Hello Everyone, So I am still kind of new to this fandom. I never really watched it until my niece introduced me to the show. I was baby sitting her at the time and she was watching the Season Two premier "Return to Harmony" on Netflix and I decided to watch it with her having nothing else to do and was amazed by how good it was. And I have been hooked ever since.

Now a fair warning I am not going to be following all of the popular ships that everyone likes. I will be keeping Fluttercord due to it being a unwritten rule, and I might use Rarity X Spike if I feel the story leaning that direction, but I am going to be using a couple of OC's I created for Twilight and Rainbow Dash. Reason being I kind of like to do my own thing when it comes to my stories. I find I am at my best when I just do my own thing and not follow a crowd. If you don't like it I'm sorry but I still hope you give this a chance even if I don't use your favorite ship.

Lastly I am going to be adding in some original songs I made for this story. All you have to do is create your own Melody. I've never done this before but since I'm tackling a new fandom I wanted to try something new for it.

Now Without further ado please enjoy, Twilight's Reign.

Equestria, one thousand years ago

Princess Celestia ran outside as fast as her four legs could take her. She heard the sounds of screaming coming from outside and lightning crashing as the normally blue skies because pitch black.

"How bad is it?" Celestia asked her sister Luna as the two princesses ran out the front gates.

"The entire school of dark magic has led a full attack on Canterlot."

"And what about Ash?"

Luna pointed her horn to the sky where Celestia saw to her horror a black Alicorn flying above the black stormy sky, his face deformed and scarred laughing manically as black smoke circled around him. "He is the one that led them here."

Celestia flew up to where as stood "Ash, please stop this."

"This is what Equestria deserves!" Ash growled "this is what you deserve!"

"I fought for you, I did everything I could to help you!"

"You kicked me out of your school! Your prized student!"
"I tried to stop it, you know me and Luna run that school together, I tried to reason with her and the board, I tried to change their mind but more ponies sided with her than me. I had no choice!"

"Well you should have fought harder," Ashe then lifted his horn and fired black magic into the clouds. Lightning then struck the school and Celestia watched in horror as it became engulfed in flames.

"Ash, please, this is not like you!"

"It is now, I have found a new school, new magic, you are nothing to me anymore."

"Please, don't make me do this."

Ash raised his neck ready to zap Celestia but Celestia quickly fired magic of her own in self defense, quickly countering his dark magic.

Down on the ground Luna and the guards had their hooves full with the rest of the school. While Luna battled the head of the school, the guards battled the rest of the students.

"Shadow Reaper ," Luna growled as she fired magic at a black unicorn with a white head and dark black eyes that had black mist coming out of them. His cutie mark was that of a skull and cross bones. "You and the rest of your students were exiled do to your miss use of the skills me and my sisters taught you!"

"All you did was hold us back, we found magic more powerful than anything you ever taught us!" Shadow Reaper shot a blast at Luna's direction, Luna dodged out of the way as the blast hit the ground disintegrating the grass.

"You knew black magic was forbidden, we kept that book locked up in a vault due to how dangerous it was, you and your friends broke into it and started learning it's skills without our permission."

"It made us more powerful than any student at your pathetic school!" Shadow Reaper's head lit on fire, his hole head transforming into a fiery skull.

"And destroyed your minds." Luna reacted. Shadow Reaper kicked up his front hooves ready to fire a blast but Luna was ready, she fired a blast at his exposed underbelly, knocking him to the ground with a scream. Using the elements of harmony Luna fired a powerful blast that turned Shadow Reaper into stone.
With Shadow Reaper taken care of Luna flew up to help her sister, who was using all the magic she had to block Ash's attack.

"This is your last chance Ash!" Celestia cried out as she used her magic to form a shield around her to block Ash's black magic. "Stand down!"

"Never!" Ash screamed as he continued to fire his magic, getting more and more powerful by the second.

"Celestia, we have no choice," Luna cried out as the two sisters struggled to hold back Ash's blasts.

Celestia closed her eyes and lowered her head in shame, she didn't want to do this, but she knew it was the only way to stop Ash from destroying Equestria. Using the elements of harmony their eyes shined a bright white, holding hooves the two caused a bright light that soon overtook the blackness he was shooting.

Ash closed his eyes and screamed as the magic from the elements of harmony overtook him and slowly started turning him to stone.

"I promise Celestia," Ash cried as he was being turned to stone "I will l get out of this stone prison and make you suffer for what you have done to me!"

"Trust me Ash, this is hurting me more than does you."

Ash let out one last scream as he was turned to stone along with the rest of the school of dark magic. As the two princesses landed on the ground tears escaped Celestia's eyes as she saw her once prized student transformed into nothing but stone.

"What should we do with them?" A guard asked.

Celestia sighed "Take them far away from Equestria, and leave them in the woods, I cannot risk them ever breaking free of their stony prison. For they hold dark magic, the most dangerous weapon ever created."

"Yes your highness."

As the guards left to retrieve and relocate the stone prisoners Luna saw Celestia sitting alone on a rock her eyes closed as she wept over her student.

"Are you going to be okay?"

"I don't know if I ever can be after what I had to do."

"Hey, you will find another student, there are plenty of ponies out there that would be honored for you to take them under your wing.

"I don't think I could ever find one as special as Ash though."

Present day.

"Well Screwball I am impressed, your skills are improving more and more each week."

"Thanks Princess Twilight."

Ten years ago Princess Celestia had retired from the throne and anointed Twilight as her successor. While Twilight was honored to be chosen to rule Equestria she was obviously scared out of her mane as well. After all Celestia had ruled Equestria for over a thousand years and was well loved by just about everyone. Despite spending years as Celestia's student Twilight feared she would never be half the princess Celestia was. But Celestia being the loving and encouraging mentor she was, soothed Twilights fears and calmed her nerves, encouraging Twilight that she would be just as wonderful of a ruler as she was.

Now ten years into her reign things couldn't be running more smoothly. All of Equestria loved her, Spike had moved to Canterlot to be her royal advisor and she had even taken Screwball, the eight year old daughter of Fluttershy and Discord who married a year after her coronation to be her apprentice. The same way Twilight was a apprentice to Celestia all those years prior.

"I must warn you though your magic will grow stronger as you get older. You must learn to be able to control it the older you get. Your doing better keeping your magic at bay, but the older you get and the more powerful you become you will find that task harder and harder."

"I will learn my princess."

"Now about your report on the magic of friendship, have you learned anything over the past week?"

"Well actually yes. I have learned that even though your friends will always have your back when trouble arrives, it is better to face your consequences and not try to cover it up."

"Well I'm proud to see your growing as more maturity rise as well as in your magic. Wait, what did you do?"

"Pulled a prank on Rarity by putting a live Tarantula in her workshop, though we didn't expect Rarity to freak out to the point that she ended up trashing her entire workshop."

"Your definitely Discord's daughter all right." Twilight mumbled to herself shaking her head.

"Yeah, mom was not to pleased when she found out. Anyway see you next week Princess Twilight."

"Keep up the good work my prized pupil." Twilight waved to Screwball as she walked out of the castle. Screwball was running down the castle steps just as Spike was walking up, accidentally bumping in to him nearly causing him to drop a package he was carrying.

"Oops sorry Spike," Screwball laughed as she continued to run down the steps.

"Kids," Spike growled "Never watching where they are going."

"What you got there Spike?" Twilight asked.

"The dress Rarity made you for the upcoming Grand Galloping Gala." Spike said pulling out the dress. It was midnight blue, with pictures of stars and crescent moons. It was also covered in nearly a hundred shiny diamonds. "Wow Rarity really out did herself this time."

"Wow, I'm surprised Rarity managed to take the time to actually make me a dress herself and mail it down here."

"Why not? Your still great friends despite not seeing each other as much as you used to."

"That's the problem though." Twilight flew to a top floor balcony, Spike following after her. She leaned her front hooves over the balcony as she looked at the sun in the sky. "Before I was princess, everything was so much simple. I was able to hang out with my friends any time I wanted, I worked as a librarian in Ponyville. I got to go a party at least once a week thanks to Pinkie."

"Yeah she did throw a lot of parties," Spike laughed.

"Exactly, now I only see them three times a year now that I'm princess. At the Gala, at the running of the leaves and at Hearths Warming. Hearth's Warming is actually the only time I get to go to a Pinkie Pie party."

"Nobody said running a kingdom was going to be easy. But all your friends couldn't be prouder for you."

"I miss the time we spent together though. All my friends are back in Equestria while I am here alone."

"You still got me."

"I know Spike, I will always have you. But it's not the same. I miss my pony friends." Twilight hung her head low and closed her eyes as she remembered the fun times she had with her friends. "Can I be alone for a bit Spike?"

Spike nodded and left as Twilight looked back up at the sun which she was going to have to lower in about four hours.

You taught me everything about magic, to control and wield it to my will.

Took me under your wind, encouraged me, every time that I made a spill.

When I thought I would never control this gift that I had.

You comforted me, dried my tears when I was sad

I owe everything that I learned from you but there's still one thing I never learned.

You taught me everything about magic, friendship, kindness honesty.

You taught me everything about generosity, humor and harmony.

You taught me everything that I know

But the one thing you never taught me, is how to be alone.

If it wasn't for you I would never met all my friends,

I would have stayed a recluse till my very end.

My world evolved around trying to please you.

When you told me to make friends I didn't know what to do.

But thanks to you, I made the best friends a pony could make.

But now I'm alone, and it's a pain to even wake.

You taught me everything about magic, friendship, kindness and honesty.

You taught me about generosity, humor and harmony,

You taught me that I know,

But the one thing, you never taught me, is how to be alone.

A single tear fell from Twilight's eyes, forming into a broken heart once it hit the ground.

Is how to be alone.

Yes I am using Screwball from "Daughter of Discord," A reader of mine said it was a written law to use her as Discord's and Fluttershy's daughter so there you go. Although I did make a few changes to her just to try to make her my own.

By the way song title is called "How to be alone." I hope you liked it. There won't be a song every chapter but I do plan to put about four to five songs in this story total.

Hope you liked it, if so please follow, favorite and review and I will see you next chapter.