Chapter 1 Pinkie’s Grandfarther
Far away, in a place where there was no breeze, no light, no movement of time, just a constant now, there was a single house, surrounded by fields of silver wheat, moving to a non-existent wind. The house itself was black, with a front garden with flowers of eight different shades of black, a pond with gnomes fishing, and an unusual black tree with a swing on it. There was a noise and the front door opened. The figure that walked out was pure white; shining like a star next to the black and grey world from witch he stood in. he reached behind his main and pulled out a large grey map and began to look down the images.
NOW WHERE DID SHE LIVE AGAIN?
And he was gone.
It was morning in Ponyvill, the sun was shining, the birds where singing, and everything was peaceful. Peaceful until the joyful screams of a certain pink colored pony shattered it into a million pieces with a volume that even the folks all the way in GriffonStone could here. A certain purple princess in a certain crystal castle was the first to decide to come over and find out what was going on. And it wasn’t long before her friends joined her on the march to Sugarcube Corner where the best party pony Pinkie Pie lived. Twilight turned to face her friends outside of the door.
“I assume you’re all here for the same reason I am”
The four other ponies nodded in unison. “Well then, lets see what gotten Pinkie so…energetic” the five walked trough the doors and made there way to the living area of the bakery where there friend who resembled the result of bubblegum and cotton candy coming to life rushing around seemingly making enough cupcakes to feed all of Equestria. She finally noticed them after taking out a batch of freshly make cupcakes.
“Hay girls what brings you here”
Applejack was the one who replied “well sugar cube, we all heard ya calling out like a cockerel at dawn and came over to see what’s got ya all rattled up” she looked around the kitchen now half full of cupcakes and becoming more full the minuet. “Are ya perchance having a family reunion?”
Pinkie jumped up from behind the table “nope, just one”
She then gave Twilight an envelope wile she returned to her baking. Twilight took the letter out and stared at it for a moment. The paper was unlike any she had seen, it was black for a start, and judging by the feel, smoothness and oddly perfect symmetry of it the sheet wasn’t made from anything even remotely resembling wood, it was like the concept of a letter rather than a real letter. Twilight unfolded the black page and looked at the writing on it. The words where in elegant writing and in a white that was almost burningly bright in front of the black for a lack of a better word paper. Twilight read the words feeling like she was reading off a tombstone.
Dear Pinkie
I have finally gotten some spare time and can at last spend with you, I will be there after Rainbow Dash’s wing cramps up causing her to fall and smash her face on the ground
Your Grandfather
Binky
Twilight shook her head like she was shaking a voice out of her ears and looked back at the letter. “You have a grandfather Binky?”
“Yep! And he’s coming over today just as he said”
“When Rainbow Dash’s wing cramps up causing her to fall and smash her face on the ground?”
“He’s very good at timing”
The four friends turn their heads to the blue Pegasus with hair like her name.
“pufffff, like I would ever fall on my face, or get a wing cramp…wait how did he know about me”
“I may have told him about you guys, but even if I didn’t he would know, he knows every pony”
Twilight looked at Pinkie as she worked. How could anypony besides Princess Celestia know everypony in Equestria. She looked down at the black page and looked down on the back of it…
Just wait and see miss Sparkle
Twilight blinked and looked at the page again, the words where the same as they were before. She looked back up at her friend busy at work and wondered, just who is her grandfather.
Equestria is but one of many lands in the world known as Equus. But in the middle of any map is a single mountain like a pointed pillar. Too smooth for any earth pony too climb, too tall for any Pegasus to fly up, and somehow impervious to any unicorn magic. Known only to some ponie’s, up on the top of this impervious structure was a mighty city, home for centuries to the Alicorn’s. This was Gallopus, home to the rulers of the world, without ever being involved in it. In the main castle of this city the size of a country, was a round room containing a single table with chars surrounding it, two of which where noticeably bigger and more ornate than the others that each had a different symbol on them. This room was reserved for meetings of the Cosmic Council, and as of now seven Councilor’s where there.
There was King Leo of the Sea, Sea Lion ruler of Aquastria.
Queen Florara of Nature, the White Deer of the Continent.
Queen Zeressa of Spirit, Zebra Alicorn of the far off lands.
Discord of Chaos, the Draconiques who had just recently rejoined the council.
Princess Luna of the Night, one half of the rulers of Equestria.
Lord Hades, canine ruler of Tartarus.
And sitting on one of the two grand throne like chars was the King of the World, King Cosmos, otherwise known as the farther of both Celestia and Luna. The meeting was about a certain entity.
“What is being proposed has never happened before” King Leo was the first to speak followed by Florara “can it really be done?”
“Oh it can, and it must” Hades said “he has been working the same job for the last…well frankly I don’t know when the whole thing started I just know it has been longer since I have done my job”
Luna spoke “there have certain irregularity’s with his work, I am not saying that he is inefficient but his contact with the world and his actions on it is starting to…affect him, who knows what this will eventually do to his job”
Discord was drinking chocolate milk at this point “well considering what his job is I would start going a little bit nutty as well after a wile”
Zeressa giggles, “ah words of humor touched with harm, I have mist your subtle charm”
King Leo put his paws together “it is true that out of all of us he has the most tasking job, both mentally and physically, although he is also the most resilient of us in those fields…should we be having this meeting without her?”
His eyes turned to a white char with the image of an ankh carved into it. Florara’s eyes turned to the king of the sea.
“She is busy right now, but out of all of us I believe she would agree that he deserves a holiday”
“What do you think he would do on vacation, I doubt that daredevil stunts or acrobat exhibitions without a safety net wouldn’t be exciting since he would know if it ends well or not” Discord was talking to Zeressa now
“True it is the quiet a mystery, but it would be a first in all history”
Luna turned to her farther “so are we agreed?”
The King of all nodded, “we are agreed, he has worked the most out of all of us and deserves some down time, even gods need the chance to unwind”
“But one thing still concerns me” Luna was rubbing her chin “wile he is away, who will do his job?”
Hades smirked “oh you don’t have to worry about that the job will most likely go to his granddaughter”
Luna looked at the horned Doberman “granddaughter? He doesn’t have a family, its physically impossible for a being like him to have children let alone grand children”
“Oh he does, and you should know, you’ve met her”
“Oh”
“Think very hard princess, who do you know that thinks differently than any other, who moves like there in no space between her, who can somehow know what’s going to happen next, who acts like she knows the world for what it truly is, and not what everypony thinks it is”
Luna thought about this carefully, and looked up at the char next to the white ankh. All black with the symbol of omega carven into it.
“How will Twilight and her friends deal with this I wonder?”