The hybrid kingdom

In the exact average point between the beginning of the night and its end twilight sparkle it flies at big speed and with an anxiety that numbs her  muscles and freezes its bones, with the fix look in canterlot her speed only increases in the course of time and shortly before finishing its trip sees princess Celestia, her great mentor and her only hope to be able to raise at least a solution to the terrible problem that Zecora has brought her, it reduces its speed and lands to a pair of meters of the princess and with a serious voice, which defies the fear that lies inside her, she gets the princess attention

"Princess something  terrible has happened, the native Zecora community comes right now towards us, they want to start a war here for the reign of equestria"

the princess turns slowly and takes one of the hands of twilight, together walk towards the balcony and with a calmed voice she answers her "my dear twilight the news that you bring to me they sadden me, but i imaged that it would be like this"

twilight continues looking at her with something of uncertainty and questions herself her: did she already know it? the princess sees her and tries to calm it whiles he explains the situation with which she was acquainted

"from cloudsdale, in an exercise of speed and stamina of the wonderbolts, they did a trip flagstaff to the borders of equestria, one of its members thinking about how to go further went to the open sea and there he noted a change in the wind, this small phenomenon that attracted the attention of a beginner, this was what I take that other explorers could corroborate what you now confirm to me as a threat, the final report of three days ago is that it is an enormous fleet, it's like all of them are coming, these people come to conquer us or die in the attempt"

twilight full of suspense doubts for a moment before turning the look over to its big inspiration and ancient teacher:

"what will we do princess?"

Celestia lowers the look and answers "this threat I cannot allow it, but a genocide of such a magnitude would destroy all of us, our only alternative is to negotiate"

in this moment the princess moon, already aware of the situation ceases her duties and assuming that twilight is informed about the situation she joins with its classic firm voice "the troops are prepared to do a perimeter in the point of due landing it is believed that they will come in five days, it is our responsibility to take care of all those who inhabit these grounds, do not hesitate to do the necessary"

Celestia answers becoming firm and opening its wings preparing herself to fly "I will not do it, but for the time being the best alternative is to look for a peaceful settlement" Luna sees her agreeing and flies in the direction of the landing point meanwhile Celestia takes to its pupil with both hands in its shoulders and the sight to the eyes "my dear Twilight destiny puts this test before you and I cannot avoid to feel that only you are the answer, you have solved many problems of the friendship, but perhaps this is your biggest challenge, assemble your friends and find me in the tentative landing site it is here in this map, i know that together will be able to solve this thunderstorm that has gather on our hearth" Celestia delivers to her a rolled up map and goes out flying to the meeting of  her sister, the wind makes dance the hair and the fur of the purple of the alicorn while her sight towards the sky to her mentor and friend who go to face a problem that is over both and that is going to change their lives completely, breathing calmly opens her wings and goes out in direction of ponyville again, must find her friends and together put the face of peace and harmony to the war, yet nobody knows what will go out of such a meeting.

Two days pass and the twilight friends are prepared and learned of the situation with a lot of fear and suspense like their purple friend, they join to eat in a tent with the white furred princess while they discuss how they will have to face the events, Celestia speaks up before beginning to eat, and she does it with terrible news "I am afraid that our guests are truly hostile"

Twilight interrupts her asking very worried "how do you know it? Did they come earlier?"

the princess retakes the word calming the worries of the alicorn – no, what I did upon arriving here was to cast a spell to create a decoy of my person and i used it to go to speak with the chief of the zebras before they come to ground, to be able to initiate a dialogue but everything was in vain,once i got there what I saw through my decoy was an imposing ship of big ornate size all of it was carved in the wood in high relief of big zebras clutching spears and jewels and in the center of the ship a throne of ebony big and carved to look like the trunk of a big tree and carved also so that roots look like its base, and on the same throe he was sitting, its leader a young zebra of big size and crossed in his back a big staff and a spear, he was alone all of his deck empty and then he spoke to me:

"i didn't expect to see someone of the royalty to receive us so soon"

"I am princess Celestia and I am here to discuss your intentions for with my territory"

"good the very princess, well listen your majesty, we have come to make one whit people and its ground is our nature of devouring what is served to us, now the decision is yours, if to be devoured in peace as a snake to its prey, or with violence like the lion"

"nobody will be devoured by anybody, your people is welcome to remain and to join us but in peace, we know the difficult of its situation and want to help"

"princess look, I do not know what do you think you know of our situation but we simply will take what we need, that is inevitable you can only choose the way, now go, we will meet in person on having come"

"that means that he knew that this image was a decoy" it specified applejack worried by the situation and the hostility that the invaders were reflecting

"the worst thing there is the aggressiveness with which they come I thought that you might talk like civilized creatures" rarity said complaining the conduct of the leader who was coming closer slowly for the ocean.

"well we do not have another alternative that to eliminate them" rainbow said while she was getting up waved trying to demonstrate valor to her friends.

The discussions continued during a pair of hours without coming to a conclusion none knew how to react before such to threat, or perhaps they knew that they had to do, but do it was the biggest problem, the night came and it covered of a dark cloak the tents that the royal guard had raiser while expecting a difficult battle, which would change them forever. After several deliberations between the princesses and its friends they finally reach the conclusion that, if the zebras reach the beach with a belligerent intention they would be counter-attacked yet if they could compromise of some form, they would continue this course, although the first option was seeming to be the most probable, this way two days passed leaving only three before the meeting and then a disturbing new congregated princesses Luna Celestia and Twilight, several shipwrecks had been found about the beach, between 500 and 800 meters of beach towards the north and south, these shipwrecks seemed to indicate that other zebras had come earlier to ground and that they might be preparing an ambush or perhaps worse, in the royal tent the princesses discussed this matter with worry

"the docking of these ships is estimated around six months, this means that it is a part of a plan linked to this invasion" Luna said demonstrating its scorn for the tactics of its enemies

"but it should have been slightly secret since Zecora did not tell us on this, they must have planned this attack of very subtle form" twilight she affirmed while she was trying to decipher the plan of the invaders

In this moment Celestia got up of its chair and while the map was lying with the places of the shipwrecks she took a decision and ordered to twilight to write a letter to the princess Cadence indicating that should rally her forces towards canterlot to protect the city, its pupil proceeded immediately.

So the alertness checked completely the sky in search of ambushes and with the city of canterlot perfectly watched they prepared to wait for the imminent attack leaving aside this possible previous invasion.

Day of the arrival

At about 11 AM at the distance it was seen to come the ships of the invaders zebras, they berthed in the beach to approximately 100 meters of the line of defense of the ponis, the horns of the unicorns shining through their helmets began to shine more while they were preparing to for the worst thing, the pegasi in the sky prepared to attack as eagles remaining in formation looking as the forces of the zebras descend from the ships, the earth ponies in the first line carrying spears and swords were waiting for an order of the princess who was standing up opposite to all its army. The zebras did not seem prepared to fight, Celestia had seen its leader with a mortal spear and a suit of thick leather and a layer of cloth, yet the soldiers only had a long skirt, males and females alike with the chest completely bare, the breasts of the female firm and big, strong legs and its arms marked with the product of a life of fight and hard work, and the males with a condition of the same way a notable force, only they had a sort of belt that hold their skirts and attached to it a small black bag and dagger in the back and nothing else, so they began walking towards the beach then to give them meeting an earth pony of the army and as they come closer he shout them "hold! Explain the intention of this!" in this moment a zebra approaches and takes of the cloth bag a small pearl, it is brilliant, pure and white like the milk, then he pushes it strongly in the earth pony, the pearl neither is destroyed it nor damages in the most minimal way the pony it slides like bogey on its chest and there it stays, the scared pony reacts punching the male and then touches his chest trying to understand what has just happened, in that while it steps back to its army the rest remains amazed: is it a real threat? They wonder while the zebras keep on advancing slowly extracting of its bags these pearls, princess Celestia does not know that to do and only manages to call the retreat on having seen that it is not violent threat, in that princess Luna begins executing her magic trying to know if these pearls are a threat, she does not detect anything, they do not have any effect, she wonders then: if they are only to cause confusion? will the real attack start now?

In the whole turmoil more and more zebras disembark and the soldiers without knowing how to act they are caught by the zebras who place the pearls and leave them and they go looking for others, half of the army is caught by these pearls until they hear a voice, the retreat, the troops nevertheless are captured as they try to return to the grasslands, in this moment into which the zebras have got between all the forces and although touched for using the force they do not have another option than to give up and to stop until the zebras have finished their plan, after a half an hour all the zebras return to the beach with all the soldiers attacked by these pearls, in this moment the princesses join to give the retreat on returning to canterlot and prepare themselves to hear a blackmail, or at least they were waiting for that.