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You suddenly felt yourself back in your body as the memory ends, you quickly let go of the crystal and fall backwards, you notice the clock above the door that you didn't see before. It read 3:38pm, that meant you spent an hour upon first entering the room to see that memory, but what you saw through the Headmaster’s eyes… it was as wondrous as it was confusing… but it was the end that gave you shivers, looking at the door, you see that it was still closed, the spiral image was still moving slowly, in the same colors as when you first saw it, and nothing else seemed out of place, and so you contemplated on whether or not you should look into the other crystals, on one side, it could show you how the Headmaster became who he is today, on the other side… you could come out of this seeing something you really wish you didn't… deciding on a coin toss, heads being leaving now and never returning to this room and tails being staying and continue looking through the memories, you got up and gave it a flip and let it hit the floor. Upon picking up the coin, you could see the six pointed star that was tails facing up towards you. The decision made for you, you turn towards the crystals once more and place your hands upon the next one in line, the same floating and rushing feeling spreads throughout your body as the world around fades away and darkness surrounds you as you enter the next memory.

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It was a wonderful morning today and I had already fed all of my animals, including Angel Bunny, even though he did make a small fuss, I was able to convince him to eat. It was about noon and me and the girls were about to start a picnic out near Ponyville Pond, which was such a lovely spot. I usually went there to relax after a long day and simply enjoy the calm sounds that came from the area.

“Hello darling, how are you today?” I heard a classy voice coming from my left ask, turning from my reminiscing I saw Rarity, one of my best friends walking towards me.

“Good evening Rarity, i'm doing fine, thank you, how are you today?” I say as she starts to place down the blanket with her magic.

“Oh i'm fine darling, just a bit busy with the new dresses that are being ordered from my new store in Manehattan is all, nothing I can't handle.” she says before sitting down on the blanket.

“Oh that's wonderful Rarity, I do hope that you'll take a break if it becomes too much for you.” I say as I take a spot on the blanket.

“Don't you worry darling, i'm perfectly fine as of now, but do come by on Sunday, we haven't had a spa trip in a while.” she replies, to which I nod in agreement, it had been a few weeks since our last spa trip together.

“I will.” I replied shortly just as Applejack and Rainbow Dash got here, both were smiling while carrying a small box each.

“Hey y’all!” AJ says before she sits on one of the corners of the blanket.

“Hey guys, whatcha' talking about?” Dash asks as she claims the spot next to me.

“Oh just life as usual darling, nothing too important.” Rarity responds as she sets the food and drinks on the blanket.

“Oh, okay.” was all Dash responded with before taking a soda and cracking it open.

“Well, here comes Pinkie, Spike and Twilight.” Rarity said, waving the three of our friends over, they were all carrying something with them as they sat down.

“Hey girls, sorry if we’re a little late, we were a bit busy getting everything ready.” Twilight said as she and Spike took their spots and Pinkie took hers.

“Oh it's quite alright darling, you've come just on time, and I think I say this for everypony when I say that we know how confusing that castle can get.” Rarity commented waving her worries away, and with that we chatted away about our days and if anything new happened.

We were about to pack up when both Twilight’s and Rarity’s horns lit up brightly with magic, both of them didn't seem to expect this as what they were holding suddenly teleported in surprise. It was then that Pinkie started twitching like crazy, it was only when she stopped twitching that their horns stopped glowing.

“Oh boy, that was a big doozy.” Pinkie said, shaking her head a bit, mostly to clear the dizziness she felt.

“I think it was more than that Pinkie, whatever happened, it was powerful enough to attract our magic to it, like an amplifier.” Twilight said placing a hand soft on her horn.

“So it made your magic stronger?” Dash asked, looking between Rarity and Twilight.

“Kind of, more like our magic reacted to it, and by doing so, put more magic into whatever spell we were casting at the time.” she explained clearly, so that everyone understood. “Pinkie, did any of your twitching make sense to you?” she asked the pink mare who had a thinking cap on her head.

“Not much of it, it was too fast for even me to interpret it, but I got small parts… like tomorrow, close friend, surprise and something falling, what it's supposed to mean I don't know, I couldn’t read more than that from how quickly everything started twitching.” she replied looking confused, before shrugging her shoulders.

“Okay, so something is going to fall tomorrow, it's going to impact one of us, and it's going to be a surprise, well everypony, try to keep a lookout, and Pinkie, if you have any more twitches, come tell me what they mean, this could be another threat to Equestria.” Twilight said as she brought the group together.

“Right.” everypony, including me said before we started packing up.

It was around seven at night when I was walking home from Twilight’s as I needed a few books to take care of a few new animals I found injured near the Everfree, plus I had to do a quick shopping trip to resupply some of the animals food. As I was walking down the dirt path that made its way to my home and the Everfree, I noticed something in the sky, it was dim at first, but then the brown and greenish yellow vortex began to become clearer. I noticed that it was near my house so I started to fly towards it, to make sure my animals were safe from whatever was happening. It was when I got to the bridge in front of my house did the vortex change and two small figures flew out towards the portal and crashed ten feet away from me, leaving a small crater, the weird thing was that there was frost covering the ground around the crater, Harry came outside to investigate before seeing me.

“Harry, can you take these inside? I need to see what happened.” I asked, holding up a couple of bags, he nodded and took them from me before walking back inside.

I quickly hovered over to the crater to see what had impacted into the ground, my wing beats clearing away the strange light blue smoke away, I saw two figures wrapped up in what seemed to be some sort of robes, and by the look of the first figure was a dragon, probably younger than Spike, its scales were smokey grey and ice blue, while the second figure looked like a pony, it had a silvery-light blue mane with slightly dark tan fur, or rather, skin as I felt the second being, I noticed a unicorn horn in its small hands like it was something of great value, must have come from its mother or father, but who would cut off a unicorn’s horn? No, getting back on track, the small dragon opened up its eyes and spotted both me and the small being, then started growling at me, it seemed to be protecting the small being, to which I slowly lowered myself to the ground inside the crater.

“Hello little dragon… can you tell me your name?” I ask in a small voice, which makes the dragon stop growling and look at me in interest.

“How do you know the Tension language?” the dragon asked, the pitch making it female.

“I don't, I can just speak to and understand animals very well.” I reply sitting on my hooves, she seems to be very protective of the second being.

“Oh… okay then… where are we?” she asked, she curled her tail around the second figure.

“Well, you landed in front of my cottage, which is in Ponyville, which is a village in Equestria.” I reply, making her fins fold down, but then grasp her head in pain. “Oh my! What's wrong?” I ask as I hold her gently.

“I… I can't remember where I'm from… only my name, what I am… and who he is…” she replied before looking over to the second being swaddled in the robes.

“Well it's pretty late, how about you come inside and get some rest while I make sure nothing too bad happened to either of you.” I said, picking up the second being and the robes he was wrapped in and brought him up to my chest.

“Yeah… that would be nice.” the dragon said as I slowly walked from the crater to my front door.

“Angel, can you open the door please? My arms are full.” I ask as I get to the door, which swings open almost immediately and I step inside.

My home was mostly quiet because most of the animals were asleep, only the nocturnal animals and those that were woken up by the impact were around.

“Thank you Angel Bunny.” I say as the door closes, I bring them over to the couch and slowly lower them onto the couch. “Now, can you tell me your names?” I ask the dragon who looks up to me and then the small colt next to her.

“I'm Nova… Nova Wingbeat, this is my friend and partner, Issac Iceweaver.” she replied curling up onto the colt who snuggled into the dragon’s embrace.

“Well Nova, I'm Fluttershy Breeze, it's nice to meet you, now, you go ahead and get some rest, I think we all need it.” I say before entering the kitchen, those two were definitely something Twilight would want to see.

“Oh… but what will happen to them, I guess they don't need to be seen immediately… yeah… they can stay inside for now, just have to confirm their preferred diets.” I thought as I made a small dinner for me before bed, when I finished eating I noticed that the dragon and colt were both fast asleep.

With them both asleep and me getting tired I quickly but quietly made my way upstairs and changed into my PJs and went to sleep. There had been no noise throughout the night and until I had come down, it was only when I started making breakfast for me and my guests that the colt started crying, I quickly floated over and scooped up the small colt, he looked up at me in his improvised blanket and I saw his icy blue eyes, they sparkled in the morning light, like the sun hitting a lake at just a certain angle that made it shimmer.

“Hello little Iceweaver, it's okay, nopony’s going to hurt you here, i've got you.” I softly said while cradling him, he seemed to calm down a bit, but I could still see fear in his eyes, so I began to hum a small lullaby, it calmed him down enough that he started to calm down completely.

I brought him into the kitchen and placed him on the table, I decided to look at his teeth, which he didn't have many of, but those that he did have suggested that he was an omnivore, a being able to eat just about anything. Which I didn't mind, I had many omnivore and carnivore animals in my care, so with that in mind, I prepared a small smoothie of sorts for his breakfast, while I had a salad. It took him a bit, but I was able to get him to eat, and Nova had something from the robes that were still laying on the couch. I quickly cleaned him up and walked him back to Nova, who quickly curled around Issac.

“What to do with the two of you.” I think as I run through the possibilities, but I was quickly pulled from my decision by a knock at the door, the peephole showed Twilight and the girls.

“Oh dear…” I said as I quickly turned my back towards the door and looked at the dragon and colt. “I need you two to stay quiet in my room, as there's ponies outside who might do something bad if they saw you, especially if one of them saw you.” I quietly said to Nova, who saw the fear in my eyes and nodded seriously before I got them in the robes and brought them up to my room and closed the blinds.

“Fluttershy, are you home? Pinkie started to twitch again and it was another doozy, saying something about a dragon near your house.” Twilight said as she knocked on the door again, I quickly collected myself and opened my door, smiling a bit.

“Hey girls, sorry for not answering earlier, Angel was being a bit more grumpy than usual today, but I was able to calm him down, anyways, what's going on? I heard you say that Pinkie had another doozy, but nothing after that.” I say as I look at the girls they all seemed nervous but relieved.

“Pinkie said that there was going to be a dragon here, and we got worried darling.” Rarity said as she fanned herself a bit.

“Oh, well there's no dragon here that I know of, unless it was in the backyard, I did just start feeding the rest of my animals after all.” I replied looking back, they saw two of the bags out near the kitchen.

“Well can we look in your backyard to see if anything is missing?” Twilight asked, I simply nodded my head.

“As long as you don't disturb the animals, the birds take a little longer to wake up.” I said before fluttering back to the bags before handing out today’s breakfast.

“Of course, we won't disturb them.” she said before going back around to my backyard.

AJ stayed a little longer before following everypony else, I took a small sigh of relief as they were no longer in sight, I then began to feed my animals, I took my time, humming a little tune that popped into my head. I knew from that point on I had to keep Issac and Nova safe, but I also knew that they needed to interact with the ponies of Ponyville, but how could I get them to do that without Pinkie finding out. That would be impossible, but I think I could find a way around that.

“I can do this… it's just like taking care of my animals, just a bit harder.” I thought as I finished feeding the animals that were inside and started heading outside to feed the others.

The girls were still looking through my backyard as I came out with some worms and seeds, I quickly but efficiently fed all of the birds before I came down to the ground and noticed that Nova was watching me and the girls discreetly through the blinds.

“Did you find anything girls?” I ask, bringing their attention to me.

“No, nothing that would indicate a dragon, maybe it was just passing by.” Twilight said before looking at Pinkie, who just shrugged.

“I guess we were worried over nothing dear, sorry for our interruption.” Rarity said before waving goodbye.

“It’s okay girls, it was nice to have a small break from routine today.” I said as we walked around my house and they started to depart, AJ stayed a bit before turning towards me.

“Ah know you're hiding something inside sugarcube, so what ain’t ya tellin’ us.” she said once everypony else was out of earshot, I quickly sighed, I knew this would happen, there was no getting past Applejack on this.

“Just some new animals that I haven't seen before, I didn't want Twilight to freak out and start running tests on them, they came in last night and were slightly injured, I started treating them this morning just after I woke up.” I explained without giving Nova or Issac away to her, it seemed to have worked because she nodded in understanding.

“Yeah, Twi can get right crazy when it comes tah sometin' she don't know, so that was a good call on your part Shy… but, if ya need any help, come an talk tah me, okay?” she asked while looking into my eyes, it was as if she was staring into my soul.

“Of course, but I might be coming over soon, my supply of apples are a bit low.” I respond with a nod, she nods back and walks off.

“See ya soon sugarcube.” she calls back before going out of earshot.

“Oh thank Celestia she didn’t see through that.” I whispered as soon as she was gone, I quickly went inside and upstairs to my room.

I entered to see Nova sitting on the edge of the bed with Issac playing with the unicorn horn that was in his hands when he slept. I gently closed the door, but Nova was looking at me with a small look of confusion.

“Who were those people you were talking to?” she asked as I sat on the bed next to Issac, who looked up to me in wonder.

“Those were some friends of mine, the blue one with wings was Rainbow Dash, the orange one was Applejack, the white one was Rarity Belle the very pink one was Pinkie Pie and the lavender one was Twilight Sparkle, they somehow knew you were here, but I was able to make sure they didn't find out about you. I don't want them to know about you, either of you… not yet.” I say as I pick up Issac and let him play with my hair, Nova nods as she curls up next to me.

“Thank you for taking us in Fluttershy.” she said, placing her head in my lap.

“It's no problem Nova… now, how about we do something in the backyard, I can teach the two of you all about my animal friends.” I say wrapping Issac lightly in the robes.

“Sure, let's go, I kinda want to see this place.” she replied as she glided down the stairs after I opened the door.

I giggled a little bit before heading down the stairs, I knew this was going to be one of the best days of my life…

Author's Note

Hello my lovely little terrors, chapter three is out and yes, i'm putting Equestria into season 4

Now as always, stay terrifying my little night terrors!