//------------------------------// // ----End. // Story: Know your Mare // by overlord-flinx //------------------------------// All good things have to end sooner or later... But... Do they? Know your mare, know your mare, know your mare... Of course they do, kiddo. Or-- Things get boring and stale? ...Yeah... Lights adorned the stage, illuminating it like never before. Immaculate as it was the day it was borne into creation, perfection in every way. The rings of silver that adorned the luminescent floor glinted a stainless shine, granting the whole of it a beautiful halo as the lights reflected off of them. Not a streak of darkness was present throughout the entirety of the set; the audience for once being shown just as brightly as the ones once present on the stage. Dozens, hundreds, who knew how many were truly there. A sea of muzzles, faces, beaks, tentacles, furs, pelts, clothes, cloths, skin-tones, hooves and hands... All of them as bright as the last. For once, the entirety was bright and shining, the curtains thrown back from the stage to show the small viewing box where four mischievous scamps would spend their days for the past two years. All four missing for the time being. But the audience was there, as too was the guest... That's the last of it. Are you sure you don't want to come? No... My place is here... With my children. My swarm. Yeah... Your kids... They -uh- they need you, right? ...Indeed... Discord... ...Eats his own toe nails... "When I have toes, maybe. But what do I have now? No... Really... What kind of feet do I have right now, I don't remember." Do you remember when I first came to you, Cap'n? Of course. Queeny was giving you such a hard time. It was too funny. Yup. I remember... So you still laugh about it? Well, yes. It's a good memory. Queen Chrysalis... ...Sleeps with a Shining Armor plushy... "Wha-I don--Pffft! Nooooo. Why would I? Blasphemy is what that is. To think that I-- Nooo..." You still remember when we met? In all honesty, no... ...Good. That day wasn't important at all. Are you being sarcastic with me? Not at all. Pipsqueak... ...Likes to dress in a mouse costume and scurry around the house when he's alone... "I don' even own a mouse gidd'up. I'm more of a petticoat lad." Days keep on coming, cap'n. But yesterday will always be yesterday, that day will always be that day, and tomorrow... Tomorrow's gonna be a great yesterday to look back on. ...We have a WHOLE lot of yesterdays together, don't we? Over a hundred I think. Some of them are kind of dull... Probably... But we'll always have the choice to look back at the good days. ...Yeah. Sunset Shimmer... ...sends photo-copies of her butt to Princess Twilight through her magic book... "Once! Well... Twice, really... It was Pinkie's butt that time. She wouldn't stop chattering until I let her use the book." I don't remember that day either. I do, however, remember the day I first looked up to you as... ...As a queen and idol? ...As a mom. Oh... Look, we don't get to talk much. But I... I think of us as something special, you know? You're like... ...Indeed. Discord... Pipsqueak... Chrysalis... Sunset Shimmer... ...Will see you next time... "Too-da-loo~~~!" "Bye, everyone!" "Farewell for now." "Until we meet again, you dorks." This is the end...? Nah. Nothing ever really ends. It just gets renewed for another book or season or has fanfictions written about it. What's gonna happen to us? We're just going to keep on living. We go so many different ways... But, we do share in a thread that keeps us together. That thread will never break as long as we hold onto it. ...Wow... Shimmer-Shammer-Bam-Bam is getting sentimental. Brings a little tear to my eye... Hugs? No hugs! Oh, come on. One last hug. No! Best to let them do it... There's no getting out of it once their heads are set on it. Fine... YAY! So... What now...? Isn't that obvious? ...Actually... It is. Riceicles all around. TO JOE'S! Know your mare, know your mare, When all the lights go down, We about ta' throw down, If you come into the lair, (that doesn't work.) Know your mare, know your mare, Yeah, we kinda shady, Just blame it on the ladies, (HEY!) That's our kind o' game. Know your mare, know your mare, If the lights all go down, You about ta' throw down, If you come into the lair, (still doesn't work!) Know your mare, know your mare, We still pretty shady, Discord is a lady, (HEY!) You would say the same! Every other day, I'd think, ah' walkin' away, "Queeny, wanna stay?" But everyday, it's just the same, Every single day is "Queeny let's go play." Could it be that perhaps I love them like a baby? If it turns out there, First of all, let me say, I am the sort that doesn't sit around and want to play, But, let's be honest with me, I'm a queen, with a throne, So maybe I'd give it all, If we could all just be a family. I know you thinkin' we do some strange things, Someone's gotta do it, that's the way it seemed, But maybe we enjoyed it a bit too much, Makin' fun of all your creepy lives, (too much!) Sorry, Cap'n it's what we do. (S'okay.) 'Cause we've been doin' it since '22. (Doesn't know what year it is...) Why can't we just tell the truth? Oh wait that would be super lame! (SUPER LAME!) Know your mare, know your mare, When all the lights go down, We about ta' throw down, If you come into the lair, (Still not changing it?) Know your mare, know your mare, Yeah, we kinda shady, This cookie is a savey, (Aww.) (That's not a word!) (It is now, shut up.) That's our kind o' game. Know your mare, know your mare, If the lights all go down, You about ta' throw down, If you come into the lair, (still doesn't work!) Know your mare, know your mare, We still pretty shady, Pippy is my baby, (Moooooom!) And Sunny is the same! (UGH!) And thus the story ends. A final chapter, but it shall not end... It shall go on and on. Until the sun draws a final line. Tomorrow will come, and yesterday will go... But one thing is always certain. If the story keeps going, someone will always care. And with that -finally- you know my mare.