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// Prologue 
// Story: Guardians of harmony 
// by WolfGoddess1990 
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In the everfree forest sat the castle of the two sisters where everypony was gathered to witness a historical event trumpets went off as a Herald called out, “Presenting her Royal Majesty Queen Selena.” A black alicorn walked into the room, her mane and tail was ethereal blue with a purple tint on the edge with white stars sparkling in them, her teal eyes were serpentine, and her cutie mark was a white moon with a purple boarder, Selena smiled revealing she had fangs though nopony seemed bothered by this because she was scary for a reason.

The Herald then said, “Presenting his Royal Majesty King Stygian.” A gray unicorn with azure eyes, cerulean with artic blue mane and tail walked into the room, he was tallish but Selena easily towered over everypony including him but he didn’t seem to care as his horn was glowing with his azure majestic aura as he looked at a scroll that held his checklist on it. “My love your being very rude ignoring  everypony like this.” Selena said her horn glowing a cobalt blue to pull away his check list he turned towards her revealing his cutie mark a quill with an inkpot.

“Hey you know how I feel about my checklists.” “And you’ll get it back when we are done.” Stygian grumbled but accepted finally the Herald said, “Presenting her Royal Highness Twilight sparkle.” A light grayish mulberry unicorn with violet eyes, a dark sapphire blue mane, tail with purple and raspberry streaks, her cutie mark was a pink six pointed star surrounded by six stars, a simple tiara was on her head she stood next to her mother she seemed average sized.

Selena smiled at her before looking towards the audience, “My loyal subjects! It’s been a thousand years since my dear sister Celestia was taken by the tantabus becoming Daybreaker. Sadly I had to use the elements of harmony to trap her in the sun and they became stone spheres… so I had the best magicians try their hardest and they finally produced a result.” A servant came forward with a necklace box. Selena took it, she opened it pulling out a necklace that had a circle pendant with six diamond shaped stones inside it. “They finally transformed them into something much easier to transport and now I give this pendant to my daughter.”

Selena put the pendant around Twi’s neck. Ponies cheered as Twi stepped forwards, “Thank you mother and I promise to protect these with my life.” Just then, the castle doors were blown open by a great force. Twi’s horn glowed a brilliant raspberry as a dark gray unicorn with green eyes, a cobalt blue mane and tail walked inside and Selena reacted first, “King Lucian? Is that you?” He looked up at her his eyes turning red, “Not anymore…” The white of his eyes turned green as a violet smoke came out of his eyes, his horn turned red and curved his amber magic changed to black engulfed with a vivid violet haze with light green edges.

“The tantabus promised to bring my darling Celestia back to me so I left Lucian I am now King Sombra!” 
“My sister is no longer Queen Celestia you must know this.” 
“I don’t care! My bond with my queen is for life. You know this, you did it for Stygian!” Selena did know what he was talking about: only Alicorns connected to outside sources like the sun and moon live forever. In fact Selena and Celestia was born when the world came into being and so to make sure their true love didn’t die of old age they preformed a spell called soul link, Stygian and Lucian will live as long as Selena and Celestia lived.

“One thousand years I suffered without Celestia. Well no more!” Sombra blasted the roof and all the ponies ran out of the castle. Sombra ignored them, he was looking at the sun. He sent another blast towards the sun, a glowing line was formed between him and the sun. “Now you keep your promise tantabus and bring Celestia back to me!” Selena watched in horror as the sun glowed purple before a bright light came out of it, then the line snapped and the sun glowed yellow again, the light came down and revealed Daybreaker.

Selena and Celestia were of equal height and so was Daybreaker, she as pure white like Celestia but unlike Celestia her mane and tail were made of fire, yellow eyes that were serpentine. She had fangs and her cutie mark was surrounded by orange and yellow. She looked like Selena, but unlike Selena who used her looks to scare the nightmares in dreams, Daybreaker wanted to scare the ponies. Sombra slowly approached her, “My darling Celestia…” 
“It’s Daybreaker now Lucian or should I say Sombra.” 
“Forgive me my darling Daybreaker.”

“Enough of that! We have them to deal with.” Her horn ignited red and Selena managed to make a shield before a red beam blasted them, “Twilight, run and find the elements of harmony!” Screamed Selena.
“But aren’t I wearing them right now?” 
“No, even though those used to be the elements they are dead now, you need to find the ponies that represent them now!” Selena said straining against Daybreaker’s attacks. Stygian pushed his daughter in a hallway and they both ran. Twilight looked back just long enough to see her mother’s barrier break and Sombra’s magic striking her, covering her in black crystals. Twi sobbed as she continued to follow her father.

He lead her to a room with statues of the pillars of old Equestria. Stygian quickly used his magic to move items onto platforms in front of the statues; a flower, a mask, a shield, a shovel, a blindfold, a cloak, and a book. Once he placed them in their proper place, a secret doorway that lead outside opened. “Go and find the elements! The old ones of strength, healing, hope, beauty, bravery, knowledge, and sorcery won’t work anymore. You need to remake them into new elements. Also I’m taking this off, you no longer need it.”

He said this as his magic took off Twi’s crown. She shivered as she felt magic from the stars flow into her body, her mother thought it would be better if she was eased into her role as princess of the stars. Twi’s wings appeared as she got taller, her mane and tail ignited with magic and started flowing, completely changing to look like a galaxy. The colors in her old mane moved to her wings. She was only half the size of her mother since she hasn’t connected to the stars completely yet, “Dad I’m going to stick out like a sore hoof.”

“You need to make connections and you need to be yourself when you do it, now go.” They both heard Daybreaker’s armored hooves clopping against the stone getting closer. Stygian pushed his daughter outside before moving the items off the platforms, Twi watched as the secret doorway vanished inside with Stygian. He turned to face Daybreaker and Sombra. “Where is your daughter? The magic signature ends here.” Stygian tossed the suppressing crown away, “To bad you can’t find her now.” Daybreaker looked around, “There is a secret passage here. How do we open it?”

“Wouldn’t you like to know.” 
“Actually I would, so tell me.” 
“I won’t so you might as well turn me to crystal like my wife.” Sombra blasted him doing just that. “Sombra why did you do that? We could have tortured him for information!” 
“I’m sorry my dear but he was insulting you… and I can’t reverse it because that would take positive emotions.” 
“I would smash you right now but I need both of you.” Daybreaker said putting both crystal statues in a cell. Then she heard a voice, “It’s good to see you again.” She turned to face the pony who spoke.

He was white Alicorn , his green eyes looked back at her as his mane and tail flowed with magic, a ticking time stream inside both. His cutie mark was an hourglass, “Ah Chronos my son! It’s so good to see you.” Chronos was a bit shorter then Daybreaker. He had yet to grow into his full powers as the prince of time. “Mother I’m here to help.” 
“Great! The tantabus will corrupt you too.” Chronos watched as a black and purple mist came out his mother and went into him, his coat turned black and his eyes turned red. “There, much better. Now we must find out where Selena’s daughter ran off too.”

Sombra looked confused, “Don’t you mean niece?” 
“No, me and Selena aren’t related, we were simply ‘born’ on the same day so we became sisters in all but blood.” 
“Oh I guess that makes sense, you two look nothing alike.” 
“Anyway we need to find anything on her.” 
“Her name is Twilight Sparkle.” 
“Did you use your time powers?” Dark Eternity held up a newspaper in his green magic, “No I just read this newspaper. It said that Twilight sparkle's coronation was today.” Daybreaker looked at the paper reading it quickly.

“This doesn’t tell me anything I don’t already know. Worthless! But at least I know what she looks like, and she couldn’t have gotten far.” Meanwhile Twilight just finished running through the everfree forest, she took deep breaths as she stretched her legs and her wings twitched, “Oh dad I know you want me to make friends as myself but still…” She spread her wings as she looked at her flowing galaxy mane, “Ponies might be a bit overwhelmed…” She looked into town folding her wings. She sighed, walking the edge making sure to stay out of sight.