“Dear subjects,” Celestia began. ”I address you tonight with the most pressing of news. Though, you already know it. You can sense it whenever you look into a filly’s eyes. But let me demonstrate what you already know to be true.”
The ponies in the crowd looked at each other in confusion.
“You there, in the crowd! The Earth filly with a pink bow in your mane.”
“M-me?” the filly timidly asked.
“Come up here, filly, I want to meet you.”
The filly glanced at her mother.
The parent put a hoof on her shoulder and gave her a slight nod.
With a lowered head the filly made her way to the stage then glanced up at the Goddess.
“What is your name?” Celestia asked.
“S-special Snowflake.”
“No horn. No wings.” Celestia fondled the filly on the stage. “Tell me, Special Snowflake, are you an Alicorn Princess?”
“N-no…”
“Why not?”
“I was always like this. I was born an Earth pony. But my mom says I’m special!”
Celestia gasped. “Did you hear that, everypony? This deviation isn’t even recent; she was born deformed!
“Wait, what?” The filly opened her eyes wide.
“What tragic times we live in‽”
“I’m not deformed!” the filly interjected. “My mom says that I’m…”
“Special Snowflake, do you know what will happen to you in a hundred years?”
“Oh, gosh. That’s such a long…”
“You will die!”
“Wha…”
Celestia turned to the speechless crowd. “This filly is going to die!”
“Can I have my daughter back now?” came from the crowd.
Celestia ignored the plea. “Special Snowflake, did you know that Alicorns are immortal?”
“Yeah, Cheerilee taught us at school that…”
“Are you an Alicorn, Special Snowflake?”
“Well, no, but my mom says…”
“So, you are going to die?”
“I don’t know. I’m not even old yet. Someday, maybe, who’s to say…”
“I am telling you, Special Snowflake. You are going to die.”
“O-okay…”
“You will be stuck in a deformed body of a mortal Earth pony. And then you will die. Is that what you want? Do you want to die, Special Snowflake?”
“I’m really confused right now…”
“But you are going to die anyway, are you not? See that cemetery?” Celestia pointed over yonder. “That’s where you will be. You will be a decaying dead corpse because you will die.”
The filly turned toward the crowd with tears in her eyes, “Mom, I’m scared!”
Celestia grinned. “Did you hear that, everypony. The filly is scared! She is crying right now. And she is not alone in this. Think of the children, everypony! Think of yourselves! Look into the filly’s eyes and see the truth of it all. Death is scary! You all should be crying right now like the filly, for you are all going to die!”
There was silence.
She banged a hoof on the podium. “Do you not understand? Death is the enemy. I have already defeated mine, but I am more than willing to defeat yours as well if you will let me. The salvation I offer is the only solution. There is no other way. We need to defeat death or this filly will keep on crying. You all will keep on crying and then you will all die.”
The filly tripped as she tried to slip off the stage.
“You there, stop!” She levitated the filly high up above the crowd. “Where do you think you’re going? Are you in a hurry to die?”
“I just want my mommy!” the filly cried.
“Do you want to die, Special Snowflake?”
The filly sobbed.
“Well, do you?" Celestia snorted. "Answer me!”
She kept crying more and more.
“The facts do not care about your feelings, Special Snowflake. Now answer the question!” She shook the filly in the air. “Answer when a Princess asks you a question! Do. You. Want. To. Die?”
“No!” the filly yelled out.
“Then thou shall never die!” Celestia’s horn glowed ever brighter. “I grant thee: Immortality!”
The light engulfed the filly, and from it emerged an Alicorn.
“Go to your mother, Alicorn Princess Special Snowflake.”
The filly glided to her mother with the support of her newfound wings and fell into her embrace.
“You there!” Celestia pointed a hoof at the mother. “What are you doing?”
“I’m trying to calm down my child. You scared her senseless!”
Celestia charged her horn and ripped the mother away from her precious, lifting her high into the air. “Your filly needed you, and what were you doing?”
“I was hugging her!” Mother yelled.
“You were dying! I can see you dying right now. You are exhaling.”
“It’s called breathing…”
“You call it breathing, I call it the final countdown to expiration. With every passing moment, you are closer to death. When your child needed you most, you were dying on her!” She turned to the gasping filly. “Special Snowflake, do you want to see your mother die? Is that what you want? Do you want your mother to drop dead like the sack of rotten flesh she is becoming?”
“No, please!” Tears rushed down the filly's face. “Mommy!”
Celestia looked back at the mother. “See? Your daughter doesn’t want you to die. So why are you dying? Why would you do that to her?”
Mother spoke through her teeth, “Princess, with all due respect…”
“Do you want to die?” Celestia shook her in the air. “Answer Me!” She rattled her in the magic bubble relentlessly. “Answer me, for filly’s sake. Do you want to die?”
“No…” escaped Mother’s mouth.
Celestia’s horn glowed brighter. “Then thou shall never die. I grant thee: Immortality!”
And another Alicorn was made.
It sounded almost like a crash when a darkly Alicorn forcefully landed behind Celestia. “Sister, what the buck are you doing?”
Celestia turned her head and glanced at the newcomer with just one eye. “I am making Alicorns.”
“Well then make Alicorns.” Luna sighed. “No need to make a fuss about it.”
Celestia bowed her head. “You never let me have any fun…”
Author's Note
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