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// Chapter 19 (final) 
// Story: Ambassador 
// by THOSEideas 
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Mockin currently stood in the throne room of Canterlot Castle, it was completely empty besides himself, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Princess Cadence. Princess Celestia sat in her throne with a hoof on her chin and was studying him with a curious eye. Princess Luna stood to the right of the throne and was picking at a spot on her right hoof with her left, completely ignoring Mockin. Princess Cadence sat to the left of the throne with her jaw hanging open loosely and her eyes wide open. Mockin sub-consciencely scratched the back of his head and looked to the floor.

Granite had by-passed all protocole and had smashed the front doors open to the Castle, and had completely destroyed the main hall to get to the throne room. Once he had gotten there he had deposited Mockin off and had quickly appoligized while bowing his way back out of the Castle. That was an hour ago.

At first Mockin was confused and a little bewildered, but now he was just nervous. The endless silence needed to stop now.

"Sooo, um. I'm alive..."

Princess Celestia raised an eyebrow, while Princess Luna glanced up at him. Princess Cadence was, well...

"Umm can one of you say something? I feel really self conscious right now."

Princess Celestia leaned forward in her throne and her eyes grew wide, Princess Luna's jaw dropped and Princess Cadence fell to the floor.

"W-What? Why are you..."

Mockin had dropped his hoof down from his head and in doing so, he caught sight of it. It was transparant. Mockin looked over the rest of his new body and found that his entire body was see through. Mockin started to panic. As soon as he started to breath quickly he felt everything slow and he could hear what was going on outside of the throne room. He took a deep breath through his nose and he could smell what was being prepared in the restuarant three blocks from the Castle, pudding. Now he was confused.

Mockin felt himself grow taller, he could feel his neck become longer while his arms and legs repositioned themselves on his body. Mockin looked down to see that he had an assortment of animal parts replacing his limbs. Something clicked in his head and he thought of one word. Confusion. He was confusion, in other words a draconequues. Mockin let his arms fall to his sides and stared at the Princess' in front of him.

"If it helps, this is new for me too."

Acceptance. Mockin felt his body shrink again and his limbs go back to there original position. Mockin looked down at himself to find that he was in his normal body, well, Alicorn body. He was beside himself with joy.

"Ha! Puns!"

Mockin looked to his left to find a spitting image of himself standing there, smiling happily to him.

"Woah! What the heck! Who are you?"

"I'm Joy! Or in other words, WE, are joy. I'm you, or you are we. Us. Oh whatever."

Mockin looked back at Princess Celestia who had resorted to leaning heavily in her throne, what a show Mockin must have made.

"Um, do you know what is happening to me Joy?"

"Duh! I am you, but it would be kinda dumb to tell you what you already know, and trust me, you don't want to turn into Dumb."

Mockin was completely confused now, and once again he felt himself grow and change, just as Joy vanished from his sight. 

"WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME!!"

Mockin quickly covered his mouth with his mismatched hands and looked at Princess Celestia who had cobered her ears with her hooves. But beneath that, Mockin could tell that she was surprised, however she wasn't confused.

"Please keep your voice down, you do not yet know the full extent of your abilities, and for that, neither do we."

The Princess slowly lowered her hooves away from her ears and looked back up at the draconequues  Mockin, she continued to silently study him. Mockin crossed his arms in front of him and snorted, now he was getting angry.

Once again, Mockin felt himself shift and change, fearing what he would find he looked down at his body to find that he had turned into a Minotaur. Patience. Mockin calmed down and started to think about what was goin on with him, each shift or change in his body seemed to happen during a specific emotion. Joy, he duplicated. Confusion, he turned into a Draconequues. Patience (calm), he turned into a minotaur. Shyness, he turned transparent maybe even invisible. This left Mockin sort of excited and happy, he had finnaly figured out what had happened to him, more or less.

Mockin sighed as he felt his body shift and change again, this time however, it was a familiar feeling. Mockin looked down at his claw and realized that it was indeed, a claw. The claw was surrounded buly little hard objects which Mockin quickly identified as scales, he was a dragon and a single popped into his head. Order.

Mockin looked back up at the Princesses to find that Luna had regained her composure and Clelestia had gotten up out of her throne to start approaching him. Cadence was out cold.

As Princess Celestia approached him he could feel hiw she felt, she was surprised, happy, sad, and cautious all at the sametime.

"Curious..."

"You aren't curious Princess, merely surprised. You knew this was going to happen but you didn't know when."

Mockin inwardly recoiled at what he said, he hadn't meant to say that! He didn't even know how he knew that.

"That is true, I had my suspicions about you when you transformed into a dragon the first time. So when I had returned to my Studies I read up on old prophecies that fake or real seers had predicted, I found one that reminded me of you. It was a prophecy of a new Alicorn, an Alicorn that controled Emotions. It did mention that this Alicorn would be seperated from the power of Love, love being the most powerful Emotion, to combine that power with all the others would be suicidal. Even for an Alicorn." Mockin took a minute to fully register what was happening to him.

"So i'm the Alicorn of Emotions? What does that mean exactly?" Princess Celestia looked at him with a far away look before snapping her attention to back to what was in front of her.

"I do not know... for once in my life I do not know the full potential of an new Alicorn, you are a complete mystery."

Mockin felt like he had been hit by a train, Princess Celestia didn't know?

"But Princess-"

"Please, call me Celestia, you have before anyway. Why should it change now?"

"O-Ok, um, Celestia? What happens now?"

Celestia softly chuckled and patted his enormous shoulder with a gold slippered hoof.

"That is where the fun starts."





"How is this fun?"

Celestia shushed him with a hoof pressed to her lips. He had forgotten that he was supposed to be hiding. Currently he was in a tree with Celestia, they were planning to surprise Twilight and her friends as they headed towards the library. Apparently Twilight had something important planned with her friends, and they were purposely going to ruin it.

Mockin's part of the plan was to wait for Celestia's signal and then he was to come out of the tree as a draconequues and pretend to be Discord. Why? He had asked this question fifty times and had gotten the same answer everytime...

"Just wait and see."

Mockin had his part down pat, he didn't need to confuse himself because he was already baffeled by this plan. For one, he would be a blue and gold draconequues, not the assortment of colors that Discord was. However, that was the only major flaw in the plan that he cared about, his voice already matched Discord's quite well because of his voice box changing in the transformation.

Mockin looked to his left in the close confinement of the tree to see a grinning Celestia perched on the thick branch next to him, as balanced as a cat. 

Once again Mockin shook his head and sighed, he hoped that Twilight would come soon, he was starting to cramp in this position. 

Thankfully only after a minute more Twilight and her friends slowly walked up the path towards the back of the Library. As soon as they were next to the tree, Celestia jumped out and stopped the six friends in their path.

"Princess!" Twilight gasped as she now stood in front of her beloved teacher, the rest of the friends dropped into respectful bows. "What are you doing here?!"

"Oh I just dropped by to check up on my favorite student and a rather chaotic problem.

That was Mockin's cue.

Mockin jumped out of the tree and panded gracfully next to Celestia, everypony except Celestia and Fluttershy, glared at him.

"And Discord, what are YOU doing here? And why are you blue?"

Mockin couldn't help but notice the certain degree of hostility in Twilight's voice as she looked at him. Wow, it must suck to be Discord...oh wait.

"Ouch Twilight, I'm wounded, I truly am. Now why would one of my friends cast me down in such a way?"
Mockin prided himself in how well he managed to pull off a convincing Discord voice. "As for why I am blue? I thought it was the new thing, do you not like it?"

"Oh! I do! Oh, um..." Fluttershy had spoken up rather loudly and then hid behind her mane as she drew attention to herself.

"Yes well, its good to see you Princess. And Discord."

Mockin had completed his part of the task, now all he needed to do was stand around and do stupid things, but he had other ideas. Mockin calmed himself down and cleared his mind of most distractions, in doing so he shifted his body into his Alicorn form and looked over at Celestia, away from the gaping faces.

"Why Celestia! Your coat color is SOO out of fashion, don't you think Rarity?"

Mockin looked back at the six friends and singled out the fashionista of the group.

"What? Oh? Um, why no of course not? White would never go out of style! It is such a crisp and unchanging color that looking at it you can see that something is pure and clean. Also, how did you do that?"

"Thats what I would like to know." All of the other five friends said in unison.

Mockin just grinned at them and felt an uplifting emotion rising inside of him.

"Why don't you ask me instead?"

Mockin turned his head to the left and found his twin, Joy, looking at the six friends with obvious...joy...written all over his face. To Mockin's surprise, the six friends simply shook their heads and returned their gaze back to Celestia, apparently coming to a mutal conclusion. Mockin wasn't finished though.

Mockin walked forward with Joy at his side and started jumping in opposite directions around Celestia as she tried to speak to Twilight. He even made 'boing' sounds when he jumped again, managing to interrupt Celestia every time.

"Well Twi-boing-light, I actua-boing-lly came down to-boing- Ponyville to tal-boing-k WOULD YOU CUT THAT OUT!"

Finnaly Celestia had enough of Mockin and Joy's hopping and yelled at them both as the continued to annoy her, they had even managed to get Pinkie Pie to join in.

"Look Mockin this was funny but no-" Celestia clapped a hoof over her mouth a little too late. She had slipped the secret out.


"Mockin? Wan't that the Earth pony you told me about a while ago? The one that had been reported missing?" Twilight looked from Celestia to Mockin who was now alone, joy having disapeared and Mockin was now turning transparant.

"Uh...Well it's a long story, and I haven't even heard it all. Which is the real reason for us coming here. Elements, meet Mockin Sage, Alicorn of Emotion."

All six heads snapped to Mockin who was now almost invisible and he desperantly hoped that he could go invisible. All six pairs of eyes were boring into him and studying him intently.

"Is she dead?" Rainbow Dash asked, although in truth everyone else was wondering that too.

"No I am not dead!" Mockin felt himself shift as the first hints of rage spilled into him. "Also I am a HE not a SHE."

Mockin looked down at his body and realized that he had turned into a Griffin, rage. Interesting. When he looked up again all the Elements bombarded him with questions and concerns. Mockin sighed to himself as he a thought came to his head, this was Celestia's REAL prank, not the stupid surprise prank from the tree.

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The hooded figure that walked into the spa was very interesting. The pony wore a dull brown cloak that covered it's head and was draped over its back, covering its cutie marks. 

"Hello! Welcome to the Happy Fly spa! How may we help you?"

The hooded figure looked around the spa slowly, noting the two other customers in the store. 

"Yes, you may help me. I have come for a mane styling."

The hooded figure swept the hood off the cloak to reveal his unkept face and his lack of a mane. The pony then lunged forward and siezed the mare by the neck and gazed into her terrified eyes with his own cold and rage filled orbs.

"Your mane will do nicely." The pony licked his teeth that had been sharpened into unnatural points that rivaled even a Lunar Pegasi's.

The mare tried to scream but was silenced when the pony rammed its other hoof into her throat and cut off her air temporarily. The pony turned around and cut off the two customers who had noticed what happened and had scrambled for the exit. 

"Leaving so soon? Why thats bad manners, at least let me give you a parting gift..."

The Mare watched as the pony kissed both customers on the cheek, one was a colt and the other a fillie, both were terrified. 

"There now you have my blessing to leave in peace. MOVE!!"

At first neither customer moved and simply stared fearfuly at the pony standing over them, but at his insistance they sprinted out the door without a second glance at the mare. However, once the customers left the pony turned his attention back to the mare, a dangerous gleam in his eyes.

"Tell me you whorse, what do you know of the newest Alicorn in Equestria?"

The mare was speechless for multiple reasons and didn't answer his question.

"You don't know? Or you won't tell me? If you are keeping secrets from me I swear on my friend's life that your family will regret your decision."

The Mare worled her tongue as fast as she could to try and get some sort of answer out.

"Y-Yes..."

"Yes what? You know? You were lying? SPIT IT OUT!"

"Yes I know of the newest Alicorn in Equestria!" The mare had screamed in terror as the pony suddenly advanced on her cowering form.

"Ah...an answer. Tell me more."

"It w-was blue, a-a-and g-gold."

"And?"

"It rode in on the leader of the North dragons."

"And?!"

"Thats all I know!" The mare burst into tears and covered her eyes from the monstrosity of a pony in front of her.

"Ah..."

The mare spared a glance up at the pony as he sighed in what seemed like delight. The pony slowly removed the cloak from its back and dropped it to the floor. The pony then turned and looked through one of the glass windows that faced the street, it just continued to stare outwards in utter calm and content. The mare looked down at his flanks to identify the pony that was terrorizing her, the cutie mark was a leaf blowing in the wind.

"My old friend..." The pony let out with a sigh, "you have returned."