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// Interlude 1: Time Goes On 
// Story: A New Life 
// by arc5162 
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Before Gusty the Great left, I gave her a crystal as a gift. She takes the crystal happily and says that she will drop by again someday. 

After that, life continues on as normal in the village, with business going no as usual and everyone living their lives care free. 

About 15 years after Gusty the Great came to visit, she came back to tell me what was going on in the world. Surprisingly, she became an alicorn in the 15 years she was gone, and she had founded her own kingdom called Skyros. Skyros was a city of alicorns, far ahead of any other species in both magic and harmony. After that visit, she occasionally came by to check on me and my village, keeping her promise to keep this place a secret.

Soon, things started to fall into routine, every day like the one before. Once in a while something interesting would happen, like when I sensed a huge gathering of magic into a single spot. When I checked in on it, I discovered that the spread of magic across the world had caused all of the chaos in the entire universe to collect and gain a physical form. Over several thousand years, this physical form of chaos itself would gain sentience and become known as Discord, Lord of Chaos.

Other interesting things happened as well, such as, the disappearance of Skyros. After reining for 2815 years, the ancient alicorn kingdom decided to hide itself from the outside world and was eventually forgotten about by the other ponies. After that, Gusty the Great decided to leave skyros and live a more simple life in the forest near my village, which had grown over time to become a full kingdom itself. After countless centuries, what was once a small village had grown into the kingdom of Eire, now with a population of 30,000. The new Kingdom had now spread its borders to roughly the size of the old U.S. state of West Virginia, with plenty more room to grow. 

It had grown into a prosperous kingdom worthy of its namesake, with the best quality of life the world had seen since the time of humans. Everyone in my kingdom was happy, with no need to worry about money or invasion, it was a true paradise in every sense of the word. 

Unfortunately, about 5 years after the disappearance of Skyros, Gusty the Great passed away, leaving her children, the 10 years old Celestia and 7 year old Luna, to fend for themselves. 15 years after Celestia and Luna were left on their own, an unnatural winter covered the entire continent, before eventually disappearing. This lead to the founding of an entirely new kingdom, Equestria. 

One of the Unicorns in this new kingdom, Starswirl the Bearded, found Celestia and Luna living in the forest. After noticing they were alicorns, a race they thought had disappeared off the face of the earth, they were quickly made the princesses of Equestria, learning more about magic under their teacher, Starswirl. 

However, a new problem would soon become evident just 3 years into Celestia and Luna's rule.