The Species
Chapter 2: The Species
Princess Celestia sat on her throne at the end of the day, reading through decree proposals, adjustments and new ideas as well. The papers slid across one another producing a calm, soothing whisper, despite the boring contents that reside on them. She slowly set the papers down and looked out a window facing the sun.
"It is time to set, my friend," she said quietly as she focused her magic on the sun. She gave it a little nudge, just to push it over the horizon, it could find it's way on it's own once it had been touched by Celestia's magic. Before the sun vanished for it's brief rest, Celestia watched, enjoying the sunset with it's vibrant reds and cheerful oranges and yellows.
Celestia watched as the sky slowly went from the hot, fiery colors of day, to the cool, calming, essence of night. The stars aligning with the reflections of distant planets to form great and wondrous images across the night sky. She walked over to the window and stood looking at her sister's night, admiring it's beauty.
She must have been standing there for quite some time, because Luna had made her way to the throne room from her chambers, where she preferred to make her movements of the sky.
"You should rest now sister, you have made enough progress on decrees, you deserve a good night's sleep." Luna walked over to Celestia and stood with her at the window.
"Your night is very beautiful, Luna" Celestia said in admiration.
"Thank you, sister. Your day is quite stunning as well."
The royal sisters stood together, looking at the sky. They shared a glance at one another, a smile, and a hug. Luna then began her walk to the throne as Celestia began her trip toward her chambers.
"Sleep well sister." Luna wished toward her sister as the throne room's door closed behind her. For a few moments Luna sat on the throne in the "proper and sophisticated way a princess should sit" before laying across the armrests and pulling up a Gamecolt Advance with her magic.
The doors to Celestia's chambers opened in the aura of her magic, letting her in and shutting gently behind her. She looked around, observing the details of her room. The soft pillows on the floor, along with the desk nearby basking in the low, calming glow of the fireplace. The large glass doors leading to her balcony that harbored the majestic view of Canterlot in it's nighttime essence, the various paintings hanging on the walls, hoof painted by her accomplished art students, and some very magnificent paintings of stars that Luna did in fillyhood. Then her eyes fell upon her bed. The white sheets with a fluffy white trim, reminding her of clouds, Celestia hadn't been on a cloud in a long time, the last time she had been...
Celestia sighed, she really had to stop doing this, every time it was time to sleep she would start thinking of ridiculous things, as if she needed to keep her mind busy.
She refocused on the task at hand, bed. She closed her eyes and began to slowly walk toward her bed. She could feel the stress of the day, gently peeling itself off of her coat with each step she took. She gave a deep breath after walking a very precise number of steps, the exact number of steps that it always took to get to her bed from her door. She chuckled slightly by the fact that she had memorized it, when it truly didn't matter whatsoever.
A mere moment before she climbed into her bed, Celestia felt a sudden warmth in front of her face. She opened her eyes to find a letter placed on her bed. A subtle smile came across her lips as she picked it up and walked over to the fireplace to read it.
"A nice letter from Twilight will help me rest easy." She said aloud to herself while opening the letter.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I have borrowed a book from the Crystal Empire Library about the history of Equestria, there are some topics within it that I would wish to ask you about at your nearest convenience, not that it is an emergency, by any means, it just simply intrigues me. There is a species that the book refers to that I have never heard of, and I would greatly appreciate it if you could possibly help me with research or possibly elaborate on the subject if you can.
Thank you
Your Faithful Student,
Twilight Sparkle
The princess smiled as she re-rolled the scroll and stood from her seat among the fireplace. She walked over to the desk and opened the drawer that she kept all of Twilight's letters in. It was now bigger on the inside, due to the amount of letters she had started receiving from Twilight since she had moved to Ponyville.
"Heh, 'Bigger on the inside.'" She chuckled slightly, thinking of a certain stallion that would get a kick out of that phrase. She placed the letter inside the "bigger" drawer and walked back to her bed, of course she would write a letter back to Twilight, but at that moment, she felt that if she tried to write anything It would look like something written by a pony from Saddle Arabia.
Celestia awoke, slowly lifting her eyelids to the view of her balcony. The sky was a deep, majestic, blue, with white stars adding to it's beauty. She observed the night sky briefly before calling upon her magic, fighting both her and the sun's desire to rest longer. She rose from her bed and stretched her limbs, front legs, back legs, wings, ending with slight tilts of her head left and right, quietly popping her neck. Her sleepy gaze fell upon the fireplace, the sight of which brought forth her memory of Twilight's letter from last night. The princess yawned as she walked slowly to her desk, where she withdrew a scroll and wrote her reply to Twilight.
My Dearest Twilight,
I would be delighted to help you in your research on this species, if you could just inform me on which date would work well with your schedule, I will be sure to make myself available to you, and please do not think that you are going to intrude on my scheduling, you have done plenty enough for me, the least I could do is be your 'study buddy'.
Sincerely,
Princess Celestia
The princess sent her letter on it's way and began her walk towards the dining hall.
"I could use some pancakes for breakfast, mmmmm, banana pancakes, even better."
Twilight rubbed the sleep from her eyes as she walked into the kitchen to find Spike cooking.
"Oh, hey there Twilight!" Spick said as he flipped a pancake. "I remembered that it's my week to cook, so I made us breakfast!" Spike held out a plate full of pancakes to Twilight. "I made your favorite, chocolate chip and banana!"
Twilight smiled while she took hold of the plate with her magic, she gently rubbed a hoof on Spike's head and gave the dragon a hug,
"You're so helpful Spike." She said as she sat down and took a bite of her pancakes. "Mmm! And a great cook too!" Twilight exclaimed with a smile. "That's why you're my number one assistant."
"Who." Owlowiscious said.
"Me." Spike replied.
Twilight gave a little giggle and continued eating her breakfast.
Spike brought over his own plate of pancakes, which happened to be a mix between sapphire and ruby, along with both his and Twilight's orange juice. "So what were you up so late for last night Twi? Were you doing some kind of report or somethin'?" He asked as he chewed on his pancakes.
"Actually, I was just reading this book about the history of Equestria. I got it from the Crystal Empire's library, so it's much older than any of the other books I've read." She replied before taking a drink of her juice.
"What about all those books you have that're from the Canterlot Archives? Those were wicked dusty when we picked them up to take 'em here."
Twilight Giggled, "Yes Spike, the documents in the Canterlot Archives are very old, but the heart of information used to be the Crystal Empire, all the books and scrolls and information of Equestria used to be kept there. When the empire disappeared, so did all that information." Twilight took a bite of her breakfast and thought about the subject more, "and Canterlot was built in between the time the Crystal Empire was gone and when it reappeared, and in that time Canterlot became the heart of Equestria." Twilight took another drink before continuing "The timeline of events is really quite fascinating, a lot of major events happened in relatively clo-"
"Twi, I didn't really want a history lesson with my breakfast." Spike said half joking.
"Heh heh, sorry Spike, I'll refrain from trying to educate you for a little while." Twilight said with a laugh.
"Good thinking." Spike replied with a chuckle. "Oh, Twilight! I forgot to tell you!" Spike ran off out of the kitchen and came back with a letter. "This came early this morning."
Princess Celestia finished reading Twilight's most recent letter and swallowed her bite of pancake. "Fine Stroke?" She called to the royal scheduler.
"Yes m'lady?" A unicorn mare with a white coat and her wavy blue mane put up in a very professional and neatly construed bun approached Celestia. Her cutie mark was a scroll and a quill setting in a ink bottle.
"If you could reschedule any events in my planner originally for this Saturday to some later date I would greatly appreciate it."
"Of course m'lady." Fine Stroke levitated a scroll in front of her and made some markings with a quill that originally rested behind her ear. "Do you have any preferences of what is rescheduled to where?"
"As long as it fits, it meets my standards." She replied with a smile.
Fine Stroke walked off, still writing on the same scroll as before.
Celestia continued eating her breakfast, enjoying the bits of banana embedded in the pancakes.
"That is quite a drastic scheduling change sister." Luna said before taking a drink of her milk. "Taking a day off?" She asked jokingly.
"Twilight is doing some research and requested my assistance."
"Excuse me for my bluntness, but as we both know, Twilight is a very skilled mare when it comes to research, why does she request your assistance?" Luna asked with a quizzical look.
Celestia smiled and took a bite of her pancakes. "She's been reading books from the Crystal Empire Library."
"Ahh, I see, do you know what species exactly she wants to research?"
"She was wondering abo-" Celestia thought for a moment, something wasn't right. Twilight didn't mention the species, did she? That's strange. Twilight isn't one to withhold information, and why hadn't Celestia asked what species it was? Shouldn't that have been her first question? "I... I'm not entirely sure.. She didn't say."
Luna nodded and continued eating. "Well she'll be here soon enough, and then we will know."
Celestia put the lack of knowledge of the species aside, as if the questions and suspicions had never been there before. But somewhere, somewhere deep in her mind, in her deepest thought that was being blocked by something she could not control...
she knew.
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Ohhhhhh I can't waite for the other chapters since I first read the 1 chapter of this story I realy whanted to know what will happen later.
Also Celestia Luna realy?
"Celestia put the lack of knowledge of the species aside, as if the questions and suspicions had never been there before. But somewhere, somewhere deep in her mind, in her deepest thought that was being blocked by something she could not control..."
Forgeting one of your child after ridiculisly punished compared to there sin them and banished them to ho know what kind of hostile planet and completly forget about them? Yep my statment is still there worst parents of the universe!
It seems a bit rushed, but thats obvious as why. My only concern is that you make humans, by nature, out to be an extremely evil race. Its unimaginative, and it is very frustrating when people dont put any thought into it and go "humans are evil, blah" all over the place... and I am "worried" you may be doing that with this, based on the "ominous" "humans are evil" being proclaimed with the first chapter... I brushed this off, thinking you may do something along the lines of "history is written by the victors" but I can see this going in that direction.
Please, I beg of you, dont become another dime a dozen author with this story. Dont be the author of whom people complain are filling the Human genre up with same-y crap. Come up with an interesting way to portray humans, because we are an interesting, diverse race. We are good, evil, neutral, isolationist, social, intelligent, thick skulled, helpful, and hurtful, all at the same time.
P.S. I decided that I couldnt be the only one complaining about this, and so I decided to look up the comments from the first chapter, which I never read, to see if you had responded. Im sated with "Well I hope you all realize the history book was written by a pony, so it is indeed biased against humans...
Just wait guys, just wait."
The ominousicity of this is only applified by this musical construct.
That said, this is looking good! A hearty wunderbar to you my friend!!!
"nearest convince"? I didn't know Twilight needed to convince Celestia to talk at her convenience....
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Me:
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I appreciate your feedback and your taste in music
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What does he mean?)
Sometimes things are just out of their control (
1866643 You're welcome.
Ahem..might want to remove the Pony
On a completely related note, you don't have to reference other episodes of the show. It can create plot holes and it's unpleasant to read.
Also you should try to keep standing on the 'serious' part of writing. We are discussing a terrible secret from the past after all.
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Thank you, but what do you mean by referencing other episodes and making plot holes?
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Well not really plot holes, just really screwed up timelines. Say there is gonna be an episode about the mane 6 doing something at some point in the time that may be relevant to your story. And then if you are going to mention them doing that stuff in your story, you can create a plot hole because that stuff could either be really helpful to the conflict, or the characters in your story were doing something different than the characters in the official MLP storyline.
So unless they have some sort of pocket dimension that operates on a completely different timescale and events, then the official storylines events did not happen and you have created a paradox.
You may get confused while reading this so I will just sum it up:
Official MLP events badly collide with fanfiction events. Don't do them if you have a preset plot
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The only episodes I plan on including/referencing are the Crystal Empire and the ones previous. I may mention terms used in later episodes, such as Saddle Arabia or Gesundhoof, but I don't plan on "integrating" episodes if that is what you mean.
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So I just wanted to ask y'all how you think the story is going so far, I know it's only 2 chapters in, but I was wondering if you have any suggestions. Feel free to say what you think everyone!
1889992 Well I think it woud be awsome if later Twilight and the elements comfort Celestia and Luna thet there judgement whas way to hars and cruel to the human race and Celestia and Luna decide thet they go to thet planet to see how there neglected childrens doing there and try to get there forgivenes but of course humanity woud hold a HUUUUUUUUUUGE grudge toward there Goddeses becouse the banishment after there atempt to be the leading race on there original planet.
In my headcanon in this story meanwhile every race can youse magich at one point making them different from the other races humanity didn't get any magich ability at all and humanity become the offical punching bag and laughing stock on every level for the other races treated as second leveled citizens at best and there island where they had to live whas hars wiht minnor resources for living which whas the sorce of the human aggresion ,and after all of this time Celestia and Luna woud learn why there human childrens become so aggresive.
It woud be intrensting to read what woud be Celestia and Luna reaction woud be after learning this thet not only they completly neglected one of there children there other childrens tortured the humans on a daly basic becouse they thinked thet humans are inferrior to the other races. It woud be also intrensting to read thet after thet Celestia and Luna woud welcome back the human race and finaly giving them what the humans realy neaded al this time *WARNING CLICHE MOVIE LINE IN COMING* motherly love.
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It would be interesting to see something from the Human side sometime in the future. I wanted to know if they are in space age, modern age or medieval/renessance age.
It is overdone, but I want to see Humanity in space age with several diffrent races (lizard people?) and while exploring, they stumble upon their planet.
And then massacre happens.
Just kidding.
Mostly.
1890977 interesting idea
1891067 3000 years motivated and united can accomplish many things
I vote for space age, it would be great to see the face of celestia and luna watching humans beating all races of equestria that are stuck in the Middle Ages
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This looks promising. I'll be reading.
Have the Crystal Empire have ancient sources was a stroke of brilliance that I haven't seen before, kudos.
Also:
"were" needs to be capitalized.
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Thanks for the kudos
And also thanks for pointing out that error
I was thinking, humans were banished with nothing
no infrastructure
without food and water
no cattle
without any resources
even new world with new threats such as disease, predators, etc
many must die for lack of resources and diseases
I smell Xenolestia here.
May I point out how much Righteouss Vengeance by the hands of humanity is blessed/needed/justified in the near (hopefully) future?
That is all.
Tracking for possible non-misanthropic outcome.
1966259 what is "Xenolestia"?
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xenofobia + celestia = she is a character in The Conversion Bureau and hate human
So I'm still writing out chapter 3, It's gonna be the largest chapter so far. Just thought I'd give y'all a bit of a spoiler
1973190 3 days later...Cant wait!
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Sorry, I work on weekends, so the only time I get to write is on weekdays, but I would say I'm 60% done with chapter 3, I don't want to put a deadline because then there comes the possibility of not meeting it and letting people down. I appreciate all the follows and faves and votes I get, I hope everyone is able to hang in there! Sorry if I'm taking too long
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A preview of chapter 3
mint green bangs
And later in the day there will be banana cake and banana ice cream.
2045201 lyra?
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maybe
"I remembered that it's my week to cook, so I made use breakfast!"
I made us breakfast.
"Fine Stroke levitated a scroll in front of her and mad some markings with a quill that originally rested behind her ear."
made some markings
"Excused me for my bluntness,"
Excuse me
2193992 Fixed, thank you!
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I'll keep doing so if you want.
No prob dude I make a habit out of looking for any and all mistakes in stories I like so they can be fixed