"A MONTH?!" I shout in disbelief. "She's going to stay here for a month?!"

"It's just until her mother finalizes the divorce in canterlot. The poor dear is already upset about it, why add salt to the wound by bringing her along?" Mom says softly as she sets up the small folding bed next to mine. "Besides, I think it'll be a good chance to settle any arguments you had today. Won't it be fun to have a friend here to play with every day?"

"I have plenty of friends," I say gesturing to Kal. He tilts his head and looks up at us.

"That's true but how about someone your age...and species? No offense Kal" Mom quickly states while patting his little head.

I glance away from her in thought. I don't want to tell her the real reason for not wanting Crystal to stay here, But I'm not sure if I could deal with her here for a month. Being bullied by her at school was easy cause it was only for a few hours every weekday. But to see her every day, Monday-Sunday, twenty-four hours each day for a month! My sanity won't last a week.

"But," I put on a fake bashful look "Can't she stay in a different room. I'm a little too shy to share a room with her. How else am I going to change clothes and stuff?"

"Oh dear, I guess that would be a problem," Mom thinks for a moment before folding the bed back up "I guess I could clear out the storage room for while"

"Oh, it's okay Mrs. Shy," A sudden over polite voice says. In the doorway stood Crystal herself with her oversized luggage "I'll make sure not to look or leave the room whenever Autumn needs to change. I don't want to put you through all that trouble to make room for me"

"It's no trouble at all!" Mom says kindly.

"But I insist! I'm a little too shy myself to stay in a room all by myself anyway. I would much more comfortable with Autumn nearby" Crystal says lightly nudging mom out the door before stopping to give her the best puppy eyes she can muster "I'm not used to sleeping without my mother and father next to me. So I thought Autumn could help"

"Alright then, I wouldn't want you uncomfortable" Mom puts the bed back without noticing me waving my hands and mouthing 'NO' at her. "I'll let you girls get comfortable"

With that, she leaves. I slump on my bed and bury my face in my pillows. Kal nudges my arm with his nose and pushes himself into my arms. Something he does when he meets a threat.

"What is that, a dog?" Crystal questions while taking down my pictures and placing her posters up.

"He's a fox. His name is Khaos. My uncle gave him to me on my birthday two years ago" I explain with my head in my pillow.

"Just keep that thing away from my stuff," She says slapping another one of her posters on the wall. "If I find even one tooth mark on my shoes it's lights out!" She does a cutting action with her finger to her neck causing Kal to hide in my sweater this time.

"Stop scaring him," I say annoyed.

"Why should I? I was honestly fine with going with my mother to canterlot and you ruined it for me. Now I have to stay here!" She says pointing a rolled up poster at me. "Becuase of you and that jerk Nebula, I was so embarrassed I had to fake cry my way home. Now my mother thinks I'm sad because of the divorce"

I sit up and stare at her.

"What? What are you looking at?" She asked.

"Are...You really not sad?"

"I'm more mad than sad cause I have to stay here-"

"No, I mean about your parents splitting," I say. She looks taken back by the question. Her shoulders loosen and drop a bit before they perk up again.

"What kind of question is that?" She spat "Of course I'm sad. I never got that pony I always wanted from my daddy!" She crosses her arms.

"But now you'll never see him again. Doesn't that part bother you at all?"

"What's with all the stupid questions? Are you really trying to 'Connect' with me right now." She glares at me "It's not gonna work. I still think you're a psychotic weirdo with no friends and a weird obsession with poison!"

My face goes red with anger as I stand up.

"What's your problem with me anyway? If you hate me so much why didn't you just take the other room?"

"Cause it's a storage room. the place is probably crawling with mice and dust" She smirks and looks me in the eye "Besides Since I blame you for my being here, I'll be taking over your room and making your life a living Tartarus for the next thirty days"

I pick Kal up and run out of the room, slamming the door on my way out. Then I jump down the stairs and out of the house. I keep going all the way to the edge of the forest where I turn and head to a different clearing. There I find a tree and in the tree is a tree house.

When I get inside I place Kal down on a pillow and stand in the middle of the tree house for a bit. Then I angrily kick an old doll and it hits the wall.

"It's all your fault, My daddy is a prince, ponies blah blah blah" I imitate Crystal and even do a few hair flips after my sentences. I kick another toy and it hits the same wall. "She's so..."

I pull my foot back again and let it go.

"ANNOYING!"

I kick the object and it rolls a few inches, or centimeters. Then a sharp, stinging pain shoots up my leg.

"OW!" I howl in pain as I roll around on the floor. "I guess...I deserved that"

Note to self: no more playing soccer in the tree house.

I look at what I kicked....

A ball...of paper?

I picked it up and it was surprisingly light.

"What the?" I uncrumpled it to find a letter.

Dear My beloved niece,
Happy eighth birthday! It's amazing how fast time flies. It feels like just yesterday I was turning your rattles into tap dancing rattle snakes. Interesting how that turned out considering snakes don't have feet. I'm sorry that I can't be there all the time anymore since your father told your mother how 'Uncomfortable' he felt with me around all the time, And I don't want you to be lonely, so I'm giving you a friend as loving as your mother. His name is Khaos. He was born a few months ago so he is still a little pup. He's gonna need you to take care of him.
Love, Uncle Dizzy

P.S- Do you think paper can peel?

I Immediately feel better after reading. It really has been a while since Uncle Dizzy came to visit. It felt like it has been thousands of years.

I re-read the last part and laugh. It's just like uncle Dizzy to ask random questions. As If I was trying to humor him I pick at the ends of the paper. Then to my surprise, the paper began to pull apart like it was a sticker coming off of the paper. The two pieces fall to the ground.

"Huh?" I pick them up and glance over them. One side had the letter and the other had a short sentence. Under it said 'read out loud'. "is this a...spell?"

My heart starts to pound as I place down the original letter and stand up in the middle of the tree house. Then I began to read.

"For those who want the truth revealed, open hearts and secrets unsealed. From now until it's now again, after which the memory ends." I finish reading and look around.

"Nothing happened," I say a bit disappointed. I drop the letter and turn to look at Kal. "Come on Kal. It's getting late we should get ready for-"

I look but there is no one there. Kal was gone.

"Kal?" I look around "Kal, where did you go?"

I looked under the small tables and chairs, on the shelves, and under some of the abandoned toys. I started to panic as I looked through the windows and around again before my eyes landed on the open door. There's no way he could have gotten down. He's a fox pup he can't climb!

I leap through the door and attempt to land on the grass below, but everything started to slowly wash away like paint in the rain. I was left falling, or rather floating in nowhere until I was in an unknown place. It was like a study/bedroom. There were books piled on shelves and paper filled with work everywhere.

I continued to look around before I noticed that I was not alone. Next to me, at a desk was a young woman. She had plain brown hair and dull brown eyes. She seemed to be focused on the work in front of her. She read her work out loud.

"For questions 1-15, solve each problem, choose the best answer from the choices provided, and fill in the corresponding circle on your answer sheet. For questions 16-20, solve the problem and enter your answer in the grid on the answer sheet. Please refer to the directions before question 16 on how to enter your answers in the grid. You may use any available space in your test booklet for scratch work...."

Her voice sounds so familiar. Like mine but...older.

My thoughts were cut off by another person, a taller blonde girl sneaking up behind her. They stop behind the woman and look over her shoulder and narrowing their eyes at the book.

"What the heck are you doing?" The blonde asked

"N-nothing, just catching up on some homework from last semester" The shorter brunette answered

"You do realize it's spring break right?" The brunette nodded "Then why the heck are you doing work? We have all of next week to catch up. Besides, there aren't any test when we get back"

"I just thought it would be a good idea to get-"

"-Get out for once? Well, I'm glad we're on the same page!" The blonde pulled the brunette away and the scene washes away again.

"What was that. I don't understand! Where am I!" I call out hoping someone would answer "Why am I here?"

Then something appeared that I wasn't expecting. And I really wanted it to go away.

It was night and there was smoke coming from behind a few trees. I walked around it and found something so horrifyingly familiar to me.

It was a car tipped over with smoke coming from it. There was blood everywhere and four lumps in the ground that I can only imagine as bodies. But under and next to the car were two. I walked closer to see the same brunette from before and a red head. But the red head wasn't moving at all. Not even breathing.

Then the one under the car gasped and breathed heavily for a second causing me to flinch. Then she whispered something.

"I just want one thing. Please give me...Give us all one more chance with life"

"Just one...one more chance"

She took one last breath before closing her eyes. I felt tears running down my face as her shaking body stopped moving. I looked over the other bodies and began crying harder.

"Someone please come help them!" I call out " SOMEBODY! ANYBODY! please, they need help!"

Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bright light appear. And out of that bright light stood a person. But not just a person it was my Uncle.

The whole thing fades out again just as Dizzy walked over to the brunette and touched her forehead causing her own body to fade out into dust.

I was left to float in nothingness again as I cried. "Why do I have to see this? What is this anyway!"

"No, no this isn't going to work" I heard someone say. I turned to see my uncle standing in a room.

In front of him was the brunette. But her dull brown eyes were even duller and it looked like she could barely stand up straight.

"All that work to get them and THIS is what I get. I need partners in chaos not zombies of chaos!" He slams his hands on the table in front of him. I flinch at his anger. I've never seen him like that.

"Back to the lab I guess" He groans and with a wave of his hand, the brunette disappears into dust again. The cloud of dust flows into a bottle and he sticks it into his pocket.

Again the scene fades away.

More scenes began to flicker past me. It was so fast you would have thought I couldn't catch them but... I did somehow. My uncle being turned to stone by the princesses, six little bottles sitting abandoned in a house floating in a world of chaos, years passing by, My mother getting her cutie mark, meeting her friends, becoming an element of harmony, freeing princess Luna from her anger, Defeating Uncle and trapping him for a second time, then freeing him again this time to change his ways, Many other foes defeated, and years passing, my mom marrying my dad and all the time spent with her friends. It was all flowing into my head. Then It stopped and only one scene remained.

"Typhon. Something, not even the elements can defeat" Princess Celestia stood in front of her sister. Behind her was some kind of circle on the floor. "The signs are all pointing towards his return"

"How much time do we have?" Luna asked concerned.

"Not enough. we have seventeen years at most but not even thirty will be able to save us."

"Then what should we do? Should we warn Twilight and her friends? Let them prepare?" Luna asked.

"It won't help. The elements are for disharmony. They aren't for raw power. The same way that only love works on changelings and the light from the crystal empire on Sombra, Typhon will require a different kind of weapon. One that we do not have"

"So what? Do we just give up and die? That isn't the Celestia I know!" Luna shouts angrily "We should go out there and fight him ourselves"

"We would die"

"We would die to protect our subjects!"

"We wouldn't be protecting them by leaving them behind to fight a losing battle," Celestia says calmly while placing her hand on her younger sister's shoulder.

"We could always try the elements. We won't know anything without trying" Luna suggests.

"Never..." Celestia whispers. "I would never send Twilight and the rest out there unless I knew for a fact that they would come back alive"

They both go silent for a while.

"We don't have a choice Tia," Luna says turning away from her sister.

"I know we don't...but let them live for a while longer. Twilight had just gotten married and she's already thinking of a family. Let her have this please" Celestia's eyes water. "When the time comes we will have a decision"

I hold my hands over my mouth in shock. I can't believe it. The princesses are going to sacrifice... My mom.

A sudden cracking sound brings me out of my shock as I turn to see Uncle Dizzy standing there with his teeth clenched and his hand on one of the pillars. Despite his anger, he stayed hidden from the princesses and turned away as he teleported away. I'm suddenly back in the chaotic house as I watched Uncle Dizzy slam open a door behind his couch and walk down non-existent stairs.

At the bottom was a dark room with empty shelves and bottles. He opens up a hole in the door at the and takes out a huge case. He unlocked it with one of his horns and takes out a smaller case. He unlocks that one and takes out the smaller one inside. This process continues until he reaches a small box the size of his hand. he opens the box and inside sits six small vials.

He then sits at the desk at the end of the mysterious basement. Hesitantly he opens them and sits for a moment. He glances at the picture on his desk. It was of him and mom years before at a gala. With confidence, he cracks his knuckles.

"Let's get to work"

The scene fades out and only vague images of Uncle Dizzy over different people as he drops the contents of the vials into the air around them and even on them as they slept. He eventually reaches my mom. He stands by watching with a face that looks almost like...disgust as he watches my mom laugh and talks with my father. With a scowl, he does the same to her without them noticing.

Everything is gone now and I am back in my room. Or rather how my room used to be, with a crib in the corner.

Uncle Dizzy stood over the crib. Looking down at a little me as I speak gibberish and reach up for him. He smiles and picks me up. And with a guilty look on his face, he places me back down and gives me a stuffed version of him.

"I'm sorry"

And back to black everything goes.

I'm still so confused. I saw some strange lady's death, Basically the history of my uncle and my mom, and I heard something about a threat against Equestria. But...

"What does any of this have to do with me?"I ask out loud.

"It has everything to do with you," A voice says.

I turn to find what looks like a window, and on the other side was the brunette woman.

"Who are you?" I ask.

She starts to laugh."That's a rather strange question to ask. How about you answer me first? Who is that?" She points behind me.

I turn again to find a mirror. Inside of it was a reflection of me.

"That's me"

"You just answered your own question," The brunette said.

"Huh?"

"That's right," Another voice says.

I turn to the mirror again to find my reflection speaking back to me.

"I-I still don't get it," I say again. "How is my reflection talking back?"

"I'm not your reflection. She is" The 'other' I pointed back at the brunette.

I turn again slowly and looked up at the brunette. She copied my movements. "What...is this?" The brunette copied my lip movements too, as her facial expression morphed into fear and confusion. The same look I had.

"See?" Other me said.

"Then what are you?" I asked turning my head again.

"I'm the child your mother never had. Merely an empty shell stuck in the back of your head" She taps her own head.

The brunette still copied my movements as I sunk to the ground.

"Looks like you finally solved the puzzle." She said stepping out of the mirror frame and kneeling next to me "Can you tell me what's wrong Autumn?"

"I-I'm not.."

"What was that?" She leans in "You're not what?"

"I'm not A-Autumn. That's n-not my name" I stutter as tears fall down my face. I bury my face into my hands.

"Who are you then?"

...

"I'm Lillian"

Author's Note

Next Chapter: What could I do?...

BTW: I'm sorry If Discord is a bit OOC here I'll try my best to put him back into character