The Story of Terra

Tiny patterns, the shape of diamonds engraved into the ground under my hooves, and the earth began to crumble. Focus. One large piece of rock and six other smaller rocks began to levitate from the ground. I hopped onto the big one. Let's see if this works I concentrated hard, and opened my eyes. I was a good fifty feet above the forest floor, standing stable on top of the big rock. The other six were circling around me. With surprisingly little force, I threw them, one by one. All six landed exactly on target while leaving a three foot crater in the ground. Why was that so easy? I wondered. What was going on? Once I managed to get myself down, I tried other things. I bet I can't do any of this, it's too hard. I thought. But it wasn't. I created earthquakes (small of course), Raised small cliffs and hills out the ground and pushed them back into the earth. I grew trees and plants in record time. I even created a few vines and tied up a tree nearby. The good thing was, after all of this, I was exhausted. I even had to sit down for a few minutes. Just then, my friend Money Bags dashed up to me.

"Terra-what happened here?" he asked, surveying the damage.

"Nothing. What's going on?"

"Golden's concert is starting in twenty minutes and other ponies have been begging for your seat in the VIP section. Emerald sent me to get you, but everypony else is already waiting."

"Oh gosh, is it six already? We'd better go, or Golden will kill me!"

I started walking to the playhouse with Money Bags. He was actually pretty cute, with a pale grey coat and a dark mane, cut short. It was the newest style for the higher class ponies.

"Why were you out in the woods?" he said, sounding generally intrigued.

"Practice, I guess. You never know when plants could come in handy." I replied, though I was stressed beyond compare.

I had sprinted out to the woods in a panic. Emerald informed me that the Earth Army would return very soon, as this was the 500th year of it's imprisonment. My guess was that the army would try to invade while the princesses were busy, which they were. What scared me the most about that legend was that some all-powerful unicorn  was going to stand up and defeat the entire army. All alone. Why did I have to do this? There was no doubt in my mind now that that unicorn was me. And that only made me feel worse. Sure, I was pretty powerful. I could do things with rocks and plants nopony else could do. I had a strange cutie mark of the Earth itself. This was my destiny. And there was nothing I dreaded more. I had never felt so afraid. But I dragged myself to Golden's concert anyway, which turned out to be a huge mistake.