Chapter One: The tale of the past
Twilight Sparkle cantered after the guard leading her to the throne room. Celestia had asked if Twilight would come and visit her and Luna for the week. She had accepted happily and taken the first train to canterlot. Celestia had sent the guard to tell Twilight that the sisters had some interesting history to share with her. They reached the throne room doors and they opened. The guard cleared his throat and loudly announced her presence. The princesses looked up from the giant stack of forms they were signing and smiled. Luna lit her horn and levitated the documents out of the way. Then Celestia signaled for the politicians and guards to leave them in peace. The politician huffed slightly then stalked out. Luna rolled her eyes and blew a raspberry at the closed doors. Celestia shot a look at her sister and Luna regained her posture. “Ah, Twilight my good friend!” exclaimed Celestia walking over and nuzzling her former student.
“Hi! You said you going to tell me more of ancient history, right?” asked Twilight.
“Indeed Twilight Sparkle, my sister and I have been hoping to rewrite the forgotten and distorted parts of history.” Said Princess Luna also walking to the purple alicorn.
“Yes, Luna and have decided to begin our efforts with you. We will teach you the forgotten history and folklore of even before Equestria was founded. Today we will start at the very beginning, when the ancient gods created this world.” elaborated Celestia. Then she cleared her throat and began her story.
“At the dawn of time when the gods created Eqqis they also created Discord, but he couldn’t be allowed to run amuck, he had to be contained. So they created his ‘sister’ Aurora Magi the embodiment of peace and protection to keep him in check. Some things, like the wendegos she was told to not interfere by the gods, to make sure that everything worked out to their designs. When Discord found out about the new Kingdom of Equestria he wanted to rule it. He heard that the new land was much more spacious than the colonies. So much more room for him to cause chaos. He began to hatch a plot to over throw his sister and take over Equestria. Aurora knew how her brother thought and knew that he was planning to take the new kingdom.”
“Three years previously she had taken two unicorn orphans under her wing, those unicorns were me and Luna. We were about five years older than you and your friends. When she had guessed Discords plan she informed us and told us that we had to be the ponies to defeat Discord and restore harmony to Equestria. We tried to refuse saying that we were just unicorns, we couldn’t possibly defeat a god! It was then that she transferred her magical ties to the sun and moon to us and revealed to us the location of the elements of harmony. But Aurora took one more precaution, she transferred all of her magic and power into her amulet, little did she know that Discord had been slowly corrupting her magic. She gave this amulet to the unicorns, in hope that they would use its power to protect Everypony, and to make sure that her brother couldn’t take advantage of this power she enchanted it so that only the wearer could remove it.
Shortly after Aurora bestowed this gift Discord attacked her and sealed her in the shadow realm for eternity. He then ruled the kingdom for ten years in a state of chaos and unhappiness. The unicorns tried to use the gift Aurora gave them but when they wore it the amulet corrupted their hearts. They realized the trouble it would cause, but when they tried to get the pony wearing it to take it off they refused. In order to keep the other ponies safe they were forced to… kill the bearer. When they got the amulet they sealed it away, hoping it would be lost and that nopony else would use its dark power.
When Luna and I finally sealed Discord in stone we tried everything we could think of to free our adoptive mother, but all we could do was slightly weaken the shadows hold on Aurora. We have been waiting for millennia for her to escape.... and take her place as one of the rulers of Equestria.” Celestia finished the story and looked at Twilight to see her response. She saw her sitting on the floor with a very long piece of parchment and a quill scratching out notes.
Twilight looked up at the princesses with an arched eyebrow. “Is that it?” she asked incredulously.
“For now.” Said Luna. Then a slightly guilty look crossed her and Celestia’s faces. “Although there is an ulterior motive to today’s meeting.” Luna exchanged a glance with her sister. “Recently we have sensed that the barrier holding Aurora has weakened enough, that with the right magical push she would be free within a year or so. Of course this isn’t an exact estimate, but we were hoping that you might help us in this effort.” Luna finished. It was a moment before Twilight answered.
“Is this really that important to you two?” she asked hesitantly. Both princesses nodded. “Well then, of course I’ll help you.” Said Twilight beaming at the royal sisters. Celestia sighed in relief.
“The weakest point in the shadows barrier is in our old castle.” Celestia told Twilight as she readied her magic for teleportation. Twilight just nodded, and a brilliant flash of light engulfed the trio and sent them to the ruins in the Everfree forest. Twilight waited for the black dots to clear from her vision as she recovered from the long distance teleportation. When she had recovered enough she looked around and taw that they were in the throne room of the old castle in the Everfree. Also she noticed a large black starburst on the wall, it looked a lot like the mark that had been on the library floor (she remembered that it had taken two days to clean off).
“I’m guessing that that is the weak point?” she said pointing at the scorch mark. Celestia nodded. Twilight remembered learning how to conduct magic into an object in one of Celestia’s lessons. It was also the most basic principles of levitation. The three alicorns arranged themselves into a semi-circle around the burn mark. Soon three beams of magic were aimed at the center of the starburst. All three of the princesses were pushing their magic to the limits, their eyes glowing white. Suddenly a black door of energy opened on the wall, throwing the princesses back. The door started pulsing, pulling all the magic out of the room including from inside the alicorns knocking out Luna and Celestia. Twilight was a little more resilient and stayed awake to see a black alicorn step out from the dark portal. Her mane looked like it was made of the colorful northern lights often seen outside of the crystal empires protection dome. Twilight couldn’t see her cutie mark from where she was laying. The alicorn looked around the room at the princesses, then lit her horn. There was something weird going on with her magic though. The light was colored gold, blue, and magenta in layers all down her long horn. She lifted her head high and closed her midnight blue eyes. Suddenly her head snapped back down and a broad smile broke out on her face. She opened her giant wings and shot through the broken roof.
Twilight’s heart almost stopped. “Oh…my….celestia!” Twilight almost screamed. “We must have let out the wrong pony!” she started running around in circles panicking. Then she felt something, it wasn’t like something touching you it was more like when you know somepony’s watching you. She turned and saw an almost transparent violet line of smoke leading up and out of the roof. She realized it was the trace of her magic. Then she started worrying that without her magic she couldn’t follow the trace, then she realized “oh, I have wings.” She flew up and out of the roof and followed the smoky purple cloud.
Twilight had been flying for ten minutes when the smoky cloud dived down to the forest floor and into a very familiar hut. She landed just in time to see the black alicorn enter Zecora’s hut.
The Black alicorn walked into the hut and saw the zebra standing at a large cauldron. She looked around at the strange décor, one of the masks on the wall a, Purple Heart shaped mask with spikes lining the sides caught her eye. She shuddered as she realized masks orange eyes seemed to peer into her soul. Zecora looked around at the black alicorn. She looked her up and down noticing the twigs, leaves, and mud attached to her coat and mane from her crash landing.
“You’ve met with a terrible fate haven’t you/ perhaps you seek a healing brew?” said the zebra in her normal rhyme. The alicorn just knocked her out with a sedation spell. She walked to the back of the hut and stood in front of a small wooden box on a shelf.it was at that moment that Twilight rushed into the hut. The black alicorn was opening the box when she heard Twilight hoof steps. She turned and set a barrier around the purple princess. Then she turned back to the box and levitated the alicorn amulet out of the box.
Twilight saw the necklace and reached her hoof out as if to stop her. “DON’T…..
TO BE CONTINUED
