History In the Making

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With the new union between the three pony tribes, the trials I had foreseen in living in this new land shall all but disappear. With Earth ponies growing food once more, and Pegasi with full control of the weather again, this land of Equestria shall become prosperous within a matter of years, as opposed to the decade that it would have taken had we Unicorns been on our own. I have had some unsettling-

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-had some unsettling feelings of the lands around us. Having planned only for mild wildlife, I can only hope-

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-I can only hope-

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-I can only-

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"Spike, could you get the door please?" Twilight Sparkle shouted into the air of the library as she tried to continue reading the journal set on the table in front of her. Sure that the interruption would be taken care of, the purple unicorn shifted in her seat a bit before looking down at her reading material again. She had almost made it back to where she had left off before another round of knocking started again.

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"Spike!" Twilight looked around the library, looking for any trace of the baby dragon. Seeing nothing but the books and tables that she's known for the last two years, Twilight stands from her cushion and says to herself, "Now where could he have gone?" Her musing was stopped as the pounding continued at the door.

"Coming," she yelled out as the lilac pony trotted around her table to the door. As the knocking continued, her brows furled as she shouted again, "I'm coming!" As Twilight opened the door, she had to duck away as a blurred blue hoof flew through the air in front of her, almost knocking on her skull.

"About time, Twilight!"

"Rainbow Dash?" Twilight stared up at the prismatic-maned pegasus hovering over her doorstep. Rainbow barely waited for Twilight to step to the side before flapping herself inside, turning and crossing her forelegs as the unicorn closed the door.

"What took you so long? I swear, it took you forever to answer the door!" Twilight frowned slightly as she looked around again, wondering once more where spike was.

"I'm sorry, Dash. I got caught up reading and old journal and I thought Spike would answer the door." As she explained, the purple unicorn trotted back to her cushion, keeping an eye on her friend. "This is strange, he usually comes when I call him."

"Isn't Spike helping Rarity today?" Rainbow landed beside Twilight, looking at her with an eyebrow raised.

"Of course not," Twilight laughed out. "If he was, I would know. He would have told me."

"Unless he did tell you and you were too busy reading to hear it." Rainbow watched as Twilights eyes widened for a moment before her hoof came up to her face. It was a few moments before Twilight responded to the smirking Pegasus.

"Rainbow, why are you here? Besides reminding me to pay more attention around me, I mean."

"Oh, right. I came to return this." Dash turned her head behind her as she pulled a book from being tucked neatly behind her wing and placed it on the desk in front of the unicorn. Twilight didn't even have to look to know that it was the latest Daring Do book that the prismatic-maned pegasus had checked out three days ago.

"Already?" Twilight asked as she levitated the book in her magic. "That was pretty fast, Dash. Probably the fastest you've read a book yet." Rainbow stood tall, basking in the compliment as Twilight went about checking the book back in.

"Yeah, I know I'm awesome." In almost an instant, the sky-blue mare flew over to one of the libraries bookcases, one that she had come to know quite well. "So let's get the next one and see if I can read it even faster."

Twilight turned to look at her athletic friend with a raised eyebrow. "The next one? Rainbow, the next Daring Do book doesn't come out for another two months." As her friend floated down to her hooves, Twilight trotted over to slide the book back into its rightful place in the bookshelf.

"WHAT?!" Dash screamed almost on a trigger as the book slid into place. "Two months? I can't wait that long. I'll die!" As the unicorn opened her mouth, Rainbow grabbed onto her shoulders and shook her back and forth. "Twilight, you have to help me."

Twilights eyes are spinning as Dash's hooves leave her shoulders. Shaking her head, the unicorns eyes snap back into place before looking over at her friends waiting eyes. "I'm sorry, Rainbow, but there's nothing that I can do about it. If you like, you could find something else to read until the next Daring Do comes out."

"But all you have up here are boring science stuff and, blegh, history." Rainbow stuck out her tongue as she turned to the side away from Twilight. The purple mare's eyebrow raised again as she cocked her head to the side.

"History and Science aren't boring. They tell us about how pony civilization has come to be, and where it's still going."

Dash pointed her hoof at the unicorn with a triumphant grin on her face. "See? Boring." Twilight let out a groan before she trotted back to her cushion, obviously finished with the conversation. Floating over next to her friend, the pegasus looked over her shoulder to see a ratty, old book laying open on her desk. "What'cha reading, anyways?"

Twilight huffed before answering, "You wouldn't like it. It's History." Catching Rainbows furrow-browed stare, the straight-maned mare explained, "It's an old journal that Clover the Clever made when she set out to find Equestria. I found it in an old box in the basement while I was cleaning a couple days ago, and I haven't had time to read it until today."

"Clover the Clever? Isn't that the unicorn that you played in the Hearths Warming play?" At the librarian's nod, Rainbow continued, "Didn't you already read all about her when we were practicing for the play?"

"I read what I could find, but they were all stories about stories. The only useful things I could find from the time Equestria was founded was about farming techniques and the story about how they drove off the Windigos, and even that seemed exaggerated a bit. This, however, is the first hand tale from Clover herself, including things that happened after the Windigos were gone."

The prismatic pegasus took a second to look from the book to her friend, then back at the book. "It sounds kind of boring to me."

"It's not boring!" Twilight shouted while turning an annoyed glare at her friend. Not one to back down, Rainbow raised a hoof to point at her friend before snapping back.

"Oh yeah? Then prove it." Keeping her annoyed glare, the librarian's eyebrow raised as she wondered what the pegasus meant by her words. Her confusion only doubled as her friend grabbed a cushion from around the center table and dragged it across from her desk, settling herself into the seat and staring at her.

"Rainbow, what are you doing?" The question sounded more tired than the curious to her own ears as she watched the mare that now sat right in front of her. The stunt-flier crossed her hooves as she sat looking at her friend.

"I'm sitting here waiting for you to start reading." Watching the purple unicorns head cock to the side, Rainbow elaborated, "Look, if history isn't as boring as it is, then you'll have to show me. Since your little time spell only lets you go back a week, the only way for you to show me is for you to read it to me. So get reading." The pegasus held one leg sideways in front of her before hitting her other leg against it twice.

"What? But then I'll have to start all over." Twilight said, looking down at the 1/3rd finished journal in front of her like it had just hurt her. "And besides, don't you have flying practice to do?"

"C'mon Twi, even you should know that athletes have at least one rest day in the week." Twilights cheeks tinged red as she filed the new information away in her mind. "And are YOU really complaining about having to re-read a book?"

"What is that supposed to mean?" The unicorn bit back, her eyes narrowing as she channeled her embarrassed anger towards her friend. Rainbow merely looked at her before speaking.

"Uh, hello? You live in a library? And I swear, Spike himself said you've read every book in here at least once." Twilight looked down and sighed before she looked back at her friends waiting eyes.

"You want to listen? Fine, then get comfortable. Going through this whole book may take a couple of days." Grinning from ear to ear, Dash laid herself down across the cushion she had grabbed as Twilight closed the book and turned to the first page.

Clearing her throat, the librarian read the words out loud as her eyes glanced over them. "Date: /<*@. The days have been harsh lately among the three tribes. Never have I ever seen a winter so long and far reaching-"

As the pegasus listened, she let her eyes slide closed. While she had seen a picture of a painting of the founders of Equestria, it was only once while she was in school. While it was hard to try and remember what they looked like, it was harder for her to try not to imagine Clover looking like Twilight in the Hearths Warming play.