"That Showmare's coming here again?" Shadow Skull asked Twilight; the two of them as well as the rest of the ham-hams and the main six were at Golden Oaks Library.

"Well yes. And I'd appreciate it considering what I told you about last time to not take this seriously this time." Twilight said.

"If you had just asked me about her to begin with; I would've told you it was all an act." Sparkle said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Applejack asked.

"How many times do I need to bring up the fact that I was a former actress?" Sparkle asked.

"She does seem to bring it up a lot sis." Apple Bloom said. "To be fair though, it has been a few days since she last had to bring it up."

"I just wish I wouldn't have to bring it up at all." Sparkle sighed. "Because you should remember that my background exists."

"I...have no defense to that." Applejack said.

Meanwhile, Harmony was mulling over something. "...Orphan, huh?" Harmony said simply to herself; no one hearing her.

Trixie soon arrived at Golden Oak's Library; a guest room prepared for her for her stay. "Trixie is only really staying for a few days. You didn't have to go all out in accommodating me." The showmare said.

"I didn't want to seem like a bad friend for not letting your stay be as comfortable as possible." Twilight said.

"You're really taking this friendship thing kind of far huh?" Trixie asked. "By the way, where are those hamsters?"

"Please don't do anything to them." Twilight said.

"I wasn't going to. I would at least like to talk to them." Trixie said.

Twilight noticed Trixie's switch to first person, meaning this was the showmare being serious. "Well, I'll see if they might be willing to chat with you." Twilight said.

"I can chat with her first though." Harmony was suddenly right there in the air.

"...Wait, those aren't part of a costume?" Trixie asked.

"Why does everyone think that?" Harmony asked.

"Well, if Harmony wants to talk with you, then you might be in extreme luck with the others." Twilight said and then left.

That left Trixie alone with the Angel Hamster. "So, um...I'm no good at trying to--" Trixie was saying.

"Heard about you being an orphan. Can relate a little to that." Harmony said before flying near Trixie and landing the nearby nightstand in the guest room.

"What do you mean you can relate to me being an orphan?" Trixie asked.

"As you can probably guess, I'm no ordinary hamster. I'm an Angel Hamster. That makes me immortal. Before I became an Angel Hamster though, I only ever knew my mother. And after she died, I was pratically an orphan from there because I never really knew my father until more recently." Harmony said.

"Wait, why wasn't your father with your mother raising you?" Trixie asked.

"When I asked the one who made me an Angel Hamster, he said that he left my mother when she became pregnant with me. I thought that he had done so because he didn't want a child at all." Harmony said. "But...turns out that's not really the case."

"So, what really happened then? Did your father say that he wasn't sure he could be a good father to you?" Trixie asked.

"Actually, it's so I wouldn't be pressured into becoming no different than him." Harmony said.

"What?" Trixie was a bit confused now. That's when Shadow Skull suddenly appeared in a puff of smoke designed like skulls.

The black hamster looked at Trixie for a bit while holding out his staff. "...Interesting..." Shadow Skull said. "Yeah, very glad I absorbed that amulet now. That would've been very, very bad had it gotten a hold of this one." He said.

"...Wait, how bad would it have been?" Harmony asked.

"Bad enough to cause irreparable damage to her psyche." Shadow Skull said.

"...That bad huh?" Harmony asked.

"I don't remember seeing you..." Trixie said.

"I was using a persona at the time, but I doubt you even saw that. I was disguising myself as a constantly asleep hamster." Shadow Skull said.

"Trixie remembers seeing a hamster asleep in a blanket at one point..." Trixie said.

"Ah. Yeah that was me in disguise." Shadow Skull said.

"Now why would you do that?" Trixie asked.

"I was gauging Hamtaro and his friends; mostly Hamtaro though." Shadow Skull said.

"Since your here...Trixie, meet my father, Shadow Skull." Harmony said.

"Oh, were you talking about that? I'll leave you to it then." Shadow Skull said.

"Wait, how are you still alive?" Trixie asked.

"Ask my daughter." Shadow Skull then vanished into a puff of smoke designed with a skull motif.

Trixie looked at Harmony. "He became immortal through the use of Dark Magic. It's why he left my mother because he didn't want me to feel pressured to study the arts of Dark Magic like he did." The Angel hamster said.

"I don't understand, what is it about Dark Magic that he wanted to make sure you avoided it at all costs?" Trixie asked.

"Because from what he told me, he had to do something super mega bad. At least, that's the nice way of saying it." Harmony said.

"You mean like, possibly sacrificing a whole bunch of lives?" Trixie asked.

"Actually that's exactly it." Harmony stated.

"Ooof. That's rough." Trixie said.

"Yeah. But, after learning that that was the reason that my father decided to leave my mother, made me realize he was looking out for me and didn't want me to end up like him." Harmony said. "He's honestly very proud that I chose to become an Angel Hamster."

"So, until you rekindled with him, you basically had no father huh?" Trixie asked.

"Something like that." Harmony said. "But, part of me believes your parents won't be so easily be forgivable."

"That is a sad fact of life huh?" Trixie asked.

"Some advice: Don't try and search for them. Become your own individual." Harmony said.

"...Solid advice..." Trixie said.

Author's Note

That does it for today's upload. What's more, provided everything goes smoothly, next week will be the finale to season 3 with the two part "Magical Mystery Cure" being next Monday's update.

We're nearing the end of Season 3 folks. See you on Friday~