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// The End 
// Story: The Lies We Tell to  Children 
// by GaPJaxie 
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Alas, this story is never to be finished. But for those of you curious what would have happened, here are my remaining notes, including the ending!





The core chapters continue with the same theme. Each time, Celestia teaches Twilight a lesson that is helpful and age-appropriate, but technically founded on a lie, while Luna presents the cold truth. The other chapters I had in mind were:



Cheaters Never Win

Looks Don't Matter

Race Doesn't Matter

Money Doesn't Matter

Words Will Never Hurt You

Unconditional Love

Hard Work Always Pays Off


But along the way, we start to see other chapters where she runs into her friends. In each of these chapters, she knows her friends and they know her, but they're certain they've never met, except to say: "Maybe I dreamed about you." You've already seen two of these published, Destiny (Rarity) and Integrity (Applejack). The others were:



Meritocracy (Rainbow Dash): Rainbow realizes that no matter how good a flyer she is, she can't get into the Wonderbolts without connections. Twilight is happy to pull some strings.

Tradition (Pinkie Pie): Pinkie Pie learns that the "traditional values" that make her family life so dour and grey are very recent creations of her conservative culture, and that most of the stories her parents told her are lies. Furious, she leaves home for Ponyville.

Nature (Fluttershy): Fluttershy learns that nature isn't beautiful like it is in parks. It's savage and cruel, and animals prey upon each other to survive.


As Twilight continues to get older, she becomes more self-aware of the fact that something is going on. She can remember that she learned things in her dreams, or that things happened she sortof remembers. Eventually, she can remember Luna while she's awake, but when she goes to tell Celestia, she finds that she can't. Twilight lies in bed, worried that she's possessed.

Eventually, the day of the Summer Sun Celebration comes, and Twilight goes to Ponyville to meet all her friends, who are waiting for her. Rarity has made for each of them a hair-clip just like the one she made for Twilight, showing her cutie mark (five stars). They all wear them, and silently proceed to the Castle of the Two Sisters to get the Elements of Harmony, successfully retrieving them before the mid-afternoon. When Celestia comes to raise the sun, she's surprised to see Twilight already there, and already with the Elements, when Twilight says: "The stars will aid in her escape."

Celestia screams, and is trapped in a cage of magical energy, when the Mare in the Moon returns to the world. Twilight and her friends look at her mentor, and look at the Elements of Harmony, and ask what happens now.

"Did I not tell you," Luna replies, "that on the longest day of the thousandth year, I would stand in Ponyville, and would utter unto you a truth, and you would not be able to deny what stood before you? And that at that time, you would know your destiny?"

"Yes," Twilight replies. "So what's this truth?"

Luna holds up a hoof for silence, and they wait. Celestia pleads with Twilight and her friends to destroy Nightmare Moon, to use the Elements of Harmony against her, to do this or that or save the day. But all Luna does is signal for them to wait a moment longer, and Twilight and her friends do so wait.

A few moments later, without Celestia or Luna doing anything, the dawn comes, and Luna tells Twilight: "The sun rises."

Twilight demands an explanation from Celestia, who says she wanted to put an end to the fighting between the three pony tribes. A thousand years ago, she made up the idea of a sun goddess, as a way of giving the three tribes common ground. A way to unite them, she says, without conquering them. But Luna, dedicated absolutely to the truth, wouldn't have it. The two came to blows, and Celestia was forced to banish her sister with the Elements of Harmony.

The Element of Honesty, she explains, turned to stone first, and the others quickly followed. But it was all worth it, because she brought peace and prosperity to Equestria. A thousand years without a war, without a revolution, without a plague or a famine. And of course, things aren't as perfect as she likes to make ponies think, but they get a little bit better every year. And she asks: "Doesn't the greater good justify one lie?"

And after a lot of thought, Twilight replies. "I forgive you."

Then she walks away.