Solara Star had been the pony who had sung to Sparkle,  she hadn't failed to notice the lavender mare's coat when it had begun to glimmer and shine like the diamonds around them. She smiled at this sight, suddenly memories from before King Sombra came back she spotted transparent wings on Sparkle's back. Solara knew she had seen those wings before... But where?

Then it became clear, Solara herself had been an attendant to the Diamond Princess, this mare in front of her and their lost princess we're one in the same. Sparkle began to notice the differences in her coat now as she stared into the vanity mirror near the bed which she sat in front of. She also she how much taller she was, and the transparent wings on her back. Her horn was longer as well as pointer, the magic from that hug she had accepted from Solara must've triggered something inside her. She just had to find out what that was and how to make it stronger before Sombra could get his hooves on these ponies... Her ponies, wait what? Why was she saying that these ponies were her responsibility to watch over and care for?

Sparkle looked to Solara, who had a ash-red coat, a dawn-light colored mane, with wings that matched both her coat and mane giving them a Spark-like effect. Solara had been the pony that sang and hugged her, making her feel welcome to the Realm. There was the crack of a whip, the screams of a filly... Skies! Sparkle heard Skies scream when they were escaping King Sombra's shadow form, Skies was in trouble and needed her aid. Sparkle ran out the doors to the Princess’s Royal Quarters, down the halls to the main entrance of the palace. Several ponies looked her when she had burst through the palace doors, another scream caught everypony's attention as a guard used a whip on a grey coated filly with yellow and blue stripes in her mane. The filly had her back facing the guard with the whip, while another guard read something that sounded like a bunch of crimes she had committed against her kind.

"For bringing a stranger and the evil that follows her, Twilight Amondra Skies... You are to receive 10 lashes, for all the harm you have brought with you." The guard reading the scroll said, as the guard raised the whip to strike Skies' back which had been struck so many times already you couldn't keep track of the lashes.

"NO!!!" Sparkle yelled she got in front of the whip that was meant for Skies' back, gaining her a lash across the face. Everypony couldn't believe what just happened, this strange mare had just defended a child that broke their laws. The Head Guard, a blood-red pony with a pale silver mane came out to what all of this commotion was about and that he saw... her. That lavender coat that was sketched into his mind like branded mark, his ears picked up the sound of whimpering and his gaze turned to the so called  criminal in their presence, Twilight Amondra Skies.

"Release the filly... " The Head Guard said giving the lavender mare a helping hoof, as Solara got Skies down gently and safely.

"But Dawn Moon, that is getting what she deserves! That mare has no right on interfering!"

"If you hurt that filly you'll have hurt me first! No pony deserves to be punished that way, unless it is the law of this Kingdom!" Sparkle stated in a harsh tone that held authority, wisdom, and many other things that her sound like a princess.

"And who in the hoof are you, stranger?" asked the pony who had used the whip on Skies and Sparkle.

"My name is Twilight Amondra Sparkle." Sparkle answered her tone hadn't changed once since being helped to her hooves.

"She looks just... just like Crystal Twilight, our lost princess." A villager remarked seeing the heroism that this mare had done, she took a whipping to the face just to save a filly. The other villagers took notice of the first one had said, and a foal approached the lavender mare. The foal was a colt, who wanted to see the mare up close out of nowhere he gave her a hug around the leg. Surprising Everypony but Sparkle, Skies, and Solara.  Sparkle hugged the colt back out of love, care, and the need to protect.