Twilight Sparkle couldn’t believe she was doing this.
She had a dream that Discord was telling her to look up Humanity in the Forbidden Archives. While it was forbidden from all the ponies that Celestia or Luna didn’t give access or the knowledge of it to, Twilight and a few other ponies had access to it.
Why she would look up Humanity is someplace as important as the Forbidden Archives. Humanity was everywhere in Ponyville, working for Earth Ponies and Unicorns. Most Pegasi couldn’t own any because they would fall off the clouds, but those that lived on the ground often had one or two. Even Fluttershy had one that she found injured in the Everfree Forest and nursed back to health. There were medical texts and history books on the controlling of Humanity and how to best take care of one.
Interestingly, she found a diary with ‘Journal of Sir Konec Drachen Ritter’ on the cover. Remembering that Sir Ritter was the last Human to set foot in Canterlot and speak to the Princesses before Discord’s corrupting of the Human race and their defeat and conquering at the hands of the ponies. Sir Ritter’s fate was unknown, with some saying he fell at Discord’s hands, falling during the Final Battle, or turning against the Princesses in the end and being turned to stone with Discord. Certainly all that remained of his existence in the Equestri world was his sword, his statue and his diary.
Opening the diary revealed a parchment that had been stuck into the front page. It said:
This diary was found along with 30 Human females and a few weapons, 72 months after the entombing of Discord.
This diary is to be kept in the Forbidden Archives and anypony that reads this is to be sworn into secrecy of the 1st order.
If this knowledge gets out of royal hands, then Humanity might revolt again and this time we might lose.
No one should ever see this!
- Princess Luna
“Princess Luna?” Twilight Sparkle whispered, confused.
The knowledge of Humanity you have fought for is all lies. Discord had told her. If you want to know the truth,then look for a diary under the name Konec Ritter.
Who knew that Discord was telling the truth? Something about this diary seemed ominous, from the fact that the diary was bound in Dragonhide, to the fact that Discord told her to look for the diary.
But the fact that one of the Princesses had written that the diary should never be seen by anypony, ever seemed to give some truth to the matter. She decided that the risks were worth it, and her historian’s urges had been brought to the fore. She placed the diary in her saddlebags and left the archives with her usual stack of books.
Its time to see what is so dire that the Princess themselves forbade the reading of the diary.
Author's Note
This is my first story on this site, and I would love constructive criticism! I have written before, but they were series on several wikis and weren't MLP.
Twilight had brought the diary and the forbidden books back to Ponyville with her, knowing fully well that the only reason that she was allowed to do it was because that Celestia trusted her. A trust she was slightly betraying.
It is for the best interests of Ponykind. Twilight reminded herself, walking into her home. Spike was out buying more groceries, and Owlicious was asleep. She went over to her desk, unloaded her books and carefully pulled out the diary.
Inside the front cover was a painting of the old Knight. He wore armor similar to the ones Thestrals wore, but it was edged with red instead of purple and covered all of his body, as well as being a lot bulkier. He wore an amulet similar to the Alicorn Amulet on him neck, and his eyes were like Chrystalis’, but red instead of green. His hair was kind of long, and was black with a grey stripe running through the middle of it. Kinda like Daring Do’s.
Flipping through the book revealed that Ritter’s writing was atrocious in the first third, extremely neat the second and then frantic scrawling the last. Sighing, she flipped back to the first page and began to read.
Dear Journal,
The Princess asked me to write a diary so I could have someone to tell my secrets to without worrying.
Sounds stupid, but she is my friend and I’ll take her word for it. Being the only Human that can wield magic and will speak to the ponies is hard.
The Unicorns view Humans as either experiments, lower creatures or mere animals to study. Earth Ponies mostly ignore Humanity, preferring to think that they don’t exist, but then again they do it to everything.
Pegasi...they are currently rebuilding Cloudsdale after the Wendigoes charged everywhere and destroyed everything. After the Princesses chased off the Wendigoes, the Unicorns and Earth Ponies easily cleaned up everything, considering their abodes were made mostly out of stone and rocks. Meanwhile the Pegasi had to rebuild everything, because making cities out of clouds were a lot harder than making them out of stone apparently.
Anyway, right now Humanity is living in a town that I helped found near Cloudsdale. It is doing alright, and right now I am the mayor of the town. It is a little annoying having to deal with politics, but it is worth it if it benefits Humanity.
Right now Princess Luna is teaching me how to control magic. I could get Celestia to teach me instead, but she is often too busy with helping rebuild and found the new country of Equestria. Plus all the ponies seem to dislike the night, and Luna is often lonely. Getting only three or four hours of sleep is worth it if it makes a lonely mare happy.
The loneliness cure is working both ways too. My girlfriend was also pulled through the dimensions, which I was both happy and sad about. She made sure I was happy while I had to deal with the stresses of helping a Human culture rebuild itself from the ground-up. On top of this I had to make sure that Humanity wouldn’t be killed by Gryphons or Ponies or any monsters.
But three weeks after Humanity appeared on Equestria, she and several others were killed by a group of ponies that believed that Humanity were demons and were going to kill them all. I snapped and killed dozens of them before Luna calmed me down and the rest of the group was put on trial and were executed or imprisoned for life.
After her death, I became close to Luna. Speaking of whom, she is calling me right now to continue my lessons.
Good night.
Twilight set the diary down and looked outside, and was shocked to see that it was now night. She hid the book in a secret hidey-hole that she created for powerful artifacts that had to be hidden from anypony’s eyes. Her Human assistant, Libra, had made dinner for her and Spike, which the two quickly devoured.
“Delicious as always, Libra.” Twilight told the Human, who blushed and nodded. Being mute, Libra simply pointed to Twilight’s bed to tell her mistress it was time for bed. Libra then picked up the plates and started washing them while Spike and Twilight headed to bed.
Twilight looked at Libra one last time before going to sleep, thinking about how Sir Ritter looked and comparing it to Libra. They have the same olive skin, and Libra has black hair, but other than that they were not similar at all.
With these thoughts, Twilight fell asleep with dreams of Humanity plaguing her head.