uuing | ten. ☆ ( video / backdated to before the spring cleaning plot )

Uu-! Hi everyone..! Today Maria and Beato have a question for everyone!

[ Maria is practically as cheery as ever when she waves at the camera - except she's not alone right now, there's someone sitting there with her, and she turns to that person with a smile as if urging her to speak on.

Beato waves too, as excited about this as ~~HER TINY ONEESAN~~ Maria. ]

We thought of this some days ago, while watching the people in the tea house. You all come from very diferent places, are we wrong? I can only imagine how many wonderful stories you all have!

And so we want to hear e-verything about you and your world! [ she's just fistpumping here now, look at all this double excitement. ] Uu-, so everyone, please tell us your stories, okay? Beato and Maria re-ally want to know!

We'll be waiting! Thank you so much!

( ooc: replies will come from both Maria and Beato (

fathersbeloved) and will be a bit delayed (especially on my side, since I'm going to bed right now and will get to them tomorrow)! )

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Hmmm... how about the story of the founding of Equestria? We usually save that one for Hearth's Warming Eve, but that's not celebrated here.

[Now she's REALLY curious.]

Equestria? What is that?

Equestria is the realm I live in. It's a place ruled over by the great and wise Princess Celestia, and more recently her younger sister Princess Luna. It's a realm where Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies live together in harmony!

[UNICORNS PEGASI AND PONIES WHAT IS THIS MAGIC ~~IS IT FRIENDSHIP~~????]

It sounds incredible...! You live with all those fantastic creatures?? How do they look like??

[IT IS THE BEST MAGIC ~~SO YES, TOTALLY~~]

I am one of those "fantastic creatures". I'm Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn. Or at least I was until Johto got ahold of me. As for how we look, well... unicorns are a little like a Rapidash, only smaller and... softer looking, I guess. Pegasi have wings instead of horns, of course, and Earth Ponies don't have either, but they make up for it with their strength and stamina, and a bond with the earth. The Princesses have all three.

Ah... I've never met an Unicorn before! This is a most wonderful situation!

[She looks like she's about to explode from excitement...]

Please, Twilight Sparkle, tell me your story! I'm sure it will be one worthy of a spiced black tea and vanilla cupcakes!

Oh, well... thank you. I'm really nothing that special back home, but I'm glad meeting me could make you happy.

[Lies. Modest, modest lies.]

Um... you mean the story I was about to tell you, or my own story? I think the Founding would be more interesting.

The Founding one!

Alright then.

It starts many, many years ago, back when the ponies all lived in three tribes. The Pegasi, Unicorns, and Earth Ponies were all separated from each other, brought together only for trade and the like when one tribe couldn't provide everything for themselves. Things lasted this way for many, many years, the rifts between the three tribes only growing larger and nastier as time went on...

Until one day, things started to change. Separation from each other had allowed hatred to grow in the ponies' hearts. The unicorns were resented for their power of magic. The pegasi for their control of the weather. And the earth ponies for being the only tribe that could grow food properly. Each of the tribes looked at what the other two had, and grew jealous, bitter and hateful. And as the resentment grew, so too did something else. A great and terrible snowstorm began to descend on the lands of the ponies, killing the food they ate and making things even harder for everyone.

Each of the tribes blamed the others for what had happened. The earth ponies believed the pegasi were causing the storms with their control of the weather. But the pegasi denied it, citing the unicorns and their magic. The unicorns were affronted by this, and argued vehemently back that this was not their fault either. With none of the tribes willing to claim responsibility, the snowstorm only grew more and more terrible.

Finally, it was decided to send the leaders of the three tribes to a great summit meeting to try to find a solution to the problem. The daughter of the ruler of the unicorns, Princess Platinum. The leader of the pegasi, Commander Hurricane. And for the earth ponies, the elected Chancellor Puddinghead.

...and? What happened then? Could they stop the snowstorm??

No. The meeting was a disaster. Each of the leaders blamed the others for what had happened, none could determine a plan to stop the terrible snow, and in the end, they left with nothing but an even deeper hate for each other.

Finally, each of them returned to speak with their top advisers, the unicorn Clover the Clever, the Pegasus Private Pansy, and the Earth Pony Smart Cookie. After a brief conversation with their seconds, each of whom were very disappointed to hear how the summit had turned out, they decided to abandon their old homelands and search for a new place to live.

And so all of the tribes of ponies headed for a new home. They traveled for a long time, no tribe aware of the others, until finally they all arrived at a new land.

... The same new land.

You mean.... they reached the same place? The three tribes were together again?

Edited 2012-05-07 07:03 (UTC)

That's right. But this proved to be far from a good thing. Enraged at the other tribes for trying to take "their" new land, the leaders began to squabble, despite their second-in-commands trying to calm them. And as they fought... the snow began to fall.

Yes, the terrible snowstorm had followed them, and they were all forced to shelter together in the same cave, desperately trying to hide from it. Yet even here they quarreled, blaming each other for the snowstorm, for the food shortage, for everything. The leaders even went so far to split the cave into three sections.

But as they argued, they didn't even notice the cold settling inside the cave, even though their seconds desperately tried to warn them. Indeed, so angry and bitter were the leaders that they, themselves, began to turn icy, actually freezing solid with the chill of their hatred.

At last, only the seconds were there in the cave, with nothing but their frozen leaders and each other for company. It seemed things could get no worse...

Until Clover the Clever saw something in the roof of the cave.

"Look there!" She called out, horror in her voice.

[G-gasps, she actually turned her head to look behind her, but her eyes come back to the screen almost immediately.]

And what was there...?

Hovering above them, swirling around in the top of the cave, were a group of terrible creatures. Stretched and ghostly, without legs, they looked like ponies gone horribly wrong. Private Pansy and Smart Cookie had no idea what they were, they just stared in terror.

But Clover knew all too well.

"Wendigos." She whispered. "Terrible, evil spirits that feed on hatred. They must have been the ones that caused the snowstorm... and it was all because of us. Our constant feuding has been feeding them, making them grow more powerful..."

She hung her head in despair, and the others soon joined her, realizing that they had been responsible for their own doom. As the chill of the Wendigos crept ever closer, they huddled together, waiting to be frozen like their leaders.

Then Private Pansy spoke.

"Well, if it helps... I don't hate you two. In fact, I'd say I hate Commander Hurricane a lot more than you."

Clover and Cookie stared at her in surprise, and Pansy gave an awkward smile.

"Actually, I don't really hate her either. I just really, really, really, really, really, really dislike her."

That got a laugh from all of them, and they turned to face each other.

"I don't hate you all either." Smart Cookie said, leaning her head into the middle of the group.

"Nor do I." Added Clover the Clever, adding hers.

And so the three ponies brought their heads together in friendship, their differences at lost forgotten in the face of their imminent demise. But then, as the ice was beginning to creep up their bodies... something magical happened.

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