Chronicles of an Unknown World - The Awakening

by Blue Blaze {COMET}

Chapter 4: Journey, Part 3

“Now why the heck would someone want to re-organize entire shelves in the middle of the night?”

With this statement, I was blatantly assuming it was nighttime. I really believe it is, but if I was the only one asleep, then I am so screwed delivering my point.

“Some-one? What do you mean, some-one? Oh, do you mean somepony? Is that your linguist equivalent of somepony? Fascinating! I need to write this down!”

I facepalmed, hard. Seriously, I know there may have been some kind of language gap seeing as we’re two different species, but COME ON! REALLY? SOMEPONY INSTEAD OF SOMEONE??? Now that’s just all kinds of messed up! Really? Gah, I just can’t believe it!

“Look, you’re getting off topic here.” I grabbed her by the tail before she could get away from me. Yanking her towards my spot, she gave me a cutting glare for a second, probably because I pulled her like a cat. But her glare was soon met and melted by a chilling look of my own. She froze in place, too afraid to move. Ah hah, I love it when I do that!

You see, I have this thing that I can do if someone’s really annoying me or ticking me off and I want to teach them a lesson. I kind of make a look that really slices through their eyes and soul. It’s when I give a blank look towards the infuriating jackass, and yet I still have a disturbing seer through my own eyes. I kinda look angry at the person, but it’s so subtle that they can only notice my matching my own gaze. But by the time they do that, it’s too late and I’ve already taken away any hope and excitement they have left in their pathetic body. They freeze up like a chilling wind had gone and taken their spirits away. Next thing they know, they can’t move from their spot.

I call it: the stare. I know, amazing ability, right?

So anyways, I gave Twilight the stare, guaranteeing that she wouldn’t escape my OWN interrogation anytime soon. She looked absolutely horrified, and I loved every moment of it.

Does that mean I’m evil?

“You haven’t answered my question yet. What were you doing down here late at night?” I demanded.

“Like I said, I was re-organizing the shelves.” Twilight gulped. I could see her anxiety clear as day.

“Nu-uh. That ain’t gonna fly, super pony. What kind of a person-in this case, a pony-would get up in the middle of the night randomly to organize a bunch of bookshelves?” I reasoned, stroking my invisible goatee.

“I-I-I would! I’m the librarian of this library, so it is my responsibility to keep this building in tip-top shape!” she answered a bit too eagerly.

“Hmm, even so, why would you, of all people-ponies, create such destruction in your OWN library?” I reasoned, pointing out the disarray of brick-a-brack on the floor.

“Well-well-well-I-I” Twilight apprehensively stuttered.

“Hmm? Come on, Twilight, out with it!” I pushed forward.

“Well-you see-I-I-I mean-I was-“

“We haven’t got all day Twilight, speak your mind already!”

“I-I-I-I-“

“Just say it already!”

“GRRRRAAHHH!!!” Twilight growled, grinding her teeth in frustration. “Fine, I’ll confess. I’ll tell you what I’m doing down here.

“Great.” I backed up a flopped myself down on a sofa. Twilight stayed in her spot, probably because of the after effects of my stare. “Go on.”

“You see, after you passed out from overuse of magic, I got a letter from Princess Celestia. She requested my presence at her castle as soon as I could.” she said, avoiding eye contact with me.

“Ok, two questions, one: you’re ruled by a monarchy? And two: who’s Princess Celestia?” I asked, folding my legs over each other.

“WHAT? YOU don’t know who Princess Celest- I didn’t tell you about our Princess, did I?”

I shook my head in confirmation.

“Well, Princess Celestia is the ruler of this land. She manages everything in our kingdom of Equestria. She has a sister named Princess Luna, but she’s been recovering from a series of unfortunate events, and is in no condition to rule beside Princess Celestia.”

She paused graciously, allowing me to soak in the information. “Ok. So who’s the queen and king?”

“…We don’t have one.”

“Pardon me?”

“I said, we don’t have one.”

I frowned, looking at Twilight’s mug for any traces of lying. Is she joking? Ponies are ruled by a princess, but no queen or king? That really doesn’t make too much sense.

“So what, did the parents of the princesses’ die or something?” I inquired, raising a single eyebrow for added effect.

“Oh, no, nothing like that.” Twilight waved her right hoof in a dismissive fashion. “There just was never a king or queen in the first place.”

“What?” I replied, receiving more questions than answers. “But how is that possible? The two princesses MUST have had a mother or father at some point in time!”

“Well, maybe, but the princess has said she’s never known her parents, so she can’t speak for herself. And there is no documented proof of the princesses having any parents, so we really can’t say that she does have any parents.

I was speechless for a few moments. No parents, and yet still princesses? What is this I don’t even?

“So how do you know she’s THE princess of Equestria if she’s had no known family history? How do you know she isn’t a phony?”

“What? Princess Celestia isn’t a phony! She’s been ruling this kingdom since it was created! How could you say such a thing?”

I knew Twilight seemed like a smart pony, but she was really taking my comment offensively. Can’t she realize that I’m just trying to get some answers around here?

“And how long exactly has she been ruling?”

“Approximately four thousand, six hundred and twenty years.”

“WHAT???” I bellowed, standing straight up. “HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? You must be joking! No one can live for that long!”

“Well, she can. She’s immortal, seeing as she’s the sun goddess and all.”

“WHAT???” I hollered again. “OK, FIRST SHE’S THE RULER OF EQUESTRIA WITHOUT ANY QUEEN OR KING AND NOW YOU’RE TELLING ME SHE’S A FREAKING GODDESS??? WHAT???”

Twilight cringed at my extreme yelling. “Yes, she is all those things. She has ruled Equestria for over four thousand years without any signs of aging, had kept this place in control and has defended our kingdom from several abnormalities including Dragons, Manticores, Cockatrices, Griffins and other evil gods.” She smirked, very proud at what her majesty had achieved over the MILLENNIUMS.

“WHA…” I grasped my head in distraught. God, this is yet another what the fuck moment for me. So not only are there GODDESSES in this universe, but also AN INSANE NUMBER OF MONSTERS AND EVIL GODS TO BOOT? WHAT THE FAAAAA…

“Umm, Griffin, are you ok?” I heard the purple unicorn asked, care shining through in her tone.

“Yeah.” I sighed. “I just need a moment to gather all of this in.”

I sat back down, grabbing yet another breather. Wiping off the sweat from my face with my arm, I checked back towards Twilight. From what I could tell, she looked very weary.

“Ok, I think I’ve got it. Two immortal goddess princesses have been looking and protecting Equestria for an immensely long time. Is that correct?”

“Yes.” Twilight spoke while nodding.

“Ok.” I let out another heavy sigh. “So continue with your story on what you’re doing down here.”

Twilight groaned before starting off where she was before. I guess she really didn’t want to be here right now. Well bad luck for her, because she’s not going anywhere on my watch!

“So anyways, I got a letter from Princess Celestia telling me to teleport to her as soon as possible. After reading the message, I quickly got some supplies, drew a magical rune to help me with the spell and teleported to her room in her castle.”

“I’m guessing that teleporting is a spell?”

“Yes, teleporting is a magic spell that is used to travel long distances without walking or flying.”

I know that already. I’m not a dimwit, Twilight. “So why did she want you to see her all of the sudden?”

“Well…”

At this point she started to look a little bit uneasy. She bit her lip, once again not looking at me but instead at the interesting patterns on her library floor.

“In her letter, she made the situation sound very urgent, so I got ready to teleport right as I finished the last sentence. When I got there, I greeted her, traded some words with her and then she asked me to step out onto her balcony and tell her what I was seeing.” she mumbled, bashfully wiping the polished surface with her hoof.

“Really. And what did you see.”

“I saw…”

She looked up.

“Destruction."