Twilight pranced around her quarters that morning with purpose. She was up early, awaiting the arrival of her letter written to her from Jesus.

She looked at the clock. It was ten in the morning. “Ugh. For someone who’s all-powerful, He sure does take His time.” She paced some more. After ten more minutes, she fell on her haunches. “I’m not getting anywhere.”

After a few more minutes of thinking, she called for her assistant. “Spike!”

Spike emerged in the doorway. “Yes, Twilight?”

“Where did you send that letter that I wrote yesterday?”

“I sent it to Celestia.”

Twilight’s eyes went wide. “What? Why? I thought you sent it to Jesus?”

Spike shrunk back slightly. “Well, I wanted to, but I didn’t know how to reach Him! I figured maybe she could like, forward it to Him or something.”

Twilight took a breath, then smiled. “It’s okay Spike. I know you were just doing your best. I just don’t know what to expect now that Celestia has it, and I guess I’m worried she’ll think I’ve gone off the deep end or something.”

Spike chuckled. “Twilight, we’ve fought monsters from practically every realm of time, and are on speaking terms with the essence of chaos himself. Do you really, really think that she’s going to knock points off of you for talking to someone in the sky?”

“Well, I guess not...still, you should have told me that you were planning on doing this. So what now? Do we just wait for Celestia’s next move? It’s not like she’s going to magically appear in my room with answers or anything.”

Almost as if on cue, Celestia herself popped in a light of magic in the middle of Twilight’s study. Twilight let out a loud “gah!”, much to Celestia’s amusement. Clearing her throat, the regal alicorn spoke. “Twilight, worried as ever I see. Do you have a moment?”

Twilight sighed and face-hoofed. “I guess now is as good a time as ever. Spike, keep a close eye on things would you? With what we’re tampering with, I’d hate for anyone to find out about it without a direct explanation from me.”

Spike let out a few cough sputters. “You got it.”

Twilight turned to Celestia, her eyes filled to the brim with uncertainty. "So, what now?"

Celestia grinned. "I think a field trip is in order."

No sooner had Celestia said those words that Twilight found herself in a poof of magic that transported them to an open field. Celestia sighed in content, as she looked around with a smile tugging at her face. “This will do just fine.”

She sat down, and gestured with a hoof for Twilight to join her. Twilight bit her lip, and cautiously looked around. She did a quick scan of the area for anypony that might be dropping in for an unexpected visit, and once she saw the coast was clear, she hastily took a seat next to her mentor. Celestia gently cleared her throat, “Twilight, it’s come to my attention that you’re investigating a certain someone. Care to tell me who that might be?”

Twilight’s ears drooped, and she let out a sigh. “I know you already got Spike’s mail. Well, my mail, to be more precise. But Princess, while it wasn’t meant for you to see, it’s not as if it was malicious in nature. I’m just curious to know who Rainbow Dash is going on and on about. It’s even affected our friendship to a certain degree, and I’m not sure in a good way. Who is this Jesus she talks about, and why is He so important?”

Celestia chuckled. “I see that your thirst for knowledge is parched. However, this story is one best told not by me, but by someone else.” She pointed to a spot in the field that had no grass, but was as dry as a desert. “If you wait there, He will come. However, you must be patient.” Celestia got up, and flew away.

Twilight ran in the direction that Celestia flew, “Wait! Wait! What does that mean! Is He actually going to show up?! How will I know it’s Him? Wait! Come back!” Twilight Sparkle flailed all her limbs in a vain effort to usher her mentor back to where she was, but her efforts were unfruitful, as Celestia was well out of earshot by now.

Twilight looked around frantically. Panic was starting to set in, and she knew it. She was waiting for Pinkie Pie to burst out of nowhere with her blasted party canon and scare the bejeezus out of her. However, the only thing she found to be her company, was the soft breeze of the spring day, accompanied by the lone chirping of a few stray birds.

She walked gradually back to the spot that Celestia had showed her, eyeing it down and over-analyzing it as she usually did. She kicked at it with her forehoof, she sniffed it; and, just for good measure, she even tasted it.

It didn’t taste very good.

As she spit out the dirt, she realized that no matter how much she seemed to prod, nothing came of it. There were no signs from above, no beaming lights, no angelic chorus to greet her, or frighten her. It was just the mellow ballad of a warm spring day, and it was starting to take its toll. She laid down on the lonely spot of dirt, and felt her eyes get heavier. She tried to keep herself awake, but as the warm air surrounded her, hugging her in a gentle embrace, she felt the temptations of sleep con her into a nap she could not avoid, and felt her fatigue slowly lose itself to the spring day.

Twilight jerked awake.

Panic overtook her as she realized what had happened: she had fallen asleep, and nopony knew where she was. What about Spike? He had that cough that she just knew he did nothing about while she was gone, so there would be that do deal with. And what about Rainbow Dash? She was expecting to hear back from Twilight...wasn’t she? Oh, all these thoughts and nothing was making sense! Twilight knew she had to get back to the castle, and pronto, before something could potentially blow up in her face.

Then she heard it.

Her left ear twitched, then her right, then both of them, trying to find the audio-perpetrator.

She got up and ran frantically in one direction, then turned and ran in the other. She then stopped, breathing the warm air in heavily. She looked around left and right and above her, but no one was there. She then felt her head fall down, and let out a tired sigh. What was there besides a patch of dirt in the ground? She took a deep breath, then turned to walk away.

As she was walking, she promptly bumped into someone and fell to the ground.

“Hey! Watch where you’re...going…” Her words trailed off as before her, stood a creature like she had never seen. It stood on two legs, and was clothed in a simple white robe with a length of rope for a belt. It had a walking stick in what appeared to be a very strange looking hoof on the right side of it’s body, and had long hair. It was smiling though, which seemed rude, considering this thing just knocked her down.

However, all these thoughts and more were stifled as she could not seem to close her mouth upon seeing this very foreign creature. She stumbled back, shuffling as fast as she could. It was extending its appendage out to her. Was it a weird claw? It looked fleshy, so it couldn’t have hurt her, right?

Then, to her shock, it spoke.

“I’m sorry. I hope you’re not hurt. Allow me to introduce myself.” He helped her stand up, and lightly brushed her coat of any dust that might have gotten on it.

“I am Jesus.”

Author's Note

I'm SOOOO sorry for the delay! Life has been really hard lately, and not leaving me much time to write. So, please accept this as a token of my deepest apologies, and as a new commitment to start writing more often and publishing more frequently!