Queen Twilight Sparkle rushed through the halls, passing some of her pony friends who smiled as they saw their Alicorn friend go swiftly by.

"Oh!" Twilight said in worry. "Where could Star Shadow possibly be? Sombra hasn't seen her either! Come on, think Twilight think!"

The Queen thought about where the young Unicorn could possibly be, and then it hit her. Twilight quickly trotted down the hall and opened the door to the library. And just and she had predicted, there was Star Shadow, sitting next to Sombra looking through a familiar book.

"There you are Star Shadow! I have been looking all over for you!" She huffed. Then she turned to Sombra, "And you! Why didnt you tell me you knew where she was!"

King Sombra smiled warmly. "Oh Twilight dearest, you really must lighten up! Star Shadow was having a little 'Daddy' time. Weren't you sweetheart?" He said to the little filly standing next to him.

"Yes Daddy." Star Shadow said.

She was the daughter of King Sombra and Queen Twilight, it didn't need a genius to figure that out. She had the darkest purple coat you could ever imagine, with a wavy violet mane and thin black stripes. Her sweet purple eyes gleamed just like her mothers. She loved to read and perform magic like her mother, but she also liked specific types of Dark Magic like her father. It wasn't really Dark Magic, it was just ancient spells that needed ancient relics and power to use. At a young age, the filly had been a bit of trouble for the two royals to handle, but as she grew older her magic became more developed and she quickly became very smart. By the age of eight she was almost as smart and as powerful as a fully grown Unicorn. Indeed she was very special.

"Well, I suppose that's fine. But why were you showing her this?" Twilight asked pointing to the book Sombra had gotten her as a wedding gift.

"Our little Princess can't know a little history about how I met the most beautiful mare in the world?" Sombra replied.

Twilight blushed. "Your too sweet.."

Sombra leaned towards her and gave her a gentle kiss. "And your too beautiful.."

Star Shadow sighed. "Aww.." She cooed.

Twilight smiled and whispered under her breath, "Your not the only one who once thought that..."

"Ah ha!" Came the shout of a familiar Draconequus.

He jumped out of a small pile of bushes and looked around. Nopony was there, he glanced towards a small stream and noticed some oddly colored rocks. One of them was slightly pointed and was a dark blue color. He smirked and slithered towards the little trail of water. He ran his talons over the rocks and when he reached the dark blue one he pulled it out of the water, revealing it to be a horn belonging to a dark blue Alicorn.

"Found you!" Discord said as he beamed with pride.

"What, not realistic enough?" The Alicorn said as she squeezed out the water in her ethereal mane.

"No, but stones usually aren't so tall and pointed."

"Ugh, curse the length of this horn." She said while squeezing the water out of her ethereal mane.

"Better luck next time Moonlight darling!" Discord responded. "Now, have you seen her anywhere?"

"No, but remember she did master that camouflage spell you taught her last week." Moonlight said while shaking herself to get the water off causing her mane to frizz and her coat to become poofy and fluffy. "Ah! I love it when my hair and coat are like this!"

"Oh yes, they certainly go well with the cotton candy clouds!" Discord said as he burst into laughter.  

Moonlight pushed him to the ground gently as his body flailed on the soft grass as he laughed.

"Oh! I'm killing myself!" Discord laughed. "You're too much fun!"

The Alicorn rolled her eyes as she smiled.

"Disarray! Disarray sweetie you won! Where are you?" Moonlight called.

Suddenly a creature popped out of nowhere and tackled the pony. "Did I really win! Did I? Did I?"

"Yes," Moonlight said. "You did." Slowly she got off the ground.

"Why is Daddy laughing like that?" She said pointing to Discord who was still laughing madly.

"Oh because Daddy's silly, and he likes to play by his own rules."

"Mom? What happened to your mane? And your coat, it's so..."

But Moonlight put her hoof over her mouth. "Don't make it worse......"

Discord just barely stopped laughing and put his claw over his chest. "Don't make me laugh that hard again!"

"You make it sound like that's an option." Moonlight Chaos responded as she helped him get off the ground. "Looks like Midnight won again..."

Midnight Chaos, or Disarray as Discord had nicknamed her, was the daughter of Moonlight Chaos and Discord. She was born a Draconequus like Discord which made Moonlight almost cry tears of joy. While she had Discord's body shape, she took Moonlights color scheme. Disarray had the hind legs of a dragon and the front legs of a pony. She was able to stand on her hind legs but she usually remained on all fours she had a long snake tail like Discord but it was a pale lavender color with a deep white tuff of fur at the end. Her slender body was the same color as Moonlights and she had two wings on her back, a bat wing, like Discord and and Alicorn wing that matched her body color. Her face and neck were a pale sky blue similar to Discord's goat antler. Her mane was in many curls and long waves, she took Discord's black hair with a few dark blue stripes from Moonlight. On top of her head was an Alicorn horn, it was tall for someone of her age but Moonlight and Discord had the same thing happen to them..

Discord slowly got off the ground and sighed. "That was too funny......."

"And I thought I had problems....." Moonlight mumbled under her breath.

"Oh trust me, you do, A LOT of them too." Discord replied with a smirk.

"I do, huh?" Moonlight Chaos asked. "Then I suppose you wouldn't want to be sleeping in the same room as me since I'm so 'troubled'. You can sleep with Disarray tonight. You wouldn't want me to disturb you ALL NIGHT LONG."

And with that she quickly walked off.

"Wait," Discord said. "Your joking right?"

"Perhaps, you'll have to see if the doors are locked tonight..." Moonlight said with a devious grin. "Chaos King....."

Discord turned to his daughter with a nervous look. "She IS joking right?"

Disarray shrugged. "Maybe...."

Discord laughed nervously. "Right, of course she's joking. Moonlight would never do something like that. She knows I make the rules around here..."

"But Daddy," Disarray interrupted. "You said we don't live by rules."

"Oh shush Midnight Chaos. Now if you'll excuse me I have to spy on your mother."

And with that the Lord of Chaos vanished from sight. Then he quickly reappeared.

"Oh, you won't tell her about the whole 'spying' thing right?"

"I promise Daddy." Disarray said with a smile.

"I knew I could trust you!" Discord replied as he once again vanished.

Star Shadow went outside to play with her friends, after reading with her mother she wanted to play. The entire kingdom was filled with young fillies and colts to play with. Right now she was playing hoof ball with her filly friends in the fields. Thriller, Misty, and Passion were there too.

"Come on Sweet Cream!" Thriller called to a purple filly with a pink and white mane. "Over here!"

Sweet Cream kicked the ball with her hoof towards Thriller. At last, the ball was hers! She glanced towards Star Shadow and motioned towards her.

"Star Shadow! Get the goal!" Sweet Cream called.

The little filly stole the ball and raced towards the goal and kicked it into the net. Star Shadow smiled as all her friends cheered her on.

"Nice shot Star Shadow!" Misty cheered.

"You did it!" A filly named Snowy yelled.

All the fillies turned towards the colts they had played against. "Nice try boys!" They playfully teased.

"We'll get you next time!" A colt named Speeding Dust shouted back. "But great game!"

"Yeah," Passion added. "Star Shadow your so good at everything! I guess it must come easy to you being a princess and all."

"I suppose..." Star Shadow said.

Just then the large clock tower in the center of the kingdom began to chime. It was noon and the sun was high in the sky.

"Oh, Mom's gonna want us home for lunch!" Thriller said. "Bye guys, see you later!"

"Come on Thriller!" Passion turned to her sister. "I race you home!"

"Don't forget about me!" Misty called.The triplets raced off towards home.

"Hey Star Shadow," Sweet Cream turned to her friend. "After lunch do you want to come to my house? My family is going to be making treats and we're going to play games. Besides Mom and Dad still miss from the last time you came over."

"Sure Sweet Cream, thanks for the invitation!" Star Shadow said with happiness in her voice.

Meanwhile Speeding Dust turned towards the colts. "Come on guys, we better go. We can get the girls tomorrow!"

All the colts nodded in agreement as the walked off together as one group. A few of the fillies joined them to see their brothers or friends.

Star Shadow couldn't believe how her parents kept such great harmony in the Sun Kingdom. Her friends got along together too. The young Princess smiled and turned around to see her Daddy waiting for her. She ran towards him and the two began their walk back to the castle.

"Did you have a nice game?" Sombra asked.

"Oh yes Daddy it was so much fun!" Star Shadow replied. "I love playing with my friends!"

"Well, that's nice, and you can always play after you eat. Lets get home... I'm sure your mother has lunch made already. She'll want to here about the game."

"Okay Daddy." Star Shadow said. She loved living with friends and family that loved her just as much as she loved them. "Oh by the way, Sweet Cream was wondering if I could visit after lunch, may I?"

"It's alright with me, I'll tell your mother where your going. Alright?" Sombra answered.

"Thank you Daddy!" Star Shadow replied as she hugged her Daddy.

As they were walking home she turned to look back and glared at the Everfree Forest, and she could have swore she saw pairs of eyes staring at her. But the creatures never came out of the forest unless something more dangerous was after them. But that hadn't happened since.... the Chaos King.....

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