//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Mystery Colt // Story: Twilight's new feather // by Onyxfire408 //------------------------------// Chapter 2: Thank you "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU NEARLY KILLED ME!!!" Twilight exclaimed at the top of her voice as waves of anger began to flow out of her mouth... literally. Guards and maids started to retreated to the exterior of the castle as Twilight stomped her way out of the castle as the two princesses slowly followed her with apologies multiplying by the second. "Twilight I give my sincerest apologies." Pleaded Celestia as she held her hands together in prayer. "As do we Twilight Sparkle." Luna begged as she held her hands like her older sister. Though we are impressed at her royal voice. But thy fear it is better than ours. Luna thought in her mind as the two princesses continued to follow the enraged unicorn with apology. "GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON, WHY I SHOULDN'T JUST CAUSE SOME MAGICAL ACCIDENT THAT WILL DO SOMETHING!?!?!?" Threatened Twilight in a serious tone as Celestia stood up. "We can end this prank war between my sister and I." Offered Celestia as Luna walked up beside her. "Yes, we are to be stopping this silly war between thy sister and I." Luna followed as Twilight's face didn't change. It was still the same heated up face as the two princesses quickly looked around for something else to offer. "Free books and scrolls from the castle library?" Celestia offered in a nervous tone. "Maybe." Twilight said in a stern tone as she looked up at the sky. "Then what does thy Twilight Sparkle need?" Asked Luna as Twilight turned around with a serious face. "How did I live?" Twilight asked as both princesses turned confused? "I noticed that even with your massive wings, you two wouldn't be able to catch me, unlike Rainbow Dash because she needs at least hundreds of feet to reach a sonic rainboom. And I was too far away from your magic capabilities that it wouldn't even reach me, yet I still live without a scratch, so how did I survive?" Twilight asked in a serious tone as a quick thought paced through her head. "Wait......am I a zombie?" Twilight asked in horror as she pictured a Equestria in blood and black. "No Twilight you aren't a zombie." Celestia said in a calm tone. She gave a heavy sigh as she looked at her student with a serious expression. "Twilight Sparkle, we need to talk. It is a long story." Celestia commanded as the three ponies walked into Celestia's private quarters. "Please sit, have some tea." Celestia recommended as Twilight sat down on a chair as Luna levitated a hot cup of tea towards her. Twilight took the beverage as she sipped it calming her nerves down. "Sister, it is time." Said Luna in a low tone. "Yes." Celestia looked at Twilight as she cleared her throat. "Twilight, how you lived is a theory to us and only us. Nearly one thousand years ago, before my sister was banished to the moon, a young unicorn colt was born, our cousin who had given birth to him. When the doctors closely examined him, they found out that he didn't just have a horn, but wings too." "So he was an alicorn!?" Twilight asked in pure shock. "Yes, it is very rare to be born in alicorn royal blood. Only members of the royal family can be born, like my sister and I. Though, not in thousands of years had I had a nephew born an alicorn, this was the first time we have had this happened. After I have received this news of the new born alicorn, we wanted to hide the news in case of any attack or kidnapping." "Who was this colt that was born princess?" Asked the curious unicorn. "I cannot remember his name, it was long ago and he would rarely share, but when I first saw him as a colt, I thought that Equestria would change forever. I nor have my sister has seen another full blood alicorn in ages, I even examined him myself with my magic and could easily tell, he was pure alicorn. Months after his birth, my cousin who had given birth to him died from a terrible illness. A month after that, his father suffered the same fate. I took him in myself as if I had just had a son, but he was my nephew. I raised him to be royal, to rule Equestria in any future matter, and oddly enough, he rejected any photography. Everytime he would see a camera, or even a sketch artist, he would flee from the picture and try and to be alone from the public." "But why haven't I seen him princess? I've been in the castle for almost my whole life!" "There is another explanation for that Twilight. He was taking a liking to hide and stay hidden, even preform tactics that would involve sneaking in to grab a cookie from the kitchen. He would always hide around the castle, he always hide around you and I from what I remember." "Why princess?" "Because he likes to be alone. I tried to reason with him to see to the public but he just wanted to stay by himself. He would read and fight in a imaginary world of his when he was just a colt. Over the years that passed by, he began to give in to real combat. He asked me if he could join the royal guard, I told him that he could. He learned the ways of fighting, he learned all the fighting skills here...but he just wanted more. He left the castle and journeyed the rest of the world, he came back years later as he learned from karate to kung-fu, to even ancient fighting styles from Saddle Arabia and Clopssia. When he came back, I feared that he would use his skills to defeat all my guards, but he didn't, I was glad. But after he came back, he began to read and study the works of magic in Canterlot. Since we have the biggest library, he began to learn all of the spells of stealth and combat, and eventually, he left again and came back with new spells and magic that I could have never known or believe with my own eyes. He was very fond was his magic known as mana." "Wait, I think I've heard of this 'mana'. It's magic that resides inside all living things, especially animals. But I thought it was just make believe princess." Twilight remembered. "That was what I thought, but then he showed me this so called, mana. He could fly without his wings, it wasn't levitation, nothing like that. He would shatter like glass as it would take the form of an eagle, he would fly short distances without wings or unicorn magic. But when he combined mana with our alicorn magic, he could do more, he would take the form of a wolf and walk around becoming unseen, or worse act like a bear, though I have not seen what he can do with his bear powers. I nor Luna could see or sense his magic, we could still see him, but just barely, like a needle in a haystack. But he was still responsible, I just don't know why, I thought he would obtain all power to overthrow me, but he didn't." "But princess, how come you sound surprised and shock when Luna thought he was alive, was he dead?" Luna stepped in as she cleared her throat. "He was only at the age of 25 when he found somepony to love. It was one of our female soldiers, her name was Sole Spear, and they were a young and good couple. But not all things can stay young Twilight Sparkle, by the time when she kept aging, he did not. He stopped aging as Sole Spear died at an old age, while the stallion remained young. He was enraged and took her loss greatly, he thought that if he were to cut off his wings, he would loose his immortality of age, but he was wrong. He may have cut off his wings permanently, but he didn't die. We figured that he would go into suicide, or so we thought." Luna finished as a tear was shed from her eye. "Or so we thought?" "Yes, when you were saved, we swore that we have seen thy eagle that thy have seen long ago. He was the only one who could actually master thy animal powers." Luna answered. "Then why hasn't he come back to the castle?" "Because-" Celestia started. "He was enraged because we couldn't do anything. We cannot stop aging by force, he decided to drop the royal formalities and abandoned us. He left us a note saying that he would commit suicide, I guess something convinced him not to." "Is he dangerous?" Twilight asked with a pill of fear. "He takes justice into his owns hands. He is a nice stallion from what I remember, nice, calm, a good temper, but hates crime. I remember when he was still in the royal guard, he would just always recommend an execution for thieves and other criminals. The captains would always reject his idea, but I sensed that he would someday take it into his own hands. In fact-" Celestia paused as she picked up the newspaper as the front article showed two decapitated stallions and one with a pale white skin tone. "I think this is his doing, this just came in today, and I sent out multiple guards and investigators to find him. Thugs and criminals are the only ponies he would justify in his own way, anypony else he would help, like foals, homeless, and even orphanage kids." "Well why does he kill for justice?" Asked a confused but panicking Twilight. "He greatly believes that violence is the only answer." Luna answered. "Why? It's never the answer!" Twilight exclaimed "About a thousand years ago, Equestria was in a war. The Striped Feather war, a war between us, Zebras, and Griffons for territory. We fought for years until we put up the most arms and won for peace. Apparently, this stallion today served that war. He would capture prisoners of war and assist interrogating them, but sometimes, when we received the spilled information, he would give them last words. This would explain his 'violence being the only answer'." Celestia finished as she picked up a glass of water and gulped it down to clear her throat. "But why would he save me?" Asked Twilight "Is it not obvious?" Luna started. "You were simply what others would say, 'a damsel in distress' and he simply saved you from death. He also knows who you are, but he only knows you as the element of magic, fortunately he doesn't know your real name." Twilight stayed there frozen, there was something, but she can't find it. "Do you think he can change?" Twilight asked in a caring soft tone. "Hmmm... It is possible Twilight, but I wouldn't think of it. He has done this for so long, and has lived as long as Luna was on the moon, I think he's believed in his own way for too long to be indoctrinized into peace. But I am thinking that you should go back to Ponyville Twilight, I worry that he could go for the elements, in learning what else he would learn." "Yes princess, I will leave immediately." Twilight saluted as she was escorted out the door and towards the train station. She boarded the train as she left for Ponyville. In the train she sat down with a magazine as a brown stallion sat behind her back to back.