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// Awakening  
// Story: Spark of Life 
// by Cosmic Runner 
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I don’t know how I got here. I just woke up and was lying down. I looked over and all I saw was a dry, grainy, brown place. I don’t know who I am. I tried to think of something. Anything. The first thought in my head was Celestia. Yes Celestia. That is what I will call myself. But it’s not like there is anyone here to call me that beside myself.

Another thought came into my head.  I don’t know who these thoughts or memories came from. I didn’t put them there. Something brushed past me. I looked around but, I didn’t see anything. I decided to call that wind. I don’t know why. I just don’t know.

I remember something else. A set of instructions, as it seems. I see someone else. A figure is standing over me.

“Celestia.”

Yes.

“You have been giving the great honor of traveling to this new world.”

It doesn’t seem like an honor right now. I just feel alone.

“You will change that barren land into a fertile world. We are calling it Equestria.”

Equestria. That is what I will call this place.

“Upon arrival, your memory will be erased.”

That explains it. Now who ARE these people?”

“When you create the capital, we will send you a gift.”

Maybe this GIFT will know what is happening.

“Every time your civilization thrives, your memory will be returned upon your deathbed.”

I guess I should start thriving.

“Every time your civilization FAILS, you will be given a challenge to overcome.”

I will NOT fail.

“When you make a viable ecosystem, we will give you three lesser races to call subjects.”

Ponies… How do I know that?

“You are the last hope to save our dying race. Make us proud.”

I don’t know who you are.

“Be well, most beloved daughter.”

Mother?

I began following the directions of my mother and named the grainy thing sand.  I looked at the up at a blue sheet. I looked around and saw a yellow ball of light that hurt my eyes to look at it. I called the blue sheet the sky and the yellow ball the Sun. The Sun was unbearably hot so I willed it to lower its temperature and lessen its light. A new appendage appeared on my forehead in between my eyes. When I tried to see its secrets it turned yellow and the sun began to obey.

I was tired from this exchange and flew down to the ground I lied down for a minute. I saw a light flash from the lower half of my body and when it was done flashing, a picture of the sun appeared on my rear end. I was scared at first. But after further examination, it revealed no harm.

Back to the task at hand it seems. After looking about some more, I saw a gray blob in the horizon. I flew over to it. It seemed too informal to call it a blob, so I called it a cloud. I tried stepping on it and in return, it spurted out something. I hit it again only this time with my other appendage under this cloud. The things felt cold and wet, a total opposite to the land below. My mouth felt dry so I tasted some. I decided to name it water.

I flew down to the land below. I saw a little spot where the water had touched the ground. A little green area formed around it. I tried using my forehead appendage to make the cloud water some more. The familiar yellow glow flowed around my head and water came down. The green area expanded.

I left after I put a lasting effect on the cloud to keep watering until it ran out of water. A came across another cloud in the sky, only this one seemed different. I tried to make water come out but I only succeeded in moving it. The wind carried it so I chased it down. I tried landing on the cloud to make it stop. It did. It felt extremely soft so I tried laying on it. I realized I felt a new feeling before. I felt tired.

I fell asleep on this white cloud and when I woke up, it seemed nothing had changed. The sun was still in the same spot. I decided to take some time to make names for some recently used bodily functions. I called my appendages on my back wings and the one on my forehead a horn. The horn seamed magical so I called the output of the horn magic.

One thing had changed though. When I looked over to where I had come from, there was green. A word came to my head, Grass. That will be called grasslands and the barrenness under me will be called a desert. I headed back toward the grassland and saw small colored things in the grass. I ventured over too one and studied it. It tried smelling it. I tried feeling it. And lastly, I tried eating it. It tasted delicious. I needed to name it something of equal beauty and grace as the item: Flower.

I noticed something else different with the grass land. For one thing, the gray clouds multiplied. This sheet of gray covered the sky and blocked the sun. At first I thought this was a bad thing. However, when I compared the covered grassland to the uncovered desert, the grassland was thriving. That’s how I will begin my ecosystem.





It seemed like a long time but I finally managed to cover most of the world in fertile grass lands. In the process I discovered trees, mountains, hills, rivers, rocks, and, most importantly, food.

I discovered food when I felt a sharp pain in my midsection. I tried to eat another flower but it only eased the pain. That’s when I discovered something round and red on a tree. I tried eating it and, not only did it taste good, it helped ease the pain more than flowers. These were called apples. I categorized apples and flowers in food.

But, another problem arose. My mouth was always dry. I remembered when I drank the water out of the cloud. I looked at a nearby river and noticed the fluids contained in it looked the same as it did in the clouds. I flew over to the river and started to drink the fluids. It was water. My mouth felt less dry and uncomfortable. With this newfound knowledge of food and water, I continued creating my ecosystem.

I practiced flying over mountains to increase my skill in flight. And, I lifted large heavy rocks to practice magic. One day, when I was practicing flying, I flew over a mountain and discovered a grass land surrounded by other mountains in large bowl like shape beautifully covered with white clouds with small rays of sunshine cracking through. This was truly a beautiful site.  Over the farther left side, I saw a large gathering of trees. I called the large grass land a valley and the collection of trees a forest. Since this was the first forest I had ever found, I decided to name it. Like always, a word came to mind. Everfree. This is Everfree forest.

On the other side, there was the most beautiful mountain with a large river falling out of close to the top. I make my why over there. After I look around a bit, I decided at going to the top of the falling river. I look in the cave but do not go in. I fly down to the center of the valley and magically place a beacon in the center so I could find this place again.

I discovered a new problem though. In my travels across Equestria, I found that on side of the world was always day and one was always dark. The side that was always dark was not thriving because there was no sun and was very cold. The side with the sun could not thrive because it was too hot unless clouds were covering it. But a gray sky looks too dreary. I started to spend most of my time trying to find a solution to this problem. After much time and consideration with no viable results, I became frustrated. Then something unexpected happened. A sound came out of me.

“GRaAaAaAaAa!”  I yelled in a craggily way as I panted.

I became scared and hid behind a large rock. I sat there in a ball until I realized that nothing bad happened. I tried to make the sound again except in a much smaller volume.

“Ee-eep.” A clearer sound comes out.

I find my new discovery interesting and try to speak my thoughts.

“H-How do I-I fi-figure this prob-problem out?” I said to myself slowly. “This-this sound a-adds ma-ma- more ch-character to my being.” I said as I stuttered less and less, growing in volume.

“I will ca-call. This. VOICE!” I yelled with my appendage raised to the sky.

My voice had shaken the world. But, the inside of my neck had become sore. So I started back to the task at hand.



I tried everything I could think of. I tried moving water baring clouds to the cold side. This failed because I had just created what I call snow and ice. So I kept practicing voice. I even started calling it talking. The memory of my mother telling me of a civilization was still ripe in my head. I started thinking that my ‘subjects’ would need a way to communicate amongst each other.

But this still did not solve the problem. I kept moving the clouds so that they could keep the grasslands fertile. But, I was failing. I needed to solve the problem of the sun. I thought maybe solving this would be the final step in creating my ecosystem.

“Ah ha, I’ve got it!” I exclaimed to myself jumping up and down.

I remembered how I changed the sun to fit my needs when I woke up. And, I have the sun branded on my backside. So, what if I could create a never ending path that lowers the sun down into the dark side for a while in a time interval then, raise it back up after that time is over to create a flowing ecosystem!

The idea sounded a lot better when I told it to myself. Although the sun was easier to control because of her increased skill in magic, she could not figure out a way to raise and lower it automatically.

“What if I manually raise and lower it each time interval?” I say to myself while raising my forehead.

Well, for one thing, it will be confusing to always all it a time interval. Maybe when the sun is up, I will call it a Day?

“What a grand idea.” I say to myself with a smile.

I sure get off topic a lot these days. But I decide in favor of manually controlling the sun, at least for now.

“Well here we go. Day one.” I say with a start.





I learned after day ten that the darkness is cold. I needed to find a place to sleep that would shelter me against the night. I have also learned that the darkness scares me. So I had another brilliant idea. Make a visit to Everfree forest.

“Hmm where was that beacon?” I ask myself as I am flying.

I flowed magic through my horn and sensed a familiar magic close by. Sure enough, it was my beacon. I look up at the mouth of the falling river and fly too it. With a deep breath, I fly into the cave and look around a bit. I use my magic to create a light so I can see. After bumbling around a bit, I find myself saying more and more.

“I will stay here.”

And so I do.





Day twenty… I wake up and drink out of the river. Then, I go to my food store and eat some before I raise the sun. When I raise the sun though, I notice something uneasy about the forest. It begins to have a white cloud over it. I call it fog.

Before I can fly over to it a streak of light hits the forest. I am temporarily blinded by this and look away for a second. When am able to see again there is a dome of light around the center of the forest. My first thought is: Civilization.

I hurry over to the dome and land just outside of it. When I walked in all I saw was three small figures in blankets made of light. When I trotted over to them I began to reach for them. When I touched one of the blankets nothing happened. So I did the only logical thing and removed the first one. The figure was then standing as tall as she was with a brown body and green hair. She removed another only to find that this one had wings with a white body and gray hair. I unwrapped the last one and this one appeared to have a horn. It, like the winged one, had a white body but with blue hair. I stood awestruck. The tall one opened its eyes which were also made of light.

“Earth Pony. Stallion. Earth Pony.” Then fell to the ground unconscious.

The one with wings stood up with similar eyes but with a much smaller voice said.

“Pegasus. Mare. Pegasus.” Then also fell down.

And finally the one with the horn stood.

“Unicorn. Mare. Unicorn.” With the same effect.

Then I felt like the figures and fell unconscious.