Alicorn: The Lost Princess

The king paced nervously. This was an unusual behavior, but as his greed had grown she had also grown quite unusual. Since the decision to declare war, and the days following in which he planned his next moves, he had grown uneasy.

One thing was certain and the same, however. His dream of controlling all ponies in the land. And in controlling all the ponies he would have control over the weather and the agriculture. As well as the building force and the Air Force.

Two cloaked mares entered the meeting room, but they did not bow. Their faces were straight and serious. One a lavender and another a rich blue. Both were students at the institute, classmates of Twilight Sparkle.

It was evident that Twilight had fled, but despite his threats, it was clear he had bigger fish to fry.

“Greetings.” He said as he noticed their stillness. “I have summoned you both in secret.” The girls exchanged annoyed glances. “I need you to hunt down the pony known as Twilight Sparkle.” They shared another glance that began to itch at the king’s irritation. He cleared his throat. “She is a traitor to this nation and I do not have time for a military manhunt.”

They nodded, slowly, understanding his request. “And our reward for her capture?” The lavender mare asked.

“The price of two traitors.” The king declared. The corners of their mouths began to lift as devious smiles formed. “In the meantime, I will declare that any pony who brings me an Alicorn… dead or alive… will be rewarded the price of four.”

“So if we capture Sparkle and an Alicorn?” The second mare added.

“Six heads of gold.”

They showed their pleasure through grinning smiles. “We will not disappoint you, your majesty.”

Celestia flapped her wings heavily as she pressed towards Canterlot. She was aware how dangerous it would be to arrive in the city that had declared war on the world, but she needed to find the other Alicorns, and she would do whatever it took.

As she reached the base of the force field surround the city, she slowly fluttered to the ground. She wrapped the blue clock around her shoulders, concealing her wings. Just as she did so, she noticed two mares heading toward the edge of the city.

The cloaked mares met her, opening the force field and stepping through. “What are you doing out here?” One asked.

Celestia stammered. “Hey, who are you anyway?” The blue one asked. “I’ve never seen this mare in my life, Starlight.”

Starlight looked her over. “So what? You don’t know every pony.” She elbowed her partner. “Hey, you’re right I don’t recognize her either. What are you?”

Celestia twisted her hooves in the dirt. “I am homeschooled, grew up chronically ill so I couldn’t be around too many ponies.” Her lie was effortless, and she had no idea where it came from.

Starlight stood up straight and cleared her throat from the award situation they’d been put in. “Oh. Our apologies…” she said, using her magic to open a split into the force field for Celestia to enter.

Celestia made her way through the opening, thanking them as she went.

As the glowing orb surrounding the city of Canterlot closed it caught her cloak. Pulling it and revealing her true form.

The blue mare hopped excitedly, pointing as she did. “An Alicorn!” She shouted.

“Shut up, Trixie.” Starlight replied. Turning slowly in disbelief. Immediately she jumped to offense. “Oh my- what the-“ she shot a blast into the force field burrowing a hole into it as she did.

Celestia spun up and away from the blast. Her wings propelling her upward. As the two unicorns chased her on foot.

She retreated back out of the orb of protection, into the open air and toward the sun. Trixie bolted after her, throw a blast of smoke into the air, which entirely missed Celestia.

Pattering her wings, Celestia pulled away from the cloud. Trying to catch her breath. Without a moment to think the purple mare barreled toward her in a leap and blast of teleportation.

Starlight tossed her weight at Celestia, crashing into the flying mare. The pair wrestled psychically as they tumbled out of the air.

Acting quickly, Celestia used the spell of teleportation on herself. Disappearing entirely.

Starlight capsuled herself in a small ball of protection, fluttering gently back to the ground before she could be injured. “Where did she go?”

Trixies coughed from the smoke, “not sure, but she couldn’t have teleported too far.”

Starlight’s bubble burst as she growled. “She’s an Alicorn… their magic doesn’t work like ours.”

Trixie gasped for air as she shrugged.

Shining guided his family out into the field below Cloudsdale. The sun had just begun to raise, and the sound of the weather factory overwhelmed them. The city was much larger than they had ever anticipated. A city balancing entirely on clouds sounded so small in scale, but this cloud-top paradise sprawled out for miles over the grassy knoll. “She’s somewhere here.” He said finally.

“In the Pegasus city?” Their father asked, a sleeping baby dragon riding on his back.

Shining Armor nodded proudly. But his family was not as enthusiastic. “How did you say you met this supposed Alicorn mare?” Twilight asked, skeptically.

Shining began to blush, “happenstance?”

The collective shook their heads, knowing he must’ve gone outside the city. “Well, that doesn’t matter, the better question is: how are we going to get up there?” Their mother asked finally.

Shining scoffed, gesturing grandly at his newly-winged sister. It was as if it were obvious. Twilight stammered. “I can’t fly with these things!” She complained, stretching the wings out.

“Sure you can…” Shining insisted. “I don’t know, just flap them?”

Twilight began to flap her wings, awkwardly getting only inches off the ground. She folded her wings suddenly and landed firmly. “I have a better idea.”

In a large blast of golden light the white Alicorn appeared before them. Canterlot had been a bust, but perhaps Cloudsdale would be different. Everypony gathered around to gawk at the sight. An Alicorn had not been seen in 100 years, and despite the rumors of the last pair living deep within the everfree forest, many ponies had believed them extinct. Celestia flared her wings, giving herself a bit of space. “I’ve come to find another, like me.” Every pony awed and murmured, they hadn’t seen even one Alicorn in 100 years, let alone two. “Has any-pony seen such a mare?”

There was no reply. Celestia huffed in defeat, pushing past the crowd, but it began to follow her. Wondering what such a mythical creature could want, and what had lead her to suspect another Alicorn may even exist. How could she exist? It was all very impossible.

Twilight and Shining Armor floated along in their respective hovering bubbles. Down below, their parents, and a sleeping Spike, awaited their return. “Do you know where this mare even is?” Twilight asked as she floated along.

Shining gave a grimace. “Not exactly?” He laughed awkwardly. “She’s pink!” He said, looking around at a gaggle of shocked Pegasi. Many of which were some shade of pink.

Twilight groaned in exasperation. “Do you know her name?”

Shining clapped his hooves together. “That’s it! Hey, hey you!” He grabbed a timid pony about his sister’s age with a long, curled, pink mane. “Do you know any pony named Cadence?”

The yellow mare murmured a sound that was hardly audible.

Twilight floated over, brandishing her wings. “Can you speak up?” She asked politely.

The mare used her wings to cover her face, murmuring the same muted response.

“This is a matter of life and death!” Shining shouted urgently.

The mare shakily used one of her front legs to point toward the houses just past them. More precisely, she pointed toward the house with the heart-shaped glass window on the door.

“Thank you!” Twilight shouted. As they scampered away.

Cadence and her parents sat drinking tea, pretending as if all was normal. When the door began to shake from the knocking.

Cadence flew to the door instantly, peaking through the window, which was something she never would’ve been capable of before. Seeing the purple Alicorn accompanied by the man she had met just the day prior, she threw the door open. Doubly excited.

“Shining Armor? How did you find me here?!” She asked, but her tone implied the answer did not matter, she was clearly excited to see him.

Twilight put herself between them. “My name is Twilight Sparkle. I see you’ve met my brother, how wonderful.” Her tone however, held no excitement. “It’s is our duty to end the war and unify the kingdoms. Hooray. Now let’s go.”

Cadence dug in her heels, literally. “What? I’m not going anywhere.”

Shining sighed defeatedly. “I think you came on a little too strong…” he mumbled to his sister.

She huffed. “You don’t want to go save the world, I don’t want to have these clunky wings. We can’t always get what we want.”

Cadence took offense to that. “And you think I wanted this horn?” She grumbled, because, truly she was quite pleased with her metamorphosis. The horn, the stature, the figure. She was complaining for the sake of doing so.

Shining gently pushed his sister to the side. “Cadence, I know we just met, and I know you’re scared. But, you and Twilight might be our only chance at stopping the Unicorn King from taking over.”

Cadence counted with her hoof. “What are two mares going to do to stop a whole army?”

Twilight butted in once again. “Four, actually. We’ll have to find the other two to unlock our ultimate power… or something.”

Cadence gave them a confused glare. “Are you being serious?”

Twilight sighed. “Well that’s what The Great One told me.”

“The oracle unicorn?” Cadence interjected.

“Yeah- that’s the one.” Twilight replied.

Cadence hummed. “Well if it’s the only way to stop the Unicorn King… I guess I don’t really have much a choice…”

Twilight grabbed her hoof, “Fantastic! Pack a bag, we’ve got to move!”