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Celestia walk down the streets of the ancient city of Rome, where the modern and ancient world have melded together. Many of the buildings have stood since her daughter and her friends rebuilt it. With things having been added as new technologies appeared. Electric lights and water pipes were added to the still standing buildings. Repairs could be seen from where the old parts of the building were damaged for one reason or another.

Celestia read up on the city that her daughter built. It has remained one of the most advance cities in the world thanks to what she did. The city when it was rebuilt didn’t just have the old city wall to protect it from invasions, it had two outer walls to protect the city. The two walls protected the farmlands and smaller towns and villages outside the city. Which saved the city from falling even as the empire fell apart around it. The city of Rome remained the light in the dark ages that came with the fall of the empire, that split into two. The Western and Eastern Empires.

The old empire influence had been declining after it reached its perk and its territory shrinking. The lands that previously were firmly under their thumbs being either snatched up by opportunistic neighbors seeing the chance to take their old enemy down a peg, or gaining independence at the hands of separatist movements smelling the weakness of their overlord and deciding that the time is ripe to claim their right to self-determination either through political means or open rebellion. Leaving the Western half just a Vestigial Empire that only controls the land around the city of Rome.

The Eastern empire is where the Christians faith that was wiped out in the West survived. Replacing the Triforce as the main religion of the eastern empire and spread its teachings. The Christian sect continued to be the rival of Triforce, going against just about everything that the Triforce teach. Going so far as claiming that singing inflamed the spirit and is the work of the devil, mainly because of Triforce having singing being a big part of their faith.

When the Eastern Empire during the reconquering of the Western Empire, the city of Rome fells thanks to government officials letting the invaders inside. There the Christians did what they could to destroy the Triforce faith. When the armies of the East withdrew once the emperor who drove the invasion died, Rome remained in the hands of the Christians for the next several hundred years. Where the art of singing was stamped out with the Muslins spreading the idea of singing is bad to Asia. The last recorded death for singing was in Africa in the 1400’s where singing became a lost art. (1)

When Rome was retaken and the Triforce became the main religion. No one knew what singing sounded like anymore. Singing is one of those things where exposer is key to know what you’re expiring to do. The Americans attempt to recreate singing fell flat because of that fact. The only singing left came from isolated tribes which till recently, Christians mission continued to do their best to stamp out still clinging to the belief it’s god’s will. Which is how the Native Americans lost the art of singing. (2)

Celestia decided to show the world how to sing and have the world hear it. Hearing what singing is and once the genie is out of the bottle, the Christians can’t stamp it out again. And she knows how to do it thanks to the fact even when it was conquered, the city was left as it was as the emperor at the time made sure his soldiers killed anyone who tried to destroy the city built by the 3 goddesses.

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The Colosseum -

The ancient Colosseum is still in use thanks to the 3 goddesses building it to last, like much of the city. Celestia flew over the arena and found it to be empty as night has fallen, which suited her just fine for what she’s planning. Celestia used her magic to activate the ancient devices that only magic could activate, which the magical arts also became a lost art thanks to the Christians stamping it out in the name of their belief.

All over the city projections of what's happening inside the Colosseum could be seen thanks to the stone pillars that have been placed around the city, with black stone blocks on top of them. All projecting the scene of the Colosseum into the night sky, like the old stories said they use to be able to, showing past performances. And in the first time, in a very long time, people heard singing.

The image focuses on Trixie Lulamoon as she stood in one of the entrance halls holding a staff in her hands. The stamping of feet could be heard as she stood there.

'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'
'Woah'

Trixie walks out into the field leading people on horses behind her. From the other entrance ways came other horse riders.

'Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for (woah)'
'Been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor (woah)'
'And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore'
'Taking your breath, stealing your mind'
'And all that was real is left behind'

From beneath the arena raising on platforms came other performers gathered from all over for the show. Exotic animals were released unknown to the people of Rome like kangaroos, moa's and other animals that the goddesses have gathered around the world. On the middle pillar that is raising high in the air, is Twilight at the controls of the fireworks controls.

'Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya'
'It's only this moment, don't care what comes after'
'Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer'
'Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over'
'It's fire, it's freedom, it's flooding open'
'It's a preacher in the pulpit and you'll find devotion'
'There's something breaking at the brick of every wall, it's holding'
'All that you know'
'So tell me do you wanna go?'

As the performers danced and the horse riders stand on their horses as they rode around. The fire breathers let loose their flames into the air. Trixie points to Twilight who fires the fireworks into the air lighting the air in lights.

'Where it's covered in all the colored lights'
'Where the runaways are running the night'
'Impossible comes true, it's taking over you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'
'We light it up, we won't come down'
'And the sun can't stop us now'
'Watching it come true, it's taking over you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'

Four huge elephants came walking on either side of Trixie. Leaping down from the backs of the elephants came four gorillas who surrounded Trixie before turning to face the crowd and letting out a roar. Trixie points her staff into the air and a huge fireball burst out from the top where it lit up the sky.

'colossal we come these renegades in the ring'
'(Woah) where the lost get found in the crown of the circus king'

Out from the fireball came Sunset falling to the center of the arena. Who landed on her feet and released birds made out of fire from her hands that flew around the arena.

'Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya'
'It's only this moment, don't care what comes after'
'It's blinding, outshining anything that you know'
'Just surrender 'cause you're calling and you wanna go'

From the air came the acrobats swinging from ropes. They leap from one rope to another as the fire birds flew around them.

'Where it's covered in all the colored lights'
'Where the runaways are running the night'
'Impossible comes true, intoxicating you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'
'We light it up, we won't come down'
'And the sun can't stop us now'
'Watching it come true, it's taking over you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'

The acrobats all let go of their ropes and fell to the ground where they were caught by Trixie and Sunset using their telekinesis before they hit the ground. And slowly set them on the ground where they joined the other performers in dancing and singing.

'It's everything you ever want'
'It's everything you ever need'
'And it's here right in front of you'
'This is where you wanna be (this is where you wanna be)'
'It's everything you ever want'
'It's everything you ever need'
'And it's here right in front of you'
'This is where you wanna be'
'This is where you wanna be'

Twilight fired all the fireworks into the sky and in a puff of smoke disappeared from the center pillar. The pillar goes back underneath the arena, both Sunset and Trixie went to their places. in the center.

'When it's covered in all the colored lights'
'Where the runaways are running the night'
'Impossible comes true, it's taking over you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'
'We light it up, we won't come down'
'And the sun can't stop us now'
'Watching it come true, it's taking over you'
'This is the greatest show'
'When it's covered in all the colored lights'
'Where the runaways are running the night'
'Impossible comes true, it's taking over you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'
'We light it up, we won't come down'
'And the walls can't stop us now'
'I'm watching it come true, it's taking over you'
'Oh, this is the greatest show'

Both Trixie and Sunset held out their hands in the center. Twilight appeared in a puff of smoke joining her hand in the middle and they dance around as they each glowed their own personal colors. Sunset red, Twilight purple, and Trixie blue, creating a pillar of colors of the Triforce in the air.

'Cause everything you want is right in front of you'
'And you see the impossible is coming true'
'And the walls can't stop us (now) now, yeah'

They broke apart and turn around facing the stands and beams of light from them burst into the night sky. The lights forms the symbol of the Triforce, red, blue, and purple in the sky for all to see for miles around. That formed into a winged horse with a horn, a blue body, red wings, and purple horns and mane.

'This is the greatest show (oh!)'
'This is the greatest show (Oh!)'
'This is the greatest show (oh!)'
'This is the greatest show (oh!)'
'This is the greatest show (Oh!)'
'This is the greatest show (oh!)'
'(This is the greatest show)'
'This is the greatest show (oh!)'
'This is the greatest show!'

The recording of the three goddesses took a bow, to the stands to a roar of cheering from the crowds, both in the past recording and in the present day.

Celestia smiled seeing this as she has brought back some magic into this world that was lost.

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1 - I’m going with exposure is needed to know how to sing. As how do you know how to sing if you never heard anyone sing before.

2 - Stamping out the art of singing because of some church leader deciding that it's the work of the devil and people blindly following that mindset. Happens in real life and continues to happen.