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Immortal Tears

by Dark0592

Chapter 3: Prequel

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A/N. I shed a few manly tears as I wrote this...
“Ah guess we wuz all gonna die anyhow...the five of us at the same time tho?...that sure as hay is a gift...” Applejack, who looked much like an orange Granny Smith, said. Twilight Sparkle was standing over her, weeping. “Lighten' up there Sugarcube...live fer the five uh us. Be happy.” The old mare continued. Twilight wanted so bad to say something, but she was sobbing too hard.

Over the last hour all of her friends had passed into the void. They were kept in the same room at the Hospital and she was there when it started. Pinkie was the first to go, she still had her infectious grin on her face...but it seemed to be more of a sad grin now that the eyes no longer twinkled with the pinkie pie energy, they were void.

Dash went at the same exact time, looking at a picture of her Retirement party. Her Wonderbolt uniform was being worn proudly for the last time. Spitfire and Soarin had even shown up.

Rarity was next, Sweetie Bell weeping at her side. The younger Mare was wailing now, it only worsened Twilight's sobbing.

When Fluttershy had went, Twilight broke down. Fluttershy looked peaceful and happy...she went out just like she had wanted, she simply sighed in content and her heart monitor flatlined.

Applejack was the last to go. Twilight had managed to stop wailing and bring it down to sobbing, but now that her last friend was gone she couldn't keep it held back. It was hours before Celestia and Luna managed to calm her enough to stand.

“Why...why why whywhywhy!” Twilight wailed. “Why do I have to go through this!” she continued.

“It is our punishment...” Celestia said darkly, her own face streaked with tears. “We stole eternal life from Death...so we suffer.” she continued.

“But I didn't want this!” Twilight yelled.

“Neither did we...” Luna said sadly. “But the world needs us...at least for now...it is a necessary evil...” she continued.

Twilight's children then comforted her. There were three of them, each about 5 years apart from each other. They were hers and Fluttershy's. Later that year, Twilight was brought out of her depression by the happiness of her Youngest child's marriage, but it was short lived.

Celestia had finally had enough. Twilight had been taught to raise the sun, and Celestia renounced her power. Twilight didn't know it, but Celestia did...but when you live because of magic and you relinquish control of that magic, you are no longer immortal. And after two thousand or more years?...Celestia blew away as dust without even a goodbye. Luna and Twilight didn't leave the Sun Goddess's room for a month, the Celestial bodies they controlled halfway between setting and raising throwing Equestria into a mix of night and day.

Soon after that Spike took his hundred year nap. I knew it was coming...he would wake up again...right?

Wrong...he had a terrible illness that not even he knew about...his heart stopped beating within days...the week after that I went to the funeral of the Cutie Mark Crusaders...now the only one still alive that I knew was Luna. Only one of my children gave a grandchild...

I thought every bad thing possible had happened to me now.

Life must really hate me because Nightmare moon decided it was time to reappear. This time though, she didn't want eternal night. She wanted to force the eternal sleep on everypony.

Nightmare Moon slew Luna right in front of me...captured my children...tortured them as I was forced to watch...they were killed slowly and painfully. Every single second of it I screamed and wailed through it all.

When it was my turn, I kept silent. I deserved this. Everypony else around me suffered ...it made me feel mortal for a little bit. Then I received the letter.

It disintegrated only just after I read it, but it said that my one grandchild was still alive.

I smiled that day, even as my wings were torn from my back.

My horn shattered.

I was ready to die. But once again, life has a fucked up sense of humor.

I was happy...ready to die, to slip into the eternal sleep. That's when I felt her. Fluttershy was standing with me, but she wasn't. All of my friends, everypony I ever knew...even Celestia and Luna...they all stood by me and vanquished the Nightmare, turning her back into dust.

I shed one final tear of happiness as I gave my energy to the moon and the sun, ready to join everypony in the void. The energy would give the moon and the sun life, making Alicorns no longer necessary.

I was wrong. I realized I was the last Alicorn. Future generations would never know them.

She stemmed the flow of her energy just enough to use it to teleport to Ponyville, into her old Library. Her mane and tail were already blowing away in non-existent winds as she retrieved the box that held the Elements of harmony. She didn't have time for a final will and testament, so she simply penned something she had been thinking on for a long time. She teleported back to Canterlot as her ears began to blow away. She left the box sitting on the throne and used the last of the magic to teleport back to Ponyville, though now on the outskirts.

Her body crumbled right in front of five graves, the last bit of magic leaving her. A small rainbow stream of magic flowed from the pile that used to be Twilight Sparkle and the five graves, it joined the Sun and the Moon.

Two Hundred years later, a rainbow of energy smashed into the ground in the middle of Ponyville, which was now the Capitol. Lying there were three little fillies, one a purple unicorn with a pink mane and tail, one a lighter purple Pegasus with a tie die mane and tail and the last a gray earth pony with a blonde mane and tail.

They were the size of newborns, yet they had their Cutie marks. One a butterfly that seemed to be made out of stars, one an apple made seemingly out of rubies and the balloons seemingly made of thunderclouds.

The Yellow Unicorn they appeared in front of got over the shock and quickly looked them over. The Great Grandchild of Twilight Sparkle took them in as if they were her own daughters.

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