The Six New Alicorns
A/N: So yeah. This is my extension of the Twilight/Shining Armor trilogy which can be found on my page, but you don't really have to read them first, even though I would appreciate it immensely if you did. Also, I'm editing stories for two beyond awesome dudes, Muffinz and YellowFoxMuffinz. Their stories are "Sisters at Heart" and
"Tale of Four Fox Tails" They are very well written stories, and I suggest reading them. Now, on to the story!
A light blue unicorn with a mauve-colored mane sat up in her bed and rubbed her emerald eyes from their sleep. She stretched for a moment and then looked around her bedroom. She had lived in the castle in Canterlot for her entire life. The unicorn lived in the palace with her mother, aunt, uncle, cousins, and the princesses of the sun and moon. Her father had died before she had been born. The blue unicorn, known as Lilac Sky, was the daughter of the late head Manehatten librarian, Orion Skystar; and the Ponyville librarian and Element of Magic, Twilight Sparkle.
Lilac Sky looked around her bedroom, which she'd had since she was born, and locked her eyes on the same picture that she always gazed upon first thing in the morning. It was a picture of her parents together, taken on the day that they discovered that they were having her. It was technically the only picture with all three of them in it. Lilac smiled and then looked upon her alarm clock, sitting right beside her bed. Her eyes widened. "Oh shit." The clock read 10:45 am: Almost forty-five minutes after she was supposed to be up. She tried to get out of bed, but her back was hurting immensely. She cried out in pain as she got out of her bed.
She trudged over to her vanity and levitated her brush up to groom her mane. She smiled, as she could see her own emerald eyes staring back at her now. One of her cousins, Princess Twitterheart, knocked on the door and opened it slowly. "Happy eighteenth, Lilac!" She practically sang out in joy. Her eyes opened and drifted towards her younger cousin. Her eyes widened, and she backed away slowly. She ran out the door, down the hall and into the throne room.
Lilac was confused. "What the buck was that about?"
"Language young filly!" Lilac's mother walked into the room. Her expression softened from stern to joyful in an instant, though. "Happy eighteenth birthday." Twilight Sparkle walked over to her daughter and gave her a hug. She broke the embrace, and then went wide-eyed. "Um, darling?"
"What's up mom?"
"Please don't panic, but..."
"What's going on mom?"
"Look in the mirror," was all her mother could say. Lilac Sky turned toward the mirror again and this time, she took a close look. On her back, rested two pale blue wings. She took a deep breath.
"This can't be happening! I'm an alicorn mom! Woo-hoo!" She opened her new wings and took to the sky like a natural. She soared around the room so easily, that Rainbow Dash would have had her jaw opened in shock.
Twilight scratched her head, confused. "But this makes no sense! How is this possible? Lilac, get down from there!"
The new alicorn landed gracefully on her bed, as though she had done it a million times before. "Sorry mom, I'm just so excited!"
"I realize that sweetie, but come on, we're going to go see Celestia and Luna to see what they make of this." Lilac Sky nodded and followed her mother down the hall on the way to the throne room, but ran in to the aforementioned princesses on the way there.
Celestia began speaking. "Twitterheart has informed us of the recent turn of events. Come along with us." The white alicorn and her sister led the mother and daughter down the hallway, and into a sealed room. "There is no need for alarm, however, there is something that I believe the both of you need to hear."
Both of the solar sisters inserted their horns in to holes in the door, which Luna then opened. As soon as mother and daughter were comfortable, Luna began speaking.
"There is a legend, that six young mares, two unicorns, two pegasi, and two earth ponies, will wake up on their eighteenth birthdays, as Alicorns. A grave evil will then be awakened, and the six young mares will be the only things that can stop it."
"What about the elements of harmony?"
"C'mon Twilight, you guys are getting too old to fight bad guys, dump all of the responsibility on your kids!"
"Gee, thanks Aunt Tia. Well anyway," Lilac began, "How evil exactly are we talking here?"
"Remember the whole Discord thing?" Celestia asked, and Lilac nodded. "About ten times worse, times twelve, plus one."
"Damn."
"Twilight, your friends, how old are their eldest daughters?"
"Well, Rainbow Dash's, Cloud Storm, is seventeen, as is Fluttershy's, Apple Tart. Pinkie Pie's, Fudge Sundae, is fifteen. AppleJack's, AppleSeed, is fourteen, and Rarity's, Ruby Gleam, will be sixteen in two weeks."
"So there are four years to prepare. Not a bad amount of time."
"Wait, if all of my friends and I are going to become Alicorns, does that mean that we will become immortal?"
"I hope not," Luna said, "It's a terrible thing. You watch your friends and family die. You can not become attached to someone, for they will pass as well. You can't take the risk of falling in love."
"That's not true, Aunt Cadence is an alicorn,"
"Yes, but she is half-unicorn, like Twitterheart. They are mortals, their life span will just be longer than average."
"Oh."
"Anyway, Luna, have about ten rooms prepared, five extra families will be staying here for a while. Twilight, start sending letters."
"Hold on Celestia. Ruby Gleam is a kirin, not a true pony, are we sure that it will work the same way?"
"I believe so, after all, she takes after her mother more than her father."