The Alicorn: My Past In Ponyville

After quite a few hours of lengthy travel, I spotted a change in the landscape. It was no longer train tracks and grass, but dark trees that spanned across many acres. For about twenty minutes, that was all I could see, until a little town caught my eye. We were heading in its direction and I prepared myself for landing. To my surprise, the guard flew around the town so as to avoid being seen, and landed in a clearing in the forest.

It was a strange place, unlike anything I had ever seen, but then again, I had never left the castle grounds and so that made everything seem strange.

There was a chill running through the woods, almost as if it wanted to chase everything out.

This made me a bit jumpy and i was startled to realize that the guard was out of his flying harness and was now carrying a black cloak that he must have had tucked away. He extended it to me, “Here, put this on. Orders from your mother. You are not to take this off unless Twilight tells you. I will escort you to her.” I took the cloak from him and struggled to get it on.

  Once I had, he took off his magic uniform, thus reverting his features to normal.  the invention that made all guards look the same certainly came in handy.

We walked for about half a mile until suddenly, there were no more trees, only cute little houses. I smiled and walked with more pep than before, wanting to see more of this little town. After a while, I saw a humongous tree in my path, and a purple unicorn standing in front of it. I stopped, my body froze, my hooves would not move, I was scared of my own aunt. Of course I knew she was my aunt, but I had only seen her as a tiny little filly and so, did not remember her.

    Seeing this reaction, the guard rolled his eyes and used his wing to push me over to Twilight. He then turned, nodded to her, and flew away. As for me, I was cowering away, but Twilight ran up to me looked around suspiciously, and shoved me in the door, which scared me even more. She started inching closer to me and I was backing into a corner when she smiled and melodically said, “We are going to have so much fun! I am so happy to have you as my guest Skyla!”

It was so genuine, I was surprised. I never had seen a pony that was genuine to me; it made me instantly feel comfortable. She told me that I could take off my black hooded cloak and as I struggled to get it off, she easily levitated me out of it.

I saw Spike coming down the stairs and my fear returned for I had never seen a dragon before. Spike could tell he was causing me to worry and so walked up to me and said, “Don’t worry, I’m nice. My name is Spike, what’s yours?” He smiled at me and I came out of my awkward sitting position.

I then replied, “I’m Skyla….. do you….. want… to… be….. my friend?” I asked hopefully, I was starting a new life; all I could do was ask.

He nodded and I smiled, I had never had a friend before. I hoped this would be the start of making many new friends. Twilight started toward the stairs and called back for me to follow, so I did.

“Here is where we sleep,” she said, once we were up the stairs. She pointed to a bed, a basket, and a little bed with newly carved bed posts that I supposed was mine. I walked over to the bed and laid down the cloak I had been carrying over my back. Twilight then brought in the small bag of things I had packed from Canterlot and laid them next to the cloak.

“Thanks!” I said quietly. After looking back at the cloak, I asked to no one in particular, “So, I have to wear this cloak every time I go anywhere? How am I going to make any friends?”

Twilight looked shocked to see she had forgotten to tell me. “Oh!” she promptly exclaimed “Well, actually, I will be taking you to meet my good friend Rarity. She will be giving you a makeover, actually, multiple makeovers.” I cocked my head in confusion and Twilight knew exactly what part it was that confused me and so started again. “When I say multiple makeovers, I mean that you are portraying 4 different fillies, and you need a look for each. One Pegasus, one unicorn, and two different earth fillies. We will use a different identity for each of your lessons. Just so you’re safe.” She nodded as to reassure herself of that fact. “Sorry to rush you like this. I just wanted to get you unpacked before we headed out. We’ll have plenty of time to talk once we get back.”

“Ok, I guess,” I said in reply. “Are we going NOW?” I asked as she was floating on my cape and started shoving me out the door. She nodded, I tried to make it down the stairs without being pushed off, but going down was harder than going up, and so, ended up falling and landing at the bottom, on my face.

Almost out the door, Twilight told me, “Oh, yes. You can read any of these books anytime.” We both stepped out the door.

We walked for a few minutes, passing little carts, stores and earth ponies as I walked down the dirt roads, all things I had complained about without even seeing. I quickly found, they were not at all bad.

My black hooded cloak must have caught the attention of many ponies for soon; they were all staring at me and whispering “Another Zecora?”. Twilight soon noticed this and so darted around an empty part of the road.

My aunt then said to me, “ You’re drawing to much attention so I will perform an invisibility spell I pulled out just in case. Just hold still, and after I perform it, avoid crashing into anypony.” I watched silently as a magenta glow soon surrounded her horn and grew in size, bigger, bigger, bigger, until it shot out at me. I looked down as my hooves began to disappear, until, they were gone!

Twilight then opened her eyes and was pleased to see her spell had worked. She motioned me to follow her again and, of course, I did.