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// Canterlot: They Appear 
// Story: A Tale of Tails, Sunsets and Burned Bridges 
// by Ozone31 
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"Let the fun and games begin".



It was 2:00am, a peaceful October's night, in Canterlot. A light breeze blew through the, faintly shining, white coat of a tall, winged unicorn. 
She had a flowing mane made up of blues, pinks and greens. Her tail was the exact same, sparkling as it flowed like water in the night air. Her bright purple eyes looked down at the bustling city below, from her balcony in Canterlot Castle, in a motherly fashion. She loved all of her loyal subjects as a mother would her foals, nurturing them as they grew, picking them up when they fell down, forgiving them when they broke something.

"I only wish I had been like that then" Princess Celestia sighed to herself, as she looked up towards the the moon.

The Moon. One of the two celestial bodies she controlled with her truly immense amounts of magic. But it was more than a massive lump of rock floating up there in space. It was an eternal reminder of her greatest failure, the result of her arrogance and pride, her little sister's prison.

"Your majesty?"

Celestia shook her head to dispel these looming thoughts and looked down to another one of the castle's balconies below. A yellow coated unicorn mare in a hospital patient's coat stood there, looking up at her, curiosity in her dull grey eyes. Her brick red mane was long and messy, fresh sweat causing it to stick to her head and neck.

Cradled in one foreleg she held a small, delicate, newborn filly. Her coat was a pale yellow and her little tuft  of mane was half crimson red accompanied by a powerful blond. She was a unicorn like her mother, a little conical horn protruding from her forehead 

The mare was Day Break, one of Celestia's personal guards especially good at containment and sealing spells. She'd been in labour for the past few hours giving birth to the filly she was currently holding, Sunset Shimmer.

"Good evening to you Day Break" Celestia greeted as she flew down to meet the no longer pregnant mare. "I hope she didn't give you too much trouble?" She asked, peering down at the sleeping foal. I wonder who she will turn out to be?, she thought to herself.

"Princess, I have fought manticores, chimeras and even dragons while in your service. But this was definitely one of the most difficult things I've had to do." Day Break said tiredly."To say it hurt would be a major understatement"

"But I'm sure it was worth it in the end." Celestia reminded the warrior mare to see the posetive

"Of course, I'm proud as can be. I only wish Raven Wing could have been here now."

Raven Wing had been her husband. A black coated, blond pegasus stallion, who had died a few months before, in an Ursa Major attack on Ponyville. It had taken six hours for an entire guard regiment to defeat it. They hadn't even been able to kill it, only drive it back into the Everfree Forest to the west of the town, where it came from.

"I'm sure he would've been proud as can be" Celestia comforted her young friend. Day Break was one of the closest ponies to the Solar princess at the time and remained close to her side at almost all times.

"I know" Day chuckled sadly,"He was the kindest stallion whoever lived."

Celestia was about to respond when  she was interrupted by a sudden, low 'BOOM'.

The Princess of Equestria threw her vision towards the city center and gasped when she saw a massive smoke cloud billowing out from the city's geographical heart.


 
"Your new name is Kurama!"

Those were the last words I heard from the voice and despite the fact that I was blinded by a cloud of smoke I could tell something was off. I felt odd, like I was bigger, stronger, more powerful. It also felt like I had significantly more limbs, it was like having lots of arms sprouting from my backside.
But I ran out of time to think as I, the sentience, was consumed by blind fury.

The world went red as I felt myself unleash an almighty roar of outrage, that was so powerful that it blew away the cloud surrounding me.

I was right, I was huge. A massive ball of orange fur and furiously whipping tails, towering over most buildings in my sight. Except one, a castle not too far away. The rage spoke its first words out of malice and jealousy towards the building for being taller than us.

"Destroy. DESTROY!"

With that it, no, I attacked.