//-------------------------------------------------------// Becoming A Princess -by Dawning Harmony- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// Harmony //-------------------------------------------------------// Harmony The Kingdom of Peace was once a beautiful and friendly kingdom. Every pony was welcoming and peaceful with all creatures, even dragons. It was known for its valiant solders, art, and the Alicorn fountain, said to have blessed worthy ponys with wings and horns. That was many centuries ago, now the peace has turned to war and hate, ponys do not trust each other anymore, living in fear, oppressed by the solders and whoever clams to rule the kingdom. Dragons burn what little crops and food that can be produced, take the valuable jewels for themselves. Warring rulers send out their solders to take over more land and attack each other.  Destroying the kingdom and it’s once great and fertile land. One clever pony was fortunate enough to escape from that, and get Princess Celestia to help her return the land to its former glory. ~~Canterlot, Hospital ~~ “Ugh~.” Came from a lump under the white hospital sheets on top a bed that was in the Canterlot Hospital, the sun risen not too long ago and the light from the bright star was shining on it. Somepony’s head carefully popped out from under the covers near the foot of the stark white Hospital bed. Dark eyes shift groggy around the room, trying to get any bearing of something filmier, but only saw the pristine white of the hospital room. “W-where am I?” came a whispered and confused question form the pony, a white coated unicorn mare, her mane the color of the darkness black with seemly shimmering strands of gold within its chaotic mess that seemed to not want to be tamed. “You are in the Canterlot Hospital my little pony.” Came a soft and soothing voice or it would have been to another pony, but not this one as the unison snapped it’s head to the speaker in a panic. Seeing the tall and regal form of the Goddess of the Sun and ruler of Equestria, Princess Celestia. The young unicorn tensed at seeing the princess, trying to show the pain that came with tensing up. The princess gave a small frown for a quick second before speaking. “Do not be afraid of me. I am the ruler of Equestra, Princess Celestia . You are safe here, no pony will hurt you.” The princess tried to assure the younger mare who kept her eyes on the princess as if she was about to lash out and harm her. Flinching as Celestia raised a hoof to her chin in thought before the sound of doors opening drew her attention. “Sister, is our guess awake yet?” Asked princess Celestia’s younger sister, the goddess of the moon, Princess Luna.“Yes, she has but it seems she is not very trusting of any pony.” Celestia tells her, stepping aside so her sister may see the young unicorn whose eyes widen and seemed to sparkle with amazement at seeing the dark as night princess. “W-who are... you?” the young unicorn asked, still tense as she looked between the two princesses, looking very scared. Luna approaches her slowly and carefully. “I am Princess Luna. Who are you young one?” she asks the white mare who shifted nervously before muttering something the princesses did not hear. “I’m sorry, may you repeat that only a little louder for us to hear?” Luna asked her as the white mare gulped and opened her mouth once more. “Sixty-Nine.” Came from the unicorn’s mouth, confusing both royal alicorns. “That is a number, what is your name?” Luna asked gently and softly much like a certain yellow Pegasus. The white mare shook her head. “Sixty-Nine, that is... what I am called, Princess.” She told her, confusing the two alicorns. “You are referred to as a number?” Celestia asked coming forward only to have the unicorn edge back, nearly off the bed to get away from her. “Sister, we must give her a proper name.” Luna said sternly but softly so as not to scare the frighten mare anymore then she was already. Celestia nodded in agreement. “Yes. No pony should live without a name of their own.” They both look at the white unicorn carefully. The sheets had fallen off the mare so they could see the devastating shape she was in. they could easily see all her bones threw her paper thin skin, her coat still retaining dirt and bugs, along with her unruly mane and tail that looked to have never met a brush. “After she is properly clean up and feed.” Celestia added as her sister nodded in agreement. ~~~~ “YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Came an ear piercing screech threw out Canterlot as the dirty and tangled mane unicorn mare ran through the streets in a panic, Celestia’s unicorn guards having some trouble keeping up with the malnourished mare as the Pegasi guard had trouble keeping track of her from the sky. The princesses had taken the mare to a salon to be cleaned and proper grooming. While the cleaning was a bit of a struggle, the mare had let the Salon ponies clean her coat, getting rid of the bugs and dirt in four baths to make her coat as white as snow and as soft as a new born bunny. However when it came time to cut the mare’s mane, the now snow white unicorn saw the pony with a pair of rather menacing scissors and ran for her life. “Where’d she go!?” a unicorn guard asked his brother in arms as they looked around for the panicked mare, but saw no sign of her. For being malnourished, the mare knew how to run, jump, and avoid the guards. “Don’t know. Hey you!” The other guard called out to a rather large green unicorn, dressed in elaborate clothing. “Have you seen a white Unicorn mare with a blank flank around here?” the guard asked, having been told what the pony they were searching for looked like, the absence of a cutie mark on the flank standing out the most in the mare’s age group. The large green unicorn stuck its nose in the air. “Yes, that filthy little thing stepped on my new dress. She went that’s way.” The green unicorn told them, pointing in the direction behind her, scowling. “I hope you put that thing in the dungeon to rot for her crime!” she yelled but the guards paid her no head as the galloped in the direction she pointed out to them. The green unicorn scoffed and went on her way to change out of the ‘ruined’ gown, unaware of the blank flank unicorn mare that had hidden under her overly large dress. A soon as the guards and the Green unicorn where out of site she quickly and quietly as possible, escaped Canterlot. ~~~~ “There you go little friends.” A yellow Pegasus mare with a pink mane and tail say softly to some furry little squirrels, pushing a bowl of acorns with her muzzle towards them. They chattered their happy reply before starting on the nuts. The mare smiled softly as she breathed in slowly and exhaled happily. “My what a beautiful day. Rainbow Dash did such a good job with the clouds.” She said to herself as she grabbed a watering can with her mouth and went to water some flowers that were around her house. Just as the watering can was half empty a sudden loud noise startled the yellow Pegasus. “W-wh-what was that?” she stuttered as she had dropped the watering can in her fright. Looking into the forest that was next to her cottage she heard an ominous rustling in the brush. “W-wh-who’s there?” she asked nervously, not moving as she waited for whatever it was to respond. There was more rustling that scared the yellow Pegasus as she taught about the scary things it could be and screamed when it seemed part of the brush came at her. She quickly flew into her cottage to escape the moving brush. The brush parted, looking vaguely pony shaped. It seemed to look around before what seemed to be its head shook and green vines slipped away, revealing the white unicorn, Sixty-Nine, under green vines, branches and mud. The unicorn then started to pull up and eat some of the flowers that the yellow Pegasus had been watering. Gathering a little courage the yellow Pegasus braved a peek out the window, seeing only the unicorn’s vine and mud covered tangled tail. Sixty-Nine felt someone watching and her head quickly went up and looked around in panic before spotting the yellow Pegasus peeking out the window before she disappeared out of site. Sixty-Nine took off, fear of being chased again on her mind as she ran away into unfamiliar land, quickly getting rid of the vines that were constricting her movements. So by the time the yellow Pegasus popped her head out, she was gone. ~~~~ At Sweet Apple Acers it was business as usual, Applejack was in town selling the apple family apples, Apple Bloom was with her friends, Granny Smith was snoozing away on her rocking chair, and Big MacIntosh was out in the apple orchard bucking some apple that were ready for bucking. The large red stallion noticed something amiss in the orchard; he saw an apple core on the ground. Narrowing his eyes he looked at it closer, noticing the teeth marks on it made by somepony. Something small then hit Big Mac’s head, a bit surprised, the orange mane stallion looked up in the apple tree, and saw nothing but red ripe apples and green leaves up in the tree’s branches. Looking at what hit him, he noticed it was another apple from the tree, eaten almost completely. It told the stallion that the culprit was up in the trees, hidden for his site. Big Mac then turned his back to the tree before leaning on his front hooves and giving the tree a hard kick. Nothing but ripe apples fell around him for a few seconds when he heard a mare yell in distress. The red stallion perked up, looking up as, Sixty-Nine fell on top of him. The stallion hardly felt her weight on his back, she was either really light or he was really strong. While both were true Big Mac looked at the mare, first noticing she was a unicorn, then how dirty she was. Just as he was about to ask who she was Sixty-Nine opened her coal black eyes to meet Big Mac’s apple green eyes, they just looked at each other before Sixty-Nine’s eyes widen in fear, confusing the farm pony. Sixty-Nine quickly slipped off the colt’s back and started to run in a direction blindly, but the red stallion noticed she was heading for the Apple Family’s home and followed her. ~~~~ “Where is it? Where is it?” A purple Alicorn asked as she looked around her library home for a book, levitating several books into the air to find it. “What are you looking for Twilight?” A light purple baby dragon asked the Alicorn, having just been watching the books fly past him along with an Owl that was on a perch next to him. “A book about being a Alicorn, Spike. I need to study up now that I am one.” Twilight told him, frowning as she found nothing about being a Alicorn. “Umm? Twilight?” Spike tried to get her attention before his cheeks puffed out and he burped green fire, with metalized a rolled up scroll, sealing with Princess Celestia’s crest. “A letter from Princess Celestia?” Twilight asked, dropping the books and levitating the scroll over for her to read. Unfurling it, Twilight quickly read what her teacher had written. “What’s it say?” Spike asked as he tried to get a look at the letter. “It’s says: To my fateful student, Twilight Sparkle. I have a great task for you to complete. It begins with a white Unicorn mare that does not have her cutie mark yet. Once called Sixty-Nine, my sister and I have christened her, Harmony.”