My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Starlight, Starbright

Chapter 1

A Fateful Day

young Glade Yggdrasill, the Alicorn son of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor, snored up a storm.

Out of the 4 of them- Glade, Marian and Woona; the daughters of Princess La Luz De La Luna and Trixie Lulamoon, and Starlight Sparkle, the Alicorn daughter of Twilight -he was the loudest and the most obnoxious, which made him a perfect target for a prank.

Woona and Starlight chuckled evilly as they used their magic to hold a bucket of water over his head. “Hehehe. This is perfect.” Woona chuckled. “he pulled this on me last week. Time to return the favor.” Starlight rolled her eyes. She just wanted a good laugh.

They tipped the bucket and they were about to splash it all over him but…

“Starlight! Woona! What is going on in here?” Twilight exclaimed.

“Busted!” the 2 fillies said. They dumped the bucket’s contents down on Glade, snapping him awake, then bolted to the door.

Twi, with her eyes closed, used her magic to close the door on them both. They ran into it. “ouch.” Woona groaned as she and Starlight slid down to the floor.

“*sigh* and mommy wonders why I’m the nice one.” Marian sighed, standing next to her aunt Twilight.

Glade spit up water and couched. “What was that for?”

“payback for last week.” Woona said. She looked up to see Twilight standing over her with a stern expression. “oh. Um… hey there, Auntie Twilight. Hehe… Spike coming over?”

“Apologize to Glade. Right now. You too, Starlight.”

“Me? But it was Woona’s idea.” she pleaded.

Twi gave her daughter a stern look. “Starlight…”

The fillies sighed in defeat. “Okay, fine.” they both got up and walked to Glade. “Glade, we’re sorry.” they both said, Woona holding back a bit.

“Woona…” Twilight’s persistent tone made her wince.

“um… sorry for the prank, cous. Forgive me?”

Glade gave his mischievous cousin a suspicious glare. Woona was a prankster though and though, and her being a Alicorn didn‘t exactly help it. Luckily, he had a prank of his own to play back. “you’re forgiven Woona.” he offered his hand in friendship and she instantly took it. She should’ve looked as she was almost immediately electrocuted. She let to and blew at her hoof to see Glade holding up a joy buzzer. “now we’re truly even.”

Woona blew fumes and charged at Glade. He turned and ran into another part of the library. Twilight, Marian, and Starlight sighed in defeat. Those 2 are a disaster waiting to happen.

(before you ask, Starlight, Glade, and Woona are the only new Alicorns in this. Starlight’s kind and a bit naive, Glade is stern, and Woona’s a prankster. No Mary Sue‘s here. Mostly because I don‘t know what the hell a Mary Sue is.)

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

The door to the library knocked, then opened. “Yoo-hoo.” Rarity poked her head in. “Anypony home?”

“hey there, Rarity.” Twilight said, still in the same pose from 20 seconds earlier. “what brings you here?”

“I was just coming to see if I can find a book on cloth resilient to dragon scales. Spike keeps ripping though his tux and I’m starting to get tired of repairing it every time.”

“oh. That all?” Twilight used her magic to pull said book off the shelve and to her.

“Oh, thank you Twilight. Hopefully, there’s some way to keep his scales from ripping it.”

“I’m sure there is.”

Screams came from the other room, along with Glade yelling, “Uncle! Uncle!”

Rarity recognized the voice. “Glade?”

“Woona’s torturing him again. As always.” Marian said.

“oh, Marian. How lovely to see you. What are you doing here this early? Speaking of which, what‘re Glade and Woona doing here?”

“they slept over.” Starlight explained.

“oh, that so? Well, why didn’t you invite Filigree, or even Cotton or Peppy? They loves sleep overs.”

“it was just close family. Besides, I don’t think mom or dad could survive all of them.”

“True.” Rarity shivered, remembering when she hosted a sleep-over for all of them. Worst idea ever.

Starlight looked up at the clock. She hopes mom won’t be mad if she leaves. “Mommy, is it okay if I go to Sweet Apple Acres and play with Peppy?”

Twi looked up at the clock. It’s still pretty early but this was the apple family she’s talking about. “Okay, Starlight. But don’t be annoying if they’re hard at work, okay?”

“Okay. Can my cousins come with me?”

Twi shook her head ‘no’. I’m afraid not. Their mothers are coming over later and they want them here.”

“Okay.” Starlight ran past Rarity and out the door.

Rarity watched her leave and chuckled. “she’s quite the cutie, Twilight. But… does she know?”

“Know what, that she has power over time?”

“yeah.”

Twilight sighed. “yeah, she does. But she knows that she is never, ever, ever to use it, ever.” she sat down on the floor and sighed again. “thank goodness that she has all her friends to keep her occupied.”

“thank goodness they just see her as just a normal pony rather then a Alicorn.”

“yeah. Thank goodness…” Twilight was still worried. They may see her as a normal pony now but as they get older, they may take advantage of her and her power. She just prays that will never happen, because she knows that Starlight will never try to use her powers.

“Come on, Starlight. You can do this.”

The filly relocated herself into a part of the Everfree Forest she always goes to whenever she wants to practice her powers over time. Her mom told her that some knight 4 years ago gave her these powers but was never fully explained why. It probably doesn’t matter.

For the past 4 months, she was trying to reverse time but turning a withered flower back into it’s beautiful form. A task tougher then it sounds because every time she seems to get close, it backfires. It doesn’t cause any more damage, it just doesn’t work. But, she got close last week. If she can just redo what she did…

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gCsP9dkkuI

Nemesis - Halo 4 OST

0:00.

Starlight looked at the flower and concentrated. Time to see if it will work. Her horn glowed a light blue, the same color as her fiery mane. The flower also glowed and stuttered in it’s spot.

“Come on. It can’t be that hard to use magic…” she grunted. “mom does it as simple as 1, 2, 3.”

She was completely unaware that she was being watched from the cliff above her, a pair of claws tapped on the side of it before retreating into back into the bush it came from.

Starlight concentrated with all her might. Her pocket-watch Cutie Mark glowed the same color as her horn and mane.

The flower’s glow intensified and, to Starlight’s amazement, it’s time began to reverse. It turned back from a withered husk to a beautiful rose.

Starlight stopped her magic and panted heavily. That took a lot out of her.

Once she gathered her breath, she walked over and looked at her work. “YES! It worked! Yes, yes, yes! WOO-HOO!”

0:40.

A sudden crack of a branch broke Starlight out of her cheerful trance and replaced it with fear. “h-hello?” nothing but the rustling of bushes replied. “h-hello?” she got very scared. Nobody knows what lies in the Everfree Forest and that makes this even more scary.

“m-m-mommy? Is that you?”

Another branch snapped, making her whinny in fear. “W-Woona. If this is you, then this isn’t a funny joke. Hehe. Not funny at all.”

deep, foreboding growling came from all sides, sending her into a tailspin. “you can stop joking around guys. Please.”

Yellow eyes came from the trees in front of her, followed by a really nasty smell that made her cough. “*cough* ugh. Guys. Did you forgot to bath? *cough cough*.”

A large claw slowly walked out of the bush nearest to her, along with a loud growl. Starlight lost it and ran. “This isn’t funny any more, guys!” she yelled as she ran.

She ran as fast as she could and looked back to see if whatever’s there is pursuing her. There was but it was sticking to the bushes. More joined in with it and followed her.

“Leave me alone!” she yelled out.

She didn’t watch where she was going and fell down a small hill. She hit her front-right hoof on a rock, bruising it. She rolled into a tree, upside-down. “ow.”

she got up and tried to run but her hoof hurt horribly. “ow. Owowowow.” she fell to her knees and rubbed her hoof.

Once the pain had subsided enough, she got up and walked away with a limp. She bumped into something and fell back. “Ow!” she saw the same claws from the bush and gulped.

She slowly looked up, growing more fearful with each passing second.

1:43.

Standing over her was a Timberwolf. A very angry one with a noticeable scar over it’s closed right eye. It snarled down at her, baring it’s teeth.

“AHH!” she crawled away from it, only to run into it’s pack. The pack of 9 surrounded her and each one snarled at her.

“AAHHH!!! DON‘T EAT ME!”

The leader, the one with the scar, walked on over and grabbed her by the mane. She yelled as she was lifted up. The Timberwolf sniffed her. Yep, she had the same scent.

“Let me go! You don’t want to eat me! I taste terrible, like a bad pasta.” The leader scoffed and tossed her to the ground. He growled and a couple more Timberwolves grabbed her. “w-what are you going to do to me?” The leader growled at her. “W-what do you want with me?” she fearfully asked.

The wolves that had grabbed her snarled, shutting her up. The leader turned around with a necklace of some sorts. “what is…?” the Timberwolf placed it on her Cutie Mark.

Seconds later, she screamed as it tried to absorb her latent powers.

2:20.

A pony, a rather big male unicorn, watched from above. Without a sound, he jumped down at them.

He landed on and crushed one of the Timberwolves. He used his magic to blast two more into spare parts.

The leader turned and got blasted as well. The necklace fell to the ground and Starlight stopped screaming. The wolves holding her got blasted and she fell to the ground.

She groaned as she got up to her knees. The unicorn walked over to her and helped her up. “Are you all right, little one?”

“yeah. I think so.” she looked up and gasped in fear. The unicorn was black, large, and foreboding. His iris’ were a reptilian red with green in it’s eyes and purple fire coming out of the edges. He was wearing body armor with a red cape. Whoever he was, he was scary looking.

The Timberwolves regenerated and roared at him. The leader, when he finished regenerating, snarled then howled at the sky.

“Run, Starlight!” the Unicorn said as his red horn glowed.

“But I--”

“RUN!”

Starlight didn’t argue when he yelled. She ran and got the hell out of there. The unicorn scoffed then turned his attention to the Timberwolves.

Starlight ran as fast as she could with that injured leg of hers. “(Who was that guy? I feel like I know him from somewhere, but where? And how does he know my name?)”

A large explosion came from behind her, lifting her up and tossing her into the air for a few moments. She crashed though a tree and landed on the ground.

3:04.

“This isn’t my day.” she groaned.

She looked back, worried about the unicorn that saved her. “just… who was he?” she wondered.

She got up, still looking in that direction. Worried that more Timberwolves may be coming her way, she ran for home as best she can.

The Unicorn and the Timberwolves watched from a cliff as she ran.

“phase 1... Complete. Just have to wait 13 years for phase 2.” he told the Timberwolves. He and the wolves disappeared in a flash of darkness.

3:34. End Song.

Starlight reached the library no more worse for ware. “how am I going to explain this to mom?” she muttered to herself, looking at her bruises. She outcried then hit herself in the head. She remembered she had a story ready to go if her mom ever caught her practicing her time magic. “guess I’m gonna have to add Timberwolves and that unicorn to the mix.”

She reached up to and opened the door. She walked in to a surprisingly dark room. “why’s the light off?” she flicked the switch on.

“SURPRISE!!!” All her friends and family yelled. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”

“b-birthday?” Starlight said in surprise.

Twilight nodded. She should know. “you turn 4 today, Sta--” she noticed all of Starlight’s bruises and walked over to her. “Starlight, what happened to you? Why are you covered in bruises?”

“(time to put that story to work.)” she momentarily thought to herself. “um… on the way to Sweet Apple Acres, I saw a butterfly I never saw before and followed it. Guess I lost track of where I was because I found myself in the Everfree Forest. Things to a bad turn when Timberwolves attacked me.”

“Timberwolves?!”

“Yeah. They nearly got me too when this mystery pony saved me.”

“Mystery Pony?” Applejack asked.

“yeah. He fought them off so I could escape. I’m not sure what happened to him.”

“oh, Starlight. thank goodness you’re okay.” Twilight softly said.

“yeah.” Starlight felt bad for lying to her mother. She never did that before and just felt horrible for doing it. “um… if it’s okay, I’m gonna go to the bathroom and clean myself up.”

“okay.” Starlight walked off to the bathroom.

“brave girl.” Cadence said. “a normal filly her age would’ve been scarred.”

“I know. she’s got my strong will.” Twi boasted.

Starlight was shaken to her core. She splashed water into her face and panted. How is she supposed to react to almost getting killed by Timberwolves? And that mystery pony. There was just something about him that felt familiar but she couldn’t explain what or why. Who was he? She looked up the mirror, still not sure how to process this.

She remembered the Timberwolf placing a necklace on her Cutie Mark that caused her pain. She looked back and saw a scorch-mark right in the middle. If someone just glances, it won’t be noticeable. But if someone stares long enough… “if mom finds out I lied to her, I’ll be in big trouble.”

She grabbed her mother’s makeup kit and touched up the mark. “better she doesn’t find out. I’m not sure what’s going on myself.”

Starlight was unaware that the same pony that saved her was watching her. “Strong-willed but weak-spirited. I can work with that.” he dissolved into shadows and disappeared.

Author's Notes:

well... that was unexpected.