//------------------------------// // Chapter Two // Story: The Alicorn Who Was Never Meant To Be // by WildWPony //------------------------------// Chapter Two His head was pounding when he slowly opened his eyes to find himself laying on a bed inside an elegant room. Everything around him seems to be of the finest material he noticed looking around the room. “Where am I,” he thought to himself as he tried to stand but too wobbly and laid down again. Trying to remember what happened he suddenly realized that he couldn’t remember anything that happened. To his fright he couldn’t remember anything at all, who he is, what his name is, even what he is. Taking a few minutes to really examine himself he realized at least what he was and deep down he had a small feeling that it just wasn’t right, it wasn’t what he was supposed to be. After a little bit he was finally able to stand and make his way off the bed, luckily being low to the floor. Still a little shaky he heads to the door and knocks, “Hello? Is anypony there?” He heard some mumbling and the sound of hoof beats running away. Suddenly feeling a little weary he steps away from the door now feeling like he shouldn’t be here. Walking to the window he looks out while that uneasiness gets worse and panic starts to kick in. After a minute the door opens and he jumps back being startled in his panicked state seeing two female ponies also with wings and a horn on their foreheads. “Who are you,” he started backing away from them and moving behind the bed, “What do you want with me?” Luna stepped forward, “Who are you?” “I…,” he said staying on the other side of the bed from them, “don’t know. Besides I asked first.” “What is the last thing you remember?” Celestia asked. He thought a minute, “Waking up here. I don’t know who I am, what I am or even where I am. Can I go now? I really shouldn’t be here.” The panic was very evident to the both of them as they turned speaking softly to one another, “He doesn’t seem to know anything, which is quite unusual.” Celestia said to Luna. “Could it be because of how he got here and the effects of the dark magic?” Celestia nodded, “That very well may be the case, but at the moment I don’t feel anything evil do you?” Luna shook her head, “No I do not sister.” “Excuse me,” he interrupted and the sisters looked to him, “can I go now?” “NO,” they said in unison, “We must figure out what to do with you.” He was shocked, “What do you mean what to do with me? What did I do? So am I your prisoner? I can’t even remember who I am.” Upon saying that last word and without even thinking it he bucked the wall behind him and it cracked just a little, “Uh oh.” He thought to himself, I’m dead for sure. “Look sister,” Luna stood shocked at the crack in the wall. “How is that possible?” Celestia said quietly examining the possibilities. He looked back then said sheepishly, “I’ll fix it, I will. I’m good at fixing things.” He stopped for a second, “Wait, am I? Who cares I’ll learn just, just let me go I promise I won’t tell.” Celestia looks at the frightened alicorn, closes her eyes and her horn glows as she takes down the spells she put over the room then looks to Luna, “Sister take down the spells please.” The male alicorn looks to the tall white alicorn in surprise, “You mean you’re really letting me go?” “You really are letting him go sister?” Luna asked echoed in astonishment. Celestia nodded her head, “I’m not going to keep you prisoner and you are too frightened to be of any use and you don’t even have your memory. I offer your freedom and in return I ask then when you start to remember who you are and why you are here to come see me at once.” Celestia looked to her sister. Luna hesitantly takes down the barriers surround the room. “You are really letting me go?” he says backing up to the balcony glass doors then opening them with his hoof. His mind still too frightened with this instinct to run coursing through him he finds himself being lifted off the balcony with his wings but at this moment he doesn’t question it but flies off away from the castle. “Sister,” Luna still in astonishment looks to her sister, “pray tell me your thoughts. You let him go?” Celestia nodded, “If we are to be tested then let us be tested by the good and not the evil within us.” ^_^ He was glad to get out of the castle, but still this thought the he shouldn’t be here and shouldn’t even be flying was hard to get out of his mind. So many questions raced through his mind, Who was he? What was he? Where was he? He soon saw a forest down below and he descended into the heart of it and into a small clearing. “Finally a place that I can sit and think a little away from that castle. I can’t remember anything, not even my name, why?” He sat down in the clearing to try and calm himself down and finding it oddly comfortable to fold his hind and forelegs under him. “I just have the strangest feeling that this is just all wrong,” he said mostly to himself looking himself over once again at his wings then feeling his forehead for the horn. He puts his head on the ground, “Great just great. Here I am a lonely horse creature with wings and a horn sitting in the middle of this,” he looks around, “weird forest all controlled by two female creatures like me.” The panic starts to subside after a little while though the feeling that he shouldn’t even be here still remains in the back recesses of his mind. “Ok, come on…uh,” he looks himself over and seeing something on his side just above his hind legs, “a heart with something inside it. What is it? A wrench. Wait, how do I know that? Is that my name? Wrench Heart? Suppose it’s a good a name as any other. Now, Wrench Heart, what am I going to do with myself?” Only after a couple of days he found out much about the forest. Walking around the forest he found himself quickly acclimating himself on what to eat, not to eat and where he could sleep and find water. One day even running across the timber wolves and finding out how they just repair themselves after being broken apart finally having to just run for it. He was beginning to wake up from a long needed sleep after a couple of days battling with those timber wolves when he felt a soft tap against his head. Something small and furry was patting his head, “Hmm?” He mumbled coming out of his sleep and he opened his eyes to see a small bunny looking at him with a question seeming to be on its mind while pointing a single small paw to him. “Me?” he asked then seeing the bunny nodded, “I wish I knew.” Sighing he lifted his head looking around then looking to the bunny again, “I don’t know who I am or even where I am. I’m a lost horse I guess with wings and a horn on my head.” For once he smiled just a little, “At least you’re not trying to keep my prisoner or anything, and then again the Princesses did let me go.” The bunny tilted its head to one side blinking then putting paw to its head rubbing in a quizzical manner. “The first thing I remember is waking up in the castle in a room guarded and sealed like a prisoner just not in a dungeon. I get the feeling that’s where they wanted me in the first place but why? It’s so frightening not knowing anything,” he continued to speak looking at the little bunny, “not knowing who to trust or…” he gets stopped mid-sentence as the bunny looks him in the eyes and putting a paw on his nose. Seeming to understand he says, “You want me to trust you?” The bunny nods in response. He sighs seeming to calm a little, “Ok, I can’t stay here forever and I’m going to need help sometime, so I’ll trust you.” The bunny smiles then they both hear a soft voice calling out, “Angel. Where are you? You know not to run off into the dark and…scary forest alone.” When the bunny hears the voice he points toward the voice then to the alicorn then to the voice again. “You want me to go toward the voice?” The bunny nods then jumps onto the alicorn’s shoulder and taps it with his hind foot a couple of times as if to say let’s go. “Ok,” the alicorn stands up with the bunny on his shoulders, “if you want me to.” He heads in the direction of the voice going into the forest again from the clearing. ^_^ Fluttershy looks around the forest getting more upset with Angel for running off again, “I don’t know how many times I’ve told him not to run off into the forest alone.” She wasn’t that far into it and she could still see the edge of the forest still under broad daylight she wasn’t fully scared yet, but she still didn’t want to go even an inch into the forest. For Angel, though, she would go anywhere, “Angel,” she calls out again. Soon she hears some rustling of the bushes just up ahead and she calls out again, “Angel?” What comes out of the bushes frightens yet astonishes her. A tall male alicorn that is light purple in color with wings and a horn. At first almost mistaking him for Twilight then noticing otherwise. She was about to run when she saw Angel on his shoulders pointing to her. His height was somewhere between Luna and Celestia and not quite as built like Big Mack either, but still looking stout and a little foreboding. As he came further she started toward him, “Angel you’re ok and who is this?” She notices that this alicorn is hurt with some scratches all around his body. The evidence of his attempt at self-cleaning was clear with his mane starting to mat together in some places. The alicorn stops walking and mutters something to Angel and sees Angel nod and points to her again. He comes close to the young female pegasus that is yellow in color with a two tone pink color tail and mane. Angel hops onto his nose and pats his foot down a couple of times and he lowers himself close to her. As Angel hops off and onto the pegasus he speaks softly and hesitantly, “Um…Your friend here said that I could trust you.” Fluttershy looks up to the alicorn curious yet frightened then looks to Angel as the bunny tells her what he found out about the alicorn. “You need help then?” She calms down knowing that Angel was fine with this alicorn even though he does look scary. “I…I don’t know who I am or where I am. I don’t know who to trust other than your friend here and if he says I can trust you then…well. Then I need help,” he says a little shyly to the young pegasus. Fluttershy looks on in a little astonishment at how Angel could have found him and befriended this alicorn, “Well then, I’m not one to turn down somepony asking for help.” “Thanks,” he said to her then hearing a howl he looks to her earnestly, “I think we should get out of here now. Those wolf things will be back soon and I’d rather not tangle with them again.” The two of them start to leave the clearing with Angel riding Fluttershy.