//------------------------------// // The Seed // Story: In the Beginning...... // by Arn //------------------------------// The young All Wishes obediently took Celestia’s coin and paid the taxes, he kept the other as was per tradition and that coin, a present passed down in his family. He liked the idea of there being something greater, and no it wasn't “the mare in the moon” or the stars! On his way home. He met an earth pony, she told him about planting. That a seed grew into something bigger.What a wonderful gift! Like a story, getting bigger as you told it! Could he do it with this coin? Grow interest like a big tree, and give gifts to everyone? While talking with her he learned her father was very sick, his heart felt sad, he liked her. As he passed a bank he took his coin to a banker hoping it was worth something so he could help the Philly's father. The banker told him it was worthless. When the colt heard this he was crushed. He went to a nearby cliff and looked beyond it toward the horizon across the sea. To cheer himself up he recalled a story his Gran had told him. Beyond the sun's corona there was a land where the fire flowers grew! The king of the deer, the eldest, had gone there to show he was worthy to be king. For his bravery a servant of the highest awarded him a heart shaped bottle containing their juices. The El-deer always wore this around his neck, for the healing of the sick. He joarned far and wide to help others. He wanted to help but All Wishes just stared out across the sea. He had an idea! He looked beyond the sun to the blue sky, then he begged. “He who knows himself to be, he who is, to a highest power to life, to light !"he called out."Please! Take my coin, it is valuable to me but I will take it in trade for something valuable to you!…I want to, let me, do something good with it! I have kept it safe but it isn't worth anything.If you give me something that you value I can get interest, I want to make it grow…please take my coin…make it grow!”he threw it. Something caught it. There wasn't a voice, per se, but he did hear it. “A little seed sowed then harvesters to the field! To Celestia, to the rulers, to the rightful powers: taxes, honor, respect…You, to me!”it disappeared as if an eye lid with lashes closed around it. All wishes closed his eyes as something gently came across his head like a breeze, scratched behind his ears and was gone. When he opened his eyes again there was a shining blank coin at his hooves. He picked it up, it was slippery. The coin glowed golden and was bubbled like a circus mirror, completely distorting his face until he looked directly upon it. He ran home and told his Gran what happened. She took All Wishes and raced directly to the bank. The banker took the coin, and was stunned! The quality of gold! The craft ship of the coin. Then All Wishes took a small loan against the coin, and invested it. He was then able to take care of his Gran, give gifts to his friends and help those less fortunate: for the sickness of the filly’s father! He found her in the fields planting. Face to face he told everything! He then told her, indeed she was right! Interest was like a little plant and banking and building wealth was like farming! She smiled and she agreed with him as they lay on their bellies in the dirt facing each other. A few moments later a little sprout grew between them tickling their muzzles. They laughed together! This pony was like the coin. Xxxxxxxxxxx Answer him correctly or he will think himself greater than the Sun!! “Yes.” He swallowed.”I will swear by…by…He who is greater than the sun! Than the sky! Greater than every seen and unseen real thing here and beyond… beyond the universe!”he looked into the ponies eyes. He swallowed again.”I swear by one: who rose from the dead! He went into the sky! He took my coin! He expects interest back! His book you hold tightly, like a spirit, its words must live in you, be known in your core! A treasure: a sword, a coin, a deposit! It is like a deposit, an investment, seeds in the grown by the plow shear! He is not ready to collect, not ready to harvest, tis still green! How angry would he be if you came due before the promised maturity date!”it was come into his mind on the fly. At this the earth pony stallion’s eyes bugged out, then blinked. First one eye then the other: the glowing left his eyes. One coin for Celestia and one for the greater!He coughed and coughed and coughed and shook. His frame began to colapse. There isn't much time. ” Come here. Come to me.” All Wishes, beckoning the stallion. "Wa? Where, where am I?" Another fit of coughing. The pony looked longingly into the flames and spoke,"I was going home."His head wobbled around."This book says to love your neighbor as yourself...." "I am your neighbor! I do not want "my self" to be burned alive in the flames! I am also a servant, like you. I have unicorns and Pegisi and earth ponies under my command. By higher authority I say, ’Come!’ and he comes. I say, ’Go!’ and he goes. I tell my servant, my fellow pony, who helps my family, my friend, ‘Do this!’ and he does it willingly! Here there is life! You have a chance to be somepony, over here you have a chance, over here there is love. In that fire? What kind of wages would you receive? What do you gain without love in the fire? You gain nothing, you won’t be anything: not a lord, nor will you be a king! The loveless fire will just shriveling you up, wasted to wither away, and just be, regret, an object of scorn, a thing tormented day and night never seeing the sun or the moon. Nothing but food for the fire, that thing that never says: ‘Enough!’ "Here you can be somepony, great! There…you’re less than meat, a nothing!” “Please. Come here!” The Pony realized he had seized up, he twinged back and forth toward the unicorn on now unsteady legs. It was obvious he was trying to obey, to move away from the fiery pit, between increasing coughing. “I can’t!Cough,cough.” the pony said still trying."Help me!cough, cough.Can't breath!"as the erect frame began to shake. All Wishes nodded.“Cough.I'll meet you half way. Let me come and get you.” as he put the pot down. Please help me.The unicorn thought.