Prologue 1: Losses
Terms:
Herds: A group usually consistant of 4 to 10 ponies which are close couples who form a bond through a magic ritual. The bond allows for a emphatic and even telepathic link between the members. Herds can be broken only through another ritual or death of members of the herd leaving only one alive.
Pseudo Herd: Children of a herd members have a emphatic link only till the child gains a cutie mark. They then look for their own herd taking their time to make friends and loves.
Golden Herd: A title given to a herd that contains a member of the royal family.
Peace settled in Equestria after the defeat of Tirek by the Counsel of Friendship. Sure there were a few problems all over Equuis here and there but nothing the royal guard couldn't handle. No longer did the mane 6 have to stick their necks out in life or death struggles to save the world. Time had passed and the mane 6 while still friends had went off and found themselves mates and started their own herds.
Pinkie Pie had ended up in a relationship with Cheese Sandwich for a short time, but the other party pony never remained around Ponyville and Pinkie didn't want to leave her home. After that had sputtered out Pinkie had decided to remain single and started a herd with the cake twins as an older sister/aunt figure as their mates had joined herd Laughter.
Fluttershy also remained in Ponyville and ended up marrying Big Mac having him move in with her in the cottage. This was not a issue as as Sweet Apple Acres was not to far from the small cozy home. The two had 2 foals a pegasus filly named Gossamer Sky who was a soft red nearly rose colored coat with her mother's pink mane and tail. An earth colt Applebuck who had Fluttershy's buttercup colored coat red mane and tail making him look a lot like his aunt Applebloom. Instead of creating her own herd like Pinkie Fluttershy had joined Applejacks herd Honesty.
Applejack had ended up with Caramel both living on Sweet Apple Acres together. They had only a single filly earth pony named Pacific Rose who had a bright red coat and brown mane and tail.
Rainbow Dash had finally made the Wanderbolts and had been forced to leave Ponyville since the airial team was based out of Cloudsdale. After 5 years and making quite a name for herself Dash finally settled down with Soarin and have 3 children of their own one set of triplets. They were all pegasus of course all three fillies named Rainbow Prism who had pretty much been a duplicate of her mother in appearance but seemed to act more like Fluttershy without the weak flying ability much to Dash's amusement. Solar Streak who was a bright orange almost yellow color and yellow mane and tail. Sky Dash was the last of the triplets and the only one who seemed to act brash and proud like her mother though like Prism took after her mom in colors Sky took after her father in appearance looking like a little female Soarin. She has started the herd Loyalty with her husband, Spitfire and her lover Fleetfoot.
Rarity had made it moving to Canterlot and becoming what could be called the Equuis' number 1 designer. Her fashion was sold all over the world and had lines for nearly every species as the races has started to discovered modesty toward the curves that females had and gave birth to cutie mark patches so that they could display their mark even with the clothing on. She eventually settled down with surprisingly Hoity Toity and had but a single filly named Diamond Sparkle a marshmallow colored coat with shimmering silvery mane and tail. She had started the herd Generosity with Fancy Pants and Fluer.
Twilight never really got her happy ending but was able to get through her hard times thanks to her friends, her brother and sister-in-law. She had started to see Flash Sentry even started to plan a life with him until she learned the truth. After catching Flash in a fling when she surprised him at home with a visiting mare, she learned he never really loved her and was using her for her position. Flash was removed from duty and basically black listed when the news got out and the fool ended up a homeless beggar in Manehatten. Twilight had found out a few weeks after his dismissal that she was pregnant with his foal. With the help of Fluttershy and Pinkie she raised the lavender unicorn filly with the light blue mane and tail named Starlight Sparkle. She unlike the others never joined a herd instead raised her daughter and plunged herself into being even better at magic and being a better leader to the people.
Spike moved on after Rarity married deciding to go to the dragon lands to try to help his kind which had begun to drop in numbers over the years due to their own savagery. Twilight
received mail regularly from him and was even happy to hear that he had meet a female dragon his own age. His letters continued to tell how he and his new lover Saphira a pretty blue colored dragoness eventually settled in together becoming true mates. He even with Saphira's blessing named his first daughter after his mother/sister figure.
Time passed and the mates of the married members of the mane 6 began to grow old, then the children began to age looking older then their mothers whom had remained the same age as the day of the Tirek attack. When their children started to get wrinkles and yet they were still young and beautiful the six headed to Canterlot to see Celestia to find out why.
"My little ponies, I am sorry to tell you that it would seem you are all immortal. I was hoping it wouldn't have happened like it did with us," Celestia said with a heavy heart as she sat on her throne her sister seated next to her.
"You mean you knew there was a possibility that this would be possible, and you never told us," Twilight hollered out in a bit of anger.
"I didn't want you to worry needlessly if it was not the case," She sighed and with a golden aura levitated chairs in for the girls. "Please take a seat and I will tell you what happened."
The six sat back on the chair and listened still showing aggravation in their eyes.
"Luna and I are immortal, you know this right? Why do you think we are immortal," she asked them.
"You were both born natural alicorns," said Twilight with a slightly questioning manner.
"Heh heh, no and there has never been a natural alicorn, it is a something that happens through some method or another like you completing that spell, Twilight. No we were both born unicorns and when we went to seek the tree of harmony to use the elements against Discord. When we were able to get the try to let us use them our cutie marks appeared upon the tree and we vanished being reborn as alicorns. We also became the physical embodiment of the sun and the moon, you and Cadence do became alicorns through two other methods. No, alicorns do have a longer lifespan then your average pony but are not immortal," sighing as she rubbed her eyes.
"When you returned the elements to the tree we thought it might be a possibility but you were never reborn and normal bodies can not handle immortality so we weren't really sure it affected you on that level. Really when you did you were not immortal then yet, you actually became immortal when you opened the box and defeated Tirek. It was at we heard that you all vanished into a ball of light and were reformed in your rainbow powered forms. I wasn't fully sure then but I am now, when you vanished an reappeared you had changed becoming the embodiment of your elements. As long as those elements exist in this universe so shall you," tears now ran down her muzzle as she felt guilt rise in her.
The 6 sat their tears also rolling down their eyes, they would have to bury their grandchildren and following descendants for generations to come. The 6 decided to go home and spend as much time with their herds as they could and when the time came they would return to Twilight's palace and figure out where to go from there.
The girls had taken to comforting one another best they could, Twilight feeling the least loss her never joining a herd did not feel the emphatic void that came with the dead of the herd and was only dreading the death of her daughter. Twilight over time would come to the bed of Rarity at night as she screamed at her loss and cuddle her giving her a friendly shoulder to cry into and was given the same when Starlight had passed making Twilight bury her only daughter.
After the loss of their children the mares locked themselves away in the castle no longer venturing out into the growing Ponyville for a very long time.