"Happy New Year!" You happily shout as your friends cheered all around you, you happily cheered as the new year had just open.

You couldn't very well spent Hearths Warming with your family, but you spent your New Years with your friends and family. Your family the ones who raised you from a small baby to the kid who uses floral magic like it was dropping water from a cup.

"You aren't mad that I couldn't spend Hearths Warming with you right Rares?" You asked your sister as she shook her head.

"No! Mommy and daddy told me that the blizzard would've hurt you if you even tried moving in it. I'm happy that you're here now though, we'll have a few more days of fun before you have to leave." She mentions with a giggle.

"We'll do anything you like kiddo." She smiled and nodded before snapping her fingers.

"Can you read me a bedtime story, oh and can you make me breakfast like you use to?" Smiling you nodded and kissed her forehead.

"Anything for you kiddo." You mention with a slight chuckle as you continued the festivities with your little sister, Rarity might have been annoying at times. But it was because she truly missed you and cared for you. You'd never disappoint her she was just too precious to lose.

"Come kid lets have some New Years fun." Smiling Rarity took your hand as the two of you began participating. You never knew that next week you'd meet your mother, the person or deer that gave birth to you. Something that would prove hard.

Days have passed and you were back in Canterlot, with the new year came more revelations. Celestia had decided to show Dago you as a human rather then using a silly disguise. Though you did enjoy having the disguise you just thought of not wearing the banana leaf bandana.

And this is how you got to this situation, Dago asking questions of humans and answers you didn't even have.

"Ok here's another one can you…make a robot made of cardboard?" He asks smiling as he walked alongside you.

"Robots need circuitry and metal to make the motor functions, yes you can make a cardboard one but if a circuit fries or if improperly put together they'll make the cardboard burn." You mention with a sigh

"Have you ever tried to make one?"

"No, I don't have the money to buy those kinds of things. I'm riding on a scholarship in your mom's school remember."

"Fair enough…hey! Have you ever killed and ate an animal with your bare hands? If so how?" Dago grabs one of your hands. "Those nails don't look all that sharp."

"What no! I don't hunt I just ask Riley if she can get me meats from a local butcher shop managed by a griffon couple." You shout in slight surprise.

"So that is how you do it then…hey and how do you-" He was stopped as you put up hand to stop him from replying.

"Please stop with the questions! I'm happy that somepony wants to know more about my species, but I don't have every answer! Try talking to Celestia or better yet read a book about humans."

"Sorry, sorry, I just well…I'm seeing a real human try to look from my point of view, if you found a race that was legendary wouldn't you like to find out as much as you can about them?" He points at you smiling as he does. "Admit it, you too had one or two questions you wanted to ask me, right?"

"Well, do you ever get tired of flying when you ya know fly through clouds?" You asked tilting your head.

"Not really." He looks down in annoyance. "But that is mostly because mom forbid me from fly, for more than an hour and only in the castle grounds."

"Oh what about using magic? Do you use sugar in your body like me? I need a lot of sugar like water mixed with sugar and sometimes a candy bar to let me use my floral magic."

"Not needed, but I really like sweet thing specially cookies, like my mom really likes cakes."

"Sometimes I wish I could enjoy candy like that. I sometimes can't even use my magic if I don't have enough sugar."

"Isn't that great? You have the perfect excuse to have one more cookie."

"If you say so. Anyway anything else you wanna ask about my species that I can tell you I know of?"

"Do you miss them? Your race I mean, if you could would find out if there were any other humans, would you go see them?" He asks

"Well if I'm still alive, my dad or mom has to be alive. And if they are then maybe there's a group of humans alive somewhere in the world."

"Would you search for them?"

"When I grow up yeah I'd like to."

"If you find any will you introduce me to them?"

"Yeah, I hope. But for now you're probably the third pony who knows I'm a human. Outside my family of course." You say with a laugh.

"If you wish, I could introduce you to my buddies, I bet they'll be happy to meet you." He says smiling.

"Celestia says that I can't show anypony else my true self."

"She told me the same, and still let me show it to you and my friends, I think they'll keep your secret with no problem."

"I don't know if I should Celestia can be a scary pony to talk to." You mention with a slight worried tone.

"Don't worry, just leave my mother to me. She might look scary, but she isn't beyond reasoning." Dago said not noticing Celestia being behind him, you tried warning him waving your arms, to even pointing behind him. "She'll understand your situation and will let you have more friends know your secret, and yeah I know how to talk with the old mare. She can be a really big teddy bear when you know what buttons you need to push."

"Really Dago? Is that what you think of me?" Celestia asks

"M-mommy! Ah…how nice to see you here." He chuckles nervously. "Oh did you lose weight? Because you look very radiant today!"

"No I haven't? Dago what's this about? Aiden do you know?"

"Dago was considering showing his friends about me, the human that ponies are so scared of and want to learn from." You stated

"Well show is a strong word mom, like trusting them with one little extra secret, I mean haven't they already prove themselves by now?" He asks with a smile.

"It's not a problem of trust Dago, it's a problem of security. Your friends may be reliable, but as soon as more ponies know rumors spread and more ponies start to know. Dago, I'm going to be brief. I'll allow them to know, but you have to stay in your room if you decided to play and have Aiden with you. The White Leaf royal family is coming to castle in a few hours and it's best if they don't see children around it's purely political as of things go today." Celestia informs

"Yes mother. Thanks for letting Soarin and Spitfire meet him, I understand you want to protect Aiden, but it's not fair that so few ponies know of his secret, and I thought that this could make him more happy, that's all I wanted."

"I know sweetheart, I know. You two be good. Hopefully I don't need to leave the meeting to scold you, the queen is a rather busy mare and having her wait while I deal with you two isn't time that is spent wisely." Celestia warns

"Please name one time I was ever bad?" She's about to respond, but he interrupts her. "And the time I disturbed a meeting with the minotaur ambassador doesn't count, I was playing hide and seek with Soarin, I swear I didn't know that the room I entered was the meeting room, and it was just bad luck that I accidentally hit him with the door."

"What about the time you accidentally involved Roxanne in pranking the guards?"

"That was you!" You shouted. "I thought Riley dyed her mane when she came into my room to talk!"

"Hey! It was a harmless prank, the paint was washable with some water, and some of the maids and guards, kept the style, honestly I thought they all would have loved to have your manestyle for a day." He chuckles a bit. "Roxanne and I called them the rainbow guards, that was pretty funny."

"Riley said she didn't like the colors, she said that they were too bright." You mention

"Well I don't want another incident like that again Dago. Be on your best behavior." Celestia informs

"Ok mom, ok…if I leave my room I swear it will only be to ask a guard or a maid for something in the kitchen or something like that."

"And Aiden don't try to use your floral magic in front of the deer guards. They'd challenge you." She mention giggling a bit with her joke.

"I know." You say with a smile

"Can I challenge them instead?" Dago asks joking.

"You two really love challenges." She says giggling

"Ha like mother like son I suppose, lets go Aiden. Lets see what we could do in my room, I bet Salvatore and Evie will be happy to spend some more time with one another!"

An hour or so passed as you and Dago hung out in his room. Both of your pets were with you, Evie's tiny runty body on top of your head. While Salvatore played with a small fluffy tail like stick.

"The deers are here." He looks back to you as you ran forward and looked out the window.

"Whoa they look really prestigious. Have you ever meet them before?" You asked curiously.

"Once, a guard brought his daughter with him, because she sneaked in to see his dad in action and I ended up looking after her. Nice kid, very friendly, her name is Ebrietas and her dream is being a royal guard just like her old man one day, too bad its looks like she didn't come now, they must have improved security since her little stunt." He mentions.

"Huh that's cool for some reason I always liked the way deers looked. They look so natural and peaceful." You stated smiling a bit.

"Want to go have a closer look?"

"Sure, just don't let Celestia see us."

"Oh don't worry." He goes to a wall and push one of the stones revealing a secret entrance. "She won't see us." Stepping inside Salvatore followed from behind as he put entering the lit pathway.

"Alright, let's go Evie." You say to her as she follows next to you.

You two walked through a secret passage until you reach the court room where Princess Celestia and the queen of White Leaf, we're talking to one another looking through a small mirror like window.

"Princess Celestia, it's very nice to see you once more." The Queen mentions smiling as she hugs Celestia.

"It's very nice to see Carmelita, it's been a long awhile since we've met." She says smiling

"Indeed it is, especially with the death of your husband." The change in Celestia's mood was obvious that she was clearly upset but the opposite perks up Dago interest. "My most sincere apologies Celestia, I know this is a touchy subject, but I want you to know, I'm always here for you."

"I know he was a wonderful stallion, but still talking about spouses it clearly hurts you too." She only nods and cleans some of her tears from her eyes.

"Lets try not to open any other wounds, heavens know we already have a recent one looming over us." They start to walk. "Celestia, you know what is approaching, correct? According to estimated calculation, we have only 11 years remaining until the spell dissipates."

"Spell? What spell?" Dago tries to hear them as he puts his head even closer to the window.

"It's been awhile, but remind me again. With Dago around I've been forgetful."

"Nightmare moon Celestia, this is serious you told me yourself, with her last words she swore revenge against you and ever since then she had being bidding her time."

"Do you know who is Nightmare Moon?" Dago looks back at you with a curious look.

"If you didn't know I wouldn't know." You scold

"Ah of course, I've been trying to avoid that subject with everything that has happen I don't want my ponies to fear her. It'll cause too much panic."

"Celly." Carmelita puts her hand on her shoulder smiling as she does. "We've been working on countermeasures for the day she arrives in 11 years from now, why don't you come to White leaf, we can protect you from her, we can ensure Nightmare Moon doesn't find you."

"Je big talk there is nothing in this world stronger than mom, I say let her find her, see if she really think, she has a chance." Dago say with a big smile

"That would be nice, but if Nightmare can't find me she'll surely find somepony else and I can't have her hurt anypony else." She mentions with a sigh.

"Is nightmare that big of a threat?" You asked Dago.

"Maybe, deer and pony alike don't share too much information because of how far apart we are from one another. If Carmelita knows of Nightmare she must really be something big." Dago informs

"Then perhaps we should search for a way to confront her, like the elements of harmony, do you still have them lock in the dungeon? Perhaps my magic could help you recover your link with them?" Carmelita asks with curiosity.

"No, they're in the old castle ruins me and Luna shared. It's best they stay there. Their magic has been drained for years now and I haven't found a suitable candidate to use them."

"The elements…are real?!" Dago backs away a bit in surprise." All those tales, all the stories, she actually wielded them?"

"Shut up they'll hear us!" You harshly whispered as you covered his mouth.

"Hopefully I'll find a candidate soon."

"I hope that too Celestia, and in the mean time you should pay close look to whatever Nightmare would do, Dago for example, is his identity still a secret?" She asks

"He's told three friends, that young man just begs and begs to be shown."

"Can you blame him? Celestia, from what you told me that kid is the spitting image of his dad, he loves you with all of his heart, and be forced to pretend that you don't exist, must be killing him." Carmelita starts laughing a bit. "I bet that if you didn't stop him he could had done what his dad did and announce his love for you to the skies above." She laugh a bit louder. "Oh dear that stallion was a hopeless romantic."

"He was always trying to surprise me with so many events of affection, he was an idiot like that." Celestia mentions with a giggle.

"Oh come on Celestia, admit it, those acts of affections were part of the reason why you love him." Carmelita states now more relax.

"I have to admit, even if they were silly he always knew how to cheer me up." She says giggling

"You never told me you didn't have a dad." You whispered to Dago

"I didn't." He looks away in shame. "Mom told me he died before I was born, I never had the chance to meet him." Carmelita looks down in shame.

"Yeah, he knew how to make ponies smile, I bet Dago could do the same too. It's a real shame that the threat of Nightmare doesn't leave you any other choice, but to keep his existence a secret."

"What?!" Dago whisper harshly in anger. "Nightmare Moon is the reason, I have to keep my identity a secret?"

"Be quiet they'll hear us!" You whisper back

"Jealousy is something I do not want Dago to ever feel it's the reason why she's like that." Celestia informs.

"Eventually you will had to tell him, you know that right?"

"I know it has to be said soon."

"Would you like me to stay with you when you tell him?" She asks

"It'll be for the best." Celestia mentions

"Dago hurry we have to go back to your room!" You harshly whispered pushing him forward, he follows you without saying a word and just looking down.

"Come in!" Dago shouts as he hears the knock from his rooms' door.

"Dago I need to speak to you." She says with a sad smile.

"Um should I go?" You asked your hat covering your face as you quickly covered your face with the banana bandana

"If you wi…" Carmelita seemed to stop as she smelled something in the air. "Do you smell that? It's very familiar, very nostalgic." She sniffs around the room smiling the honey and vanilla mixed scent around the room. You too smelled the scent and followed the scent until your head bumped into the mare's leg.

"What do you mean?" Celestia asks as she turns to him.

"Something, something very, very familiar." She says as she starts to look directly at you. "Young colt, tell me, what is your name?"

"Aiden Rhys Hart. Miss." You say looking down trying to avoid eye contact. Carmelita forced you to look into her eyes, but as she does she backs up in complete surprise.

"A-Aiden?!" She takes your hat off and gasps when she sees your face. "I-it's you, its really you!" She holds her hands to her face as she starts to tear up.

"You know me? How? Oh no I must be one of your test subjects on humans!" You shout in complete surprise. You don't have much time to react as she brings you into a bone crushing hug and openly crying as she does.

"MY BABY! My baby is alive! Oh heavens! Thank you thank you so much, Aiden, my sweet little baby Aiden, you are alive!" She continues crying, as she kiss your forehead, she continues to detect the familiar scent of vanilla and honey.

"I can't breathe...and you smell...like...me." You point out.

"Ah…mom, what is happening?" Dago asks looking at Celestia with confusion.

"Oh let me look at you." Carmelita lets you go and holds your shoulders. She gives you a once over and smiles. "Oh Aiden, just look at you, you're the spitting image of your father, so handsome, and grown up." She rubs your chin and giggles still with teary eyes. "I see you still got my chin and eyes." She says giggling.

"You're not my mom, my mom lives in Ponyville. You're a queen and I'm a commoner." You informed.

"There aren't two flora users that have the same scent, our scents are linked to our blood and it's heritage. Only our family smells alike, and you detected too, didn't you Aiden? Like you said, I smelled like you and you smelled like me. And that's because you're my outspring the seed that left the tree to grew in its own, my sweet rose, my sweet little angel!" She brings him into a hug, but a lot less stronger.

"N-no my mom is suppose to be a human and my dad is the same." You say trying to defend yourself.

"Oh Aiden, of course you never knew, you were so young back then, when the accident happen." She lets you go and search for an old picture where she is with a human man holding a baby on her arms, in what looks like a hospital. The man was indistinguishable, his face almost blurred out. "But I assure you, you are my son."

"Wait, if Queen Carmelita is his mother that means that Aiden is actually-"

"But somepony left me on the doorstep of a pony couple, they raised me and loved me see." You take out a picture and show her the photo of the same human baby being held by Cookie and Magnus

"Carmelita, is this true?" Celestia asks, she looks at the picture and just nods.

"Yes, its true, to whoever I owe this. Words do not do justice of how thankful I am at them." She looks back at you before looking back at Celestia with a smile. "It looks like you are not the only one with a secret to tell Celly." She mentions with a giggle.

"And this is the last I'll take D-d-dammit!" Dago shouts in complete anger as extend his wings and swipes you with him before jumping out of the window and taking flight.

"What're you doing?!" You shout to Dago.

"Finding the truth!" Soon after that guards begin to chase after you two. "Hold on tight!"" He casts a spell on you and puts you on a cloud before pushing the cloud and used another one to created a dense fog where you two lost the guards in after a while. Dago looks back and sees nobody following you two, he stops and starts to pant trying to get his breath. "I think we're safe for now."

"The truth about what? Are you mad or something! It's weird that I'm probably that queen's son, it's weird and I don't even know if I should believe it!" You shout in complete annoyance.

"About ourselfs, about what is really happening, and why our supposed moms are keeping all these secrets. Don't you see Aiden? All our life, all we thought we knew is probably a smoke screen, and I don't know about you, but I want to find out what the hell is on the other side already." Dago begins to push a cloud again. "And I think, I know a place where we could find some answers."

Later...

Half an hour passed as you and Dago hadn't spoken to each other, for the duration of the trip. You were angry at Dago he swiped you up just because his mom kept a secret. Carmelita may have been lying, but you didn't know until you were fully sure.

"And where's that? Do you even have a plan on where we're going or how we'll get there?"

"I'll think of it as I go along as for now we're approaching the place." He points at the ruins of what looks to be an old castle. "The first castle, according to the stories my mom used to lived here long ago, before Nightmare Moon appeared and destroyed the place. It was only refereed as the 'eternal night', but now I think that's just another name for her."

"Wait! I know where we are. We're in the Everfree Forest! This is a dangerous place Dago. This place has Timberwolves and a whole bunch of animals that'll kill us!" You shouted in anger.

"They won't kill us, your magic is strong enough to help us, plus I'm an Alicorn I could use my magic." He says waving you off as he jumps off the cloud he was guiding you two on.

"That isn't the point Dago! Even if our magic is strong enough it won't do us any good looking for some damn artifact that won't do us any good!" You shout in complete annoyance.

"You're over reacting! Aiden, we have but one chance to finally show us what's going on with our bloodline. Your supposed mom and my supposed mom are blurring the lines between the truth. We need to find out the truth." He informs as he continues walking through the deprecated halls, the walls adorned with cobwebs and shields showing the emblem of what look like a mysterious mare. It looked frightening and you felt so scared everything about the castle frightened you.

"Come on this way!" He shouts as you followed him towards a stairwell, you ran up with him and climbed the stairs. You managed to get closer to him and walked side by side.

You two were silent you didn't want to speak to him, just because his mom kept secrets didn't mean you had to. You had no reason to being there with him.

You approached a wide area with six stones on top pedestal. The area around cracked and destroyed, you and Dago continued towards the stones.

"They're not here! Dammit they're big here!" He shouts as he runs up to the stones and grabs one smashing it to the ground in complete anger. The one in middle completely broken into bits the other fives clear with no cracks in them.

You walked towards the stones as he cried near a wall, he was upset and you knew that you wanted to cheer him up. But you weren't happy with him.

As you gathered up the stones a strange light appeared as one half of the stone began to be rebuilt. Both halves began to patch up as you backed up a little bit the stone was placed back on the pedestal. You were scared did that rock react to you?

"What the heck is going on?" You questioned as you were weirded out by the rock. One half of the rock glowed a dark midnight blue while the other was completely blank.

Did you do that? You didn't know but you did know this whatever it was scared you beyond belief.

"You were right it's all my fault. Mom's probably hating me by now. She probably wishes I wasn't her son." He says sighing as tears ran down his cheeks, you felt sorry you couldn't be angry he only wanted to know the truth.

You approached him and patted his back, you got closer and closed the gap between you two. He cried on your shoulder, you felt like a true friend.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for putting you through this. I just wanted to know what my mom was keeping me from me." As he continued crying you only brushed his mane and hugged him shushing him as he cried.

Forgiveness was the first step to ultimate friendship. You sighed and pat his back.

"Come on Dago, don't blame yourself being mad at your mom. And wanting to know the truth is all good. Anger is what keeps us sane. Just because you're angry now, doesn't mean you'll be angry forever. You just needed to cool off." He looks up and nods.

"I'm tired lets go." He walks towards the exit as the two of you leave the rocks behind, you quickly glanced to see the rock glow its light over coming the area. Whatever that thing was it reacted to you.

You two came back to the hallway you were tired, sleepy, and ultimately famished. As the two continued down the hall a loud crack was heard you stop but thought nothing of it. You looked forward and saw a crack line fault begin to go from the behind to front, your eyes widen as you tackled Dago away.

All of a sudden the ceiling broke as sharp and heavy concrete fell on top of your leg.

"Ahhh my leg!" You shout in complete and agony.

"Aiden!" Dago shouts as he approaches you, he tries to lift up the rock as he does he backed up in horror seeing your leg mangled. The castle shook as the ceiling was brought down only to be carried by Dago's wing speed.

He flapped as hard as could, keeping the ceiling off of you.

"Aiden, you have to crawl. I can't hold it forever." He shouts as you shook your head.

"N-no I'm not going unless you come with me!" You shout back as tears ran down your cheeks, Dago shook his head and tried to pull you out of the rubble. The ceiling was slowly lowered as Dago groan in pain.

"Go now please Aiden!" He says with worry. You looked at him as he looked at you, you looked back and nodded. He steeled himself and a burst of energy passed through him as the ceiling and a mark beginning to become colored on the back of his hand.

"Cutie Mark." You mentioned laughing, as you fell back and closed your eyes.

Author's Notes:

Yep Lost element story, of I'm gonna write this story might as well have some fun with alternate universes and lore.