Equestria
The Garden of Dreams
One week after the great disappearance
‘Who shall I bring into Equestria, so that thy children shall survive under thy protection?’ Luna, The Princess of the Night, thought to herself as she tucked her children of the night for the coming dawn. ‘it must be something that can guard them night or day, and care for them, just incase I am not there to do it.’ she started to try and think of a perfect protector for them ‘golems? no, they wouldn’t love them. I cannot bring the royal guards into this, or my sister would find out. Griffins would-’ her chain of thought was interrupted by a midnight blue earth pony colt starting to wake up.
“M-mama?” the colt said, wiping sleep from his eyes. “Why do you leave us?” he then trotted over to Luna with a quizzical expression.
“If I leave then bad ponies will come looking for me and take all of us apart, now go back to sleep little one.” Luna cooed to the young colt. then a thought struck her, it was the last thing that her sister, Celestia, would expect, ‘Humans’
It was perfect, Humans were caring to the young, very protective, and incredibly hard to kill both physically and mentally, they are just as individual as ponies, but they had no inherent ability to fly or use magic, except under special circumstances. it was just perfect.
“Can you sing me a song mommy?” the young colt asked, as he unleashed his ‘puppy dog’ eyes.
Defeated Luna sighed and started to sing a little song.
Earth
USA
January 25th
It was a beautiful night in Yolo, California.
The stars were shining, the moon was full, everyone was in their homes, everyone except me. I was driving home to my family. I was listening to the radio. I can’t find any songs that I like on the radio so I listen to the news. but then I heard a song over the radio.
Come little children, I’ll take thee away.
I checked that I was on the right frequency, and found that I was in fact listening to the news station, but why was the song there? I tried turning the radio off, but the song was still playing.
To a wondrous place of enchantment,
I was scared, so I parked the car and ran. I kept running long after my car disappeared from sight, but no matter how far I ran the song wouldn’t stop playing.
Come little children, the time's come to play
“ARRRGGGHH!! Why won’t this song stop playing!? Where is it even coming from?”
I ran and ran but no matter how far I ran the song kept following me.
Suddenly, a portal opened in front of me, and I tripped and fell through the portal hitting the ground on the other side with a hard THUNK. The last thing I remember before blacking out was seeing was a starry night sky.
Here in my garden of shadows...