The Key

Fiara Spark levitated up the key with her magic, the top was fashioned to resemble some sort of crown, there were three amethyst stones placed carefully underneath the crown, and it sparkled in the light. She didn't know what it was supposed to open, so she went to the royal library to find out information about it.

"Your Highness!" The royal librarian said, happily. She had a light brown and silver mane, a yellow coat, and blue eyes. Her cutie mark were a few crystal shards surrounding a book. Fiara sighed. She fake-smiled at the librarian mare, and walked towards the several sections of books, looking for any lead to the key hidden in her gift. She found nearly nothing, to her dismay. After she finally gave up, she bang her head against the wall, right by a shelf in the Forbidden Books section. A small medium-sized book fell down. It was golden covered, had gems decorating it, and there was a lock in the middle used to open the book.

"History of The Crystal Empire's Royal Families?" Fiara questioned. "It's worth a try." She got the purple key out of her saddle bag, and was a few moments away from inserting the key inside when she heard running straight towards her.

"Step away from that book, this instant!" It was Cadence, Shining Armor, and what seemed like two crystal guards.

They couldn't fully see Fiara, so she slipped the book into a bag, zapped up a not well-designed replacement and slammed it into the shelf, dashing away as fast as possible. They tried to catch up to her, but failed.

Now she had done it! Cadence obviously knew it would be her own daughter, but she did it anyways! "What an idiot I was... I deserve to be arrested by the royal guard or banished to another world..." Fiara thought to herself. She slipped the book out of her saddle bag, locked the door, and inserted the key inside the lock, turning it slowly. The pages swiftly turned to the last generation before Fiara had been adopted by Cadence or when Flurry Heart was born. Names of her ancestors came and gone, as the time in the book was catching up to her name. It was arranged in who ruled, or would rule, first before the other, then that one before the next, and so on.

And there said it, in black, bold ink. Her mom's name.

Princess Amore.

"The records of Princess Fiara's father's birth to her are unknown, since he died of old age before she was born, which was years before King Sombra ruled the Empire and took over the land. Princess Amore, before she eventually killed as well, had given her one baby daughter to traveling villagers from Saddle Arabia, where they took her back to their country to be raised until she was a foal, and old enough to care for herself until she had her own parents. She was later adopted by Princess Cadence." That's where the story of the past generation ended. Her mother had died by king Sombra when Fiara was a newborn foal. The records of her dad are missing. And then she knew the truth, she could've ruled in Sombra's place, but she was too young. And Cadence had taken care of her for the next...Ten...Years.