//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Arriving The Human Island // Story: Rise of the Equestrians // by Doodle Note //------------------------------// Some say that only humans roamed the Earth. Others say they are not the only one. For those who said otherwise, they are correct. Long ago, there lived a race of colorful-haired super humans called Equestrians. They have lived for a thousand years, and they still live today. They lived on an island far from any other island called Equestria. The land was ruled by two beautiful sisters. The eldest that can move the sun was named Celestia, and the youngest that can move the moon was named Luna. And the island was protected by six Equestria girls chosen by the rulers themselves. The island was pure harmony, but sometimes full of chaos. Fifty years ago, they used to be in a war with an alliance of dark Equestrians called the Alliance of Darkness. But the Equestrians grew victorious and locked them underground. But years later, the Alliance found a way to escape the underground. But before they escaped, they concocted a plan for revenge. They will take away 100 hearts to awaken their secret weapon, the Supernova, to destroy humans and resume the war. 99 from Equestrians, and one from a human. The Alliance finally escaped the underground to start the invasion and took away Luna, the first heart they needed. So Celestia sent the guardians away to forbidden nations of the island where no one can find them. After the invasion, Celestia came with a plan to find the missing guardians. Two years have passed, and none of them were found. But one day, a human came to Equestria and told Celestia that the only way to find the guardians was a group of five brave humans that took down a Wither Storm called the Order of the Stone. And with their help, they will reunite the guardians and join forces to stop the Alliance from succeeding. Celestia agreed with the plan and sent three knights, an old friend of one of the guardians, a prisoner of the Alliance, and a former member of the Alliance, to the Human Island to find the Order and bring them to Equestria. On the ocean, a ship was moving on it. On deck were two girls. One with purple and gray blue hair and dark blue eyes wearing a purple knee high dress, black boots, shorts, and a vest, and a green headband named Starlight Glimmer, who was sitting down eating an apple. And the other with indigo hair and teal eyes wearing black jeans, a white shirt, a purple jacket, a necklace with a star charm surrounded by colorful music notes, and black boots with blue gemstones named Coloratura, who was holding the ship's wheel looking for land. Coloratura looked around for land as she saw a large island from far away. "Starlight." Starlight stopped munching on her apple and looked at Coloratura. "Hm?" Coloratura turned to Starlight. "We're here. Get Sunset." Starlight swallowed as she got up and ran into the ship. Inside the ship, a girl with red and yellow hair and cyan eyes wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt and dark blue jeans named Sunset Shimmer was asleep in bed. Sunset's dream... Sunset was wearing black, yellow, orange and red armor, boots and gloves wearing a black tiara with a teal gem in a castle holding a teal sword holding Starlight, who was tied up and beaten, hostage. She heard a shatter behind her as she turned seeing the six guardians land on the castle ground. Twilight Sparkle (Who had powers of an Enderman), who had indigo, pink and purple hair tied to a bun and Enderman eyes wearing purple, white and pink boots and armor with a pink six-pointed star crest and pink visor glasses holding a purple sword, Rainbow Dash (Who can control weather), who had rainbow hair and magenta eyes wearing red, yellow and blue boots, goggles and armor with a rainbow lightning bolt crest holding a gold bow and a lightning arrow, Applejack (Who had super strength), who had hay-colored hair and green eyes wearing green, orange and red boots and armor with an apple crest with a matching hat and silver gauntlets, Pinkie Pie (Who had super speed), who had poofy hot pink hair tied to a ponytail and bright blue eyes wearing blue, pink and yellow armor with a blue balloon crest and boots with gold bracelets on both her wrists that turned into cannon gauntlets, Rarity (Who can control ice), who had purple curly hair with the back braided and sapphire blue eyes wearing white, blue and purple armor with a blue diamond crest and boots holding a spear made of ice, and Fluttershy (Who had invisibility), who had bright pink hair and teal eyes wearing green, yellow and pink boots and armor with a pink butterfly crest, a green headband with a pink butterfly and a butterfly bracelet on her right wrist that gives her butterfly wings holding a yellow sword. Sunset glared at the guardians and ran to fight them. The guardians did the same. Twilight and Sunset ran up to each other and started sword fighting. Twilight teleported away, leaving Sunset angry. Sunset turned and saw Fluttershy as she ran up to her. Fluttershy waved at her bracelet giving herself pink butterfly wings as she flew up. Sunset lit her hands with magic and started shooting balls of magic at Fluttershy, but she kept missing. She then turned and saw Rainbow floating as she lit her hands with lightning. She dodged every attack Rainbow threw at her, then saw Rarity make a giant rock of ice and threw it at her, but she destroyed it in one hit. Sunset turned and saw Applejack holding one of the castle pillars and noticed that she was about to be hit by. So she ran to the side. Then saw Pinkie running around her, which made an explosion that blew her away. Sunset hit a wall as she opened her eyes seeing the guardians pull out colorful gems that started glowing. End of dream Sunset woke up with a jolt as she turned seeing Starlight at her door. "Did you have that dream again?" Starlight asked. Sunset nodded and got out of bed putting on black and orange boots and a black jacket. She and Starlight ran out of the ship seeing Coloratura. "Are we here?" Coloratura turned to Sunset. "We're here." Sunset looked in front of her and saw the island. "The Human Island. We made it." After putting the ship at the docks, the trio walked off the boat and started their journey on the island. "I cannot believe we finally made it." Sunset said. "Now all we need to do is find the Order and get out of here." "Well, last night, I had a vision." Starlight replied. "The Order are going to be special guests at this place called EnderCon. And I heard there is a building competition and the winning team will get to meet the Order in person." "How did you even know all that?" Coloratura asked. "Like I said. I had a vision." Starlight answered. "If only there was a way we could meet them." Sunset stopped. "Girls, I have an idea." The others stopped and turned to Sunset. Sunset turned to Starlight. "Starlight, you said that the Order will be special guests of this EnderCon you speak of?" "Yes." Starlight said. "Well, I have a solution. We enter this building competition and build the best thing that the judges might love. If we win, we will go meet the Order and bring them to Equestria. And if we don't win, we'll just follow the winners." Coloratura nodded. "Sunset, not bad." "I'll take it." Starlight agreed. "But what are we going to build?" "How about an Enderman?" Sunset suggested. "Fluttershy loves Endermen." "Well, let's make her proud! But we need more material." Coloratura took out a chest and opened it. "We only have some wood, a beacon, glass, and wool. And it's not enough." Sunset turned and saw some sheep. "And I know where to find some wool." She ran to the sheep and sheered them with magic. "There." She turned to Starlight. "Starlight, get the glass and turn it purple." Starlight took out the glass and turned it purple. Coloratura took out the beacon. "It's not enough for our build. We need more beacons." Sunset shot the beacon, which now turned from one beacon to nine. "Good?" Coloratura nodded as the trio puts the stuff into the chest and closed it. She picked up the chest and puts it away. Then the trio continued their walk. "Okay, let's make up some rules." Sunset said. "We don't use our powers while building, no freaking out the humans, and no distractions." "Got it. And we're not doing this for fun." Coloratura added. "We're doing this for the world." A human wearing tan pants, a gray shirt and goggles walks past them. "Nice hair, freaks." "Hey! Who are you calling a freak?!" Starlight yelled. "Maybe they never seen us before." Coloratura said. The trio turned and saw four human girls wearing the same outfit, a bright pink shirt, hot pink jeans, pink bows in their hair, and black boots. "Whoa. Those human girls seriously love pink." Starlight said. Three of the girls turned to the trio. "Wow. Those girls are, like, so weird." The brunette said. "Who is both a redhead and a blonde?" The one with black hair asked rudely. The redhead giggled and turned to the blonde. "Marcie, look at those freaks." The blonde known as Marcie turned and saw the trio. "Hmm. Let's go, girls." The four girls walked into the competition as the trio walked up to the counter. "Hello, girls. Love your hair." A woman with dark skin, black hair, glasses, a brown suit and a red tie said kindly. "At least someone likes us." Coloratura said. "Who do you call yourselves?" Starlight and Coloratura wore faces of fear. "Oh no." Starlight whispered in a tone of fear. "I didn't know we had to come up with a team name." "What are we going to do?" Coloratura whispered back. "We're the Trio of Wonder." Sunset told the woman as Starlight and Coloratura sighed in relief. "Okay, Trio of Wonder. You're in Booth 5." The woman said. The trio walked into the competition and saw some humans whispering things about them. "I think they really never seen us before." Sunset said. "Yeah. I think they didn't." Starlight agreed. The trio got into Booth 5 as Coloratura puts down the chest and opens it. "Okay, this is all the stuff we need." Coloratura said. The trio took a handful of stuff out of the chest. Starlight turned and saw two twin brothers, one with brown hair and brown eyes wearing a leather jacket, blue shirt, dark blue jeans and red sneakers, and the other also brown eyes and hair wearing a yellow plaid shirt, bright blue jeans, and black shoes, laughing at her and the others. "Boys." "Welcome to the EnderCon Building Competition!" The woman pronounced. "The winners of the competition will get their build displayed at the front of EnderCon. And the winners will get to meet, in person, the Order of the Stone!" The trio smiled. "We're not just here to win. We're here to get the Order. Remember that." Sunset whispered to the others seeing them nod. The trio turned and saw the four girls in pink chanting. "We're the Pink Jets and we're gonna win!" "They have a chant." Coloratura added. "Sunset, we don't even have a handshake." "We'll make one up." Sunset said. "Any of you have any ideas?" The others shook their heads. "You?" Starlight asked. Sunset shook her head. "3, 2, 1....go!" The woman shouted. The trio started building the Enderman with black wool and purple glass. "Oh no! An Enderman! I'm so scared!" The redhead of the Pink Jets teased. Starlight rolled her eyes. The trio went to the Enderman's arms and placed nine wood blocks between them. Then they added the nine beacons. "We need something to fire it up." Coloratura said. Sunset's eyes flashed with magic as the beacons lit up shooting colorful beams in the air, which caught the judges eyes. Coloratura turned to Sunset. "Did you just...?" "I had to." Sunset explained as she turned and saw a dark figure from far away. "Rara, Starlight, you two take care of the build in case something goes wrong. I need to do something first." She jumped off the build and ran after the dark figure into the woods. "Should we just ignore that?" Starlight asked seeing Coloratura nod. "Okay."