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// Prologue: Lost in Time 
// Story: Gaze Upon the Stars 
// by ADenter1 
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Prologue: Lost in Time




He was known as a wise and powerful Wizard Unicorn. He was a master at all forms of Magic, minus Friendship of course, he could never fully understand that but he, just like the two Princesses, knew that the Prophecy of Harmony would one day come true. That the Six Heroes of Equestria would rise against all dangers. There would be a third Alicorn Princess, the Princess of Magic who, with her friends, would procure the Magic of Friendship. The Six Elements, Laughter, Kindness, Generosity, Honesty, Loyalty, and Magic as one. The elder Unicorn may not have been able to master all Magic, but he respected the boundaries.
The stallion used his Magic to return his Ancient Books of Magic to their proper alphabetized shelves. He was a bit of a neat freak, or at least that was his nickname from the two he considered his daughters. A soft cooing made his ear twitch, and a small smile form on his lips. He ran a hoof through his long beard. He slowly crept over to the hoof-crafted crib from a generous pony, careful not to let the floorboards creak the slightest. “Hush, little one,” he used his Magic to put the pacifier back into the newborn colt’s mouth.
Tears formed in the old Unicorn’s yellow eyes. Aside from eye color, and age difference, they looked so much alike. The little colt had a thick tuft of white on his head and a longer bit for his tail. Same as the older Unicorn once had. Whereas Starswirl the Bearded had yellow eyes, the colt had the palest of pale blue ones. Last, but never the least, their coats were both the same shade of darker gray.
Neither Princess, Luna, Celestia, or other knew of the colt’s existence. Only one mare had known, and she had left Starswirl upon the arrival of the colt. “You will make me proud one day, little gazer,” Starswirl chuckled at the nickname. It was true. The newborn had a tendency to let his eyes wander and become unfocused, primarily at the sky when it was dark and time for bed. Another odd thing about the little colt that Starswirl couldn’t help but wonder, if all newborns did it. The little foal usually slept as much as he could during the day, and was nearly uncontrollable at night. Both magically and not magically.
Although Starswirl the Bearded was not known for shedding tears, he wept still. Tears cascading down his cheeks in twin streams. His horn glowed the blue aura that was his Magic. He pulled back the Book of True Magic. Every spell, every spell imaginable, was locked away in this ancient book. Starswirl had told Luna what he needed to do to protect the Order unless Chaos was to roam freely so that they could retrieve the Elements of Harmony from the Tree. Sacrifice for the good of Equestria. But that also meant saying goodbye, and not just to the Princess of the Moon and her elder sister.
He used his Magic to poof up the cape he’d had a sewing pony make for him. It almost matched his own, but by his Magic, every constellation existent was on it. And every night the cape would change by Magic, and all the constellations visible that night, would be seen on the cape. But he’d refrained from adding bells. That was his Wizard’s hat and cape. He gently picked up the little colt with his Magic and placed the cape in place and used the silver pin to make it stay. The foal giggled and pressed his tiny little hooves onto his father’s face. “I love you, my little gazer,” Starswirl wept as he cast the Spell of Immortalitas, a creature that had been utterly brilliant, but somewhere inside they had been mad at the same time had discovered this spell and Starswirl had no doubt the creature was either regretting it, or already dead. “Goodbye, my little gazer,” Starswirl whispered as he cast the second spell. Though this one was for him. Donec tempus.
“Goodbye,” Starswirl repeated as his eyes glowed pure white and both he, and the foal, disappeared. Starswirl from the earthly plane of Equestria and anywhere Beyond, and possibly from Time itself, and the colt, to this day, only Starswirl knows. But perhaps, a certain Alicorn Princess, might just find out. But until then, it is a tale long lost within time.