//------------------------------// // Prologue: Invintation // Story: The New Equestria // by CryptoBrony //------------------------------// July 24, 2015 17:35 Location: Canterlot "Okay, discussed important matters with Celestia, check. Got food for Owliscious, check. Checked my checklist for the third time, definitely check." As she checks her checklist, again, Twilight is walking along the main street that leads out of the the castle which contains Celestia's and Luna's throne room. She decides to check back at her old home before she went back to Ponyville and check to see which books she would like to take home with her (and maybe catch a few reading hours before Spike comes home). As she walks up the stairs to her house, she notices the front has cobwebs on the door itself. Looking at the exterior of her house, she notices all the cobwebs and dust that has accumulated over the past few years. Stepping to the side of her door she looks in the pot that had once stored a healthy matured plant, which has decayed to dust on the floor, and found her spare key still inside. "Works every time," Twilight says to herself. After entering her previous home, she sees every corner, book, and bookshelf has either cobwebs or dust covering the sides that are exposed to the atmosphere of the room. "Was I gone this long?" Twilight asks herself. "Time went by so quick! One day I'm studying magic in this room under Celestia's wing, the next I'm living at Ponyville studying magic." Twilight looks around the room once more to let the memories of her life in Canterlot play through her mind. She then walks to the nearby bookcase and examines it. "These books are so dusty, I don't know what the titles of these books read!" Twilight inhales deeply and blows against the dust to shoo it away. Only to have it come back to her face (-_-). "That was a stupid idea to do," she says to herself, spitting out the dust that went into her mouth. She looks at the bookshelf again and sees the books with their titles much more clearly now. "OOoo, here's one on physiological studies, this one is about transforming one fruit to another, and, oh! The fifth book of Starswirl the Bearded's magical theories! I'm so going to bring that one back home! Where's the sixth and seventh books in my collection?" After an hour or so of looking at the books on one shelf, and finding the ones she wants to take home, she moves to the next bookshelf and continued her search. A few hours later... "There! I got all the books I would want back at Ponyville." Twilight looks around the room and still sees all the dust scattered around the parts she didn't look through. "One of these days, I'll have to clean this place up. Or just let Spike do it," she says with a smile. As she's about to leave the room with all her books, she trips from an empty bottle, unknown where it came from, and hits against the bookshelf in front of her. The hit made the whole bookshelf shake and as she stumbles backward from the hit, she quickly looks up to prevent any books from falling off of the bookshelf. Lucky for her, no books were falling down but she did see a dusty bottle falling straight for her face! With quick reflexes, she catches the bottle in mid-air, right in front of her face. "Where did this bottle come from?" Twilight asks herself. She wipes the dust off of it to find the fluid the clear bottle holds inside of it. "Why is this bottle here?" She pulls off the cork that is closing the bottle and finds it very stuck. She uses her magic to pull with all her might and manages to open it with it splashing some of the liquid to her face. "Why does this keep happening to me?" She smells the contents and finds it not emitting any type of odor. "What is this stuff?" She wipes the liquid off of her face and looks up from where the bottle fell from. Sliding the nearby ladder to the area of where the bottle fell and climbs up to the top of the bookshelf. She sees a big book, bigger than any of her books, covered in dust just barely creeping over the edge of the shelf. She blows off the dust and spits out the dust that came back at her face. "I got to stop doing that." What was revealed under was an odd looking book; the book was made out of the same material as any of her other books in the library and her room. Examining the book while climbing down, she notices there's was no title on it. "Okay, some books don't have titles on the book itself," Twilight says to herself. "Let's she what this book is about." The first page of the book was blank. "Okay, first pages in most books are empty." She flips to the second page to find it empty as well. And the third; as well the fourth, fifth, sixth, tenth, twentieth, and so on. "What!? What type of book has only empty pages in it? Is it a diary?" She looks for any writing in the book. No name, notes, nothing. "What type of pony would leave a book with this large amount of pages without any title or subject written in it?" Before she knew it, the sun was setting and moon was about to rise. Twilight sighs. "If only I had a light or torch to continue my search of this blank book." Twilight shimmers across the darkening room to collect her books and the blank book with the bottle it came with and headed back to Ponyville. July 24, 2015 20:40 Location: Ponyville's Library Opening the door to the library, Twilight sets down the pile of books she brought with her and quickly takes the blank book and the bottle to a stand nearby. "Spike!" Twilight calls out. After hearing nothing for a few seconds, she calls out to Spike again. "Oh, Spike! Can you come downstairs please?!" "Yeah?" Spike replies half asleep. "Can you find me all the books that is about potions?" "Are you going to turn into Zecora's ways?" Spike asks worried. "What? No! I need to find what this bottle contains inside," Twilight says while showing the bottle. "Where did you find it?" "Hoo?" Owlicious says waking from his nap. "No not 'who', 'where'?" Spike replies. "Spike," Twilight interrupts, "you know he only says 'hoo' right?" Spike grunts and goes to the bookshelves to find any book Twilight asked about. Twilight starts looking through the book again to find any sort of writing in it. She lets out a sigh after going through fifty of the pages, not even a quarter of the book looked through. "Hoo?" Owlicious says toward Twilight. "I'm okay Owlicious, it's just that I can't find out what this book is about. There's no writing or anything to tell me what it is about. I looked through some of these and nothing! Not even inside of the covers!" She flips to the inside of the front cover to show him. "So, where did you find this book?" Spike asks from across the room. "I found it back in our old home back at Canterlot. On top of one of the bookshelves." "Wow really? How did we not know about it?" "It don't know, that's what I'm trying to find out." She flips to the inside of the back cover to show Owlicious. " See? Nothing! Arrgh. This book has-" Twilight stops as she sees something indented on one of the corners inside the book's front cover. Make me wet... "What?" Twilight thinks to herself. "Make. Me. Wet? What does that mean?" Just then, Spike falls with a pile of books he was carrying over to Twilight. "A little help here?" Spike asks under the pile of books. "Owliscious can you help him out?" "Hoo," Owlicious replies. Going back to the book, Twilight analyses the writing again. "What does it mean?" Twilight glances over shoulder and sees them still trying to pick up the books. "So, how do I make you 'wet'?" She whispers to the book, leaning over it. "Umm, hey there sweet stuff. Do you mind telling me what your purpose is? I can write in you with great complex sentences and good punctuation!" "Twilight?" Spike calls out. "Huh, what?!" "What are you doing?" "Nothing! Nothing. Just, whispering to myself," Twilight says with an innocent smile. Luckily, Spike had his vision blocked by the pile of books he's carrying. "Just set them down here Spike." "So, what have you got so far from the book?" Twilight sighs. "Nothing so far. There's nothing written in it." "Can I see?" "Just be careful with it." As Spike picks up the blank book, Twilight starts looking through the books about potions. "So, nothing is written in it at all?" "No, nothing." I already checked about a quarter of it already and nothing." "Where's the bottle you were talking about? "Over there, next to stand," Twilight says pointing at it. Spike closes the book and grabs the bottle. Owlicious flies over to Spike to see the bottle as well. "So, did you find what's in the bottle?" Spike asks. "Hoo?" "NO! Not 'who', I asked- nevermind." "No," Twilight replies, "I can't find anything in here so far." Spike tries to open the bottle. "Why is this bottle so hard to open?" Spike grabs the cork with his teeth and pulls. "Wait Spike! Don't-" Spike opens the bottle and the contents sprays on Spike's and Owlicious' faces. Spikes drops the bottle, spitting out what ever went into his mouth. "Spike! The bottle! The BOOK!" The bottle fell on top of the book and all the contents inside the bottle spilled on top of the book, drenching it. Twilight picks up the book from the floor and puts it on top of the table. "I'm sorry Twilight!" Spike apologizes. "I didn't mean to drop it on top of the book! I mean it!" Twilight wipes off the excess liquid off the cover of the book. "It's okay Spike, it just spilled on top of the book. Thankfully none of the pages-" The glow from the symbol on the cover interrupts her. "What is happening?!" The glow starts to bring out the details of the symbol and the color. Twilight and Spike look at the symbol to see it in full color and detail. "What is this symbol?" Twilight says. "It looks more like an insignia. The symbols in it... Princess Celestia and Luna are involved? What is the meaning-" The book interrupts her as it starts to emit an orb of light surrounding it. "Spike, start backing away." The book then starts increasing its light and engulfs Twilight and starts pulling her in. "Spike! Help!" "Hold on Twilight!" Before Spike can grab Twilight, the light engulfs him as well and pulls him in too. "I'm being sucked in too! What do we do?!" "I don't know!" The light then pulls them both in and the light, with the book, disperses without a trace on the table. "Hoo?" Owliscious says looking at the scene. "Sister," Luna says opening the doors to Celestia's bedroom. "Yes Luna?" Luna holds out a letter. Celestia takes the letter and starts to read it. "It's from the school sister. She found it and is in." Celestia stands up and starts to walk. "Let them know we're on our way over."