The Legend of the Light Kingdom

by Rakoon1

The Light Kingdom Falls and a New Hope Borns

After a long time of planning and preparation, Sombra, who now called himself King Sombra, had created an army of dark ponies strong enough to invade the Light Kingdom. Under his leadership, the dark ponies moved to the kingdom that was the source of all light in the Pony Reality, facing all the barriers created by the Generals, being able to make it. They were now trying to break the last barrier, the most powerful one. It seemed to be able to endure, but it would not last forever.

The guards walked from one side to the other, putting themselves at various strategic combat positions, led by Golden Paladin. However, even the General of Peace realized that the chances of winning this war were declining dramatically.

He then advanced to the throne room, entering and saying to Aurora, who was sitting on her throne.

"Your Highness, King Sombra and the dark ponies are currently attacking the Light Kingdom. Our shield is hanging in there, but I doubt that will hold them eternally. He is quite powerful, especially with the Lord of Chaos supplying him with more dark energy. What are we going to do?"

Aurora didn’t want to believe that things had got to that point. Sombra, her former lover and father of her son who was now at the Enchanted Forest, was trying to destroy her and the Light Kingdom. The attack was so intense that she didn’t another option but to use her last resource.

"The situation is quite serious, Golden Paladin" Aurora said. "I'm running out of options. If we can't keep Sombra of getting in, I'm going to have to take the most drastic decision."

"Your Highness, are you talking about..." Golden Paladin started.

"Go call all the other Generals of Order" Princess Aurora ordered. "I want all of you in the Great Hall."

"Yes, ma'am" Golden Paladin answered.

He made a bow and then he headed to the exit, leaving. While advancing to go get the others, Golden Paladin couldn’t stop of considering all the work he had done to protect the Light Kingdom and Aurora as a failure. Because of that, Princess Aurora would had to sacrifice her life to ensure the future of the Light Kingdom.

In the throne room, Aurora stood up from her throne and down the platform stairs. After doing so, she advanced a few steps forward and then she turned to the throne. She closed her eyes and then her horn was loaded with magic. Aurora then launched a beam that struck the central jewel of her throne, and it began to glow and cast a beam of light to the center of the room and it was then that a circular hole appeared and a pillar appeared with a bell jar, where there was the Jewel of Life. Aurora approached the pillar and used her magic to remove the dome and then grabbed the Jewel of Life with the hooves. She observed it for a few seconds and then said:

"I have no other option. I'm going to need your power, Jewel of Life."

And, having said this, she drove up to the gates and left, going to the Great Hall to wait for the Generals. After some minutes, the doors were opened and then Golden Paladin entered along with Mirror Coat, Leaf Mane, Purple Smock, Melody and Heartbeat.

"Princess, Golden Paladin told us what you want" Mirror Coat said. "Don't you think it's a little hasty?"

"Mirror Coat is right" Melody said. "Use the Jewel of Life is too radical."

"Unfortunately, Melody, the radicalism is all we have left" Aurora replied. "Sombra and the Lord of Chaos managed to win this war. But we cannot let them win this world. The Lord of Order gave the best of him to create it."

"Princess Aurora, I don’t to disrespect you, but I think we could fight" Purple Smoke said. "I'm sure we could win. We are much stronger. I personally could take a good portion of the fark ponies thanks to my shapeshifting capacities and my toxic gas form."

"Yes, as a cocky like you could do it" said Melody.

"I'm not the only cocky pony in this room, sis" Purple Smoke replied coldly.

"Don't start you both" Golden Paladin ordered. "We are in a very serious situation. Sombra is in this possible moment trying to overthrow our barrier and will not last long he manage to do it. Princess Aurora decided to use the Jewel of Life because in that way we can save the kingdom and the light ponies. If we fight, we could lose one or both."

"Thank you so much for your support, Golden Paladin" Aurora thanked, smiling. "Your support is very important."

"I trust you blindly, Your Highness" Golden Paladin replied, doing a bow, even that he didn’t want that to happen.

"And I'm with Golden" Leaf Mane said. "Not only because I don't like to fight, but also because I know that we have to think in the Light Kingdom and in all those living on it first."

"But we all know what happens if we activate the Jewel of Life" Mirror Coat said. "All the star seeds of the Light Kingdom will be absorbed by the jewel and we all will turn into stone."

"Everypony but me" Aurora corrected. "As you know, the Jewel of Life will require all the energies of my body. My star seed will survive, but I won't."

All were silent before that revelation. Princess Aurora filled her lungs with air and continued:

"When the time comes and my star seed finding a new host, its light will release one of you so that our Kingdom can have a hope to resurface."

"And which one of us will be?" the past Heartbeat asked.

"The original star seed will know who it will release" Aurora replied. "But now, we must continue with our ritual, before Sombra can break our barrier."

The six Generals of Order waved and then they placed themselves in their respective place in each one of the points of the star. Aurora put the Jewel of Life ahead of her and closed her eyes, beginning to focus magic on her horn. The Generals did the same. It was then that her aura intensified and she opened her eyes, revealing them completely white. The Jewel of Life began to glow with intensity and then it broke free from Aurora’s magic, rising up of Aurora. The gem then freed six energy beams that hit in the Generals’s heads and made the flowers containing the star seeds appear and open up to reveal them. The General’s star seeds began to shine and the beams of the spheres have adopted, one by one, the color of their respective star seed. Then, the Jewel of Life launched a beam to Aurora, which made her flower show up and reveal her star seed, the original star seed, which had the form of a lotus flower, whose color was equal to the aura of its possessor, with a brightness so intense that it blinded. The beam connecting the star seed to the Jewel of life gained its color and then the jewel freed several waves of energy that spread everywhere.

It was then that a big show happened. Star seeds of white light appeared as a sea of light, coming from all sides: walls, pillars, on anything on the castle and also from overseas, starting then entering in the Jewel of Life. They should be all the star seeds that existed in the Light Kingdom, which gave light to the buildings, the streets, the plants, the animals and the ponies. When the last star seed entered in the jewel, the lights began to fade. While doing that, the whole kingdom started being turned into stone, from the outside to the inside. It was distressing seeing the beautiful plants and the gentle animals to be covered by a layer of cold, hard stone, but worse was seeing the ponies petrify, some in panic and others sad.

It was then that the castle itself began to petrify. Soon the interior of the Great Hall where they were began being turned into stone and it was then that also the two big towers also petrified. The entire Light Kingdom was turned into stone, with the exception of its Princess and the six Generals.

"Listen to me" Aurora said. "When our star seeds were gone, the Jewel of Life will hide in this castle, and only you, my Generals, could set it free in the presence of the original star seed. Search it, please, and protect it from the Lord of Chaos. Despite the Jewel of Life being inviolable, it is the only thing capable of bringing the Light Kingdom back to life, aside from my star seed, you hear? These two things are the most sacred things that can exist."

The Generals waved and then Princess Aurora closed her eyes and her magic intensified and so the Generals’ star seeds were released by the jewel and they left through the windows, rising in the sky and then walking away as shooting stars to north, in the direction of Equestria. Without their seeds, all the Generals of Order turned into stone. It was then that the Jewel of Life went down and then introduced in the center of the star which was also the center of the circle. Aurora opened her eyes, turned to her star seed and said:

"Come on, my star seed, seeks a new place for you. As soon as your light came to shine again, our kingdom will know the right time to wake up."

And it was then that Princess Aurora disappeared and the original star seed issued a strong glow and also disappeared.

When the last trace of light disappeared, the last barrier started to crack and then broke and, as soon that happened, Sombra entered, along with his dark ponies.

"Finally, we..." Sombra began.

But then he noticed the petrified kingdom.

"No…" he said. "No, it can't be! The Light Kingdom is... petrified! That means..."

He, along with a pair of dark ponies, advanced to the castle, entering in it and then going to the Great Hall. Entering there he saw the Generals of Order petrified and shouted:

"Those bloody petrified bastards! And I bet that damn princess expel the original star seed!"

"Calm down, master" one of the dark ponies said.

"Yes, we found this original star seed" the other said.

"Idiots!" Sombra exclaimed, turning to them. "Don’t you realize that the original star seed will not appear until it finds a worthy bearer? It can take centuries!"

"Centuries of waiting, something that I despise, when it comes to conquer a world" a voice said.

Sombra shivered and turned, facing the Lord of Chaos, who appeared.

"Master."

"I think I told you to bring me the original star seed of that my brother's princess" the Lord of Chaos said.

"I know, my Lord, and I am so sorry" Sombra apologized, making a bow, along with the dark ponies. "But Princess Aurora should have used the Jewel of Life."

"And now we have to wait an indefinite time until the original star seed appears" the Lord of Chaos scolded.

He then became pensive and then said:

"Looks like I'm going to have to improvise during that time. I'm going to have to spread my darkness as much as I can, while the original star seed doesn’t appear. Sombra, I'll give you one last chance."

"I’ll do whatever you want, master" Sombra said. "Anything."

"Invade and conquer the Crystal Empire" the Lord of Chaos ordered. "Make the crystal ponies your slaves. Without love and light, their crystalline coat will fade and the crystal heart will weaken, which will give me more easily to invade Equestria with my darkness."

"As you wish, master" Shadow said, preparing to leave.

"And, Sombra, don't fail me again" the Lord of Chaos said. "I don't want to have another incompetent on my team. For that, I have Discord."

And having said that, he disappeared.

Sombra then went to the foyer and started heading to the exit with his dark ponies, saying:

"I can't believe what happened! That idiot alicorn ruined my plans and my reputation before the Lord of Chaos! On top of that, he compared me to Discord. I mean, at least I made the Light Kingdom turn into stone, while Discord turned into stone for those Equestrian princesses."

He then stopped and noticed the figure in relief of Princess Aurora and the Generals of Order. Seeing Princess Aurora’s smiling face, a growing anger appeared in Sombra, who remembered her betrayal, and he loaded his horn with magic and cast a magic beam so powerful that it was able to break the indestructible stone and destroy Princess Aurora’s face. And after that, he left.

The five star seeds of the Generals of Order flew through the sky, entering in Equestria, after that, they took different paths: the red star seed went to the north, landing near the Crystal Empire and creating the Oasis of the Heart to protect itself. The orange star seed landed near of the city of Vanhoover, in a cave where it created musical crystals. The green star seed landed in a desert land, creating a dense forest who soon would be called Hollow Shades. The purple star seed landed at the Hayseed Swamps. The blue star seed landed at Rambling Rock Ridge, creating a set of defenses to protect itself, including the Sphinx. The yellow star seed landed at a cave in San Palomino Desert, creating also a set of defenses.

For centuries, the once powerful Light Kingdom remained quiet and still.

Until…

A cry of baby was the beginning for a newborn unicorn filly who would be called Twilight Sparkle by her older brother and would become an alicorn princess and save Equestria many times. But the first amazing thing she did happened after she made her first cry, as the light inside of her was felt by one of the statues of the Generals of Order, releasing her from her stone sleep. However, without her red star seed, she remained unaware of her true identity, only knowing two things: her duty and her name… Heartbeat.

The End

Comments

[Starlight Nova]

Is this an alternate universe fic? Also, you really should link to the next story.

[Rakoon1]

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This is a prequel of my main saga. See my story list and you'll see the other stories. If you had read my other stories you'd see that.