It was a long day for Shining Armor. He had so many assignments to do for his teacher Princess Celestia that he was just warn the heck out. So, he decides to go and visit the one place that he knows that would calm him down, The Crystal Empire.
His beloved crush Princess Cadence was the ruler of The Crystal Empire and he wanted her more than anything in this entire world. But he knew that most likely wasn’t going to happen, even though he is the student of Princess Celestia it still didn’t make any difference whatsoever…
There was a beach not too far from The Crystal Empire that stretched roughly ten miles or so across the entire empire. Shining Armor never really had the inspiration to walk around the entire thing but he does plan on it. Heck he might even do it today he’s so tired.
“Ugh, what a day,” Shining Armor exclaimed as he was walking towards the beach. A recent storm recently flew over Canterlot so the beach was dirty, but still looked rather nice. He looked up at the massive crystal castle that stood towering over the entire empire. He squinted to try to see if he could see Princess Cadence doing her usual clean sweep of the entire land, but he unfortunately didn’t.
He reached the beach and instead of walking down the usual path he took, he just sat down and took in the sight. He looked around at the sea that looked endless from his point of view, probably was endless for all he knew.
“Man, would I ever love to sail this seas and find something amazing! Maybe a new county. I mean, Princess Celestia does think Equestria is the only country in this world, I still think to this day she’s wrong,” Shining Armor was thinking out loud.
He sighed. “Well, I guess I’ll never really know for sure, whatever!” He got up and looked down his usual trail. He wanted to start walking down, but something stopped him, he didn’t really know what. He was lost in his imagination about another possible country out there! He wanted to shout out to the world what he thought, but he knew that was pointless because, well nopony could hear him!
“Hey Shining Armor!” a familiar voice called out. He looked around to see who it was, and to his surprise, it was Princess Cadence!
“Oh, hey Cadence what’s up?” Shining Armor felt weird talking to her.
“I was just wondering if I could possibly come with you on this walk! It is a nice day after all. Besides, an awful storm was supposed to hit us but it went in a different direction so it missed us by a hair or two!” Cadence was so invigorated for some reason.
“Uh, sure why not!”
“Sorry if I seem kind of hyper today, I honestly really don’t know why I am. I guess I’m in such a good mood today. I dropped by Ponyville earlier today and I met the most spunky party pony ever. She’s really nice and extremely random.”
“Really now? I haven’t been to Ponyville in a long time, how is it down there?”
“Amazing actually, everypony there is so pleasant to talk too,” Cadence looked at the endless sea.
“Interesting, I might have to check that place out next time I get a chance. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get a chance anytime soon based on how much worked I’ve been getting from Princess Celestia, but I will most certainly check it out next time I get a chance,” Shining Armor began to walk down his usual trail.
Cadence followed closely. “I bet working for the Princess is hard work isn’t it Shining Armor?”
“Yes it most certainly is. Oh my goodness I’ve never been so busy in my entire life. It’s fun however, just a lot of hard work. But whatever, I’m just glad I got in.”
“How did you get in anyway?” Cadence was glancing from left to right as they were walking down the trail.
“My parents enrolled me when I was only a filly. There was an entrance exam but I blew that away. Wait a second, what’s that?” Shining Armor spotted something not too far from them.
“It’s probably a log or something Shining,” Cadence spotted the object too.
“It’s not a log, I saw it move,” Shining Armor dashed towards the unknown object.
“Oh crap, wait for me!”
Shining Armor and Cadence ran towards the unknown object as fast as they could, as they were getting closer it started to move more and more, then it finally came into full view. It wasn’t no log, it was a mare lying on the ground, covered in splinters and bleeding at an alarming rate.
The mare used whatever strength she had left to lift her head and look Shining Armor and Cadence in the eye. She smiled at them and left her head fell back onto the sandy beaches.
“Oh man I have to get her to the hospital. Cadence, go warn Princess Celestia about this and meet me at The Crystal Empire hospital when you reach her okay?!”
“Alright, I’ll try to be back to you ASAP!” Cadence flew off towards Canterlot.
Shining Armor kneeled down to be eye level with the unicorn’s face. “Are you okay? Can you hear me?”
The unicorn mare only slowly blinked, as her eyes slowly fell shut. Shining Armor knew he had to act fast, he picked up the bloody unicorn with his magic and dashed towards the hospital. The unicorn’s eyes were closed so she probably passed out but she was still breathing to his knowledge.
The hospital wasn’t too far from where he was, he did have to hurry however because he didn’t know how fast the unicorn’s heart was beating, so for all he knew she could be in the edge of dying.
Shining Armor reached the hospital just in time. He was exhausted from running almost three miles just to get to the beach all the way over to where he was. But he was finally at the hospital and that’s all that matter.
Couple of the crystal ponies offered a hoof or two in transporting the blood covered mare all the way to the hospital. Quite honestly, it could have been what saved her life.
Doctors of the hospital rushed out of there designated stations and grabbed the mare and placed her on a medical bed. The bloody unicorn regained some consciousness as she was moaning continuously.
After finally finding the nearest surgery room, they transported the mare inside and proceed to clean her coat. They made a discovery that her whole torso and parts of her face were hammered by splinters.
The doctors went to work quickly. Shining Armor was present in the room, he was using
a healing spell to try to keep the mare alive.
The first thing they did was clean her coat, it would make the splinter removing job much easier. Shining Armor didn’t pay attention to the mare’s physical appearance, being that she’s probably really rough looking.
He did glance at her quickly before going back to full focus on his spell. She was a purple unicorn with what seemed to have a purple mane. He couldn’t really tell because of the blood
stains but that was his best assumption.
The doctors cleaned the mare's coat head to tail and began working to remove the splinters. Her mane was finally bleached of any blood that previously stained it. Her mane and tail as a matter of fact revealed to be a dark purple with two stripes both with a different shade of pink.
She looked rather graceful in a sense, plus her cutie mark was two crossing stars with five other stars around it, it looked rather odd but Shining Armor wasn’t questioning anypony’s destiny.
The massive surgery was finally over and the purple unicorn’s body was rid of any splinters that it previously had. Once the doctors were done wrapping her body in bandages, and putting stabilizers on all four of her hooves, they took her to a room.
“I don’t know what happen to her but something massive must have happen, and by our calculations she was only mere minutes from dying. Shining Armor, you saved a life today,” the lead surgeon told Shining Armor.
“Thank you doctor, but I have to ask, who is that mare? I don’t think I’ve seen her around Equestria before,” Shining Armor and the lead surgeon were standing right next to the purple unicorn.
“We ran scans not to long after we finished the surgery and we found no match for this mare. Thankfully Princess Celestia rolled in not to long after the surgery started so she helped with that. She can’t stand blood so she didn’t want to view the operation underway.”
“Yeah, I don’t blame her,” Shining Armor occasionally glanced at the passed out mare. “So she’s not dead right?” Shining Armor could see the heart monitor, but he was still worried about her.
The doctor sighed. “No Shining Armor she isn't, you can clearly see the heart monitor and for the fact that her heart is beating at a normal rate and her breathing is steady.”
“I’m sorry, you know me. Besides, if this mare is not Equestrian, then she must be from a different country! Think about all the discoveries we can make!” Shining Armor was obviously excited.
“Take it slow Shining Armor, you don’t know anything about this mare. She could be the nastiest mare in this country! Who knows, she could be a fugitive that escaped her homeland and came here to wreak havoc on us!”
Shining Armor wasn’t sure to take this guy seriously or not. “I think you’re just tried from that twenty-four hour surgery. Why don’t you just call it a day?”
“Very good point, have a good night Shining Armor!” the doctor started walking towards the exit.
“You too doctor!” the doctor stepped out the room and headed toward the exit. Shining Armor walked right next to the mare and sat down. It felt weird but Shining Armor had a hunch that the mare could hear him, understand him.
“Hey, um, whatever your name is,” Shining Armor felt weird. He was also exhausted by the surgery, being that he was basically her life support. “I just wanted to say, even though you’re asleep right now, that you’re going to be okay.
“And I know the doctor thinks that you might be some psychotic maniac, but I personally don’t think so, I think you’re going to be a sweet and nice mare. I will have some question when you wake up, but I hope you’re not too astonished when you wake up to answer them.”
Shining Armor just sat there for a couple of seconds waiting to see if the mare might respond. To his surprise, she didn’t. Her breathing and heart rate are at a normal rate, she’s just knocked out. Then it hit Shining Armor for the fact that she could possibly be a coma. He looked around the room in a panic to see if any doctors were present, he got up and ran out into the hall to see if any doctors where passing by. Luckily there was one that was walking down the hallway and Shining Armor was able to flag him down.
The unicorn doctor rushed into the room and performed a test to see if she was in a coma or not. The test to his knowledge came out negative. “Well it doesn’t look like she’s in a coma, but just dead asleep. Thankfully the cranium wasn’t a place that contained too many splinters.”
“No kidding, however parts of her face did contain splinters like her muzzle for example. On top of that all four or her hooves were broken somehow! We’re trying to figure out what I the world had happen to her but we don’t have the slightest clue.”
“I doubt you’ll have any lead on where on how she got to be that. But being that you are the student of Princess Celestia I’m sure you can probably find something. Or maybe wait when she wakes up from her deep slumber and ask her!” the doctor put his hoof on her forehead.
“Well she isn’t hot however it doesn’t seem she’ll be waking up anytime soon.”
“Why is that?” Shining Armor looked worried.
“When I was scanning her for a coma she had no brain activity whatsoever. She’s not brain dead or anything like that but when unicorns especially have no brain activity going on, something massive is preventing so. Even a regular sleep can’t flush out a unicorns total brain activity, which means she in a very deep sleep.”
“Wow, well I might as well head back to Canterlot. There’s no real reason why I should be here right now being that she’ll probably be asleep for possibly a long time. Just let me know when there’s any sign of her waking up okay?”
“I most certainly will Shining Armor, I’m guess you’ll be leaving now?” the doctor stepped away from the unconscious mare.
“Yep, bye doctor,” Shining Armor was making his way to the exit.
“Bye Shining Armor,” the doctor waved goodbye at him.
An entire week has pass since the purple unicorn was performed surgery on. The wounds were making a swift recovery but still not to one-hundred percent. Celestia occasionally visited the mare to treat her wounds and broken bones.
Normally Shining Armor would follow Celestia to The Crystal Empire hospital to check on the mare, but seeing her still in her unconscious state would doing nothing but tantalize him more. He doesn’t know why he cares about his unknown mare so much, there’s something about her that just wants her to survive. It’s probably for the fact that this is the first time he has ever saved anypony’s life before and he didn’t want it to be all for nothing.
Celestia appeared in Shining Armor’s room one day. Shining Armor was perplexed why his teacher would appear unannounced.
“Shining Armor, the mare’s recovering brain activity, she’s waking up!” Celestia’s face brighten like the sun.
“Really? We shall go right away!” Shining Armor and Celestia teleported right to the mare’s room.
The mare wasn’t awake, however she was breathing heavier than before. Her mouth was bandage, however almost silent muffles were retracting from her muzzle. She was most certainly almost fully awake now.
Celestia, Shining Armor, and the present doctor stepped back from the mare, she could open her eyes at any moment. It’s all possible for her to be frighten at the sight of the three ponies when she woke up.
At long last, after a painful twenty-four hour surgery and a week and a half of a deep sleep, the unknown mare, opened her bright purple eyes. She did a quick glance at the three ponies right in front of her then looked down at her bandaged body and muzzle.
The doctor was the first to step up to the now-wake mare and ask her the first question. “Hi there, my name is Doctor Sternheiss. I’m just going to ask you a simple question, and that’s all. Can you hear me?”
The purple mare nodded.
“Well then I’m assuming you want me to take that bandage off you muzzle don’t you?”
The purple mare nodded again. She was rather calm even though she’ll finally get to talk again.
Sternheiss walked over and carefully removed the bandages off the purple mare’s mouth. The mare then popped her jaw, then opened it to talk but was stopped by a violent cough. The three ponies around her were spooked for a brief moment, but it didn’t last long when she stopped herself from coughing.
The purple mare, finally spoke. “First question for you all, where am I?”
“You’re in Equestria. More specifically The Crystal Empire,” Shining Armor spoke up. “Might we have your name?”
The purple mare got conferrable. “I’ll answer that question in due time, but I have a couple of question I still want to ask. Sorry if I’m being rude.”
Shining Armor didn’t agree to the purple mare’s standards but he complied. “Go right ahead.”
“I only have two more question so fret not. Is that the ruler of Equestria over there, Princess Celestia right?”
Celestia stepped up. “Yes I am.”
“That’s one mystery solved. Next question, how far is Canterlot from here?”
Shining Armor went next. “On the other side of the mountain, why do you ask?”
“Let me answer your previous question before answer that current question, my name is Twilight Sparkle. I have been sent by the Princess of my land to gather information about this country. I’m assuming that city Canterlot is where all the Equestrian archives are?”
“Indeed you are right Twilight Sparkle,” Celestia went next. “Before you ask anymore question, can the doctor ask you some question regarding you and your health?”
“Fire away,” Twilight replied.
Doctor Sternheiss stepped up. “Are all five of your natural senses functional?”
“Yes, but I think my legs are broken,” Twilight felt a shooting pain in her leg when she tried to move it.
“Indeed they are. Next question, do you have any medical history or any disabilities such as brain disorders at all?”
“Hardly, I have autism but that’s about it,” Twilight felt weird answering that question.
“Almost done, do you feel any scorching pain in any areas around your body?”
“Besides my four broken hooves, not really.”
“Last question, do you have any information on family records? This question is optional by the way.”
“I would rather not answer that question, if that’s alright of course.”
“Of course it is Twilight, alright that sums up the test. Celestia, over to you,” Sternheiss stepped back as Celestia walked right next to the mare’s bed.
“Twilight Sparkle, you are not from Equestria,” Celestia could hardly believe it.
“You don’t say?” Twilight laughed.
“Seriously Twilight, I thought Equestria was the only country in the world. Well, at one point I thought a power unicorn Star Swirl the Bearded was from a different country called “Enza” because he talked nonstop about it during his spell making but I thought that was a part of the enchanting process.”
“Really? Because, I’m from Enza,” Twilight didn’t find this ironic at all.
Celestia jumped back a couple feet. “What? Really? So he wasn’t lying!”
“He wasn’t lying. In fact it’s how my country found out about Equestria. According to his journal, the western stars pointed towards Equestria. After he stayed in Equestria for who knows how long, he went back to Enza and passed away shortly after.”
“Interesting, if only I could go back in time for long enough to ask him why he left Equestria. But anyways I have one final question for you Miss Twilight Sparkle. What exactly is your purpose for being here in Equestria and how did you get here and finally why were you battered and bloody?”
Twilight took a deep breath in. “Well you see, the Princess of my country wanted to know more about this country. She appointed me to sail over to Equestria and gather information about this country so we can teach out it in our schools. Why she appointed me to travel over here? I’ll never know. Probably because I hated Enza so much. Plus I worked with the Princess of Enza as a teacher in her magic school so she always knew what was going down with me.
“Anyways, we set sail from Enza bright and early one morning, it was going to take roughly four days to travel all the way to Equestria so we knew it was going to be a long journey. On the fourth day, a massive storm blew right over our ship and lightning even stuck our ship. I was about to teleport away from the ship to the beaches of Equestria but it was too late and I got hammered with splinters. I wasn’t able to save anypony else on the ship sadly,” Twilight almost shed a tear.
Celestia felt abominable. “I’m terribly sorry Twilight Sparkle, I do have a couple more questions in mind right now, but would you like me to take you to the Canterlot Archives to gather your information?”
Twilight raised her head up the best she could. “That would be lovely.”
Shining Armor and Doctor Sternheiss stepped back as Celestia teleported Twilight to Canterlot. Celestia of course took the entire bed with her, Sternheiss didn’t mind as long as she gave it back later. Shining Armor had some suspicions about this new comer. “I don’t know if I’d trust her or not Doctor.”
“What’s not to trust about her?” Doctor Sternheiss was confused.
“She’s from a different country Doctor, being that she said that she hated it means that she might try to do something heinous to this country!”
“I think you’re just paranoid about seeing a foreigner for this first time Shining Armor. And if you noticed during her story she showed immense emotion which is something common witches doing show.”
“Very good point Doctor, goodness I need to story worrying so much.”
“That might be a good idea Shining Armor, well I’m going to head back home I’ll see you around,” Doctor Sternheiss made his way towards the door.
Shining Armor followed. “Bye doctor.”
Back at the Canterlot Castle, Celestia started unraveling the bandages off Twilight. It did her Twilight quite a bit, but she felt so much better after they were all off. Her hoof bones were still broken however and a couple places around her body such as her ribs were fractured however.
“Well I don’t have a spell that can heal your bones right away, however I can make them heal faster,” Celestia’s horn lit up as she poked Twilight’s head. Twilight felt a weird sensation rush past her as Celestia lifted her horn. She then had an idea.
“Hmm, I might have something that can accelerate my healing!” Twilight’s horn began to glow. Celestia became perplexed at this sight and just stepped back and let Twilight do whatever she was doing. It lasted a rather long time and Celestia became ennui by it, but it didn’t last long when Twilight’s body jolted violently.
Celestia was startled by this but was relieved when Twilight started moving her hooves. “What just happen Twilight Sparkle?” Celestia asked.
“Healer acceleration spell, hard as heck to pull off, but it’s a true life saver,” Twilight was panting heavily.
“That isn’t possible! I know of every spell ever created!”
“Celestia, I come from a different country,” Twilight wanted to face hoof.
“Oh yeah, maybe I should go to, um Enza I think it was called and learn some of their spells!” Celestia laughed.
Twilight did a caustic laugh. “Trust me, you do not want to go to Enza. I’ve only been awake for what about an hour and I admire this country exceptionally better!”
“Really know? You should tell me all about it later. By the way why didn’t you use that spell on yourself earlier?” Celestia curiosity got the better of her.
“I was still hurting all over, plus remember when I said it was difficult to pull off? I’m not kidding. Thankfully with the spell doing its magic right now I should be fine within a day or two.”
“Well that’s good.”
“I do have one last question for you Princess Celestia,” Twilight was contemplating wherever to ask it or not.
“Sure go right ahead!” Celestia was for some reason excited to hear Twilight’s question.
“Who’s Nightmare Moon? In Star Swirl’s journal, it said something about your sister turning evil somehow and turning into something called Nightmare Moon?”
Celestia closed her eyes for a few seconds then opened them up half way. “Nightmare Moon is my sister, Princess Luna. She turned evil after becoming selfish that ponies slept through her night, because, she is the Princess of the night. Now I raise both the sun and the moon and I have been for the past one thousand years.”
“Wow, I’m, sorry for asking by the way,” Twilight started feeling bad.
Celestia cheered up. “Oh it’s okay Twilight. Tell you what, since it is rather late I’m going to roll you over to one of our rooms in the castle and let you recuperate there for the night.”
“Thank you Celestia, I should be fit a wheelchair tomorrow. Then I can begin the research right?”
“Yes you can, I also need to return that bed to The Crystal Empire hospital tomorrow after you are set in the wheelchair. But that’s beside the point, off to your room Twilight!”
Twilight rested her head on the pillow. “Thanks Celestia,” she then began to drift off to sleep.
Twilight woke up in the middle of the night, she looked outside to see the moon was directly overhead. “Equestria’s timeframe must be different than Enza’s. The ponies of Enza always thought the Sun and the Moon did raise up and down by themselves. I thought so too before reading Star Swirl’s journal. Hmm, I should probably try to get back on my hooves.” Twilight thought as she tried to move her right and left hooves.
When she tried to move them, surprisingly it didn’t hurt when she moved them! However it felt rather weird, like a piece of string was holding her hooves to the floor and she had little room to move them right or left or up or down.
Celestia’s healing spell on top of Twilight’s did its job rather well, almost too well. It was rather had to move all her hooves, she mustn’t have regained nerve control of them yet. Was the damage that was done to her greater than she had thought?
After exercising her hooves, she was able to regain full control of them within a matter of minutes. Then finally hopped off her bed. She was rather wobbly, you would think she had never had walked before.
After regaining her bearings, she decided to go for a walk around the castle. She thought it was probably the best course of action for clearing her head off all the trauma that has been happening for the past couple of days.
“I hated Enza, that’s why one of the reasons why Princess Mespha has sent me overseas to this country. However what little friends I had back there I do rather miss quite a bit. I don’t like making friends that often, and they’re probably the only friends I actually accepted, they were always so wonderful. When I worked at the library, Serah my manager always listen to my problems and worked with me on whatever crap that was going on in my life. Even if I were to lash out at her she would still put up with me and work out my problems.
“I’m surprised I didn’t lash out at that so called doctor for asking about my family history. Thankfully it was an optional question and I wouldn’t have answered it even if it wasn’t. I still wonder to this day why I’m so mean and I’m constantly anti-social, I guess it’s how my quote on quote ‘mother’ raised me. Whatever, who needs her and my father. I’m just glad to be alive to-” Twilight was brought back into reality after running head on head into one of the night patrol guards. This did not help Twilight’s throbbing headache one bit.
“Hey what the heck?” Twilight looked up at the guard whose face was covered by his helmet.
“Oh I’m sorry! Here let me help you up,” the royal guard held out his hoof.
“Best not lash out at him, he could probably have Princess Celestia throw me out of the castle into the streets. And I still need that information,” Twilight thought as she grabbed the stallion’s hoof.
The royal guard brushed her off a bit. “I’m Flash Sentry, nice to meet you!” Flash was blushing a little bit.
“I’m Twilight, not if you’d excuse me I must be getting back to bed,” Twilight turned around.
Flash grabbed her tail. “Wait! Don’t you want to talk for a bit?”
Twilight took her tail back. “Okay fine, but what do you want to talk about?”
“Uh, uh…” Flash felt awkward.
“Exactly, you’re not interested in starting a conversation with me but you only like me because you think I look pretty. That’s sweet however annoying, I’ll still give you this,” Twilight walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek.
Flash’s whole face turned red.
“Cute, well goodnight!” Twilight turned around and headed towards her room.
“Goodnight, T-T-Twilight,” Flash was smiling weirdly.
After getting back to her bed, she just crawled back into it and covered herself up. The moon was still shining overhead and it looked rather beautiful. Twilight thought about her very few friends back at Enza.
“Now that I think about it, if any of the crew survived? Captain Baskon was actually pretty nice to me, I’m surprised since I was rather mean to him on the voyage. I guess he’s just one of those captains that treats everypony on the ship equal. I honestly don’t even know if that’s a good thing or not, but whatever, he’s probably dead right now. He did get hit with splinters just like I did.
“I honestly don’t know what I should do anymore after I get the information from the Canterlot Archives. Should I just saw screw it to the entire mission and live here in Equestria? I probably shouldn’t, Enza is inferior compared to Equestria, but it’s still my country. Nobody loved me in Enza, however ponies did support me, immensely. I’m being very bipolar about my relationship with Enza, but I honestly don’t care.
“Princess Mespha was also very kind to me. Heck she sent me here because she knew how much I hated Enza! I should give her some credit, plus if it wasn’t for her I still wouldn’t be alive today. But she was a rather harsh ruler, but it wasn’t towards me so. Heck I was the head teacher at her magic school. Come to think of it, another reason why she did send me here was to gather information about this country to teach about it at her school. I’m so freaking random I don’t even know why.
“Well I should probably stop keeping myself up, I’m exciting to go ahead and start my research in the morning,” With that said, Twilight closes her eyes, and shortly falls right to sleep.
The next morning, Twilight woke up as sick as a dog. She was coughing so hard she started coughing up a little blood. Celestia could even hear it from all the way over in her chamber which was only a couple doors down from Twilight’s room.
The coughing sounded awful, it sounded like Twilight was having a sword shoved down her throat. Celestia walked into see Twilight’s face was almost as white as a newborn foal. It made Celestia sick to the stomach to see blood on the sheets in front of Twilight, but she held back from upchucking.
“What’s wrong Twilight?” Celestia asked.
“Sick as a *cough* *cough* dog!” Twilight could barely take in a breath.
“What, what happen?” Celestia walked over and started feeling her forehead.
“Must have caught some sort of disease *cough* *cough* during the surgery maybe!” Twilight was barely getting out a word.
“Must have, don’t talk for a second, I’ll heal you,” Celestia’s horn started to glow as she touched Twilight’s forehead with it. “Thankfully it’s only a simple common cold, which I can heal.”
Twilight felt a warm sensation rush threw her body. Like a fairy enchanted her with life again, it felt amazing. Twilight sit up from her bed amazed.
“In Enza, we can heal broken bones like nopony’s business but infections like the common cold take weeks to cure. I guess there is a huge difference between the unicorn magic here and Enza.”
“Well Twilight Sparkle you can learn all about our magic and our history in the Canterlot Archives. That is what you wanted to do right?”
Twilight squealed. “Yes please.”
“Come this way, if you can,” Celestia started walking out the door. Twilight hopped out of her bed with no problem whatsoever and started to follow the white alicorn to the archives. It wasn’t that far from Twilight’s room, maybe like five or six rooms down.
They reached the Canterlot Archives and were greeted with a lock door. Celestia’s horn glowed for a couple seconds and the lock from the door fell to the floor.
“It’s an enchanted lock acquainted with a spell only I and a couple of the guards can access. I’ll give you permission as well,” Celestia lifted up the lock with her magic and put another enchantment on it allowing Twilight to unlock the lock.
“Well Twilight, the entire library is yours,” Celestia gestured Twilight to enter the library.
Twilight ran up and hugged Celestia. “Thank you so much Celestia, did I ever tell you how much I like to read?”
Celestia was patting Twilight’s head. “No Twilight, but you can tell me all about it later, for now you need to go do your research.”
Twilight let go of Celestia. “You’re right, I’m sorry.”
“Celestia pointed towards a pile of notebooks inside the library. “Those are notebooks are
took the liberty of gathering last night. I hope your research goes well Twilight!”
“Thanks you so much Celestia, how could I ever repay you?”
Celestia winked at Twilight. “I think I have something in mind, but we can discuss that later.”
“Okay, talk to you later Celestia!” Twilight waved to her goodbye.
“Bye Twilight, I’ll come check on you at the end of the day!” Celestia vanished out of sight.
“Alright where should I go first?” Twilight thought to herself. She picked up one of the notebooks and the quill and started looking around for a place to start. She settled with the founding of Equestria.
She had learn that Equestria was founded after the three types of ponies settled an agreement. They came from a different land and eventually stumbled upon Equestria.
“I wonder what this previous land was,” Twilight thought to herself. “It couldn’t have been Enza, it’s on the other side of the world. Ah I’m sure it doesn’t matter.”
Next was the rise of the royal pony sisters. According to the book she read, two of the leaders got married after Equestria was founded and had to babies. Their two babies, turned out to be alicorn! One was as white as the morning sky, the other one was as blue as the night. Their names were “Celestia, and Luna.”
Twilight wondered to herself how they have lived for this long, are alicorns immortal? She decided to ask Celestia herself later.
After the three leaders had died, Celestia and Luna rise up as the new leaders of Equestria. More and more ponies came in from far and beyond to Equestria after the two royal pony sisters had control of the land.
“Could Enza been one of those lands that ponies came from? After all, Enza has been around much longer than Equestria. I couldn’t really ask Celestia being that all ponies pretty much look the same, but I guess it’s all possible,” Twilight became more curious by the second.
Later in the book, it talks about how an evil being named “Discord” conquered Equestria for a short time before being turned into stone by something called “The Element of Magic”.
“Discord, Discord why have I heard that before? Isn’t he Enza born? Wasn’t he some sort of fail experiment to create a powerful creature but turned evil? I think so. Wow, I wonder how he got to Equestria,” Twilight continued to write all this down, she was assured that this was truly something worth bringing back to Princess Mespha.
Continuing through the book. It talked about how multiple cities throughout Equestria were built to support the large population of Equestria. There were cities such as: Fillydelphia, Manehatten, Cloudsdale for the pegasi, and Ponyville.
“I wonder how Equestria’s population got so big so fast. They must have had a boomer-foal period like Enza has sometimes.”
She was reaching the near end of the book. The last part was the part where Princess Luna became Nightmare Moon.
“Celestia pretty much already told me what happen so I think I’ll skip over this section and write it down on my own time,” Twilight flipped ahead.
The next couple parts of the book weren’t really worth writing down. The book stated some outburst by the other cities in Equestria but that’s about it. Twilight put down the book, and made her way outside the archives. When she looked outside, it was pitch black dark, Celestia must have already lowered the moon so I think it was time to pack it up.
Twilight thought about visiting Celestia right before she head to bed but for all she knew Celestia was already in bed. On her way back to her room, she didn’t pass any of the royal guards, must have been in a different part of the Castle.
One of the royal guards stumbled upon Twilight and was curious why she was still up. “Why are you still awake? Do you know what time it is?”
“Hardly,” Twilight started feeling nervous.
“It’s like two in the morning, you should really be getting back to bed.”
“Good point,” Twilight walked around the royal guards towards her room. The royal guard didn’t bother looking back, he just went along his usual way.
The next morning Celestia woke up Twilight rather late in the day, it was around noon when she woke Twilight up.
“Hello Twilight Sparkle, I know you are anxious to return to your country, but I want you to interact with the ponies here in Equestria,” Celestia started fixing Twilight’s mane.
“Celestia trust me, being social is something I’m terrible at,” Twilight hopped out of bed.
“All the more reason why you should head to Ponyville! I think you would like it anyway. It’s a small town and all the ponies there are wonderful!”
“You’re making sound like I’ve interacted with millions of ponies before Celestia.”
“You’re probably right Twilight, but I still would like you to do this, please?”
“Fine I guess, but for how long?”
“Not too long, maybe a couple days? A week?”
“Well I really don’t have a reason not too so I guess.”
“Thank you Twilight, I already booked you a train to Ponyville, have fun!”
“Wait I’m leaving right now?” Twilight started getting slightly irritated.
“Of course! It’s like twelve o’clock, you know that right?”
“I didn’t know that, okay fine I’ll go, will my notebooks be safe up here with you?”
“Of course they will, I’ll make sure nopony touches them.”
“Thank you,” Twilight started making her way out of the castle towards the train station. Lots of ponies were gathered by the train station today for some reason.
“Was there some sort of social gathering today I didn’t know about? Eh probably so, I wouldn’t have gone anyway.” Twilight thought to herself. “I really need to stop thinking to myself like this. I won’t do it as much when I get to Ponville. Considering I’m going to be forced to be social with other ponies here they’ll probably think I’m insane or something.”
The train arrived and everypony started gathering onto it like a pack a dogs at feeding time. Everypony took their seats but thankfully because of Princess Celestia, Twilight had a special reserved seat for herself. There wasn’t much chattering going on in the train, some ponies were talking about the latest Canterlot news but that’s about it.
“Oh my goodness darling thank you so much for carrying this heavy luggage for me!” Twilight turned around to see whose loud voice was it.
“You’re welcome Miss Rarity!” the luggage guy set her luggage in one of the doors above the seat.
“Oh my goodness there’s no seat anywhere on this forsaken train! What should I do?” Rarity exclaimed.
Twilight turned around back in her seat. “My goodness she is such a whiner and darn it I was going to stop doing this.”
Rarity walked up and down the train to try to find a seat then she noticed Twilight’s seat but ignored the sign on the table that stated: “VIP Only”.
“Excuse me, may I sit next to you please? There’s not where else on this train to sit and there’s no way in Celestia that I’m sitting next to one of those farmer ponies in the very back!” Rarity was disgusted by just looking at them.
Twilight looked up at Rarity then pointed a hoof at the VIP Only sign.
“I know darling but you have to understand, I’m a fabulous ponies that needs to be in a clean environment!” Rarity was being selfish at this point.
Twilight rolled her eyes. “Fine, just don’t complain.”
“Thank you darling! And I won’t I promise,” Rarity sat down next to Twilight. She got quickly conferrable in the VIP leather seats.
Twilight just looked out the window at the world passing by, Rarity however tried to be social with her. “So what’s your name?”
“My name is Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight turned her attention towards Rarity.
“That’s intriguing, why are you going to Ponyville?”
Twilight didn’t feel like making up a reason. “Because Princess Celestia wants me to be social with other ponies because I’m not from this country.”
“Really? Where are you from?”
“I would rather not talk about it here on a train, maybe when we get to Ponyville?”
“Sure, do you have a place to stay?”
Twilight’s heart skipped a beat. “Oh crap, I forgot to ask Celestia about a place I would be able to stay!”
“It’s okay darling, you can stay with me! I have an extra room adjacent from my own room. Of course I would have to clean it up a little but it’s better than nothing!”
“Thank you, um Rarity right?”
“Yes.”
“Thank you so much again, you’re a life saver!”
Rarity laugh. “Don’t mention it darling, anything I can do for a friend!”
The word ‘friend’ echoed in Twilight’s mind. She had a couple friends back at Enza, but not many. The only reason why she really wanted friends back at Enza was because you really always need a couple friends to have your back. But this time that wasn’t the case, she was, actually grateful to have a friend.
“I’m your, friend?” Twilight was lost in her mind.
“Yeah of course, I’m guessing making friends isn’t something you’re really good at?”
“No it is not. But I guess that more reason to back up what Celestia told me.”
“Don’t worry darling, you’re going to make lots of friends here in Ponyville. The ponies here are nice and friendly. Some are obnoxious but I doubt you’ll be seeing any of those types of ponies, you should be find darling.”
By the time Rarity had said, the train had already arrived in Ponyville. Only about half of the train passengers piled out of the train being that some of the other ponies on it were probably heading towards other places in Equestria.
Twilight followed closely behind Rarity as they started heading towards Rarity’s house. Once they finally reached her house, the “Carousel Boutique” as she called it. They were both greeted by Rarity’s little sister.
“RARITY! I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE HOME!” the little foal exclaimed as she ran up and hugged her sister.
“I’m glad to see you too Sweetie Belle,” Rarity tried prying the foal from her.
“Hey sis, who’s the purple unicorn?” Sweetie Belle looked behind Rarity.
“That’s Twilight Sparkle! She’s going to be staying with us for a couple of days.”
Sweetie Belle became annoyed fast. “Whatever, as long as she doesn’t take my room.”
Rarity looked back at Twilight with a dab of sweat running down her face. “Don’t worry about her Twilight! She’s leaving later tonight, so you won’t have to worry about her for the rest of the time you’re here!”
Twilight became relieved. “Thank you Rarity, now you wanted to know about where I came from?”
“Yes please!” Rarity and Twilight sat down on one of the nearby couches.
“I’m from a place called ‘Enza’. It’s smaller than Equestria, but has a smaller population. Most of its population is mainly Pegasus believe it or not so we don’t really have to worry about overcrowding. However Enza is not a good country to live in. Reason being is that it’s so war ridden and really everypony their hates each other.
“The Princess of the land, Princess Mespha tries to keep order in Enza and nine times out of ten, she does a really good job. But that doesn’t stop crime from happening. From other ponies perspective it may seem like a fairly decent country, but in my eyes, it’s terrible.
“Thankfully Princess Mespha knew how much I hated Enza so she sent me on a mission trip to Equestria to gather information about this country so I can teach it at her magic school. That’s also the reason why she knew me so well.”
“Interesting, if I were you, I would probably want to leave that country too. But how did you get here anyway?”
Twilight explained the whole catastrophe with the ship and her almost dying.
Rarity almost jumped out of her skin. “How are you still alive? How haven’t you died from blood loss?”
Twilight shrugged. “The doctors say it’s a miracle.”
“It honestly it darling, you must have some special purpose in life if you escaped a near death situation like that!”
“Maybe, we’ll have to see,” Twilight got up from the couch. Twilight stood there standing for a couple minutes, she became lost in her thought about Shining Armor and some of the crew members on the ship she was on.
There was only one in particular that she really cared about, and that was the captain. He was pretty much the whole reason Twilight was able to keep her sanity the entire ship ride. All the other crewmates were utter jerks to Twilight and he was able to make them behave and such.
“Uh, Twilight you alright?” Rarity became concern.
Twilight snapped back to reality. “Oh, yeah, sorry became lost in my thoughts.”
“Oh that’s alright, say I why don’t you go ahead and head to bed? It’s rather late out and I don’t want my parents see you and know that you’re spending the night. They kind of treat my friends rather weirdly.
“Oh my goodness I almost forgot, I need to clean your room! One second, stay right here and don’t move!” Rarity walked upstairs to start cleaning Twilight’s room.
“Okay Rarity!” Twilight chuckled.
“Man what a diva she is. Although she is rather annoying, I still made a friend today, I just hope the other ponies here in Equestria aren’t fancy pants like she is. I highly doubt they are anyway but still.
“What I’m most worried about is that she said that some of the ponies here are obnoxious, one of my biggest pet peeves is obnoxious or dumb ponies. I really hope I don’t meet one of those ponies. But whatever we’ll have to see and I’m not going to do this anymore! C’mon Twilight we have to stop thinking to yourself like this.”
Rarity walked down the stairs with a huge smile on her face. “Okay Twilight your room is neat, ready for you to sleep in! Now get to bed!”
Twilight giggled. “Someone’s assertive today.”
“Nah I’m just joking around with you, anyways goodnight Twilight!” Rarity started heading towards a closet next to the stairs.
“Goodnight Rarity,” Twilight walked upstairs.
Today was a weird day for Twilight. It was her first official time seeing other Equestrian Ponies and interacting with one! Today went rather well but she didn’t know how her further days in Equestria will affair. However, she was indeed, prepared for the worst.