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// Prequel: The Epilogue 
// Story: The Gift of Time 
// by Shadow Dragon 
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To say Princess Twilight Sparkle was an important pony would be an understatement, she’s ruled all of Equestria single hoofed for hundreds of thousands years, after her accretion to the throne later learned how to raise and lower the sun and moon with only her own magic. Her first hundred or so years were arguably the most glorious years in equestrian history as in that time the now legendary counsel of friendship helped the Princess during her rule. History books spoke of 5 different ponies whose names were lost to all but a few who actually knew them, but the details to describe each of them were unmistakable.

First their was the most honest pony to this very day, an Orange Earth Pony who worked at Sweet Apple acres which now was a natural landmark as the longest living apple farm as all others never did survive except for this one somehow.

Next was the most generous pony to date, a pure Wight Unicorn, something practically nonexistent nowadays, who started many a fashion trends that somehow survived to this day, the mare was truly ahead of her time.

There was also the kindest pony to date, a somewhat timid at first glance Yellow Pegasus with a love for animals so strong she built Equestria’s first ever animal sanctuary, no pony was willing to try and copy her work so the sanctuary was instead expanded and now replaced the once dangerous Everfree forest were now creatures from all around gather to take care of the once dangerous flora and fauna that live there, even the once feared Ursa Majors and Timberwolfs were being watched over and protected there.

And you couldn’t think about the Counsel of Friendship without mentioning the most mysterious pony to exist, she was also known at the most funny pony to date, a seemingly normal Pink Earth Pony that seemed to defy reality, countless scientists, historians, and philosophers are still trying to figure out the secret behind the bizarreness that was this pony from all the stories about her even though the princess herself told them on countless occasions it was a loss cause.

And last but definitely not least was the fastest pony ever, a Cyan Pegasus with a Rainbow main she was also known as the most loyal pony to this day but she was also famous for being the first and last pony in all of Equestria to pull off the once again legendary sonic rainboom to this date.

Unfortunately not everypony can live forever, as they all passed on one by one, Princess Twilight attended the funeral’s of each of her friends, and even the funeral’s of her friend’s children, and there grandchildren. Every time a member of the Council of Friendship couldn’t go on anymore the Princess made that ponies birthday a national holiday of Equestria, she originally wanted to name those days after her friends, but they didn’t want that, so they came to a compromise and thus the days of Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity, Kindness, and Laughter were born.

Truth day was a day where the princess cast a spell that made it completely impossible to lie on this day, some feared it, at first but now it’s like a second Hearts and Hoofs day where creatures tell their true feelings for each other.

The day of Loyalty was like a sorta yearly Olympics were creatures teamed up all across Equestria for friendly competition.

Gift day encourages the creatures of Equestria to give a gift to some other creature, every creature loves this holiday as it feels like a second Heart’s warming.

Equestria Fools day, kinda self explanatory but the creatures of Equestria play silly jokes on each other.

Kind day was a day where where every creature was encouraged, but not required, to visit the sanctuary of Equestria.

Many millennium‘s have passed, the Princess of Friendship took on an occasional student, she got to watch them grow into a fine creature, she didn’t just let ponies be her students, in addition she was proud to see when she got even the most socially awkward of creatures to make some friends, the town of Ponyvill, latter renamed the Village of Friendship was the one place in Equestria that no matter who or what you were any creatures could make friends. The princess’s legendary school of Friendship was still somehow going strong even after all these years, the creatures of Equestria just love to come back to this school after they graduate to teach the next generation about Friendship.

You may have noticed the saying of creature a lot, that’s because Equestria welcomes every creature to there borders, wether they be scaled, slimy, furry, feathered, good, evil, or somewhere in between every creature was welcome to Equestria. If you studied equestrian history you might know of the incident right before the princess’s accession to the throne the lead to the three biggest villains in Equestria to be turned to stone, well eventually they escaped but the princess was ready, but rather than fight them, she was able to befriend them. Cozy Glow was easy because her stone prison traumatized the pore filly she was more that willing to listen, as for the other two. Princess Twilight was able to convince Queen Chrysalis the truth of sharing love rather than taking it made Changeling’s stronger, Lord Tirek was the most difficult to convince, the Princess took a whole thousand years to win this debate but it was worth it in the end as they came to a compromise, when the creatures of Equestria got old and or sick Tirek could end their suffering by sucking out their life force, the process was very quick and painless and Tirek got the magic he craved.

During the time that was forever known to equestrian history as The Great Debate, Twilight’s Royal adviser, Spike was in charge. Which finally lead back to the current day, Princess Twilight Sparkle had just gotten back from a funeral. This funeral hurt more than any other she had attended before, she had even barred this one herself, with only her hoofs and no magic. She hoof dug the grave, put the lifeless corpse in the grave and covered it again with her hoofs, and finally, with no magic she carved a hedge stone for the grave. She didn’t care it wasn’t regal or how dirty she had gotten in this afar, as every stain of dirt, every time she cut herself and didn’t heal herself with her magic, every drop of sweat was all for the one she cared about.

When she was finally done it didn’t look very good but she didn’t want any help, Magic or otherwise, this was something she had to do herself without magic so at the end their was a big lumpy field worth of dirt just behind her castle, on the stone was a crudely written message that read

Hear Lies 


Spike The Dragon


R.I.P


An Assistant, Adviser, 


The son I never had






Hope you find eternal happiness


Signed: Princess Twilight Sparkle

It had taken months to complete the funeral but she had done the same for each and every one of her friends and even though Spike hade grown to be twice the size of ex dragon Lord Torch had been she still did it. 

The Princess of Friendship didn’t clean herself, no, this had been a ritual for her, every stained patch of fur she shaved off and regrew it with magic, she always kept the stained fur, it was like a final tribute to her friends who passed but for now Twilight would morn for Spike.
Their was a sudden knock on the door, despite herself not feeling up for visitors she knew it was best otherwise she’d stay in the throne room without any food or water for weeks, not really a problem because she was an Alicorn but still, so she said “Come in.”
The door opened up to reveal the last creature the Princess expected to see, it was her old friend Discord.

Princess Twilight Sparkle asked “Discord? What are you doing here? I thought you decided to go to another dimension where the Element of Kindness was an Alicorn.” She couldn’t say the true names, it was too painful, so she referred to them as there represented Elements of Harmony. Discord knew about this, it was actually one of the reasons that only the ones who once knew the Element welders knew their true names and Discord agreed to do this as well as long as he was in this dimension, so Discord had left her dimension on the day the Element of Kindness departed from the living realm in search of an alternative dimension where he could actually spend eternity with the only creature he ever loved or ever could love, Twilight fully supported his decision to leave.

Discord said “I did, found to perfect dimension, the Discord of that dimension is even willing to share her, I actually came to give you a gift, in case you didn’t know or just lost track, today is your one millionth birthday.” The Princess pondered for a moment, checking her mental calendar she eventually realized that Discord was right, today she was 1,000,000 years old, she herself forgot how old she was. Discord continued  “Now nationally because I am me I’d want to get you the best gift ever for this special occasion.” The Princess of Friendship playfully rolled her eyes, the more things change the more they stay the same she supposed, Discord was very unpredictable but this was honestly something she expected that the Chaotic Draconequus would do. Discord continued  “It was of course difficult to think of something good enough, because what do you get the greatest living mare In Equestria? I’d say greatest but no matter what you’ll never top the Element of Kindness in my book, but I’m getting off topic, anyway after long and hard thought I finally figured it out, I’m sure you’ll appreciate this opportunity.” 

Princess Twilight asked “What did you have in mind?” 

Discord laughed at the question and said “Oh I could tell you, but where would the fun in that be?” 

Princess Twilight chuckled and said “Alright, I’ve been feeling a little bit down, maybe dealing with some chaos would be a nice distraction.” 

Discord shook his head and said said “Oh, not this time, that’s a regular thing with me, I wouldn’t be the lord of chaos if I was predictable now would I?”

Princess Twilight was actually looking forward to what was coming next, she knew Discord and was ready for anything, except apparently what was coming next. Discord snapped his fingers and the Princess of Friendship disappeared, after witch Discord said “Now let’s see how she likes my gift.” He then snapped his fingers and a tv appeared before him so he could watch how the princess appreciates the gift. Discord looked at the audience and chuckled “I’m gonna need some popcorn.”