A rewritten Past

Bell watched the Alicorns who left the newly revived land. 'Home... I hope mom and dad are alright...' The mare in question shook her head and exhaled before trying to figure out how to get down from the tree on which she was currently sitting. Carefully she swung her left hind leg over the tree branch and slowly climbed down. At first it went well, then she went faster down, and in the end, she landed on her rump on the ground. Luckily a bush of very soft flowers was conveniently placed there to cushion her fall.

Bell carefully pulled her well-toned bottom off the ground and rubbed it, not because of pain, but because the blooms were also covered in weird fur-like hair that tickled on touch. Yet, as rushed as everything seemed, she still had a hard time understanding all that surrounded her. Nature reclaimed the land in just a few moments, or rather Auriel. Knowing this was as interesting as it was scary, a single look revealed that Auriel had never really learned magic or even studied seriously and knowing that she could be capable of so much more just showed the massive power gap.

Yet, the look Bell could see on Auriel was not a proud or happy one, but one of exhaustion and maybe even fear? Carefully Bell trotted towards Auriel and asked with concern in her voice. "Are you okay Auriel? You seem a bit tired and shocked."

Auriel almost jumped from the sudden appearance of Bell's voice, but quickly calmed down. The golden fox slowly exhaled before a broad smile once again took its rightful place on her face. "Oh... ehm, hi eh-Bell. I am quite fine, I just felt something... weird." The worry in Bell grew, and Auriel could see that. "It's nothing to worry about, really, I just have to look a bit and find it, but I am sure everything is fine."

Bell was not buying Auriel's words and was about to open her mouth as a large shadow loomed over her. The mare turned around and saw that it was everyone's favorite changeling queen who had an unamused look on her face. The queen asked. "Auriel, while I appreciate your hospitality, I really hope that this won't bite us in the flank afterward. But to more important matters now, what was your opinion on these two ponies?"

Auriel's look dulled in a heartbeat, no emotion to be seen and just like her voice. "Celestia lied about their names, their purpose here was the truth, but she was trying to hide her obvious fear, mostly directed at me. No doubt that the thought of fleeing crossed their minds several times. Luna, again a false name, was more open with her emotions and seemed to have little problems with the changelings and I present."

Chitin stared at Auriel with her mouth wide open. While Changelings could feel deceit, it only worked on weak-minded, but they couldn't sense lies when one spoke truthfully. "How did you find out so much about them?"

Auriel shrugged and answered. "It was not all too hard to find out, I did spend most of the time with animals, and you are not that far off from them... I don't mean it as an insult, but that's just the truth. Whenever I said their names, they either twitched, swallowed hard, their eyebrow twitched or any other super small detail."

Bell would remember Auriel's words, having a lie detector would spare her of so much trouble, no more ponies who would pretend that they have sick foals and try to get free stuff from her. "I think they were nice, but I think they are very desperate and scared. They probably haven't even processed everything that has happened yet. But I think they were impressed from seeing you talk in High Ponese, even if it was a bit simple."

Chitin's eyebrow rose high, and a confused facial expression now could be seen on her face. "High Ponese? I was surprised to see the ponies understand old changeling." Her head suddenly jerked up when she realized something. She rubbed her chin with her hoof. "Now thinking back, I am only now realizing that Auriel always spoke in old changeling, so how did you understand it?"

Bell tilted her head to the right and asked. "Really? I always heard her talk in simple earth pony. How does old changeling even sound?"

Chitin demonstrated the language, and it was an 'interesting experience for Bell.' Chitin emitted a mix of various screeches, growls, and hisses. But, this was what Auriel heard (Old changeling is a tough language as even the smallest drop or rise of one's voice can completely change the meaning of the sentence.) Yet Bell tilted her head even further until she tumbled onto the sand.

Auriel stared at her to friends and repeated. "Old changeling is a tough language as even the smallest drop or rise of one's voice can completely change the meaning of the sentence." Bell turned around and looked at her fluffy friend with big eyes. "What? I just repeated what Chitin just said, but I didn't hear anything different than any other time she spoke with me."

Chitin thought out loud while rubbing her chin once again. "Interesting. You seem to be able to understand other languages without ever having to learn them. This could be of great value in the future should any more races decided to settle here, or maybe just being able to go anywhere else would be nice as well."

Bell asked. "Now, that we know that Auriel is able to talk with them, what are we going to do now?"

A smile spread across Chitin's face, it was a mixture of joy and a hint of maliciousness. "Auriel?" Auriel turned all of her attention towards Chitin as her ears perked up. "Since this is your land, I think it's only fair that it is your responsibility as well. Of course, should you need help with modern diplomacy, I am more than willing to help, but unless it doesn't involve the hive or the area around it, it's your choice."

Bell asked with worry in her voice. "Are you sure that it's a good-." Chitin interrupted with an early answer. "Yes." Bell stared at the changeling queen for a few more moments before sighing in defeat out loud. "Fine, but don't complain if things go south. I think I will be staying here, but not forever, I just would like to meet ponies again." to which Chitin nodded in understanding.

Auriel asked with curiosity. "Sooo... I guess I will have to stay here?" both of them nodded. "Ok, but I will try my best to visit you and continue teaching Chrysalis as often as I can."

Chitin smiled and replied. "I am counting on that. But I think I should go back to the hive and see if my changelings managed to deal with all the hats. Would you be kind enough to send us back? I would not want to listen to head decoration problems with a headache."

Auriel smiled and nodded before snapping her fingers. The changelings glowed for half a second before vanishing in a great flash of light, leaving Bell and Auriel alone.

Bell waved her hoof in the last possible moment as the changelings who disappeared without a trace. She then turned around and asked Auriel. "What are we going to... do... now...?" only to see that Auriel was already gone. "Huh... 'guess I will look around on my own."

Meanwhile

"Starswirl! Starswirl! Starswirl!"

"What is it, my young and inpatient students?" asked a very grumpy voice whose owner could not be seen. The two sisters looked around but saw nothing but snow where they last have seen their mentor and the rest of their allies.

"Starswirl? Where are thee? We hear thy voice, but we can't see thee. Please don't tell us that you passed on and returned to haunt us like a ghost." asked Luna with her voice becoming ever more fearful and desperate.

A loud and annoyed groan came from a small pile of snow as a bone-whiteish wave of magic erupted out of the snow and throwing away the white substance. "I am very much alive, and I will not die until our friends learned to not just wander away on their own." the owner of the voice was an old unicorn stallion with a grey coat and white beard and mane who wore a blue cloak with stars on it and a big wizard head with stars attached to it as well.

"They left?!" Shouted Celestia in shock. Celestia couldn't believe it, after weeks of traveling through the ice dessert, and now that they were so close to finding a home, they left?

Starswirls look showed nothing more than a few wrinkles and two large black bags under his eyes... oh an unamused old stallion. "... No. They didn't back out of the agreement of the united tribes. They merely weren't able to stand one another's constant insults and complains anymore, so they split up to ease everyone's, mine included, nerves for the time being."

Luna stared at her mentor for a second or two before exhaling loudly. "Why can't they just see past all of this and look forward. We have finally found a suitable home, and the Wendigoes are gone as well."

"Slow down young mare, what did you just say? The Wendigoes are gone?" asked the old stallion with curiously as his forehead furrowed when he rose an eyebrow.

Celestia stepped forward and explained. "It's true, it seems like the origin of the magical signature was a creature named Auriel. She was unlike anything we have ever seen and possessed powers beyond a ponies wildest dreams." While the young alicorn may sound as if she was exaggerating, she doubted she praised the fox's powers enough.

"Truly?" asked Starswirl as he stroked his beard. "You two know that my fantasies about magic can become very much... 'wild,' but I shall take you on the word then, for now. But if your claims are true, then I am more than interested in having a talk with this 'Auriel.' Is there anything else I should know before we fetch our... companions?"

"Well..." started Celestia as she stretched this one word for several seconds.

" 'Well' what?" asked Starswirl with a cold expression on his face.

"Well... It seems like the land is already inhabited by the insectoid equines that call themselves 'Changelings.' Auriel seems to be quite fond of them, and I don't think she would take it lightly should we or any other of the tribe become hostile with her friends." stated Celestia. Starswirl's eyebrows only rose a bit more.

The stallion coughed loudly and asked shortly afterward. "Luna, I would like to hear your opinion on this matter as well. Do You think if the tribes accidentally become hostile with her, what would be the price that these fools would have to pay?" Starswirl was not a Stallion who liked war or conflict, but he always wanted to know the outcome if things should go south and have plans for any situation.

Luna gulped and smiled awkwardly. "She could erase all of ponykind, at least if her words were true?"

Starswirl stared at his student before breaking out in laughter. "Hahaha, that- that is just too grand to hear." as his laughter slowly started to die out, he asked once again. "Now, please answer my question seriously. It would take even me another thousand or so years until I could even destroy even a single pony without leaving anything left."

"B-but it's true. Auriel erased an entire forest in just a few seconds! She also said that she was older than the first pony, older than the first life in this world." half-shouted Luna.

The Stallion lifted and lowered his head a few times and waited for the punchline of the joke, but it never came. The stallion then looked at his other student, only to see her nodding in a sheepish matter. "Well... I... I think we should get our friends as soon as possible and have a little talk with this creature and on the way, please report me everything you know about her and what happened to the Wendigoes."

"But Starswirl! How are we supposed to find them?" asked Luna, but fate answered her question rather quickly.

"-What did you just say to me, horn head?!-", "-You heard me just fine!-", "-Stop fighting, it won't bring anything!-", "-stay out of this Clover!-", "-When I get my hooves around you, pigeon, then you can fly under the snow!-", "-When was the last time you washed? I can smell you all the way over here!-"

Both alicorns and Starswirl stared in the direction from which the sound came and groaned at the same time. With annoyance in their heart, the three of them began to pick up their allies and tell their mentor about the most recent news.

Elsewhere.

"Found you!" shouted Auriel with the smile only a mad person could muster as she hovered several hundreds of feet above the middle of the badlands. Auriel lifted her left hand and pointed the back of her hand toward the sky and started to rotate her hand slowly with every increasing pace. At first, nothing happened. After a few seconds, the wind began to pick up, a few moments later a breeze started to form and blow in a large circle below Auriel. The air became dryer and dryer as more and more sand was blown off the ground. The wind after a minute was strong enough to lift boulders, and in a heartbeat, a full-grown tornado suddenly appeared and drilled through the earth with overwhelming speed, not sparing sand, stone or dead plants. And after a few seconds, Auriel’s hand just stopped, and the tornado disappeared in precisely at that moment and threw all sucked up objects in all direction, leaving behind a gigantic crystal orb.

Auriel's smile instantly fell when she saw the object that was hidden under the sand. She knew that nothing could survive this long, but the hope that her masterpiece-no her first real friend lasted all those long millennia without her, was just too strong. The golden fox shock her head before falling towards the ground, with no care about getting hurt, not that it was possible to die of fall-damage for her. Auriel fell with high speed, yet landed like a feather, the ground didn't even notice her touching it, not a single sand corn disturbed, and walked on all four paws towards the crystal globe without saying another word.

"Huh? The crystals still glow as beautiful as they did when I first created them." Auriel held both of her paws in front of her with her palms facing the crystal. Her eyes turned brow as she pulled her arms apart in one quick motion and ripping an entrance into the crystal cocoon open.

The fox gasped loudly before teleporting into the center of the chamber with a broad grin on her face as when she reappeared, she hugged the large stem of a large crystal tree. The sight was mesmerizing, the colors shimmered in the air around the large crystal tree, and the six fruits that grew in it illuminated the room in all colors of the rainbow.

"I missed you so much, ToH!" shouted Auriel as she hugged her old friend even harder while trying her best to not break out into tears. Yet, she didn't care about the awkwardness, not even as she started whimpering as a dog would do in sadness.

The response of ToH was a soft, yet vibrant flickering of the light and a beautiful, if not slightly sad music that emitted from her friend.

Auriel sniffed loudly and wished her nose dry on her own fur, shortly before the nose hit the ground as her coat was not allowing anything to stick on it. "You have grown a lot since last time." The silence was awkwardly spreading at this point, and so the fox asked. "Are you responsible for them being... well, sentient, not like animals?" Auriel's mind was already plagued with this question for a very long, she was never able to create anything sentient, no matter how much she tried.

ToH flickered twice and, the room was almost entirely drowned in darkness in those two moments in which it responded. ToH then flashed many times as a wave-like tune was emitted by it.

"But... If intelligent life can only live if harmony exists to some point, why didn't it work with me?" asked Auriel, awaiting a world-shattering answer.

Again, ToH's light illuminated the room brighter and descending the chamber in darkness several times throughout seconds? Minutes? Hours? Time seemed to slow down and speed up at once.

Auriel listened closely to her friend's words. "So, I was Order?" ToH flickered once. "- And when I absorbed him I obtained the powers of chaos; thus, I became harmonic-like? But I have no idea how to control it yet?" ToH flickered once again. "My... children formed after me, that's why I can understand them, that's why they represent both good and bad even better than me?" And again, only once did ToH flicker. "We are not really alive, you say. We exist, we are powerful, not bound to anything, but not truly alive, sadness, pain, and despair are not ours to have and judge... We are free from true freedom." ToH flickered three times at the end, or in other words agreeing twice.

Auriel stared at the ground with a frown on her face. She sighed loudly before her expression was replaced with a smile again and realizing the weight of her friend's words. "It doesn't matter." ToH flickered in several colors, showing his confusion. "It doesn't matter, what we do, what we are or how we feel as long as we don't bother anyone else. We may be different, but that's not bad! I may have never had any bad emotions for longer than a few moments, but others will never know the true carefreeness I have all the time. In other words. No one's perfect, and that's good!"

ToH was silent, and its colors dull for a few moments before illuminating the room, every last inch with heavenly colors that just screamed happiness as if it was saying 'thank you.'

Auriel smiled at her friend with a small and soft smile and said. "I enjoyed our conversation a lot, old friend, but I must bid farewell once again, but I promise you that I will visit you a lot more often." and with that, Auriel snapped her fingers and disappeared in a bright flash of light.

Auriel reappeared and floated a dozen meters above where the sand once lied. She pointed her palm at the ground as her eyes turned brown again. She slowly closed her palm as ToH's chamber was sealed just in time as sand massed buried the crystal chamber once again.

Once all evidence was erased, Auriel stared at the ground for a moment as a wicked grin slowly spread across her face. "So... Harmony is Order and Chaos? Well, I think I have a lot to catch up with, don't I?" the fox started to giggle and then broke into a burst of mad laughter. Suddenly her laughter stopped for a moment. "Not on Discords level, but still." and continued laughing madly for a whole minute. With a loud satisfied sigh, she ended her laughter and said to herself. "I am talking to myself again..."

Chaos is such a beautiful thing, not in the way it looks, not in what it represents, but because its order is much more comfortable... because it doesn't exist. Well, kind of. When Auriel first started her *ahem* experiment, she thought she may have gotten mad just a tiny little bit, but no, it was quite the opposite. Imagine doing one thing your whole 'live' not counting her carnivorous phase as a lightbulb- whatever that is supposed to be -and then things suddenly spiced up unto a new level of a thrill. That is how Auriel was feeling when she was spreading a bit of chaos. It was like taking a break from doing all the hard work, questions and tests to a simple relaxing vacation. Chaos has its rules, the rules you make. If she says that the pink waterfall flows up, it does, and that is not wrong because that is just the new rule which most likely no creature will accept, but it is still the new rule.

Besides that, it was much more different, Auriel, of course, added a bit of order and turned her little chaos area into a fully functionally ecosystem- she like this word, it sounds so fitting -and it felt so damn right!~~~ It's like scratching this little spot on your back that you can't reach and never noticed that it itched in the first place, but then accidentally scratch it and feel like you're melting. Auriel was so much closer to harmony than ever, but still very much away since this land was mostly a chaos bomb now. Yet, the golden fox was not bothered by this very one-sided land as she had no intentions of coming anywhere close to harmony as it is just as bad when it comes to creating life as chaos and order alone, in fact, it is much worse at that job.

Order cannot bring sentients, it just can't. Sentience is the balance between insanity and sanity, a working cautiousness so to say. But a cautiousness brings many things into the equation- again, whatever that is -that just clog too much up for Order. Sadness, depression, Lust, all the other emotions and most importantly, Imagination and individuality. Auriel was, no, she is still in this state as Auriel, and her whole life was based on fulfilling this goal, making life, and blocking out everything that makes life 'life-able.' But she is trying to enjoy life as much as she can.

Chaos can create life, not that it would survive in most cases, but it can and even is able to make sentients, even if it would be very unstable and possibly as mad as a mad ferret in a puddle of mustard... She did know what mustard is, but forgot what it did and was too lazy to remember it at the moment... back to the topic! Chaos may create things, but it will destroy them a short while better due to its, like the name, already says chaotic nature.

When Auriel obtained the powers of chaos from that disgusting, all-consuming, masterpiece destroying, sadistic, incompetent *Many more insults of which half Auriel didn't even understand* Thing, she became less order and a bit more harmony. Auriel isn't harmony, she was very far away from it as true harmony is much worse than in it's fullest than Order of Chaos at their lowest. Chaos assures change of life, while order keeps things from falling apart, or a bit more straightforward, Chaos and Order can be described in three simple sentences if they are in balance that is not close to Harmony. These three things are Survival of the fittest, struggle for life and natural selection... hey, that sounds like it could come from one of the books she read... but it was very much right.

You see, Order alone would keep things from changing, very bad, Chaos would always change things, a bit less bad, harmony would make everything perfect to the point our life become dull. Our memories would always be perfect, our lives would be perfect, our friends would be perfect, the weather, the time, our moods, and, and, and, and so much more perfection to the point life isn't worth living. Nothing would be unique, you would be just another being, probably without even a name so yours wouldn't be better than other ones. In fact, we would all look alike, and there would only be one species. One biome. One time of the day. Maybe we would all be just lights with no needs for anything. Trapped in this eternal state of perfection until you become mad, which you will never become because you can't suffer any long-term, emotional, mental or physical damage until you drown in an endless puddle of despair where you envy the mortal and realize just how different you are until you end up like Discord!!!

*Wheeze*

*Wheeze*

*Wheeze*

"Breath in..."

...

"And breath out..."

As the possibly mentally and emotionally unstable fox was saying, it is hard to reach harmony or to make things clear. IT. IS. IMPOSSIBLE! ...But that doesn't stop others from trying. The changeling library held much information about the ponies, very little about other species, but still a few crucial information. You see, many tried to put their version of Harmony on others with force. Be its laws, rules or even religions and some weird guy screaming at the top of his lungs. Harmony, its meaning can be understood in just under five seconds, others made it very much complicated.

The concept of religion has fascinated her, be in an amusing way. Mortals would choose to follow the guidance of a god- the creature who made or at least took part in its creation - and then try to get into their favor. Some do it by being kind-hearted while others... well, they have an 'interesting' selection of punishment and the large variety of 'sacrifices' has made Auriel ponder once or twice if I should 'visit' indicated creatures in question as there were some truly horrifying things she read. Funny, they search for their maker and make up stories that they later believe, unknowingly that their maker was here all there time, in a dessert, less than a foot under the sand with powers that sometimes come close to what they believe she was capable of, and sometimes far too powerful for anyone's safety and sanity.

Did she mention that Auriel had a perfect memory and could relive every second in her whole life if she just tried? Because she could hear her own voice reading a book or even replaying a song she heard while doing her job... Did you know how satisfying it was to combine various instruments while doing a task and then adding the sound of the things you do to the music you hear? It was like hearing a so-called 'orchestra' in one's own head.

Auriel smiled as she wrote the last sentence in her diary/ journal. The idea to write down her own life was a tempting one, she enjoyed to read the memoirs the various creations, even if she couldn't imagine much of them. Turned out, she was a very good writer, her handwriting, or rather pawwriting was perfect, again, it was just a pattern that was in her head and she had quite the time of fun to decorate the journal after spreading chaos and writing down her life story so far. The books cover, and backside were both made from the weird brown skin-like material most books have, but she decorated it with scarce stuff.

Fire diamonds, thunder Citrine, sun gold and many other jewels that she used to make the cover look pretty. The title said in sun gold 'Legacy of the Golden Fox' with a small golden figure of herself as the 'F' with her head being the upper roof and her extended paw the lower roof of the letter. Auriel then used the gemstones and embedded them in a way so that they would underline the title. The corners were platted with a silver plate on which a more massive gem was inserted, that was on both sides, just to make things clear. Lastly, she crushed many gems and formed them into two tiny multicolored pearls that she put in the spots for her eyes.

"Hihi! This is so much fun!" giggled Auriel in joy as she looked at her book and then at her surroundings which were... a 'bit chaotic.

First of all, gravity is a lie, at least in some places and so was the sky, which would change color every ten minutes or so. The ground varied from material to material to area to area. Some places where Auriel's so-called, jumping fields, while in some you would soon forget where up and down was while you're walking sideways through hidden and invisible portals. There was even a gigantic 20-edged cube in the sky which was filled to the brim with smaller 20-edged cubes. Auriel herself was currently sitting on a giant mushroom which's cap was a huge circle made out of something sweet and bread-like, and a small circle inside of it filled with air. Nothing unusual was in that air, it was just air... that shoot up like a geyser to the point you could hover in the air for about half an hour before you were gently put down by the ever so slowly weaker becoming wind.

Auriel was not mad, nor malicious or evil, it was impossible to die in this place. At least if you didn't try very hard at least. But even in the maze, you would be forcefully ejected after two or so hours with plenty or fruits and sweets inside to fill your bellies. Mental damage was not put into consideration as the animals were smart enough to stay away from the even weirder stuff and stayed in areas like the odd green sea made out of some kind of slime, but more solid, still soft, sweet and tasty.

With a satisfied not, she grabbed a weird object from her left side that lied on the giant circle. It was wrapped in paper and had a sweet icing on it as if someone carved a triangular spiral made out of some kind of cream on it with a delicious looking cherry on top. In one bit, the object was gone while Auriel chewed loudly and happily, not even bothered by the facts that she ate the wrapping with it.

Suddenly a loud ringing sound came from Auriel's tail as it furiously vibrated. She quickly swallowed the remains of the delicious object she just ate and pat her tail once before it made a loud beeping noise and was silenced. The fox then snapped her fingers, and a certain earth pony mare appeared beside her... soaking wet with a light brownish liquid. Normally you would expect someone soaked in a brown liquid to be angry or even close to drowning. Luckily she was willingly in said fluid and had a weird thing made out of something would never exist, but would be called plastic, and the object's name was snorkel, an object that shouldn't work several feet underwater, but it did, in her mouth.

Bell spat out the snorkel and said happily with glee in her eyes. "I haven't had this much fun in, like my whole life! The 'water' tastes so good, and all the things you could do were so much fun. I only could bath once every week, sometimes once a month with half-hearted bathwater or had to jump into the cold lake. But the water was warm like only a princess had access to and all the waterfalls that made you shoot so fast across the water! We must do this again, but next time you have to join me."

Auriel chuckled; happily, she always loved it when others would be happy, just seeing them with their joy was truly more worth than a hundred sunrises. "I have no idea what a bath is, and I only washed, I think about 213 times, most of which were accidental, but you are right, I should spend more time doing fun activities with y- It's chocolate milk! Now I know what the word I was pondering about all this time. The 'water' you were swimming in was chocolate milk!" said Auriel as she finally found the word which she was looking for the whole time.

Bell looked at her gigantic friend before squeaking like a filly. "Really?! You simply must show me regular chocolate. The possibilities are endless!" the mare in question gave Auriel a big, bright smile with stars in her eyes that would infect one with diabetes in a heartbeat. With another chuckle, Auriel nodded with a kind smile on her face and patted her pony friends head which caused all the chocolate milk to just melt away.

Bell made a sound cat would usually make - purr! That was what it was - and snuggled nuzzling into Auriel's chest fluff, making the last few wet spots of her fur dry and clean in a moment or two.

While Bell was enjoying herself, Auriel couldn't help but smile sheepishly in the discomfort of the situation and the weird feeling in her stomach. "...Eh-Ehm-B-bell? Would you mind to... maybe, possibly... stop?" asked Auriel, the large fox in a shy manner.

Bell froze like a statue in a heartbeat slowly realizing what she has done. Shivering and quivering, the earth pony mare slowly pulled her head back in an attempt to see the face of her predatory friend. The look on Auriel was a confused and embarrassed one. Bell started to understand just how embarrassing the situation was, she blushed, and her cheeks burned in a red color. To her surprise, Auriel blushed as well, but her checks were shining in an even more golden light than her fur was.

"A-A-A-Auriel, it is not like it looks like!" shouted Bell directly at Auriel who tilted her head to the right, still not understanding what just happened, nor really bothered by Bell's words or actions.

"Oh my little Bell, you don't have to worry about that." Bell visually relaxed and exhaled as if she just avoided a blade strike. "because I have absolutely no idea what just happened or what you just meant!" explained Auriel with phenomenal amounts of happiness as she showed her white teeth and threw her hand into the air.

Bell cringed while her left eye was twitching furiously, perhaps it was the release, or the wasted worry or maybe just the thought that she made herself look like a complete fool. Bell sighed and rubbed her nose bridge... Muzzle bridge? With the tip of her hoof. "Sometimes I am so thankful that you have no idea what others are talking about. so so thankful." Just as Bell looked up, she noticed a strange book next to Auriel, adorned with jewelry worthy of kings and queens. "What is that there?" she asked while pointing her hoof at the book.

Auriel grabbed the journal with her two paws, gripping it firmly, not sure if she should say something or not. "Well.. this will sound silly, but... it's a Diary. I wrote everything I have seen or done in it. I read a few of those in the big library in the hive and thought hey, maybe I should write one too!' "

Bell looked at the book in Auriel’s hands, it was a huge book, more prominent than what even the wised ponies would consider 'excessive,' but Auriel's book topped that by a lot, she wouldn't doubt that the diary was able to press ponies like leaves between its pages. Then there were jewels, many she didn't know of, and that meant a lot, her grandfather was a jeweler and an excellent one at that. Yet, the most interesting thing about the journal was that it radiated magic. "Auriel? Why does the book feel so... weird?"

Auriel smiled and opened the first page and revealed a weird first page. She explained as simple (or as advanced considering her understanding of runes) as she could. The first page was a plate of star metal or silver if you want it simple. On it were hundreds of symbols burned/carved and arranged in a circle-like shape, forming a symbol through which magic would constantly flow, seemingly forever due to the circle that didn't let too much magic free. Oh, did she mention that the symbols were glowing in various colors? Yeah, that was not unnerving in the slightest. But in reality, Auriel said this instead of an actual explanation. "Those things are called runes." Auriel smiled widely and stared at Bell, waiting for a reaction.

Bell chuckled in a silly way and answered bluntly."I have honestly no idea what these 'Runes' are."

Auriel's face froze, as if time itself was frozen, some even might say that here was the distant sound of crickets that were happily chirping. "Oh, right... These 'Runes' are like a construct, a machine, a sentence, maybe even life! I made them a very a long time ago to stabilize unstable biomes or... keep things away... Anyways! You can do almost everything with them, just like magic, but less mobile, yet so much stronger and useful." tried Auriel to explain as simple as she could and as much as she understood.

Bell nodded as an act of kindness to not let Auriel suffer any further from her own terrible explanation skills. The mare then looked on the second page, this one was made from a weird purple metal. Bell raised her hoof, but- "It's thaumium, pure iron that was charged with a lot of magic." -Auriel reacted faster. On the second page were many underlined word that glowed with a golden aura. There were things such as 'light phase,' 'The first years.' 'The biomes.', 'The secrets of the world.' But there was one word that stood out most. 'Important'. This word didn't glow, in fact, it was barely seeable for the normal eye. Bell tapped on the word, unknowingly that the book would react by scrolling through hundreds of pages and stopping on a grey page. The title was The world s-

Thud

Bell wasn't able to read the title entirely as Auriel slammed the book shut, the wind pressure that was emitted by this simple act almost knocked her from the shroom-ring.

Auriel didn't look pleased. She grabbed her chest fluff and pulled on it, retracting a surprising amount of fur, as if she was opening a coat, and stuffed the whole book inside where it vanished. "I think I should have warned you first, but there are things hidden on this word that should better stay hidden. I don't know how much you read, but my advice on the first page, so I'll make it clear." Auriel cleared her throat and knocked on her chest. "Let the frozen mountain's heart beat, never touch it, never take it, let it be, but don't let it go."

Bell gulped loudly and nodded. Auriel smiled and scratched Bell behind her right ear, trying to calm her down. It worked, while it did calm her down, she made it hard for the golden fox not to laugh. Bell's ears sat flat on her head, her mouth wide open and her tongue hanging out while her eyes stood closed.

Auriel smiled, it was the best she could do at the moment, but there was worry hidden behind the kind gesture. 'I envy you so much, Bell. To be able to still be shocked, to be scared, to feel bad, but I don't want you to be hit by these feelings. I can't let you, or any other creature know about the secrets of this and the old world.' Auriel's smile fell when he noticed that Bell has fallen asleep. 'You, your ponies and the changelings have barely any magic, maybe a thousand of you could come close to a small baby squirrel, but only maybe. I don't want you to know just how large the gap between you and me is, what I've done and made.' Auriel closed her eyes, inhaling deep inside, and exhaling even harder. After opening her eyes again, she could feel the worry just melt away, her 'natural' happiness seeping in once again, equal to a parasite, almost like a curse.

A sigh was everything that came out of Auriel before her eyes turned purple and a golden aura levitated Bell off the ground. A second passed before a white sphere grew over Bell, slowly widening until Bell was encased entirely, the sphere then blinked once, disappearing with the mare. The spell was a 'simple' large range teleportation spell with the destination being the earth ponies bed. The spell was first created by Auriel herself when she studied sleeping, wounded and very young animals and no, she was not a cub abductor, but for some reason, a few animals let their children out in the world way to early. Fun fact, the spell was later improved by a certain Q. who turned it into a boae 'blink of an eye' spell. A spell category that allowed a spellcaster to store a spell for a certain amount of time and then release it at will, or just cast spells instantaneously, but the later one was only harnessable by so few creatures that were doubted to even exist, that it was believed to not even exist as well. Thinking about it, this 'boae' teleportation spell and this type of magic were very close to her or Discord's chaos magic, but it also could just be her imagination.

Suddenly, Auriel visible jerked, feeling a new presence entering her newly forged land, a sensation close to a single drop of water falling into a motionless ocean of magic. It was the ponies, but it were a few more of them this, some with more pure magic and a few of them with more unrefined power, or untrained, as it was sometimes called. A smile spread across her face as she knew it was time to turn the world upside down forty-seven and a half times for a few mortals who were new to the real world of magic.

After one last look at her newest creation, the bundle of oversized joy walked to the edge of the elevated platform on which she stood and hopped off. The fall was much faster than it should have been, but instead of crashing on the ground, Auriel landed in a small glass container filled with water, soon to be known as a glass, and vanished. The glass then suddenly grew arms and pulled out a grey hat and a brown suitcase. The animated object then put the hat on and walked away.

Meeting with the Equines

"And that proves that unicorns are-"

"I have abso-bucking-lutely no more nerves left for your whining!" snapped Starswirl at Princess Platinum who gave her thirty-seventh speech about the superiority of unicorns. "I get it! We can control refined magic, and that's great! And Pegasi can control the weather and fly, also great! And lastly, Earth Ponies are stronger, bigger, can access the magic of the land and are more resistant to magic, exactly just as great as the other two tribes!" Starswirl huffed and puffed while he breathed heavily after his shouts.

Princess Platinum stared at the old mage for a moment before opening her mouth and stating. "How dare you to talk to me like that?" The unicorn princess looked like the dream of every knight, a perfect young fruit... until you look past the platinum colored coat and the silvery maned fruit's outside and saw that it was filled with worms and rotten inside

Starswirl was about to say something, but luckily Luna interrupted by shoving her hoof in her mentor's mouth and said."What my mentor sure meant with his statement was that this won't help the situation. Besides, racism would be the worst words we should use when we meet with Auriel." The looks that Luna got where mixed at best.

A pegasus with an orange coat and a red mane, wearing a set of iron armor that was decorated with symbols, fur, and feathers, flew in front of Celestia with his hooves crossed. It was none other than Commander Hurricane."Yeah, yeah, yeah, we already heard the story. I am truly sorry, Guardians, but this story sound just made up, like a fairy tale you tell colts and fillies before bedtime."

"I don't want to sound like a nay-sayer, but I am not quite sure how an oversized cat can be so strong. Ah' mean, how do you know this isn't just some magic-mind-trick, eh?" said the Earth pony with a rough, yet rather gently voice for a large and muscular earth pony, his name was Rock Hoof.

The next pony to say something was clover the clever. The orange mare, with a lighter coat and a darker mane, explained "That is quite simple, Rock Hoof. While illusion can make things look like almost everything to some extent, they cannot fake a magic signature."

Clover looked at her companions who had a worried look on their faces, the anger towards one another was still visible, but was now mixed with the concern of the situation. 'Did they all think that this was just an illusion spell? Even if so, it would take dozens, if not hundreds of archmages to radiate this much magic... at least if radiating as much magic as far and powerful was their goal...' She only now began to realize how bad this could end with her companions if they acted 'rash.'

Luna, who was starting to feel very awkward from the situation, walked in front of the other leaders of the tribes and stated. "Halt you thoughts for a moment. While Auriel may seem like the most dangerous creature pony kind has ever faced..." the look on the other ponies grew a tad horrified. "W-what I meant was... ahem, that while I am sure Auriel could be a strong opponent, I am sure that we do not have to fear her."

Celestia nodded at her sister and added to the statement. "Auriel did not seem malicious, as far as we could see, she acted more like a foal, True, a very powerful and even older foal, but still not very mature. And no, Platinum, Commander, this is not a proclamation to try and manipulate her. All we have to do is stay in the good grace of Auriel, and the changelings and everything will be fine."

Princess Platinum huffed at the comment about her and asked in a slightly annoying tone. "And how do we know that this 'animal' will not eat us while we turn around for a moment?"

"because then we'd be dead where we stand."

All heads turned towards Starswirl who kneeled in front of a weird blue crystal-like boulder that was cut in half with traces of some kind of black dust in it.

Rock Hoof slowly backed a few steps away from the crystal, he felt something in his gut, something terrible. He proclaimed as he went into a defensive stance. "Whatever that stuff is, stay away from it. It feels... nasty." lacking the words to even describe the ominous substance, the other ponies backed away too.

"Do you know what this crystal and the dust even are?" asked Starswirl without even looking at his comrades. "This... is a mana crystal cluster, one that is so strongly condensed with such high-quality mana, that it shouldn't even exist." In his mysterious ways, the old mage once again managed to creep his companions out.

Hurricane huffed and asked with a raised eyebrow."And? It's just a rock?" and to surprise everyone, even more, Starswirl chuckled, and then giggled, and then laughed. Hurricane slowly flapped his wings in the opposite direction of the possible mad stallion "Ooookay... I think he lost his marbles..."

Eventually, Starswirl calmed down and explained. "This, my fellow ponies should enlighten you why this stone is so important. You see, it is impossible for a mortal, or even immortals to wield pure mana. The only creature to be able to wield such magic is said to be wielded by the special creature, chosen ones, to be exact."

Platinum looked confused and asked."Pure mana? Why should mana be impure, and if so, shouldn't royalty, or even a bloodline of unicorns already possess this kind of power?"

Clover the clever, and more often then enough a walking library stated. "No unicorn ever wielded this kind of power, because no pony ever had this power in the first place. Unicorns and all other creatures just manipulate the magic around them, while the 'chosen ones' create it themselves, or rather, they obtained it from the maker first hand. So far, only a hand full of beings were known from myths and legends to have this kind of magic" Platinum stared at the mare for a moment, before turning her head in the other direction, to hide her disappointment.

Celestia walked up to the mage and patted him on the back, trying to calm him down, she knew this would keep her mentor awake for weeks if she wouldn't calm him down.

Starswirl sighed loudly, knowing full well that now was not the time to experiment. Yet, there was one more thing to say. "And there is one thing that reinforces my theories, at least if I can believe my student's words." all ears perked up at this statement. "This black dust... it is void dust." most ponies looked confused at Starswirl." For any of you who don't know what it is, It's the single most rare and dangerous material in the whole world. It is said to be able to kill anything, even the chosen ones can only be around it for so long. The touch of even single dust corn is death, not even a phoenix would be able to survive from, the powder just drains them of all life. Only... the maker herself is able to survive its touch without any consequences."

The ponies were scared to their graves from hearing this. They didn't believe that Auriel was the maker, yet the thought that she was a 'chosen one,' or even as powerful as the maker was the genuinely horrifying thing. Yet, there was still one pony that was not convinced. Hurricane simple rolled his eyes and flew towards the dust, too fast to be caught. Starswirl reacted quickly to create a magic shield but was not fast enough to stop the bold pegasus. Yet, a moment before he touched it, a mysterious wind blew the dust away.

Hurricane huffed and exclaimed with a hoof swing through the air. "See? It's just dust. It looks like dust, sits on everything like dust and it blew away by the wind like dust-"

The commander's voice was greatly overshadowed by the ear-shattering cracking and breaking sound of stone, as well as a noise that could be best described as a very quiet banshee cry. The Ponies looked to their far left and what they saw was mind breaking. There where the dust landed, the ground started to turn grey, it was turning into a dead rock, not the dead Rock, and it was spreading fast. In just a heartbeat, the ground under them and everything else in what seemed like hundreds of feet radius turned to dead rock like a rat family devouring a corpse, so did the dust consumed the magic out of the ground, even the stone dozens of feed below was not spared. The only things that stopped the void dust were the mana crystal, which shrank down to the size of a shard before the dust was satisfied. The ponies jaws hanging wide open at the sigh of the destruction just a knife's tip of void dust was able to cause. Suddenly a loud clang could be heard as the commander yelped in pain and hit the hard ground with his face.

To everyone surprise, it wasn't Starswirl who almost knocked out the stupid pegasus in a fit of rage, but it was clover the angry who was breathing heavily with anger filling her eyes. She then even lectured the commander. "Besides the fact that you ALMOST KILLED US, you also reduced one of the greatest findings in pony history to the size of a hoof-file!" The commander gulped loudly while his snout was still connected to the ground.

Luna, knowing full well not to anger the mare even more, carefully levitated her away from the military pony and stated. "I think I speak in the interest of everyone that we should continue to the land we promised to lead you to now without any more stops. Is everyone okay with this?"

Rock Hoof was the one that raised his hoof and asked. "I think you uh, kind of missed to tell us a bit about the floating islands and the purple sky."

"But of course the sky is supposed to be this wa-WHAAAAT?!?" shouted Celestia as her neck turned around so fast that she almost invented the term 'neck breaking speed' and saw what lied in front of her. The dust not only devoured the magic of the ground, but also the magic of the snow, and was now revealing the land in front of them. It was madness incarnated to put it lightly.

A waterfall flowed upwards, it rained plushies, islands with trees on top of them were soaring through the sky like birds. Geometrically forms were rotating and levitating up and down in a smooth motion, giant sunflowers grew out of the ground with scales as their petals and a massive jar of honey as the middle. Yet, the most worrisome thing to see was a block of gold, easily around one hundred feet tall and wide with legs and arms with no features swung left and right, no face could be seen as it carelessly walked through the land, each step making the ground shake. But there was no sign of Auriel.

The Ponies looked around the madness and carefully walked through it, no one said a word as they followed the guardians, also known as the alicorns, in hopes that they might hold any monster off long enough so that they could flee, well, that was at least Platinum's hope.

After about an hour of walking through the seemingly endless land, the ponies encountered various... whatever they are, from bears dancing and making clicking noises with every step to a jellyfish herd that ran past them. Yet, now there stood a new thing in front of them. It was a glass of water, with a hat and a suitcase. The glass looked up at the ponies, then down, then up, then down, then up, then up and almost tripped, and then down again. The animated object then threw the suitcase in front of the ponies.

Nothing happened for a good solid minute, just everyone staring at one another. So, not knowing what else to do, Celestia walked up to the case and tapped it with her hoof.

"SUPRISE!!!" Celestia totally didn't scream like a foal as she jumped back (And landed on her back) at the sight of a huge fox, jumping out of an object that was far too small to fit her in the first place, and being showered by a lot of confetti. Auriel smiled widely before vanishing from sight, and reappearing behind the ponies again and asked. "Did I surprise you? Did I?! Did I?! Did I?! Did I?!"

Celestia frowned and said in a slightly annoyed tone "Yes... you did surprise me...a lot."

"I knew I would get you Celly! I-" Auriel was just narrating herself as she suddenly felt a poke in her hip. The golden fox turned around, only to see a lot of ponies she didn't notice before, all armed with armor and weapons.

The pony that was poking her was without horn or wing, an earth pony in iron armor and a spear in his mouth that was poking Auriel. "Hmm. I knew there were more of ponies out there, now the question is why were you separated, and why are you poking me?" thought Auriel out loud as she rubbed her chin with two fingers.

"Stop, Auriel is no threat, chief Chief Stone!" shouted Luna at the pony named Chief Stone, whose rank in the military was 'chief,' closely followed by a choir of ' WHAT's ' from the other ponies.

Chief Stone pulled back his spear, apparently shocked to see his weapon doing no damage, besides making a dot the size of a fly glow on the predator's body. The earth pony with a dark grey coat, light grey mane with a very short cut hair, spit out his spear and replied. "To answer your question, we were positioned somewhere else to warn the remaining ponies that this region was dangerous if the guardians wouldn't return within two days."

"My students weren't lying when they told me you were rather large, miss Auriel." said a gruff voice. Auriel turned around and saw an old pony, probably male considering the facial hair, who was looking so high up that the fox was worried that the stallion neck might dislocate."Now please tell us, miss Auriel, why the land has suddenly... changed."

Auriel smiled as she walked up to the Stallion, before sitting down in front of him. Auriel then lifted right paw with her index finger stretched out and *boop* booped the stallion on the nose, which not only made the pony scrunch his nose in an even funnier way than the alicorns did and emitting a loud 'boop sound.' "Oh, you ponies are just so cute! Oh, to answer your question, I just wanted to try something new out, why do you ask?"

"And you expect us to just believe you just turned the whole Badlands into a flourish and fertile land, before then turning it into a-whatever this here is within a single day? Unbelievable how stupid this animal thinks we are!" shouted a voice that was just as smooth as it was insulting.

Auriel rolled her eyes and waved her hand through the air. "Pff! Of course not. I turned half of the badlands into said things. Where do you think I put all the dangerous animals and lone worms. why do you ask, Platinum?"

Princess Platinum was surprised to see that Auriel knew her name and asked in disbelieve. "How do you know my name!?"

Auriel responded by lifting both of her paws above her head, before slowly lowering them until they reached her head's height and pointed then at her ears. "These little things can hear very well, not that it was tough to not hear you insult each other all the way here." Auriel pointed her finger at each pony and listed their names off. "Celestia, Luna, Starswirl, Rock Hoof, Clover the Clever, Hurricane and of course you, Platinum. Oh, and to quote Swirly again, all creatures have the same worth... whatever worth means, is it some kind of insect?"

Rock Hoof walked up to the golden fox and simply stated. "I like you, you don't use fancy words." Auriel smiled and pulled the Stallion in a hug that not even he could escape. Not that the stallion really tried, but he knew that he couldn't free himself even if he wanted.

Auriel put Rock Hoof gently on the ground again and said with a smile and glee in her eyes. "Oh, I knew it would be easy to make friends with you!"

It was then when everyone suddenly heard a sack of meat hit the ground with great force. Everyone turned around to see Hurricane, lying on his back while moaning in pain, with his hoof being held by the same glass of water out which Auriel suddenly appeared earlier. The glass of water let go of the Pegasus and made a noise that sounded like a huff underwater, before walking away.

Clover had a deadpan look on her face while she trotted towards the pony and asked in an annoyed, yet motherly tone. "Didn't you learn your lesson to not touch everything you see yet?" Hurricane's cheeks blush of embarrassment was luckily almost completely hidden behind his conveniently orange fur.

Auriel rose an eyebrow.'That was not supposed to happen. I clearly didn't tell it to do this, nor did I make them this way... Oh no, I have to act quick before they all become smart, no, what was the word again? Think Auriel, thin- Sentient! Yes, that was what it was called.' Auriel cleared her throat and announce loudly. "Well, I think it's time to clean this chaos up, so please don't get scared, okay?" there was an uneasy amount of seriousness in her voice, it wasn't much, but it was a lot for someone as Auriel.

"And how are you supposed to 'clean up' all of this?" asked Princess Platinum with a vast amount of skepticism in her voice and with a stern look pointed at Auriel.

Auriel didn't respond; instead, she closed her eyes, firmly pressing her left paw onto the ground and dug her claws into the dirt. First, she saw nothing, and then, she saw it all, she was connected to the, her world. The world looked blurred, an ocean of colors, magic, full of life, wild and ever-changing. Waves sweeping through reality, yet always trying to stay close to the outlines that resemble the matter she made, no spot left without color, even there where no matter was seen, in this case, the very air, it still was full of magic.

For the ponies, it looked like Aurile was asleep, yet they knew she wasn't seeing her eyelids twitch. Suddenly, small crackles of multi-colored lightning crackled across the surface of the mad realm and were the horizon and sky was flickering between its current color, the well known bright blue heavens, and the night sky.

Auriel commanded her magic to return to her, slowly the chaotic waves concentrated as they all traveled towards her, waves, tornados, hurricanes and other catastrophes worth of magic traveled towards her, all kept peaceful by her will. The chaotic magic left behind a much more ordered world of magic, much calmer and stable, yet always showing few hints of change. Yet, it seemed like only half of the chaos in the land came to her, the left remained. The chaos that has flown towards Auriel concentrated in her palm that was dug in the ground, forming a small orb of vibrating, truly blinding, and for any mortal, overwhelming amounts of magic.

Auriel slowly opened her eyelids, only for a second blinded by her suns heavenly light, only to then reveal the fertile lands she crafted not so long ago, and the sight of the flabbergasted ponies was pleasant as well. Yet, her expression was still calm, slowly her eye traveled down to her paw and there the orb of magic was. A small smile could be seen on her muzzle as the sphere began to shrink until it was wholly absorbed by the golden fox.

Seconds passed, and yet no one said a single word, the very air was thick, and no one could even understand what happened, or what was still happening. So, it was again Auriel who broke the silence.

"What?"