The Ambassador, The Warrior and The Transplant
A My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Story
Written by: GhostPhoenix84
Disclaimer: Here is my very first MLP:FIM fan story. I only own my pony-sona, Binary Sunset. Silva Biochem belongs to Banjo-Moon and Skyler belongs to Skyler Dustpaw, both of them fellow fans over on DA, who kindly agreed to be in this story. There will be established Fluttercord starting around Chapter 4 after introductory chapters and the prologue. I own nothing except for Binary Sunset, Queen Eponna, Odysseus, their mentioned children, and Queen Maredala, while all other characters belong to their respective owners.
Chapter soundtrack: The Legend of Ashitaka Theme- Princess Mononoke
Prologue: The Legend of Eponna
Fifteen hundred years ago on the planet Equestria, weven before the Princess Celestia ascended the throne to begin her rule over the continent of Equestria, across the Eastern Sea sat the continent known as Eponna. This expansive continent was mysterious as it was breathtaking. The thick branch of sub artic Taiga forests ringed its northern third as the climate gave way to fertile valley and lush deciduous forests. Scattered about these expanses, were numerous alicorn clans. Settlers from a destroyed kingdom, they were followers of the primordial creator god Kal-el. Unlike their fellows, they did not see the world in black and white, but rather shades of gray. There basic tenet of belief went something like this:
Chaos is a natural part of life, some good and some bad. When encountered, enter with a clear head and eyes unclouded by hate.
Use your magic for knowledge and defense, never for offense unless your life depends on it.
Treat others how you would want to be treated.
Always be responsible for your actions, all of them. By doing so, you prevent damage in the future.
Under no circumstances must you slay or assault another sentient for any other reason other than justifiable offense. Likewise, never treat another unjustly because they are different in appearance or speech. As my followers, you must take responsibility for every last action you perform. In this way, a just and equal society may blossom on this fair continent.
Because they were still forming a cohesive society, the last part about accepting chaos theory as a part of everyday life hit close to home. There were disputes about land ownership, water rights, town layouts and what the correct way to deal with crimes was. Minor crimes resulted in an hour or two in the stocks and pillories, and this usually worked. However, because of the religious taboo of executing murders, someone found guilty had their magic powers stripped from them, they were given new identities and exiled somewhere else.
By the year 793, Eponna had settled into a stable, constitutional monarchy. The bounty of the land was tempered by long lasting acts meant to preserve natural resources for future generations. In this way, life spans jumped up for both genders to about 200 years or so. It was around this time a cohort of a few dozen thousand or so draconequis family group arrived on the scene. Like the original alicorn pioneers, they were refugees, their taiga homelands ravaged by disease and weather beyond their control. For a nigh seven months, they besieged Eponna with pranks and tricks. It was of course, all meant in good fun, to see of the locals had any sort of humor. Some of the clan leaders were a little less than thrilled about the lack of decorum the draconequis neighbors lacked, but they wanted to avoid a costly war.
A peace deal was reached, and it gave the Draconequis race sovereignty over the Taiga regions, shortly renamed Draconelaw. This pleased both sides, since Eponnians were already used to chaos as part of everyday life, trade developed and a scant decade or two later, alicorns began intermarrying with draconequises, so by the year 1066, the entire population had some amount of draconequis blood in their veins.
It should have been a happy time for Queen Eponna and her mate, the draconequis Odysseus. They had just celebrated their twenty-first wedding anniversary, and their kits, Star Striker, Minerva and infant Flyheight were strong and healthy. Nothing could have prepared them for what was about to happen.
It started with the mass die off pet parasprites, and the virus spread to the owners. Doctors furiously scrambled to find a cure, but alas! There was no cure. On top of that, with defensive forces next to nil, whole villages were at the mercy of the bloodthirsty King Sombra of the Crystal Empire.
For many years Sombra had studied the mysterious kingdom, and wanted to invade so he could drain all the magical energy. He did not count on alicorns and draconequises working and living together in a nearly peaceable kingdom. The very idea made him sick. There was only one thing to do, kill all the draconequises, take over the kingdom and dispose of the ruling family.
Well, as these things happen, the royal family caught wind of the plan and faced a horrible dilemma. As it was, the population was still steady, but an invasion would doom them all. Desperate, they reached out to the other civilized centers, begging for any assistance. The Southern Kingdoms were too busy building their own city states, Saddle Arabia was in the middle of a civil war and Equestria refused to believe that there was any sort of genocide going on. So said the princesses, who viewed the Eponnians as a bunch of heretics because of their views towards chaos and other sentient creatures.
Faced with no answer, Odysseus and Eponna found themselves leading a loyal band of troops towards the front line of the battle, near the ruined city of Double Helix. Already, the children had been given over to adoption to keep them safe. The day of the battle would be the bloodiest in Eponnian history.
Sombra had studied draconequis psychology, so the battle plans were random and unrelenting. They were so devoted to their loved ones, they were willing to die for them. Indeed, it was with a heavy heart Odysseus died while he ordered his troops to retreat.
In a moment of inspiration, Sombra recited an incantation that seized the life force out of every last living draconequis via violent seizures, and banished them in the afterlife. So overcome by the mass psychic pain, Eponna was easily captured.
Even though her heart was broken, her resolve remained intact. Because she would not submit to Sombra and become his concubine, she was to be executed by burning at the stake. The entire populace was forced to watch. At the moment of her ascension into Heaven to join her husband and ancestors, her soul flew out over her people and she intoned, "Do not grieve for me. Rather, avenge your fallen family members and comrades. I shall always be with you." Her magic exploded and struck all of her subjects, imbuing them all with Jedi-like powers. Overcome with hope and righteous fury, the Eponnians all at once rose up against the tyrant. It took nearly a year and a half to kick him out of Eponna for good, but the damage was already done. A once thriving society had been utterly destroyed and allies who had been loyal in the past were now calling them heretics and denying that the utterly tragic events that has transpired had not happened at all, despite the mounds of concrete evidence proving otherwise. Left to their own devices, the Eponnians took it upon themselves to rebuild.
Half a millennium later, Eponna has rebuilt itself to its former glory. Its technology rivals modern day First World countries on Earth. However, the abandonment by old allies has left its bitter aftertaste, and Eponna is an isolationist outpost, while carrying out extensive exporting of trade goods to the wider world.
The young of this country are all interested in what lies beyond the borders and what life is like over there. Among them is Binary Sunset, the daughter of a baronet and a school headmistress. A recent graduate of Eponna's Royal Diplomatic Corp. Queen Maredala, Eponna's current ruler, has assigned Binary to Equestria, in order to investigate rumours regarding the last living draconequis along with the normalization of relations between them and the hegemony of kingdoms located in Equestria.
Thus, this is where our story begins.