That afternoon was one that no pony would easily forget. While the adults were excited, their children finally meeting for the very first time, the children were nervous. They had been told by their mother how important it was that they make a good first impression on their friends. How important it was that the children get along. That Equestria depended on the future king and queen being able to work together. Yet, as the minutes dragged on and the time for the meeting drew closer, the oldest of the two sisters found her nervousness fading away, the butterflies in her stomach settling down.

The alicorn princess, no older than 15, looked at her self in her vanity mirror, trying to make herself look the best she could. An orange aurora surrounded her hairbrush as she magically picked it up and brushed her long orange hair. After a few minutes she put the brush down in defeat. She let out out a long, annoyed sigh.

Of course. On the day I need my hair to cooperate with me, it doesn't.

"Is something wrong, my dear?" The princess turned around and found the soft voice came from her mother.

Her mother was Queen Solaris of the Solar Kingdom. She had been ruling this kingdom as queen for over three thousand years. As the princess looked at her mother, she wished she had inherited more of her mother's looks. While her body color was yellow, her mother's was a beautiful white. She was satisfied with her orange main, but she would sometimes wish hers was more like her mothers light blue main that seemed to move on its own. The only thing the princess did inherit from her mother was her purple eyes.

"I'm having problems." the princess said to her mother "I just want to make a good impression"

Queen Solaris walked over to her daughter and stood her in front of the vanity mirror. A blue aurora surrounded the brush this time as the queen picked it up with her magic and began brushing her daughter's mane. After Solaris set the brush down and claimed she was done, the princess had to admit that her hair did look much better now.

"I still don't know how you do it mother, but thank you." the princess said gratefully.

The queen magically picked up a gold crown with a single purple stone in the middle and placed it on top of her eldest daughters head. "Now you look perfect" The queen said, smiling.

"I wish I looked like you" The princess turned around to find her younger sister, no older than 10, standing in her doorway.

"Oh, no you don't" she said as she walked over to the younger alicorn. "I wish I looked like you" She meant it too. Her sister had seemed to get all the good traits from their parents. Well, at least when it came to her body structure anyway. While the younger princess had inherited her mother's white color, the fact that she also had a strait, white main and piercing, almost cold, blue eyes made other ponies wonder if she is really their child or not.

"Really?" the younger princess asked confused, "Why?"

Her older sister couldn't help but chuckle at her sisters confusion. "Well, why do you want to look like me?"

"Have you seen yourself?" she asked "You're the most beautiful alicorn princess in Equestria."

"Well, I wouldn't say that" the older sister replied "Have you seen you?"

The younger sister was about to reply when she was interrupted by her mother.

"Come now you two. It is time that we meet them"

While the older sister felt a bit of excitement at this, her younger sister couldn't help but feel a little bit nervous. As they started walking towards the center of the castle, she could feel her nervousness growing. She told herself that she had no reason to worry. That Equestria didn't depend on her getting along with him. That everything was going to be fine and that after this meeting was over she could retreat back to her room where she would spend the rest of her day. But she also knew that all this was a lie. That deep down, she had a very good reason to worry. When the older sister looked at her younger sister, she could see the nerves written on her face as clearly as if they were written on paper. She tried to think of a way to calm her when she noticed what her sister had on her hooves.

"Why are you wearing those?" she asked

"What?" the younger sister seemed to have almost been pulled out of a trance

"Why are you wearing your socks?" the older princess asked, more annoyed then anything.

The younger princess looked at the ground. "I...um...I didn't want to risk anything"

The older sister was about to reply when the queen motioned for them to stop. The three alicorns were standing outside of two big doors.

"This is it girls" the queen said to her daughters. "Remember, keep good posture, be polite, and above all smile. Here we go"

The two doors opened and the three of them walked in.

Dear Reader,

The story you are about to read is true. Every last bit of it. I have been standing over this journal debating weather or not I should write this, but, obviously, in the end I decided to write. Equestria has a long and complicated history and, sadly, much of this has been lost or retold. That is why I am writing this, to tell you the truth. By now I can only assume all the stories about what happened to my ponies. I can only guess all those stories are assumed fake and unreal. Stories of great leaders turning evil and being sent away forever being passed off as a myth or legend. Remember all those stories you heard growing up? Maybe they were ones about how Equestria was born and how the great race of alicorns rose and came into power?

Forget them.

They most likely aren't true. This is.

All right. The story about the unicorn, pegasus, and earthpony founding our beautiful country is true. I can only assume Hearths Warming Eve is still celebrated. If not, a unicorn, pegasus, and earthpony founded Equestria. Forget whatever you were previously told, it is a lie.

Anyway, getting back on topic, the point of this is to tell you the truth. What really happened.

I don't know what those two told you about me, but whatever it was, it was probably a lie. I'm not angry at them for liying. I know that it was too painful for them to continue to remember. Growing up, they could see how much my past hurt me. How I never moved on. And I probably never will move on until my very last breath.

This isn't going to be a nice history lesson. This isn't going to be some heroic story where the kingdom is saved and every pony goes home happy and life is perfect forever and ever. Because if there is one thing I've been taught over and over, it's that life isn't always fair. If anything, its never fair. This story is about the death of two ancient races. This story is about how cruel life really is. This story is about how just when you think things could not get any worse, they do. This story is about what happened when every thing I loved was ripped away from me and all I could do was stand and watch as my world fell apart and died. Turning into the nothingness it started as.

This story is about a war.

The war that killed the alicorns.

The war that killed my family.

This story is about me.

Once upon a time, in a perfect world, there were hundreds of alicorns. But then we fell into war with another species and they killed us all. And we killed all of them.

Still want to continue?

Okay. But before you continue, I should probably mention something very important...

If your reading this, then that means I'm dead.

The only way anypony could ever find this is after my death. No pony is completely immortal. I can feel my death coming. But im getting too far ahead. This journal will not give you a complete and 100% history of Equestria. This is my history. The story of my life. Remember that this is not a pleasant story.

And remember...

This is all true.

Best of luck,

Princess Ice Storm

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