My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: The New Member

It was nightime in United Equestria and all of the ponies were sleeping. Princess Luna watch over the night. At Lightning and Starla's house, everypony was asleep except one. Jewel was looking out the window at the moon, thinking.

Tommorow would be Hearth's Warming Eve!

However, Jewel was not happy. Hearth's Warming Eve, to her would only bring back a terrible memory. She tried not to think about it and she started singing:

Hush little one
And close your eyes
Dream of our hearts side by side
The moon and stars will be your guide tonight

Hush little one
And say goodnight
Two stars shine as one tonight
So make a wish
And close your eyes
And may your wish come true
Tonight

Hush little one
Goodnight

Jewel shed a tear and crawled into her bed and fell asleep for the night.

The next day, snow was falling and bells were ringing. Every home in New Ponyville and Canterlot was decorated for Hearth's Warming Eve. Everybody was singing a song about how much they loved Hearth's Warming Eve.

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Lightning ing and his friends were in New Canterlot Palace in the royal throne room with the royal alicorns and Shining Armor. The walls were decorated with lights and flowers, a tree in the corner the room was littered with presents, plus a table with food and refreshments.

"I love Hearth's Warming Eve!" Cadence exclaimed.

"Me too." Shining added.

Lighting and the gang expressed the joy for the holiday, when Jewel came into the room. "Hey Jewel! Ready to celebrate your first Hearth's Warming Eve here in United Equestria?" Starla asked. The ponies looked at Jewel, noticing she had a really miserable expression on her face

"Ehh, I was thinking I might just skip it." Jewel replied, emotionless. Everybody gasped in shock!

"Skip Hearth's Warming Eve?!" Lightning repeated.

"Why would you wanna do that Jewel?" Celestia asked.

"It just brings back bad memories." Jewel stated. The ponies looked at Jewel, confused. "Bad memories about what?" Shining pressed. Jewel sighed, "I-I... don't want to talk about it." she replied in a sad tone. Jewel turned away and walked out of the room with her shoulders slumped and her head down.

"Now why in United Equestria would Jewel wanna to skip Hearth's Warming Eve? It doesn't make a lick of sense!" Applejack asked.

"I don't know, but it is obvious that Jewel's suffering from something that connects to this day. The question is what is it?" Lightning replied. While all the ponies began thinking, Starla suddenly remebered something,

"You know, I did hear Jewel singing what sounded like a lullaby."

"A lullaby?" Everypony repeated confused.

"Why would Jewel sing a lullaby?" Cadence asked.

"The only one would can tell us that is Jewel." Dyno said.

"Si, we got to get her to spill the beans." Myte agreed. Everypony spread out to look for their friend. Soon, Starla found Jewel in the New Canterlot garden.

"Jewel. Are you okay?" she asked gently.

"No. I'm not." Jewel replied sadly.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No thank you."

"Jewel, I know your hurting. You'll feel better off you talk to us about it."

Seeing that Starla wasn't going to give this up, Jewel sighed in defeat, ".....Sure. Why not."

Starla led Jewel back to the throne room where the gang was waiting for her.

"Hey, Jewel," Buddy greeted, " you wanna tell us what's got you so sad?"

Jewel sighed and nodded head.

"I don't want to celebtate Hearth's Warming Eve because..... it reminds me of how I lost my parents." Jewel replied. All the ponies gasped in horror.

"You lost your parents?!" Starla asked.

"How?" Lightning added, so Jewel explained.

"My original home was on a plant named Harmony. My mom was a alicorn with a dark pink mane and tail with a white body with no cutie mark and my dad was an unicorn with yellow mane and tail with blue fur and wings with yellow shading and a star cutie mark,

My mom and dad were the best. They always cheered me up and cared for me. Everybody in Harmony had powerful magic. There were no pegasi or earth ponies. For the first nine years, my life was perfect.

Until one day....My mom and dad were walking in the street when out of nowhere a big snake came up and then hundreds more came in. All my people were fighting but my mom and dad didn't because they wanted me to be safe. They made a dimensional path for me to be teleported for safety.

'Can't you guys come?' asked nine year old Jewel.

'Sorry sweetie. But we have to stay here. We only built is strong enough for you.' I was heart broken by that. Before I jumped into the path my mom gave me a necklace with pendant crystal. It contained all the memories I've had with them, so I could remeber them.

'Remeber our little diamond. We'll always be here for you. No matter where you go' Jewel's mom said. Then I jumped into the portal.

When I woke up I was surrounded by all kinds of animals; Unicorns, Alicorns, Hippogriffs, Jaguins, Pheonix's, you name it.

A Comet and Star wolf pack approached me and saw that I was all alone. The wolf pack leaders were named Raksha and Akela. They took me in and raised me as one of their own.

They fed me, played with me, they even introduced me to all of the creatures. My wolf, adoptive mom was a bit protective of me and usually went crazy when I was late getting home but my adoptive wolf dad calmed her down.

Over the next nine years, I've grown a deep bond with all of the animals. I thought that it would be like that forever. Unfortunately, the same snakes that attack my home planet came back! My wolf parents made another pathway to help me escape...again. They said that I would be teleported to a place where I could live happy and be protected. Also find another true family to call my own. They gave me a another pendant, shaped like a wolf, for my necklace that had all my memories of them.

I jumped in and it teleported me away. When I came here, Sombra and Chrysalis were walking and I landed on them. They were angry, so they chased me for a whole day until I found the meadow, collapsed and their majesties found me.

When Jewel was finished, she had tears raining down her face.

"Both pairs of my parents said that they would find me again and I hoped everyday that would come true." The ponies felt pity for Jewel.

"Jewel, Starla said last night you were singing a lullaby
Can you tell us why?" Rhymey asked.

"Both of my mothers sang that song to me whenever I was scared. *Sniffle...Sniffle* I'm gonna..... to leave now *Sniffle....Sob*." With that, Jewel burst out of the throne room and into her chamber. Entering the room, she saw the necklace with the crystals that had all the memories of her moms and dads. She walked up to it and tapped them. All the memories from her birth, her brithdays, Hearth's Warming Eve's, all leading up to the day she was forcibly separated from them.

Seeing the memories, Jewel felt even more heartbroken. Tears began streaming down her face, "Mommy *sob* Daddy *sniff* I miss you."

Back in the throne room the friendship ponies, Lightning, his friends and their royal majesties were still handling the depressing news Jewel had just told them.

"Poor darling. No wonder she’s devastated." Rarity commented. Pinkie's mane had turned dull and gray.

"Galloping Galaxies." Lightning said.

"Getting torn away from her family...twice! No wonder she's so distressed." Cadence added.

Lightning and Grand Ruler knew about losing their families, but they gained new families, while Jewel was still alone. "What can we do to cheer her up?" Starla asked, she hated seeing her best friend so sad, especially on a happy holiday. Everybody thought of the perfect gift they could give Jewel.

"*Gasp*, I know the perfect gift. Starla, you try to cheer up Jewel while we set up Jewel's gift." Cadence said. Starla ran off to Jewel's room, while the others made Jewel's gift.

Starla arrived Jewel's guest room and opened the door. She was greeted by a heart-breaking sight!

Jewel was lying in bed with two empty buckets of ice cream on the floor and she was eating her third one, while tears ran down her face.

"Oohh, Jewel." Starla sat beside Jewel and rubbed her back, "Shhhh, it's okay. Please cheer up." Starla begged.

Jewel looked at Starla and placed her head in Starla's shoulder. Starla continue to comfort Jewel until she stopped crying. Starla took the ice cream bucket away from her and began to talk softly.

"Jewel, I can't stand to see you so sad. Please come out, we have a present for you. I promise it'll make you feel better." Starla cooed. Jewel sniffled and thought. "Okay." Jewel said. Starla and Jewel went to the throne room, where everybody was waiting with big smiles on their faces.

"What's going on?" Jewel asked.

Their majesties approached Jewel. "Jewel, I know what it is to lose your family, but I found a new family with my wife, Lightning and all of my subjects. Now me and Celestia want to give you the same thing." Grand Ruler started. Queen Celestia stepped forward.

"Jewel, me and Celesto would like to adopt your as our second daughter." Celestia offered. Jewel's eyes widened, "What do you say?"

Jewel's eyes widened and tears began to form. "Ye-ee-es!" She cried colliding with their majesties in a hug.

Everybody cheered loudly for Jewel and new newly, second adoptive parents. Their majesties signed Jewel's adoption papers, making Jewel their official daughter. They introduced Jewel to their other children; Prince Castor and Princess Leliani. The babies giggled and cooed at having a new sibling.

Princess Cadence and Shining were happy about having Jewel as their cousin. Now Jewel has a family of her own and this time it would be here to stay. Jewel began to sing in joy about having a new family and letting go of her past emotions:

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Now everypony in United Equestria was in the holiday cheer.

In our next episode... Jewel finds an injured changeling in the forest and it tells her that it never wanted to harm anypony. Jewel takes it to New Canterlot, hoping nopony notices, unfortunately they do.

Can Jewel get her friends to trust the changeling?

Find out in the next episode of Starfleet Magic...

("A Changeling Discovery")