My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Starlight, Starbright

Prologue

A Quick Summery

Luna's moon shone down on a sleeping Ponyville where everyone was fast asleep. Well, all except for one filly and her cousins who are over for a sleep-over.

"Come on, Mommy. Just one more story. Please!?" the filly whined.
Her mother lightly chuckled. She always was persistent. "okay. Okay. One more story. And this story, I think you'll enjoy."
"why?"
"cause this truthful story happened before you were born."
"oh, I think I know this story." the only colt there said.
The 3 fillies groaned at his comment.
The mother just chuckled. Just like his parents. She cleared her throat, getting their attention. "this story began 4 years ago, before either of you 4 were born…"

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJv3SMBzS2g

Hoshiyomi by Akiko Shikata

"long ago, on a night just like this, we were living pleasant lives but that changed when visitors from another world came to Equestria. They called themselves humans. Now, since you all heard this before, can you tell me their names?"

"I can." a hyper-active filly said. "there was… Bahamut, the Dragon. Fenrir, the Wolf. Cobalt, the Eagle. Satoshi Tanaka, the Pilot. Aura Aesir, the Sol-powered Lancer. 'Ash'lin Geroma Arapaho Silverton, the Gunslinger. Sora Yggdrasill, the Archer. Jacqueline 'Jax' Yggdrasill, the Mage. And Requiem Hikaru, the Goddess. They came here on a flying ship called the Orion, right?"

"Correct." the mother said. "they came to obtain supplies without us knowing."
"how?"
"I think they were going to gather fruit and water in a un-populated spot. They never really told us.

"anyways, it would've gone smoothly if not for one detail even we didn't know about; a giant dragon who we later named Oscurita. He severely damaged their ship and quickly fled, leaving behind monsters known as Shadow Beings behind. They rampaged on the town but the humans were quickly able to dispatch them. Not wanting them to freeze to death with fall approaching, we took them into our homes. And they were nice and pleasant to be around. Well; most of them. Jax wasn't exactly… keen on living with us. She had a traumatic experience with Equines when she was your age and, instead of being scarred, she turned it into anger."

"why?"

"just… something about her, I think. She wasn't exactly stable to begin with.
"anyways, the time came for the Summer Sun Celebration and Princess Celestia had chosen Ponyville yet again to do so. Req was kind enough to sing a few beautiful songs for us. Jax, however, had to go find Dinky Doo because she ran away when a few bullies tortured her. She and your aunts Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo went to go find her and they did in a cave- along with a nest of Changelings. They were able to escape the cave but the Changelings followed them. Jax was able to defeat them at the schoolhouse, making everyone believe they're all dead. Which wasn't the case as they were, instead, scattered across the country. Fluttershy found a injured Changeling with Bahamut and the fillies I mentioned before and took it to her house to heal in secret."

"that's Uncle Edge, right?"

"yes. That Changeling was Mirror's Edge but, at the time, he and Fluttershy were merely acquaintances. It wasn't the only upset Ponyville had; a number of new ponies arrived that would later become your uncles- Storm Shadow, Zilver's Light, Halo's Light, and Marble Cake. Me and your other aunts tried hard to get them to fall in love with us but it was tough. And it got even worse when Halo's and Zilver's sister Trixie came to town. At that time, she was COMPLETELY infatuated with me, trying hard to gain my hoof and my heart but I wasn't a Filly-Fooler. And I wasn't exactly happy she came back. I thought she came back to take Halo away. Anyway, it was after she lost her wagon when I heard the whole thing; that she was orphaned as a filly and taken in by Halo's highly dysfunctional family and that Halo and Zil were her only pillars."

"you didn't tell us that part, auntie." the colt said.

"I didn't? huh. Well, after that, me and Trixie began to get along but I just wanted to be friends. She wanted a girlfriend and she figured that since I wanted Halo, she should turn herself into a stallion. So she came to the library to find a transformation spell but she didn't read it fully. Plus, it back-fired. Instead, it turned everyone in the country into humans."

"that part always makes me shiver."

"anyway, I was able to find a reversal spell, but it was located deep within the Gryphon Kingdom, at a fortress once used by Nightmare Moon. So me, your aunts- minus Pinkie and Trixie, and your uncles- minus Marble, and the humans went to the Gryphon Kingdom to get help from the king Zaltan and my BBBFF Shining Armor and his wife and my pregnant sister-in-law Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, AKA. They were unaffected as Trixie's spell only affected the country, not the whole planet. Dash also noted that she was born there which means we didn't need a guide.

"When we arrived, we ran into a old friends of Dash's; Aunt Gilda. Both she and Dash were sore by the way they left things the last time they met but they had to push it aside for now, and quickly too as we found out the spell Trixie cast had a time limit. In a month, we'd all be dead and it was almost 11 hours to the day. Plus, Derpy began to feel the effects of it and we had to move.

"Along the way, we ran into a few obstacles, such as the Red Death; a giant dragon from another world that the humans had visited, and a giant condor. They were quickly dispatched and we arrived at Nightmare Moons fortress. We split up to find it. While we looked in the library and found it, Ash, Gilda, and her then boy-toy Jason found a secret lab in the castles basement and discovered that any spell used in the castle's walls, be it a light spell or the reversal spell we were about to use, Nightmare Moon would be revived, without Luna for a body. We learned it too late as we cast the reversal spell and turned all the ponies back into ponies. And, true to the warning, we revived Nightmare Moon. she put up a tough fight, even possessing Requiem for a time."
"how did you save her?"
"a experimental spell Jax was working on. She called it Personality Shift. It can work either one of two ways; split someone into good and evil halves or exorcise the possessor out of the Possessee. In Requiem's case, it exorcised Nightmare Moon out of her. But Nightmare was able to extract some information from Requiem's mind, including a demon form of her deceased brother Catalyst. She transformed into that and almost killed us but, with the timely arrival of a apologetic Trixie, Pinkie, and Marble, we were able to defeat Nightmare Moon for good.

"The night after, we had a celebration and me and Halo had one too many drinks and we ended up… having a great night that ended with me getting pregnant with Starlight. yes, me and Halo were a bit shocked and nervous but we were able to overcome it and see it as a great thing. Derpy went though the same thing with Dinky and she turned out happy. And we had to with Hearts and Hooves day approaching.

"that Hearts and Hooves day was certainly the most eventful one for us. Derpy and her sister Daring Do went to Appaloosa to obtain a mysterious staff for a museum in Canterlot. Pinkie invited Diamond, Marble's sister, to Ponyville to help break him out of a rut and turn them into the most hyper couple Ponyville had ever seen. Rarity and Spike, who had just turned into a teenager; complete with looks, entered a relationship. Applejack and Zilver, after a pregnancy scare, decided to take things slow and steady. Edge, who had been fully healed by now and took on a 'ponysona', as Satoshi called it, helped Fluttershy rekindled things with her parents. Aunts Lyra and Bonbon decided to become parents, with Lyra carrying their foal. Trixie found love with a beautiful Unicorn named Lily, who turned out to be Aunt Luna in disguise. And me and Halo, along with a few filly and colt stow-aways, led a expedition into the Everfree Forest, where we found a ancient town from way back when, complete with a mural dedicated to one gigantic and foreboding dragon. We couldn't study it further as we had to flee thanks to Timberwolves."
"what about Rainbow Dash and Shadow?"

"they… were complicated. At that point, Dash had been going out with Soarin' from the Wonderbolts, not knowing that Shadow was in love with her. She also hid feelings she had for him, not wanting to send Soarin' into a uproar. Turned out to be for naught as as she was being interviewed by Spitfire to enter the Wonderbolts, they found out they had the same father, Golden Day. Eager to tell Shadow, she rushed home to find that he had moved away, not wanting to make her have a choice. She also learned the same day that her mother had died from a disease and she believes her chances to enter the Wonderbolts are shot. Distrat, Dash tried to kill herself by throwing herself off a cliff."

"What!? We never heard this part of the story before."
"oh. Sorry. Forgot that your mom would kill me if she heard me say it. Well, too late now.

"but yeah, Dash tried to off herself but Aunt Scootaloo was able to save her. And not long after, they came across a curious discovery; a baby Draconequus who called herself Eris. Even though she didn't kindly warm up to the baby at first, Dash grew to love the little tyke; eventually calling Eris her daughter. Celestia wasn't keen on having a Draconequus wandering about and tried to kill her but Dash intervened. Celestia, instead, placed Eris under her care. And also, before Celestia tried to off her, Eris accidentally used her powers to summon some more humans to our world.

"They were Fox, a anthropomorphic fighter pilot fox from a solar system called Lylat. Lloyd Irving and Emil Castagnier, master swordsmen from a world named Symphonia. Riku, a Keyblade Wielder from… well, they never said where he was from. Hiccup and Toothless, a dragon and his rider from the world Berk. Spyro and Cynder, a dragon couple from the world of Warfang, and Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, Zelgadis Greywords, and Amelia Tesla Del Seyruun from a world Req and her friends had dubbed L-Sama.

"around the time winter had started, Edge starting feeling… odd towards Fluttershy, with signs that lead to us believing he was in love. Fluttershy didn't feel that way to him, when she first met him, but thought of him more and more with each passing second. Things especially didn't go well when the time for Trixie's and Luna's wedding came. Edge told Fluttershy his true feelings for her but was shot down by her saying that a pony and a changeling relationship would not work, giving the stereotypes that changelings were demons.

"heartbroken, he was approached by the Changeling Queen Chrysalis and her subordinates Leon and Friction. She was able to make Edge come back to the side of the Changelings and launched a second invasion of Canterlot, with the giant dragon Oscurita aiding her. With the help of his Shadow Beings and a spell powered by a crystal, and even with the powerful humans on our side, they took the city and took a good chunk of the population hostage, Jax and Dinky included.

"we evacuated to Ponyville. On the way there, the train carrying us was attacked by a knight in black. He quickly overpowered everyone and took me and… did something. I don't know; he knocked me out. What I do know is that Req and Halo came to my aid, but too late because what he did to me already took hold. The knight, in Lloyd's terms, kicked Requiem's ass and disappeared.

"at the same time, Chrysalis, using a process called Purging, turned Edge back into what he was before he met all of us; a sadistic general in the changeling army. He launched a attack on Ponyville and took more prisoners, including Cadence, Aura, and Lina. We fled to Maredrid after that.

"during their imprisonment, Jax felt sorry for the ponies plight and began to warm up to them. At the same time, Dinky began to warm up to Oscurita, showing that he wasn't as evil as he was being made out to be.

"when we arrived in Maredrid, Dash, though a run-away Eris, reunited with Shadow, who wasn't happy to see her because of the whole fiasco with Soarin'. though some expositions from Soarin' and his adopted sister Scootaloo, they were able to convince Shadow to give Dash another chance and the two had their first kiss. Fluttershy also came to terms with her feelings for Edge and accepts that she loves him. That same day, the Changelings launched an attack on Maredrid and only took one prisoner, a colt named Pipsqueak. During the battle, nobody knew how, but a monster form a movie, Godzilla, was summoned and destroyed Maredrid, effectively wiping it from the map.

"we then fled to Feather Top, the Gryphon Kingdom capital, and pleaded that Zaltan and his Gryphons. He agreed and both countries forged a alliance. And in good time cause not long after, the Changelings attacked again, but we were able to drive them back by destroying their giant lizard weapon.

"at the same time, Chrysalis slowly descended into madness and brutally beat up Dinky when she found out that the filly was associating with Oscurita. At that point, Jax's earlier pre-conceptions about all equines melted away and willingly began to help us by coming up with a escape plan.

"disgusted by what their queen had done, Leon and Friction made plans with both the prisoners and the forces in Feather Top to help defeat Chrysalis. They accepted it and put it into motion by launching a massive air attack on Canterlot using airships built from blueprints Satoshi took from the Orion before we abandoned Ponyville. They were quickly built and we all launched our counter-attack.

"during all this time, Edge had been having odd dreams about a pony he had never met before, his Ponysona, interacting with that yellow mare he met a few times. After finding and touching the crystal used in his purging, Edge got all his old memories and put his own plan into action that would, in fact, help us.

"we first hit Ponyville, freeing Aura and Lina who had been imprisoned there and, lead by a rebuilt Orion, we cleared the skies and took it over. The prisoners launched their escape and destroyed the crystal casting the shield over Canterlot.

"Edge attacked Chrysalis personally but was later joined by Jax. After nearly destroying every part of the castle, she was able to cast Personality Shift and split Chrysalis into good and evil halves. True to their names, Good Chrysalis was kind and sympathetic while Evil Chrysalis was sadistic and heartless. Fluttershy and Edge made nice and were about to start something when Dark Chrysalis attacked and seemingly killed Edge. Angered and saddened by his death, we gave Dark Chrysalis quite a fight. It wasn't easy, but we were able to defeat her.

"The Winter War left a lot of causalities on both sides, including Dash's brother Soarin'. Fluttershy left to mourn by herself in the surprisingly untouched Canterlot Gardens, only to be reunited by a very much alive Edge. He says that he survived thanks to that same knight from the train. After a entire war, Fluttershy and Edge kissed and began possibly the most romantic relationship we ever saw.

"just a couple days after the end of the war, Cadence gave birth to a bouncing baby colt she and Armor decided to call Glade Yggdrasill, after the mage who had helped her while she was taken prisoner. At the same time, Dash, who had just found out she had a incurable decease slowly killing her, was working hard to try and adopt Scootaloo, who had been orphaned with Soarin's death, and went the only social worker available, Manni Peddi. At first, she said she was going to help but then… something unexpected happened. She tried to abduct Scootaloo AND Eris. The chaos from that, coupled with what just happened a few days before, resulted in the release of Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony.

"Eager to get revenge on Celestia for what she did to him, he took Eris hostage and disappeared. Celestia sensed that he flew to the Badlands so that's where we headed, stopping off in Manehatten to get a guild who knows the Badlands well. We had a hitchhiker, Manni, who was intent on proving that Dash was a irresponsible mother and take Scootaloo away from her.

"Along the way, Discord had rifled though the humans media center and got a number of monsters to delay us. He also corrupted Eris and sent her after us.

"When we arrived, some of us had some personal things to deal with; Dash came to ask the local agency to adopt Scootaloo into her family. Applejack took the foals to see Applebloom's cousin Babs Seed. Marble and Pinkie went to see his sister Diamond, who was engaged to Marble's arch-enemy and carrying his baby. Rarity and Spike, who at that point got engaged and were expecting a foal, went shopping for wedding and baby supplies, only to find a old 'acquaintance' of Spike's and our guide into the Badlands, Garble. And Trixie found and bought a magical trinket called a Alicorn Amulet."

"that's what mommy gave me!" one of the fillies said.

"yep. Dash had some bad luck with the adoption agency as Manni replaced a letter Celestia had written, explaining the situation to them, with one saying that Dash was going to burn the place down. Not letting that get her down, Dash went to the mayor of Manehatten, who turned out to be her estranged father Golden Day.

"not long after, a mysterious girl attacked the same pawn shop Trixie was just at and stole a sword. After a rough fight throughout downtown Manehatten, the girl disappeared. Not long after that, a massive robot summoned by Discord began to rampage though the city. We quickly got onto the Orion, not knowing we had left Pinkie and Marble behind, along with the colts and fillies we had left at Babs' place, destroyed the robot, and flew into the Badlands.

"there, we found Discord and Eris. He revealed that he's doing this for revenge for what Celestia and the Alicorns did to his kind, the Draconequus. He also got a new Scion of Chaos, Babs Seed, but it turns out she was a spy the knight had placed in his ranks. He summoned another giant robot, a much larger and indestructible one called a Reaper, and sent it to Manehatten. After a intense air-battle, on which I threw up more then once, we beat the cuttlefish ship. When it died, it created a black hole that sucked all of us in.

"We woke up to find ourselves in the Afterlife, the realm where all the dead souls go. We were separate but we then found a town where we all gathered, although Derpy was nowhere to be found. There, we reunited with our dead friends, such as Soarin', Rainbow Dash's mother Shine Dash, and Requiem's human brother Adolf. They explained that we weren't truly dead, our bodies were also sucked in and with that, we had a way to get back home. How was the problem but a crazy old hermit lady told us about a Tome, a magical item that houses all the knowledge in the universe, that lies in a palace far to the east. With our destination, we set out for the palace.

"meanwhile, back in the real world, everyone believed that we were truly dead, which sent Scootaloo into a depressing. After trying to get comforted by Babs, Eris appeared and took them both to a volcanic isle to kill them, Babs for spying on them and Scootaloo just for being Scootaloo. But she couldn't do it. By all accounts, Scootaloo was her sister, which sent her mind racing. That, in turn, sent her powers spiraling out of control, destroying the island underneath them in a large nuclear-like explosion.

"we arrived at the palace, which was MUCH larger then the lady made it out to be, and we began our long climb. Fortunately, since this was the Afterworld, we didn't get tired as often. Although, illness still happen and Dash got hit by her illness more then once. During our ascent, we finally found Derpy in front of a door, crying about someone named eTu`nes. When we opened the door, we were subjected to our worse fears. Dash already experienced hers in real life so she didn't live it. Instead, she witnessed Manni's, which involved the death of her sister, who was the mother of Scootaloo. Realizing that Manni was Scootaloo's aunt, the two made peace and became friends, decided that Scootaloo should choose who to be with.
"after that fear-inducing ordeal, we continued our climb and came across someone Requiem didn't expect to see; her demon brother Catalyst. He wants revenge for his defeat at her hands and attacked all of us, leaving anyone pregnant out of his warpath. Not sure why, though. And he was as every bit as ruthless as Requiem made him to be."

"how did you beat him?"
"luck and…" she stopped there. She remembered back to the fight and the indescribable Req did to him.
"and what?" her daughter asked.

"just luck." she couldn't tell them what she saw. They'd be scared for life. "anyways, after Catalyst's defeat, we made out way to the Tome and prepared to ask how to get back home but Jax instead asked it to show Celestia's and Discord's complete history.

"turns out it was quite a tragic one. They were once childhood friends who grew up together but a misplaced kiss by Celestia made Discord, who at the time was called Dis, believe she was in love with him when, in truth, she was in love with a Alicorn named Cosmos. It also didn't help that she didn't even bother to try and talk to him about it for 5 years. Things got worse when war broke out between and the Draconequus. It reached a breaking point when Celestia FINALLY told Dis that she was in love with Cosmos and, unfortunately, was pregnant. Dis left without saying a word and returned home to see it under siege and his parents murdered by Cosmos. His home was destroyed by the Alicorns Biological Experiment, who we know today as Oscurita. Enraged, Dis decided to exact revenge. He used his powers of Chaos to send Oscurita to our time and, 2 years later, kidnap Celestia's daughter Erys and take Cosmos prisoner in a black pearl hidden inside his body. She and Luna did battle with him for 900 years, which ended with him encased in stone. Discord left behind a parting gift; a virus that eventually turned Luna into Nightmare Moon. Not wanting to die without having found Cosmos and Erys, Starswirl the Bearded cast a spell on both Luna and Celestia, turning them immortal.

"Celestia was made at Jax for showing that, mostly because she didn't want to see that again but it did give her clues on to what happened to her daughter and husband. They also found the way back home; a being on high divinity, in this case a Goddess, must give up a portion of herself and powered up a Seeing-Pool, a large pool that can show anything happening anywhere as long as you say the name of the planet, the city, or the person. With help from their dead family members, we were able to make it back to the realm of the living. And just in time too. Discord, who had somehow become darker, was turning all the peoples in the world into ravenous mutants. Luckily, our friends were unaffected. For about 2 seconds. Discord used his powers to turn Pinkie into a mutant herself. We arrived too late to save her but we were able to save everyone else. Not long after we returned, Babs and Scootaloo also came back and told us that Eris was in trouble."

"What was happening to her?"

"her powers were ravaging out of control, basically turning her into a time bomb that was causing her a whole lot of pain. We couldn't get close as pure energy was blocking our way. Dash, who had then suffered from another attack from her illness, fell into the mass of energy along with Scootaloo. They found and tried to talk Eris out of it but couldn't. then, somehow, she was fatally stabbed. Dash didn't want her to die but she couldn't control fate. Eris faded away. Before she was gone completely, she used her powers to cure Dash's incurable illness and right what she did wrong in the world.

"naturally, Rainbow Dash was heart-broken that her daughter her died, but she was also furious at Discord for putting Eris though this. We launched our assault on Discord, who had retreated to his and Celestia's old home; the ruins me and Halo found in the Everfree Forest. We arrived to find a startling revelation; Eris, the Draconequus, was in fact Erys, the Alicorn. He sent them away so we couldn't get at them and did battle. During the battle, Cobalt was able to steal the pearl holding Cosmos away from Discord and we released him. Discord countered by summoning darkness to his aide and attacking us. We won thanks to Jax's Personality Shift, which showed us that Discord was actually possessed, but by what, we don't know. Anyway, that spell reversed what Discord recently did. It turned Pinkie back to normal and restored the world to it's natural state. The older ones, Erys and Oscurita, were still at large.

"since one had to be extinguished for the other to live, Dash and Celestia had to choose between Eris and Erys. Without telling anyone, knowing she deserved it more then her, Dash decided to give Celestia her daughter back and brought the Alicorn back in exchange for the Draconequus. She was sad but Erys thought of Dash as a second mommy and she still had Eris memories so it's not like she was completely gone.

"after that, there was 4 months of nothing. We did nothing but returned to our daily lives. But, things changed on a certain day."

"What day was that, mommy?"

"the day you were born."

"aw."

"yeah. After 11 months of waiting and 7 hours of labor, I finally had my little miracle Starlight. But, then we saw something we didn't expect. She was a Alicorn who was born with a Cutie Mark and had power over time. Nothing like this has ever happened before so, naturally, everyone was nervous. I, however, was just glad to have my daughter. She was just so beautiful. So perfect.

"on the day we brought her home, however, things started to heat back up. Derpy ran away after being yelled at by Jax, who was angry to see her crush Ash kissing her sister Sora and she took her anger out on her. Saddened by what she had done, she went to search for her, with Dinky and Sparkler following her. They found her in a cave far from Ponyville and Jax apologized for what she had done. There, they ran across Oscurita and ran for home, him in hot pursuit, trying to grab Derpy. They got home after a long and arduous chase, which ended with a brief fight that ended with Jax and Derpy getting severely wounded. Jax had cast a forbidden spell during the fight, which resulted in it taking a part of her life and, thanks to a attack from her own incurable illness, exploded harmless in the atmosphere, not before leaving a princess worried.

"During the fight, Derpy was muttering eTu`nes again and Dinky wondered what that was. Fearing this would come, all of Derpy's friends told her the tale they were hoping she'd never hear.

"When she was a filly, Derpy ran away from home and came across a wounded dragon her age named eTu`nes. She cared for him and nursed him back to health. eTu`nes had also run away from home, his parents and neighbors mercilessly beating him within a inch of death. Wanting to get away from their troubles, they ran away to Feather Top, where they met and moved in with the filly Rainbow Dash and her mother. After a year there, eTu`nes decided that he can't deal with his problems but he can help Derpy with hers. Without her knowing, he made his way to Ponyville and found the bullies that forced her to run away, Lyra, Octavia, Colgate, Vinyl, Berry, and Bonbon. After telling them what she had been though, Lyra and Octavia, along with Derpy's parents and sister, came to Feather Top and got her. Derpy brought eTu`nes home with her and had her stay in her house for the next 11 years. At the end of those 11 years, eTu`nes had fallen hopelessly in love with Derpy and tried to tell her during a camping trip he had set up but Derpy, while intoxicated, just kissed him and gave him a… great night. Neither of them knew that that night ended with Derpy getting pregnant with Dinky. The next night, Derpy had no memory of the night and quickly became infatuated with Time Turner's cousin Clockwerk. Angry, eTu`nes tried to leave but Derpy confronted him. He blurted out his feelings and tried to leave again. Ss he did, Derpy tried to stop him. This resulted in her getting struck in the face with his claws. Shocked by what he did, eTu`nes left without saying a word. That was the same day, 8 years later, that Jax yelled at Derpy after discovering her sister and her crush kissing.

"not long after that explanation, Celestia and the other royals appeared to banish the humans for them not telling them about that spell that went off. They were forced to leave just minutes before the dragon returned. Not wanting to listen to Celestia, the humans returned 10 minutes after Oscurita had launched another attack on Ponyville. They arrived to save the town and send the monster into a gully, where they fought it and won by sealing it up.

"turns out that the whole banishment thing was a ruse put into play by Jax and Celestia to catch Oscurita off guard and win against it. At best, they caught it by surprise but they didn't defeat it as it burst out of it's prison. The second round ended with Jax casting her Personality Shift on the monster, turning it into a empty shell and, to everyone's surprise, eTu`nes. Derpy, both sad and happy that eTu`nes is back, hugged her long lost friend while professing her love to him. It was short-lived as the true instigator appeared.

"it turns out that eTu`nes and Oscurita was used by a person who had a CRAZY case of multiple personality disorder and some WEIRD hair to try and take control of the world. He took advantage of eTu`nes heartbreak and misery and returned him back into his true form; the Biological Experiment Oscurita. This wasn't the only time the humans had run into this crazy person. They also ran into him on Berk and had a brief run-in on Symphonia. He used his power over darkness to power up the husk left behind from the Personality Shift. What followed was a massive and epic battle."

"how epic?"
"cover the whole world in darkness epic."
"Wow."

"yeah. It was brutal and tiresome. I thought we weren't going to win for a moment. But then, something unexpected happened. The Elements of Harmony came to help us, alone with a previously unknown 7th element; the Element of Love, that had chosen Derpy as it's host. With a powered up Judgment Ray, we were able to beat Oscurita. And then… nothing."

"nothing?"

"Yeah. Somehow, we momentarily blacked out. But it didn't matter. We won and the world was safe. The crazy man and that knight hasn't been seen since. And 3 months later, we celebrated Derpy's and eTu`nes' wedding. They are truly a perfect couple, if you look at it.

And just a couple hours after that, we were forced to say good-by to our human friends. They had to go and try to stop those 2, and that girl who had also disappeared, from causing trouble on other worlds. Dis had found a way to send those summoned by Eris back to their own worlds to the exact point in time they appeared on Equestria. He did so and sent them home. After a hard good-bye, we said out goodbyes and the humans went off to find those people and stop them."
"What happened next?"
"for the humans, we don't know. For us, the next 4 years, which you all were a part of."

"did all that really happen?" the colt asked.
"Well, I may have… tweaked a few things to make it child friendly but that's the true, whole story." she looked up at the clock. "oh, geez. Look at the time. Glade, Woona, Marian. Time to go to bed."
"Aw, do we have too?" they whined.
"Yes. Get to your sleeping bags. I'll be in to tuck you in soon."
The fillies and colt walked downstairs in sadness, leaving the mother to sigh and chuckle.
"I'll be heading down too, mom." her daughter yawned. "glad that you told us that story. It's always my favorite." she headed down the stairs and yawned again.
The mom caught the yawning bug and spread her mouth wide as well. It had gotten really late.
"you coming to bed, Twilight?" her husband asked from the bed.
"I'll be with you in a couple minutes, Halo." she said. She got up and headed down.

She walked downstairs to see them already asleep. She smiled at the cute sight and pulled their sleeping bags all over their slumbering forms and kissed each of them on the forehead. When she reached her daughter, she lightly brushed her flame-like hair out of her face and emotionally kissed her on the forehead.

"Good night… my precious Starlight…"

Author's Notes:

thus begins the final story in my MLP:FIM crossover series with the Requiem Trinity.