BNM – Before Nightmare Moon
ANM – After Nightmare Moon
Prologue
In the year 0ANM a law was passed by Princess Celestia and her newly reinstated sister, Princess Luna.
"Should any Alicorn be born from this time onwards, he or she must be turned over to the Equestrian Royalty. Failure to do so and/or any attempts to hide said Alicorn will be met with a lifetime imprisonment within Canterlot's dungeon. So it has been said. So it has been decreed!"
Signed HRH Princess Celestia...
Signed HRH Princess Luna...
Signed HRH Princess Cadance...
It was a law that nopony took seriously. After all an Alicorn birth had never happened before, so what did anypony have to worry about?
...Me.
I was born in the year 117 ANM. A year in which the Elements of Harmony are mere tales of legend, a year that carries the peace within Equestria, a peace that has yet to be diminished.
My mother knew the law, she knew what had to be done...and yet she still defied it. She refused to obey the law and she refused to hoof me over like a second hoof toy.
And so she took me from the hospital and ran...ran so far with so many after her...after me.
The year is 133 ANM now. I'm sixteen years old, I'm still hunted...I'm still alone. And without my mother around to guide me anymore, I have no idea how long I can keep going.
My magic is untrained and wild, mother was no Unicorn. And as for flying, hah forget it. I can barely glide let alone fly straight. But as for running, for fighting dirty...That I can do, and I'll use it and all that mother taught me to keep me free.
Mother feared what the Princesses would do if they had me. She feared so greatly that I would be confined, never to leave their presence.
"I want you to grow darling," she would say, holding me close as we lay in dirty alleyways, in muck and filth. "Out here we are free. We are poor, we are hungry, but we are happy and free. You're my little colt...my little baby, and I will not see you confined to a gilded cage."
I wish it was still that easy. For with these random bursts of magic, painful bursts causing me to convulse in agony...I fear that the Princesses themselves will come for me.
Just like they did before.
But I won't let them find me this time, I can't.
I know my mother; I know she escaped her captors because she was stronger and smarter than anything they had or could do. I have to believe that...
I have to find her, I need to. She's the only one in this wretched world I trust.
My name is Fateful Aspiration, Asp for short. And this is my story, the story of how I tried to defy destiny and reunite with my mother.
