How I Became an Alicorn
Prologue: The Question Asked…
Ponyville was a quiet little town; it was only about an hour away from Canterlot Equestria’s capitol city and home to the two regal rulers Celestia and Luna. But inside the small town’s only Library on this early morning a certain teenage Alicorn found herself un able to sleep.
The girl was about seventeen years old and her skin was about as pale as you can get without physically glowing, her jet black hair was currently tied back in a messy ponytail and her slitted green eyes were scanning the Library’s book catalog while the crest on her forehead glowed with a black aura that looked light the starry night sky, directed hundreds of scattered books into their place. Two large black wings that came out of her grey night shirt were stretching after being hidden away for so long. Her ears heard some faint stumbling from upstairs where her mother had retired a few hours before and a hoot from their precarious owl assistant, who was perched a few feet away from her reading a book she didn’t know the name of, confirmed that her mother was in fact coming down the stairs.
Warm amethyst eyes settled on her as she turned to face her mother. Twilight sparkle was a woman of average height, she had long dark violet hair that had one lavender and one hot pink streak running through it, her skin was darker than her daughters but only because she was born with a natural tan that despite her shut in bookwormy nature stayed with her all her life. Her sleeping gown that went all the way down to her knees was lavender with an embroidery that matched her cutiemark on its chest, given to her years ago by one of her best friends in an attempt to add SOME kind of style to her rather dreadful choice in sleepwear, and like her daughter she too possesed both the magical crest of a Unicorn and two lavender wings that were currently streched outwards as she yawned.
“Nyx, it’s almost two in the morning… I thought you said the insomnia went away…” she yawned as she walked over to her daughter. The girl smiled a bit and canceled her spell as the last of the books found their place.
“It has… for the most part anyways. But I couldn’t get to sleep tonight because I kept having images of the party I know Aunt Pinkie is planning… mother is she really going to launch me out of that cannon for my birthday…?” she asked reffering to earlier yesterday when said pink haired way-too-energetic-for-someone-who’s-almost-forty woman had stopped her while she was out with her three best friends and announced the plans for her 18th birthday party the very next day. She shuddered. Twilight chuckled and reached up to pat her daughter’s head.
“I doubt it Nyx, you know she’s just really enthusiastic about partying, it is her special talent you know.” Twilight reminded her. Nyx smiled ever so slightly at that and her wings folded neatly behind her back. She sat down on the couch that centered the main living area and sighed.
“Sorry I woke you up with all that spell casting… but you know how restless I get at night… sometimes I wonder how you all can even sleep through it.” she laughed quietly. “At least Dash managed to convince her that having it at the royal palace would be a bad idea… I mean I know Tia and Luna have both long forgiven me for all that but I just get the weirdest glares from all the servants around the palace. Like I’m gonna just dawn the helmet and reign back over them like some kind of maniac… again.” She sighed. Her mother placed gentle strokes along her back and smiled as she wrapped a protective wing around her daughter.
“Nyx, come on now… you know you would never do something like that. You aren’t controlled by your past. And if they can’t see that,”
“Then they aren’t worth my time I know mom…” Nyx giggled with a warm smile casted at the older Alicorn. Something clicked in her head for a second and an even bigger smile crossed her face. “So… I’m eighteen now right…?” she asked with a smirk that she picked up from Sweetie after the incident years ago with Bloom’s cousin Babs. Twilight visibly shuddered.
“Y-yes dear… this is exactly thirteen years that you have been living with me and Spike… and you were about five when we found you so… okay, I’m ordering it. Wipe that smirk off your face, you know it gives me the chills… I swear, If I ever catch Sweetie giving you acting lessons again…” she muttered. Nyx chuckled and just grinned instead of the intimidating smirk.
“You’re missing my point mom, do you remember a couple months after I had officially moved in…? Right after we got back from making amends with Uncle Shiny and Aunt Cadence…?” she asked her mother slowly nodded as she closed her eyes to think for a bit.
“Yes… because I remember we got the letter a week later that Cadence was pregnant and I had to fly all the way back to the Crystal empire just to give your Uncle a beat down for not telling me while I was there…” she mused. Nyx giggled at that, she hadn’t been there but she had heard her uncle took until her cousin was actually born to fully recover.
“Do you remember what I asked you after all that…? And you told me to ask you again when I was eighteen…?” Nyx prompted. She saw her mother’s eyes light up in realization and then she smiled and chuckled closing her eyes softly.
“Yes… I do remember… well, I’m not going back to sleep any time soon it doesn’t look like you will either… let me make some tea real quick and then you can ask me.” She noted as she stood up from the couch and walked towards the kitchen. Nyx repressed a groan.
“Mom… tea means this is going to get long and detailed… You know I love stories but exactly how long is this going to take…?” she asked walking with her. then she saw her mother pull out a kettle that was almost as big as she was and she facepalmed right there. “I’ll go get the sleeping bags…”
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When the tea was done and they were cuddled into the sleeping bags on the floor of the library. Owlicious had left to go find his breakfast and Nyx was sipping at her steaming tea when her mother gave her a curt nod.
“So… how exactly did you become an Alicorn...?"