//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: The Six New Alicorns // by twilightsparkleisbestpony //------------------------------//       Chapter 1 A/N: Wow, I was not expecting such positive feedback on the first day alone. Glad that everypony likes it so far. Anyway, Chapter One, this is it.        A light blue Pegasus with a crimson mane rubbed her eyes. She threw a pillow at her younger brother, a cyan pegasus with a green and orange mane named Flamesoar, who had come in to wake her up. The budding mare rolled out of bed and into the kitchen. Her father, Soarin, was inside making coffee. She grabbed a mug on her way into the foyer. This young mare, who went by the name of Cloudstorm, shuffled through the morning mail, until she found something interesting. She grabbed the pile and brought it into the kitchen, where her mother, a cyan mare with a rainbow mane and tail, was entering with a six month old colt on her back.     "Hey mom, we got a letter from aunt Twilight."    "Can I read it?"    "Go away Flamesoar, it's for me and mom!"    "Well maybe I want to read it too!"    "Well maybe you ca-"    "CHILDREN! Will you please stop bickering?! Soarin, can you please take the baby?"     "Sure. Flamesoar, sit down," The light blue stallion said, taking the young colt from his wife, "Dash, Storm, just take the letter back upstairs, and come down when you're done."    A peach colored Pegasus stretched her wings as she awoke. She walked over to her mirror to brush her pink and orange striped mane, tiptoeing quietly, as not to wake her younger sister, Blossom. She quietly stepped down the hall and into the farmhouse kitchen, where her father and aunts were making coffee. About that moment, her cousin Apple Seed, a light brown earth pony mare with a curly blonde mane, walked down the stairs as well. The peach colored young mare, known by the name of Apple Tart, waved to her cousin.       "Mornin everypony!" Seed said, walking into the kitchen. Seed's father was unknown. Some dude that her mother had hooked up with. The adults sleepily mumbled their 'good morning's and went back to the broken coffee maker, which the girls' aunt Applebloom was trying to fix. A pale yellow Pegasus mare waddled down the stairs as best as she could. After kissing her husband lightly on the cheek, she went to check the mail, but was stopped by her niece and daughter, beckoning her to sit down. As the two older fillies sifted through the mail for anything good, they found an interesting note from their aunt Twilight. It was addressed to both fillies and their mothers.     The girls took the pile back to the kitchen, and gave their mothers the letter.      A rich brown filly with a poofy white mane (which for some reason had a red circle near the top) rolled out of bed full of energy. She bounced down the hall and into the kitchen of the bakery she and her parents lived in. After her "adopted" grandparents' children went away to culinary school, they left their bakery to the filly's mother and moved to Manehatten. The aforementioned filly, known as Fudge Sundae, but addressed by her friends simply as "Fudgie", stepped into the kitchen and got to work baking muffins and breakfast pastries, and then put on a pot of coffee.     Her mother, a solid pink mare, bounced in right after her, a young, three year old filly trailing behind her. She saw her oldest daughter working and smiled. "Wrap up a blueberry muffin and a cup of coffee. Mrs. Hooves will be here with the mail soon." Fudgie nodded and hopped to it, wrapping up a steaming muffin and pouring a rich brown liquid into a paper cup and snapped the lid on it. Then, she got back to baking, taking a fresh batch of cinnamon rolls out of the oven.     A bell rang over the door, and Fudgie, instantly knowing who it was, ran the paper bag and cup over to the blonde, googly-eyed grey mare. In return, the older mare handed her a bit and the day's mail. Fudgie shuffled through it and found a letter for her and her mother. She read the first few lines, her eyes widening. She took it back inside the kitchen. "Hey mom, we got a letter from aunt Twilight. You might wanna read this.    An ivory scaled Kirin with a green mane was refusing to get up, as she needed her beauty sleep. Ah yes, she took after her mother very much. Then again, she also took after her father. She moaned. "Urgh! Daddy, I do not want to get up!"     A purple and green dragon stood in the doorway. "Come on, please? It's your mother's birthday and I need your help to cook."    The young, horned Kirin sat up and moaned. "Fine,"    "Thank you princess."    "Yeah yeah." She responded, waving the subject off with her hoof.    The young dragon-mare walked downstairs with her father. She levitated a pan over to the stove and got out two eggs. She set out two pieces of bread on a fire resistant tray and instructed her father to work on toast whilst she prepared eggs. Instead of his usual red flame emerging from her father's mouth, instead, tiny green ones appeared, along with a scroll, Canterlot University's seal keeping it closed.     "That's weird, why would aunt Twilight send a letter when we live just around the corner?"    "I don't know princess, but it must be important." He looked over the scroll, "It's addressed to you and your mother." He said, handing it to the ivory Kirin, known as Ruby Gleam. He then set back to making toast, which he then buttered and placed on a tray. Ruby had become distracted, reading the note, so he set about making eggs and juice as well.     A purple Kirin filly about ten years old wandered down the stairs, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, which lit up. "Awesome, breakfast!"    "Not for you princess, it's for your mother." The young Kirin pouted. Her older sister whized past the both of them, frazzling the young one's mane and causing her father to drop the tray. Ruby ran straight into her mother's room, who was just beginning to stir.     "Mom! You have to read this!"    "Huh?"    "A letter from aunt Twilight! Lilac's an alicorn and Luna and Celestia need all of us to come to the castle and I don't know what's going on and-"    "Ruby darling, calm down and let me read that thing."