Talking, yelling, shouting, crying, mumbling, cursing...

That's everything Twilight hears before she can open her eyes.

Is she alive?

That sounded like Pinkamena.

I don't know, but whatever we do, don't upset the monster.

That voice had to Applejack's.

There were many voices around her that she did not recognize. Twilight was awake but then again maybe she was asleep. Her eyes would not open. Where was she? What were all these people doing around her? What monster was Applejack talking about?

Slowly, she felt the hazy feeling of heaviness lift up from her eyelids and she opened them. The people around her gasped as she blinked and rubbed her eyes. Twilight slowly sat up. She felt exhausted and soaking wet, yet she was warm. When her vision cleared she saw her friends standing away from her a distance and the random people she heard.

It was dark outside and it seemed the whole town was there crowded around her. She turned her head stiffly toward the water. The Equine River...

Then she remembered.

"Where's Sunset?" Twilight asked her friends hoarsely. Her throat felt gritty with salt.

"Don't...move..." Rainbow Dash hissed.

She pointed a finger at Twilight's legs.

Twilight felt something slither across her lap and looked down. Bright yellow scales on a serpent-like creature were moving across her. The people there screamed and Twilight's friends shrieked her name. But Twilight wasn't afraid. She felt the creature unwrap itself from around her and it uncoiled before her.

It was magnificent. A beautiful monster with wings folded at its side. With a yellow body and wild mane of red and yellow, it shined in the moonlight. It had a gentle face, all except for the long scar trailing over its left eye. Lovely green eyes peered back at Twilight and she smiled.

This was no enemy.

"Sunset..." she whispered.

Twilight stretched her arms out for. The Siren moved forward and placed it's muzzle in her hands. Twilight pressed her nose against the creature's nose and closed her eyes. A sudden beam of light shot up from the Siren and everyone flinched. The massive claws became small arms, the long body shrank to that of a short waist, and the tail became legs. The large muzzle of the Siren transformed into the soft featured face of Sunset Shimmer.

Her hoodie, shirt and jeans reappeared, but in the same state they had been before. The back of her sweater was ripped and she was soaked all over.

Now holding Sunset's face close to hers, Twilight opened her eyes and was greeted by a smiling girl. Full of happiness and overwhelming love, Twilight leaned forward and kissed her. Everything around them disintegrated in their minds as they felt the warm sensation of emotion travel through them.

The people there were shocked and most of all, the Main 5, Brian Flash Sentry, and Celestia, who stood off to the side watching. Sunset took Twilight's hands into her own as she felt her heart beat with pure love. Twilight was hers. She was hers now.

Twilight broke away from the small kiss and hugged her. Sunset had saved her and she knew it.

And she loved her for it.

This...This was not how things were supposed to turn out.

Celestia stood beside a tree as she watched her daughter and Twilight kiss. How did this happen? Nothing was making any sense. Why was Twilight so determined to come here as to defy her and disappear? How did Sunset become a Siren? All the shards of their necklaces were gathered and collected. They lay in the artifact chamber back in Equestria, next to the case that held the vial of dark magic.

How could there have been a shard left?

Celestia bit her lip. She had sent Sunset Shimmer here to get away from all the magic so she could be safe and live a life without it. It seems that despite her efforts, magic has come to her daughter another way.

Damn it.

She shouldn't have erased the Equestrian gene in Sunset. But if she didn't, Sunset would still have had magic when she got here. But now because she had no magic in her at all, when she grabbed the red shard, her body instantly took its power. Sunset Shimmer was now a Siren, one of the worst creatures to exist.

This was not good.

Celestia sighed. There had to be a way she could get rid of the shard...What did Twilight say about the Sirens that were there before? That they wore necklaces? If Celestia could destroy the necklace--

Wait.

Sunset wore none.

This wasn't good. Breaking the necklace was the only solution she knew to ridding a Siren's powers. It had been so long ago that Starswirl the Bearded had banished the previous Sirens that she couldn't remember if there was anything he said that could break the spell.

Celestia frowned.

She had no choice but to find a way somehow.

The ruler of Equestria stepped away from the tree and walked down toward the crowd. She pushed people aside to get to the front. When they were in view, she called their names.

"Twilight, Sunset."

The two girls turned to see the tall woman standing before them.

"Principal Celestia?" Sunset mumbled.

She shook her head.

"No, Sunset. It's me, your mother," she said gently.

The girl's eyes grew wide and she stood up. "Is it really? Princess Celestia..?"

Celestia embraced Sunset and sighed. "It's me."

Twilight watched with rigid fear. Oh no. It was princess Celestia! How did she get here? A month hadn't even passed for the portal to open. But wait...Sunset set off the universe's balance when she changed into a Siren. When that happened, the mirror probably opened and...

Either way, it didn't work to her advantage.

Twilight was afraid of what Celestia would say. She could be dethroned, or banned from Canterlot, or even worse, have her Equestrian gene taken away as well. The girl trembled as she watched Sunset and Celestia hug.

Twilight turned away.

No, this is a dream.

A terrible dream...

When she turned her head back, Celestia was looking dead at her.

Author's Notes:

Hello! Part two of my Sunlight series has been released as promised. I hope you liked this first chapter.