Octavia and the Alicorn's Peace
By.FoxofRarity
Chapter 1
Disclaimer- This is the first Fan Fiction I ever wrote along with it's coming chapters(Its true), problem was I had it encrypted and I forgot the password until I was able to remember it months later. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic characters belongs to Hasbro and its creator Lauren Faust.
Ponyville -1 mile.
The Alicorn read to himself as he walks by it. "Civilization." He said out loud, so he can relish the sound of it and know that he will finally make contact with ponies or better yet just anyone again; something which for the last six years of his two hundred year journey he deprived himself, thinking it will hold a key to the void inside. But instead it just made him long to hear the voice of a fellow pony or the Alicorn he once called Guardian Aunt. Sighing warm air out of his nostrils he continues forward before stopping to take a good look at the time changed Ponyville.
"Didn't see that or that before, I don't reca..."
But before he could finish his sentence something caught his eye. To an open field to his right he sees a blue colored Pegasus with a blond mane hovering a couple of inches off the ground. While a young unicorn filly with the same color pattern of her mother, runs into her extended arms hugging her as both fell to the soft ground,
"I love you mommy!" Cheers the young unicorn to her mother.
"I love you too sweetheart! Infinitely more than muffins!" She said while kissing her daughter multiple times on the head.
Seeing this for the first time since his isolation made a smile form on his lips, but then a thin shockwave rattles the back of his head and then crawls down his spinal cord it was no chill but a wave from that memory. Seeing the filly hug her mother tight as if she was going to disappear from her made the Alicorn sigh in requiem, he turns his head in a different direction hoping to lay his eyes on something else only to be greeted with the same outcome as before but with different ponies. This time he saw a well built red stallion with a yoke around his neck getting tackled down by three little fillies each wearing red capes, laughing in joy with the stallion that got back up on his hooves and starting chasing them but then fell down laughing his spirit out with the young fillies who started dog piling on him.
The Alicorn felt his body go cold from this sight of love and joy,
"Why do these acts like these stir my insides? I still can't shake off that memory from inside!" The Alicorn said in his percular mind.
"200 YEARS!! I SPENT OF MY LIFE AND STILL NO PEACE!!"
He roars the words in his head causing his breathing to go deeper and slower. A trait he developed during his journey as a way to conceal his anger so he can be presentable to the elders of the different races he visited since they always seem to have a keen sense for anger.
The Alicorn sighs as he walks slowly to a hill east of him. Each step he took left a deep imprint on the ground,the while walking through some tree line his right ear suddenly perks up when he picks up the sound of a piercing soothing tone. Adjusting both ears to pick up the sound that pierces him through his skin, flesh, soul, and finally spirit. He follows his ears to the source of the sound as it got louder and louder until finally after peeking out through low branches he lays his eyes on the source.
It is a standing Earth pony on top of a hill with a large stringed instrument, held gently by her left hoof while in her right hoof she held a bow swinging back and forth in precise harmony and grace.
The Alicorn without issuing a command to his body moves toward the beautiful gray coated mare and sat down at the base of the hill slowly moved his head to get a complete view of the mare.
The mare is standing parallel to her cello, her eyes closed as if she's playing from instinct rather than from memory. Amazingly her gray black colored mane flows with the wind creating a picturesque sight where each stroke of her mane flew freely around her face. Allowing the Earth pony to display a sense of magnificent power.
The Alicorn closes his eyes to allow the music to flow into his mind and senses. He in a way can feel each sound as they walk across his body. He feels the world around him go silent.
He no longer could feel the wind go around his horn or his mane, in fact everything fades to black. The smooth wooden melodies happily float around him as to comfort him, slowly images form in his mind- images of his wings, mental pictures of his colthood, and fondly of all the voices of Mommy and Daddy.
On the other hand or hoof the mare senses someone is watching her so she opens one eye to peek and pretty much she's wrong. Nobody is watching her instead she sees a cloaked pony sitting at the base of the hill listening to her practice her music with his eyes closed and rocking side to side. Seeing this she smiles gently and presses her bow evermore slightly against the strings to deepen the notes; She wants to go on playing because this was the first time somepony came to actually stay and relish her unique craft instead just coming to rudely interrupt her and ask her to play at their event. But sadly the song she gracefully plays flawlessly at this very moment is coming to an end.
As her tempo slows down and little by little the Alicorn opens his teal colored eyes thus the beautiful melodies are buried into great silence.
The mare lays down her instrument onto the soft grass and gracefully makes her way to greet her admirer "Uh oh." The Alicorn finally coming to know her intentions starts to heat up profusely. Along with adding insult to injury his heart rate increases.
This moment marks the first time in the six years of isolation in his two hundred year journey that he will speak a word to a fellow pony. But he never expected it will be a very stunning and elegant mare, especially one that captivated his mind without even speaking a word.
Mustering up all the courage he has within himself, he prepped himself to speak to the mare.
The mare finally stands in front him, giving the stallion a friendly smile but then noticed a bead of sweat running down his left brow.
"So did you enjoy the sonata?" she asks while trying not giggle because as far as she saw,this cloaked unicorn is a nervous wreck.
"I-I found it to be breathtaking a-an-and soothing, that it caused me forget my worries and the world around me."
Replied the Alicorn nearly trembling but at the same time cursing himself for acting like a foal. But then composes himself to clear his throat and introduce himself to the mare.
"Oh by the way I don't think I introduced myself to you, my name is Gold Sky the Alicor...Err Unicorn I mean. Hehe I sometimes get mixed up with vowels hehaha"
Hoping the laughing part will soften any questioning she might have, because of his little slip up. Luckily Octavia causally noticed something else about him.
"Weird slip up I guess?" She said with her head in a tilt.
However her voice digs in deep into Gold Sky's mind.
Dotting down thoughts in his mind Gold Sky couldn't help but say in his mind.
"Even her voice is majestic as her music I guess luck allowed her to be the first pony I make contact with. Man I'm lucky!"
"Uhhh are you alright? You looked like you starting to lose focus."
The mare asks while tapping him on the shoulder, but Gold Sky is zoned out with a smile on his face.
Still, even though she had never seen this unicorn before which she can thank to the trait she shared with Pinkie Pie that she knows everypony in Ponyville. She tells herself this Unicorn has more than enough evidence to appear different from the rest. Way different.
It's like he is unique in many interlocking ways, the way his heartbeat went to allegro when she was approaching him, along with the small bead of sweat, and the way he sounded when he first started talking.
She's able to hear his heart go faster, for her hearing is as sharp as a Fox. But she just deduces it to her craft of being a musician that fine tuned her heating, which requires her to hear every detail of a detail of her music or end up playing a song that is flawed.
Of course realizing her day is always in schedule she turns around to pick up her cello and gets ready to make her way back towards town for a quick meal.
Gold Sky finally snapping back to the real world saw that the mare already had her instrument on her back and starting to make her way towards the town. So with haste he ran up to her to ask her one final question.
"Hey by the way I didn't catch your name." He perks his ears forward so he can be sure to catch her name crystal clear.
"Oh really? Sorry about that." The mare starts to blush a little bit, hoping that Gold Sky did not notice... But he did.
"My name is Octavia."
Suddenly everything froze around Gold Sky. The wind that once flew through his brunette mane halts, the leafs falling from a nearby tree are stuck midair, but lastly Octavia isfrozen in front of him. The glow from his horn ceased and time itself has froze thanks to his will.
This is the first time he does this for he did not learn this time stopping spill rather it was telepathically implanted into his mind by dearest Princess Celestia who explained the spell will cost him a great amount of energy along with not allowing the him to use his magic for half an hour, when time is allowed to flow freely again. But he felt he needed to do this once he saw the beautiful palace of Canterlot behind Octavia. Then the Alicorn focuses on Octavia.
"What stunning beauty she has"
Gold Sky tells himself as he walks around Octavia admiring her and also her double bass which was slung comfortably on her back.
"Like what you're seeing?"
"Huh?" The voice caused Gold Sky to look around frantically fearing that somepony is not frozen like the rest.
"Oh don't act all startled! It's me your old friend...Inner Thought."
"Oh yeah I forgot about you which causes me to wonder... I've always came to you whenever I needed help. But now at this moment you are the one to come to me and create conversation. Why is that?" Six years in Isolation even has a toll on Immortals.
"Well upon seeing that you froze time. I thought HEY something is up!"
"And since when does Inner Thought have any thoughts?" Gold Sky snaps at Inner Thought.
"Since when do you cover up your wings hmmm?" Inner Thought shot back Inner Thought.
"Do not dare to lecture me about my wings! You and I both know why I cover them up in the first place! I-I don't want to think *sigh* about them." Gold Sky sadly groans out his words.
"Oh I didn't mean to...sorry Gold Sky. It's just well today you've made contact with a pony ever since you took up total isolation in the last six years of your two hundred year long journey and well I am just as worried as much as you are."
"It's all right Inner Thought I know you tried to mean well, but it's time that I come back to Equestria. Its been too long and I'm sure Guardian Aunt misses me a lot. Especially when I left I could almost feel..." Gold Sky stops when he thinks of Guardian Aunt.
"Feel what?"asked Inner Thought.
"Uhh its nothing, just a hunch I felt many times when I left Canterlot." Gold Sky mutters. "Now what was it you said earlier that startled me?"
"I said... Like what you're seeing?" Inner Thought said suggestively.
"I don"t like the tone you are using Inner Thought. Why do you think I am looking at this fine mare in such a perverse way? Is it a sin to have such appreciation of great beauty when I see it?"
"But why will you..." Struggled Inner Thought.
"But nothing Inner Thought! I will not tolerate you telling me I am being perverse, and you want to know why I froze time? It is because I need time to think about this new path set forth before me but at the same time, this mare's music pierced me to the point of taking away the pain from the memory. How is she able to do this sort of thing? I really don't know."
Gold Sky blinks as he focused his teal colored eyes on the big red stallion and the three caped fillies. He contemplates with himself, as he trots over to take a look at the four frozen ponies.
He first studied the muscular stallion with the yoke around his neck, he's amazed by his built and saw how his half closed eyes contradict the seriousness of his built. Then he starts to look at each of the three young fillies each wearing red capes with a print of a prancing pony. He gazes upon an olive colored Earth pony with a rose colored mane tied back by a red bow.
Her light orange eyes are full in frozen joy looking at the big red stallion, along with a frozen ear to ear smile it made Gold Sky wonder about the joy of childhood each pony experienced in their early years of life.
"I find it weird how happy I am to see you enjoy your fillyhood while it reminds me of my colt hood being cut short." Gold Sky declares before the frozen filly.
"Exactly why are you doing this Gold Sky? Wait don't tell me! You are trying to kill some pain from the memory right?" Happily yelled Inner Thought.
"Eeyup! Ding ding you're right Inner Thought." The painted or pinto Alicorn responded to Inner Thought.
"But why?" Conceded Inner Thought.
"I liked you better when you kept your mouth shut Inner Thought!" Gold Sky once again snaps.
"Humph!
Gold Sky then proceeds to focus on the young Pegasus filly with a amber colored coat saturated with a orange shade, but one thing stood out from the rest of her and wasn't her wings or her super adorable pixie cut mane. No, it is her eyes that are almost the same color of Octavia's but this Pegasus's eyes were a lighter shade of the beautiful Earth Pony's eyes. Gold Sky put his right hoof on her Pixie cut and ruffles it up a little bit, smiling as he performed the action.
"I knew you had a soft spot for children Gold Sky. Their smiles always get to you right?" Spoke
Inner Thought even through Gold Sky told him to keep shut.
"Inner Thought children are the greatest gift to be given from the Great Spirit; why else will I put myself in harm's way to rescue the seven Griffon chicks from those crazed fascists Griffons. Children are precious; also the Great Spirit has a son remember."
"Ah yes the Father and the Son. I wonder if the son is like the father."
"Oh he is Inner Thought! Well anyway is that a Unicorn filly?" Gold Sky said to himself.
The Alicorn approached the Unicorn filly with a white as snow colored coat and slightly near puffy mane of dual colors of cute pink and grayish purple. He also put his hoof on her mane and starts to ruffle it up before breaking into foolish giggles when he realized his performance of immature actions.
Gold Sky then returned toward the big muscular red stallion seeing how big his smile was on his face.
"Be a good father...let your strength be their own. It's good to see a stallion like you spend time with his daughters." Gold Sky sincerely recites to the frozen red Earth pony before departing.
"I think two of his daughters are adopted, but they are still pretty cute in their little capes."
Hmm guess you're right Inner Thought I didn't notice that but anyway he'll still be a good father...I'm sure.
( Unbeknownst to the Alicorn was that the red stallion is only baby sitting.)
Gold Sky then trots over to the Pegasus still hugging the young Unicorn, he slowly studied the Pegasus and Unicorn until he came to her gold colored eyes which gave him a huge surprise.
"Never seen anything like it...have you?" Inquired Inner Thought.
"No I've never seen a pony with permanent cross eyes, but it looks cute on her though. And by the look on her daughter it seems that her crossed eyes are a recessive trait." Gold Sky explains to Inner Thought while rubbing his chin with his hoof.
He then reached into his saddle bag and took out a wrapped up muffin a young Griffon chick gave to him as a gift for saving her from the Griffon fascists fifty four years ago.
His horn glows unwrapping the muffin with a teal colored aura making the stale, hard muffin, into a fresh out the oven renewal muffin.
"Gold Sky why are you doing that?"
"She said something muffins so I assumed she as has a soft spot for muffins, and besides look how happy her daughter is.
Inner Thought why can't you see that I love children very much, even though I... Uh. I-I must protect them no matter the costs... they bring happiness to mothers and fathers." Gold Sky stops to breathe in deeply before continuing.
"I brought happiness to Mommy and Daddy! But only for so little time. Why why why!!!"
The Alicorn falls to his knees trying his best to contain the memory, he quickly looks forward toward Ponyville seeing how it shone like a beacon of deliverance and self healing.
" Gold Sky please not now! Don't let it over take you now when you've gotten this far, but let these words be my last words for you. You now must go on without me I've been with you for all these years, and well...these ponies will help you find peace Gold Sky." Inner Thought softly and sadly reassures Gold Sky.
The Alicorn got back to his hoofs and instantaneously teleported to where Octavia is, he stares down at the ground thinking about Inner Thought.
"So I guess the time has come then. Guess you must depart Inner Thought...but know one more thing."
"And what is that Gold Sky?" Asked Inner Thought.
"Thank you Inner Thought. For being there for me when the memory started to get rampant, but still. I won't question why you are leaving but I know your judgment is always for the best of me. Good bye old friend. Good Bye Inner Thought."
"Bye my creator." Upon those words being said Inner Thought ceases being with the Alicorn.
Gold Sky brought his head up to face Octavia, he now knew what he needs to do and these ponies...starting with her are going to help him.
"She has such beautiful eyes."Gold Sky said in calm voice before his horn glows causing time to resume it's place upon this world.
Signified by the leaves falling to the ground.
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In choosing the chapter title, the Biblical story "The prodigal son." Seems like a good match.
Ch.2- "She sees me!" "What is he!?" "Must not look at my wings!" "He has wings!"