The Winds Of Change, Season 1: Friends and Enemys, New and Old.

Group's A and B met up in the main hall both groups nearly running into each other.

"Did ya'll hear Fluttershy to?" AJ asked. Twilight and Pinky both gave a nod and the 5 ponies ran towards the west wing of the castle.

"Oh please let Fluttershy be ok," Pinky whined as the group ran through the castle.

Fluttershy looked upon the body of her best friend as he lay there, his breath's were slow and ragged, a look of pain crossing his face as his eye's, glazed over with agony, starred off into the distance.

"D-d-don't w-w-worry. I-it looks worse than it is." He wheezed out trying to force a smile to his face. Fluttershy forced a smile through her tear's as she gently took stock of Star's wounds. She doubted that. It looked pretty bad. Star was run through by several shards of what appeared to be black glass. Every so often one of them would pulse a deep purple causing Star to shutter.

"Ge these things sure do tickle." He said trying to calm down his nerves. Fluttershy gave him a soft smile as she assessed his condition.

"Let's see." She glared at the dark protrusions stuck in her friend's side. One was lodged in his barrel just below his right lung. "Hence the pain every time he breaths." She scanned the other two shards. "One is stuck in his fetlock. The other is in his flank." She looked at the wound seeing that the bleeding had mostly stopped.

"Luckily for you, these weren't meant to kill." She told Star as she backed away. He just laid there panting.

"Goody goody gum drop's Doc." He chuckled. "You know I think I'll just take a nap real quick." Fluttershy's eye's shot open.

"NO!" She shouted. "Don't go to sleep!" She nudged Star as light as she could muster. "Star! STAR!" She shouted trying to rouse him.

"Oh no!" she said as she frantically scanned the hallway for any sign of help. To her surprise, she heard somepony's voice.

"Fluttershy!" That voice brought so much relief to Fluttershy's heart. "Rainbow Dash!" She shouted getting everypony's attention. Soon the other five were all by Star's side all of them having expressions of horror and shock on their faces.

"Who did this to him?" Dash asked her voice seething with anger. Fluttershy gave her a soft look of concern.

"It was Nightmare Moon." She muttered under her breath. Dash's face morphed from one of anger to one of pale shock. Finally, she huffed in annoyance.

"Darling it's all right." Rarity said laying a hoof on Dash shoulder. Dash calmed down a little more. "You're right Rares'. We're here, He's here still." She pointed to Star who was now fast asleep. AJ kicked at the ground.

"Girl's we got some info that might help us with this here problem." She said drawing every pony's attention back to the current issue.

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"Hello?" Star called out into the void. He was awash in a sea of white. The vast expanse he found himself in was wide and lonely. "Where am I?" "You are in the dreamscape." Came a voice from behind him. Star whipped around as fast as he could only to stop dead when he saw a tall deep blue Alicorn.

"Nightmare Moon!" He said getting his body settled into a battle stance. He suddenly stopped when he noticed something.

"Hey where'd?" He asked no pony in particular. He heard a soft whimper from Nightmare Moon. Shooting her a glare he quickly did a double take.

"You?" He asked to speechless to talk. Standing just as still as she was when he first spotted her he noticed something different about Nightmare. One was she wasn't as hostile looking as she was before in the waking world. Two was the stream of tear's cascading down her cheeks. His voice was hesitant but it came all the same.

"N-Nightmare?" He asked one eyebrow raised the whole time. She shot him a glare. "I am not that." She paused. "Monster!" She finally said the venom in her voice was palpable. Star shrunk back in fear.

"Ok ok, so you're not." He thought about it. "Her." He finally said a nervous chuckle escaping his lip's before he could stop it. The blue mare paid him no mind. Instead, she chose to continue her earlier statement. "You may call us Luna." She said giving him a look that oozed authority. He quickly bowed down before he could think. "What is happening?" He wandered.

"Rise," Luna commanded. Once more his body reacted before he could. "Now there is not much time." She looked around the dreamscape. "We have temporarily gained some small amount of control over our body and now we have a message that must get to you and your friend's," Luna said. Star gave her a look of confusion. "Why should I trust you?" He asked. Luna sighed. "You are the master of your own fate. If you decide to trust me or not is completely up to you." She said as she sat down. Star gave her a quizzical look. He closed his eye's and allowed the flow of emotions to crash over him. He searched her mind for any kind of deceit and found none. "Here goes nothing."

"Your Highness." He asked grabbing her attention. "Yes, little one?" Star clenched his jaw. "Where can I find the elements?" He asked. Luna gave him a smile. "When you return to the waking world give your friend's this information." She said

"so what are we gonna do about Star?" Dash asked as she and Fluttershy knelt down beside him. Fluttershy gave her a hope filled smile. "I'll see what I can do." She said as she looked around. She spotted what she was looking for in the ceiling of the hall. A small hole. She held her head up high and began to sing a soft note. Her melody soon gave way to a soft form of birdsong. When she was done she sat back down and waited.

"Dear, what was that?" Rarity asked giving Fluttershy an astonished look of praise. Fluttershy didn't answer she just sat there her head inclined to the side, listening. She held up a hoof to which Rarity fell silent. Soon Fluttershy's call was answered as the sound of birdsong filled the cool night air. Soon a whirl of wing's and wind filed through the hole as dozen's of chirping birds flew about settling down on the haggard banners about the hall. Fluttershy smiled at all of her animal friend's.

"Thank all of you for coming here." She addressed to all of them. She gave them all a serious look. "Now could you all help me out here?" She asked the assemblage of feathered compatriots. They all chirped in reply, "Of course my lady!" They all said at once. She nodded and smiled. "Ok here's what I need you to do." She detailed her plan to the bird's while her friend's sat there, most of them sporting dumbfounded looks. Dash meanwhile had a smile that could rival Pinky's.

"That's incredible!" Rarity said as she looked on in wonder. A small gasp caught everypony's attention and stopped Fluttershy mid speech. All eyes were on the stallion that was severely injured. His eye's whisked open and he looked around.

"Girls?" He called out. All at once his vision was swarmed with six figures all trying to see if he was ok. He cleared his throat and that got their attention.

"How are you feeling?' Fluttershy asked the concern creeping into her voice once more. He waved her question off.

"Girl's listen to me. Princess Luna--" "Who?" Twilight interrupted. Star just shook his head. "Not now later." He said as he tried to sit up. "Gerr!" He growled as a burning pain shot up his hind leg and back. He pushed it aside for now.

"Listen!" He spoke up stopping all further questions. "You need to find the Royal Armory." He said. The girl's all gave him a curious look.

"The whosy whasit?" Pinky said looking truly confused. Star sighed. "That's where the elements are stored." He said, clutching his head.
"Oh god's this hurt's." He said as his head began to bob back and forth. "Hey wait!" Rainbow Shouted just as Star collapsed back to the ground.

"Where is that?" Fluttershy said as she cradled Star's head in her hoove's.

"Oh, Darling we might have a clue as to where that is." Rarity said. "Yeah and I can help track it down," Twilight added.

"But wait what about Star?" Rainbow asked as she sat down next to Star, giving him a sad look. Fluttershy gave her a soft smile.

"Oh don't worry about a thing Dash I have a plan," Fluttershy said as she once more began to communicate with her bird friends. She motioned for Dash to step back, which she reluctantly did so, as to allow Fluttershy's bird friends to do their job. All at once the group of birds flew around Star encircling him in a circle of feathers. Soon he was lifted off of the ground as the combined might of the birds hoisted Star's unconscious form into the air.

"Wow!" The group exclaimed. Fluttershy just smiled. "All right now you take Star here to Ponyville General hospital so he can get all nice and better." She instructed them. "Right Away your majesty!" They saluted and set off at a sedated pace out of the castle and out into the night. Fluttershy and Rainbow took one last look at Star's entourage of birds and then both gave out a sigh.

"So where is this armory?" Dash asked Twilight who was still stuck in a trance. "U--um- Let me think." She said as she turned to Rarity. "So you three found a map?" She asked. Rarity nodded.

"Yes darling we have," She said. Soon the two were making a plan to get to the armory. AJ and Pinky were standing off to the side.

"You know when we get back to ponyville we're gonna have to throw one big damn party for everypony here right?" AJ asked Pinky who shook her head in delight. "Yup! I'll throw the most partyingist party to have ever been partyied!" She said steeling her face as Twilight and Rarity rejoined the group.

"Ok girls we have a map and a plan." She gave each of them a hard smile. Rainbow swooped in, a hoof raised in the air "Let's go teach Nightmare Moon what happen's when you mess with our town!" She said bringing her hoof down on the other. "You better make it through this Star." She thought about it. "Yeah, you're too tough to let this stop you!"

"Rainbow you coming?" Twilight asked. Dash was rattled out of her thoughts giving Twilight a sheepish look.

"Yeah Twi. Be right there." She said zooming over to the others. She gave the open sky one last look. "One way or another this night time will end." "I promise you'll wake up to the world full of light." She muttered under her breath as she caught up with her friend's.