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We just got back from the Crystal Empire and were heading up to Canterlot castle so Twilight could give her report to Celestia. While we were heading that way, many heads kept turning at the head of Mimir that was hanging around my belt. It didn't help that he kept commenting about everything he see's. " Would you look at all of this. It's no Valhalla, but for mortals, one of the finest cities I've seen."

As we started up the steps to the castle, Dash had this to say. " Hey, Joe, ever since you put that head on your belt."

" Dash, you finish that sentence."

" And ever since he started talking."

" Don't you dare!"

" You've been talking out of your ass!"

" That's it!" I grabbed Dash by her throat once again and started strangling her. This continued while we roamed the hallways heading for the throne. The castle staff would have been appalled by the display, had I not done it already when we celebrated Twilight's birthday. When we got to the throne room door, I let her go to make an effort to look professional. " Alright, Mimir, ready to meet royalty?"

" I've been in the presence of nearly all the royalty the nine realms has to offer, the thrill of meeting more has sadly passed."

" Wow, you're a cheery fellow." I opened the door to the Throne room and was tackled by two flying ankle biters that I call my sons. " Ooof, be careful with your old man. He just went and killed a tyrant."

" Dada!" Orion was holding my right arm and nuzzling me like he hadn't seen me in weeks.

" Mama!" Jack let go of my leg and went for Jackie's forelegs.

" Hello, the apple of my eye. did you miss your mama?" Jackie nuzzled her son as we walked further into the room. We were then met with both Celestia and Luna. " Hey honey, everything alright while we were gone?"

Luna came over and brought us into a hug. " It's good to see that you two are well. Our sons missed you two terribly while you were away." We all nuzzled together in a group hug after our ordeal. " So, how did you two fare in helping Twilight with the empire." I reached into my pocket and pulled out Sombra's horn to show her. " Is that?"

" I, lass, that's the horn of the one who kidnapped me and stole all sorts of treasure from the nine realms." Both my wife and Celestia went wide-eyed when they heard an unfamiliar voice coming from my back-side.

Celestia came over to ask the next obvious question. " Joe, why is your ass talking?"

" Since Twilight didn't get to that part of her story, I guess I'll tell you. While we were looking for the crystal heart, we stumbled into a room loaded with treasure. Now that really wouldn't surprise me, except the treasure came from different worlds." This caught her by surprise. " After we saved the empire and brought Sombra down, we went back into the room to get some answers. We got all that and more." At that point, I brought Mimir's head from my belt and showed him to them. Needless to say, they were both in shock.

" Finally, we get to the royals. My.....Odin's beard! Celestia, Luna, is that really you? I must say, you two have grown since last I saw you two." I nearly dropped him after he revealed he knew my wife and sister-in-law.

" I'm sorry, but I don't believe Luna and I've ever met a talking head before."

" It's understandable if you don't recall me, after all, you were only a filly and Luna was just a new-born foal when your mother brought you two to Asgard, I also still had my body." This time I did drop him. " Ow! Watch it, brother!"

" Did you say you knew my wife and sister-in-law when they were just kids, not to mention their mother?" I picked him up so all of us could hear him.

I, not only did me and the other Gods know them, but we were also vital to creating the world in which we stand." We all stared wide-eyed at the talking head.

Twilight was the first to respond to Mimir's little story. " You're saying that the Princess' are older than Equestria itself? And you were there to see it get made?"

" Indeed lass, and if you want to hear the tale, I'd be happy to tell you. But right now, I would like a nice pillow to rest on, leaning against wood and coins for a few hundred or so years will give ya a massive headache."

I put Mimir back around the loop on my belt and looked to Celestia. " I'm gonna take my boys and wives home, and after we all have a day or two to recover from this information, we can ask ole bright eye here for the rest of the story."

" That sounds like a plan."

I turned a one-eighty and went straight for the door while herding my wives and sons with my wings. It's going to be a weird week.

A week later, at the college of Canterlot.

Since we had a way of knowing how Equestria came to be, we decided to hold a class in Canterlot college's auditorium. Seeing how this was an event that could very well change the course of both governments and history, Celestia and Luna decided it was best that an ambassador from every kingdom and nation should be present. Needless to say, we had a huge turnout. Also, since it was Friday and I promised Miss Cheerilee I would teach the class when I got back, we decided to make a field trip out of it with most of the kid's parents tagging along.

I was outside the room getting ready to reveal Mimir to the world. With me by my side were Twilight and of course Mimir. " So, ready to face them yet Mimir?"

" As ready as a head can be ready. You know, even though I don't have a stomach, I can still feel butterflies fluttering around in there."

" That's fascinating, yet also kinda disgusting." Twilight gathered her note cards and went in. " Just come in after I'm through making introductions, alright." I gave her a thumbs up and she went into the room.

" So tell me, brother, how is it that a resident of Midgard found himself married to two ponies and father two winged sons?"

" I found myself in love with them the first time we met. I was tasked with helping to rid Luna of her darkness with the gift of the Lycan. After I succeeded in my task, I decided to stay and make a life for myself here. After some time had passed, I became a husband to both Luna and Applejack and a father to Orion and Jack. I had a few battles along the way, but they were nothing I couldn't handle."

" That sounds like quite the story, maybe one day it'll be told through the generations, brother."

The door opened from Twilight's magic, signaling us that it was time to start. " Time to tell the tale of the world Mimir."

I walked over to the podium where Twilight was. " And now, I give your attention to Joe, Prince of Equestria and King of Herot." I took the podium and Twilight went to join the others at the back of the auditorium.

I looked around the room to see who my audience was. There was, of course, the nobles of Canterlot taking the middle seats with Cadence and Shining representing the Crystal Empire, Cheerilee's class had the front row to the right, the ambassadors from the other kingdoms took the center front aisle and my generals and advisors from Herot took the front left row. When I looked at the ambassadors, I saw that they consisted of a Griffon with a film over his left eye, I think his name was Grandpa Gruff. The ambassador for the buffalo was Little Strongheart, Chief Thunderhooves' daughter and an old acquaintance. The dragons were fearful to really send anyone since I slew one of their own. None the less, the sent the daughter of the dragon lord himself, a blue dragon about my size with an attitude that says ' I really don't want to be here', her name is Ember if I remember correctly. The Minotaur's sent one of their scribes, like all Minotaur's he was muscular and tall. Though his horns were cut short and his coat was very similar to Bevo's. No word from the Kirin or the Yaks and there was definitely no sign of any changeling.

As I scanned the room I thought it would be nice to break the ice before I let Mimir take the Podium. " First off, I would like to thank you all for coming to this history lesson as it were, about the very grounds on which we stand. But before I get to that, I figured I'd start this thing with a little humor." With my magic, I created a screen large enough so everyone could see and let the show begin.

( The reason for there being three videos is in case one of them gets taken down.)

https://youtu.be/Y8DFJBwZchE

https://youtu.be/R252CLXXrHQ

https://youtu.be/9oXGeX9sJuk

When everyone was done laughing their ass off, I went to call for their attention. " Alright settle down everyone. Now that the ice has been broken, let me introduce you all to today's speaker." The audience was confused, for the most part, they all thought I was the one who would be speaking. I grabbed Mimir from my belt and plopped him on the podium. This got the audience to gasp in horror.

The Equestrian nobility took this as an opportunity to jab at my image. " You barbarian, you dare show us some severed head as a practical joke." When I looked to see who it was that spoke up, I found that it was Jetset with his wife Uppercrust. I was about to tell him off, but Mimir beat me to it.

" First off, you little bastard I'm not just 'some' head. I am Mimir, wisest of all the Aesir. And it's thanks to this so-called barbarian, that I was freed from the clutches of an insane unicorn tyrant, and am now free to tell the origins of this world." The whole audience was starring right at Mimir, guess we should have eased them into it. " Well, now that I have your attention, I'll get started with the story."

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Mimir's eye started glowing a bright yellow, and his voice became louder. " To first understand how this world came to be, we must first understand the parents of the sun and moon." This directed our attention to both Luna and Celestia. " Ten-thousand winters ago, in the realm of Asgard, the home of the Aesir gods, there was a mighty eight-legged stallion named Sleipner, the best of all horses and steed of All-father Odin, the king of the Aesir Gods. One day, Odin took his wife Frigg to her homeland of Vanaheim the realm of magic, for a visit. Whilst Odin and Frigg were enjoying their time together, Sleipner decided to roam through the fields for a while."

" While wandering through the fields aimlessly, his eye got hold of a beautiful Alicorn mare, drinking from a nearby stream. Her name was Faust, the first-ever alicorn. When she caught sight of Sleipner, her heart melted and she fell for the steed. When Odin came to take Frigg and Sleipner back to Asgard, Sleipner would not move a muscle unless the mare he had fallen for could join them. Odin wasn't too happy about but Frigg was very moved by the sentiment of the two love birds. So with her persuasion, Faust was led to Asgard to be with Sleipner."

" After many months of living in Asgard, Faust had been granted immortality by the Goddess Idun, by eating an apple from the immortal tree of Idun. She learned combat from Tyr the bravest of all us gods. From Freyja, she learned the ways of magic that surpassed the goddess herself. From me, I told her the many tales of the worlds and the gods. However, I believe she received two of the greatest gifts from her husband, in the form of her daughters, Celestia and Luna." The two mentioned had tears in their eyes as the tale of their parents were being told.

Mimir was about to continue his story, but he noticed that Appleblooms hoof was raised. " Yes, did you have something you wanted to add Lass?"

" When are ya gonna get to the part about how Equestria was created?" The whole class nodded their heads at that little fact.

" Patience Lass, I was just about to get there. One day, when Luna was only three winters old, Odin came back from the well of knowledge without his left eye. He addressed us all, and told us of a great doom, for both the realms and the gods, we call this great doom, Ragnarok, the end of what is, and beginning of a new age. When Faust heard of this great doom, she made plans to keep her daughters safe from this fate. She went over the prophecy many times in her head, to see if there was a way of escaping such a disaster. After remember hearing that all the nine realms would be affected by this doom, it became clear what she must do, she must create a new realm, free from the fate of Ragnarok."

" Let me tell you all now my captivated audience, it's no small feat creating a world by yourself. Luckily, Faust had the help and support of the gods to create such a world. The first step was to find a place that was close to the center of Ygdrasil, the world tree. Knowing that the obvious choice was to create the new world close to Midgard. Explains why you have an easy way between the two worlds."

" Next, she needed land to form the surface of the realm. For this endeavor, Thor was most helpful in providing the material. He had just killed a whole tribe of giants while retrieving his hammer Mjolnir, wearing a wedding dress. I'll have to tell you the story about that, but not now. With the bodies of the giants making up the land, they now needed water to make up the oceans, lakes, and rivers. For that, Faust asked for the assistance of Aegir, a Jotunnar of the sea. He sacrificed his right ring finger, and from the blood came the water for this new world. And from the mixture of the two, came the plants and the clouds."

As Mimir told the story of how Equestria was being forged, I saw that many in the audience were trying to hold in the contents of their stomachs, some of them failing to do so. When I looked to my wives and our friends, I could see that Luna was hanging on every word that Mimir was saying and Twilight was buried in a mountain of papers while she wrote down everything.

" Now, all of you are probably wondering where all the living creatures came to be. Well, I'll tell ya. Seeing how Faust was creating a world to save her children, she thought it a good idea to bring creatures from other realms to this new one for safety, as well as create the terrain for the new one. With the help of her husband and Heimdall, the keeper of the Bifrost, they traveled all the nine realms to find creatures who would fill the new world."

" To show you what I mean, here is a picture of the world tree and the realms that live in it." His eye glowed once again, and an image of the realms appeared.

The audience was captivated by the image of the other worlds. Mimir then continued the tale. " From the realm of Musphelheim the land of fire, two things were gathered from there, one of the things was the very sun that Celestia moves across the sky, and the second thing was the race of dragons." This caused Ember to go wide-eyed to hear about her people's origin.

" From Midgard, the realm of the one standing by me came the animals, as well as the Griffon and Minotaur races." I was surprised to hear that those two came from my world, but not that surprised. " It is also where the moon was gathered from. It was formed from the right eye of Ymir, the father of all giants." Lina giggled at that.

" From Vanaheim, the place of Faust's birth came the race of all ponies and any other creature that speaks." Twilight squealed to learn that all ponies come from a land of magic.

" From Helheim, the land of ice and the dead, only winter cold was brought to the north, though I do believe a few reavers escaped while the portal was open. I believe you call them Windigos." That came as a shock to all, looks like the tale of Hearthswarming will have to be revised a little. " To combat the winter cold for the Crystal Empire, the light elves from Alfheim crafted a crystal heart to combat the cold, as well as to spread joy throughout the realm." It makes perfect sense, who else could create a relic like the heart except for the light elves. " Along with the heart, came six jewels to keep the new world at peace." Gee, I wonder what he could be referring to? Not!

" From Svartalfeim the dwarves granted Faust a weapon with the breath of a frost giant." I reached behind me to feel Frostbite, knowing this was the weapon of Faust. " The dwarves themselves refused to come, however, many of their dogs wanted to journey to the new world, I believe I see them right over there." He directed his attention to my subjects. Yeah, I can see how they originated from dwarven lands, their digging skills would come in handy for getting raw ore and jewels.

" Jotunheim had nothing to offer the new world except for the Giant Kings dog. A mangy three-headed mutt if I ever saw one. I hear, he guards the gates of your best prison." In a way, that's very true.

" And finally, from the realm of Niflheim the land of mist and fortune, many of the gold and jewels were brought to be buried and found again. Unfortunately, it is also where Sombra obtained his ability to become mist itself and rule over the Crystal Empire." I knew it! I knew he had to have gotten his powers from there.

" Finally, the gods of Asgard left their own gift for this world. Thor conjured the clouds as well as the thunder, Gefjun taught those who could how to farm, though as far as those two things, the world really didn't need anything else. But that didn't stop Loki from making one last bit of mischief before the Gods returned to Asgard. With a bit of his own magic, he went and created a mismatched creature to spread chaos and cause a small bit of havoc."

Everyone immediately set their eyes on Discord, who was trying to sneak out of the room. " What!? it wasn't me, it was the one-armed man." At that point we just ignored him.

" Anyway, with the world finally complete, Faust brought her daughters to their new home which she called, Equestria. However, tragedy quickly reared its ugly head. While preparing to leave Asgard with her two foals, a band of rogue frost giants had slipped through the ever-watchful eyes of Heimdall and breached through the halls of Asgard. Sleipner took Odin into battle with the brutes while Faust made haste to the portal. When she made it, one of the giants had cornered her and her young ones. She only had one choice remaining, she pushed her children through the portal and closed it behind them with the key with it. You two arrived at the castle your mother had made for you and were taken care of by those your mother trusted."

Before Mimir could continue, Celestia had this to ask. " Mimir, what became of our mother and father?" She slightly trembled when asking, afraid of what the answer might be.

" I'm sorry to tell you this, but I'm afraid the frost giant who ambushed you three did her in." At that point, both Celestia and Luna were crying while holding each other for comfort. " As for your father, he was greatly injured in the battle against those rogues, so great in fact that he won't be able to carry Odin till Ragnarok, I'm sorry I have to tell you this."

After they both calmed down a bit, luna had to ask. " Where is our mother now?"

" The last I saw her, she was buried in Idun's garden, right by the tree of immortality. It still brings me to tears whenever Odin walked by with me." ( Sniff.)

We all had a moment of silence for the fall of Faust, mother to this beautiful land. When it was over, a thought had occurred to me. " Mimir, you said she threw the key to the portal, what does that mean?"

" Well, since Equestria was just starting out, the true Bifrost didn't really connect to this world, so, a key was made to travel realm between the realms. The key can be used on any door and you can travel to any realm if of course, you know where you're going. When the key was thrust through to this realm, it didn't exactly land where our two Princesses wound up, it instead found its way to the frozen north, and there it lay for many winters, before falling into the hoofs of a power-hungry unicorn named Sombra."

" And that's how he was able to travel to other realms to take their treasure and you."

" Correct, brother. That slimy Git used me to find all the best treasure in every realm, and to increase his abilities."

" But where is it now, the key for the realm between realms."

" I assume it's back in that mountain of treasure you found me in. If not, then your guess is as good as mine." Well, that's helpful. " Anyway, that was the origin of Equestria and it's people, the rest is history."

I moved Mimir to the side of the podium and spoke to everyone. " First off, thank you Mimir for that well of information."

" My pleasure."

" And I would also like to thank our neighbors from over the world and apparently from other realms, for coming out here to learn about Equestria and it's odd beginnings." A round of applause was given for the Ambassadors which they took note of. " And on that note, I ask if anyone has any questions about Mimir's story?" Many appendages were raised, hoping to get some answers. I thought to start with the old vulture of a Griffon. " Yes Sir, you have a question?"

" Yeah, I do you Whippersnapper. That head said this world was made from dead bodies and blood from a giants finger. That can't really be true right?"

" Well, I might have exaggerated on that a bit. Thor only gave us four giants to work with, but they were the largest of the bunch. As for the finger, only the tip was required to fill the oceans and rivers." Gruff slightly coughed when Mimir told us that.

The next one to ask was Ember. " Were dragons the only ones to come from that fiery place?"

" The dragons were the only ones who wanted to come here, though the land your ancestors came from is also home to the Fire giants. The giants would often hunt the dragons for a quick snack." That made her a little fearful. " Though the biggest threat would have to be Surtr, the giant that would bring about Ragnarok with his fiery sword." Now everyone was filling their pants.

After they got over their shock, Twilight asked the big question. " You said that the Elves of Alfhiem not only gave Faust the crystal heart but also six gems to keep the peace. Are you referring to the Elements of Harmony?"

" Didn't know they were named that, but yes. When Faust received them, she infused them with her best traits, laughter, generosity, loyalty, honesty, kindness, and her most powerful trait, magic." So that would explain the voice that called to me and how it was able to give me the ax and where the alicorn powers came from.

As everyone was taking in this information, I decided to see what Bloom wanted to ask. " You have a question, Sis?"

" What did Faust and Sleipnir look like."

" That is a very interesting question, but instead of describing them, I'll show you." With a bit of magic, his eye showed the image of Faust and Sleipnir.

The audience was captivated by Faust's beauty and intimidated by Sleipnir's physique as well as his extra legs. Seeing as we've been going at this for a few hours, I thought it time to rap this seminar up. " How about we have one more question, and then we can end it there." I decided to give the last question to The Minotaur ambassador. " What is it you want to know from Mimir?"

" Yes, I had a question about the doom that Odin was foretold about. Would this realm be affected by it when it occurs?" That's a good question.

" Fortunately, this world was created for the sole purpose of escaping Ragnarok. So when Jormungandr rises from Midgard, Fenrir breaks his bonds, Surtr plunges his fiery sword through Asgard and Heimdal sounds the horn, this realm will be free of the devastation to come." This got a huge sigh of relief from everyone in the audience. " Thank you all for taking the time to learn about the world in which you all live in. Now, if you all don't mind, there's a comfy pillow calling my name and I aim to answer that call." Everyone had a laugh at Mimir's joke and started exiting the room.

Once all the nobles and ambassadors left the room, Miss Cheerilee's class and I went over to my friends and family, mainly towards Celestia and Luna, who were holding in their tears over the story over their parents. Once I got to them, I wrapped them in a hug. " You two all right?"

Celestia was the first to speak up. ( Sniff) " For so long, I couldn't even recall our parent's faces. I only knew the castle staff that took care of me and Luna. But hearing who they really are and knowing the sacrifices they made for us." She started crying again, unable to finish her sentence.

" It's okay, I understand how hard it is to lose a mother." A tear ran down my cheek as the memory of my mother ran through my mind. I decided not to bring it up anymore and just embraced them a little harder.

Luna directed her attention to Mimir. " Thank you, for telling us of our parents, Mimir." She then gave him a peck on the cheek.

" It was no trouble at all Lass."

It was then that the three of us were tackled from the side by the Crusaders. Sweetie wrapped around Celestia's leg, Applebloom had Luna's back and Scootaloo wrapped both my legs in a hug. " That's the saddest story I've ever heard!" Sweetie told Celestia.

" Ah know how it feels to not have your Ma and Pa around while growing up." AB nuzzled against Luna as tears escaped her eyes.

Scootaloo didn't say a thing, she didn't need to say anything, her crying into my jeans spoke volumes.

After we all laid out our feelings, we made for the exit, and head home. Some of us will be needing a fuck-ton of alcohol to get through this info, me being one of them.

Author's Notes:

First, it pains me that Faust had to die, but it had to happen for the story to work. Despite that, I loved writing how Equestria ties in with the nine realms and why it was created.

Second, if you guys have some chapter ideas that don't involve the episodes themselves, feel free to leave your ideas in the comments.

Now, we head into the third season of MLP the shortest season out of all the others. I'll do my best to make it interesting.

Oh, you didn't think I forgot about the clip, did you?

https://youtu.be/7hcMf8KAo6Y

You know what, let's have another.

https://youtu.be/QI8seGOtMRI