Flying is amazing. I mean seriously, it is the most freaking amazing thing in the entire universe. The wind rushing past your face and breezing through your feathers. I circled the school a few times, unaware of the crowd of people that had gathered outside. When I finally noticed them, I could clearly make out the forms of five alicorns. Sam, Mal, Chance, Carissa, and Jacob. I landed in front of them, folding up my wings to mask the bright colors.
"What's going on?" seemed to be the question of the day. I tried to explain to the other alicorns, but the crowd around us drown out my words. Finally, I resorted to using the Royal Canterlot Voice. It seemed appropriate.
"Ponies, be silent! We do not have all day to listen to your ask questions to those who do not know the answer!" I looked over the now silent crowd. "Now please, everypony stay calm, and let me explain to the others what is going on. They can tell you." I turned back to the other alicorns, dropping the voice. "Now, from what I know, we've all been transported to Equestria from the show My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. We're only a few miles from where this show normally takes place. I'm going to go check it out. I want you all to stay here and explain things to these new ponies. Chance, I hope you've been keeping up to date on the show. It might be important." He nodded. "Good. I'll be back soon." I took to the air again, soaring high up above the clouds, hoping to spot the little town from there. I saw it, just a ways over. I pumped my wings, speeding through the air with a scream of joy.
I crash landed on the balcony of a very familiar library. I heard a shout from inside and somepony walked out on the balcony with me. "Rainbow, that's the third time today that you've..." Twilight Sparkle stared at me, and I stared back. I didn't move. I didn't blink. I was petrified with excitement. This was the Twilight Sparkle! One of the Elements of Harmony! I had just crashed into her house. Twilight composed herself before I did. "Um...hello, your majesty. What can I do for you? What region of Equus are you from?"
I stayed stalk still for a moment longer, but finally spoke. "I...uh...I'm not royalty." She seemed taken aback at this. Of course, how many non-royal alicorns could there be?
"But you must be Royalty! Princess Celestia told me that all alicorns are royalty, no matter where they come from." She levitated at book out from the library. "and it says here that if a new alicorn were to up sometime, they would automatically become royalty simply because they are an alicorn. Surely you know this." I shook my head, and shuddered. Royalty? I...I was royalty? And my friends...that would make them royalty too. How are they gonna handle this in Canterlot? Princess Celestia had said that we were equal stature. Maybe that's what she meant. Oh, Celestia...I was gonna be a flipping princess? What in the hoof was Celestia thinking, letting me do something like this? I didn't want to be royalty!
And then, for the second time that day, I fainted. I heard Twilight nearly scream. Well, naturally, what else would she do? Wouldn't you freak out if you saw an immortal alicorn faint right in front of you? I know I would.
I woke up on a bed in the library. It was Twilight's bed. She was pacing back and forth across the room. I sat up on the bed, and she saw me. She sighed with a smile and trotted over to me. "You scared me there, little princess. I didn't know alicorns could faint. Anyway, I never learned your name. Mine's Twilight Sparkle."
"Carmen," I say plainly. She cocked her head. It was obviously an odd name for a pony. I bit my tongue. Maybe I should have made something up? Something to do with...color? Rainbows? "Um...Carmen Color." My lie seemed to satisfy the purple unicorn. I suppose it made sense to have something to do with color, considering my wings. I hopped off the bed and looked up at Twilight. Obviously, being an alicorn didn't make you tall until you were older, so Twilight was still quite a bit taller than me.
"I've never seen an alicorn your age. How old are you?"
"Fourteen."
"Really? I wonder if I have any books on young alicorns...probably not. They're too rare to have books written about them. I'll check anyway, though." Twilight trotted out of the room to the main library. I crept to the balcony and took off back to the school. I was going to have to have a talk to my alicorn companions. I looked over the little town of Ponyville, and was just about out of the place's sight when a rainbow blur knocked me from the sky.
Rainbow Dash held on to me by the wings, which hurt, and sped back towards Ponyville. I kicked at her, trying to break free. I had to get my friends. "Rainbow! Let go of me!" She was startled that I knew her name and stopped accelerating towards the town. She let go of me and I flapped my wings hard to gain a little altitude. "What are you doing?"
"Bringing you back to Twilight's. She said she was watching a little princess and I was supposed to make sure she didn't run away." I groaned. Twilight probably told all her friends about me.
"I'm not running away. I'm going back." I sped away from Rainbow, but she caught up quickly.
"Going back? Where's back?" She leisurely gilded beside me. I sighed, putting on a burst of speed. Celestia's Sun cast its light on my wings, throwing a spectrum of colors across the sky. Rainbow gasped. "Hey, kid! Slow down! I got something to tell ya!" I stopped and turned around.
"What?" The cyan pegasus pointed at my flank. I turned around and squealed in delight! It was my cutie mark! It wasn't a pencil or paper or a quill, though. That's what I would've expected. No, the mark that adorned my flank was something very unexpected, though quite obvious at the same time. Like Rainbows cutie mark, it had a cloud, but instead of the trademarked lightning bolt, all I had was a simple rainbow. Even though I was a bit disgruntled at it, I was too happy to realize that I had no idea what it meant. I sped away from Rainbow, towards my school, a trail of faint chromatic light following in my wake.
Somewhere nearby, though I didn't know it, Celestia was watching me. She smiled at the sight of the rainbow trail. "It won't be long now, mother," she said to herself, "Our family is finally returning to us."