The twinkles were all that remained in the blackness.

Twilight Sparkle was my name long ago, back when I was once an alicorn of the equine race; a god amongst my people for thousands of years.

But even then, that time was like a blip on the radar of life; one blink and it was gone forever.

When time came to glide amongst the stars, it was a journey that I had to take alone. Even others who held a fraction of power I’ve accumulated had to stay their hooves, left behind to the fate that was coming for all. Well… all except me.

Celestial winds had carried me to every corner of the universe. With galaxies, stars, planets, and moons, there was all so much, yet at the same time so very little. All these bodies had never brought a connection like I had so long ago; it was like looking upon a blank canvas that stretched to infinity, the painting that was once there long since faded into nothingness.

Nebulas brought together and galaxies ripped apart; no matter how many how many stars I ignited to light the darkness around me it never brought back that spark.

In a universe where I was creation and destruction, I was bound in this immortal shell to the ever forward advance of time.

My brother.

Like a faint candle in the far recesses of my mind, a memory came of another I once knew. Another who was bonded to me from the beginning, yet another who was left behind as I moved on. The familiar melancholic feeling came again, but oddly there was something else: a feeling of want, and a hunger for more. Again I soared on ethereal wings through my domain, moving not idly by cosmic tides, but with purpose.

My brother.

That feeling came once again as I arrived in a familiar place. So long ago I had forgotten his name, but here before me I saw him shining like a beacon of light in the darkness, armoured against the void with its bright blue rays.

His warmth radiated onto me was more than just that of a star. It felt like something more. It was something more.

With an impassioned plea we closed the distance as we moved to meet each other; a bonding that hadn’t happened since long ago, near the start of my own existence. Blues and purples mixed as our essences joined and we coalesce into one.

It was hard to deny the sense of excitement and familiarity this made me feel again. Could this have been a spark? The thing that I had been longing for since forever?

We pushed in close, daring not to stray away in the slightest. His blue tendril reached out and I accepted it into my very being.

It lit up something inside me as we glowed brighter and sent off a pulsating spectrum in all directions. It would have been hard to ignore something so brilliant if I weren’t at the center of it all, helping feed into this grand merging.

With how long it had been, this felt like something new entirely, a sensation unrealized for many millenniums. Sensual energy flowed through me once more, filling me and reenergizing parts of me that I hadn’t felt in an eternity.

Our spirits started to rise as the union was reaching its peak. Slight quivers turned into rumbles which turned in to shakes; violent throes of our beings sent waves upon waves of our essence crashing into each other. The heat could have been hotter than all the stars combined, but I kept it in. Even as he exploded deep into my core and his heat filled me entirely, I kept it in.

Or at least I tried.

Only a speck had escaped, a wayward particle breaking from my hold. It was enough to steal my focus away and set off a cataclysmic chain reaction inside myself. All that was held tight suddenly broke free form its bonds, following that speck in glorious fashion. The pinnacle of all this energy was coming and my own eruption was imminent. Soon I was shining bright, pushing into his embrace with all that I had in this final moment. It was a magnitude beyond any scope of comprehension, an explosion that every part of existence could have felt just as I had. The ripples of this moment would most likely remain for just as long as me.

Tensions started to relax and heat rapidly dissipated as we separated for the first time since this union began. Even as we cooled I could still feel what he had left inside. It was a glowing spark of himself, shining brighter as I nurtured it from within. It was his energy that remained, giving me the seeds to start something new, grow life once forgotten into a new generation, beginning the cycle once more.

Even as we moved apart I didn’t go far; his warm radiance bathed me as we waited for our own light to grow. These magical moments helped me give it enough careful attention and nourishment to get its ember to glow brighter. But soon enough, the new light inside me was ready.

With as much care and focus as I could muster, I laid it on a nearby planet. It wasn’t long before the brown and grey world started to flush with new greens and blues along its surface, with a mother watching as her children’s home flourished. Here it would grow, safely orbiting around their blue parent star.

In wonder I watched on to a sight I hadn’t seen before, I felt myself reach out, only for something else to meet me along the way. It invited me into the world below, asking for me to take a step and join my creations. The connection was there, I only had to accept it.

Maybe this is what I needed.

A break from immortality and a chance to live again.

Author's Note

This was my take on Shakespearicles’ Wincest Winter of Worldbuilding Contest, so I hope he and the rest of you were entertained by this… unique take on the guidelines set out. Also, here are two songs that kind of capture the feeling of this story if you want to listen: Bound With Time and Saviour

Anyways, if you did enjoy this story please leave a comment letting us know which sibling you would restart existence with if you became the equivalent of an immortal god.