The Stained Glass

Starlight's aura was setting down. She was panting as she stared at the scroll waiting nervously to see if it worked. So did the others, they had gathered up around it and were just staring at it.

Then after a few seconds the paper started glowing and it formed a face.

Starlight's eyes widened and beamed like a foal in front of candy. "It worked!" she exclaimed.

"Spike... You will have to send a letter to your friends in Ponyville." said the voice coming from the scroll

"Wait is that princess Celestia?" Pinkie Pie asked confused.

"Shhhh!" the others mares whistled.

"Twilight... I suppose it was about time you knew. Equestrian history is so big and goes back really far."

"But this is a part of our past that you need to know and seeing the information you have gathered you might be able to help us find her..." Princess Luna's voice was now speaking.

"Her who? You are talking about the last alicorn right? It was you, Princess Celestia, Discord, Sombra and her... Another alicorn... So what happened to her?" Twilight finally asked before the paper went back to its original form.

"Don't stop there!" Pinkie cried dramatically.

They were all left dumbfounded. What they heard had certainly confused them even more.

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"Why do you two fight so much all the time?" Fallen asked Glimmering as they were sitting on a bench at the "Store Avenue". Tulip was across the street at her flower shop closing up for the day.

"We don't actually fight. It's more like a thing siblings do. You know for fun!" Glimmering said taking a bite from his Hayburger. "You shouldn't worry that much. I play pranks on her she takes 'revenge' and then after a while we look back and laugh."

Fallen turned her head towards the sky "Look back and laugh..." she repeated. "That sounds familiar."

"Do you miss him?" Glimmering asked offering her a french fry from the little container next to him.

She took one with her magic and nodded. "Yeah... A lot... We had so much fun together all these years... You could say we were like siblings. However we almost never fought like you two!" she said and ate the potato. "Anyway..." She said in an attempt to change the subject. "Are you coming with us to get our outfits for the Gala or not? You know you need a new suit!"

Glimmering rolled his eyes and let out a sigh. "Ugh...Fineeeee. If it means that you will stop nagging.

"Yes!" Fallen exclaimed punching the air with her hoof. "Now give me another potato please!" she said pointing to the container. "What's taking Tulip so long?" she asked munching on her food.

"I don't know... She is probably messing with her seeds again. Let's not interupt her. She will remember that we are waiting for her eventually."

For the next few minutes the two ponies were eating in silence waiting for Tulip to finish her work.

"Hey... I want to ask you something..." Glimmering said breaking the silence. "But it might sound a bit rude..."

She looked at him and gave him an encouraging smile. "Ask away I don't bite!"

"You said that you and Night Sky did not fight a lot. So when you did...Why did you fight? You seemed to be super close."

Fallen's smile immediately turned into a frown and Glimmering regretted asking. He tried to tell her that she didn't have to answer if she didn't feel like it. But she interupted him.

"No,no... It's okay. Afterall it's about time that I told someone and who better than my best friend, right?"

Glimmering beamed "Yay! Storytime!"

She took a deep breath to calm herself and started telling her story. "Just like you said Night Sky and I were really close and fights between us except from rare were actually heartbreaking. And at first we were fine. The real trouble started from the day Luna's pearl dissapeared from my necklace. That meant that my time there was limited. It didn't take long for him to find out and I am preety sure that he was more afraid of me leaving, than I was. He started being overprotective and didn't talk to other ponies that much.

One day he decided to talk to me... When I saw him I gasped in shock. His features looked overtired his mane messy. It looked like he hadn't slept but that wasn't it... Lack of magic... This easily happens to his kind in times of extreme sadness and worry. I tried to hug him and magic him back to normal but he refused to. I knew why he was here and what he wanted to talk about. So I tried to explain to him once again that the choice was not mine to make. And then my necklace chose the worst time to interrupt us. Discord's pearl dissapeared in front of his eyes."

"Your necklace has the worst timing ever!" Glimmering exclaimed.

She sighed and turned her sad gaze to the ground. "I know... So we started yelling at each other. In fact we made so much noise that my neighbor bursted in to see what was going on. When we saw her we stopped immediately and I felt so ashamed. Then when I turned to look at him he had already spread his wings and flew out of the house."

"And then what happened?" Tulip asked who had joined them a few minutes ago.

"At first I froze for a few seconds but Neon, my neighbor slapped me out of it and shouted that I should follow him. And so I did. I was after him for a few minutes but he had always been faster than me so after a while I lost him. I didn't lose hope though. So I looked everywhere. Every possible place he might be hiding. It took me hours but alas I didn't find him. My wings were aching and I knew that I had to stop... Afterall if he didn't want me to find him he could find a thousand places to hide. I landed and headed towards my sanctuary, a cave at the end of the town. Thankfully I was close so I didn't have to walk too much.

When I finally got there I collapsed to the ground and cried to my heart's consent. I was in pain both physically and emotionally and worst of all I was afraid... My life there would soon be over and I had no choice but to accept my fate and return to Equestria. Losing him forever." she said tears streaming down her cheeks. Suddenly she felt two hooves wrapped around her neck. Tulip was hugging her for comfort. Glimmering upon seeing this opened his wings and closed the two mares in a big group hug.

"So did you ever find out where he was hiding?" Glimmering asked curiously.

Fallen pulled away and let out a little giggle. "Yes... Yes I did... Or rather he found me..."

"What do you mean?" Tulip asked confused.

"Well... That sneaky pony apart from being faster than me also was smarter than me. So he used my whole logic against me. It was only reasonable that I would look firts on places where I thought he might be hiding. So he turned my logic upside down and went to the place I would go if I wanted to hide. So I suppose you can imagine how surprised I was when I felt a wing hugging me close. I was still shaking and couldn't seem to stop but he didn't mind. He let me relax and then pushed my mane out of my face. I looked at him and saw that he was smiling at me. How could he be smiling at a time like that? He left my house in a terrible state and now he was there comforting me? Why? Why did I deserve him? Because I love you and you love me, he said reading my mind. I blushed and hid my face on his neck. That bat pony could make me go crazy..." she concluded smiling and blushing. She turned to her friends who were smiling to her as well, Tulip was the first to jump to her hooves and grabbed Fallen's hoof.

"You know, I for one don't think that you have lost him. I am preety sure that you will meet again! Now come on guys we have to go shopping. Glim are you coming?" she asked.

"Aye, Aye captain the other two said and laughed taking flight. Little did they know that Tulip was actually right.