Moon and Star

by Melontropica

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Adventure, Dark
Length: 399

A prophecy, a young alicorn almost out of foalhood, a dangerously large amount of power, an evil organization out to bring the pony nation down, a method of removing magic that could destruct Equestrias only hope...

Three thousand years after the reign of Princess Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Twilight, a young alicorn named Moon, almost out of foalhood, lives in one of many heavily guarded orphanages in a worldwide program called the ZTAP (Zebra Technology Advancement Program.) The ZTAP pretends to be a string of homes for orphaned foals, but it's far more than just that. The program gathers families with fillies and colts, kills the parents and relatives, then brings the foals to a facility where portions of their magic, soul and power are taken out of them for use in the creation of attachable wings, horns, and injections to make zebras grow stronger and taller, thus making zebras' power and strength equal to that of an alicorn. The ZTAP plans to hand out the attachable wings and horns, and sell the injections, so that the zebra nation can much easier bring the pony government and kingdom down.

Moon is the prophesied "Fifth Alicorn" that will make everything right again and eventually form the Council of Alicorns that will bring the pony nation higher up and provide a beautiful, safe home for all that live inside it.
The princesses and government have been searching for the alicorn ever since the prophecy came to be, no idea that the answer has been right under their noses for almost thirteen years, in the form of a foal living inside a ZTAP orphanage.

It is only when Moon's incredible powers finally break out at the age of thirteen that everypony's realizes where the fifth alicorn has been all this time.
When Celestia adopts Moon from the ZTAP to be her new student in the art of magic, although the zebras seem mysteriously reluctant to let her go, she realizes Moon is already too powerful to be taught. What could happen when she becomes a full-fledged unicorn? The only answer is to bring out unneeded portions of her magic and distribute them to each of the other four alicorns as Moon grows up so that Moon will not become too powerful. But when Celestia tries this new method, something goes wrong….

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-08-01 15:05:43 UTC

Chapter One

Moon breathed heavily, watching intensely as the tall zebra advanced slowly up to the podium. He raised a list, scrawled heavily on thin parchment, lowered it, then began to speak in the ominous, deep, formal tone most adult zebras had, his mouth moving in unreadable, strangely synonymous shapes.

"Here are the foals we will be taking today to extract from for our project," he said. "You must step onto the podium, in a line, in perfect formation, and in the exact order I call you." He placed one gnarled hoof, wearing a tightly clasped bracelet of what looked like emerald, down on the podium and lifted it back up, now holding the list again. His expression stood still like a mask, dull and unreadable as he called out the names of foals from the orphanage. Every filly and colt in the room stayed mute, excepting a few inaudible whispers from pony to pony. Everypony knew this was serious business. Any foal that got called never spoke again for weeks. The experience seemed traumatizing, from the way they never spoke about it except for at the podium for when the lists of names were being called, to the foals that went in as vigorous and healthy as ever, then came out with paralyzed looks plastered on their faces, nauseated and tired, constantly failing to breathe normally, falling to the ground at even the slightest touch.

The zebras said they were merely side effects of the extraction, but they were incredibly serious. Every single filly and colt lived in fear knowing that every week there was a chance for themselves to experience this fearful, horrible thing.

"Snow Lily."

A small unicorn filly with a dark pink coat and a white mane stepped up.

"Leafy Green."

A green earth pony colt with darker green hair took his place in line beside Snow Lily.

"Daisy."

A white filly with tiny yellow and pink pigtails walked towards Leafy Green.

And so on it went, until twenty names had been called. Then the zebra thanked everyone for their patience and quiet, stepping off the stage so zebras dressed in bland white lab coats could lead the twenty foals off through a doorway.

"Our presentation is over. You may return to your cells," boomed the loudspeaker.

Everypony scattered into different directions, crowds slipping into various doorways and pushing their way through corridors. Moon