"Only the Unicorns"

Chapter 5: "Only the Unicorns"

Unicornia Bastion, The First Kingdom of Equestria

Fifth Month (Spring/Summer solstice approaching)

Approximately 8,000 B.N.M.C.

Even though he didn't want to, King Terra went over to the bed to wake up Queen .Aeterna

"She needs the rest though, for obvious reasons." Terra thought as he looked down at Aeterna's dark blue belly. "The sacrifices we make for negotiations and diplomacy..."

He gently nuzzled her curly blue-ish white hair until she woke up, with eyes going from blinking to wide open.

They kissed a long hard kiss, the kind shared in secret between a husband and a wife.

"And what did you dream?" Terra asked in a hushed voice, continuing a royal Equestrian tradition.

Queen Aeterna answered truly: "I dreamed I was under a waterfall on a uninhabited continent drinking warm water from the fall." They kissed again, more deeply to each other this time.

"Emmm..."  Aeterna groaned, looking down.

"I know. We will take negotiations slow for you, since that's what you would want. I'll even dispatch one of our soldiers to give you some blankets for yourself, maybe you can lie down..."

After King Terra was done his talking, Queen Aeterna slowly rose and got on all four of her hooves. She was a bit wobbly though: she was bottom heavy.

Soon after Terra commanded a royal guard to fetch his wife a couple blankets and pillow, Terra and Aeterna arrived in the inner regal halls of the Unicornia Castle.

Now, it is perfectly understood that ever since they agreed to join, the entirety of the Unicorn tribe has been under the Rule of the Kingdom of Equestria. Despite this, the Unicorn tribe was the only tribe to keep the establishment of a monarchy (and a king) despite being under the head of a united government. So whatever the reason for the tribe still having a king, he acted as chancellor to the capitol in Gallopia. And he started to come out of the throne room and into the secondary waiting hall, where Terra and Aeterna still waited.

He...was a normal sized stallion with darker grey fur and a strange assortment of hair growth: a beehive hairstyle and fur side growths, as well as fur growth around his all red horn. Now, if he was an ordinary stallion, anypony would have asked how on Equi his wife would let him keep himself so unkempt, but when the Queen was alive (and there was controversy regarding her death) she was totally okay with his dress, style, and...mannerisms. And lastly he was the father of Princess Platinum. He was a King, he was a father, he was a Husband, he was King Sombra, King of the Unicorn Sub-species.

Once he was about 10 feet from both of them, he stopped and stared at Queen Aeterna.

"I see that your wife is rather sick, so I'll make this quick for both of us then..." He then took shook his mane in haughtiness "So, let's chat."

"First," King Terra started. "what is this talk of succession and of moving the Unicorn tribe, no, the unicorn race to another barely explored continent? Don't act like I was born yesterday: I am an alicorn by birth and was alive during the day that the act was signed by the three tribes to form Equestria, we agreed to become one nation. This is an act of treason."

"And yet..." Sombra walked a bit away and turned his back away in pride. "I don't remember the act referring to any illegality regarding independence from this land...in fact, why would you care if we left anyway? Really, the three tribes barely live together, with the exceptions of the towns and middlesexes near Gallopia castle-town-"

"No, you stop. The reason why Unicorns and say, earth ponies work together in the nearby villages of Gallopia is because Unicorns and Unicornia hold the most abundant sources of crystal and other rare minerals." King Terra explained.

"Crystal..." Sombra Growled. "Maybe they can find some for themselves, or go to the wonderful Crystal Kingdom to go get some instead of going to have to see me..."

"Which brings me to an offer of sorts, I heard you and your daughter love gems..." At that moment a Castle guard came in with a Red special looking crystal on a purple pillow.

"A BRIBE!? The King of of Equestria presents to me a bribe? And it is not even a special crystal!" Sombra yelled.

"It is a token." With that, Terra hit the Crystal with a magical burst, revealing letters co the Unicorns' unity to Equestria. "It is to commemorate the Unicorns' place in Equestria, and it is made from the same magic that formed the Crystal Heart."

"It is magic? Then it- Then you- Then it would- Then it shall-" Sombra began to lustily come near to it, but the wise guard jerked it away.

"The way you earn it is by staying loyal to Equestria."

"When you put it that way, the colonies we will create on the new continent will outmatch any wealth offered today. You do not have my corporation."

"Then there is nothing that I can do. You are correct when you say that the old laws speak nothing of succession, there is nothing we can do."

Terra looked down at Aeterna. He signaled the Royal gurads that escorted them to assist Queen Artemis and they all slowly left.

"Only the Unicorns." Solaris breathed as he walked out of the hall.

In a dark forge room of Unicornia bastion, Sombra looked over the magical Red Crystal that was now his. The eerie glow of the forge-fires gave Sombra's face an even more wicked look.

"How can you be so stupid?" King Sombra whispered. "They know I am a Unicorn, how did they not suspect I replaced the real stone with a fake one magically?"

He set the Crystal down on the anvil and pumped air into the fire place and picked up a hammer with his Unicorn magic.

"I will have my power, absolutely." He struck down the hammer, sparks flying. "The Power of an Alicorn."

He stayed his Hammer for a moment. "Ah! I almost forgot the most important part of this forging!"

King Sombra went over to a harshly beaten cabinet and got out with his magic a jar of glowing green...something.

"There is so precious little left." He said as he sprinkled the jar dry onto the Red Crystal and started forging the Crystal again.

And, although Sombra wasn't aware of it, his eyes were starting to turn Green, and his horn was starting to bend and lose it's red hue.