The Seasonal Tribes

by Rosalynne

Rating: everyone
Tags: Princess Luna, Mystery, Princess Celestia, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1612

"Dreamcatcher, you're nineteen now. It's time you know where you came from..." "Didn't I come from Equestria, like you and many before me?" "No... You didn't... You're from the Seasonal Tribes..."

Dreamcatcher, Princess Luna's daughter, has finally come of age in the Equestrian pony world-nineteen. And it's about time she knew her heritage and the source for her uncommonly strong alicorn powers.

Published 2019-05-10 04:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2019-05-10 04:20:02 UTC

The Seasonal Tribes

Author's Note

Alright, I know this one's pretty rushed and not very good (like the last one, I need to take my time). I just wanted to take my ideas and somehow form a story with them, I guess. Anyways please give me feedback and I hope you enjoy!

The Seasonal Tribes

The Seasonal Tribes

Dreamcatcher, the young alicorn born from Princess Luna, paced back and forth in her room. Her hoofsteps echoed loudly in the near silent North Wing of the Royal Canterlot Castle. The pony was well on her way to making a dent in the quartz floor from all her pacing-that was how much she'd been walking.

A quiet knock sounded at the dark oak door. Without waiting for an invitation in, a dark blue alicorn with flowy, long, blue hair trotted right in and watched Dreamcatcher walk from one end of the room to the other before saying, "Dreamcatcher?"

"Mother!" Dreamcatcher exclaimed, surprised. "Shouldn't you be getting ready?" She flopped down onto her silky white bedspread in despair. She was going to fail, she was going to ruin the whole celebration...

Princess Luna shook her head. "It's about to start in around fifteen minutes, come."

Dreamcatcher gasped. She started pacing again in horror, and shouted, "I'm not ready, I'll mess up, I-" She felt her mother's hoof on her shoulder.

"You'll do absolutely wonderful," Luna said, smiling down at her. She brushed some of Dreamcatcher's flowy light blue mane aside and looked into her silvery eyes. "I know you will."

Luna's horn glowed its usual blue, taking a dress from a mannequin and putting it on Dreamcatcher. She fastened the clasp holding it together, but as soon as her magical aura left it, Dreamcatcher's magic-bright teal-unfastened it and removed the dress.

"I told you, I don't like dresses," Dreamcatcher said, mock indignantly. She was telling the truth though, she did not want to wear a dress.

Luna sighed and rolled her eyes. "At least wear your tiara. That thing cost a fortune." Even though it didn't. Though it costed at least 10,000 bits, it didn't even make a dent in their accounts. The amount of the sum of the money they had... If Dreamcatcher decided to buy something worth a million bits, it would make a barely noticeable dent.

Dreamcatcher sighed and held up the tiara with her telekinetic magic and brought it atop her head. She strode over to the mirror and examined herself. The dark blue jewel in the center of the silver tiara glinted in the moonlight. She gazed at herself a while longer, contemplating.

"Come now," Luna said, somewhat impatiently. "It will start soon." She added in a softer tone, "You'll do great. Don't worry about it."

Dreamcatcher turned to her mother chin up but eyes on the ground. "I know," she said, not really believing herself or Luna.

Luna trotted out the door, and just as Dreamcatcher was beginning to follow her, her gaze caught on a silvery necklace with the symbols of the four seasons on it. She clasped it onto her neck before following her mother out of her bedroom and outside to meet their subjects.

It was the Summer Sun Celebration-and probably one of the only ones that Dreamcatcher would play a significant part in. After the long speech, Dreamcatcher's aunt, Princess Celestia, slowly began flying up high, preparing to bring the sun up, and Luna was ready to bring the moon down. As the sun and moon met in the middle-the moon on its way down, the sun on its way up-Dreamcatcher launched into the air, spreading her white-feathered wings and soaring high in the sky-while her horn sparkled teal as she shifted through the four seasons... From Summer to Autumn, from Autumn to Winter, from Winter to Spring, and back to Summer, all in a matter of seconds, all while Dreamcatcher was flying above in the sky.

The ponies below gasped with shock, wonder, and surprise. Dreamcatcher landed in between her mother and her aunt and glanced up at both of them. They were beaming down at her proudly, before addressing the crowd again.

"Dreamcatcher has come of age, so we decided to have her perform a little trick she's been working on for a while during the Summer Sun Celebration," Celestia announced. "There will be a small party... Okay, it won't be that small. But all ponies from across Equestria are invited for tomorrow at 3:00 P.M.!"

The ponies began chattering excitedly, their voices carrying with the breeze. Dreamcatcher tilted her head, searching the crowd. She had nearly forgotten, and that scared her... She started once she found the one face she was looking for. Dreamcatcher's eyes immediately filled with tears, and she launched herself towards the crowd, towards the pegasus.

"Rainfall!" she shrieked, a sob escaping her. She flung herself onto him, clinging to him as if she'd never let go. "I almost thought you weren't coming back!"

Rainfall smiled down at her and carefully pried her from him as to look into her eyes. "Of course I came. Don't you remember I promised you?"

Luna stepped in with a grimace. "And I also made a promise... Dreamcatcher, come with me. Rainfall... You can come if you wish."

Bewildered, Dreamcatcher followed Luna back into the castle with Rainfall on her hooves. They walked down a long corridor, arriving in the library. Luna turned around and summoned some chairs and cushions for them to lounge upon. It seemed like they were to be there for a good while.

"You're nineteen now," Luna said to Dreamcatcher. "And when you were just a foal, I promised to Celestia, to you, that I'd tell you."

Dreamcatcher cocked her head. "Tell me what?" She looked to Rainfall, searching his face to see if he knew anything about this, but his face was in the same picture of confusion that Dreamcatcher felt.

"Dreamcatcher, you're nineteen now. It's time you know where you came from..." Luna said, fidgeting with her hooves. It was the only time Dreamcatcher had seen her mother this anxious.

"Didn't I come from Equestria, like you and many before me?" Dreamcatcher asked.

"No... You didn't... You're from the Seasonal Tribes..." Luna sighed. When Dreamcatcher only sat there, waiting for a further explanation, she went on. "The Seasonal Tribes is a group. It's also where the alicorns are born. Not Made alicorns, like Twilight and Cadence. Born alicorns, like me and Celestia. It's how we get flowy hair. We have the powers to change the seasons, and that's how the seasons change, no matter what the ponies saying stuff about gods or goddesses changing it, we do."

Dreamcatcher blinked, still confused. None of it made any sense. She shook her head, trying to clear it. "Um..."

"I had an affair with a pony... And that's how I had you..." Luna said, struggling to get the words out. "Celestia decided to go to Equestria to help when the three tribes-the earth ponies, the pegasi, and the unicorns-were fighting. She helped bring harmony and decided to stay there, and she invited me to come rule beside her. So I accepted. I recognized that your father was a bad pony, and this was my chance to get away. So when you were one year old, I brought you here and told you that you lived here your whole life..."

Dreamcatcher only said, "I would like to see where the Seasonal Tribes live."

Luna jumped before landing on her hooves easily, like a cat, before striding closer to Dreamcatcher and snarling, "No!"

Surprised at the sudden show of anger, Dreamcatcher backed away in fright, and Rainfall, who had been listening in silent thought the whole time, leapt in front of Dreamcatcher, ready to defend her if need be.

Luna took one look at Rainfall, then a look at Dreamcatcher, then sighed and prepared to teleport them outside Equestria and to where the Seasonal Tribes lived.

After the flash of blue light faded, Dreamcatcher and Rainfall gasped together. There were alicorns everywhere, their long flowy hair all different shades of colors. Dreamcatcher observed a pony with a white coat and an ice blue mane with the cutie mark of a snowflake and a raindrop. She assumed that alicorn was most skilled in winter. She then watched a yellow alicorn with reddish-orange flowy hair walk by, taking no notice of the three ponies now standing in the clearing.

A tall alicorn-for the tallest were the most superior-materialized behind the trio. It was an aqua alicorn with hair the color of diamonds. "Luna?"

Luna did not drop to her hooves in a bow but merely inclined her head. "Starshine."

"I know it's been many years, but you seem to have forgotten to bow," Starshine snorted, drawing the attention of a few other alicorns.

"I am a princess of Equestria," Luna said stiffly. "I bow to nopony."

Starshine smirked, flipping her hair. "Ah, but I believe I have somepony who you would bow for."

Luna jerked away as soon as a male alicorn with a light green coat and blue hair appeared. She teleported them back to Equestria and into the library of Canterlot almost instantly, breathing heavily. Before Luna could stop her, Dreamcatcher teleported back to the tribe and snarled at the male.

"You won't ever hurt or come near my mother again," she hissed.

The male's eyes widened, realizing exactly who she was. Dreamcatcher bared her teeth and teleported yet again back to Canterlot. Maybe the Seasonal Tribes sounded cool, but upon finding out their moods and how they acted, Dreamcatcher would much rather stay in Equestria with her mother and Rainfall.