The Silver Pony Slippers

by Nocturn Dreamwrite

Prologue

The Silver Pony Slippers

Prologue

Many, many moons ago, or to be more specific, about 2,500 years ago, and 500 years before the first Hearths Warming there was

to be found in the Everfree Forest a small meadow. In the middle of this green and flowery meadow, there was a single, small house. In the

House there lived three alicorn ponies.

The Mistress, and only adult of the house was Lauren. She had previously been known as Lady Lauren, but that was years ago, in a

time long gone, when she was the official scribe of the Imperial Court of the Canterhorn Empire.

In those days there were many alicorns. They ruled the lands of the empire and its citizens, all the different kinds of ponies justly, and

wisely. The empire was ruled by the beloved King Cosmos, and his Queen Galaxy. It was a Golden Age. But then the dark times came. Rebels

who resisted the alicorns rule attacked the alicorn city of Canterhorn and prevailed. This was the fulfillment of a sad prophecy to the King

and Queen that many had hoped would never come to pass. The ponies of the empire understood friendship, but only because, on the

inside, they feared the power of the Alicorns. This was not true friendship, and the only way the ponies would come to know true friendship

would be when the empire ceased to be. It would take some time, but true friendship would someday come to be. The Alicorns had never

done anything to wrong the ponies, before or after the prophecy had been given, but the dark times came. The rebels, under their leader,

Strong Hoof laid waste to the city. Everything was destroyed and burned. However, before the rebels attacked the palace, the Queen

entrusted to Lady Lauren her and the King’s greatest treasure: their two daughters. With skill and good fortune, Lady Lauren slipped out of

the palace and the city with the two little princesses along with a small bag of supplies and a few possessions. As she climbed over the hills

surrounding Mt. Canterhorn, Lady Lauren looked back at her home one last time. The city of Canterhorn was either in flames or rubble.

Even the palace was now on fire. Lady Lauren knew that she would never see home again or her friends or the King or Queen. Many

Alicorns fell that day, Lady Lauren never knew for sure how many. She could only hope that some others had also escaped and fled. The

truth was worse than she could imagine: She and the little princesses were the only survivors. Lady Lauren turned away and disappeared

into the forest. Neither she nor the little princesses would be seen again for 500 years, but she would never forget.

But as mentioned before, that was a time long past, and the subject shouldn’t be dwelt upon too long. Since then, Lady Lauren had

found life and light in the forest. She built a small house in a small meadow close by a running brook and settled in her new home. From

there she raised the two little fillies as her own. She started calling herself simply ‘Lauren’, but to the little fillies, she was ‘mother’.

The two little fillies that lived with her in the house were named Celestia, the older and Luna, the younger. These were the names

their parents had given them upon birth. Lauren had thought it best, at the time, not to tell them who they were, or who their family was. In

the best way thought, it almost didn’t matter. She couldn’t have loved her adopted children better even if they were her own, and the fillies

returned that same love to their mother, Lauren.

Lauren raised Celestia and Luna with wisdom, kindness, and the best guidance that she could give. As they grew, Lauren educated

them in the Alicorn ways, such as how to gain strength, how to fly, and how to use magic, and of course how to read, write, and speak. As to

be expected there were a few bumps along the way, such as Celestia and Luna occasionally getting lost in the surrounding forest until they

learned their way around, but everything always turned out all right in the end, and all three were happy for many years. There were a

number of adventures for Lauren, Celestia, and Luna, and it is here where this adventure began.