I quickly walked to the library so I wouldn't miss out on anything. I got to the door and entered right after Rainbow Dash had busted in. Pinkie found the book and they started to head towards the door. I revealed myself and they all gasped. Pinkie Pie just looked at me with a hurt look, like I had obviously avoided her so she wouldn't throw me a party. That hunch was obviously correct.
"I'm joining you girls on this little adventure. And I won't take no for an answer. There are some things in that forest that really dislike being interrupted by ponies." I told them as I blocked the door. They all shrugged and said I could come, all except for Twilight. She just looked at me with the most confused look on her face.
As we made our way to the forest, Pinkie asked me tons of questions about what I liked and such. She asked me what my favorite color was, what I did for fun, if I liked cake or cupcakes, what it was like being an alicorn, and so on. The last question was one that surprised me and the rest, but I had been ready to answer it.
"So, why do you not have a cutie mark mister?" Pinkie asked, bouncing along next to the group. The others just stared at Pinkie and then to my flank. They probably looked at Pinkie first because that wasn't the type of question you asked royalty.
"Well that's simple," I stated, "it is because I am the ruler of order and balance. If I had a cutie mark, it would create an unbalance and the world would explode. That, or I could just be paranoid and nothing would happen other than me getting an image on my flank." I smiled at their faces. They looked hilarious; everybody but Pinkie was gaping at me. "Well, we're here girls. The Everfree Forest awaits our entrance." I gestured to the trail leading in, and waited until the girls had finished arguing that they would go in with Twilight.
As we went into the forest, I could see the Nightmare Moon gas following us. I decided to keep quiet and just wait until we reached the cliff. I started stretching my wings, getting ready to fly when the cliff crumbled. As we got onto the cliff, Rainbow started trying to scare the others.
"…they never come out!" she put on the most menacing face she could. As soon as she said this the cliff crumbled and Fluttershy and I took to the air along with Rainbow. I helped carry the others down and decided to help catch Twilight along with Rainbow, telling Fluttershy to let me do it. We made our way further into the forest, and the gas kept going on ahead. I faintly heard the roar of the manticore and realized nobody else had heard it.
As we made our way into the clearing, everybody except me gasped. In front of us was the manticore, and dang did he look pissed. The cartoon never really did catch the mood the manticore gave off. The girls all tried to get through the manticore in their own way as Fluttershy just kept saying wait. Right before they all charged the manticore; I yelled as loud as I could using the royal voice.
"All ye wait! I do believe that the Fluttershy has something to speak of!" All of those in the clearing had covered their ears, even the manticore. I sat back down and pointed to Fluttershy giving her the go to see what she could do.
"Thank you, Ordeus. I was hoping that you all would listen to me… if you wanted to." She quietly went up to the manticore. As it growled, Fluttershy just stood there and waited to get the thorn out of its paw. As she did, the manticore roared and grabbed her. The girls gasped again, I just started to move on. I knew that they would be right behind me as soon as they saw Fluttershy wasn't in any danger.
We passed the next three problems with little difficulty, and we were standing at the entrance to the crumbling castle. I stayed outside as everyone else entered, they wouldn't be in there long at all. The others came out as Twilight was getting ready to try her whack at the elements. We saw Nightmare Moon take Twilight to the other wing of the castle and started rushing over to help her. As we started up the steps, the others started yelling to Twilight. We came in to see the broken elements lying on the floor. I looked into Twilight's eyes to see the spark.
As the scene progressed, I was starting to wonder what I would tell Celestia. I had been using the lie that I was her brother. If she denied this then it was all over. I decided to tell her a small amount of the truth, only enough so that she would know the consequences of my secret getting out. As the girls defeated Nightmare Moon, I moved their unconscious bodies into more comfortable positions. I saw that Rarity's tail had not grown back with the power of the elements, so I decided to help it grow back with magic. I walked over to Luna and sat next to her, waiting for Celestia to come into the room.
The sun started to peek over the horizon into the room as the girls started to wake up. They looked around and greeted each other.
"It's absolutely gorgeous, Rarity." Fluttershy complimented Rarity.
"I know, I'll never part with it again." Rarity hugged her tail close; thankful it had grown back so quickly.
"I wasn't talking about your tail. I was talking about you necklace. It matches your cutie mark." As Fluttershy said this, the others were also making comments on the others necklaces. I could see a large glow coming from the window and realized the Celestia was coming. As she entered the room the others bowed and Twilight ran up to her to nuzzle her. As she spoke to the others, I could tell she wanted to see her sister as well.
"…let us see if another can do the same. Princess Luna." Celestia turned around to see me sitting next to Luna; a surprised look quickly crossed her features. "We were meant to rule together little sister."
Luna hadn't even noticed me as she rushed over to her sister. Luna cried into Celestia as Celestia gave me a look that said 'I want to talk to you'. I just looked back and gave a look agreeing to her. As soon as the touchy feely moment was over, Pinkie jumped up and said that this called for a party. We were all in Ponyville in a flash; I looked over to Pinkie and just stared at her. She just broke physics as an earth pony even more than before.
As the party started to get into full swing; Celestia walked up to me levitating a piece of cake into her mouth. She chewed and swallowed; motioning for me to follow her to a quieter place. We both walked to the library and closed the door.
"So, I hear that you are my older brother. Also, that you are here to make sure my student did not get into any trouble. So, who are you really?" Celestia got straight to the point when talking. I liked this.
"I cannot tell you who or what I really am, but I may tell you why I am here and have been using the guise of your older brother. I am the one who created life on this planet and shaped it to what it is today. Who I am known as is Ordeus, the alicorn or order and balance. I have been asleep for the past fifty-thousand years or around that amount of time." I gave the truth, only somewhat shortened and leaving out details only I needed to know. "Oh look, the treats I ordered are here." I went over to the table and grabbed a cookie, munching on it as I awaited Celestia's reaction.
"I… don't believe you." She looked at me with an extreme look of distrust.
"Fine, don't believe me. But if I told you anymore; there is a chance that the world would explode or the universe would collapse in on itself." I stated flatly as I grabbed another cookie to munch on. "Oh, I think you should just tell Twilight to stay here and study friendship in Ponyville with the rest of her friends. She might feel bad if she just left them right after she became their friend. And, just to remind you, I'm over fifty-thousand years old. Now, let's get back to the party. The others might be wondering where we went to." I walked out, followed by Celestia.
We got back to the town square where the others were waiting. Celestia gave her assignment to Twilight and started to walk off to return to Canterlot. Right before she got out of earshot she said something to everybody able to hear her.
"I must tell you all that Ordeus here has volunteered to stay here and learn along with my student. Ordeus has been away for a while, so he is out of date with our customs. Treat him as if he were just another one of the normal townsfolk." With that, she walked into the carriage and flew off. The others kept in their group hug while I went to check out what was going on around town. I figured since I no longer had to talk to the town about treating me normally, I would go and find a job.
I also realized I would have to find a place to stay while I was in Ponyville. So I had my tasks set out, find a job and a place to stay. The library was ruled out because it had no extra room for me, so was Rainbow's home. I didn't know about Fluttershy's cottage, but I guessed that there wouldn't be much room there. I wouldn't intrude on Applejack's farm because I didn't want to have to wake up early or do farm work. I also didn't want to live in a fashionista's home. That left me with Sugarcube corner as a place for work, possibly even a place to stay.
I had only guessed that there would be enough room for me at Sugarcube corner. It turns out, I was right. They also said they could use some extra hooves in the kitchen to help out Pinkie. I gladly accepted the job and place to live. As I walked out, I could hear Mr. Cake murmuring about working with royalty and having said royalty sleep in his house. I chuckled and kept walking.
As I walked through the town I bumped into Lyra and Bon-Bon, Vinyl Scratch, and Derpy with 'Time Turner'. I pulled the last one away from prying eyes and pulled a pear out of hammerspace. He yelled and backed away from it. I gave him a smile and ate the pear.
"Hello there, Doctor. How has the day been for you? And where did you park the Tardis, we don't want anypony randomly finding it."
"Um… I left it sitting in some woods outside of Ponyville. How do you know who I am? Who are you? Why did you have to show me a pear to see how I would react if you knew who I was?" The Doctor pulled out the sonic screwdriver and started waving it around my face.
I grabbed the object and put it back into his pocket. "I had to make sure it was you and not just Time Turner. You know how there can be multiple versions of the same world. And you also know how easily the time space continuum can be damaged, so I recommend that you just do what you do best. I'll try to stay out of your mane. Only, come and get me if there are problems with daleks or weeping angels. See you later." I trotted off to Sugarcube Corner to get a well-deserved rest, leaving behind a quizzical Doctor.