//------------------------------// // Don't disrespect a god // Story: The alicorn of time // by Mrchibivampire //------------------------------// Celestia opens one of the doors inside the upper level of Canterlot castle; she looks back at me still enjoying a very comfortable royal ride on her back. “This is your chamber I hope you will find it suitable during your stay here.” I levitate myself of her back and float myself to the center of the room in order to get a better look at what it has to offer. There are a lot of bookshelves filled with all kinds of different books; sadly I have already read every book in existence thought the eyes of the authors the moment they were written so I doubt I will get much entertainment out of them. The entirety of the floor is engulfed by a rug, a very soft rug I must add It’s unnecessary fluffy though but I would lie if I said that I did not enjoy it. There is a white crib in the corner of the room close to a window, once I noticed the crib I’m starting to realize that this whole room is a nursery created for the proper caring of foals. How ironic, I don’t know what Celestia has planned for me but if she thinks I’m going to be her new toy she will be in for the surprise of her lifetime. Celestia walks in front of me and crouches down so low that her chin is literally on the floor, she is obviously doing this because she wants to be able to look me in the eyes as she speaks to me. That is respectful and I appreciate the extra effort, she could simple have levitate me to her eye-level but she is a well-mannered young mare who respects her elders “So do you like it?” I focus and my eyes start to glow as I link our minds together so we can communicate telepathically. “Considering the circumstances I must say that it is a pleasant room and I do like the incredible fluffy rug. But don’t think that I somehow missed out on the fact that this is a nursery, I hope that you’re not planning any funny business. But I assume that it’s simple a way of keeping up appearance since I look like a foal.” “Oh that reminds me I’m going to bring your caretaker in here to meet you.” Celestia said walking towards the door. “Caretaker? That fells a little bit overkill. But I guess she doesn’t want anything unnecessary to happen. If everypony in the castle knew my true identity rumors would most likely start spreading, so I guess this is the easier way around this whole ordeal.” I think to myself. We are then interrupted by a knocking on the door and Princess Luna is poking her head inside the room.“Sister, it was to our understanding that thy left the castle in order to bring the god of time to the castle. So please do explain to us, why you are inside this old nursery when we have so much to prepare?” “Luna great timing I would like you to meet the God of ti…….” Celestia stops herself mid-sentence and looks down at me and gives me a blank stare. I tilt my head slightly to the left and give her a similar stare. “Judging by your confused look I assume that you have a question. Just spit it out, I assure you that there is no question you could possible ask that would make me feel insulted.” “What is your name? I doubt that you want us to call you by title the entirety of you stay.” I sever our telepathic link for a brief moment “A name…. Hmm I have been called many things during my existence. But I have never really had a real name now that I think about it.” My eyes once again light up as I repair our telepathic connection. “I don’t have an official name so feel free to make something up dear.” Celestia quickly looks around the room and her eyes stop on the old clock in the corner. “As I was saying Luna I would like you to meet Clockwork, the Alicorn of time.” “I focus my magic and my eyes start to glow and I slowly bring my hooves together.” “Time Stop” 13:28.18 I levitate myself to eye-level with the frozen Celestia and stares into her lifeless eyes and sighs. “Clockwork…. Really Celestia…. Sigh. But I guess I did bring this upon myself. Anyway how hard can it be to come up with a more decent name?” Well since literally I have all the time in the world at the moment, I might as well try to figure out a name for myself. Cronos… No that is too generic, Timelord perhaps…. Nope, Dawnstar…. Decent but It got no relation whatsoever to what I do or who I ‘am, Father Time….I don’t think I can pull that name of due to obvious reasons, Time Turner…. Damn it! There is a common pony with that name and I refuse to share names with a mortal.Wow this is a lot trickier than I first anticipated. Perhaps I should use the first name the mortals ever bestowed upon me. Tempus Custos…. It sounds a little old fashioned I guess. But anything is better than freaking; Clockwork that name is “raspberry sound.” Once back on the ground I reverse time slightly before I slowly bring my hooves together. “Time reverse and play” 13:27.03 “Luna great timing I would like you to meet the God of ti…….” Celestia stops herself midsentence and looks down at me and gives me a blank stare. I tilt my head slightly to the left and give her a similar stare. Judging by your confused look I assume that you have a question. Just spit it out, I assure you that there is no question you could possible ask that would make me feel insulted.” “What is your name? I doubt that you want us to call you by title the entire time.” “My name is Tempus Custos I’m surprised that you never asked it of me earlier.” Celestia blushes slightly due to the embarrassment of not knowing my name. Luna looks at us a little confused I guess I would have the same look on my face if I saw my sister asking a foal about its name. But that could never happen to me since I don’t have a sister. “Sister what are you doing? Why is there a foal here? Could you please explain this to me?” “Sigh as I was saying, Luna I would like you to meet the Alicorn of time, Tempus Custos” Celestia smiles and points a hoof at me. I cook my head to the left and wave my hoof lazily towards her general direction. Luna slowly walks up to me, she then crouches down to my level and stares at me for a good 23:07 seconds. After that little stare contest Luna gets back up and walks towards her sister she then looks her in the eyes with a mix of disappointment and annoyance. “Sister we were not born yesterday, we are not so gullible that we will fall for such a pathetic attempt to fool us. There is no way this obviously ill foal can be a god! The poor thing looks so weak and powerless that a baby bunny could probably best it in combat and to top it all of judging by its appearance the poor thing is deadly ill. Its color drained coat, lifeless mane, obvious sings of undernourishment and its eyes look so faded and dull that it makes it hard to believe that the poor thing can even think straight! We are surprised that you would bring such a fragile child here only in an attempt to fool us when the poor thing is in need of some serious medical treatment.” Luna suddenly felt very cold so cold that she was unable to keep her eyes open; she fell lifeless to the floor and passed out. Once she awoken she felt warm and comfortable but to such an extent that she was unable to remember the last time she felt this relaxed. Every passing second she heard a strange beating noise Luna was curios to what the noise could be so she tried opening her eyes but to no effect she could not feel her eyelids, for that matter she could not fell anything not her legs, wings or anything else that she could normally control. Luna was starting to panic she wanted to scream but she were unable to produce a single sound she was unable to move even a single muscle and the betting noise was getting louder and more frequent. “Felling weak and helpless?” a voice unfamiliar to Luna said. She was scared she had never felt so powerless before she had never felt like this in her entire life her mind was shutting down and she lost consciousness. Luna regained her consciousness only to witness Ponyville in flames. She was standing in the middle of the town surrounded by flames; the sound of ponies running for their lives was so loud that it was drowning out the sounds of the roaring flames. A young mare running for her life bumped into Luna, The young mare bounced of Luna and landed hard on her behind. Luna wanted to run and help the mare escape the flames but she was once again unable to control her body. She walked slowly over to the mare and started choking the mare with her magic. The mare was gasping for air and squirming like a worm impaled on a fishing hook. Luna slowly brought the mare to her eyelevel she flashed a wicked smile “Dos thou love the night?” Luna said with a voice so cold that even the flames of Tartarus would have died out. The mare was unable to say anything she only cried. Luna then snapped the mare’s neck she threw the body into the fire and watched in glee as the body was burned to a crisp. Luna took a deep breath and licked her lips savoring the smell; it’s not every day a mare is burned in front of you. She walked to the center of Ponyville she laughed out pure joy and delight she was enjoying the slaughter around her, she raised her hooves high into the air and slammed them hard into the ground. Everything around her was enveloped in a gray matter which oozed from beneath her hooves. Luna was screaming at the top of her lungs crying and begging for this nightmare to end but anything she tried had no effect she was powerless to watch and experience everything whatever her five senses could pick up, The smell of burning corpses, the sound of ponies screaming in pure terror, the felling of snapping that mare’s neck, the taste of smoke and brimstone and the sight of the once beautiful village which was now burning to the ground. A bright light descended from skies and the flames were put out, Celestia had arrived in Ponyville and she was pissed. "SISTER HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? YOU WERE FINALLY FREED FROM THIS CORRUPTION WHY WOULD YOU EMBRACE IT ONCE MORE!?!” The heat escaping Celestia’s mouth was equal to the sun which could only mean one thing. Celestia was now in complete sync with the sun thus making her more powerful than ever. She had only done it once before and that was during her battle against Doomsday in the second war between dragons and ponies, she had sworn never to do it again since it damaged the very planet itself. “Sister thank the heavens you arrived I can’t control my body please help me!” Luna screamed in pure desperation. That what Luna wanted to say, but the words that escaped her mouth was anything except a call for help. “I see that you finally decided to get serious my dear sister. But you should know I won’t simply imprison you, I will drain your magic until there is nothing left and then I will use your lifeless husk of a body as a doormat in my new castle. But don’t you worry I will make sure that you stay alive for the rest of eternity “Luna’s voice was so cold that it rivaled the vacuum of space. Luna took off into the sky and called down a shooting star upon the remains of Ponyville successfully destroying the town and killing of the few ponies that lingered there. She then summoned several thunder clouds which formed a shield of electricity around her. She continued to call upon the stars to destroy her sister. Celestia dodged the first star and took off in to the sky and started to fly as high as she could. She noticed Luna’s cloud shield but it would have no effect on what was coming her way. Luna looked around but she was unable to lay eye upon her sister. “DO YOU FEAR US SISTER? WE DEMAND THAT YOU FACE US!” She was then blinded by a light stronger than the sun. In her final attempt to stop Luna once and for Celestia had merged herself completely with a solar flare and was aiming straight for Luna’s heart. In the last microsecond Luna regained control of her body but it was too late the only thing she felt was the searing heat which had penetrated her. Celestia was standing on top of the mountain that once housed a dragon which her faithful student and her friends had managed to banish from. Impaled upon Celestia’s horn was Luna, silvery blood were running down her horn and onto her face and tears were streaming down her cheeks. “Why sister. Why did it have to end like this?” Luna was slipping in and out of consciousness as death approached. She was coughing up blood and gasping for air. She looked down upon her crying sister and wanted nothing else but to wake from this horrible nightmare, but the pain she felt was too real to be a dream with her last breath she whispered “I love you sister.” The deed was done from this day forward Equestria would forever only have one ruler and the fallen princess of the night would forever be a tale that parents would tell their little ones before they went to sleep. Forever unchanged and forever seen as a creature of darkness that is the fate that has fallen upon the princess of the night. “AHHHHHHH!!!!” Luna screamed at the top of her lungs as she shot up from her sleeping position. She was breathing heavily, she was sweating bullets of ice and her heart was racing. Luna’s bedroom door was slowly opened and Celestia walked in wearing a worried face and I was riding upon her back until we reached the bed. She then placed me gently upon the center of the bed, Luna have a very comfy bed I thought as I laid down. “Oh sister I’m so happy that you’re awake. I have been worrying sick, you suddenly passed out and we were unable to wake you up, you were shaking and crying in your sleep and I did everything in my power to wake from whatever nightmare you were suffering from.” Celestia said nuzzling her sister. “So all that happened was just a nightmare, phew I have never been more relieved of anything in my life. That was the worst nightmare I have ever had the pleasure to experience.” “Well it good that you’re feeling better little sister, but you should lay down and rest for a while, we still don’t know what happened to you.” Luna managed to calm down and she was starting to relax as she was sliding beneath the cover of her bed sheets again. She looked over at me with a face of questions. “Sister who is that foal and don’t try to tell me that he is the Alicorn of time this time around.” “But Luna he is the Alicorn of time, why won’t you believe me?” “Why would a god willingly take upon the appearance of a foal? If that really is the Alicorn of time I don’t know what to believe” I focus my power as I latch on to Luna’s mind so we can talk in private. “Fell free to believe whatever you want little Luna, but I would assume you of all ponies would know better than judging a book by its cover.” I levitate back upon Celestia’s back and me we start moving towards the door. Just before we leave Luna’s line of sight I stop time exclusively for me and Luna, my eyes gives of an eerie blue light and I send out waves of pure terror in Luna’s direction. “Oh yes by the way if you ever disrespect me again I will leave you as a fetus with the mind of a young mare and until your second birth you will be suffering from such horrible nightmares that you will wish you were never conceived.” The door shuts and Luna is scarred for life and is so pale that she and Celestia could easily fool somepony into thinking they were twins. Celestia makes it back to the nursery and puts me in the crib. “I hope you don’t mind sleeping in a crib.” “No I don’t since it’s all about the public appearance, besides up until now I have only sleep t on the mountain floor in my cave so I’m not complaining. Besides this crib is very comfortable, but I don’t sleep so it’s kind of excessive a simple pillow would have been enough.” “Well anyway tomorrow you will get to meet you caretaker, Mrs. Emerald Dream” Celestia then leans down and kisses me on my forehead “sleep tight and have pleasant dreams”. She closes the door but she opens it shortly to turn on a night-light. Well I did not expect that goodnight kiss at all, but I did not mind it. But I do mind that stupid star shaped night-light. I focus on the night-light and I toss it through the window, sadly the window was closed and a loud crash is heard and tiny pieces of glass fly everywhere. Ops that did not go quite as planned. Time reverse 21:53:35 – 21:53:02 and play I proceed to toss the night-light out the now open window. There we go much more preferable I love being able to do that. Hmm although I could simple have erased it from existence but that might have been a little overkill…. Whatever I’m a god I can do whatever I want. I look upon my precious threads each one of them representing a life in this world. Even If I’m somewhere else I still got my duties and since I don’t need to “yawn” sleep I have all the time in the world. Where is that music coming from? I look up and see a mobile with spinning fishes and it’s playing some kind of lullaby. Strange I’m starting to fell lightheaded and 04:41 seconds later I’m sleeping like a baby.