The Tael of Tales.

by TheTimberWolffe

Rating: teen
Tags: Random, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other
Length: 1598

A compilation of short stories by TheTimberWolffe

This story is a compilation of short stories, all made by TheTimberWolffe in his spare time. It's rated teen because some of the stories will have some objectional content.

Published 2012-12-04 04:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-12-04 04:40:01 UTC

A short introduction to this book

Hey all! TheTimberWolffe here!
This book is meant as a sort of drain for me to get ideas out of my head and on to paper, or in this case, bytes of data. Anywho, I promise that I won't publish a story unless it's good enough in my own eyes, and yes, you can make a request. But there's gonna be a certain way that works. It'll go like this:
1 - You send me a request for a chapter in this story via PM, including the name you want it to be dedicated to and a line to start me off (i.e. "I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think.")
2 - I write you a paragraph and send it to you, to make sure it's going in the direction you want it to go
3 - I publish it with a title I see fitting, and you read it and be happy.

Okay, I'm going to go exercise these creative muscles in my face brain by playing some minecraft, but you lot enjoy the first story, which I thought up during my English Exam.

This is TimberWolffe, signing off!

Fear

Standard Disclaimer:
This work is not meant to, in any way, take claim for the characters or storyline included in this fanfiction. All characters and their personalities and appearances are works of Hasbro and Lauren Faust, all rights reserved.

I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. I had never been more scared in my entire life than I was at that moment. Everypony thinks that an immortal princess should have nothing to be afraid of, right? Well, immortality doesn't mean invulnerability.

It began about 200 years ago, if I'm honest with myself. Luna and I were happily walking through the castle, and all our little ponies were rebuilding after Discord's reign of terror. I'm not sure why, but all of the ponies were thanking me, and ignoring my sister. I'd told them to be thankful to her too, seeing as she's the one who actually came up with the idea to use the Elements of Harmony on him, but they were still all thanking me.

"Sister, why doth the citizens only thankest thee?" She had asked me. I wasn't quite sure how to respond, after all, it was actually pretty nice to be thanked for something we'd done.
"I'm not sure, dear sister. All I can tell you is that you are no less deserving of their thanks than Us."
"Then why, Celestia? Why don't they share the thanks equally? Surely there must be some other reason than 'Just because they don't'!?"

I should've known then that it was eating away at Luna, but I was so absorbed in my little ponies' praise that I instead chose to ignore her, to shut her out and lead the ponies in my own way, only asking her input out of politeness rather than to help rule a nation. This continued for centuries, until Luna finally noticed that her input was going unvalidated. She confronted me that night, saying that I was being selfish, being snobbish. In retrospect i was, but I suppose the limelight does that to you, doesn't it? Makes you see things your way and only your way. You get so absorbed in yourself you don't even notice that you're hurting the ones you love.

The worst part is, I didn't even feel a thing when she got so angry at me she literally transformed. I should've noticed, should've been scared. I should've been scared for Her, but I wasn't. I actually LAUGHED! Who does that!? Laughs at their most loved one in the world, the only one who they can console in because everypony else is scared that they might invoke your wrath!? Luna exploded in a fit of rage. Her voice changed, her mane and tail became un-tameable masses of stars, nebulae and planets. She flew out the window, swearing to me that she would return, and overthrow me. Promising to end my tyranny. I should've taken her seriously, should've seen the signs that this would happen, but I didn't. i just shrugged it off as sisterly jealousy.

She did, of course, return. And with the largest army I had ever seen. If I could've counted them all I have no doubt it would've numbered in the tens of thousands. Ponies, dragons, griffons, and even the occasional human, all with their weapons and skills, all there to take me down a few rungs on the proverbial ladder. Even when Luna promised me that she would let me live, keep being my sister. Promised me that if I surrendered the punishment would be minimal, I still ignored her. I called forth my own army, and battle was done.

I deeply regret that battle now, I lost over five thousand good ponies, and exterminated all the humans. I made griffon, dragon, ursa, scorpio and minotaur all but extinct, and I finally pushed my sister over the edge. And so there I was, cowering in fear and pain, bloodied and bruised in a corner of the castle that remains off-limits to anypony save for myself and Luna, when she returns. Luna stood over me, even after all the chaos and destruction I had caused in my own self-righteous crusade, still promising that I could stay with her, as her sister. I was so foolish then to think that banishment was the right way to end it all.

I had shakily gotten up to my hooves, crying, despite how happy I was inside that I saw a way to keep my rule over Equestria and stop my sister at the same time, with the same spell. I was crying and laughing, the sort of maniacal laugh something truly evil does when they're about to use their last resort. Charging my horn, I took a shaky step forwards.

"Oh Luna, dear Luna, when will you learn? The bigger sister ALWAYS gets what she wants, dear Luna. And what I want is to end this. You have spoken out against the ruling crown of Equestria, a crime punishable by banishment. Any last words, dear Luna? No? Well, I guess this is goodbye then."

Luna was looking at me, with tears in her eyes, but she wasn't sad, at least not that I could tell. In fact, she had a sort of bittersweet smile. I'll never forget the last words she said to me as I banished her to the moon for a millennium. She looked me straight in the eye, and said just three words. Three that are burned into my memory and that haunt me and will haunt me forever.

"I forgive you."

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And there we have it, the first short story in my series type thingy. I hope you liked it, and I promise that this one won't die like all the other stuff I mean to write. If you spotted any mistakes in the story, please for the love of Starswirl's beard let me know so I can fix them.

TimberWolffe, signing out.

Books

"BOOKS! I NEED MORE BOOKS!" Twilight yelled, as she ran around the Canterlot Library. Spike was chasing after her, apologizing to all the librarians and assistants as Twilight went on a knowledge rampage, tearing books off shelf after shelf, teleporting them into her pocket dimension where she kept her most prized possessions, including a checklist of all the checklists of checklists she'd ever made.

"Twilight! Stop! We already have plenty of books back in the treebrary! We don't need to invade Canterlot!" Spike yelled, Owlouiscious following close behind. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy stood there, mouths agape, watching the pony they know as Twilight Sparkle, prized student of Princess Celestia tear a library apart. Pinkie Pie, meanwhile, was playing in a mountain of books that an insane Sparkle had toppled moments before.

Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia was having a nice cup of tea with Princess Luna, when a royal guard came bursting through the door, causing Celestia to splash scalding hot tea all over her maid.
"eh, she'll live" Celestia stated, as the guard caught his breath. Turning to the guard, Celestia gave him a stone hard glare.
"What is the meaning of this interruption? Can you not see it is the Royal Tea break!?" she yelled at him.

The guard, falling to his face in a bow and apologizing profusely, breathed out what can only be described as a poor attempt at a warning of the cataclysmic destruction occurring in the library not a 10 minutes walk away.
"Twilight Sparkle...books...destruction...library" was all he could get out, before dying of exhaustion right there on the floor.
Celestia looked down at the guard in disgust.
"Ugh, how dare he die on the floor. Lock him in the dungeon." she said, before nodding to Luna. A motion which, to a normal pony, would have said "I'm going out for a bit", but to the Royal sisters, it said "I swear to Faust if that troublesome mare is tearing my library apart on some sort of rampage for books I'm sending her to the moon for a million years."

And so it was that Twilight Sparkle got sent to the moon for a million years and all her friends too, for not attempting to stop her. Owlouiscious was allowed to stay because he's a pretty cool owl, and Luna started having tea parties with the dead guard in their dungeon because she has no friends.

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I'm insane. Sue me.