Chapters Prologue: Not Much of a Choice
I was sitting outside of Tim Hortons drinking a medium sized coffee two creams one sugar. Which is ALWAYS my fav. My magenta beats by dre covered my ears. It was well past midnight but I didn't care. It's not often I can sneak out. The stars, who am I kidding the only thing I could see in the sky was a full moon and flashing lights of a passing plane. The sky had a dark purple blue to it. I guess it would have been kind of pretty if it wasn't for the super thin wall of gas exhaust blocking the view. I adjusted my back to the lumpy brick. Closing my MacBook Pro, yes I actually have that damn expensive laptop, I decided to take in my surroundings. The crickets kept up a steady chirping. My black female lab mix lied at my feet. It was because of her that I wasn't sitting inside. I guess it was okay though. At least she protected me from the outside dangers, even though I could be equally safe inside…without her. Ugh, who cares, she's my best friend so moving on with my life.
Where I live, a sex offender lies at every street corner. I'm a crazy bitch, I kept a Diver's knife, Swiss Army Pocket Knife, and my butterfly knife. Which I'm pretty sure it was illegal to carry all that on me. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's not like I use them for dangerous purposes…most of the time. I just need my knives for self defense and I guess survival. Which I don't know when I would need it for survival, since I'm usually stuck at home.
Anyways, my dog's purple collar shifted, making the silver ribbon that I twirled onto her collar glint in the moonlight. My dog's light brown eyes traveled quickly towards the door. I looked over to where she was looking. Zoe, the worker from Tim Hortons, looked at me with her dark brown eyes, she was pretty chill. I never took the time to know her. I bet she would make a great friend though. She motioned to my dog and then at me and then at the door. I lowered my headphones automatically understanding what she meant, "Thanks"
"Yea no problem. No use in you being out here with the bad guys."
Her black ponytail whipped around as she walked back inside. I got up and cracked my spine, elbows and knees. Now that felt satisfying. I looked down at Malishka. She stretched her back muscles and then her leg muscles. A regular routine for her. Anyways, I opened the door, Malishka hesitantly walked in. Zoe was back behind the counter. "Aren't you gonna get in trouble for letting my dog in?"
She smirked, "No one comes at this time of night besides you. Plus, it's not like your dog is running around terrorizing the place." That was true, my dog was pretty chill. What can I say, like owner, like dog.
I chose my favorite corner spot, because no one can see what I was doing on my laptop, more importantly they couldn't sneak up on me. I opened my laptop, put my headphones back on and resumed what I was watching. Yep, my deep dark secret, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. If anyone discovered that I watched a "baby" show, my reputation would be ruined. I'm not the most popular kid but everyone knows me…and LOVES me. Well, not EVERYBODY loves me. I'm still pretty chill and have a laid-back personality. I do have a quick temper ok well a really big temper. It doesn't show all the time though.
Alright, description time. I am tall, slim body, brown, gold, dark brown hair, and changing color green eyes. No I do not dye my hair, the sun does. I have natural gold highlights. They are small but they are noticeable. The top of my head is generally dark brown and then it fades down to a light reddish brown. I love my eyes. Sometimes they're dark green, sometimes blue green and heck they turn a bit pale at times. It's never a BIG difference though. They will turn pretty much any other eye color, as long as dark green is in the mix.
Getting back to my story, the night was pretty peaceful. At the moment I was re watching one my favorite episodes, The Return of Harmony part II. It was nearing the end, Discord just got turned into stone. At that precise moment someone clears their throat, uncomfortably loudly. I paused the episode, lowered my headphones to my neck and looked around and notice a guy in his late 40 smiling at me from across the table with his chin in his hands. "Creep" I mutter under my breath. In a louder voice I ask him, "May I help you?" The creep's smile grew wider as his teeth started showing. One front tooth was a bit longer then the rest of his teeth. Wow if it wasn't for that tooth I could swear he had the perfect canine grin. He leaned back in his chair. He kind of reminded me of Lord Darkwood from Sherlock Holmes. Except his hair was black and gray and he had a pointy beard. His hair was slicked back and longer then Lord Darkwood's. His clothes were nice, sarcasm people sarcasm, he looked like he just came back from a fancy professor party. A dark tan suit with a white dress shirt and a red tie. A brown fedora, like the Mafia wears, was on his head and a symbol that looked like a little bird rested on the hat. "You know," he started talking, great just what I needed. "I like humans. They cause so much," he paused, "chaos," allowing himself to put a toothy grin.
It took me a few moments to realize what happened. I don't know what creeped me out more, him sitting there talking with a 15 year old chic or that he sounded like Discord and was saying something Discord would say.
Ok back up here, the story Griffin the Griffin can't be a true story, can it? I know it's ONE of my most favorite fanfic stories but still it can't be based on a true story. I closed my eyes, all of a sudden my ears zeroed in on the crickets chirping outside in the hot summer night. The cool breeze in Tim Hortons was relaxing. I opened my eyes but he was still there. Shizniks, this wasn't a weird dream. I let out a heavy sigh, fully closed my laptop, and put it into my back pack. I was not in a good mood anymore. I put my hands into my magenta hoodie and felt my pocket knife in there. Perfect, I got a somewhat helpful self defense....just in case this guy was crazy. All these thoughts passed in my head in about a few seconds. I observed many things around me but sometimes it took awhile when I'm a wee bit tired.
My green eyes darkened, "What do you want". I was in not in a good mood since this guy ruined my MLP FIM show time. "Well you see, I don't think you are happy with your life right now. Not enough chaos or fun stuff like that," he raised his thick, bushy eyebrow. Creep much? "Well didn't you just say that humans cause chaos."
"Yes I did say that, but are you the one causing any of it?"
"No and I don't wish to cause chaos across Earth like you did to Equestria, and I am PERFECTLY happy with my life" I said in a harsh whisper. His eyes narrowed and he leaned forward in surprising speed. He put a long, sharp nail under my chin and lifted it to his eye level. I glanced down at my dog with my eyes. She was frozen? FFFFFFFFFFFF he could freeze time. "Listen here child, I understand you have figured out very quickly who I am and why I'm here, but that doesn't give you an upper hand in the game," two cards appeared in my hand. A black Ace of Spades and a Red Queen of Hearts. Which didn't really make much sense to me. "You're just some old weirdo, that makes everyone else feel like crap just because YOU don't have any friends."
"I don't need to hear you talk nonsense. I assure you that I have plenty of friends."
"I thought you liked nonsense, and name one" He lowered back into his seat and gave a fake smile. I can clearly see the anger in his eyes though. "Look, I'm offering you a chance of a lifetime. To be someone important." I narrowed my eyes at him and folded my arms across my chest, "No."
"Well I'm not giving you much of a choice anyways. Look it's either the Ace of Spades or the Queen of Hearts. Your choice," he looked down at Malishka as the Ace of Spades poofed into his hand and was pointed toward her. At that moment I remembered what Ace of Spades symbolized. I looked down at my best friend. "I'll go if I can take her with me."
"Deal," he smiled slyly and snapped his fingers.
Author's Note
Sorry for for the Prologue being so short. I promise the next chapter will be long. Also, this is my first fanfic, but by all means please do criticize. Also, I know bad grammar and spelling. Big whoop, it's not gonna kill somebody. Yes, this prologue pretty much sums up my life, except for my dog and I going into Tim Hortons, and I made up the character, and I don't get to meet Discord and go into MLP FIM ...although that would be awesome. I don't doubt that there is a Zoe working in a Tim Hortons somewhere haha. Anyways I hope some people will read this and like it.
Chapter 1: A Morning of Surprises
Strong winds whistled around me, rain pounded a fast and steady beat unto the ground. I shivered and tried to feel around for a blanket. Instead I cut myself on something VERY sharp. I opened my eyes, and I was just more confused. In front of me were black mirrors with a purple and silver tips. As usual, I needed to know what they were. I poked at them and nothing happened. They felt cool and ice smooth. I looked into the mirror and noticed that my hair was messy, and I looked more…animated? WTF mate? I poked some more, forgetting all about my cut. All of a sudden I heard a grunt and the mirrors shifted. I jumped back and discovered that those weren't mirrors. Those were scales, GIANT scales that belonged to a dragon. Not just any dragon, but a total rad dragon that looked fierce and undoubtedly furious. I looked behind me, hoping to be able to escape. Instead there were many trees with very dark moss. Their branches reached up high and tangled at the tops. Vines thickly covering any free space. I looked back at the dragon and then back at the trees. I finally decided that the dragon would have eaten me by now, if it knew I was here. I decided to do everything against what I believed in and went up to the dragon and nudged its head. I noticed that I was wearing some kind of magenta mitten with a light green tip. I looked down and my brain paused, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! OH MY GOODNESS I'M A FUCKIN HORSE! I HAVE HOOVES, I'M ABNORMALLY COLORED!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!" I didn't notice that the dragon was awoken by my screams. Out of no where I felt a solid object cover my mouth. I looked down and saw that it was a black claw. I slowly drew my eyes upward, awe shiznicks. The dragon was looking at me with an angry expression. "Will you shut up already," it growled. I nodded my head, to scared to refuse. It released my mouth from its claw. "What the FUCK is happening?" I admit was starting to get really scared. I wasn't a human anymore and I was talking to a dragon. I mean like seriously? Did I not just look into its scales and see a human version of me? Animated, but human. I looked up at the dragon. She was looking off into the distance. Hesitantly, I touched the dragon..with my hoof. It looked down at me and let out a heavy sigh. "Discord happened. He brought us here. We are in the Everfree but we must go to the Dragonlands and then Aussaddle Castle. It is not safe for us here."
"Wait..what are you talked about we, and Dragonlands, Everfree, Aussaddle Castle, and what did Discord do?"
"Dragonlands is where I was born, I have my own cave there, and the Everfree is dangerous for a dragon because everything is so crowded. Aussaddle is where your sister, Queen Ivy Dawn is waiting for you. We are in Equestria, but we must go to Dragonlands which is also in the land of Aussaddle," I was starting to get confused. Like REAl confused. "Discord brought us here because you are a princess and I am your guardian. We have to help your failing country and help out at the Dominion."
"Aussaddle? Like Australia? How am I a princess, why are you my guardian? Since when did I have sister, much less a royal sister? When you say Dominion, do you mean like from Griffin the Griffin? With all those slave miners? You also didn't answer my first question."
"Malishka, I am Malishka," she tried to continue but I was not going to let her. "WAIT! As in Malishka, a medium sized Black Lab/ Australian Shepherd mix? As in MY dog Malishka?"
"I thought they were fine," I crossed my arms and looked away.
"Anyways, I am known as Alexandria, and my nickname is Silent Death Flight. I am feared, because I am mostly black dragon. Bim is Spyro and Charrik is Shadow. Spyro is a purple dragon, he is very wise and old. Shadow is the most fierce dragon. Most BLACK dragons even fear him, and black dragons are the toughest dragons that come. They are also your guardians, although Spyro would make a better advise then a warrior now. Now moving onto your next question. Yes, there is only one Dominion, but many places like the Dominion. We must save them." I looked over at my dog/guardian/dragon with wide eyes. I was only sixteen and she expected me to take on princess responsibilities along with saving the world? I can't do this, I'm only a kid. Well teen, BUT STILL! "How am I supposed to save the world, and be a princess, and how am I supposed to do all this without knowing magic and stuff?"
"Simple," she rose up to full height, which was like my two story house, "you use the power of music." Underneath her was my black bag, nice and dry. I REALLY wanted to get out of the rain. It was ice cold, and I did not like it one bit. I hesitantly walked towards my bag. I reached it and tried opening it. These damn hooves don't allow me to do anything. I looked up at Mish…urmm Alexandria hopelessly. She sighed and rolled her eyes, "You know what? Just hop unto my back. We'll take care of everything back at the castle." I laughed nervously as I clumsily climbed unto her back. I went more towards the neck, I wasn't about to mess up her flying. I felt us slowly rising up in the air. The only place I looked was down. The abundance of trees was overwhelmingly beautiful. Soon we were above the clouds and drying in the hidden warm sun. I decided to make chit chat with my ah guardian. "So..what made you decided to become my guardian?"
"To feel needed and to prove wrong to the ponies who think of all dragons as enemies."
"Good answer…I think. Umm…why am I coming to Aussaddle now. Why not sooner or later?"
"Because Twilight Sparkle of Canterlot is becoming an alicorn, a princess."
"Really? That's awesome! That doesn't really tell me why I have come now."
"There is a prophecy about you returning when a student of Princess Celestia's becomes a princess. You can read it once we are back at the castle, and there is actually quite a few prophecies." I looked down below us. There were only a few clouds but beyond them was mostly pointed mountains. "So while we a here, does that mean that you are gonna stay with me for awhile?"
"Yes, like I said, I am your guardian."
"Can you tell me a bit about Aussaddle?"
"Sure. It has almost the same history of Australia. Thing is though, there is a famine there because Diamond Dogs keep stealing our food, to give to the slaves. Also, without an official Dawn or Dusk here and the sun controlling itself, well we can not measure time or season. It's hard to know when to plant our crops, when to water them. It's just a whole clump of a mess."
"Doesn't Princess Celestia raise the sun though?"
"Yes, but she does not raise the Aussaddle sun. This world is quite large, around the same size as the Earth sun. So we have two suns and three moons. Princess Celestia can not control both suns unless both royals of Aussaddle are within this world."
"Who or what are the royals?"
"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are known as the Royals of Equestria. Queen Ivy Dawn and you, Princess Cara Dusk, are known as the Royals of Aussaddle."
"Why is Ivy Dawn a queen?"
"We were unsure of your return. She had to take the title of Queen Ivy Dawn. She was also supposed to find a student to replace you, but she has not found a student worthy yet."
"Why was my return, um an unsure one?"
"You were sent to the human world. It is easy to send ponies there, but in order to get them back, well Discord would be our only hope."
"I do recall it being him that talked to me at the cafe. Why was I sent away?"
"Did I leave anybo…any pony behind that was special?"
"Three, you left three behind."
"Who?"
"Well your sister, then there is your husband, and your foal."
"I-I-I had a husband…and a foal!?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was in such shock. "But, I'm only sixteen. How could I have possibly have had a husband and foal?"
"Sixteen in the human world, three thousand years old here."
"WHAT?!? I'M THAT OLD?!?"
"That's counted young for an immortal like you." Quick, had to change the subject. This was way to freaky. "So um, why is it when I look into your scales, I can see my human self?" I swear I think my dog/dragon let out a fire of relief. "Well when a dragon has certain types of dragons in her lineage, it causes their scales to show the true being of the one who looks into them."
"Then why was I a human when I looked into your scales?"
"Once a pony goes into the human world, their true being becomes a human. We have no idea why. After sometime in Equas, this world, you should have your true being shown as an alicorn." I sat in shock. I looked down at the ground again. I let my mind wander. It does that a lot when I have to much to think about. Oh hey, I'm dry again, and really warm. I looked down and the mountains I saw before have turned into these giant plains and we reached a large body of water. I could only take that as a guess for the Ocean. "Where are we now?"
"Leaving the west coast of Equestria. We should be at the Castlegrounds in around two hours.
Author's Note
Sorry the part where it's majorly spaced. I don't know how to fix that lol
Chapter 2: The Aussaddle Castle
A deep purple alicorn with a flowing dull gold/ pale green mane and tail trotted nervously in circles. Her gold eyes filled with worry. "Ivy, what are you so nervous about," asked a silver and gray alicorn stallion with a typical Aussaddle accent. "What do you mean what am I worried about? Princess Celestia is making Twilight Sparkle a princess, an ALICORN princess!"
"I still don't see what the problem is. If Tia wants to make Ms. Sparkle an alicorn, then let her make her an alicorn" the stallion bit into his apple, and shook his head, which caused his electric blue and dark blonde shaggy mane to swoosh around. The purple alicorn, a.k.a Queen Ivy Dawn, stopped right infront of the only other alicorn in the room. "I can't believe you don't remember the prophecy. Since she was YOUR Sheila," Ivy growled.
"Look I know what the prophecy says, I just don't think it's gonna come true, mate. Dusk won't be able to come back after all these years. She wasn't placed on the moon, she was placed in the human world. Unless Discord pranced over there and brought her here, well I don't see how she can come back. You know he's the only link between the universes," the stallion looked down and slowly bit into his apple.
"Boomerang," Ivy paused, "he was released a little while ago. He's probably back to his own tricks." The stallion, apparently known as Boomerang, spit out his apple onto the Queen of Aussaddle. "So, so there is a chance that the prophecy is true?"
"Yes," the alicorn queen stood up tall and looked down at her fellow friend. Her eyes started burning bright as she started reciting, "With the sun and moon in sync, the stars shall join them, and the dawn and dusk shall be themselves again." Boomerang looked down with surprise filled eyes. "I-I-I have to g-g-go," he stuttered. He galloped away, leaving an echo in the throne room. Ivy shook her head and her eyes became normal again. "Boomer? Whatever, he'll be fine…if Dusk comes back.... Anyways I have to write a letter to Tia." She looked around the glass throne room, "BUNDY!" The door opened and a small sand colored earth pony opened the door. A quill and lily flower as her cutie mark. "Yes Ivy?" The queen looked at her with soft eyes, "I need you to take a letter for me."
"Of course milady."
"Dear Princess Celestia,
I; Queen Ivy Dawn of Aussadle, my sister; Princess Cara Dusk of Australia, and Prince Electric Boomerang Storm of Aussaddle, will join you and your sister; Princess Luna, tomorrow, at Ms. Twilight Sparkle's Princess Coronation. We would like to know weather or not to come in our true form or in a disguise.
Your Fellow Aussaddlian,
Queen Ivy Dawn of Aussaddle"
"Please send this to the Royal Castle in Canterlot….immediatly," Ivy commanded.
"Yes, m-m-m-m-i majesty," stuttered the earth pony. She turned around and ran towards the dragon chamber."
"Now I just hope the prophecy comes true and Dusk should be here by morning…I hope," muttered the Queen to herself.
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2-3 Hours later Since Princess Cara Dusk and Alexandria have left the West Coast of Equestria.
"Are we there yet?" I was starting to get bored of being flown. "Yes, it's right in front of us actually."
"WHAT?!?" I looked in front of me, it was the most breathtaking castle ever. It was made up of, what looked to be Stock and Large Glass Windows. "This looks much more gorgeous then the Canterlot Castle in the show."
"That's because you had a lot to do with the design."
"Really?"
"Yes, you always said that the view of the outside inspired your music, and a good inspiration it was. Your music was usually very beautiful. In fact, you could make things happen with your music. For example: sicknesses, evil, make weapons, bring happiness, or even make a pony feel such depression that they could kill themselves. That's only a few things that your music did."
"Wow," I whispered. "Anyways, get ready for landing."
"Wait, where are all the houses and neighborhoods."
"This castle was made in order to be separated from all the subjects. It protected the civilians from harm that was meant for the castle."
"That was a smart idea."
"Correction, your smart idea."
"Oh." My ears shot with pain and surprise as Alexandria yelled. "Alexandria, Guardian of Princess Cara Dusk, is now landing. Please move from the Dragon Landing Station." I looked below, a group of sandy colored guards moved from a huge circle. Alexandria landed softly. I saw a purple alicorn walk out of the castle. Her eyes grew bigger then saucers. A tan pony ran up behind her, and tapped her on the shoulder. She quickly looked down and grabbed something from the little pony. It seemed to be some kind of paper. She nodded her head and said something to the pony. The pony ran off. The alicorn walked towards me. Bright red shoes, like Princess Celestia's, adjourned her hooves. A bright red warrior breast plate covered her chest and a gold tiara with rubies and emeralds sat on behind her sharp, spiraled horn. I slid off my guardian and landed on my back in pain. "Ow." The alicorn was standing next to me and she looked down at me. A smirk covered her face. "And to think they called you graceful," she chuckled and pulled me up into a warm hug. "Welcome home sister."
Chapter 3: Prepearations
I sat in the castle's salon. I was having my hooves cleaned and polished. My mane was being being washed and fixed. My wings now invisible and I have shrunk in size. Now you are probably wondering what happened. Well, turns out we are going to Twilight's Coronation, and we had to have a disguise. I was disguised as a unicorn, my sister was an earth pony and an familiar looking alicorn stallion was going as a pegasus. We are supposed to leave in an hour, well I should be ready by then. Anyways let me tell you what went down, besides me when I fell off Alexandria.
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I slid off my guardian and landed on my back in pain. "Ow." The alicorn was standing next to me and she looked down at me. A smirk covered her face. "And to think they called you graceful," she chuckled and pulled me up into a warm hug. "Welcome home sister."
"Umm...Thanks?" To be truthful, I didn't know what to do. As a kid I was awkward, and now I'm meeting my long lost sister, in my long lost land. So...extra awkwardness...yay. She let go of me and looked over at Alexandria, "Thank you my dear friend. Go to the Dragon Spa now, they must get you washed, brushed, waxed and polished. We have a coronation to get to."
"Yes, my queen," said my guardian as she bowed her head, a smile played on her lips. Free spa trip for her I guess. "Now you and I have to go to the castle and get ourselves disguised and tidied up. "Disguised?"
"Yes, yesterday I received a letter from Princess Celestia, we have been invited to Twilight's Princess Coronation. We have to be disguised though so that no pony knows that we to, are alicorns."
"What about Alexandria...shouldn't she be disguised? I'm pretty sure a lot of ponies will freak out once they see a giant black dragon coming towards them."
"I do agree, and she will be disguised as a black wolf. Not a timber wolf, but an adorable small wolf. " We started walking towards the castle. "You will be put in your usual disguise. In fact, all of us will be."
"What is our usual disguises?"
"Well I'm usually an earth pony, you are usually a unicorn, and Prince Electric Boomerang Storm is usually a pegasus."
"Why do we have those types of disguises?"
"Well, you are thought to be a famous DJ in Equestria, so you need a horn. I am a widely known earth pony who owns the biggest wool industry in Equas, and Boomerang is a pegasus because he is the main controller of whether in Equas."
"Wow, so we're all famous either way."
"Yes, but no pony knowns that we are alicorns, or royalty."
"Ah, I see. Sister.."
"Just call me Ivy."
"Alright, well Ivy, how long was I gone?" She looked crestfallen and whispered, "Two thousand years. A VERY long two thousand years."
"Wow," I whispered, "So Aussaddle has been in a famine for two thousand years?"
"Yea pretty much. How did you know about the famine?"
"Alexandria."
"Well that makes sense. Anyways here we are." I was confused, we were standing in front of two doors that most likely led to the spa. I guess I was to busy to notice that we were inside the castle already. Two guards stood at the entrance. "Well lets go and get pretty," smiled Ivy. We walked in and the first thing I saw was a giant mirror. I had an Aloe and Lotus style mane. The band was light blue and my mane was light green. Both very dirty in fact I had mud streaks going down everywhere on my body. Anyways, my body was a processed magenta color and the tips of my hooves are light green and so was my muzzle. A sharp spiral horn sat upon my forehead. I turned to the side, my wings were process magenta also but had light green tips. My tail was mostly light green but had a giant light blue streak in the middle. I decided that for a cartoon pony, I was pretty damn sexy looking. I looked at my eyes and they were light green. I was really hoping that my eyes wouldn't have changed. "Are you done checking yourself out?"
"Um, yea I think so," I smiled sheepishly. "Good, now wait a second." Her horn had a gold aurora to it and I started feeling a bit funky. "All done," she smiled. I looked in the mirror again. I was much shorter and I was missing my wings. "That's cool, but I like myself better as an alicorn."
"I do to Cara, but we must." A gold aurora covered her body and her horn and wings slowly grew invisible and she also shrunk. Her horn stopped glowing. Her mane was were now curly and puffy. It looked really girly. She smiled and said, "Come on." She pulled my hoof and she put me in a seat, and sat next to me. Now close your eyes and let the mares and fillies here do all the work." And that brings us to where I left off in the beginning. "So Ivy, can you tell me about my husband and foal?" She let out a heavy sigh. "I really wish Alexandria didn't tell you about that. Can I tell you after the coronation?" I paused to think about it. Well I might as well wait, I wouldn't want to ruin the coronation with whatever emotion I was going to be feeling. "So um, will my eyes ever be the same color as they were on Earth?"
"Yes, they will get there eventually. Same with your mane and tail. They will soon be flowing like mine and Princess Celestia's and Princess Luna's."
"That's good that's good. So what is my job around here now?"
"Well you will be in charge of both suns from 5:00 PM until 11:00 PM. Also, while I watch after the kingdom, you will take a group of solders and start rescuing ponies from the mines in Aussaddle. That should only take you around one year...at the most. From there on you will go into Equestria and go to the Dominion and help around there. Sound alright with you?"
"A bit much, but how am I supposed to do all that? I will have no idea what to do. Plus I don't know how to use magic."
"It will take only around a month for you to relearn magic, plus a lot of your magic will flow through your music. You'll be fine. I know you will."
"Who's going to teach me magic?"
"Well, I'll be to busy to be able to teach you. Thats why Boomerang is going to teach you."
"Who's Boomerang?"
"The Prince of Aussaddle. He's a good friend of ours and has turned into an alicorn. Not even he knows how it happened, turning into an alicorn I mean."
"And we are done," a mare next to me said. She had a dark blue mane and tail and had an almost white silver coat. Her cutie mark was curling iron of some sort. "Thank you very much."
"Not a problem your majesty." I looked in the mirror again. This time I just looked really clean. I was wearing a light blue dress that reached the floor. It was tight up until it reached my behind where it fell into three layers. The middle layer was purple and the bottom later light green. The trim was a very pale orange. It was just all these colors that shouldn't go together, but put the way this dress was, well it was just simply magnificent. "It's beautiful."
"Well Paris tried her best."
"Who's Paris?"
"Paris Belle is the top designer in all of Aussaddle."
"Ah, I see. Well give her my gratitude."
"Will do your majesty." All the mares and fillies walked out of the room. A pegasus stallion walked in. He was dark gray and light gray paint pattern. His blonde hair with electric blue highlights was shaggy and kept falling into his eyes. "I'm ready to go mates." He kept staring at me. His gray/blue eyes searching for something. I reached out my hoof, "Hey I'm Cara." He looked down at my hoof and smiled, "They call me Boomerang."
"It's a please to meet you." He just smiled slightly and walked out of the door. "Lets go, we have a Coronation to get to." We walked through the glass hallways the sun just barely in the sky. "Wait, wasn't it noon when I got here?"
"The sun still has a mind of its own. We can't control it."
"Oh." There was carriages awaiting with pegasus stallions waiting for us. We all climbed in and waited for one more member to join us. I looked around and in the distance I saw a black dragon flying towards us at high speed. The scales gleamed magnificently. She started slowing down as she got closer to us. She was around forty feet away from us, when she started glowing purple and formed into a wolf right in front of us. She carefully trotted to the carriages and hopped into mine. "MALISHKA!" I hugged her, she may have been disguised as a wolf, but her coloring was exactly as it had been when she was my little dog. I am embraced her in a warm hug, and she cuddled into me. "Hi Jessi." I let go of her. Well let us get to this coronation safely. The pegasus' lifted the carriages of the ground and we were off to the Canterlot Castle.
Chapter 4: Princess Coronation
Chapter 4: Princess Coronation
I woke myself up with a sneeze....or at least I THOUGHT I woke myself up with a sneeze. As I opened my eyes I noticed that a certain grey/silver pegasus was giggling. I glared at him, "HAH Very funny Boomerang."
"Funny it was mate," he chuckled. I stretched out all my bones and muscles. My wings felt weird though...probably because they were held tightly against my body.... because of the dress. I looked at them to make sure that they were still invisible. Yup, they were still invisible. I admit, I was slightly confused again. How is it that I could feel my wings, yet I couldn't see their outline on the dress? I gave him one last glare before I looked down and fixed my dress. "You look beautiful, stop trying to fix things when they are perfect." I furious looking blush crept unto my cheeks. I have never had a compliment from a guy in my life. Not that I could remember of, and especially not of one that I just met. "You look very s-s-stunning yourself," I stuttered. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why did I just tell him that? Now he's gonna think I like him. Which I'm pretty sure I don't...I mean like come on...he's a horse. Well he's actually a pony, but whatever. "So, uh, are we almost there?"
"Look down," was his answer. So I looked down and the view was breathtaking. I never thought that Canterlot would be this beautiful. The streets shined in the sunlight and the building shimmered. I wondered if it was always this beautiful. I looked up and ahead of us was the Canterlot Castle, I had the excitement of a little filly who had just gotten her cutie mark. In around ten minutes, we reached the castle. The carriages carried us down softly. Princess Celestia met us at the gate. She looked at her guards, "They are with me," then she looked over at us. "Come with me quickly."
"What seems to be the problem Tia?"
"Ivy, I need all of you to stay after the ceremony. We need to have THE meeting."
"I Understand my fellow friend." Princess Celestia turned around and gave us a quick smile. "Go inside and grab a place to sit. There should be plenty, since you have gotten here a bit earlier. I have to stay out here and greet all the guests."
"Thank you," Ivy bowed down and after she got up we walked between the large double doors. The first thing we saw when we walked in was a giant staircase. It was beautiful. The stairs were made out of marble and the railings were made of solid gold. Purple velvet curtains lined the windows. We carefully walked up the steps. Our hoof steps echoed in the castle.
"Hey Boomer! I'll race ya to the top!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it mate," he smiled over at me. I started galloping towards the top with my dress flowing behind me. Boomerang was catching up to me pretty fast. He was now five steps away from me, and I was fifteen steps from the top. Now he and I were right next to each other and our hoofbeats were in perfect sync. Four, three, two, one and it turned out to be a tie. We both collapsed on the floor. "I won," I said.
"I believe I did, mate," and he winked at me. Ivy reached the top around thirty seconds after we got to the top. "How," *pant* "did," *pant* "did you get," *pant* "up here after" *pant* "us so fast," I asked.
"I trotted briskly. I am neither sweaty, tired, or winded. I am a mature mare." I looked over at Boomerang who chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Sure Ivy, sure you are." She rolled her eyes at me. "Come on, might as well find our seats now." Boomerang jumped up and came to help me stand up. "Thanks," I smiled up at him. "Not a problem mate," he grinned. We walked down the stretch of red carpet. The sunlight pouring through the stained glass windows and causing little pictures to dance on the floor beneath us. We reached a second pair of doors, two guards and a very familiar looking black wolf next to them. "How did you get up here so fast, Alexandria?"
"That's for me to know, and you to never find out," she winked.
"Anyways," Ivy glared at us and then turned towards the guards and fluttered her eyelashes, "May we go in."
"Of course," the guard said gruffly while shuffling his hooves.
"Thank you." We walked through the opening doors. The red carpet from the hallway continued into the throne room. This time gold trim outlined the carpet. The windows near the back were large and red curtains outlined them. The ones near the front had three lit candles in-between each set of windows. White drapes drooped within each window and were connected by purple flowers. The alter in the front was green with many different types of flowers. We sat nearer to the front. By this time, many ponies were starting to pile into the room. I recognized Twilight's parents and both were crying. I don't blame them, I would cry to if my unicorn daughter turned into an alicorn. I started thinking about my foal. Was it a boy or girl? What color was my foal? What was her personality like? Did we have a good mother and child relationship? Who was her father? How did HE look like? Were we a happy, tight knit family? Or falling apart? Why couldn't I remember anything? Maybe Discord got the wrong human? But then what about Malishka/Alexandria she turned from guard dog to guard dragon and remembers everything perfectly. What did I do that caused me to be cast away into a place that only Discord could reach?
"Cara, Cara," I shook my head and looked at the culprit of the annoying side poking. It was a certain grey/silver pegasus with an Authentic Aussaddle accent. "What do you want," I snapped. I just hated when people interrupted my train of thought questions. "The ceremony is over, we have to go to Princess Celestia's bedroom for the meeting."
"The ceremony was that fast?"
"It was two hours," he looked at me with a concerned expression. "Are you feeling alright mate?"
"Yea, I was just deep in thought and it certainly didn't feel like two hours." He snorted and stood up, "Well come on. I can't believe you missed such an important ceremony."
"Sorry," I looked down in shame. He lifted my chin, "It's alright, I'm sure I can cast a spell so that you could see what happened."
"Thanks," I gave him a small smile. I was such an idiot for missing such an important event. It's not everyday that a common pony folk turns into an alicorn princess. Alexandria nudged me with her nose, "this way." I followed her and Boomerang out the doubt doors that we came in. "Where is Ivy?"
"She's already there." I stopped suddenly. A crazy theory JUST hit my mind. "Boomerang, stop."
"What is it?"
"I just figured it out."
"What did you just figure out."
"Tia and Luna are also my sisters. Ivy is the Dawn of time. She is the eldest among us. She was the first to control everything. Then Tia came along and is the second eldest. She is the light of Equas. She controls the Celestial star, only she can light the first Equestrian sun in such a manner that the ponies feel safe and sound while it is over their heads. I am the Dusk of time. I control the first and second sun at Dusk because only I can cause the hues that the sky has at that time. Just the sight maked ponies want to sing and dance which causes Luna's night to be filled with parties. She is the youngest of all of us. Since I was cast away, the dusk just wasn't the same and no one wanted to party into the night. They would only play and have parties in the day and they would ignore the night. Which caused Luna to be cast away to the moon because her jealousy made her into a tyrant known as Nightmare Moon. Without one another, the planet Equas can not work properly. It needs all four sisters in control, in order to cause the most peaceful and harmonic world that could be achieved." Boomerang smiled at me, his eyes filled with joy and something that I couldn't put my hoof on. "At least you remember something." I gave him a very big smile. "Well lets continue, I'm sure your sisters are waiting." We started trotting briskly to Tia's bed chambers. "Boomerang?"
"Yea?"
"What about you? I can't figure out where you fit into this."
"You'll remember one day. At least I hope you do."
"Why can't you just tell me?"
"Because it will mess up everything. You MUST find out at a certain time. Not sooner or later."
"Oh...ok." We walked though a glass hallway. The setting sun playing through the stained glass windows. Shadows played on our coats. A small smile found its way to my lips. We went through a door and up some stairs. A giant set of white doors with gold accents greeted our eyes. "Is this it," my breath was literally taken from the sight before me. These were like he most magnificent doors I have ever seen. "Yup, this is it." He opened the door.
Author's Note
JIHDVUSHFVOUFB I AM SO SORRY, I HAD LIKE A BRAIN MELTDOWN!!!! I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT THE PICTURE FROM MY HEAD INTO WORDS!!!! PLUS I WAS BUSY AND I'M SOOOOOOOO SORRY FOR MAKING YOU WAIT!!!! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!!
"Tia and Luna are also my sisters. Ivy is the Dawn of time. She is the eldest among us. She was the first to control everything. Then Tia came along and is the second eldest. She is the light of Equas. She controls the Celestial star, only she can light the first Equestrian sun in such a manner that the ponies feel safe and sound while it is over their heads. I am the Dusk of time. I control the first and second sun at Dusk because only I can cause the hues that the sky has at that time. Just the sight maked ponies want to sing and dance which causes Luna's night to be filled with parties. She is the youngest of all of us. Since I was cast away, the dusk just wasn't the same and no one wanted to party into the night. They would only play and have parties in the day and they would ignore the night. Which caused Luna to be cast away to the moon because her jealousy made her into a tyrant known as Nightmare Moon. Without one another, the planet Equas can not work properly. It needs all four sisters in control, in order to cause the most peaceful and harmonic world that could be achieved." Boomerang smiled at me, his eyes filled with joy and something that I couldn't put my hoof on. "At least you remember something." I gave him a very big smile. "Well lets continue, I'm sure your sisters are waiting." We started trotting briskly to Tia's bed chambers.
"Boomerang?"
"Yea?"
"What about you? I can't figure out where you fit into this."
"You'll remember one day. At least I hope you do."
A giant set of white doors with gold accents greeted our eyes. "Is this it," my breath was literally taken from the sight before me. These were like he most magnificent doors I have ever seen. "Yup, this is it." He opened the door.
Tia was sprawled on her bed and her front hooves held up her face and her back hooves lazily swung up and down. "What's taking those two so long," she huffed. Ivy giggled, "Maybe she remembered about her and Boomerang..." and she giggled a bit more until Luna joined in. Celestia stared at her most eldest sister and her youngest sister with a stern expression. "My dear sisters, this is not the time to joke around."
"Tia, I know you are disappointed that Twilight can not join us, but you must understand that this matter must be dealt within the group of us five alicorns. Just because Luna and I want to poke some harmless fun doesn't mean you should get all huffy," Ivy looked over at her sister with a look of higher authority in her eyes.
"Excuse me, but did you say, "between us five alicorns," because I'm pretty sure that this dragonequas should be included in this conversation. Oh, and don't forget her guardian," a fourth voice entered the room from the ceiling. A snap was heard and Discord was lying down next to Tia. "My most sincere apologies," Ivy bowed her head.
"Get off my bed you dirty brute," Celestia rudely shoved him off. A look of surprise entered Discord's face as he was about to hit the floor. A gold glow caught him as Ivy caught him. She rolled her eyes and set Discord back on the bed. "Tia, we all know that you and Discord are sex buddies and frankly Luna and I don't care. We also know that you have feelings for him. Jeez, you must have forgotten that I had surveillance on his statue...24/7." With each passing word Celestia's face grew a deeper and brightener shade of red. Discord smiled smugly over at Tia. "I told you there was nothing to worry about." The second eldest sister let out an annoyed sigh and looked away from everyone in embarrassment. Discord moved closer to Celestia and started braiding a piece of her flowing mane. (He likes to braid her mane)
An awkward silence filled the air until a sudden knock was heard on the door. "Come in," Ivy demanded. A grey pegasus and bright colored unicorn walked in with a black wolf pup at their heels. "Look who finally decided to show up," Tia snorted through her nose. "Tia, please be a dear and stop acting so bitchy," Cara replied as she trotted in. Boomer looked at Cara and then at Celestia's confused face with a smirk on his face. "Well I never," Celestia began, "Celestia GoldStar I recommend you shut your snout. Now is not the time to start an argument," Ivy glared at her younger sister. "And Cara Dusk, I ask you to please stop acting like such a mellow bitch and apologize." Luna looked at her sisters with wide eyes. Cara bowed down toward Celestia, "Pardon me my dear sister." Ivy looked over at Boomer as he walked towards her, "I take it she remembered that we are all sisters?"
"Yea, but she still doesn't remember me," he looked down sadly.
"One day she will, and until that day comes I expect you to retrain her and to go with her on missions."
"Thank you your majesty."
"Think nothing of it," Ivy looked at her three sisters. "THE FUN HAS DOUBLED!" Luna shouted with glee as she smiled and hugged Cara and Celestia's jaw was still dropped with Discord giggling and poking her tongue.
The black wolf figure sat quietly by the door carefully watching her friend. She waited for the meeting to take place.
"Mares and Stallions please look at me. We have an important matter to discuss." Celestia closed her mouth, Discord looked serious, Luna and Cara stopped hugging and sat next to each other while Boomer moved himself nearer to Cara. "As you can all see, our dear sister and Princess of Aussaddle has returned," Ivy continued, "as you are all aware of Griffin the Griffin going around and saving the Dominion from the Diamond Dog slavers. In the Dominion, this problem has not even been a problem for a thousand years. In Aussaddle, this has been a problem since before Princess Cara Dusk has been banished to Earth. That was well over a thousand years ago. In fact, it was two thousand years ago. Cara has agreed to go around Aussaddle and stop the Diamond Dog Slavers once and for all. She will have one month to retrain. When she is finally ready she will have Prince Electric Boomerang Storm, Alexandra, twenty of her personal choice guards, and ten medics accompanying her.
"I am saying this as a sister and a friend, I think Cara should be monitored and have an eye kept on her 24/7," Celestia looked over at Cara with genuine concern.
"I understand what you mean, that's why we have Alexandra here." The two eldest sisters gave each other a slight nod of understanding. "The meeting is adjourned."
"Woah, woah, woah. Wait. This meeting is SO not over. When will Ivy, Boomer, and I get to show our true selves around your citizens?" Ivy and Celestia looked at each other. "You know, we never really thought of that. Give us some time to think about it, and we will come up with a date to announce it."
"Alright," Cara looked down at the wooden floor.
"Anyways, it is time for us to leave back to Aussaddle. We do have business that is to be dealt with." Ivy stood up followed by Boomer and Cara. The sisters gave each other farewell hugs and they all started to leave the room. As Luna was about to leave through the door they heard Discord whisper to Celestia, "So what do you think about doggy style..." and the door was slammed shut throwing Luna clear across the hallway. The four alicorns and wolf giggled.
Author's Note
The meeting wasn't as awesome as you thought it would be, did you? Sorry for taking so long, I just didn't know how to write this chapter, plus I was busy. Plus this chapter SUCKED major Discord balls, so I apologize... Anyways, should be pretty smooth sailing from here.