//------------------------------// // Elements of Harmony // Story: Celestia, Luna and Discord's Childhood Journey // by AngriestDislestia //------------------------------// Discord teleported back into the forest. Into the underground cave in which he hatched. He got in. Fell elegantly down and landed in a curled up shape. He started to sniffle. Why did no one last? What had he done? He sighed. He guessed he would lay there till death and rot away. Then he thought about Celestia. She was so pretty. Which meant fun to tease to a little boy. But too serious. To quick to make assumptions. Discord didn't care about parents so he didn't care about whether or not the "Draconequus" was his Father or not...He supposed. He breathed disappointed, he just wanted a friend. Slowly Discord closed his eyes and fell to sleep. And this sleep would last for a long time... Luna cautiously followed her sister. Her head was down and she was very sad. Her sister shouted really meanly at Discord, she felt sorry for him. Luna gulped. "Celestia, where are we going?" Luna asked her sister in slight fear. Celestia breathed heavily and uncontrollably. "I DON'T KNOW! I just... I'm tired of being the Mum. I don't know where to go. Im not an adult. I'm only little too. I don't know what we can do! I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I can't give you the answer you want. I'm sorry Mum and Dad are gone, and I'm sorry about your...ugh...friend?" Celestia told her genuinely. Luna felt sorry for her sister, so would lie to make her happy at the moment. "No, he wasn't my friend," Luna smiled up at Celestia. Celestia smiled back. "Good." She said picking herself up. "He was ugly anyway." She giggled. Luna pressed out a smile, even though she felt that Discord didn't deserve what she was saying, but Luna couldn't do anything about getting him back. Clover the clever ginger pony was at the front of a church. There were many ponies suiting in the church that morning. "Everypony, we are all aware of what hits our villages and towns, and we all try to stop it, but now I believe I truly have the answer. We will create elements. Elements of harmony and peace, to rid of all of this century's dangers." A hoof in the audience raised. IT was a young blue filly. "Yes?" Clover asked. "How?" The young filly asked. Clover smiled. "You'll see." She turned to her friends. "Come heather. Each of you take a gem, each of you pick and element. One of friendship." "I pick loyalty." Her large stallion friend said taking the red stone. Clover then ordered all of the loyal guards to put all their loyalty in to the gem. It became brighter and full of life. Clover smiled. She opened her mout to speak when - "I command thee to stop!" All of the ponies stopped and turned to the voice. There stood a stallion, a blue one that Clover knew well and had met on her journeys. She smiled. "Starswirl! I am so glad you have came!" Clover exclaimed. "It was the least I could do. I must bethe one to give the element of magic it's...magic. I must be the one to enhance the gems. And I must be the one to steer Equestrian into a new age of harmony." Starswirl stated. "a..and friendship sir." Cloevr said, doubting his knowledge of friendship. "Oh...Of course, whatever." The old pony stated. Clover frowned, but now that Starswirl was here, they would carry on enhancing the elements and, hopefully, ponies in Equestria would living harmony forever! By the end of the morning, all of the elements were made and Starswirl and Clover started planning out the new "Canterlot", that would be the centre of Equestria. But not all was over, one thing remained. "Now, is the time, the time we must raise the sun again! And let it shine onto our new age of Harmony! All Unicorn! Heads down, magic strong, and chant after thee; New age, you must begin, the sun, you must be risen, to shine along the new fields, that we have been given, to strengthen the plants, to give life to the trees! To make all stand tall and firm in the harshest breeze. Our energy is life, and from you, we shall receive it! But not until you shine, can this new age begin!" Starswirl and the Unicorn chanted that chant three more times, and with great struggle, the sun did rise, and everyone saw the sun for the first time since the great war of the Alicorn and the Draconequi. The Draconequi, that was the one thing Starswirl feared. He'd heard that King Chaos alone defeated every last Alicorn, and if it was that easy, Starswirld wasn't convinced that destroying the Alicorn race was all that the foul Draconequus did. Unlike other evio creatures, the Draconequi were the only species to not have to hide, they were from another planet, so from a planet where harmony was unknown and a new age where chaos was unknown, the two forces were equal, and had an inaccurate and undeterminable power on one another. But Draconequi hated this planet, that was the only doubt to have one live in Equestria. That Starswirl could summon. Clover smiled, but was confused as to why Starswirl was being so serious. That was his one flaw, he was too serious. She hated to say it, but that's why he had no friends. Starswirl and Clover were soon buzzing with many ideas about the castles and the villages that they would create. They were building a life size toy village! They along with everyone else were creating their new world, and they loved it! Every worry and every fear was now gone. The elements were protecting them, but clover had no idea where to keep them. "Sir Starswirl, what are we going to do with the elements now that they're protecting us?" Clover asked. "Don't go worrying about that, my dear. I'm putting them in a tree." Starswirl told her calmly. Clover puzzled. "You...are putting them...In...in a tree? But even a common owl could damage them there!" Clover stated seriously. "Oh, young miss Clover!" Starswirl mused. "It's going to be a special tree, one of Harmony, to guard the treasure of the diamond box and all of Equestria! You have no need to worry, I have it all covered." He assured her. "But what abo-" "All of the dangers you once knew will be pushed into the darkest caves and the fiercest corners of Equestria. Nothing will interrupt our harmony now. Nothing." A few weeks later, Celestia and Luna had suddenly came across an orchard of apple trees. It was their first sign of food for ages! And the girls automatically delved into the orchard, They both stole apples and munched on them like pigs, finishing one within ten seconds, finishing a tree within a minute! A young filly saw the two young Alicorn and couldn't say she recognised them. "Hello?" The young green filly asked. Celestia stooped suddenly and turned to face the other filly. "Oh...Uh, Hello! We've been-" Celestia started. "let me guess! You haven't eaten in a while?!" The filly asked kindly. Suddenly, Luna appeared out of a pile of apple cores with a whole apple in her mouth. "Nope!" Luna said muffled by the apple. Celestia and the green filly laughed. "That's Luna, I'm Celestia, what should your name?" Celestia asked. "My name's Sap. Tree Sap." The filly said nicely. "I'm just gonna tell Mum that you're here." "Ok!" Celestia called after her. Soon after three more trees had been scoffed, Sap came back with her mother, an orange pony named Autumn Leaf. She was shocked see two young Alicorn and told Clover immediately, delete who told Starswirl, who rushed to pick up Celestia and luna right away. It was around midday and Starswirl took the fillies to the castle that had just been finished. It wasn't very large for a castle but was still very big. It had many paintings of things Clover and he had seen on their journey of harmony and one room had many spells which he said he means to teach the files one day. Starswirl soon noted that the girls were quite tired and immediately showed them to the room they would stay in. Their arrival was unpredicted and their escape a myth, so they had the attic as their bedroom, but boy did Luna love it. The girls slept all the way till the morning, but strangely, the sun was not risen. Starswirl was yelling at the Unicorn to try harder, but the Unicorn had been doing an alicorn's job for about a month now, and much of their power had been drained. Celestiasaw the struggle of the Unicorn and suddenly felt an urge to raise it herself. She had learnt now to not depend on adults, they were just ponies too. She knew that she was strong, and she felt like it was her destiny to create new days and new beginnings. Quickly the princess ran to the stairs but stopped...when she realised, there was a faster way. Celestia ran to the windows and catapulted herself out of her bedroom through it. Ahh... This was nice, until she realised she was plummeting to her death, so she remembered what her father said on the day he died and knew that now she must fly. She spread her wings and suddenly felt every feather and every tuft float of the air. Confidence. She knew shed be fine. But the ground was coming close now, and she got a little scared. It was time to flap. She flapped both wings, every feather, and every tuft up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and...She was flying! Shewas flying! She was flying! But now she had to land and rise the sun. Everyone watched amazed as this filly who was barely old enough to hover onthe air had swooped down from the castle to their aid and now everyone watched as this tiny filly began to rise the sun. They saw the princess squirm and watched her grit her teeth and wince, but Starswirl knew she was to do this on her own, and that it was what Celestia wanted. Soon Celestia felt herself hauling the sun, pulling and directing it on Equestria, the Equestria. She knew she must protect now, for she felt the responsibility and it felt strangely good now that the circumstances weren't hopeless. Luna watched out of the windows in awe! Look what her sister was doing! It was amazing. Luna smiled as Celestia, somewhat triumphantly, fell to the ground. She had risen the sun. And everyone loved her. But now the Princess was exhausted, and was in need of rest. Clover the clever and Starswirl were having a meeting later on that day about the two new princesses. Starswirl had decided that they would learn all the magic he knew and that they'd know every wise word he did. Clover thought that they should know about harmony and friendship, like she did. And while these conversations were lovely, they would take many a year to unravel. When Celestia awoke, she was told by an excited Luna to look a time her flank. When she did, she was happy to see that a beautiful sun as a cutie mark, like her mother's and that's what luna was raving about. "you've got mum's cutie mark that's amazing!" Luna exclaimed. "I know! I'm so lucky!" Celestia exclaimed. Luna was a bit jealous of her sister, and was pondering what her own cutie mark would be. It would be interesting if it was her father's mark. Hmm. Throughout the rest of the day, Luna, but mainly Celestia, we're being taught about friendship and harmony by Clover. About how it makes you able to hear one another's thoughts and makes you have the best of relationships and similarities. But all the way through Clovers lesson, Starswirl was listening intently and decided that friendship would one day be something he would experiment on. Celestia loved harmony but she also knew that she had to be serious about things like Starswirl. After all rulers are responsibe, serious but caring people. Soon it was night time an everyone was going to sleep, so was the sun! But when it went down, Luna felt something was missing. The stars were up and it was a lovely night, but...the moon! There was no moon in the sky! This was Lunas chance! She would rise the moon! Luna heroically jumped and hopped down the castle steps flapping her wings confidently as she went, singing James Bond as she went! When Luna got to the bottom of the steps she sat tall and howled like a wolf. "I WILL RISE THE MOON, EVERYONE! LOOK!" Luna screamed into the night. Ponies in every hut and shop poked their heads out of the windows tiredly to angrily glare at the filly who awoke them. "GOOD! NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, I CAN GET ON WITH RISING THE MOON! YOU ALL READY?! GREAT! LET'S GET TO IT!" She finished screaming at the top of her voice. Luna then dramatically bowed and clenched her teeth. She breathed in and out. ...hmmm. This didn't appear to be working. Time to change tactics. "COME ON, MOON! GET UP AND SHOW YOURSELF!" Luna ended up losing her voice and falling asleep that night and Clover brought her inside the castle at midnight. As Clover was walking, Luna awoke. "Did I do it? Did I raise the moon?" She asked sleeping. "Uhm...No. But luckily, we don't need the moon." Clover said. Luna gasped. "That's a silly thing to say! Of course we need the moon! Or my name's Not Princess Luna!" Said Luna in total insult. Clover simply shook her head. "Now you go to sleep!" Clover laughed tucking Luna in. Luna smiled. When Clover left, Luna looked at the sky. Without a moon, it just didn't feel right. She went over to the windows and looked into the night sky. She saw a star fly through the sky and called it a shooting star and then decided to make a wish on it, something that now anyone could do, and she would try to answer. She wished that the moon would rise. Suddenly, that star plummeted to her windowsill. She gasped. She held her horn to it and suddenly, her horn began to glow, she gritted her teeth and growled, this felt...effortful, then the star yanked her head to the direction of the night Sky and a reflecting orb began to rise, Luna gasped. "The moon!" She whispered in total awe. It was in the sky! She looked to her flank, there was mist and a moon. Her Father's Mark.