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// Chapter 1: The Start of it All 
// Story: The Everlasting 
// by THEqwabik 
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         First off, I would like to say that if it weren't for the Elements of Harmony, then where's Equestria? The only thing that saved Equestria and the two princesses from the changeling army was the six elements weilded by the six. This is their story of course, but what's a great story without a proper introduction?

Equestria was, yes I said was, a peaceful place until that attack of the changeling army. My the attack was with such great force it nearly surprised everypony, even me. Now the six were just in doing their regular thing, Fluttershy's was tending to her animals, Applejack hard at work bucking the trees, Pinkie Pie making cupcakes, Rainbow Dash doing her tricks, trying to impress the wonderbolts, Twilight Sparkle at her library, and Rarity at her shop sticking diamonds on everything.

But in Canterlot, the Princesses were in a deep fight, they put the elements of harmony in places hard to get to. So that no pony could get to them and steal them. There was a huge flash of light when that happened, and everypony turned to see Canterlot under attack. The six started to bolt towards the castle of Canterlot.

"What in the hay is goin on here?" said Applejack in confusion.

"The changelings! Can't you see Applejack?" said Rainbow Dash.

"Well if it's the changelings, then we have to find the princesses!" shouted Twilight bolting towards Canterlot.

They had to find the Princesses before it was too late, a fear of the elements is indeed what ran through Twilight's mind.

They bolted through the gate's of Canterlot and dashed through the explosions into the castle were the princesses lay.

"Princess Celestia! Princess Luna!" shouted Twilight.

Twilight rushed next to Princess Celestia and nudged her with her nose. Celestia awoke and said "The elements are in sacred places, where no pony would ever dare go to. Twilight, you have to get them, each element leads to another, the more powerful, the harder to get to. The first element is hidden umong the remains of the castle that I grew up in, we're nightmare moon was defeated again."

The door swung open.

"Get the royal doctors! The princesses are injured!" screamed a guard

"D-do we have to go back t-to that p-p-p-place?" questioned Fluttershy in a scared voice.

"Don't worry Fluttershy! We can just laugh all the way through like we did before!" said Pinkie Pie being herself.

"This should be easy! All we do is get in and get out!" said Rainbow Dash.

"Don't think it'll be easy, it'll hurt you in the long run and let's get going now! We can't keep all the ponies waiting!" said Twilight in a command.

And the went off, to save Equestria, we can't say their journey will be easy, it will get progressively harder as time goes by, but for now as they stand in front of the forest of Everfree, the story will continue.