My Little Pony: Leviathan
I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. If I did, I'd be on top a mountain made of money right now.
Prologue
In the beginning, there was the void and there was Her
Massive beyond reckoning, She burnt a path of destruction and creation across the cosmos
And lo, She settled upon a tiny planet and there She rested
With the power of a star whirling within Her great frame
And from Her came the six breeds
Fire, Wind, Water, Mind and Earth
And the last...Leviathan
The Book of Ash, Part 1
Equis.
A planet that would one day boast the most harmonious of cultures writhed in agony, a blazing torch within the cold abyss of space. A world caught within a nebulae left over from the cataclysmic death of a star only a few centuries ago. The surface seethed with lava whilst earthquakes sent tsunami's of molten rock racing around the burning world.
It was this world that She-Who-Devours found, full of power from the star she had consumed centuries ago and weary of loneliness.
Had any intelligent life been located within the system upon her arrival, they would have glimpsed an enormous dragon floating past the planets, wings swept as if catching an ethereal breeze. Scales of deepest ebony coated her from tail to snout and against the beautiful nebulae, she appeared as nothing more than a void. A massive dragon-shaped hole in the nebulae.
Drifting over the planet and examining it, she found nothing about it remarkable or interesting in the least. But that which made it boring called to her. Its lack of uniqueness made it intriguing to her, for she sought not a paradise world but a world that she could rest upon without interruptions.
Drifting past the moon of the raging planet, She-Who-Devours compared it to her own size and found it was only slightly bigger had she been curled into a ball. Shaking such thoughts from her head and drifting over the planet, she cast an enormous shadow upon it as her bulk blotted out the sun behind her.
And focusing on the planet, she reached out with her Will to find the best location to finally rest. As her mind swept over the planet and catalogued all the potential places, she decided on an area located close to the magnetic north pole of the planet.
And slowly, she descended through the tumultuous atmosphere, each wing-beat in the atmosphere sending storms of ash and fire rocketing across the surface of the world. As her massive claws touched the lava and sunk into it, a pleased growl escaped her and she watched in amusement as the surface of the lava in all directions quivered with the sound.
Nestling down into the lava and allowing it to slowly cover her legs, She settled her bulk into the lava and once more applied her Will though to a far different end than merely analyzing a planet.
Deep within her, something stirred.
From the moment she had begun her seemingly infinite trek across the universe, she had felt them within her. Heavy with the promise of life and hope, she had carried them through systems that had seemed ideal but hadn't been perfect.
But here on this back-water planet, concealed within a nebulae of her own making, She-Who-Devours had found the perfect place to give birth to dragon-kind.
As her Will touched each egg, She felt something stir within and recognize her as their progenitor. Their mother.
Six eggs in all rested deep within her, protected by scales stronger than steel and power vast enough to contain within her the essence of a fully-fledged star.
Three males and three females with nothing special about them. No unique powers or affinities...yet.
But when her Will had scoured the planet, she had felt such potential lurking deep within it, held captive by the raging of the surface but there all the same.
And slowly, she began to give birth. Each egg was tiny but their size belied the import of such tiny, fragile containers. Each of them carried the same blood, the same fire that blazed within her. Each egg was heavy with the promise of new life.
And into each of them, she infused a mote of the star she had devoured. For a tiny speck was all their young bodies could contain but that one mote would burn until the world lay in ashes. Yet that single shard of a consumed star would grant them a life-span which would stretch for centuries if not for millennium.
And into each of their minds, still unformed but eager for knowledge and purpose, she whispered.
Unto you six I grant this world.
If you seeketh flame, consume the gem of red
If thou seeketh mastery over the wind, devour the gem of blue
Should thou desire to rule the water, avail yourselves of the gems of green
If thou wishes to abandon the sky and rule the earth, dominate the gem of darkest night
But if thou seeketh to master power that could bend reality, you shalt consume the stone that sparkles like a star.
And for those few...those rare few who will be my true-born spawn...seeketh not only the gems of the world but the metal of the earth.
With her commands thus spoken and their minds filled with the most basic of concepts but the most fundamental aspects of their lives, she allowed the six eggs to slowly leave their protective shelter and to drop into the swirling currents of lava. They would not be born together, for even in their young state the instincts that filled them would drive them to slaughter the others until one stood above all.
But into their minds, she had whispered not the secondary condition for the rare few that would be like her.
Those rare few who would become my Leviathans...they must not only seek and consume metal as well as gems but they must be patient, intelligent and powerful. No Leviathan can be foolish or quick to anger. And weakness above all is to be despised.
With that last thought, She-Who-Devours allowed her bulk to slowly sink into the lava, eyes closing in a sleep that would last millions of years, until the world cracked apart and her Leviathans would rise from it.
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Authors Notes: Alrighty! This here is a prologue so I didn't want it to be too long. Didn't want to engage in too much exposition, just provide the basics. The rest will come in time with later chapters.
Also, this is my first attempt at MLP: FiM fanfiction so please don’t berate me TOO badly.