The History of Bramble Seas along with the tale of Chrysalis, Sombra, and the two Princesses
Delve into the history told by Bramble Seas. A grey pony with a black and orange stripped mane and tail. He is face with 10 years of loneliness only to destroy the ones who could have prevented it. Eventually he is set up in the Everfree with a pony named Chrysalis. On the story goes and the two princesses find out they both weren't wrong when Bramble comes into their lives. Eventually comes Blaze who messes with dark magic and makes the Crystal Empire his domain with the new name of Sombra. It all eventually goes down hill from their.
“Well, here you found me. I knew I should have put up a better barrier up around my home. Guess since you found me you can come in, as I am guessing you have traveled far to get here?” You just nod your head and I sigh, “Thought so… Come on, come on, I don’t have all day to wait at the door.” You trot in and I go straight to a case to get you your room key, “Your room will be ready for you in a second. If you need anything then just come and find me. Don’t go down into the basement and listen for the dinner bell to meet back here.” I trot over to the stairs and I stop as you yell for me to wait. I turn around and I tilt my head, “Yes?”
You let out a sigh to relax and you look back up at me, “I-I’m here to ask you something... um... I-I wanted to hear your history…”
My ears twitch and a smile goes on my face, “My story? It’s been a long time since somepony asked me to tell my story~! Come, come~! I will tell you my story in the training room!” I go up the stairs and you follow with me through long hallways until we reach a door with two swords crossed over each other. I open up the door and I trot into a large empty room. The only thing that is in there is a control panel in the center of the room and the walls are completely white. As you come in the door shuts behind us, turning into a wall. I giggle a little at your concern, “Don’t worry, you are safe in here.” You look around at the blank room and nod. I smile and I head over to the control panel where I tap down some buttons. The room changes into a large open grassland and a log lay in the middle for us to sit on, “Come and sit down with me as I tell you my tale.” You come over and you sit on the surprisingly comfy log and you look at me. I sigh, “I am happy to tell you my history… but it is long and the room will change at some points through my memory… Where to start? Well let’s start at what is most clear to me, my birth.”
“I was born at the Royal Empire and I was to be the son of Lucena and Astrom. I was born two years after my big sister, Luna and I am the youngest of my family. At the time Luna was two years old and my elder sister, Celestia, was fourteen years old. My parents had gotten a prophesy four years before Celestia was born and the prophesy was told by non-other than the elder unicorn of that time.
It stated as the following: “20 years form now you shall see a prophecy come true. Three children you shall have, but the third is the one of new. You will lock him away and wait for the time where he shall become the evil of days. The Nightmare Angel will achieve a holy host, but will be contained by the angels of old. A battle of fate will begin and the child will become ten. The only way the war shall end is with 6 dying breaths and a grand end. Bramble Seas will be his name and with this he will attain a curse of days to come for him if he shall live again. He shall be new king or a demon that destroys this land. All is up to you in the end.” With that, the unicorn passed days later and he was buried with the knowledge of my birth to come.
Back to where we were, the day I was born my parents heeded the warning and decided to lock me in my room in the highest part of the castle. They kept my birth a secret from everypony. They gave me a special whistle that they had made for me to where I could be the only user. To do this they took some of my blood before I was sent to my room and they sent it to the best potion and gold smiths of that time. Once the whistle was made they teleported it into my room and it stayed on my neck.
I hated that I was stuck in there for 10 years and during that time I grew angry with my family for what they had done to me. I was mad that my sisters were getting the attention and love and care while I only got a small room with birds, mice, and my books as my only friends. Of course I couldn’t teleport out of the room due to my dad’s spell he casted to keep it to where I wasn’t able to use teleporting magic or explosive magic. I did read up and practice my spells through that time in the lonely prison. My magic was very weak though, due to not eating or drinking anything for those 10 years, but one day it all changed.
After 10 years my anger had gotten to its highest peak. I yelled and casted levitation spells on everything, throwing it all around the room in my angered fit. That anger broke the barrier that was keeping the Nightmare Angel contained and he came to the room I was being kept in. He was drawn to my anger like a parasprite to anything that’s edible. He appeared next to me and grinned at my sadness, my anger, and my pain. He spoke with a light piercing voice saying, “Why are you so sad and angry little filly? Did somepony hurt you by taking your bottle?” His laugh boomed evilly and he floated around me as I looked up at him. I told him how my life has been for the last ten years and he smiled at his plan that was forming in his head. He finally said with a big grin, “Let me help you little one. I can get you what you want. All you have to do is let me take you over to break this barrier. You will be able to see your sisters and parents. They will show you the love and attention you need over time.” I wiped away a tear and I nodded at his deal, but before I realized it was a trick, it was too late. He went straight into me and coursed my veins with his anger and hate.
I fell unconscious and he opened my eyes and roared with evil laughter, “I have done it! Hahaha! A powerful alicorn child to use as my own! Now I can finally get my revenge on those two alicorns who imprisoned me for so many years!” He look out the window and he charged up his magic, shooting the wall, taking it out with the window and breaking the spell that was casted on the room. He flew out and saw my parents glaring at him as he grinned back. He noticed two figures running for the castle doors and he shoot a spell at them. My parents casted a spell as fast as they could and countered the shoot as my sisters made it safely inside.
He frowned at my parents and growled, “Why not let me have my fun?”
My dad replied with anger in his voice, “I will not let you hurt my daughters nor shall you win this battle!”
He laughed and looked down at my dad, “I have already won by taking over your son.”
My mom and dad glared at him and my mother growled, “Maybe that was our pla…”
He interrupted her with a happy devilish laugh, “Put your son in the highest part of the castle and starved him. Ahahaha~! You had him starved of love and care?! What kind of parents are you to let your son be taken over by me?”
My mother hesitated as those words ran through her mind, but she said nothing more and my dad replied, “Let us see who will win!” My dad shot a beacon in the air and four more alicorns appeared at their side. Each four alicorns represented one of the four main elements Earth, (Earetrium) Lava, (Laviticon) Air, (Astron) and Water (Wintro). They had their armor on and weapons ready. The Nightmare Angel grew to the height of the castle and flew up and landed a couple of feet away in a field with a sword of pure nightmare matter ready. The alicorns landed on the opposite side of the field ready for battle. Before they started the Nightmare Angel took his sword and sliced his arm. His blood poured out, dropping to the ground.
He smiled, “Let us even this battle out.” As he said that the blood started to form into dragons, changelings, draconequeses, and other evil creatures. The alicorns and creatures of nightmares glared at each other intensively. Time seemed to have stopped for them all as they stare each other down. The dark creatures charge first and then the alicorns run at them, weapons drawn. Suddenly, they clashed swords, and thus the ancient three-month battle begins.
The battle went on and on until the alicorns were reduced to only 3 left, Lucena, Laviticon, and Earetrium. At the end the only alicorn that was left standing was my mother, Lucena, who was almost out of magic.
She looked up at the Nightmare Angel and yelled at him saying, “You will not win this battle!” He glared down at her and laughed with a booming sound that was heard all over the lands and domains.
He looked down on Lucena and said, “There are thousands of my armies and only one of you! How could you possibly win in your weakened state?” She started up the last of her magic and shot a large portal into the clouds as she fell to the ground. She lies their, weakening to her last breath.
He looked at the clouds and horror stuck his face as he saw the ancient angels flying out of the portal opened in the sky. They landed one by one in front of Lucena, leaving a crater in the ground as they stared forward at the enemy, waiting for Lucena’s commands.
She faintly said with a raspy voice, “Defeat the enemy and save my son…” The ancients shot toward the monsters defeating most of them and throwing more into the woods around them, casting a spell to trap them in the darkened forests. They neared the Nightmare Angel, and through his fear he took all of his knowledge of dark magic, took some monsters, and hid them in different places throughout the lands. After the last of the monsters were transported to the woods, an angel flew right into the Nightmare Angel and he yelled with pain. His yelling got louder and louder as more angels poured into him and pushed him into me to seal him away in my heart. My mother watched as she could now see my face emerge through the darkness.
Tears welled up in her eyes as said with her final breaths, “P-please forgive me and your father… I-I am sorry it has to b-be like this… You will have to take the throne from here on out… I hope y-you will grow to be a good and kind king… Please t-take care of your sisters…. I love y-you my sweet s-son… Bramble…” With that she passed away.
I awoke with a throbbing headache the next day and my whole body was numb. I could hardly even move, but somehow I managed to stand up after a while. I looked around me and I gasped at what I saw. I started to tear up as I saw my parents lying on the ground, dead… I ran over to them ignoring all the pain that was prickling at my body. I fell next to my mother and I stated to cry hard. It was a true try of lament. Ponies, animals, and creatures all around heard and felt the sadness that filled the air. Storm clouds started to roll in and the rain started to pour just as hard as I was crying. I cried for days until the tears wouldn’t come out anymore. I sniffed, rubbing my hurting eyes and I used my tail to pick up all the bodies of the fallen alicorns that lay around me. I then trotted into the forest, ignoring the trees parting a path as my whistle glowed. I headed to the largest tree I could find in the dense forest and I set down the bodies. I looked down at them, telling them that I will bury them when the time is right. I went to work to build a tree house that I could use for a new home. It took me a long while, but I eventually got the tree house built and gave the alicorns proper royal burial. I went up into the shelter and I slumped down on the makeshift bed and I passed out.
I awoke a couple days later to someponies voice and I look out the window. I looked down to see an old pony pacing back and forth underneath the tree that I reside in. I tilted my head and I slowly trotted out onto the balcony. I watched and paid attention to what he was saying. I gasped quietly as I heard him say something about two fillies appearing in the Unicorns Territory and one of them raised the sun. I used my magic and I turned myself into a pegasus. I flew down to him to see if I could get answers and information. As I approached he turned quickly in my direction and casted a spell to hold me in my place.
He looked me over then said, “Who are you to approach me, Starswirl the Bearded?”
Of course I looked at him confused, asking, “Starswirl the what?”
He replied, “You do you not know of me? I have defeated dragons, Ursa Major’s, and other evil mystical beasts that have terrorized the land. You seriously don't know of me?”
I shook my head, “Nope, never heard of you. Though I can tell your magic is quite strong. Oh, and by the way, I am getting a cramp in my wings and I would very much like to be let go.”
He quickly shut off his magic, “Sorry, I have been jumpy lately, but you must excuse me, I am on a important journey to the Unicorn Territories and I mustn’t miss the meeting.”
I interrupted him, “If you are in such a hurry then why pace around under this tree?”
He smiles, “I was just stopping for a bite to eat and to read for a bit.”
I tilt my head, “You seemed to be talk with somepony when I was coming to see if you were ok.” He laughs a little, “Ah yes! I was talking to myself about what I need to do after this meeting!” I nod, “That figures. Is the meeting about the pony who raised the sun? I overheard you talking about that. Though I though raising the sun was impossible! The only one who… who could… I go silent then I shake my head at the sudden pain, “Never mind. May I come with you?”
He looked me over as if I were a new edition of powerful magical spells, realizing what I really was. He smiled saying, “Why not! I would like to have an alicorn companion on my trip.”
I looked at him with disbelief, “A-Alicorn? I am no a-alicorn…”
He snickers, “I am not dumb youngish one. I have been around alicorns and I know the feeling of being around one, now get out of that disguise.”
I sigh and I turn back to my normal alicorn-self and grumble, “So your magic is more sensitive than I thought… I shall not come with you then… I can’t risk being found out and you shall never mention me to anypony else or to any other alicorns you shall find…” With that I disappear to my tree house before I can here his response and I watch him shrug then trot off South. I looked around for an extra sheet sleep under and when I eventually find one, night had approached. I lay down trying to figure out what awaits for me in the future.
After a couple days of being in the tree house for a while I decided to check out what I can salvage from my old home. When I got there I searched through the sad and quiet halls of the ruined castle. I found a couple old books, some food, a couple of inkbottles, quills, and blankets. I found a lot more, but I decided that I would rebuild this place after I have built a more suitable home. I got back to the tree house and asleep at the trees base was a little filly in a basket. I shake my head in disbelief; I looked inside the basket to confirm what my eyes saw. I saw what looked like a newborn filly that had a dark green coat, green mane, green tail, a horn, and wings. I saw a note lying next to the filly and it said, “Dear Alicorn of the Woods,
I humbly request that you would please take a close friends daughter. She has given her to me, but my days are growing short. I want you to keep her and raise her as your own. I wish I could keep her, but I didn’t want her to know that I could die at any time on my travels and that no pony would be able to care for her. She will need help in her magic studies and she will need to be feed only two times a day. Tell her where she came from when the time is right, I hope she will be safe in your hooves.” Yours truly, Starswirl the Bearded
I picked up the basket and I flew up, landing on the balcony. I trotted inside and I quickly used my tails to construct a temporary crib fit for the baby alicorn. I smiled as I set her inside of it and I looked her over as she slept. I looked over the note and I noticed he didn’t give me a name to call her. I though for a while and I said to her as she slept, “Your name shall be Chrysalis. Yes, I like the sound of it. I will care for you from now on. I promise to do my best with what I have to offer for now little one.” With that I sat there and waited for her to wake up.
I smiled as she awoke and looked up at me with her dark emerald colored eyes. She looked around at the new surroundings and then back at me confused as if to say: “Where am I?”
I smiled and I answered seeing the confusion in her face, “You are at my home little one. I am your guardian from now on. Are you hungry?” The filly sat up fast and nodded. I laughed and I go start fixing up some food for the both of us as I let the filly play with my tail, tugging on it and rolling herself up in it. I pick her up with my tail as she is holding on to it with her mouth and I sit her down at the table saying, “You may play with my tail after you are done eating.” I nuzzle her, then I sit down across from her and I began to eat as she used her magic to help herself eat. I am a little shocked at how fast her magic is developing when she uses it. I look at her, “You already know how to use your magic that well? That is very interesting.” She looks up and nods trying to say something, but all that comes out is baby gibberish. “I will need to teach you how to talk… How does me home schooling sound? Having me help you and teach you?” She flies up and makes a little squeeing noise as she flies around me happily. “I’m going to take that as a yes.” I pluck her out of the air and I giggle, “You are a hyper little one aren’t you?” She pokes me with her muzzle and reaches for my tail. I roll my eyes, “Fine,” I set her down and let her continue playing with my tail as she starts to build a little fort out of it.
The next couple of days I teach Chrysalis how to talk. With in three months she is able to talk and walk a little better. Once she is able to walk and talk I her come with me to my old home and she helps me salvage some more books and other things from the castle. Though we worked looking around the castle, we had some fun times playing around the ruins. I started to teach her to read architecture and how to use her magic to pick up heavier objects. When she grew to be two years old she was helping me with the construction of our new home and everyday we would always take a break at the lake that was nearby. Sometimes when it rained we would stay inside and play in a little pillow fort we built, playing hide and seek, or enjoy the view of the landscape from the top of the mountain tops that were nearby. Finally, when she became 8 years old, I started to teach her how to use her magic better and how to use her wings better. I enjoyed helping her out with her magic because she was always so good and trusting of me when she messed up on a spell. She was glad that I was so kind to her with everything we do.
One day she asked me to explain what it was liked to live in that castle that we have visited so many times. I told her that I will tell her when she is older, that it was too painful to explain my past.
She said to me something that I would never think that I would ever hear from anypony, “I can understand that you have seen much pain in your life, I will receive your answer and not judge you when the time comes for you to tell me.”
I started to tear up as she said that and she came up to me, hugged me, and said, “I love you.”
I hug her tightly, “Thank you…”
A couple more days go by and we have the main parts of the mansion built. We have also started to build on a tunnel that will lead to the tree house and the castle. It will take a couple of months to be able to make it, but we will do the best we can to calculate where to stop the tunnels. To be honest I was happy to have somepony to help me build. It was also nice to have somepony to talk to. As the years went by we had gotten far on the construction of the mansion and everything was in the right place. It was nice to have a mares touch on building too. She had put flowers and made a garden in the back so we could grow our own food and a flowerbed to go with it.
We stopped construction a day before Chrysalis’s 15th birthday and we spent that time practicing her magic. We would also be playing around in the fields that were near the mansion. We flew around in the sky chasing each other and having the best time ever. The day before her birthday, I asked her, “What would you like for your birthday?”
She replied with a smile, “You know, if you don’t mind telling me what you did when you were little then I would like that. Other than that I would like to learn the spell that can disguise me as a different race! That would be very fun to do! Then we could go and find the Unicorn Territories and get new books from them!”
I smile and sigh, “We can do both. I have held my tale from you for long enough. I will tell you my tale and then I will teach you the spell. How does that sound?”
She hugs me tightly and then kisses me on the cheek, “Thank! Oh, I can’t wait till tomorrow! I love the cakes that you make!”
I tilt my head, “There that good are they? Well then you will love the cake I am making this year.”
She starts to wag her tail back and forth with happiness, “Oh please tell me what’s in it!”
I put a hoof up, “Now, now, a chef doesn’t reveal their creations before the big day.” I wink at her and I pat her head saying, “Bet you can’t beat me to that cloud,” I point to the cloud way above us.
“Your on!” She says with a grin.
With that she darts up into the sky and I quickly catch up with her exclaiming, “Cheater!”
She yells back, "You have done the same thing!” We both laugh and then we go through the cloud. We both land in the lake. We play around until it starts to become nighttime and we both get into our beds to fall asleep for the next day to come. The next day I wake up to be laying down on a cloud and Chrysalis looks over my head as she flies above me saying, “Hey sleepy head!” I get startled and I pretend to fall though the cloud. She looks to see where I went, I come up from the cloud and I grab her tail in my mouth. I pull her into the cloud as she screams, “Hey!”
I giggle, “That’s what you get for dragging me up all the way out of bed and into a cloud.”
She grumbles and then smiles, “Yes, yes, but it wouldn’t be as fun to normally wake up in bed! Alright, cough it up and tell me your story!” I look at her for a second and then I tell her about my life from when I was small. When I finally finished she had tears in her eyes and I am looking down.
She looks at me, “Why would your parents do that to you… You are such a kind pony and you are so sweet in so many ways… To believe somepony, especially your own parents, would do that to you…”
I nod, “I know… I know… It wasn’t the best life, but I vowed to myself that I would help others and love others no matter what. I will protect others even if it means taking my own life…” She hugged me tightly and we sat in the cloud for a long while of silence.
I finally broke the silence saying, “Hey, lets not get so down on this. The past is in the past and it’s time to look toward the future.”
She nodded and smiled, “Alright.” She hugged me one more time and then we flew home. I landed and ran right in, heading straight into the kitchen and I get to work making the food for Chrysalis and me. She went to her room and started getting ready for her big day. As soon as she smelled the good smell of food she silently sneaks down to the kitchen and before she can enter my tail holds the door closed.
I smile, “Dear you know you can’t sneak up on me.”
I laugh as she yells, “Aw come on!” As soon as I finish making brunch, I set it down and she darts toward the table. She gets a large plate of food before I can even sit down. I get my plate and I begin eating as she inhales her food.
I laugh, “Hungry are we?” She nods as she continues eating. I sigh, “Don’t eat too fast or you might get a stomach ache.” She slows down so she finishes as I finish.
“Have room for cake?” I say with a little taunting in my voice.
She smiles and nods, “Of course I have room for cake!”
I grin, “Not until after dinner and not until we practice the Race Spell!”
She jumped up, “Let us learn the spell then!” I trot outside and I start up the spell making a circle of magic that goes around me. A four-sided star that has different colors on each point appears on my forehead. I turn it to the left on the purple colored point; my body switches to a pegasus version of my normal self. Chrysalis looks over me with aw and says, “You look like an actual pegasus, but… how do you turn back?”
I smile, “The star that appeared on my head is invisible now, but it is still there. If I want to change again I just turn the star, like so.” I turn the star on my forehead to the white point and I change back to normal. “See?” She smiles and nods, “How do I do it?”I start to go throughout the steps and finally, after tons and tons of tries, she can cast the spell with ease.
I smile, “You did good! You got the spell down!” She smiles, “Can we go find the Unicorn Territories now?”
I nod, “Yes, but first lets get some money and a bag to carry our stuff in.” We fly home and we get two big bags, money, and we both change into a pegasus. We start to fly towards the North. We reach the Pegasus Territories and then head toward the Unicorn Territories. We get there and we land behind a large rock so that no pony will be able to see us as we switch to our unicorn form. We trot out from behind the rock and head toward a corner-side store. I buy us some food and we eat up to keep up our strength so that the spell will stay strong.
I turn to her and I whisper, “Don’t use any more magic than we are already using. It could be dangerous if we over use our magic supply.” She nods in agreement and we both head for the castle that is at the top of the hill. Guards at the gates stop us, but I tell them we are only here to look through the castle library to try and find some books on certain spells that I need to “teach in my class”. They look us over then decide that we may look for only a short while. I ask them why and they told us that the princesses were not to be disturbed due to them getting ready for the winter solstice. I tell them that it will only take a short time for us to find what we need and with that they open the castle gates. We trot in and we look around a bit before we get to the library.
I look over at Chrysalis and I say, “Get what ever book you like and I will get some books too. Once we find what all we want lets put it in the bags and we shall change to our pegasus form to fly out of here.”
She smiles, “Got it!” With that she darts off to find some books as I to do the same. After a while of searching we get a total of fifty good books on magic and I even get us some bottles to practice making potions, but suddenly we get a strange tingle down our backs as we hear two ponies are coming toward our location. I quickly throw the bag on and I grab Chrysalis. We both hide behind a book-self as the two mares trot in.
I put my ear up so I can hear in on their conversation and I hear the smaller mare say, “Sister why did we come to the library to talk? There isn’t much to…”
The taller one cuts her off saying, “Do you feel that?”
The younger one looks at the taller one confused, “Feel what Tia?”
As soon as I hear "Tia" I back up a little and I turn to Chrysalis and she looks at me like we were thinking the same thing, but I go back to listening as the taller one looks around, “I swear I know this feeling… I felt it when I went by that room door at home… Like we weren’t the only ones in the castle that wasn’t our parents or guards…”
Luna, or who I suspect is Luna, puts a hoof on Tia’s shoulder, “It’s best we not think of our old home…”
Tia, “I know… it’s just that I know that we can’t be the last of our kind in these lands…” With that they both turn and trot out of the room.
I turn to Chrysalis and I mouth, “Lets go home now while we still can.” She sighs and nods, with that we dart out into the castle courtyard, change to our pegasus form, and fly off towards home. That was our first mistake because as we changed, Luna was looking out the window. She gasped as we change our form and flew away.
She ran and told Tia what she saw and Tia looked back at Luna saying, “I told you we weren’t the only ones.”
That cold stormy winter came as Chrysalis and I spent a lot of the time indoors and practicing spells. We found a plenty of good spells that would help us at home. A few spells actually came of use to us; helping if we needed to go somewhere and get supplies from one of the Three Territories. We kept a low profile and we always went together if we needed to get something, but that winter was different than the rest. The ponies’ anger at each other was getting worse as the winter became harsher. I told Chrysalis that we should stop going to the Territories, as there was much disharmony between the ponies’ that lived there. The rest of the winter we spent inside of the nearly finished mansion. Its majestic rooms were being finished and the plumbing was in need of connecting to the kitchen.
Finally came spring and we ran outside to the melting snow.
I smile and I look at Chrysalis, “Shall we see if the others survived?”
She tilts her head, “Who?”
Me, “Oh, I meant the other ponies from the Three Territories.”
Chrysalis, “Oh them, but I thought you said we couldn’t go back there?”
Me, “Yes, but let us just try seeing if their anger has died down. If not we can come back here and wait a little longer.”
Her, “Well then lets go!” We both turn into a pegasus and we fly off toward the Three Territories. We get there and find no signs of pony life. Chrysalis looked around at the desolate, un-kept village at the base of the castle. She looked at me, “Where are they?”
I look around and I see the castle up ahead, “Lets see if they are in the castle.” We run toward the castle and we head inside to be welcomed by old hanging banters. We search all around the castle with no luck of finding anypony what so ever.
“I wonder where they all went…” Chrysalis says to me after we meet back up at the main doors to the castle.
“I know… lets check further North. If not there we will search west, and then East,” I say with concern. Chrysalis and I fly off North and we don’t find any signs through the dense, untouched woods. We head back to the Unicorn Territories, and then we head to the East where we find ponies building on new homes. I stay a pegasus, landing and then I trot up to the nearest pony, a unicorn, and I ask him a couple of question.
I come back to Chrysalis and I tell her, “It seems the ponies have united races and have stared to build in these new lands that they are now calling Equestria. Seems it shall be easier for us to get supplies…” She tilts her head at me, as I suddenly stop talking.
“Are you ok?” She asks
I nod and I smile widely, “I just got an idea! We should make a tunnel to this area! It will be perfect! We can hide it and use it so that we ca…” I stop as a mare has snuck up on us and tapped me on the shoulder making me jump high up into the nearest tree.
She looks up and giggles saying, “I didn’t realize that somepony could be that jumpy!”
I look down at the mare and I fly down, landing next to Chrysalis, “Sorry… I am not use to having ponies sneak up on me…” I clear my throat, “What is it you need?”
She smiles, “I just saw you come over here and I thought you looked new! I have come to greet you!”
I put a smile on, “Why thank you. We appreciate your greetings. Um… would you mind showing my sister and I around? We are interested in buying land.”
The mare smiles and turns to lead the way, “Follow me and I shall show you around! We will end to meet with one of the princesses…”
I cut her off, “Can you buy us some land if I can give you the money for it? I get queasy when I am around the princesses.” She thinks for a while and then nods, “I could do that for you. It will cost you two thousand bits.”
I pull out my bag and I pour out two thousand bits into her pouch, “There you go. Now let us go on with the tour.” She smiles and starts to trot off and we follow. We go to about twenty different places and then we stop at the castle gates.
I smile saying, “We will stay out here and wait for you to come back with the deed to the land.”
Her, “Alright! I shall return in a couple seconds.” She trots off and I sit down near the castle doors, with the guards looking at me confused.
“Ugh, I thought that would never end,” I said groaning.
Chrysalis sits next to me, “Come on, it wasn’t that long.”
I groan a little, “I know… I am just exhausted.”
She pulls out some bread and hands it to me, “Here, eat this.”
I take it and I start to eat it, “Thank you, I needed this.”
The mare comes back out after a while and hands me a roll of paper, “There you go, just need you to sign your name and the land is yours!” I sign the scroll in five different places and I give the deed back so she can get the princess to sign it. She looks at the name and smiles, “I like your name. Bramble Seas, it sounds cute.”
She trots of and I blush a little as Chrysalis giggles, “I think somepony has an eye on you.”
I look at her and I blush harder, “Shut up!” Chrysalis continues teasing me and stops as the mare comes back with the same scroll and hands it to me not saying a word, but looks into my eyes examining me. She trots back into the castle with a posture of ending the conversations. I look at the scroll and it has a stamp of approval with a sack of two thousand bits that I put back into my bag.
I look at Chrysalis, “Well that was strange don’t you think?”
She nods, “Yes, one second she was happy and the next, she looked like she had just an announcement that she was going to die.”
Me, “Yea, well lets go to see our new land.” We fly off to our now new lands and I land in a wide-open field, “This will be perfect to build a house and make a tunnel.”
Chrysalis, “What will we build the house out of?”
I think and then I look at her, “Lets go home and get supplies then come back and start building, but first…” I change to a unicorn and I cast a spell on the ground so a flag appears, “There we go, that will mark our area.” I change to a pegasus and we fly off to our home.
After three days the house was built and the tunnel was hidden in the basement. We stayed there for a while until one day we get a knock at our front door. I go and I open the door to find the two ponies, my sisters from the library, standing there. I close the door and I yell to Chrysalis, “Get down here now!” She runs down and I tell her, “The princesses are here…”
She looks toward the basement and looks back at me, then whispers, “Are we going to escape?”
Me, “No… We will see what they want, then if they ask us to come with them we will dart.” She nods and I open the door with a smile, “I am sorry, I wasn’t expecting you two to visit us today and I was just surprised to see you. What can we do for you your highnesses?”
The smaller one, Luna, looks at me and smiles, “We are also sorry if we are interrupting something. We just heard you are new here and wanted to see how you are...”
She looks me over and then looks to the taller one, Tia, as she talks, “We are wondering if you had already gotten the deed from us to own this land.”
I nudge Chrysalis and she jumps a little, “O-oh, yes we did! L-Let me go get it!”
She darts off toward my room and I look at the two princesses, “P-please come in. We are happy to have you here…”
Luna put a hoof up and I silence, “Save it… We will come in, but we want to know who you are and why you are here now.” I gulp and I let them in. I show them to a place to sit down as Chrysalis comes in and shows them the deed.
She then asks, “May I get you some tea or anything to eat?”
Tia nods toward her way, “We would like some amber tea if you have any and just a small bit to eat, thank you.” Chrysalis nods, darts off, and starts to prepare the tea as well as some food fit for the princesses. I look at the two ponies that I suspect to be my sisters and I try to speak, but the words are stuck. After a tiny bit of silent time that seems like hours are passing, Tia speaks up, “I know you somehow… I saw you in a dream and I have heard mom and dad talk about a Nightmare Sacrifice in the castle. I feel like you are that Sacrifice…”
I sit there now scared and I talk, but in a low, silent mumble, “Me? Oh, b-but I am merely a simple Pegasus l-living with my sis...”
Tia cuts me off before I finish, “You two can drop the act…”
I stare at the two trying to keep calm, “What act?”
Tia, “I have a feeling you two are not who you ponies say you are…”
Me, “You maybe right… but I want to ask who you two are…”
They look at each other and the taller one talks first, “Celestia,”
The smaller one, “Luna.”
I gulp and I mange to get out a few words very quietly, “I-I know you two t-then… You are m-my sisters that I reviled so much for taking m-mom and dads love and attention for yourselves…”
The two couldn’t hear me and just put it to the side as if it wasn’t anything important. Tia says, “I want you to come with us back to the castle after we are done here…”
Chrysalis over hears and as she sets the tea and tiny sandwiches down, she whispers, “Should we go?” I simply shake my head and she takes her seat next to me.
Luna looks at us both, then her eyes widen, making Chrysalis and I look at each other as she asked, “Are y-you both alicorns l-like us? Like pure alicorns?” I sigh and it was like me and Chrysalis had a conversation in our heads, knowing we need to admit defeat.
I speak up, “I guess we can’t lie to you two any longer, so… Yes, we are alicorns.”
Celestia glared, “I thought so... Now show us your true forms…” We both turn back to normal and both Luna and Celestia get up fast, backing up a little. They both look me in the eyes with realization.
Celestia growls, “I should have known… You were the sacrifice… Yet you live and our parents have disappeared… Explain yourself now!”
My ears go down and tears run down my face as I look down, “I didn’t want to be a sacrifice… I DIDN’T WANT TO BE ONE!” I stand up, “Do you even feel anything toward your brother who was locked away in that cursed tower? Did you not notice the little foal in the window looking down at you?! I was destined to watch you two play and frolic with mom and dad while I was locked up in a room without any of the love and care that you two got!”
Celestia put her ears down and glared me in the eyes, “How dare you claim to be our brother… I would know if we had another kin…”
Me, “Well news flash… Mom and dad immediately locked me in that cursed room after I was born and never told anyone about me…”
Luna looks at me with sorrow in her eyes, “I-I knew you w-were alive… I saw you in my dreams… locked in that room… I wish I would have known more…”
I look at her with confusion, “How? Dad blocked off all means of magic to the room… I could only use a certain verity of spells…”
Luna looked at the ground for a second then looked up, “I-I can walk through d-dreams…”
Me, “How? Only dad could do that, but I am guessing you got his power when you were born…” She nodded and after that was said, Celestia and Luna sat back down.
Celestia, after a long silence, said, “Tell us what happened… Please, I want to know everything” I sighed and I looked them in the eyes. I looked away through the window to my left. I eventually looked back at them and told them everything that happened in the past.
After that day Chrysalis and I was asked to live in the castle, but not to let anyone know. We lived with them for years until one day Chrysalis said that she would go back home and see if she can get some books that she was still reading before we came back to the house in Canterlot. I tell her its fine and for that one night, I lay in bed feeling as if no pony is in the castle with me. I toss and turn all night, restless at the loneliness I felt. I get out of bed in the middle of the night and I head to the kitchen to get some water and food to help calm my nerves of being alone. I trot through the hall; my hoof steps echoing down some of the corridors. I trot into the kitchen and I come out into the dining room to see Luna is sitting by the window looking out into the vast land. Her mane lay out flowing as she hums a little; oblivious of me listing to her hum. I eventually trot over to her and ask, “Sister? Are you ok?”
She jumps at the sound of my voice, stopping her humming, and then sighs with relief, “Thank Equestria it’s just you, you scared me half to death.” I laugh a little and I use my magic to get me some more strawberries. I sit down next to Luna as she asks, “Why are you up? It is late into the night.”
I look at her, “I couldn’t sleep that well and I need something to drink and eat. I should also be asking you the same question,” I say after taking a sip of water.
She smiles, “Silly, I am almost always up every night.”
I look down at my strawberries, “Oh yea… the princess of the night thing…”
I sigh and she looks at me, “You ok?”
I shake my head back and forth, “No… I was laying in bed and I was thinking about how you control the moon, Tia controls the night, Chrysalis can control love, but I can’t control anything like you all can…”
She hugs me to comfort my thoughts and myself, “You have a purpose and I want to help you find what it is.”
I smile, “Thank you. I have actually wanted to ask you… Where you that pony who showed us around the village?”
She laughed, “I thought you would never figure that out. Yes, I was that pony. I only wanted to see who you were because you look nice and sweet.”
I blush a little as I remember what she said about my name, “You also thought my name was cute.” She blushed a little more than me and we sat in awkward silence.
Finally I spoke as she spoke and we both said at the same time, “Do you want to… Sorry… Sorry! Ah! You first. No, you first!” Luna breaks it laughing as I laugh and for the first time since my life with Chrysalis, I felt really loved by somepony else.
I spoke up, “Do you want to go out into the garden tomorrow so we can talk?”
She smiled with more of a blush, “That sounds fun brother, I would like that very much so.” I smile and sat with her all that night. We talk for a long while until I finally pass out from exhaustion. I wake up the next morning in Luna’s bed and I sit up slowly, looking around to see where I was. She comes in as I am getting out of her bed and she laughs at my bed head, “Well good morning messy mane.” I look up and I try to put it down, but with no luck. She smiles and points toward the door to my left that resides near the wardrobe, “The bathroom is through there, I will wait for you downstairs with food.” I smile and I dart toward the bathroom, I open the door, shut it, lock it, and I jump into the shower as hot water comes out onto my mane and coat. I wash up and I jump out, racing downstairs to the smell of food. I smile at the sight of good food that wasn’t made by me and I quickly sit down across from my sisters. We all began to eat and I answer every question they ask me. As soon as I am done eating Luna and I take the plates up. We take them to the kitchen where the kitchen workers take them from us to go clean them. I trot towards a door that I presume leads to the garden, with Luna leading the way.
As soon as I see the beautiful scenery I look at it all with a gleam of happiness in my eyes, “This garden is beautiful…”
Luna smiles, “It is the best place to start a good strong garden. Tia and I have worked on it for a long time. Maybe later you can add a touch of beauty to it.”
I nod towards her saying “I have a few rose seeds that I can plant someplace when I come back out here.”
She smiles, “Oh that is grand! Anyways, I have a question for you.”
I tilt my head, “Yes?”
Luna, “I have been wondering for a while now; when did you get Chrysalis? She is so sweet and nice that I was thinking her mom was a very nice pony.” I look at a tree and I told her the story of how I found Chrysalis in a basket and that I have been her only family she has known.
Luna was shocked, “That must have been hard to take care of a filly all by yourself.”
I shook my head, “No, actually, to my surprise, I was really good with taking care of her. When I got her I was aw struck that Starswil would know that I would be able to care for her so well.”
Luna, “You did better than well, you did great on raising a beautiful young mare.”
I blushed as we trot through a shadowy area of the forest part of the garden, “You really think so?”
She nodded, “I know so.” With that we walked around and talked until Tia yelled for us to come to lunch.
A few days went by and during breakfast, lunch, and dinner I would always talk to both Chrysalis and Tia. We would talk about what we should do for the next couple of days.
Chrysalis finally looked at me with a question I knew was coming one day, “Daddy? Where was I born? All I remember is that you finding me in the woods. Under the tree house that you made…”
I sigh looking at her, “I guess the time is right Chrysie.” Tia left the room so Chrysalis and I could finally have a talk about where she came from. We also talked on how the possibility that she came from somewhere to the North of Canterlot, in the winter ridden mountain. She took all the information pretty well. She said thank you for me telling her about everything. She eventually said she didn’t care much and that she was happy I had taken care of her. She was only curious about where she came from. We both started to try and find out where exactly she came from. We searched all around until we found a kingdom shining brighter than the sun, hidden in a storm of snow. We trotted on the main pathway in out pegasus forms to where we suspected to be the castle. It’s grand size towering over the other builds and a bright light emitting from its center. Guards stop us before we get to the center of the building. The guards looked at us with protectiveness in their eyes.
I smile saying, “Is this where the castle for this kingdom is? We got lost through the storm and somehow ended up in this very bright place.”
The guard to our left looked us over, “You two trekked through that storm and still found our kingdom?”
Guard two, “This is very interesting. Yes, this is the castle, but we can’t let you in or near the heart.”
Chrysalis looks at the confused when they say heart, “What heart?” The two guards look at each other and then move aside to reveal a crystal heart that is spinning in midair. Chrysalis looks at it and the unexpected happened. The crystal heart came of its pedestal and floated above Chrysalis. The guards are in shock of what they are seeing. The heart suddenly shines its power down on Chrysalis and reveals her true alicorn form. It then floats back to its resting place and spins once more in midair. The guard’s eyes widen and they quickly bow down to her.
The first guard speaks up as he looks up at her, “You must hurry and follow us to the throne room. We need to see if you are who we suspect you to be.” They take Chrysalis and me to the main throne room. They lead us to through and we end up in a bedroom.
I try and say something, but Chrysalis cuts me off, “This… this looks familiar…” She trots around the room and then picks up a teddy bear off the bed. Tears start to well up into her eyes as she holds the bear tightly. She looks at me, “T-This is my room… My home…” The guards look at each other and they nod.
Guard two bows down with the other guard and says, “Welcome home Queen Chrysalis.” She looks at them and then at me. I am aw shocked; as I look at her excitement and sadness mix together.
She looks at the guards, “Leave me be for a bit to take this all in.” The guards quickly leave.
I look at her, “Are you… ok?”
She nods looking out her window at the buildings, “I remember now… My parents and I use to live here long ago when they were the rulers of this empire…” She explained that her mother, Blooming Heart, feared for the safety of Chrysalis. Blooming sent Chrysalis away with Starswil so he could keep her safe. She was eventually sent to me. She explained that the empire was the 2nd most powerful empire in the land. That was before a neighboring land sent an assassin to kill off the crystal empires rulers. They killed all the family and the heirs to the throne, all of them except Chrysalis.
She looked at me smiling, “I want to protect this land and help keep it orderly.
I look at her in her dark green eyes to see the seriousness of what she meant and I nod, “If you think you are ready to rule an empire by yourself then I can not object.” I smile, “I know you will do great at keeping this land very well organized and orderly.”
She hugged me tightly, “Oh thank you daddy!”
In time the crystal empire officially made Chrysalis the queen. She, Celestia, and Luna all agreed to sign the treaty that was a sign of truce between the two empires. Every time they would have an event, Chrysalis would invite us all to it so we could enjoy the customs of their land. All was well and the years went by as we all were enjoying ourselves in out own way. I spent time talking with Tia and Luna. Some days we would have time to relax and just play around in the guard and other days my sisters would be busy. The days they were busy I would spend time flying through the garden or lying in a tree to read a nice book. Every time I read I would eventually fall asleep in the tree with the book lying on my face. Luna was almost always the one to find and wake me up for dinner. Some nights Tia would bring me to my room. She would always just lay me in bed, pull the covers over me, and let me rest for the night. It was all just so fun and nice to finally be with my sister once more, but one day we were called to battle against the King of Chaos, Discord.
The day was like any normal day, Luna and I were out in the garden practicing our magic together, and suddenly a guard came up saying that Ponyville was under attack by a Draconequus. Luna wanted me to come, but Tia said that I should stay at the castle where I would be safe. I got a little mad because, like always, I had to stay in the castle alone and not get to go fight evil with my sisters. I stormed off to my room, I layed down in my bed, and I fell asleep. I awoke to a beautiful mare standing next to my bed and she stared into my eyes.
I was about to speak, but she put a hoof up and shook her head saying, “Come my King I must make you the bearer of children by order of the Ancients.” I didn’t say a word and I went with her. She brought me into a big, wide area that opened up into a field of soft grass that waved in the wind. Ahead was a grand tree that had a symbol of genders put together at the base of the tree trunk. Under it was a bowl filled with purple looking water.
I look at the mare and she pointed at the bowl saying, “The bowl will give you Genders Gift. Your sisters have denied a bearer’s gift. One child you will have to keep the linage. Now go, go, and drink to receive the bearer’s gift.” I go over and I pick up the bowl with my magic and I drink it. After the last drop touches my tongue I wake up breathing fast. I run out of my room and I pass my sisters, before they could say anything. I explode out of the castle doors, guards falling to the ground as I fly towards Ponyville. I crash right in front of Discord.
He jumps back surprised as I stand up from the crater and he tilts his head and grins, “Ah! A new playmate! Who migh…”
I interrupt him saying, “Discord… I search you out to say something to you…”
He appears all around me, checking to see if he knows me, “I don’t understand. Who are you to be looking for chaos?”
He laughs loudly and then shuts up as I talk, “I need to talk with you when we meet again. I have little time now as I have been weakened. Please let them win so we can have a safe meeting. Goodbye for now my sweet grandson.” With that I disappear, only to reappear in my bed as I blackout. The next day I awoke with my sisters standing around my bed with a doctor. I look at them as they hug me tightly.
Luna looks at me with reddish eyes that made it apparent that she was crying, “Thank Equestria your ok.”
I look at them confused, “What happened? Am I sick?”
I say that mostly toward the doctor that’s with us and he says, “No, thankfully you made a full recovery. You are very much fine now. I was called because you were found here and you were hardly breathing. I was called here with a medical team to help make sure you got back to your normal state.
I give him a concerning look, “Normal state? What all else was wrong with me?”
He sighed, “You had a high fever, looked whiter than snow, had a very low heart beat, and your immune system had stopped working.” I look at my sisters for conformation and they both nodded.
I look back at him as he said, “I have never heard of something like this nor have I seen something like this ever happening. Thankfully we got to you and healed you just in time. You were still out for a very long time so I stayed here to watch over your health. Eventually you started to regain color, your heart rate came back, your immune system started back up, and the fever went down shortly after that. Seeing as you have woken up, I will be off. I will return in a week or two to see how you are doing.” My sisters paid him, thank him greatly, and he went on his way.
Luna looked at me, “You just darted off… You looked like you had seen a ghost.” I told them what I saw and heard from what I told Discord.
I sighed, “It seems that I was saying he was my grandson. I think… I think Discord is a spawn of my bloodline…”
After I finished, Tia spoke up, “Bloodline? How… Wait… the story of what happened to you while you were… That thing… He used your blood to create those monsters… That means you’re the somewhat grandfather of all monsters and the father of monsters is inside of you…
There was silence until Luna spoke up, “What do you think we should do with Discord? He is your grandson…”
I sigh, “Turn him to icy stone… It’s the only safest way to stop him without hurting him…” They looked at each other then went out of the room to fetch something. They come back after a while with six colored gems and I ask, “What are those?”
Luna looked at Tia saying, “Tell him.”
Tia sighed, “These are the Elements of Harmony, each one representing an element of friendship; Generosity, Kindness, Loyalty, Honesty, Laughter, and Magic. These elements will turn Discord into stone.”
Me, “Go then… I want to speak with him as soon as he is in the castle gardens. Make sure the place you put him is beautiful… Please… I only want him to feel comfortable in his stony sta-”
Tia puts a hoof up before I can finish, “You mustn’t speak anymore… stay here and rest your eyes dear brother. You need to rest.” I nod, I turn, and I close my eyes. A couple hours go by before one of the guards comes up to my room and wakes me up to tell me the Draconequus is in the center of the garden. I get out of bed and I go out to see the now stony Discord placed up as a statue.
I get up to the base of the statue and say, “I am sorry Discord… I wish we could have talked sooner and in a better much nicer situation, but I couldn’t let you harm the land any longer…”
His statue glows a warm purple color where his heart is as he says, “Don’t worry, I shall break out in a matter of years. Who are you anyways to call me grandson? I can’t seem to access my powers through this cursed stone so I am able to open up the book of my chaotic lineage.”
I sigh, “Your somewhat grandfather… Bramble Sea…”
He makes a low laughter, “Oh please, you can’t be my grandfather! I only had two parents that were wiped out by your alicorn kind. Yes, that’s right. I saw the whole thing… The Nightmare Angel is my grandfather and he was defeated for being too weak…”
I tear up a little, “He is part of me… He used my blood to create you and a lot of other creatures and monsters…”
Discord stayed silent and then spoke, “Be here when I break free… I want to talk with you more at that time to make a plan…”
I nod and I fly back into my room where Luna was waiting for me and she smiled, “How did it go?”
Me, “It went well. I hope he gets out soon. Me and him have much to talk about.”
Luna hugged me for comfort sake only, but I can feel her worry in my words as she speaks, “Don’t worry he will be out sooner than you know it. Maybe he will learn from this experience and listen to us next time. Maybe he will listen to you if you can talk some sense into him!” With that she trotted off and headed toward her room to prepare for the night to come. I trot up the stairs, through the corridor, I open my bedroom door, and I fall into my soft, well-known bed as I fall asleep.
One night, as I lay asleep, because I was exhausted since we had just celebrated Luna’s birthday. I awoke to my horn glowing a pink color and I tilt my head confused as the mare appeared to me again, “The months have come and you have been gifted this day.” With that she touched my belly and I awoke feeling smaller and lighter than usual. I look at hooves and then I quickly get up. I go over to the mirror and I scream at what I see. Luna and Tia rush in and stop right at the door as I am hiding under the covers shaking.
Luna comes over to me, “B-Bramble? Are you ok?”
I point toward the mirror and I speak in my new mare voice, "Please tell me if that mirror is broken…” Tia looks at it then back at me, slowly pulling at my blankets to pull them away. She is preparing for the worst, but as she lifts the blankets away I try to hold onto them. My struggle to keep the blankets ends to no avail at my weaker state, she takes them away, and there I sit as a mare.
Tia, “You g-gender bended? Why would you change your own gender?!”
I whimper speaking very quietly, but loud enough for them to hear, “I-I didn’t… the mare told be to d-drink a purple liquid in my sleep and s-she said I was... g-gifted…”
Luna looked at Tia with a look of concern and Tia spoke up, “Did the mare say anything about us?” I nod and told them what she said about how they didn’t want to be the bearer of children.
Tia and Luna put their ears down and looked away, Luna sighing, “The mare said she could do that, but I didn’t think she would actually go through with choosing you to take upon our unwilling… We need to speak wi…”
I cut her off, “No, it’s fine sister. I will take on your unwilling. For you two I would do anything, even if it means risking my life to save you.”
Luna, “Y-you really mean it brother? You would do that even after we keep you hidden here in the castle grounds...”
I nod, “I do, I will do this for you two.”
They hug me genteelly as Tia says, “You don’t know how much this means to us… I thank you dear broth- well… dear sister. I need to get use to calling you that now don’t I?”
I smile, nod at her question, and I look myself in the mirror, “You know I do look petty cute if you think about it.” They laugh and after talking for a bit about what we need to do about this and if I am feeling ok. They eventually tell me that they must take a short trip to a meeting with the Griffon Empires and that they will make sure a guard is placed at my bedroom door so no pony can be let in.
I smile, “Thank you, I wish you luck with the griffon race. They can be quite difficult. I will make sure to stay safe when walking about.” Luna looks back as they head out the door, “We will be back tomorrow dear um… sister. I will keep you company in your dreams.” She smiles and bounds off as Tia calls for her to hurry up. I smile and I go get in the shower and I sit there complaining about the difficulty of washing my new, longer mane. The next couple of days were normal, but one day my stomach had gotten a little bigger. I looked at it in the mirror and I feel it. Suddenly, there was a kick. I run into my sisters’ room and as soon as they see my bigger belly they look at me with concern as they deduced what could possibly have happened.
Luna stutters out what is on their minds, “B-Brother… d-did you…”
Before she could finish I cry out, “No! I haven’t! I haven’t been near any stallion since I changed! Much less in bed with one! That mare... she said I was gifted with something and touched my belly. You don’t think she bestowed this upon me…”
Tia stands up, “We must get you to the hospital!” They both teleport me fast to the Canterlot hospital to see if what we think has happened is true. Sure enough, I am to be the bearer of a child and it is to be a foal. I lay on the hospital bed and I look up at the ceiling absolutely scared out of my mind. Scared about actually giving birth to a little foal and being a single mother through it all. Luna stayed with me for a while to help comfort me through all of what happened. After a couple months, the day comes to give birth to my son. It takes a bit through the pain of childbirth, but I finally did it. I had given birth to a cute baby foal. The doctors clean him up and they give him to me as I hold him gently in my hooves. Luna and Celestia take turns holding him, all the time fanmareing over the fact that the baby is cuter than all get out. They are happy for me that I am now a mother for a beautiful baby foal. Luna and Tia eventual say that they are willing to help care for it in anyway they are able to. I took the baby back into my hooves and I looked at him, smiling at his gray-black coat as I pet his bald little head saying, “I will call him Blaze.” I saw a little smile on his face as reacting to the name and I kissed his forehead.
Years went by as I had cared for him. He eventually grew out a darkish gray mane and tail. Though what was surprising was that he was only a unicorn and the doctors couldn’t deduce why it was. I didn’t care much about what race he was, only that I was able to see him and care for him. Chrysalis heard the news and was the most excited to have a baby step-brother that she could visit, which made her come more often than she usually did. After a couple of years when he became a suitable age, Chrysalis asked me if she could care for him for a year or so. She said I could always have him back when I wanted to see him and that she promised to take good care of him. I had to think about it for a couple days until I decide that since Chrysie was family that it would be okay for her to care for him when he became the age of ten. When he was finally ten years old I gave him over to Chrysalis to care for and I came to visited him every 2 weeks or so. I also went when my sisters had to go to the Crystal Empire for a business trip. He seemed to like the Empire more than Canterlot so after long thinking of how well Chrysalis was caring for him, I told her what my plans were and she agreed very happily to take the care of him like I had to her. With that I let her mother the child at the age of twenty-one and after the three months of each year when I had turned back to my stallion-self I would go and visit him. He would tell me how much he loved to live at the Empire and would be king like me one day. I loved him so much, but a when day came he turned from a happy child of mine to the evil that would change the Crystal Empire forever.
I had just gotten up when a messenger flew in with a letter from the Crystal Empire and it stated: “Bramble… please come help me… Blaze has been messing with dark magic and it has corrupted his mind. Get your sisters and come here as soon as possible. Please, before it's too late." Signed, Queen Chrysalis
I shot up out of bed after reading the letter and I ran toward Tia’s room and when I got there I looked at them both, "Sisters, its blaze!" I lay the letter out for them to read and Luna went to the library for the shelf of dark, magical books. The one book that was missing from the shelf was the one-called Sombra's Nightmares.
She ran back in and said, “Did you know he had Sombra’s book of dark magic?”
I shake my head, “I never gave him those kind of books… He must have found it in the archives when he last came here… we must get those books and hide them all so that no pony can find them again!”
Luna nods, “Yes, but for now, we need to prepare for the worst and get ready to head out to the Crystal Empire.
A day goes by and a pony that had escaped before the new Sombra took over the Crystal Empire came crashing into the main doors. He was weak and finally got out the words before the guards caught him, "The Crystal Empire has fallen to Sombra and his army!" I look to my sisters and they both nodded. They knew what had to be done this moment.
Tia looked at me and said something I have been waiting to hear, “Brother we need your help with fighting the new and reborn Sombraic army. Will you come with us and command our army against the evil he has brought upon the land?” I gave her an excited shake of the head up and down. She smiled and with that we gathered up the Canterlot army and headed off toward the Crystal Empire.
We got there finding Chrysalis lying on the ground with a shattered sword next to her. I ran over to her and she started to change form as the darkness Sombra had casted over her started taking its toll. She began to form a hard bug shell around her coat and holes appeared in her body as she got up.
I backed away as she spoke to me through my thoughts with all her will, “Father… I am sorry, but I have to do this if it means helping you and your sisters defeat the new Dark King… I love you and will go back home after this darkness is gone… Me and my subjects will do many bad things in the future, but when you come back we will find you…” She yelled with anger at the sky as bug-type ponies’ form all around her, coming from the sky and the ground. They hiss at Sombra’s dark army in front of them as they sense their mother, their queen is in danger. They all run forward as Chrysalis summons a huge monster changeling under her and it crawls off toward the battlefield where Sombra’s dark army is clashing with the other changelings. As for the Canterlot Army they are readying their catapults and they have their weapons drawn with their magic. The air support is flying with smoke bombs at the ready as they all move forward at my command. My sisters have their armor on and ready and I stand their unarmed and unprotected due to me only staying back to bark orders. I wait eagerly to go with my sisters to fight with them.
Tia looks at me, “Brother… You need to stay here… You will get hurt if yo…”
I put a hoof of up before she can finish and I sit disappointed, “Go on… I will watch and wait like always…”
Tia, “I didn’t mean it li…”
Me, “Just go!” She and Luna look at each other and then they fly off without another word, leaving me behind to deal with my anger and the job of commanding the army.
I feel my right side start to darken and the Nightmare Angel speaks to me before disappearing, “The day will come when you will fall to me little one. Soon you will cause your beloved moon sister a tragic 1000 years to come. For now I will share my power so you can win this battle.” I hear his laugh echo through my head as he recedes back into his cage in my heart. I shake my head and I look out at the battle with a sudden urging to run into it, an urging to not be a waste just commanding the army, but to help it. I get up suddenly, without warning, starting up my magic and I pull out a light purple sword and my tail forms around me like a coat of armor, making it so it looks just like my normal grey coat and I dash into battle. As I fly past the changelings I slice through a Dark Entity and it crumbles to dust. As the others see that they all come for me with the intent to kill. Before they reach me though, an officer commands them all away from me. They look up as a black and red dragon with sharp crystal scales, obsidian claws and teeth, wings made out of pure dark crystal, and its eyes are blood red diamonds. It shots towards me and it hits me hard as I push my sword out into it. Eventually, it shatters after a couple swings with my sword and I stand there in the middle of the remains of the broken up dragon. The entities pay no attention though fear wells up in them as I am slicing through them left and right, my anger growing more and more. I fly up as soon as I hear a scream from my Luna and I dart toward the castle. I crash through one of the dark crystal windows and I land hard, making the ground crack under the impact. I stare up to see Blaze, transformed into the new Sombra, standing with Tia on the ground shaking from the nightmarish scenes that go through her mind and Luna is in a deep sleep and pined to the ground with dark crystals.
Sombra laughs and trots toward me, “Oh hello father. I have been waiting for- Wait you are not the Nightmare Angel… yet you are simply using a little of his power? Interesting… I know are the father for the body that I now posses, but he is no more.”
I growl, “I will free him from your dark magic Sombraic! You died years ago due to your own dark magic and you will fall again by it failing to protect you!”
I dart at him but he mists away and appears behind me, “Foolish king… I know all your powers just by you coming here… You are the one who will fall!” I notice Tia’s bag glimmer with gems and I realize they are the Elements of Harmony.
I think: “If I could get to the bag I could use the Elements on him. I need to catch him off guard though…” I grin at the plan that forms in my head and I dart upward as he makes a crystal grow under me. I slice down at him, but his scythe parries with my sword and my sword disappears. I make three other swords reappear and I send them flying at him from all directions, distracting him as I grab the Elements out of Tia’s bag. I cast my magic and they start to swirl around me at a high speed, making my power stronger and the warm light wakes Luna from her sleep as Celestia is freed from the images of darkness. Sombra growls as my sword lands in front of him. Sombra looks at me with anger in his eyes and shots a dark crystal toward my direction. The crystal is sharp enough to cut through even the thickest of armor, but it only shatters as soon as it gets hit by the warm light that the Elements emit all me.
I growl at Sombra with tears in my eyes, “I told you… They would fail to save and protect you…” Luna and Tia gasp as my eyes glow dark in one and white in the other. I glare and I shoot Sombra, turning him to pure darkness and I encase him in the ground outside the empire. The land itself opens up wide and swallows him as he screams, falling into the earthen prison. The tower begins to shake as I hear crying coming from the bedroom two rooms away from the throne room. I look in the direction of the room as I remembered that two years ago Chrysalis had given birth to a baby that she named after her great grandmother, Mia Mora Cadenza. I ran toward the room where Chrysalis’s husband was lying on the bed, dead with a crystal through him. In the bed next to him was a baby filly that was being concealed in a protective crystal to keep it safe. I pick up the crystal with Cadenza in it and I teleport it to the nearest wooded area. The woods I teleported her to was near a town called Falling Springs. A small community that thrived off of the rich farmlands that it resides on. Though, as soon as I teleport Cadenza way, the Empire starts to shake and I see all the armies’ retreat from each other. The Sombraic Army is stuck to rot in the disappearing empire. Luna, Celestia, and I fly out and meet with our army. I land next to them as the empire completely disappears. I look toward the east, watching Chrysalis and her army scatter away on fear to the snowy mountains. I watch as Chrysalis looks back at me with a tiny hint of pain in her eyes, and then she disappears into the distance. That would be the last I saw of her for a long time.
A couple weeks go by and every day we spend a little more quitter than usual. One day Luna, Tia, and I meet and we talk about what all happened.
Tia looks at me as we all sit around in a living room are and she sighs, “Brother… I don’t know if you are stupid or crazy… but if you weren’t there we would have been killed or imprisoned by Sombra… This doesn’t mean I am not still angry at you for disobeying me for staying put.”
I growl, “Well I am sorry for disobeying you… I have just won the war…”
Tia looks me dead in the eyes, “Yet you lost an entire empire.”
Luna notices my anger welling up, “Please calm down brother… you mustn’t get t-”
I yell at Luna through my unknowing rage building up, “Shut up! This is between me and Tia!”
Luna whimpers, putting her ears down and Tia stands and yells at me, “Don’t you ever yell at her again!”
I stand my anger growing to its boiling point, “At least you let her go places and not leave her behind almost every time you go and do something fun or important! I hate being alone! It makes me feel like I am back home in the locked room and being deprive of love that mom and dad never gave me!” The last words came out in a low piercing yell. My right side slowly starts to grow dark and Tia runs for her room to get the elements as Luna tries to calm me down. Luna puts her hoof up, hesitant to put it on my shoulder as she begged at me, “Please brother! Stop this; you’re making him stronger!" I grab her with my right hoof, which had now become a claw, and the Nightmare Angel sends an evil spirit into her as I glare inside her eyes with my dark purple eyes. As soon as the creature is sent into Luna, Tia runs in and casts a spell with the elements to change me back. Little did she know that it wouldn’t only change me back, but would also put me into an eternal sleep. I was teleported far into the Everfree Forest and I was placed into a cave that was sealed by a large magical barrier. There I lay, dormant for over 1000 years, sleeping and until the time for when a sonic rainboom would wake me up from my long slumber.”
I sigh as I look back up at you "When that day came, I hid away in the Everfree Forest once again. I will wait for them to find me this time, if they even want to find me that is.”
I look into your eyes to see tears forming and falling out onto the grass underneath our hooves. That story you just heard, the feelings you are feeling, the scenes of the past that you just saw, and the knowledge you gained have confounded you.
I smile and I hand you a whistle with your cutie mark on it, “This is the real key to your room. That key you have is to this room. It is now open to you to use whenever you want to see everything from my story again. Just blow the whistle and you will be sent straight to your room. Rest up, having all of this dropped on you is hard to take and you should rest your mind. I need to get going to my room, if you need me, then just call for me and I will show up when I can.”
You look at the whistle and then back at me, “I-I…” You stop and blow the whistle to go to your room. I sit in the training room alone for a bit to turn the machine off. I eventually head straight to my room to rest. I lay my head in the soft bed and the water works start up as I drift off to sleep. The pain of the past still hurt more than ever when I see and tell it. I just hope that one day my sisters will look for me as I miss them dearly. Sleep hits me and my mind stops wondering through everything I saw once again tonight. My breathing eventually gets normal and I lay there in silence as my dreams start to form before me for that long nights rest.