"Thank you, my friends, for coming today," Solaris declared as he was surrounded by four alicorns when he sat down at the round table. Sat beside him was Caelum, Arbor, Selene, Ignis Terran, or Ignis as he was called, and then Aqua Vitae. The Rulers of the Sky, Nature, Night, Fire and Earth, and the Sea respectively.
"What is it that you want, Solaris?" Aqua Vitae asked raising a brow suspiciously.
"I want to share my idea of how to save nature, Vitae. What, did you think this was about cuddle time?" Sol sarcastically said, earning a few chuckles from around the room.
"You truly found a way to save Alitantis?" Arbor questioned, with a look of wonder on his face.
"Yes Arbor, with all of us working together then we should be able to accomplish this."
"Well then, what is it?" Vitae snapped.
"Patience brother, he is getting to it," Ignis said, trying to cool down his brother ironically.
"Thank you, Ignis" Solaris was a bit nervous of the next part, as he needed the help from all of the Alicorns. He had planned it all out, and now the only thing that could stop this from happening is the agreement from his friends. "I propose to create an entirely new race to spread across Alitantis!"
"What?! That is absurd brother!" Sol's twin brother Caelum said.
"It isn't! Listen to me, and you will see how it can work!" Solaris yelled, gaining silence from everyone, "As I was saying, I propose we bring in a new species, Ponies, and rename Alitantis to Equestria to better recognize who will live here."
"What do you mean, won't they also be Alicorns?" Selene asked, confusion written on her face.
"Not exactly, they will have parts of an Alicorns."
"What do you mean 'parts', brother?" Caelum asked.
"They will have the different aspects of us, but not all of our aspects," Solaris explained, "For example, the unicorns will have our horns and be the strongest in magic, while the pegasi have the wings and the ability to affect the weather, and last but not least the earth ponies will have our strength and the ability to grow plants unlike either of the other races. Oh, and the sea ponies will have the ability to change form in order to traverse the earth, sea, or sky."
"What will the unicorns do, it seems like all they will do is exist?" Ignis questioned.
"They will have one of the more difficult jobs, they will have to raise the sun and the moon, every day, and every night." Solaris answered.
"Isn't that our job honey?" Selene asked, concerned.
"It won't be for much longer, it will consume most of my power to make these four races, so I will no longer be able to raise and lower the sun. And it will be too much power needed for you to raise both, so I needed to have a race to be able to do those things for us."
"Alright, but, how will these ponies learn these skills? They can't just be made to know."
"That is where I will need your help, I will need you all to teach them how to do their jobs," Solaris started, "Arbor, you will need to teach the earth ponies how to farm and to take care of the Nature around them. Caelum, you will need to teach the pegasi how to change, and make the weather. Vitae, you will make sure the sea ponies can change fluently and to take care of underwater life, I will take care of the unicorns knowing how to raise the sun and moon."
"And what will I be doing?" Ignis wondered.
"You will need to get all of the dangerous monsters and contain them in a deep pit, a prison to make sure none of them escape."
"I can do that nicely..."
"Good, everyone ok with their assignments?" Solaris asked, making sure everyone was happy.
"Um, sweetie, you never gave me something to do..." Selene almost whispered.
"With you having our babies I don't want to put any stress on you, so you will just be resting, and waiting for them to come." Sol explained.
"I am not helpless you know, I can help!" Selene glared at him.
"I am not saying you are. I am just saying you should let the stallions do what is necessary while you rest. This isn't something a mare should be worrying about..." Solaris whispered.
"Bu-" Selene protested.
"No! Go upstairs and rest, we need to discuss some important things!" Solaris ordered. Selene huffed and stormed to their bedroom.
"Excuse us for that. Now why don't we move on?"
"I have something to ask," Vitae trotted forward, his muscles and face tense.
"What is it Vitae?
"Why must we make a lower race to us in order to do things that we already do? I am not going to become lazy!"
"I am not saying you will. We will still do our jobs, but it will be easier to keep check of everything in nature."
"We do fine the way it is, so what if a few animals or trees die? It's nature, things are going to die! Things are born to replace them. Introducing an entire new species could disrupt it to a greater extent than if we just kept going how we were!" Vitae yelled at Solaris, his pupils dilating and nostrils flaring.
"If we do nothing, then all of the wildlife and nature in Alitantis will die!" Arbor argued. "Ever since the 'changelings' left us, the decline has started to increase more and more by the week!"
"Well if Sol hadn't let them leave then we wouldn't be in this situation!"
"How is this my fault?" Sol questioned. Eyes darting to Vitae, widened larger than before.
"If you had laid your hoof down sooner than the changelings never would have left and instead, continued caring for our nation," Vitae scoffed when he said the name of the new country
"You are suggesting that we go to war with the Dragon Lands, Vitae!" Solaris bristled, changing into a defensive form.
"It would have been better than losing all of our subjects."
"We very well might have if we went to war. Queen Metamorphosis was just looking for an opportunity to break away!"
"And you gave it right to her! We could have easily taken the dragons! So what if they were bigger than us? They're so greedy that they haven't taken any lands since they became a nation! The only thing tying them together is their "Dragon-Lord Torch", who is only a teenager!"
"Vitae, please trust me on this. I am doing what I think will give the best outcome. You practically get a whole nation to lead once we finish the spell!" Sol pleaded, trying to reason with one of his oldest friends.
"Fine, I don't like it, but if it is what you think is best then I will join you," As he finished Vitae quickly turned with his wings flaring at his sides, storming off before anypony else could talk.
"Thank you!" Solaris tried to yell after the retreating figure, getting a short "hmph" in response.
"Are you ready?" Solaris asked the group. They all agreed and Solaris began.
His horn lit up and his whole body began to glow bright. He slowly levitated higher and higher as he glowed brighter. Eventually his body seemed to be splitting, getting torn in half like bacteria and duplicating. His duplicate peeled away from him and itself began breaking up, the other Alicorns watched as slowly, four ponies began to come away from his duplicate's tearing. One had a horn that glowed brightly, another had wings that looked like they could race to the ends of Equestria. The third didn't have either, but you could see the strength and gentleness in it's muscles and eyes. The fourth looked nothing like the other three though, it had feathers and wings, and even claws instead of hooves. But while they were watching it seemed to change into what looked like a cross between a pony and a fish. All of a sudden, the four ponies split into two of each kind, they split again, and again, until it looked like there were a hundred of them. Solaris's body stopped glowing, and the new race of ponies drifted down to the ground with Solaris.
"Wow," Ignis breathed.
"Astounding," Even Vitae was impressed by what happened.
"Ponies! Your task in this world is too protect nature! You each have your own tasks that you Alicorn Guardian will talk to you about! Enjoy your time, and your descendants will become powerful beings!"
"Hold on just a minute!" Vitae commanded, "Hyppogriffs come to me!"
"Vitae, what is the meaning of this!" Solaris demanded, feeling rage boil under his fur.
"I do not want to be part of your pathetic little pony race, you have gone soft! That is why the hyppogriffs and I are leaving and starting our own nation!" Vitae exclaimed.
"Brother, are your sure?" Ignis questioned, betrayal laced in his tone.
"Yes, I am sorry brother, but you will see me no more, once we move on you will have no contact with us until I die! I hope that they forget that each of the races were ever related!"
"Vitae, if you do this, we will no longer be friends. We will be enemies, and we can no longer help you," Solaris warned.
"Yes, I am sure Solaris, I will no longer need your help either," Vitae spat at him, "Hyppogriffs, come!" And with that, Vitae and the hyppogriffs left, never to see the ponies until thousands of years later.
"Goodbye friend, I do dearly hope you change your mind one day..." Solaris whispered, a single tear rolling down his cheek.
To be Continued...