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// Chapter 1: The note and the artifact 
// Story: Toriel in Equestria 
// by The Lutece twins 
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Toriel is sitting in a chair next to a crackling fire in her fireplace, reading her favorite book, 72 uses for snails. It was a calm night, a slight breeze whistling through the leaves outside, causing some to move. She closes her book and sighs, taking off her reading glasses. It was cold, other than the fire, since the place was located underground. Toriel gets off the chair and onto her feet. She enters the kitchen next to the living room and sees what was left of the cinnamon-butterscotch pie sitting on the counter. A memory of the human named frisk taking the slice of pie from her popped into her head. The scent of the cinnomon sailed into her nostrils, as if begging to be eaten. She ignores the delicious smell and walks out of the kitchen. She walks to the entryway and walks down the stairs towards the gates that Frisk went through. The smell of cinnamon lingered in a slight scent in her nose, making the thought of consuming a slice become a larger possibility. Toriel stoped in front of the gate, it's purple doors looming over her. She remembered when Frisk proved to her that she can take care of herself. Toriel began to worry, wondering if Frisk would be okay. She knew Frisk was quite frisky, and her deeds were rather risky, especially under the influence of whiskey. She shakes her head and walks back to her home. Thee smell of the pie assaulted her nostrils again. As she started to climb the stairs, she heard a thud coming from the top of the stairs. She blinks.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" She asked. It was a bump, and how that bump made her jump. As she neared the top of the stairs she sees something that she has never seen. It looked like a tiara with a purple starburst on it. She also saw a note attached to it. She takes the note and opens it.

"Would you like to come to the surface?" The note said. Toriel blinks multiple times.

"Is this some sort of joke?" She asked in a bemused manner. She looks around. "Asgore! If this is some sort of joke to get me back, it's not going to work!" She yelled. There was no reply. Toriel looks back at the tiara with her dragon eyes.

"If he didn't drop you here, then who did?" She muttered.

"Twilight Sparkle" It said on the bottom of the note.

"Twilight... Sparkle?" She asked. She picked up the tiara. But as soon as she did, she felt dizzy. The Tiara emitted a bright purple glow from the star. Toriel's vision started to get blurry as the world started to spin. She fell with a thud to the floor. She gave a moan before losing consciousness. Toriel moaned again as she started to come back around. She slowly opened her eyes. The world around her was vibrant in colors, with a wide open sky above her. She looks around.

"Wha...what?" She asked. She stands up on all fours. She looks down and her eyes widen. Instead of her white furred hands, she sees white hooves. As she looks at her new hooves, her breathing quickens. She looks around and sees that shes in a forest. Everything was calm and quiet. Toriel carefully takes a step, her new legs wobbling. She slowly takes another and another until she could slowly walk. She found herself next to a lake and looks at herself. She sees an all white equine with a long horn wearing her robe stare back at her. She could also see that she still has her dragon eyes.  She looks behind and sees that she has bumps on her back. She lifts her robe back to reveal beautiful wings. She put the robe back the way it was and saw a mark on her flank. She sees a heart surrounded by a flame. She thought the fire was engulfing the heart, but as she looked closer, she could see that the fire surrounded the heart like a shield, protecting it. There was a rustle in a nearby bush. Toriel turns towards the bush with a slight gasp. There was a small yip. She stared at the bush with confusion. Then there was a whimper. She carefully walks towards the bush. A wooden object fell out of the bush. Toriel stares at the object.

"Huh?" She asked. She looks back at the bush in front of her and parts it. There lay a wolf like creature, about as small as a cat, with its right hind leg stuck in a tree root. Toriel gasps. "Oh my. Hold on little one, let me get you out of there." She said. She reaches for the tree root that's holding the wooden wolf like creature. The wolf whimpers and whines in fear.

"Shhh, it's okay little one, I'm not going to hurt you." She said. The wolf seemed to understand and calmed down. Toriel frees the wolf's leg from the tree root. "There we go, you're free now." She said. The wolf licked Toriel's cheek and rose its flank into the air with his head low, panting. Toriel chuckles at the wooden wolf and lightly pats it's head. The pup pounced up and grasped her hoof, playfully. Toriel smiles at the wooden wolf pup.

"Do you have a home or a family little one?" She asked it. The pup wagged his tail and ran off to the right, looking back at Toriel. She follows the wolf pup. The pup leads her through some bushes and into a large cave. She continues to follow the wooden wolf pup with not one bit of fear. Inside, there were three more wooden wolves. Two were large and fully grown, the other was a pup, but smaller than the other one. The largest of the wolves stood up and approached Toriel. Toriel looks at the large wolf with curiosity. The wolf sniffs her for a bit and licks her cheek.  She smiles. The pup pounced and jumped around in front of Toriel. She slightly giggles as she played with the pup. The pup tackled her hoof. Toriel smiles wider as she continues to play with the pup. It jumped and latched onto her chest.

"Oh, careful now little one, you don't want to damage my robe." Toriel said. He giggled and went to her back, where he jumped to the top of her head and yipped. The other wolves watched curiously, the other pup hid behind the mother. Toriel sees the other wolf pup hide behind the mother wolf. She kneels down until she's laying on her stomach.

"It's okay little one, you don't have to be shy." She said. The mother wolf picked her up in her mouth and set her down in front of Toriel, followed by a few reasurring licks. The other pup was chewing on Toriel's mane. She carefully holds her hoof out. The pup back up a bit, whimpering slightly. Toriel pulls back her hoof.

"Maybe next time little one." She said. The mother holds the pup. The one atop Toriel's head ended up getting tangled in her mane. Toriel looks up at the tangled wolf pup. "Hold on, I'll get you untangled." She said. The pup wiggled and wriggled. Even with the wolf pup wriggling, Toriel managed to free the pup from her mane. The pup slipped and fell in front of her. Her horn starts to glow a fire red and the pup is caught before it hits the floor. The pup looked around, confused. Toriel's eyes widen as she looks up and sees that her horn is lit. She looks back at the floating pup and has a idea. She concentrates and the floating pup is gently set onto the floor. The pup giggles. Toriel sighs in relief and smiles, knowing that the pup is okay. The pup hugs Toriel. The male adult licks the pup. She smiles and looks at the male adult wolf.

"Um, excuse me, I don't want to be rude, but is there a town or village nearby?" She asked. The wolf stood and exited the cave. She stood as well and followed the wolf. He stood outside the cave and pointed down a dirt trail. Toriel nods and looks at him.

"I will see you soon whenever I can." She said. He nodded. The male pup came running out and jumped onto her back and hugged her neck. Toriel smiled and carefully hugged the pup back. It licked her cheek a few times before running back to his father. She waved goodbye as she walked down the path. It had begun to rain. She looks up.

"Oh dear, I better hurry before my robe is ruined." She said. She begins to go at a faster pace. It was a slight rain, a little above sprinkling. As she went, she stepped on a rock and tripped, causing her to face plant into the ground.

"Ow." She moaned. Wet mud clung to her fur and robe. She stands up and brushed as much of the mud off as possible, only getting a little bit off. She sighs and continues to walk down the path. She ended up tripping over a tree root not too long later, getting covered in more mud. After walking and tripping for a little bit longer, she sees a town with a Crystal castle.

"I guess this is the town." She said. A few passing fillies saw Toriel and ran away screaming. Toriel watches the fillies run away with confusion.

"Um, okay?" She asked. She then realized how much mud she was covered in. She tries to wipe off as much mud as possible, but so much has clung to her fur that she's having trouble. She groaned in frustration. She gave up, only managing to get off only a little bit of mud. She walks towards the town. More passing ponies stare at  her as they go by. Toriel ignores the stares as she continued to walk, looking at the town. Some of the ponies ducked into the nearest building. She walked around, lost and didn't know what to do. Nopony said a word to her. She stopped and stood there, rubbing her head with her right fore hoof because of a headache forming. Closing doors from retreating aponies, and the rain hitting the ground were the only sound to be heard. Toriel looked around and saw a building next to her, a building that looked like a carousel. She walks up to the building. The lights were on, and there was yelling within. She knocks on the door. There was a gasp, and a clang.

"Coming!" A voice said. Toriel waited patiently. A white unicorn mare appeared in the door, with a frazzled purple mane.

"Uh, sorry, Just some..." The mare stopped talking and notices Toriel covered in mud. Her jaw drops and the door shuts.

"Well that was quite rude." Toriel said with a bemused face. She knocks on the door again, this time a little harder. The door opens and the mare appears again.

"Sorry, I just wasn't expectin a mud covered pony...twice my height come to my doorstep and I may have gotten a bit scared..." She said.

"It's okay, I just came from the forest outside of town, that's why I am covered in mud, kept tripping over roots and rocks." Toriel said.

"Oh, well, uh...how should I go about doing this?" The mare asked.

"I just need some place to wash my robe and to wash this mud off. Do you know of a place where I could do those?" Toriel asked.

"Yeah, the shower is upstairs..." The mare said.

"Thank you Miss um." Toriel said.

"Rarity." The mare said.

"Thank you Miss Rarity. My name is Toriel." Toriel said. She walks into the building. Rarity puts a hoof over her nose. Toriel walks up the stairs and into the bathroom that Rarity told her about. She flipped the switch to what could be an overly decorated bathroom. "Wow." Toriel said. She looks around in amazement.
"I've never seen a bathroom so clean before." Toriel said.

"What was that darling?" Rarity asked. Toriel looks back a Rarity.

"I said I've never seen a bathroom this clean before." Toriel said.

"Oh yeah, I'm sort of a germophobe." Rarity said.

"I see." Toriel said. Her horn lights and she carefully removes her robe, freeing her wings, which have some mud attached to them. Rarity gasps.

"You're an alicorn!?" She yelled. Toriel looks at Rarity with confusion.

"Alicorn?" She asked.

"How...do you not know what you are...or are you just playing with me?" Rarity asked. There's confusion in Toriel's dragon eyes as she blinks. Rarity faints.

"Oh dear." Toriel said. She walks towards Rarity, just as another pony walks in. This time a filly. Toriel looks at the filly. The filly screams at a really high pitched wail. Toriel jumps in fright.

"You killed Rarity! You bastard!" The filly yelled.

"No, no, no! She just fainted, you can see so." Toriel said. The filly begins hyperventilating. Toriel points a hoof at Rarity, showing that she is still breathing.

"...oh..." The filly said. Toriel was about to say something, when she heard the front door bang open.
"Search everywhere!" said a voice and several hoofsteps were heard through the building.

"Who was that?" Toriel asked.

"You're in big trouble. " The filly said. She ran to the stairs. "Up here guys!" She yelled. Toriel shakes her head in confusion.

"What?" She asked. Soon six poines came running up the stairs.

"Rarity!" Yelled a purple pony that has wings and a horn like Toriel. Toriel tilts her head in confusion.

"Huh?" She asked.

"She did it!" The filly yelled, pointing at Toriel. Toriel was about to say something, but was slammed into the wall by a rainbow blur. She cries out in pain.

"Who do you think you are to hurt our friends!?" The rainbow mane'd pegasi holding her yelled. There was fear in Toriel's eyes as she looks at the Rainbow mane'd pegasi.

"I didn't hurt her, she fainted when she learned that I was an alicorn." She said.

"Lies!!" The rainbow pegasi yelled. As Toriel was slammed against the wall a second time, she cried out in pain again.

"Rainbow, I think she's had enough, and Rarity is still breathing." The purple alicorn said.

"Fine." Rainbow grunted. She glares at Toriel. Toriel looks at the ponies with fear as she sits on her flank.

"I can tell you've been having a bad day. You're covered in mud, being accused of killing my friend, and shoved into a wall." The purple alicorn said. She sighs. "Girls, get Rarity to her room." She said. The other ponies nodded and did as told.

"I am very sorry, miss..." She said.

"T-Toriel." Toriel said.

"Tutorial?" The alicorn asked. Toriel shakes her head.

"No, Toriel. To-ri-el." She said.

"Oh! You stuttered and made it sound like tutorial. " The alicorn said. She blushed from embarrassment. "Sorry." She apologized. She holds a hoof out to help Toriel up. Toriel grabs the purple alicorn's hoof and stands up, towering over her.

"Wow...you're s-so tall!" The alicorn stammered. Toriel looks down at the purple alicorn with her dragon eyes.

"Oh, um, I don't mind it. And, I never got your name." She said.

"It's Twilight Sparkle." The purple alicorn said. Toriel's eyes widen.

"Wait, Twilight Sparkle?" She asked.

"Yes?" Twilight asked.

"So it was your tiara that brought me here." Toriel said.

"What are you talking about?" Twilight asked, tilting her head in confusion.

"Well, when I was in my home underground, I was walking up the stairs when I heard a thud a the top. I see a tiara with a purplish color starburst in the middle. When I touched it, it brought me here." Toriel explained.

"...That wasn't me..." Twilight said. Toriel was quite shocked.

"Then, if it wasn't you who sent me here, the who did?" She asked.

"I have no clue to be honest. Did you say you live underground?" Twilight asked. Toriel nods.

"I did." She said.

"How come?" Twilight asked.

"I always lived underground, mostly in a house in some ruins." Toriel said.

"What do you do there?" She asked. Toriel suddenly gasps.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no! If I don't get back home, anything that falls into the underground will be lost without me!" She yelled. Toriel started to panic.

"What do you mean by anything? Like living beings?" Twilight asked. Toriel still continues to panic.

"Yes." She said.

"That doesn't seem too good..." Twilight said. Toriel quickly puts back on her robe, ignoring the mud and runs past Twilight and out of the room.

"No no, no, no, no, no, no! I must get back." She said. Twilight follows.

"How will you even know where to go?" She asked. Toriel suddenly stoped.

"I.... I don't know. I've never been to the surface. Usually there's a giant hole leading down to the underground." She said. She hangs her head low. Twilight puts a hoof on her shoulder.

"I'm sure things will be fine." She reassured. Toriel looks at Twilight with a slight smile.

"Thank you." She said.

"Do you know what part of Equestria you're from?" Twilight asked. Toriel shakes her head.

"No. I lived underground my entire life. So, no I don't." She said.

"Whats so dangerous down where you live anyway?" Twilight asked.

"I lived with monsters." Toriel said.

"Oh, that's not good..." Twilight said.

"Oh, no, don't worry. We did make a fine civilization in the underground. There were monsters ranging from snow drakes to walking volcanoes. Even Miss. Muffet, with the help of her spiders, do make very good pastries. And its all runned by a king named King Asgore." Toriel said.

"Wow, I've never heard anything like that before!" Twilight said in surprise. Toriel nods.

"Everyone was happy. We even had royal guards." She said. Twilight nods.

"And... well. Asgore was sorta into me and... made me queen." Toriel said, blushing slightly.

"That's nice, and what creatures usually fall down the hole?" Twilight asked.

"Human mostly." Toriel said.

"Human? How can that be possible!? There's no humans in this world, except the world parallel to this one." Twilight said.

"Well, there has been six humans to have fallen down into the underground. And you said that there is a world parallel to this one?" Toriel asked. Twilight nods.

"Where there are human counterparts to everypony here, there." She said. Toriel is interested.

"I've only seen those six humans, but a whole world filled with them, I would like to see. I've read about humans in my books." She said.

"What were the humans like you encountered?" Twilight asked.

"Well, they were like the skeletons, except with flesh and hair." Toriel said.

"I see." Twilight said.

"But I would still like to see this other world." Toriel said.

"Oh, I don't know about that..." Twilight said. she rubbed the back of her neck with a sheepish expression.

"Well, why not?" Toriel asked.

"It's complicated." Twilight said.

"Let me guess, it's being guarded." Toriel said.

"That, and only I am permitted to go through." Twilight said. Toriel rolls her eyes.

"I'm not surprised." She said. Twilight tilted her head from the sudden change in mood Toriel had.

"How come." She asked.

"Asgore hid things from me and guarded them from me, such as five human souls that he had collected." Toriel said.

"Souls? So...he killed them!?" Twilight yelled, looking rather shocked.

"I don't know, he probably did, or they died of other reasons. I don't know. But after I found out that he has them, I was through with him. So, I left him and lived in the ruins." Toriel said.

"Oh dear...so what did you do with any humans then that came down the hole?" Twilight asked.

"I asked them if they wanted to stay with me. I always wanted to be a teacher. But, they left all the same, except one." Toriel said.

"Where is that one now?" Twilight asked.

"She left as well, but she stayed the longest. She even slept in the room I had made for her." Toriel said.

"I assume you also want to be a mother." Twilight said. Toriel slightly blushes and nods.

"I'm sorry..." she said.

"It's okay." Toriel said. She heard a door open and looks. She sees the other ponies except Rarity come out of the room. Rainbow looks rather guilty.

"Hey..sorry for you know...pushing you..." She apologized. Toriel looks at her.

"It's okay." She said.

"I thought you hurt my friend..." Rainbow said. Toriel looks at Rainbow like how a teacher looks at a student who is in trouble.

"You should really think before you act. You nearly gave me a heart attack." She said.

"S-sorry..." Rainbow apologized. Toriel sighs.

"Just don't do it again." She said. Rainbow hugs Toriel. Toriel hugs Rainbow back. Suddenly Rarity came out looking weak and tired. Toriel looks at Rarity.

"Are you okay Miss. Rarity?" She asked.

"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks Darling." Rarity said. Toriel smiles.

"That's good. And... I still need to get this mud off of me. It's starting to irritate my wings." She said.

"Oh yes take your shower then." Rarity said. Toriel nods and walks back into the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

"So uh...now what?" Twilight asked. Toriel takes off her robe and starts the shower. Rarity sighed.

"I guess I'll go and wash her robe as an apology for her troubles." She said. Toriel tries her best to get the mud off of her. Rarity went downstairs where she went into the washroom to wash the robe. Toriel tries to grab the soap with her hooves, but it slips.

"Just tell us if you need anything!" Twilight yelled. Toriel looks up at the door.

"Will do!" She yelled back. Twilight smiles. Toriel grabs the soap with her magic.

"I have you now." She said. The girls went downstairs. After minutes of scrubbing the mud off, she was clean. She turns the shower off and get out. She notices that her robe wasn't here.

"Huh, where'd it go?" She asked. She walks out of the bathroom. Rarity lets out a sigh as she hung the robe to dry. As Toriel walks down the hallway, she sees the filly that screamed at her, along with two other fillies headed in her direction.

"Hey, um..my sister told me to say sorry for acusing you of killing her, so... I'm sorry..." The filly that screamed at her said. She looked down sadly. Toriel looks down at her with kindness.

"It's okay little one, you were just protecting your family, I can understand that." Toriel said.

"But I got you beaten up and everything..." The filly said. Toriel kneels downs to the filly.

"Look, you shouldn't be angry at yourself, it's not your fault, you didn't know. I would probably do the same if somepony that was dear to me was hurt." She said.

"I still feel bad about it.." the filly said.

"What would make you happy?" Toriel asked. The filly shrugs.

"Dunno." She said. Toriel stands up.

"Oh yea, I forgot your names." She said.

"I'm Sweetie Belle, and these two are Applebloom and Scootaloo!" The filly said, pointing a hoof at the two other fillies behind her.

"Hello to you three. My name is Toriel." Toriel said.

"We heard." Sweetie belle said, smiling weakly. Toriel smiles back.

"So...you're an alicorn...do you have like some sort of royal duty?" Scootaloo asked.

"Well, where I was from, I was a queen. But not anymore." Toriel said.

"Well, what happened?" Applebloom asked. Toriel looks away with a slightly sad look.

"I... don't really want to talk about it." She said.

"Awe, it's okay." Applebloom said. Toriel looks back with a smile.

"Thank you. Now, shall we see if Rarity is done with my robe?" She asked.

"Okay!" Sweetie belle said. She turns and trots down the stairs with Scootaloo and Applebloom. Toriel follows behind the three fillies.

TO BE CONTINUED