I already told you that during my very long life I had to change my place of residence in the past many times. And over the years I have been to every corner of this world. Most of them have now ceased to exist. Even some of the most majestic cities crumbled into dust or were absorbed by deserts, forests and jungles, or simply mysteriously disappeared, like that great crystal city in the north.
I saw everything that this civilization ever achieved. I even saw the bizarres of unadulterated chaos in it's pure form, buck, I even lived there! Well, more precisely, I tried to survive, than to live, but still. So, you can say that there is nothing left that could truly surprise me. Last time, those were the two fillies who somehow managed to ascend and become real deities, I buck you not, they really did, and not only did they beat the crap out of the self-proclaimed embodiment of chaos, but they also took control of the local Sun and Moon from him and were able to move them with their own will.
Yep, you heard it right. The local star system is so fucked up because one insane bucker went crazy with his magical power and decided that it would be fun to turn the entire planetary system into a geocentric model with local stars and moon orbiting around the planet. So he did it. What was the main cause of what happened, which almost led to the apocalypse, which changed the entire geography of the world, killed many living species and turned most of the world into an artificial ice age. And that was a good thing.
You ask me why? Oh, it was hilarious. You see, when I arrived in this world with the help of my impromptu wormhole, I was not the only one who passed through it. My pursuers from the Tau'ri rebels, sent several strike teams to catch up with me and kill or catch my sorry flank. They certainly did not succeed. Some of them died because their exit from the wormhole was just as successful as mine, but others survived because the wormhole itself became unstable and its exit began to rapidly change its location, resulting in poor bastards scattering around the world, before finally the wormhole collapsed, cutting us off from the First World.
But Tau'ri were stubborn as a mule, and so they overcame their failure, found other survivors and decided to rebuild their civilization here. Their descendants even managed to create their own kingdoms, with troops, laws, and the like. Of course, they were miserable, because they could not create magic in the same way as unicorns, or fly like pegasi, but still managed to survive in the lands of an endless war. And everything was not quite bad until some mad magician overdosed himself with magic and plunged this world into real chaos. Those who did not die immediately were forced to survive in the sudden ice age and chaotic anomalies, but even they eventually became extinct and with time turned into a subject of folk tales for the ponykind.
For this, I am extremely grateful to our Lord Chaos, because, in the end, these Tau'ri could become a very big problem for this world. No matter how much I liked the backstabbing and scheming of Goa'uld society, these Tau'ri took it to a completely different level. Even if one or a dozen of them might have been friendly, sweet, and caring, their communities and kingdoms were a real can of spiders. I'm not a racist at all, I assure you, but when they became extinct, I was glad.
Anyway, back on the track. Those two 'sisters', and I hint that they may not be sisters, saved the world from chaos, they themselves became goddesses and restored society with love and tolerance, on a completely unimaginable level. All these tribes and races, who were always ready to bite each other's throats, became friendly and caring to others and from that moment lived in peace. Of course, in the beginning there were groups that did not want to stop their arguments, were racists or simply protested against this new order of things, but you cannot argue with the magical explosion of friendship powered by solar energy in the face, anyway, not for long. Those who tried became an excellent collection of almost indestructible stone statues in the palace gardens.
And with that, life went on. New towns and villages were built. Ponies prospered. The sisters argued. A week long night happened. Finally, everything calmed down with our Holy Leader Queen Celestia at the helm. Well, she prefers us to call her 'The Princess', but you know all these tyrants, even if they are nice, friendly and loved by everyone. Because those who do not agree with her are likely to become a new addition to the palace gardens. That's why I always tried to avoid meeting her. You never know how a meeting with someone who can juggle with the Sun and the Moon can end.
I traveled the world, trying to be as far as possible from the capital, but Fate is a bitch. And Fate had other plans for me.
My new caretakers were a pair of earth pony who lived in a small hamlet in the northern part of the Princess Celestia's Equestria. They were not rich, but they were just a couple of hardworking farmers who lived their lives with their usual daily routine. They woke up early, fed farm animals, took care of the garden and went to the forest for firewood. They were a small, loving family of two that had some problems conceiving their own child. But they still loved each other. And so it remained until that day came.
As always before, Mr. husband, after a hard day's work, went to the forest for firewood, but soon he unexpectedly ran home, obviously agitated and with a small bundle on his back. It turns out he found a very young pegasus foal lost in the forest, who didn't even know her name, her parents or her past. At first they thought she had somehow fallen out of skycity Cloudsdale, but at the local outpost of the royal guard it was said that the city had never been so close to these parts of the forest lately, and the foal would not have survived on its own in the woods for so long. So someone must have left her there, or her parents died to direwolves and she is the only one who survived. But the investigation could not find the perpetrators, her real parents or their remains in the woods, and therefore this couple of earth ponies gladly adopted her as theirs. That's how little Cadence became a part of this family.
She was always a very gentle and good-natured child who always tried to help everyone, and in turn was loved by everyone in this small village. She might not have been as strong as the earth ponies who inhabited these lands, but she always tried her best. And she was particularly good at petting me. And despite the fact that her adoptive parents had already named me, she gave me a new affectionate name - Silky Paws.
Yes, this is not a very coltly name. But when she called me, she was so cute that I could not ignore her callings. I even sometimes participated in dressing up. Not that she was the first little filly who thought of me as a living plush toy. I stopped resisting this position a long time ago, so there is no harm. And since she was a growing pegasus pony, she needed a lot of protein in her diet, and therefore I was also often fed fish, which was great, because the alternative would be to hunt mice and other small rodents, and I was always bum. And for this reason, she became my favorite caretaker in this house. I even secretly followed her everywhere, wherever she went, fulfilling my duty as her self-appointed protector and watcher. In the end, it was perhaps this that saved her and everyone else in this small village.
You see, there was a bitch here called Prismia, who lived in a forest hut nearby. She was the only unicorn in the area, and she was very creepy. Always snooping around, snapped at the villagers and behaved deliberately unfriendly to others. I always thought of her as some kind of villain-in-training, and, surprise-surprise, it turned out that she really was.
One day, when Cadence was playing with toys outside, and I looked after her from the eaves of the roof, Prismia suddenly appeared on the street and conjured a powerful wide-range spell to the whole village. Which knocked out everyone except me. Even the pigs in the pen have passed out, but it didn't work on me at all. Then for the first time in a very long time I thought that there was something very different in me, well, besides the fact that I was a goa'uld-turned-wizard-pony-turned-cat I mean. And, like everyone else, Prismia did not pay any attention to me, which was her serious mistake.
I quietly followed her to her hideout and learned that she wanted to use my beloved caretaker in some nasty ritual that was supposed to give her divine powers, because she believed that Cadence had something special about her. And so you know, it was so. There was some connection between Cadence and the magical crystal necklace that Prismia had, and she planned to use it in a prepared ritual. And while she was busy gathering Cadence's inner magic into a necklace and monologuing like any cliched villain, I cut the ropes with which Cadence was bound, freeing her, allowing her to snatch the artifact from the Prismia hooves and use her stolen magic against the villain. Well, it was according to plan. What I didn't plan was that the artifact would suddenly shine with a blinding pink light and take the two of us to some infinitely white place right in front of the eyes of Princess Celestia.
To tell you the truth, I've never been so afraid in my life. I didn't know what was going on, and what Princess Celestia would do to us, to me. But it turns out, the Princess just smirked and stopped paying any attention to me, because I was still a nondescript cat that probably just happened to be here by chance, and now Cadence was on her way to her godhood. Yes, I am telling the truth. Cadence suddenly got herself a unicorn horn and became an alicorn. Bam! Instant evolution right before your eyes. And that is not all. Celestia decided to adopt Cadence as her own niece and in the future to make her a new Equestrian princess with an overly long name and all that stuff.
Prismia was defeated, Cadence stepped onto the path of becoming a princess, her adoptive parents were extremely happy for her, and I just followed her to her new place of residence in Canterlot Castle. This led to a very interesting meeting in the future, which greatly expanded the horizons of my world.
