It's a beautiful Winter day in Ponyville, and Celestia tasks her faithful student with gathering some rare winter herbs. During the quest, Twilight ends up making a wish on a shooting star for the next day to be more interesting. That night, she is visited in her dreams by a shape-shifting creature, and the next day meets a stallion in the Everfree Forest who has lost his memory. As Twilight grows closer to this pony, a dark past unfolds and threatens Ponyville, but is it somehow related to him?