The Sky is the limit

by TheFollower

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Original Character, Other
Length: 2092

This is the story and life of Legacy, a colt with very rare attributes...

Hatred is not the best way describe how pony's look at Legacy, it's more like they despise him. Because of this Legacy hasn't been outside in a long time, curiosity and adventure gets the best of him and for the first time he learns not all ponies think harshly toward him.

(Please note that it's a good idea if you read my last fic called Friends, Tears, and Broken Wings if you want to understand a little of what this story is about.)

EDIT:I changed the description to make it more appealing and to tell the truth I'm working ever so slowly on this fic, but don't worry viewers that's less than I thought, i'll continue it eventually.

Published 2012-04-17 17:54:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-04-17 17:54:01 UTC

An Open Window

Birth,Live,Death. These are the three stages that make up anypony's life. They are born with their mother filled with joy when seeing their child glimpsing the first sight of their new world. Then the little foal grows up finding it talent like being an artist, a musicianist, a scientist, a singer, a dancer or any other talent they have! (Sadly, there are the few who have never found their talents yet and these ponies are called Blank Flanks.) They get a job, find a home and even start a family. But remember, nothing lasts. Soon when they are very ill or of old age, death's door is at their grasp. Thankfuly, there are other lives yet to experience this and the cycle goes on.

Yet there is one race that is immune to one of the stages of life and that is death. No one knows why they are. Some say their ancestors have found a way to resist death. Others say the equestrian gods gave them their power, letting them live forever. This rare and lucky race is a mix between a pegasus and unicorn giving them the gift of flight and magic. They are called the Alicorns, the immortals...

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Somewhere in Canterlot there was home that had a new edition to it's family just a few days back. This house belong to the Vestige family. No pony payed attention to them since they weren't high class or seemed fancy at all. They had a large fortune but lived in a simple home and simple lives. No one knows why but they don't care, it's not imporatant to them.

A few days ago, Misses Vestige has had their first newborn foal ever. Mister and Misses Vestige were overjoyed to finally be able to take care of their own little one. Mister Vestige had a light grey coat, a pulled back mane and a cutie mark that symbolized his talent and favorism of inventing. Misses Vestige had a light green coat, a curly mane and a cutie mark that represented her talent of music. They were both unicorns and expected their child to be a unicron too.

At the home of the Vestiges's, they were pacing back and forth because of the conflict that had just burdened in their lives. They were excited before but worried and scared now. Their child has just caused a maddening situation in their lives.

"Princess Celestia will be here any minute," Mister Vestige said to his wife while staring out their window.

"I know, I know..." she responded cradling her son sleeping soundly in a blanket wrapped around him.

As soon as their child was born a bright light flashed throughout the sky. No pony knew what this meant except for one who dreaded this day would come. It was Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. She expected to speak with the Vestige family as soon as possible but had a very tight schedule, so she picked today to visit them.

"You think she'll be angry or even worried about him?" Mister Vestige asked his wife.

"I do ho----" Misses Vestige was interrupted by first a flash of light and then a slight gust of air.

Standing no more than three feet from the Vestiges was Princess Celesita. Her mane and tail was an assortment of colors that always seemed to be moving and was never a bore to look at. Her coat was fine white and so were her wings and horn. A truly magical sight... except for one thing, today she had a glum look on her face.

Misses and Mister Vestige bowed before her. "I apologize for not coming through the door, I don't want any ponies being suspicious," Princess Celestia said in a hushed voice.

"Nonsense, Your Highness, we just expected a more subtle entrance..." Mister Vestige told the Princess. "Would you like a drink or something to eat?"

"No, I'm fine, I've already ate, besides we must talk about matters at hand. I can not stay here for long. Now tell me where is your son, ummm, what is his name?" Princess Celestia asked.

Misses Vestige held out both of her hooves to show the young pony snuggled in his blanket. He has a white coat but got darker and darker as you reached down to his flank. His mane was gray and had a tint of blue in it. It wasn't a really pleasant sight but you would forget about it as soon as you saw his attributes. A one in a million or maybe billion ponies get to have the ability to use magic and fly. This young pony had both of these abilities.

"His name is Legacy, our little pony. At first we were joyful to see our son but were quite suprised when he saw he looked like you." Misses Vestige told the princess.

When Misses Vestige showed Princess Celestia her son, his eyes opened with curiousty at the sight of this new pony before him. His horn shined from the sunlight from the window and his wings shook of shock when seeing Princess Celestia. He babbled out some nonsense and the Princess couldn't help but giggle at this.

"So, what were you going to tell us Princess?" Mister Vestige asked her.

Princess Celestia held her head and began talking, " I am here to give you a warning about your son. Just like me he is an alicorn, which is very rare for a pony to be. You know that alicorns are the outcome of a mistake in the genetic pool, right?"

Misses and Mister Vestige turned to each other before shaking their heads.

Princess Celestia nodded before continuing. "Nopony is completely sure what this 'mistake' is. They accepted alicorns because of their rare birth. My sister, Luna, and I, as you know, used to be the only alicorns. But as the saying goes, 'Two's company, three's a crowd'. That's why everypony is getting anxious about the revealence of Candance. To make matters worse, they're still worried about the 'incident' with Luna." The Princess sighed as the memories of the fight between her and her sister came flooding back. The fight that almost ended the pony race. She cleared her throat and continued. "I don't know how they'll feel when they find out the truth about Legacy." She looked into the innocent foal's curious eyes. "So young and innocent," she muttered. "Why can they only see the darkness that might not even be in you?"

"Please Your Highness!" Misses Vestige begged and held her foal closer to her, as if doing so would protect him from the dangers he is already facing. "Don't let anything bad happen to him!"

Princess Celestia turned slowly towards them. Her plans to take Legacy right away melted when she saw how protectively and lovingly Misses Vestige was holding her foal."I will do my best to protect him. But unfortunetly, I have to take him away."

"What?!" Mister Vestige gasped. "But we've only had him for a few days!"

"I know. I will allow him to stay with you for a few months or so. I-I still need to plan through this. I must advise you to be careful with him. Do not let him near the window or leave this home, we do not want to risk anypony seeing him. Most importantly, do not tell anypony about your son, not even your most closest relatives or friends."

"I must be going now, there are other matters I must attend to. I apologize for having to break apart this family. I hope you make the best of the time you have with your son. Good day and may the future be in your favor." With a weak and sad smile smile, Princess Celestia disapeared in a flash and left the Vestige family in moods of great sorrow.

Misses Vestige buried her face in to her husbands shoulder and began crying. He hugged her back and told her comforting words that would make her feel better.

"It's going to be alright, it's go-going to be--," Mister Vestige began crying too.

"Nothing's alright," Misses Vestige sniffed. "Our son is not going to last long. We don't have much time to spend with him either."

"Our son will live his life even though he won't be able to meet everpony or see and learn everything," Mister Vestige replied."Princess Celestia will make sure he will."

Misses Vestige lifted her head out of Mister Vestige's shoulder. She looked him in his teary and wet eyes and said,
"I hope she will."

"Me too, me too,"

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Soon night spread over Equestria and the Vestiges were preparing to sleep like all ponies do at this time of day. Legcay was still awake and was shifting from side to side in his blanket trying to find a good position to sleep in. Misses Vestige smiled at her little foal.

"My little angel, why do cause so much trouble and pain to us?" Misses Vestige said to her son. Legacy continued tossing and turning, not listening to what his mother said. Mister Vestige came by and told her wife that it was time for their young one to have his rest.

They brought him to his room where his cradle lay and placed him there. Once inside, he stopped his excessive amount of movement. Misses Vestige began humming a lullaby that her mother sang to her when she was a little filly. Legacy, adoring the tune, fell asleep halfway trough the song. Mister Vestige placed a blanket on him and kissed him goodnight. Misses Vestige did so too.

Once happy seeing their son in a blissfull rest, they backed away from him, left the room and shut the door behind them. With head hung low they went to their own room and climbed in to bed. Mister Vestige pulled the blanket over them. They both had better days and this one just cancelled all of them.

Minutes passed and it seemed they both they couldn't even shut their eyes without seeing angry ponies yelling at their son. It wasn't a pleasant thought. Being unable to sleep Mister Vestige asked her wife a question.

"What do you think will become of our son?" Mister Vestige asked his wife.

"I'm not sure but let's hope that that everything goes well in the end," MIsses Vestige replied. Mister Vestige nodded in approval. Soon drowsiness fell over both of them causing to fall in to a slumber.

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Back in Legacy bedroom, the young foal was having a dream, it wasn't pleasant nor was it good. It was one of those dreams where you just don't know why you had it. It was about him, in a room with ponies that all smiled at him when he passed by them. Legacy would smile back feeling joy. A fireplace crackled warming the whole room. Not only that but there were paintings hung on the walls from places that are not known to Legacy. He felt happy seeing ponies around him who were also content to see him.

But there was one pony who isolated himself in the corner. He was gray had his back to all the other ponies. Legacy walked up to him and stared at him, confused. Why isn't this pony elated like all the other ones? He didn't know. The pony staring at the wall looked towards him with half closed eyes and gave him a weak smile, a smile that meant "I can't believe it."
Legacy smiled back and backed away from him.

What happened next was explainable. He was then on a grassy hill in the middle of nowhere. Everywhere he looked he could see nothing but grass, sand, stone, and dirt. Legacy hung his head low not knowing where he was. When he turned around and started walking, he looked up to see a tree that bear plums on it. What's this, he thought. He stared at it for a while. The leaves were green and the plums were dark purple, ready for picking. He stared at it some more wondering deeply what this was doing here and where was he.

It didn't matter, the next thing he knew he was back in his bedroom looking up at the ceiling.Being a foal he would do the most reasonable thing a young pony would do when it wakes up, cry. He did so causing his parents to wake up. Misses Vestige entered his room moaning," Oh Legacy, what are we going to do with you?"