It was an average day for all ponies, and the pegusus were to create warm and sunny weather for the week. All was peaceful that day, all was normal. Pinkie collected apples from Sweet Apple Acres for her bakery, Twilight studied, Rainbow flew, Fluttershy took care of her animals, Spike slept, Applejack bucked apples, and Zacoura collected ingredients for potions. All was peaceful. But a storm was brewing that not even Pinkie Pie's Pinky sense would detect, for as Zacoura ran out of heart's desire plant and scavenged for more, she came across a patch of snow. The everfree forest was known for un-natural events to occur, but save the fact for clouds moving on their own, the weather rarely differed so severely from Ponyville to the forest. And this intrigued Zacoura, she had to move farther into the frost to find what was causing it, and the farther she traveled, the colder it got, Zacoura soon found the center of the frost and saw an ice sculpture of a pony wearing a cloak, but before Zacoura could get to it, a wretched howl was heard from above, and as Zacoura looked up, she saw a large group of windigos, circling the statue... no... it wasn't a statue or a sculpture, it was a pony, encased in ice as the windigo surrounded it. Zacoura knew she couldn't just let the pony stay encased in ice, she had to help him. But she didn't have anything she could do. Zacoura was a zebra and a potion brewer, not a unicorn and a spell caster. But there was one unicorn that she knew could handle the job if anyone could. She left for the home of Twilight. But little did Zacoura know that her discovery of that single pony, would change the lives of everypony in Equestria. This is a story of destruction, a story of chaos, and this is how our story begins.....

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"Twilight, Twilight follow me, and and make haste! If we delay any longer, a pony's life may be erased!"
"Zacoura? What do you mean? Is somepony in danger?"
"Quickly now, hurry! no time to explain, please follow me swiftly, and prepare for arctic terrain."
and with that, the two left for the forest, neither one exactly sure what they were getting into. They dashed through the forest and ran through the snow, until at last they reached the frozen pony.
"This is a frozen pony, who has met a chilly fate. I hope that we were fast enough, I hope it's not too late" Said Zacoura
"This place is crawling with windigos!It's going to take a huge repulsion spell just to get them to go away before we can even get started on melting this ice!"
"Twilight, just try. We both know that you must. just concentrate on your spell, and in your talents, please have trust."
"If you say so Zacoura..."
So Twilight focused her entire being into the spell, she knew that a pony's life was on the line, and that she could not fail here, and failing would be the last thing she did. The spell that she had conjured had sent the windigos running, though both Twilight and Zacoura knew it wouldn't last for long. Twilight then cast a simple spell to melt the ice that encased the cloaked pony, yet he remained unconcious for the moment. It looked to be a colt between childhood and adulthood. He was an odd color of grey, and his mane was mostly black, but in this black were all sorts of colors, reds, greens, blues, purples, yes, all the colors of the rainbow and more, yet they had only shown when you looked from certain angles and at any given moment, over ninety percent looked black, just as a black opal when you stare directly at it. But the most peculiar thing about this colt was it's cutie mark, it didn't match on both sides. on his left side was a white tear-like shape that curved and swirled slightly with a black spot in the center of the wide end, however on the right side was a black shaped tear, upside down compaired to the white one, but it had one white spot in it's center. Like a Yin on one side and a Yan on the other. Zacoura and Twilight carried the mysterious pony back to Zacoura's hut.

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