Dear Diary

Luminous is at the Castle’s Gardens, hiding inside a bush. She’s trying not to move that much or else, she’ll be caught. She suddenly feels a tap from behind, which makes her jump and squeal.

“Got ya”, Luminous heard.

Luminous turned around to see her friend, a dark blue stallion pegasus with light blue mane.

“Dark Knight! Don’t sneak up like that”, Luminous said to the pegasus.

Dark Knight laughed and said, “Now where's the fun without that? It’s not like you haven’t done that to me before”.

Luminous smiles and rolls her eyes. Dark Knight lended her to hoof and helped her get out of the bushes.

“Princess!”, the two ponies heard and turned to the voice.

The voice came from a window and there was a unicorn mare.

“For pony’s sake, are you playing Hide and Seek again? You are fifteen your highness, can you please act your age for once?!”, the unicorn mare said.

“Where’s the fun in that, Ms. Shard?”, Luminous said.

Dark Knight chuckled and the two gave each other a high hoof.

Ms. Shard groaned and said, “Are you two finished? You are late for your lessons Princess”.

“Oh, in that case-”, Luminous said and then gave Dark Knight, “the look”.

“Run!”, the two said and ran.

Ms. Shard sighed and said, “Kids these days”. She looked out of the window to try to find where the two went but they were gone.

Luminous and Dark Knight made a stop and are now at a hallway in the castle. Luminous starts panting while Dark Knight flys down to her.

“You okay Lumi?”, Dark Knight asked, putting his hoof on her shoulder.

“Yeah, just tired. I don’t know how you pegasuses have so much energy”.

Dark Knight rolled his eyes and said, “Well I don’t know why you unicorns are slow”.

“It’s been fun Dark but I got to go”

“Aw, come on Lumi, you can’t stop the party right now?”

“Uh, yeah I can. Besides, if my father found out I’m skipping my lessons, he’ll lock me in a tower while you’ll be dead.”, Luminous said.

“Whatever, I got some training to do with some of the other rookie knights anyways”, Dark Knight said.
He waves goodbye and flys away.

Luminous sighed as she watches Dark Knight fly off. She turned to the other side of the hallway to see, her father.

“Father! Uh, what are you doing here?”, Luminous said in shock.

“I should be the one asking the questions. Why aren’t you with Ms. Shard?”, King Sombra said as he raised a brow.

“Oh right, I forgot. I’ll go find her now daddy”

King Sombra smiled and kissed her daughter on the forehead, “Alright, you go now young lady”.

Luminous nodded and went.

Even though King Sombra is a cruel king, he did have a heart. The only pony he cares about is his daughter.

For the rest of the day, Luminous had math, science, history, reading, and magic lessons with Ms. Shard.

Luminous was at a castle hallway. Then suddenly a painting opened up and Luminous sees a small room with a staircase. She walked into this secret room. It was blurry and dark then suddenly flames lit up. Luminous walked down the swirling staircase. The flames guided her down but the flames stop once she got down.

She used a magic spell to light up her horn and looked around. It was still dark though. She felt drawn to the chest in front of her so, she walked to it. She opens the chest to find . . . a diary. At the center of the diary, there was a pink star.

She looked up from the chest to see a portrait on the wall. It was a pink alicorn, with purple and blue curls, wait . . . it was her mother. And then . . . Luminous woke up.

The red rays from her window woke her up. Luminous’s eyes start to open, she looked at her window.

“I guess the Red Moon is up”, Luminous said, rubbing her eyes.

Then there was a knock at her door.

“Come in”, Luminous said while getting up.

A maid came in and levitated a silver tray with her breakfast. “I hope I didn’t wake you up your highness”

“No, it wasn’t you. It was the window”

The maid levitated the breakfast to Luminous and said, “I should have covered the curtains last night, I’m sorry about that”.

“It is fine”, Luminous said while levitating her fork to pick up a waffle to eat. “So my father is too busy to eat with me I’m assuming?”

“Yes Princess, I’m sorry”

“No need to apologize”

“Then I’ll take my leave, I’ll see you later your highness”, the maid said and bowed. She then left the room, leaving Luminous to eat.

Luminous got used to eating alone, her father was always busy. Her mother used to eat breakfast, dinner, and lunch with her everyday but, since she’s gone, Luminous is alone.

But her mind isn’t on that, she was too focused on the dream. The dream . . . was it even a dream? It felt so real to Luminous. She wants to find out for herself.

Once she finished her morning routine, she walked around the castle. Luckily, she was free, no royal duties to attend to, no lessons to learn, so she can have the day doing whatever she wants.

Luminous was walking around the castle, trying to find that painting. She was already almost halfway finished exploring the castle but, she found nothing.

She felt a tap on the shoulder which spooked and her made her jump.

She turned to see Dark Knight.

“Ha, that never gets old”, Dark Knight says while laughing.

Luminous groans and ignores Dark Knight, walking away from him. When Dark Knight stopped laughing he noticed Luminous was walking away and caught up with her.

“Hey, Lumi. What’s got you in that kind of mood?”

Luminous sighed and said, “I don’t feel like playing today Dark, I got to find something”.

“Okay, your knight in dark armor is here to save the day then!”, Dark Knight said proudly.

“You mean rookie knight?”

“Rookie knight is still a knight Lumi”

“I don’t think so, they are rookies after all”, Luminous said, giving him a grin.

Dark Knight scoffed and said, “Whatever”.

“So what are we looking for?”, Dark Knight said, following Luminous as she walks around the castle.

Luminous thought about it for a second and said, “It’s a painting but, I can’t really explain it. It’s from a dream”.

“A dream? I’m confused.”

“It may be a dream but, it just felt so real. You just gotta trust me”

“Well don’t be surprised if this painting doesn’t exist”

Luminous made a concerned face and said quietly, “I hope it does exist”.

It’s been an hour and Dark Knight has been showing Luminous paintings around the castle but, it wasn’t the right one.

Dark Knight stops Luminous and says, “We’ve been all around the castle Lumi, there’s nothing, I think you should stop”

“I can’t. This secret room . . . I think it has something to do with my mother”

“Your mother?”

Luminous nods with a sad look.

“You should have said that before”, Dark Knight said.

“W-what do you mean?’’

“If this room has something to connect with your mother, the King would hide it in a place no pony would think of”

“Obviously”

“Well, maybe it’s at some part of the castle where no pony has gone to”

Luminous gasped and said, “You’re a genius!’’

“Obviously!’’, Dark Knight replied, looking proud.

“So what are you thinking Lumi?”

Luminous started to walk and Dark Night follows her.

“Well, since of the death of my mother, my father said to never go to the West Wing of the castle”

“Well isn’t that place abandoned?”

“Yes but, maybe we can find the painting there”

“You’re a genius Lumi, but I’m gonna have to take some credit for that idea”, Dark Knight said and the two went off to the West Wing.

The two made it the West Wing, and Luminous felt something. She was drawn to something again so, she followed her intuition. As she passes by rooms, she sees the rooms abandoned. But she ignores all of that.

On the other hoof, Dark Knight is kinda getting chills. Luminous looks back to see him.

Luminous giggles and said, “Scared?”

Dark Knight quickly replied back, “What! Of course not!”.

“Let me guess, you are afraid of the umbrums”

“Can we just find this painting already?!”

Luminous laughed and nodded.

Her intuition brought her to an empty hallway. And at the end, there was the painting in her dream.