Cozy Glow's P.O.V.

...If you thought that was something...that was just the big thing. There's still one thing I want to mention about the time before I jump ahead to the real action here that is very, very important.

Third Person P.O.V.

"So, you're really going to be with Sombra, dear sister?" Celestia asked.

"You are one to talk Tia, deciding to get together with Thorax." Luna said.

"I am more surprised he actually agreed to it." Celestia said.

"...You should know, that today is the last day for one of our dear subjects. I've been monitering the rapidly deterring health of one of our subjects. Tonight will be their last night alive." Luna said.

Diamond Tiara, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Rumble, Sweetie Belle, Spike, and Filthy Rich were all standing over a very sick looking Spoiled Rich.

"How did this happen?" Apple Bloom asked.

"We don't know. The doctors have no idea what caused this sudden sickness. If they had caught it several weeks ago, they say they may have been able to treat it." Filthy Rich said. Twilight Sparkle then came in.

"How is she?" Twilight asked.

"Not good. She's getting sicker by the minute. I only wish I knew when this started." Filthy Rich said.

"Well that's what my question was, so I did some testing." Twilight said.

"Leave it to Twilight to figure this out." Spike said.

"Agreed." Sweetie Belle said. Rain Shine suddenly came in as well.

"What's Rain Shine doing here?" Scootaloo asked.

"I had thought we Kirins had seen the last of the evil deeds of one Insightful Wraith. But it seems even now, that monster still affects us all." Rain Shine said, looking right at Spoiled Rich. "This is no ordinary sickness; it is one that caused by an immense discharge of black magic; the most forbidden type of it at that." The kirin leader added.

"What's Insightful Wraith got to do with my mother's sickness?" Diamond Tiara said.

"I was getting to that: Apparently, somehow just before his horn was broken, Insightful Wraith infected Spoiled Rich with a great deal of dark magic. It's been slowly eating away at her from the inside out." Twilight said.

"So once again, Insightful Wraith's effect on us all returns." Rumble noted.

"I'm really starting to hate that guy's guts." Scootaloo said.

"You and me both, Scootaloo." Rumble said, putting a wing over his future wife.

"Oh my gosh! Are you two a couple?" Rain Shine asked Rumble and Scootaloo. The pegasus pair nodded which made Rain Shine squee with joy. "OH MY GOD YOU TWO ARE SO ADORABLE TOGETHER!" Rain Shine said.

"Rain Shine is Pinkie Pie confirmed?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"I'll give you the fact that they are both very excitable by the littlest things I'll just say that much." Spike said, pulling in Sweetie Belle for a hug.

"Diamond..." Spoiled managed to get out weakly. Diamond Tiara turned her attention back to her mother. "Be...good to Apple Bloom no matter what..." Spoiled Rich said. "And Apple Bloom...make sure you take good care of my daughter for me. Otherwise...I promise to come back as a ghost...and haunt you until the day you die." She added.

"Ah would hope that you do that, but I don't plan on treating Diamond badly despite everything." Apple Bloom said.

"Apple Bloom and I found a way to still have kids too. Someday in the future, we'll have kids of our own. I just wish you could see your own grandchildren." Diamond Tiara said. Spoiled Rich put a hoof to Diamond Tiara's cheek.

"I'll still see them. I'll make sure I see them. Somehow someway I will see them. I promise you that." Spoiled Rich said, a smile on her face.

"I may be changing from the way I used to be, but I'm sure some of the things you taught me will come in handy. No matter what though, mother, I promise you that my children won't be as bad as I was. I will make sure they know the difference between right and wrong." Diamond Tiara said.

"That's good. I would like to see that. I know I will see it. I'll find a way." Spoiled Rich said. She slowly started to fall asleep as the day turned to night. "...I don't think I'll make it past tonight. What a beautiful sunset though..." Spoiled Rich got out before she shut her eyes for what would be the last time.

"...It is beautiful. Mother, I'll see you some other time." Diamond Tiara said. "Let's go." She added. Everyone but Silver Spoon left the room; the gray filly stood over Spoiled Rich's dying body.

"Insightful Wraith...I want your head for this. No one messes with my best friend's family and gets away with it." Silver Spoon said and then left the room. "Wait up everyone!" She said to her friends.

Cozy Glow's P.O.V.

Now before you go asking me who Silver Spoon's special somepony is, it's actually some dragon she met in the dragon lands, Bruno I think is what his name is. He was not unlike Spike in that he was a total gentledrake. Silver Spoon found out later that Bruno idolized Spike because of everything Bruno heard the purple dragon did.

Now before I go for the time jump, I should tell you that after about a year, Velvet Sentry got her Cutie Mark in magic just like her mother. Then, over the course of the next year, the other girls got them too: Blazing Dash got hers by sticking up for her friends against a few bullies (who would get a chewing out from their dads later who turned out to be Hops, Hoops, and Dumbell); Amelia got hers for realizing her love for animals both big and small; Apple Cider got hers for being honest with herself; Jewel got hers for making a winning dress for a design contest (going so far as to beat her own mother which was a feat in and of itself); Lil' Cheese got hers for wanting to put a smile on everyone's faces; and the last one, Galaxy Swirls, got hers as well. She thought her cutie mark was in magic considering she hatched a Pink Dragon Egg (which hatched a pink and cyan dragon girl that was named Barb), but she would find out eight years later that her cutie mark was in regard to friendship.

Huh? Whoops, did I forget to say the names of the rest of the Elemental Successors? That's my bad.

Wait, you're also wondering how Galaxy Swirls could get a cutie mark in friendship and how she too would become one of the Elemental Successors as I've been calling them?

Well I haven't been lying to you yet. See, in order to understand how Galaxy Swirls came to understand what her cutie mark was really about, NOW is the time I jump ahead eight years.

During those eight years, the first Generation of Cutie Mark Crusaders had their children too, with Scootaloo getting two. Her first child; ahead of her friends; was named Daredevil. He was kind of this dark brown with a purple mane and tail. Later on, Scootaloo would have a baby girl who would be born alongside four other fillies: Two from Apple Bloom, one from Sweetie Belle, and one from Silver Spoon.

Three of those girls would form the second generation of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Though there was one point where Diamodn Tiara got on the one that didn't join for trying to be a bully towards those without cutie marks. But that's a story for a different time.

Because this is where the prologue ends folks.

Now it's time to fast forward through time...

And for you all to learn the tale of all tales.

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Featuring Cozy Glow...

MY LITTLE PONY: THE ELEMENTAL SUCCESSORS

Author's Note

So two things, the name of this episode was changed when I realized the episode name had nothing to do with the context of it. That was my bad.
Second, I hope the fact that were two moments of first-person Cozy Glow makes up for the lack of Cozy's Notes in this chapter.