Author's Note

This is why I broke off the last chapter so early. I'll have the next one ready, hopefully, within a week. And try to guess the one shot series I'm taking bits from~. First person to guess it right, I'll dm you bits and pieces of the next chapter for you bounce back replies with. Might even give you a special chapter!

Chapter 3

Eons ago, before my sister and I were born, there were only two forces in this world. Chaos, and Harmony. Chaos released legions of malformed demons, intent on taking this dimension for their mad games-

"So Chaos and Hamrony are their own things? Interesting..."

"Spine..."

"Sorry!"

However, Harmony had other plans. The force of Harmony released raw magic into the realm, shaping it into the races we know today. Minotaurs, Kirin, Dragons, Griffins, and Ponies. The Diamond Dogs, Draconoquai, and Outland races were forged by the Chaos. However, these races and more were still young. Primordial and lacking the understanding needed to do what their creators demanded.

"The races rebelled, didn't they?"

"Only the Diamond Dogs, and Outland races. The Hippogryphs are actually ancient descendants of the Kirins and Griffins. Sea Ponies just appeared one day, so it is assumed they are the natural habitants, and of the last... Only Discord remains..."

"Must be sad..."

Back on topic, yes. The races rallied against the Chaos, and pushed it back, but not out. For without the Chaos, the Harmony was consuming the realm. Leaving nothing but unending day... For centuries the races would battle both Harmony and Chaos after this realization, until all sides came to an agreement. The gods of the realm would be made to direct the mortal plane, while Chaos and Harmony resumed their war in the shadows. Elysium, the home of the pure gods, and Tarsano, home the foul, were made that day. My sister and I were born a few more decades later, when a pact was made between the two realms, that further restricted their access. Now, only four gods walk this realm, and two of them are sealed away.

"If you don't mind my asking... When you said that Harmony released raw magic and forged the races... Does that mean...?"

"That each race on Equis is capable of magic? Yes. The Minotaurs and Zebras, I lumped them with ponies to keep things short, are shamanistic, allowing them to commune with the dead and create potions unlike any other. Griffins are capable of controlling the winds around them, to the point that some highly trained Griffins can cut solid steel in half using their magic. Kirins have the ability to... Let's just say they are the fiercest warriors you'll ever face and leave it at that.

"Dragons are able to eat gems and stone as readily as a pony eats apples and carrots. On top of that, they are also able to manifest their fire in highly unique ways. Why, this one dragon I know uses it to create glass art! And she does so by pushing her fire and her magic into the ground and shaping it into what she wishes before pulling it back into herself and digging the sculpture up.

"Now, that's not to say a Minotaur can't, or won't, use the same magic as a Griffin, but it would be highly difficult and they would need to have a natural affinity for air magic. But enough of this, we are bird walking now."

During those decades, the Pony races had fallen into despair, Chaos had taken hold and released the Wendigoes, and Harmony was waning. My sister and I rallied the three tribes and, with some heavy hoofed negotiating, lead them away from the frozen north. Those that refused to follow were swallowed by the darkness, and converted into the short tempered Yaks, the lethal Umbrum, and the hope filled Crystals, representing the fates of the Earth, Unicorns, and Pegasi respectively...

Those that followed, helped us set up in the new 'world' and forged the EUP Alliance. These few traveled far and wide to help us cultivate friendships and bonds, as well as help map out our new lands. The Griffins kept to their Aeries high in the mountains, the Minotaurs and Zebras to their savanna like plains, arguing every so often, and the Kirins had secluded themselves away. Sending out small parties to trade and learn of the outside world every few decades.

The Diamond Dogs lived in abandoned caves and in underground tunnels, while the Dragons occupied the sweltering hot volcanoes, using their natural heat and fires to keep the lands warm. It wasn't until another century afterwards that my sister and I finally had control over our Alicorn magic, and were able to control the sun and stars without magically neutering our Unicorns, our Ponies. Around then the Nature goddess from Elysium, Fluttershy, descended for the first time.

"Fluttershy is a goddess?"

"I... would've assumed you knew that, given how little you reacted to everything else..."

"It just... That's what shocks me the most, is the fact that there's a Goddess living amongst- HOLD UP! Are you saying Discord and Fluttershy might actually know eachother?"

Princess Celestia hummed thoughtfully for a moment before shaking her head and replying, "No. I highly doubt they do."

"Sorry, carry on."

The first time she descended there was an explosion of overgrowth, the forest you might know as the Everfree was the result of it. From there, she learned to reign in her divinity, and walk among mortals with nopony the wiser for it. Except for Luna and I. And the Zebras for some reason... When she learned that we knew she begged us not to tell. We consented on the terms that she would return to Elysium every hundred years or so, for roughly another hundred years.

Between Sombra and Discord, refer to official show lore for background.

It was during her third excursion that we heard of Sombra's rise. We asked her a few days after the agreement to aid us, but she said that she was in the mortal realm to escape the duties of being divinity. We relented after her temper flared and the plants nearly ate our chariot pullers. I believe it was when we finally fought the foul King that he had corrupted Luna's magic somehow, as it was during the end of Fluttershy's fifth return that Luna snapped and became Nightmare Moon. I didn't ask for Fluttershy's help this time, because I believed I could handle my sisters corrupted state on my own. I was wrong... I had to use the Elements of Harmony on her and banish my sister to the moon.

This is Fluttershy's sixth return to Equis, and I fear that my sister might soon return...

"And she will, Celestia. The day Twilight brings up that legend of the 'Mare in the Moon', shall be the day before the Summer Sun Celebration that Moony returns. Hope you don't mind me spoiling that little bit at the very least," Spine said, rubbing the back of her neck.

Celestia, for her part, simply smiled and shook her head, saying, "It is alright, little one. I was hoping I might be able to see her return, purified, on the day that we would celebrate together... I assume that from your choice of wording that I was wrong?"

"Yeah... Good news though, Twilight makes some friends down in Ponyville that'll help her purify her!" Spine said, hoping to cheer up the saddened alicorn. Celestia smiled a little warmer and nuzzled her in return.

"Come. I'm sure that your new 'mother' would like to speak with you."

"If you mean Sparkler, that's a hard pass from me. If you mean Velvet, then sure. I'll tag along."

"I mean Twilight Velvet and Night Light. I assume they will have some choice words for you swearing in front of their foal," Celestia cast a quick glance to the dragoness, smirking devilishly when she saw the poor hatchling shudder in fear. 'Oh this'll be so much fun to watch~!'