The Alicorn: My Past In Ponyville

Here I am, queen of all of Equestria, ruling over two lands with the one I love, and yet, I am not happy. Why am I not happy? In everything we achieve, there is an amount we have to lose. My price in losses was much higher than my winnings. It seems that some ponies are just destined to lose everything that means something to them. I am one of them. Whenever I had something or somepony who I loved or who loved me, they were brutally ripped away.

It’s not that I am a jaded mare. I… I just…I’ve never have had a happy life. It was happy at some points, but very soon, I was punished in some way or another. My story has become a legend among all in Equestria and the Valley of the Changelings alike. Anyone who meets me asks the same thing; “Is it true? Did that really happen?” of course I would love to tell them that it is all myth, but that would be a lie. My life is something I have to live with.

I would also love to say that none of it was my fault, but that would be a lie as well. Many things were not of my doing, but more were because of my choices, and so I can’t claim that either. Many know the story of my beginnings in Canterlot, but not many of my time in Ponyville, with the Changelings, or during the war.

If you wish, I shall tell of the time from my arrival in Ponyville, to the time I was banished. You can decide after that if you wish to hear of the time after.

Each word of this story is true. Though I wish it hadn’t been this way, it is. I didn’t choose my fate, it chose me.

I was alone in the world, in a flying carriage driven by a Pegasus who had issues with Alicorns (so why was he even working for us). We were passing over the statue gardens and I looked down. I spotted Discord and Chaos, his son made after the reformation to keep him from losing his mind from boredom,

sitting freely on a bench. After the reformation, they were both allowed to roam free. I know I would miss Chaos, he was the only sweet thing in my life at the time, and, I had a soft spot for him. I quickly made the decision to jump out of the chariot and land in the garden. Somehow I thought that my wings would open and just parachute me down or I would suddenly know how to fly, I was wrong. Once I jumped, I realized that it was much farther to the ground then I thought. My wings locked to my body and I started to fall at an alarming speed. I kicked my hooves in every which way and closed my eyes, bracing for impact. It never came.

I was caught by Discord who put me down next to Chaos. He then flew away to do whatever he did now that he was reformed, leaving Chaos and I to be. He looked rather sad when he saw me and asked, “Are you really leaving?”

I was tearing as I nodded and sorrowfully replied, “Yes, I’m sorry,”

He hugged me tightly and started crying hard as he choked out, “Please don’t leave me!”

I hugged him back, and was crying as well. The carriage guard had landed near and was eyeing me annoyingly. “Time to go your highness!” he said with faked reverence.

Chaos could see through this façade and viciously shouted “Leave her alone!”

The guard was shocked by this outburst and made no further comments. I took his paw in my hoof and looked in his teary eyes as I said, “Chaos, I have to go.”

He looked down and then said, “Wait; there is something I want to give you!” He left and returned quickly holding in his hands a little gold locket which he gave to me saying, “Here, to remember me by.” He locked it around my little neck and then he said, “It contains a large amount of love.”

The guard ushered me on to the chariot as I kept looking back at Chaos. Discord had returned and was now holding his son back as to keep him from going after me. The door of the coach shut as the Pegasus lifted it off into the air. Discord was in a visible struggle to hold Chaos back.

Chaos shouted up to where I was, “Skyla!”

I looked down and yelled back, “Don’t worry; I’ll come back as soon as I can! I won’t be gone forever!”

The clouds blocked my view of him and I looked down at the locket he had given me. It was beautiful and very fitting of a princess. I would miss him very much, that, I knew already.

Through the duration of the chariot ride, he was my only thought. He would be the thought that would keep me warm through a lonely night. And I guarantee, there would be many.