The Legends of Seasons

• The Legends of Seasons –
  by Spring Heart

"Days pass and lives go by too, but new come alive. And when there´s a missing spot, life tries to put something else in its place. The Seasonal Pegasi come from large clans of families that contribute to help in the change of a certain season, even though they are as powerful as an alicorn; a war took many lives away, leaving only two descendants a Summer-Winter female and a Spring-Fall male. So, when the Seasonal Pegasi die, their mothers´ give offspring before leaving life. These are the legends of four Pegasi that were born to change that. No more the need to replace ponies. No need of many ponies changing the seasons, these were destined to have a single season to change."

-Yuki Blossoms
Born in December 21, the day winter season to starts. She was a white Pegasus, her eyes were a beautiful blue with a light blue and a darker blue mane, it was very long too. She was a quiet pony, barely noticed by anypony. Because of her descendence line and magic, she entered a Canterlot´s school for gifted unicorns. Yet being the only student with wings, she wasn´t something to impress her other classmates. She wasn´t that interested in magic at all. Yuki would spend most of her time reading fairytale stories. She liked to read about Luna´s past. And sometimes read about history, and whenever she wanted to tell her teacher about her wonderful learning in history, the teacher would be always occupied with another filly. She didn´t dislike that, for she thought it would give her more time for her history studies. But the story she read about the most, was one related to her season. She loved Snowdrop´s “invention” of snowflakes. She always drew them in her notebooks when she had time in class. Some were badly made and some of her classmates made fun of her drawings. But that only encouraged her to draw them better and to make them perfect. Every time somepony tried to make her feel bad, she always took that chance to become better, to do better.
It was about to be time for winter to start (December 19), but nopony was very healthy to help, some wanted to slack off, or didn´t have the happy spirit to work for it. At school, Yuki started to chant, “Fall´s Wrap Up” but nopony would join her spirit. She was too shy to stand in front of everypony and sing it, but that wasn´t enough to discourage her, so she started to draw paper snowflakes. Celestia for the first time saw her work and made her a snowflake crown.

“We´ll see what we can do to change the season, don´t you worry about winter, little filly,” said Celestia.

Yuki smiled at her, she was happy that her teacher had finally paid attention to her, she knew that Celestia called everypony by their names, because she knew them.

Celestia asked, “I´m really sorry, seems like I haven´t seen you around, what is your name, my little pony?”.

She couldn´t believe it, Celestia had never known her, and she thought that it had probably been because she has never done anything to be noticed. She darted out of her desk and classroom, crying.

Yuki thought, “In my birthday, it´ll be different!”

After that day, she worked all day making paper snowflakes, and drew how she would make everything different, her classmates thought she couldn´t fly because they had never seen her flutter. She was going to fly as fast as a pony she heard from Cloudsdale, they called her Rainbow Dash. She worked till late, and when her mother came in to her room, she dropped by a beautiful a light blue dress with a snowy pattern. She kissed her and told her that she would buy a cake for her birthday. Yuki asked for a Snowdrop theme cake but her mother said that she would ask for “her own Snowdrop´s” cake theme.

It was her birthday, there was no school because the Princess was worried about how would she change the season in Canterlot, so Yuki put her dress and her snowflake crown on. In a bag she kept her paper snowflakes she didn´t know what to do with them, but she thought that it would give her luck. She was in the middle of Canterlot, she had spread her wings and started to flutter and didn´t fly. She tried to make some wind. Ponies that didn´t have anything to do started looking at her wondering what was that filly doing, Yuki blushed but didn´t mind.
At home, her sisters somehow knew what she was going to do, her mother left for the bakery, and her father was with princess Celestia arguing the plans for the change of season. So the three sisters at home had learnt how to channel magic at school, they joined hooves and magic surrounded them. Yuki´s wing started to create wind; her wings seemed to grow and started to flutter faster and with more strength. When she felt that the time was right, she sped out, awing ponies around town. She flew like a missile, blowing out tree´s leaves and clearing the pavement, she drove all of fall´s remainders in her starting spot. She flew high in the sky and brought clouds over; she sped high in the sky and made the town feel a little bit cold. Then, she dove back to the leaves and created a little twister that was as high as Canterlot´s clock tower, the leaves flew fast. Suddenly, she stopped flying, her face turned towards the sun; she noticed that her paper snowflakes escaped through the air. One in front of her, showed her a sign of a rainbow, the leaves where nowhere to be seen and it the snowflakes covered their spaces. She turned and dove once again, making her snowflakes follow her path and when she reached her point, the snowflakes flew like fireworks. They weren´t paper anymore, but real and beautiful snowflakes. It had started to snow. And Yuki flew back to the ground, her parents and sisters waiting her down. She was hugged by her father.
She had noticed that her cutie mark was a snowflake, Yuki asked, “Can I do this every day in my birthday?” her parents nodded and left home.

She was surprised by a cake with snowflakes and a pony in the middle that looked like her, though it reminded her to Snowdrop, one of her sisters interrupted, “it is YOU, sister!” she smiled and all of her family started to get ready for dinner. She really wanted to eat that cake, it felt really special.

In town, Celestia was in awe of the snow, “How many ponies worked in this, and may I have their names?” A pony answered, “It was amazingly done by a little filly, but none of us got her name.”

A purple filly followed her; Celestia sat and started to cry while that filly comforted her. “Thank you…” she whispered.

-Autumn Blossoms
Born in September 21, fall season starts. She was also a Pegasus pony like her big sister. She has a dark orange coat and her mane had the color of dead leaves (brown ones) and her eyes are brown; she was kind of like a fashionista. She also attended Canterlot´s School for Gifted Unicorns. She always tried to make something for the school, but nopony listened to her. Her dream was to always make fall the best season ever, she dreamed of making herself dresses to make herself look like a princess, but knew that she wouldn´t earn a royal position for doing that.

She always thought “dreaming doesn´t hurt… right?”.

She admired all of the princesses, Celestia, Luna, and Cadance. When she knew that Twilight Sparkle, a filly in her sister´s class, had Cadance as a foalsitter; she was totally envious, but she knew she had her very own princess at home, Yuki.
She would design the most regal of dresses ever, to fit all of her sisters´ themes. Even the youngest one, who was the “wildest”, liked at least one of them. She heard that her school would be soon making a fall show. She wanted to make the dresses for the show, but they have called a filly named Rarity to design them. She heard that she was the best designer for a filly of her age. Autumn tried to call Celestia´s attention, but she would never have time for her.

“Probably next time, Ato…” said Celestia.

“She always gets my name wrong…” whispered Autumn.

So one day, she was walking with her mother to bring the grocery bags home. She looked at her environment; unicorns were playing with a hose and getting wet. She felt a little bit sad. Everyone seemed to enjoy Summer, Spring, and Winter even more than Fall.

Then, she asked, “Mom, what makes Autumn special?”

Her mother smiled and pointed at mostly everywhere. Autumn didn´t really understand what she meant.

“Let´s see, you´re into fashion, right?” the filly nodded, “then do you see that everypony will soon change their clothes for a different season? At the stores, they will soon make lots of publicity for ponies to buy their clothes. And you usually LOVE fall´s trends, you spend most of your money in those clothes, but if it weren´t for your sister…” she giggled. “And the leaves also will change into a lot of different colors, mainly brown and orange. Don´t you feel creativity come by? It is also not too cold or too hot.” she said.

Autumn started to think: if she could come up with something better than what Rarity has then she would be the one to make the dresses for the show. Autumn´s mother reminded her that she only has 10 bits in her savings. Autumn liked challenges; so she liked to have a small quantity of funds just to get creativity on her side.
The next day she locked herself in her room and tried to imagine what she was going to do for the show (and with only 10 bits!). The play was about a mare called to become a princess and an evil queen appears and tries to kill her, and in the end a prince somehow saved her. She didn´t like that cliché plot but at least give the show some worth.

Autumn cried in despair, “Oh, what am I gonna do?!”

Her youngest sister arrived in a flash, dressed up as a warrior, “What´s wrong with you?” She screamed even harder. Then the youngest filly joined her and screamed at her face. Yuki rushed in. Then they both screamed at her, she started to cry. And Autumn´s other younger sister came and screamed, “Yay!”

“What do you like to wear in Fall, favourite activities too?” she interviewed them as a detective.

To Yuki, “what do you like to do?”.

She answered that baking and cooking was good since many events happen during the season. And her younger sister answered that there was Nightmare Night, to party and dress up. Also the decorating for the parties made her feel all excited. Her youngest sister answered that throwing herself at leaf bushes, especially the ones that Autumn had brushed up. She made a list while her sisters cooked a pie. She had a spooky dress designed for the evil queen, a brown medieval armor for the prince, and an all-natural dress for the princess, which wasn´t natural, it only had a leafy pattern and it would look as sweet as a pie to a princess.

The next morning, she woke up and started for the door, then a tall light orange-red, with a blue-orange mane, male Pegasus stopped her, “do you remember what´s going to be in two days? I can´t seem to remember”, he laughed.

“It´s my birthday, dad!”

He asked about what should her cake´s flavor be but she didn´t answer.

“Oh, well. This time it´ll be strawberry,” he giggled.

“No it´s not!” she responded in a distance.

“I think I can make it with 10 bits…” she murmured.

She heard a filly selling apples. They had quite a lot of them, and nopony would stop by to buy any. An orange filly was determined to finish selling them, but the family fell to despair. That pony reminded her of her sister; the youngest one.

She knew she had to do something, she approached the family. “How many apples can I buy with these?” she asked.

The big brother answered, “Nope, probably you have that money to buy something from your list.”

She looked at her paper. The filly said, “Probably she already bought them!”

“AppleJack!” her mother scolded.

Then Autumn seemed to have a great idea. “How good are those apples, AppleJack?”

AppleJack answered, “The best you can eat, girl”.

She had lots of apples to bring home, and nothing to make a dress with. She knew she could come up with something, and she was going to make it.
In two days she made wonderful costumes, enough to make the show something magical. The evil queen´s costume had leaves all over her and cape made also of…leaves. The prince´s armor was made of old costumes her youngest sister used to wear and his cape had apple peels. The princess´s dress had green leaves of different kinds and an apple broach. She brought all of her costumes to the show, but they were already using Rarity´s dresses.

“…No way, I came in late!”

Princess Celestia and Cadance were there. Later, one of the princesses noticed the sad filly.

She noticed that she had made some dresses, and didn´t know what to do, until she remembered about a trip, being a special guest, in Cloudsdale. “What are those dresses made of?” asked the pink alicorn.

“All-natural fall themed things… nothing compared to that unicorn´s costumes.”

Then she showed her a flyer of an event happening in Cloudsdale, she said, “There are no leaves up in the clouds, and there´re fillies needing some costumes. They´ll think it´s a total beauty!” Autumn cheered up.

Then princess Celestia hurried, “there is no opening event!”

The filly was confident. She appeared in the center of the stage, flew upward swiftly and started a twister. She was taking all of the tree´s leaves and they seemed to follow their master. She flew even higher making circles and the leaves followed her. She dove and the leaves started to go in different ways. It felt a little bit chilly but it wasn´t cold, the leaves were brown too. She landed on her four hooves, leaves raining everywhere. Her family applauded her.

“CHOCOLATE!” she shouted.

She darted, “No-uh, look at your flank first, kid.”

“-But it´s MINE!” and looked at her brown leaf cutie mark.

“Your mother wouldn´t let me buy strawberry.” Her father said.

Everyone laughed. Cadance approached her and said, “I will recommend your designs to everypony, I´m sure those fillies at the event will absolutely love your dresses!”

And gave her her crown. “Happy birthday, Autumn. My aunt talked about you, she´s always talking about her students, but none being a great designer. Good job.”

They left, and at home she said., “they got my name right!”

-Sunny Blossoms
Sunny, the most cheerful of all the litter, was born the day Summer season would start. June 21. She may not have been the brightest of all, or the most concerned about her season. Sunny had friends; at least she had two fillies and a colt being her friends. She would always surprise them with an answer whenever the situation was bad for them. And one time she even received a letter for Hearts and Hooves Day. She was a yellow Pegasus, with blue eyes, and her mane was both yellow and blue. She was cute. For her birthday, her family planned on a field trip to Ponyville. Since it was a new town and some ponies were in a bad mood. They had to work hard and there was no time to enjoy or make jokes. Sunny liked to be in a crowd, she thought that no matter how hard it would be, she´ll never give up until making someone smile.
They arrived a day before her birthday, Ponyville surely had a sad tone to it. But she flew to the sky and brought a cloud and made it rain. Folks were watching her while she was splashing, some even joined her. Her parents were surprised at how fast she had made the ponies enjoy their land. Fillies and colts were having fun. To babies, she sang funny songs. A filly named Pinkie Pie helped her make the other folks have fun. They were making the second best party ever made in Ponyville. While she was enjoying herself in the sky, she noticed a small cottage, flew over there and found out a pony was living there.

She asked the filly, “what´s your name?”, but the filly simply didn´t answer.

Sunny tried to make jokes about falling frogs, since the rain was a little bit hard but good enough to enjoy. The filly shut the door. Sunny didn´t know why was she being rude to her. Later she joined the other ponies, she asked Pinkie about that filly´s name. She answered that Fluttershy was the name.

“She wouldn´t laugh even at my jokes, can you believe it?!” Sunny became sad, she wanted to make at least better, for she wanted making others happy her best feature.

The next day, her birthday, Sunny woke up her sisters. They made a blueberry pie. The four went to the cottage and knocked the door, left the pie and hided. Fluttershy opened the door, looked at the pie and took it.

Then, Sunny appeared, “It is my birthday today, could you smile for me?” she asked.

Fluttershy then saw the rest of her sisters and feared. She was even more afraid when she noticed that they were pegasi. She shut the door one again.

Then Yuki said, “She seems to be…shy. Maybe you should talk to her; let´s make her your little present.”

The other two sisters nodded and left for the sky. So Sunny once again knocked the door. Fluttershy didn´t open. She watched through her windows without her noticing. She learnt that she didn´t have any parents around, and there were many animals inside, mostly animals from the forest. She thought what she could do for a friend that really liked animals. She had nothing; she went into town to “party”. She found one of her friends she had made yesterday; this one had a sad frown on his face.

“A farmer is trying to kill a little hare that´s been eating his harvests! I´ve told him that it should catch it and let it free, but he won´t hear me!”

Sunny turned and noticed where that pony was, he was chasing a little white rabbit. Sunny fluttered and set flying, both the pony and the bunny were fast, but she was even more. She had little energy, though. She went flying really fast, dropping some boxes and things, and almost making the Apple´s family barrels roll all the way to a river. The colt wouldn´t stop and the baby bunny feared for its life. They ended in a cliff; she had no more energy so she trotted fast. The bunny was at the edge and the colt was sure to shoot it. She heard the earth quake and the edge with the bunny and the colt fell off. The bunny hung on a stick and the colt was falling. Sunny went swiftly to save the colt. She slowly brought him back. The colt thanked her for saving his life.

Her friend reminded her, “Sunny, the bunny!” she looked back and watched the bunny cry.

Again she flew and grabbed the bunny. When she reached the top, her friend took the bunny. She was really tired and rested in the edge. Her friend was away from the edge. When suddenly it breaks apart again, Sunny had no more stamina but tried to fly, she fluttered. But it wasn´t enough. She sees a yellow spark from the sun. Closes her eyes and feels herself being swept away, it was Fluttershy.

“Are you okay?” she asked. Sunny nodded.

They returned with her friend.

“I saw how you rescued the bunny, I was too afraid to do it myself.”

“I thought that I would give that bunny to you, since you love animals…”

Fluttershy blushed, and took the bunny from the foal´s hooves. She smiled and thanked her.

“I will call him Angel, since you rescue it, and flew fast to save both the colt and him.” Fluttershy hugged her. “Thanks to you I´m not that afraid of flying anymore.”

Sunny noticed that she was also a pegasus and took her from the hoof; Fluttershy carried the bunny on her back. They started to flutter and flew to the sky. Sunny planned to move the clouds and she helped her. It started to rain. Everypony was enjoying the warm breeze and its raining season.
She shared her cake with her friends. It was a sun with a big smile and cool sunglasses, Sunny´s typical choice.

-Petunia Blossoms
Petunia was a lot more different than her sisters; she was more concerned about her studies and had more friends. Many ponies knew her name too. Even though she didn´t have a horn, she was one of the most outstanding students in her school. She was a pink, needless to say, Pegasus, with blue-turquoise eyes, her mane was mostly turquoise and a little bit of pink. Her tail was mainly turquoise. Her birthday was at the start of spring, 21 of March. She liked sports and her best friend was Flash Sentry. Both of them raced and played wrestling. Both met thanks to their parents. She had a rival in her class, Twilight Sparkle; both fillies were brilliant at spells and magic. They had even invented spells that were helpful and some of them were pretty, like magical fireworks. Petunia only had to believe and imagine, she joined her wings and they worked like a horn. Celestia would always ask her about her achievements. Petunia learnt about the elements of harmony, but when she made a test with Celestia, they found out she couldn´t contain any. Petunia got depressed, but her friends would always cheer her up. Her peer was called “The Seven”, for each one of the ponies except Petunia had an element, but her friends never let her down. They knew she was special. There was one time, which Twilight was sick and couldn´t attend school. Celestia couldn´t come up with a way to stop a changeling invasion. Petunia didn´t want her teacher to be sad. Everypony were locked inside stores, homes, and schools. They knew the invasion was coming. She locked Celestia´s door, for what she was going to do, it was crazy.
Petunia was high in the sky; she saw how the changelings were coming. She knew Flash Sentry and her father would fight for Canterlot, but she didn´t want them to get hurt. Petunia then thought that she was REALLY crazy; she had neither armor nor weapons. And she didn´t had an idea of how to take over an invasion, but she did know how to bring the scaredy-cat way of Flash Sentry. They were coming, she could hear her father´s voice and Flash´s, and she created a huge force around the army´s headquarters. She was going to fight alone. They were in a circle around Canterlot, and she was at the same height as them. They laughed at her, they couldn´t believe a child was going to fight them. Petunia frowned and moved her hooves in various directions. The changelings were being swept by thorns and leaf storms. It hurt, they were really spiky. She picked poison ivy and started to rub it on them. They started to scratch, Petunia later created a flower storm. She knew that joining various smells would later make a bad smell. The changelings smelled it and coughed. Petunia was concerned of what was going on with that race, so her goal wasn´t killing them, just making them go away. She picked up fruits. Smashed them and took their seeds. Made a leaf grow and turned it into a bag and stored the squashed fruit and seeds in it. She was an outstanding student, but all that magic need a lot of energy. She took the huge leaf and stuck the changelings. That kind of leaves was sticky, so it was hard for them to escape. With a final blow she threw it away like a ball. She had imagined herself playing ball with her friends; she was the pitcher and throwing the ball at a mighty force. The changelings flew away, so did Petunia´s magic. When they were gone, she became really tired. She dropped herself until princess Celestia went over to save her. Her family, friends, and other ponies were around her.

Flash Sentry asked in a tone that you could say that he had been crying, “why did you do that!? Without anypony´s help?!”

“Nopony would have had agreed with me to save them instead and give them a gift…” then she fell asleep.

Celestia thought for a moment, and left Petunia in her father´s hooves. The whole city was in joy, celebrating flowers and eating apple pie, everything was tree and flower-themed.
In her castle, Celestia was reading her diary, about the acts her Blossoms students had done, and wrote about Petunia and then about the whole sisters together. It seemed to her that they were ready. But there was only a missing drop.
One day, Petunia was walking with her school friends and Flash, mysterious ponies appeared. They wanted the fillies and colt´s horns. Flash and Petunia stood on guard. They were six of them. Two of them already had some of them in bags. They tried to escape, but it was anti-magic. Flash tried to put up a fight, but Petunia was better. Both of them kicked them but they attacked with shocks. In five minutes, three of the rascals had been knocked out. Flash Sentry moved swiftly and punched the colt, this one spitted blood, but he punched him back so hard, Flash was thrown away and knocked out. Petunia was really in anger. She was turning total psycho, her eyes became white, and she screamed. She attacked that pony with a tree and another one that was holding a bag. The other one tried to escape but Petunia flew fast and punched him with all her might that he was thrown into a tree and passed through it. Her friends were freed.

“Wow! We didn´t know you could do that!” one of them said.

All of them smiled and took Flash home. It was spring, Petunia´s favorite season. She flew near trees and made flowers bloom. She had made all of the city´s trees bloom. She rested on a flowerbed, and many beautiful flowers bloomed. Then she saw a rainbow light, she looked at her flank and saw a cutie mark. She had a flower cutie mark. Petunia looked at the moon and closed her eyes.

-Seasonal Magic
All four of the sisters found themselves in a place they didn´t know.

Then they found Celestia, “you have all done a very good job, my little ponies” she said.

“What did we do?” asked Petunia.

“You have NONE of the elements,” said Celestia cheerfully.

The sisters were really confused.

“But, you have created a new one, Creativity! You´ve always known what to do in each situation and how to react, you gave gifts nopony would have expected but have known it would make them happy.” Celestia nodded.

Even after knowing the answer, the fillies were confused.

“It is time for you to rise. The Seasonal Pegasi!” she opened her hooves and sang a song to them showing their highlights and most daring fights.

Petunia fangirled over herself and Sunny laughed. Yuki blushed. Autumn felt nostalgic. Suddenly, they felt something enveloping them. It was magic, they had never heard of something like this before. When it finished, they were in front of Celestia´s throne. They looked at themselves and saw that they had bigger wings.

“Hey Yuki, what´s a horn doing in your head?” asked Sunny.

“S-stop joking, Sunny” blushed Yuki.

“You´ve all become princesses!” Autumn looked at herself, enjoying herself being an alicorn.

“You can have your Pegasus bodies whenever you want and you can turn alicorn mode whenever you need." Celestia said.

“But why are we princesses?” asked Petunia.

“You´re all in charge of changing the seasons you´ve been assigned. Petunia is doing Spring, Sunny Summer, Autumn Fall, and Yuki will do Winter. You´re all princesses of seasons!”