In the beginning, there was only magic. An unimaginably large swirling vortex of pure arcane power. It was slowly shrinking, compressing into a sphere in the middle. Billions of years passed, and finally, it reached the breaking point. It suddenly expanded, flying a trillion trillion miles in a nano second, except for one spot in the center. The energy was too compact, a shape began to form. Strands of magic stretched to form limbs. Four long legs with hooves, two great wings, and a head with a long grey mane with pin pricks of light sparkling in it. In this moment, the Queen of Stars was born, Eternia.
Eternia looked around, darkness in every direction. She was alone, but she was a wise mare. Eternia gathered together the magic in the air, and created the land of Equestria. A flat brown piece of land floating in space. With this new land in the air, she landed and looked about. The place still felt empty. So gathering magic once again, Eternia used her horn as a guide for the magic to flow into the ground and make the trees and the mountains and the rivers.
However she could not see this new land, so she plucked the sparkles from her mane, looked to the sky and shot magic into the darkness to create trillions of beautiful lights to shine down on the world. But it was not enough, she still could not see the land she had made, so once again looking to the sky, Eternia created the sun to light up the day, and the moon to shine down during the night. From this new world she crafted the fish from the rivers, and the birds from the clouds. And she was happy.
But time passed, and once again Eternia began to feel lonely. This world had animals of all kinds, and while they were all smart in their own way. None were smart in her way. So Eternia flew to the sky and took a part from the sun, and a part from the moon. She placed them on the ground and created the goddesses of the sun and moon, Celestia and Luna. Then she plucked two feathers from her wings, and gave them flight. Finally, Eternia took the tip of her horn, and gave the sisters the use of magic. With this magic she granted the elder the ability to raise the sun, and the younger the ability to raise the moon. And they were happy.
It did not take long for the sisters to begin fighting, they started having ideas. Ideas to populate the land they lived in. Eternia forbid it though. This world was theirs and theirs alone. The sisters became furious, and stormed off. Luna needed time to calm down, but Celestia had other plans. In a secret spot where the other sisters couldn't find her. She produced a pile of dirt, and from it created the first earth ponies.
When Luna found out, she became jealous. Why was Celestia allowed to defy their sister? So Luna used the clouds to create the pegasus ponies.
Finally Eternia discovered what her sisters had done. In her anger she gathered the forces of magic themselves, and created the unicorn ponies. And there was war.
The three sisters ordered their minions to attack the others on sight, to kill without mercy because they were different. Years went by like this until on the final day of the first decade, the three armies met on the final battlefield. The armies killed until they were no more, and the three sisters stood in front of each other, each prepared to strike down the other. But they hesitated, they realized that even though they fought, they still loved each other.
Celestia and Luna made up. But Eternia refused. Not out of anger, but out of shame. As powerful as she was, she had still been twisted by greed, and she knew that in time it would happen again. So to stop it from ever happening, Eternia split her body into three parts. With her horn she recreated the Unicorns, from her wings she recreated the Pegasus, and from her body she recreated the Earth Ponies. Then, using the remainder of her power, Eternia shattered her mind, and from the fragments created the Elements of Harmony. Finally she joined the stars she loved so much.
And she was happy.
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"Finally she joined the stars she loved so much, and she was happy." Twilight Sparkle raised her head from the book, "Isn't that such a sweet legend Spike?"
Soft breathing was Spike's only reply.
Twilight turned around to see the baby dragon snoring away on the table. She smiled and glanced at the clock on the wall, "2 AM?! Oh no! I have such a busy day tomorrow!" Twilight lifted Spike up with her magic and made a mad dash up to her bed, Spike flying beside her.
"Huh... wha?" Spike began to say, but was quickly cut off as Twilight threw him into his basket.
"Whoa! Geez Twi, what's up?"
"Sleep, now."
Spike had no problem with that, and after a quick shrug was quickly back to snoring away as Twilight clambered into her bed. Before she went to sleep, the purple unicorn began to observe the stars through the window above her bed, a nightly routine her astronomer side wouldn't let up. The stars shined away in the darkness, casting their white light onto the world below.
After a few more minutes of this Twilight turned over and smiled as she drifted to sleep. What the unicorn hadn't realized, was that just as she had turned around, the stars had vanished.
Miles away in the royal castle, two Alicorns stopped what they were doing, and said "Uh oh."
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Authors notes: And there we go! The first chapter in what I hope will be only a few. I have had no idea where to bring this for almost a year now, so I'm hoping that seeing people reading it convince me to write. I was originally going to write this in the style of the bible, but I just couldn't get it right, so here we are with a legend in an obscure story book that everyone's favourite purple unicorn is reading through.
