miles, you traveling there?" She asked.

"Yeah." He replied.

"My brother Joe lives there, he owns a doughnut shop there." She smiled.

"Oh yeah that's cool." He said yawning.

"There's a motel a half a mile up the road if you need a place to sleep." She offered.

"No thanks, I got an Airstream behind my van that I sleep in." He said, "Does your boss mind if I camp out in your parking lot tonight?"

"Well he's not here now he only come's in at 8:00 in the morning..."

"Oh don't worry I'll be gone before that." He said.

"Well as long as you leave before that or your up by then I'm fine with it, so what in Canterlot city?" She asked as he paid his bill.

"Home." He said.

"Oh yeah, what brings you back there?" She asked.

"Oh, just figured after a while on the road can make you home sick." He smiled

"You've been traveling?" She asked

"Yeah, I've been of the road for a long time I have." He said.

"You don't look that old if you've been traveling for a while." She said confused.

"Meh, I've been from place to place in the past... um 2 years." He said.

"Okay, well thanks for stopping in and have a goodnight sir." She smiled.

"Thank you, you too." He said and walked outside, the boy walked towards a Black 1976 Dodge Tradesman 200 van with flames painted on the fenders, he locked his van and walked to his 34 foot 1987 Airstream Excella and went inside.

This trailer had a lot of things inside such as photos, book, movies, video games, a laptop, a large flat screen TV and 2 guitars, one was a Gibson acoustic, and another was a orange Les Paul.

The boy sat on the bed in the back and picked up a journal with news clippings in it and it read.

"STRANGE ACTIVITY AT CANTERLOT HIGH INVOLVING A "DEMON?""

"SCHOOL MUSIC CONTEST TURNS INTO BATTLE WITH "DRAGONS?"

"CANTERLOT HIGH COMPETITION GAMES TURNS INTO NIGHTMARE."

He looked at the clippings knowing that there was something going on in this town and it involved... magic.

"Something is going on there, I know it." He said, "If there's something wrong with the statue... that's bad."

The boy put the journal away and picked up the acoustic and strum a few cords of Led Zeppelin's "Over the Hills and Far Away".

"I love playing this guitar, can't wait to get home and see my other one's." He sighed and set his guitar down and went to sleep.