Twist Ending: The Creator
Chapter 30
Bittersweet Reunion
It had been a long day. The process of trying to keep some memories before Luna turns back into 'the other Luna' isn't really that simple. The little princess could tell that the older princess had done her job for the night, so she had gone and done hers.
On her way back from raising the moon, Princess Luna thought it would be fun to mess with Tia. This should be good for a few laughs. Going back to her room first, Luna got some things to use in this 'fun.'
The little princess walked to the older princess's room, trying to be very, very quiet. She was at the doorway, she peeked in, and saw her sister standing at the bedside with a scroll and something else.
This was perfect! Tia wouldn't suspect a thing!
BANG! BANG! POP! POP! “BRAWARRR!” As Luna popped in, two poppers popped, and two noisy party favors sounded. Lots of smoke and confetti.
Tia jumped, and before she spoke, she set the letter down on the bed and the other things under her pillow. “Ahh, Lu-, what are you-?”
“Hey, what's that?” The little princess got close to the bed.
Tia looked as if she was trying to hide the pillow and show the rolled up scroll. “Oh, just a letter from Twilight Sparkle. She was report-”
“No, not the letter. What are you hiding under the pillow?” The moon princess used magic to grab the unknown objects, trying to beat her sister to it. It didn't really take her close examination to know what it was. To know what they were. Moon rocks.
“Why did you do that Lulu?”
“Why did you hid them from me, Celestia? How did you get these?” Luna's eyes moved to the letter. She darted over to read it as quickly as she could. It was a short letter. “Who is 'The Great Unknown?' How did this pony get moon rocks?”
Celestia looked down. She needed to think, and when she got her thoughts together, she looked up again. “I didn't know how you react to the rocks. I had a thought, but didn't know for sure myself on just where the rocks came from.”
Luna just eyed the paper and alien stones.
“So now that you have seen them, how is it that you feel about it? Do you want to talk about it?”
Luna seemed a little confused, both by her sister's question, and her own feelings. “Happy... and... scared. I love the moon, and am happy that I can touch it, even it it is a little piece of it. But then again, I'm scared. Why would a pony go to the moon and get this... for me or anypony? How would this pony be able to do that, and live? Is this a warning, or a gift?”
Tia looks at the scroll and back at her little sister. “I think it may be a gift.”
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An aging unicorn maked a trip to a far off town as per request by Princess Celestia. The unicorn hated having to leave the classroom to a sub, but this just sounded like so much fun. It had been ages since she had done anything like this, and the royal guards not able to escort the old instructor made it that much more fun. She could take in the sight more and learn more by walking than flying in a chariot.
The purple unicorn was done with her mini mission, and was on her way back. Going into a town, she sees a slightly worn statue. It looked a little... unusual and scary. A plaque notes that it was in honor of one her dear old friends. If she only know how long ago this was. It looked a bit old.
Entering into the nearby forest, the instructor has memories of her librarian days. She forgot what path it was that she had taken, but knew the general direction to take. On her trip down memory lane, the mare finds a shiny metal home. An entirely metal house.
Intrigued, she goes and investigated it. The thing that seems the most bizarre, is that such a small house has a door bell. Could there be more... 'house'... inside the hill?
The unicorn presses the button, and waits a few seconds. She first hears some rustling and yelling. After a few more seconds, there was a sound as if there was shocking going on, and cries of pain.
A muffled voice could be heard yelling, even over the cries. “Didn't I tell you... Move you plot! … Do you want... to you?! … Bumbling buffoon!!”
The magic instructor backs up from the door, not sure what to inspect.
The door opens, and the unicorn can see that there is another room behind the white pony before her. A quilt-like pony tries to leave the room only to be zapped. “How are you to-” started the white pony with no mane and tail.
“Can it be?” asked the unicorn with widened eyes.
“Twilight, it's been a while. Come in... oh just this room,” ushered the pony.
“It's been so many years, how can I even express-?” Twilight's words seemed to cut off by her thoughts.
“Come in, come in. Let's talk. It's been a while, right?” The pony took a seat at a small table away from the doors and pointed to an empty chair.
The aging instructor went inside, taking another look at the stallion who was getting shocked again. Still gaping at the sites she was seeing, Twilight Sparkle asks, “Inn, why do you look like that?” When Twilight had last seen her friend, they were about the same age. Now Inn looked to be an older friend of Twilight's daughter.
Inn looked as if she was trying to force a smile. “Ah, can you tell me how long it's been since I left?”
“Are you not going to answer me? Well fine, I think it's been twenty, thirty years? Why?”
“Oh, that long.” Just then The fake smile went away.
It looks like Inn is a little upset that she didn't have some sort of 'gift' worked out. “You don't need to show me a fake version of yourself, just show me you.”
“I am. This is how old I am. I bet Rarity would kill for these looks right?” Inn gave a forced laugh at her joke.
“Hello I'm-” the quilt-like stallion started, only to be cut off by being shocked, again. Is he dumb?
Inn turned around to look at him, she used magic to push him back and shut the door. “Moonstone drives me crazy!” Inn peered down at the table and then up at the cabinets next to it. “Want some water?”
Twilight looked at the cabinets behind her and then said, “Sure, why not?”
Inn was almost done getting everything ready when she asked, “So, why are you here? What brings you into the forest this time?”
As Inn asked this question, something clicked in Twilight Sparkle's mind. “I had a little something to do for the princess and it required me to travel. I was on my way back to Ponyville actually.” Twilight eyed her metallic cup of water. “Say, Inn... why water?”
Inn looked down at her cup, keeping her eyes away from Twilight Sparkle's. “What?”
“Don't you normally serve tea?”
Inn took a little while to answer. “Let's not talk about that.”
“Okay then, how about you explain why you're here?”
“Later.”
“Why you left?”
“Not now.”
“Why aren't you stuttering... are you-?”
“Let's make a deal.”
“What?”
Inn looked up and had given a big hopeful smile. “I've wanted to know more about what is going on out there, can you say what is up with you girls first? After that, I'll answer any question you have.”
The magical instructor stood in protest. “But I'm-”
Inn turns her head slightly. “How does this sound? I'll give you something that you maybe thinking about asking first. Is that okay?”
“But, but...” Twilight Sparkle just sighed and took her seat. “Okay, it's a deal.”
“You want to know why that stallion is always getting shocked right?”
“Yes, I think it's a barrier though.”
Inn looked back at Twilight, and has a big grin on her face. “It is. I made it. Don't go past, the most dangerous things there are me and him. The entire house, which is very big, is made to have two barriers, one for me and him, and one for him. This way I can't kill monsters and he can’t kill... anything but me.”
“What?! You don't have to go to such extremes for that!” Twilight took a few deep breaths and then said, “Wait, you made the barriers?”
“Yup.”
“But, making such barriers is so...”
“It was easy. I can teach some time If you like,” Inn said with a smile that made her look as if she was bragging.
“Why did you do it? What does he kill?”
Inn looked away again. “Later.”
“Fine!” Twilight turned her head way too and they sat in silence for a few minutes. “Ponyville has changed a lot. In fact, I'm now a teacher at a high level education institution there. I teach magic, naturally!”
Inn looks back at her friend. “Sounds like you.”
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Sever hours go by, and Twilight tells all she can to Inn. They shared laughs at some of the funny things that seem to always happen. They had a good time, but Twilight Sparkle still wanted her answers.
Twilight looks at her empty cup and then turns to Inn. “So, I told you all I can think of... are you going to keep you end of the bargain?”
Inn turns her back to Twilight Sparkle. “Oh, yea, sure.”
“Where did you get this rock from?” The unicorn levitates a rock out of her bags. “You gave me this along time ago. A note said that you got it... I guess not here on Earth.”
Inn's eye's lit up. “Yes, that right! Can you guess where I got them from?”
“No! That's why I'm asking.”
“The moon.”
“What?!”
Inn looked pleased by the shock. “It wasn't that bad of a flight. It was just tiring... and not that good of an idea..”
“What?!”
“Yea, I almost died due to overuse of magic.”
“That's not possible!”
“It is for me.”
“No, you'd faint first.”
“Not me, not all the time.”
Twilight was at a loss of words, and started to think of what to change the topic to. Hesitantly, the purple mare asks, “So, why don't you stutter any more? Are you using another's personality?”
“No. It's me. Being around that pain in the plot Doctor is what I think got me to stop stuttering.”
“Why do you look that way? You know young?”
“This one... is hard.” Inn stood up and got close to Twilight. Inn lit a horn and then touched it on Twilight's head. “Okay, we are 'talking' with our minds now. If Moonstone is eavesdropping, then he won't be able to listen to us now.”
Twilight was a little startled by this. She wasn't just good at magic, she taught it. This was new to her. There was a dark world where the two could see one another and not worry about their physical actions being seen.
Inn, in the mental world, got closed the wide gap between them. “I have lost count. If I had to guess, I'd say it's at least seven times now. I do know of one, bloody, gory, and both messy and clean time for sure.”
“What? What are you talking about?” Twilight was taking a few steps back.
“The times I have died at the hooves of that stallion you saw in the other room.” Inn looked away unable to keep eye contact as she finally said it.
“What?! That's imp-”
“He does like his most wondrous creation to live... but it is in his nature to kill to learn. He knows it is useless to have me dead to learn why I can use magic... but again it is in his nature.”
“This doesn't make sense.” Twilight took a step closer to Inn.
“He made me. He didn't mean for all of what I am to be, and that make him curious. When he is curious he kills. Simple enough. That's him. All I can say is, we are both dangerous, he is the bigger threat.”
Taking two more steps, Twilight Sparkle says, “No, you aren't a threat!”
“I won a fight against ten thousand monsters and was tempted to kill after I had just gotten my resolution to not kill anything ever again. At the point that I had thought I won, I made a threat, it was meant to only be a threat, but it sounded so good, I almost just slaughtered them all. It was a long and draining fight. I may have just been exhausted, but that's no acceptable excuse. I.. I..”
Twilight had gone to her friends side. “You are far better than him, and even yourself from back then.”
Inn looks up at Twilight's comforting face. “Thanks. It's nice to hear.”
“So why did you lock yourself up with him?”
“We have both done crimes, and I am his creation. I thought it was either this or kill him. He had been punished before, and look where that got him.”
The aging mare gave a forced smile. “Well, that is the better of the two options.”
Inn looked a little bit down, just not as much as before. She seemed to perk up as she ask, “Have you heard where or not the princesses liked my gift to them?”
“No, I never even heard of you giving them a gift before.”
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Celestia was making her way to her room, it was time for her to go to bed. She was almost to her room, when a bright smoky poof dropped something on her head. Shocked, Celestia took a step back and looked down at the object. A scroll. Going by how heavy it was when she was hit by it, she can tell that it has something inside.
As Celestia unrolled the scroll, two rocks fell out. The note read:
Princesses,
Got you two a rock. Hard to get. Lulu knows where they're from.
Enjoy.
The Great Unknown
Celestia levitates the rocks up close to examine them. Who is this 'The Great Unknown'? How is it that these rocks are hard to get?
Celestia ponders this as she walks to her chambers. Just she was about to lay down on the bed, she thinks of some other good questions. Why would Luna know about these rocks. “Are these-?”
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It had been a long day. The process of trying to keep some memories before Luna turns back into 'the other Luna' isn't really that simple. The little princess could tell that the older princess had done her job for the night, so she had gone and done hers.
On her way back from raising the moon, Princess Luna thought it would be fun to mess with Tia. This should be good for a few laughs. Going back to her room first, Luna got some things to use in this 'fun.'
The little princess walked to the older princess's room, trying to be very, very quiet. She was at the doorway, she peeked in, and saw her sister standing at the bedside with a scroll and something else.
This was perfect! Tia wouldn't suspect a thing!
BANG! BANG! POP! POP! “BRAWARRR!” As Luna popped in, two poppers popped, and two noisy party favors sounded. Lots of smoke and confetti.
Tia jumped, and before she spoke, she set the letter down on the bed and the other things under her pillow. “Ahh, Lu-, what are you-?”
“Hey, what's that?” The little princess got close to the bed.
Tia looked as if she was trying to hide the pillow and show the rolled up scroll. “Oh, just a letter from Twilight Sparkle. She was report-”
“No, not the letter. What are you hiding under the pillow?” The moon princess used magic to grab the unknown objects, trying to beat her sister to it. It didn't really take her close examination to know what it was. To know what they were. Moon rocks.
“Why did you do that Lulu?”
“Why did you hid them from me, Celestia? How did you get these?” Luna's eyes moved to the letter. She darted over to read it as quickly as she could. It was a short letter. “Who is 'The Great Unknown?' How did this pony get moon rocks?”
Celestia looked down. She needed to think, and when she got her thoughts together, she looked up again. “I didn't know how you react to the rocks. I had a thought, but didn't know for sure myself on just where the rocks came from.”
Luna just eyed the paper and alien stones.
“So now that you have seen them, how is it that you feel about it? Do you want to talk about it?”
Luna seemed a little confused, both by her sister's question, and her own feelings. “Happy... and... scared. I love the moon, and am happy that I can touch it, even it it is a little piece of it. But then again, I'm scared. Why would a pony go to the moon and get this... for me or anypony? How would this pony be able to do that, and live? Is this a warning, or a gift?”
Tia looks at the scroll and back at her little sister. “I think it may be a gift.”