Well. Here we are. Oh dear Celestia I'm not looking forward to this.
This is what I dread, uploading a new story. You people can be so critical.
Mostly though it's just nerves about the face that this is my first pony fic. I'm still kind in the dark about what to classify it as Genre wise so once it's all up I'd appreciate any advice I can get. I feel like a newbie author all over again.
So uhh... Without further ado *ahem* Fillies and gentlecolts! Please enjoy the show!
Twilight Sparkle sat in her basement surrounded by her friends. They had backed her into a corner and were yelling at her and each other.
"Ah don't care what y'all say! Twi promised she'd take Applebloom and the cutie mark crusaders today. Ah'm sure none of y'all want them running around your house." An orange pony with a blonde mane and tail and three red apples on her flank yelled as she knocked a white unicorn with a purple mane and tail and three diamonds on her flank to the ground.
"Well I need a model for my new dresses and Twilight is simply the perfect shade of lavender to help me. Sorry Applejack but you can wait for ten minutes while I do a few things right?" The white unicorn huffed back. "And Rainbow Dash would you get your tail out of my face?"
Twilight's horn began to glow as she got more and more terrified. 'Princess Celestia is not going to enjoy today's report.' She thought to herself "Girls please calm down."
A cyan Pegasus with a rainbow tail and mane and a rainbow colored lightning bolt on her flank flew down and grabbed at Twilight with her hooves. "I need her help to get some ingredients for a potion Zecora is making me."
A pink pony with matching mane and tail with two blue balloons and a yellow balloon on her flank bounced around "I need her help to make some new muffins. So they don't turn out like the baked bads that AppleJack made!"
"Hey! I was half asleep at the time!" Applejack protested.
"Umm. And I need her help with my animals." A yellow Pegasus with a pink mane and tail and three butterflies on her flank whispered meekly as she cowered behind everyone else. "Besides. I think we should all…"
She never got to finish as with a flash Twilight vanished from the corner.
"Hey where'd she go?" Rainbow Dash asked as she landed on the spot where Twilight had been.
Applejack stomped her right front hoof. "Darn. We keep fergettin about her teleportation spell."
"I tried to warn you." The yellow Pegasus whispered.
"Fluttershy dear, you really must learn when to speak up." The white unicorn said.
"Umm. Rarity. Your tail is on fire." Applejack pointed out.
"Hmm? Oh oh oh! How did that happen? Somepony get some water!" Rarity screamed.
Twilight reappeared in Canterlot. "Phew. I've never seen them so desperate for my help."
"Seen who so desperate my pupil?" A regal voice came from behind the lavender unicorn.
Twilight quickly turned and bowed her head. "My friends Princess. I just used the teleportation spell you taught me and made a random jump. Didn't think I'd end up back at my old house."
"Ah. I see. Sometimes it is wisest to not get involved and leave friends disappointed." Princess Celestia nodded sagely. "And you should know random jumps are dangerous."
"That's my lesson for today. Sometimes not everything about friendship is magical." Twilight smiled as she flipped her head back to move her tri colored mane out of her eyes. The royal purple, lavender and pink striped mane fell into place neatly around her horn. "And sorry. But I didn't have a predetermined destination in mind. Would it be alright if I spent a week back here in Canterlot?"
"As long as you know everything in life has its ups and downs." The princess smiled. "I hope you'll never make a random jump again. I have no problem with it. In fact we are starting preparations for a new celebration and I was going to ask you to come back for the week tomorrow. I was just making sure your library was all neat."
"A new celebration? For what?" Twilight asked. "And shouldn't you be focusing on running Equestria rather than cleaning your pupils house?"
"Well my personal pupil is another matter entirely. Besides Luna needs her practice if we are to return to being co-rulers." Celestia smiled. "And I'm surprised you even have to ask. You are aware of the date next week right?"
"Of course. It's the summer sun celebration. The same day that my friends and I defeated Nightmare Moon." Twilight recited from memory. "Wait. You don't mean…"
Princess Celestia nodded. "In honor of the feat you and your friends pulled of I am officially renaming the holiday the eve of harmony."
Twilight's jaw dropped. She stared at the tall, white unicorn in front of her. The princess's rainbow mane and tail flowed as if a breeze were blowing through the library, causing her tail to partially obscure the image of the sun on her flank.
"I take it you approve?" Celestia asked. "Very well." She continued as Twilight sat silently. "Then on the twilight of what was once the summer sun celebration, you and your friends will be honored as heroines of Equestria."
Twilight watched as the Princess left and sat for another few minutes before she pulled her jaw off the floor. "Us? Heroines? Oh no no nooo. Once Rainbow Dash and Rarity find out about this they won't stop bragging." She whined. Her cutie mark, a red six pointed star surrounded by white sparkles, glowed softly. "And you've been doing that all week. Why?"
"So the five of you were all asking her to help you with something at the same time and then she teleported away?" A purple dragon with green spikes asked.
"Yep. ah reckon that's about the long and short of it." Applejack nodded.
"And Fluttershy was the only one to notice her charging the spell?" The dragon asked.
"Did we not explain that already Spike? And Pinkie stop gnawing on my burnt tail." Rarity admonished her friend as she pulled her tail from between the pink ponies teeth.
"Sorry. I like how burnt things feel on my teeth." Pinkie Pie giggled.
Spike snapped his fingers. "I know who knows where Twilight might go."
"Who hit who in the what now?" Applejack asked.
"He said he knows who might know where Twilight went." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.
Spike ran over to a cupboard and pulled a scroll out of it. "Now where's my quill."
"Over here dear." Rarity said as she levitated the quill into Spike's hand.
"Thank you Rarity." Spike smiled.
"Of course." Fluttershy said, realizing who he meant. "If anyone knows where Twilight is it's the Princess."
"Let's see. 'Princess. I apologize for the interruption but just wanted to know if you know where Twilight Sparkle is. Signed Spike.' There." Spike rolled up the scroll and blew a green flame onto it.
A few seconds passed by before he burped up another scroll. "That was fast." He said as he grabbed it out of mid air and opened it. "Let's see here. 'Spike I regret to inform you that I do not have the slightest idea as to where my pupil is. I am quite busy overseeing preparations for the summer sun celebration next week which will take place in Canterlot this year. Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle are all guests of honor after last year's events. Please deliver the enclosed letter to Twilight asap.' So Twilight is missing and we have one week to find her before the summer sun celebration in Canterlot."
"Thank you Princess. If they came up here to find me then I don't know what I'd do." Twilight sighed as she followed the princess.
Celestia laughed gently. "My pleasure Twilight Sparkle. Now. You'll be under close guard for the next week and I'd like you to meet your ponyguard." She told Twilight as they stopped in front of a building.
Celestia gestured at the door with her horn. Twilight opened the door with her magic and was greeted by a cold wind. A silver unicorn with a cyan and blue mane and tail with a hail storm on her flank was inside.
"So this is who I'm meant to guard Princess?" The unicorn asked, her voice was cold and confident. "She looks capable of handling herself. Why call in the top frost mare of the order of the arcane ponies for an easy job?"
"Wait. She's an arcane pony? I thought they were just a myth." Twilight said.
"They are quite real. I assure you my pupil. Most of them have relocated to a region where they can better strengthen their powers." Princess Celestia explained. "They are still loyal to my empire and are usually only in the capital when a pony with exceptional magic control is born. In fact, they came for you too Twilight."
"If they came for me then why am I here?" Twilight silver unicorn stepped out of the building and into the relative light of the evening. She had piercing blue eyes and her very form radiated cold.
"Her stare is almost on par with Fluttershy's." Twilight remarked.
"The Princess here stopped us from taking you. You had and still have the potential to be a very powerful arcane mare." The silver unicorn explained. "But the Princess said no, that you were needed for another reason. That I'm not at liberty to discuss."
"So she's not so much here to guard me as she is to train me?" Twilight asked.
Celestia nodded. "Well yes and no. You see Twilight, Snow flake is here to train you to harness the neutral magic you possess into pure dark magic, and keep an eye on you as well. I trust she'll not do anything that would be too dangerous."
"Dark magic?" Snow exclaimed. "That stuff is off limits to all but the most pure of ponies. And if her bloodlines are anything to go by…"
"It'll be fine. She's nothing like her mother." Princess Celestia told the arcane mare. "In fact…" The Princess leaned in and whispered into Snow's ear.
"Really? You don't say. Well then. I might be able to make this work." Snow smiled.
"So you see Zecora we need to find Twilight before next week." Rainbow Dash explained. "Oh and I got the ingredients."
"I sent you out on a yoke and you have returned with my poison joke. Now of this commotion you spoke." Zecora sang as she poured the bag of blue leaves into her cauldron.
"Twilight teleported off somewhere and not even the Princess can find her." Fluttershy explained.
"I can't make a rhyme out of that." Zecora complained. "But if not even the Princess can find her then this is bad indeed. Maybe looking into your past will warrant the clues you need."