Special, Deluxe Special

Chapter 4: Imprisoned and Alicorns

The word of “Deluxe” spreads quickly throughout Equestria. The word of the ugly hairless ape gathers the public’s attention of an alien traveler bestows onto their world.

“How do you know our language?” Twilight asks you.

“I would like to ask that myself,” you reply, still in the chains of metal bondage.

Twilight scribbles something down before her green and purple servant was given the paper. Twilight whispers something before you watch the slave puff the paper into smoke.

“You’re blazing?” you say to the dragon named Spike.

“What?” he replies.

“You know,” you say, giving him a ghost nudge, “Puffing that O.G. dank kush?”

Spike is lost for words.

“Hey, I’m asking the questions around here,” Twilight says, stepping into your vision.

“Okay.”

Within seconds, a bright and dark light appears inside the room you were in. The image of a white and black alicorn manifests before your eyes. The regal princesses of Equestria; Princess Celestia and Princess Luna now stood in the presence of the room. Many ponies and dragon bows, leaving Twilight to engage a conversation with the princesses.

Your human hearing was enough to capture the conversation.

“Princess Celestia and Princess Luna!” Twilight greets.

“Greetings, Twilight,” Princess Celestia replies.

“Good morrow,” the princess of the night says.

“I see what you’ve got my letter,” Twilight says, “Is this thing really important?” she continues, looking at you.

Princess Celestia replies, “Actually, this creature is very important. Luna has discovered something last week that would jeopardize our world.”

“We hath discovered a dire conclusion upon Equestria, Twilight,” Princess Luna says, “We hath foreseen a mysterious creature being part of a missing piece of history.”

The moonbutt princess looks towards you, her penetrating gaze piercing yours. You gulp at the cold stare and watch her approach you.

“It is what they had proclaimed,” she says as her horn glows. A mystic light appeared before her and shrouded the room. You wince at the blinding light. Soon, a magical pendant was hovering in the air above everypony and you.

“I ask all of you to leave,” Princess Luna requests, looking at the crowd of ponies. They did what they were told. The moon princess looks at you and squints. The “pendant” was a simple black ball. A mysterious power arose from it.

“Deluxe, Traveler of Many Worlds and Dawn of Ski-doosh, do you know what you are?” Princess Luna asks grimly.

You don’t know what to say. You were just here for fun, but this? What was happening?

“I am a human being,” you reply softly.

“Human,” the lunar princess repeats, “But that is what you are not.”

You were alarmed. “Hey, I know where I came from,” you state, “I live on Planet Earth, the United States of America.”

Twilight’s murmur of “ ‘Murica” and “America” caught your ears.

“That is all an illusion, Deluxe,” Princess Celestia speaks, “What you thought of your world is nothing more than a paradox to stop the inevitable.”

“Throughout last week, I hath studied the pattern of the stars and found the same symbol over and over again,” Princess Luna says as Princess Celestia presented a piece of parchment.

Princess Celestia presented a piece of parchment.

“It is a mysterious figure that directed me to know your coming.”

“Wha-how?” you reply in shock.

“Studying the history of the past carves up the present into the future,” Princess Luna states, “The symbol is found throughout the course of our history and points towards a date: today.”

“Huh?”

“Today is the seventh day of the seventh month, Deluxe,” Princess Luna says through gritted teeth, “Today is the purge of our world.”

Princess Celestia looks at the clock beside her. “It is 11:00 am. It is only eight hours before the seventh hour.”

“Deluxe,” Princess Luna says, looking at you, “What I say may sound truly foolish, but you must trust and believe in us. Only you can save our world.”

You could feel time itself pause when she said those words. This was it? After what you thought would be a fantastic journey in Equestria was actually the bitter truth?

“Why?”

That is all you can say.

Princess Celestia’s magic grasps the black orb pendant and walks close to your cage. “After hearing those words, I sense a power in you that is faltering this,” she says, letting her magic guide the necklace towards you.

Upon looking up at the orb, you feel a surge of power run through you. A vital spark soon begins to envelop inside the room. Your fingertips braces the static of the orb as smoke fills your cage. You roar. The cage explodes, exposing your new form before the princess trio.

You felt your four limbs on the ground, but something told you it was right. Two mighty powerful wings stretched to the heavens above with a long horn propped on top your head. You tapped the ground. The sound of a hoof reached your ears. Your red eyes peered through the smoke as your black complexion was as dark as the night.

“What… am I?” you whisper.

“You are an alicorn,” Princess Luna says.

“The alicorn of the end,” Princess Celestia adds on, “You are special, in given the choice.”

“Choice of what?” you ask, your voice like darkness.

“We do not know,” the two princesses reply in unison.

You look towards Twilight. She looks terrified. You walk away from the battered cage and approach her. Using one of your strong wings, you blew some dust off of her.

“Are you alright?” you ask her.

“Yes,” she replies, “Just shocked, that’s all.”

You gave a weak smile, but a smile nonetheless. “I am too.”