Being Lyra

"He said his name was Shane and he used to be a pony, well at least not like this, and he also said he was great friends with Lyra before the incident," Bon Bon said.

Princess Celestia looked down as if she was in an extremely meditative state and paused for a moment.

"...And you wouldn't happen to remember anything before you entered Lyra's body?" Princess Celestia asked.

"No, I'm more clueless than everypony here," I replied.

"Perhaps we should further discuss this matter in the castle," Princess Celestia responded.

Bon Bon and I nodded.

Several minutes have gone by and we eventually stop to a place where Bon Bon, Princess Celestia, and I can talk in privacy. Princess Celestia took us to one of her studies; it was accompanying us with a fireplace, two lounge couches, and a formal red carpet in the center.

"Thank you again for all you have done for us so far, Princess Celestia," Bon Bon said with a wide thankful grin on her face.

"You're quite welcome, however there are still further matters we must discuss, first of all, the reason in particular why I decided to save your friend here," Princess Celestia said and then hesitated.

"Even though I am forbidden to tell you this, I guess I don't have much of a choice. Lyra was bound by a contract to stay here in Equestria because she was originally human; her previous alias she went by was 'Jackie'. However, she is bound by that contract, so she lost all of her memory of ever being human, every one hundred years I bring a human into Equestria and turn them into ponies, your friend here is over 200 years old and didn't even know it. Now, I don't have the slightest idea why I don't remember bringing a human over to Equestria when I had the chance last month, but that is none of my concern. Anyways, I saved Lyra because I cannot let a species from a different universe die because of the ponies in this universe. Is any of this making sense to either of you?" Princess Celestia said.

Bon Bon's jaw dropped and my eyes were wide open. Princess Celestia let out a small frustrated sigh.

"I guess that does not matter at the moment, what we should be worried about how this happened," Princess Celestia continued.

"Bon Bon, would you happen to know when this first started?" Princess Celestia asked as she turned her head towards Bon Bon.

"About a month ago," Bon Bon replied.

Princess Celestia looked down and meditated for a moment.

"Follow me to the archives, although it is forbidden for anypony, including myself, to enter, I feel that it is necessary in this situation," Princess Celestia said.

"The archives?" I asked.

"It's where all the contracts of humans that came to Equestria are stored, including Lyra's. It's the only choice we have left if we're going to save you two," Princess Celestia said as she walked out of the room beckoning to us.

A bell near the perimeter of Canterlot struck, it was already 7 in the evening.

"Come on, we don't have much time, the last day is awakening soon and the only source of information will be inert then until the transformation is complete on the following day!" Bon Bon exclaimed.

"Can we at least stop to eat? I haven't had a bite since I was on the train," I asked.

"No!" I could hear both Princess Celestia and Bon Bon shout.

It was only even several more minutes until we finally reached the corridor leading to the archives. It was much bigger than the corridor at the entrance of the castle, you'd think you wouldn't miss this room considering how big it was but it hid like a needle in a haystack.

"Here we are, the archives, this door has not been open for the past " Princess Celestia said as she approached the door.

The door was as big as the corridor itself, it was brown and had writing on it, supposedly in a language used in the time the room was made. The door was surprisingly dust-free and looked as if it was brand new. On the floor in front of the door was like a calendar, it had six red solar orbs, one of them being bigger than the rest, formed a circle on the ground and the orbs sensed whether a ray of sunlight was directed towards them or not. A small open hole above the door showing the outside was angled towards a spherical mirror held on a pedestal that is centering all six of the orbs.

"Every day, when the sun is at its highest point, the sun shines through the hole up there and reflects the light upon the this spherical mirror, then reflecting the light onto a point on the circle, the red orbs represent how far away the sun was away until the next summer solstice. The big red orb represents the day of the summer solstice, when the big red orb is lit, the door will allow me to open it manually," Princess Celestia lectured.

"The summer solstice?! We don't have time to wait for that, Lyra's transformation completes at the end of tomorrow, there must be another way, maybe move the sun, or..." Bon Bon yelled that only resulted with Princess Celestia interrupting her.

"The summer solstice is resulted coincidentally; both Luna's and my cooperation of raising the sun at dawn and raising the moon at dusk is what gradually puts towards the cause of the eclipse. It would be impossible to do this without messing up the cycle of the moon and the sun or risking accidently flying the moon and or or the sun away from us," Princess Celestia said as she shook her head.

"Then why did you take us here if we can't even wait for it?" Bon Bon replied with panic and some visible signs of frustration.

"It's our only hope, may I remind you that your friend here who is going to be replaced by somepony who thinks she is Lyra but isn't, somepony cloaked under her flesh that unwillingly will take her identity," Princess Celestia said.

"Then what do you suppose we should do?" Bon Bon replied along with a sigh.