//------------------------------// // Transfer of Power // Story: Crystal Horned Alicorn // by DeltaPow //------------------------------// Chapter 13: Transfer of Power I was tried, It been a few weeks of the castle being built. Everything was going well so I going to take a break form managing the site and get to hang out with twilight. She been busy but I really needed to talk to her. "Spike I need those books over here, need to finish this spell before I send the results to Canterlot." Twilight stated as Spike was rushing to get her the books needed as she was focusing on a potion that seemed to be very powerful. I walked into the library but waited for twilight be done with the potion. Twilight saw me and the potion seemed to lose stability out of action I joined to stabilize it. It exploded and there was black fog everywhere. "Is every pony alright?" I asked, coughing on the fog around me. "Spike get the windows" Twilight stated, sounded more older and mature than normal. As spike opened the windows the fog we started to see our forms. I was slightly smaller around the same height of Luna and my wings where gone, Twilight was as same height as Celestia and horn was much longer and she had wings and her hair was flowing like Celestia's would be but the same color like it normally would be. If I didn't know better, I would guess Twilight was related to Celestia. Spike and I where staring at her. "Ethan your wings, they are gone... your cutie-mark looks like mine!" Twilight Exclaimed. As we pointed to the mirror, "I think you got my wings and my cutie mark. That potion must have transferred our powers to each other." Twilight Blushed. "I am so sorry Ethan, we got to fix this." Twilight stated looking at me with worried eyes. "Don't worry no harm done... You do look good as a Princess." I blushed at that statement. "You do look like the princesses Twilight." Spike added. She Blushed, "Well I wasn't expecting this spell to work like that, It meant to make objects more effected by magic." She turned and looked at a book, "Well got something to report to the princesses, Spike can you send a letter to the Princess about this. I am going to see if this going to be fixed." "Twilight, hold on and wait a moment. I came here to talk to you, I would to talk first before you dive for an answer?" I asked she placed the book down saving her place. "What is it Ethan?" She asked. "Last few weeks have been tiring, I wanted to have time to hang out with you." I informed her, "Now you going to be busy." "I... your right, once spike sends a letter.. maybe it would be good idea to take a break. It be best if we remain in the library. Hopefully the Princess Celestia can revert this effect." Twilight stated. "I agree, any pony sees you it might cause some confusion and issues." I said as I walked next to her, "How you been doing. We haven't talked for a week at least since of the castle being built." "I been... busy that's all, being further in my studies with Princess Celestia and doing experiments with new spells to understand them better." Twilight stated. "Those dreams have been on my mind every so often... I had another one by myself, A horrible place but you where there to protect Equestria." "I haven't had that dream... what happened?" I asked. "Everything was in ruins, all the ponies where black statues. Even our enemies working together. I woke up scared..." She stated with a tear. "Black statues... Ruins... It seems like you have one strong nightmare." I stated to comfort her. She smiled and we sat down, "Its been pushing me to understand these dreams, I think its a sign that I am not learning enough." Twilight pressured herself "Or your pushing too hard. Dreams are deep things in our subconscious, Many things can be taken from it or it also can be a way to inform was was what we have now." I stated to relax her. "Maybe, I can't dismiss this dream as nothing." Twilight rejected. "I can't say, I had dreams that I thought that could happen but didn't, it was fear of loss or becoming something far worse that I imagined" I added. "Far worse?, what do you mean?" Twilight asked. "Becoming the Villain is a fear that comes into my mind everyday, having to do something evil to get something done is what I truly fear." I honestly stated to Twilight, I closed my eyes, "I just want to wake up in hopes that the next day will be in harmony like it was before." Twilight hold her head next to mine. "Honestly, Kindness, Loyalty, Generously, Laughter... You shown these and I hardly ever can believe that you of all ponies will become a villain." She comfort me, "You are some pony I care for, and I want to be there with you." "You always have and that's why I trust you" I told her opening my eyes. "Has any pony told you how soft your hat is..." She stated as her head was on mine. "Like a cloud... so I am told" I smiled. "I am... going to see rarity, and give you two some time alone." Spike stated as she sent the letter and went out the door. We laughed at spikes reaction, "So how does it feel like to be a Alicorn?" I asked. "Being much taller than normal, Its something new. I being able to fly would be neat." She stated. "Its interesting now, I pretty much the student and your the Guardian of Equestria." I chuckled. "Pretty much, This might be very interesting" Twilight said clapping her hooves together in glee. "If I know Rainbow, she will be here in about... Now" I stated nothing happened, "I might have miscounted" as rainbow came in a burst. "Hey Prince... whoa, what happened here... Twilight why are you a Alicorn and Ethan why are you a Unicorn... whats going on here!" She was confused. "Rainbow chill, It was a mistake that I made that caused this effect our roles got transferred... If I didn't acted since I was so unskilled this wouldn't happen." I frowned. "So I lost focus on what I was doing..." Twilight covered my mistake. "I should have checked ahead..." I covered Twilight cover for my mistake. "I don't care who's fault it is darling... WHAT HAPPENED." Rainbow dash exclaimed. "I was working on a object manipulation spell that makes objects magical and allow them to based in good ways. Ethan came in to talk to me and I saw him making the spell blew up in our faces." Twilight stated. "When it went unstable I jumped in using magic to take twilight place in stabilizing the spell. I think it the explosion made us which roles." I added, which made twilight look at me. "Trying to be my hero again." Twilight smiled. "... anyway Twilight, I came here to see if any daring doo books came in." Rainbow Dash wondered. "Yes it seems the author made 5 new books. I haven't read them yet but go ahead." She use magic to hand over the books to rainbow dash. "Thanks Twilight, lets hope this...Royal takeover is only temporary ." Rainbow dash chuckled leaving the library also spike chuckled for a moment. "Rainbow Dash, loves a good joke when they are made of others." I frowned. "But, she is still our friends." Twilight stated. "Ya, she still is... Lets hope that Celestia will be able to change this before more horrible puns start being a standard in our lives." I stated. Twilight giggled, "Dunno, It might never end." I said, "I hope not, But then again I always have more the reason to be with you." She blushed, "You really like being with me?" "Yes, I like your view of the world you live in, you learn something new everytime. Maybe not only friendship but the wonders of your universe each day. Its a quality that I like and love to explore the new things to discover." I looked at her. "I, never knew that you enjoyed my studying. I normally apart from ponies most of my life since I filly except princess cadence and my brother. " Twilight added. We hugged as the door opened again as rarity and spike came in. "Your right spiky, She a Alicorn, How Glorious." Rarity said as I thought, 'And it starts.' "Rarity, Its only temporary... I might look like a princess but I am not." Twilight reasoned with rarity. "Darling but you need to look at yourself more, your mane and tail are divine, your horn is purely amazing." Rarity was just imagining the clothes she could design, which made me face hoof myself in it. Spike got a message from Celestia he started to read it, "It seems that the princess will be heading here urgently." "Thank Celestia this will be all over." Twilight stated. It wasn't long for Celestia to get here, she was very curious what happened. "I see that there a issue to fix, But I believe that this wasn't the spell that you where working on Twilight but more that not the reason you changed roles, the spell seems to only work for a day and it will revert back normally. The spell that was used is a very powerful one that I believe the prince used." Celestia informed. "So my action to jump in too hastily caused me to cast a spell that made this happen?" I stated. "So If Ethan did the spell, in turn he can reserve it." Twilight stated. "Always a step ahead my student, I will give him a try." Celestia tossed it off to me. "I will give it a try." I got in front of twilight, as I started to focus by closing my eyes and my horn glowed my body was encased and my from returned to normal, Twilight wasn't effected except her cutie-mark returned. "Well I know I am back to normal... Something is odd though, I don't think I should do that often." Something in my head give a spike of pain. "Why isn't twilight turned back?" Spike wondered. "I wanted to a company a princess for today, Enjoy ourselves, unless you disagree Twilight?" I asked. Twilight smiled, "I need to have some fun right." Celestia agreed with this. "Then, If you excuse us, Twilight and I have a date." I stated as me and Twilight followed me. We walked out of the Library as we took the eye of many ponies around us. Twilight got a little nervous over the whole thing, It was something new as ponies normally don't bow to her directly. "Why don't we fly?" I suggested to Twilight. "But..." She stated. "You can do it, any Pony can, at least we be able to be by ourselves for a bit." I told her. "Remember that dream, you took to the sky like it was natural to you." "I will try..." She spread her wings and took off I followed her. Her eyes where closed. "You got to see whats in front of you." I told her gaining altitude. She opened her eyes to see that she was flying, scared not having something below her feet I made sure she didn't drop. She remained hovering, starting to smile than laugh, "I never felt so alive." She did a loop around me. "Its a rush isn't it?" I asked. "You know it." Twilight answered landing on a cloud I landed on it as well, we both laid down on it. There was a short pause, "Twilight, I want to ask you a few things, I want you to ask me truthfully what you really think, not how I react?" I asked. She looked at me stating with a raised eye brow, "What is it?" "I wanted to ask you, would you ever consider..." I paused she nodded to continue, "If you wanted to help me govern the state I run for Equestria." "I dunno, there is a lot of things I will need to study... Things that I will need to learn and understand to help you." She paused, "But I will be with you... so yes whats the other questions." "You already answered them." I stated as I kissed her, which was a surprise to her but she accepted it. Far from the couple Spike, Rarity and Celestia where talking and Celestia was watching them with . "So, Love is a strange thing." Spike said. "Oh What ever do you mean?" Rarity wondered. "Ethan came across the stars and farther and could have any pony. He choose to show his love to Twilight, even when they hardly talked some times." Spiked stated with confusion. "Love is something that is strong, it can come out of nowhere and it can appear without warning. Some ponies confuse this with other things that is not." Celestia stated as she head back to her castle. Back to us we just waited here, no books would be able to tell us how we felt on the clouds. The sun started to set in the distance, the spell started to revert its effects. We head down to the ground, as twilight was back to normal when we looked at each other. "Well, I hope that this feeling never ends." Twilight stated. "If it does it will return, without a doubt." I Responded as we head to the library where spike was since Rarity had to head back to her home. Spike was placing books away, It was late and time to for me to head off. "I see you again Twilight" I stated as she quickly kissed me which made spike fall off the ladder again and having a few books land on him. "Ouch..." Spike grunted from the books landing on him. "Oh Spike are you ok?" Twilight asked. "I am ok, just fell that's all." Spike Responded. I went ahead and left them, heading to my home in ponyville. I thought to myself, 'I hope I'm not taking advantage of her feelings, I do care for her and love her being around... I am in love, I need to not lose focus on that.' I made home and I saw a few guards at my home. I think more of the unit has made it here, maybe Steel has returned from his vacation. I went into my home to see Steel Grid was there. "Ahh Prince your back." Steel Grid stated happy to see me. "Well you have returned, did you have a good vacation?" I asked. "Yes, I came with some of your guard, which are here now, Their living arrangements have been set and once the castle is built we will move in there." Steel informed me. "Good thing I ensured that the design is made for enough room for the guard and more." I stated. "It seems stone and iron have been doing their duty." Steel wondered. "Very well, they been on their toes since you been away." I stated. "Have they beat you at poker yet?" He asked. "No...yes, they did" I responded, "anyway, I am heading to bed." Heading to bed, heading to sleep still a bit at bliss with what happened today. Getting into my covers and heading to sleep. In a few hours later I heard a crash, I quickly rushed out of bed. Heading to the living room it seems that the yellow rose fell on the ground. "What happened?" I asked. "Sorry prince I bumped your flower off the table here." a guard said. "Get it into something quickly please." I responded as they quickly got another flower pot from the closest. "Why... never mind" stated as I answered my own question. "We stocked up just in case something happens.. be prepared for anything." Stone Wall stated. "how long was I asleep?" I asked. "about 6 hours... ah your mane is messed up." Iron Wall answered as I fixed my mane with my hoof. "Since I am up... any news on the building on my castle?" I asked. "Nothing much changed, It will be done soon." Steel Grid stated coming out of his office. "I wonder how it will look." "You haven't seen it yet?" I asked. "No, when I came back on duty I came here with the new add on to your guard." Steel Grid. "Since I have nothing more to do, me and twilight need to visit the castle anyway." I said. "Great we can get the chariot ready..." Steel Grid stated. "Chariot? I can fly there fine." I responded. "Pulling the chariot is like a high honor, you will let us pull you." Steel grid demanded getting up and close to my face which shocked me. "Ok ok I will get in the chariot." I grunted crossing front legs. We got the chariot together, a few guards where pleased to pull it. We made the way to the library. I still was pretty sour that I won't be able to fly by myself to my castle. "Wow, You didn't need to go out of your way." Twilight said. "Well it wasn't my choice." I grunted which made twilight giggle, which I relaxed. "Is Spike OK?" I asked. "He is still resting, nothing major." Twilight told me. "Good, lets get going." I asked. We took off and I almost fell over, "Hey, I didn't mean to take off that fast." some of the guards grinned. In a minute we made it there, most of the castle was done, and the waterwheel was pretty large but it would produce a lot of flour. Some of the towers where not completed, we could see Rarity working with some of the design teams making it fabulous. "Its looking very good so far." I stated.