I know, it’s quite fascinating, how ponies came to Equestria. I thought this was all just an old pony’s tale myself until the princesses told me it was true. Slow down your questions, little ones, I can only answer one at a time! They’ll all be answered soon enough, but I guess the next thing in the tale is how we came to be the great nation we are today. It wasn’t all rainbows and flowers the whole time, let me tell you that. For a while, though, there was happiness in the land. For a while, Equestria grew...

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Celestia and Luna had never been prouder of their accomplishments. At first, it was only them in the castle. Then they introduced the new ponies: Shocker, Breeze, and Stardust. The little earth pony was the most trouble. Shocker was in and on everything all the time, leaving the sisters with little time to do much of anything beyond the chores they gave themselves. They had to teach the little ponies so much. Breeze had to be taught to fly. Stardust had to be taught basic magic. Shocker had to be taught about the earth. They had to be taught how to read and speak.

As the three foals grew, the princesses grew with them. They learned how to take care of ponies as princesses should care for subjects. The weeks turned into months, and months to years. Celestia and Luna found joy in watching the little ponies they had created grow. When the foals were about two, though, quiet Breeze asked the question both princesses had been waiting for.

“Why don’t we have other ponies?” the little pegasus asked one day in her lessons. “It’s just us.”

“Yeah!” Stardust agreed heartily. “We want more friends!” The sister princesses shared a look and a smile and promised their little ponies that it wouldn’t be that way for long. A few days later, three more foals appeared. Shocker, Breeze, and Stardust were thrilled at the new arrivals and spent time fawning over the little ones. Each week, more little ponies appeared. One of the rooms in the castle was converted into a classroom, another couple of bedrooms into places for the little ones to sleep in.

The princesses took turns with the foals each day. One day Luna would teach and care for them while Celestia was out building small scale buildings all over the world for the growing foals to live in once they were older. The foals grew rapidly, or so it seemed to the princesses, who never aged. They celebrated with the three original ponies they had created when they got their marks, and with all of the ponies after them. Before they knew it, they were standing on the bridge that led into their castle home with tears in their eyes, three young adult ponies in front of them.

Breeze had grown into a fine young pegasus. Her wings had grown strong and powerful, and she was one of the fastest flyers out of all the pegasi the princesses had in the castle. On her once bare light blue flank was now a set of weather markings: a raindrop and a snowflake surrounded by wind. She had a pack strapped to her back with directions to the cloud city Celestia had made years before. She would be the first mayor of the cloud city, home of pegasi to come. The princesses had trained her to control the weather, and when the new pegasi came to her city, she would then teach them, and so on and so forth.

Stardust was not traveling too far. Below the palace proper, a small city had begun to form. His magic was strong, though not near as strong as the alicorn princesses’ magic. He would take up residence in a small library that Luna had put together and begin to study and write his own texts on magic and the workings of the world. Celestia would send promising unicorns to him from now on, and once he had trained them up more in their special magic he would send them off to find where they belonged. On his spotted flank was a mark of a magical burst.

Shocker would be going a fair distance away from the place he had grown up in, but he was not concerned. He’d grown into a fine young stallion with a small bushel of trees on his flank. He would attempt to settle down wherever he could. In his pack he had seeds for flowers and trees and food, as well as plenty of food to keep him going until his trees could grow and produce more. He was happy to be going off on his own, and the princesses would track his progress to send other earth ponies to him once he was settled down somewhere so they could help him work.

They were only the first ponies the princesses had to see off. Each one of the little ponies they had created was eventually seen off to their destinies. The pegasi went to join Breeze in her city of Cloudsdale. They brought rain each spring, sunshine in the summer, and attempted to do their best with the snows in winter. It was somewhat hard, as the snow was not as easy to control as the other weather, but they did their best. Promising unicorns were sent off to Stardust to further their magic type. There were unicorns that specialized in all kinds of magic: sewing magic, food making magic, crafting magic, and so on and so forth. Shocker set up in some rolling hills to the east of the palace in Canterlot, and soon earth ponies flocked to him to start attempting to grow things and build towns.

The most notable of all the ponies the princesses had immortalized in Stardust’s history book that he was composing, starting with the creation of ponies. There was Cloudkicker, a pegasus that could clear the sky faster than any pony had seen before. Harmony, a female unicorn, became the first unicorn to successfully levitate herself. Squirrel Run, a feisty young stallion of an earth pony, had an uncanny ability with the animals in the town he settled down in.

The list went on, and continued to grow and grow. Thirty years after the first ponies were introduced into the world, the princesses ceased creating them, because the miracle of creation had taken place: Breeze and a pegasus named Sunny Day had a foal on their own, without magical help. That foal was only the first. Over the years, more and more little ponies were born, and cities sprouted up like weeds in a garden. Shocker’s down of Fillydelphia soon grew into more than that. Other ponies settled other places as well. On the west coast of the world the city of Tall Tale was established. Cloudsdale remained the only pegasus city, but some pegasi left their cloudy home to work on the ground with earth and unicorn ponies alike.

The sisters couldn’t have been happier with their success. All happiness comes to an end, though, and the princesses were filled with sorrow as the ponies they had raised faded while they ruled on. Breeze died peacefully in her sleep with Sunny Day at her side, their only daughter at her bedside. Shocker, sadly, perished when a tree he had planted in Fillydelphia when it was founded fell over in a storm, crushing him. Stardust lived the longest, but even the first unicorn succumbed to death. The princesses sadly accepted that their ponies would be born, grow, live, and die in their own time and that they would have to learn to cope with the pain. They saw those that had complaints and dealt with them accordingly in the court. A kindly unicorn with magic specializing in metals even came on day without a complaint, but instead to present the princesses with horseshoes and armor he had crafted himself. Celestia’s armor was yellow like the center of the sun on her flank, as well as her horseshoes, and the armor was inlaid with a purple gem. Luna’s horseshoes were a light lavender color, and her armor matched her mark. The princesses cherished the gifts.

Things settled into a quiet lull as time passed. A century went by, then two, and Equestria continued to flourish. There were little problems and little concerns. Nothing lasts, though.

“Your Majesty,” Celestia’s page gasped as he rushed into the throne room and bowed. The princesses turned to look down at him from their thrones, and Celestia rose to greet the young unicorn.

“What is it, Dusk?” she asked gently as the unicorn rose up. “What’s wrong?”

“Your Majesty, it’s Crystal Heart. She’s returned from the mountains to the north, and, and...”

“And what, Dusk?” Luna demanded from behind her sister, coming forwards.

“She’s... a crystal pony!”

Author's Note

This was kind of a filler chapter. Not my favorite to write, sorry if it's not your favorite either. =/