//------------------------------// // Unexpected Party Guest (Re-edited and Revised 13/06/2014) // Story: Story Of An Alicorn // by Applepip //------------------------------// It's been four days now. Twilight and I are better than ever. However most of the other elements apart from Applejack are starting to get suspicious. Twilight's attitude has been calm and collected as usual but now she is prone to some spates of irritability and short temper, more than once I have come home to Twilight's place and found her lying body deep in books. After a short spell in town picking up some groceries, I return home to find Pinkie talking to Twilight. "It's going to be great!" Pinkie Pie says, doing her famous hyper bouncing. "There's going to be cake, cupcakes, lots of balloons, Animals, It will be fun fun fun!" I can tell Twilight has had Pinkies company for quite some time as she lets out a small groan. I walk into the library's main floor as Pinkie and Twilight both look up as I enter. Pinkie is the first to respond. "Hi, Valder!" Pinkie giggles. "Looking forward to your party today? It will be so fun!" Pinkie dances around me giggling in her weird but funny way. "Oh! Is that the time!" Pinkie says looking at her vacant front leg, I raise an eyebrow. "Well I got to go, busy busy busy!" And just like that, Pinkie disappears. "I still can't get used to that." I laugh with a smile on my face, then I notice Twilights sombre expression. "Twilight? What's wrong?" She looks at me. "The princesses are coming to the party!" She wails. "They are? That's good news then, we can tell them together." Twilight stands and walks over to hug me. "You don't under stand! Princesses are joined with a suitor when they feel it's the right time!" I can feel the nervousness in her tone. "Twilight, you know that's not true, just look at your brother and Cadence, she's a princess but she choose your brother instead." After hearing that Twilight lets me go and calms down. "Now Twilight, you get so worked up over nothing, I'm sure it will be ok." If I knew how wrong I was, I would have stayed away from the party, but as I thought, It was far from the truth. A few hours later and the party was in full swing, almost everypony was there, who would want to miss one of Pinkies party's anyway. After meeting a few of the ponies I found Twilight near the food table. "Twilight, this is great! I didn't know Pinkies party's where so famous!" I wave my arm in a look at it gesture, but Twilight seemed preoccupied. "Um? Are you ok Twilight?" She turns to me shaking. "What's wrong?" She lifts a piece of paper. "The princesses are on their way." She folds the paper and places it down, "I don't know what to do Valder, what do I say?" She then sits down and puts two hooves over her eye's. "What will they do when they find out?" I put a hoof around her neck. "Then we will sort that out when the time comes, alright?" I ask as I wipe the small veil of tears out of her eyes. After our small conversation we spread out and start to mingle with the new guests that have arrived, It wasn't long before the royal carriage touched down in the town centre, though at that time I didn't notice the princesses walking towards Twilight. It seemed most of Ponyville had gotten used to their presence and didn't make a big fuss about them, both of the princesses approached Twilight. "Twilight, how nice to see you." Twilight turns after hearing the soft regal voice. "Princess Celestia, Princess Luna! How nice to see you here." Twilight gasps for air, "did you have a nice trip? Not too bad I hope?" Twilight pours some punch for the two princesses from the nearby table and hoofs them over. "No, Not at all," Celestia says, Luna nods in agreement. "So?" Celestia starts looking around. ".....Where's this new pony that the party is for? I heard he's very special?" "Yes, one has heard this information as well, where is thou one you speak of?" Luna pitches in. Twilight looks around frantically trying to find me in the town centre, she finds me talking to two ponies near a fruit stand. "Wait here princesses, I'll go get him!" Twilight walks off leaving the two princesses enjoying the party and nodding to ponies that bow as they walk past. "Valder!" Twilight calls as she approaches me. "The princesses are here!" I bow to the ponies I am talking to and forgive them for cutting our conversation short, they bow back and walk off. "Twilight, how you holding up?" "I think I'm about to burst, Is that bad?" She looks at me as we walk back. "Only if you want it to be, Twilight." We reach the area where the princesses are waiting, as we get nearer I feel the same strange feeling I felt when I came to Ponyville, this time however it was much stronger. I see the princesses standing near a food table drinking some of the punch, then as I lay my eyes on them something hits me, a pain so big it causes me to stumble. Twilight looks back and shouts. "Valder!" Everypony near by stops and looks shocked, I sprawl on the floor almost bending in two, pain racking every inch of my body. The princesses come over only to stop short as they see a white alicorn flickering black then back to white. Where there was once beautiful white eyes with blue irises were now just red. The screaming of pain coming from a voice that was not mine, Twilight goes to help and Princess Celestia stops her. "No, Twilight! You must leave here, now!" Princess Luna starts to push other ponies back trying to get them to leave. "What's happening!?" Twilight shouts out, almost on queue a flash of dark red energy lifts my prone form off the floor and into the air, then like some caterpillar evolving, the energy envelopes me. Forming a solid circle around me it starts to spark and red lightning bounces of nearby tables and tree's, the wind and magical force starts to swirl around the town centre getting stronger. It lifts tables, chairs, even some of the smaller ponies get tossed around. Most of the ponies have now run away leaving only the elements, the princesses, and the few too scared to move. The princesses order all of the ponies left to move back behind them as they put up a defensive shield to protect against the dark energy, "STAY BEHIND US!" Celestia shouts as the sound gets louder and louder. "WHATS GOING ON!?" Twilight shouts as she moves beside the two sisters, Celestia looks down while sweating with effort keeping the shield active. "Twilight, You must stay back! We never thought he would return, after so many years, we thought he was dead!" Luna now looks at her sister, "Sister, You mean it's...HIM!" Luna looks around at the energy with hurt in her eyes. '.....HIM,' Luna thinks to her self. A huge blast of energy pulses out, knocking over everyone in the town square, even breaking the defensive shield of the princesses. Tree's once rooted deep are now uplifted and toppled, as the smoke clears, the ponies are all laying on their sides. Recovering from the blast the ponies try to shake off the dizzyness and try to focus into the centre, but what greets them is not what they expected at all. An alicorn stands before them, his fur is jet black his eye's are red like rubies and his mane is as red as blood, All the while flowing like some majestic river. Before anypony could speak, the figure steps forward and says with a grin. "Hello my pretties! Darksides BACK!" He lets out a laugh that causes clouds and red lightning to fall all around, Celestia looks up and in a tone of disbelief and for the first time fear, Says..... "No..."