//------------------------------// // Explanation? // Story: The Elder Scrolls VI: Equestria // by Aurora Glow //------------------------------// Sorry for taking so long to post these...I'm really busy most of the time. If anypony wants to help me with naming my chapters or working on my story, please offer to do so. And special thanks to my best editor. Wait no, my only editor, and my brother Fluttrick for reading over and correcting any grammar issues and what not. Chapter 2 Luna's radiant crescent moon begins to rise from the horizon. Gale glares blankly into the recently built fire, deep in thought. This is the first time I've seen him serious in the short time we've been together. I stare at him the same way he stares at the flame, waiting for him to begin his story. A couple minutes go by. Feeling that I'm beginning to drift off into sleep, he finally says something. "You know...I wasn't always a pony." Is what I think I hear him say. My ears have fallen into somewhat of a slumber, as did the rest of my body. I rub my eyes and try to wake myself up so i can hear what he has to say. "I used to live in a much more dangerous world than here in Equestria." He continues, his face is showing reminiscence of his old life. "Earth was the name of the world that I was born into. The dominant species there aren't ponies, but two legged creatures called humans." He explains to me as if he were a filly school teacher. "I don't know if you've figured it out yet, but I was once human. Humans have two legs, two other limbs called hands, no coat, and wears a lot of clothing." I think for a moment, trying to take in the fact that the colt i'm looking at isn't, or didn't used to be a pony. "Are they evil?" I ask him after yawning. "Some are. Not all of them. Most humans live exactly the way that ponies do. Just wanting to carry on in life." he says before a sigh. He seems to miss his time as one of these humans. "Anything else interesting about them?" I add to try to get him out of this dark mood he's in. "Well, they're omnivorous. They eat both meat and plants, though they prefer meat." He says with a smirk. I suddenly feel uncomfortable looking at Gale. "They can survive on vegetables alone if needed." he added reassuringly. I let out a breath, and with it the fear of Gale eating me. "These humans don't sound very threatening. So why did princess Celestia seem so scared of you? Does she know you were human? How did you even get to Equestria? Why are you in the form of a pony? Celly?" I find my mouth suddenly covered by a pale red hoof. "Slow down there." He looks taken aback by all my questioning. "Well first off, Celestia or Celly as I like to call her, and I have known each other longer than anypony has known her with the exception of her sister. She wasn't scared of me either. She was doing me and Equestria a favor. Finally, I'm a pony because I asked her to turn me into one. I don't like too much attention, never did, even as a human, and everypony would freak out at the sight of a human." I find myself questioning him even further. "What do you mean you've known her longer than anypony else?" He gets up, stretches, and lays back down. This is gonna be a long story. "There was once a kid living on earth. Kid means foal in the universal earth language. Anyways, this kid was named Brad. He was as normal as normality could get. He went to school, got average grades, and had no real friends but everyone seemed to like him. But he didn't want to live so peacefully. He wanted adventure, and eventually ended up seeking it. He was a big fan of a very certain television series that can tell the past and the future of this world. Oh by the way, a t.v. is short for television which is a device used to display entertainment throughout an entire country or if needed, the entire world. One night, he woke up to his t.v. glowing. And before he knew it, he was in a really bright room in the company of a pony with an everflowing multicolored mane. Princess Celestia. He didn't know this was real. He just thought it was a dream of that t.v. show that he really liked. So he figured out that Celestia had summoned a creature from another dimension to aid in the fabled battle against Nightmare Moon. Brad had instantly agreed to this and decided to help the goddess of the sun. After successfully aiding Celestia in banishing her sister to the moon for a thousand years, with the help of the newly crafted elements of harmony, he took notice that Celestia was not happy with the outcome of the battle. She didn't want the inability to see her sister for a millenia so she requested the boy's aid once again he agreed to tell her how to get her sister back with one condition. That he may be made into an immortal pony himself and experience Equestria's embrace, escaping earth's sorrows forever, and to keep from attracting too much attention from the rest of the pony folk. Celestia agreed to his condition on the spur of the moment and made him into an immortal pony. Finally he was satisfied and told her that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape. And she will bring about night time eternal. Celestia didn't like his answer, asked him to help out with the planning to revert Nightmare Moon back to the lunar matriarch. Judging by how he had all the time in the world, Brad, or Autumn Gale as you now know him, gladly heeded Celestia's words and told her that only the Elements of Harmony along with six bearers of the spirits of harmony would bring back princess Luna. And after a millenia of planning, things are about to unfold." Gale's tale comes to an end. He barely notices that I've all but fallen into deep sleep, barely keeping my eyes open. "Get your rest. We're going Element hunting tomorrow." I manage to hear him say before joining sleep in a deep embrace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Okay. Its been a thousand years, and the Summer Sun Celebration is right around the corner. Gale's plan has gone according to plan so far, so why am I so nervous? This is my only chance to get Luna back so I have to keep my composure. The guards are obviously shocked that I let him go. My paranoid thoughts to myself are cut off as the air in front of me swirls into a green ball of flame. Just as soon as it appeared, the emerald fire disappears and in its' place is a floating scroll. I quickly unroll it with my magic to discover that it is a letter from my most ambitious student. My dearest teacher, My continuing studies of pony magic have led me to discover that something really bad is about to happen. For you see, the mythical Mare in the moon is in fact Nightmare Moon. And she's about to return to Equestria, and bring about eternal night. Something must be done to make sure this terrible prophecy does not come true. I await your quick response. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle According to Gale's prophecy, Twilight Sparkle is to be the bearer of the sixth element, magic. Seeing how all of the other bearers live in Ponyville, sending her there will be the only way to bring the bearers together, thus awakening the elements from that old fort in the Everfree forest that Gale placed them in. Its the best way to get my sister back. So I quickly levitate a blank scroll from the nearest desk in my quarters and pen my response to the soon to be Element of magic. My dearest, most faithful student Twilight, You know that I value your diligence and that I trust you completely, but you simply must stop reading those dusty old books. My dear Twilight, there is more to a young pony's life than studying. So i'm sending you to supervise preparations for the summer sun celebration in this year's location, Ponyville, and I have an even more important task for you to complete. Make some friends.