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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Ambassador 
// by THOSEideas 
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"Where is he!!!" 

Celestia shouted in panic at her sister as she ran around the castle. Luna who had not seen her sister act like this in a very longtime, wasn't worried about Mockin. But, after a minute or two watching her sister run around Mockin's room looking in the dumbest places for him, she finnaly spoke up.

"Celestia calm down you are acting like a teenage filly on her first date with her secret crush. Also, why do you suddenly take so much interest in where he is? Is he your secret crush?"

Princess Luna said that last line with a smirk she couldn't hope to hide. Celestia who wasn't paying much attention, stopped in front of Luna and practicaly shouted:

"We need to find him because I think Equestria's fate rests in his hooves, or maybe just Canterlot's, But still!!"

"Wait slow down, how did you come to that conclusion? After one night of knowing him? He really is your secret crush..."

"Luna!! This is no time for joking around!! We need to find him because I recieved a warning from somepony that we needed to trust him!!"

Princess Luna, now completely caught off guard, ran off to find ponies to look for Mockin. While Celestia tried to calm down and think more carefuly about the situation. She, Celestia, co-ruler of all of Equestria had her mind infiltrated and had a warning planted there. That was a lot to take in for one day.


Meanwhile Mockin who was completely oblivious to the panic he caused was roaming around the court room looking at all the stain glass windows. He was completely engrossed in his studying of the beutiful artworks that he didn't hear the hoof steps come up behind him.

"Hello"

"Ididntouchanythingiswear!!"

Mockin shouted as he wipped around expecting a guard but was completely confused when he came face to face with a very unusual mare. She was older then him by what seemed like 10 years and she ha some deep looking scars, but he tried not to stare. She had a goldish brown mane and tail with a brown pelt. She, however, had a cutie mark which was a griffon with a scroll in it's beak. It was not usual for a pony to have another animal as thier cutie mark, but there are stranger things.

"Excuse me, but I don't think we have been introduced, I am Candy Plum but most just call me Plum. And you Are?"

"Oh um, I'm Mockin Sage but you can call me Mockin."

He didn't know why but this pony seemed very important for some reason, not just to Canterlot but to Equestria as a whole. Just then a guard poked it's head through the door and immediately shouted back the way it came in.

"He's in here!!"

Mockin heard a rush of hooves and two very flustered Princesses came barging in. Celestia was the first to speak.

"WHY DID YOU WANDER AROUND THE CASTLE WITHOUT TELLING US??!!!!!"

"Princess Celestia, please do not get angry at Mockin for I am the one who pursuaded him to walk around the castle showing him the splendor of the place."

Mockin who was not expecting this from a person who he just met but was quick to catch on as he tried to make himself look releaved. Celestia, who had calmed down a little at the explanation and the compliment to her castle, didn't shout as she talked this time.

"That's alright Mrs. Plum, but I wish you would tell us these things before you do them to save us the trouble of having a heart attack."

"I apologize, however can you tell me why you care so much about this colt?"

"We care because he has a purpose much like yours except not for the Griffins, Mockin judging by your expression you do not know that Mrs. Plum is the ambassador for the Griffins."

Mockin, who had heard about this ambassador, had never dreamed of actually meeting the pony. He also wasn't expecting the ambassador to be female. No he's not sexist.

"You're the ambassador?!! I..I'm...sweet Celestia! I actually got to meet you! What I meant to say was, It's an honor meeting you... Wait... Princess Celestia, you said I had a purpose much like hers but how is that possible? I don't even have a cutie mark."

Mockin wasn't the only one confused, Luna, Plum and the guard were confused as well. They were all staring intently at the Princess of the Day. 

"Yes I did say that and I... What are you still doing here? Don't you have a post to attend?"

"OH! Yes Ma'am, Right away Ma'am!"

The guard tried to hide his disappointment as he left not knowing what was going on. Just another day of being a guard, you do what you're told and shut up.

"Anyway, I was told by the pony in my vision that he needed to go to the mountains and get in youch with the Dragons."

"WHAT!!!"

Shouted three ponies simultaneously as they all looked at Princess Celestia with utter shock and disbelief written all over their faces.

"Please tell me your joking..."

"Wow, I thought I had it hard with the Griffins."

No one heard Mockin because he was now white and his mane a vague gray. He did not look like he was going to walk anytime soon. In fact if Mockin didn't have the little self control that he did, then he would have fainted right then and there. Thankfuly Celestia realised that she must have tromitized the colt and tried to soften the blow a little.

"Of course the pony who told me this didn't specify the name of the pony that was going to help us. She just described you perfectly so..."

She trailed off as she realised that no other pony would fit the description that she had recieved. Also, this didn't help ease Mockin's mind as he tried to grasp what Celestia had just said. 

"Y-Y-You w-w-want me to g-go t-to the m-mountains and speak t-to the DRAGONS??!!"

Finally finding his voice, Mockin yelled in utter disbelief and shock. Why would Celestia and I recieve similar messages from the same pony when I am a no-pony? Why would they care or even recognize me? This was a question he had been asking himself for five years. Which is one of the reasons he wanted to be noticed because then they could tell him why they noticed him or why he had purpose. He had a purpose now and he didn't like it, not one bit.

"What if I say no?"

"We don't know, but do you really want to find out? Maybe your vision might come true."

"Alright fine i'll do it, but if this will come true if I don't then what makes you think that they are going to listen to a pony now?"

"Hmmm... Well I had to prove myself to the griffins by wrestling they're biggest male. Which is how I got these scars."

Mockin did not like the sound of wrestling the biggest male Dragon.

"There has to be another way! I can't wrestle a Dragon! I would be stepped on and thats it!"

"Well..."

No one had an answer to his question, how could they? Very little was known about how Dragons acted. Mockin just sat in silence as he pondered what he should do, when he was compeled by an invisible force to speak, he didn't even know what he was going to say.

"I guess i'll wing it and see what happens."

"Thats the dumbest idea I've ever heard."

"You have a better one?"

"Well, do we know how soon he needs to leave?"

"Um, unfortunately it needs to be today, because thats the only way he will reach the mountains in a week which is when the dragons prepare to attack."

Everypony looked at Celestia in shock once again. Then Plum had an idea.

"Well thats good because he can come up with an idea on the way to the mountains."

"He will need somepony to protect him as he makes the journey which will unfortunately be on hoof. There are no trains that go to the mountains because of the Dragons."

"I might have a suggestion for who might want to tag along. They are both guards and they're names are Crash and Arrow."

Mockin only suggested them because he had met them and they looked bored out of their mind standing around in the castle all day. Celestia seemed to agree.

"That's a good idea, they've been dying to do a special job or something to spice up thier life again. They seem nice enough ponies too, have you met them?"

"Briefly" 

"Well that's settled then Crash and Arrow will escort you to the mountains and you will leave tonight!"

yipee