The Alicorn Who Knew Nothing

The Alicorn Who Knew Nothing

Chapter 10

Dawn Of A New Day

“Anything twilight?”

“No, nothing in the M’s. You find anything?”

“Nothing we don’t already know. I’m getting tired, do you want to take a break and finish looking tomorrow?”

“No…let’s try and finish this tonight, come over here and help me look over this bookcase.”

Ridge slowly got up from the table he was currently sitting at and began to stretch out his sore limbs. The pair had been searching the library for most of the day; yet they were no closer to finding out how to change Ridge back to normal. As Ridge began to trot his way over to the bookcase twilight had indicated he noticed the state of the mare in question. Her mane was a disheveled mess, her eyes were bloodshot and she was starting to get careless with her sorting method. As Ridge came up next to twilight he just barely managed to avoid a book that was encased inside a purple glow from hitting him in the face.

“GAH! Twilight you’re doing it again, you need to take a break. It doesn’t do us any good to try and look through these books when you’re too tired to even look at them closely.”

“I am not too tired; now help me get these books down.”

“Twilight, your just throwing books around you’re not reading them. If you can tell me the title of the last book you looked at I will leave you alone, Okay?”

Ridge stared up at her purple eyes as she looked back into Ridge’s own green eyes. She held his gaze for only a moment before sighing and realizing he was right.

“Alright Ridge you win, let me just come down from here. I guess we can finish tomorrow, it is getting late.” Twilight said dejected.

Ridge rolled his eyes at her little pouting mood; he knew she was just sad because she had to leave the library.

“That’s the spirit twilight, now let’s get out of this dusty library and find the princess.” Ridge said with mock enthusiasm.

“Yea, whatever.” She said rolling her eyes.

As Twilight came down the ladder she decided to turn her attention to Ridge while he was walking toward her and while she was distracted her back hoof slipped off the final rung and she began to fall toward the ground. Ridge quickly grabbed her side before she hit the floor and he helped her get steady on her hooves before looking at her with a concerned face.

“hehe.., I guess I’m more tired than I thought,  maybe we should call it a day.” Twilight said turning her blushing face away.

After twilight’s incident they both started toward the door to the library, but before they could get there Ridge stopped and looked at the door. Twilight kept trotting for a little ways before she noticed Ridge had stopped, confused she turned back toward him and asked

“Why did you stop?”

“There’s someone behind the door, I don’t know who it is but I can sense them there watching us. Stay here for a second; I’m going to see who it is spying on us.”

Ridge slowly went over to the door and after looking back at twilight to make sure she was where he had left her. He quietly leaned his ear to the door and made sure everything was quiet on the other side. He turned back to twilight and with a devious smile began to count down.

“three…two…ONE!!!”

He quickly yanked the door open to reveal a very surprised pink mare who loudly gasped and then proceeded to fall flat on the floor right in front of his hooves.

“AH!” The pony quickly said back peddling into the hallway.

“Well…Hello, who are you?” Ridge asked the flustered mare.

“Cadence!!!” Came a loud voice from behind him.

In a flash Ridge saw a purple blur rocket past him and tackle this new pony to the ground in a rib crushing hug.

“Uhh…I take it you know her?” Ridge asked confused as to what just happened.

After twilight and Cadence separated from each other Ridge saw them do one of the weirdest secret hoof-shakes he had seen, not that he could remember any anyway.

“How’s my favorite sister-in-law doing?” Cadence asked twilight.

“Just fine, how are you doing Cadence?”

“Splendid, all the ponies in the crystal empire are being a bit fussy after a thousand years of banishment, but they are adjusting well.”

“Hello…Invisible over here!” Ridge said waving his legs in the air.

Both of the mares turned to look at him and both began to blush as they forgot about him.

“Uh…s..sorry Ridge, Cadence I would like you to meet Ridge Mountain. Ridge I would like to introduce you to princess Cadence.”

“P…Princess?”

“Yes, Ridge I am a princess. Or would you like to think of me as just another Alicorn?”

“Uh… H..How about Cadence?” Ridge said embarrassed.

“Well, now that introductions are out of the way, why don’t we go find Celestia? She’s probably in the dining hall right now getting ready for dinner.” Twilight said and began pushing both the ponies down the hall.

“Twilight!?...Wait!?” Ridge tried to protest, but his argument was stopped by his stomach by the guttural growl that it gave at the mention of food.

“I rest my case; now come on you two we can all get to know each other on the way.” Twilight stopped shoving Ridge as he began to trot down the hall.

Before Ridge had gone barely a hoof’s step he thought of a question.

“Sister-in-law? How Is that?”

“Oh…my brother is her husband.” Twilight said matter of factly.

“….” Ridge just stared back to the princess.

“So…Your brother is an alicorn also?”

“No..no..no he’s just a unicorn, but he is just captain of the guard is all.” Twilight said.

“ Captain of the guard…?”

“Yes, it’s something he’s wanted to do ever since he was just a baby colt.” Twilight said proudly.

“Yes, I remember all of those play fights you two used to have whenever I was foal sitting you twilight. He was so proud of that plastic sword.” Cadence said to twilight recalling one of the famous magic play fights the two had gotten into.

Ridge was trying to solve all this new information he had been given. Twilight’s brother, who was captain of the entire castle guard, was married to Cadence. Cadence was an Alicorn princess to a place called the Crystal Empire, and she used to be twilights foal sitter when she was young.

“I guess it’s a small world.” Ridge whispered to his ponyself.

“Do what Ridge?” Cadence asked.

Caught off guard Ridge fumbled with a response.

“Uh…what I asked was. Why were you sneaking behind the library door? I..If you don’t mind me asking that is.

Realizing that she had been caught the princess blushed and stammered for an answer.

“Uh..I..I had heard their was a new Alicorn in the castle and I was curious as to who it was.”

“Oh, well apparently word travels fast around here. But don’t worry as soon as me and twilight figure out how I became an Alicorn and how we can fix it I won’t be a bother to anyone else. I can go back to my normal life.”

Cadence quickly formed a frown on her face, but before either twilight or Ridge could notice she turned it into a soft smile.

‘Oh… I really thought I sensed something between you two earlier.’ She quickly thought to herself before deciding to talk to Celestia and Luna about it later.

“Well good luck to you Ridge. Now let’s hurry I’m starving.”

The rest of the trip to the Dining hall was filled with the three ponies learning new things about each other. The fact that twilight had an assistant surprised Ridge, yet the reason he wasn’t here with her in Canterlot made even less sense. He was too young to come here, but was old enough to be trusted alone bothered Ridge to no end. Ridge learned a great many things about twilight on that small trot, she was part of the elements of harmony, had lived in Canterlot when she was a filly, and even somehow rescued Luna from Nightmare moon. She even lived in a small town not far from here called Ponyville, that sounded familiar, but Ridge couldn’t place the town.

“So bbbff?” Ridge asked raising an eyebrow.

“Yea, Big Brother Best Friend Forever.” Twilight beamed.

“Wow, I’ve heard of close families, but that is crazy.”

Twilight again stuck her tongue at Ridge, which he quickly returned to her. The halls of the castle seemed to go on forever before finally Ridge was greeted with what he would call a giant space for a Dining Hall.

“Wow, this place is huge…” Ridge said Dumbstruck at just how big the space was.

“Yes, it is Ridge now come you two the head table waits for nopony.” Cadence said and quickly headed for the front of the room.

“Are you two sure you’re okay with this?” Celestia asked Circus and Martha.

“…A..Are you sure he will be happy here Princess?” Martha said looking down at the floor.

“Martha you have nothing to worry about, as long as he stays here in the castle all of his needs will be meet by the staff. All we want to do is get him back to his old self, and with the help of my student we will have that done in no time.”

Celestia hadn’t looked forward to this conversation; she knew they both would be upset about Ridge having to stay at the castle. But she couldn’t have risked an Alicorn roaming the streets by himself, it was just too much of a liability.

“You do understand why I can’t just allow Ridge to be out in the general public by his ponyself?” Celestia asked.

“But, what if he just uses his disguise again? Won’t that solve the problem, I mean if no one can see him with wings doesn’t that mean that he can stay in the circus?” Martha pleaded.

“Martha, Please…” Circus calmly asked.

Martha realized her pleading was pointless; Ridge was going to be staying here while they went on with the circus whether she liked it or not.

“Look Martha I know that you two were good friends but…”

“NO!... Circus you don’t understand he was the closest thing to a best friend I had. I don’t want him to stay here.” Martha yelled.

As soon as she had yelled those words she knew instantly that they were selfish and she broke down on the cold marble floor and began to sob.

Circus sighed and gentle sat his ponyself down next to her and draped a hoof over her shoulder to comfort her.

“Shhh…It’ll be alright Martha. No need to mess up that pretty face of yours with those ugly tears.”

“…Y..You think I’m what?” She said with wide eyes.

“Martha I think you’re very pretty…no I think you’re very beautiful, and I promise you that it will all work out just fine.” Ridge said quietly then placed a small kiss on top of her forehead.

Martha turned her head to try and hide the bright blush she had on her face.

“T..Thank you Circus.”

Celestia who had been watching quietly with a smile on her face chose to join in to the conversation again.

“Well I can see that you two are comfortable with this situation now. Will you two join us for dinner in the Dining hall? Afterwards you two can say your goodbyes to Ridge.”

Martha’s smile faded slightly but with Circus beside her she knew it wasn’t her place to get angry again.

“Yes, that would be lovely Princess we look forward to it. We just need to quickly visit the garden so we can tell the other ponies to begin packing up the carts.” Circus added for Martha who chose to remain quiet.

“No need, I already sent some of the guards to help with that. If you two will follow me I will take you two to the Dining hall.”

Celestia then began to trot toward the exit of the throne room only to have Martha stop her by asking a question.

“Celestia, may I ask who is helping Ridge turn back to normal?”

“My students name is Twilight Sparkle, she and Ridge are already waiting for us in the dining hall by now.” Celestia said and then gestured with her wing to the main hallway.

“…her!?...” Martha asked quickly getting to her hooves and then quickly heading for the exit.

Circus just stared at the spot Martha had just recently vacated dumbstruck at how quickly she could move. Quickly realizing he was being left behind he scrambled to his hooves trying to catch up two the two ponies.

“WAIT UP YOU TWO…”