Seven Sins

“Pride are you okay?” asked a tall but fragile, light orange, young mare with red and every shade of pink and red mixed mane.  I nodded a yes and took the chest off my back.  As soon as I saw the chest I started wondering what sin my sister was.  She was always showing me what new stuff she wanted and every stallion in town wanted her, even when we bought their house they could hardly afford it but Brigitte had worked out a deal with the realtors.  Could she be lust, I asked myself.

“Sis is there any news from Canterlot?” I asked quickly as I opened the chest to make sure nothing fell out.  The chest was filled with beautiful necklaces that had medium sized gems of all different colors.  Two necklaces floated out of the box and flew to the pony they belonged to. I looked down at the necklace and I started to tighten around my neck and the gem started to glow a light purple color to match its own color.  I looked over at my sister and noticed hers was glowing a light red to match it too.  I quickly shut the chest and ran out the door with it still in the house.  I flew to each of my friends houses and told them to go to my house.  As I reached Candy Pie’s house it started to rain heavily, making it harder to fly with my injured wing.  We reached the house just as Brigitte was giving everypony tea.  Clear was now crying heavily as she noticed the framed picture of all of them and their parents at the park last year.

“It’ll be okay, Clear.  I promise I miss my mom and dad too but we’ll all get through this together.  I promise,” Candy said as she hugged Clear.  She looked like she was about to burst out in tears too.

“Something happened tonight,” I said as I got everypony’s attention.  “Canterlot was attacked by changelings and Princess Luna gave me this.”  I opened the chest and all of the necklace flew out and wrapped around the right pony’s neck.  They started to glow and spell out what sin they represented.  Candy was gluttony, Brigitte was lust, Green was envy, Clear was greed, Thunder was wrath, Rose was laziness, and I of course was pride.  I never really showed pride maybe it was the fact that my cutiemark was rainbow and symbolized my sexuality that made me show a lot of pride.  The others did display their sins more than I did, Green is always talking about how he envies rich ponies, Brigitte always wanted this or that and had every colt wrapped around her orange hoof, Rose would normally stay away from activities that involved being outside she liked to say inside and draw or that’s what she says she’s doing, Clear is extremely greedy she never shared and had no care for anyone besides herself, Thunder never shared his power he’s trying to run for mayor of Ponyville, and Candy always was either drinking cider or eating but she was still really skinny.

“What does this mean?” asked Thunder as he tried to rip off the gem but I just tightened and he stopped and looked at me.

“I found out who killed our parents it wa-“I was cut off.

“Those dirty changelings!” shouted Clear as she used her magic to slam down her tea mug.

“No it was Zodiac, he killed our parents and grandparents, to get to us,” I said as I tried to explain what Luna had told me earlier.

“How could Zodiac do that when it was changelings, is he one of them?” asked Rose shyly.

“Princess Luna told me that our grandparents died in battle against him and his wife, the queen of the changelings, giving him control of them and becoming, the king of the changelings.  He’s using them as an army to kill off anyone who’s related to the six ponies who killed his wife.  Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Princess Twilight Sparkle, killed Queen Chrysalis and in his blinded anger Zodiac murdered the six as they left the castle.  Through the years he has started to kill our parents to anger us into fighting him, giving him the powers to take over Equestria.  The princess gave us these gems to show us what sin we are,” I was cut off again.

“What do you mean sins?” Candy screamed.

“Well as the gems proved we each hold the power of our sin in our gem, like how I am pride and I um… do pridey stuff, I guess,” I had no idea what we were supposed to do now.

“Then what does Zodiac have to do with these here gems?” asked Green.

“Luna said we have to kill him with our sins combined,” I spoke quickly.  “He was a student of Luna’s, she taught him about how dangerous dark magic can be and he left the school to study it when he was old enough.  He grows in knowledge as we speak, control the minds of the innocent, murdering for fun, and planning to over through the princesses,” I stopped talking to let that sink in.

“Well hay, I better tell Apple Bloom I’ll be out,” said Green as he left and ran back to the farm.

“So, is anypony else going?” I asked quickly.