A Tale Of A New Beginning

"Oh, come on Spectrum! It's been the same every single year since we moved here! You are never happy for your birthday!" Noone complained to the violet unicorn.

"Noone, you know why I'm not happy, I've told you every other year. I am going to out-live you, it's inevitable. It's going to happen, so for me to celebrate getting older? That's just stupid"

"Look at me. Look directly into my eyes. I don't care if you out-live me. You know why?" Noone held Spectrum's face in her hooves.

"Cause I'll always be right here" Noone placed her hoof on Spectrum's chest.

"In your heart, I will live on" Noone looked directly into Spectrum's green eyes, she saw no emotion, but she felt it for her.

Spectrum looked down at Noone, after multiple years of treatment, she could finally see clearly but the pupils of her eyes were still light green instead of the normal black.

Noone wasn't the brightest pony, but she sure had a way with words, she could cheer anyone up even when they were in the deepest darkest corners of depression by just talking to them.

"Thanks, Noone. You are the best mare I could ever wish for as a friend, or even more so, a family member" Spectrum smiled and nuzzled Noone.

"Good. Now let's get to getting ready for your party!" Noone jumped into the air, her wings flapping excitedly.

Spectrum and Noone took to flight and headed back to the castle to prepare for the day to come.

"So, It's Valentine's Day tomorrow and then your birthday!" Noone was jumping around, giddy with excitement.

Twilight entered the room on light hooves, barely making a sound.

"Spectrum. I would like to talk to you. And it might take a while"

"Oh, Ok. I'll see you later then Noone" Spectrum nuzzled her neck across Noone's head to annoy her before exiting the room behind her mother.

"I've decided that you are ready. You are almost sixteen. You will be crowned a princess. Cadence has been telling me a lot about your progress in not only your magic but your relationships. Your coronation will be held in the crystal empire in a year. Leaving you enough time to go through some help and your final tests from Cadence. And don't worry, you don't need to move to the Crystal Empire just yet. For now, you can reside here unless you want to move"

Twilight spilt out all the information as if she were reading a book, leaving Spectrum little time to take it all in. This was a lot of pressure on her back. She hadn't even got here cutie mark yet. And that was strange enough, almost a fully grown mare.

Geez, even Pix had his already. And he's younger than her! But there was no surprise there. Three bullets? Of course, it would be something to do with gaming.

Spectrum thought back to the tournament. Pix was sitting there next to one of the best players in Canterlot. The scores were tied and it didn't look like anything would change, but one fluke shot won it all for Pix. The blow was fatal and the other player lost. Three silver bullets glowed and painlessly burned onto Pix's flank.

Noone also had her cutie mark. She was sitting in the library reading about stunts and how to re-create them when she smelled smoke. A fire had started in one of the archives.

Being a pegasus really helps in that kind of situation. She harnessed some rain clouds using one of the tricks she read about and using her sleek agility she put the fire out before any more could be damaged.

Noone's cutie mark was intricate and simple. A green book with and orange flame. The book represents her ability to read about a stunt and the re-create with ease, and the flame symbolises her agility.

Spectrum looked down to her own flank. Bare, the same colour as the rest of her coat. She sighed and looked at her mother

"Thanks. I will do my best"

"Very good, now I have to go and meet with Flurry, I have some things to discuss with her and Cadance"

"Wake up wake up wake up!" Noone jumped on Spectrum's bed waking her.

"It's your birthday! You are officially sixteen today! Now let's go and have some fun!" Noone dragged the still sleepy alicorn out of bed and to the dining room of the castle.

The table had been laid out with pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns and bacon (They are going to eat meat, don't judge)

"Happy birthday 'Clipse!" Flurry dived down from above Spectrum, her aqua eyes staring directly into Spectrum's pure green ones.

Flurry landed next to Twilight and Cadence who had come into the room extremely stealthily.

"We all grouped together and decided to get you an amazing gift. Paradox and Penrose couldn't make it today. And neither could Artis, Luna or Christane, but Lunar Canine came, she's right, here?"

Flurry looked back but saw no pony.

"She was here a second ago"

"I'm here"

A voice came from above them. They looked up to see a pair of golden eyes looking and them.

"Cay, come down! We can't even see you!"

"Okie Dokey! Come on Fear"

The navy blue bat pony dropped down from the roof, her messy black mane falling across her face. And not even a second later, the well-known purple unicorn appeared next to her, a cheeky smile gracing her smooth features.

"Well, now that we are all here, I think it's time to give you your gift. Twilight?"

Cadence looked at her sister-in-law and nodded.

Twilight's horn lit up and she lifted something from her back. A small blue and green egg. Spectrum took the egg in her own tri-colour magic.

"Philomena left her especially for you"

The egg started to crack, and a small blue feathered ball squirmed out. An explosion of blue light flash through the room and one the ground before Spectrum stood a blue Phoenix.

Spectrum gasped as flames flickered around the firebird.

"Are you gonna name her?" Cadence asked, smirking.

"Inferno. A blue flame"

"That's a perfect name. Now, a phoenix is very particular and hard to look after. But you will get used to what she likes after a short while"

"She will live alongside you for the rest of eternity. So your bond will be unbreakable"

"Thank you so much everypony. Now how about we have some breakfast. I'm starving!"

"You know, I've been thinking. I would like to join the Wonderbolts. I've been doing heaps of flying and I think that I would like to do something like that"

Spectrum lay on her back, facing the sky, Noone lying next to her.

"Yeah! That would be awesome! I heard from Rainbow Dash that they are opening tryout's tomorrow actually. SO how about we go, tryout's go for four days"

"Call it done. Wonderbolts, here we come!"