In The Beginning Part 1
Chapter 2: Celestia's Past
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs Twilight Sparkle walks into Princess Celestia's dream, she takes witness of all the wonderful things that Celestia dreams about, Twilight was in Canterlot, witnessing princess Celestia in all of her glory and on the side, there was a huge parade in her honor, and almost everypony was there, including Twilight's friends. "Oh wow, this parade looks absolutely magnificent, even the princess looks radiant as usual." Twilight stood around to check out and enjoy the parade for only five minutes, then it was time for her to take a quick look around in her dreams, so far she didn't know where to start, then out of nowhere... there was a door, like the ones before, standing right in front of her. She approaches the door, then right before she was going to open the door, she felt so uneasy about this. Whether if she wanted to go on in or not... "Hmm, I'm not sure if I should do this... I could get in serious trouble for trespassing into her deeper subconscious..."
And then, as she opened the door and walk right inside, she starts to go farther down to subconscious, by heading down some stairs that takes her to straight to princess Celestia's childhood memories. Twilight was unaware of where she was going at first, but then... after going down the stairs, she finally sees another door straight ahead of her, and this door is the one that leads to Twilight Sparkle to princess Celestia's childhood memories, she opens the door and enters inside, so that she can witness what lies on the other side.
As she arrived, Twilight Sparkle wanted to know exactly where she was, she realizes that it was night time, but then she also realized that the stars on the sky were way to close. she was walking around to see where she was and hopefully find the princess real soon, then after taking another step, Twilight looks down and notices that she was on top of the Earth. She was shocked at first, realizing that she was way above the stars, then she tried to take a minute to get adjusted to the fact that she was high up in the stars, then as she turned around, she saw a huge palace right in front of her. And then, she sees another pony right on her left, a filly to be exact. This young filly was a white Alicorn, she had a colorful mane and tail, to Twilight she almost seemed familiar. So she went over there to talk to the pony that was there, then as Twilight starts to talk to the young filly, by telling her where she was at, however she didn't respond at all, then out of nowhere another pony showed up, and this one was much older and majestic looking. He was just a white earth pony, his mane and tail were golden, his mane was long and has a continuous flow, he had royal blue eyes and of course was strange enough about him, is that he doesn't have a cutie mark on him.
"Celestia. Ha ha ha. What are you doing out here, young one?"
Said the majestic white horse, and then young Celestia replied;
Oh, nothing really White Knight. Just sitting here watching the stars.
Afterwards, young Celestia and the White Knight went on back into the palace, leaving Twilight on the outside, but as they went inside, she went to go follow them. Then as Twilight was heading inside the palace, she wanted to know why Celestia couldn't answer her when she talked to her, she kept thinking and at the same time, she was entering inside the palace. When she got in, she took a good look at the inside the palace, it was breathtaking, Twilight Sparkle couldn't believe her eyes. The Palace was much more amazing than Princess Celestia's castle in Canterlot, well more of the same really, but the statues, the glass windows and the foyer... all of it was huge. Let's not forget there were two stairs that lead to the left and right, and straight ahead, was a door that leads to the rest of the Palace. While Twilight was so mesmerized at the Palace's interiors, she overhears White Knight's and young Celestia's conversations. So she went over to them to hear them up close, the White Knight wanted Celestia to go her room and keep an eye on Luna while she's asleep, but Celestia didn't want to stay, instead she wanted to go with him and explore the Earth. But White Knight didn't want Celestia to be apart of his journey into the Earth, mostly because her father; The Black Knight (Who is an Alicorn) will not approve of Celestia going to the Earth. Then she tells him;
"My father doesn't even leave his own room, he's always busy with his work, what makes you think that he'll notice I'm down there?"
And of course, the White Knight tells Celestia that if he did found out, he'll get upset and he also tells her;
"You must understand, Celestia. Your father cares about you and Luna both, he just doesn't want you to get into any trouble." then Celestia replies; "Well if he did care, then why doesn't he spend time with us? He's always spending time on his work than with us."
As she was saying that, she gives out a sad facial expression and rolls her eyes down to the left. Then the White Knight stopped her there;
"Now, Celestia. Don't say such a silly thing. Don't think that your father doesn't want to spend time with you. He does want to really, it's just that he can't find the time at all to do so."
After that, he also tells her that after his work, he'll go straight to Black Knight and tell him to start spending some time with his daughters. And so, White Knight tells Celestia to go back to her room and watch over Luna while he goes to the Earth to do some more research and discovering. However, Celestia tells the White Knight that she wanted to join him on his work down on the Earth, but White Knight kept telling her to stay put until he returns, but she was very persistent... as she tried to pull the cutest face ever in order to persuade the White Knight to reconsider. And after 10 seconds of fighting it, the White Knight gave in and told her that she can come and of course she had to bring baby Luna along for the ride. So now, the White Knight, young Celestia and Baby Luna set off on an adventure to the Earth to check out all the earth ponies, the unicorns and the Pegasi, and of course... there was also Twilight Sparkle who went to go follow them to see what they plan to do on the Earth.
Meanwhile, as they were leaving... right on top of the palace, was the Black Knight watching head down to the Earth. Afterwards, he went back inside the palace, into his private room where he does all of his work. While he was going through his old notes, he goes down to the dungeon grounds, to check in on the prisoners; Ponies who have gone corrupted with hatred and pure evil are all locked up in the Palace's dungeon, where they can't disrupt the peace and harmony, where they can't do any harm on the Earth. As Black Knight was doing his preliminary check up on the prisoners, one prisoner starts talking to the black Knight;
"My, my. If it isn't his majesty, Black Knight. It's been awhile since you came down here to check up on us prisoners. Tell me, what brings you down here on this lovely day?"
Then the Black Knight replies; "Be quiet, prisoner number 275. You will only speak when you are being spoken to, is that clear?"
Then the prisoner started to give him a glance with those red eyes of his, giving him a big smile, and then he said; "Transparently, my dear Black Knight."
This pony prisoner was starting to get on the Black Knight's nerves, but then the Black Knight starts to tell him something rather interesting;
"Prisoner #275, I have something to ask of you. What if I were to tell you that I can grant you your freedom?"
The Prisoner was a little surprised and baffled at what Black Knight just said to him, and then he tells him;
"Grant me, my freedom? Now, Black Knight, what's this all about?"
Afterwards, the Black Knight tells the prisoner that he would offer him freedom, if he swears his obedience to the Black Knight and therefore he would return to his post as the infamous trickster.
"Prisoner #275, how would you like to disrupt the peace with a little... chaos?"
Said the Black Knight and then the prisoner replied; "Oh, how long I've waited to hear those words."
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