The Two Brothers
Two months after Luna's return.
It was a normal cloudy afternoon in ponyville, the markets were filled with ponies selling, buying, and trading, but there were two ponies, pegasi in fact, that seemed to be very bored, inside a two-story cloud house on the edge of ponyville. These two brothers names are Aquais (pronounced A-qua-us),whose has a navy blue coat with an electric blue mane with a wave cutie-mark, and his brother Fergus(pronounced fear-gus),who has a white coat and mane of reversed fire(colors are flipped). The brothers have lived in ponyville for most of there lives. They used to live in Canterlot, because there father(a pegasus named Blitz shield) was a member of the royal gaurd, while there mother(a unicorn named Lemon scent) was a caretaker in the castle itself. Then one the day the brothers became adults, there parents died during Discord's chaos, so they left to ponyville to start anew, but they visit there parents every year. For right now though The two brothers had the day of from weather duty today, but had nothing to do.
"Well, we finally get a day of and we can't think of anything to do" Aquais complained.
"Yeah.........hey, want to go into the Everfree Forest like when we were colts?" asked Fergus.
"Sure, why not" Aquais said
After a ten minute flight from home and a challenge by Aquais to a race, the duo set down near the castle were Nightmare Moon was defeated, and began to explore the ruins.
After 30 minutes of looking around
"Hey bro I think I found something!" shouted Aquais
"What is it?" Fergus shouted back, while walking to Aquais
"It looks like a passage hidden behind a wall."Aquais said while standing next to a half collapsed wall revealing small tunnel.
"Were do you think it goes?" questioned Fergus
"Only one way to find out" stated Aquais
Into the passage the brothers went, and they walked for an hour, until there was a faint rainbow colored glow up ahead. The duo then came into a small cave, with what appeared to be rainbow colored runes on the floor(arranged in a circle, as though for a spell or ritual), and words on the walls (also glowing rainbow).
"What is this place?" asked Fergus
"I don't know, but lets be careful" said Aquais
They then proceeded to investigate the room, but when they both stepped inside the circle, the runes began to glow brighter. Then there was a blinding flash of light, that knocked Aquais and Fergus out cold.
2 hours later
Aquais Pov
"uuuhh, what happened?"I groaned, trying to get up and open my eyes. Once I did I started to panic and look for Fergus, I eventually found him, still out cold, near the entrance to the cave. The thing is, his is now an alicorn......... WAIT WHAT!!!!
"DUDE WAKE UP!" I shouted
"What? Its our day off, let me sleep" muttered Fergus, also causing me to facehoof
"We are still in the cave Fergus, and you got turned into an alicorn, so WAKE THE BUCK UP" I explained and nudged him with my snout, which was kind of difficult to do without poking him with my new horn.......wait horn? I stopped and reached a hoof to my forehead and sure enough there was a horn.I'M AN ALICORN TO? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I decided to continue to look around the cave for clues as to how/why we were turned into alicorns, since Fergus was still asleep. What I found would change me and my brother's lives forever.
Author's Note
This is my first story (as stated in the summary) so tell me what you think. like it? hate it? give advice? that is up to you.
Aquais' PoV
After looking around and reading the words on the walls of the cave I was able to Decipher something about a prophecy told 1100 years ago. When I did find the actual prophecy on the wall i was shocked at what it foretold. "when old enemies return and threaten the safety of the princesses, two brothers will emerge and...." I read aloud "It seems this is only half it, so were is the other half?" a groan behind me told me that Fergus is finally awake.
"What happened?" muttered Fergus
"A lot happened brother" I said while stepping into his line of sight, which caused him to go wide eyed
"Aquais!? Is that really you? Your A-" Fergus tried to say
"An alicorn, yes and so are you" I responded pointing a hoof at him, and then i proceeded to explain the situation to him and what I had discovered.
one explanation later
"Wow, what should we do?" asked Fergus
"Lets find the other half of the prophecy, but first we should probably head home and either move the house or hide our horns" I stated
"why not ask the princesses for help or advice?"
"Because this has never happened before and the population might over react, remember when Zecora come to town? The whole town freaked out."
"What if we ask to see the princesses alone,while hiding our horns til we are alone?"
"We could try, but first lets head home and get ready"
"Agreed"
So we headed home,which was easy considering that it was almost midnight, so no one was up and able to see us. Once home we got out disguises for the trip to Canterlot, me with a grey hooded cloak and Fergus with a silver colored fedora. We then left a note on the front door for our boss Rainbow Dash, saying that we had to go to Canterlot for business and that we are using some off my vacation time. man I really wanted the bonus for for having full vacation time. After that we went to bed, but quickly realized that we weren't that tired. I decided to read a book, while Fergus laid on the couch complaining about how bored he was. Then a thought struck me, why are we waiting for the morning, Luna has night court, we could go and request an audience right now.I facehoofed after I remembered that and the fact that Fergus facehoofed as well told me he realized the same thing. So we set of to Canterlot, with our disguises, to go ask for an audience with the royal princesses.
