Sisters

Faust was currently the ruler of the entire rising nation of Equestria, the name for the country consisting of all three tribes.  She was an alicorn, what many thought to be the perfect race.  In some sense, they were right.  Alicorns were a combination of all three tribes.  Earth Pony strength, Pegasus flight, Unicorn magic.  They were perfect in many senses of the word.  They were even immortal.

She wasn't the only one of her kind, however.  There were actually three more.  All three were her daughters.  One was in her mid thirties and was the oldest.  Another was in her late twenties, around twenty-seven if she recalled.  Then there was the youngest of all three, reaching around twenty-one.  All were beautiful young mares and were all tied to something they held dear.

The eldest, Chrystal, was bound to the magical energy that flowed through living things.  As long as the smallest of creatures still lived, so would she.  Chrystal was a white mare with a teal mane, her cutie mark were tendrils of teal magic surrounding a blooming flower.  That's right, plants counted.  Some would label her as an earth pony because of this connection.  However, earth ponies are connected with the earth itself, not the life forms on it.

Next was the middle child, Celestia.  Also a pristine white mare, her mane was flowing pink.  Her cutie mark was more straight forward as it was of the sun.  Celestia was bound directly with the sun, using its magic to guide it through the sky.  Without her, the sun may as well hurtle to the earth.  It took a large group of ponies to do what Celestia did by herself without much restraint.  For her, it was as natural as levitation.

   Lastly was Luna, the baby of the three.  She was an indigo mare with a darker blue navy mane.  Her cutie mark was just as straight forward as her sisters.  The crescent moon.  It was the same as Celestia, just the moon.  She helped balance it all out  in the long run.  Faust was thankful for this, it meant less unicorns to sacrifice their magic to moving a giant rock through the sky, though Luna would murder whoever called her moon a rock.

Faust has always loved her daughters more than anything that this rock of a planet could give her.  Sometimes, though, even that isn't enough.  Out of her very ability to see a ponies life in the form of a book, she could have never expected this.

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"Mother!"  Faust stopped as she hear the distressed voice of her eldest.  She turned around where she could hear hoofsteps approaching her.  She could also her groans of agony as well as shouts and screams.  She took a fearful step forward just as her daughter ran around the corner with her guard in tow.

Faust gasped as before her stood her daughter, her feathers molting off of her wings and falling onto the floor, leaving to insect wings behind.  Holes drilled themselves into her hooves and into her ever twisting horn.  Her gorgeous teal mane was growing darker.  Her daughter's fearful eyes were turning green, even her whites, as tears streamed from her face.  This same process was happening to each of her guards as well.

"Mother, you've got to help me!  I just opened the jar a-and the smoke-". Faust stopped her and looked her in the eyes.

"What jar, my child?"

“The jar we keep in the vault.  I was just so curious."  As she watched, Chrystal's fur started to turn black and hard as her skeleton was moved from inside of her to outside.  Fangs started to poke out of her mouth, curving around her bottom lip.   Faust looked her over, tears filling her eyes.

"I-I can't."  Silence, or at least close to it as you could get.  Chrystal stared at her in disbelief.

"What do you mean you can't?  You discovered it and placed in our vaults!  How can you not know how to stop this?" Asked Chrystal, tears flowing like waterfalls.  Faust plopped down onto her haunches.

"It feeds off of ones sin.  Greed for you by the looks of it.  I have tried to destroy it, counter it, but no matter what spell, what artifact, it holds ground."  Faust lowered her head to the ground she had failed.  A simple 'I will always love you.' would not work here.

"But what do I do?  I can’t rule like this!" Exclaimed Chrystal.  Faust sobbed slightly.

"Leave.  Leave before the spell finishes and takes complete control over you," said Faust, refusing to even look up at her daughter.  She could hear Chrystal stammer, trying to think of a response.  She finally sighed

"What about Tia and Lulu?  What do we do about them?" Asked the eldest daughter.  Faust sighed.

"I will tell them you are dead.  Once the spell is finished, you will be nothing but a small spec of life within a cloud of darkness that will run your body," said Faust, tears rolling down her cheeks.  Chrystal moved forward and embraced her mother in a tight embrace, sobbing as she held her, "I still love you, remember that.  This hurts me as much it does you but we have to make this sacrifice," said Faust cradling her daughter.

"Goodbye, mother."  There was a flash of light and all of the changing ponies from before disappeared along with Chrystal.  Faust broke out sobbing, mourning the loss of one of her daughters.

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Shortly after the news of Chrystal's death, the two remaining sisters sent out search party after search party for the elder.  Finally, after fifteen years, the two gave up the search after finding no leads.  She was labeled as deceased but was soon forgotten in time due to how shortly she ruled.  However, she was later known by a different name.

While they were searching for Chrystal, a new species was discovered and reported to the royal family.  The creatures were labeled changelings for their ability to shapeshift into other ponies.  They seemed to share similar features to insects as well as a similar monarchy to Equestria.  From what gathered, the queen was named Chrysalis.

The two sisters demanded that they encounter the changelings to try and create relations and probably gain a lead on Chrystal.  Faust, however, denied them the chance. She knew full well who the changelings were.  She had no doubt that Chrysalis would start war, considering what she was created of.  The sisters fought to be given the chance to start relations but soon gave up as it was obvious that their mother would not move her position.

Queen Chrysalis had stayed her position on the border of Equestria, stealing love from border towns and keeping hidden.  For the two thousand years before Nightmare Moon, she had kept a strong grip on Chrystal.  However, her grip weakened on her banishment.  For that next week, her changeling subjects listened in complete confusion as the sound of sobbing came from the royal bed chambers

Her grip was weakened again when Chrystal organized the invasion of Canterlot.  While she made it appear like she was invading solely to take all the love from Equestria, she actually was trying to get blasted by the Elements of Harmony.  Earlier that year, her sister Luna was freed from the curse she was currently under.

When her plan was only mid way through, Chrysalis regained her control on her, actually bringing her decoy plan into play.  She went to take over Canterlot and utterly failed.  Both in failing to take over Canterlot and to get blasted by the elements.  This brought Chrystal and Chrysalis to their current state.  Only a handful of surviving changelings and running from the Equestrian Royal Guard.   But now, Chrystal had enough.