Dream Valley History

[Becka Pone]

Dream Valley: Recent History

For a time after the reign of the Shadoh, Dream Valley lived in peace, the ponies getting on with their everyday lives in a normal matter. All thoughts of evil and darkness had been forgotten as the years passed and it really was like living in a very pleasant - if rather boring - dream. But the dream turned to a nightmare, with the arrival of Scorpan and his Stratadons.

As ponies were captured and turned to large, dragon-like beasts, one pony took it upon herself to find help, and managed to find the Rainbow Bridge between the worlds. On the other side she met a girl named Megan, and deciding that this strange human creature must be the answer to their prayers, brought her back across the bridge to Ponyland.

Although the human girl was courageous enough, Scorpan had managed to retrieve the Dark Rainbow from the Shadoh that once ruled the land, and used it against the ponies and Megan. The ponies knew the only thing that could stop the Dark Rainbow and its owner was the Rainbow of Light, but it had been lost centuries before during the rule of the Shadoh. In a last desperate attempt to save Ponyland, the human girl and a select group of ponies made for the home of a mysterious being, rumored to be able to help. His name was the Moonchick.

Turns out, the Moonchick had the Rainbow of Light, but he was so absent-minded that he just kept forgetting to give it back to the ponies after the defeat of the Shadoh. He claimed to have been holding onto it during the dark times for its own protection, and since he finally did give it back the ponies couldn’t be too mad, although they were none too happy with him either.

As they returned home to find it once again flooded in darkness, the human girl opened the locket and released the Rainbow of Light, trapped these many years. It did battle with the Dark Rainbow, and although it had been weakened by its long stay in the locket, it triumphed over Scorpan and his Dark Rainbow. Things were righted by the Rainbow, and it returned to its locket, to be kept in safety in the vaults of Dream Valley’s castle.

As things have a tendency to do after a tumultuous period, Dream Valley returned to somewhat normal daily life, Megan returned home to the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, and the Rainbow was kept safe in its locket. As summer died off into winter, and the long, cold nights eventually thawed into spring once again, the ponies celebrated. But not for long.

A witch named Hydia plans her own revenge on the ponies, for destroying her fiancé Scorpan and leaving her a lonely old miser with only her two, very stupid, sisters as company. Scorpan had been evil, yes, but at least he was intelligent. She concocted her own plan to ruin Ponyland once and for all, and created the Smooze, a purple blob that swept through Dream Valley, covering everything in sight with its grim slime.

Once again, Megan was summoned over the Rainbow Bridge by two ponies (her sister and brother demanded to come as well, although they did nothing but hinder the group from then on). When she released the Rainbow of Light this time, however, the Rainbow was swallowed by the Smooze, leaving the ponies and humans weaponless. With no other plan, they had no choice but to see the Moonchick again.

Wanting nothing more than to get these pestering ponies off his back (they were obviously still upset with him over that little stealing-the-Rainbow stunt), he told them to go find the flutter ponies who lived in Flutter Valley, knowing full well that the Flutter Ponies weren’t apt to help. Still, it would get them out of his hair for a while!

So Megan and the ponies visited Flutter Valley, where their entrance did not amuse the queen. She refused to help them until a kind flutter who had seen the damage done by the Smooze spoke up on their behalf. Grudgingly, the flutter ponies followed the other to Dream Valley, where they used their power of Utter Flutter to blow the Smooze all the way back to the Volcano of Gloom. The Rainbow of Light is released and runs back to its locket, where it is once again stored safely within the Castle vaults.

The ponies took Megan and her siblings home, and they have morphed into legend in Ponyland – only the ponies that met them first-hand believe that they had ever actually been there. They weren’t the last to come over the Rainbow Bridge, but they were the most famous.

[Becka Pone]

After the Spring of Smooze, until The Fall of the Dancing Fairies, things began to change in Ponyland. . . told by Wind Whistler, valley guardian and keeper of scrolls.

After the Spring of the Smooze, things were quiet for a little while. Then, in the late part of that fall, something began to change. Great tremors filled the earth, for many days and nights, fire and lightening filled the sky- and in the end, a steep mountain rose, and behind it, the land was laid to a great waste.

The dark magicians had come- men from an earth-like world, who had learned of Ponyland, had come, seeking to use the magic of Ponyland for their own selfish purposes. They had drained away the magic in the land after the mountain, and had changed the physical structure of that part of Ponyland. It was a hard, bitter time. As the magicians struggled to cross over the mountain they had created, we fought to keep them back.

Great sacrifices had to be made, many lives were lost, and in the end, the wizards were vanquished and sent back to their world. From that day forth, we closed the rainbow to visitors- the only way to or from our world was if it was opened deliberately by all of our royalty.

From that day forth, the great wasteland was a place feared and despised. Getting over the mountain would be difficult enough, we knew, but settling in that uneasy, unbalanced land where it snowed in summer and heated up in winter would be a trial too hard for most of us.

But that next spring, the spring of the Great Journey, many ponies set out to create a new civilization there. They were successful, in a way, for they set up a community that mined mineral oils that grew only in that vast wasteland. After they were successful for a few seasons, our modern cousins from Ponytown, across the Eastern Sea, came and settled with us. As a mix of our young ones, and their young ones married and had children, a new breed of pony gave rise.

We never realized the rising of our new cousins until much after they had become substantial in number. We were busy watching as dark things began to enter through the wasteland into our forests. They were meticulous keepers, they planted new trees, and encouraged rare and unusual flora to grow. But the presence of these dark ones turned the nature of our trees to a dark side. They were no longer the beautiful dryads we had once known; they had changed to fit their new dark keepers.

With no name for these terrible, evil creatures, they were simply the Dark Ones. Many of ours were lured to join them, bringing rise to a new dark rebellion, bringing in colors and traits and magical abilities we never had encountered before. Black became a predominant theme in those with dark parents. Illusion, disappearance, fouling, and other such magic became tools never before needed, and inherited to the children of our Ponyland. In the end, even some of our royalty was swayed into the darkness.

Princess Serena and Princess Tiffany played a predominant role in changing things. When Serena was swayed into the dark side, she quickly moved up in power until she became Queen of the darkness. She soon staged an attack on Dream Castle, and we were forced to fight for our lives. However, Serena was conquered by Princess Tiffany, who proved a formidable fighter, and convinced Serena to change her ways. The dark ones were sent back into their evil hiding places, and many of the new pony children joined society, promising to be good, just and true. Queen Majesty stepped down from the throne, handing the crown to Princess Serena, much to the surprise of most princesses. Tiffany was given a position to help aid and protect the valley.

At this time, our pony sisters, the children of our pioneers, came over the mountain, and introduced themselves to us. They had formed an association with earth, and earth came to know of us once more. However, they were not like us, and found themselves uncomfortable with us. They moved on, closer to Ponytown, and formed a new home for themselves, calling it Friendship Gardens.

Again the dark ones arose, this time with a new queen. Much valor and bravery sent them back to their dark lands, disbanded, without a leader. Few believe they will ever rise again, thanks to the efforts of Griffin, and the courageous commander known as Lt. Florris.

[Becka Pone]

It took many years, but the dark ones did find a new leader, in the form of Katrina. She was smarter than the others, and captured the ponies that threatened her takeover in magic-resistant bubbles. With the Watcher, Guardian, and Queen thus disposed of, Katrina was free to take over Dream Valley, and did so mercilessly. But in the heart of the fight, while those trapped could do nothing but watch, they made a decision each, and surrendered themselves to stop the evil that was covering the land.

They gave up their lives, their power, and with the act crumbled that of Katrina’s, breaking the bubbles and dispelling her dark hordes. As the life went out of each of them, the power they carried flew up to the heavens to become a star. The Guardian Stars.

Katrina gave up, the amulets of power that had been those of the Watcher, the Guardian, and the Queen were given to new ponies, and Dream Valley once again started a new chapter in its history. Lady Sunrunner became Queen, and ruled through a number of blissfully quiet years. Those ponies who had fought in their youth grew older, and in the blink of an eye it seemed the twenty years had passed. The experienced fighters of Dream Valley were old and worn, their children born and grown and moved on to more exciting places like Ponyville. The Valley of Dreams was willing to give over its title as the greatest city in Ponyland, but it wouldn’t give over the locket.

With the Champions of the Rainbow centered in Ponyville though, and the guards of Dream Castle growing older, the locket was growing more vulnerable every day. It didn’t take long for a pirate captain by the name of Ratskull to steal the most valuable treasure in the world, and sail off with it, leaving Dream Valley in shambles. The Queen has collapsed under the stress, the Royal Family has run to Flutter Valley to escape the plague of PAARS that has begun to plague the land and creep ever closer to Dream Valley, and the citizens are left leaderless, with no Guardian, and a Watcher who is not one of them, and resents them for it.

The only thing that seems constant is the light of the faint Guardian Stars, shinning down on them ever-faithfully from the heavens above.