Equestrian Spirits: A Historical Journal

Spike rolled up the scroll, opened the window and blew his green fire over the parchment, sending it into its Smokey form, straight to the eyes of Princess Celestia. Twilight had asked the little dragon to write quite a bit and he really hoped she reads it and responds quickly. He closed the window and turned around to see his friend pacing back and forth in the middle of the room. He frowned slightly and then walked over to book stand.

“Twilight are you ok? Should I put the book away?” He asked her.

Twilight stopped pacing for a moment and looked at him. She pondered on his question for a moment, before giving him a kind smile. “No Spike, that’s ok. I want to continue reading. I guess we’ll just have to read while we await the Celestia’s reply.” She readjusted her pillow and then sat back down, she gingerly turned the to the beginning of chapter 3 to avoid ripping a page in the old book. Spike stood next to Twilight and gave a slight sigh as she began reading out loud once again.

New Purpose.

The three siblings, now given new roles and purposes they had to accomplish didn’t see much of each other anymore. They primarily followed their marks of shame. As the years went by the siblings began to hate each other. Blaming one another for their banishment and losing the love of their parents. That hate was taught to the ponies that followed them, after only fifty years of banishment Pegasi, Earth Ponies, and Unicorns wanted nothing to do with each other.

Hex being the laziest of the three siblings, did not follow his mark. It was a red star, blended in with a bluish white star, meant for his duty of raising and lowering the sun, and being the symbol for magic. He planned to teach Unicorns how to properly use their magic, for any instance. So that they could raise and lower the sun instead for him. There was one Unicorn who was completely devoted to Hex. Never leaving his side, always learning something from him.

One day, when Hex was teaching this young disciple powerful age magic, the young pony received a similar mark on his flanks as well. The symbol were many stars, swirling around a larger Grey star.

Hex was outraged that even his Unicorns were burdened by the curse his parents put on him. But surprisingly the young Unicorn loved it. He was honored to have a purpose, just like Hex.

As the news spread throughout the land of another pony with a picture and a purpose, more and more ponies of each race dedicated their lives to finding their purpose and earning their mark. One pony, an earth pony named Cutie Seed earned her mark after learning to plant seeds to grow food. Her mark consisted of three multi-colored seeds. Sometime after while planting more food with her daughter she was attacked by a Manticore. She fought and defeated the creature but the result of the battle left her weak and she soon slowly passed away. She had been the first in her village to earn her mark, in honor of her sacrificing her life to save her daughter from the Manticore’s rage, The villagers began to name these marks Cutie marks. Throughout the land her story spread and even though the races shared no love for each other they loved the story of Cutie Seed. When a pony learned of their purpose or special talent from then on it was called their “Cutie Mark.”

One hundred years passed, and the siblings no longer needed to create their ponies. Their followers had discovered love amongst each other and started their own families. Giving birth to their own children. The magic of flight given to the first Pegasi from Aeolus was passed down as more and more Pegasi were born. Same with the magic given by Hex. Passed down from Terra and Tidal was the knowledge of the land. The world was in harmony for a moment once again. Hex, Aeolus, and Terra slowly retreated from the lives of their races. Aeolus had taught Pegasi all they needed to know about weather control, Hex had taught all Unicorn about magic, and bestowed the Sun and Moon to them. And Terra had taught her Earth ponies about taking care of the land and farming for food. The siblings decided to let the ponies live life on their own, and watch over them from above. The three siblings including Tidal who after all these years stayed with Terra, came together once again.

The three species now alone without their gods to command them decided to establish rulers. Unicorns decided for a monarch type of rule, elected a King and Queen.

The Earth ponies elected Chancellors. Who had much less power than a King or Queen and would advise the earth ponies into making decisions rather than commanding them.

The Pegasi wanted a militarized system of leadership. They elected a Commander who had several advisors.

This system worked for each race, and being they all had a history of tension only dealt with each other for necessary needs.

All, including the siblings had forgotten about those who abandoned their own. The Pegasus Typhoon, and The unicorn Sombra hadn’t been seen in nearly a thousand years. But they still lived. Way up in the north, hiding in caves under the mountains. They had spent hundreds of years planning. With Discord.

Discord had been the one who whispered in their dreams. He started teaching them about dark and chaotic magic. Sombra, being born straight from a shadow learned the evil magic easily. But Typhoon could not. He had no horn only wings.

Discord knew of a way to fix this issue, using his powerful magic he changed Typhoon from a Pegasus to a Unicorn, Typhoon had a great influence over lightning as a Pegasi, now he could command it anyway he wished.

Discord taught them both to use ponies fear, panic, and rage to increase their own power. After spending so much time training they finally decided it was almost time to strike. Learning of the sibling’s, or spirits, as the ponies of the world called them disappearance they knew the way to lure them back was to begin a conquest of fear across the lands, and torture all who would defy them. Typhoon still retaining great power over the weather, now used his dark magic to summon storms of great magnitude, and also created a new creature of his own. One that was truly evil, one that fed on the hate of others. He named these wintery horses “Windigos” and saw that the tension between the ponies of earth was the perfect chance to unleash his monsters. Soon the blizzards would begin.

Twilight turned the page and read the title page for chapter 4. She breathed a sigh of relief. This chapter was the only chapter she felt comfortable reading, because she, and everypony in Equestria knew what happened. The hearths warming eve and founding of Equestria. Spike got up for a stretch and told Twilight to wait a moment before continuing reading. He ran up the stairs.

Twilight waited a few minutes for Spike, enjoying the silence of the library. She got up and trotted over to her front door. When she opened it she saw her home. Ponyville. Ponies played and laughed in the distance, even Pegasi didn’t seem too upset at the moment about being flightless.

Spike ran back down the stairs, blanket in claw.

“Hey sorry Twilight, thinking about Windigos and blizzards kinda made me cold. Ready for the next chapter?” he asked.

“I’m ready!” she responded. She shut the door and trotted back to her book stand, sat down, and began reading chapter 4.