Harmony's End

Harmony’s End

Book One of Three

Written by: Midnight Rose

Edited by: BathroomStahl

Prologue

The Dream That Wasn’t a Dream

The crowd cheered as Harmony finished her performance, she took a long bow and then waved happily at the audience. The unicorn filly smiled as she used her pale pink-rose eyes to find her parents…she couldn’t find them, where were they?

The dream began to shift as she began to cry. She didn’t know why, but she felt like someone was watching out for her, she knew that was impossible though….Princess Luna had been gone for a year now. It couldn’t have been her….could it?

The dream shifted into a calmer one. It seemed to be calm, because there were no failing parents, nopony was laughing meanly at her…come to think of it…there wasn’t anypony. Harmony began to panic again until she saw it. There was a light, a bright, calming dark purple light, coming from a tall lavender alicorn. She was Princess Twilight. The same Princess who had took Celestia’s place…what was she doing in Harmony’s simple dream?

She smiled and tried to trot over to her, and excitedly tell her how she was just like her. How she loved reading, and thought friends were a nuisance…that’s what Princess Twilight thought now right? She never came out of the castle after all.

Harmony tried to tell her all of this, but she couldn’t. She found herself glued to the foor. She sighed in annoyance and shook her head.

She saw Twilight standing by a huge tree. It was made out of something very shiny…was it made out of crystals? But wait…something was wrong! The crystal shine was dimming quickly, and Twilight was trying hard to fix it. Her horn kept flashing and magical energy beams kept hitting the tree, although some went around the tree and didn’t do anything.

Twilight groaned with annoyance and exasperation, she tried another spell, and nothing happend. The tree became an ugly dark brown…like Harmony’s mane…how she wished it was gold…or purple…purple was a pretty color.

Oh! Something was happening now, a weird creature had appeared right next to Twilight. He was shaking his head and saying something. Harmony wished she could hear him.

“Oh, come on…speak up. Mommy says it's impolite to mumble,” Harmony grumbled.

She smiled to herself, as Twilight talked louder than the weird creature, ‘that’s more like it’, she thought.

“No! They have to stay with the tree Discord! I don’t have any friends left! Cadence can’t use them, so don’t ask her…yes, I’ve already asked. I’m not going to go through this again!”

Harmony shivered a little, she hated it when grown-ups argued, and Princess Twilight looked kinda scary now…she didn’t want to talk to her anymore.

“Alright, Twilight…if you insist.” The creature sounded really, really sad.

Harmony wanted to go up and hug him…but she couldn’t, she still couldn’t move and it was getting annoying.

“Okay…now just let me.” Twilight took a deep breath and she began to use her magic.

The purple light shone around her, the tree and then the whole dream. Harmony screamed in fright and in pain as she felt something really sharp hit her in the stomach.

She bolted upright out of her bed and winced in pain. She sighed as she remembered that it was just a dream, they couldn’t really hurt you…right? Right, she assured herself.

Harmony felt a little cold as she planted her hooves on her wooden floor. Her house was quiet.

Huh, mommy must still be asleep…I wonder what time it is?  She thought as she walked over to her alarm clock.

The big red numbers said 4:30am.

Wait…this can’t be right! I’ve never gotten up this early before! She looked back towards her bed, but for some reason…she didn’t want to go back to sleep, she knew she should, and she knew mommy would be angry if she woke her up…but she didn’t want to go back to that weird, kinda scary dream.

Harmony yawned and made her way over to her in-room bathroom. Her eyes seemed to be trying to glue themselves together, and she tried to pry them open. When she finally did so, she was standing in front of the bathroom mirror.

She grumbled at her reflection. She had a bright brown mane that looked only half-dyed, that’s because it was only half-dyed. Mommy had stopped her right before she could finish dying it all.

“You're beautiful, honey. You shouldn’t worry about the way you look so much, it’ll make you grow mean inside.” She told her.

She was always telling her what she ‘shouldn’t’ or ‘couldn’t’ do. She never told her what she shoulddo.

Harmony sighed and tried to use her magic on the faucet. Something that wouldn’t normally work, worked.

She turned the sink and a whole bunch of magical energy went into the faucet, that was strange usually only little sparks came out of her horn.

What she didn’t know was that she had gotten her cutie mark. The magic made the entire sink overflow with streams of water and the filly made the loudest scream she had ever made in her life.

One part of it was joy, for she had looked in the mirror just as the water washed her out of the basement and down into the hallway, and the other part was terror.

Princess Cadence sighed as Twilight walked back and forth in worry. Her sister-in-law had been doing this for about an hour and a half now and she glanced at her husband, Shining Armor with a look of exasperated annoyance.

Cadence sighed as Shining shrugged at her. The two had been wondering how to stop Twilight’s anxious demeanor all morning, but they hadn’t gotten too far. Cadence wished Spike was around, he was usually Twilight’s rock, but he’d gone for the dragon migration a while ago….so the two royals had to deal with Twilight’s anxiety on their own.

That made Cadence anxious, which made her annoyed. The emotions in the room made the grand hall seem much more tense than it usually was.

“Twilight, calm down. I’m sure the Elements will be fine.” She said, trying to sound soothing.

She hoped she didn’t sound too annoyed with her. Twilight spun around at her and she looked annoyed and angry.

That made two of them.

“Fine!? FINE!? I saw them burst into nothingness! I….I DESTROYED THEM, CADENCE!” Twilight shouted.

Bright light appeared from her mane and sparks appeared from the light. Cadence shrunk back a little and Shining stood up, protecting her with his wing.

“Twilight, that’s enough.” He said with finality.

Twilight seemed to calm down at this, Cadence noticed. She glared at Shining, he could’ve calmed her down this whole time! Why didn’t she think of that?

Must’ve been the parental instincts kicking in. She wanted to make sure Twilight was alright.

“You probably didn’t destroy them. You probably just….teleported them or something.” Shining explained lamely.

Twilight game him a look, one that said, ‘yeah, right….sure.’ and then turned around.

“Well….whatever. I’m going to go research what I could’ve done to them. I’ll….I’ll see you guys around, I guess.” Twilight replied.

She walked out of the hall and Cadence sighed sadly.

“Do….do you think we should have told her?” Shining asked.

Cadence looked at him with a kind look. “No, it would’ve just stressed her out even more. Let’s just wait a while until we tell her, okay?” She replied.

Shining nodded sadly. He knew that his wife was right…..he just wished he could tell his little sister the good news so he could see her smile again. It had been so long since he'd seen that smile.

Twilight, now up in her library, wanted to drown herself in her books. She had found something out that made her want to cry.

The Elements had gone….into ponies. Unsuspecting ponies. Her subjects! She had probably just changed the lives of some of her subjects….forever, no, not probably, surely….and it was all her fault.

She didn’t seem to notice, or care about, the dark cloud that fell all around her, she just thought it was her own mood.

Oh was she wrong.