//------------------------------// // Q-bee // Story: Legend of Epona // by NJH12 //------------------------------// Q-bee *cockatrece or a rooster wake up noise* "Rise and shine everypony! Time to farm. Epona! Since you are our guest, you can choose to help with chores or do something else.” Applejack said. “I will help out, what do you need me to do Miss Jack?” Epona asked. “You don't have to call me Miss, Applejack or Jack is fine. Anyway, I need you to help plow with my brother Big Mac. He is the one with the yoke. You can't miss him.” Applejack said. So Epona walked towards a pony about one-fourth her size with red fur, a green apple on his flank, and a yoke on his neck. This must be Big Mac, Epona thought, “Are you, Big Mac?” “Yep,” Mac said. “so how I can help you plow?” Epona asked. “Soups up everpony!” Applejack said in the distance. “We got to go, somepony wants to see all the family,” Mac said. So Epona followed Big Mac and went towards a unicorn who was levitating a small piece of paper which immediately froze when she saw Epona. “...and this mare is Epona, she is staying with us for now,” Applejack said. “Woah! But that is impossible! Earth ponies physically cannot get that big without support no offense to you, Epona.” Twilight Sparkle. “None took, Miss...?” Epona questioned politely “Twilight Sparkle, a protegee of Princess Celestia,” Twilight said. Epona quickly bows at the royal noble “I am so sorry, I did not know of your lineage Royal protegee Twilight Sparkle, for that I am sorry, but I am not an Earth Pony I am a Hylian Horse.” “Five things; one, You think I'm royalty? Well, I am a student of hers, not royalty. Two, I have seen pictures of horses in Saddle Arabia, and they are not like you. Third, what is a Hylian? Fourth, you should not be physically possible which hurts my brain cells and five, why don't you have a cutie mark.” Twilight said. “If I answer your concerns, Royal protegee Twilight Sparkle, I come from a place where there are beings who walked on two legs and had hands they also had pointed ears, and they were the dominant race where I was a noble steed to help burdened the weight of my owner's…” Epona said before she was cut off by Twilight “You were a slave? And stop saying ‘Royal protegee Twilight Sparkle’ just Twilight is fine” Twilight interrupted Epona “You did not let me finish, royal…  I mean Twilight Sparkle, I what was going to say…” Epona stops speaking to hear.   “HELP! Somepony!” a fainted voice screamed inside of Epona's ears she rushed towards the sound where Twilight and Applejack trailing very far behind. “Anypony, help!” the voice was Apple Bloom, and she was surrounded by what looked like Wooden wolves. Epona tries to ram them but when a few sticks are knocked out of them they return to normal undamaged, so Epona puts on a random mask out of her bag. Epona screams from the excruciating pain in her body, and her voice changes from normal to demonic. It hurts Epona so much that she almost wished for death's embrace, but when the screaming and pain were done, Epona now had a horn and wings. The horn itself looked like two separate horns fused at the bottom, and top one side of it was blueish-silver while the other side was steel grey. While the wings were steel grey appended with blueish-silver feathers her eyes were a bright soulless neon white, her mane was dark neon blue and flowing in a nonexistent wind. But only Apple Bloom saw this when Twilight and Applejack finally came they just saw what looked like a Princess unlike any they had seen. “Hold on Bloom.” Epona said with a deity voice fused with her own while Twilight Sparkle confused ‘Who was this princess?’ Twilight thought as she just stood there when this mysterious princess used her horn as a blade stabbing the timberwolf and burning it from inside making the others run for their lives. “Thanks, Epona!” “Epona?!” “Yes in this form you can call me Deity Epona” Deity Epona said. “But how?! Wait!  Did you say in this form? Are you a changeling?” Twilight asked. “Hold that thought, I must take this off.” As she put her hooves towards her face Twilight and Applejack were mentally screaming ‘NO!’ when Epona was pulling off her face and demonic scream came out of Epona and Epona was back to her usual self. with a mask in a hoof. "What the...?!" Twilight almost cursed but stopped herself. "These are my... Friends masks there are four of them with strange properties. The one that you saw was the fierce deity mask. As you can see they change your form, but at the cost of being excruciatingly painful enough that you would wish for death's embrace. Only a strong will can overcome it. It's depressing, but the payoff could almost be worth it." Epona said showing the other three masks. Twilight Sparkle looked at all four masks. The 'fierce deity' mask had a pony's face with a blueish-silver mane on the forehead a two-sided horn and at the edges of the mask were wings. Another mask looked like a unicorn, but the face up to the horn was weirdly wooden. The brown mask looked like an earth pony, but the face was extremely rocky. The final mask was blue and had wings at the side, but the face up to the wings was strangely scaled. "We need to talk, now!" Twilight said. End of part one.