//------------------------------// // One - The Doorway to the Fountain // Story: Fractured Fairy Tails: Return to Wonderland // by Unknown Tale //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle went into the Everfree Forest and found the hole she went down last time. "I wonder..." She caught a glimpse of Fluttershy going down it. She went over to the hole and carefully fell into it. The fall slowly changed speeds to really fast to very slow. "Maybe this time there will be another door I can unlock." She then saw Colgate falling at the same speed as her. "Twily, is that you?" Colgate asked. "Hello, Colgate. I heard you were heading to Wonderland as well?" Colgate nodded. "They wanted me for a certain thing, but I'm not sure what it is they want me for." "I'm guessing it has something to do with a Wandering Knight." Colgate gasped. "HOW DID YOU KNOW?" "Princess Luna told me all about it," Twilight easily replied. "I heard that she was the first to go down the rabbit hole, is that true?" Twilight nodded. The two then landed softly on the ground. Fluttershy signaled Colgate to follow her. Colgate ran to the door Twilight entered the first time. Twilight stood up on her two hooves and walked over to another side of the hallway. "Wow, most of these doors have 2 or 3 keyholes. Now I need to find out if there is another key I can use." To her surprise there was only one key hanging on a wall. She picked the key up and inspected the shape of the end. She checked the keyholes to find a match. There was only one that matched, a blue door with red hearts on it. She opened the door to find a fountain in the center of a large walking area. "I wonder..." She walked straight to it, only to be greeted by a light blue pony with dark blue stripes. "Twilight, where have you been?" Rainbow Dash greeted as she appeared. "Cheshire Dash! I've been up in my world with my friends," Twilight replied. "I thought you forgot about me... I'm glad you didn't. C'mon, I wanna show you something!" She ran to the fountain. Twilight followed. "This is the queen's secret fountain, she uses it to call upon the griffon or to check the angle of the sun." "Why is the griffon in the water?" "Eh, some silly reason I don't even know about. Anyways, you came on a special day." "What's so special about today?" Rainbow Dash grinned. "Today is the chess game Red Rarity is doing! You see, while you were gone a kingdom tried to take over ours and we're finding out if we are to fall to them. Now that you're here, you can be one of the two knight's we are missing." "A knight? Oh no, I don't know how-to--" Twilight got interrupted by Rainbow putting a hoof on her mouth. "You don't need to, you have magic. You're a unicorn like Trixie told me." "Oh." Twilight Sparkle then looked at the fountain. "Who is the griffon?" She then bit her lip because Rarity was heading to the fountain. Twilight and Rainbow hid behind a bench as Rarity lifted her front hooves and said, "Oh mystic griffon, come from the farthest space, through wind, through darkness, I sumon thee, let me see your face." The griffon rose from the fountain. It looked like it was Gilda. Rarity chuckled. "SHE has arrived," Rarity said to Gilda.