October 30, 1085
Dear Diary,
Today, I have decided that I'm going to put an end to the strange, mean ponies walking down the streets of Ponyville.
I know, it seems like a huge thing to do, but Ponyville is almost like my first kingdom to rule, despite it being part of Equestria, and therefore I need to protect and care for it.
My first kingdom to rule... Maybe I should think about Celestia's suggestion of me starting my own kingdom soon.
Anyways, this morning I decided to end the madness of the ponies who live in Ponyville being afraid to go outside. I sang the song that I sung on the day of my coronation (or, I guess the day right before it.). It's sad to think of all the memories of me getting this immortality, but if I'm ever going to get used to my friends being dead, I have to try.
So, like I said, I started singing my precious song, Morning in Ponyville, out on the street like I did the first time I sung it. This time, I was not interrupted by a cloud brought over my head by Rarity. Of course, that can't happen again, because she's gone. That took a lot longer to write than it might look, because it hurts so much.
Anyways, what I was interrupted by, was a pony who must have thought that he would die if he heard another note.
Instead of the usual end of the song, my song ended something like, "Morning in Ponyville shimmers, Morning in Ponyville shiiiines, and I know for absolute certain, that everything is certainly - OH MY CELESTIA SHUT UP PLEASE, I CAN'T TAKE YOUR STUPID SONG ANYMORE!"
He fell right into my trap. I instantly stopped singing and whipped my head towards him faster than Rainbow Dash could fly. (while alive, I mean.)
I yanked him towards me with my magic, and I spread out my wings so he could see, very clearly, that I had both. I near whispered, in rage, "Do you know who you're talking to, my little pony?"
He lost all color in his face, and responded with something like, "A-a really annoyingly friendly p-pony?"
I was shocked. I couldn't speak. I felt like I would lose control right there and burn him alive in the grasp of my magic.
But I kept just enough control to back away, and glare at the crowd, who was watching silently. I said, "This pony is getting locked up in the castle dungeon I thought I would never have to use. If you follow in his hoofsteps and continue to be rude, you will follow his hoofsteps all the way to the castle dungeon. In case you haven't noticed, everypony, I am the Princess of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle, and I refuse to let this go on any longer. Stop being mean or leave Ponyville." And with that message out to everypony, I took the rude stallion to the castle dungeon (which I had hoped I would never have to use), and locked him up. I returned to the main part of the castle to tell all my friends, now including Discord, what I had done.
The ponies feel a little safer when they go outside now.
-Twilight Sparkle
P.S, I had made some observations about the rude ponies in the night. I thought about how they had no homes or anything to sleep in, so I watched them. Some ponies just slept like homeless ponies do, just out in the road or in an ally, while most just straight-up vanished. I really need to question my little prisoner a lot!
November 1, 1085
Dear Diary,
With the rude pony problem slightly taken care of, this year's Nightmare Night went well!
That's why I really needed to do that when I did. One, it would be an early Nightmare Night scare. And two, I wanted everypony to have a happy, fun Nightmare Night, instead of having rude ponies ruining all the fun.
Anyways, Luna came to visit Ponyville for the occasion, using her transformation spell to turn into disguise herself as Nightmare Moon, (There's a difference between 'turning into' and 'pretending to turn into', trust me) and scared the little colts and fillies as we played, carefully, in the ruins of Celestia and Luna's old castle. I was with the colts and fillies, to make sure nopony got hurt in the crumbling castle.
The fun we had allowed me to take my friends off my mind for a little while, even if we were playing in a place we used to hang out.
Now, it's time for today.
Today, I went down to the dungeon and watched my prisoner as he paced back and forth in the crystal cell.
I finally decided to ask him some questions, now that I had the time.
To look more intimidating, I activated the Elements of Harmony in rainbow power form. This was a bit more complicated without my friends to help me activate it. So, I thought very hard about my friends - everything I loved about them, why I cared about them, all the fun times we had, how powerful the Elements that they wielded were - and eventually, I had gotten into Rainbow Power form.
I noticed something while I was in it, though. My legs, which were normally dotted with my cutie mark, were now dotted with all of my friends cutie marks, along with my own. This led my to look at my own cutie mark - the one on my flank, the one I've had for eighty years, or eighty five - and I nearly burst into tears.
Every star, of the five white stars around my cutie mark, were replaced with parts of the marks of my friends.
I had an apple to replace one star, a gem to replace another, a balloon to replace one, a multi-colored lightning bolt for one, and a butterfly to replace the last.
The marks of my friends.
I took a deep breath, and tried to save my real reaction for later. For now, I had a strangely rude pony to interrogate.
I walked into the room, fully, not just from around the corner, and glared at him angrily, spreading my now-larger wings. It worked. He backed down a bit in fear.
I told him that I had questions for him to answer. I also told him that I wouldn't hurt him - he was mostly innocent, I just wanted to know where everypony came from, and why they were basically taking over Ponyville.
I asked him this - he refused to answer. I asked him again - he said, word for word, "I swore on the name of Ch-Celestia, that I wouldn't tell anyp-pony."
I raised my eyebrow, and questioned to why he had stuttered like that on those words. For as far as I knew, there was no princess ChCelestia, and we didn't say anyp pony.
His eyes widened as he realized that I noticed, and just said it was his accent. I mentioned how he said Celestia perfectly fine when he told me to shut up, and he gulped loudly.
I asked him many more questions. He didn't answer any. He didn't even open his mouth for all the next questions I asked.
Before I left, I told him that he was losing the innocent-ness he had before, and that I would use more force when I came back to question him again.
I still have a small headache from trying to solve his mystery.
I cried over my new rainbow power cutie mark when I got back into my room, and showed my new friends. I have no words.
-Twilight Sparkle
November 5, 1085
Dear Diary,
I've been seriously thinking about what I wrote earlier - about my own kingdom. Ever since I became a princess, Celestia has been hinting it to me. Now that my friends are gone, it's easier to think about it. I sent her a letter saying that I was considering it, finally.
I've even chosen a name - The Kingdom of Harmony. I'll be the princess of the third kingdom ever! Princess Cadence and the Crystal Empire (My brother passed away, too, but that was a few years ago), Celestia and Luna with Equestria, and then me and the Kingdom of Harmony! It all sounds so good all of a sudden! Maybe I'm finally ready?
Anyways, away from the excitement of possibly my own kingdom, there's something strange about one of the mysterious mean ponies. She keeps following me subtly, always staring at me, worried. She hasn't acted rude at all, but she still vanishes in the night, and I've never seen her before.
I've had to throw two more mean ponies in the dungeon. I still can't get any information from them. Maybe I should ask the strangest one?
-Twilight Sparkle