//------------------------------// // Chapter IV - Meeting a legend. // Story: A Legend Returns // by 654_nosneb //------------------------------// It was 7:00 AM on ponyville, and Twilight Sparkle was sleeping on her castle's bedroom very peacefully. For one time in a long time, she didn't stay awake at night to read a book, she didn't had to go to other city to solve a friendship problem, no major issues were going on on ponyville, and princess Celestia didn't send any... "Twilight! Twilight! Wake up!" said his faithful assistant. "I just erupted a letter from the princess!" ...letter. "Ugh, Spike, what did you say?" said the purple alicorn while trying to wake up. "Sorry, I wasn't listening." "A letter from princess Luna!" shouted Spike. "I was sleeping, when I erupted this letter with the moon seal instead of the sun's seal, so I guess is from princess Luna." "Princess Luna!?" asked the alicorn jumping off the bed. "Writing me a letter? That's weird. She never send me a letter before, you think something happened to princess Celestia!?" "Well, let's see. Ehem." the young dragon cleared his voice before breaking the moon seal on the roll, and started reading it. "Dear princess Twilight. Yesterday something unexpected, but wonderful happened. A very old friend of me and my sister appeared suddenly in our land. You know this 'person' in the legends by the name of 'William Tyler', and before you ask, yes, he is the one from the legends. Although me and my sister were extremely happy to see him again, one of my interventions to his dreams revealed that he is going through a lot of sadness. I'll certainly appreciate if you could came here to Canterlot with your friends so you can cheer him up. Also don't forget to bring as many history books as you can. He asked me to give him all the information of what happened in all this years he wasn't with us. Also, if you have any doubts, I'll be more than happy to answer them face to face. Luna. P D Fluttershy is already here, so don't worry about her." Twilight's brain stopped working for a moment, William! The William from the legend! If this was true, everything that she theorized about equestria's formation was wrong, humans existed...or exist, and the greatest hero of the whole world needed her help! "I don't get it." the dragon spoke. "Who is this 'William'?" "Who is William!?" replied the mare. "Nopony reads books anymore!? William is a hero from a legend even older than equestria's formation! In that legend we ponies came from humans, a magic-less species, but with an incredible well developed technology! He saved the world from one of their kind, that kidnapped and tortured Celestia and Luna when they where just fillies! And wanted to use their magic to shape the world at his will. But then William came, and since he was a pure soul, Luna gave her magic to him so he could face him and save the world from his tyranny. "And who was that evil human?" asked Spike. "Well...the legend is not clear with that part, as well as so many others like, how exactly ponies descend from humans? what happened to their technology? Or what happened to William?, I honestly never believed that that legend was true beacouse of all those inconsistencies. But if princess Luna is calling me and my friends to meet him that means that he is real! REAL!" shouted the princess. "So... I should call the girls or..." "Yes! Call them!" spoke Twilight cheerfully. "Go and search for Rarity and Pinkie, I'll go to Applejack and Rainbow Dash. We'll meet at the the castle!" said the princess flying away from her room at a tremendous speed. "Wait, NOW!?" asked Spike. "Yes now!" shouted the alicorn from the distance. "I'm gonna meet William! I'm gonna meet William!..." "Well then." said the dragon, only wishing to return to sleep. "This William should be really important. I never saw Twilight so altered beacouse of a legend, since the time we first arrived ponyville." William was starting to wake up, and as soon as he watched the castle like decorated roof, he remembered where he was. "Oh no, all of that happened!" said him with a scared voice. "My species is really extinguished, I'm the last human, and my family died a long time ag..." BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! His phone alarm of the morning started to ring at that moment. "Well, I guess my inner clock its still working. Now, time to turn that thing off." He extended his arm to try to reach his cellphone, but before his hand could touch it, a light blue aura enveloped the device, and levitated it into his hand. "What the..." was all William managed to say before remembering that he had magic now. "Oh that's cool! At least not everything is terrible in this situation." he thought while turning off the alarm. He stand up, and tried his new ability on his black coat that he left last night on a nearby chair. It took it some minutes to figure out how to lift it at will, but the satisfaction he had after he saw the levitating coat dressing him, was something that even with his recovered memory, he never experienced before. He went out of the bedroom, and started making his way to the dining room to get breakfast. Last night, Celestia told him that a very good breakfast will be served for him in the morning, and even though the idea of being treated as royalty make him a little uncomfortable, he was still very hungry since the only thing he ate, or drunk in the last 48 hours was a cup of Fluttershy's tea. And he loved to eat a lot of food. He also liked the idea of getting lost in that big palace, he always loved being lost. Mazes, new cities, buildings, all of those kind of places. The idea of exploring, making your way out of those places, the adrenaline, and loosing the fear to the new place. All of those things you normally don't notice when you get lost, it was like an adventure! Besides, he had plenty of time, and if he didn't manage to make it to the dining room, he could always ask to some perso... 'pony' where it was. Yeah there are only ponies on earth now. He tried his best to forget the problem as he walked to the beautiful hallways of the castle. It looked like the castle Celestia draw for him when she was a little colt, the walls, the design, everything, although that drawing was nothing compared to this building, it was... almost unreal. "So William is real!" shouted Pinkie pie. "And he is here on equestria! He is like the greatest hero of all times! I need to make him a party! I need to bring him gifts! I need to..." "Calm down Pinkie!" spoke Rarity. "He just reappeared after thousands of years, and you wanna scare him with a party!?" "Well, actually, Luna requested us, so we can cheer him up," Twilight spoke, "so I think that a party is not a bad idea, but maybe not today Pinkie." she said while grabbing tons of big volumes about equestrian history, magic, old legends, etc. In her saddlebag. Without her new alicorn magic it would be impossible to carry all of those books in there. "I can't believe it! I can't believe it!" my childhood hero is needing my help!" said Rainbow Dash from above her friends. "I say... our help, he he." "Are you sure this isn't some kind of joke Twilight?" asked Applejack. "From what I heard, he is just that, a legend." "I don't think so," Twilight responded, "look at what was included on the letter!" she shouted while levitating a photo of William alongside the princesses and Fluttershy. "Whoa! Let me see! Let me see!" shouted the hyperactive pink mare. "Oh! He looks exactly like the legends!" At this, the cowpony froze for a moment, before returning to its senses. "So what are we waiting!" spoke the orange mare. "Let's go and meet him!" William was still wandering through the castle, admiring the architecture, the roof, the floor, the windows, the... stained glasses? Oh, they were unexpected, but welcomed. They seemed to tell parts of this ponies history, although he didn't recognize almost any of the images, one of them caught his attention. It was of a pony similar to Luna, but more scary, being blasted away by another six ponies. "Maybe that was the tantabus." he thought. He continued his exploration through the castle, trying not to think on the problem, when he heard a very authoritarian and royal-like voice calling him from behind. "Hey you!" a white unicorn shouted from behind. "Could I know what a bipedal monster is doing on my castle?" William turned himself to be face to face with the stallion. "Um, this... I was just trying to find the dining room" William said on a low voice. "Creatures like you are not allowed on my castle!" spoke the blond, white stallion. "I'm prince Blueblood! Nephew of princess Celestia! How did you get in?" "Well, mr. Blueblood, in fact Celestia was the one that let me stay here last night, so I guess tha..." "Liar! Liar! She'll never let in a creature like you! Now get out of my sight before I call the guards!" "But I'm telling the truth!" said William. "Listen mr. I understand that my appearance could be a little weird for ponies, but that doesn't give you the right to... HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" William was lifted by the stallion's magic, and began to fly to a nearby window. "This will teach you to respect your superiors!" shouted Blueblood. "Now return to the dark forest from where you came from! Stupid creature!" "PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME DOWN!" William was shouting with no response from the stallion. "I SAID, PUT ME DOWN!" he shouted, as he fired blue magical beams directly to Blueblood's position, which make him fly to the other part of the hallway, and crash into a window. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" shouted the stallion as he fell to the castle gardens. "Ups." said William as he returned to the ground. Fluttershy was at the castle gardens, re-meeting the animals that were there. She had a little bit of time before taking breakfast with William and the princesses, and she wanna use that time apologizing to all the animals there beacouse of the night of the grand galloping gala. "I'm so sorry for what I did that night my friends. All that pressure of having the greatest night possible turned me into a monster. And I'm really sorry for all that chaos I was responsible of creating." "AHHHHH! UFF!" said Blueblood as he crashed on the floor of the castle gardens. "Oh Celestia!" shouted the mare softly. "What are you doing Blueblood!?" "That monster! That stupid bipedal! He has no respect for his superiors! I'm gonna call the..." he said before fainting into the ground. "Wait, bipedal? Could it be?" she thought as she began to lift the ground, and fly to the broken window. "William!" she shouted. "What happened!?" "He attacked me! Grabbed me with magic, and then I... well, blast him away accidentally." he said a little ashamed of himself. "I saw that, but how?" "Well... did you remember that Luna gave me half of her magic." "Oh that's why." said Fluttershy with a laugh. "Oh and don't worry about him, it was just one floor, he'll survive. Also he kind of deserves it beacouse of the idiot he is." "Oh so he is like that to everypony. But wait it's Celestia's nephew! so that means..." "No no no no, it's not that, he is kind of adopted." "Oh I see." William spoke. "Sorry for asking, but, Did you know where's the dining room?" Celestia and Luna were waiting for William and/or Fluttershy to appear to have breakfast. They didn't wanna disturb William's sleep, since for his point of view, he didn't sleep in about 30 hours, so they waited patiently. Then they patience was rewarded. "And here is the dining room" said Fluttershy as William entered inside. "Thank you Fluttershy." said the human. "Good morning Tia! Good morning Luna!" "Good morning William!" said Celestia. "I can see that your memory has returned." "Yes, thank you for that." "It was nothing," Luna spoke, "now, if your memory returned you'll certainly remember this!" she said while pointing a hoof to a plate full of pancakes with honey. "Those are for me!?" asked William, this was his favorite breakfast. "Really?" "Yes." answered Celestia. "Since you don't eat hay, and the royal chefs didn't know how to make pancakes without it, I had to make them personally." "What!? You don't eat hay?" asked Fluttershy. "Nope, no human could without getting an indigestion." he answered. "Well, I think that we are all very hungry now, so let's eat!" Celestia spoke. William took a seat, and immediately started the assault on his pancakes. They were exactly the way he used to make them for Tia and Luna, when they were colts. "It seems that somepony learned how to cook." William said while devouring his food. "Well, I learned from the best chef ever." Celestia said with a smile on her face. William taught her how to cook years ago, and she always wanted to thank him for that. Maybe this was the best way she could, since William loved eating. "Also, may I tell you something that happened on my way here?" The four of them continued eating and chatting with a renewed joy, until somepony entered the room screaming his words. "Aunt Celestia! Aunt Celestia!" shouted Blueblood as he entered the room. "You gotta help me! There is a monster in the castle! He tried to attack me! He tried to..." he stopped talking as soon as he noticed William. "There it is! There it is! He wants to steal our food! He wants to..." "Enough Blueblood!" Celestia shouted. "He already told me the truth. How dare you to treat our closest friend like that!" "Your closest friend!?" asked the stallion with fear in his voice. "He is William." Luna spoke. With this new information, the expression on Blieblood's face changed to one of absolute horror. "W-Wi-William!?" he spoke. "There it goes my name again."William thought, he didn't like to see his name used to cause fear, even if that idiot deserves it, so he spoke. "Don't worry mr." William quickly said. "As long as you apologize, I see no problem on forgiving you." "Oh y-yes sir, I-I'm tr-truly sorry for what I did." he spoke. "It wasn't m-me. If you can excuse me I'll leave you alone with the princesses." he said as he quickly escaped from the room. "You'll let him leave!?" Luna spoke. "After how he treated you!?" "Luna, you know that revenge isn't my style." "BUT IT'S SURELY MY STYLE!" shouted Owlen from William subconcious, although not even him was able to hear him. Twilight and her friends were arriving at Canterlot's castle at 12:05 P M, all of them very excited to meet William, but also worried about him. "Princess Luna stated on her letter that he is going through a very hard time," Rarity spoke, "what do you think that happened to him?" "Honestly, I don't know Rarity." Twilight answered. "But since we are the elements of harmony, I think that we could help him!" They entered the castle, and followed luna's instructions at the P P D to meet with her and William at the throne room at 12:20 P M. They were extremely excited about this moment, specially Rainbow, that was about to meet his childhood hero, the only being in equestria that she considered more awesome than herself, although she would never admit it. They entered the throne room, and then, they saw him. William. It was just as the legends described him; black hair, bipedal figure, very very tall, and with his black coat. He was at the throne room with Luna, apparently waiting for them. For a minute, nopony said a word that would kill the the delicate silence, until Twilight spoke up. "Oh my Celestia! Is William!"