MLP: Prelude
#1 of MLP: Prelude
A flash of light and a boom of thunder were all that signaled the coming storm. Deep in the western forest a pony covered in a brown cloak trotted briskly through the slight overgrowth. In the equines mouth the pony carried a basket. Inside, covered up in a white blanket lay a small dark blue alicorn foal. The baby's mane shone softly from the glint of the moon. The foal rested soundly, never knowing the goal of the one whom carried him. The pony started to pick up her pace as the impending rain started to slowly fall from the sky.
Elsewhere a dark blue stallion stood upon a stone work balcony. He looked up into the clouded night sky as the rain began to dance around him. A solid white mare stood in the doorway of the balcony and the bedroom they both shared. "Evening, please come back inside before you catch a cold."
"There is somepony out there Solaris. Somepony from our past." He then turned and walked back inside before closing the doors behind him with his magic.
"Evening who else could be out there? Anarchy is sealed away thanks to Azure's sacrifice. Gaia disappeared and we have not seen her since. She was probably so grief stricken over her loss that she could not come to terms with it. We offered her a place here with us but... well."
The stallion sighed softly as he walked over to the large fireplace before looking into the flames. "They were our friends Solaris. I can not feel that we may have betrayed them."
The regal alicorn mare walked over to her stallion and nuzzled into him. "It was Azure's choice. Gaia knows this, I am sure she would say the same if she were here." It was then that a light knock came to the door of their bedroom.
"Enter."
The door slowly pushed open to show a young alicorn filly. She was white like her mother but her mane and tail were in four different colors. Her magenta eyes peered into the room as her head poked passed the door. "Mother? Father is it ok if I can talk to you?"
"Of course sunshine please come in, your father and I were just talking about some things. What is it you want to talk with us about?"
"Well...
The rain was coming down heavier now and the pony was frantic to find the little foal some kind of shelter. Sure enough she had come upon a small village. She looked about from home to home searching for the right place her the baby till one caught her eye. The windows were still lit so some pony was still awake. Quickly she place the bundle down at their door and wrapped the baby tighter before she looked up and saw a castle in the distance. "They will watch out you, help to guide you." The tiny foal then started to squirm and softly cry.
"Oh no no shhh its ok. I'm here my little star, momma's here." She brought her snout into the bundle to which the foal gently clung to and giggled softly. The pony in question smiled and closed her eyes as tears ran down her face and mixed with the rain upon the ground. "I will always be watching over you my little foal, even if you can't see me."
"Grow up big and strong my little Lunar. I love you always." With that she kissed the foal's head and rapped on the door before taking off into the darkness. She turned back only once to the the little dark blue hooves reaching out to her. In that moment all she wanted do was run back and scoop the foal into her hooves and never let him go. But she knew that if events in the future were to be prevented, that she had to do this. It was with a heavy heart that she ran as the door to the house opened.
"Is somepony there?" The stallion looked about before glancing down and noticing the small foal. "Moon's light who could have left such a newborn out in this weather." The stallion took the handle within his mouth and walked inside closing the door behind himself.
"Night, who was it?" A unicorn mare stepped around the corner and into the hall noticing a basket in her husband's mouth. The pegasus stallion walked over to the coffee table that was in the middle of their living room and placed the basket upon it and peered into it.
"Somepony just left this little foal at our doorstep. There seems to be no note just a name, Lunar Star."
"Well come on, we have to get the poor thing out of these wet blankets." No sooner then did she start to remove then then she nearly jumped back in shock.
"Andromeda what's the matter?" The stallion looked into the basket and his jaw hit the floor. "Well I'll be, its an alicorn foal."
The small wings upon the foal's side folded and flexed open as the baby Lunar tried to get up. Andromeda then walked back to the basket, the initial shock over. She gently took the little foal into her hooves and looked the little foal over. "He dose not seem to be too bad." Just then the little Lunar sneezed.
"Poor thing must have caught a cold in that rain. Come on, lets get him warmed up and some food in his belly."
"Well that is quite the thought Tia."
The little filly smiled broadly. "My teachers thought so too, they said that it was a different way of looking at the way the world around us works."
Celestia's mother and father looked at each other as the small family sat around the fire. "But I have to ask though if I can, I over heard you two talking about about someponies you knew."
Again the two alicorns looked at each other before looking to their daughter. It was Solaris that started to talk. "Well sweetheart your father and I are not the only ones of our kind, long ago there were a great many of us."
"Your mother is correct. Our kind lived on an island known as Eden. It was a beautiful place that held great magic from the world itself. We lived peaceful lives then and thanks to the magic that was granted to us, we did not worry about the passage of time. But like so many things there was one that thought such power should be hers alone. Her name was Anarchy Shade."
Celestia sat before her parents and listened closely to the story that both her parents were telling her. It was tale that was long kept secret but they thought that their daughter ready to understand of their origins.
"Anarchy wielded dark powers far too great for one pony to bare and as such she lost her mind. She destroyed everything in her path, whole lineages were lost till only a hoof-full of us remained. It was in that one moment that your mother and I along with our two friend's Azure Sky and Gaia fought back and sealed Anarchy away for all time but at a terrible cost. Azure Sky gave his life to the seal placed upon Anarchy and his mare Gaia disappeared a short while after. It was then that your mother and I, along with Gaia, left our home to find new lands and we had."
"So how many alicorns are left?"
Evening Star thought for a moment tapping his hoof on his chin, before answering. "Well we used to number in the thousands, after we left Eden... there were only me, your mother and Gaia so three."
The little filly could not believe what she had heard. Their kind, that is to say that alicorns were not native to the place that they now called home. "Do not think too much on it sunshine. It happened a very long time ago. All that matters now are the well being of the ponies that look up to us to guide them."
Andromeda and her husband Night Hawk sat in their living room, a roaring fire going in their hearth. Night Hawk was reading a book from their collection while Andromeda rocked back and forth in the chair she sat, holding the baby Lunar and bottle of warm milk. The little foal lightly suckling upon it as the unicorn mare smiled. "Night, do you think he might be the king and queen's?"
The pegasus looking up from his book. "I don't think so. If he was, I am sure that they would have sent the guards looking for him." Night Hawk set his book down before getting up and walking over to his wife and their new guest. "I suspect that they have no knowledge of whom he is." He lightly brushed away the foal's mane to look into his face.
"Night I say we should keep him. I mean we have always wanted a foal of our own. Besides that... he needs a home and ponies whom love him."
The stallion nodded. "I can understand that." The mare then pulls the bottle from the foal. He tried fruitlessly to get it back and when he couldn't, he started to sniffle and softly cry.
"Shhh it's alright little one. Hush now quiet now it's time to rest your sleepy head. Hush now quiet now it's time to go to bed." The mare's voice was soft in tone as she sang to the crying foal. "Drifting off to sleep, leave the exciting day behind you. Drifting off to sleep, let the joys of dream land find you." Lunar's cries soon calm into soft sniffles and then from there he yawned, feeling the tiredness of the day slowly get to his tiny form. "Hush now quite it now it's time to rest your sleepy head. Hush now quiet now it's time to go to bed."
Night Hawk chuckled softly as the foal yawned again and slowly closed his eyes before gently falling asleep. "You see, I told you you had a voice that could sooth any beast." Andromeda smiled to her husbands before slowly standing and holding the little foal in her hoof. She slowly walked over to the now dry basket that Lunar was found in and laid him gently in it. Softly she wrapped him up in a new blanket and gently kissed his head.
"Sweet dreams little Lunar."
Celestia lay on the large round mattress that was her bed. Her having already come to tuck her in. The light of the moon shining through her glass doors that lead out to a small balcony. Her head lay upon a cylindrical pillow but the princess was doing anything but sleeping. She look into the fire of her hearth and gazed at the flames as they danced their dance. Her thoughts still on what her parents had told her just hours ago.
"Is all that they said true? Are we all that remain of a once powerful race?"
The more she wracked her brain around the idea the more her restlessness grew. She tossed and turned trying her best to get to sleep yet try as she might, sleep was just shy of her. Finally giving up her thoughts she took a deep breath then let it out. Closing her eyes it took her another hour or so before her body decided it had had enough and gave in, allowing her to sleep.