It was a cool late afternoon in Zecorneigha, the land of the zebras was cooler today than normal, which made it better for those who were not use to it's warmer climate.

The distant and mysterious lands of the zebra's as well as a few others, had made themselves know to Equestria. Establishing foreign relations between them, though the distance between the continents were so vast and not much was known of them. And not many creatures other than envoys, ambassadors, or other royalties visited the distant lands.

In the past Zecorneigha had been in conflict with some of it's neighbors, fighting for resources and land between the baboons, giraffes, buffalo, lions, and hyenas.

At the time the continent was experiencing a severe drought and resources were becoming scarcer as it dragged on. At the time the king and queen of Zecorneigha, King Weku and Queen Brewna were trying to broker peace between the other nations and get the other leaders to work together to solve the crisis.

But with having to deal with their own country's problems and the tension between the other nations, it was seeming to be an impossible task.

But hearing of a distant land to the west of them called Equestria, and hearing of how the three pony tribes who were once at odds, had put their differences aside and together built a kingdom.

They also heard of the wisdom and compassion of their ruler Princess Celestia, this gave them hope she would help them.

When Celestia had received word that a envoy of the Zebras had arrived at the castle, with a message of grave importance from the rulers of Zecorneigha, she quickly arranged to meet with them.

" And that is the situation Princess Celestia, my kingdom hopes you will aid us before things reach a higher escalation. " The envoy of the Zebras said as she spoke with a heavy accent, she and her four guards gave a bow as she finished telling Celestia of her and the other countries situations.

The envoy was a young dark toned zebra mare that introduced herself as Livana, she wore a fancy light brown cloak with gold trimmings on it.

She had a short shaggy Mohawk for a mane and had four gold rings around her neck, two gold rings on her front legs, and had a diamond encrusted earring in each ear.

She also had a gold medallion around her neck that bore the royal crest of the Zebra kingdom, as well as a scroll that was personally written and signed by King Weku. The zebras message was clear to Princess Celestia, they needed help and needed it soon.

"My heart goes out for the zebras and the rest of the struggling kingdoms, tell King Weku and Queen Brewna that I would be glad to lend aid in their time of need. And would like to formally extend a hoof of friendship to them and any others that would take it. " Celestia said sincerely, happy in seeing the zebra mare's relieved expression.

" Thank you Princess Celestia for the good news, and I too hope we can start mending the wounds between us in this crisis, for time we can't lose much more. " Livana said feeling some of the stress and tension in her fade at hearing that they had a new ally that would aid them.

" I only hope that things proceed at a swift rate before it is to late,. " Livana thought, keeping that worrying thought to herself.

" Now then I'm sure your are all weary from such a long journey, my head maid Caramel Swirl will show you to where you will be staying while you are here. Please enjoy your time here and tomorrow we can discuss the details on this. " Celestia said smiling as she gestured to a light caramel unicorn mare to the left of her throne.

Hearing that Caramel took that as her queue and approach them.

" Bonjour ma'am' s and gentlecolts, if you will I'll show you to your guests rooms. " Caramel said, giving a small bow and a warm smile to them before she lead them out of the throne room.

" Hmm, their situation is a dire and tricky one indeed princess, a mysterious continent wide drought that's been going on well past the dry season. And at the same times high tension brewing between countries that are close to going to war, sounds like the whole continent is balancing on the edge of a knife." Quivil said, summarizing what the Zebras envoy 's told them.

" Indeed it does and regrettably we don't know that much about those countries, even I haven't traveled that far across the world very much. " Celestia said, recalling what she new of the lands to the east.

"Well need to send somepony who has extensive knowledge on weather, and experience in foreign policy and culture for this. " Quivil said as he looked over what he wrote down during the meeting.

" Yes Quivil and I happen to know a pony up for the task. " Celestia said, feeling confident in her choice of who to send.

It was a cool late afternoon in the town of Safeirla otherwise known as the " Forest city of the West planes " was buzzing with activity. The " town " was not a typical one and would seem bizarre to others.

The place was a combination of a massive town and forest, many of the buildings had aspects of the environment built and incorporated into them, while others were trees that were used as homes.

The town was built with the concept of coexisting with the land, which meant that rather than tear down and build on it. They built around the forest and combined the town with it. The town had everything a typical town had and more. It did have normal buildings with aspects of the local architecture in them placed among the natural environment of the forest.

The strangest thing to others might be that the town, was that there was activity at almost all hours, which wasn't strange considering that a number of the creatures in the town were nocturnal.

Creatures of various races went about running errands, shopping, and doing business about in the forest town, even late into the next morning. And because there were creatures about at most hours, businesses took advantage of that.

"Fresh fish for sale, caught just hour's ago, 15% discount on all fish at and above 100 pounds till midnight!" Came the loud deep voice of a large copper brown baboon from a large stall, as he and a few other baboons brought in more ice and fresh caught fish to sale.

The stall had a variety of fish that laid in beds of ice displayed for customers to brows, they stayed cold thanks to enchanted crates they stored and displayed them in.

"Fresh cuts of boar meat still bloody, all wild caught and locally butchered! Well be serving freshly cooked meat skewers shortly!" Yelled a bronze coated lioness from an open grill stall, as she and a few others changed shifts with the daytime employees and began cutting and cooking slabs of meat.

The smells of various spices and herbs mixed with the smell of slow roasted meat wafted front the stall from the open rotisserie cooking pits and grills that could be seen in the back of the stall. While slaps of raw bloody meat was cut, packaged and put on beds of ice along with bones for the customers to pick out from.

The town also had a large market area where goods from the locals as well as from other places came and went.

In the past it would have been impossible for zebras, giraffes, hyenas, lions, baboons, buffalo and many more to get along and live so close and peacefully together.

But with the help they got from Equestria, they made peace with each other and unified to solved the crisis of the drought, and brought a new age of prosperity and peace among them. All thanks to the one Princess Celestia had sent to represent Equestria, her daughter Princess Aurora.

In a large building near the center of the town that had several trees that twisted and formed some of the structure of the building, with well crafted detailed windows and doors made of darker wood was the Equestrian embassy.

And in a fancy office with exquisite furniture as well as cloud couches, enchanted so other creatures could sit on was the personal office of the Equestrian ambassador for this embassy .

There were only three occupants in the room, two of them were royal guards while the third was an alicorn.

One of them was Gale Winds, the great, great, grandson of Wind Trotter, he was in his mid 20's and served as one of Aurora's personal bodyguards. He was a light blue Pegasus with a white mane and tail, he had a cutie mark of a cloud blowing in wind swirls.

The other royal guard was a dark blue purple unicorn mare with a light navy blue mane and tail. She was Stella Wisp like Gale Winds she was also in her mid 20's, and served as one of Aurora's personal bodyguards, she had a glittering spiral with a star at the center for a cutie mark.

Both were clad in full gold plated body armour and armed, Stella had a intimidating looking rune engraved war hammer made of dark blue metal propped against her shoulder, ready to use at a moment's notice.

Gale had a pair of wing blades made of mythril that were sheathed and hidden under the the plates of armour that were on his wings.

The other occupant was Aurora, who was now 1/3rd larger than normal pony mare with a short very spiky mane the color of aurora lights and the night. Some of her mane could be seen moving gently in an ethereal wind, which made her spiky aurora coloured hair flow similar to fire.

Her cutie mark was of a bright shooting star made of aurora lights, she was 512 years old now and had the looks of a dazzling super model.

She was sitting on a fluffy cloud chair at a dark wooden desk with a few stacks of papers and some documents floating in a bright white aura.

" Ahh that's the last of the paperwork, now I can relax and enjoy the rest of the day. " Aurora said with a tired sigh, her voice was sweet sounding with a bit of a scratchy undertone to it.

She was finishing up her daily paperwork and placed the last of the papers on one of the stacks and reclined in her fluffy cloud chair.

*Poof! *

Suddenly a wisp of glittering smoke appeared in the room and landed on the desk, turning into a scroll baring the the royal golden seal of Celestia.

"Hmm, a letter from mother, strange she normally sends me a letter during the day, not when it's almost nighttime." Aurora said curiously, lifting the scroll in her flowing white aura and scanned it with several detection spells for any signs of danger.

Some would call this being paranoid, but they never had a piece of paper or a book exploded in their face before. Celestia had told Aurora that she and Luna had similar experiences with close encounters and dealings with would be assassins before and after they became alicorns.

Among the many things Celestia had taught Aurora, she made sure to teach her how to use her gift and how to protect herself, though Aurora proved to be a natural fighter and learned quickly.

She was a princess by birth and not just any princess, she was the daughter of Celestia and as such was always given special treatment her whole life. But because of this Aurora never felt a sense of accomplishment, having almost everything given to her.

Aurora had felt she needed to show others she was more than just Celestia's daughter and was her own pony, which helped in shaping her into the mare she was today. At a young she strived to help her mother and used her Weather powers and knowledge of weather to improve and invent better weather factories.

She went on and founded an organization that recruited, trained and educated Pegasie into elite fast response units, known as the wonderbolts.

Later in her life Aurore took an interested in other cultures after Celestia had brought her to a party and introduced her to foreign diplomats.

Being exposed to what was beyond Equestria ignited a passion in Aurora, first in wanting to see and know about what was beyond Equestria. Which then lead to her wanting to know more about the creatures and cultures of the other lands

Later on Aurora became an foreign ambassador and had become a royal adviser to Celestia, which also provided them more opportunities to spend time together.

And when Celestia had heard of the Zebras and their neighbors situation, she sensed this was part of her daughter's destiny. And so Celestia put her trust in her daughter and sent her to help the zebras and the other creatures.

It was discovered that the drought was caused by something similar to what caused the winter in Equestria. The creatures of the land held resentment and anger for one another, to the point it drew what they called wraiths.

Like the wendigos they were ancient malicious spirits, the wraiths were made of magical dark red and orange fire and had a featureless malformed face in their flames. There were four of them in total, and each one had went off in a separate part of the continent. They feed off and caused hate and conflict everywhere they went, and left ruin in their wake.

Through the efforts of Princess Aurora and the ones she befriended as she traveled and went about helping. She and her friends went about helping and unifying the creatures, and as they traveled Aurora showed all the traits of the elements of harmony. Kindness and generosity to those in need, and selflessly provided her time and weather powers to help those in need. She brought hope and happiness back into the hearts of those who were struggling and had given up.

She showed unwavering loyalty to those who trusted her and kept her word, she was honest with them and told them what they needed to hear, and what needed to be done to save their lands.

She built friendship with creatures that had been at odds with each other for generations, and showed them what they could do together.

She went about unifying and helped each race and with her friends tracked down and defeated the wraiths. And with the power of her weather magic and the power of the friendship and unity of those she met in her travels, they succeeded in banishing all the wraiths and freed the lands.

With the races united and the land healed by the harmony born from their unity, a rare and spectacular thing happened.

In a blinding white flash Aurora had become an alicorn, and when Princess Celestia was brought to the celestial plane and discovered her daughter's ascension she was moved to tears of joy. Though for Aurora she was understandably completely confused and was having a bit of a freak out.

In then past

Day of Aurora's ascension

In Canterlot castle

Office of Princess Celestia

Celestia and Quivil were facing off against a literally mountain of paperwork, both were pretty tired having been sorting, reading, and signing papers for so long.

Even with Quivil's assistance there was a ridiculous amount of paperwork to be done on a daily bases. Unfair bills, stupid proposals on changing policies or requests for changing taxes or other stuff only added to the growing number of paper, and their headaches.

But relatively speaking things were going as smooth as they could be on a long workday, and thankfully they were reaching the final stacks of papers.

" Ugh. " Quivil groaned as he sat up from his chair and he stretched his back and popped his neck, feeling a series of loud pops and felt some of the tension leave his frame.

He glance over to Celestia who was sitting at her desk, huge stacks of papers stood on both sides of it. He saw a weary and tired expression on the sun alicorn, working through the countless papers like a machine. Only pausing to gulp down a cup of coffee then quickly refilling it before going back to work.

" That's her twelfth cup of coffee I believe, what time is it? " Quivil thought looking to the clock on the wall he saw it was almost 9: 40 p.m, and they started doing paperwork at 6: 15 p.m.

"Princess I believe we should retire from paperwork for the day, night is approaching and you will need to raise the moon soon and we both need our rest." Quivil said, stacking the remainder of his papers and placing them in a file cabinet.

" Hmm, oh yes it is getting late, time just seems to fly by when I'm not paying attention. " Celestia said tiredly, placing her papers down and paused as s her eyes fell on a picture on her desk.

" Do you think she's alright over there? " Celestia asked, looking at a gold picture frame that had a picture of her standing beside a 24 year old Aurora on her graduation day from Hoofvard university, one the top of Celestia's magic universities.

In the picture Celestia was standing beside Aurora and had her wing around her daughter in a loving side hug. Aurora was who was still wearing her graduation gown for the picture, had a big happy smile on her face while she side hugged her mother back.

She was getting worried about her daughter, she had not gotten a report or a letter from Aurora in sometime.

" She may have been busy over there and forgot to send a letter, I'm sure she is alright Princess. You gave her the best instructors on combat and personally trained her as well. Plus she does have that weather magic gift of hers, and her squad of personal bodyguards with her. " Quivil said trying to reassure Celestia, although he was a bit worried himself.

" Right I'm just worried about her, she is my only child and I just want her to be happy and safe. "Celestia said softly, looking longingly at the picture.

" How are you doing over there my little Aurora? " Celestia thought as she raised her cup of coffee with her magic to take a sip. But before she could she disappeared from the room in a blinding white flash.

*Clank!*

Went the ceramic cup as it hit the floor, spilling fresh coffee on the rugs and dark wooden floor.

In the celestial plane

Blinking rapidly Aurora found herself no longer in Zecorneigha, where just minutes ago she and the friends she made in Zecorneigha had defeated and banished the wraiths. But now she found herself surrounded in a sea of twinkling lights.

" W-what's going on, where am I?! " Aurora said frantically, as she found herself floating in a strange glittering plane of lights.

" Congratulations my little Aurora I'm so proud of you, I knew you could do it. "

Hearing a voice that she could never mistake, Aurora quickly turned herself around and saw her mother approaching her. Walking on none existing ground like it was the most simple of things.

" Mom what is this place, and what are you talking about?! " Aurora asked, still caught between confusion and shock from the situation.

" You've accomplished something today that has never been done before. Not even Starswirl the bearded has done something like this. You've united a divided land and created new magic, I can't tell you how proud I am of you. " Celestia said, smiling with pure joy for her daughter.

As Celestia explained to Aurora what was happening to her, scenes from her past played like a movie around them. And as they faded away a aurora light began to swirl around Aurora and envelope her.

Back in Zecorneigha in a giant flash of aurora light filled the sky, with Aurora's cutie mark in the center. Slowly it descended to the ground and as it faded it revealed Aurore no longer a Pegasus but now a alicorn.

Because of how Aurora sought to help and unify those that were divided and in need, she embodied the meaning and magic of unity and so she became the Princess of Unity.

Just as the light around her faded away she landed on her side as she collapsed to the ground. The exhaustion form spending so much magic and stamina fighting the wraiths came back with vengeance.

" Aurora, Aurora are you okay how many claws am I holding up! " Said a gold colored lioness, one of Aurora's friends she made in this land. The lioness quickly rushed over to Aurora and gently picking her head up with her large paws.

"Ugh, I'll tell you when the world stops spinning Carla. " Aurora said to her lioness friend, feeling very sore and drained of all energy.

The last battle with the wraiths was hard fought for them all especially for Aurora, dirt and singed burnt spots covered her coat all over. She was pretty sure she was going be very bruised tomorrow if the throbbing pain and soreness all over her was any indicator.

" What was that all about, you up an vanished then reappear in a rainbow flash. Wait since when did you have a horn? " Carla asked in a sweet sounding voice that was slightly deep, noticing the new addition to her pony friends head.

" Hey is she lright?!

"What just happened?! "

In the distance Aurora could hear the voices of the others that she befriended here, rushing to her side to see about her.

" It's a long and confusing story I'll tell you all about it later, right now I'm going to pass out. " Aurora said tiredly, just before she went limp in her lioness friend 's paws and lost consciousness.

"Hmm, ugh my head where am I now? " Aurora thought, feeling groggy as she awoke in a luxuries bed and room. Aurora quickly recognized that it was her guest room in the royal castle of the Zebra kingdom.

" Your finally awake, how are you feeling Aurora? " Aurora slowly turned her head and saw her mother sitting in a fancy wooden chair to her right, putting down a book she had been reading.

" Water. " Aurora said softly, coughing a bit as she spoke with a dry throat.

Celestia lifted a glass picker from a table near the bed and filled up a cup of water and floated it over to her daughter to drink.

Aurora took several gulps of water with the assistance of Celestia's magic, having little to no energy and feeling very sore all over made it hard for her to move.

" I fell like my body is made of iron and it hurts a bit to move, how long have I been out for? " Aurora asked after draining the cup of water, her throat feeling much better.

"About two days, don't worry I healed you up with my magic but your still going to be sore and feel fatigued for a few days. But I can tell you have more questions than that. " Celestia said, looking at her daughter's somber expression.

Celestia knew from experience that was Aurora's thinking face, she often did that when she was in deep thought or was thinking over what to say.

" Yes I do, I'd very much like for you to explain more about what's going on, and why I have a unicorn horn now. "Aurora said, lazily gesturing with a hoof to her head.

" Of course, but it's a bit of a long story and it will take time to explain." Celestia said smiling happily, she felt nostalgic as she remembered the times she read her daughter stories when she was a foal.

" I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, besides I always enjoyed it when you read me a story. You were always a good storyteller mom. " Aurora said, getting comfortable in the bed as she propped up her head on the large pillow. Groaning a bit at as she adjusted herself in the bed.feeling some remaining soreness in her body.

" Now then this goes far back into the past, and involves me and my sister Luna your aunt. " Celestia said, pausing for a moment recalling her memories of her beloved sister before she went on to explain to her daughter why she was a alicorn now .

Present time

Zecorneigha

Finishing her inspection of the letter Aurora undid the clasp of the gold seal with a spell, unfolded the scroll and proceeded to read it's contents.

Dear Aurora

How are doing over there in Zecorneigha, from your last few letters it sounds like things have been a little busy over there. It's a shame that you couldn't come back in time for this year's sunset celebration, but I understand since Zecorneigha is a long way from Equestria.

Though I wished you could have been able attend this one, because something amazing happen this celebration. You remember Twilight Sparkle my personal student, well I sent her
to Ponyville on the same day as the celebration to make friends.

" Twilight Sparkle huh, she was the one that hatched that dragon egg with magic, isn't she Commander Shining Armor little sister? From what I remember of her she's an intelligent pony and talented mage, though a bit obsessed with books. " Aurora thought, remembering what her mother told her of Twilight before continuing to read the rest.

And I hope your sitting down for this, on the day of the sunset celebration Nightmare moon returned. Now I know what your thinking, and don't worry Nightmare moon was stopped by my student Twilight sparkle and the friends she made in Ponyville using the elements of harmony. It brings me great joy to tell you my sister Luna is finally back with us, and we have made up with each other.

I know that you don't plan to leave Zecorneigha for two months, but I really would like you to come home and meet your aunt as soon as possible. And also meet my pupil Twilight and her friends who I have to thank for this, I'm sure sure you will get along well with them.

Hope to see you soon, sincerely with love, mom.

Aurora sat there looking at the letter floating in her white aura, reading and rereading the last part. Utterly stunned as she processed the news of Luna, her aunt she had only seen in old pictures and was told about by her mother was now back.

Aurora quickly picked up her office phone with her magic and hit a button on the receiver.

" Click*

" Penny can you come to my office please? " Aurora asked, calling her secretary.

" Be right there Princess Aurora. " Answered a smooth feminine voice with a hint of a southern accent.

A minute later a pale copper unicorn mare with a dark brown mane with blonde highlights styled in a ponytail opened the door. She wore a fancy business attire with grey and purple tones and had a cutie mark of a notepad and a pen, she was Penney Shine Aurora's secretary in Zecorneigha and long time friend.

" Yes Princess Aurora? " Penney asked, giving a nod to Gale Wind and Stella Wisp as she closed the door behind her.

They gave a nod back but otherwise remained silent and stationary at their posts at the door.

" I'm sorry to spring this up on you but I've decided to head back to Equestria ahead of schedule. " Aurora said, flying around the room and gathered things that belong to her.

" It's okay princess I know you miss home, being away for years at a time can make anypony eager to get back. So I'm guessing you will be leaving next month? " Penny asked, pulling out a schedule organizer in her magenta aura.

" No I'll be leaving in 4 days, gives me enough time to say goodbye to all my friends before I leave. " Aurora said as she finished packing her personal belongings around her office in a large travel suitcase.

" F-four days! But what about the meeting with Princess Miszulri that's next week?! She's the daughter of the hyena Queen Kushona, the ruler of Haygrica! What about your meeting in Purdina with the lion King Kuwinda the week after, you can't just cancel a set appointment with them! " Penny frantically said, nearly dropping her organizer from hearing the news.

" They will understand, plus I have already told them that I planned to head home a month early. I'll call Makali and see if I can come visit early." Aurora said, remembering the hyena princess fondly.

Despite the rough start and hard time she had with the hyenas, she ended up becoming good friends with the hyena Queen and princess. They said they liked her strong will and character, and found it refreshing that she could look past their appearance.

"As for King Kuwinda, he just wants to meet me so he can have his son apologize to me for the comment he made at the grand royale ball." Aurora said with a voice laced with irritation.

" When you hear from him, tell him I'm not mad at him and that what his son did will not affect his standing with Equestria, but you tell him this. I'm still mad about the fact that his son, had the audacity to say to me I quote " You have some fine plump meat buns." It took all my self restraint not to blast him out a window, he should have known that was offensive!" Aurora yelled, feeling a surge of anger and embarrassment as she remembered the incident.

Though she had problems with the lions she was on good terms with them, and got along well with King Kuwinda and his family, well most of them.

There was one family member of King Kuwinda that gave her the creeps, King Kuwinda's brother Bamu. He seemed friendly enough around her, but she felt it was a facade and felt uneasy when he was around.

" Huha, anyway everything else is pretty much taken care of, so there shouldn't be a problem with me leaving earlier than planned Penny, right? " Aurora asked confidently, waiting for her secretary to finish scanning through her planner.

" I-I actually don't see anything else that would need you to personally attend to, but how are you going to tell them and all your friends in such a time frame. " Penny asked, wondering how the young Aurora was going to do such a thing.

" Some of her friends are members of royalty, and the rest of them live pretty far apart. Wait hold on don't tell me. " Penny thought, hoping she was wrong.

" Princess Aurora, please tell me you are not planning on just teleporting to them. It would be very reckless and might cause a incident if you suddenly appeared unannounced. " Penny asked with a flat tone, hoping that was not the case.

" Of course not Penny I plan to call ahead, I am many things but rude is not one of them. Though I have been told I can be a bit bashful but certainly not rude. " Aurora said, playfully showing a look of fake hurt to her secretary before smiling at her.

" Oh well sorry, I am just a little nervous that we might be forgetting something before you leave. " Penny said, checking her planner one more time.

" Don't worry yourself about it Penny, I've got most of the important stuff taken care of and have capable creatures covering the rest. Now while I see about putting my affairs in order and visit my friends here, I suggest you do the same. Wouldn't want that nice leopard of yours to think you forgot about her now would you, how are things with you and her?" Aurora said playfully, smiling as she gave her friend a knowing wink.

" Ahhh well we have been going steady nothing to much, just hanging out and going on a date here and there. Overall things are going well between her and me. " Penny said shyly, blushing a bit as she did.

" Well good for you, since you'll be staying a bit longer to make sure everything is going smoothly after I leave do spend some time with her. Anyways I need to see if I can pay an early visit to Haygrica tomorrow, I know they would like to hear that. " Aurora said, smiling as she shook her head.

" Well I be taking my leave Princess, I've got few thing before I'm done for the day. " Penny said as she began to leave the room.

"Take care. " Aurora said, waving to her before she left.

" Alright I've got a phone call to make so Gale, Stella I'm going to need you both to step out for a bit." Aurora said to her two guards in the room.

" But Princess Aurora what if something happens? " Gale asked in a Baltimare accent, the young guard was good at what he did and he's skills were top notch, but he always seemed to be a tab to serious when on the job.

" It's alright Gale there are multiple magical barriers, wards, and alarms installed in the building. Plus I've got a barrier and a sensory field around the room, she doesn't need us hovering over her to do our job." Stella Wisp said with a roll of her eyes, speaking with a Fillydelphia accent.

" Come on it won't take long, we'll be right outside the door if you need is princess. " Comet Wisp said as she and Gale Wind walked out the room.

" Huha alright now where is that number, ahh there you are. " Aurora said, finding these desired number on her list of contacts on her office phone.

*Ring...ring...click*

" Hello this is ambassador of Equestria Princess Aurora, I'd like to speak with secretary Makali concerning my scheduled visit. " Aurora said, in a rare moment taking an all business formal tone.

A few moments after setting up her magic crystal monitor on her desk, Aurora saw the silver screen glow white. A second later saw a striped hyena sitting in a big chair was on the screen.

" Hello Princess Aurora it is good to hear from you, I was just told you wanted to talk about something concerning your visit. Has something happened? " said the striped female hyena in a happy but concerned tone.

Her voice was light and had a bit of a slightly rough scratchy undertone that was common for all hyenas.

She was Makali the royal secretary of the hyenas, she was a striped hyena with shiny copper brown stripes that appeared to flow over her dark brown coat. And a light fluffy brown mane that flowed down her back and tail.

She wore a thick gold chain necklace with a light blue sapphire encrusted in a gold amulet with rune symbols on it with two fangs on both sides of it, and had a silver earring in her left ear.

Most hyenas were large in stature and were three times bigger and larger than a pony, though there were those that where bigger than that especially females .

" Hello Makali and yes there has been a change to my schedule, something has come up and I'd need to reschedule my visit. " Aurora said, speaking in friendly tone.

" Oh I'm sorry to hear that, the Queen and princess were looking forward to you visiting." Makali said as her ears drooped down, sounding little sad.

" So when do you think you can make it? " Makali asked, grabbing a notepad and pen with her paws.

"Well you see I'd like to come tomorrow actually. " Aurora said, smiling as she watched the striped hyena stop midway through writing down what she said.

" T-tomorrow, well I wasn't expecting to hear that. Hmm yes that can be arranged, I know Princess Miszulri will be thrilled to hear that your coming to visit early. " Makali said cheerful, giving a happy smile that displayed her large razor sharp fangs.

" Yes me too, I'll be planning to leave for Haygrica at around 8:30, well good night then Makali. "Aurora said as she waved at the monitor.

" Yes good night Princess Aurora, rest well. " Makali said back before Aurora ended the call.

" Huha, I better be getting to bed soon It's already nighttime, I'll take a nap on the way to Haygrica. " Aurora said, yawning as she got up for her cloud chair and flew over to the room's window.

She was about to close the curtains, but when she saw the full moon shining in the star filled night sky, illuminating the night with its pale white light. Aurora noticed that the mare in the moon symbol was gone.

" I hope mother and aunt Luna are having fun, I can't wait to meet her when I get back to Equestria. "Aurora thought as she closed the curtains and headed out of her office.

Author's Note

From the land of zebras to the land of hyenas.