Once upon a time in the magical land of Equestria...
Of friends and broken nations, from the falling balefire and raining megaspells. The world above is consumed in flame; the flame of arrogance. The flame of our arrogant goddess: the princesses. And the flame of our arrogant planetary neighbor, the Zebra Caesar. They fought against the stone set harmony life required to continue, and their mistake cost the lives of entire nations, we only survive by luck.
They purposely forgot the folly of the nations before us: the pony and zebra tribes. They forgot the forever teaching lesson of aggression. War, war never changes.
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"And that children," Ms. Magister glanced up at us from her book. "Is why we're all in our great Stable. It protects us from the chaos outside, here we have the harmony the ponies above lost."
We glanced between each other, our numbers only just nearing half a dozen. In the front of our class, Lily Flower, the youngest in our class, stuck her hoof up. "Ms. Magister?"
"Yes?"
"What happened to Princess Luna and Princess Celestia and the Council mares and the Zebra Caesar and all the soldiers?" We all nodded with her, the same thought on our minds.
Ms. Magister closed the book. "I'm afraid that isn't in this book, children." She trotted over and placed it back on the shelf. "Or any books we have down here. We lost all those when..." She sighed. "But all the ponies above? We honestly don't know what happened to them exactly." I looked at my classmates again, frowning. "But guess what time it is?" She nodded to the clock.
"By harmony!" Lily's older sister and my best friend, Sun Flower cried in delight, pointing her own hoof at the clock. "It's time for recess!" With those word all of my classmates and I struggled to stuff our books and homework back in our desk. But in the back of my mind, I couldn't push away the curiosity I held for the ponies above. Where were they now?
