The Third Alicorn

Creation

In the beginning all was formless chaos. From this chaos rose three alicorns, 2 mares and one stallion. The eldest, the stallion, took a piece of chaos and formed it into the earth, and molded its every peak and valley. Then he took more pieces of chaos and formed them into the many plants and animals, from the largest tree to the smallest bug.

“But still the sky is boring, let me give them light,” stated the youngest, and so saying she created the moon and the stars, arranging them into patterns similar to the inhabitants of the planets.

“Beautiful,” said the elder of the sisters “but they look cold and scared…let my power give them warmth and light.” With that said she created the sun, and so the first day dawned on the planet.

“Sister,” pouted the third “your sun hides my stars, and eclipses my moon…”

“Well maybe you should have made them brighter, the creatures of the world obviously like my creation more than yours”

“But yours is boring, and too bright to look at… it leaves the sky blank”

“Then let us compromise,” said the eldest, talking for the first time “the sun and day shall rule half the time, while the moon and night rule the other half.”

“But…” the sisters started together.

“Is this not fair? Would you be greedy enough to wish ill upon your sibling?” he returned his gaze to the earth “still, my creation is missing something…”

“Ooh!” exclaimed the youngest excitedly “lets create creatures that look like US!” and with that she created the pegasi, winged so they could explore the sky she loved so much, The elder of the sisters created the unicorns with a small ability to force order upon the chaos, and the eldest created the earth ponies.

“We should help guide them,” mused the middle sibling, “they look lost and lonely,”

“No,” stated the eldest “leave them to their own devices; we will only interfere if the need is great. For now, we shall merely watch.”

For millennium, that was all they did, watching as their chosen races grew and prospered alongside the others. All was good until the chaos gave rise to a new being on that was a mixture of other parts. This being, the self-proclaimed “discord” proceeded to mess with their creation, going so far as to declare himself as ruler of all equestrian, as the pony races came to called it.

“That’s too far!” the elder sister said angrily “we must stop him!”

“His power is greater than ours, he would destroy us easily” the male said sadly, after all, it was his creation that was bearing the brunt of discords chaos.

“You forget brother,” the youngest said quietly, “there are three of us, and only one of him”

“Then I guess it is time to interfere,” stated the eldest “now, while we still have the element of surprise.”

With that, the three siblings finally descended onto the surface to confront discord. Around them, the power of discord faded, and the world returned to its original form

“Ha!” laughed discord “three unicorns trying to take me down? What hope do you have?

With a small tendril of magic discord tried to remove their horns, only for the magic to be scattered like dust by the deities combined power.

“We are no creatures of this planet; to be so easily changed by your power discord,” the eldest replied angrily, “your tampering with our creations has gone on long enough.”

“YOUR creations? Oh that’s a hoot let me tell you something little equine, I found these wonderful things, and as they say, finders keepers, losers weepers.”

“Very well then… sisters, lets dispose of this upstart,” with a flash of light discord was gone, and in his place stood a statue of his likeness, with a very surprised look on his face. The eldest looked at the statue with a smirk “that should hold him. Now, let us return to our vigil”

“He was right you know…” said the older of the sisters, “we need to protect our creations in case something else happens to them.”

“Besides,” added the younger, “now that the ponies have seen us, leaving would be cruel.”

“You two still believe that the ponies of this world still need our guidance?”

“Yes,” they said together.

“Then I won’t fight you, but I’m not going to rule. I will watch, maybe influence events here and there, but I will NOT lead.”

“What if we need you?” the youngest asked “how will we find you?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be around, if our creations are again in danger, I will show myself and take my place at your side,”

Six ponies sat in a circle in the center of the library, all looking at Twilight as she read from an old book titled “old mares’ tales”.

“Well, that’s a mighty fine story, but why did you call us here to listen to it Twi?”

“I’m getting to that AJ,” said Twilight “One of the ponies who owned this book before it got donated to the library scribbled a note on the bottom of the last page. Here’s what it says:”

Although it does not state names, the mares in this story could not be anything but Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. However, the third alicorn is unaccounted for. Other stories speak of a “wandering prince” who helps those who help him, but never a name or description. The last account of him was in a little town called “Ponyville” .That was around the time of Nightmare moon, and no sightings have been made since then (approximately 200 years ago). Citizens of that town claim that their grandparents saw the prince go into the Everfree forest.

-TA

After the end of the message she looked up expectantly, only to meet the blank stares of her five friends. Finally, the cyan Pegasus, Rainbow Dash, spoke up “That’s it? The ramblings of some old pony gone senile?”

“Well… there is one more thing… but it’s not in any language I recognize,” Twilight said, holding up the book so that her friends could see the encrypted message.

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