Alex curiously poked her flaming hair.

It was... Kinda cool.

At first, she of course, freaked out quite a bit. After all, who wouldn’t? That said, she calmed down pretty quickly. Flame on her hair wasn't actually hot in any way. It looked decorative.

In fact, it would be more correct to say, that her hair wasn’t on fire - it was fire.

Thankfully, that fire was quite opaque, otherwise her bald head would be seen through. The thought scared her, so she decided to try to avoid water until her hair became normal. Who knows, if she will become permanently bald after fire was put out.

There were a lot of things that she expected happening from being hit by rainbow laser beam of doom, but turning her hair into the fire wasn’t one of them.

Although she probably should think about all this later; currently, there were things that required her attention.

“Can you stop staring? It’s rude!” She complained to the five girls that were unblinkingly glaring at her with an expression of loss and extreme confusion.

Sixth one was still relaxing on the floor for whatever reason.

Finally, purple haired one broke the silence.

“Princess, what happened to you?”

“You happened!” Grudgingly answered Alex. “I told you to stop so many times, and you still fired when I was in way!”

Girl appeared befuddled.

“But... You weren’t there when we started! Nevermind, I’m sorry! What are we gonna do now?”

She quickly corrected herself.

“Well, first of all, I want to know what do you mean by prin...”

“I knew you could do that, Twilight. I believed in you.” Interrupted sudden voice from the direction of the window.

Everyone together turned to look at it and noticed a dignified looking woman in a royal dress, with motherly air around her. Alex though, found her a bit familiar.

“I see that you managed to find the elements and free my sister from the night...mare?” Woman stared at Alex with a mix of shock and some other complex emotion. Alex thought that she noticed a trace of fear, for some reason.

Girls turned back to her again with more visible confusion.

“Who... Are you?”

Girl, who was presumably, named Twilight, looked completely lost.

“Rather, who are you.” Answered Alex, not wanting to explain anything since she was as confused as the others.

That woman looked almost exactly like her!

The only difference was in a small age gap, as Alex wasn’t really that much older than these girls, and lack of flaming hair, apparently. She even had wings and horn as well!

At that moment, a detail jumped to her attention.

Judging by the girls’ group it looked like aside from having both types of these appendages you could actually have one or none at all! At least, in that group there were at least two of the same type. That seemed awfully artificial, as if that “hero” party was carefully selected to appease every side of the population. It might have said something about it all, but Alex was too lazy to analyze anything right now.

“Princess, is that your evil long-lost twin?” blurted out pink-haired girl.

“No, I don’t know her! Who are you? Why are you pretending to be me?” Demanded “princess”.

Alex didn't like her tone.

“Hey! Maybe it’s you who pretending to be me! I say, I looked like this my whole life!”

“She appeared after we defeated Nightmare Moon. She said we blasted her accidentally.” Said Twilight to the princess.

“Wait, and who is then on the floor?” Asked orange haired one.

Princess finally noticed the girl lying on the floor unconscious, and brought her towards herself in a hurry with a magic flash. She seemed not willing to approach Alex for some reason.

“It is my sister, princess Luna.” She answered.

“Wait, your sister? What do you mean?” exclaimed Twilight. "Why haven't I found any reference about her existence in the history books?"

Princess caressed the cheek of the unconscious girl with motherly care, her expression pained.

“Long time ago, I ruled together with my sister, instead of alone. But over time, I neglected her. Until... She was tempted by a monster from the Nightmare realm, and turned into a Nightmare Moon.”

“Wait, that just like that book said!” Exclaimed/Thought Twilight/Alex. Later turned toward the former with a surprised expression.

“You might have guessed already. It was me who ordered to leave that book in your room.” Said princess, who was apparently, named Celestia, according to what Alex remembered from the book.

'What is this timing?' She thought. 'I just finished reading the book about those characters, and they appear before me. My dream really doesn’t care that much about continuity.'

“Today is the day right after one thousand years since I accidentally banished my sister to the moon. She returned after her prison unveiled, and you successfully stopped her. I’m so proud of you, my student.” Finished Celestia with a smile.

“But... Who is she, then?” Asked Twilight, pointing at Alex, who sat with crossed legs in the middle of the room, bored.

“I... Do not know...” Answered Celestia, looking at her too.

“I was here from the beginning, okay? Took a nap in one of the rooms, was woken up by all that shouting.” Explained Alex. " Came to look at all this, and instead was attacked by both sides!”

“I find it hardly believable that you would just happen to be in the castle at night of Nightmare Moon’s return and just happened to look like a demonic version of princess Celestia!” Accused blue-haired girl.

Alex was feeling helpless.

“So what if I was? Maybe it was fate. I helped in the fight.”

“How did you helped in the fight?” Questioned princess.

“I can believe that it was fate! After all, wasn't it fate, that we all just happened to meet yesterday and became friends and turned out to be bearers of the elements, right?” Exclaimed pink one.

Alex was inclined to agree, even if she had no idea what she was talking about.

“That doesn’t excuse you from looking demonic!”

Blue shot back.

“Well, I looked perfectly fine before you blasted me with your death beam!”

"It’s a friendship beam!”

“It hurts!”

" It means that you are a bad person!”

“Let’s test it on you!”

“I know I’m good, because I was chosen by the element!”

Watching fiery dialogue unfold between her friend and unknown woman that looked like her teacher, Twilight was lost.

“... What is going on?...”

Girl in Celestia’s hands chose that moment to wake up.

“Luna!” Exclaimed latter.

"Finally! Little sister, I missed you so much! Can you ever forgive me?”

“I dunno. I feel like I have a concussion. And the last thing I remember is you face before receiving a mighty blow across my head with something heavy.” Grumbled Luna.

Celestia looked shocked for a second, before glaring angrily toward Alex.

“Hey, I said I helped in the fight. Without me, your student would have probably lost. I dunno. Maybe. I am the one who knocked out Nightmare Moon so the girls could shoot her. You asked my name, right?”

She looked out of the window.

"Since without me, morning wouldn’t return, I guess you can call me..." 'A MorningBringer?’

‘No, wait. That sounds lame. What synonyms there are for the morning? I know!’

“I guess, you could call me... A Daybreaker!”

She giggled in her mind.

‘Because morning is a daybreak and Daybreaker sounds like a DayBringer, but cooler!’

No one seemed impressed with the joke, although pink one seemed to like it.

However, no one noticed Celestia’s face turning dark for a second.

Author's Note

Now i too can experience what it feels like to get downvotes and not know the reason. Sweet.
P.S. Don't answer that. I really don't care much.

Fun fact, i have never downvoted a fic yet. Despite criticizing many.

Say, should i slow down and get longer chapters, or go like this with short ones?

Do i know where this fic is going?
Not quite.
Do i need to?
Not quite.

P.S. I was tempted to call her Daybroker.