"Starlight!" Melody Bloom kicked her hoof gently to wake her up. Starlight was under a bunch of books after a late night of studying. Starlight yawned and sat up brushing off some books. "Another late night huh?"

Starlight nodded and fixed her hair. "Twilight's portal magic is amazing, I can't get enough."

"Portal magic? Oh you mean the that portal that Twilight set up using that mirror?" Melody asked. "Why do you care about that?"

"I take interest in all magic." Starlight explained. "Is that weird?"

"Ah, let me see what you have so far." Melody looked at the books and realized it was all theories and ideas of how portal magic works. Not actual magic. "Um...this isn't portal magic."

"What do you mean?" Starlight looked at her confused and took the books from her. "This is what Twilight gave me."

"Well to be honest Starswirl the bearded knew all about it. And lucky for you I knew him." Melody said taking a blank book and using a quill to write as she talked. "Of course in my era it was just theories, however he did tell me all his ideas at one point or another, he loved to talk."

"I still find you amazing Melody, I can't even imagine what your went through." Starlight pointed out as she watched Melody writing in the black book.

"Trust me, you don't want to know. It's a lot better in this era." Melody said. "And portal magic isn't hard to be honest, Starswirl told me it was all about the right order of runes. Their like coordinates to order worlds."

Melody finished writing what she remembered from Starswirl's rambling. "There we go. Here."

Starlight took it and looked it over. "This is amazing...no wonder he was the master of magic….wait."

She closed the book and realized that the book Melody used had a cutie mark on it. "Oh dear...this book is Twilight's. She doesn't like anyone touching it and you wrote all over it."

"It was blank for most of the pages. It's fine." Melody said. "Don't worry."

"Well I hope it will be okay." Starlight said with a shrug and took the book. She wanted to study all of the notes. From just the first page she could tell it was very detailed. "All this from memory?"

"I don't want to brag but it's true. I remember everything I've been though very well. Even as a filly. It's really useful." Melody explained.

"That sounds so cool, I wish I had a memory like that." Starlight said half jokingly.

"You could have it if I could give it to you, I remember everything...that means I still remember what happened to my family as if it happened five minutes ago." Melody admitted. She then smacked herself seeing Starlight looking depressed from this.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-" Starlight apologized but Melody cut her off.

"Don't be sorry, I brought up the whole dead parents thing. I'm really bad with good moods." Melody said.

"It's okay Melody, you did live in an era of nothing but serious conflict after all. Nobody will blame you for talking about it." Starlight said.

"I think I see why Twilight picked you fro her pupil." Melody said.

"Your just saying that. I'm not special." Starlight said humbly.

"Oh but you are." Melody Bloom said, she was about to continue when suddenly Discord popped out of one of the castle vases.

"Isn't this nice? Two friends becoming closer, be careful you two. Or some of us will start to ship you." Discord said mockingly.

Melody rolled her eyes at this, she wished Twilight would let her just turn him to stone or something. "What are you talking about? And what do you want?"

"Well I just so happened to hear your little conversion and I just have to warn you. Time travel is not a good idea. I've done it." Discord pointed out. "It's not all it's cracked up to be."

"Time travel?" Starlight and Melody looked at him. "We were talking about other worlds other realities."

"Oh really? Now that is interesting. Mind if I come along?" Discord asked.

"Yes actually we mind completely." Melody said annoyed. "Go crawl back in your wormhole monster, we have important work to discuss."

"Jeez, you still are holding that whole killing your mother thing over my head huh?" Discord said as if it didn't matter at all. "You've never been very fun Melody. Always so serious and mean."

"Discord!" Starlight growled.

Melody glared at him. "What do you mean by that?"

"I'm just trying to point out that I am beloved by Twilight and her friends because I'm fun and willing to go the distance to help others. And you, your a shut in that thinks she knows everything magical and has no friends. Just hate." Discord said plainly clearly he was trying to get under her skin and it was working.

Starlight looked at Melody worried. She had no idea what she would do. Melody took a deep breath and turned away from him. Starlight was about to say something when Twilight walked in, she had a towel around her mane and tail as she looked fresh out of the shower. "Discord!"

"Oh hey best friend. What can I do for you?" Discord asked acting innocent.

"You jerk!" Twilight slapped him with her magic. "I was taking a shower and you replaced water with Rainbow mix!"

Twilight removed her towel around her mane revealing it was rainbow colored now. "Look at this!"

Starlight held back a laugh and Melody didn't really react to it. Discord laughed out loud and messed with her hair. "It looks good on you, what's the problem?"

Twilight's eyes flashed red in pure rage. "No pony...messes..with...my hair!"

She used her magic and created a door from nothing. "Get out of my house!"

She kicked him through the door and closed it, then she took the door away with her magic. "Haa...I really hate that guy."

"Nice one Twilight." Starlight said. "But I thought you were going to be with Rarity and the twins today."

"I was, but now my hair is ruined, I can't go out like this. It's a mess." Twilight said. "Discord has been more and more jealous lately."

"Well the twins are getting attention and he isn't." Melody spoke up.

"Are you okay Melody? Did he say something about...you know?" Twilight asked.

"Of course he did, but I'm not letting him get to me...as much." Melody admitted. "It's still hard though."

Twilight nodded and saw the Book Starlight had. "Oh! I see you found Sunset's book, do you need it for something?"

"Oh uh, sorry Twilight. We just wanted to study some of Starlight's magic. Is that okay?" Starlight admitted glad to change the subject.

"I don't know mind at all, just make sure you don't do anything crazy, I do need that book." Twilight said.

Melody looked Twilight over and smiled. "You know, looking at you know. You make Rainbow hair look good."

Twilight blushed at this. She brushed her hair a little. "Well...thanks, but don't get used to it. I like my normal hair color."

"Hey I'm actually going over to Rarity's, she said she found a strange journal and wants me to check it out. So be careful okay? I don't want to come home to ruins." Twilight explained.

"Right, don't worry so much. Have fun with your marefriend." Starlight said.

"She's not my marefriend, we're just hanging out." Twilight said before she left.

"She's in denial." Starlight said happily before getting back to work on her studies with Melody's help.

Twilight was really happy that Melody was there, she could take over Starlight's studies while she was busy. And thanks to her having twins she was really busy now.

Twilight went straight to Rarity's home and knocked on the door, to be honest she was looking forward to twins one day living with her. But she was happy that the girls were with Rarity.

The door opened and Sweetie Belle opened the door. "Oh hey! Princess Twilight. What is it?"

"I'm here to see my little ones." Twilight said stepping into the house. "And Rarity as well."

Twilight heard someone talking upstairs and then a loud crash. "What's going on?"

"Well...Rainbow Dash made another bet with Dusk Sparkle. What happened to your hair by the way?" Sweetie Belle explained.

"Discord happened, another prank as usual." Twilight said before she walked upstairs.

Rarity was cleaning up a broken vase as Rainbow Dash and Dusk Sparkle were there looking like they just got in trouble with their mother. "Did I not say? no flying indoors, must I go over the rules again?"

"Sorry Rarity, we just….you know?" Rainbow Dash tried to explain.

"It's fine Rainbow Dash, it's only a vase from my grandmother's collection that was one of a kind, one she got from the unicornia age." Rarity said sighing. "Going into my attic wasn't smart, there is some priceless artifacts in there. It isn't a playing ground."

"We're sorry...we just got caught up playing." Dusk Sparkle admitted. "We can fix it if you want."

"No, I'll get a professional to fix it, I just hope I have all the pieces." Rarity said.

"Oh my, are you all okay?" Twilight asked walking up to them.

"Mom!?" Dusk Sparkle smiled and gave her a hug.

Twilight hugged her with one leg. "So you are causing Rarity more trouble again huh?"

"Well...yes..." Dusk Sparkle said feeling disappointed in herself.

"Twilight darling, it's so good to see you." Rarity said as she finished cleaning up the mess.

"What are you doing here?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Digging the new look though."

"Discord did this to me, another prank of course." Twilight said. "And I'm here to spend time with the girls. Where is Shining Star?"

"Unlike our little trouble maker Shining Star is studying." Rarity said.

"Studying?" Twilight asked. "What do you mean?"

"She's doing her homework." Rainbow Dash said. "They do go to school now after all."

"They do?" Twilight asked. "When was this?"

"We only just started mom." Dusk Sparkle explained. "Rarity got us enrolled but we're taking exams to see what level of education we're at."

"What you said Shining Star is doing homework." Twilight said confused.

"Oh that's because she's studying to take the test." Rarity clarified for her. "Dusk got bored and is taking a break."

Twilight nodded finally understanding, princess Luna had been right. Rarity knew what she was doing when it came to raising children. "Well I'm glad you girls are keeping busy."

Rarity noticed the look Twilight had, she could tell she was felt left out, when the twins first showed up Twilight didn't know what to do with herself, but now she was being very motherly.

"I'm done!" Shining Star came up with some papers held up with her magic. "I took extra care for each paper just like you said!"

"Oh can I see?" Rarity asked taking the paper and looking it over. "Oh my goodness. Shining Star this is amazing."

"Really?" Twilight looked at the paper and smiled. "Wow, can't wait to see what score she gets."

"Dusk? Would you please finish your paper? Cheerlie is expecting the paper soon." Rarity pointed out.

"Okay fine." Dusk said going back to her room.

"So can I play yet?" Shining Star asked.

"You can play, but make sure you play outside please?" Rarity said.

Shining Star jumps happily and grabs Rainbow Dash. "Let's play!"

"Sure!" Rainbow Dash nodded and they went outside.

Rarity let out a little sigh and smiled at Twilight. "Your children are very high maintenance."

"I'm sorry Rarity, they must be hard to work with." Twilight said. "I can take them to my castle if you want?"

"Twilight, I know you want them to be with you, but you know you can't." Rarity pointed out.

"Yeah...I know, my princess duties come first." Twilight nodded. "Even though I haven't done anything with my so called duties."

"I understand how you feel Twilight. I'm not even going to try to understand what a princess must sacrifice for her people." Rarity said.

"That's just it, I'm not sacrificing anything, I'm just living in a castle playing princess, I feel so stupid most of the time." Twilight admitted. "I never even thought about having a family before, but now that I do have one I want to be with them."

"Oh speaking of family, I found something strange awhile back and I have been reading it. And you won't believe what I found." Rarity said.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked.

Rarity went to her room and Twilight followed, she opened a drawer and pulled out a book. "A girl named Rarity, turns out I'm not the only Rarity in the family. She wrote in a journal and from what is on it...well you'll just have to read it."

Rarity took out a book that looked fairly old and showed it to Twilight. Twilight looked it over and then opened it, she read a little of it and looked at Rarity confused. "Are you sure this is real?"

"I don't see why she would make something like that up." Rarity pointed out.

"Let's see." Twilight read more and out loud. "This journal is to remember the true events of Equestrian history. As some would say history is made by the victors. But the victors are not always right."

"Two alicorns, not the ones we all know of course. Serenity and Paradise…." Twilight stopped and looked at Rarity. "Who are they?"

"I'm not really sure myself, but keep reading." Rarity said.

"Okay. Serenity and Paradise are kind and gentle alicorns, they would help all those in need, both had very amazing magical powers. Serenity has magic to change the hearts of any she wishes. She would use this gift to help those in need. In a way it's like hypnosis, one example of her powers is she could help solve problems between warring factions and make peace." Twilight continued. "She's been titled the princess of hearts."

"She sounds very nice." Rarity said.

"Yeah..." Twilight nodded and kept reading. "However some would say her magic was too powerful. Could be used for evil, Starlight the Bearded has expressed this many times in fact. But is Serenity evil? I think not, I knew her, she is loving and caring...she's even with child."

"Aw." Rarity smiled at this.

"Another alicorn...and she had a child...is this real?" Twilight asked herself before reading more. "Paradise...someone I hold very dear to my heart, she had amazing powers as well. She could make anything fertile, she could give life to just about anything, she could help animals have children, or even ponies. Just about anything really. People called her the princess of fertility. Struggling couples from far and wide would always go to her and beg for her spells, she was always willing to help out so she didn't know why they begged. She never turned any pony down."

"This magic...I didn't know there was that kind of magic." Twilight said. "Can you imagine what you could do with such magic?"

"You could help ponies all over Equestria!" Rarity said. "Or even the world!"

"But...why haven't I heard about them before? They seem rather important right?" Twilight asked.

"Using their magic for good? And seem like their very sweet. It's very odd we haven't heard of them before." Rarity admitted.

Twilight nodded and kept on reading. "Truth is, Paradise helped even me. However with recent events I dare not say it."

"This Rarity needed Paradise's help? Amazing." Rarity said as Twilight continued.

"I don't have much time to write in this anymore. But I must tell the true history somewhere. According to official records Paradise and Serenity don't even exist. Starswirl the bearded believed their powers to be...dangerous, he didn't give them a chance and convinced princess Celestia and Luna to seal them away forever in a crystal. As if they are monsters." Twilight read out loud. "No trial, no explanation, just punishment...all because of a maybe. I've lost faith in Ponies. But I will make sure my family line knows the hidden truth."

Twilight put the book down and sat on Rarity's bed. "Wow...do you realize what this means if it's real?"

"I...I can't help but feel it's real Twilight, I don't think she would make something like this up." Rarity said. "Those words were written with love of other princesses."

"I agree...so that means Celestia and Luna lied to us...to the world, I wonder what else they lied about." Twilight pondered.

"We should confront them shouldn't we?" Rarity asked.

"I...I want to get all the facts before we do anything." Twilight said.

"I understand Twilight." Rarity nodded. "Well enough about that, we have a lot to do."

"Right. The twins are waiting!" Twilight and Rarity went outside to go find them.

Meanwhile in Canterlot. Daring Do was looking over an old map. She smiled and nodded to herself as she went into the caves of the mountain. "I wonder if what that strange mare said was true? Is there really a gem down here that contains alicorn magic?"

Daring Do adjusted her hat as she lit a torch and carried on. "This is just a simple cave, I doubt I can write a book about it."

Daring Do looked around as she walked. It was old and looked like some sort of library. She could tell it was Starswirl's old lab, mainly because of the large sign that said "Starswirl's lab."

"So he had a lab down here huh? Good to know I guess." Daring Do went into the lab and the torch lit the place rather well, she could see a bunch of old books and broken vials. While she was looking around there was a gem on the wall gleaming from the light. Daring Do didn't see it however.

The gem glowed gently at first but then it brightened and Daring Do finally noticed it. "What is that?"

Daring Do went over to the gem and it suddenly cracked. "Whoa?"

Then the light shined forth onto the floor and two alicorns appeared there. They both looked like alicorns at first but something was different about them, their wings were not normal. One of them was an Ivory white mare with pink hair with purple tips. She had red eyes and her wings were demon like.

The other one had the same red eyes as the other, but her hair was blue with purple streaks. Her coat was a pearl white color. Her wings were like a pixie's. The first girl stood up and took a deep breath. "That smell...fresh air..."

The other one got up and smiled flapping her wings a little. "It's been so long."

Daring Do was in awe from this. "That gem...it wasn't infused with magic of alicorns...it was sealing Alicorns!"

The first one turned to Daring Do and smiled. "Thank you Ms...Do? Is it?"

"You know me?" Daring Do asked.

"We had a lot of time to kill trapped in that gem." The second one said.

"My name is Serenity. And this is my sister Paradise." The first one said. "With our magic we saw the world change."

"But...why were you sealed away?" Daring Do asked.

"By jealous princesses not getting all the attention." Paradise said plainly.

"And that's why we're going to crush Equestria and burn Canterlot to the ground." Serenity said as if it had been planned for years.

"Wait, your what!? You can't!" Daring Do backs up and readies herself for a fight. "I won't let you!"

"Sis, can you deal with her?" Paradise asked.

"Deal with? I don't think so, as much as I want to we can't just attack Canterlot. We need to make sure Celestia and Luna can't fight us." Serenity smiled at Daring Do and then her horn lit up a red color.

The red aura went around Daring Do's head and she grabbed her head in pain. "Ahh! Stop!"

"You are my slave Daring Do. You belong to me now." Serenity said and increased her magic on Daring Do.

Daring Do's eyes glazed over and she stopped struggling and stood up. "Mas...ter..."

"That's a good little pony." Serenity grinned and walked around her to look at her from all angles. "Now be a good mare and take us to the city."

"Yes...master." Daring Do said before they started to walk.

"Should we disguise ourselves?" Paradise asked.

"But of course." Serenity said using her magic again to take away their wings so they looked like unicorns.

They then slowly made their way out of the cave. Paradise covered her eyes a little when they went outside. "Uh...I haven't seen the sun in so long."

Serenity nodded and they followed their slave to the city. Serenity and Paradise looked around the busy city. "This is Canterlot now?"

"I know we've been watching the world through magic. But this...seeing the real thing is so different." Serenity said.

"Oh!" Paradise dashed over to the market. "Look at this! It's food! I haven't eaten in so long!"

Serenity rolled her eyes. "Are you kidding? We need to get to planning, plus we don't have any bits."

"Oh come on Serenity, a little food after being sealed away for so long isn't going to hurt." Paradise smelled the food and drooled a little. "And Daring Do there has bits right? Daring Do!"

Daring Do comes up to her. "Yes master?"

"Please buy us some apples." Paradise told her.

Daring Do nodded and went off to buy some food. Serenity sighed and went up to her. "This is a waste of time."

Right after she said that her stomach growled making her blush. Paradise just smiled at her. "Don't even..."

Daring Do didn't take long and came back with some apples for them. "Here masters."

"Oh yay!" Paradise takes one and eats. "Mmmm!"

Serenity looks at them and Paradise offers her an apple. Serenity took it and took a small bite. She really didn't feel like eating, she mostly wanted revenge.

Paradise her apple fast and smiled. "That was good, apples have really gotten better in the time we were gone right sis?"

"It's fine." Serenity said before taking another bite.

Paradise patted their slave on the head. "Good job Ms. Do, your a good little slave."

"Thank you master." Daring Do blushed a little.

"Don't compliment the slave for doing her job Paradise." Serenity said annoyed.

"Jeez Serenity, lighten up." Paradise said stroking Daring Do's mane like a doll's. "She has feelings even as our mindless slave."

"Whatever, let's just scope out the castle. We need to plan." Serenity said throwing what was left of the apple she had in a trash nearby.

Paradise rolled her eyes and they headed to the castle. Even as they planed their revenge on the princesses she couldn't help but feel like this was wrong.

Meanwhile back in Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle had been playing with Dusk Sparkle and Shining Star. Rarity had called Cheerliee to look at the tests the girls had done before and Rainbow Dash was gone for now.

"Hey Mommy?" Shining Star asked her mom as she climbed up on her mane. "Can I ask you something?"

"You can ask me anything sweetheart." Twilight said with a smile.

"When can we move in with you? I mean mama Rarity is great and I'm super happy here, but I would like to live with you." Shining Star admitted.

"I would love nothing more girls. But I can't, my royal duties...they take all my time…I guess." Twilight said.

"Does being a princess mean you can't have a family?" Dusk asked.

"Oh no Dusk. That's not it. My sister in law has a family." Twilight said.

"Then why can't you?" The twins asked at the same time.

"Well...I'm new to the whole princess thing still. I don't have a kingdom or any duties." Twilight admitted.

"Soooo...your not really a princess?" Shining Star asked. It was blunt but they had a right to ask all these questions. Although Twilight didn't know how to answer them.

"No I am...I'm just not...important enough to have duties." Twilight said, now feeling down.

The girls noticed this and realized they asked too many questions. "Sorry mommy."

"It's okay girls, I'm more then happy with you two in my life." Twilight said trying to brush off her hurt feelings.

"Hey!" They heard a shout and someone hopping.

"Huh?" Twilight looked over at a hill and Pinkie Pie came hopping up to them.

"Hey Twilight! hey babies!" Pinkie dashed over to them with her hopping. "What's up!?"

"Pinkie!" The twins jumped on her, luckily Pinkie's hair was crazy soft as she was tackled to the ground.

"How are my favorite alicorn babies?" Pinkie said giggling on the ground.

"Their not really babies Pinkie." Twilight said.

"Uh, yeah they are. They are only a couple months or so old after all. That means their babies. It's science Twilight silly!" Pinkie pointed out.

"Okay you have me there." Twilight admitted. "So what brings you here?"

"Rainbow Dash told me they were playing, so I wanted to play too!" Pinkie explained.

"Girls!" Rarity called as she came out with Cheerliee. "We're done!"

Twilight got up with Pinkie and took the children with them over to Rarity. "So how did they do?"

"How did they do? They passed almost every test with flying colors!" Cheerliee said. "They will be skipping my classes altogether, and go straight to high school!"

"Wow! They are skipping a TON of grades!" Pinkie said excitedly.

"Skipping grades? That's amazing! But is that a good idea? Their just children. Going to high school so fast is a little much isn't it?" Twilight said.

"That's what I said." Rarity agreed. "But it's honestly their choice. Shining Star? Dusk Sparkle? Would you like to go to school? I will admit that we won't be there with you when your there."

The twins looked at each other and then Shining Star looked at them again. "To be honest...I don't want to be away from my family, it feels like we just really started being a family. Can we look into it? We don't want to rush things."

"That's perfectly fine girls." Cheerliee said. "It's a tough decision, just think about it and call me over when you made your choice."

"Well thank you so much for coming over Cheerliee." Rarity said.

"It's my pleasure. It's not everyday someone like me gets to be near princesses." Cheerliee said before she walked away.

"Wow Twilight, they really are your kids, they skipped grades just like you!" Pinkie pointed out.

"Yeah...but now I know how my mother felt when I left to be the princess's pupil." Twilight said. "No wonder she was crying with joy whenever I saw her."

"Don't sound so sad Twilight." Rarity said. "These things take time. So don't panic just yet."

"Your probably right, I'm over thinking things." Twilight agreed.