Fires of Change: Origins of a Race

Fires of Change: Origins of a Race

Chapter 3

The Diary and Lament of a Lulamoon

Dear Diary,

Today I was ran out of town because some foals lured an ursa for me to defeat. I couldn't defeat it, and after it destroyed my trailer, I decided to flee the scene. I doubt I will be able to show my face in Ponyville ever again. When my trailer was destroyed, I lost everything. How am I going to go on? What am I to do now?

Dear Diary,

I tried to have my show in Apploosa, I got halfway through the first act, and then was promptly ran out of town. They blamed me for what happened in Ponyville, and apparently, one of the founders of the town is related to one of the ponies that I humiliated on stage. I only hope that my newfound infamy will not get me ran out of everywhere I try to preform…

Dear Diary,

I tried Dodge Junction, they didn't even let me get a stage set up before they ran me out of there. I am afraid of what I will have to do if I cannot have my shows. I have resorted to eating the grass of the countryside for food. I don't have any bits, and I haven't had a proper meal in a week.

Dear Diary,

I tried Baltimare, the first big city since the Ursa Incident. I had the stage set up, and was about to start my act when the owners of the stage told me that they heard what happened in Ponyville, and they tossed me to the curb. I broke down and cried right there. A nice mare saw me and gave me a bag with ten bits in it, and told me 'you might be hated by most everypony, but if you give up, you are just proving them right, and we wouldn't want that'. I thanked her from the bottom of my heart, and, with newfound resolve, started to head towards Manehattan. I was stopped by three colts near the edge of Baltimare, they beat me and forced themselves on me, told me that if I was so great and powerful, I would be able to defend myself from them. They left me unconscious on the side of the street with nothing but my diary. I cried myself to sleep that night.

Dear Diary,

I went to a clinic, told them about how the three colts forced themselves on me… I was tested, and it turns out, I am pregnant. I can't bring a foal into this world. I am not ready to be a mother. How could somepony do this to me…

Dear Diary,

I have decided to keep the foal. It may have been brought about in a way I wouldn't want, but it is still mine. I just need to find a place where I can live and earn enough bits to take care of it. I looked at job postings today, the only place that offers room and board with the job is at a rock farm. I am going to go there tomorrow.

Dear Diary,

I got the job, they heard my situation, and they were sympathetic. I start in three days, after I move in. I also looked around a little bit for things to take care of my foal. I haven't decided what all I will get it, but I know it will be coming in ten months.

Dear Diary,

It has been a month, the work is good, and I have started getting some of the things I need for taking care of a foal. I also found out that it is a filly. On a different note, I have been given some advice about the Ursa Incident, so after the foal is born, I plan on going back to Ponyville to apologize to all the ponies I wronged there. I just hope that they will forgive me.

Dear Diary,

Not much interesting has happened in the last three months, the foal is due in six months, and I have earned enough bits to buy a new trailer. I have started working on the stage that will fold out for my act. I have started learning some more magic from the local library, and my act is going to be better than ever. I have decided to take on a storyteller role, where the stories are played out with illusion magic. I have requested some time off so I could head to Canterlot to see the possibility of enrolling my foal at the Unicorn Academy there. I leave in three weeks.

Dear Diary,

I am on the train to Canterlot, and I will be there soon. I have enough bits to get me a week at a hotel and whatever I need during the trip. I have heard a lot of stories about how great Canterlot is, and I hope to see how many of them are true for myself. The stories of romance and grandeur, the fashion and beauty, all of that stuff. The train will arrive in a few hours, so I am going to take a nap.

Dear Diary,

I have been in Canterlot for four days. I talked to the headmaster of the Unicorn Academy, and my foal has a good chance of being accepted in. Apparently illusion magic has very few practitioners, and my family has a history of strong illusionists. When my filly starts to learn magic, I am going to teach her everything I know about illusions. Maybe someday, she will have the name 'Great and Powerful', and live up to it like I have failed to do…

Dear Diary,

I was attacked on the way back to the Hotel… I am currently in the hospital, the bitch that attacked me is behind bars. She took my filly. My little filly. She took her from me. My little filly will never be born now… If I ever see that bitch again, I will kill her. SHE TOOK MY FILLY FROM ME AND I WILL KILL HER! I WANT HER TO DIE FOR WHAT SHE DID TO ME AND MY UNBORN FILLY!

Dear Diary,

The trial for that murderer was today. She was encased in stone and put in the Royal Gardens. The princesses offered me the chance to stay in the castle for a while. I told them that I have to go back to the rock farm outside of Baltimare because of my job. The princess sent them a letter telling about what happened, and insisted I stay for a while. All I feel right now is ash. My little filly is gone and there is nothing I can do to bring her back…

Dear Diary,

I talked to Princess Luna today, told her about my plan to apologize to the residents of Ponyville. She told me that I should first find some way to prove I am sorry for the Ursa Incident. I told her how I planned on bringing my filly with me when I went to apologize, and broke down right there. I told Luna that I wish that I died with my filly, so I wouldn't have this pain, she told me that suicide is not something I should think about. Before she set me right, I was strongly considering it…

Dear Diary,

I went back to the rock farm today, the princesses set me up with a royal carriage. I told Maud and her parents that I was going to get back on the road, with my new act. They told me that I will always have a home at their farm, and if I ever need them, just send them a letter.

Dear Diary,

I went to Hollow Shades with my new act. I told them the story of Shadow Weaver, the unicorn who invented illusion magic. I didn't know that thestrals had a thing for storytelling. Apparently thestral culture places importance on storytellers. I earned a lot of bits that night. My next visit will be Fillydelphia, I am going to tell the tale of Icarus.

Dear Diary,

I told the tale of Icarus in Fillydelphia, they loved it. It was great, but after the act, a bunch of neighsayers called me out on my past blunders. I told them how I turned over a new leaf, then one of them brought up how one of their buddies forced himself on me. They called me an easy two-bit whorse. Hit him with a bolt of magic then I broke down and ran away from the stage in tears.

Dear Diary,

I was arrested for 'assaulting' that colt. When they took me to the interrogation room, I explained the situation to them. How that colt's friend raped me, the loss of my filly that I was going to keep even though I wasn't in the best position to, all the painful memories that go along with it. I was let off with a warning, and that colt was fined for disturbing the peace. I decided that I going to learn battle magic to defend myself. I want to be able to hold my own if I am attacked a third time. I have nightmares all the time, ever since I lost my daughter. Princess Luna has helped me through some of them, but she cannot help me every night.

Dear Diary,

My filly would have been born this month, it is especially hard for me right now… I have started on my way to Ponyville, and I will be there in a few days. My nightmares have been really strong the last few weeks. My newest nightmare is where the ursa attacks me before anypony can stop it, I always wake up right as it is about to eat me… I hope that the nightmares about the Ursa Incident stop after I apologize.

O------------{[][][][][][][]}------------O

In the Royal Dining Hall, Princess Luna and Princess Celestia are talking about Twilight's assignment.

"And she told me how she won't do anything until we go to fetch Trixie Lulamoon, you know, that mare from a few months ago."

"Tia, you know how the fates are. It is not mere coincidence that Trixie is involved with this."

"Speaking of convincing her to help Twilight, how do you plan on doing that?"

"I was going to ask you to find her from her dreams, and then I will go to fetch her personally."

"So you want to catch her on the road and tell her that you need her help? That sounds a lot like this one game that I played, the main character was abducted by the race that needed his help, I can't remember the name for some reason though..."

"Lulu, you know that I enjoy theatrics a lot more than most ponies."

"Well, it is a good thing I know where Trixie is. She is on the road to Ponyville from Manehattan, she will be a day out around noon."

"Thank you Lulu, I will go to meet her, you prepare one of the guest chambers and inform Twilight that we found her."

O------------{[][][][][][][]}------------O

On the road, about a day away from Ponyville, Trixie is walking along when she is blinded by a golden flash.

"Beatrix Lulamoon, Equestria needs your help."

Trixie sits there, dumbfounded. They both disappear in a flash of light.