Royal Origins

Chapters

The invitation
Sharing their early lives
Seeking refuge
The aftermath
Earning their ranks

The invitation

Megan Williams was just finishing up her chores over at her family's farm when Twilight Sparkle showed up to tell her something, "Megan, you have been invited over to have tea with both Princesses Celestia and Luna."

Megan responded with, "That's very nice Twilight, but I'm not of royalty myself, so it sort of wouldn't make sense for me to be there."

Twilight answered back with, "To them, you are a special friend and having you there is a big honor."

Megan then thought, "What about Cadence since she is also a princess along with Shining Armor and Flurry Heart?"

Twilight's response came to as, "Ever since she gave birth to Flurry Heart, she has been quite a hassle, and it makes it very hard for her Shining Armor to do other things, plus the last time they brought her for tea, Flurry Heart was known making a constant mess and almost breaking all of their plates and teacups, though luckily she didn't get to the teapot."

After hearing that Megan said, "I never knew Flurry Heart can be destructive at times."

Twilight then said, "I can still remember when I had her with me when reading that supposed book on how Grogar got banished to her and the rest of the foals that were there and she interrupted the whole session by crying excessively in which I never got to finish that book."

Megan answered back with, "I can see why having her can be a problem at times."

After ending the talk about Flurry Heart, Twilight then said, "Nonetheless, you should come especially because they are happy to see you ever since your return to Equestria after a long time."

Megan then said, "Twilight, I barely knew about Celestia and Luna, because before returning, the last time I saw them was when they were fillies brought over to Paradise Estate in claiming that they had no real parents let alone names, plus I never saw them grow up at all, because I was mostly going on adventures with the adult ponies at the time not to mention no longer coming back for a long time."

Twilight's response came as, "That may be true, but that didn't mean you still weren't important to them."

Megan then said, "The only thing that may have made me important to them was thinking about what names to give them and that was mainly due to Posey being busy with other things at the time."

"Even if so, they will forever thank you for helping you starting their lives in a positive direction especially since you gave them names to help give them an identity that they didn't originally have.", said Twilight

After hearing this, Megan felt convinced and said, "Alright, I will go with you and maybe I can learn a little bit more about them since I wasn't there for all of it, but I hope that what I will be asking won't be seen as too personal for them."

Twilight answered with, "I'm glad that you agreed, and I'm sure they will like to share with you what happened with them especially since you are a special friend to them."

Megan feeling sort of iffy started to say, "For some reason I feel asking about what happened to them in their early lives might make them feel uncomfortable to them."

Twilight then answered with, "As the princess of friendship, true friends should be okay giving a full disclosure about each other, plus when you were there the last time, they kept the picture that you took with me, them, my friends, and a good number of other ponies in Ponyville and placed it in the book about you to show how much they really very happy to see again."

Megan came back with, "I'm still surprised how they knew who I was considering how young they were when I first saw them, but that just doesn't seem very possible."

Twilight's response came as, "That's something you will have to ask them about when you see them."

Megan then said, "I just don't want to feel as if I will be embarrassing myself or even intruding on them by asking about this."

"What exactly do you intend to ask them when you are there?" said Twilight.

"Being that alicorns are now on my mind, it would be interesting to know how they became such, because I don't remember them being that way when I first saw them, plus you and Cadence didn't feel afraid or embarrassed to talk about when and what made you become alicorns, so maybe Celestia and Luna won't be either." said Megan.

After taking notice, Twilight then said, "In all honesty, I never had the courage to ask them on whether or not they were alicorns from the start, but that could have been the fact that I never thought about it until you said this, so now I might be curious about this as well since I also know little to nothing about their early lives since I was more concerned about what I had to do as Celestia was going to make me an alicorn as well as a princess hence getting my coronation ready for all to see."

Megan responded with, "Now that we are both interested, perhaps asking them might give us the answer we are looking for."

"Okay, we should start going and not keep them waiting too long for us." said Twilight.

Megan said, "Now that we are both in an agreement, we should start going over to see them and ask about it."

Twilight said, "Hop on and I will take you over to them."

Twilight flew Megan across the Rainbow Bridge and over to Canterlot to attend the tea party with both Celestia and Luna especially in wanting to know what their backstory was and how they became to be what they are now. What they have to share will just have to wait and see as they get there and ask them about it.

Sharing their early lives

Both Megan and Twilight had reached the castle and were ready to have tea with both Celestia and Luna.

Megan still felt and ask them, "I still don't know why you wanted to me to come have tea with you even though I'm not of royalty myself."

Celestia responded with, "Just being Ponyland's savior in itself is a reason for you to be here even if you don't like to be referred to as such."

Luna added with, "I'm sure as a young girl, you used to do pretend to do a tea party with Molly and other dolls you had."

Megan then answered with, "Unfortunately, we lived on a farm and had to do a lot of chores, so between that and going to school, neither me or Molly had time for that let alone play dolls even if we wanted to."

"I'm very sorry to hear that." said Celestia.

Megan was then ready to change the subject and said, "Ever since I first encountered Twilight and even saw you two along with Cadence, alicorns are now on my mind as they didn't exist when I was originally here not to mention neither of you having wings when I originally saw you as fillies."

Celestia's response came as "So you are asking about we became alicorns."

Megan answered back with, "If this is too personal for both of you, we can talk about something else."

Luna joined in with, "It's probably about time we give a full disclosure about our past, and Twilight, you should be listening to this as well."

Twilight feeling surprised said, "In other words, you weren't born alicorns."

Celestia added in with, "Just like you and Cadence, we weren't born as alicorns nor were we born as princesses either, so we also had to earn our way to the top in order to get to where we are right now."

Megan started to remember what happened as a flashback started to occur as she recalled when they came over to Paradise Estate for the first time.

"Posey, we have a basket here with two unicorn fillies," said Megan, "one of them is white with a pink mane while the other one is dark blue with a blue mane."

Posey's response came as, "I'm sorry Megan, but I'm too busy taking care of the baby ponies that are already here."

Megan then said to them, "My name is Megan Williams and I would like to know what are your names and who left you here."

The older one said, "Neither of us have names, and we have no idea who left here."

Megan said to Posey, "Do you have any idea what names they should be given?"

Posey then said, "Megan, since you saw them first, then maybe it should be you who should be naming them."

Megan responded with, "I have never done this before, and I wouldn't want to give them names that they may end up not liking later on."

Posey's response came as, "I'm sure you can give them good names, and if they don't like them, they can always change them later on."

After feeling confident, Megan then said, "Okay, here goes nothing."

She held up the older filly, stared at it little bit, and said, "Looking at both your fur and mane almost reminds me of looking at a celestial body in space, so I will name you Celestia, but if that name doesn't feel right, you can always change it later on."

The filly accepted that name and even gave Megan her approval.

Next, she picked up the younger filly, stared at it a little bit, and then said, "Looking at both your fur and mane almost reminds me of looking at night sky, so I will name you Luna, but if that name doesn't feel right, you can always change it later on as well."

The other filly also accepted that name and gave Megan her approval.

Posey then said to other ponies over at Paradise Estate, "I would like you all to meet Celestia and Luna."

Getting back to the present, Megan said, "I still can't believe that I gave the names to both of you and that you even chose to keep them rather than change them later on."

Celestia then said, "You chose with you heart on what names to give us, and you made the right choices in the end making yourself feel like a mother to us."

Megan responded with, "Posey was more of a mother to you than I was, and all I did was just name you and nothing more."

Luna added with, "Nonetheless, you helped star our lives in the right direction, and we won't forget about that."

Twilight then said, "Now that I think about it, having those names does feel a bit unusual even for ponies that are here."

Megan replied with, "I just thought that they should have special names, because I thought that they looked special when I first saw them."

Celestia then said, "Until we heard about you again from other unicorns, our names that you gave to both me and Luna was all we had left remember you by at the time."

Author's Note

Before anyone states how this chapter doesn't provide an accurate history about the Royal Sisters, keep in mind that they don't have an official backstory from either the show or book about them.

Seeking refuge

The tea party continued with Megan and Twilight expressing interest in how Luna and Celestia started to explain how they got to where they are now.

“Has anypony seen Celestia and Luna?!” Posey shouted over the masses, “I can’t find them anywhere and we need to get to safety! Grogar has come back and is even stronger than he ever was before! They aren’t safe out there!”

"Why aren't we staying with Posey and the rest of the ponies that are over at Paradise Estate?" said Luna.

"I believe that if we can find Megan Williams, we will be safe from what's going on especially since Posey said that she is Ponyland's savior." said Celestia.

Unfortunately, the two sisters weren’t able to find her. However, they did find what is believed to be the Midnight Castle.
They took refuge here and trusted in its safety due to it being isolated from the rest of the world.

Luna noticing the castle said, "“Tia, I’m scared. I don’t like it here. What if Tirac comes back to life and tries to turn us into his chariots like he did with the other ponies before? Or what if he-“

Celestia interrupted with, "Oh nonsense dear sister. I am confident everything will be fine! Megan Williams has already vanquished him with the Rainbow of Light and everything is back to the way it used to be! What could possibly go wrong?”

“Everything dear sister... everything.” said Luna

They stayed for a certain amount of time. When they believed it was safe, and that Grogar’s reign of destruction had ceased, they left. After wandering for a time they came across a tribe of unicorns and the tribe took them in.

A fellow unicorn approached them and said, "I have never seen unicorns like you before, and I would like to know your names."

“My name is Celestia and this is my sister Luna” said Celestia as she and Luna came towards the other unicorns.

"Those are very strange names for such unicorns let alone ponies." said the unicorn who welcomed them.

Celestia then said, "That's because we were named by Megan Williams herself."

The other unicorns displayed great emotions of honor and welcomed them into the group. They felt that they had to, especially if Ponyland's own savior named them.

Celestia noticed some exhausted unicorns and asked, "Why do those unicorns always feel tired whenever they have to raise the sun and moon?"

That said unicorn answered with, "Because using such a spell takes a lot of energy out of them. We are hoping that, one day, we will find a unicorn(s) that can raise the sun and moon with no problems. The prophecy states that this will give the unicorn(s) who can do this very rare cutie marks giving the symbols of the sun and the moon."

Luna then asked, "Are there any possible candidates for this?"

The unicorn continued with responded saying, "Sombra, who claims himself as king of this tribe, believes he can raise the sun and the moon. He supports this claim saying that he can levitate large boulders and other heavy objects that most of us can't seem to lift. However, he has still been unable to raise the either one despite that."

They then went towards Sombra. When they got there, he was constantly hurling rocks at another unicorn. She refused to accept his claim that Megan was never going to return. He even claimed she abandoned Ponyland when she was needed the most.

As Sombra was chucking rocks at the poor unicorn, he sneered, "If Megan Williams was really going to return, then why isn't she here right now to stop me from hurting you?"

Celestia intervened saying, “Hey! Stop throwing rocks at that poor unicorn! If you don’t stop, you might actually kill her! You wouldn’t want that now would you?”

Sombra acknowledged the sisters saying, “Hey wha- oh, you must be the new unicorns. I’ll let you off with a warning... this time. But if you get in my way again, you’ll wish you hadn’t, and I won’t go easy on you or your little sister! Just because you were named by that human, doesn’t make either of you special.”

Celestia feeling curious asked, "What exactly did that unicorn do that made you want to hurl rocks at her?"

Sombra responded to the sisters saying, "She refused to accept the fact that Megan Williams isn't coming back. She STILL thinks that she is Ponyland's savior, despite the fact that she turned her back on us when she was needed the most. Not to mention she keeps a book chronicling her time here that she wrote herself, when she should be getting rid of it instead."

Luna, now curious about what just happened, turned towards Celestia and asked, "Is this true? Did Megan Williams abandon us?"

Celestia then answered back with saying, "I believe that there are two sides to every story... It might be a good idea to hear about what happened from that unicorn. Besides, I find it hard to believe that Megan Williams would do such a thing, especially if she is said to be the savior."

Both Celestia and Luna decided to follow the bruised unicorn to understand what happened from her point of view.

Celestia asked the bruised unicorn, "Since you are the one the who wrote about Megan William's history of being here, maybe you can tell us more about her and why you still believe that she is Ponyland's savior despite what happened."

The bruised unicorn responded explaining, "The reason why she wasn't here when Grogar returned even more powerful and relentless than ever was because the ponies that normal send for Megan didn't want her to be into harm's way for this one."

Luna answered with, "If she was Ponyland's savior, then wouldn't joining that fight make sense for her?"

The bruised unicorn responded, "In this case it was best that she wouldn't fight even if it meant anyone here who had to fight had to sacrifice themselves in the process."

Celestia said, "In other words, it was the ponies that she was normally with that are the backstabbers and not her."

The bruised unicorn then said quickly responded explaining, "No, they weren't the traitors either. The reason why Megan wasn't in that fight was because despite being Ponyland's savior and the keeper of the Rainbow of Light, as well as being known for wanting to placing herself into harm's way to protect others, she was still just a human girl from Earth, and If she was to be killed in that battle, her brother and sister would have a tough time explaining to her parents why she isn't around."

Celestia and Luna then understood why Megan wasn't there and then knew it was for her sake.

The bruised unicorn insisted and told them, "Please take this book with you. because You will be the last ponies Sombra will think would have it! But please, be careful! You’ll have to do a better job at hiding it than I did to make sure he never sees it! especially when You already saw what he did with me for refusing to get rid of it."

"Don’t worry. We’ll take care of this book and make sure that he never sees it." Celestia promised.

The aftermath

Twilight again interrupted the flashback by saying, "So this is why you go as princesses rather than queens."

Celestia's response came as, "We never wanted to feel like tyrants in the way Sombra was, so we felt that by being princesses everyone would feel more comfortable with us."

As the flashback resumed once more, the newly crowned Royal Sisters decided it was time to give Ponyland a clean slate by renaming it Equestria. They even had a new castle built for them in Everfree Forest after being drawn to the Tree of Harmony. Despite being happy about being the new rulers, they thought intensely about what to do with anything that reminded them of Ponyland. They still had the book that chronicled the time when Megan came there.

“What should I do with this book?”Celestia asked. “Besides her naming us, this is pretty much all that we have left of Megan Williams. Who knows if we'll ever get to see her again? Part of me wants to get rid of it and start over, but another part me feels that it would be wrong to do it."

Luna then said, "How about instead of getting rid of the book, it will just be hidden somewhere special instead?"

"Alright Luna, but I'm only doing this because I enjoyed reading about what she did when she was here." said Celestia.

Celestia's enjoyment of Megan made her more interested in humans altogether and understanding more about their nature. However, she found out things that she wasn't too happy about. When she read about how humans were known for coming to other lands and conquering them for their own, she started to have fears that Equestria could be one of those lands. If anyone knew about it, the kind of weapons that they had might help them conquer Equestria if needed.

Out of fear, Celestia contemplated and asked Luna, "Do you ever think that if other humans knew about our world, they might actually want to try and conquer it?"

"What exactly would they gain by doing that?" Luna asked

Celestia responded, "If they had the ability to conquer tribes inferior to them within their own world, just imagine what they could do here."

"Tia, you're overreacting. I highly doubt that any other humans back on Earth even know about this world besides Megan Williams and her siblings. So I don't see any reason to panic about this."

For some reason, Sombra enters the castle and starts mentioning, "Maybe we won't have to fear any human invasion of Equestria if we invade them first.”

The sisters look at Sombra with concern.

“Think about it. By doing so, we can show them who the real conquerors are. More importantly, we can finally have that traitor Megan Williams imprisoned for leaving all of what was left of Ponyland to be destroyed by Grogar."

Celestia did not take this idea too kindly.

"You will do no such thing! If we did this, we’d be no better than those trying to conquer us. More importantly, if you or anyone who follows you does anything to hurt, kill, or capture Megan Williams, you will have to answer to me and Luna! You will not do it! I will make sure you won't! I’m placing a special barrier that won't just stop you from going there, but it will also make the Rainbow Bridge invisible so that you can't get to her. No other invading armies will have a way of getting in from the other side either."

Celestia recited the spell and a barrier between Earth and Equestria was made. The Rainbow Bridge became invisible to those from either side.

Matters got worse when Queen Rosedust came to complain. "Flutter Valley hasn't been the same after Grogar's army destroyed it and you two are doing next to nothing in helping us in restoring it!"

"We haven't forgotten about you. We just have a lot of things on our hooves ever since becoming the rulers of Equestria." replied Celestia calmly.

Rosedust then said, "Maybe if I became an alicorn like you and your sister, I wouldn't be in such a problem. It seems to have helped you stop Sombra and his oppression on the other unicorns."

"Even if you could be become an alicorn, it wouldn't change who you are inside. You will still be the same pony you always are. If you think it will give you miracles, you are sadly mistaken. As for Sombra, we didn't need to become alicorns to stop him. We just needed to finally take a stance against him, alicorns or not." Luna explained.

After hearing what Luna said, Rosedust was not too pleased.

"Maybe Sombra was right. Maybe Megan Williams is a traitor and a thief for keeping the Rainbow of Light, which never belonged to her in the first place"

"Take that back!” Celestia shouted. “She is no traitor to anyone! As for the Rainbow of Light, she never stole it, that locket was given to her by the Moochick himself! He even declared her its very keeper. In other words, she's allowed to have it whether you approve of this or not. Also, no pony would even be able to use that locket due to the fact that it was made specifically for a human like her to do so."

Rosedust then cried, "She still owes me for when I had to help her stop the Smooze from covering all of Ponyland!"

"Why does she owe you for that?” Celestia asked. “If you really did care, you would have stopped the Smooze and the witches whether she came to you or not. Let's not forget that she saved Flutter Valley from the Bees that the witches tried to use against you, so in a way, she did repay her debt to you."

Rosedust then left the castle in anger, feeling that she couldn't get any help from the Royal Sisters.

After those events, Luna asked, "Will we ever get to see Megan Williams again?”

"I hope one day our paths will cross again with her” Celestia responded. “But until then, we'll have to learn to move on without her."

The flashback ended and both Megan and Twilight had to really think about what happened.

"So this is why, for awhile, I had no way to get back here." Megan remarked.

“Yes.” Celestia said. "If not for the barrier, Sombra would have lead an army of pegasi to come and get you, and I couldn't just let that happen."

"I can see why that was done” Megan said. “But I don't seem to understand why it was only removed recently. I mean, why wait a thousand years?" Megan asked.

Luna then answered, "In all honesty, we did want to allow for you return sooner. But that didn't happen due to having so many duties and tasks to help with our kingdom. I'm sorry that it felt as if we forgot about you."

Megan then said, "I can understand why that was the case until now, so I will forgive you for that."

Celestia feeling pleased said, "Now, you're always welcomed to come here any time! I never once believed anything Sombra had to say about you."

Twilight then added, "What matters more is that you’re here now and we’re all glad to see you again."

"What did happen to Rosedust?" Megan asked.

Celestia answered, "Until the wedding between Cadence and Shinning Armor, we hadn't heard from her nor had we even seen her again. When it turned out that Cadence wasn't actually there, I was shocked to see that it was really Queen Chrysalis taking her form. She even took a cheap shot at me. At first I didn't notice it, but when I noticed her wings were butterfly wings, I figured out it was her. I couldn't even understand why she wanted to become that way. She was already mad at me for still using her original name. She shouted back at me claiming that she no longer goes by Rosedust anymore ever since she became a changeling."

Megan then said, "I'm not understanding what you mean by this."

Luna explained, "It was found out that Rosedust found some more of Niblick's magic coins that would allow her to make such a wish. Our guess is that she wanted everything my sister and I had. What she didn't know is that her wish came with a cost and couldn't be reversed especially since that troll was no longer around. Since then, she was never the same again. The wish wasn't just for her either, but also the rest of the Flutter Ponies as well. They also became changelings along with her.”

After hearing that, Megan said, "At least now I know all about what you both did in your early lives! Also, on how you became alicorns."

Luna concluded, "I hope you enjoyed this tea party, because now it's time for us to go back home."

Megan waved good-bye to the Royal Sisters as Twilight flew her back home.

Author's Note

For those who don't know, both Niblick and Queen Rosedust are characters from MLP 'n Friends. Rosedust was the queen of the Flutter Ponies who was mostly known in original MLP: The Movie and The End of Flutter Valley, while Niblick appeared in the episode, The Magic Coins. The latter character had the ability to reverse wishes that his coins granted.

Earning their ranks

Back at the tea party, Megan interrupted the flashback after what she’d just heard and asked, "What exactly did Sombra have against me?Why did he refer to me as a backstabber and traitor? More importantly, why did he assault anyone who still believed that I was Ponyland's savior?"

Celestia responded saying, "He didn't really have anything against you per se. He was using your absence from the battle not only to be his scapegoat, but also to help him win over vindication so that other ponies, especially the unicorns, would look to him in the aftermath for leadership."

Twilight weighed in also saying, "I'm not surprised he would do something like that just to get his way."

Megan sighed. "I still don't see why you just didn't want to stay with Posey when Grogar showed up."

Luna explained, "It wasn't my idea to run away. It was Celestia’s. Even though we found Posey to be a good mother to us, Celestia just felt that we wouldn't be safe with her, which is why she wanted to me to come with her to look for you."

"Even if Tirac had came back, I doubt he would’ve wanted either of you. Both of you were too small and he wasn't looking for foals. But rather, adult ponies to pull his Midnight Chariot. So he would have locked you up just like the ones I remembered seeing when I was there." Megan explained.

"Huh... I never thought about that." Celestia said.

“At least now I know where you got the hidden book!” Twilight remarked.

Luna responded deadpan, "Yes, now you know where the book came from. We would like to get back to our story."

The flashback resumed.

The two were growing up. However, they felt they could no longer stand the tyranny of Sombra, so they held secret meetings with the other unicorns to help stand up to him.

At one of the meetings Celestia mentioned, "It's about time we started standing up to Sombra. We can't keep living under such fear! I can't stand seeing other unicorns get bruised and nearly killed trying to resist him. There are many of us and only one of him. If we all stand up to him at once, we can actually stop this reign of terror."

One of the other unicorns, however, was still concerned. "As long as he can levitate heavy objects, we're no match for him. If he wanted to, he could just lift a huge bolder and drop it on all of us at once and then laugh at the easy win! Unless we can levitate objects as big and heavy as the ones he can, he will always have the upper hand on us!"

"I don't see why any of us can't do that as well. We too are unicorns, so we should have the same abilities, even if it means we'll have to practice a lot of times to do so. Why should only Sombra have that ability and not us?" Celestia remarked.

Later that day, Celestia went towards a boulder and tried to levitate as hard as she could with her horn, but then started to notice something else moving instead of that bolder.

What exactly did I just move?

Celestia then looked up at the sky and realized, The sun doesn't seem to be at the right place especially for this time of day! Hmm, maybe it's just me seeing this...

As the unicorn wizards noticed the displacement of the sun they approached Celestia and said, "We believe that it's you who is destined to make the sun both rise and set."

After hearing this, Celestia used her horn to lower the sun for the day as she lifted up for a moment and glowed noticing something appearing on her rear.

"Did I just earn the cutie mark of the sun?" asked Celestia.

One of the unicorn wizards answered, "Now that it is your destiny to control the sun, its cutie mark is now yours."

The said unicorn then bowed down with the rest of them towards facing her as they found the one who was destined for the sun.

However, Sombra wasn't too happy to hear about this and approached Celestia and snarled, "You may have control of the sun, but I can still control the moon once I get the chance to do so."

Meanwhile, the other unicorns, including Luna, were very happy to see her earn that cutie mark.

Still feeling excited her sister's accomplishment, Luna couldn't sleep that night and decided that since she was wide awake, she should try her luck in trying levitate a boulder to help stand up to Sombra. But, she also found out that she was moving something else when using her ability to the fullest extent.

Luna looked around the place and thought, What just happened?

As she looked up to the sky, she then thought, Is it just me, or is did the moon just move a little?

Another unicorn wizard approached her and said, "You must be one the who is destined to make the moon both rise and set."

Luna then agreed to use her horn to lower the moon for the night as Celestia and the other unicorn wizards saw her float up and glow with something appearing on her rear.

"Is this the cutie mark of the moon?" asked Luna.

One of the unicorn wizards said to Luna, "Now that's it's your destiny to control the moon, its cutie mark is now yours."

Once again, the unicorn wizards bowed down and faced Luna as they found the one who was destined to control the moon.

As Celestia raised up the sun, she and the rest of the unicorns including her came over to Luna to thank her for earning the cutie mark of the moon. The unicorn wizards were pleased to finally see that they were no longer needed to control either the sun or the moon.

Unfortunately, this didn't go well with Sombra as he shouted angrily, "Having control of either the sun or moon was supposed to be for me, not any of you! How could two unicorns that I have only just seen not that long ago get this ability instead of me?!"

Celestia then said, "Perhaps, destiny has a way of finding itself."

Twilight interrupted the flashback and said, "So this is how you two both earned your cutie marks."

"Not only that, we even humiliated Sombra for the first time in doing so." Celestia laughed.

As the flashback resumed, the two sisters did their duties with the sun and moon. However, they felt as if there was more to them than just earning those rare cutie marks.

"Although earning these rare cutie marks are good, do you ever think we could get the other ponies to live with us in unity? Just like they did before the fall from Grogar and his army?" asked Luna.

"If Megan Williams was known for having all three groups working with her when she was here, I don't see why any of us can't do the same thing" said Celestia in response.

As the two went to sleep after their duties with the sun and moon, a voice in their head said, "For your strong belief in unity among the pony tribes, you will be able to carry the traits of all groups."

They both woke up ready to perform their duties and decided to get some water from the lake, only to notice something as they saw their reflections.

"Is it just me sister, or do we actually have wings?" said Celestia.

"Maybe we're still dreaming."

"We can't still be asleep. These wings feel very real."

They pondered this for awhile

"What exactly are we?" said Luna.

"I have no idea what we are." Responded Celestia.

One of the unicorn wizards came up to them and said after looking at them, "You two have just became the legendary ponies known as the alicorn."

"Exactly what is an alicorn?" Celestia asked

"An alicorn is a pony who carries the traits of all three tribes: The unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies." explained the unicorn wizard.

Luna then asked, "Could believing in unity among the tribes make us become this?"

"That is a possibility." The unicorn wizard responded.

"Now that I think about it, I do remember hearing a voice in my head saying the our strong belief in unity gave us." Celestia noted.

"Me too!" Agreed Luna.

Celestia then asked the unicorn wizard, "Can we actually fly with these wings or are they just for show?"

The unicorn wizard then said, "I believe that you can fly, but none of us unicorns her can teach either of you that. Luckily, I do know a pegasus tribe that isn't too far from here. I suggest you go to them and convince them to teach you how to fly. Also, I know of an earth pony tribe that will help you with your strength"

Megan interrupted the flashback and said, "So this is how you both became the alicorns your are now! And you achieved it just be believing in that you can unite the tribes?"

Luna's replied, "Yes. Just like Twilight and Cadence, we also had to earn our way into becoming alicorns."

As the flashback resumed, the two headed off into a nearby valley and saw the pegasi as they flapped out their wings to show that they were among them.

At first, the pegasi were a bit confused when they saw this, but then came to an understanding after hearing what they had to say.

Celestia spoke first. "Me and my sister mean you no harm! We are now the legendary alicorns, and we would like you to teach us how to fly."

One of the pegasi came up to them and said, "It would be an honor to do so."

The two started getting flying lessons. At first, the pegasi were holding them up to get them in the air and then dropping them to help them flap their wings and fly. They also told them to move their hooves to help them control where they wanted to go when flying.

However, their biggest task was to jump down a cliff and fly back up, which did bring some fear to them.

"Um, what if we panic and don't make it?" Asked Celestia concerned.

"You will fall to your doom.” A fellow pegasus said. Both sisters looked at each other and gulped. “Ah, but don't worry! We will swoop down and save you should that happen." The pegasus finished.

They were instructed that when they were about halfway down to spread out their wings to allow for the wind to collect as they could fly back up. Celestia was first at this while Luna followed after her. Some of the pegasi were about to get ready to save them, but then saw them both fly back up after using their instincts to do so. The two were very happy to still be alive after doing all of that. What they just went through made them feel breathless for a time.

They waved good-bye and headed over to the earth ponies to help with their strength.

Just like the pegasi, the earth ponies were confused about what they were. But then they understood why they were there after hearing that they were alicorns.

A fellow earth pony said to them, "We will teach how to move heavy objects both physically and , in your cases, mentally."

Celestia asked, "How will moving heavy objects physically help us move them mentally?"

The earth pony replied with, "Once you have the idea of how to actually move heavy objects, you should be able to levitate them with your horns without a problem."

Although the work felt rigorous at times, they eventually got the hang of it. They were now able to levitate anything as heavy as Sombra could. They waved good-bye as they flew back to their unicorn tribe.

The fellow unicorns delighted to see them again. They were even more impressed to see them as alicrons except for Sombra, who said, "I can't understand how either of you became such legendary ponies."

Celestia responded with, "Maybe if you believed in true unity like me and my sister did, you could also become an alicorn just like us."

Sombra then huffed, "I'm sure at one point I can became an alicorn just like you."

"One doesn't just get to become an alicorn, they must earn it." Luna explained.

Sombra then retorted, "I can still hurl large boulders at you if I wanted to."

The rest of the unicorn tribe watched only to see the two stop it in its place. They then threatened him back with the boulder now aimed him.

After placing the boulder back down, both Celestia and Luna flew right at Sombra and surrounded him from both sides saying, "You're reign of terror is over! We suggest you leave now if you want to live."

Now, Sombra is arrogant, but not stupid. Realizing he was woefully outnumbered, he left hopefully to never be seen again.

The other unicorns as well as the rest of the ponies bowed down to the two and said, "All hail Queens Celestia and Luna!"

However, they preferred to being called princesses, claiming that they would be more down to earth with them as opposed to being queens.

Author's Note

Hearing about they had to go through to gain the ability of the pony tribes is a reference to either Avatar series be it The Last Air Bender or Legend of Korra as they aren't born with such abilities but have to acquire them later on.