Rise of Friendship

Over the next several years, the couple raided the foals as their own, managing to care for them while hiding them from others and still running their farm. The two girls have hit the age where they wonder about the world around, and they have asked a lot of questions.

"What is that?" Celestia asks, pointing a wingtip at one of the worker's flank.

"That, dear, is a cutie mark," answers her mother.

"What's a cutie mark?" asks Luna as she spins to face her mom, looking up with wide, cute eyes.

"It's a mark that appears when you find out what you're special talent is."

"Oh. When will we get ours?"

"When you are older, you will learn what makes you special. Then you will have your cutie marks."

They nodded and ran back to their rooms to play games. A few days later, after talking to themselves all day, they asked their parents at dinner, "Why do we have wings?"

"Because you are pegasi," they answer with practised ease. They glance at each other, having meant to be the only one to answer.

"But you two don't have wings."

"We are Earth ponies; we are good with plants, not the sky."

"Then how did we get wings if not from you?"

"On of our ancestors must have been pegasi whitout us knowing."

They nod and eat the rest of their dinner in silent pondering. Its not until much later that they do anything noteworthy again.