Princess Celestia woke up with a start, blinking around in the darkness of her as senses returned to the magical equine. She closed her eyes and looked at the bright moon hanging in the glittering darkness of the night sky. A sound of strong wings flapping and she saw her sister Alicorn landing on her balcony, holding her horned head regally as she opened the balcony doors with magic. With light hooves, she approached her sister, "We sense trouble from thy sleep sister,"

Celestia sighed, "We dreamt a strange dream, Luna,"

Her dark counterpart folded her wings and sat across her, "Trouble but not a nightmare, tis we sense,"

Celestia nodded and drew in deep breath, dropping her formal speech, "I dreamt that I was standing in a foal room but it was room unlike anything I have ever laid eyes upon. A strange creature with primate likeness entered the room I spoke of in terror, in her arms, for I believe it to be a 'her' from her appearance alone, was a little foal of her kind. She whispered words of love to her brood, but it wasn't a loving goodnight," Celestia sighed, "Tis was but a goodbye for the little one. I'll ne'er in my life be able to forget what comes next, sister,"

Luna stared but since Celestia could not go on for sorrow came over her in great waves. A week later after such a strange dream, Luna snapped and became Nightmare Moon. It wasn't until she met Twilight Sparkle and saw the little filly Cutie Mark did she recall her strange dream.

It was a year after Twilight became her apprentice that Celestia dreamed another strange dream that showed her nothing but whispering words; "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."

But one day, just after Twilight managed bring Nightmare Moon back to her senses as Luna, Celestia dreamed of a Cutie Mark unlike any she has ever seen before. The words echoed in her dream over and over as she witnessed strange runes that she has never seen but immediately recognised etched in gold clockwise within each points of a familiar six pointed star; Sowilo, Ehwaz, Othala, Ansuz, Dagaz and Mannaz. Of the six runes the two, Sowilo and Ansuz, both placed in the largest and longest points of the star thus also the two largest runes glowed with power.

Then as if sharing the star, within were unmistakably half of her, Celestia's sun Cutie Mark and the other half overlapping hers within her sun disk were Luna's moon Cutie Mark. One side representing the sun were six rays of sunlight and the right half were three five pointed stars. The circle that appeared in the middle of the overlapping Cutie Marks were a strange symbol; a triangle grouping together a long line and a circle. It was an ominous mark and gave a strange feeling over Celestia and yet as she woke up the next day, the Cutie Mark seemed to indicate an extremely powerful pony; perhaps the birth of a new Alicorn? Nevertheless, the Cutie Mark was one of the most complicated one she has ever seen.

One morning a confused and distraught Luna burst into her room with a woven basket carried with magic, containing a very special baby and a letter.