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// Chapter 1 
// Story: The Immortality Diaries 
// by PhoelynFabulous 
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September 13, 1085
Dear Diary,
This is the first entry I will write in this journal/diary thing. I think I'll call it a diary for now. Anyways, all of the Element Bearers, my best friends, are dead. It's horrible to think, and my heart still feels broken, but Applejack told me to put the pieces of my heart back together, so I'm trying. It still hurts, though. At least I won't be alone. I have everypony in Ponyville as a friend, and I feel like that's something I should keep in my heart.
Apple Cider, Applejack's great-granddaughter, is helping me mourn her by keeping me company. It's very sweet of her to do, and she always brings an apple when she comes. She even brings an extra for Spike if he wants it, though he prefers jewels, of course. That's where Glimmering Gemstone comes in. She's Rarity's great-granddaughter. Anyways, she comes to comfort us too, even though Rarity's death was months ago. I still think it's sad that Rarity had only me to be with her when she died, but I was the only one who knew. She sent a magical burst to warn me, and since nopony else is a uni/alicorn, they couldn't have felt it.
Anyways, Gemstone always brings a, well, a gemstone, for Spike. Every time I look into Apple Cider and Gemstone's eyes, I see the Elements of Harmony that their great-grandmothers represented in their colors. A yellow Element of Honesty for Cider, and a blue Element of Generosity for Gemstone. Sometimes, I really, really, really wish I could just see my old friends again by looking into their eyes. I'll have to get used to a world without them.

-Twilight Sparkle

September 16, 1085
Dear Diary,
Today I had a little meeting with the other Princesses just to comfort me and help me get through being sad all the time. Maybe someday I'll get a little better, but I'm not sure. It's hard to imagine a world where I can't always be forced to think about them and their deaths. Death. I hate that word.
Anyways, it was less like a meeting, and more like a party. Ha. More like a "Get Well Soon" party. I wish Pinkie could throw me a party like that, but, she can't. Not while she's... dead.
Anyways, they talked about how death was something that happened, something that occurred in every almost everypony's life. It was a price for the immortality every princess received, and that eventually, it would hurt less and less.
After the "party", I headed back home and received my daily comfort from my new friends and Spike. The day continued on normally.

-Twilight Sparkle

September 21, 1085
Dear Diary,
Today, the strangest thing happened! I was just shopping for some food, when I see this mare selling carrots that I've never met before.
Now, by taking the role of Pinkie Pie and being the Princess of Friendship, I know everypony in Ponyville. So, I greeted the mare and told her my name, and I asked for hers. To my surprise, she grunted as if I was the most annoying thing in the world and continued to sell her carrots! Though I don't use my title to help me make friends, it was like she didn't even realize that I was a princess! Everypony else gives small bows to me while they walk, even! I coughed awkwardly and asked how much did a carrot cost. She rolled her eyes at me and pointed to a sign quickly, as if she was very annoyed. She rolled her eyes! Very confused, I spread out my wings, hoping she would notice a little better, paid for my carrots, and left.
I told Cider, Spike, and Gemstone when I got home, and they reacted the same way. Shocked!

-Twilight Sparkle

P.S. I drew a picture of the mare to put in these pages. I'm still shocked by how she acted!


October 3, 1085
Dear Diary,
Sorry if I haven't written in a while, but it's probably become obvious that I don't write in here every day.
Today, I realized just how many ponies that there suddenly were in Ponyville! All of them act strangely to me, as if they don't see that I'm a princess, and I've never, ever seen them before! To make sure I wasn't going insane from losing my best friends, I asked Lyra's great-grandson. He said that they were certainly real, that he could hear and see and feel them too! I asked him why he was feeling them, and he responded with the fact that they would shove him out of their way! What's up with these ponies?
Anyways, my day was mostly normal, aside from these ponies and their rudeness. I think I'm going to ask one what it's problem is someday, because this has to stop. The ponies that normally live in Ponyville - my friends - are becoming afraid to go outside and fight the strange, randomly-appearing ponies.

-Twilight Sparkle

October 26, 1085
Dear Diary,
I saw Discord today.
Despite it being months and months, he couldn't handle Fluttershy dying. He would stay in his pocket dimension for weeks and weeks, and barely come outside. He would cause chaos so bad within his dimension, a normal pony couldn't look at it without going insane. I tried looking myself, it hurt my head so bad I was forced to close my eyes at the slightest glimpse. (That's why I was worried about those mean ponies being in my head or not. I thought I actually had gone crazy from looking at Discord's madness.)
I heard a knock on the door, and saw that it was Discord who was there. I asked him to come inside, and he did. He immediately said something heartbreaking.
"Twilight, I am going to cause chaos all over the land again. You need to turn me to stone before I turn the world into the madness you saw within my pocket dimension."
I froze. Discord had said it so casually, yet so sadly. I told him not to, that I wouldn't turn him to stone, that it was the little bit of Fluttershy left in me that told me "No".
At the name of his best and first friend, Discord burst into tears, falling to the floor. He said that Fluttershy, his only friend, had died, and so there was nothing he had left.
And then I realized what he had said, exactly.
Only.
I told him that Fluttershy wasn't his only friend, and he looked at me, confused and sad. With a strong burst of alicorn magic, I felt around the entire castle, and the Tree of Harmony, and felt the strong magic of me and my friends together. I thought about my piece in it all, my key in it, and brought forth and image using my magic.
I opened my eyes, and saw the key I had used to defeat Tirek, to build this castle, using the gift of...
Discord.

He isn't too sad anymore. He comes every day now too. He isn't lonely. He has me.

-Twilight Sparkle