//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Phoenix Magic: Equestria Girls // by Magic Kitsune Brony //------------------------------// In the magical world of Equestria, in a cave, sat the tree of Harmony. Not many realised that this tree was sentient. Nor did they know the origins of the entity named Harmony. Harmony was the only one who knew of Equestria’s true origins. After all, she was there. Back then she was simply the Rainbow of Light, a source of magic created by a lonely human witch, by the name of Megan Williams. Megan had used the Rainbow to create a dimension full of sentient ponies and dragons. She had created it, so she had a place to go when she was lonely, where she had friends. That’s right, this world was created by a human. As she grew older, Megan’s visits became less frequent, but the world she created seemed to grow, as it developed a magic of its own. When Megan died of old age, her spirit came back to the dimension she had created in her youth and was surprised to see had far it come. But she also noticed that it had became chaotic, to the point that it gave birth to a being by the name of Discord. So, to balance the world out, Megan placed a piece of her soul and memories into the Rainbow of Light, allowing it to gain sentience and thus, creating the Spirit of Harmony. After the making Harmony, Megan finally moved on, taking most of the knowledge of the human world with her. Over the centuries, Harmony watched as the ponies of this world came together, naming the land Equestria. She giggled when StarSwirl the Bearded created a portal to the human world, thinking he had discovered a new world. She was upset when the Pillars kept throwing artefacts and even criminals into the human world, including the Memory Stone and the three Sirens. When the Pillars planted the crystallised seed, Harmony saw her chance to have a physical form to help ponies and creatures alike properly. She flew into the seed and settled into her new home. As her tree grew, she started creating the Elements of Harmony, a way for ponies of her choice to protect Equestria. She shed a tear when Princess Celestia banished her sister to the moon, using her elements. This is not what she wanted her elements to be used for. After almost a thousand years, something happened that Harmony didn’t expect. Over the years, Harmony had kept an eye on the portal, that was now held in a mirror. One night, on the last night that the portal would be open, Harmony was surprised to see a crying bundle being thrown out of the mirror. Looking at the bundle, she upset to find a young unicorn filly. She had a quick look into the young one’s mind and was dishearten at what she saw. Within a week, the little one had lost a mother, her father chose her brother over her, and the rest of her family didn’t want her, to the point that they threw her into the portal, not caring if she was hurt or not. She then noticed a small but dark growth on the filly’s human magic core. It was times like this, that she wished she could communicate fully with ponies, so she could tell them of this thing. But her main spirit was invisible and because ponies, not even Princess Celestia, didn’t know anything about human magic, they would not pick up on the dark growth. She watched as Princess Celestia, who heard the crying, found the filly, and took her in, naming her Sunset Shimmer. Over the years, Harmony watched as Sunset’s human instincts kicked in a little, like walking on two and eating meat. But the princess tried to put a stop to it, not realising that just because the portal turned Sunset into a pony, it didn’t change her more human mind. While Princess Celestia tried to get Sunset to make friends, the other ponies didn’t like some of her habits, and bullied the poor pony. Harmony became concern when she noticed the growth grow a little, and realised it was feeding on Sunset’s emotions, particularly her negative ones. After a while, it seemed to also affect her other emotions, making her angry and hateful. It came to a head on, once again, the last night that the portal was opened. After showing the portal to Sunset, without telling her the truth of her origins, Celestia had caused Sunset to become obsessed with it. Harmony didn’t mind though; she would even sometimes find ways of subtly pushing Sunset to the right sources of information, including the restricted sections. Celestia, however, did mind. She thought it was keeping Sunset from making friends, having not been informed of the bullying Sunset had suffered over the years. Celestia banned Sunset from the library, unless she made friends. Sunset didn’t like that one bit and argued how she just couldn’t make friends because of what ponies thought of her. Celestia, not believing Sunset’s story of bullying, ordered Sunset to stop being difficult and go make friends. Sunset argued back, how could Celestia know about making friends, when she doesn’t have any, just subjects. Celestia yelled at Sunset, saying she was no longer her student, and she was banished from the castle. And, as they say, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. After being yelled at by the one she almost saw as a mother, Sunset felt betrayed. As she was being escorted by guards, Harmony noticed the black mass flare, causing Sunset’s mind to be filled with rage. Harmony watched as Sunset knocked out her guards and ran through the mirror. Good, Harmony thought, as the portal closed behind the pony. At least she will be safe in that world and may just get the help she needs. Harmony kinda wished she could see how Sunset grew in the other world, but there was no way… Wait a minute, she noticed Celestia place a journal on a shelf in the back of one of the rarely used libraries. She remembered that journal was connected to another journal given to Sunset, for communications. Harmony felt the journal and there it was, the journals were still connected despite the portal being closed. She pushed some of her magic through the connection and sure enough, she could slightly enter the human world through the journals. While Harmony was dismayed to see Sunset loose her memories, she was mostly overjoyed to see Sunset gained a new family in the human Celestia and Sombra. She was happy to see the doctors remove the black mass and Sunset’s cores combining to create phoenix magic. Over the years, Harmony kept an eye on Sunset Shimmer. She watched as Sunset made friends and meet her soulmate. She would sometimes have dreams filled with emotions and a few words, but most of her memories were locked tight. Unbeknown by anyone, Harmony noticed that as Sunset bonded with her new friends, a piece of her new magic would go into each of her friend’s own cores. This probably meant that these girls would be able to wield Equestrian magic one day. So, Harmony got to work, making Elements just for the humans in her roots. Right now, Harmony was watching as Equestria’s newest princess travel to the Crystal Empire for her first Princess Summit. As she travelled, Harmony spotted a suspicious pony following the princess. She skimmed the pony’s thoughts and saw that their target was the crown that held the Element of Magic. Now she rarely did it, but Harmony could see a few hours into the future. Wondering what could happened should this pony succeed in stealing the crown, Harmony opened a small invisible rift into the future. She watched the struggle and became almost excited when she saw the crown fly, right through the mirror to the human world. After closing the rift, Harmony got to work. With the crown going to the human world soon, Harmony could put her plan into motion. She reached into her roots and began pulling a little bit of magic from each of the human elements. When she got to the two-toned sun, she pulled a lot more out of it then the others. She would use it to help in unlocking some of Sunset’s memories, and maybe loosen the others. She placed the magic into an invisible ball and sent it to be absorbed into the crown. Soon, Harmony thought as the magic reached the crown. Very soon, all of Equestria will be reminded of its human origins.