The Story of Equivation

[*Roxie]

The Story of Equivation;

Long ago when there was no peace among all alliances, a group of equines were sent out of their herds, and exiled for being friendly with opposing alliances. A dark, a light, and a neutral. Thankfully these four found each other in their scrambling from place to place to find shelter, food, water, and other things. The days that the three were separated were harsh on all equines around the lands. Massive storms engulfed everyone, forest fires started from the lightning, babes and dams were separated from one another, and equines were stranded from their herds. There was a massive incline in deaths, and decrease in births, things were going completely wrong. After a week, the three friends found one another, but by then their herds were out searching for them, using them as the reason for the downpours. Each heard believing the three equines put a curse upon their old herds for kicking them out, and it was to their conclusion that each should be dead, and then this rain would stop. The three equines, Kanpod, the light, Trakado, the neutral, and Dempoli, the dark, banded together to find refuge away from their herds, fearing one another's deaths, and their own. With no idea where to go, they both set out to find somewhere far away from everything where they all could be together in peace. Sooner or later, they turned up on an island far away from main lands. This island was strange, it seemed to be one of the largest they had ever come across, and was the farthest thing away from barren. The three friends marked it as their own, and gave it the name it still has today, Equvation. A place where salvation was found for equines of all alliances, whom could easily work together freely, without fearing one another, or death. Protected and safe from their raving herds, the storms cleared up, and the wild goose chase for the three friends soon came to an end. Peace was restored, but still much damage had been done.

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Each of their old herds had a smaller number of equines in their groups now, and very little vegetation due to all of the rain. A great depression hung over most equines at this time, lost loved ones, and children, and sick and dieing friends and family was all that was left for them to have. Back on Equivation the three friends were now making a home, created boundaries, and places for each alliance to roam freely and happily. Word soon got out about the salvation land, and lost equines or broken herds soon turned up on the island. The three friends welcomed them all with open arms kindly, their only one condition was to be friends with anyone they wanted, and to have no fights between alliances. The three had each realized that brawling with different alliances were wrong, and that there honestly weren't different alliances, just different personalities in all of us. Equvation became a place of peace, until their old herds found out about the lands. Not knowing they had been created by their exiled foes, and the ones that caused them such harm, they all traveled here, seeking a place to be together. The herds were so lost and desperate they did not recognize each equine, and instead saw to them as gods. The three friends played it this way for as long as they could, and told their old herds the only way they could reside here was if they were kind to each alliances. At first they all thought the idea was disgusting, but were in such need they graciously accepted the terms. They were all soon welcomed into Equivation, and peace lasted for a few years, but then things went horribly wrong.

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One day the ruler from each of the three friends groups got angry at one another, fed up of always having to be nice to someone of the opposite alliance, who they were so different from. They had all finally snapped, and had gotten greedy due to the fact Equvation was feeding them all so well, and forgot the terms laid out by their rulers. Wars broke out between each alliance, and soon lights, neutrals, and darks were banded off again. It didn't take long before storms engulfed Equivation, and the rulers found out. Quickly they arrived, but at the peak of the fight, each ruler grabbed their leader of their herd and attempted talking to them, still they had not realized their rulers were actually the equines they exiled. The rain was soaking the island now, and blood flowed freely in the puddles. Equvation which was once a beautiful and peaceful land, now looked awful, and like a war zone. The leader of the herds fought back against the rulers, and that was enough to brake out into another fight. Thankfully the rulers were strong enough now to bring each of their old leaders near to their death and on the ground. The three friends true sides shone through though, as they thought of what they were about to do, kill another equine, and that was the last thing they wanted to have had happen on their lands of salvation, but it was then as each old leader was laying limply on their ground, staring up into the eyes of the ruler before them, the one that was about to kill them that they realized it was the equine they had exiled so long ago. Each ruler backed away and helped the leader up, but by then it was too late, they were all too angry and still wanted to blame them for their depression. It was then that each ruler was murdered, each in a different land, but the three friends at least died together, and out of good reason, and a clear conscious. The sky then opened up and all hell broke loose, threatening to kill each and every equine on the island. The leaders soon realized it was not a curse upon them by the exiled equines whom they just killed, but the curse was planted upon them for causing any trouble or harm to the rulers. When each equine got news that the rulers, the ones that had saved them from the depression were dead, everyone stopped, and the war came to an end with an undecided winner. To bring an end to this madness the alliances separated once more, but peacefully. The storms came to an end. Even though it was not what the rulers wanted, they must have still been pleased everyone was kind enough to realize what they had done for them, and that Equivation was too beautiful to wreck like this. A temple was stored in place of each ruler in the Lands of the Lord and Lady of each alliance, corresponding to the alliance the ruler was known to have. Their temples now looking over each alliance. It is said that if the balance is wrecked once more, great storms will cloud over again, and hell will be brought to earth. So for now we all try to be kind to each other, and allow the three rulers to see that there is no reason for a great depression to be brought upon us all, ever again.