Awakening

by TheEmpressEclipse


The General.

Twilight and Prince Constellation walked through the streets of Canterlot, earning stares from everypony they passed. They didn't spend much time at the castle, the Prince hated family reunions, so they headed off to Pony Joes. The sun finally started to lower its self to meet the horizon, when they finally arrived at Pony Joes. They walked in and Pony Joe greeted them, well mostly Twilight.

"Hey Twilight, its been a long time since I've seen you 'round these parts!" He said happily in his rough voice. "And who's this?" He motioned to the Prince.

Constellation was about to speak when Twilight cut him off. "He's a friend of mine from Baltimare, he's an ambassador to the Griffon Empire actually." Pony Joe looked as though she hadn't answered his question."Oh right, his name is Constellation."

"Alright. What can I get for ya?" He asked.

"Well actually we're waiting for somepo-"

"I'll take your 'Pony Joe Supreme' with triple sprinkles!" Prince Constellation said, cutting Twilight off.

"Woah, I don't think anypony's ordered that in centuries!" Pony Joe marveled. "Oh, coming right up. Anything for you Twilight?" He asked, turning his head to look at Twilight.

"Well, since we're ordering, I'll take a chocolate glazed, strawberry filled, vanilla doughnut." She said quickly, gaining a disgustedly confused glance from Prince Constellation. "What, its good." She said as she found a table to sit at.

After a while they had received their doughnuts and eaten them, and were still waiting for the General to show up. The sun was kissing the horizon by the time they heard the door open.

The Prince looked and there he was, still that light brown-baby faced-idiot. Constellation used a cloaking spell and was about to sneak up him, when somepony poked him in the ribs. He turned to find a really creepy purple mare, with black hair, fangs, slitted pupils that were layered, encompassing almost all of her narrow eye with sickly shades of green, red and blue, and her cutie mark matched her eyes. She was creepy.

"Why are you cloaked?" She said, her voice was deep, dark, hollow and seemed to almost echo. It reminded him of The Dark One. SHE reminded him of The Dark One.

Her voice drew the attention of the General. "What was that?" He asked still oblivious to Constellation's presence. Before the creepy mare could respond, the Prince whipped around and dropped the cloak spell.

"BOO!" Constellation yelled into the Generals face. He jumped backwards and screamed like a little filly. The Prince collapsed on the floor, laughing all the way, the General was just too fun to scare. Everypony still in the shop had gathered around to see what all the commotion was about, they soon left figuring it was just some old friends scaring one another, and well, they were right! After a moment the General recovered, and finally saw the creature that caused his momentary panic.

"P-Prince?" He asked, slightly uncertain that it really was.

"After all these years, General, your still this easy to scare!" The Prince said, finally overcoming his laughter.

"It really is you!" The General exclaimed as he tackled the Prince in hug that even a bear couldn't replicate.

"Ge-General...... your crushing.......ME!!!!!" The Prince said as he tried to breath. The General slowly released his Prince.

"Prince Constellation." The creepy mare said as she inclined her head to Constellation. The General must have told her about him.

"Oh you two haven't met yet!" The General said. "Mystca, this is Prince Constellation, Prince this is Mystca!" He finished.

"General, why does she make me think of The Dark One?" The Prince asked.

"I dunno." The General answered.

"General, why are her eyes so.........creepy?"

"Thats kinda rude but, I dunno."

"General, how could she see me through my cloak?"

"I dunno."

"General, why are you traveling around with a creepy purple earthpony?"

"Because she can use magic."

"General, earthponies can't use magic."

"She can."

"But thats impos-"

The Prince was cut off by Twilight coughing loudly. "Oh, General this is Twilight, Twilight this the General." The Prince said. Mystca rolled her creepy eyes and walked to the counter to buy some doughnuts.

"Right, I have to get back to Ponyville." Twilight said as she headed for the door. "Bye!"

"Bye!" The General called out to her, waving his hoof stupidly in the air, stopping when Prince Constellation jabbed him in the ribs.

"Now General, we have some planning to do." The Prince said, chuckling cruelly.

"Plans for what?" The General asked.

"World domination!"