Act I - Chapter 15 - Unforeseen Circumstances
The Alicorn Warrior
Written by iAmSiNnEr
Edited by Stinium_Ruide
Writing assisted by MIGHTY_C
Chapter 15- Unforeseen Circumstances
Pushing open the door to the dining room, Twilight was surprised to see a carrier pigeon waiting for her on the table. “A carrier pigeon this early…?” She wondered out loud.
“Who sent that to you?” Rainbow asked interestedly.
“It came through the window ten minutes ago!” a cheerful voice said from behind them, prompting both Twilight and Rainbow to jump.
“Pinkie!” Twilight sighed, recognizing the familiar, bubbly pink pony. “Don’t surprise us like that!”
“Surprise?” Pinkie blinked. “I didn’t think you’d be surprised by me just telling you how long ago the bird came! Speaking of which, I think it has something for you, Twilight.”
Twilight nodded. “A letter,” she pried the letter from its legs, and the pigeon gratefully chirped before flying out of the window back to where it came from. “And it’s from…” she frowned. “Hard Line? Why is he contacting me?”
“Read it!” Rainbow urged. “Maybe something happened and I can get to kick some ass!”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “First of all, Rainbow, you didn’t ‘kick ass’ when the griffons took you down, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, yeah, I would have beaten them if they didn’t ambush us!” Rainbow brushed her off. “They just sneaked up on us and took us down after I knocked out the first two!”
Twilight shook her head and sighed. “Whatever. Let me just read this…” she opened the letter with her magic. After giving it a quick scan, she blinked in surprise. “What…?”
“Whazzit say?” Pinkie asked, looking over her shoulder on tiptoes.
“Sparkle,” Twilight read aloud. “Just last evening, the town’s ponies contacted me with a request. They’ve heard about your imminent departure, and I’ve since deduced that they inferred this from all the travelling materials you bought. They wish to see you in action one final time and give you a proper send-off. After all, you have been with them for four years, and it’s not unreasonable for them to want to ask for one last day of matches. If you accept my offer, be around at ten or so, and I’ll set everything up for the event scheduled for tomorrow. If you don’t want to, it’s fine, I’ll make some excuse on your behalf. Yours, Hard Line.” Twilight folded up the letter, and started to pace the room, deep in thought and contemplation.
“You gonna go?” Rainbow asked, her tone serious. “It sounds like they really really want this.”
“Ooh, ooh!” Pinkie bounced up and down excitedly. “It’s like a party! A Final-Fight-And-Send-Off party!”
“I think I might, honestly,” Twilight admitted. “It’s been a long four years, and they’ve been here for me the entire time. I guess I could just go back for a few days to give them this final request.”
“What final request, darling?” Rarity asked as she entered the room with Fluttershy, Applejack, Starlight and Spike.
“The townsfolk would like one final day of me at the arena,” Twilight summarised. “Because of me they’ve had a steady income from all the visitors all over the Badlands. Not to enlarge myself, but once I’m gone, that income is going to drop, and even though there’s still going to be the usual fights, I’m just not going to be there. They know they can’t stop me from leaving, so they’ve made a request for me to do one final day at the arena.”
“That sounds reasonable,” Applejack spoke up as she sat down, a plate of pancakes already there as Pinkie zipped around the room with the plates. “Ah mean, it’s not as if they’re asking for anything too much.”
“But don’t you want to go home, Twilight?” Fluttershy asked timidly in her soft, characteristic voice. “You said you did.”
“I did, yes,” Twilight admitted. “But I can’t just go just like that you see, do you know what I mean? I was already trying to think of how to explain to the townsfolk now. With this, I can kill two birds with one stone. I can satisfy them and leave on a parting note.”
“Then you should do it, of course,” Starlight said, sitting down too. “But how would this work?”
Twilight pondered over the question. “I believe it would be an open challenge, and anyone who wishes to come forward can challenge me openly,” she said. “Of course, I could be wrong, but it’s just my assumption.”
“Then I’d like to pit myself against you,” Starlight proposed, her tone suddenly turning serious. “Just to see if me training my magic in the last four years has improved my chances against you.”
Twilight smiled earnestly. “I won’t go easy, though!” she teased.
“That goes without saying,” Starlight affirmed, giving her a slight nod. “I won’t go easy too.”
“You’re really serious about this, aren’t you?” Twilight asked, raising her eyebrows. “Very well. I am also interested in who’ll turn up to try their luck.”
“Yeah, who’ll even bother to try anyways?” Rainbow mumbled through a mouthful of pancakes. “From what we saw, you beat that dragon so easily, it’s not like as if any other pony can beat you-”
“Manners, Rainbow!” Rarity chastised. “But yes, Rainbow has a point. Who do you think would try to challenge you? You being an alicorn does give you a massive advantage, after all.”
“There’s a few that I know who will keep coming back for more,” Twilight started, as she tried to recall. “There’s a unicorn called Maul, who has magical aptitude, but lacks endurance; Linus, who is the complete opposite...and umm...quite a number, actually. They are at least a good sport unlike some of my other opponents.”
“Well, darling, know that we’ll support you no matter what,” Rarity assured her. “You can do whatever you set your mind to, and I’m certain you’ll be able to floor all of them. Isn’t that right, Fluttershy?”
Fluttershy nodded hesitantly, though her concern for Twilight was evident.
“What’s wrong?” Twilight asked.
“Is there going to be a large crowd?” she asked softly.
“Most likely, yes,” Twilight replied. “Remember that match with the dragon? And while I do recall you not being the best with a large crowd…” she lapsed into a thoughtful silence. “I could arrange for you all to get into a private viewing area, only for you girls and Spike,” she offered. “But if you don’t want to come, that’s fine too, you can just stay here and check out the house. But I’d really appreciate the support.”
“We’ll come, sugarcube,” Applejack affirmed. “We’re not much of friends if we don’t support each other, are we now?”
“Thank you,” Twilight smiled, before frowning. “I just realized something. Pinkie, where’d you get all the dough for the pancakes?”
“I got it from the bakery!” Pinkie beamed.
“How...did you pay them?” Twilight asked, silently hoping that Pinkie did not pilfer from the bakery under her nose.
“I didn’t!” Pinkie exclaimed cheerfully. “I just gave them a really good recipe of mine for the Ultra-Super-Duper-Frosty-Cupcake! They really really liked it, so they gave me a bunch of things in exchange!”
“Ah,” Twilight nodded. “For a moment there I thought you took the dough without paying.”
“What kind of pony do you think I am?” Pinkie giggled. “I’ll find a way to pay somehow, don’t you worry you silly-dilly!”
Twilight smiled before beginning to eat her pancakes. It certainly feels good to have them back around me…
“So we’ll have to extend our stay here, then?” Rarity asked.
“Yes.” Swallowing the bite of the pancake she just took, Twilight nodded. “But I’m sure you’ll find something to do in the meantime. For example, Rarity, there’s a seamstress three houses from here; she’s the one that designs the clothes around here, along with any other requests you might have.”
“A seamstress?” Rarity’s eyes gleamed. “Now, darling, why didn’t you tell me straight away? I need to see everyone else’s work so that I can improve on my own designs! Oh, and also add the fact that I haven’t touched a sewing machine for so long…”
Twilight chuckled. “I can send her a note, and let her know that a friend of mine is visiting. She’ll be glad to accommodate you, I’m sure; she’s designed a few things for me before. For my alter-egos, of course.”
“Thank you, darling,” Rarity nodded.
“As for the rest of you…” Twilight looked at them. “I’m sure you’ll find something to do, the town’s pretty diverse.”
Pinkie nodded enthusiastically. “Yepperoni! So many different ponies, so many different shops! SQUEEEEE!”
“As for me, I’ll be making a visit to the Arena,” Twilight finished. “Hard Line wants me there so we can settle things for tomorrow.”
“You wouldn’t mind if I followed you, right Twilight?” Starlight requested.
“Of course not!” Twilight nodded. “Why, though?”
“Oh, I don’t know, I just want to check out the place,” Starlight uttered. “Look around a bit, you know?”
“Sure!” Twilight smiled. “I’m sure Hard Line would be more than pleased to answer any questions you have too; it’s the fruit of his hard work, after all.”
“Thanks, Twilight.”
“Well,” Twilight stood up, having already finished her pancakes. “I’ll have to go now, to get some things ready. I’ll meet you girls back here for lunch, alright?”
All of them nodded. “Okay!” Pinkie nodded. “I’ll be back here on the dot!”
“Great!” Twilight smiled. “Come with me then, Starlight. And uh, Rarity, don’t worry I’ll send that note ahead for you…”
A presence watched as the ponies exited the house, before smirking to itself once the door closed. “Well well well, Sparkle… what a nice house you have here, eh?”
He teleported, appearing in a room filled with weapons. “Shabby,” he tutted disapprovingly.
Teleporting again, he appeared in the room Twilight and Rainbow were in earlier. “Better, but honestly? Too cliche.”
This time, he appeared into a room filled with Twilight’s drawings and paintings. “It’s a shame she has to leave most of these behind…” he mused. “Perhaps I could arrange for something once this is all over, eh? Equestria would certainly like these…”
“Whatever!” Teleporting again, he appeared in Twilight’s room. “Pfft, thought she would have had some kind of secret thingmajig around. What kind of room doesn’t have a secret compartment? Booooooring.”
“The house is just so boring,” it complained. “At least Sparkle isn’t as boring…” chuckling to himself, he teleported away for the final time, leaving the house, leaving the echo of a laugh behind.
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Eh, Evil side would be better if we only saw them from the good side imo.
Ok if that laugh and all that teleporting doesn't scream Discord than I don't know what is.
no, more twilight POV
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I agree. While it was nice and all, I was just waiting to see Twilight's side, truthfully. I would say maybe do it half of both sides or, something like that. My opinion though.
I wasnt a big fan of last chapter ... you have to really be careful with how you show your villains and what they are planning, too much of that could just ruin the story...please only do it if its 100% necessary.
Well, if that doesn't scream, "Something suspicious is going on" I dunno what does.
In terms of seeing the evil side: it was definitely interesting, but I personally like to see things solely from one perspective. Seeing the other one at the same time kind of dampens the surprise factor because you know what's coming. That's just me, though.
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Lol
interesting. And was that you Discord?
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Doesn't really feel like discord, according to my notes discord hasn't been seen since before twilight was banished and there's the "Equestria would certainly like these" bit which could be something discord might say if he had any loyalty to equestria but since no one has seen him in years that seems unlikely.
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Mm, okay, :)
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Correction; Chapter 14 does mention Discord
I think showing the evil side too much gives away too much knowledge to the reader. If that is important to the story then you should make sure the dichotomy of “reader knows something the character doesn’t” is a core part of how your story reads, and not just a form of exposition/lore dumping.
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That make sense, thanks!
I'm with those voting for more Twilight POV, sorry but the evil side seems more interesting when it's not all played out before us, leaving us with only the thought of when Is Twilight going to arrive and kill x character, instead of, who is this schlub, and what are they up to?
Maybe you could have like a tiny section in the next chapter for the evil section? Not enough to basically lay everything out before us, but enough to leave us on the edge of our seats? But otherwise, I’d stick to the Twilight POV.
Nice chapter, cant wait for more!
By the way, I would like to step back for a moment and say that I really appreciate the frequency of the publishing of chapters recently. I think many fellow readers would agree. I look forward to the future of this story!
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I've been trying to crack down on my schedule, and since exams are over tomorrow I can start grinding my writing if I'm motivated/inspired to do so ;)
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Ahhh I forgot about that.
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No problemo!
So it begins.
I dont know why people wanna call twilight evil just because she can kill someone who's trying to either kill her or the people she protects and cares about. That's not evil, that's called standing up for yourself. Twilights mind and spirit has become like a calloused hand, rough and tempered to the circumstances she was forced into.
All her friends are pretty much like soft unused hands in comparison who cant grasp the concept of the pain and struggle shes been put through the past few years she was alone, and are trying to talk her out of doing the very things that kept her alive all those years.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Twilight state in a previous chapter that she couldn't leave permanently? That she would have to return at some point.
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She did, yes.
And no, I did not forget about this.
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That's great to hear. I thought it sounded that way, looking forward to how it all plays out.
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Well I glad you liked it before, because I just saw the rewritten version, and when it’s published it’s going to blow your mind.
P.s. I’m one of the ‘editors’ for ‘The Alicorn Warrior’, so no this is not a random stranger talking to you.
I actually would like to see more of team evil. But it's hard to do team evil well, without revealing too much.
Maybe celestial took over that responsibility considering the book was hers and sunset and sunset may have not wanted to become a princess for power but to impress celestial who doesn't scream friendship for herself. Celestial gives more personal attention to a certain alicorn but isn't as close to anyone else.