My Little Dictator

Dear Diary,

They say the first part is denial. I refuse to believe that, and I know that's not denial speaking.

Today is Wednesday, February 12th. It's as if a sort of spider is waiting, sitting on her web, waiting for the perfect moment to jump, sink her fangs into my soft flesh, and inject her poison into me, causing paralysis so I don't feel the insides being sucked out. She's sitting there, on her softy sticky web, waiting for someone, anyone, me, to fall onto it.

At least, that's what Rainbow is saying. She's so paranoid about this whole curfew thing. She thinks Celestia is some sort of power-hungry being that has been in hiding for years, waiting for the perfect moment to start. After those two statements, the guard stormed into our meeting, and broke everything up. Afterwards, Rainbow asked me to do some digging, see if theres anyone in history who has done the same. So, I guess I'll do that later, but right now, I have other matters needing me.

"Spike!" I yelled out. "Where are you?!" My voice echoed in the tree house, searching diligently for it's target. Finally, a reply came back from my purple and green friend.

"Whaaaat?" Came back the boyish yell, "I was napping!"

"Well it's time to get up, Spike! We have research to do!" In my mind, an Equestrian flag faded into view behind me, with horns blaring, and fireworks exploding above me. I was doing this country a great deed. I don't think spike saw the same thing. He just groaned and walked into the library, with me hot on his feet.

"Okay Spike, we need every book, thesaurus, and encyclopedia that mentions anything about curfews!" I said in a jovial filled passion.

"That's every book in the history section." Spike retorted with a grumble.

What a grump.

"Well.. give me a book of..of.." I fought to think of what may be useful in this scenario, but few things came to mind. "Give me a book of.. past leaders."

The two books slid across the table I sat down at, and I picked up the closest, a red cover adorned with gold crowning and black words spelling out 'Equestrian Leaders'. A name that fit very well, in my opinion. I flipped over the cover, looking for the authors name, "Hmmph." I mumbled out, finding no author's name. Continuing on, I found the table of contents, my favorite type of table ever made. Hahah. I'm really getting good at this! Anyways, back to the table, upon it is written five names. "Rather big book for five people," I say "Twirl Marx... Red Star... Princess Greenstone... and Princess Celestia & Luna.."

Nothing else to do except begin the book, I suppose.

Needless to say, I found some rather.. surprising info in that book, but I'm still not entirely convinced. All I've actually found is info about Twirl Marx, which in itself is rather small. Being the ruler of Equestria in the early years (nobody knows when his rule began) and finally ending as Red Star defeated him and his army in 988, there's very little information to be found out of him. But from what has been written down, he seems to have been a loved ruler, who gave freedom to the mares and stallions regardless of being earth pony, unicorn, or pegasus. Later on it states that Red Star, one of Marx's advisers, began stealing money from the centralized government, and upon being found out, escaped into the northern griffin kingdom to seek asylum. As it turned out, he had stolen more money than the tax-payers were able to repay. The cities began to get unhappy, and riots broke out in the streets. This continued for two years, upon the end of the second year, Red Star returned, and with his small group of trusted thus began the Marxist Uprising.

The Marxist Uprising is very prominent in Equestrian history as the ruler Twirl Marx, began to get uneasy and power hungry. He began sending out ground troops to stabilize the rioting in cities. Red Star began travelling around, promising to the people of Equestria, "Land, Money, Purity!" They rallied at this and began joining his band of followers, known as the Byelfirs. The Byelfirs grew up in numbers until they finally controlled most of the Equestrian population.

What happens next is not well documented, but what is known, is that a civil war ensued, ending with forty-two thousand killed and many, many more wounded, and at the end of it all, Marx stood tall on the mound of bodies. He began what we now know of today as the Bleak Ages. Determined to have nothing like it happen again, he began a reformation of the government.

Starting with curfews.

Just like the next person, I hated telling Rainbow she might be on to something, small though the chances were. But, it had to be done. I walked out into the town square, and found rainbow standing below her house, flanked by two guards. I walked up on the group, who were arguing profusely.

Without thinking, I yelled into the crowd, "RAINBOW LET IT GO!" Which was in hindsight, a pretty bad idea.

"Are you.. one of them, Twilight..?" Rainbow asked me, her eyes showing a mix of anger and betrayal. Oh boy was I in for it.

"These knuckle headed guards are trying to take away my home, Twilight! They say, no single person can live above the rest, be it mentally or physically! Everyone must be equal!"

The anger was pouring out of my friend's pores. This was a level at which no one person wanted to confront Rainbow at, but these guards did it. My suspicion began to double.

"Rainbow, I'm not with them. Just, listen to me here. I read up, like you asked me to do, even though your asking was rather rude, but anyways, I found something. Something I'm surpris-" I was cut off by a guard clamping my mouth shut and the other talking to Rainbow.

"We are taking your house, no matter what. If that means a use of force on you or your friend here, we will do it." He said.

"Haha, you dare to challenge Twilight Sparkle? Princess Celestia's own protege?!" Rainbow mocked. She began laughing her tail off right then and there, but the guards looked unfazed.

"Everyone is equal." They said, and Rainbow's house began to float away.

Rainbow looked on in awe. There's something going on, and we both knew it. "Look.. Rainbow. You can stay with me. I'll tell you about everything when we get home."

The walk was long and quiet.

After telling my best friend about Marx and Red Star, she began to question everything Celestia did. Marx and Celestia both had curfews put into place, but that was no reason to see a pattern. What if this really was just a curfew and equal opportunity to everyone?

Then it hit me. Celestia knew someone would find out about Marx, and how he imposed a Curfew. But would anyone look and see what Red Star did while in the Griffin Kingdoms? What he built? Well, after some searching we found it. Up in the cold area owned by the griffins, he built what we now know as the Crystal Kingdom, and when he left to fight Marx, he left Dark Sombra, his chief adviser in charge. We know him as King Sombra.

They say the second stage is anger.