The Truth

by Rainbow__Sparkle

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Sad, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 3588

Twilight knew all of the stories she had been told, and she beleived them. But when Twilight found out the truth, she will never think the same again.

Twilight always knew and believed the stories she'd been told. Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, King Sombra. But when Princess Celestia thinks that Twilight is ready to know about the truth of Equestria Twilight may never trust anypony ever again.

Published 2015-01-20 06:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-01-24 03:32:18 UTC

Prolog

Twilight ran into the Canterlot Castle. She’s not sure why but Princess Celestia needed her urgently. She was a little scared when Spike barfed up the letter. She was worried that Celestia needed her and her friends to the end of the world talk. At least that’s what Rainbow calls it. She looked through the Canterlot Castle for Celestia or at least Luna. She couldn’t find them. That’s when she started to freak out. “Oh no, oh no, oh no!” Twilight screamed,

“Don’t worry, I bet she’s here somewhere?” Spike said comforting Twilight,

“What if she’s dead! What if she’s been captured! What if” Twilight yelled,

“Twilight, cool it. She’s like … 90% fine. I’m sure of it” Spike moaned.

“But what if she’s not” Twilight yelled while grabbing Spike and swinging him back and forth, “There is that 10% that she is not fine!”

Suddenly a guard appeared. He was a white stallion, his armor was obviously newly polished and his brown mane was slicked back. “Princess Twilight” the stallion graciously said while bowing. Twilight did love being a princess, but she hated this part of being a princess. She loved having new responsibilities and all, but being famous was just not for her. Everywhere she goes ponies get all excited and bow to her. Most of the time she really wishes she were a regular unicorn again.

“Uh … please just Twilight, and no need to bow” Twilight moaned. The guard got up from bowing. Now that Twilight was really looking at him she felt like as if she knew him from somewhere. Maybe somepony told me about him or something, Twilight thought. The guard grabbed Twilight by her hoof and pulled her down the hall. “Let me go!” Twilight screeched. She squirmed around trying to slip away, but the guard wouldn’t budge. She looked behind her to see Spike chasing after her, but two other guards pulled him away to a dark room. “Spike!” Twilight yelled, “What are they doing to him?”

The guard didn’t answer. He pulled her harder to make sure she wouldn’t get away. The more Twilight squirmed and pulled, the guard pulled harder. Twilight couldn’t keep up with the guard. For a unicorn, he ran pretty fast. They approached a hallway Twilight was unfamiliar with. In fact, Twilight had never seen the hallway before in her life. She never even knew about this when she lived in the castle for her independent studies.

The guard approached a door and let go of Twilight. “I’m sorry Princess Twi- er um Twilight. I promise your little friend Spike is fine, he should be eating some gem right now actually,” the guard said,

“Then why did you have to pull me through the hallways?”

“It was for your own safety, and security.”

“Why?”

“Not even I know, but we’ll find out.”

The guard looked at her in a way that nopony has looked at Twilight before. Twilight looked at him back, mainly in confusion. The guard shook his head and opened the door. The room was completely dark, but for one giant book in the middle of the room that was glowing. The book was brown and had golden pages on the side of it. Twilight didn’t know what the book was, but she hoped she would be able to read it. Any book for Twilight could read right now would be nice for Twilight. She would feel like a unicorn.

A big black shadow appeared behind the big book. Twilight took a step back with the guard. The guard swung his arm in front of Twilight, making her feel more protected. The shadow came closer until she said, “No need to fear” a blue alicorn with the night sky mane came out of the darkness. It was none other then Princess Luna. The guard took a sigh of relief then put his hoof down.

“My apologies princess, I thought you were an intruder” the guard sighed,

“No worries, you did good. If I was an intruder you would have protected Twilight” Luna cheered. The guard smiled. He felt good doing the right thing, he thought she would have been mad at him because of her history. “My sister would like to see you Princess Twilight,” Luna told Twilight. Her horn started to light up with a blue magic aura and the princess of the night lit the way to a door with Princess Celestia’s cutie mark.

Twilight took a gulp nervous about what she was about to encounter. She walked to the door as the other ponies looked at her. Twilight was never so nervous before in her life. She was worried that she was in huge trouble, or maybe something happened to one of her friends. She looked back at the blue alicorn with a little “what is going on?” face, Luna gave a smile that Twilight could see that everything was going to be all right. Ever since Luna came back from the Moon, Twilight has gotten to know her a bit better. Twilight opened the door with her magic. The door lit up with a purple maroon aura. The door creaked open and Twilight saw a library full of golden books she has never seen so many books in her life.

There was a white alicorn with a rainbow mane reading a book. Celestia noticed Twilight. She let go of her book with her magic, and the book magically floated up and put itself back in its original spot in the library. Twilight had never seen such magic before in her life. “Hello, my former student Twilight,” Celestia said. Twilight ran up to her and hugged her. She hadn’t seen Celestia ever since Tirek came. The alicorn accepted the hug. When Twilight and Celestia ended their hug Celestia pulled out a book from a high shelf and read the title. “No, that’s not it” she sighed. She let go of the book and watched it rise up to where it was.

“Wow, Spike would like this library, less cleaning” Twilight laughed. Celestia laughed along with her then continued her search for a book.

“What are you looking for?” Twilight asked,

“A special book, I have a feeling this book might suit you.”

“Is this why you brought me here?”

“Yes”

“Could I assist you maybe?”

“Of course, that would be splendid.”

“Okay, then what does the book look like?”

“It is a big book that’s white and gold. It has a picture of a golden and blue unicorn on the cover.”

“Are the two unicorns supposed to resemble you and Luna?”

“No … well sort of. It was originally a book that was my parents, but they never got to use it.”

“Oh”,

Twilight started to look around the golden library in search of the book. She found many sacred books that contained sacred spells, but no sight of the book Celestia was looking for. Twilight looked at a spell book. The book cover was brown and had a picture of a green power button. The book was called, “Spells of the future”. The book had a lock on it, but the lock was unlocked. Twilight couldn’t bear but to take a peek for at least one spell. She opened the book, but Celestia pulled the book away. “Focus Twilight” she chuckled. Twilight’s face started to blush from embarrassment. They both continued looking for the book.

Twilight flapped her wings higher and higher to look for the book. At her castles library, finding books was easy, but for this library, it was almost impossible to find. Celestia continued to look at book covers and sent them back up. One book was about to hit Twilight, but dodge her. She really wanted this library for her own now. Twilight flew to the top shelves where many books laid. The books up there were dusty and looked as if they hadn’t been used in years. Twilight had a thought that these books were the most important. She looked through the whole entire top shelf until she found a book behind a couple other books. The book was the exact book Celestia was looking for.

“I’ve found it!” Twilight called,

“I knew you would.”

Twilight was going to bring down the book herself, but Celestia was so eager she pulled the book and Twilight down to her. Twilight fell flat on the floor while Celestia flipped pages of the book. “I hate to see this book,” Celestia sighed.

“Why?” Twilight asked while getting up,

“Not many ponies know this but I’ve done some pretty brutal things to other lands to protect Equestria.”

“Like what?”

“Well, you’ll have to find out yourself.”

Celestia handed Twilight the book. Twilight looked at the book for a minute, then picked it up with her magic.

“This book contains all of the diary entries and thoughts of everypony in Equestria, just think of the pony, and all of their life will be written down in this book,” Celestia informed,

“Its mine now? You’re giving it to me? But why?”

“I think I can now trust you to handle this book on your own, I can trust you, can I?” Celestia asked,

“Y-Yes of course”

“Good, hide this book in your castle. Don’t let anypony see this. Do you hear me?”

“Loud and clear”

“Good”

The two princesses walked outside of the secret library and into the dark room. Luna and the guard were waiting for them. “Does Twilight have the book?” Luna asked, Celestia nodded. Luna picked up something in the corner. It was a white saddlebag with Twilights cutie mark on it. “Put the book in here Twilight, it will be safe” Luna commanded. Twilight did as she was told.

“Celestia?” Twilight asked,

“Yes?”

“May I tell my friends about this book?”

“No, you may tell nopony.”

“What about Spike?”

“Not even him”

“Cadence?”

“She knows,” Celestia said, “I used to read her some of the happy things in that book, mainly about her mother that she never met.”

“Since she knows does my brother know?”

“No, she has done good to keep that secret.”

“Mason!” Luna said the guard came up to her,

“Yes my princess?”

“Escort Princess Twilight back to her castle, make sure her and the book get there safely.”

“Shall I return after?”

“No, your new duty shall be to protect Princess Twilight” Celestia interrupted.

A smile came over Mason’s face. Twilight didn’t know why, but he was somehow happy to live in Ponyville. Wouldn’t he be sad to leave his family, Twilight thought? “Now go, you have much reading to do,” Celestia said,

“Wait” Luna yelled. She lifted the big brown book from the room and handed it to Twilight. “This will help you.”

Twilight took the book. The book was much heavier than she expected. “Please, let me assist you,” Mason said. He took the book from Twilight. His magic was light red.

“Remember Twilight, nopony can know” Celestia warned in a firm voice. Twilight took a gulp and nodded. Twilight and Mason both exited the castle together. A chariot waited for them outside of the castle to bring Twilight home. Spike was in the chariot eating a bowl of gems.

“Hi Twilight,” Spike said with a mouthful of rubies. Twilight waved, and then entered the chariot with Mason. “Who’s he?” Spike asked,

“I just realized, I haven’t formally introduced myself,” Mason said, “My name is Mason Stargazer, happy to make your aquatints.”

“It’s good to meet you Mason! My name is Spike, Twilight’s dragon!” Spike cheered.

Twilight looked at her book, what possible secrets could she encounter with this?

When I was pretty

Twilight entered her castle looking at the saddlebag. She’s not sure why this book couldn’t be seen by anypony. The thoughts inside this book must be important, or else Twilight would have known about this sooner. Twilight trotted fast to make sure Spike wouldn’t be able to catch up with her. She hoped that he wouldn’t find out about the book; she didn’t know how long until Spike found out. She had to be like Cadence; then again she doesn’t have the book. “Wait up Twilight!” Spike called,

“Um Spike, could you leave me in my room alone?” Twilight asked,

“But, we always hang out together.”

“How about you go see if AJ needs any help with the farm.”

“Okay.”

Spike left the room. He was obviously very sad that he couldn’t hang out with Twilight. This killed Twilight. She hated to see him sad. She hated to see anypony sad, in fact. She hated to hurt other ponies. Emotionally and physically. She pulled the book out of her saddlebag. She looked at the cover. Twilight still couldn’t believe that Celestia gave this book to her; it used to belong to her parents. Wouldn’t she want to keep this, Twilight thought? To make sure, the book worked Twilight thought of herself then opened the book. She flipped through the pages and saw all of her thoughts. She flipped to the last page to find her thought of making sure this book worked written down.

“Well, this works,” Twilight said to herself, “This book is a little stalkerish, I wonder if Celestia used this for me.”

That made Twilight shiver a little; thinking about the thought is just plain creepy. Being watched whenever Celestia wanted, again plain creepy. Twilight closed the book cover then thought of whom to research about. This made Twilight think, am I becoming a stalker? Na this is just for research. She thought of all of her foes and all of the ancestors of Equestria. Then she had an idea. She thought of a demon, a creature that was so hideous she couldn’t be able even to look at it. She focused hard then opened the book. She flipped through the pages. The pictures and diary entries did not look or sound like the pony she was looking for.

Twilight soon just decided to read one of the diary entries. The page was unlike most of the pages. It was barely burnt as if somepony hated this page. She looked at the burnt marks, there were unlike any burnt mark she had ever seen. This was no ordinary burnt mark; this page was burned by magic. Twilight started to read the entree.

May 9th 1989,

Today I shall hate Celestia for forever. I will never look at that beast even if somepony paid me over a billion bits. Celestia isn’t all that she seems. She is ruthless, cruel, and everything that screams evil. She will never be our friend again. She lost an ally, and for not being there for us she gained an enemy. We will no longer eat the hate of Equestria.

Twilight stopped. She read the diary entree a couple more times before she remembered something. She remembered the big book Luna gave her. The book had to have something that could give Twilight some more info on this. She remembered that Mason had the big book. She had to get it from him. Twilight teleported out of the room, and into her throne room. She saw her six thrones. She looked at her own, then Pinkie’s, AJ’s, Flutters, Rarity’s, and then she saw a blue Pegasus sitting on Rainbow’s throne. Rainbow Dash was sitting on her throne reading a magazine. The magazine had the wonderbolts on the cover. “Hey Twi!” she cheered while flipping a page,

“Rainbow what are you doing here?”

“Just reading an article about the Wonderbolts. They hired some new recruits and I have to know the names and everything about them.”

“Why?”

“If I know more about them, and if I ever meet them we can become friends, and that would boost my chances of being a Wonderbolt. I would also get some more famous friends!”

“You’d think you’ve had enough famous friends when your friends with three alicorn princesses and best friends with the fourth.”

“The more the merrier!”

“Well, Dash could you please leave, I am doing some stuff for the Princess.”

“Which one? There’s like four … or something like that, I always forget.”

“Celestia! No wonder you got kicked out of that flying camp thing.”

“It was flight school, and I only got kicked out because I was too fast!”

“Right. Look can you just leave please.”

“Derpy’s in you Castle.”

“No she’s,” Twilight said until she turned around to see Derpy with box on her head running to a wall, “Okay I need to improve my guards.”

“Fine, fine Derpy and I will leave” Rainbow Dash moaned while picking up Derpy, or “Box Pony” and going back to her place. Twilight watched them leave her castle, then dashed to find Mason. She looked through the castle, but only found everypony but Mason. She soon found him commanding some other guards through the halls of the palace.

“Mason do you have my book?”

“What book?”

“The book Luna gave to me.”

“Oh, that book, no I put it in the throne room.”

“That’s wired when I was in the throne room I didn’t see the book.”

“I swear I put it on a throne with a lightning bolt on it,”

“Oh Celestia.”

“Yeah somepony came in and said that she would take care of it.”

“Ugh! Rainbow you idiot!”

“What’s wrong did she steal it?”

“No I don’t know what she did to it, but she must have forgotten about it while she was reading her Wonderbolt magazine.”

“Oh, shall I go fetch it for you?”

“No, I got this, she would probably assault you if you came. Yes, she did that one time.”

Twilight left the castle to look for her book Luna gave her. She still didn’t really know what the book was about, but she was sure that it had to be important. She flew through Ponyville to find that Rainbow and Derpy at Sugar Cube Corner with Pinkie Pie. To Twilight’s surprise, she saw Rainbow looking at the book Luna gave her.

“Look Pinkie … and Box Pony, this book has all sorts of history in it.”

“Lots of books have history in it Dash, their called history books for a reason.”

“Yeah, but this one is different, I’ve never heard of this stuff before.”

“Like what?”

“Well, this chapter is about.”

“Rainbow! Hey, Rainbow please may I have my book back?” Twilight called,

“Oh, hey Twilight sure!” Rainbow Dash said. She gave Twilight back the book and watched Pinkie jump around again.

“Thanks, Rainbow” Twilight cheered as she headed back to her castle. She almost blew her cover. If she had Princess Celestia would have never forgiven her. She would have died! Twilight hoped that Rainbow doesn’t remember anything from that book. When Twilight got back to her castle she went back to studying. She looked at the big book. Rainbow had said something about unknown history when she read the book, so this had to be some sort of history book. She flipped through the pages of the book and saw the page she was looking for.

Changelings.

Changeling photo

She looked at a picture of them, and they really didn’t look like they do now. She was very surprised to see this picture. She read the text aloud, “Changelings: special, beautiful ponies that can change into anypony they want. Queen Galaxy rules the changeling kingdom, and the kingdom is located in a different dimension. With the acceptance of Princess Celestia, the changelings are able to go to Equestria and feed off of the hatred and evil of Equestria to make it a better place. The changelings will transform into a regular pony and help the sad and evil.”

Well, if the changelings were good, then why are they bad now, Twilight thought? She picked up the white book with her magic and read the rest of the diary entree.

The ponies of Equestria will no longer have our assistance. I am not sure why, but one day our kingdom faced a massive destruction. Just … well … BAM! Out of nowhere my kingdom heard a big boom and the earth started to shake. It wasn’t an earthquake for sure. I just don’t know what it was. It was so big, so … so powerful. I had never seen anything like it, but worst of all it is hurting my kingdom. My ponies are now weak and have no power anymore. They barely have enough power to shape shift.

When I asked Princess Celestia to assist us with this dilemma, she turned away and said no! She actually turned us down! After all, we did for her! This … this … tyrant told us that if she sends ponies through the portal to our dimension it could rip the fabric of space and time, and everypony would be in danger! Hers and mine. But this is un-pony! Why would she do that to us?

We will no longer assist her for anything ever again. We will no longer eat the hate of Equestria, instead we have found something better. Something taister, easier to find, something more desirable. Love. Pure love. With the love of Equestria, we will be able to rebuild our lost kingdom, and without love in Equestria it will fall into ashes and pain. Nopony will be able to survive there, and they will come to our fabulous kingdom! Everything will be perfect once again.

The lost kingdom will return.

Author's Note

The link for the photo is here.