Convergence Series: Journeys

by TheGreatEater

Chapter 3: A Meeting and a Party

Twilight sat with Celestia and Luna as they ate. Twilight’s having finally worked up the courage to ask what she had earlier found it easier to ask something that she had wanted to for a long time. She had earlier told herself that nothing could come of her feelings, but after all. Celestia said that they were no longer mentor and student, but what did that make them?

“Celestia I’ve something that I wanted to ask you for a while now. What do you think of me?” Twilight asked her face flushed from embarrassment.

“Twilight, that is quite the question to ask isn’t it?” Celestia said with a slight smile.

“Sister don’t tease her, you know how she’s felt for you for a while.” Luna said jokingly scolding her sister.

“Wait! YOU KNEW!” Twilight yelled before hiding her head behind her hooves while wrapping her wings before her trying to hide as much as possible. First I tell my friends I had a thing for the Princess and they knew. Now I learn that the Princesses knew before I told them, am I really all that obvious?

“Sorry Twilight, once you’ve lived as long as I have you enjoy having a little bit of fun at others expense every now and then. But yes I’ve know how you’ve felt for a while now. Here’s the question for you, and think about this. What would you want from this relationship if we do have one? You have so much life before you. I want you to think about it.”

Peaking from behind her wings she replied, “Celestia, I’ve done nothing but think of it for a while now. I mean yes some of my friends are attractive, especially after that spell. A few of them are quite attractive, but the only one I’ve actually love has been you. Ever since I could remember thinking about Mares and Stallions, I’ll admit that I never made a move since we were mentor and student. Then even then we were also ruler and subject, but now that you don’t see us as mentor and student. And know that while you are more wise and experience we are both Princesses, I feel like I’d like to give it a try.”

“Very well Twilight, I’ll tell you what. When you’re done with your journey, and find what you need to find. Why don’t we go out on a date, all though I haven’t been on one of those since the Baroque era so I’m a bit rusty. So what else is on your mind?”

Twilight at first didn’t answer her just stared at Celestia her mouth agape before bouncing around the room her wings fluttering sporadically, “Yesyesyesyesyesyes! Oh my gosh YES! Oh this is the best day ever!” She caught herself mid bounce before remembering where she was, “Oh sorry!”

Having long since fell on the ground, rolling on her back laughing. “That’s quite alright,I haven’t laughed this hard since the time I switched the genders of all the Royal Guards and had convinced them the only cure of their mystery disease was to get sloshed while dancing in frilly Tutus.”

"When was this?"

"Oh about five hundred years ago when I they started inventing comedies, and I found out about humor. I did have a tendency to go over board back then."

Luna who had joined in her sister laughing laughed harder at that, “ Oh I wish I could have been there for that. But Twilight as Celly said it’s alright we both know how you’ve been looking at her when you think noone watches. We’ve just been waiting for you to make the move. Although we thought that you would have done so before now.”

Twilight caught up in the merriment and having for a short while forgotten what she was plaguing her mind glomped a prone Celestia and reveling in her warmth looked at Luna, “ I would have, but it was actually having the courage to ask what I asked today and I remembered a little something of my Alicorn party that Pinkie Pie threw me. As for what else I’ve been thinking about. Well we don’t know if being an Element Bearer will make my friends immortal, since we know that we are more resilient to damage, but I think it might be possible for them the elements to stop their aging. I think I found the last part of the spell. It’s been filling my dreams lately.

Also I’m thinking that after everything’s said and done we need to hook up my friends with dates, you too Luna. Being lonely isn’t good for you, and now that I have the Mare of my dreams, you should have yourself a special somepony.”

Luna walked up the twisted forms of her downed sister and Twilight and gave Twilight a gentle nuzzle, “We’ll see and I agree that it’s not good being lonely. But as long as I have friends like you and the others I don’t think I’ll ever really be lonely.”

Celestia scooped up Twilight and after getting to her seat, drew Twilights chair and food closer to her before setting in her seat. I haven’t felt this way in a long time my dearest Twilight. I’m glad that you finally had the courage to ask, I just hope that things work out between us. After all your entire world view has been flipped upside down, as has your friends. I guess only time will tell what will happen.

“It is time we talked.” the Mysterious voice said. As it did so the spell attached to it pulled both Celestia’s and Twilight’s mind into a void that looked like someone took a kaleidoscope to a darkened rainbow. The dark hues swirling and spinning in what could best be described as organized chaos. From this void a disembodied head appeared before them as tall as they were and shifted flawlessly from one Race to another. Even a mixture of Races, ranging from Minotaur, Dragon, Griffin, and the various Pony Types. Although it’s features were so nondescript that it was hard to tell if it was male or female. Even it’s voice seemed to sound as if two speakers were talking simultaneously one male, one female.

“Until you are ready I can not talk all that long, your outside world will only see our talk as lasting three seconds. Any longer than that and your mind and essence will implode erasing your bodies from reality. Although I apologize in advanced for the headache you will be experiencing. You wished to see me and your spell young one has been quite successful. I am the Watcher, I have been around since the creation of your collective universes and I’ll be around when they end. Although technically I exist in a point and time were all points and time exist simultaneously.

I am the being in the story you told Twilight, The 7 Children of Harmony, who made the Elements of Harmony. In essence I saw that your universe had the ability to connect with universes far from your time line, and had a major chance of creating threats that could endanger the multiverse as a whole. Especially from the two Immortal races. So I sent 7 shards of myself, empowered by magic older than time itself to ensure that the time line had something to keep things in balance. I then sent a small group of beings to introduce several things to ready the pony’s of your planet from a great evil I sense. An evil that evades my ability to see.

Then when the war broke out the first time, I will admit that I was frightened that I had did too little too late. Since I can only Watch and guide, it is up to others to make the choices they will make. Twilight you have completed and fixed a spell that should never have been, and in doing so have shown me that you have the strength to be my champion to save all existence. When you see your friends talk to them, they still suffer having lived two time lines although they forgive you for the most part, I am sorry I can not say more. We must part ways, the time you can stay here is almost past.”

With that they were violently expelled back to their bodies. Clutching their heads with their fore hooves they both moaned as a massive headache wracked their brains. “ Holy Faust on a Pogostick! I’m glad that he didn’t hold us longer than three seconds, or this could’ve been much worse. Buck me sideways, I never want to do that again.” Twilight said in the very few times in her life that she ever swore.

“I agree, I never heard of the Watcher but I’m glad that he was benign. I’m sorry Twilight, if that being was malign we could have been killed.”

Looking at both of them in a confused manner Luna asked, “ What happened? All I saw was that you temporarily flickered now your in pain.”

“Luna, Sister, I love you but give us a few moments to get rid of this killer migraine or I’ll buck you to Tartarus and back. Oh my head!” Celestia said between gritting teeth. After a few moments they both looked at Luna and Celestia explained what had just happened. While she did that Twilight thought back to when this all started and everything that had led up to this event.

Twilight Sparkle was playfully stretching and furling her wings as she sat in the Library her friends sitting around her. She never could stop being amazed at how quickly Pinkie Pie could throw together a party. Smiling at everyone there she was both overjoyed, but also slightly taken aback that the spell she accidentally cast had still kept their bodies altered.

“Every one I want to thank you for everything. You are all the greatest friends anypony could ever ask for. And I want to say that I could never have got what I have now, nor learned what I learned if it wasn’t for all of you. So once again thank you for everything. Although I’m sorry that I don’t know how to fix what that spell did.” She said raising a mug of Apple Family Cider.

“Oh Darling it’s quite alright,” Rarity said with her raising her mug in kind before taking a sip. “After all I’m sure that the memories will fix themselves out in time, that and I must say that I’ve never been in such wonderful shape. Rainbow, I must apologize for never appreciating just how hard it is to maintain such an athletic physique.”

“No prob Rares. I think we all learned a little something about each other and ourselves.” Rainbow Dash replied giving Rarity a playful hoof the rib.

“As they said it’s quite alright. But earlier when we were talking about who had whose cutie mark, we got started on a conversation that got cut off. Now I know that getting us back to who we were was important, but I feel it’s important to talk about this since we’re all friends.” Apple Jack said her accent still being a Manehatten accent with a small amount of her southern one coming back. Taking a deep breath everyone knowing what she was going to ask since they had talked about it when Twilight was busy talking to Princess Celestia gave her a nod.

“Listen we want you to know that if you do like mares that’s nothing to be ashamed of, and we as your friends would love you just the same. But it looked like that subject was sore one, we’d like you to talk to us. After all I’m sure there are some of us here who might like mares as well. After all when there’s one stallion to ten mares it shouldn’t be as much of a taboo as it is. It’s mostly old ponies who hold on to old traditions when there were more stallions to choose from. And if you were to like any of us well we wouldn’t think any less of you.” Apple Jack stated before taking a drink and letting Twilight continue.

Twilight took a drink and felt herself looking at Pinkie who had a large grin on her face. Looking at everypony else they gave nods of encouragement and deciding that she could trust them she told them her story. “Well I was a little filly about a few years younger than Apple Bloom is now. With how I was raised and all I always saw friends as something that would get in the way of my studies, but you know how at that age you get feelings for others? Well I felt that way towards mares. Well in my usual way of doing things I thought that I should research it, so I went to a person I had similar interest to, Star Song, a pink Unicorn that was good at star gazing.

And after researching how to ask a pony out I went up to her and asked. She looked at me as if I grew a second head and told me Filly Foolers were disgusting ponies who were damning their souls to Tartarus. To say that I took it poorly was an understatement. After that I decided that all relationships and things dealing with friendship was a waste of time. All I needed was the Princess, Spike, and my training. Well after coming here and finding the power of friendship, old feelings came up but I never really thought of pursuing them.”

“Yeah I know how that is Twi, not the whole Princess, dragon, book thing. But getting teased for liking mares.” Rainbow Dash said with a sage nod.

“You do? How?”

Giving her an incredulous look, she raised a forehoof to her mane and gave it a flick.

Twilight didn’t understand what a Rainbow colored mane had to do with anything and her face said it all.

“Well Twi the thing is the Rainbow is also a symbol that stallions who like stallions and mares who like mares use. It’s kind of a symbol for them. Well with my mane and my less then feminine personality I was an easy target. But after awhile I figured out that all that matters is how I feel about myself, and if someone can’t accept me from me then they don’t matter.”

That earned her a loud round of, 'Here, Here’ from around the table. And earning her a smile from Twilight. “That’s very wise of you Rainbow.”

“Well what can I say I am awesome.”

“Although not very modest,” Rarity said ribbing Rainbow Dash playfully. “Anyways, what we’re saying is that you can tell us anything and we will be there for you.”

Twilight looked at them and said, “ Ok but this can’t leave this room. I kind of like Princess Celestia.” the last part was said in an embarrassed whisper.

“Oh we all knew that you silly filly.” Pinkie said beaming.

“You What!”

“Well come on Darling, wow that feels weird to say again. We all knew you had a thing for the Princess, after all when you talk about her you practically glow and how you talk about her it was a simple conclusion to see that you were infatuated with her.”

“I just hope that she doesn’t notice. I wouldn’t want her to regret being proud of me. Oh that’s right I didn’t tell you! When we cast the revised spell I saw her in this weird place where she showed many screens that showed me through out my years as her apprentice. She told me that she was proud of me and couldn’t wait to see what I would do next. This is really the best day ever.”

“ That’s good Twilight, well I’m sure she knows and would be proud regardless of what you choose to do. Just remember that no matter what we all will be standing behind you.” Apple Jack told her while refilling each of their drinks.

“Thank you girls, I don’t think I would be the same pony without you all. I’m happy that I know you all are standing behind me. Well I have to be going soon, the Princesses said that they have some important things to tell me.”