Several bodies were in a large room. There were 8 of them, to be exact. They all wore different emotions on their faces. Some were of triumph, some of sadness, and some of relief.

One of them was smaller than the rest, the one that appeared to be soothing her being taller than the others in the room. The small one had fur that was light purple and cyan hair and a tail. She was leaning back as if scared of a monster she thought she saw. Her wings were at her side, her horn pointing up at the taller one's face, and her eyes closed.

The tall one was sitting down, her four legs under her body. Her long wings were unfolded behind her large body. Her deep purple eyes were locked onto the closed eyes of the small, blue figure. The white pony's flowing, multicolored mane wrapped around the body of her little sister as she gently smiled at her and asked if they could rule side by side.

The other six ponies in the room had various reactions. While a cyan-furred, rainbow-maned pegasus tried to deduce what was happening, a lavender unicorn and an orange-coated pony without horn or wings looked pleased by the sister's reunion. A white unicorn sighed with relief. A yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail just looked at the pair with a faint smile, but it was hard to tell what she was really thinking as she hardly ever frowned. A curly-maned pony, who was pink all the way through, bounced in circles around the other seven, incessantly screaming, "Yay! Woohoo!"

The party that commenced later that evening did not only happen in Ponyville, but was thrown by the entirety of Equestria. The amount of happiness in the country had not happened since the first defeat of Discord.

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The six ponies that watched the sisters' reunion were walking on a red carpet, in the middle of a crowd of hundreds of ponies, towards a stage that the white princess was standing on. The smaller princess was not at the event. No pony asked where she was.

The princess spoke, although no noise came out of her mouth. Every pony in the crowd cheered while the six on the red carpet smiled contently. The princess continued to speak slowly and happily.

The princess' horn started to glow. Large, red curtains at the side of the room glew the same shade of purple. The curtains seperated, revealing a large mural of six different ponies blasting purple and pink beams at a horrible-looking monster. It looked like it was made from parts of several different animals, including ponies, goats, snakes, and dragons.

All of the ponies in the room cheered louder as confetti was dropped on the heads of the six heroic ponies.

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Over time, the six have learned much. However, most of what they've learned has been on the subject of friendship. Inside of Princess Celestia's vault, there are several letters telling her of the discoveries that were made about the magic of friendship.

Most of the letters were from Twilight Sparkle, a lavender pony that was the princess' personal student. When Nightmare Moon was coming back from her exile, Celestia had sent her student to Ponyville to make some friends. Twilight didn't know that these friends would be the ones to help her defeat Luna's alter ego. Ever since, Twilight has stayed in Ponyville to study the magic of friendship.

Only one of the letters would of been interesting to an average pony. It was quite humorous and came from the orange-coated, blonde-maned earth pony by the name of Applejack. It started with, "I didn't learn anything!" Even Princess Celestia, who always keeps a straight face, laughed at this.

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But the time for laughter is now over, thought, well, no one. No one was there to think it, but it was still thought. She didn't know what exactly she existed as, but it wasn't as a pony or as any other animal. She was not made of matter at all. Although she didn't completely even exist, she could still think.

She has always looked down through the highest clouds in the sky to watch the adventures of several ponies. She saw several ponies come and go throughout several million years. Her heart was broken thousands of times, as she saw ponies die or, worse, go insane, or even be tortured. She knew it would never stop, that she would never pass on, but it still haunted her every time that any pony did.

She was preparing herself as she was preparing others. Down on the ground, several ponies thought they were safe, thought they would live for a while longer, that the world was a good place. They did not see every death that occured, every pony that went bad, that went insane. They did not know of all of the wars raging in other countries.

They don't know. They don't expect...

What passed as a voice came to her hears, sinister and snakelike. "I'm on my way back." A pause. "And I'm coming for you and your daughters."

...What will soon happen. None of their lessons have trained them for this.

A war that started at the beginning of the Discordian Era was still going on. Not a single pony on the ground or in the lower skies knew of it. Discord, Nightmare Moon, Discord again, it was all the same battle. Celestia and Luna, however, knew what was coming, what would happen soon. They took part at the end of the beginning, and will now have to suffer through the beginning of the end.

A war has not been started in Equestria for over a thousand years, not since Nightmare Moon was banished. That is just started. A war has been raging within for an eternity, since before Princess Celestia was born. Now, it will finally draw to a close, but with a huge bang. Equestria will never be the same.

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