Author's Note

I hope you enjoy the first chapter!

Chapter 1

«Oh, what happened to me? Where am I?» Looking around, I tried to understand where I was, but I saw nothing but darkness. «Where am I?» I asked myself questions, to which I never received answers. «What happened to me?» I tried to remember at least something, and I remembered what happened to me.

I was walking down the street with headphones on, it was night, I was walking around the city because I couldn’t sleep again, and I decided to freshen up a little. And when I was already crossing the road, a car suddenly jumped out from around the corner of the building at high speed... I didn’t notice it right away because of the headphones, and only noticed it at the last moment, when I turned my head in its direction. I only managed to see a bright light, and then... I don’t remember what happened next, probably because of the impact...

Yep, it was not for nothing that my parents and older sisters told me that “don’t walk around the city at night with headphones on, otherwise you never know what will happen.” And this something happened - I died... And what should I do? Where am I? In hell? Paradise? Or in Purgatory? This place was nothing like what I listed. What then? It was a dark space without anything. No sounds, no plants, just nothing. I didn’t even see my body, because as I said, it was so dark here that only some kind of night vision device would help me at least see something.

But then I heard a voice, and it came from literally everywhere, and I began to listen to it. At first I didn’t understand anything, but after listening better, I realized that it was a man’s voice, and he was saying something.

"Who do you think, honey, who will he be more like, me or you?" this male voice asked someone.

"I don’t know, dear, until he’s born, we won’t be able to find out." said another female voice as an answer.

Who is this? They say they're going to have a baby soon? It’s just not clear to me why I hear them. I decided to try to move to see if I could walk. And so, I already began to try to move my limbs, and yes, I succeeded, I was able to move my legs, and when I moved them, I touched something, and then the woman’s voice was heard again.

" Oh, look, he’s already kicking with his hooves. " her voice was very joyful and very gentle.

"Ha-ha, he wasn’t born yet, but he’s already playing pranks." a male voice laughed slightly.

Wait, what?! Hooves!? Am I reborn as a horse? Hmmm, I didn’t think that after death I would become a horse, and looks like that male voice is my Father, and the female voice is my Mother. Well, since life gave me a second chance, I will live it with dignity!

And I won't repeat my past mistakes. Well, since I still have time before birth, I can think about what kind of world I found myself in.

Four months have passed

Well, let's summarize what I found out over these four months: first, I found out that my parents are not horses, but talking ponies; secondly, my Father's name is Orion and my mother's name is Galaxy. My parents have very beautiful names, I want to say; and I also found out that in about one month I could be born, which made me happy that I would finally be able to see them. You ask me, aren't you bored here? Partly yes, I have nothing to do except just listen to my parents talk and sometimes show signs of life, or just kick sometimes.

Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention that I found out my future surname - “Selbion”. This is how unusual it will be for me, and I also found out my future name - “Lucius”, also a rather unusual name. But my last name belongs to the royal family, aka, mine.

Right now I was bored, and my mother is probably sleeping now. How did I understand this? She's been silent for about twelve hours, I need to wake her up, otherwise I can no longer sit or lie in silence? I don't know what position I'm in, but it doesn't really matter. My mother often talks to me, and although I cannot answer her, sometimes it seems to me that she knows that I understand her. Probably a mother's instinct. I gathered my will into my hind hooves and lightly kicked the surface of my mother’s belly.

"Huh" she said sleepily, then I repeated this action again. "Ah it’s you, baby, who wakes me up every morning, thank you." she said in her joyful and gentle voice. "You’re probably hungry, that’s why you’re waking me up."

Oh, how glad I am that she understands me without words. I felt that she began to get out of bed, then I heard the clatter of hooves, and then the sound of a door opening, judging by the sound of metal. It was one of the guards, and then I heard his male voice.

"Good morning, Your Highness. " he said.

"Morning." said my mother. "What did you came with?"

"Your Highness, the King is waiting for you in the dining room."

"Okay, tell my husband that we will be there soon." she said in a gentle voice.

"As you order, Your Highness!" he said, then left the room and closed the door.

"Well, baby, you woke us up on time, I’ll just ask you not to be naughty while eating, okay?" she asked.

In response, I didn’t do anything, because I really was a little hungry, and yet I still can’t tell her anything in her tummy. At first she walked around the room a little for like five minutes, probably getting ready, then I felt that we were already leaving, I realized this because I heard the door open and close. We didn't walk for very long, about ten to twelve minutes. I heard the doors to the dining room opening and closing, and at the same moment I heard the voice of the Father.

"Good morning, honey." he said in a very calm and caring voice. "How did you sleep today?"

"Morning, I slept great, dear." she answered and sat down at the table.

"Our son haven't been rowdy at night?"

"No, he calmly let me sleep, apparently he understood that I was tired."

"Yes, he will definitely be a good prince, or even a king."

"Oh, Ori, why are you looking so far, huh? He hasn’t been born yet, and you’re already making such plans for him." she giggled.

"Oh, come on, Gali, just let me dream already, huh? Well, I can’t be a king all my life, after all, he will find a filly that he will love and marry her, and then he will become a king, and she will become a queen."

"Yes, I understand you, dear, but let’s put off such conversations until he is at least ten years old?"

"Okay, honey, I'm just excited, the deadline is already running out, and he should be born soon"

"Hehe, as if I'm not excited about this event."

You listen to them and understand that in this world I still have a chance for a good life. Yes, in any case I will have to rule Equestria - the country in which I will now live is called exactly that. I like the name, it's easy to remember. Well, at least I’ll try not to disappoint my new parents here.

A month has passed.

The day has come when I can be born to see my parents. I can't wait to find out what they look like and what I look like. Oh, I have so many plans - studying this world, magic, and maybe even creating something in this world myself.

Yes, I have global plans, but I probably won’t be able to do much of this, for some reason for sure, but probably because of the fact that I will have to be learning royal etiquette. I remember reading in one book that everyone in the royal family should know this etiquette. In my past life, I wasn’t an excellent student, but I wasn’t stupid either, I was just often unlucky.

Not everything was smooth in my past life, but there were quite a lot of good moments, especially with my older sisters. Oh, how I will miss them. You probably don't understand why I'm so calm? Yes, it just so happened that I am the kind of person who is ready to calmly accept everything, even my death. But there is no time to be discouraged, I am already starting to hear a lot of voices, which means that we are already in the maternity ward, where I will soon be born. Oh, how I worry.

And so, after a while, too much noise appeared, and during it I saw that a bright light appeared in the darkness, which began to become brighter and larger. I decided to try to crawl to it, and I began to succeed. Of course, I still couldn’t see myself, but that didn’t bother me. And so I got very close to the light and then a very bright light came into my eyes, from which I began to squint, and then I felt that someone took me. I also felt a strange sensation that something was being used on me, but what?

"Please accept my congratulations, Queen!" a male voice said joyfully. "Your son has born absolutely healthy!"

"And please accept my congratulations, Queen!" said a female voice, and then I felt as if I was lifted into the air, then they wrapped me in something and someone began to hug me.

"Oh, he's wonderful!" said my mother. Her voice was right next to my ear. I tried to open my eyes, and I managed to open them, only at first everything seemed blurry to me, but after a short amount of time I was able to see clearly.

In front of my face, I saw the snow-white face of a mare, her horn was the same color, her eyes were bright pink, and she had a very joyful face. Looks like, this is my mother.

"Wow, he has just born, and he's already able to open his eyes!" the stallion in a white robe admired.

"Queen, he has your beautiful eyes!" the mare in the same white robe was already admiring.

"Hehe, well, hello baby, I'm glad you were born." she said in her gentle voice. "And welcome to the family."

After she finished speaking, I tried to give her my smile, and yes! I did it, I even laughed a little joyfully, which surprised everyone, especially my mother, she already had tears of happiness. Then I heard someone running here, and at the same moment a stallion in a crown flew into the room. He also had a horn, he was dark blue in color, his eyes were bright blue, and emotions of excitement and concern were visible on his face. He was looking straight in our direction.

"Where is he?" he asked.

The stallion in the robe pointed his hoof in the direction of my mother and me, and immediately my father ran up to us and began to examine me. A happy smile appeared on his face.

"He has your eyes, my love!" he said very joyfully.

"Heh heh." She giggled a little in response, and then I gave my smile to my father.

"And he also has an unusual coat color." he looked at me interestedly.

"This is where your blood worked, King and Queen." the doctor began. "You are the King, everyone in your family was dark blue. And in your family, Queen, everyone was light white, so your blood mixed in it and created such an unusual color."

"And now, because of this, your son is now purple," the mare in the robe had already finished the dialogue.

"Wow, not only did he open his eyes so quickly, but now he is also unique in his fur color." Mom said joyfully.

"Yes, there haven’t been purple ponies in Equestria yet, but now there are." the father said joyfully.

Wow, how much information was poured out on me in these short minutes after my birth. It looks like my life here will be wonderful, but now something's starting to make me sleepy, I wonder why? *yawn*

"Oh, the baby wants to sleep. *yawn*"

"You also need to sleep, dear, we won’t interfere." he said and looked at the ponies.

"Yes." they said at the same time.

"Sleep, dear." He kissed her forehead. "And you, son." He kissed me on the forehead too.

This made me giggle a little and then started to close my eyes. Well, now I need to get some sleep to gain strength for the new day.