A Lost Soul

Chapter 1: The Storm

The day started like most others, A trip to town, running supplies, and checking in on her patients at the hospital. For five years she worked as a nurse, putting her education into trying to become a full fledged doctor. However, it's not been easy on her.

Amanda has been forced to move back with her father, Richard. who worked as the local vet doctor of her home town where she grew up. While keeping up with her studies as best she could. Amanda has also had to help at the local vet to get paid, even though her father was glad to have her live with him. She was adamant about helping to pay bills and earn enough for herself. however, Amanda did keep up a part time job at the hospital in the city. It wasn't an easy life, but she made it work.

As the house came to view, a medium sized home that sat next to the old forest, Amanda turned on the radio, looking up at the sky as angry clouds rolled overhead, like angry gods going to war. The air itself felt like a storm was brewing, but there was something more to it. It felt like a violation in nature. As the skies darkened as the sun lowered and the clouds obscured what little sunlight was left. A feeling of something bad was coming. Something more than just the storm.

"---In the immediate area of the Arkansas, Missouri, and Tennessee counties, a large storm has unexpectedly formed within the area. This storm is predicted to be a severe thunderstorm. Destructive winds are being expected, and the possibility of one or more tornadoes developing is a possibility."

As the weather forecaster continued, Amanda turned her truck into the garage and parked, cutting the engine.

As she got out, she was still wearing her nurse uniform. A light blue pants, white shirt with a matching coat whipped to the side as the second the wind hit her, she was nearly knocked off her feet and only became acquainted with the ground several times during her walk to the door.

"DAD! I'M HOME!" She called out.

The door soon unlocked and open, Standing before her was a middle to late aged man, he was around 65 years old, having been 'blessed' with the responsibility of fatherhood at a young age. his once dark black hair has since begun to gray at the sides, his philosopher blue eyes developing crows feet.

Despite his aged look, his body stood straight and strong. He wore a pair of black pants, gray shoes, and an olive shirt.

Richard quickly opened the screen door and ushered his daughter inside.

"Hurry Mandy! The storm is gonna hit hard!" he said as he brought her inside.

With a roar of the wind, Amanda made little argument as she closed and locked the door.

"Good to know the storm shutters are closed."

Richard nodded in agreement. "This storm was a bit sudden, but I had enough time to close the shutters and secure everything."

Amanda took her coat off and made her way upstairs. taking little time to change into a pair of denim pants, white sleeveless undershirt and button up shirt. After dressing, she went down stairs and made her way to the kitchen.

Taking a medium size pot she filled it with water and placed it on the stove, the stove used propane gas so even with a power outage, cooking dinner should be no problem if the power went out.

"Ah, now you don't have to go and cook, I can---" Before Her father could continue, Amanda poured in some noodles and put in some cheese. Richard smiled. "But if you want, mac and cheese would be splendid."

Amanda giggled. It was no secret her father had a weakness to Macaroni and Cheese, hell the whole town knew it. As she stirred the pot she began to add different spices, A pinch of salt, pepper, and garlic. bringing a greater taste to the noodles and cheese that no store bought version could compare.

After a few minutes, and as the storm blew harsher, dinner was finished, aside from the Mac and Cheese, Amanda prepared some other meals, Spaghetti, grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, and a sweet potato casserole. Just as she put the food on the table, a haunting call caused the two to freeze.

'AAAH-OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!'

Richard got up from his seat, Moved towards the window and stared out to the forest that bordered the valley their house stood in the center of.

"Sounds like they caught wind of something." He said before he went into the living room gun cabinet and pulled out a lever action rifle. "Better keep this handy, For close encounters."

Amanda stared out the window as another call was heard. "Whatcha think has them all riled up?"

"Dunno." Richard said as he looked out from the window. "Let's just eat. I'll keep the rifle nearby just in case though." he said racking a number of four bullets into the rifle.

As they ate, they couldn't help but hear the sounds of the wolves, it was obvious there were a lot of them. what really caught their attention was the unusual flashes of colored light made the blackness between the trees light up, the light was followed by what sounded oddly enough like energy discharge, similar to the sounds an energy weapon would make in a video game.

Amanda and her father stopped eating when they heard a scream. it was faint, but they heard it clear as day. It was muffled by the wind but they knew what they heard.

"There's someone out there!" Amanda shouted as she got up from the table and looked outside, peaking between the openings of the shutters.

"I'm getting the pickup." Richard said as he got up and tossed Amanda the rifle. "The flood lights will help whoever it is in the forest towards the valley."

Just as they began to move into action, a voice called out.

"HELP ME! WOLVES! HELP!"

The voice sounded like a young woman, and it was obvious she was calling for them to help her.

"GET OUT THERE AND GUIDE THEM TO SAFETY!" Richard shouted as he ran outside, but not without grabbing another rifle from the gun cabinet, then the keys to the pickup truck.

Amanda made her way to the back door, while she may have been a nurse and studying doctor, she none the less took an oath to help anyone who needed it. While that mostly meant medical help, There was no difference to her.

When she got to the back door she slammed into it, forgetting the door would often stick, the latch being old and rusted to the point it could not be opened without a fight.

"Come on you bastard, I haven't the time for this!" Amanda cursed under her breath, fighting the door latch. She was contemplating running to the front door when she heard...

"HELP!" The voice called out again. "HELP! WOLVES ARE..... GAH!"

Amanda's eyes widened as the sound of the woman's screams and the wolves attacking her snapped her to reality. They were tearing her apart while she was fighting with a stupid latch. Finally, Her brows furrowed as she took a step back and with a hard kick, sent the defiant door swinging open. wood splinters got flew off by the wind as the latch that hindered her was sent flying into the yard.

The howling wind was so strong by the time she cleared the house that it nearly knocked her over while on her way to the scene. In several instances the wind shoved her off course. Once she got there however, her eyes widened at what lay before her.

Several wolves were attacking what looked like a small 'Purple' horse. Amanda's brain couldn't fathom where the horse came from but she couldn't do anything but stare at the scene.

The horse, as stated was purple. But also had a set of wings and a long spiral horn on her forehead. It's mane and tail was a deep dark blue or more accurately indigo with a pink and purple stripe. She would say the horse was rather beautiful. Did she put something bad in the mac and cheese? Was the garlic expired?

It's then the snap of bone caught Amanda's attention, and the situation brought her back to reality. It hit her hard when the horse cried out. It wasn't a whinny or nicker of pain. but a scream. A human-like scream that struck Amanda to her core. She noticed the blood coming from the horse's legs and shoulder and realized immediately she needed to act fast.

Racking the rifle's lever and taking aim. Amanda took a slow breath and aimed at the wolf on top of the horse, violently trying to rip the poor creature's front leg off. Slowly anger began to take hold as she leveled the rifle and took account for the wind. With a release of her breath, she fired.

The bullet ripped through the wolf that pinned the horse on the ground. It wasn't a shot Amanda was proud of, but seeing the beast fall to the ground dead was good enough. Soon she took aim at the others and three more shots range out.

Two fell from head shots, but one however took a shot to the leg. Just as Amanda began to reload the rifle to take it out, The wolf ran back to the woods, a trail of blood followed it's wake.

"Son of a bitch!" She cursed under her breath but before she could begin the chase, a small voice gripped her motionless.

"P-Please. Please help me... I---"

The horse had crawled to her and was holding a hoof out in a plead for help. Amanda couldn't help but look into those almost human yet large velvet eyes. The two stared at each other for what felt like an eternity, both an alien to the other. Finally Amanda spoke what came to mind....

"Oh.... My..... God...." She said, her hand reaching out unsure whether if touching the horse will make her disappear. "W-What the hell are you!?"

With that the horse spoke once more. Holding out a blood soaked hoof. "P-Please! I... I n-need Help, I need----I-I I.... uuuhhh...." then she finally collapsed, no doubt the mix of adrenaline running out, blood loss, and finally the shock taking their toll on her.

Amanda stood unmoving for a manner of several seconds, she looked over her shoulder at her father, carrying a rifle in hand but just like herself was wide eyed and shocked at what laid before them.

The stupor didn't last however as she bore a face of determination and leaned over. "Dad help me get her in the truck!"

Richard took little time to snap out of his stupor before opening the tail gate. "Amanda, we have NO idea what that thing is!"

Amanda got as best of a grip on the horse she could get. It was small but had a good weight to it, She held it similar to the way one would carry a dog, but the horse was still quite large. "Jeez she weighs a ton!" She took several steps but nearly stumbled before her father ran up and grabbed a hold of the horse, getting a hold of it's head and shoulders. "It asked for help, dad. That's enough for me. You know mom would agree."

As the two carried the strange creature to the back of the truck, her father spoke up. "You didn't need to bring her up, Mandy. I'm with you all the way. I just hope this thing don't decide to... I don't know. Gore us with that horn."

Amanda laughed. "I doubt it'll do that, dad."

After loading the horse onto the back of the truck, it didn't take long until they brought it back to their house. Carrying the creature through the hall adjacent to the living room, they entered a room with a medical table, few medical tools, syringes, a cabinet of medicine bottles, pills, and gauze wraps. The room was also dominated by a large but simple x-ray machine, it's design was built however for veterinary uses.

"Get her on the table." Richard said. He felt a warm sticky sensation on his hands and looked down. His hands were covered in blood, he made his way to the sink to wash off his hands. "Get her hooked up to the heart monitor so we can begin."

Amanda hung to her father's every word. After getting the creature hooked to the heart monitor and situated. Amanda began to draw blood. "She's bleeding bad. I'm getting to work on cleaning the wounds and bandaging."

As Amanda prepared to clean the wounds she noticed the creature's left rear leg was twisting in an unnatural position. "Shit! She's got a broken Leg!"

"We'll get the X-Ray on that in a bit, but if we don't stop the bleeding she's gonna die from blood loss!" Richard stated as he made his way to the table with a syringe. "Injecting Antiseptic. Get some pressure on those wounds, Mandy."

"Right!" she chirped as she got to work.

As the two worked through the night, The creature who they've nicknamed 'Tilly' named after the actress Jennifer Tilly of the same last name, just so they could stop calling it a 'Creature' or 'Horse thing', was laying on the table as they held the X-Ray scanner over her leg.

"It's gonna need to be reset." Amanda said as she looked at the scans.

While the leg, itself wasn't completely broken. only a few stress marks from where the wolf had bit down on it were evident. The bone however was ripped right out of it's joint socket.

"Otherwise the tendons and muscles are good. The damage is bad but they'll heal." Richard said as he looked at the bone. "We'll need to do this now or she'll wake up and I hate to see what she'll do when she's in a panic. Might make it worse."

The two took positions, Amanda grabing 'Tilly's' Shoulders while Richard took hold of the leg. As the two braced they nodded to each other before her father forced the leg back into place. The moment the pop was heard 'Tilly' flinched and it was obvious despite the unconsciousness she was somewhat aware of what was going on. it's then her ears begin to flick about.

"Shhhh...." Amanda soothed. "Your okay now. Just had to set your leg back was all."

"We've done what we could with what we have here." Her father said as he took a syringe and filled it. "I'll give her something to numb the pain, but without an idea of her metabolism or medical history I can only give her a small dose until she wakes up."

checking 'Tilly's' gauze bandages to ensure the bleeding's has been stopped he looked up at Amanda. "I'll call the Sheriff in the morning and warn him about the wolves." He looked to their patient and sighed. "Dunno about her though."

Amanda shook her head. "Dad, do you realize what would happen if we told people about her!?"

Her father nodded and sighed. "I do, Mandy, but do you know what would happen if they found out and we tried to keep her a secrete?"

Amanda was about to retort when 'Tilly' stirred a bit. her ears twitching to and fro. "How about we wait until she wakes up? See what she's like, THEN figure out what to do?"

Richard sighed as he stood and looked over the sleeping creature on the table. her breathing regulated (If that's regular for her, at most he had to go by equine terminologies during the operation) and she was now in a deep sleep. The occasional twitching and ear flick however was rather adorable. He couldn't help but smile as he pulled the gloves off.

"Fine." He finally said. but before Amanda could say a word he stated. "But the second she becomes trouble I'm calling the sheriff."

Amanda however held her smirk and nodded. "She won't be."

Her father however couldn't resist and ran his fingers through the mare's fur. it was unnaturally soft and fluffy, it was as though she was made to be more of a pillow than a living thing. "In the meantime, we should test her blood for Rabies and any other deceases she may have. All three of us are getting a rabies shot in the morning."

Amanda's smirk disappeared as she groaned. "Good Night dad."

"Your not going to bed?" He asked.

Amanda shook her head. "I'm staying with our patient, here. She'll need a friendly face to wake up to."

Richard smiled as he made his way to his door. "Good Night, Mandy."

7:47AM

The storm outside had been reduced to a minor rainstorm, a few rumbles of thunder was all that remained of the monster storm that threatened the area. The dim light from the morning sun offered a beacon to the waking world. One in particular answered that beacon.

Twilight gave a soft moan as she slowly turned to her stomach. The pitter patter sound of rain soothed her mind. But slowly the pain in her shoulder and legs became evident. She muttered a whimper as her ears wilted slightly. As she opened her eyes she found herself in a strange room. her eyes looked around for a moment before they focused on the floor. the dim light from the window beamed down upon the tiled floor, the droplets of rain streaming down from the window's glass left shadowed streaks behind. It was something that could put one in a light trance. The soothing sound of rain hitting the roof as the droplets streaked down the window, their silhouettes danced along the floor.

It was something that always calmed Twilight. A rainy day was a perfect time to read a book. Especially when the power went out, where there was no other sound in the house except the ticking of the clock, and the occasional but inevitable turn of a page.

But as Twilight laid there, she began to see the silhouettes take form. Her eyes widened as the face of a snarling wolf glared at her. Then without warning it lunged at her, snapping jaws as it barked in an attempt to tear her throat out.

"NO!" Twilight screamed jumping back holding her forelegs in front of her in an attempt to keep the beast away from her.

It's then the lights came on, bringing light to the darkness of the room and Twilight back to her senses. As she slowly opened her eyes she saw the wolf was gone. Her foreleg and rear legs however had bandages with red marks bleeding through. It's then a faint pain in her shoulder became evident. In her panic attack she'd bumped into a medical cabinet. This agitated the bite wound on her shoulder and now the wound was protesting quite a bit.

Twilight panted and slowly eased herself back on the medical table she now found herself on. She took a quick look around the room until she realized the room was dark not long ago. Somepony turned the lights on. Then movement caught the corner of her eye.

"It's about time you woke up." Somepony said. The voice was familiar, in a way it sounded similar to Applejack, but that's where the similarity ended.

The voice startled Twilight, She turned her head ready to bolt out of the room in a burst of speed that would make Rainbow Dash proud. She had expected some other horrible beast come to tear her to shreds. But to her both relief and shock. She instead saw an alien creature sitting in a chair beside her.

Twilight gasped as she tried to jump away from the creature. She was still half out of it, but she could tell the alien had some similarities to the humans from the mirror world she went to. But that's were the similarities ended. This creature was taller, slimmer, but still looked quite strong. She was ready to run out of the room when she put pressure on her left back leg.

"AAAH!" Twilight screamed as a shot of pain went through her, she stumbled back on her haunches and looked at the cast on her leg. "W-What!?"

"HEY!" The alien shouted, catching Twilight's attention. "Take it easy there! You got messed up pretty bad, those wolves were ripping you apart." The creature was blunt and her bedside manner sucked at the moment, but there was no deception in her words.

It's then the memories came back to her. Blood covered teeth, glowing yellow eyes, the feeling of being eaten alive.

It sent a chill up Twilight's back. She began to fidget her hooves together in nervousness. The memories were still quite fresh, the feeling of the wolves jaws crushing down on her legs were still there, the feeling of their tongues lapping up her blood as they ripped her to shreds. It was something that would haunt her for a long time. But just as the memories flooded back, she also remembered something else. The sound of four explosions, And a tall slim creature with long dark hair, blue eyes, and a smoking metal pipe in one hand and the other holding out, shaking but willing to help.

Slowly, Twilight looked the alien creature sitting in the chair beside her, The light of the room revealed her features. From the looks of it, she was young mature female. Her eyes were a dark blue with long dark brown hair. Her skin was a light peach color. Her cloths were a pair of pants, boots, and a long sleeve shirt. It's then however Twilight noticed the blood on her cloths.

"It's yours." She said looking down at herself, noticing Twilight's wide eyed reaction. "I'm a nurse, my father and I were trying to save you." She said, trying to reason with the Alicorn. "You were bleeding pretty bad."

Looking at her wounds again, Twilight saw that once again the creature spoke honestly, From the wounds she received from the wolves. She must have lost quite a lot of blood. It's then the creature began to get her attention.

"Hey, can you speak?" The creature asked in a gentle tone. She had a gentle southern accent, not as deep as Applejack's. "I know you can, you asked for help."

Twilight looked at the creature for a time. She blinked and with a swallow of nervousness she nodded. "Y-Yes, I can talk."

The creature smiled as she slowly got up. She took a clip board and got some papers. "Well, this is a formality, but my father and I need some medical information so we can further treat you. Sorry, but my father is a professional...." She said before chuckling to herself. "Even for a vet."

Twilight stared at her dumbstruck for a few moments, she slowly nodded before responding. "O-okay...."

To say Twilight was out of it was an understatement. Physically she was awake and alert. Mentally she was still getting her bearings trying to understand her situation. She played the earlier events in her mind several times in her head. but before the wolf attack her mind hit a mental wall. She knew everything about where she came from, her friends, the princesses. She wasn't experiencing any form of amnesia. It certainly wasn't that.

She knew this was not her home, she knew this wasn't her world, and She KNEW this wasn't good. Something was blocking her memory. She thought back to the forest, but it was as though that memory was being burnt away, like the reel of a movie strip burned up by the projector light.

Up until the wolf attack, Nothing remained of how she got to this world. That's all she knew. Something happened that brought her to this world. That's what she gathered. This was NOT Equis. This was NOT Ponyville, and this was certainly NOT her universe. She remembered an experiment. A mirror, but not the one in the Crystal Empire.

Slowly a fragment of the day before came to her. It was all she could remember, Perhaps it was how she got to this strange world?

-Ponyville, Castle Of Friendship-

In the Foyer of the Castle, sitting at a table with multiple books, scrolls, and tomes around her, Twilight stood before a slab monolith of glass. It reflected the Unicorn nicely, it was well polished and the frame around it was purple and stylized with the carvings of ponies of all three tribes, at the top, a single alicorn statue dominated as the centerpiece.

The frame was studded with gemstones that glowed ominously around the mirror, feeding it power through it's reflective glass. An occasional ripple like water was the only blemish upon the glass surface. Arcane energies surged through it. The unstable powers that coursed through it's form was testament to it's instability.

Standing before the Mirror. Twilight furrowed her brows as she placed a pondering hoof to her chin.

"I don't get it. I followed Starswirl's notes." Twilight said as she looked over the tomes and scrolls several more times. "In trying to replicate the exact method to create a Magic Mirror, This should have stabilized hours ago."

As she looked through the data before, Spike emerged from the kitchen and offered Twilight a cup of fresh tea. Turning to greet her number one assistant, Twilight's horn glowed as she took the cup and sipped the warm beverage.

"Thanks Spike." Twilight said as she continued to read, trying to figure out what she might have done wrong.

"Maybe it doesn't have enough power?" Spike suggested as he looked the mirror over.

The mirror stood to be the size of two Celestia's if stood on top of each other. It's width matching the solar goddess's wingspan quite well. The energy surging through it made Spike's spines stand on end. He took a step back from it with a mist of magical energy reached out and wrap it's 'arm' around him, trying to invite him through.

"Spike, get away from there!" Twilight scolded.

The little dragon made little argument. Running back to the comforts of Twilight's side. The sounds of hooves coming down steps called their attention, Looking up, Starlight Glimmer made her way down with Trixie trailing behind her.

"Are you still working on that mirror?" Trixie asked with a sneer. "Has anypony ever told you that it's sometimes good to leave great and amazing discoveries buried?"

Twilight rolled her eyes as she continued reading. "Starswirl The Bearded stopped his research due to his mirror possibly being used by the wrong ponies." Twilight said as she looked over the scrolls. "The problem was that the dimension the pony went to was related in some form or another to Equestria."

"Well duh..." Trixie stated. "Magic Mirror. Mirror Dimensions. See the phaze being used there? MIRROR!"

Starlight however put a hoof to Trixie's mouth muffling her rants. "I think what Trixie's trying to say is that the mirror Starswirl made was to visit mirroring realities." She said as she looked up at Twilight's mirror. "But what I don't understand is what is THIS mirror supposed to accomplish?"

At that question Twilight beamed. "This mirror is made to open a door to OTHER worlds. Not just mirrored to our own!"

"So, Like a mirror to another universe?" Starlight asked as she moved up to the monolith of glass. "What are it's limits?"

Twilight sighed. "That's the problem. At the moment, there's no set destination. I sent several magic probes, each probe was sent to someplace totally different."

Twilight's horn glowed as she replayed several recordings from several probes. One was sent into space. Another was sent to a world devoid of life. One was sent to a word of sharp rocks and unnatural looking formations with a strange horseshoe like organic looking structure in the distance of two suns setting in the horizon. And finally the last probe's life was cut short when a giant reptile creature blasted it with a blue stream of fire.

"Whoah." Spike said seeing the last one.

"Without a set destination, there's no telling WHERE you'll be sent to. So from that, there ARE no limits. Which makes this thing far to dangerous to send somepony through." Twilight explained as she looked through starswirl's notebooks only to find two pages stuck together. "Huh.... what's this?"

Opening the two pages carefully, they showed an illustration of a spell, Twilight read through it a few times before she slowly realized what it was for.

"A Stability Spell! Exactly what I need!" Twilight said as her horn began to glow.

"Wait, Twilight!" Starlight interrupted. "You have no idea what that spell will do!"

But it was to late, by the time Twilight cast the spell and Starlight stated her concern, The mirror began to react violently. Eventually it shattered, it's fragments flying outward to reveal a vortex of magical energies behind it. It began to suck everything with a heartbeat inside.

Starlight reacted fast, forming a magical barrier around herself, Trixie, and Spike, but Twilight's slow response and being furthest away prevented her from being surrounded by the barrier.

"TWILIGHT!" Starlight yelled over the roar of the vortex. "Grab a hold of something!"

Twilight snapped out of her stupor, noticing herself being dragged into the vortex. She looked around and grabbed onto the pillar of the crystal wall. The rough texture hurt her hooves, but she held on for dear life.

Starlight's horn glowed brighter as she focused on the vortex. "Hold on! I'm making a magic barrier to stop it from sucking somepony up!"

Twilight pulled herself to get a better grip of the crystal support pillar of the wall. She felt her grip improving once she had a better hold on it. Smiling she knew she was going to make it.

"TWILIGHT, LOOK OUT FOR---

Spike's warning came too late. The moment Twilight looked up to see what was about to hit her. A piece of glass, reflecting her reaction hit her square in the face, causing her to loose her grip of the pillar.

"NO!" Spike yelled.

"TWILIGHT!" Trixie and Starlight yelled out in unison.

But their calls went unanswered as Twilight was sucked into the vortex. She felt her body be ripped apart, put back together, torn apart once more and back again. Then she found herself in a hall of light, the sounds around her were like the voices of birth itself. She felt her body be caught on fire yet no flame touched her.

It's that moment however she felt another presence. She couldn't tell what or where it was exactly. It was as though it was everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It's voice echoed in her mind.

"INTRUDER!"

Twilight awoke with a startle, at some point she fell asleep. She looked around and found herself still in the medical room of her rescuers.

Taking a few minutes to calm herself. Twilight better inspected her surroundings. She remembered the creature that rescued her asked about her medical history, asked what she was allergic to, which she answered nothing. And asked about her metabolism. After these questions were asked, she was given a sedative to help her sleep, and a much softer pillow to lay her head on.

Twilight slowly got out of the medical bed. The second she put weight on her left rear leg however she winced. She held the leg up and with a limping hobble took the time to look around.

The room was filled with veterinary supplies. two Cat and Dog skeletons stood on display on the desk of where the doctor would sit. It was obvious however that these were just models, and not the real thing. Twilight smiled to her relief. The last thing she needed was to wake up to a family of inbred hillbilly murderers or animal killers. Hobbling to where her bed was she saw a hastily displayed poster depicting a horse, or equine... something. Where it showed the skeletal system, muscles, and heart.

"Not very accurate to pony anatomy." Twilight said softly to herself with a smile.

She also noticed the illustration of birds as well. She looked to her wings with worry, giving them a test flex and flap, but to her satisfaction both were in prime operation.

"I guess they had were trying to help me the best they could." Twilight said as she moved on through the rest of the room.

Finally her curiosity got the better of her, A tarp on the table in the next corner drew her attention. with a soft glow of her horn she pulled it off. The flash of lightening illuminated a skeleton of a small horse about her size. It's empty orb sockets stared back at her making her shout in surprise. She jumped back putting pressure on her rear leg. The pain made her fall on her rump, making her push away from the skeleton.

Panting and looking the skeleton over, she noticed the proportions were all wrong for it to be a pony. her breathing slowed before regulating and with great care to her rear leg, she got up and looked the skeleton over. She gently knocked on the skull, it's hollowness and the feeling that it was made of plastic made Twilight laugh at her Jumpiness.

"It's a fake." Twilight giggled. "They use fake pony skeletons all the time at Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns. This one isn't even in proper proportion, though."

Twilight continued her look around. When she got near the door she saw a photo, Three beings were standing together, a young female, an older female which looked similar to the one that saved her the night before. And another taller creature that, from it's build, Twilight figured was a male.

"Their a family." Twilight said before looking to the door. 'Might as well introduce myself.' She thought as she took the door handle with her magic.

Author's Note

Chapter one, the story is coming along. Onward to Chapter 3!