Equestria's Secret

After Luna’s banishment everypony has heard of the nation of Equestria. After Discord was defeated everypony had heard of the Elements of Harmony. After the return of the Crystal Empire everypony knew of Princess Cadence. In only a few days everypony has heard of Equestria’s newest Princess, Twilight Sparkle, and the bearers of the Elements.

Of course being Equestria’s newest Princess, Twilight had learned a lot of secrets of Equestria and she thought she had learned everything. She assumed she had learned everything mainly because she had read every book in Canterlot and learned a lot from Celestia and Luna. It took her exploring Canterlot Castle’s restricted areas with Princess Celestia to figure out that Equestria had an enormous secret.

  “What is that?” Twilight asked her mentor as they came across a vault door.

  “That is a vault, Twilight,” Celestia said in a sarcastic voice.

  “Can we go inside?” Twilight asked slightly annoyed.

  “I suppose,” Celestia said sounding a little worried but opened the vault anyway.

The vault was fairly small on the inside and held some very old scrolls and even some stone plaques on the many shelves inside. The only thing that stuck out was a simple pillar in the center that was probably holding up the ceiling since they were under the Castle. Twilight obviously looked at all of the ancient writings that the vault held but Celestia walked up to the pillar.

  “May I come in?” Celestia said quietly but her voice echoed in the vault.

  “Are you sure she will be able to accept it?” another voice whispered. Twilight had found her way over to Celestia when she heard her mentor but she didn’t recognize the other voice.

  “She will learn eventually and I believe we have waited too long already,” Celestia stated loudly.

  “You have twenty-four hours,” the voice replied from a little hole in the pillar. After a few seconds another hidden door opened to reveal another room bigger than the actual vault. This room housed scrolls as well but they were either on the right or left side of the room on a long bookshelf. There was also a smaller bookcase at the front of the room that had a handful of folders.

Twilight looked at each scroll intently studying them from the other side of a pane of glass. The first on she saw had a pony’s name so it was probably birth records. The next one was also birth records and when she examined all of them she noticed that they were all birth records.

  “All birth records are public so why are these inside a vault under the castle?” Twilight asked.

  “It would be dangerous not only to the ponies whose records are in here but to all of Equestria,” Celestia stated.

  “Why would it be dangerous to Equestria?” Twilight asked looking closer at each birth record. Celestia stayed quiet as she waited for something. While examining the birth records she recognized a name, it was the name of an Element of Harmony. Now Twilight demanded to know more for her best friends sake.