“Twilight, come see me at the library in fifteen. I got to deliver this essay to the teacher,” I said to my best friend, Twilight Sparkle.
“Sure. I’ll be there,” she asked me.
“See you there soon,” I headed to the teacher’s office.
The weather’s been too rainy lately in Canterlot. Almost every student I cross by are wearing coats and rain boots. Except for Pinkie Pie. She always likes to get wet and jump in the ponds.
While walking through the high school hallways, my eyes immediately saw three girls. My lips let out a silent snarl.
“The Dazzlings,” I tried to walk faster before they could notice me. But it was too late.
“Well, well, well… Look who we got here. It is our very good friend, Sunset Shimmer,” Adagio Dazzle greeted with a sarcastic tone in her voice.
“Wait a minute. Did you say, Sunset Shimmer? She still owes me a taco since our last encounter,” Sonata Dusk, always with her nonsensical expressions.
“Sonata, would you please shut up for a second? I am getting sicker of you,” Aria Blaze, angry as always.
“What? I was trying to make a joke,”
“Aw, can it you two!”
“What are you girls up to this time? Another plan where my friends and I will stop, and let the shame get the best of you again?” I chuckled after remembering what happened to them.
“Silence, Sunset Shimmer! I didn’t ask you to say that!” Adagio pushed me quite hard and everybody turned to see this. “Maybe you defeated us, but this time we are going to win,”
“Really? How do you plan to do it?” I asked coldly.
“It is a secret,” Aria said. But Sonata, for obvious reasons, spilled the beans.
“No it is not! Adagio said that she learned the location of an abandoned temple very well hidden at Camp Everfree and it…”
“SHUT UP!” Aria and Adagio covered her mouth with force.
“Interesting. I have to tell Twilight about this, quickly,” whispered without the girls knowledge.
“You! Yes, you! You haven’t heard anything from this brat!” Aria threatened me forming a fist with her free hand.
“Uh-huh. Whatever you say,” Aria and Adagio took away Sonata, still covering her mouth.
“This isn’t over, coward!” Adagio yelled.
I sighed and rushed to teacher’s office. Fortunately, I was still on time to deliver the essay successfully.
“Now to warn Twilight,” without losing time, I ran towards the library and I found her right by the entrance. “There you are, Twi. On time?”
“On time,” she smiled.
“Good. I got to tell you something really important,”
“What is it, Sunset?” she asked me.
“First, let me take you to the private study room. Follow me,”
I watched my surroundings for those stubborn girls before they can do something harsh to us. We entered the room and closed the door, locking it afterwards.
“All right. Have you heard about the Dazzlings before?”
“Sure. The three sirens who caused chaos in this school with their mind control. I read everything on the news,”
“Guess what,”
“What? They are back? Were they wearing some strange collars again?”
“Not this time. They are powerless but one of them spilled the beans, jeopardizing their entire plan,”
“Tell me,”
We sat down on the floor.
“Sonata Dusk said that deep in the woods of Camp Everfree, lies an abandoned temple. Probably contains something we don’t yet know”
“Correction. I do know”, Twi chuckled and smiled.
“What?”
“Eeyup,” she opened her backpack and took out a big ’ol gray book.
“Oh my goodness. Where did you get that?”
“It was a gift from my great-great-great grandfather. He was a famous archaeologist and an amazing explorer. In my veins, runs his blood. That is why I investigate so much,”
“I’m sure he would be very proud of you,”
“Thank you, Sunset Shimmer,”
“Don’t mention it,” Twi opens the book to a page.
“Here it is. Come closer,” I sat right next to her and saw a old photo depicting the temple. “This is it. The Everfree Temple. Legend says that this was a place to worship the Equestrian gods. But it was also used as a hall of justice, where the criminals are sent to a dark place known as the End of Time. Never to return,”
“Oh gosh,”
“Yeah. Queen Celestia and Queen Luna never agreed the idea of execution. But there was one single exception,”
“What is it?”
“Born from a deeply troubled family, Blood Moon was once the most dangerous criminal in the Equestrian history. Serial killer, vandal, kidnapper. She carried out by herself the worst criminal activities ever recorded. She was not that easy to be caught. She possessed dark magic powers, killing anyone who tried to get to her,”
She turned to another page.
“Tired from so much bloodshed, Queen Celestia and Queen Luna, along with seven mystical warriors, confronted Blood Moon in a very long battle. In their best opportunity, they unleashed their ultimate power and finally subdued her. She was weak. Unable to summon her dark magic any longer. Both queens stood in front of Blood Moon and without hesitation, executed her. From that on, days of peace returned to Canterlot until now,”
She flips to another page and I was without words.
“I don’t know what to say. It… it is a completely shocking story. These seven mystical warriors were our… ancestors?”
“Yes,”
“Wow. It would be nice if I met my ancestor. I could ask endless questions to know more of our history”
“I can say the same thing. Shame that it is a dream that can’t come true. Unless, if I can find a way to build some sort of time machine, maybe we can travel to that timeline,”
“You know how to build one?” I asked excited and she nervously smiled.
“Errr… not yet. But I can contact one of my classmates and help me out,”
“Great. I have chemistry class now. See you in a few hours, Twilight,”
“Good luck!” smiled, giving me a thumbs up.
“Thanks. You too,” I gave the same gesture too and walked to my class.
“It was an interesting class. I really enjoyed it, Sunset. Time to investigate more about that topic,”
“I’m glad about that,” she giggled. “Maybe you can share it with me tomorrow at lunch time. I will be always happy to hear everything you learn”
“Thank you, best friend,” my lips smiled. Sunset Shimmer and I were about to leave to our respective homes, when we noticed a mysterious person standing in front of the notice board downstairs. “Sunset. Look,” I whispered to avoid to attract her attention.
“Who is that?”
“I don’t know. Let’s ask her,”
With silent steps, we approached to the mysterious girl and stopped at a safe distance.
“Good evening. Welcome to Canterlot High School. How can we help you?” Sunset Shimmer gently asked.
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Is it my imagination or someone with a strikingly similar voice to mine spoke at me? I refused to turn around despite the question she asked.
“Are you ok, girl?”, her friend asked me now. I slowly walked towards the exit of the school but both girls began to follow me. It’s time to make a run for it.
“Hey! Stop!”, my evil clone shouted as I left through the main doors, then ran towards the stone block to finally make a turn to the right.
“We’re just here to help!” her friend shouted.
My legs run faster than theirs. Another big building made its appearance midway. Though, this one has a metal fence. To lose them, I jumped over it. But something bad just happened. My cape got stuck by the fences’ wires. The girls were dangerously closing in.
Without thinking too much, I removed my cape and hood. My beautiful hair and face, plus all my rouge garments were discovered.
“What the hell!?” My clone was extremely surprised to see my true identity.
“Indeed. I am in an alternate dimension, evil twin. Buh bye!”
“I used to be evil but I am a good person now!”, the chase resumed through the gardens outside the big building.
“She is right! And I had the same experience! Please! We just want to talk!” her friend explained.
“Not a chance! You want to hurt me! I don’t belong here, you know!”
“So!? We just want to know why are you here!”
The chase came to an end when small rock protruding from the grass blocked my right foot and made me fall, landing on my chest.
“Ouch! That hurt… Stupid rock,”
The clone’s friend approached and offered me her hand.
“That’s enough, girl. We are not your enemies,” she said. Sighing, I took her hand and lifted me up.
“Fine. I’ll trust you… for now,”
“We mean no harm, twin. Let’s go to my house and we can talk,”
“Ok. Lead the way,”
When I traveled through that portal, a strange force hug me intensely. Something’s not right. I barely saw a light in the distance. Is that the other side? I hope.
The light became brighter every second. I closed my eyes and expected to be spat out and hit into a wall or any other hard surface. Instead, I landed gently on top of some soft grass.
I slowly opened my eyes, the hugging force ceased.
“Huh? Where am I?”
I clearly said something was not right.
“What is this place?”
It looks different. So different. I turned to see where I came and saw a big stone block with rainbow sparkles coming out from above.
I took out my grappling hook, latched it on the border and climbed up. The sparkles were coming out from a small crack. Did I come out from this stone block? I thought for a moment what could have gone wrong but nothing came to my mind.
I jumped down and touched the sides softly. The one facing towards an enormous building scared me when my hand phased through.
I have so many questions right now. I need somebody to tell me the answers. When I was about to investigate the stone block even further, the bell from the building rang in a very quick succession. Then, so many people dressed in completely different clothing came out.
“I got to hide,”
The grass wasn’t high enough for hiding. I quickly looked for bushes and saw some in the distance near the building, went over there and jumped in. I waited for the people to leave the area.
“They’re gone. I almost blew my cover. I wonder what secrets hide inside this place. Must investigate. Hope I can find some information related to Blood Moon. Let’s move,”
I walked inside the building and to the middle of a big hall.
“I need to locate a library. But… where to go?”, I saw some posters nearby and took a close look at it. The first thing I noticed was the map of the place.
“Excellent. Now I can find the library”
