A Twilight once lost

by Some Random Fella

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Nightmare Moon, Romance, Princess Cadance, Daybreaker, Twilight Sparkle
Length: 2141

Twilight returns to a rather different Equestria

Twilight Sparkle had met her demise attempting to defeat Nightmare Moon.

Ten years later, she comes back, but to a very different Equestria.

As it turned out, her death had impacted the princess's more than she thought.

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Note:

Could you guess this story was inspired by a student once lost?

Two things to note, Twilight will be a fully grown alicorn in this story, and this story will be a twilight, day breaker and heartbreaker romance.

This will be my second story, and my first romance ever. So, go easy on me? (Optional)

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Published 2024-06-20 07:50:00 UTC
Last updated 2024-06-21 07:26:00 UTC

Prologue

"You didn't protect Twilight!!"

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"It wasn't supposed to go like this"

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"Auntie, what happened?!"

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"If only i was faster"

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"Foolish mare! You really thought you could defeat me!?"

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"If only I was stronger"

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"Auntie, what happened to Twilight?!"

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"If only I had listened"

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"It isn't fair"

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"It isn't fair!"

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"Such a shame, you were destined for great things, pony"

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"I cannot do much now, but I will give you the second chance you deserve"

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"Wake up"

"Ah!"

Twilight jolted awake from whatever dream that was supposed to be.

"W- what? Where am I?" She asked herself as she looked around her.

"The, Castle of the two sisters?"

...

Almost like a bag of bricks that had just been thrown at her, the events of the entire day had came rushing back into twilights mind.

"Nightmare Moon!!" Twilight screamed as she hurriedly tried to get up.

"What happened?! Did the elements work? Did-... Wait, where is everypony?"

Now that twilight was better accustoming to conciesness, she noticed that the castle was actually empty, and that it was daytime.

"Oh, so, that means we won, right?" Twilight said to herself as she stood at her full height.

Was it just her, or was she taller?

"Huh?" Twilight muttered as she looked down at herself.

...

"Ah!"

She was bigger, like really big, hay, she was practically princess Celestias size!

"What!?" She screamed as she raised her two front hooves to her muzzle and poked herself on the nose.

"Hm, I can feel that, so, this is real?"

...

It took a moment for twilight to realize that she had lifted both of her front hooves, and hadn't fallen to the ground.

"Wait, what?" She asked herself as she looked behind her.

A pair of large lavender wings that were currently keeping her aloft were what she saw.

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"Ahh!!" She screamed, wich made the wings fold back into her side, making her fall face first onto the ground.

"OOF!"

"Ugh" twilight mumbled as she stood back up and looked behind her once more.

"So, wings? That's. Definitely.. New..." She slowly said, trying to process what this could mean.

She raised one of her hooves to her forehead.

Yep, her horn was still there, and, oh, it was longer too.

...

She was an alicorn now.

"Heh... Heh..."

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"Ok twilight, don't panic, there's gotta be a reasonable explanation for this" she started to rant.

"Maybe, maybe the elements had something to do with this?"

"It is the only possible answer, I mean, what else could have make this happen?"

"But, how? The book never mentioned any possible side affects of weilding the elements, much less something like this!"

"Was it because I wielded magic? Was it because I was a powerful unicorn? Was it because -"

'Bonk

Twilight looked forward, and noticed that she had walked into a wall.

She looked at herself again.

Still an alicorn.

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"You know what? I think I'm just going to freak out now"

After a couple of minutes of pacing and racking her head for an explanation, or, hours, twilight really couldn't tell at this point, she looked outside one of the smashed windows again, and saw that it was still day.

In fact, it almost looked like the time of day hadn't changed at all.

"Well, no use in staying here, if some pony knows what happened to me, it will be the princess" Twilight said to herself as she started making her way towards the decrepit castles entrance.

She would make her way back to ponyville, head to the library, and have spike send a letter.

"That's assuming he's actually there"

That statement made twilight think back to one of her earlier questions.

Where was everypony?

If her friends had woken up from their blackout before her, wouldn't they have taken her with them back to ponyville?

Why did they leave her here?

She was still new to this whole friendship thing, but she was pretty sure that's something friends usually don't do.

...

'sigh

"I guess I'll just have to find out at a later time" twilight said to herself as she walked through the everfree forest.

"You know, it's actually not that bad out here during the day"

It was true, during the day, the everfree forest looked rather normal.

At least the area she was in right now.

After some walking, twilight had made it back to the outskirts of ponyville.

She looked up at the sky, and to her growing confusion, the sun had not moved an inch during her entire walk.

On top of that, the sun felt weirdly hotter than usual.

"And now there's something going on with the sun?"

Great.

"Just get to the princess twilight, she'll be able to clear all of this up" she said as she started walking towards ponyville.

During this walk, twilight began to think of other things her being an alicorn could mean.

Technically, she was a princess of Equestria now wasn't she?

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Would princess Celestia and Cadence consider her a threat to the throne?

maybe...

She hadn't actually thought of that.

"No, they wouldn't, right?"

I mean, they could.

and if they did, they would probably banish her!

Would they banish her to the moon, like, nightmare moon? She was trying to take the throne too, so, will that be her punishment?! One thousand years on the moon?!.

"It's fine! I'll just tell them I don't want to be princess! Then they won't banish me!" Twilight told herself, trying to be reassuring.

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It wasn't really working.

"No, no, it's fine, the princess knows me, she knows I wouldn't do something like that, and, if I ever did, it would have probably not been on purpose!"

Twilight noticed that she was passing a cottage.

Wasn't that where one of her friends lived? Which one was it again? Fluttershy?

Maybe she should visit later, after she talked with the princess of course.

"Hopefully she can tell me what's going on" Twilight said to herself as she walked further into ponyville.

Author's Note

Short prologue to my new story. Let's see how it goes. :twilightoops:

Chapter 1

Twilight couldn't really place it, but she felt something was off.

Maybe it was the fact that ponyville was substantially different than how it was yesterday?

Yeah, that was probably it.

Sure, it still looked somewhat the same, but there were definitely more homes and buildings.

"When did they build them? They couldn't have possibly done all of this in one night right?" She asked herself as she walked down one of the towns paths.

Stranger still, even though the town seemed to be larger, there was practically no pony in sight.

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"Hello?" Twilight called out as she continued walking.

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No answer.

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"Don't panic twilight, the princess will know what's going on" she said to herself as she picked up her pace.

After getting lost a couple of times trying to navigate ponyvilles new paths, twilight eventually reached the library.

"Hopefully spikes awake" she said as she made her way to the door.

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Upon reaching said door, twilight attempted to use her magic to open it and walk inside.

'thunk

"oof"

Only to find it locked, and bumping into the door.

What was it with her and walking into walls today?

"Locked? But, it should be open right now" twilight said as she raised one of her hooves and knocked on the door.

'knock knock knock.

"Spike! Are you there?! Spiiike!!"

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She was about to knock again, but a voice coming from the library cut her off.

"Argh! Who is it?! Some pony's are trying to sleep you know!"

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That wasn't spike.

"Um, hi? I'm twilight sparkle, I uh, I was sort of staying here for a few nights, I'm just looking for a friend"

"Can this not wait? Do you know what time it is?"

"...Noon?"

"Har har, listen, is spike your friend? Well, I'm just gonna tell you right now that no pony by that name lives here, so if you could please leave? I'm trying to sleep"

"Oh, ok then" Twilight said as she started to turn around.

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"Wait, sleep? Shouldn't the library be open? It's noon isn't it?" She asked, to Wich the pony inside of the library, who twilight assumed was a mare, groaned.

"Did you forget or something? Library isn't open during after day hours"

After day hours?

"Uh, alright, I guess I'll be going then"

"Yeah, you do that" The mare said as twilight began walking farther away from the library.

Twilight looked up at the sky from the bench she was sitting in.

She didn't know how long she had sat there, but one thing was for sure.

The sun was not moving.

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'sigh

The day had just been getting stranger and stranger, and now, spike wasn't in the library?

Was he even in ponyville?

Is he ok? Did something happen to him? Why wasn't he at the library? Where is he? Who was that mare at the library? What-

"An alicorn?"

Twilight's thoughts are interrupted by the sound of a voice, multiple voices actually.

"Why is there an alicorn here?" One mare asked.

"Hay if I know, should we bow?" Another stallion replied.

"I think we should" Added another stallion.

"I don't recognize this alicorn, do you think the queen or the princess know of her?"

...Queen?

"Why are you whispering?" Twilight asked nonchalantly, making everypony in her vicinity tense up.

"She heard us?" Whispered a mare, as she and everypony else dropped to the ground into a bow.

"W- we didn't mean to your highness! W- we swear!"

"Oh, uh, no, you don't need to do that, I'm not royalty" twilight said as she got up from the bench.

"B-but your an alicorn" Said the mare, not moving from her bowed position.

"Well, yeah, but still, you don't need to do that with me, you can get up"

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"Ok" The mare said after a moment as she and everypony else started getting up.

"If you don't mind me asking, who are you?" Asked the mare.

"I'm twilight sparkle, I don't know if you recognize me, since I do look different, but I was sent here yesterday to oversee the summer sun celebration"

"Yesterday? Summer sun celebration?"

"Yes"

"Your highness, there hasn't been any summer sun celebrations in some time"

"What? But, ugh, yet another thing to add to the list of oddities" Twilight said as she looked around her.

"You can all go about your day! Just, pretend I'm not here!" She said as she looked down at the mare again.

"Hey, before you go, do you mind if I ask you some quick questions?"

"N- not at all your highness!"

'sigh

"Ok, we can talk here" twilight said as she sat back down at the bench.

"So, what do you want to know?"

"I heard some pony mention a queen, what's that all about?"

The mare looks around her, seemingly reluctant to reply.

"W- well, they were referring to queen Day breaker"

"Daybreaker? What happened to celestia?"

"What do you mean? Daybreaker is celestia, or, at least she was"

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"What? A-and what about the princess they mentioned? Who is she?"

"The princess? They were referring to princess Heartbreaker"

"Heartbreaker? What can you tell me about her?"

"Not much, other than that I'm pretty sure she used to be princess cadence"

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"Thank you for your time, you can go" Twilight said, to wich the mare hopped of from the bench.

"I'm glad to be of service your highness" The mare says as she quickly bows, then starts heading towards a random direction.

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Well, she was able to ask some information, but now twilight was left with more questions than answers.

There hasn't been any summer sun celebrations? So, was she in some type of coma or something? For how long? And if she was in a coma? Why the hay was she still at the abandoned castle when she woke up?!

And, why wouldn't there be any celebrations? They were able to defeat Nightmare Moon right?

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"Nothing is making sense..." Twilight said to herself as she got up from the bench and started walking aimlessly.

And what about daybreaker? Or heartbreaker? What were they about?

Apparently, they're princess Celestia and Cadence, or they were? Argh! Why is all of this so confusing?!

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"I need to figure out what's going on" Twilight said as she changed her direction to where she remembered seeing a train station.

She needed to get to Canterlot, surely, once she found celestia, or, daybreaker in this case, all of her questions would be answered.