The Old and The New

by margaretf2165

Rating: teen
Tags: Romance
Length: 1845

When a new pony appears in the middle of a busy Cantorlot street, she is confused and just wants answers to fill her empty memory. When she is claimed by an important Equestrian figure, there are loads of questions. The answers will change Equestria.

This alicorn doesn't know where she is, who she is, or where she's from. There are many secrets, and many answers, but nopony seems to want to provide them. As she gets caught in the web of secrets and lies, things are already to complicated without the relationship problems that follow her everywhere she goes.Join the characters you know, with some you don't, as they navigate and try to solve alicorn issues old and new, with lots of romance and action along the way.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-07-07 03:50:05 UTC

Chapter 1

   I wake on the side walk with proper dressed ponies surrounding me. Some are whispering, others are standing with mouths wide open, while a small fraction of them seem to be examining me. I want them to stop. Now. I feel exposed and out of place, and have no idea where the hay I am. The brightly colored buildings, the fancy architecture, it all seems so unfamiliar. In fact, I don't know anything about any place, or anypony, now that I think of it! I have no memories, and no desire to have these ponies stare at me any longer. Feeling panicked and desperate, I send a burst of black magic in the air, then preform a take off and soar away on my wings. I need to get away. As I fly into the world beyond, I feel like I am flying away from the name that is stuck in my head. Luna.

   All of those ponies starring at me... it just didn't seem right. I feel different. And I know I am. I think of various categories, to explain how I differentiate from other ponies.

Mental: I have amnesia, the medical term for memory loss. Well, I remembered the word amnesia. its a start. And the name Luna is stuck in my head.

Physical: Now this one is harder. I don't know exactly how I look, but I do know some things. My coat is a dark blue, but not bright. My mane and tail are black, jet black, and naturally wave, surrounded by some kind of translucent aura. I do not know what my face looks like, or the color of my eyes, but everything else seems to be normal. I have four legs, a mane, tail, wings and horn.

   My head is literally jerked to the side as I experience a new word being slammed into my brain. Alicorn. A pony with wings and a horn; a princess. BAM! My head is jerked to the side once more. Equestria. Thats where I am. I'm glad to know a little more now, but I wish I could discover things without having my movement dramatically altered. Now that I moved over a few feet to maintain my original position, I continue listing.

Emotional: I easily panicked after appearing. I was also easily annoyed by my memory-slams, as I was beginning to call them. that suggests I have strong emotions.

   "Well" I said, stopping to process my regal voice, which was elegant, but more low pitched than the mares I heard speaking in that city.

Canterlot.

   Judging by my most recent memory-slam, I'm going to go ahead and call that city Canterlot.

   "For a pony with weird amnesia, I sure can remember stuff pretty darn good." Great. I was now talking to myself, out of boredom. It is late day, and I have been flying for quite a while now. I could remember everything I flew over. I had seen a dark forest with strange creatures. I could relate to them, being a seemingly strange creature myself. Wishing to avoid ponies until at least tomorrow, I decided to settle on a cloud for the night. I  just can't handle seeing ponies until I have more of a sense of myself, or at least a nights sleep.

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My dream was blurred. It was of two ponies, one gray and the other the color of my coat. They were walked a few steps, side by side, and then there was darkness. There was more but it went by fast, quicker than anypony could fly or gallop. But they were close, so close. They were my memories.

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    "Yohooo. Mysterious sleeping pony? Your kinda in the way of my awesome cloud busting work. This cloud is gonna rain all over Ponyville, and thats not suppose to happen until Thursday. So you really need to move. Yohooo, sleeping po-...whoah"

   The cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail was obviously impressed when I stood up and streched my wings. She stood there and looked at me, wide eyed wither her mouth opened, just as the ponies did in Canterlot. This time I did not cower and flee at her reaction, but rather calmly asked in my most regal and commanding voice, "is there an issue?"

   Awoken from her daze she replied "No, its just, your an alicorn! That's so co-o-o-l! I have to go get Twilight! Oh, I'm Rainbow Dash by the way." And with that she raced away from my cloud into the town below. I decided I wanted to meet her friend "Twilight," so I decided to stay on my cloud. She seemed important, but I couldn't think why.

   "Curse amnesia" I muttered, before sitting down on my cloud. For a pony that could fly so fast, Rainbow Dash certainly was taking a while to get that friend of hers.

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TWILIGHT SPARKLE'S POV

   I was glad to be home with my new supplies of ink, quills and parchment. I had earlier received a letter from Princess Celestia, informing me that she had seen pure black magic being shot into the sky. The people of Canterlot had informed her an alicorn had appeared in a flash of light, then shot out the same evil magic she had spotted. The princess had asked me to search all around Ponyville for an alicorn or suspicious figure, and if I find them to contact her immediately. So I had been out looking for an alicorn. I am finding the whole ordeal ridiculous, as Celestia and Luna are the only ones capable of creating alicorns and they had not created her. Besides, if it had ran away so quickly, it would probably have been avoiding other towns. I was feeling snacky, so I entered the library to get food. As soon as I entered I was hit by a rainbow blur. "Twilight, I've been looking for you everywhere! There is an alicorn on this cloud above Ponyville! You gotta come see her! She looks like Princess Luna except her mane is black and her eyes are red and she's shorter. You totally have to come see her!"

   I perked up when I heard that, thinking that maybe this search wasn't pointless after all. ''Ok, I'm coming" I called to Rainbow, and off I flew to meet the new alicorn on a cloud.

Chapter 2

REGULAR POV

   After what seemed like forever (even though I knew it was only five minutes or so), Rainbow Dash came back into view with a lavender pegasus by her side. Upon coming closer, I realized she was not a pegasus, but an alicorn. The duo landed upon my cloud, and the lavender one started to speak in a voice that was optimistic and more childish than what you would expect from royalty. "Hello, and welcome to Ponyville. my name is Princess...''

   BAM! I was attacked by another memory-slam, this one so powerful It knocked me off of my cloud and sent me plummeting down to the ground! I immediately opened my wings, but kept them in position to catch a wind instead of mindlessly flapping. As the ground rushed towards me, or rather I rushed towards it, I prayed to I don't know who for a wind, breeze, anything! Desperate, I was suddenly lifted enough from my death path by a breeze to continue going upwards and land safely back on my cloud.

   Rainbow flew up next to me from below, talking a mile a minute in my ear. "Oh my gosh, that was soo awesome! There you were, plummeting to the hard earth. But did you freak out? Oh no! You kept your wings straight. You were all like, I got this." Upon saying this, she leaned against an imaginary wall with her arms crossed, flicking her forelock out of her face. "Of course," she continued," your friendly neighborhood Rainbow Dash was there ready to save you if you lost control, and I was starting to make a breeze for you when there you were, lifting off of the slightest little wind. I then started to race you back up to the cloud, and you beat me! Sure, you had a head start but I am never beaten by anypony! You scorched me!"

    "I believe" stated Twilight Sparkle, "that we should now continue as usual. My name is-"

    "Princess Twilight Sparkle." I added, and was was glad to know this. And I now knew much more! "You were Princess Celestia's prized pupil. And Luna, Princess Luna, is Celestia's sister! And your brother is Shining Armor, captain of the royal guard, and is married to Princess Cadence who rules over the Crystal Empire!" The Crystal Empire... there was definitely something important there. Something worthy of a memory-slam. But what could it be? I also knew more about Luna, the alicorn Who's name was the only thought I had when my brain yielded no memories at all.

   It was decided that we should go back to Twilights house to talk about me instead of standing on the cloud where someppony could get hurt. I made observations about the other winged beings as we embarked on our short flight. The cyan mare was more sturdy on her wings than the lavender, suggesting that she had flown longer. I also noticed I was shorter than both Twilight and Rainbow, and they looked older. I decided to look in to this observation upon landing and walking into Twilights house.

   The Princess lived in a library! The shelves were filed to the brim with books. I trotted around, seeing every kind of fiction and non-fiction genre there is! It was amazing, a single place with more information then ponies would ever be able to remember by themselves! What really caught my attention, though, was the spell books. I had never attempted magic in my memory, and decided to now try and preform a spell out of curiosity. Picking a book at random, I decided to preform the first spell I saw. Noticing the plain wooden chair in the  corner, I prepared. Feet set and even. Horn pointed at the chair. Take a deep breath. Fire! My black magic hit the chair. It transformed into a curvy plush chair with a black frame and a single red cushion. I was very impressed by my horn work, but Twilight was not.

   "My favorite chair! What did you do to it?" I felt uncomfortable and ashamed. I decided that being honest was the best solution. Besides, I can just switch it back.

   "I was interested in your spell books. I had never attempted a spell before in my memory so I thought I would try one. I'll just switch it back."

   Carrying out this action was easy.

   Twilight eyed me suspiciously. "You have a lot of explaining to do after I send this letter to the Princess and she comes for you." Well then, that doesn't sound scary at all.