Luna

An epilogue of sorts…

Long before the eventual tranquilization of Discord, the three types of ponies (horses): earth, pegasus, and unicorn (a little bit of a power imbalance but whatever), lived in hate and disharmony.

Then, everything changed when six horses—an ambassador and assistant of each type—got caught in a blizzard. The ambassadors discovered the true power of hate, while the assistants discovered that talking exists.

They talked for a while, somehow not starving to death. Then the ambassadors stopped using the power of hate. Then Equestria.

Eventually, the unicorns secretly discovered that they were superior in every way, and this guy named Star Swirl (he had a pretty epic beard) decided to beat up this demon guy. Then he decided that ruling was lame and wrote a letter to Alicorona, the kingdom of alicorns. The letter was delivered by a legally blind Pegasus, so it ended up with two alicorn children living in the woods, who decided to take up the beard dude's offer.

Satisfied, Star Swirl left Equestria to these two sisters who didn't understand things like mortality, familial bonding, or sleep.

And so it begins…

The Everfree Forest was not very dark. No, it was very bright in the daytime.

But it wasn't to Cloud Treefire. The whole world was a haze to her. To be honest, she had no idea why she'd been hired as a mailmare.

But hired she was, so she tried to deliver her letter. But there was one problem.

Where the foal is Alicorona?

No one had told her where it was, and she was foalin’ lost.

Clop, clop

She heard the sudden clop of hooves. She gasped in delight.

Oh, thank goodness! Hopefully, they know the way.

"Hey, are you lost?" a feminine voice said.

Luna was bored. Her sister, Celestia, had agreed to play tag with her but was sure taking her sweet sweet time to come outside.

She heard a familiar clop nearby and turned around to see her sister.

"Celestia!" Luna cried and hugged her. She let go. "You ready to play tag?"

Celestia smiled. "Alright, who's it?"

"You are!" Luna tagged Celestia and cantered away, giggling.

Celestia looked down, sighed, and looked up. Why does she have so much energy? It's so annoying. Reading would be so much more fun. She sighed again and started slowly walking in Luna's direction.

As she was walking, she heard her sister's hooves and saw Luna trotting over to her.

"Why aren't you chasing me?" Luna asked her, a tilt to her head.

"I am," Celestia told her.

"You're just walking."

"Yeah."

"But it's tag."

Celestia was about to respond to that when she heard an unfamiliar set of hooves nearby. The two of them turned to see a pegasus, looking very confused.

"Hey," Celestia asked her. "Are you lost?"

"Oh yes," the mailmare said, staring blankly. "Do you know the way to Alicorona?"

"Uh, no, I don't, sorry," said Celestia.

"Oh," the mailmare sighed, clearly disappointed. "Well, Star Swirl wanted me to send a letter to someone in Alicorona."

Celestia smiled at that.

“What for?” Luna asked the mailmare.

“Apparently he’s looking for a couple of powerful alicorns to do the rulering for him,” Celestia’s smile grew wider. “He’s the king of Equestria, you see. I hear he has an awesome beard.”

Luna raised an eyebrow, or the horse equivalent to that. “Have you not actually met him?”

“Nah, I have. He’s a chill stallion. I just can't hardly see a thing. That’s why I’m having a hard time finding the foaling place,” the mailmare said. Luna gasped at such strong language as the mailmare plopped down on the ground and folded her front legs in front of her.

“Would you like some help?” Luna asked her. “We haven’t been there in a while, but we know the way!”

“Yes,” Celestia smirked. “We can take it there for you if you’d like.”

Luna look at her, confused. Wouldn’t that be illegal?

“Oh, would you?” the mailmare said, getting up and jumping up and down. “That would be great!”

“Here” she continued, reaching into the saddlebag on her right with her mouth, selecting an envelope, and giving it to Celestia, who took it with her magic. “Take it directly to the Alicorona capital by 9:00 tonight. Thank you so much!”

With that, she gave her wings one strong flap to fling herself off the ground, gave them a quick salute, and flew back to wherever she came from. Probably to Equestria.

Luna’s mouth was gaping, she punched her sister on the shoulder with her hoof. “What in Everfree was that!? Isn’t it international law that only mailmares can deliver mail?”

Celestia rolled her eyes. “Who cares about that? We live in the forest, no one has come to visit us since our parents died, and no one will be able to argue against us when we’re the rulers of Equestria!”

Luna closed her mouth and cocked her head to the side. “What? But she said that Star Swirl is looking for someone in Alicorona. We haven’t lived there in years.”

“Yes,” Celestia said slowly, bowing her head to her sister’s shorter level. “And that’s exactly what we’ll say that we are. Besides, we’re alicorns and used to live in Alicorona. No one will be the wiser.”

“So we’re just... gonna LIE!?"

"Well sure!" Celestia said. "You don't just wanna live here the rest of our lives, do you?" She gestured back at their castle behind them. It was old, dilapidated, and generally overgrown. Luna shuddered.

"I mean, that'll be a pretty long time." Celestia continued. “Don’t you want to explore more of the world? Finally get our cutie marks? Who knows, maybe ruling will be our talent!”

"Well…" Luna looked down at her hooves for a moment, mulling it over. I mean, if she’s sure we won’t get in trouble. What’s the harm, really? Maybe we’ll already be settled in by the time anyone notices. "Fine," she said, looking back up at her sister. "So what's the letter say?"