Once upon a time, in the magical lands of Equestria there was a family of four alicorns and among them there were two sisters who ruled together with their parents and created harmony for all the land. This is the land of unicorns, Pegasus, earth ponies, and alicorns. To do this the eldest her used unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn while the younger brought out the moon to begin the night. Thus, the two sisters maintain balance their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But there was an ancient evil that wanted to rule Equestria for himself. An evil creature named, Zarozard. Zarozard tried to take over Equestria but the sisters stopped at every turn. But as time went on, the younger sister become resentful. The Ponies would relish and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, but shunned and slept through her beautiful night. One faithful day Zarozard saw this as the perfect opportunity and convinced the younger alicorn to join his side where the alicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her but the bitterness in the young ones heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon. Together, she and Zarozard vowed they would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently on the moon and Zarozard was killed when there castle collapsed. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon and harmony has been maintained in equestria for generations scene.

This story was being read by a young mare named twilight sparkle. She was a young unicorn with a light purple coat, a dark blue and moderate purple mane and tail that was in a pig tail and were bushy and sported a pink and yellow skunk-like stripe in the middle. Her eyes were a darker pinkish color just like her pink stripe and her cutie mark was a pink colored seven star. Surrounding that said star was a series of six small stars colored silver and all seven were increased in a silver crescent moon. Her horn and hooves were white and she wore a red heart shaped locket.

“Hmm… Elements of harmony,” she pondered. Those three simple words
began stirring up vague memories for her.” I know I’ve heard of those before… but where?”

Twilight was a bookish mare who often read in her spare time. She’d read all manner of things from mythology to history, science ti math, English to astrology, and even the odd Breezies tale (The Equestria version of fairy tales) from time to time. As one can very well imagine, such a wealth of literacy subjects molded twilight into a complete genius.she goes to the high school of Canterlot.

Her curiosity shifting into overdrive, Twilight decided to head to her room. Her hooves pounded the ground as her mind whirred.

“ I know I’ve heard of the elements of harmony,” she mused herself. Suddenly, she saw a trio of alicorns. A white one with a pink mane and tail, a yellow one with a blue mane and tail, and a blue one with a white and blue mane and tail.

“There you are Twilight. We’ve been looking all over for you,” said the white one. They were Twilights classmates.

“ Moon dancers having a little get-together in the west castle courtyard. You wanna come? You can bring Flash and Spike along. At that last sentence, Twilight became hesitant and began looking for an excuse. A quick look at her saddlebag gave her a convenient one to use.

“Oh, sorry, girls,” sighed Twilight. “I’ve got lots of studying to check up on. I’ll need spike and flash help on it.” With an awkward smile, Twilight rushed past the three alicorns.

“Doesn’t that pony do anything except studying?” Said the blue one.

“I think she’s more interested in books than friends, Minuette,” replied the yellow one.

“It’s been so long since we’ve seen Spike.I miss seeing him,” added the white one.

“Yeah and Flash to…That guy is hot.” Replied the yellow one.

Meanwhile, Twilight ran into a larger unicorn stallion with a white coat and a blue mane and tail. This was Twilight’s older brother, Shining armor. “Woah, twily! Where’s the fire?” He joked. He was joined by his girlfriend Cadence. Twilight’s old foalsitter. She was a pink alicorn with a big yellow stripe in her mane and tail.

“Hi,bbbff , hi Cadence” Twilight hugged them tightly. Shining armor returned the hug.

“Moon dancer is having a get-together in the west castle courtyard. You coming?” the alicorn asked.

Twilight felt a bit upset. “ I want to, but, I’m worried about bringing Spike with me,” she said.”what if someone judges me for having adopted him? What if he gets judged himself? I just don’t know if he can take that kind of rejection.

“Twilight, you know that Moondancer wouldn’t invite invite ponies like that. And if she DOSE they’ll have to deal with me,” declared the older stallion as he cracked he’s hooves.

Twilight chuckled. “Know one messes with the captain of the royal gaurd.” She sighed” All the same, I still feel scared.”

“Twilight,” said Cadence sternly. “ How long have you been raising Spike?”

“Uh, about 10 years or so,” Twilight calculated.

“ And do you still love him like family after all this time?” Shining questioned.

“Of course I do,” said Twilight. “I was tasked by Princess Celestia. I admit, I did it out of obligation at first, but, After all this time I’ve become attached to him.”

“ Then, that’s what’s important, twilight,” Cadence asserted. “Yeah, It doesn’t matter what others think. Don’t let them stop you from loving him like family.” Said Shining armor.

Twilight smiled at her brother and foalsitter’s advice. “Thank you, guys, I’ll go see Spike.” She left and Cadence looked at Shining and whispered, “ Now we can continue our date.” As she kissed him on the cheek, and they went their way.

Twilight went through Canterlot training grounds as she went to get her best friend, Flash sentry.

As she got there, she saw to ponies in the middle who stood opposite of each other. One was an alicorn while the other was an earth pony.They were fitted in heavily padded gear around there bodies, with large shining helmets on their heads and each carried a wooden sword in their mouths. They were waiting for the signal.

Finally, the horn blow and they shot at each other like bullets. There swords colliding in a clash, as the pushed each other it resulted in a standstill. Several seconds later, the alicorn used his wings to make wind and shot at the earth pony, making him lose his balance and falter backwards. With the opportunity, the Pegasus shot forward, and with one swipe of his sword, and struck his opponent down. The opponent’s sword went flying away from the blow, as the earth pony found himself on his back, and with the Pegasus’s sword near his neck.

“Well… I taught you to well.” Chuckled the earth pony, as the sword was removed from his neck. The two then took off their helmets, revealing themselves as Flash and his mentor, Golden Glow. Golden glow was a large stallion with silver and golden color all over his body, his cutie mark is a black Shield with a white shield inside it.

Flash was an orange/goldfish coat and a blue tail and mane, his horn was a light blue horn, hooves, and under belly. His cutie mark was a dark goldish and light blue shield with lightning bolts around it. Basically, Flash has mastered every weapon in the castle armory, and also some weapon less fighting styles. Even Celestia was impressed by him.

“ I think you finally surpassed me kid.” said Golden Glow. As they put their gear away. Twilight was also impressed and walked down to meet her friend. They hugged and greeted each other.” That really was some sword play Flash.” said Twilight, making Flash blush a little from the comment. “ Oh, don’t say that!” he said as they talked.

Twilight and Flash had been friends for years. Twilight was the only other thing that Flash would spend his time on. If he wasn’t training or patrolling, he would spend his time with her. He usually found himself helping her with her studies or just hanging out or having fun. They spent so much time together that ponies in Canterlot often mistook them as a couple.

“So…” Golden glow said as they left the training ground. “You two going to your friends party?”

Before Flash could say Twilight beat him to it, “ Unfortunately, I need Flash for something important right now. So I’m afraid we’ll have to miss it.” Said Twilight. This gave a questionable look as Golden signed. “It’s too bad. I would have liked to see Spike again. “ This made Twilights heartache again. She quickly thought of something to change the subject.

“Well, maybe during the summer sun celebration I can take him to some of the parties.” Flash said before Twilight could.

“That’s good! Tell him I said “Hi”, ok.” Said as he left the two, going into the castle.

“We will!” Flash shouted. “So… what is it you want to show me?” He asked Twilight as they walked back to her tower.

“I’m not sure yet, but please come with me!” As she said this they ran to a large tower. As twilight had got older, Princess Celestia increased her study load. It went to the point that she even allowed Twilight her own high tower. The place was off limits to all except a select few so Twilight can focus on her studies in peace. It was far away from the training ground so as to not cause distracting noise and high enough that no one without actual cause would go up there. Twilight would often fall asleep in her loft, too tired from studies to go home. There were times that Flash would have to drag her out between books just so she could get some sun and see her family.

Author's Note

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