Princess Amity

The four ponies safely arrive at the castle and enter through the ballroom doors, and Evening and Vanilla unmount the alicorns. They immediately tend to Amity who appears unhurt. Celestia turns to Amity about to say something but holds back and leaves the trio.

“Princess Celestia?” Vanilla asks the white alicorn before leaving the room and into a hallway. “Um...can we...uh...may we know where to get snacks, Ma’am?”

Celestia smiles and says, “There’s a kitchen downstairs, and you don’t have ask me for permission. This is your sleepover. Just have fun.” She turns and walks out the door while her smile fades away.

Amity says, “Well, how about we head to my room, grab some games, and play in the dining room? It’s really big.”

“Sure,” Evening responds, “but are you sure you’re okay?”

“Seriously, you collapsed like a tree being chopped down,” Vanilla states.

Taking a deep breath, Amity reinsures, “Yeah, I’m good. No worries.” She then leads them through the same doors her mother went through but stops when she sees Celestia speaking to a guard near the end of the hall but unable hear. The colt in armor then leaves to one side of the hallway, and the white alicorn walks towards the other direction. Without turning her head, Celestia glares at Amity as she disappears behind a wall. The young alicorn quietly gasps and leads her friends down a different hall not wanting to get in her mothers way.

Later that night, the group of friends are in a massive empty dining room with the tables and chairs neatly stacked up against one of the walls, and they are in bizarre positions. They are on top of a plastic square with an equal amount of red, blue, green, and yellow large dots. Vanilla is close to the floor with her right front hoof vertical to her shoulder on a blue spot, left front hoof is stretched far to her left on a green spot, and both rear hooves stretched out on two red spots. Amity is over her with her stomach over her friend, front hooves close together on different colors, and rear hooves making an “X” on different colors as well. Vanilla whose plot is near Evenings face has her right rear, right front, and left front hooves on different spots has her left rear hoof in the air and desperately looking all over the square.

“Come on now!” Amity playfully shouts as her rear legs shake.

Vanilla snaps, “There are no yellow spots!”

“Get your flank out of my face!” Evening shouts at Vanilla causing Amity to laugh.

Finally, Vanilla sees one under Evenings belly and reaches but accidentally touches her friends stomach causing her to squeal and jump a bit. The trio then fall on top of each other and begin to laugh. “I win.” Amity proclaims.

“No I did,” Evening replies.

“No it was me,” Vanilla steps in. “I touched the last spot.”

“You tickled me,” Evening responds.

“Whatever you two say,” Amity states. “I’m going to get some more snacks. Get another game ready, okay?” The two friends nod their heads and start moving the current game for a different one, and Amity exists through the dining room doors and says to herself as soon as she closes the doors, “I totally won.” She proceeds to walk down a hallway and notices a set of doors with a golden frame around them slightly open. The alicorn looks through the small openly and sees her mother sitting in front of a colorful picture glass window displaying a maroon alicorn and white alicorn having their foreheads together while a pink alicorn infant hovers above them. Amity walks inside, sits beside Celestia, and looks at the window.

Celestia looks at Amity says, "Amity, what are you doing?”

“I was going to get some more snacks,” the daughter answers. The white princess nods her head and stares back at the window. Amity breathes in and out, “What was Dad like?”

Celestia extends her wing and hugs Amity close. “Courageous, smart, loyal, stoic, poetic...” Her eyes start to tear up. “...everything that would have made him the greatest father in the world.”

Amity looks at her mother with tears streaming down her face. “Is he...truly still alive?” Her mother does not answer. After a minute, the pink princess states, “There’s something I should’ve told you earlier. It’s what happened before I collapsed.” Celestia stares at her.

“The colt Diablo said some odd words then everything went blank, then a mare started talking to me. I couldn’t see her but the voice was female, and she said something things that I didn’t like. Things that made me...scared. Next thing I knew, I was on the ground.”

"What did she say?" Celestia asks.

Amity says in a nervous tone, "Like, you were holding me back. I have so much more potential than you think. I...can even...kill you." She looks at her mother who has a shocked expression. Amity finishes, “and something about She.”

"She?" Celestia states.

"It scares me. I don’t want..."

Celestia then responds calmly, "It’s okay. We’ll figure this out and bring Diablo and whoever said that to justice. They want you to unleash your dark magic, and I think I who this She is, your dark magic persona."

"What do you mean?” a shaking yet curious Amity questions.

Celestia responds, "Amity, some ponies dark magic have personas. While some like Triton just consumes them making them believe that they’re the same being, some have a different personality inside themselves. Luna had that with Nightmare Moon, and I have one named Day Breaker. I believe the voice was referring to yours. Now, what’s her name and characteristics? I don’t know and don’t wanna to know. I want to you to be you. I don’t want to see something that you’re not." Celestia hugs Amity tight. "You are the most important thing in my life. Please, don’t ever let your dark magic persona take over. I love you more than anything else in this world, and I don’t know what I would do if I lost you."

Amity asks, "You love me more than Dad?"

Celestia hesitantly answers, "...Yes.” She releases the hug. “Now, go enjoy the rest of your night. Just put this behind you for now. This shouldn’t have been the time to talk about that”

“Okay, Mom.” Amity stands up, gives her mom a kiss on the cheek, and exists the room. As soon as she leaves, Celestia walks to her throne, sits in it, uses her magic to lift a pen and paper, and starts writing a letter.