A soft charcoal grey Pegasus with gentle lavender eyes softly tiptoed into her father's office. As usual her father sat hunched over his work bench, fiddling away at the time pieces scattered across it. He was hard at work, not even noticing that she had even stepped into the room.

She looked over at her father, fear dancing in her eyes as she gathered up the courage to ask him the question that she had wanted to ask since she had turned five. Today was now the day before her tenth birthday and she couldn't keep it in any longer. She had to ask now, before she lost her nerve and backed away like she had done many times before.

“Dad?”

“What is it my darling?” The black colt with a clock cutie mark answered, his eyes never leaving the timepiece in his hooves.

“Can you tell me about mom?”

His hooves froze and he slowly set the clock down gently and turned to face his daughter.

“Where did this come from dear?”

“Everyone else knows their mom,” she looked away. “I want to know mine.”

The colt sighed and trotted over to the couch, patting the spot next to him as he sat down.

“Okay,” he smiled and lightly brushed her pale purple mane out of her eyes. “I’ll tell you about her. This story begins a long time ago, when your mother was young and living in Ponyville. Now your mother had many adventures in Ponyville with all of her friends. Together they saved a lot of people, and defeated many evil beings: King Sombra, Discord; before he was reformed, and a vile woman named Queen Chrysalis…”

Author's Note

This was an idea I had a while back, but I did not know about fimfiction.net until just recently.
No, you will not know who the mother is until it is revealed, but she is one of the main 6. You can guess all you want, you will not get an answer from me until it is time to reveal her. ;)