The Fragments of Symphony

by Sky Blue CMC

Chapter X: The End of Magic

Author's Note:

Previously on The Fragments of Symphony:

The mother of a Sempricorn was the mare who dreamed about his or her creation, and the father was the stallion who created the catalyst necessary to call her into existence. Princess Luna, having woken up and read this in her Encyclopedia Somniaria, recorded her latest dream in her dream journal, with a group of letters she wrote in there often: EncSomn, and the number of the page in the book that defined Sempricorns, walked down her tower and into the castle atrium to watch the rest of the Royal Wedding. But when she got there, the wedding was over, and everypony was already outside celebrating.
We will find out later who this other pony is, but for now... Luna thought. She then looked down at the Unicorn filly who resembled the dream-figure. It looks like we have a Sempricorn to raise!

Luna had helped many foals with their troubles before, but she no idea what to do with a Sempricorn filly. She had only just read about them a couple of minutes ago, and the book didn't say anything about how to raise one. So she tried calling her name. "Aurora!" she exclaimed. "Come to mommy!"

The pony responded quite unusually for a newborn. She walked on all fours (like a normal pony) and came to her mother, as if she could understand what Luna was saying. Just wait until Princess Cadence sees her new, already sentient, half-sister! Luna thought with delight. We wonder if she can speak!

To see if Aurora could speak, Luna held up three objects with her light-blue magic aura: a blank scroll with a quill tied to it by a blue ribbon, a red rubber ball, and a Golden Delicious apple. "Which one of these things do you want, Aurora?"

"Poetry?" the Sempricorn replied in a questioning tone. She pointed her left-front hoof at the scroll, and Luna removed the ribbon and gave it and the quill to her. Luna then went back to her bedroom in her tower and came down to the atrium with an inkwell, which she also gave to Aurora.

Luna watched as the unusually gifted pony started writing a poem. It went something like the one written here, but this is only a fraction of a rendition of the poem that she actually wrote:

A little pair
of broken hearts,
one pony holds them tight.
The foul and fair,
they end what starts,
by bringing him to fight.

Aurora gave the poem this simple title: The End of Magic. She then earned her Cutie Mark, a very odd thing to happen to a newborn filly. Luna knew of only one pony with two hearts, and only one pony prior to Aurora who had a Cutie Mark so quickly after entering Equestria. There was no doubt about it, this poem was a prophecy about the Doctor.