“I had a wonderful time, TD.” I said to him as we trotted to Canterlot castle sometime around eight at night. Honestly, it only felt like minutes ago we met at Doughnut Joe’s for the date. This time, I was the one who showed him around Canterlot. First we went to the Wonderbolt Derby, and after that the Canterlot Art Gallery. The date would have been even better if it were not for Blueblood, who had apparently taken a liking to my Pegasus form and tried to court me. Honestly, if TD wasn’t there to put an end to him using his sarcasm and wit, I might have sent him to the moon.
Either way, the day was over, the sun had set, and Luna had raised the moon. When we reached the castle gate, we said our farewells, but before we could part ways, I mustered up enough courage to fly up to him eye level and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. That left him emotionless for a few seconds, after which he half opened his eyes and smiled a goofy grin. It was adorable, to say the least. I flew back into the castle all the while excitedly giggling. After entering the castle, I reverted back to my alicorn form and trotted to my bed chambers all the while keeping a nostalgic smile plastered on my face.
When I reached my bed chambers, I opened the door and let myself in. As amusing as the date was, tomorrow was another day and I had duties to perform. I closed the door and lied on my bed, yawned and closed my eyes to wait for the soft embrace of sleep. I was almost about to go to sleep, but was immediately awakened by the sound of light knocks on the door.
“Who is it?” I called out with a slight hint of annoyance in my voice for being interrupted from my rest.
“It is I, sister,” I heard Luna say in a concerned tone from the other side of the door. “We have a problem.”
“Whatever it is, we can discuss it tomorrow. Right now, I would like to sleep, dear sister.”
The bedroom doors opened revealing Luna who was levitating something on the other side of the door. “The matter is most urgent.”
“How urgent, Luna?”
The item she levitated inside the room was a scroll, and judging by the seal on it, I could immediately tell it was from my faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. I opened the scroll and from it, a vial full of a red transparent liquid fell on my bed. I levitated the vial closer to my face to observe it.
“What is this?” I inquired.
“Read the contents of the letter,” Luna answered. She was sounding nervous for some reason, which was as a result, starting to make me feel unsettled. Something was off. I brought the letter closer to my face to read its contents. As I read it, my pupils began dilate from pure shock.
Dear Princess Celestia,
We are facing a very serious problem. I didn’t think it was a matter that would require your assistance, but we have run out of options. TD is in grave danger, and it’s my entire fault. It all started when Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo came to me with a bottle half full of love poison. They wanted my help to get rid of it, so I took the bottle from them and promised them I’d dispose of it. I was going to get rid of the bottle, I really was, but curiosity got the best of me. I just wanted to do some tests on the love poison and make some observations. I mixed it with some poison joke herb and added some water. The mixture took on a gaseous state and spread throughout the laboratory.
Lucky for me, I wasn’t affected because I was wearing a hazmat suit, so at that time the only living thing that was affected was a pot of flowers I put on the shelf for another experiment, but wasn’t something to worry about at the time. Just then, TD arrived to get his laptop device back from me. I borrowed it for a few days to study it and I and he inhaled the chemicals. I don’t know why, but for some reason after inhaling it, he didn’t go into a love frenzy the second he saw me because I was the first pony he saw. He just calmly asked me to give his laptop back to him and I did. After that he went home without doing anything unusual. I didn’t think it was anything serious that time so I just thought the poison joke neutralized when it came into contact with the love poison, but I was wrong.
The next day, TD disappeared without a trace. After doing some searching, I learned from Rarity that he went to Canterlot. After asking her why, she said he wanted to make something right. I don’t know what he meant by that, but I didn’t care because I thought I could ask him later. It’s been three days and we haven’t heard from him at all, and to make matters worse, the flowers that were affected by the love poison have withered into dust. After doing some analysis, I found out the love poison poisoning them on a cellular level. The love poison is now literally a poison and TD is either dying or he may be dead right now.
I’m sorry, princess, but I am begging you to find him as soon as possible. I was able to make an antidote. It is in the vial that came with this letter. When you find him, give him the antidote, and hopefully that will cure him before the poison takes effect. I hope you succeed, princess, because you’re the only one that can help him. I know you and he don’t have the friendliest of relations, but this is a matter of life and death. I hope you make the right decision.
Your Faithful Student,
Twilight Sparkle
I stopped reading the letter. I gazed at the vial with the antidote in it. Than I turned my gaze towards Luna. Back to the vial, then back at Luna and just like that, the horrendous truth reality had to offer to me was revealed. At that moment, I felt truly helpless. But then I realised I was feeling something else.
Anger.
It wasn't fair. It just wasn't fair. All the while, Luna stared at me with sympathy painted all over her face.
“Tia?”
“WHAT?!” I lashed out, startling her. She hesitated before continuing.
“You know what must be done.”
I didn’t speak. This anger inside of me just kept building up. What was I angry about? The next course of action was obvious, yet I was still so infuriated. And to make matters worse, I was lashing out at my sister. Years of meditation and restraint had taught me how to control my emotions so I wouldn’t lose control and break something or somepony.
But this…
This was NOT FAIR!
“Leave…” I hissed. Luna raised an eyebrow.
“Tia, I know these are not the best times for thee, but-”
“LEAVE!” I cried. She stepped back, alarmed. Just then, I realised how I was treating my sister. She was not the reason this was happening to me. She was just the messenger. My cold rage melted into sorrow and tears began trickling down my face. I looked at my sister, her concerns growing.
“Please, Luna,” I said in a trembling voice. “Please leave.”
She opened her mouth and stepped forward to object, but stepped back and nodded in acceptance and walked out of my bed chambers. I walked to my bed, lied down on it, magically levitated a pillow my way, and proceeded to cry on it for the rest of the night.
well.... shit.
And those the truth its reveal and…wait a minute shatter the glass? Did Celestia just broke the antidote?
That escalated quickly
Damn. Just... Damn.
3908261 he either means the antidote or the "glass" as in her "calm" barrier
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Ah, well I think the expression 'if you love someone let it go' has NEVER had being more weight up until now
3908309 is it THAT much of a problem?
3908397 lol wut
3908422 the shatter glass part. is it misleading?
3908428 coming from the fact that your wrote about the antidote literally 2 seconds before, kinda yeah.
You might want to change that a bit
3908428
3908452
I have to agree. Using that type of metaphor right after mentioning and focusing on a glass vial can give the wrong meaning. Another metaphor should probably be used for clarity.
3908428
Well.....that's a rather.......quaint way of wrapping things up.
NIID!!! NIID!!!
3908639 ERMAGURD! MR SHIELD READ MY STORY?! BEST! DAY! EVER!
Hulk, smash puny wall!
Hulk: Hulk smash puny wall! But Hulk no smash wall of words.
Why?
Hulk: Puny wall of text hurt Hulk's eyes...
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3908694 Man, this is some Good Stuff, huh?
3909003 I know right!
Poor Celestia...
*Wants TD to stay in love with Celestia after cured, and then to hear the shenanigans that pursue.
wow that sucks hard core
3909103 Wait, but what if he retains the memory's of the dates and that makes him truly fall for her?
Life isn't fair, fair is everyone getting what they deserve.
If that are true I would own Korea :L
This is good, BUT!
I found this!
I think you forgot the word "out"
Something like this.
Whoa, this is really, really, REALLY gooooooooddddddd!!!!!!!
3909373 Alright as far as I'm concerned you own Korea. Now life is fair right.
Well in a trillion years the past actions of every human that ever lived will amount to the same thing(nothing). So maybe life is fair.
Right in da feels
3909253 True, that COULD happen. But just imagine all that emotion she is feeling!
3909446
Nope, she walked off the corner of the bed chamber and fell a few miles.
Looks like Celestia's only way out of this thing is to
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Let it go
Wow... Thats Deep... I mean... Wow... ;-; Poor Tia... Whats gonna happen now? Once he takes it will he revert back into his old self... He'll be a jerk... A possibley conflicted Jerk but still...
ITS GONNA BE AN INTERSTING TIME!!!
On another note... I loved how you wrote this... The way it worked out is much better then I had thought in my head. The Cloud of Potion and everything it was very creative... As that was said I pictured a Pink cloud flowing all thoughtout the library! It was very discriptive...
I can't really wait for the next instalment its gonna be a fun time really... I want to see his reaction after the fact... And see what happens from there...
Loves him enough to cry herself to sleep, but not enough to go give him the antidote immediately, instead going back to bed.
She just read it is killing him or already killed him, and she goes back to bed?
3909483 Wait i own korea now?
SWEET! Now i can turn their whole life style around and launch nukes at- oh wait they are already doing that. Nevermind
3910006 lol. Into the depths of the earth we go!
I was kinda hoping we would've gotten to this chapter, well, ten or so chapters later. So either this is going to be an epically short story or you have something else planned. I hope for the 2nd one personally.
3908397
nope, not really either way it leave what it means up to the reader
Also, if he was in such much danger and they haven't heard of him in 3 days, why did the girls didn't go to Canterlot and ask for Celestia help personally?
I mean Dash could scout the sky in like 10 seconds and Pinkie could find him without any apparent reason, plus they could divide and look up for him, they know he is in Cantertlot after all.
P.S: Hmmm oh and what about the poison works different on humans and the joke really neutralized the effect of the love poison and just let TD everything into perspective, I mean the flower turn to dust in 3 days, if that its happening to TD even if it is slowly he would be showing pain, so far he haven't show any sigh of any pain what so ever.
3910149
That's love for you. Stupid, stupid love.
3910149
there is a selfish side of love and it makes perfect sense to me not that she'd go back to bed, but that she would need some time to cry and build up the determination to save his life by killing the love they shared.
She is losing her lover either way, but to take action is to kill it with her own hooves.
Don't judge her until you have experienced having to do something that will rip your heart out. Yes, she should have acted that night, but it is not outside of the realm of heartbreak that she was unable to have dealt with it that night.
Knowing the right thing to do and having the strength to do it are two completely different things
That would have been fun to read.
"began to dilate"
My reaction is below.
I assume you were originally going to type Cutie Mark Crusaders here, thus you have an unnecessary 'the' here.
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One would think that at least Luna should have the mind to grab the antidote and look for him while Celestia cries herself out.
Please continue! You are the only other (actively edited) TD story besides the TD the alicorn princess.
So...
Question of the hour....
IS TD under the chemical romance of the love potion or is it a true relationship?
Next Time on...
....To Love a Non-Brony!
From what I can get the poison joke neutralized TD hate for Celestia while at the same time the love poison made him fall in love with Celestia.
3910042 I say no/ don't let go! You gotta stand up and fight/ for the love of your life/ don't believe the lies/ Marxism and Socialism, are not right, for they do not truly work in real life! Just say no/ don't let go/ you gotta stand up and fight/ don't lie down/ on the ground/ don't let love slip away/ price to pay/ yes you may/ for what you want out of life/ So do not fear/ blood, sweat, tears/ shed for love's sake/ yeah you may bend, but as long as you bend then you will not break/ so quest for love and do not stop/ until it love is caught/ least another battle for love be fought.
6558727 Oh my gosh I said that to my ex-girlfriend before when she had a problem with her boyfriend...