May the Force Be With You: The Arrival

May the Force be with you: The Arrival

Chapter VII:  Prophecy

“Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong. Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall. That is the way of things, the way of the Force." –Yoda

Perspective: Alex Clearleaf

If there is one thing that’ve I come to not understand yet wonder to some extent, is the antics of the pony known as Pinkie Pie.  Don’t get me wrong I am still weirded the living hell out by her continuous sugar rush state, hell I’ve only discovered that somehow hell I’m a Force sensitive human and that even pales in comparison to how this pony maintains her ability to function. Yet there a charm that appealed to me like Pinkie was the funny over the top comedian that looked at life as if it was one those comedy shows. Even when a discovering a large temple that no one or no pony and yet Pinkie made something as such entertaining.

“Come on everypony, I know what we’ve found is gonna knock your socks off especially you Twilight.” Pinkie said bouncing in circles as we followed close behind.

“Okay, okay Pinkie settle down geez I know you’re excited about what you and the others found, but what is it exactly?’ Rainbow asked a bit annoyed.

In truth, I myself was wondering what it was that the girls had found which made Pinkie giddy, then again anything could make this pony happy so long if it wasn’t dangerous. Whatever it was surely it had to be something big enough to gather everyone’s attention right?

There was a slight pause in the party pony’s movement before she answered

“Hmmm…I don’t know?”

And like that my curiosity was replaced with annoyance…like I said I only enjoyed Pinkie’s antics to an extent.

“Wait, what do ya mean you don’t know?” Rainbow said as her wings flared up.

“Well I don’t know what it is?”

“Pinkie what exactly did you and the others find. “Twilight asked curiously yet trying to keep the peace.

"Hmm, well from what I conclude in our recent discovery, Professor Twilight, I can safely assume that it appears to be a gigantic stone door." Pinkie said with an imitating accent, as if she were a scholarly instructor at some prestigious school.

“A door?“ Twilight asked.

“Yep”

“Which leads to…” I asked.

“I don’t know…it was closed when we found it and we can’t get it open.”

"Okay, so let me get this straight: you girls found some giant closed door in a large, untouched temple that as been here for god knows how long, and your first thought was to open it?" I asked, thinking that these girls seriously have some guts to be that brave.

“Alright, so I guess you wanted to show us to see if any of us could try and getting it opened.”

“Yeppers”

Twilight looked at Pinkie with an annoyed look and sighed, "Pinkie, I can understand your enthusiasm, however, I have to say that your reaction was a bit over the top."

“Well it is huge and pretty too.”

I sympathize with Twilight when it came to understand how Pinkie could over react to any situation. Speaking of Twilight, I could only imagine how all of this was making her feel, excited beyond belief, Still Twilight seemed to be more focused on recording as much as possible.

Rainbow Dash, on the other hand, came to me more as the extremist who wanted to see some action throughout the day's events. I could tell that she was slightly disappointed as how things went so far. No action occurred, aside from my random sprint to the temple, that probably made the pegasus feel like this adventure was to discover reasons for my appearance, was short on the whole feel for an adventurous journey. Still, maybe there is hope for her yet.

We eventually made our way into a large antechamber on the other side of what appeared to be a large ornate white stone door, draped to its sides were what appeared to be long blue tapestries long ruined, yet still distinguishable designs, much to Rarity's avail. Unlike the entrance of the temple, this one seemed to be more stable probably due to it being inside.

“There ya’ll are, we were all thinkin’ when ya’ll get here.” Applejack said looking back at us as we approached.

“Sorry ‘bout that, so this is the door you all found.” I replied.

“Aw, ‘don’t worry none Sugarcube we were ‘jus wonderin and yup this is the thing.”

“Indeed this large beauty is what stands between us and whatever lies inside  however, I must inquire that whomever crafted this door was quite the architect; the designs on it are heavenly.

“I have to agree, such designs have never been seen in any record of Equestrian Architecture.” Twilight said with astonishment.

"Twilight  I never took you as one who had an eye of an architect?" Rarity asked.

"Well living in Canterlot does have its perks."

“What do ya’ll think could be behind it? Applejack asked.

“Well from what I can tell anything, it could lead into some throne room, maybe a sacred chamber that was used for some religious activity or maybe an storage room that may hold invaluable treasures inside.” Twilight replied.

“Whoa whoa whoa did you just say…invaluable treasures.” Rainbow said her eyes lighting up.

“Well yes, it is a possibility anything could be inside for all we know so we have to take caution in regards of entering.”

Twilight was right anything could’ve been inside the door looked more than important enough. ”. "So what are we waiting for, lets go on in." Rainbow said before she tried with her strength and new-found interest.

Everyone beside me joined in, struggling to open the door while I was staring at the designs... they gave me a sense of familiarity; in fact, everything in the temple seemed familiar to me, as if—

“Hey Alex, I hope I’m not interrupting anything important but we could use some help over here.” Rainbow shouted at me.

Snapping out of my trance, I shot straight to the door. "Sorry about that, for a moment, I was kinda lost there."

Immediately as my hand touched the door something happened. The door suddenly began to light up as blue streaks started to course through the designs from where my hand was placed. Immediately everyone backed off, Fluttershy standing behind me peaking over my shoulder, Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie to my left and Applejack and Rarity to the right of me.

“Alex, what have you done?”  Twilight asked.

“I don’t know all I did was place my hand on the door!!!”

I had to admit that the process looked beautiful, the streaks traveled through the door like water through a stream, slowly filling the room with a luminous blue light. Eventually the streaks ended after reaching the top. A moment later, the light began to intensify, causing all of us to look away for a few seconds. Then out of nowhere, a lighted door just dimmed out, like a fire doused at the chill of the night, almost anticlimactically.

“"I-is i-it o-over?" Fluttershy squeaked out from behind me.

“Wait what happened, is that it?” Rainbow followed up.

“I don’t know, it looked like something was going to happen after Alex touched the door.” Twilight remarked.

"Oooohh that was soooo pretty, hey Alex can you do that again please?” Pinkie chimed in excitingly

"In truth, I really don't know what caused all that to happen. All I did was just place my hand on the door". I said looking at the ornate door.

Maybe if I did that again maybe something else would react I then walk to the door again and stopped right in front of it and turned and spoke “I’m  gonna try to place my hand the door again to if anything else might happen, any objections ladies?”

The mares all looked at one another for few seconds before Twilight spoke. “Go ahead, just be careful Alex.” A bit worry in her voice, I nodded in agreement and placed my hand on the door once again.

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All was silent as I left my hand the door even Pinkie managed to stay quiet. After moment I took my hand off the door disappointed it seemed to show promise yet nothing.  I turned around to see the girls looking at me with curious looks hoping for me to say anything different but with the disappoint look on my face they all got the message and shared the disappointment themselves.

“Maybe it was ‘sum sort of fluke?”

“Well that was quite the farce.” Rarity spoke with disappointment.

“What a rip off!!!”Rainbow exclaimed. “I can’t believe all of that was for nothing.”

“I have to admit I was also a bit disappointed myself, who’ knows what was inside.” Twilight said.

“Well, we can search around other parts of the temple.” I said, walking back to the group.

Just as I turned my back, a blue flash filled the room. I turned back to watch as the door illuminated once more. This time, it was the door, or doors as I should say, opening outward. As the light dimmed down, we all looked back to see a now fully opened, ornate door revealing its contents.

It was no throne room

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Nor was a religious chamber

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Or Rainbow’s desire for a secret treasure trove.

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It was…

… a Library.

  Alright, to call it a library was an understatement; it was a colossal room filled to the brim with books. More books than I've ever imagined it was definitely bigger than Twilight's. Hell, the university's library back home wasn't even this huge. Everywhere books, tomes, scrolls, records, stone tablets, artistry and diagrams of shapes and sizes were organized surprisingly on large stone shelves that housed the different tomes. The architecture had its own surprises as well; it was a combination of all sorts of civilizations both familiar and foreign to me. I could see a fusion of several cultures blending together: ranging from Roman, Greek, Gothic, Ancient Egyptian,Mesopotamian you name it.

However one of the more startling things we saw were the statues that were comprised of not only ponies, but… humans, okay that didn’t even make sense how was it possible I thought I was the only human here?

The mares all had their own reactions to the discovery. Rainbow Dash, once again, seemed confused at what she was staring at. Thinking that out of all the things we could've uncovered, that a library would be it, though she wasn't as ticked off when the door didn't open. Applejack looked at the library with amazement with what we found. Rarity gazed at the architecture, most likely inspiring her for some designs of sorts; the way that the place not only blended together with various cultures, but distinguished several so intricately, probably spoke well to the fashionista. Fluttershy had now peeked from her hiding spot and look with some interest, however she still carried a bit of cautiousness. Pinkie could be described as amused, her smile was definitely showing a variety of thoughts that conveyed her thoughts, all probably going a mile at a mile a minute.

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And then there was Twilight, oh where do I even begin.

Twilight showed a look of absolute shock and wonder, her mouth gaping wide open as she took in all that she could. For the others and myself, this was just library while that offered a few noticeable things was still a library, to Twilight on the other hand this was everything she had hoped to find on this expedition, an entire library of some lost civilization that held hundreds of tomes and records from the distant past almost as if was left just specifically for her and now she was able to delve right into whatever she pleased.

A moment later Twilight’s true reaction came to light.

“…Oh my gosh …t-this i-is this-is…AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.” as she squealed in absolute joy.

One second later, the lavender unicorn suddenly vanished, leaving behind a spot of sparkles and magical dust, so she can teleport.

Needless to say, the rest of us went in looking for the eccentric unicorn gone wild off like a little kid in a toy store, a fitting analogy.

“Twilight, where are you? “

"Oooohh, now this looks promising..." Twilight said several books in hand.

“Twilight” we all said in unison.

This as well," She said as she levitated another tome. "Definitely taking this one."

“Twilight” we all said once again

"Oh who am I kidding, everything in here is incredible. Oooohh, now what are you hiding?" Twilight asked as she was reaching for another tome, adding to the already large stack of books positively glowing with joy as she was about to teleport herself to another shelf.

“TWILIGHT!!!” We all shouted now.

“"Huh... Oh sorry everypony, I guess I got a bit carried away, didn't I?" Twilight said sheepishly after she teleported right in front of us.

“It alright darling we all know how you love to find new books.” Rarity said.

“Yeah I figured yah would go just bit stir crazy ‘bout a place like this, then again I don’t blame ya.” Applejack added.

"Yeah, we all know that you love libraries, but this has got to be the mother of all libraries." Pinkie said hopping about.

As we walked into what I believe was the center of the library, I once again felt a strong concentration of the Force. I could feel it throughout my body like surge of electricity coursing through me.  This familiarity I felt with the place felt so right as if somehow I always known about this place. Suddenly out of nowhere I here the girls gasp as the group suddenly came to a stop.

Snapping back into reality again I look up to see what was up. On the left appeared to be  a large statue made out of solid white marble depicting what appeared to be a prophet like figure  looking bearded human man draped in robes in his right hand held a walking staff his face showing a peaceful serene look, almost reminding me of Gandalf the white. To the right the other statute depicted another human man however instead of being solid white marble it was made of what appeared to be black granite, instead of robes this statue was wearing appeared to be cloaks that shrouded his body, like the other statue it held a staff in the hand only instead of it right it was left. This one’s face seemed to show a look of passionate emotion compared to the other one.

However what was in the center is what really caught my attention it was a large stone filled with symbols and several like an ancient cave drawing(not as crude however) showing different event that depicted what seemed to be several events most likely made to show off the history of the who we were looking at.

“Whoa, who are these guys.” Rainbow asked.

“I'm not sure Rainbow I believe they may be deities however they do appear to be humans.” Twilight spoke examining the statues

I then felt the wave of familiarity hit me before speaking out loud. “The one on the left is Levias of the Light, and the guy on right is Umbriel of the Dark.

“Wait... Alex how did you know that?” Twilight asked.

“I-I don’t know?” I said looking back at the statues, “The names just came to me, like I’ve always known.”  I said snapping out of my trance again.

The mares had confused and worried looks on their faces before Applejack came up and spoke. “No offense Sugarcube, but I’m thinkin’ there more than yer lettin’ on about.”

“I’m serious the names just sort of popped into my head when I looked at the statues.”

“Do you think it the Force again?” Fluttershy asked.

“Well the Force is strong in this place but I’m not quite sure.”

“What about this anything familiar about this?”  Twilight said motioning towards the illustrations on the wall.

I looked, yet nothing came to mind.

“No I;m not getting anything from that.

“Really are your sure?” Twilight asked once again

“Positive.”

“Well rather than jus us askin Alex how bout we try figurin out what it means.” Applejack suggested.

“Right  let’s start from the left then work our way to the right.”

The first illustration depicted what appeared to be some civilization that consisted of... humans, I swore that my heart had stopped for a second to think that humans had lived here before, that would be the statues of Levias and Umbriel, but what made them so important?

"Twilight, correct me if I'm wrong...but were humans here in Equestria?" Rainbow asked with surprise.

“It looks like it… but how there been no recorded evidence in Equestria that supports that humans ever existed in fact its only been known that humans were mythological beings…well until recently of course.” Twilight explained looking at me with smile.

“Well judging from this place and the library Twilight… I think the evidence is clear.” Rarity inquired.

“Right so, shall we continue?” I said.

We all turn our attention towards the next illustration that depicted humans using  what looked telekinesis, almost as if they were using...the Force.

“It looks like Humans were also capable of using the Force as well Alex.”

“It looks like it guess I’m not a special case, yet still my question remains unanswered as to why I am here?”

“Well let’s find out.”

For the next few moments, we all studied the illustrations that came in order: one showed us two figures, one white and one black who were most likely Levias and Umbriel, they were surrounded by other humans kneeling before them, so these two were somehow the leaders of humanity, one who centered himself in the light side and the other embracing the dark side. The next illustration showed the progression of humanity led by two figures, Twilight made several statements regarding the aspect of the two ruling as a pair, a diarchy, similar to the princesses. The next illustration however, shocked us...ponies of all races were greeting with humans, both races interacting with one another.

“I don’t believe it” I said.

"This is incredible," Twilight exclaimed "Not only have we discovered pre-equestrian evidence of humanity's own existence, but we now have proof that Pony kind and Humanity interacted with another, amazing!" I could only agree with her, the idea that humans and ponies shared such a connections was astonishing.

As we continued we noticed that several of the next illustrations were unrecoverable due to age and damage, however the last two showed that we could make out showed what looked like the Humans disappeared leaving the ponies on their own and finally the last one showed one human surrounded by six ponies…wait the human in the illustration looked like…me. Wait how?

The six ponies that surrounded me were Twilight and the others.

“Whoa wait a second is that Alex and all of us.” Rainbow asked looking with disbelief.

“I don’t believe it, how’s it even possible we’ve only known Alex for a few days who could’ve known that we would meet eventually.” Fluttershy said.

"It is possible that a human could’ve seen through the Force and prophesied our meeting. In other words, I was destined to come into Equestria one day, now I finally know why I'm here." I spoke, the realization hitting me right in the face.

“What is it, Alex have you thought of something."

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“Yeah, I think that Equestria…is my home.”  I said in realization.

“Ya think so, sugarcube? ”Applejack asked.

“ I’ve been thinking about it, so far I haven't really felt out of place here  It almost feels natural to be here.”

“So y’all think that maybe comin’ here was more than a coincidence?” Applejack asked.

“I think so.”

Suddenly I heard Pinkie gasp once more and look at me with an almost ecstatic smile on her face before.

“Uh Pinkie… you alright ?”

“Alex do you know what this means?”

“Uh…No”

“I now get to throw you a welcome back to Equestria PARTY.”

Everyone smiled at the gesture that the party pony antics.

Later we began to look about throughout the library and decided to split up into several groups, Applejack and Rarity went off in one direction. While Rainbow, Pinkie and Fluttershy had went off into another section leaving me and Twilight still in the center, Twilight was busy looking over her notes, I was myself was looking through some of the tomes that Twilight had picked up. However to my disarray the tomes were written in some language I couldn’t read out, Twilight tried to pick up on too but to no avail I wouldn’t blame her if she didn’t . After a while I decided to spark up a conversation.

“So Twilight, how do you feel about the whole discovery?”

“I’d say that I feel incredible, this whole day been one huge success.”

“How so?”

“Are you kidding?” she asked quizzically. “We’ve managed to discover ruins of this magnitude and uncovered answers not only about your arrival but even history about our respected races before the Pre-Equestrian Kingdom era. I wish we had artist rendition of the illustrations and you even managed to tell us about the leaders of Humanity.”

“Alright, Alright I get it; we’ve done a good lot today.”

“So, Alex now that we’ve figured out why you might be here, what will you do?”

In truth I didn’t really know what after all of this was done I mean sure I could start a new life here. Yet what was my purpose here some wall told me that I was destined to be here but as to why I really don’t know.

“I’m not sure Twilight, I think I’ll start thinking about that after meeting with the Princesses and see what they think of me.” I replied.

“Well if you need a place to stay your still welcome to stay at my library.”

I looked towards Twilight with smile “Thanks, speaking of libraries this place is huge compared to yours back at Ponyville.”

“I know this place seems to be even larger than the Canterlot Royal Library, oh just wait until the princesses hear about this.”

“Speaking of which, Twilight how much time do we have before we need to head back into Ponyville.” I asked gazing about.

“Well roughly from the last time we checked I would say we have around two and half hours, so we don’t have much time we’ll spend one more hour here then I’ll teleport us all home by then Spike should already have the library ready.” Twilight said.

“Alright anything else?”

“Well I hope your etiquette is refined.”

‘I know how to conduct myself in front of authority figures, so don’t worry.” I said with smile.

“AHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

A terrified shriek pierced through the air, I immediately recognized the voice.

“Fluttershy”

Just then Rarity and Applejack arrived.

"We heard somepony scream, what's happening?"

“Fluttershy and the others are in trouble, we need to move.”

. Once again, we heard the scream, "Come on, follow me." I said, heading off in the direction of the scream.

“Wait how do you know where thy are?”

“The Force,"  I mentioned.  "I can sense everyone’s presence in an close area, I guess I forgot to mention it but now's not the time now come on!”

As everyone followed behind me I allowed the Force to guide me as to where Fluttershy, Rainbow and Pinkie were, I hope that they’re alright, but what could’ve happened in here I didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary.

"Oh I hope they're all alright, I can only imagine what happened." Rarity spoke with worry.

“Let’s ‘jus hope that they’re alright.” Applejack said worried too about her friends.

“They’re right over right over here.”

As we all approached the area I saw Fluttershy shaking like leaf behind Pinkie who eve held a worried look of her own as she stood behind Rainbow Dash who stood in a defensive ready her wings flared out as she snorted to the figure that stood in the shadows the only thing that I could was that it had beady yellow eyes.

“Alrighty buddy just buck off unless you really want to tangle with me.” Rainbow spoke fiercely to the figure.

The figure said nothing in response as it continued to advance forward to the mares, who was this guy? Twilight then stood beside Rainbow her horn lit up.

"I'm warning you now, stand back or I'll fire." She said with just as fierceness as Rainbow.

The figure however seemed to ignore her threat and continued forward.

“I said don’t come any closer.”

It ignored her warning once more.

“This is your final warning please, don’t come any closer!!!”

Twilight’s final warning had been ignored again.

"THAT'S IT, DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!" Twilight shouted, firing a magenta bolt of magic at the figure.

But just as the bolt came close to the figure, it immediately dodged out of the way, causing all of us to gasp as it finally stepped out of the shadows, revealing what appeared to be a greyish humanoid being covered head to toe in some rustic looking armor, due to age most likely, it appeared to be mechanic, its yellow eyes glowed from the helmet that bore it, in its hands was a blue crystal-like staff that seemed to pulsate with bluish energy. Taking a more aggressive stance, the figure readied its weapon, most likely in retaliation. But that wasn't all, just then two more of these armored figures came out bearing the same weapons, then two to the left, one from the right, surrounding us now.

It looked like things just got a bit interesting.