when worlds collide

today was going to be a normal day. That's what sunny told herself. Ever since magic had returned, it seemed every day, tehre was something new that needed to be dealt with. But no, the ponies of Maretime Bay didn't want just anypony's help. Of course they wanted their problems solved by the amazing alicorn who had triumphed over her tribulations.

It was fun at first maybe, but it was a life one could soon grow tired of. She looked out the window noticing that everything was somewhat noisier than usual. As she trotted out the door, she made sure to grab hold of her bag and took one more glance around the room.

The lighthouse had been fixed up by her and her five friends, Izzy Moonbow, Hitch Trailblazer, Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm. They now all shared a room up at the top floor of the lighthouse. The rainbow light emitting from the unity crystals ran through the mile of the room.

As she took one last look around, she noticed that everypony was still sleeping.

Everpony that is, except for Izzy.

As Sunny walked the streets of Maretime Bay she definitely noticed that ponies were more excited than usual. She made her way towards the beach. She wanted to meet up with Izzy. She knew that in the morning, Izzy always got up early to bounce around on the beach.

"Helps get the blood flowing to your brain" she always said, whenever anypony asked her why she did it.

With each thing Sunny heard, she got more and more curious. She kept on hearing little bits and pieces of the new story from everypony who walked by. She knew that gossip spread fast in Maretime Bay but she didn't know that it spread overnight as well. it made sense though, it was the summer and there were probably a lot of ponies out enjoying the night.

When Sunny finally reached the beach, just as she had expected, Izzy was there bouncing around and saying hi to all of the little colts and fillies who were relaxing and building sandcastles. When Izzy caught sight of Sunny, her eyes widened and she bounced over to her excitedly while asking in a sort of singing voice, "have you heard the big news?"

Sunny grinned and trotted over to her. "That's actually what I was going to ask you about. I know you do everything you can to keep up on all of the gossip in Maretime Bay."

Izzy laughed "yeah, I'm really good at that. And I was also hoping that you hadn't heard because I am dying to tell you. A bunch of Archaeologist ponies found a strange statue on the outskirts of Bridlewood forest and the histoian ponies think that it's from over one-thousand years ago!"

Sunny's eyes got wide and her mouth fell open. She couldn't believe it. Ancient equestrian artifacts! ponies hadn't found anything good before. If anything, all they found were small pieces of hay that scientists traced back to ancient equestria because of their DNA. But this ccould be a HUGE discovery!

Izzy was practically shaking, loving the fact that her friend was so happy with what she had told her. she decided to go into more detail. "I was actually in Bridlewood when all of the commotion started. The only problem is that the statue is like SUPER cracked and they need to be careful bringing them up because if these really are from ancient equestria, they don't want to break them."

A thought quickly crossed Sunny's mind as she spoke nervously, "Izzy you said you were there, what did the statues look like?"

Izzy shrugged and said "I think it was a statue of like three different creatures. One was some sort of shriveled up looking creature. I think it was like half a pony, half a bull. another one looked like a unicorn, it had a horn and it had holes all throughout it's body. The strange thing is that the last one looked like a little Pegasus filly. and they all looked pretty scared."

Sunny's face went white. her normal orange color, beginning to drain into a dark tan color. she began to gallop back towards the lighthouse as fast as her legs could carry her. She screamed back "Thanks Izzy!" and then left her friend standing very confused on the beach.

Izzy stood confused on the beach. Her friend was acting really strange considering the really fun news she had just told her. and why did she look so scared? Sure the statue was a little creepy. It had almost scared Izzy when she saw them digging it up. Whatever it was, she did notice that it looked all cracked and broken.

This incident actually really worried Izzy. most ponies thought she was a careless and free spirit. the truth was that she was often very worried. she had care and emotions and worries but she put on a carefree disguise to hide it.

She began trotting back towards the lighthouse. Earlier today, she thought she would be walking with Sunny at her side. probably with her talking about ancient Equestrian things that Izzy pretended to be interested in for her friend's sake. She had learned some things from her friend that she found interesting. The things that interested her were mostly the strange actions usually surrounding a pink earth pony named Pinkie Pie.

This pony was somepony that Izzy would probably love to hang out with. she always seemed to do strange things. she somehow managed to make mountains move with just a megaphone and she turned her hoof into something she called "fingers." the thought of that made Izzy shudder.

She continued thoughts like this until her head bumped into something. she was already home and she hadn't even realized it. she opened the door with her magic, encasing it in a blue glow. once inside, she shut the door and began running towards the upstairs. before even realizing what was about to happen, she collided head first with somepony. she just didn't see who.

"woah Izzy you need to watch out!"

she recognized the voice of her best friend Hitch Trailblazer.

She finally looked up and noticed he had a hoof over his cheek. She thought it was a small little bump but then gasped when he remove the hoof.

"Oh no Hitch I'm so sorry! I really didn't mean to I'm so sorry" she exclaimed frantically realizing that she had scratched his cheek with her horn. it wasn't very deep but it was very long.

"Izzy it's really okay. I had to go through much worse pain when I fell off a tree. sprout had pushed me because he got mad at me and I almost broke my hoof."

Izzy was practically crying at this point. she dug down deep inside herself to try to find her happy disguise but couldn't seem to find anything. suddenly she felt hooves around her as Hitch pulled her into a tight embrace. she couldn't help but blush heavily. she hoped to God that it would be gone before Hitch saw.

"what's got you in such a rush Izzy?" Hitch asked letting go. he thought maybe he saw her blush but that was just is fantasies going out of control. he knew in his heart that a mare that nice was way out of his league.

Izzy was out of breath from crying but she managed to stammer out "S-s-sunny is acting weird. I n-need to check on her."

Hitch looked almost relieved. "Good thing you're here. she woke me and the pegasus sisters up because she was running around and throwing books all over the place. I told Zipp and Pipp to go flying around so that they wouldn't try to strangle her. you knwo how much they hate waking up early."

Izzy chuckled. the last time somepony woke Zipp up early, a big magic storm had almost been caused because of the argument that occurred.

Hitch continued "good luck with her though. she won't talk to anypony right now."

Izzy smiled and walked upstairs. "don't worry. I'm her best friend she has to listen to me. it's the best friend law."

Hitch called up after her, "I'm her best friend Izzy. Nice try!"

Sunny had been going through books for almost twenty minutes at this point. Her dad had left her a lot of old books about ancient Equestria and she had read all of them in her spare time. She knew the descriptions of that statue sounded very farmiliar and she knew she had seen it before, but she just couldn't put her hoof on it.

she had just tossed aside another book and began looking at a very charred old book called "Supernaturals." her dad said that this book had once belonged to Twilight Sparkle herself and was salvaged from the ruins of the Golden Oak Library! she then heard a set of hooves coming upstairs.

she yelled "Hitch I told you I'm busy" and turned around and was surprised to find herself face to face with Izzy.

"Surprise Sunny!" the unicorn exclaimed.

Sunny was overjoyed. she began talking frantically. "please help me. I know in one of these books, I've seen a picture of the statue you described. I just need to find which one."

Izzy nodded her head and went towards the bookshelf. Since Sunny was clearly scared, she figured this statue was something very bad, so she decided to start with a book entitled "Troublemakers of Ancient Equestria."

She then exclaimed, "I've found it!"
She then read the book out loud. "this statue depicts three of Ancient Equestria's biggest troublemakers. Tirek, Queen Chrysalis and Cozy Glow. each of these three did some very bad things on their own so they decided to team up and try to take over Equestria together. In the end, they were defeated by Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and the chaos lord, Discord. they werre turned into a statue and left to rest forever. while at this time the statue remains lost to time, people still fear the return of these three. after the return of Discord from the same kind of prison, some ponies believe the same thing could happen to these three."

Sunny's eyes widen as Izzy continued flipping through the book. she found another picture of a strange creature. the picture was titled "Discord the Lord of Chaos before his return." Izzy soon became very nervous. "wait a second she said. this statue is really cracked. just like the one from Bridlewood."

sunny's eyes can't get any wider at this point. "you don't think.." she started.

Izzy's eyes finally understand everything. "Come on Sunny! we need to get to Bridlewood and warn everypony before it's too late.

when they finally reach Bridlewood Forest, Izzy's heart drops. she sees police tape around the dig site and a lot of red stains on the equipment. she walks up but a police pony stops her.

"I'm sorry ma'am we are going to have to ask you to step back"

never once has Izzy ever abused her relationship with Sunny, but at this moment, everything went out the window. as she begins to speak in a demanding voice. "This is Sunny Starscout. She is the alicorn who brought back magic for everyone and she demands that we have a look."

the officer looks at the orange earth pony. everypony knows at this point that Sunny is not a full time alicorn but everypony knew who she was. he asks her "is this really the wish you have made known to your little messenger over here?"

Sunny is really surprised that Izzy would just use her fame like that but Sunny could tell that she had to see what had happened.

she nodded her head.

the police pony let them both through and Izzy gasped when they saw what laid on the ground in front of them.

somepony had written in blood "your turn" and right in the middle of the text was a pony lying on the ground.

there were entrails everywhere and the victim seemed to have multiple stab wounds. wounds that seemed to be made by a very jagged knife. Or something else...

they suddenly heard somepony yelling "Everypony the statue is gone."

Sunny looked over and sure enough, the statue was now a pile of debris. she looked back to the dead body in front of her and she too gasped. But not at the body. something troubled her even more than that.

what they saw that day was a dead body.

with two blank flanks...

(to be continued...)