Chapter 1: Contradiction

It was a beautiful day, the sun was as high as it could get, brightening the blue sky but also the faces of the inhabitants of the town of Ponyville. Right on the outskirts of the town, a pony approached the entrance with a bright smile on her face. She was an earth pony with a light cream colored coat and Vivid orange mane as well as a pair of beautiful emerald eyes. She was clearly a young adult, but oddly enough, she didn`t have a cutiemark yet.

She looked at the entrance, after a few seconds and with a determined face she decided to enter. She started walking into the streets, looking at the ponies chat and laugh with each other, some of them turned around to look at her, some even said hi to her. Ponyville looked like a rather simplistic yet colorful town, little houses could be seen, some of them had flower gardens, there was also a town square possibly for meetings and important announcements.

Ponyville, my new home!, i can`t wait to start a new life here! Meet new friends and-

Suddenly she lost her train of thought, as a couple of ponies came near her.

“Hello! Welcome to Ponyville!” Said a mint colored pony with a lyre as cutiemark, she was an unicorn, and had a pair of astouning golden eyes.

“My name is Lyra and welco-“

“Eh hemm” A cream colored pony with a gorgeous pink and dark blue dual colored mane, as well of blue eyes cleared her throat, in an obvious attemp to caught Lyra`s attention.

“Oh! Sorry...” said Lyra before continuing.

“And she`s Bon Bon!, and-“

*GASP*

Suddenly a pink earth pony flashes her way near the talking ponies, and starts talking inmediantly.

“HI THERE! I`m Pinkie Pie! And i have never saw you before-”

The pink pony stared directly at the newcomer with a face of deep thought. She had a really wild and puffy dark pink mane and a couple of innocent Cyan eyes filled with a strange bright to them.

“Well, I-“

“Oh!, you are new-!”

She quickly interrupts.

“-And that can only mean ONE thing!”

And before anypony could say anything she trotted off at blinding speed.

That was interesting... thought the new pony.

“Oh, don`t worry about her!” said Bon Bon looking at the pink mare dissappear in the distance.

“Anyway, welcome to Ponyville!” She continued as if nothing happened “What`s your name?”

“Thank you!, my name is Golden Sunrise! And i do like this place, it`s so quiet and nice”

“Glad you find it comfortable here!, i hope we could talk some more but me and Lyra here have to go to an important meeting with some friends... or you could come with us!” said Bon Bon with a tender smile painted in her face.

“Ow, i would love to go, but i have to sort off some stuff back at my new home!, maybe next time, it was a pleasure meeting you two” Sunrise gives back a smile similar to Bon Bon`s.

“Oh, don`t worry about it!, and it was our pleasure!” said Lyra

“See you later” finished Bon Bon before they started to trot off.

“Bye Bye!” said  Sunrise before trotting off as well.

Such nice ponies

She arrived at her new home, a really nice little house with walls the same color as her coat and a roof the same color as her mane. She opened the wooden door and entered the dark house to turn on the lights, as she expected, a bunch of boxes scattered around with her belongings.

“Time to sort this stuff!” she said as she started moving a box. Just to get her attention caught by something falling from the roof right into the center of the room. She looked up just to find nothing there and then got into investigating the object.

“Oh my gosh!” said Sunrise clearly in awe.

“A Pearl?!, how beautiful!”

Indeed that`s what the object was, a little and shiny black pearl with a golden cord attached to it making it a necklace, she wondered why it was there.

“was it from one of the ponies that builded the house? No, a simple builder wouldn`t have something so valuable... Celestia... it`s so beautiful... i can`t stop looking at it”

*Knock* *Knock*

“Huh? who could that be?” she said as she decided to put the necklace on and go answer the door.

“Hi! Can i help yo-“

There was no one waiting outside, but there was a long line of... Arrows? Arrows painted in the floor, pointing to a candy shop.

that`s weird

Sunrise thought it was weird, but that didn`t kept her from investigating she followed the arrows until she was in front of the candy shop, she entered slowly, it was dark and she couldn`t see a thing. That was until...

“SURPRISE!!”

A crowd of ponies greeted her as the lights when on, she looked at them obviously surprised and then turned around to see that pink mare from before doing little jumps of joy in front of her.

“SURPRISE! This is your welcome party!, because i saw you today but i didn`t saw you before and i was like: *GASP* cuz i know everypony in Ponyville and i mean EVERYPONY in Ponyville! so then i just had to threw you a party so you can get a LOT of  new friends and also because i LOOOVE parties! Do you love parties? And did i told you this is YOUR party??”

Said the excited pony while she was still doing little hops, Sunrise was perplexed, she had never expected a welcome like this, it felt good.

“Oh, thanks so much ehm... Pinkie Pie! I do love parties! And i`m really surprised you prepared this for me...”

“Oh don`t worry dearie!”

Said a gorgeous white unicorn that was approaching them, she had a pair of really sharp blue eyes and a beautiful purple curled mane that looked amazingly elegant, just like the mare herself.

“Pinkie here always gives the best of parties for newcomers!, so this is kind of  the welcome committe i could say... OH! Where are my manners my name is Rarity dear, and yours?”

“Hello! My name is Golden Sunrise, a pleasure to meet you Rarity, i really like the style of your mane!”

“Oh, thanks sweetie! It`s quite a process the one i do to have it like this! Yours is really divine as well!”

Sunrise blushes a little, she isn`t really good at taking compliments, but it maked her happy.

“Thanks!” She said as she notice a group of ponies getting near her as well.

She gave them a quick examination, one of them looked like a really athletic pegasi, she had a sky blue coat and a pair of  determined strong rose eyes, but the thing that really got Sunrise`s attention was her unusual rainbow colored mane, it was hypnotizing to look at it.

She also noticed the presence of another pegasi, this one had a yellow coat, a pair of aqua colored eyes and a really long and gorgeous pink mane, she seemed really delicate and shy, Sunrise was able to notice because of the pony body language and also her eyes.

Next, she saw an earth pony, she looked strong like a hardworker, she had an orange coat and blonde mane, her eyes were green and her cheeks were adorned with three little white freckles on each side, She was also wearing a cowpony hat, so she must be working on a farm of some sort.

At last, she saw another unicorn, she had a lavender coat and violet eyes, a really dark purple mane adorned with a solitary pink stripe also present on her tail. It was a little harder for her to tell this pony personality by just looking at her.

“Howdy there! How y`all doing?” Said the orange Cowpony

“Yeah, what`s up gang?” said the mare with the rainbow mane

“Hey!, you must be the new pony in town!” she added when noticing Sunrise

“Yeah!, my name is Golden Sunrise but you guys can call me Sunrise! and yours?”

“Well, mah nam-“ tried to say the cowpony before getting interrupted by the sky blue pegasi, who striked a pose right in front of her.

“The name`s Rainbow Dash! The best young flyer in all of Equestria!, Pleasure for you!” She said before holding her head up high and flapping her wings. The lavender unicorn just rolled her eyes in response, which was the moment the orange cowpony pulled Rainbow back from her tail.

“Okay okay, we now know who ya are Rainbow, no need to overdo it” Rainbow Dash just maked some annoyed sounds in response, Sunrise couldn`t help but to let a little giggle escape from her mouth covered by her hoof. The orange mare cleared her throat before continuing.

“Mah name`s Applejack! From the Sweet apple acres at your service gal!” she said while holding her head up high.

“A pleasure Applejack!” Said Sunrise noticing the yellow pegasi behind her, she seemed really nervous about introducing herself.

“Hello there!” Said Sunrise encouraging her to follow.

“Hello... my name is um... Flutter... Fluttershhhh...” *Squeak*

A little squeak on top of a really soft voice?... Woah, she IS shy! thought Sunrise.

“Her name is Fluttershy, she`s a little timid around new ponies” Said the lavender unicorn.

No kidding?

“And my name is Twilight Sparkle!” she continued.

“A pleasure meeting you!”

Twilight Sparkle? why does that sounds-

“Princess Celestia Student!?” shouted Sunrise before realizing the sudden wave of glares that she attracted by doing so, she blushed in embarrasment.

“Sorry...” She whispered to Twilight.

“Hehe,  nevermind! i`m surprised you know about me, where are you from?” Asked Twilight

“I`m from overseas, a far away land called maredgar to be precise”

Rainbow Dash gave her a look of realizing something.

“Wait... so, ponies from far away know about Twilight but not about me? Ehem... and the rest of us that is.”

“I suppose so... Sorry?” Said Sunrise

“Being the princess student is kind of a big thing around the globe” She added

“Well, she`s also the bearer of the sixth element of Harmony, and we are the rest!, we stopped Nightmare Moon AND Discord the spirit of... well... discord and chaos!” said Rainbow Dash expecting to cause an impression

“WHAT?, you guys are the elements? I’m talking to the bearers of the elements of Harmony!?” Shouted Sunrise once again, Attracting a wave of glares upon her once again making her blush and creating a satisfied grin in Rainbow`s face.

“YES we are!” said Pinkie.

“We had to go search for the elements to stop Nightmare Moon! And she tried to break us apart by putting obstacles for us like a HUGE manticore, a dragon with a cool mustache and a broken bridge! But then, it resulted we WERE the elements! And there was this strange glow! And Twilight`s eyes went all white and WOOOSHHH!!!”

She started making noises while jumping around.

“We created a Rainbow colored tornado that defeated Nightmare Moon!” Her face started to change.

“NOOOOO!!!! She screamed and dissapeared!. Then we noticed we had some cool jewelry and the Princess appeared, and her Sister Princess Luna as well! And then they reunited and recounciled and we all got B`AWWW” Pinkie continued while she grabbed a tissue out of her mane and started to snort on it.

“And then we did a huge party! Because everypony loves parties and it was the perfect moment for one and-“  she suddenly got interrupted by Twilight.

“I think she gets it pinkie...” said Twilight before continuing.

“After all, there`s a party here! and we don`t know if Sunrise here wants to hear those stories, how about we tell her after the party ends? That way we can be more detailed” She added.

“Okie Dokie lokie!” said Pinkie while nodding her head hastily.

“Oh! We can have a sleep-over!” She added.

“Oh, that`s a nice idea pinkie! That if Sunrise can stay” Said Twilight

Sunrise wanted to hear those histories, partying and then sharing a little storytelling with these nice ponies afterwards sounded perfect for her, she started to really like Ponyville.

“Okay!“said Sunrise while nodding.

“Let`s PARR-TAAYY!!” exclamed Pinkie pie.

And so they did, they played “Pin the tail to the pony”, drinked punch and danced a lot.

Pinkie Pie gobbled on her own sweets like there wasn`t going to be a tomorrow. Rainbow Dash got into a really heated stare competition with a blond pegasi with a gray coat that had her eyes crossed and lost, they wanted Fluttershy to enter but she refused. Twilight was dancing in a pretty funny way the whole time. They had a lot of fun, and after the party ended, and the ponies where going to their respective homes for a well deserved sleep. Our Bearers of the elements and Sunrise stayed at Sugarcube Corner and started their little storytelling sleep-over.

They told her about Nightmare Moon and Discord, they also told her about the time Fluttershy defeated a cockatrice in a stare competition in order to safe her friends, about the sonic Rainboom and a whole lot of different stories of adventures and friendship. Sunrise was really amazed by some of these both by the fact these ponies were really brave but also hold an invincible bond of friendship like she used to have with a particular friend of her; those were bittersweet memories for her.

“You guys really remind me about a friend of my fillyhood, her name was Black Pearl” She interrupted with her eyes full of sadness, the others were quick at detecting her feelings.

“And what happened dearie?” asked Rarity with sincere concern.

“Oh, nothing happened, she just moved away one day because her dad got another job on another country and we weren`t able to see each other anymore, we were inseparable, as we where the only fillies that didn`t have a cutiemark on our class back at home, she was my only true friend, and after she was gone it taked me a couple of years to get new ones, because young ponies really treat you like hay when you don`t have friends and cutiemark” She said, the sadness never left her eyes as she did.

Applejack felt her heart melting, as she understood her, she was also the last to get her mark, but she did had friends, and she also couldn`t imagine what would have been of her little sister Applebloom wich was a blankflank, if she haven`t meet Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo two other blankflanks that became her friends.

“Oh don`t ya worry Sugahcube!, now you have new friends right here! and we aren`t going anywhere!, Right y`all?” said Applejack with a smile while looking at the rest. They all nodded in approval. Sunrise felt her heart filling with joy, how could they be so nice with her having meeting her just some hours ago?

“Really?” asked Sunrise.

“You betcha! And this is the element of loyalty telling you!” added Rainbow while giving her a small wink.

Sunrise could almost feel tears of joy coming out of her eyes, she haven`t felt this way since she was with Black Pearl.

“Thank you girls... it means a lot... it really does.”

“D`aww! don`t worry Darling!” Said Rarity

“May i ask, was she also the one that gave you that beautiful black pearl necklace?, it`s just so precious!” she added

Sunrise absolutely forgot about the necklace, it surprised her how she didn`t thought about her friend when she saw it.

“Huh?, this?, i found this back at my home today, it appeared out of nowhere, what a coincidence being a blackpearl...” She said while holding it on her hooves, she suddenly saw a reflection on it, it was really blurry.

“What the-?” she said shocked but got interrupted when the pearl suddenly emited a strange glow enlightening the whole room and started to float before them.

“What in tarnation?!” shouted Applejack

That was the moment the pearl stopped glowing and fell to the ground as the same time, Sunrise passed out on the floor.

“Sunrise?!, What`s wrong?!” exclaimed Twilight just to get a mute reply.

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Sunrise found herself on an unknown place; it looked like she was floating in a dark space with stars and stardust floating around her, the place looked like it was infinite, like she could walk forever and yet find nothing, there was multiple layers of stardust floating around, creating different tones of blue and violet, not to mention the stars, they were moving like they had a formation to follow, creating patterns that mixed beautifully with the enviroment.

“Where am i?” she asked to particularly no one, she didn`t expected to get an answer. A bunch of stardust started to gather right in front of her, adopting the form of an Alicorn pony about the size of Princess Celestia, her coat interchanged colors between black and white while her jewelry and armor did the same alternatively. She had gray pupil-less eyes and a mane of gray stardust. She opened her mouth to speak.

“You`re here young one, the time has come for you” She spoked calmly.

“Who... Who are you?” asked Sunrise in shock

“Those are questions no worth an answer my little pony, as you are here not to speak, but to listen” She replied, the calm tone only leaving her lips with her words.

Sunrise didn`t know what was happening, but remaining quiet and listening to the mysterious mare seemed like the smartest decision.

“Look at your flank young pony” she said, Sunrise did as she was told, only to find it there, it was a cutiemark, a blackpearl cutiemark to be precise.

“That`s your cutiemark Sunrise, but also a contradiction” she stated.

“What do you mean?” asked Sunrise, she was absolutely dumbfounded by the majestic pony words.

“Your name and your colors are bright, just like the rising sun of every morning, but your cutiemark is dark, a black pearl can also represent what we see when the sun is blocked and the land gets drowned in obscurity; that`s why your cutiemark is a contradiction, a contradiction that represents a choice, a choice between two paths, a choice only you can choose.” she explained.

“I don`t understand” said Sunrise.

“But remember that the universe has a balance, a balance that needs to be restored over time, this means that which ever you choose, you`re still only one side of the balance, your desicion will give birth to the other side, when time comes, you will understand young one” She finished, just as everyting became black and Sunrise lost her senses again.

Sunrise started gaining conciousness again just to find herself at a bed surrounded by her new friends, it was her bedroom at her new home, just an empty room with a bed and a little stand by the side. It was already the afternoon of the next day.

“Wha... what happened?” she asked.

“You passed out” replied Twilight.

“My head hurts...” stated Sunrise while she moved the sheets off her, letting her new mark to be seen, Pinkie noticed the mark.

“Look! You got your cutiemark while you passed out! So... your talent must be passing out! That`s SO useful! That means that if an ursa attacks you, you can simply pass out instead of playing dead!” said Pinkie, everypony just looked at her without saying anything for a while, before Twilight broke the silence.

“That`s weird indeed, it looks like your necklace” she stated.

“My cutiemark... Urgh! I can`t remember a thing” said Sunrise while holding her head with her hooves.

“Don`t worry dear, just rest and we will talk about that later” Said Rarity

“Yeah, no need to push it sugahcube, just close your eyes and dream with some delicious apples!” added Applejack.

“You dream about apples?” rammed in Pinkie Pie.

“SHOCKER!” added Rainbow Dash just as both of them started laughing and rolling on the floor. Applejack just rolled her eyes.

“SHHH!” demanded Twilight

“Sunrise is sleeping again” she stated.

Indeed she was, whatever means what happened to her was a mystery even to herself. At that moment, a little rest seemed perfect to help her think afterwards, and so, the six ponies left the room so they could left her new friend rest peacefully.

Meanwhile in Canterlot`s Royal Castle, A beatiful palace, a place of royalty as the name implies, grand and omnipotent looking castle surrounded by beautiful gardens full of the most rare and unique flora of equestria. Princess Celestia, ruler of equestria was sorting off the letters of her student when suddenly she felt a kind of disturbance in the air. That was the moment Princess Luna entered the room as well.

“Celestia did you felt-“

“Yeah Luna, i noticed, i can`t believe it`s already starting” she interrupted.

“Me neither, i wish i could have spent more time here before this happened, but all those years in the moon instead“ stated Luna

“I`m really sorry Luna, i wasn`t strong enough to contr-“

“Don`t worry Sister, you asked for forgiveness enough times, it wasn`t your fault” She interrupted now.

“Thanks Luna” Said Celestia with a tender look on her face, before changing it for a more serious one.

“One side is waiting to be awaken and give chance to the other one to rise as well, soon enough, we will know what fate has prepared for all of us sister” she stated

“Just so you know, i love you Luna” she added

“I love you too Celly” replied the Night Princess.

With that, they both looked up towards the sky, to see the sun shining with all his glory.

“Beautiful” Said Luna.

“Just as your moon and stars sister” replied Celestia.

They kept looking at the beautiful equestrian landscape for a long time before getting back to their respective duties as princesses.

The night then taked away the sun, giving closure to a nice day in equestria.

Not so far away, by the side of a sleeping pony, you could see a black pearl necklace, a necklace that represents a lot of things and between those, the beginning of a new story.