The Alicorn Who Knew Nothing

The Alicorn Who Knew Nothing

Chapter 8

Crash Landing

Ridge was blindly running around corridors, a sudden left here a right there; he had no idea where he was going.

‘Have to get away…have to…have to.’

Ridge was well past the point of panicking now; he didn’t care if anyone saw him now most of Canterlot had seen him earlier. As he turned one particular corner Ridge spotted two guard ponies facing the opposite direction and he immediately froze in his hooves.

‘Hide’ he thought quickly.

He snapped his head left and right looking for anything at all that could help him, seeing a door on his left he quickly yanked it open and jumped inside the dark space beyond. Ridge quickly flipped on the light switch inside the room he was in and he found out he had ran straight into the main castle library.

“Well there are definitely worse places to hide.” Ridge said to his ponyself.

Now that he had a moment to think to his ponyself he began to calm down and think of ways he could get out of the castle unnoticed. He trotted past several rows of bookshelves to indeed find he was alone inside the library. Ridge wondered if he had enough time, he could find a book with the same aura hiding spell that he and Circus had used to enchant the ring the other night. Quickly running back and forth through several rows of books, Ridge had grabbed anything that he thought would help him find an answer to recreating the spell. He levitated all of the books he had found in his amber magic and squirreled his way over to a faraway corner inside the large library.

After what seemed like hours to Ridge but only had been a few minutes he had finally found the spell Circus had modified. All he had left to do was enchant any item with the spell and he would be able to sneak away from the castle.

“What can I use with this?”  He asked to his ponyself.

Ridge started looking around the library for something that he could easily carry around on his body without it being obvious but there was absolutely nothing small enough that he could use with this spell.

“Oh no,no,no,no. There has to be something that will work!” He said his panic starting to rise.

Ridge decided that he would just have to use table cloth that was currently buried by his stack of books, so he ran back to his chair and lifted all the books up and away from the table in a flurry of magic. He sat in front of the table cloth and looked at the fabric hoping it could be the answer to his prayers right now.

“Well let’s just try it.”

Ridge gave one last glance around the library and then slowly lit up his horn with his magic. An amber field slowly covered the cloth and it slowly began to levitate away from the table. After a second of floating in his magic field the cloth finally settled back down to the table and with it a slight purple glow.

“YES!!! IT WORKED, I FINALLY FOUND SONETHING I CAN USE TO GET OUT OF HERE!!” Ridge positively exploded at having completed the spell.

“You could have just used this again you know.” He heard from behind him.

Ridge froze as a small golden ring came down from above him and as it bounced on the table it made a ring that would haunt his ears for all eternity. Ridge’s mind went utterly blank as he knew this was the end for him, his life was over. As the ring came to a stop in the middle of the table he turned around behind him and saw the face of the one person he did not want to see.

“C..Celestia..” Was all he could muster.

She just stood there in all her royal form, her sparkling mane ever blowing in a non-existent wind, her golden crown framed behind her long white horn, and her calm face just staring at Ridge.

“Anything you want to talk to me about Mr. Ridge?” She said in her calmest and most soothing voice.

“I..I..I..”

Ridge was lost his body just couldn’t think, he couldn’t move, he couldn’t do anything at all. After several minutes of just staring at the princess Ridge just collapse out of the seat and onto the …floor and curled into the fetal position and just began sobbing to his hooves.

“I…I’m sorry…Princess…Didn’t know….How….No…sorry…don’t hurt me”

Celestia’s face saddened at this and she slowly trotted over to the mess of a pony that was lying on the floor, she lay down beside him and draped one of her mighty wings over his back to assure him that he was in no danger.

“I would never hurt anypony, why would you believe that you would deserve something as horrible as that.” She said.

After Ridge had heard the reassuring words of Celestia, he began to calm down enough to where he could talk to her.

“B..But, I.. I have wings, t..that’s not supposed to happen.” He meekly stated.

“Yes I suppose that you having wings isn’t normal… but that is no reason to be upset this bad, Now is it?” Celestia said.

“N..No I guess not, but I thought you would have been mad at me for this.” Ridge Said.

“No my pony, there is no reason for me to be angry at something you couldn’t control now is it?

“No I guess n..not” Ridge said seeing that he should have just asked for help in the first place.

“But, I believe that this is not the whole truth, now is it?” celestia said raising an eyebrow.

“I…I…I guess I’m just….scared”

“Do what Ridge?”

“I said I’m just….Scared…is all.” Ridge said looking away from the princess’s face.

Celestia took her hoof and pulled Ridge’s face back in front of hers so she could look into his eyes as she spoke.

“My Little Pony, take my word for it and all it is worth, you shouldn’t be scared I promise to help you with this, ahem, situation any way I possibly can. Between me and my student’s help we can figure out what happened with your accident.”

“Student?...”

“Yes, my student, she is probably the most powerful unicorn in Equestria, if she can’t help you I doubt anypony can.” Stated celestia feeling a swell of pride in her chest thinking of her prodigy of a student.

“Well she sounds like a smart mare, what’s her name?” Ridge asked.

“Her name is Twilight Sparkle. Why do you ask?” Celestia asked puzzled.

Ridge’s mind came crashing to a halt wondering if such a coincidence could be possible.

“Tell me princess, is this her?”

Ridge reached around his neck and pulled the necklace up and over his head. As he opened the locket open he passed it to celestia who picked it up in her telekinetic magic, and brought it to her face.

“Yes this is her, may I ask how you came to possess this locket?” Celestia asked Ridge with a knowing smile.

“I found it in the same place as my accident, and since I can’t remember anything I figured if I could find her I could have some answers as to why I lost my memory. Plus find out how to fix this…” Ridge lifted his wings up for a moment for emphasis.

“I see…well why don’t you give me a moment to go get her, so you can meet her?” She asked.

Ridge froze at hearing this, and as she stood up she began trotting toward the exit but before she could walk out of the room Ridge had a question pop into his head he wanted to ask.

“Hey!” he yelled across the library to the princess before she could leave.

“Yes, what is it?” she asked turning back toward Ridge.

“You said I had an accident Right?”

“Yes…?”

“How did you know I had an accident before I told you?” Ridge asked.

Celestia’s eye twitched. After a moment to think about her answer she calmly stated

“Your Aura. When I first sensed it as you were falling your memories flashed in my mind’s eye, and I knew all you needed was help.” She said giving a genuine smile to comfort Ridge’s worries.

“Oh? I didn’t know that could happen?” he said surprised.

“Yes, now that you’re an alicorn you can sense these things too. After we get this sorted out if you want to stay this way I can teach you.” She asked with a serious tone that made a shiver run down Ridge’s spine.

“Trust me, after we sort this out I would prefer to go back to my old life.”

Celestia nodded and turned toward the main door of the library. After she had shut the door she muttered under her breath

“We shall see young one…”

As she closed the door to the library she turned around to see her sister come from a corner bathed in shadows, Luna trotted up to her sister with a smirk on her face.

“Thou ist the worst lair in all of Equestria Sister.”

Celestia glared at her sister, and after giving her a raspberry said

“Well I don’t want him finding out my plan for him yet now do I? Let’s just introduce Twilight to him, If I know her as well as I think I do she will view this as some sort of test. If experience has taught me anything as ruler of this country, these two will get along perfectly.”

“Very well, thou just needs to be careful with matters such as these.” Luna said following her sister down the hall.

“Yes…I know the consequences of failure in these situations.”

Celestia glanced out toward the main garden where she could see Discord sitting on a cotton candy cloud. She felt a pang of regret through her heart and picked up her pace down the hall.