Twilight and the other elements sat on the train to Canterlot the other six giving concerned looks at Twilight. "So you gonna tell us why Discord decided to teleport us all to here Twilight or just leave us in the dark?" Rainbow asked impatiently.

"Oh, um... he mentioned to me that we’ll be getting some explanations to some things, but that was it." Fluttershy said as she turned to look at Rainbow.

"I really don't know why girls, all I was planning on doing was ask the princesses about their parents. It's not like it’s a big deal."

"What do ya mean Twi?" Applejack asked slowly.

"Well… there’s a lot of information on their mother Queen Physis but when it comes to their father there's nothing! I checked every book that I could find and while there are mentions of him, it was as if all information was purged for some reason."

Applejack frowned and began to fidget around causing the group to her. "Twi was there mention of other Alicorns in them books ya read?"

Twilight turned to her with a confused look. "No, why do you ask Applejack?"

Applejack hesitated before replying. "There’s a story that's been passed down in the apple family for generations, it’s one of the oldest that been passed on and it tells why only my family cam grow them Zap Apples." Applejack began slowly. "The story starts by telling that long ago my great, great, thousands times great, grandpa found an injured Pegasus mare on the side of the road. Now ya gotta keep in mind that this is long before the tribes united so that means kindness to others outside out your tribe was a lot more than a something rare but he couldn’t in good heart just leave her to suffer. So my old Grandpa picked her up and prepared to take her to his home, as he walked she began to feel heavier and heavier, it was as if he held the world itself on his back but he pushed on and by the time he reached home it was all he could do not to collapse. When He got her to his home he gave her the only bed in the house and left ‘er to rest, when he awoke the next morning the Mare was gone but he still looked around for her since he was concerned ‘bout what condition she was in. After searching for hours he finally decided to return home praying for her safety. As he did this she suddenly walked out of his house as if she was there the whole time. She asked why he, an earth pony, of all ponies would bother with her rather than try and beat her or leave her for dead.

Now we don't rightly remember what his response was but we do know that the next thing he knew was that the mare before him was engulfed in light and when it faded the mare was gone replaced with an Alicorn. Her wings were as brown as the earth and she wore a robe that appeared to be made of leaves. She told him that as long as our family tilled the earth and remained humble and honest then the earth would always give to us a bounty, she then gave to us a seed. And warned him to gather his family and leave the land for a time of great strife would soon be upon the land. She told him to seek the forest Forever Free and to plant the seeds in the forest once there. My ancestor went and did just that and those seeds grew into the first Zap Apple trees, shortly after Discord appeared and began to terrorizing the land throwing it all into chaos but never once did he bother my ancestors for when he came they would run into the forest to escape him and the wrath he brought."

"Cool story AJ but what’s this got to do with Twilight's question about the who the Princesses old man is?" Rainbow asked.

"Ya see there’s always been a name attached to the Alicorn in the story. Gaia Nesoi Ourea, the Alicorn of Earth and Daughter of Moirai Physis and Aion Erebus."

"Hm... I think I understand what you’re saying now dear, you think that Moirai Physis is Queen Physis and that this Aion Erebus character is the long lost King of Equestria?" Rarity asked.

"But that just makes more questions than answers!" Twilight exclaimed. "If I'm translating their names right which I may not be then that would mean that in equestrian their names would have been Queen Fate Genesis and King Eternal Darkness. As for AJs story the Alicorn would be..." Twilight paused for a moment before reaching into her bag and pulling out some book and began to flip through it. "The language these names are in is ancient, dating back to the earliest recorded writings so, the translation maybe wrong but Gaia Nesoi Ourea would translate to... Earth... Islands... Mountains...? So that would make her the Alicorn all the land or maybe the earth, I’m not sure."

"So... my family got blessed by the land itself...damn." Applejack said.

Author's Note

Sorry for such a short chapter but this is probably how the interludes will be. The next chapter will be longer and will also up much sooner.

W. D. Arceaion