The Dawn of Viribus

Chapters

The Consilium
The Vi Iuba
The Amulet of Umbra

The Consilium

Long ago before the lands of Canterlot there were six tribes of ponies: the Pegasi, the Terrae, the Unicórnis, the Amor, the Lucidus, and the Umbra. The Pegasi are the tribe of the air. The Terrae are the tribe of the land and sea. The Unicórnis are the tribe of the Regnum. The Amor are the tribe of love. The Lucidus are the tribe of light, and the Umbra are the tribe of the shadows.

All the tribes lived together in harmony and in equality. Each tribe each had one leader. Ventorum Lapsae ruled the tribe of Pegasi with his commander, Procellae. Queen Corniger Unum ruled over the tribe of the

Unicórnis. King Luvenilia Gaudium ruled the Terrae tribe with the Chancellor Botellus. Queen Lux Cornu ruled the Lucidus tribe with her advisor, Clara. Queen Amor Comedenti ruled the Amor tribe with her Princess, Chrysalis. Praeses Rex Umbra ruled the Umbra tribe with his Lieutenant, Sombra.

Each leader was a part of the Viribus which equalized the powers of the tribes. To equalize the powers, they all formed a Crystállum, which was the core of the Crystal Empire. These tribes then all lived in this one empire all united as one. The harmony lasted hundreds of years until the power of the Crystállum became too much for the rulers to resist. All but the Amor and Lucidus tribe had been corrupted by it’s power. Soon the Consilium was formed, which was lead by King Umbra, to use the power of the Crystállum to rule all the tribes, with a secret agenda to destroy the other leaders of the Consilium. The Consilum and the Viribus fought each other, where the Viribus fought to end the evil of the Consilum. The Viribus combined their powers of light and love to remove the Crystállum from the Consilum and end their reign of terror. However, the Consilum fought with greed and would do anything to get the Crystállum. The leader of the Amor, while fighting the Consilum, was soon being tempted by the shadow king, King Umbra, to obtain more power from Amor to defeat the leader of the Lucidus and destroy the Viribus. However, soon Chrysalis decided to sacrifice herself for the fate of ponies.

Chrysalis, barely resisting the power of the Crystállum, used the Crystállum to kill King Umbra and prevent her queen from becoming a part of the Consilum. However, Chrysalis could not resist the power of the Crystállum and soon became hypnotized by it’s power. Lieutenant Sombra saw the opportunity to take the Crystállum for himself and control all the tribes with it’s power. Sombra took the Crystállum from Chrysalis and soon began activating its powers, but soon Chrysalis, beginning to resist more of its power, use the rest of the power it gave her to remove the rulers of the Pegasik, Terrae, and the Unicórnis from the grip of the Consilum and allow them to resist the power of the Crystállum. However, in doing this she could not resist the power of the Crystállum and became a part of the Consilum. Now, the Viribus, having the powers of the Pegasi, Terrae, Unicórnis, and the Lucidus, fought against Chrysalis and Sombra. With the power of the Viribus, the Consilum was defeated and cast into the shadows of Equestria where they would be banished, however the many of the ponies of the Amor were saved from the hands of the Consilum, while those who fell to the evil of the Consilum were cast into the shadows with Chrysalis. To make sure no other pony could get their hands on the Crystállum, however, the Viribus hid the Crystal Empire and the Crystállum to ensure that Sombra, the new leader of the Umbra, would not get his hands on the Crystállum if he were to escape from his prison in the shadows. However, what was not known was that one of the ponies of the Umbra had escaped from the banishment of the Viribus. After this, the leaders, including the new leader of the New Amor, combined their powers together by making the six Elements of Harmony, which would help them rule over the tribes of the Viribus. They also combined their powers and became two rules, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. By doing this, they would be able to resist the powers of these elements and prevent themselves from becoming corrupted by their power. The Kingdom of Canterlot flourished for many years, until Princess Luna became jealous of Princess Celestia because she was able to enjoy the ponies who were woken by day. Because of this, Tantibus Lunær, or Nightmare Moon, who had escaped the banishment by the Viribus, took over Princess Luna’s body and used Princess Luna’s powers to rebel against Princess Celestia. Using the Elements of Harmony, however, Princess Celestia banished Nightmare Moon to the Moon where she would lay dormant for years to come.

The Vi Iuba

The powers of harmony were weakening. Without Princess Luna, the powers of the elements were weak and could not withstand the the power of Tantibus Lunær. Princess Celestia knew she would not be able to hold off without Princess Luna for long. One way, she thought, that would be able to defeat Tantibus Lunær for eternity would be to spark the elements with a new council known as the Vi Iubia, or the Mane 6, that would rule over Equestria in peace and tranquility. In order to find the perfect ponies for the Vi Iubia, ponies will have to have the characteristics of honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty, and the ability of the Regnum.

Princess Celestia first looks for one of the ability of Regnum. One day, at a Magic school, in Canterlot, one little filly named Twilight Sparkle was testing for an exam to enter the Magic school, however something was about to happen that would change her life forever. Her objective was to hatch a purple dragon egg. At first, she was unable to open the egg, but then an explosion to the North had erupted. The explosion caused Twilight Sparkle to wield forth her true strengths that lay within her gifted self. However, it got out of control, causing mayhem. Princess Celestia saw promise within this little gifted filly and soon had chosen her as the leader of the Vi Iubia.

Princess Celestia began searching for the other five candidates of the Vi Iubia. One of those candidates was the cause of the explosion, or the Rainboom. Rainbow Dash was her name. Soon after the next candidates would be AppleJack, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie, who soon became the friends of the leader of the Vi Iubia. Princess Celestia knew she had chosen the ones who would become the council of the Vi Iubia. However, they would have to face an evil formed by the disharmony that existed during formation of the Consilium. Discord was his name. Not a pony, but a Draconequus was formed by this disharmony. After the formation of the Consilium, the Draconequus was the animal of the Umbra which scoured the land and brought destruction. After the defeat of the Consilium, Princess Celestia sealed it within stone to be imprisoned for many years. However, after the corruption brought upon Princess Luna by Tantibus Lunær, the stone cage soon became weakened. Princess Celestia knew it would not last, so she gathered the Vi Iubia and assigned them the objective of using their powers to seal Discord back within the cage in which he belonged.

Discord had, however, taken the Elements of Harmony and challenged the Vi Iubia. He challenged them to complete a maze to find the Elements. The Vi Iubia wandered through the maze, five of the Vi Iubia tricked my Discord and put into a trance by his powers. All hope seemed to be lost for Twilight Sparkle felt that everything was hopeless. However, she now knew how to defeat Discord. She used the power of friendship of the elements to bring back the Vi Iubia and defeat Discord. As she removed the Vi Iubia from their trance, they prepared for their final battle against Discord. They then wielded the elements and, with the power of the elements, froze Discord into stone. Princess Celestia now knew that the Vi Iubia were ready to fight an even bigger evil to come; they were to soon fight the banished rulers of the Consilium.

The Amulet of Umbra

After the Consilium had been defeated and banished from the land, a powerful item had been left untouched. It was Umbra’s powerful amulet, or the Alicorn amulet. Before Umbra’s death, the amulet had absorbed both the mind of Umbra and the power of the Crystállum. After the defeat of the Consilium, the amulet had fallen to the corruption of the land, buried for many years where it would sit in silence until one day when a traveler with a cart of antiques to sell had crossed a field of grass to get to the town of Divitiae. One his way to the Divitiae, his cart had gotten stick on an unknown object in the grass. When the traveler went to see what the problem was, he glimpsed a red shine come from the bottom of his cart’s wheel. He slowly backed up his cart to retrieve the item, and when he did he was astounded by the item. It was an amulet, but he was unaware of what evil had lurked within so he put it in his cart for he would sell it to a customer who would be willing to pay a high price for such an item.

In another region of Equestria, after a defeat by Twilight Sparkle, the leader of Vi Iuba, a pony named Trixie worked at a stone farm where she worked her days to live as a stone farmer. While breaking up stone, she had happened upon a stone that seemed different than the other stone. Unaware of its contents, she hit the stone and a strange gem came out of the stone. The gem was a rare mineral that existed at the beginning of the Crystal Empire, which unknown to Trixie, was the same mineral used to form the Crystállum known as Gemma. Though the Gemma acted only as a connector between all forms of the mineral until an ancient Eu was applied to it, it would allow Umbra’s mind within his amulet to communicate to those who touched the mineral.

As Trixie picked up the mysterious gem, a burst of darkness and shadow came from the Gemma. Startled by the sudden event, Trixie dropped the Gemma, but curious about what just occurred she picked it up and the shadow appeared again. Two eyes of red appeared within the shadow with a low growl emitting from it. Then, Trixie began seeing the vision of her feelings for revenge against the Vi Iuba and then a vision of an amulet, which Umbra told in her mind would grant her powers to get her revenge for all the wrong done against her. Umbra would use this as a way to control Trixie and soon be able to rule again and form the Consilium once more and take over Equestria. Trixie agreed to find the amulet and let him control the powers of the amulet. With her money, she went to the place found in the vision and at night snuck into a shop that an assortment of items.

The traveler, who was inside the shop, found Trixie and, since he did not get much business, he knew he would be able to sell the item he had found on his way to the town. He led her to the amulet and Trixie requested the amulet. Trixie gave the traveler money to buy the amulet and finally had gotten the amulet which Umbra had told her about. Then, she began hearing a voice. It was the same voice she heard when she picked up that piece of Gemma from the stone. Then, her sight began fading. Umbra had begun taking over her body and soon had complete control of it. Umbra, knowing the location of the six of the Vi Iuba, went to Ponyville where he planned to prevent the completion of the Vi Iuba and form the Consilium once more.

Umbra, being Trixie, entered Ponyville and was met by the Vi Iuba. Umbra then challenged the leader of the Vi Iuba, Twilight Sparkle to a Magic Duel, which if he won would allow him to use the kingdom of Canterlot to become his. For the Magic Duel, Umbra turned two of Trixie’s loyals into the old and young. Because Twilight was not powerful enough to do such actions, Umbra exiled Twilight Sparkle from Ponyville so he could begin the task of both building his kingdom of the shadows and end the Vi Iuba. Twilight Sparkle, being exiled from Ponyville, went to a zebra known as Zecora to learn more to defeat who she thought was Trixie. Zecora began teaching Twilight Sparkle about not just how to use her powers, but when to use it. She was taught moderation and to not fall into the evil of the power she had bared. However, Twilight Sparkle began giving up on the task. Futtershy, one of the Vi Iuba who had escaped from the prison of Ponyville ruled by Umbra, told her of the amulet that Trixie was wearing. Knowing of the amulet, Twilight Sparkle finally knew how to defeat her.

Twilight Sparkle finally enters Ponyville to challenge Umbra once more, but in a different way. Her plan is to use the rest of the Vi Iuba to act out powers that a fake amulet she will be wearing seems to carry out. Umbra’s hunger for power will cause him to take off the amulet. As the plan is being carried out, Twilight Sparkle makes a deal with Umbra to trade amulets so that she would remove the evil powers away from Trixie. Umbra takes off the amulet, which removes his control from Trixie. Trixie, who is defeated by Twilight Sparkle, flees Ponyville. Umbra’s amulet is then stored in a box where it will not get into another pony’s hooves again.