The Child of Twilight Sparkle

15 years ago

In Canterlot castle, deep underground in a dungeon there was a human child. He had white skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. He was wearing an old tan shirt and old brown trousers with old brown shoes. He had a serial number branded on the right part of his chest that said B-3562.

His body was covered in bruises, because he was kicked and beaten often for amusement. Sometimes the guards would let out one or two of the other slaves to see if he would ever fight back, but he never did. He was actually one of the very few who didn’t. It was okay for the guards to have fun, but if they caused any serious injuries or even deaths, the cost of the slave would come out of the guard’s salary.

In the dungeon, one of the guards walked over to the cage that the human child was in. He looked at the human child before speaking to him. “Princess Celestia ordered me to find you and bring you to meet her in person.”

The human child looked at the guard with a confused look on his face. “Me?” He asked in case it wasn’t painfully obvious.

The guard put his front left hoof on his face before saying, “Yes you, B-3562. let’s just go because I don’t wanna have this conversation any longer than I have to.”

The human child got up on his feet. “Alright, let’s go.” He said in a voice that showed that he was totally ready to get out of here.

The guard had a surprised look on his face. “Really? That wasn’t expected, but alright.” The guard unlocked the door and let the human out.

The human child followed the guard down a long path through the dungeon. The guard was a unicorn stallion who had a white coat and was wearing golden armor. While they were walking another guard joined them. The other guard was also a unicorn stallion who had a cobalt blue coat and also golden armor.

The human child looked at the blue guard. “What are you doing here?” he asked sounding curious.

The blue guard kicked him in the back. “I’m here to make sure you don’t escape.” He said. “Also don’t question what we’re doing.”

The human child felt dumb. “Of course, I forgot. Sorry about that.” He said realizing his mistake. “So where are you taking me?”

The blue guard kicked him in the back again except this time harder. “I said don’t question what we’re doing, and we’re doing as you were supposed to be told, taking you to see Princess Celestia in person.”

“I’m sorry for questioning you. I promise it won’t happen again.” The human child said sounding serious.

The blue guard looked at the human child with a serious look. “Yeah, it better not happen again.” He said. “You should feel honored to even be able to see Princess Celestia. As if you even deserve to.”

The human child wanted to say something back, but he decided that would be a stupid decision, because he was taught that he would get beaten if he tried to talk back to any of the guards. So he stay silent.

A few minutes later, they arrived in front of Princess Celestia. She had a white coat, a blue, pink, purple, and turquoise mane, purple eyes, and a picture of a sun on the side of her butt. She was wearing a golden crown with an amethyst in the middle of it and a golden necklace also with an amethyst in the middle of it. “Welcome, young one. I have been meaning to speak to you.” Celestia said. “Guards, I wish to speak to this human alone.”

He knew that this was a bad sign. He hoped that she wasn’t going to torture him, or kill him, or even worse, and he’s even experienced worse. He just acted cool. “So what did you want to talk to me about?” He asked sound like he wasn’t scared at all.

“I feel that there is something special about you. I’m not really sure what, but I can sense it.” Celestia said sounding like she knew exactly what she was talking about.

He believed her completely. “So, what about me being special?” He asked sounding confused.

Celestia looked at his with a look that showed she knew he didn’t understand. “As I said before, I’m not completely sure, but I know somepony who I’m sure will be able to.”

The human child started to worry. He thought that some crazy scientist might test horrible experiments on him to see what it would be. A few seconds of his thinking Celestia continued what she was saying. “That was actually the other reason I had brought you here.” She said. “You’re going to be living with one of my little ponies.”

The human child looked at her. “This isn’t going to be some angry slave driver that will beat me, will it?” He asked sounding very worried.

“Of course not. She is quite nice, and I’m sure you will like her too.” Celestia told him. Her horn began to glow. A picture appeared out of nowhere. She gave to picture to the human child. “This is the mare you’ll be living with. Her name is Twilight Sparkle.”

Celestia gave him the picture. He looked at the picture of a unicorn with a purple coat, a dark purple mane and tail, with a lighter purple and pink stripe, purple eyes, and a picture of a pink star with 5 stars surrounding it on the side of her butt. “She looks nice.” He said.

A few seconds later Celestia gave him another picture. It was a picture of what appeared to be a tree made into a house. “This place will become your home.” Celestia told him in a serious tone of voice.

He looked at the picture. “It looks nice.” He said. “When am I going to be leaving?”

Celestia looked at him like that was an obvious question. “Right now, of course.” She told him.

Suddenly, the two guards that brought him here were back. “Guards, send this human to my faithful student Twilight Sparkle, and make sure he is delivered there safely.” Celestia ordered the guards.

Both of the guards dragged him out of the room. They all walked down a long hall out of the palace. They made him ride in a wagon. It was a very long, and sick inducing ride. There were also others there. One of the less healthy slaves got really sick and died during the trip, so the wagon had to stop near a ditch for the guards to throw him out.

He tried to fall asleep for most of the trip, but he couldn’t because of the endless bumps it went over.

At one point during the trip he heard a few ponies and humans yelling so he looked out from a window of metal bars. He saw two guards near a woman and a little girl. “Please look away!” The woman yelled to the little girl who he imagined was her daughter before she got pushed near a wall. “I love you!” One of the guards grabbed a sword and cut her throat before they both started to walk away. The little girl looked like she was about to start screaming.

He felt angry. “Those guards make me sick.” The human child said in his mind.

Aside from that there wasn’t too much going on during the trip. It was mostly just running over rocks and feeling sick.

After what felt like forever, they finally made it to Twilight’s house. The human child felt like he would puke if he had actually eaten anything. It was very cleared that he was starved from the way his body looked.

The guards opened the door and let the human child out. The guards went over to the door and knocked on it. A few seconds later the purple unicorn he saw in the picture came out. “Is there something you need?” The purple unicorn asked both of the guards.

“We came here because Princess Celestia ordered us to bring a Human here.” The white guard said.

“We overheard her talking since we didn’t trust him alone with the princess and she said something about how she thinks he’s special and that you might be able to find out how.” The blue guard said.

“I do my best at that.” Twilight said to both of the guards.

“Does that mean I get to live here?” The human child asked.

“Sure.” Twilight said.

He hoped that she was as nice as she is now when she’s not around other ponies.

They both talked for a few minute. It was mostly Twilight asking questions. She noticed that the human child was wearing a gray metal collar on his neck. “Why is he wearing that on his neck?” she asked the guards.

“That’s there in case he acts badly, you can pump magic into that collar and choke him. If can only be used by you, by the way.” The blue guard asked.

Twilight looked at the blue guard like he was going to say something important. “Is he usually very aggressive?” Twilight asked sounding concerned.

The blue guard looked at her like she was joking. “Well, he’s had zero escape attempts and zero guards or other slaves attacked, he never even fought back whenever guards or other slaves attacked him, so I would say no.” The guard told her. “That reminds me, you have to agree to this long paper.” The guard’s horn began to glow before a long piece of paper appeared.

Twilight spent the next few minutes reading and signing what ever the paper said. The human child stood there watching. He was just hoping that this wouldn’t go on for an insane amount of time. Thankfully, it didn’t.

After that the guards went back to the wagon and walked away. “Come inside. We can talk in there.” Twilight said.

“Okay, mistress.” He told her.

“Did you just call me mistress?” Twilight asked him sounding confused.

“Well, I was taught that I was supposed to call my owner master or mistress. Was I not?” He told her sounding like he didn’t know what to do.

“You can call me Twilight Sparkle, Twilight, or mistress, if you want.” Twilight told him.

“I’ll just call you mistress because that’s what I’m familiar with.” He said.

After that they both walked into Twilight’s house. He thought it looked nice. He noticed that there were a lot of books all over to walls. “Is this a library?” He asked his new owner.

Twilight looked at him like that was a stupid question. “Of course it is.” Twilight told him. “By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask you: what’s your name?”

While they were talking a purple baby dragon walked into to room. “My name is Spike!” The baby dragon said.

Twilight and the human child she was talking to both looked over at Spike. “It’s nice to meet you.” The human child said.

“What are you doing here?” Spike asked.

“Two royals guards said that Princess Celestia sees something special about this human and she has tasked me with find out what.” Twilight answered.

“I’m not really sure what it was that she saw in me, but okay.” The human child said.

“So, what is your actual name? You never told me.” Twilight asked.

The human child looked at Twilight for a few seconds. “Well, back in the dungeon in that palace, I was called B-3562.” He showed her the number branded on his chest. “But that’s just what the guards called me there.” He said, “My real name is Jack.”

“Well it’s nice to meet you, Jack.” Twilight said as she raised her hoof towards him. He shook her hoof.

“Yeah, it’s nice to meet you.” Spike said as he raised his claw towards him, which he shook as well.

“It’s nice to meet you both, too.” Jack said before he stopped shaking theirs hooves and claws.

After that they all stood around silently not knowing what to talk about next. “So, would you like to tell us about yourself?” Twilight asked Jack.

“Sure, I guess.” Jack responded.

“How old are you?” Twilight asked, “I know that sounds like a random question, but I didn’t get a good opportunity to ask.”

“At the moment, I’m only 8 years old. Why do you ask?” Jack asked.

“I was just curious.” Twilight said.

Jack took a moment to look at his hands. While he was doing that Twilight also looked at them. “I don’t think I’ve even seen human hands up this close before.” Twilight said as she was examining his hands.

“I don’t even know what I’m supposed to say.” Jack said. Twilight looked at his hands so intensely that it was almost uncomfortable. “What are you doing?” He asked Twilight.

“I’m sorry about that. It’s just that I’ve rarely been this up close to a human before.” Twilight said sounding like she didn’t mean to upset him.

“It’s okay, I really don’t mind.” Jack said. A few seconds later she stopped staring at his hand.

They all stood around silently again thinking about what to do next. After a few seconds Twilight came up with an idea. “Would you like me to give you a tour of the library? Since you’re going to be living here at least for a while.”

“Sure, I don’t see why not.” Jack responded, “Where are we going first?”

“I’m not really sure.” Twilight told him, “Where would you like to see first?”

“I can’t really say because I have no idea where anything is.” Jack answered, “So I guess you’re just going to have to show me what ever you want, in what ever order you want.”

“Follow me.” Twilight said. Jack followed her upstairs. “So this is the upstairs.” Jack looked around and saw mostly more books covering the walls.

Twilight walked over to a door. Her horn began to glow as she used her magic to open the door. “This is the bathroom.” Jack looked around the bathroom. He saw pretty much everything that he had expected from a bathroom. A toilet, a sink, a shower, a lot of cabinets.

They went downstairs into another room. “This is the kitchen.” Twilight showed Jack the kitchen. It looked very simple. There was a table near the center of the room with a few chairs surrounding it. “This is as the name implies, where we go to cook.”

Jack still didn’t say anything. A seconds later Twilight went back upstairs while Jack followed her. She went up a latter which Jack climbed up still following her. “This is where I go to look out and see all of Ponyville.” Twilight said.

“I’m guessing this place I’m in right now is called Ponyville?” Jack asked.

Twilight looked at him like that was a stupid question. “Of course it is. Where did you think we are?” She said.

“To be honest, I had no idea. Most of Equestria I’ve never seen before. I’ve spent most of my life in that dungeon in the palace.” Jack said.

Twilight could very clearly tell that he wasn’t kidding. “That place you were in was Canterlot palace.” She said, “This is the Golden Oak Library we’re in right now.”

Jack looked off at the orange sunset. “I don’t think I’ve seen that sun for years.” He said. “It feels great not to be locked up in that dungeon.”

“You’re not going to be locked in any dungeons here. I’ll treat you well.” Twilight said in a serious but still kind voice.

“Thank you.” Jack said as he looked off into the sunset. A few seconds later he looked back at Twilight. “What should I do now?”

“I don’t know. I’m going to head back downstairs. You can follow me if you want, or you can continue to look at the sunset.” Twilight said before she started to climb down the ladder. After that they went back down the stairs to the bottom floor.

“I guess I’ll follow you.” Jack said. He climbed down the ladder right after Twilight finished.

“Would you like to sit down?” Twilight offered. “You seem kinda tired, so I just thought I’d ask.”

“I’ll sit down.” Jack went over to a chair and sat down. “Why do I look tired?”

Twilight had a look on her face like he was joking. “You look like you haven’t rested in years.” She said, “You look seriously underweight.”

Jack looked like he was mad. “That’s because I am highly malnourished, and I haven’t slept in days, in case it wasn’t painfully, painfully obvious.” Jack said. “That’s why I don’t have the energy to fucking do anything! Those guards back In the castle were too cheap and lazy to feed me anything!”

Twilight looked like she did something wrong. “I didn’t mean to upset you. I’m sorry for saying anything.” Twilight said sounding sorry.

Jack looked more sorry. “No, I’m sorry I got mad. I’m not really that good at controlling myself sometimes.” Jack said sounding embarrassed.

Twilight went over to a chair next to Jack and sat down next to him. “I hope that you’re enjoying living here, at least so far.” Twilight said with a small smile on her face.

“I’m enjoying it.” Jack said as he looked over at Twilight. “I may only have known you for about 15 minutes but I think you’re a good owner.”

“Thank you.” Twilight said as she still smiled at Jack. “I’ll try to make it as comfortable living here as possible.”

“As I said before, I’m enjoying living here so far, even if I only did for 15 minutes.” Jack said. “Is there something you would like me to do?”

“Why would I want you to?” Twilight asked looking curious.

“Because I’m your slave, and you’re my boss. That’s why.” Jack said.

“I’m not your boss.” Twilight said.

“Yes you are. Well, if there’s something you would like me to do, fell free to tell me. I guess I’ll just wait here until then.” Jack said.

“I’ll keep that in mind.” Twilight said before she got up and walked into a different room.

Jack still sat at the table alone doing nothing. “I don’t know how my life is going to end up being here, but it’s looking good so far.” Jack said to himself quietly.

After a few minutes of waiting around for something to happen he put his head on the table and fell asleep because he was tired.

A few hours later

Jack woke up. He got his head off from the table and opened his eyes slowly before blinking a few times. “I knew that was all a dream.” He said quietly.

“What was a dream?” He heard a voice from behind him. “This is real life.”

Jack turned around to see Twilight next to 5 other ponies. “Nothing was a dream.” Jack said. “Everything is real.” He looked at the 5 ponies that were next to Twilight. “Is this a home invasion?”

“This isn’t a home invasion, these are my friends.” Twilight said. “I brought them here because even though it’s super later at night, I thought it was important enough for them to know about this that it couldn’t wait until tomorrow.”

“What couldn’t wait ‘til tomorrow?” Jack asked while he looked at the ponies next to Twilight.

“I wanted to show my friends to you.” Twilight said.

“Alright, introduce your friends to me.” Jack said as he got up from his chair. “So who would like to introduce themselves to me first? Or would you rather I go first?”

“I’m, um… I’m Fluttershy.” Said a pegasus with a light yellow coat, a light pink mane and tail, light blue eyes, and a picture of 3 butterflies on the side of her butt.

“Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie!” Said an earth pony with a pink coat, a pink mane, pink tail, light blue eyes, and a picture of 3 balloons on the side of her butt.

“I’m Rainbow Dash.” Said a pegasus with a light blue coat, a rainbow colored mane and tail, dark red eyes, with a picture of a cloud and rainbow on the side of her butt.

“Ma name’s Applejack.” Said an earth pony with an orange coat, a light brown cowboy hat, a blonde mane and tail, green eyes, and a picture of 3 apples on the side of her butt.

“And I’m rarity.” Said a unicorn with a white coat, a purple mane and tail, blue eyes, and a picture of 3 diamonds on the side of her butt.

“The ponies back at that dungeon called me B-3562, but my real name is Jack. You can called me which ever you want.” Jack said to everypony.

“I’ll call you Jack, I mean, If that’s okay with you.” Fluttershy said.

“Me too.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Me Three!” Pinkie Pie said

“I’m callin’ ya, Jack.” Applejack said.

“I’ll call you Jack, darling.” Rarity Said.

“Then I guess it’s decided. Jack is my name from now on.” Jack said. “So, is there anything else you wanted me to do? Or did you just want me to see your friends?”

“I didn’t really think about what we would actually do after this.” Twilight said sounding embarrassed. “I guess you could talk to each other?”

“Okay,” Jack said sounding exited to do this. “So what do you all like?”

“Animals.” Fluttershy said still sounding shy.

“Parties!” Pinkie Pie said sounding hyperactive and energetic.

“Flying.” Rainbow Dash said sounding confident and almost like she was bragging.

“Apples.” Applejack said sounding like a cowgirl.

“Fashion.” Rarity said sounding very civilized.

“Magic.” Twilight added to the group.

Jack stood there silent for a few seconds. “I like, um…” He looked like he was thinking hard. “I’m not really sure what I like.”

Twilight and her friend all looked at him confused. “How do you not know what you like?” Twilight asked.

“You honestly can’t think of anything you enjoy doing?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“You must be kidding.” Pinkie Pie said.

Jack looked at them like he was totally serious. “I seriously can’t think of anything that I like. As far as I was taught, the only thing I am meant to do is serve my owner for the rest of my life.”

“That’s so messed up.” Rainbow Dash said sounding mad.

“I agree.” Applejack added also sounding mad.

Jack looked at them while nodding his head. “Those ponies are fucking monsters. They cared nothing for me, or any other human!”

“I’ll make sure you never have to go back there again.” Twilight said in a very serious voice.

“I fucking hate that shit!” Jack said in a mod voice. “But it’s the law, so I can’t do anything about it.”

Twilight and her friends all looked at Jack. Twilight walked towards him before saying, “You know, if you want this all to stop, you should try to do something about it. Just remember that Dreams can come true.”

Jack smiled at Twilight. “Thank you, Mistress.” Jack said. “But I don’t think that I or any other human or pony will be able to end slavery until well after I die, if ever.”

Twilight’s friends looked at him confused. “What did he just call ya?” Applejack asked Twilight.

“I was told that that’s what I’m supposed to call my owner, and she agreed to me calling her that.” Jack answered.

Jack, Twilight and her friends stood around silently not sure about what they were going to do next. “So, is anypony bored? Because I am.”

“I am.” Twilight agreed.

“We should fucking do something interesting.” Jack said almost sounding exited.

“But what?” Twilight asked.

“I didn’t really think about that. Anypony have any ideas?”

All the ponies stood silently. “I guess we could just sit here and talk about each other some more?” Jack suggested. “I really am so non-creative that I’m going to suggest that.”

Twilight and her friends spent the next hour talking. Jack mostly just looked at them trying to stay awake. Him not sleeping for days was finally catching up with him. At some point he couldn’t go any longer and he collapsed onto the ground. He landed on his face when he fell. Twilight and her friends stopped talking to each other and went over to see if he was okay.

“Is he okay?” Pinkie Pie asked Twilight.

Twilight put her hoof on his back. She could feel him breathing. “I think he’s just sleeping. He did say earlier today that he didn’t sleep for day.” Twilight told her friends.

“Why would he do something like that?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“I think the guards in the dungeon didn’t let him sleep.” Twilight said. Of course she wasn’t completely sure if that was true.

“Maybe he just didn’t like sleeping.” Rainbow Dash said.

“I don’t think he would to the point that he would never rest.” Rarity said.

“Um… should we wake him up?” Fluttershy asked still sounding shy.

“Nah, he looks totally fine.” Rainbow Dash said like she wasn’t worried at all.

“I have to agree with Rainbow Dash. he’s had a long day getting used to having a new home, and I think we should just let him rest.” Twilight said.

Twilight and her friends all looked at each other. “We shouldn’t just leave him of the floor, though.” Rarity said.

“You should go back home. I’ll go bring him to bed.” Twilight said.

“Okay, I’ll see you some other time then, I guess.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Bye.” Pinkie Pie said.

“I’ll see ya later.” Applejack said.

I’ll see you later too.” Fluttershy said.

“Me also, have a nice rest of the night.” Rarity said.

All of the ponies walked out the door and left. Only Twilight was still there with Jack sleeping on the floor.

Twilight picked up Jack with her magic and put him on her back. She walked up the stairs carefully not wanting to wake him up. When she got upstairs she went over to her bed. She lifted up the blankets, placed him on the bed, and pulled them over him.

“Goodnight, Jack, have sweet dreams and sleep tight.” Twilight whispered as softly as she could.

Twilight went to the other side of the bed from where he was sleeping from and curled up next to him. “I don’t know when, but I promise that one day, you will be free.” She whispered. “But until then, I just hope that you’ll enjoy your life here.”

Twilight fell asleep almost immediately after that.