Comments have Spoiler for the plot of the Story!!!
Yes it has both "Death" AND "Comedy" as Tags and that´s intended before you might ask. If you read the Story you will know why!
What exactly is this Story about you might ask? Well here you go:
As you might have already guessed, it' s my personal rewrite of the second last episode of the series we all love so much. Some parts of the script is the same and in general the story follows the flow of the original episode - just with my own ideas and quirks.
Stuff like not expected and unnatural twists, way too powerful characters and all the rest as to be expected from me, for sure.
Oh and we don´t want to forget I might be crazy and write stuff that kind of only makes sense to me. BUT I´m a very happy person and can´t by any means stand sad or horrifying stuff. So no, not from me!
Disclaimer:
Rated Teen to be on the safe side
I would like to point out that this story contains some figurative descriptions of more serious injuries and violence. (I may have even gone over to the graphic part, I'm not familiar with the difference. So I honestly don´t have a clue). However, in my opinion, still not enough to justify "Violence" or "Gore". As there is no Blood involved so I think it´s fine. If you disagree let me know, thanks.
-> there is also a slight mentioning of a petrification sequenze as you probably can guess. Just so you know
There are also quite a few swearing words, though in a way one would probably use them themself when angry or pissed and not excessively.
--> While at work, I suddenly had the idea to rewrite my own ending for "The Ending of the End - Part 2".
- Will it make sense? - Most likely not.
- Will it be random and crazy? - Oh yes it will! xD
- Will it be 10 times longer than I had though and intended? - Absolutely!
The chapters are too long, even for my sake. Yet thanks to my idea of having it spell out a full sentence and the fact I spend half an hour even separating it into these three chapters...It will stay this way.
Otherwise have fun reading.
Source to the Cover is the Image itself!
Comments and Suggestions are welcome. But pls don´t ask me about logic. I dont know that one either :p
A story without a summary of what it is about will not get a lot of attention. Just saying.
Also one of these things is not like the others:
Death
Comedy
Drama
Sad
So the theme also feels a bit off.
Lastly a literal level 10 deus ex machina in second chapter does not bode well.
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It´s a personal rewrite of the second last episode of the Main Series. What else is there to add?
Honestly, if you know just tell me, im clueless
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Edited the tags for you - still think it´s comedy. Or i just might have a weird sense of humor (Yes I do).
Aw man not even a level 11 deus ex machina? I should really try to give my best next time.
Yes I did a deus ex machina, but that´s me. I just like such things. I wouldn´t know how I should not do something like that - it´s how I am after all.
(And my profile discription says it all, what you can expect from me. I don´t care about the plot or if it would be even remotely possible. For me everything is possible, it´s fiction after all)
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To clarify, The only thing I suggest you fix is adding a summary so people know what the story is about. It is your story and no one should dictate any terms to you. (Plus, it is impossible to please everyone and it usually ruins ones drive to write if you do try)
The rest it just personal observations.
For example, I honestly expected the twist to be Twilight staying dead, based on chapter 1 descriptions and the tags.
From there it could have been anything from timetravel, a ghost story to sad ponies coping with loss.
Nothing wrong with the story itself, and the tropes you choose, one just needs to set some expectations for the audience.
Edit: I personally think villains at the height of their hubris going "What?!" and getting curb-stomped is hilarious but writing funnies with a ton of angst is a difficult feat.
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I really appreciate your honest opinion. You're right, one can' t please everyone, no matter what you try.
Therefore, I live by the fact: "As long as I am happy and satisfied with my work and have fun with it, I have done everything right there is".
Have a good day!
I thought it was interesting how sciency descriptions were added throughout, It made it feel like an scp entry
that seems like a really selfish descision to make
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You have to image that all six of the main chast have an extremely strong friendship and relationship to each other. If one of them is feeling down or is hurt, it's as if each of them is experiencing the same thing. Moreover, they are presently blinded by their grief and driven by their fears. Neither of them is clearly considering whether what they are doing might be a damn stupid idea.
Yes the concept sounds strange, but every of Twilight´s five friends would give their live to safe hers. Twilight knows that and obviously doesn´t require them to do so. But even she can´t blame them, she would do (did) the same for them
Don't know why Twilight thought anything else would happen. Villains have no honor. Duh 🙄.
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Ouch point for you.
Well Twilight is incredible smart and has a pure heart and that´s why she might overlook something so obvious. I don´t say she can´t see the bad in persons, but she always wants to see the best in them. After all she is mere 20 and live knowledge comes with the years.
Will you include twilight meeting with chrysalis and tirek after the millenium?
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I don't plan to do that as I have no sensible idea how to write that part. Sorry
But if I did it would be like that: Chrysalis after 1000 years in stone prison and with the only thing she has her thoughts. She "beggs" for Twilight´s forgiveness and Twilight is only happy to grant her said.
Tirek on the other
hoofhand is still agressive and tries once more to attack Twilight, she as the alicorn of magic and so all existing magic itself deflects his attack once again with ease. She teleports all three of them to the top of Canterlot and indicates across the kingdom, for him to see what happend in the last 1.000 years. He sees all kind of creatures in harmony and also centaurs.As most of his hatred stems from the fact that the ponies had not appreciated the centaurs so many years ago and now they have been accepted, he breaks down and begins to cry uncontrollably. He just can't take it anymore. As a result, he too professes how sorry he is to Twilight. He doesn´t want to accept Twilight´s forgiveness as he doesn´t think he is worth of it.
I just pulled all this out of my brain in 5min xD
To Twilight´s Coronation to the Empress of Equestria however I want to write something small. That´s why the Story is still not finished.
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Hmm very good. You could however if you want to and feel like it make a short (compared to those huge chapters) fun servicy epiloge with that.
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I know the Chapters to be very long, but as you might see I could only make three to get the sentence I wanted. (I could have used other words yes, but it was hard parting it even in three Chapters without bucking it up) xD
And well...I tried to keep it short and we all see how well that worked out...
I just hope my last Chapter wont get to long, it´s intended to be short. I just hope I manage to do that.
I ll hang out here untill then. :)
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I have taken it into my list. But itˋs far from the top so it definitely will take a long while. ;)
... No. You did not. That's a lie. Tirek never got a second chance. Cozy was thrown in Tartarus where none of you cared. Chrysalis got a second chance, but that wasn't you. You KILLED Sombra.
See above. She got Tartarus.
This story... is just all over the place. It says Twilight is a merciful being and doesn't want to punish them too harshly, but then she shows herself to be petty and smug in her thoughts. She gets shot with magic, but then she's suddenly a god and all tension goes out the window. Heck, she gives Tirek and Chrysalis the SAME PUNISHMENT, even though one of them didn't even get the CHANCE to defend herself after Twilight said they could defend themselves. So that's another lie right there.
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The Story is tagged "Alternate Universe" for a Reason. Twilight had many talks with all three of them and Sombra isnˋt a pony in my opinion. Heˋs a collection of dark energy's thrilled to submit everything.
And while you might have a point, Iˋm not a person of logic. (If you like logic, you wonˋt find much in my Storys, sry) So yes Twilight gets shot, awakens her true powers and is now a god.
Yep Cozy got to Tartarus, but it wasnˋt Twilightˋs doing and I never said she agreed with it. But with Luna and Tia as the regents at the time she couldnˋt demand her to be released from Tartarus. Just ask both of them if they would. One of Twìs first actions would probably have been releasing Cozy from their. (Obviously she doesnˋt has to anymore).
Yes I see alicorns as merciful beings that have quiet infinite power but want nothing more than peace.
Which of the both doesnˋt get a chance? Tirek? If yes, he doesnˋt want too, he sees all heˋs done as justice.
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I added some text here. That will likely not solve your problem you mentioned, but its better at least
Nova Star Sparkle, I hereby giving you a trophy for finishing your Broken Promise story. Congratulations. 🏆
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Thanks. If I wouldn´t be so slow in writing, more of my Stuff would be closer to being finished. Yet it will be someday for it is a great pleasure and fun to let my mind flow. And especially "The Alicorn Book" has still a long way to go. (Not even counting the two or three Stories that will someday go along with it)
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You're welcome.
Is it okay if I can edit your Broken Promise story? If not, it's okay.
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Edit? How would you like to edit my Story? Correct it in grammar or speach?
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Yes. I would love to.
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Well why not. I did my best in doing as less mistakes as possible, but I don't know close to everthing I would have to take care off. Also not even my autocorrection likes me...changes english to german, breaks words apart for no reason or capitalizes around each third word.
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Thank you
A bump on her left shoulder made her look over at the yellow pegasus it belonged to Fluttershy was the first of her friends to reach her and was now resting her hoof on Twilight's shoulder. The look she gave her alicorn friend as she did so was compassionate and understanding, one of her wings slightly outstretched and waiting.
Twilight was only too happy to oblige, spreading both of her sparkling wings to their full span and hugging the shy pegasus friend tightly with more tears forming in her eyes, something that Fluttershy returned caringly. Her wings were by far not enough to completely enclose the alicorn, the size difference was too vast for that. Nevertheless, she gave her best. The rest of her friends followed suit not long after, and Spike squeezed in between the mares towards Twilight's left front leg, hugging it with everything he had to offer as well.
"Thanks, girls. That's exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you for understanding."
"You did the right thing. I know it was a hard thing to do, but don't let it drag you down. It was the best choice and I'm sure both of them can understand. Well, Chrysalis more than Tirek, but even that stubborn centaur secretly knows it had to be done."
Twilight proceeded to nuzzle her friends until finally, she twisted her head around and with a simple flick of her longhorn, dispelled the unneeded runic circle, watching until the last glittering remnants of the runes had vanished. Folding her wings back to both her sides, she released her friends from their hug and they in reverse took a few steps back in complete astonishment.
It was the first time since her unexpected awakening that they could properly examine the alicorn before them, without some reality-warping magic hindering their sight. And as their worry for Twilight’s mental well-being had substituted, they acknowledged something that should have been fairly obvious for a long time. It was, after all, a detail very hard to miss when being such close friends for years and seeing one another daily.
The expression and astonishment Twilight could see in the eyes of the four surprised her for a moment. But when she looked further behind her friends and saw Luna, Discord, and Celestia standing there with equally astonished looks, she knew that something about her didn't correspond to the norm. Her suspicions proved true when she felt a constant motion along the side of her face and there remained the unusual feeling of a new, powerful, and yet familiar force deep within her. Looking down at her body and to her rear, she realized what her friends and fellow princesses had already discovered.
The entire range of changes she had previously felt in and around her body had retained and even more so. The only thing about her that still looked the same was the color of her fur, and not even that had been completely spared. Her coat color had turned at least one shade brighter and was now a light lavender. The fur on her throat, all the way down her chest to her underbelly, showed an almost entirely white tone. As she would later discover, the white accents of her fur even went to about the lower half of her face, and the fur above that turned to darker lavender upward, with the tips of her ears a deep shade of purple.
Her new, by far longer and slightly curved horn, had a white color at its base, which turned to a darker purple as one looked further up Twilight's horn and then a bright pink at its tip. There were also a great number of runes running across her horn, apparently working directly into the bone, which only added to the alicorn's already powerful aura. And as Twilight activated her magic to examine herself more, she was momentarily shocked. The simple raw power exceeding her horn just by lighting it was far greater than earlier that day. Her gaze drifted slowly over her surroundings as she tried to sort her founding’s.
Twilight stopped when she became aware that she could see the magic flowing all around her and over every single pony or creature, as well as a round ball of concentrated magic in the chest of each individual – the magic core of a being. Something she wasn’t supposed to see so easily and without casting a spell. Well, yes, when she became an alicorn, the other princesses taught her several new spells that required alicorn magic to be cast. Including a spell that allowed her to see the magic, the effects it had, and the amount of it a being had. The advanced form of visualizing one’s magic reserves, a thing she had internalized checking each time she blinked.
As she had mastered said spell she was also able to see the magic core, the storage of a being's unique magic. Not more than a small ball in the chest of a creature, but easily their greatest treasury. Once damaged one couldn’t use his magic partly or in full, depending on the damage it suffered. It was very unlikely to damage one magic core, the thing just looked fragile but was so sturdy most magic and users were unable to even locate it, less so affect. Still, it could happen. The magic core could also be repaired, at least by a certain degree as she had heard, but one needed a lot of alicorn magic to do so. If even cracking the magic core was hard, it was incredibly harder to repair it.
Still, she should address Rainbow’s little problem, the constant crashing in her stunts over the years seemed to have left slight injuries to her core. But we’ll get to that in a moment. Twilight’s horn glowed and her warm magic briefly settled around the cyan pegasus. The mare involved gave the alicorn a quick and confused look but didn’t ask what she had just done. It was something positive anyway.
But one thing bugged Twilight nonetheless, she had never heard of such a thing occurring as a passive ability. As it seemed, however, it was different so with her. On second thought, it suddenly made also sense to the alicorn. I AM magic, so I probably can naturally see any magic, even that others can’t witness, with my regular eyes without having to use a spell.
As she squinted her eyes a bit and ran her gaze over her hair and tail once more, searching for something she knew she missed. A few seconds later her eyes widened almost to the max as she immediately peered up at the night sky. Yes, she had not been mistaken, both appendages showed a perfect replica of the starry sky above her and even twinkled to match each constellation. While she had always been a bit envious of Luna and her wonderful mane, she was now sporting such fantastic hair herself. Twilight couldn't help but trot on the spot for a few seconds in delight and on the brink of her awareness, she believed she could hear Celestia giggling delightedly.
As interesting as her mane and tail were, it was the next new feature she discovered on her body changed that made her snout drop to the ground. She had never seen anything like this before on any of the other princesses or another being. Her whole body, but especially her hooves, entire legs, and midsection, was covered with countless runes and lines of magic that pulsed slightly to a steady beat. A quick examination of herself with magic revealed that the magical lines and inscriptions match her inner beat. The magic as it streamed so vigorously and intimidating over her body - powerful but yet so incredibly calm and familiar, just like it had been always a Part of her locked away until recently, was simply mind-blowing.
When she had ascended to an alicorn, she had been astounded at the new amount of inner mana her magic core could store and harness and how much stronger, easier, and faster she could cast spells without tiring. A short examination of her visual mana well afterward had proved her magic core to hold more than two thousand times its previous value as a unicorn. More so, her atomized coffee mug and the copies of "Constructive Criticism and the ways you shouldn't apply it - a reference guide by N. Otgood" and “You have created a being too unrealistic and strong, how to deal with it – by B. Uckit”, punching through Rainbow's cloud house with Mach 5 and jerking the poor pegamare out of her third nap of the day, had been a good indication of her new, improved magical abilities as an alicorn. Not to mention the occasion for hours of testing her powers and new level so as not to pulverize something every time she tried to participate in daily life.
But the power alone that she could feel flowing over her entire coat and streaming into the surrounding area around easily dwarfed that experience by a factor of a hundred.
That, however, was only a microscopic spark of the accumulated power Twilight felt in her inner being. The young lavender alicorn princess felt as if she could contain the entire universe in her hooves and change it to her will without even coming to the edge of strain or exhaustion. Her thoughts whirled with a velocity and denseness that would leave any other being dumbstruck and bewildered, but to the alicorn mare, everything made clear and orderly sense - magic, harmony, peace, knowledge, stars, amity... hundreds of thousands of thoughts at once, yet it was all as clear and familiar to Twilight as her hoof.
No, it was simply said one of the most wonderful feelings Twilight had ever felt. The young alicorn mare would have liked to tear out an entire mountain or leap to the stratosphere in a single bound. But rather held back from it, as it was not exactly helpful in the current situation, even if the possibility of such a thing did not sound so far-fetched anymore for her.
The further overall appearance of her legs and hooves hadn't changed much, except for a slightly lighter coat color as well. She also had now, the unique characteristics, each alicorn possessed of the three residual pony tribes they represented. The long, unshorn furlongs on the hooves, as was common for earth ponies. The slightly forward curved horn, as most unicorns possessed - only unicorns with very little talent for magic, had a straight horn. Finally, the characteristics of a pegasus, the fluffy/feathered ears, and additional feathers just above the base of the tail - which in her case were both her usual lavender.
Gazing over her new appearance and pondering about the energy that flowed through her body by the second, Twilight recognized another surprising detail that had changed about her as her vision swept over her back. And she wondered how she had missed something like that and not noticed it until now. It was also probably the main reason her friends and Luna plus Celestia were so astounded.
With her muzzle slightly agape and an amused smirk on her face, she spread her four new appendages out on her back and surveyed their texture and span for a moment. Fully spread out, each one of her six wings extended as far as her entire body height to either side. They also exhibited a wonderful gradient of color. The top primary feathers were still the same color as her fur - a light, bright lavender. The next layer underneath was once again the same shade of white as the fur on her belly. The further the feathers moved away from her middle, the darker they became. The gradient ranged from a light purple to a darker purple, to an almost black hue, which ended in a red, orange to the yellow gradient at the tips of her wings. As Twilight surveyed each of her wings for a few more seconds, enjoying the new color scheme and appearance, pondering the interesting change in her head. She noticed tiny energetic bolts of lightning traveling from the bases to the outermost feather tips of her wings.
While normally, the logical and scientific part of Twilight´s mind would tell her that electricity couldn´t flow over a pony's body without harm, on the one hoof, Pegasi were known for their high resistance to lightning, as they needed to be for their daily tasks with the weather. A cloud always could faze a Pegasus, once they intended to move it. Fortunately, pain resistance to shock was also very high in a Pegasus.
On the other hoof, the alicorn mare had given up on questioning anything about her physiology and possibility minutes ago. There were many things she did not yet know about herself as an alicorn - like the new, massive, and beautiful wiggling things on her back. As apparently without her realizing it, she had grown four additional wings and her entire appearance had received a massive upgrade in just about any part. Given that, lightning bolts traveling across her wings without creating damage or pain were a rather minor issue to think about.
"Eh, Twilight-?", Applejack's voice brought Twilight back to reality and the alicorn turned her head to her close orange earth pony friend, who stood perplexed and still with her mouth open next to the rest of her friends, that looked not much less surprised. Luna and Celestia seemed to have caught on by now and were more interested than surprised as they looked over at the fellow alicorn.
"- I would have lots of questions for you at the moment, though I suspect from the look on your face that most of them you can't even answer yourself so far. That's why I'll keep it simple and short.” With a flat look, Applejack continued. “Can you make the sun and moon rise or what?" Applejack then tilted her head, looking briefly up at the sun and moon, still both present in the sky, awaiting the alicorn's answer.
"I'm sorry, Twilight. I honestly have no idea what or why any of this has happened to you in the last hour. I may know many things, alone due to my long life, but magic has never been my strong suit. As I'm sure you know, I was a pegasus before I ascended, so - if you need help getting your six wings under better control, I'm your pony to ask. Though that shouldn't be as hard as one might guess, controlling four more wings once you've internalized the basics of wing anatomy and what muscle is for what and creates what outcome, will be quite easy." At this, Celestia had to grin and after a few seconds, she began to heartily laugh also.
Twilight just shook her head, while Celestia continued. "Wow, it sounds a lot crazier saying it. Forgive my unusual behavior, but a being with six wings was known to me until now only through legends. A Seraphicorn, if my memories don't deceive me. I was aware that there are stories about an alicorn supposedly transcending to a higher level of existence by awakening its deepest powers. Yet I never thought it possible to be true."
"I would ask Luna for more details if you desire additional answers about magic. Unlike me, she was a unicorn before her ascension and has become extremely well-read in the magic of the last thousand years to make up for what she lost and missed. I´m sure there’s much you both could learn from each other. You always were my top student with perfect grades in all subjects and your skills with magic are well beyond everything I ever witnessed from another pony."
“For sure I would be honored to learn with you Twilight, about the mysteries we still have with magic. I always was a bit envious of your talent in magical arts and most of my research on this subject was boosted by the thirst to be anything near as capable as you were and still are. And even, if I can't tell you everything you want to know I have a good hunch that you're still a mighty step ahead of me in magic and probably always will be. Hm, you even might someday know everything that there is about magic. But so far, some things I do know, nonetheless you for sure don´t seem to know at the moment. Your particular new appearance should be one of those things."
"Yep. You could use brute force and simply push the two celestial bodies to another part of the sky. After all, neither the sun nor the moon of Equestria is stationary objects - they're just incredibly heavy, which is why no one but an alicorn has the power or necessary amount of mana to move them in the first place.”
“However, I don't suppose you're planning on ditching us from that task just yet?", Luna joked with a twinkle in her eyes. "Or is it not enough for you that soon you will reign the mighty kingdom of Equestria under your iron hoof? In order so that every creature on Equus may tremble to the very core with fear at the mere mention of the name Equestria and its unbeatable merciless empress", the dark blue alicorn mare continued to wiggle her eyebrows at her younger fellow alicorn.
Both alicorns gave each other a quick smirk and fell to high laughter just mere seconds later, their wings trembling as their bodies shook. About a minute later, both alicorns gathered their composure almost fully back, nevertheless, both remained smiling wide above their muzzles.
“Although, if we’re being honest, none of us even needs violence or oppression to get what we want from our ponies. They trust us and our decisions too much not to carry them out with a clear conscience and pride. The honesty and loyalty of an alicorn to his subjects have to have its advantages after all.”
Both Celestia and Luna nodded while Twilight shook her head, already with the next topic in mind. "And no, you are more than welcome to keep dragging the sun and the moon over the horizon each day. For the time being it is more than enough work for me to carry out all your former tasks as regents. Although I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly the moon moves in the wrong direction, or strangely enough the sun rises a few minutes too early or late over the edge of the horizon. Such things can happen, Luna, ya know."
"Hm, fair enough. In that case, it's my fault anyway, it was I that started the whole", Luna shrugged her shoulders. "BUT, I'd still like to return briefly to the legends my sister mentioned. Because as you might have suspected by now, they are very much true and you don’t want to miss hearing about them.
Luna pointed with her hoof towards Twilight's new characteristics and especially to the alicorn’s back at her six sparkling wings, which still gleamed on their own in the twilight of the day and gave off more of their strange unique magic.
"First of all, there is a special book on alicorns that I found only a few months ago and have been studying ever since. So far, not even my sister has had any knowledge of its existence as it was really hard to find in the first place - pretty much coincidence to be precise. The book itself was written by an old unicorn scientist about two millennia ago, who himself claims he encountered a seraph in his dreams out of purest, divine magic, that revealed to him all that he wrote down in his book."
Twilight and all her assembled friends pricked up their ears, thinking about it that sounded more than intriguing. A whole book about alicorns and their powers? Written by a unicorn scientist with dreams about a mystic creature consisting of godly magic, that had bestowed the knowledge upon him? If that wasn't worth paying attention to, they didn't know what was. Well, yes, there were some other books about alicorns and most of their powers, like a definition of how they managed to raise the sun and moon each day, or how alicorns' magic created shields that remained indestructible and after casting, energy-independent. But nothing nearly as specific as that book sounded.
Luna’s voice brought them back to the situation. "The stallion described the creature as the most gorgeous, magnificent, and equally fearsome confidence-inspiring being he had ever laid eyes upon in his life. With a coat the color of purest lavender radiating light and colors he hadn´t thought possible, a long flowing mane and tail, mirroring the night sky he saw every single night, and the most noticeable, expressionless but infinitely caring white eyes.”
“In the brief moment that he was in the shadow of one of the seraphicorn's huge wings, staring into its faceless eyes, his horn touched the seraphicorn's. In that brief moment, his horn touches the seraph. In that momentary touch, a tremendous magical power beyond imaginable and knowledge so great his head almost exploded seemed to flow between him and the seraphim. The sheer size of which frightened him and made him fear that he would be swept away under its immense weight."
"Yet as he looked into the seraphicorn's eyes, time seemed to slow down and all but stand still. He felt that she radiated confidence, comfort, and kindness as if he were looking into the eyes of his mother. And by the statement, that she seemed to be made entirely from godly magic and ponies were magical beings, that could very likely also be the case. At that moment he knew that the figure would not harm him and any fear and doubt, were replaced by an infinite feeling of peace and friendship."
"And then the contact was suddenly broken, it left him speechless and he could only watch as the creature moved away from him with several powerful beats of its six wings and faded into the horizon. When he woke up shortly after, he almost immediately sat down at his desk and wrote this book we have here. That is all I can tell you about your new appearance as a Seraphicorn however, I´m sorry. Albeit, we will certainly find out some more. The origin and history of the alicorns are still one of Equestria's greatest mysteries to this day and I have a hunch that you're just the first to discover their true nature - after all, the three of us have more than enough time as you know", The dark blue mare smirked.
As Luna spoke, she lit her horn and conjured up a large, brown leather-bound book adorned with golden accents, levitating it over to Twilight. On the cover of the book, the image of a black seraph with bright colorful wings and golden lines around the creature was depicted. Holding one of its massive wings protectively over a unicorn stallion about half its size. Several more lines straight emanating from the larger creature seemed to suggest the radiant presence Luna had just spoken of.
As Twilight took the book into her magic from Luna´s, the dark blue alicorn mare continued to smirk in the direction of the younger alicorn.
Twilight just wordlessly held the book in her magic, as she shook her head in a quick-witted manner. No, Luna didn't need to mention whom that description fit so extremely well. The facts were far too clear for that. Regardless of how she got into the stallion's dreams, a stallion that had lived so long ago, way longer than she walked on Equus and on top where she got all this intruding knowledge, she couldn't explain. But it was unmistakably herself in the old unicorn's dreams.
"The fact about my new appearance and how I seem to have entered the dreams of a pony from over two thousand years ago to reveal to him a knowledge of magic and other things that is currently unknown to me, aside. Maybe you can explain to me and my friends what happened to me earlier? I can only vaguely remember it, but I know the magical explosion killed me with a hundred percent certainty. Say what you want but I didn´t escape my demise. So, the question remains, why am I able to stand here with you all?"
Luna waited patiently as Twilight shrugged, not yet through with her voicing. "While I have no desire to complain about my surprise revival, it just plain doesn't make any sense. Neither of you three other alicorns possessed magic up until a few minutes ago and while Discord is very capable. His abilities are trivial to the ones of an alicorn, even if he remains the second strongest being on Equus. I'm also going to take a strong guess that none of you cast a spell on me beforehand that would bring me back to life should I die!? – You might have grand wisdom thanks to your long life, but even such a thing you wouldn´t have predicted. That I´m sure."
Both older Princesses had to laugh, however, they didn't laugh at Twilight. But because the young princess was so right.
"Ha-ha, oh no, you're right, you certainly were killed by Tirek an hour ago, no doubt about that. And as unbelievable as it sounds, we can explain it to you. Surprisingly that´s a thing we both know, but thought it to be another legend so far."
"You see, an alicorn is a very, very mighty creature. Contrary to what many assume, it is not possible to create an alicorn with any kind of magic or by any other means we possess. At least that is what we assume to count for any being including an alicorn, if a Seraphicorn would be capable of it we don´t know. Alicorns are a being with extraordinary abilities and that says something if you know what we as alicorns can do."
"Essentially a seraph is the next step of the evolution of an alicorn, as aside from more wings on its back and a more unique appearance it looks like one. However, a Seraphicorn has powers we currently know nothing about and a specific section in the book also claims that one of the thoughts he got of his encounter with the Seraphicorn told him that she would create valid and reliable means by her design to protect the world from harm in the long run. The only thing that comes to mind for me with this particular Information, is the suggestion of the creation of alicorns, the prime form of peace and protection we know to exist in our universe.”
Luna stalled Twilight hence she could voice a counter to Celestia´s mind-blowing statement.
"I'm the princess of the Sun, and your Cutie Mark is a Star Twilight. You surely could tell me, what the Sun is. A star, correct?!" Twilight nodded, but remained listening to Celestia "Now when can you see the most stars in the sky? At night. And Luna is the princess of what again? Even your coat and mane color is a dead giveaway."
"Exactly - You possess the kindness and compassion of me, the ancient knowledge of magical arts and sheer power of Luna, and the all-encompassing love of Cadence. Oh, and of course, all the peace, love, and harmony you are known for. You compose every single aspect of us other three in one being. So I'm pretty sure that I'm right."
Twilight was at a loss for words and so Luna took over until the young lavender alicorn had found her voice again.
Luna shuffled her hooves in slight discomfort on the ground before she continued, not sure if she should first wait for Twilight to be back to reality or not. The alicorn mare was seemingly not entirely confident about what she was about to say. But then she did nonetheless.
“Yet this whole fact from the book stands in high contrast to the assumption of it not being possible to create an alicorn with magic or other powers as the implication suggests otherwise. Which so far, was why we assumed that our origins would probably remain our greatest mystery for good. We had to resign ourselves, for better or for worse, to the fact that, simply put, with our ascension we were claiming our birthright and taking on the power we should always have possessed."
The young lavender alicorn pricked her ears forward and her eyes sparkled with interest. What could Luna possibly mean by that?
"Well, as you will have already guessed, it originates from the seraphicorn. The mysterious being in the stallion's dream spoke of a prediction. "I will return someday and reclaim what was rightfully mine." The way she said it however didn't sound like a threat, but a statement to be ready at all times for the coming arrival of this creature. She also gave him the knowledge of the words I just told you and he had written them into his book. Even if he had no idea what they could mean.”
"So- what was this prophecy about?" Applejack was also curious, as the rest of the mares so far silently stood some meters behind the three alicorns and listened.
"I can't answer that directly as much as I'd like to, the second important information he has received from the being out of divine magic about these mysterious words, he has also written down in the book. But they are as much nonsense to me as the first. We won't know until we learn that the seraphicorn is here and can tell us what they mean. But she may arrive on Equus at some point in time and claim some of her powers that have been left to us or the regency of Equestria itself perhaps. A right she also probably has without doubt, as it seems to me that this mare is responsible for the species of the alicorns in the first place. Without that one Seraphim, we might not even have a kingdom or rulers to lead. At least, it all sounds very plausible to me. But perhaps she just wants to live here in peace, it would be like her at least. What we got from the book is, that she is the avatar of peace and good, so the last is probably the most likely to happen. All just speculations as I can't answer that for the life of me."
Luna banged her horseshoe against her forehead and grunted in mental pain. “Dammit, my mind just seems overwhelmed with everything happening today. Of course, Fluttershy, that’s why I asked Twilight the initial words in the first place. Sister! Why didn’t you alert me to this?”
“I was testing to see if you noticed on your own. Apparently you didn’t, good thing Fluttershy was paying attention. Congratulations by the way, dear!” Celestia modestly nodded to the butter-yellow pegasus, who blushed slightly in return.
“Only one being will know what these words mean and receive my powers, knowledge, and everything else. Until that day, I will be a reflection of my past self, until I can finally be reborn. A shadow, a collection of her fondest and strongest memories, kept here until she returned. Kept here for you.”
"Wow, you're right, Luna. Those words ARE meant for me. I quite can't believe it myself, but there's no other reason why they shouldn't be if none of you could translate them and I can", Twilight grinned from ear to ear, her ears twitching with joy.
"Of course," Twilight shot out like a gun. These four constellations were some of the most important and well-known in Equestria. Just about every single pony in the kingdom knew the story behind them, it was practically a legend. A legend that gave confidence to the ponies and promised that everything would be fine in the end.
"Then I suppose you are also aware that there is a dedicated star for the sun, moon, and solicitude in the constellation of the alicorn? And more so, that constellations reflect the destinies and duties of every single pony and so the alicorn constellation is the one reflecting ours? Based on your nod, I assume that I am correct so far. This brings us to the matter at hoof, where we knew Equestria wouldn't just be blessed with three alicorns in the end, but four. As there was one more bright star, we didn’t know who it belonged to for almost two thousand years. Now, after you had ascended to an alicorn we know it’s yours."
"Yes, there's more, the interesting part is just around the corner. Right in the center of the alicorn's chest is a cluster made up of six special stars, the middle one by far the brightest and largest, surrounded by five smaller but still very luminous stars. These six stars are special, because, unlike all the other stars in the cluster, not counting the three reserved for Tia, Cadance, and me, they are incredibly bright and also stationary like ours. They didn’t move an inch from their Position, as we would have guessed. We thought only our four stars, for each alicorn one, would proceed to stay in a perfect arc, and the other five would move further away with time, but they never did. It was like the fourth alicorn dedicated star had bound five smaller ones to his might and dragged them along the sky, calling them to circle him in a flawless arc.”
“That is why someday in the past, our ponies began to assume names for the collection of stars and so the “peace cluster of bond” also called “the harmonic or friendship cluster” was born. As it was eventually revealed – your destiny, to be blunt. Yes, your friends will likely begin to age and die one day while you as an alicorn remain eternally young. But don´t fret, you already knew that would happen someday and we three will always be by your side to keep your spirit up if you ever need help. We are in this together as alicorns and that will also remain that way for eternity. So it is only logical that we also carry the “burden” together, although I wouldn’t call it something like that. Immortality isn’t a curse, the same as mortality. It is what one does with both that makes it count in the end. I hope that knowledge will make it at least a fair bit better for you”, Luna’s gaze was empathetic to the young seraphicorn, it was something very serious after all.
Princess Twilight’s answer surprised the older princess, however. “I’m quite fine with what will eventually happen. Yes, it was hard at first and I’m not gonna lie about the fact I shed some tears. But you know what? All of my friends mentally supported me and strengthened my trust in the future. They made me realize I have at least another 180 years to have fun with all of them and find solutions to said problems. That’s by far enough time for me I would say. We both know what I already achieved in two decades and my friend’s got 18 more.”
“Hrm”, Luna cleared her throat and brought the attention back to herself. “Anyway, it’s good to see yourself so happy and close to your friends despite it all. My next thing, however, will make your future even brighter than it already is and was made by your mutual friends. You surely are knowledgeable about the legend of the alicorn zodiac. It is a constant, unwavering sign of hope, protection, and empathy, even in the darkest of times. It also stands for the known fact, that each soul is as immortal as an alicorn and can’t truly be lost to the world. Once a being dies, the soul returns to the core of the planet, the source of all life on Equus, and merges with its gigantic life force. In due time it will be reborn and walk among the soil and grass once more. Especially if it has a clear purpose and a location to return to, the rate of rebirth is highly increased. You will meet your very first friends again sooner than you might think, maybe they look different, are not the same pony race you knew them to be, or don't remember their former lives. But trust me when I tell you that you will recognize them when you encounter them and your bond will form as thigh as it currently is."
“But there is a burden we as alicorns have to bear. While most of our subjects are far too reluctant to approach or even try to befriend one of their princesses head-ons. Afraid of either wronging something in their presence, upsetting them, or otherwise falling in disgrace. Yet your status as the alicorn of friendship and harmony/peace will in itself make it a lot easier for you to be able to befriend ponies. Even hundreds of years from now, in additionally to your new sparkling and incredible appearance you will still be able to do so, without trouble. Naturally, the same applies to every rebirth of your best friends and generally ensures that they are drawn to you and approaching you without fear. So your pact of friendship almost seals itself each time. As of thinking about it for a moment, maybe you won’t even have the same problems as we with approaching our ponies.”
“To be honest, I wouldn´t know what to say in your position either, so no worry. It is after all much to process. As much as we know a seraph is the ultimate embodiment of a certain fundamental force in reality and has single supreme control in its hooves. And while light, non-corruptive darkness, and love are all such powers, magic however is a universal force able to create all three of them. Therefore it would also fit perfectly for each of us alicorns to have the abilities we have.”
“Especially you Twilight, the power I sensed and still can feel exceeding from you is strange, but it still feels to me like my very nature.” Celestia shook her head in self-disbelief. “As crazy as it all seems, I highly believe the legend in the book to be true. You were or rather are that very being of magic, the unicorn scientist saw in his dreams and got insight from. And likely also the one that created the race of alicorns in the first place. Your new signature of power is simply too familiar to my own, to be anything other than that.”
"Many say, because of our powers we are gods, and even if I would never ask another pony to address me as a divine being. Nevertheless, I can still confirm that every alicorn is some kind of demigod. Our range and level of powers are vast and almost limitless. It´s a known fact we do not need oxygen or food to survive, don't die of old age, are immune to any known disease, virus, or bacteria and it is incredible and almost impossible to harm, if not kill us. Yet, as you have experienced for yourself, our bodies can die.”
“Yes…but I don’t see so far, what you're referring to”, Twilight interjected.
“And here’s the twist very few know about, the body of an alicorn is killable, but our soul or rarely referred to as spirit is free from influence by any means. Even more so as the standard soul, that could in some cases be contained and bound to rituals in both situations. Luckily every soul of a being other than an alicorn is also incredibly durable and hurting it permanently is almost impossible to archive. But draining some of the life Energy Equus has to use it through a bound soul is still possible.”
“The soul of an alicorn, however, is completely different and remains as said immune to influence, magic, and other means, it also doesn’t return to the Planet's core once we would be killed. Since, from this specific perspective, we are not a part of Equus' life energy. Our magic can interact with every aspect and entity of the Planet. Yet, alicorns are their independent force of life, we are as said bound to the universe or more precisely the celestial bodies we control. Lulus Moon, your Stars, or my Sun. Only Cadence still needs a celestial body, or perhaps her planet transcending bond to love is something that counts as well.”
Luna nodded to her sister’s statement, the older alicorn was fairly right and she almost couldn’t add something else to it – almost. Turning her entire body more to Twilight, she raised her brow and addressed the lavender princess. “You surely know the fundamental concept of how magic works in our world?” Luna knew Twilight’s answer, the young mare was after all the alicorn of magic and even before that the most skilled Unicorn ever born since Starswirl the Bearded. And even the old stallion, with his decades of work and research, had almost surpassed in skill, ability, and magic at 17 before she ascended to an alicorn, far surpassing anything known before.
Twilight’s smile was broad and she fluffed all of her wings in utter joy at being asked her favorite thing to converse about. “Of course!”
“There is both active and inactive mana. The active one is freely leaking from the main and secondary leylines that span the entire planet. So it can later be absorbed into the body of all the inhabitants of the planet via hooves, horns, claws, or other means and stored in their magic core. From there, it can be used for all the various tasks that will require magic. I’ll use a unicorn as an example for my further explanation, as they use magic the most frequently and are generally the most commonly used for explanations in schools and universities.”
“Depending on the spell, when a unicorn uses magic they use up a certain amount of mana, this used-up mana is called inactive mana and is freely released into the environment while acting the magic. It will mostly be absorbed mainly through the flora and fauna, thus returning it into the soil and back to the planet's core. Equus will recycle the depleted mana back into active mana in its core and release it back through the leylines. The cycle exists since the very basic life evolved on our planet and the general total amount of active mana is based as far as it is known on the total magic potential of its inhabitants with a factor of about 3:1. For a living being with a capacity of 1,000 magic units there are about 3,000 magic units present in the core of the planet. Though this would be a rather small amount for a Unicorn, they possess about 2,500 on average while a Pegasus comes to 400-500 and an Earth Pony to just under 250. However, that doesn’t mean that a Unicorn is stronger than the other two subspecies, the conversion ratio is just different and each race is most effective in its area.”
“Nevertheless, I have a solid guess, two even. The first is based on the idea that we receive our power or mana from our celestial bodies and the used mana returns to them for recycling. The second possibility itself has arisen to me just about an hour ago and was further confirmed through you both.”
“Since I awakened, I have felt greater connectivity to my alicorn powers, the stars, and the entire cosmos around us. My guess is therefore that our mana originates directly from the deepest corners of the universe itself and returns there when we utilize our powers. After all, an alicorn is vastly more empowered than even the strongest of ponies on this planet combined,” Twilight lightly stomped her now white glowing front hoof on the grass to solidify her point, extended one of her wings and lastly energized her horn in a glow of magic. Her hoof created a small field of cracks in the ground as it landed with a rumble that shook the nearby area. While the magic, that had begun to flow from the feathers of her outstretched wing, kicked up a short but strong breeze, that ruffled the manes of all nearby. Lastly, the magic from her bright horn fixed both the cracks in the ground as well as the wind-swept the manes of her close friends in an instant. With a sly smile, Twilight turned back to her companions.
“As it is, we, therefore, have an immensely greater amount of mana at our disposal than others and are also capable to wield much greater forces, as our magic cores can store enormous amounts of raw magic. We are also capable of using many spells that only we alicorns can perform. I used to check my mana pool many times a day, even to the point where I got into a habit of doing it every time I close my eyes for a second. And as you both surely know I was quite good at magic, so my pool as a unicorn was already more than only average in size and depth, even in my young years. However, after I became an alicorn, my mana pool had expanded to sizes I could only dream of before and it has taken me a while to even find the edge of it. Now, after my last recent changes, I can’t even find the bottom, let alone the edge, of my mana pool anymore. No matter how far I let my mind wander over my mana pool, there is still more coming.”
“By all means. Yet there has to be a point from which our mana springs, to which it accumulates, and lastly where it is also recycled. Checking all the facts, we can narrow down the possible locations from which our mana might come. The vastness of the universe itself will not provide a solid source, for that, it´s still way too random and chaotic. Would be a better origin for Discord´s Powers, than the ones of an alicorn. That all our powers might come from a single celestial body I do not believe either. Your Sun Celestia or Luna’s Moon is a very powerful body no doubt, but the powers I can feel since my ascension to an alicorn make me strongly doubt this thesis. Not to mention the latest level I mentioned from an hour ago,” Twilight briefly rambled her thinking.
“No matter its size and power both your celestial objects or my stars contain, it´s still not nearly enough power to fuel such a large amount of mana for four alicorns. There must either be a gigantic Planet, celestial body, or something similar. Or that´s all false guesses and it even comes all down to a subdimension from which our magic originates. Whereas thinking about it for once, the second option would sound more logical in terms of security and overall reliability for our powers. A whole dimension filled with pure alicorn magic would protect itself by the nature of our powers against any damage one could throw at it. And probably also kill any other being except an alicorn if they enter the Dimension thanks to an almost unlimited concentration of alicorn magic…”, The lavender mare mumbled at the end almost inaudible.
Luna had to laugh, much to Twilight’s confusion. She hadn’t expected such a well explained, even from Twilight. But she always liked to be surprised by the young mare’s intelligence. Twilight didn’t realize so far how accurate her quick guesses and the ideas she had expressed were. She had found exactly the right solution, without much sidetracking.”
I’m sorry dearest Twilight, but I simply couldn’t hold on to myself any longer. To you, your assumptions probably sound so empty and random, yet they hit the nail right on the head. And not just a little bit, but as precisely as you could do. I can't add anything more, except the confirmation that it is indeed an entire sub-dimension of our reality. An entire dimension from which the mana of an alicorn emanates, to which it is returned, and where it gets stored. Also, your murmur at the end corresponds also to the truth. It would be extremely unwholesome for instance your friends to enter this alicorn dimension – the astral plane by the way, as it is called by us. They couldn’t survive a second in it and while I don’t know for sure if one can feel pain in the astral plane, it would still be a horrible finite fate for them All. I think we can agree to spare them that. The other things, as I said, have already been correctly guessed by you.”
The addressed white alicorn just shook her head briefly.” As I mentioned, you two are much more familiar with magic than I am. My knowledge is based only on more than a millennium of books that I have read. While that is also a lot, I have never really been interested in more than the general concept of mana and magic. I’m the mare for everything to do with the physical and strength. You are the one with the intellectual and emotional.”
“Then I’d declare that checked off – unless you have any more questions, dear?”
“Fabulous, let’s return to the previous matter we had a few minutes ago. You are well aware, that whatever may happen, the soul of an alicorn remains on Equus, floating around and shaping the planet for good. That fact is pretty neat as well as a soul is normally invisible to the eye and almost untraceable by most arts of magic. Some very capable sorceress or an alicorn with its improved and superior vision would be able to see a soul. But while Equus might by far not be the biggest of planets, it’s still considerably big, and finding an ethereal outline of a pony on its surface would still be incredibly hard.
"Our souls will continue doing so, as long as it takes for our bodies to be revived. It’s hard, dangerous, and weekly long but with enough preparation feasible and almost safe ritual for non-alicorns a still minute long but thanks to our powers simple task for an alicorn. Once we are brought back, our soul is instantly pulled to our old selves, no matter the distance or location. As though nothing had happened in the first place to us."
“Yet it likely will leave us weakened for at least a few hours, until we have back our full strength. Still the power we got immediately following our resuscitation is rather high and certainly allows us to successfully defend and prevent our attacker from being able to kill us a second time. Well, and there is the cool fact a force field will surround the body of a resurrected alicorn and protect its body for at least half a minute from incoming damage. Giving us even more time to prepare for fight or defense. For the worst we just had to flee with teleportation, still better than being killed over and over”, Celestia added with a calm voice and a smirk.
Celestia nodded to Twilight for being patient just a little bit more and to her sister for the little help. “For what I got from today is, it seems to me that an alicorn can revive itself when it unlocks its true destiny and at the same time ascends to become a true god. A status known to be just a legend as it is so very powerful that it renders you a being that can no longer be killed or even wounded. As such an entity is free of the influence of the concept of existence and remains its independent force in the universe that can interact normally with it but can’t be interacted with as long as they don’t want to. A true deity embodies one of the fundamental aspects of the multiversal reality and thus becomes a self-perpetuating immortal and soul bound to the concepts of reality, time, and its embodied aspect. For as long as his aspect exists, a true deity can’t die and for as long as he exists, something exists with that very aspect. A flawless and unbreakable cycle that sustains itself, as I said. And well, as light, non-corruptive darkness, love, and in your case all kinds of magic, are four such aspects, I reckon my chances of being right rather high.”
“I can't tell you exactly how I know about that all, maybe I once read it in the book or maybe it's an internal feeling I know without having it ever learned. But I stand by it, it is now no longer possible to harm your body on any level, which creates a little problem with you being you. So, I sincerely beg you to let this theory stand for the time being, without testing. I don't wish to have to search for a way to bring the sole Empress of Equestria back from the dead for at least the next few years, but longer is always better y know. Moreover, after the events of today, I doubt that Equestria would be able to cope with your renewed demise anytime soon without suffering serious consequences. Our kingdom may be vigorous and managed to get through a lot, but I think it would be preferable to let it return to a ´normal´ state first before we start experimenting elsewhere."
"Love to, Tia", Twilight grinned wide over both ears. "Today has been busy and I think it will take me several weeks or more to truly understand and accept all that has happened in the last 24 hours. And all of Equestria itself probably years if not longer, except the ones that sadly never will accept it. There are and always will be the ones complaining about the aspect of logic, for the existence of a being that is truly immortal and unable to die, has powers that cannot be put with anything because they are so powerful or whatever else you want to name”, the lavender alicorn shrugged with a deadpan look. Indicating she had it down to hear that every day anew and didn’t care anymore what such ponies might think. She knew her abilities to the core and that meant she was also aware of what was the truth and lie about an alicorn’s powers.
Twilight´s eyes narrowed. “Nevertheless, I would like to inform you, that the three of us will have quite a few conversations to share and I'm sure Cadence would like to be there as well. So, Spike? If you would be so kind to inform Cadance as fast as possible as well, I would be more than grateful. And who knows, we might find some gems in all that rumble and dust kicked up in Canterlot after all”, Twilight cheekily winked at her faithful draconic assistance and son – at least according to their mutual view, not biologically.
The young dragon saluted and quickly got to work writing a letter to the fourth princess of Equestria and the sole ruler of the Crystal Empire.
"And there is nothing wrong with that. Those who don't consider themselves worthy or fit to lead and rule are the best leaders there are. Those who believe it is their right to lead are the worst kind of tyrants. Stay just as you are dearest, for as long as your solicitude and humility know no end, you will do great things, I am sure. Nevertheless, you will more than once have to deal with Ponies and other creatures that see you as such and will worship you no matter what you say. That’s the only curse we alicorns have and will have to accept and deal with", Luna yoked and Celestia added the last two sentences to her younger sister's words.
Twilight got red like a tomato and a deep blush painted her cheeks. She composed herself rather fast and her horn glowed in its new characteristic pure white as she cast a spell onto herself – namely her throat. As she spoke her voice was amplified to the royal Canterlot voice and only at the beginning a bit shaky due to her mild embarrassment. Otherwise, her voice was solid as it was cast across the meadow.
N- nevertheless, that's also one of the reasons why I would like to postpone the coronation - at least until the castle is restored. In any case, we still have to accommodate all the other creatures, whom I now cordially invite to my coronation if they didn't already know.” Twilight extended her hoof towards the assembled crowd behind the other princesses, that had silently watched and listened to what happened. Most of them now began to slightly bow or nodded their heads in the lavender alicorn's direction, which they had understood and were honored to be invited to probably one of the most sacred of events Equestria had. “While the castle´s atrium was vast before, I will arrange for it to be built just a tiny bit larger. Not more than 20% however, there shouldn´t be any problem with space in the next many years to hold festivals and announcements. Even if the population of Equestria will increase, as I´m very confident it will."
"As you wish, your Highness," retorted all three in union and Celestia added something else as she rose a second later and went to Twilight, stroking her cheek kindly with one of her enormous, white wings.
"Twilight, I can't tell you how overly proud I am of you, that despite the stressful situations today you still keep the reins so tight. It shows me that you are the perfect pony to take charge of Equestria from us both. There is no one I would trust with the well-being of Equestria more than you. Your devotion to preserving all life no matter who they are or if they wronged you once, all even at the expense of your own, show that you have truly merited your Crown and the status of an alicorn. Even if the second isn’t outdoing it. A mother will always put her children first."
Utterly caught off guard, Twilight's voice was uneven as she looked up and spoke to Celestia. Never had she expected such high and honest spoken praise coming from Celestia. Her heart was warmed and swelled with every good feeling she ever felt.
"You're more than welcome. I appreciate how much you've always looked up to me. It’s an overly great honor for me as well. But since the day you became an alicorn as well more than three years ago, we are at least equals. Even if I believe you will have an even greater legacy than my sister or me. As you might guess however I would rather have you as a mutual friend and companion than someone who looks up to me. You have inspired our ponies more than I have ever been to them. That might sound unbelievable but it’s true. Lulu and I might be alicorns and great leaders, but your compassion, friendliness, and harmony with others are the real deal of what our ponies look up to. Ponies are creatures that deep down ultimately strive for peace and harmony. So that´s something you should not forget for yourself and your capabilities.”
“I might be capable of many things and in some, I’m also perfect as is expected from a being more than a millennium old. But there are still many things left, I can improve. Like your blazing unhindered kindness and devotion to our subjects for example. That probably is a thing coming from your embodiment of friendship and Harmonic peace. I, for one, have distanced myself a little too far from our ponies in the last few centuries, and Luna has been on the moon for 1,000 years what’s partially a fault on my part. There will be difficulties in getting in touch with our subjects anew, but with your help, it should be easily possible.”
Celestia proceeded unhindered, an alicorn, and Twilight for sure couldn’t die because of something so trivial as that. “I understand that it will probably be a long time until we no longer have the student-teacher relationship we had in the past and you have become fully accustomed to no longer addressing your peers as princesses, as that is not necessary. I like it more being addressed as Celestia or Tia, while not being on royal duties, especially by my dear friends. Either way, let's not stress and rush things, there is more than plenty of time for each four of us."
Celestia draped one of her large white wings over Twilight's spine as she pulled the equally tall alicorn closer to her sides and gave her a friendly smile and cheek nuzzle. Twilight returned, nudging Celestia in the side of her cheek with her muzzle. The white alicorn´s voice was gentle and quiet as she spoke anew.
"Just as you have respect and regard for Luna, Cadance, or myself, we have the same amount for you. Remember at all times, you ARE an alicorn and that alone is a sacred and honorable accomplishment that you can be very prideful of. While it may be a heavy burden at times to have so great power and authority to make decisions or to be required to solve so many problems daily, each of us is still a pony. Yes, a pony with unique and incredible powers/abilities, eternal life that can’t be erased, and a body that defines the laws of the very universe itself, but still. Just. A. Pony.”
As Celestia fell silent and Twilight proceeded to stand there with red cheeks and unmoving, still processing things, Luna took over in speaking. "Each of us is a being that is highly valued and honored, not because of the powers and magic we possess, but because of what we have done for our ponies throughout our existence. Each of us has helped shape the world into what it is today and although you are still so young for an alicorn, you have done no less than any of us, maybe even some more as your new auras are any indication. I can practically feel the raw harmony and peace permitting the air around you. And that includes your friends, of course. I would never dare to exclude them. They accompanied you throughout this journey and made you the pony that you are today. Accordingly, I'd say we're quitting," Luna winked.
Silently spreading her second wing, Celestia gestured with her head to Twilight´s other five friends and Spike, standing a few meters behind Twilight, to come under her other wing as well. All six delightedly made their way immediately to Celestia although they were still a little uneasy, except Spike. He had lived almost his whole life in the Castle and was very familiar with the white alicorn and it wasn’t like Celestia had any ill intent in wishing for them to come near her. Settling under the alicorn's large wing, Celestia pulled them closer to her body as well, as the alicorn gave them a good-hearted wing hug.
Celestia´s voice was full of compassion and very silent as she addressed the mares cuddled under her wing. She even caught herself twice restraining herself from giving any of Twilight's six friends a nose nudge with her muzzle. It didn't seem appropriate in the current situation with so many others watching, but later in private, that could quickly change Celestia smirked.
"Thank you! Thank you, for all you have done for Twilight. Let me tell you that you are the best friends Twilight could ever have. I´m a little jealous. All of you have my equally full respect as well, in your situation I could not have stayed so calm when I saw Twilight lying on the ground so battered and broken. It proves to me how strong each of your characters is and how unbreakable your mutual friend is. Even in the face of a total disaster, like in this instance the presumed death of your friend and leader Twilight. You didn’t stop fighting for what you believe to be right.”
“It might have been a bit tardy, that each of you was prepared to avenge Twilight, whatever the consequences of your actions might have been. But in contrast to what I would normally say to ponies, yes it was foolish. I can understand that the one thing you could think of after Twilight's fall was raw unbothered revenge.”
Celestia cleared her throat. “To be honest, I wouldn't have done it any differently in your position, but being over a thousand years old…I have seen and experienced many things that permitted me to see the matter somewhat neutrally, even if my heart and soul were burning in incredible grief for the loss. Somehow, deep down, I knew this wasn't the end."
"T- Thank you, Princess," Applejack uttered stuttering as she tipped her hat and lowered into a bow to Celestia. Followed by each of the rest of the mares, including Spike giving a bow to Celestia. However, her cowboy hat was promptly grabbed in golden magic and placed back on Applejack's mane as Celestia used her front hoof to help the mares up.
"Nothing of that, please. No one of you has to bow to me either anymore, you already got that privilege years ago - you have earned it more than once in your lives. Besides, Twilight is a princess just like my niece, sister, and I. As her dearest friends and something like her second family, you are just as much a part of the royal family as she is.”
Celestia´s gaze got thoughtful. "Come to think of it, how is it that you have never received an official title of honor for your deeds? We, or rather Twilight should do it as the new ruler. You've certainly earned it." With a wink and a light laugh to everyone, Celestia continued. "And it's not as if the nobles could do anything about it really if one of their princesses decided to do so."
"Thank you, Pri- Celestia!" all five mares replied almost simultaneously, while Celestia inclined her head slightly in the direction of the other mares in thanks and honor.
"Please, as I said before, you have nothing to thank me for. Rather, that should be my job today. What you all had to go through today was something I wouldn't wish on anyone, not even my enemies. I know in more than one case, what it is like to have to witness something like that. Unfortunately, I was not deny that on many occasions and it was nothing to take ever lightly - but enough of that. It´s long gone past anyway and today should be a day about joy and fun, rather than somberness and grief. That said, what do you think, Twilight? Does that also seem like a good idea in your mind?"
"Oh, Twilight. You know as well as any of us that this is nonsense. Each of your friends deserves to receive a high honor for their deeds - like a title, for example. Most of the nobles know that, they are just too envious to acknowledge - and even if they did complain!", countered Celestia slyly. "Even then, there would be nothing they could do about it. We are their princesses, the pony’s above telling them what to do. As well as doing many things for our kingdom every single day, often putting our interests second just to see our subjects happy. I think it's only fitting and legitime, that we use our power to do something good for ourselves or others from time to time in controversy."
Nodding with understanding, Celestia consented to Twilight. "Fine by me. It’s your independent decision. Take your time and first get used to running an entire kingdom for a while, but you shouldn’t take too long to make up your mind either." Twilight nodded knowingly.
Twilight had noticed Applejack glancing at her chest and sides for the past 15 minutes, despite her friend's usual quiet demeanor. Twilight had been waiting for Applejack to bring up any concerns, but since she hadn't, Twilight planned to ask her about it in private later. However, Applejack spoke up on her own, raising her voice as the earth pony mare expressed herself. Despite having six wings, Twilight realized that Applejack wasn't interested in them and was searching for something else.
"I would like to ask you all one last question. I'm not the only one who saw that parts of Twi's body were kind of - uhh transparent until recently. And even now there's something different about her fur. It has such an unusual shimmer to it. I’m well aware that alicorns are pure creatures of magic and have some really powerful abilities and magics, but I've just never seen anything like this before."
Celestia was the first mare to speak up, even though Rarity had also started to say something in reply. Twilight, in turn, pricked up her ears and looked down her body in surprise.
None of the gathered mares bothered to ask what Magical Sight was all about, Twilight had already explained it to them once about three years ago. Luna, however, didn't seem to know this fact, as the dark blue alicorn almost inevitably began to explain.
"An alicorn, by itself, without magic, has the natural ability to see the magical lineages in a pony's body as they pass through it from the magic core if they wish to. As well as being able to track individual accumulations and processes of magic through the body, such as when a unicorn was to use magic to cast a spell or a pegasus wanted to move a cloud out of the way. Given that Twilight had mentioned the magic core earlier, I think you know what it is?" Luna paused for a few moments until all the mares nodded in confirmation.
"But no such thing exists within Twilight any longer and with my magic and a few more spells, I can confirm I am not mistaken." Luna turned to the young alicorn, who looked more than surprised towards her and her gaze drifted back and forth between Luna's and her chest. A moment later, Twilight lifted one of her hooves as well, looking over it thoughtfully as she turned it back and forth.
Luna cleared her throat. Oh, boy, this is going to sound so fucking retarded. "Dearest, your entire body is now your magic core. Every fiber and cell of your body even down to the very atomic level is empowered or has been completely replaced by your unique brand of alicorn magic. As I see it, every single function of your body is being guided and executed by this new magic, though how this can be possible even I have no idea. That is something you have to find out for yourself. Knowing you, however, you will quickly succeed. I guess that what we saw on the injured or missing parts of Twilight's body was directly her raw new full-body magic core. After all, at first glance, it looks to me like it's a flawless magical replica of her physique.
In response, Rarity now spoke up almost immediately. "So, if we were to, just theoretically, remove all fur, skin, and such, we would have a creature made entirely of alicorn magic with the appearance of Twilight?" By the horrified looks from her friends and Twilight staring open-mouthed at her, the off-white mare fairly quickly realized that her theory wasn't being met with sympathy. Which was why she quickly jerked her hooves upwards and flailed them wildly in the air defensively. "No, no! Speaking purely theoretically, of course - we still shouldn't try it, even if it were possible."
Twilight acted relieved. "Eh, yes, I do beg to differ. I'm kind of attached to my fur and skin thanks and that's not just physically," Twilight quipped even though her look said she didn't mean it as a joke.
"While I don´t want to spoil the fun. What about those two over there?" Luna interjected once the laughter had died down and she too had herself under control once more, as she pointed with her hoof to the statue of Chrysalis and Tirek. "With young Cozy, I reckon things are clear, Princess Twilight surely already has the plan to get her back on the right path, but with those two I'm at a loss for now."
"Guards!”, Twilight´s voice was commanding and forceful, almost bordering on the royal Canterlot voice, so she would be heard across the entire meadow.
“Please see that Cozy is placed in a safe and comfortable place, you will guard her at any time until I say otherwise, but I do not allow them to hear a word that she has been mistreated. She is after all just a young, misguided foal, that was scarred and forced into doing things she didn´t want. I am more than confident I can straighten that out in no time. Until then, she is under my royal protection and I want her to be protected as well as you protect us, princesses. Now go, I will deal with the problem later."
Six of the nearby guards on standby saluted and began trotting toward the force field, which was disintegrating into thousands of sparkling magic sparks by Twilight as they neared. Twilight watched as Cozy raised herself to her four legs and followed the guards without a fight. Why should she even? Princess Twilight had probably just granted her the least punishment she would ever get from any being she could have wronged.
Turning her head back to her friends and flashing especially Rainbow Dash a brief smile, which was returned by the cyan pegamare she proceeded in talking. "Come on, girls, I have a brilliant idea of what would be appropriate after such a stressful and crazy day."
As she stretched the two lowest of her large wings to their fullest, she dropped them over the backs of the smaller mares, dragging her top five towards her middle, against her fluffy coat. After a moment she began to urge them forward, towards Canterlot. Having taken a few steps, she flicked her horn into action and hoisted Spike onto her back, just below her neck, where the young dragon clung to keep from slipping off the alicorn's large back.
Spike was perplexed for a second, he hadn’t ridden a pony so tall in a long time and the overview he now had was many times better than the one from his height. As his claws vigorously but cautiously grabbed more into Twilight’s fur he soon snuggled his whole body deeper into Twilight´s coat.
“Damn, Twilight, your mane is unbelievably soft, I could probably fall asleep in it right away," Spike marveled as he dug his face deeper into Twilight's sparkling, flowing mane.
Twilight chuckled. "Heh, thanks. That´s probably a side effect of my new alicorn powers and don´t worry you'll have plenty of opportunity to ´cuddle my awesome mane´ many times over in the future. Well at least until you're too big to fit on my back that is. Luckily that will still take many decades and by then I should probably have found a change Alternation spell that works. I don’t know how big your special breed of dragon tends to get, as there is no clear record about another purple and green-scaled dragon like you. But my alicorn magic should provide a strong enough source of Power to change your size to a fitting one. Even if you end up getting as tall as Canterlot Mountain itself”, Twilight smirked as she cast a cursory glance over her shoulder and nuzzled Spike with her muzzle.
Spike grinned as he winded himself deeper again in Twilight’s heavenly soft mane and fur. A sigh escaped his mouth.
While the sun slowly sank beyond the horizon, where it originally belonged at this point of the day, it framed the seven friends in a bright corona of brilliant sparkling lights and colors as they made their way down the grassy field. Celestia and Luna silently watched the departing mares.
"Do you think she'll get over the loss of her primary and first friends?" Celestia craned her head towards Luna, her gaze both questioning and somewhat insecure at the answer her younger sister might have for her. An answer that only could add to her worries about Twilight and the brilliant alicorns.
Luna smirked. "Certainly, she will. Twilight has always been an exceedingly strong mare with a superior mind, acting on speed and ideas probably matched by none. We have to give her credit knowing that, over the years she has gotten a pretty good handle on her fears, and that only will get better with more years of ruling. That said, you have felt the type of magic and more importantly sheer level of power that she is now carrying around with her as a matter of principle. It´s like you standing in front of the Power of an entire universe compressed into a single pony-shaped point. It feels beatific in every imaginable way I could think of.”
"You think we'll get to the next plane someday, too?", Celestia curiously glanced at her sister sideways, deep into her sparkling eyes. Luna's muzzle curved into a mischievous grin.
"I'm even pretty confident that it will happen eventually. After all, it's the next step in an alicorn's evolution and we have all the time in the world - literally. Still, Twilight IS magic and that will always make her special. Especially in strength and skill when it comes to anything involving magic itself. Besides, she will surely develop abilities that we can only dream of. Magic is and always will be the most powerful attribute of an alicorn, most of our powers are relying on it. Above all, much speaks for my assumption. Twilight is just slightly older than 20, whereas we and Cadance are more than 1,400 and 680 years old, respectively. Yet her abilities with magic already far surpass ours."
Luna´s eyes got clouded as her mind wandered. “I honestly don't know what Twilight is capable of at this point, she transcended to a higher form not seen or heard of before, but it's certainly going to be something that Equestria and the rest of the world will remember for eternity. Because she will outlast eternity itself, what’s normal for an alicorn, but still. She´s the only one achieving the former thing. Something you, Cadance, and I still have to, so we better get to work sooner or later”, Luna chuckled dryly.
Celestia smirked and gently bobbed her head in silent agreement. What else should she say to that? It felt too surreal to be true, even if it was.
Celestia laid her head on Luna's neck and closed her eyes as she nuzzled into her sister's soft, flowing mane.
Okay Nova Sparkle all the chapters has been edited and it's ready for you to edit them.
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Will do when having finished what I´m currently working on
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Okay thank you
Tirek if my OC was there you'd be dead meat she would suck out your soul leaving you a corpse
So....is Twilight a god now? Might as well be, being called a "princess" now seems like an understatement by 1,000,000,000%.
Wait a minute, doesn't that sound like Twilight that has been described throughout this and last chapter? Do all Seraphicorn's look the same or did Twilight go back in time?
Nevermind, they got it.
Ok now I'm just confused, so Twilight created the Allicorns? But how would that be possible? If Celestia or Luna never existed than that would mean there would be nobody to defend Equestria and so Equestria would cease to exist meaning Twilight would have never existed, and if Twilight never existed than she would have never created the Allicorns.
Ahhhhhh my brain hurts.
Wait what? I thought the ponies only live for 100 years, not 200, does it have something to do with the elements of harmony? I'm confused.
This story is amazing, I also noticed that everyone still mentions Twilight as an Allicorn? I also thought Twilight would be the only Seraphicorn but Luna and Celestia talk like they will also gain the powers of a Seraphicorn eventually.
Anyways I see 1 more chapter after this, I'll read it later in a couple hours from now since I only read an average of 50,000 words a day.
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Yes, Twilight unlocked her full potential as an alicorn and became a true immortal goddess. I know what you mean with understatement, but thats precisely WHY I keep it that way in my stories. While alicorn's are immensivly powerful deities they are also very kind, level-headed and harmonic. Never forcing anyone to acknowledge them as a goddess if they dont do so by their free will.
I think you will do it anyway but I advise you to read the rest of my story. Its more fun to come. I personally liked it very much while writing. Have reread it myself two times now.
She is the only one of her species though since she became a Seraphicorn, also why do they still keep saying she is an Allicorn.
This story is definitely 1 of my favorites, I have read and completed over 310 different stories and this is the 5th story I ever favorited, I would love to see a sequel in the future. I also look forward to seeing stories you create in the future, I'm starting to get tired of all the dark stories about Twilight dying and getting tortured and stuff, to many and it's really sad, it's nice seeing more than a good ending for once, a good ending where Twilight is practically a god and everyone is Happy.