-Troy’s POV-

After that little fiasco in the room we just left, Rarity was doing her best to stay away from me. Right now she’s feeling very guilty for making me screw her. But at least Rarity was willing to apologize for her actions. She didn’t even lie to her friends when Applejack looked her in the eyes earlier. I was currently next to Barb as we were all walking towards the room I was in, before Twilight took me too her lab. There was an awkward silence from everyone since, for some reason, I’m apparently the lost brother of the two amazon alicorns currently walking ahead of me. I wanted to avoid eye contact with them, and it was nice of Luna to make me an old fashioned tunic from the curtains to cover myself.

I wanted to stay as far away from the cyan psycho, considering the fact that she tried to kill me twice and beat me up three times. I was still really pissed at her since I don’t know what her fucking problem was with me, but that didn’t give her the fucking right to try and kill me. I could still feel the cyan psycho’s eyes glaring at me from behind. She wasn't the only one as the white alicorn with the blue mane and tail was also glaring at me. When the cyan psycho mentioned ‘rape’ to her, she didn’t even give it a second thought to point a spear directly in my face earlier. I was glad that Fluttershy was able to comfort me after my mental breakdown in Twilight’s lab from earlier. She was right though, at least someone was caring of my well-being. It wasn’t long until the tall pink alicorn broke the silence.

“Maybe we should introduce ourselves, so you can get to know us better.” She said. Walking next to me. “I’m Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. But my friends and my lover,” She adds that last bit while looking towards the blue-haired alicorn, who was still glaring at me until the pink alicorn glared back at her, “call me Cadance. ” Next, the blue-haired alicorn finally speaks.

“My name is Gleaming Shield.” She said not even looking at me. “You, of course, already met our daughter Flurry Heart.” She adds, glancing towards the emo goth girl. “She can be a handful sometimes.”

“Like it needs to hear that.” She said in a rather dark tone.

“Flurry…” Gleaming growled.

“And I’m a ‘he’ not an ‘it’.” I corrected.

“Whatever.” Flurry responded with a wave of her hand.

“Is she always like that?” I whisper to Cadance.

“It’s just a phase she’s going through right now.” She said

“Doesn’t look like a phase.” I mentioned as I look back at Flurry. She seemed like one of those types that really didn’t care much about anything.

“Anyways,” Cadence mentions getting my attention. “You also met my aunts Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.” She said which surprised me.

“Wait, both of them are your aunts?” I ask, pointing towards the two mares still walking in front of us. “This whole time, I mistook you all for being sisters.” The two alicorns in front, stop and turn to look at me with blushes on their faces.

“Why, thank you.” Celestia responded.

“Believe me, you weren’t the only one who made that same mistake.” Cadence added with a giggle. “There were some mares who actually thought otherwise.”

“It gets funnier every time we see their reactions.” Luna added. “In any case, you know who we are. So why don’t you tell us about yourself?”

That caught me off guard even though I should have expected it. “Well, my name is Troy Cornelius Hunter, and no, my special talent isn’t hunting.”

“That’s obvious from the way you’ve been getting own’d.” Flurry interjected. I notice Skittles snickered at the alicorn remark.

“Don’t mind her.” Cadance told me. “She’s just cranky and probably needs a nap.” She teases her daughter.

“And you, Ms. Dash, should watch yourself as well. You are in enough trouble as it is.” Luna told Ms. Psycho.

“What did I--?” The pegasus began.

“While your actions the first time you attacked Troy could be understandable,” Celestia began, “your second attempt, when he was obviously a threat to no one, can not be so easily overlooked.”

“So I hope you can explain your actions to us in an acceptable manner.” Luna continued. “You won’t like the consequences if they are not.”

The look on Rainbow Bitch’s face is priceless. I almost felt bad for her… who am I kidding? She deserves whatever she gets.

“Your status as the Element of Loyalty may grant you some protections, but they only go so far.”

“Element of Loyalty?” I ask in total disbelief. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Rainbow Dash represents The Element of Harmony that represents Loyalty.” Barb answers.

“Element of Harmony?” I asked in confusion.

“Basically, they represent friendship. The foundry that Equestria was built on.” Twilight explained. “I represent the Element of Magic.”

“I happen to represent the Element of Generosity.” I heard Rarity say from behind Applejack.

“I’m the Element of Laughter.” Pinkie proclaims as she pops in front of me. I let out a yelp and fall backwards right onto Fluttershy. More specifically, her huge bust. “Hehe, sorry.” Pinkie said in response. I get off of Fluttershy who blushed slightly from me falling on her.

“Sorry about that.” I apologize.

“It’s okay.” Fluttershy replied.

Applejack walked over to the both of us. “Fluttershy here represents the Element of Kindness. Ah mahself, represent the Element of Honesty.”

“Where are these Elements exactly?” I asked.

“They’re currently residing the the Tree of Harmony.” I heard Twilight say.

“What’s--?”

“Before we continue,” Celestia politely interrupts me, “let’s get somewhere so we can explain how you are our brother, shall we?”

I decide to ask both the two alicorns in the lead something that Twilight mentioned earlier. “Twilight mentioned something about you both raising and lowering the sun and moon everyday and night.” I mention. “I honestly find It pretty ridiculous.” Both mares suddenly stop in front of me causing me to bump into them and I stumble backwards for a bit.

“I’m guessing where you were from that’s not the case?” Celestia asks, turning to face me.

“Nope.” I answer. “Where I’m from that’s not the case, so it's not my fault that I find it clearly impossi--” I get cut off when it suddenly gets dark outside. “The hell?” I look out the window to notice that it suddenly got dark out. “Are you--?” I began asking, turning to Celestia and Luna, who were grinning while both of their horns were glowing. The light suddenly comes back again and I’m left stunned from it. I guess this means Twilight really wasn’t kidding about the sun and moon being moved by these two. I’m so shocked by this that I don’t hear Twilight snickering behind me.

“I hope that proves to you what we are capable of Troy?” Celestia asks, to which I nod dumbly. After that little stunt, we arrive back at the room I was in with Twilight after Zecora brought me here. Twilight’s actually nice enough to offer Celestia her seat, but she refuses; Rarity did the same for Luna, who declines as well. I just stand there as all the girls take any available seat and bring more chairs for the other guests.

“Aren’t you going to sit with us?” I hear Fluttershy ask me.

“I’m not sure considering what’s happened to me today.” I reply pointing to the cyan psycho who was still glaring at me. Rarity just turns her head away from me with a massive blush on her face.

“Aw, just ignore her.” Trixie teased, as she pulled out a random chair between her and Sunset. “Here you can sit with us so she doesn’t bother you.” She offers me. I was still cautious after what happened with Rarity, but at least she offers me a seat.

“Thank you.” I say, sitting between both mares.

“Okay Princess Celestia, we’re all here.” Twilight says as she pulls out a quill, ink, and paper form some compartment in her desk. “So why did you call Troy your brother?” She asked. “He doesn’t look anything like a pony.”

“He doesn’t.” Princess Celestia explains. “But his soul does.”

“My soul?” I ask in confusion. The confusion seems to be spread amongst the girls as they don't understand what she means either.

“That's right.” Princess Luna adds. “You’re all aware of what Paradox has done to all of Equestria 1200 years ago, right?”

“How he was defeated by Starswirl the Bearded and that Paradox turned the remaining males into females as a last resort?” Sunset replies while raising her hand.

“Correct.” Luna says while summoning a scroll in her hand. “But that wasn’t the full story.” She unrolls the scroll revealing a set of ancient text.

“What is this?” I ask. “And how come I can’t read it?”

“I figured you couldn’t read it.” Celestia replies. “What this scroll contains, is a part of history we erased to protect our brother.” Everyone other than myself gasped at this.

“Why would you keep something so secret Princess Celestia?” Twilight asked in utter shock.

“Like I said Twilight, it was to protect him.” She repeats herself.

“Protect me from what exactly?” I ask looking towards Celestia.

“From Paradox,” she answers me.

I’m starting to get fed up. “Alright, who exactly is this Paradox?” I ask in a demanding tone.

“How dare you speak to Princess Celestia like that?” I hear Gleaming Shield demand just before I’m staring face-to-face with a spear. I jump out of my chair and crawl over to a wall while still on my back, the spear in my face the entire time. I once again thought I was going to get skewered, but thankfully, a pink aura surrounds the spear, pulling it away from me.

“Gleaming,” I hear Cadence call out in too calm a voice. “He was clearly asking a question. So can you please try to act less like a guard and more like a princess?” She asked, making the mare back off and sit back down next to Cadence.

“Crazy mares.” I grumble to myself, thinking about her and the cyan psycho as I return to my seat. I really wish they would stop trying to kill me.

“Gleaming Shield,” Celestia begins sternly as she glares at the now nervous alicorn, “he was clearly asking me a question.”

“He knows nothing of our world, and is anxious to learn about it.” Luna adds. “So can you try not to be so hostile.”

“As to who Paradox is, he was an uncontrollable demon that planned to plunge all of Equestria into a world of disarray.” Celestia began. “He had extremely powerful chaos magic.”

“He was the one responsible for… killing Zilrael.”

“Zilrael?” I asked confused.

“Yes, Zilrael was the name of our brother.” Everyone in the room just gasped. I just flinched in surprise from hearing that. “He was the most kind, and caring pony we could call family.” Celestia said in a calm yet saddened tone.

“Paradox killed your brother?!” I heard Starlight ask in shock.

“Yes.” Luna added. “It all happened twelve-hundred years ago. Paradox invaded Equestria after escaping from Tartarus.” She began. Both mares explained about this alicorn I was reincarnated from. Apparently this Paradox guy is some kind of creature called a draconequus whose body was made up of several creatures merged into one. Sounded kinda like a chimera of greek mythology. Anyway, they also explained how brave Zilrael was when Paradox invaded. Rather than be behind his soldiers, he was on the front lines where the fighting took place. Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity were in tears when they learned about the innocent lives that were lost or caught in the crossfire of the war. Flurry was the only one not showing any such reaction since she was just staring off into space. What was bugging me was how she would occasionally glance in my direction. Luna even mentioned how he used to align the stars before she was old enough to take control of the night. Besides playing the role of the older brother to his sisters, he also taught them life lessons to help them when they got older, and sometimes help them in magic or almost anything unless it was girl related. What was said next shocked us. Paradox knew that he was losing the fight with how dangerous Zilrael was to him. Paradox had a plan though. First, he placed a curse on Starswirl the Bearded (who was supposed to be the greatest unicorn to have ever existed). He then fired a spear-like object at the weakened sorcerer. Zilrael, just like Paradox planned, took the blade instead. Before he died, Zilrael enhanced Starswirl’s power by giving the wizard a portion of his own. His dying words were ‘Please ensure that everyone was happy.’ before he passed away.

“Princess Celestia, I don’t understand.” Rarity spoke up. “If he’s was as powerful as you said he was, why erase him from history? Better yet, how could a spear kill him?”

“A unique poison was laced onto the spear. It was also made of a special metal that could nullify an alicorn’s healing factor.” Applejack and Twilight had serious, yet angry looks on their faces. Everyone was upset from hearing this. I was also pretty mad seeing how an asshole like that could go so low just not to lose.

“So basically he cheated, but he still lost?” I ask, turning back to Celestia who had tears streaming down her face.

“That's correct, in the end he lost.” She states. “We...we were only fillies when Starswirl the Bearded told us what happened.”

“What was the spear made out of?” I hear Twilight ask.

“It must’ve been one strange material if it could take him down with the poison at the end.” I add. Everyone leans in closer to Celestia and Luna. This is when Luna finally speaks

“Orichalum.” Everyone other than me gasps at hearing that. I never heard of the stuff.

“That doesn’t even exist where I’m from.” I state, making everyone turn their attention to me. “What’s so bad about it?”

“Orichalum is a metal that suppresses one’s magical affinity and nullifies all ability to heal.” I hear Princess Luna reply.

“Magical affinity?”

“We have magical cores within us that make up our magic.” Princess Celestia explains. “Whether it be speed, power, magical prowess, or all three. The Orichalum metal disruptes that flow and causes the core to shatter, which is highly fatal.”

“That’s just messed up.” I respond.

“Yes. We were only fillies when it happened. Our parents left us in charge of looking after Equestria.” Luna begins. “After we learned of his death. We were devastated.”

“So, Starswirl did beat that monster?”

“Yes. When Zilrael gave his power to him, he used that power to create a powerful sealing spell to lock Paradox into the deepest parts of Tartarus. However, Paradox had one final trick up his sleeve. Before the sealing was complete, he used what remained of his power to place a curse on Hesperia. Every single creature were turned into females of their species. I guess he hoped with no males on the planet, all manner of life would cease to exist.”

“That vile brute!!!” Rarity shouts.

“I always thought he did that because he was perverted.” Sunset blurted. We all turn to look at her. Sunset realizes she said that out loud, and blushes in response. To be fair with her though, if I hadn’t heard about what Paradox did before, I probably would've come to the same conclusion.

“Sunset… just what made you come to that conclusion?” Twilight asks with unamused eyes.

“ ...Sorry.” Sunset apologizes, feeling a bit awkward.

“Anyways, what exactly happened after that?” I asked wanting to drop what Sunset just said.

“After Paradox’s defeat, most of his army tried to flee only to be hunted down by Cerberus.” Celestia began. “Starswirl later returned and came up with a way for us not to die out as a race, and a way to bring our brother back.”

“You mean… the amulet? And that spell Twilight told me about?” I ask.

“I take it you found the amulet that Starswirl the Bearded created?” Princess Luna asks Starlight, to which she nods. “Where is it?” Twilight and her friends just turn to look at me, as did everyone else. Soon, all eyes were on me.

“Yeah, about that...” I start while scratching the back of my head. “I touched it earlier… and well... this is the result.” I finish, pointing to myself. “Before that, I was the shortest one here by at least a foot. Now I’m taller than Twilight.”

“This explains why we see our brother's cutie mark on your heart.” Celestia said, as she stands up from where she was sitting and walks towards me. “You have the primary core that makes up our brother inside of you.”

“Excuse me?” I asked, taken aback by this.

“The spear also wasn’t just meant to kill Zilrael,” Celestia explained. She surprises me when she suddenly places a hand on my chest. I flinch and immediately back away from her in response. “It was also a means to scatter his soul across Hesperia. Or so we thought.”

“Princess Celestia, What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“Paradox was very vindictive. Our brother was the main reason he was losing the war. Plus, he must’ve known that we would have tried to bring our brother back to life eventually.” Luna began as she gets up and walks over to me. “Since a soul can not be destroyed, the spear that Zilrael was struck with not only killed him, but scattered his soul so we couldn't bring him back. It’s why Starswirl created the amulet in the first place.” Luna tries to touch me and I back away again. “Please, Troy, try to relax.”

“Sorry, it’s just… considering what has happened to me today….” I said looking in the direction of two certain mares. Rarity just blushes furiously and turns her head away from me, while the cyan psycho just glares at me with more intensity. When Twilight glares back at her with her horn glowing, the blue pegasus turns away from me.

“We understand Troy, but you need to find out what Starswirl was also trying to do.” Princess Luna added.

“What was she trying to do, before she became a mare?” Princess Cadance asks, turning to her aunt.

“She was looking for a means to save all of Hesperia.” Princess Luna responds. Everyone other than the goth girl gasp in response.

“Whatever do you mean Princess Celestia?” Rarity Inquired.

“The amulet was meant to locate the fragments of our brother’s soul that were scattered across the planet.” Celestia explains. “Starswirl used what was left of Zilrael’s power to forge the amulet. It would act as a beacon if we were close to our brother’s soul fragments.”

“That’s amazing.” I hear Twilight say as she was taking notes.

“It’s no wonder we couldn't activate it.” Sunset spoke. “Not even Twilight.”

“It was created by Starswirl the Bearded after all.” Starlight added.

“The amulet was protected by a magical ward, so not even Paradox could destroy it.” Celestia adds. “If we could find all the fragments of his soul, that included his core, he could be fully reborn in six months.”

“Six months?”Twilight asked.

“Correct.” Princess Luna added.

“Fully reborn?” I ask in realization. “You mean--?”

“That’s right, Troy. You’re slowly becoming an alicorn.” Celestia said. I heard everyone gasp again. As for myself, I just sat there frozen.

“I don’t understand Princess Celestia.” Twilight began as she was still shocked. “You mean, Troy is technically… a prince?”

“He will be.”

“So why wasn’t Starswirl the Bearded able to find all of Stardust’s soul fragments until now?” Sunset asked.

“We could not find his core.” Celestia explained in a saddened tone. “Paradox sent it to a world we knew nothing of, so we eventually sealed the amulet away and forgot about it in our old castle.”

“Was that why you also erased him from history?” Starlight asked.

“Correct.”

“So I’ll have an uncle within six month?” Flurry said in a sarcastic tone. “That’s going to be fun.”

“Flurry!” I heard Cadance say, scolding her daughter.

“Um, can we do something about him?” Barb said motioning to me, and everyone looked my way. That’s the last thing I see before everything goes black.

Author's Note

I'm just building up on what Troy is, and don't worry. I just haven't thought of a proper punishment for Rarity or Rainbow Dash yet. Maybe you can leave some ideas for what will happen. Also, Troy is going to go public sooner than you think. Credit To Frankie 2 for edits.