A Forbidden Friendship
Chapter 6: The Past and the Present
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It happen many centuries ago, in a land far from Equestria, the residents were nice and were a mixed of earth, Pegasus and unicorns: all living in an advance civilization. They were all living peacefully, when a trio of ponies went out on an adventure and spotted a small cave filled with gems. All three didn't know what to do with the gems but were thinking about using it to retire in luxury. As they were thinking, one of them got close to the gems and start to hear voices from it. As he is hearing the voices, the gems magic went up to the unicorn and spread throughout his body.
"Hey guys, why don't we be charitable and donate the gems, it seem silly keeping it to ourselves," the unicorn suggested, getting a weird look from the others. The earth pony, being skeptical, decide to check the gems and had fallen to the same magic they place on the unicorn.
"I second that, this should be enough for everyone as well as ourselves, so let's give it a hull," the earth pony said with the Pegasus having no choice but to go along with it as the trio got the gems and put them in a cart they brought. When they made it back, they gave one small pile and told the ponies to keep it nearby with a lie saying that it will bring them luck and power.
When they are down to their last pile, they decide to give it to the king of the land. They are only able to give it to him through his guards, but it corrupted them and they start to argue over who is going to keep it. As the guards are arguing, the king, a powerful unicorn, past by and notice them. He used his magic to get the gems away from them. As he kept them away, he study them and concluded that those are the Immoral Gems: gems that will easily corrupt anyone near them. He ask the guards how they came to have them and they explain they were given to them by a trio of ponies. The King panic and went to look for those who have the gems as well as those who were giving them away.
But as he left his castle, he saw that his whole kingdom is against him and they all have the gems. He then use his magic to create a giant shield surrounding his castle and got all his guards to defend themselves and to stay away from the gems as he head inside. He went to his room and into a secret hallway to find a magic seed, hidden in a small drawer and brought it out. The story behind the seed is that it stores immense magic and will let the owner be powerful, even pass alicorn level. He knew for years that his kingdom will fall and that the seed will help them out in their darkest time. He took the seed, intending to use it on himself, only to discover that his whole kingdom made it inside the castle. Seeing his own guards turn against him, he had no choice but to run to the highest point as he cannot go against his own people or his guards. When he made it there, he used the magic from the seed along with his to turn both of them into a small comet that fly over the crowd as the guards came in.
They saw the tired king on the ground as he said, "My powers will live on and the seed will come out when an alicorn comes out of this crowd." As they imprison the former king, they start to set up new rules and rename the village, ReproScape.
The Search for an Alicorn
After they took him away, they look for where the magic seed is after he had use magic to hide it. Once they are finished looking throughout the kingdom, they came to the conclusion that the former king's last words meant that the crowd will bring about the Alicorn and when it happens, they will use the seeds' power to take over the other lands. The former guards investigate all of the ponies in the kingdom to find nothing and demanded that they should start having foals so they can bring out the alicorn that way. Thanks to the Immoral Gems, some are not interested in doing it while others are too interested.
As the ponies start to call upon the alicorn, all of them grew tired of being under sunlight and made all earth ponies used their strengths to create a giant opening in a mountain as the Pegasi bring the clouds to block the sun. As the earth ponies are working on the mountain, their numbers began to dwindle and when they are done, they also have to move the land inside. Because of this, the unicorns and the Pegasus look down on the remaining earth ponies because while they are working, the population has increased with unicorns and Pegasi.
Finally, when the land is inside the mountain and ReproScape has no natural light, except from the Immoral Gems, the remaining earth ponies were all taken and imprisoned by the guards under the new rule, saying, "No Filthy Earth Pony will ever produce an alicorn. By order of the new rulers, any and all earth ponies are to be imprisoned." Some of the earth ponies try to run away but some of the guards use their magic to restrain them and send them to the dungeon. With no earth ponies left in ReproScape, everyone try to get the alicorn with their rulers watching them with great stern.
As time pass, earth ponies had become extinct in their land, an invention for magic capsules came up in order for the royal guards to fly and use magic at the same time. As the guards are using them, young foals began to steal them and copying their inventions, bringing a rise of fake alicorns thank to the capsules. Because of this new rise, all of the ponies began to scorn all of the fakes as it give false alarms about the alicorn with the magic seed. Despite the scorn towards young unicorns and pegasi pretending to be alicorns, they kept doing it and the adults did it too while blaming their kids for the thievery.
Close to modern times, no one had a cutie-mark, not since the fall of the good king and everyone is bitter, angry or evil towards each other. Earth ponies are still known, only as filths, and the only alicorn there are, are considered the Fraudulents. The residents are about to cause a small war over the fact that the Natural Born Alicorn has not been born yet despite many years of trying. As conflict is about to break out, the usual Breed bell rung, only with a different tune. Everyone rush towards the couple that are force to breed, to find out they have just given birth, only this foal is not like the others: this one is a Natural Born Alicorn.
The whole village stood silent, as one of the elders brought out the alicorn, and said, "We finally found it, A Young Colt. With him, our rule will spread thus his name shall be (Using magic to raise the moving infant) Malbourne."
His Naughty Childhood
Everyone became amazed by Malbourne at his birth as the elders crowned him prince of ReproScape and his family unit lives in the castle where he will learn to rule, concur and follow the rules of the Immoral Gems. Growing up, Malbourne knew how to mean and destructive towards anyone he sees are beneath him, including his family. From a baby to growing up, he used magic and his wings to break apart the building and troll his family.
His parents, or at least the ones who gave birth to him, are in charge of making sure he grows up to be a ruthless leader. Malbourne wasn't their first try at the alicorn, they have two other children. The middle one, Lightning Rider, was jealous of his younger brother being born with great flight and powerful potential than he is while his older sister, Weapon Mage, is jealous because he is born with everyone giving him everything, from jewelry to admiration just because of what he is born as. As Malbourne is growing up, both of them try to copy his skills despite him being a toddler, with him deceiving both them. It has gone to a point where the two decided to get rid of their brother.
When he is a young colt, the elders told him about how his people were waiting for his birth as they predicted his birth will foretell the fall of a kingdom. Years after, they waited and waited for any indication but nothing happened so they waited till he is old enough to do missions on his own, while having an escort. His mission for the kingdom of ReproScape, is to find an innocent being and corrupt them. Once they are corrupted to the point of where the being is about to encounter or pass their Moral Event Horizon, bring them to ReproScape. After that last bit, they show him a magical demonstration of what they are going to do with the corrupted being, only showing the other elders and Malbourne.
He kept a straight face throughout the entire showing, only when it ended did he said, "I will complete my mission, just get all of my preparation by the time I get to the Chariot Room." When he said that, he head towards the room with his head held high. The elders got all of the slaves to get his ride ready as Malbourne teleported to the Chariot Room.
He saw they were not ready with his chariot and straight up abuse them with harsh yelling and a magic whip. While he is whipping and yelling at the slaves and calling them incompetent, both Weapon Mage and Lightning Rider sneak into the room and added some explosives to the chariot and hid away.
As Malbourne got into the chariot, the pegasi pullers start to fly off as all the unicorns pop his materials in the chariot. Just as he is in the sky, Lightning Rider fly fast, past the slaves and enough to light a match in the sky.
"Bye-Bye, Young Prince," Lightning Rider said as he light the fuse. As he is leaving, all of the pullers heard the fuse and decided to abandon their Prince by undoing their leashes and leaving the chariot flying.
"Hey, you're supposed to take me to my destination, what makes you worthless, pathetic…" Malbourne said when he heard the fuse and start get out of there. As he fly out of there, the explosions went off with the materials flying away. He managed to dodge some, with only a small chest knock him out and into the EverFree Forest.
As he is falling from the sky, he couldn't help but loose control and the amulet containing his Immoral Gem was ripped off him when a tree took hold of it. When he made it to the ground, Malbourne is exhausted and hurt from his wing because of the falling materials as well as his hoof when he landed. As he try to get up, it began to rain and he went hiding in a middle size hollow to get out of the rain.
A/N: Gokigenyou, CureJump here just wanting to know what do you guys think about the chapter and the change I'd made. This was sorta the reason why I ask what you guys think about Malbourne, but you guys can still leave your thoughts in the comment section, as well as anything in the story you want to say. Thank you for being patient with me and my mistake, but don't worry I will get back to the main plot next time and I put up a small story about how I came up with this story in my profile so check it out if you want to and enjoy.