Yo! The name's captain n00b, and, well, it's my first fic. I don't really expect it to be too good, and honestly, updates would be pretty random because of my limited experience when it comes to writing stories. Please R&R this thing, and don't flame, unless the flame is done so well I can consider it a critique. Please. So, well, I don't have much more to say, except to please enjoy this prologue of my first fanfic, 'The Alicorn'.
Disclaimer: Hasbro is the owner of the colorful little equines featured in this story, along with most of the settings. The Rugoba, the Alicorn, the Demondom, and all other OCs are mine, though.
Equestria.
A beautiful place. Peaceful. Magical.
It hadn't always been like that, though.
Long ago, before the beginning of the reign of the Celestial Pony Sisters, before Discord's rule of chaos and, well, discord, and even before ponydom in itself became truly intelligent, honing enough smarts only to be able to survive and fight back, there was naught but darkness in the land, with demons stalking every shadow, every forest, and every cranny.
It was a time of danger and despair, with deep fright and mistrust in the heart of every being. They feared each other, for they did not know whom their enemies had already possessed. They feared Nature, for She would always serve the higher power, which were currently the demons. They even feared themselves, scared of what they would do to their friends, their family, to whoever was around them.
The demons, called the Rugoba, in turn relished, and reveled, in the bloodshed they themselves had wrought, and the emotions they stirred in the hearts of everyone else. With hides of varying colors, from hideous, nightly black to near-blinding white, and weapons of demonic descent, they excelled in striking from their natural territory, appearing to the inhabitants of the land like wraiths. That did not mean they were averse to charges, however. Many a home had already been ransacked, burned, and metaphorically raped by the rash, suicidal, yet highly effective tendencies of the Rugoba.
Over the years, ponydom and their allies, the griffons, the dragons, the bears, and the other woodland creatures, have tried to take the fight to the demons, to push them back to the portal to their domain, the Demondom. All of their efforts failed.
In their ever-increasing arrogance, the Rugoba started to believe that the minor threat of the ponies would never come to fruition, and that it would be a simple task of crushing the figurehead of the pony alliance. The Rugoba, sacrificing tens of thousands of their own warriors, captured the leader of the resistance, and enslaved their will upon him, enticing him to join their cause. Weaving their dark magicks, they had begun imbuing him with some of the special attributes granted to their own troops. One of them was the gift of flight. The other, the gift of magic. Through this, he gained a spear-like horn, and a pair of majestic, strong wings.
He had become the first Alicorn.
The Rugoba, pleased in their creation, commanded him to go back to the alliance, and to wreak havoc upon them. He did indeed return to his kin, but he did not fight against them. Instead, he led them anew against the Rugoba, but this time with powers and abilities beyond his companions' comprehension. The Rugoba, bewildered, fearful, but mostly enraged, were quick to begin their investigation on what had happened, and why the Alicorn was able to resist their control. Upon finding out why, they had immediately become worried for their own safety.
It appeared that in order to have the ability to utilize magic in it's true form, not like the demon's own diluted version, one needed to be good and friendly.
Five elements were specifically needed: Honesty, Generosity, Loyalty, Laughter, and Kindness. Thanks to the Magic given to the Alicorn, he was able to enhance these personal traits of his until they had enough power to physically materialize. The Alicorn, taking advantage of this, harnessed the Elements to their full potential, until they were able to turn even a Rugoban good, changing their shape and structure until they turned into what would be later on known as the Ursa.
The Rugoba, cursing their own foolishness and arrogance, tried to rally their troops to fight of the impending threat of the ponies and their allies. It was all in vain, though, and in a single campaign, the ponies and their allies defeated the Rugoba, and banished back to the Demondom.
Following their victory, the ponies and their allies immediately crowned the Alicorn their king. The griffons renamed the land 'Equestria', in honor of the species that led them into battle, and their new leader. The dragons built a magnificent and glorious castle into the land's tallest mountain, one that was tall enough that all who gazed from the castle's balcony would be able to gaze on all the land. The bears and the Ursa had built another castle, called 'Harmony's Dwelling', one that resided in the lair of the final battle against the Rugoba. It was here that the physical manifestations of the Elements of Harmony were placed for safekeeping, and as a monument to their victory over the forces of Demondom.
Using his formidable magic powers to form a spell of overwhelming complexion and power, the Alicorn gave the other ponies the same abilities he now possessed.
Some gained the ability of magic, turning them into Unicorns.
Some gained the ability of flight, making them Pegasi.
And some gained his will and mighty strength, making them Earth Ponies, for they were like earth in their attributes.
Two young foals, though, both fillies, were turned into Alicorns, princesses in their own right.
Finally, at the end of it all, the Alicorn discovered that there was now a mark on his flank: the Elements of Harmony. Discerning that the reason of the mark was him finding his calling, he marked it down as something only ponies had in their possession, and wondered if maybe, just maybe, he and his kind were the one species truly favored by fate.
Establishing the cities of Cloudsdale and Canterlot, he taught the ponies, the griffons, the dragons, and all the others who had helped in their cause.
The two Princess Alicorns, one named Celestia and the other Luna, grew up quickly, and began helping him in his rule. While he would rule over those in the alliance and deal with all the political drama that came with it, Celestia would be in charge of the general mood of the ponies in the day, with her sister Luna reciprocating her actions under the moonlight. They eventually became in charge of the two celestial bodies, and the pegasi the weather. Unicorns and earth ponies were tasked with the plants, and that Equestria would turn into something beautiful.
Years passed. The Alicorn slowly passed on his duties to the Celestial Sisters. He recognized the need for peace in the land, and that his views and decrees would only serve to hinder it, unlike those of Celestia or Luna, who had only been born during the final stages of the Pony Alliance-Rugoba war. One day, though, the land surrounding the Harmony's Dwelling suddenly sprouted into a dense forest, one that could not be tamed by any of the ponies, except for the Alicorns, albeit temporarily. Most wondered on how it happened, and why it remained untamed, or 'everfree', as the locals called it. They did not worry about it, though, for there was something else that had happened.
The Alicorn, their king, had disappeared on the same day.
Some tried to see the connection between the newly-christened 'Everfree Forest' and his disappearance, but they failed to. In the end, they gave up, and deigned to remember him forever through a monument dedicated to him.
More years passed, and Discord's reign of chaos finally came about, and with it the destruction of all the things related to the Alicorn, except for the Elements and their Dwelling; they held against Discord's onslaught of magic with nary a blemish.
Time moved on, and Celestia and Luna defeated Discord through the power of the Elements of Harmony. Soon after his defeat, Luna succumbed to her misery and bitterness towards her sister, and became Nightmare Moon. In response, Celestia banished her to the moon, never to return until the one-thousandth year of the Summer Sun Celebration. Following this, the rest, as oft pointed out, is history….