//------------------------------// // Legend of The Lost Kingdom // Story: The Lost Kingdom // by Piece Bot //------------------------------// “Me, a princess?” “Yes you are a princess Twilight.” This was all so sudden. There’s no way that Twilight could be a princess. But a princess she was. She had unknowingly gained height so that she was now level with Princess Celestia. Celestia was about to say something else but one of the Royal Guard ponies whispered something in her ear. “Sorry Twilight, but I have to go.” She left in her chariot, heading back to Canterlot, while Twilight unfurled her new wings. She shook them and pulled them up then back down as hard as she can. Pretty soon she was flying. She flew through the clouds, revelling in this newfound happiness. She bumped into a cyan mare. “Ow.” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. She rubbed her head and looked at Twilight. “Please watch where you’re going egghead.” She said not unkindly. “Sorry.” They flew together towards Twilight’s library. The others were waiting for them inside. Twilight folded her wings back and dropped the last few centimetres to the ground. “Hi girls.” “Hey Twilight.” They mumbled. They sounded occupied. Twilight and Rainbow walked over to see what had them so occupied. The two mares peered over the others’ shoulders and saw that they were reading a book. A very old book by the looks of it. “What’s that you’re reading?” Twilight asked. “It’s a book called The Lost Kingdom.” Applejack replied. “The Lost Kingdom? I don’t remember that being in the library.” “Oh it’s not. Princess Luna magicked it from Star Swirl the Bearded’s wing in the Canterlot Archives.” Rarity replied. “Can we please go back to the start?” Twilight asked. They all groaned but flipped the book back to the start anyway. “‘The Lost Kingdom-’” Spike read aloud. “Not that far Spike. But go ahead anyway.” “I repeat ‘The Lost Kingdom. Once upon a very long time ago, three thousand years in fact, there was once an extraordinary kingdom. This kingdom stretched as far as the eye could see. Its stone buildings were glistening; even the actual castle was glistening with morning dew that for some reason, never quite dried out but this kingdom had a dark secret. A unicorn wanted to take over and keep it all for himself. But the ruler of the kingdom protested against it. There was a fierce battle and the ruler was forced to flee. Eventually the ruler happened upon Equestria, for you see, the Lost Kingdom was somewhere in the north, even further than the Crystal Empire and, deciding to keep her identity hidden, she made a new one for herself. Her new name was Crystal Night. She couldn’t change her cutie mark so she always wore a cloak made of silk the colour deepest purple. Eventually she settled down and she passed this story of how she was defeated to her daughter, from mother to daughter, this was the way. Through the ages this information was lost as the generations kept forgetting bit by bit their true heritage.’” Spike stopped reading and looked over on the next page. There was no writing on this side but there was a drawing of what the Princess looked like. They all gasped. “She looks just like you Twilight! But how is this possible?” Pinkie Pie exclaimed. Twilight was just too shocked to speak. She sat down on her haunches and stared vacantly. “I think Princes Luna needs to come here.” Spike said. He wrote a message and blew his magic fire on it. A trail of smoke headed to Canterlot. “There, it’s sent, we just have to wait.” A few minutes later Princess Luna walked through the door. “You wanted to see me?” Luna asked. Fluttershy wordlessly pointed to the picture. “Ah. That. You weren’t meant to see that Twilight Sparkle.” “Why? Why wasn’t I meant to see it?” “Let me explain. You see, my mother, and Tia’s, told a story to us. That story actually.” She pointed to the book. “So you’re actually descended from her?” Twilight asked. “Yes. By this time Tia and I vowed to never have kids-” “Why didn’t you want kids?” “We didn’t want kids because that would mean that the child would rule over the Lost Kingdom and we didn’t want that. Well, Tia did more than me, anyway I had a daughter and naturally Celestia would have been jealous but I had to give her up to a family who couldn’t have any foals.” At this her eyes started to brim up with tears. “Me?” Twilight guessed the truth. Twilight’s mouth fell open. She didn’t look but she could practically hear the others mouths fall open in shock. “But how? I was born a Unicorn, not an Alicorn. Besides, you were stuck in the moon for a thousand years.” “That requires another explanation. To answer your first question, I had to hide your wings so that they wouldn’t be suspicious. To answer that last part, you were cared for until you stopped growing, and stopped aging, so they had to give you up to another family. It happened like this until Celestia vanquished me to the moon. Then maybe the family that was caring for you then magicked you to the future for when I had vowed to return. Then you were born an actual Unicorn and your wings were suppressed until now.” “This is all too much to take in. I have to go think this over.” Twilight walked up the stairs and into her room to sleep on it. Luna watched her daughter go and then she excused herself so that she could fly around for a bit. While she was flying, Luna wept with mixed emotions. Why did she tell Twilight this? Because she needed to know. Thankfully, Celestia doesn’t know. Luna had to go and lie down in her Royal Chambers to think things through.