MLP FiM: Written in Stone

CHAPTER TWO: Cloaked by frost and shadow.

I'd never attended an actual funeral (and by that I mean for a real person) and had always wanted to see one, but after our ceremony for Jay, I changed my mind.
Travis's grief was terrible to behold.

-The curious world of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly.

Many many years ago, even before Equestria, Violet stirred in her sleep. She slept deep in the caves she and the others called home.
It wasn't the greatest place to live, but not the worst. They could be sleeping under bushes instead, if they didn't have the caves to protect them.
Alicorns had many enemies, and seven of them sleeping in the open would end up with them being picked off, one by one.
Violet opened her eyes, knowing that outside dawn had just appeared.
She got up from her warm bed of straw and slowly walked out of the room, her purple and light pink mane flowing behind her.
She glanced out the door into a tunnel, making sure it was safe before going out. She cautiously walked out of her room. Her hoofsteps echoed through the caves, slightly omniously.
Flickering torches lined the walls, glowing gold and red.
Violet then stopped and glanced into a dark cave. "Star?" She called. No answer. Violet frowned.
"Star, it is dawn, and I know you are in there." She waited a moment, then sighed. She trotted in and memory guided her to her sister's bedside.
She could hear her breathing steadily. But not steadily enough to be asleep.
"Come on, I know you're listening."
She heard Star move. And from the light of the tunnel saw her sister sit up.
"I am up." She said flatly.
"Well, come on then. We need to bury Robin."
"Is it too much to ask for you to do it without me?"
"Star, Robin would've wanted you to be there too..."
Star stood up, her own flowing mane covering her face. She wordlessly left the cave, with Violet right behind her.
Star had a lavender coat to match Violet's, but her sparkling mane was teal and light blue.
She hated the tunnels.
But today she didn't care.
Yesterday they had lost Robin.
Robin was very odd. He had no horn or wings. Lula, another one of the Alicorns, had found him all alone as a colt, wandering around in the woods. And of course, being the sweet and caring pony she was, Lula had brought him back to the caves.
Violet and Star, as they walked to the caves exit, soon met up with Winter, an Alicorn with a smokey grey and white mane and a pale blue-grey coat.
They didn't say a word as they trotted through the tunnels, either too shocked or exhausted to do so.
After a couple minutes they saw Quartz and Menolly nudging a miserable Lula up the tunnel leading to the outside world.
Lula was normally very happy, even though she was frightened easily, and it hurt Violet's heart to see her so upset.
Violet and Winter went to help urge her on, while Star stood and watched.
Violet turned to Menolly, a huge, strong Alicorn with an orange and red coat and an untidy flowing golden mane. "Where's Rosa?" She asked.
Menolly nodded to the entrance leading out of the caves, from which light streamed down, reflecting on their eyes and manes.
"She's with Robin."
Violet nodded. They managed, with some effort, to get Lula walking.
When they left the caves, Violet looked down and saw the beautiful valley stretched out before them, the dawn light resting on the folds of the hills and the tops of the forests.
The six Alicorns glided down the cliffside, to where they could see Rosa waiting with the lifeless body of Robin.
The seven of them together lay their friend down in the hole and began to cover him with earth.
Twenty years...
That's how long he had lived with them.
Yesterday Violet had been in the cover of a dense forest, grazing on what edible vegetation she could find, when Star had burst through the undergrowth, out of breath and gasping.
She told Violet that she and the others had been attacked by a Hydra.
Violet ran back, with Star on her tail.
When they got there Winter and Menolly were battling it, while the others were nowhere to be seen.
Star explained that they had all scattered when it came out of the marsh. Violet was about to run at the Hydra when she heard Robin call for help.
She saw him on a small patch of earth in the centre of the pond. He jumped into the water and began to swim towards them.
Then the Hydra saw him and...
It was too late.
After they had buried him they sat there in silence.
Violet wasn't sure for how long they were there, but she suddenly felt chilly. She looked over at Star and saw that she was shivering.
She looked at the sky and saw falling from it tiny flecks of... snow?
But it was Summer!
How could it be snowing?
Violet covered Star and Lula with her wings and brought them closer to her.
Today they were cloaked by the shadows of grief and the frost of summer...

Orion: Really sorry about this being so super late! I seriously had NO idea what the write next for this... But anyways here's Chapter two!