(A/N): Like the great impressionsguy (seriously, look him up he's amazing), I will be putting little snippets before my chapters, but not for the prologue or chapters 1-4 as they've been posted already. These author's notes are filler because I hate how the chapter and title get unaligned because of FanFiction. Anyway, happy reading! Ignore author's notes for Chapter 1 through Chapter 4. They're meaningless.

~ Prologue ~

A New Magic

She lived in a void of stars, a hidden dimension from the land of beings below. Watching over the entire land, she kept everything in balance and controlled the flow of light versus dark forces. It was an enormous task to carry out, but thankfully, being it her utmost duty, her power as the goddess of the celestial realm helped aid her abilities in one of the highest honors many ponies could only ever dream of having.

Her mane was extremely long and wavy, but not flowy like her two daughters that ruled the land their subjects had named Equestria. At her roots, her mane was a deep violet that blended together smoothly with a glorious golden blonde that produced the bottom of her mane, where the tips shone a faint, heavenly white. Her tail followed the same fashion as her mane. Her irises near the eyelid held the same deep violet shade of her mane, but her right eye blended into a glimmering silver while her left eye blended into a rich blue, representing the day and the night. Her coat was a soothing creamy white and faded into the same blue as her left eye at her hooves, dotted with small, white spots that resembled glimmering stars. Her grand wings and alicorn horn faded in this same manner. Finally, her cutie mark was a small black silhouette of the moon over a larger and brighter glowing sphere of the sun. This was a simple, yet so powerful cutie mark for her purpose: to watch over her two daughters and the entire land alike.

As countless measures of two-dimensional screens circled lazily around the alicorn, some displaying a moment that occurred simultaneously in the land down below while others displayed images and references for review, the goddess watched her youngest daughter, Lunar Eclipse, who came to be known as only Luna, with a graceful motion of her head raise the moon and stars for the ponies across the land to softly fall asleep to. It was like the calming light set a silent spell upon them, sending them peacefully into a state of rest for the extent of the night before waking up to the jubilance of the day.

The celestial goddess gazed upon her daughter, a look of pride in her unmatched eyes for the path she had chosen after so many years of exile as punishment given to her by her older sibling, Celeste Eclipse, who like her younger sister went by a different name. To the ponies of the land, she went by Celestia, her purpose to raise the sun to bring forth the day after a night of calm and peaceful slumber. "Oh, Luna," the goddess whispered softly from the void of stars, "I miss you and your sister both so much, and I wish you had gotten the chance to see me when I was still alive."

Suddenly, with her incredible ability to perceive the stability of life amongst the land, she sensed a shifting in the magical balance of Equestria. The goddess recognized the feeling as one of new magic surfacing, though strangely, she didn't detect anything dark or corrupt in its purposes for emerging.

Closing her eyes silently, a translucent silver aura surrounded her horn as she located another screen within the swirling mass around her. Once she had pinpointed it, she teleported it to appear next to the existing figure of Luna. This new image held a map of Equestria, and a pulsing orb of pure white was glowing over two separate locations on the map: one over the Everfree Forest near the goddess' daughters' old castle and the other over a swamp in the southeast corner of Equestria that was known as the Hayseed Swamps.

"Could it be?" the goddess wondered aloud as she selected the orb over the Everfree Forest with her magic, another smaller screen surfacing instantly, hovering a few inches in front of the lower left corner of the map. In its center stood a crystal-like tree with six different colored and shaped emblems known as the Elements of Harmony, created long ago for the protection of Equestria. This tree came to be known as the Tree of Harmony, originally holding six emblems as it did now, though five of the six Elements had much simpler shapes in the past. The tree pulsed with a glowing energy every few seconds, sending shimmering waves down its trunk and through its roots. It seemed this was the source of new magic the goddess had sensed.

Finally, she selected the second orb pulsing over the swamplands, this time forming another screen the same size as the one showing the Tree of Harmony over the lower right corner of the map. A dark and gloomy swamp filled with drooping trees covered in vines and moss was shown. A fair amount of space was cleared in the damp grass and marsh, and in the center of this clearing a spot pulsed and glowed in the same manner as the Tree of Harmony did on its adjacent screen.

"I think it is," the goddess marveled, then smiled contentedly. "After thousands of years, harmony in Equestria has sought to fix the mistake I made in the past." With her alicorn magic, she replaced the images in front of her with three different screens, each displaying a still front view picture of one pony, though all of them were pegasi. "I believe these three will fit the roles I intended perfectly."

The pony on the far left had a light silvery grey coat, bright green eyes, and a blonde mane with a single bleach white streak through its center. Around her neck was wrapped a white bandana she had found when fleeing from her birth home in Los Pegasus to a small village just south of Equestria's capital city. She kept it as a reminder that she could be whoever she wanted to be, and nopony could hold her back from that. "Silver Stream," the goddess stated proudly, "the Element of Bravery."

The pony with the middle of the three screens had a pale yellow coat, soft pastel green eyes, and a short and slightly waved powder blue mane. Her extensive tail was tied up into a messy bun with a matching pastel green band to keep it out of the way of any work. "Dewdrop Meadow," the goddess said, "the Element of Perenniality."

Finally, the pony on the far right had a soft cream colored coat, sprightly sky blue eyes, and a long, messy orange mane with a yellow streak through its middle. "And Sunny Day," the goddess finished, "the Element of Light."

She gazed at the three ponies for a few moments longer before saying finally, "You three are the final missing pieces of the Elements of Harmony. Once they have all been reunited, no evil can stand in your way."

Then, she turned her gaze gravely to Silver Stream, her expression darkening. "I must warn you Silver Stream," she began grimly, "you must never let your guard down even once around the ones you hold close to you in the future." Pausing to give the screen of Silver a sympathetic look, she said at last, "There will be a time when you have to say goodbye to one and possibly more, perhaps even permanently."

The goddess turned her gaze lastly to Sunny Day and said, "Sunny Day, you must be able to fight the burning flames of anger after your loss." She looked away from the screen for a moment and continued, "I know how it feels to lose those so dear to me, but you must learn to cope without them." Then, the goddess turned her gaze back to Sunny Day and finished-

"It is your decision that determines the fate of Equestria."