The Alicorn Who Knew Nothing

The Alicorn Who Knew Nothing

Chapter 9

Half Past Twilight

“But Princessssss…pppplllleeeaaassseee tell me.” Twilight groaned.

“I’m sorry my student but this matter has to be discussed with all parties present. Now please wait until we get to the library.” Celestia said.

“Okay, but I still don’t understand why you can’t at least give me a hint as to what happened at the Circus. All of my friends are wanting to know about it.” Twilight begged.

Celestia rolled her eyes at her student's response; she always had resorted to begging whenever she had been denied information.

“Patience my student all will be revealed soon enough. Now what I have to tell you will not, and I emphasize NOT, be told to anypony else okay?” celestia asked.

“Y..Yes princess I Promise”

As they turned down the final corridor in front of the library celestia let a smile come across her face knowing full well that twilight would not keep that promise.

“Now twilight, this pony has been through a lot these past few months I want you to be nice to him, He is one of the most nervous ponies you could meet. But I think he will warm up to you eventually though twilight.”

They both stopped in front of a large wooden door that marked the entrance to the library, but before the princess had a chance to open the door twilight spoke up.

“Tell me princess, if I may ask, what happened to this pony? If what everypony saw out there was true, what would give a unicorn wings like that?”

Celestia sighed at hearing those words; she knew twilight would keep asking her questions until she got an answer. So before she opened the door she turned around to face twilight.

“Twilight, from what I can sense about this pony, he isn’t just a unicorn with wings, I believe that he is a true Alicorn.” Celestia said.

“B..But princess how can that be? Nopony has ever just became an Alicorn before.” She said with wide eyes.

“That is why you’re here my dear…” Celestia said and then turned around and opened the door to the library.

Ridge was sitting at the same table he had been sitting at for the past hour or so, he had lost all concept of time at this point. Her name was Twilight, and right now this purple mare occupied nearly all of his brain; who she was, what kind of pony she was, how she knew the princess, and how was she involved with his accident. He knew that he should just wait for the princess to return and he could ask her his ponyself but his mind would not leave him alone.

‘I just want everything to go back to normal’ he thought.

Ridge had no idea what constituted normal anymore, for all he knew this was his new normal and it scared him a little bit. Deciding that arguing with his brain was getting him nowhere Ridge decided to go back to the table he was at earlier and put the table cloth back in its original spot, but before he could lift the cloth off the table he saw a small circle of gold sitting on top of it.

“no way…” he gasped.

Lifting the ring up in a golden glow of magic Ridge thought about just going with his gut, putting it on and starting over again a new town, new friends he could even get a new saddle here in Canterlot. He thought about all the ponies he had come to know Circus, Martha, all the ponies from the circus, and even Dusty to an extent how his decision to run would affect him. Even if he was to run where could he go? A small town to live his days out as a coward, or would he stallion up and try to face his fears. As his mind did a double take on itself he began to wonder

‘what do I fear?’

For several agonizing moments Ridge sat there silently in thought, but try as he might his mind could only come up with only one answer to why he was even considering running away.

“Twilight Sparkle” he said to the floating ring.

Ridge pulled the locket from around his neck and brought it up to hover next to the ring. When he opened the locket with his magic he was greeted with the sight of the mare that was currently causing his so much duress, and he knew this was going to be no easy task.

"One or the other, which will it be Ridge." he said giving his ponyself an ultimatum.

Ridge stared between the two objects for what seemed like hours, and slowly thought about what each object would cause if he chose it. After finally making his choice Ridge silently sighed and closed the locket, then slowly lowered it back down around his neck where it belonged. Ridge then looked back up to where the ring was still silently floating in his telekinetic grasp. With one final encouragement from his mind that this was the right choice he began to push more magic into his horn. As the aura of magic surrounding the ring began to glow brighter, Ridge knew this was going to be harder than he thought. Putting a significant amount of his available energy toward the ring there was a small sharp sound that resounded around the library, he knew he was almost there. With one final push of his magic the ring was torn apart with a bright flash of released energy, after letting the two pieces fell back to the table he trotted up closer to be sure that he had done the job right. As he looked down at the now broken ring he saw that the small purple hue that indicated an enchantment was at work, began to fade away until all that was left was two half-moons of gold.

‘gone for good now…’

Now that he had made his decision he knew there was only one option left, and from what he could sense there were coming down the corridor now.

“I am doing the right thing aren’t I?”

Ridge quickly cleaned up all of the mess he had made from earlier and slowly trotted his way over to a table that was as far away from the door as he could possibly get, and as he took his seat he heard the door squeak open letting anypony know that someone was coming in. Before he was able to see whoever was coming in he heard a slight shuffle coming from directly above his head, quickly glancing upward he saw the fleeting shadow of something blue winking out of existence.

‘He ist all yours my dear sister’ Celestia heard inside her mind.

After hearing Luna’s confirmation that Ridge hadn’t left the library while she was gone, she and twilight trotted past the threshold and into the library.

“where is he?” asked twilight, not immediately seeing Ridge.

“He is toward the back of the library twilight. Shall we go introduce ourselves, hmm?” celestia asked.

Ridge had seen the pair make their way into the library. They both slowly and deliberately took their time making the journey to his table, to say that he was nervous would have been a great understatement. The only sounds he could make out was his heartbeat hammering in his ears and the slow clop of hooves on marble. As the trio came together, separated by a table, Ridge was unable to look away from the deep purple eyes of the mare in front of him. Only after few awkward seconds of silence, spared by the calm breathing from celestia she broke the ice.

“Hello Ridge I would like to introduce you to my personal student, Twilight Sparkle.” Celestia said motioning with her wing toward twilight.

“H..Hello, Miss Twilight.” Ridge said nervously.

“H..Hi..Um.. what’s your name?…I..If you don’t mind me asking that is.” Twilight stammered.

“M..my name’s Ridge…Miss”

“You can just call me twilight, you don’t have to be so formal” she said trying to hide her blushing face.

“O..Okay twilight.” Ridge said his face mirroring twilight’s.

Realizing that this was going nowhere fast celestia inwardly facehooved and decided to intervene for both of their sakes.

“Well now that introductions are out of the way, why don’t we get down to the real reason why you’re here twilight.”

Twilight’s eyes widened and her face instantly snapped toward the princess.

“I think you should be the one to help Ridge figure out how he turned into an alicorn, and do whatever you can to change him back into a normal pony.” She calmly stated.

Twilight’s jaw dropped when she heard the princess’s request, she didn’t know the first thing when it came to Alicorns or their magic.

“B..But Princess how can I do that!? You’re the person that should be doing this not me; you have much more experience with anything related to Alicorns than I do. What makes you think I can do a better job at this than you?” Twilight said flabbergasted.

“Because I am giving you more responsibility with this test, and it will also teach you alicorn magic that I myself don’t have time to teach you with all this new business in day court. Plus look as this as an opportunity to learn about friendships between the two of you.”

Twilight’s face softened at hearing her mentors words, she knew that the words she had spoken were true. Plus the prospect of learning something about a subject she had almost no idea of gave her a sense of excitement.

“I guess your right princess, but I wouldn’t even know where to begin with all this.”

Celestia moved around to the side of twilight and draped one of her wings over her back, and with her other wing she motioned to all of the bookshelves inside the library.

“This whole library is filled with thousands of books twilight, I’m sure that you can find what you need here.”

All of a sudden the door to the library burst open and one of the royal guard soldiers jumped in loudly.

“Princess the matter that you wanted me to warn you about is here!” he said loudly, then saluted the group present.

Celestia’s brow furrowed in frustration.

“Thank you guard, give us a moment. I will join you in the hallway in a moment.”

Turning back toward twilight and Ridge she looked between the pair and sighed.

“I’m sorry twilight but I have to deal with this matter. Will you two be fine by yourselves for a while?”

Twilight and Ridge shared an uneasy glance between themselves. But Ridge was the first to speak

“Yea princess I think we will be fine. Go ahead and deal with whatever it is that came up, me and twilight will get started with the research.”

Satisfied with his answer the sun goddess began to make her way toward the exit, but before she could leave a smirk graced across her lips and she thought to herself

‘Maybe this will work out after all’

As she left the library she closed the door behind herself sealing the purple unicorn and the yellow Alicorn together in the room.

“Right! Where do you want to start?” Beamed Ridge.

“Uhh? I guess we could start with the A’s?” Twilight said curiously to Ridge and his suddenly good mood.

And with that the pair began to make their way toward the back of the library.

Celestia stood outside the door listening to the two ponies conversing inside the library, as she had her head leaned against the door she was unable to hear her sister sneaking up behind her.

“SISTER! WHAT IST THO DOING!!!”

If Celestia could have jumped any higher she would have jumped through the ceiling.

“LUNA! Don’t do that to me you know I hate that!” she scolded.

“Ha. But tis better to see you jump like a filly.” Luna laughed.

Celestia rolled her eyes at her sisters antics.

“If you are quite done with that I must deal with an urgent matter that the guard has brought to me.

Luna’s face contorted into one of fear upon hearing that.

“WHAT! I..Is it discord again? Did King Sombra return, Griffon attack? Changelings!?”

“Calm my dear sister, it is nothing like that.”

Celestia calmly made her way over to the guard who had stormed into the library earlier. He currently was holding a small metal tray with a dome on top. She came to a stop in front of the guard and sat down on her haunches and gave a small nod to him to remove the dome.

“CAKE!!!” yelled Luna.

“Thou Got me worried to death over cake!?”

“Why yes Luna.”

Celestia then lifted the small pastry in her magic and brought it closer to her face.

“But this cake is special, it is made by pinkie pie. And you know how well she can make a cake.”

Celestia then proceed to put the entire cake into her mouth in one bite.

“Goif, you foulh try ut.” She said spitting cake in Luna’s direction.

“Gah, manners my dear sister, you have none.” Luna said and turned her nose in the air.

Celestia swallowed the cake in her mouth and after wiping her mouth with a napkin that appeared and disappeared into thin air.

“Anyway, did you talk to the two ponies from the circus?”

“Yes Tia I did, Thou musn’t worry they are waiting in thine royal throne room.” Luna said proudly.

“Good, thank you Luna, let’s go talk to them shall we.”

“But sister, what about thine student, twilight?”

“She’ll be fine, she has Ridge and books to keep her company. And if I know her like I do she won’t leave that library unless she’s forced.”

“Alright then, lead the way Tia.” Luna said using her wing in a sweeping motion allowing her sister to go first.

And with their conversation over both the sisters trotted down the hall toward the throne room.