The Sun Rises
“I still don’t see why you had to have your lighthouse redone again, Sunny,” Hitch commented as the two earth ponies stared at the glittering structure in the early morning light. “I mean, you just got a new one!”
Sunny shivered slightly in the chill. The sun had not yet risen, but the edge of the sky was pale, so she knew that warmth and light would be coming soon. “I know,” she told her foalhood friend, “but this is what I saw in my window in the Hall of Princesses. I even went back and checked it. Besides, Hitch, just look at that rainbow!” She felt a smile crawling across her face as she stepped back to get a better look at it.
Sunny’s new lighthouse - or Crystal Brighthouse, as she called it - was larger than her old one, made to accomodate not just her, but all of her friends. The structure was made of a shiny crystal material, with stained glass windows showing all three pony tribes, and the three crystals that brought them together. The crystals in question were in the center of the Brighthouse, generating the massive rainbow that split the sky in two that Sunny was looking at right now.
“It really is something,” Hitch admitted. He smiled down at the two seagulls and crab that were now following him everywhere - he didn’t have to speak their language to know that they had missed him.
“Just think about it,” Sunny said passionately. “Whenever ponykind needs a reminder about magic and friendship and harmony, they can look up and see this glowing in the sky - and at the end of it, Maretime Bay, and us, and our friends. And everything will be fine again.”
“Well, I wouldn’t say that,” Hitch said teasingly, nudging her. “Nothing is ever fine for long with us.”
Sunny laughed. “True,” she told him. She took a deep breath, filling her lungs with the cool morning air. “Besides,” she added in a light voice, “it’s not like I had to pay for it.”
“It came from me,” came a familiar voice behind them, and Sunny and Hitch turned to see Flurry Heart walking up the dirt path to the Crystal Brighthouse, a huge grin on her face. Sunny ran forward and pulled the alicorn into a hug, which she returned, even pulling Hitch in, though he protested.
“Wow,” Flurry said when she let them go, looking the Brighthouse up and down. “You’ve really outdone yourself here, Sunny. Want to do my house next?”
“Ha, ha, no,” Sunny said. “And I just took what you gave me and ran with it.”
“True,” Flurry admitted. “But you came up with the plans. And I absolutely love it.” Her eyes landed on the stained glass windows surrounding the front door - Sunny had tried her best to match the pegasus, unicorn, and earth pony on them to the ones on the window in Zephyr Heights - and gasped. “Oh, did I tell you? Queen Haven’s letting me have all those ancient windows that we found. I’m moving them to the Crystal Empire later today.” She grinned at Sunny. “Want to come see them when they’re done?”
“I’d love to,” Sunny said truthfully. “What are you planning to do with them?”
“Oh, I’m thinking that I’ll put them in the throne room,” Flurry said thoughtfully, tapping her chin. “They’ll look nice, though I might have to renovate the color a little bit to match.”
“Don’t forget to add those signs pointing to the exits,” Hitch reminded her.
“And the signs on the doors,” Sunny laughed, remembering Alphabittle’s wheezy face as he had collapsed on the streets of the Crystal Empire on their last trip up there. The three ponies looked at each other before dissolving into giggles.
“Woops,” Flurry said, looking at the sky. “I’d better get going. Promise me you’ll visit?”
“Of course,” Sunny assured her at the same time Hitch said, “Yeah!”
Flurry smiled and pulled the two earth ponies into one more hug. She flapped her wings and rose a few meters above them and called, “See you around!” before lighting up her horn and disappearing in a flash of bright yellow light.
Sunny turned back to the horizon and took a deep breath. Even that was enough to make her smile.
Ever since she had come back to Maretime Bay, she had felt so light, so happy. All the trials and tribulations were over - now she could just spend a quiet moment with her friends in her hometown, without evil villains chasing her all over the place.
There was no magical crisis. There were no lost memories. There was no darkness on the horizon. There was no hatred or cruelty or danger.
Just her. And the four absolute best friends a pony could ever ask for.
As if reading her mind, Hitch said, “It’s really sad that they had to go.”
The thought of the memory was like a punch to the gut, and Sunny had to blink furiously to keep from crying again. “I know.” Sunny sighed. “But they wanted to try and spread the word in their own kingdoms about the lies that they’ve been told. I guess seeing how Termite had riled up all of ponykind back there was kind of unsettling.”
Imara, Ash, Kailani, Little Braveheart, Brooks, Hugo, and Lukas had all decided to go home yesterday afternoon. They had spent the whole day in Maretime Bay together - they had, in fact, spent the week touring Zephyr Heights, Bridlewood, and Maretime Bay, in that order, while Sunny’s Crystal Brighthouse was being built. Having magic really sped up construction. But all the creatures had been kind of clumped together, discussing something in hushed voices, and Sunny had wondered what they had been whispering about. Now she knew.
As the day turned to night, Ash approached Sunny and told her about all of the creatures’ intentions.
“We love it here, Sunny - we really do,” the dragon had assured her. “And we love all of you. But we love our homes, too, and we don’t want either of them to get caught in a war.”
“We’re going to try and convince them of the truth,” Kailani had declared, her eyes wet with unshed tears but determined. “We want to help save the world, and this is the only way we know how.”
“We can do this together,” Sunny had suggested.
Little Braveheart put her arm on Sunny’s shoulder. “No, Sunny, we can’t,” she said in a quiet voice. “This is something that we have to do alone.”
“But we promise we’ll come back to you as soon as we can,” Hugo told her, trying to be optimistic. “Once all this is over, we’ll take you on a tour of our own kingdoms, and we’ll stay together forever and ever.”
“It’s going to be okay, Sunny,” Imara had said, giving Sunny a grin that she noticed wavered slightly with the changeling’s exceptionally shiny eyes. “We are going to be okay.”
And as much as she hated to admit it, Sunny knew that Imara was right. She cared about all of her friends so much, she couldn’t bear the thought of losing them. She wanted to turn into an alicorn and cast a magic spell that would make them all stay in Maretime Bay forever, and they could just be friends, but she knew that would be wrong.
So they all said their good-byes, with many promises to visit in the future, and to send letters by some form or another if anything important happened, and lots of hugs and shed tears. Then all the creatures boarded Hugo’s zeppelin and flew off into the sunset.
It was then that Sunny had finally asked Zipp, Pipp, and Izzy if they would like to live here in Maretime Bay with her and Hitch, and they had said yes so fast it sent Sunny’s head spinning. Then, laughing, they had run off to go pack, promising to be there in a few days. Sunny had no doubt in her mind that Haven would take some convincing to let her daughters live in Maretime Bay, and would obviously want to plan a big, sumptuous celebration to send them off, but she was so excited to have them here with her that she didn’t care how long it took.
Her friends. Every time she thought the words, she felt a small thrill of happiness, a feeling of success. After all these years, after all this time, she had finally gotten to the world that her father wanted for her - that her ancestor had lived in.
“It all seems so crazy,” she said, “that a few months ago, you were just the sheriff, and I was only a smoothie pony with some awesome skating tricks.”
“Ha.” Hitch smirked at her. “Little Braveheart does not have awesome skating tricks.”
Sunny burst out laughing, remembering how she had attempted to teach her friends how to roller skate - with varying degrees of success. Most of them got it after a bit of practice - that is, they could fly down the street without crashing into too much - but it was the memory of Little Braveheart that got Sunny every time.
The tiny buffalo had tried to perform some of Sunny’s tricks before she was even used to the wheels, and had ended up taking an unexpected swim in the ocean, and Kailani had to go fetch her. The grumpy expression on the buffalo’s face made Sunny crack up just thinking about it.
“We have fun together, don’t we?” she said after a while. Her smile faded as a new thought occurred to her. “How’s Cozy Glow? Is she okay?”
Hitch frowned. “I mean… she’s got her own house and everything, and she doesn’t spend a single moment without her friends, but you can tell that this is all hard for her. Everything is so different now, and everypony that she knew is… Well, you get what I mean,” he eventually decided on saying.
“She never knew her parents,” Sunny said quietly. “And now they’re gone. She made so many mistakes with so many ponies and creatures, and she never got to apologize.”
“But she’s got a good group of friends,” Hitch said confidently. “I think she’s going to be alright.” He was silent. “Are… are we alright, Sunny?”
“What do you mean?” Sunny asked, surprised.
Hitch shuffled his hooves nervously. “Well, it’s just… you remember how it used to be? Back in the old days? When it was just… you and me?”
“Yeah?” What does this have to do with anything? Sunny thought quietly to herself.
“I miss those days,” he said quickly. “Now, with all your new friends, and saving the world, and everything is so big and important now… it feels like we’re not as close as we used to be, and I miss it.” He looked dejectedly down at the ground. “I know, I know, it’s selfish of me-”
“Hitch, stop,” Sunny told him. “I miss the old days, too. And I love all of my friends, but you’ve been my friend since foalhood. Even if you didn’t believe me,” she added teasingly. “What do you say we… hang out a little bit? Just to make up for lost time.” She took a deep breath. “I’d love to just spend a nice, quiet moment with my friends… everything seems so crazy nowadays.”
“You’re telling me,” Hitch snorted. But he looked much happier now as he said, “Should we be worried? About Termite? He seems kind of… vengeful.”
Sunny looked at the horizon, now much brighter, the edge shimmering with gold. “I don’t know,” she confessed. “But I do know that, no matter what comes next, I want my friends by my side - no matter what.”
The sun rose, casting everything in a blinding golden light, and Sunny smiled.
“We did it, Dad,” she whispered. “We’ll do our part…”
Sunny put her hoof to the sunrise, then placed it on her heart.
“Hoof to heart.”
Everything was going to be okay.
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Loving the story I do apologize I haven’t fully caught up with the whole story. But doing my best as I can.
Is Sunset Shimmer going to pop up in your stories? Lately it’s becoming very popular of having Sunset leave the EG world after she finally is done and ready to go home only to end up in the new Gen timeline?
Wow this was a pretty good series of your legends never die and I see some things that you tried to Canon at least some of them to the show of tell your tail or make your mark and it makes sense why did Sprout disappeared it's sad but I guess that makes sense but anyway it looks like everything is back to normal and it was just sunny and hitch just hanging out talking about how everything just happening so fast and it was sad to see the creatures has to leave but they had to make peace with their Homeland and not to go to war with the ponies and I do hope to see them again but it looks like izzy pipp and Zipp really wanted to move to Maretime Bay which that would be the following event of tell your Tale and it looks like cozy glow got herself set up but it's going to take a long time because since he's from another time including flurry Hearts but I'm sure both of them will adjust to it somehow despite how much they miss their timeline but hopefully they will make it and not only that the changeling name termite is still out there plotting against sunny and her friends but whatever happens they can do it together once again this was a pretty good series and I do like how you establish some of the things been happening before tell your tale and make your mark came around even though it was a stretch but I still think it was a pretty good one and hopefully we get to see more creatures out there in the G5 world well keep up the good work and can't wait to see how your other stories will go
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I've always liked that scenario about Sunset coming to Equestria and seeing how much it changed and apparently the human world time is much different from Equestria time and then it would have been interesting to see her how she will react to this situation in the show so far there's only two stories of it which both of them are FanFiction but they were pretty good
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Hope to see the G5 crew again soon.