Night's eclipse

I open my eyes and see trees surrounding me. Where am I, i ask myself. I get up slowly, but fail and land on my muzzle. I look behind me and see a pair of golden wings attached to my white back.

I stare at them, mesmerize.
As I look at them, I see behind the wings a golden tail and a mark on my right thigh that has a symbol of the sun and moon colliding with each other.

Tilting my head more to the side, I see my mane is a golden color too. I try to get up again, standing straight on my hooves. My legs shake as I try to stay up.

I begin to walk around the creepy forest, fear steadily consuming me. Leaves crunch after every step I make.

I hear something move in the forest. I cover myself with my wings, terrified. I call out to it.

"Who-who's there?" My voice trembles as I speak.

More movement comes from the forest. I back up slowly, hoping to get away without being notice. But as I am trying to flee, something emerges from the bushes.

I cover myself entirely with my wings and shut my eyes tight. I breath rapidly as the beast nears me. 'Please go away, please go away' I repeatedly think to myself. But as I am thinking to myself, I hear a voice through my feathery wings.

"Are you lost little one?"

The voice is deep, but reassuring. I let my guard down and look through my wings and see it's someone in a brown cloak.

"What brings you to the everfree forest, are you a tourist?" It says to me.

I uncover myself and look up at it.

"Um..." what do I say?

I look around wondering where I am.

"Where....am I?" I ask.

"Did you not hear, I made myself very clear." It replies. Is it just me or is this pony rhyming?

"Um...who are you?" I ask. That feels like a good question to ask, considering the situation right now.

"My name?" It ask me.

It stares at me and then uncovers itself and it turns out to be a mare.

"My name is Zecora."

Her body is white with black stripes as well as her mane and tail. She is also wearing rings around her neck, ears and front hooves.

"Before you go off and run, may I get your name little one." She asks me.

"My name." I say aloud.

I dont know my name, maybe I can just make on up.

"It is....a...az.....azurin, yeah Azurin." That name felt right.

She looks at me as if I am a foreign being.

"You are not from around here, at least not somewhere near." She says, walking up to me.

I dont know where I came from really.

"I....dont know." I look down at the ground as I say that.

She looks up to the forest, then turns around.

"My home is not far Azurin. Come with me and I'll let you in." She walks into the forest and I shortly follow.

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We continue to walk till we reach a little shack in a clearing. Is this her home, it seems.....cozy.

"This is where you live?" I ask her.

She turns her head to me.

"Yes, is there something wrong?"

"No, I was just curious. You live alone?"

"That I do, and I dont mind it too."

She walks to the front door and opens it, and already you can see the bedroom straight ahead. She also has masks and bottles hanging around in the main room.

I walk into the house and she closes the door behind us. She hangs up her cloak and say to me.

"Are you hungry? I can make some stew, if you want me to."

My stomach growls at the sound of stew.

"If it isn't to much to ask for." I tell her.

She smiles and goes past the cauldron in the center of the room and goes to a bookshelf and pulls out a book.

She lays it on a table and skims through it. She stops at a page and goes to the cauldron. She puts water into it and drops ingredients in as well.

"What kind of stew is it?" I ask politely.

"Carrot stew." She replies.

Carrot stew hu. I'm not going to complain about it, for I am so hungry.

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She takes a bowl and dips it into the cauldron. She then walks to me and puts it at my hooves.

"Eat up now,it is not poisoned this I vow." She says, and walks to the cauldron to make herself a bowl.

I look at the stew and the aroma hypothesizes me. It smells so good.

I lift up the bowl woth my hooves and take a sip of the broth. My eyes widen as I chug down the rest of the broth. It is like an avalanche of flavor.

I can hear Zecora snicker as I gulp down the stew.

"This is the first time you had food like this I presume." She asks me.

I look up at her, broth covers my mouth.

"This is the first time I had food." I say to her.

She looks at me with shock.

"Who are your parents, my I ask?" She ask me with a concerning tone.

"The sun and moon." I tell her.

Zecora's expression changes from shock and concern to confusion.

"What do you mean?"

I put down the bowl.

"I was born by the sun and moon." I say.

She continues to look at me when a yawn catches me by surprise.

"You are tired, you can sleep in my bed, so you can rest your head."

"Really?" I ask.

She nods her head then gets up and walks to the bed, I follow her.

I get into the bed and lay down. Zecora tucks me in and says.

"Sweet dreams little one, for you time today is done." She walks off and I look out the window, at the moon.

"Goodnight......mother."