(I've been on a writing high for the past few days so I've been writing like crazy. Chapter 4 will start to have some actual plot development so here we go.)
The Fakeicorn
Chapter 4
The Letter
-Two Days Later-
These guards are a pain in the ass, at least mine are. Angelic Shield is more or less the typical 'gloom soldier' and she still low key hates me. I had no control over what happened to her, should have moved sooner then! Stop blaming me for it dammit! And Star is a whole another story! At least Angel keeps to herself and escorts me around when I need it. But Star is about as lazy as I am. Like she either gives no shits if she gets fired or has it become so boring that she needed to stir up things just to make interesting. She comes in, actually sleeps on her shift, which is also ironic because she's nocturnal, drinks my alcohol, and is as obnoxious as I am. It's like having another me in the room! Also I found out that fridge is magical and refills itself, and can pretty much summon whatever food and drink I want, as long as the items are smaller than the fridge. Star showed me how it works, which I'm glad honestly. Also Star has a very weird low key obsession with taking a shower. Like I can't fucking explain it and I really don't want too.
But I've got something to look forward to today, which is why I've been hiding in my room. Twilight wants me to start practicing my magic, which I do not need. I've been around the internet and I know what will happen. My magical capabilities will be unlocked, I sneeze, and Canterlot becomes Canternot. That means everyone dies because I sneezed and my magic went supernova. So no thank you! I'll stick with being defective. There's a knock at the door and I hide behind the bed, this is how I avoid work, friends, and responsibilities, all by hiding like a five year old. Angel opens the door, fuck you, and Twilight walks in."Kyra you in here?" I duck under the nightstand.
"He's in there. Hiding like a bitch, but he's in here." Angel you are becoming my enemy now. I feel like Mike and Twilight is the Doctor. Angel walks around the bed and finds me holding on the nightstand pole."He's over here. What are you colt? Two? Get out here." I let out a loud groan and got to stand up, misjudge where I'm at, and bang my head on the under carriage of the nightstand."Agh fuck!" I yelp and grab my head, yep that's a headache now. angle laughs and I crawl out from hiding."You're no fun are you?" I glare at Angle he just blows me a raspberry. I walk into Twilight's view.
"Were...were you hiding?"
"Eeyyup. Magic is scary yo. Look at what it did to me!" My wings instinctively spread out wide. I hear Angel behind me."Yeah I'm looking at it." My head swivels almost a 180, yeah pony necks can do that."stare at it long enough and it'll give you all the answers you want. Now quit staring at my ass." I use my tail to cover my ass so Angel stops staring at me. Twilight puts a hoof on my shoulder."I understand you might be scared Kyra, but we need to know what you capable of. So just hold still and I'll teleport us." Wait teleport what!? In a blink of an eye my body feels cold and weightless and then we arrive in a dark cobblestone room with various runes carved into the walls."Where are we?" I look around and see weapon racks.
"The Canterlot Arcaine Training room. Unicorns come down here practice. The guards also use too." Angel sits down on near by bench."So lets see you kill yourself. Do a flip too!" This bitch really trying to get me killed. Celestia fucking assigned me the wrong fucking guard! Twilight gives Angel a look before returning her attention to me."Okay can you please step into the center of the ring over here please?" She points to said ring in the center of the room. It looks like a fucking pentagram, are we summoning Satan? Are we reviving Doomguy or something? I step in the middle of it.
"Okay I need you to clear your mind and concetrate." Okay clear your mind, clear your mind, clear your mind. I feel no different."I don't think it's working. I feel nothing new."
"Shh don't talk, just focus Kyra." I see Twilight set a few objects on the ground."Now focus your energy into making this coffee cup lift. Just picture it floating." Okay seems simple enough. I picture the cup floating off the ground a couple of different angles and directions but nothing happens. Then the pain starts to shoot up through my head."Agh! Dammit, Twilight its not working and a headache is starting to form. Look I don't think this is gonna work." I let out a sigh and Angel laughs."Really? We've been here only ten minutes! Get it together!"
"HEY! PISS OFF! I DIDN'T WANT THIS I THE FIRST PLACE!" My anger reaches a boiling point and I glare a death stare at Angel and then suddenly the coffee mug shatters right next to her, yet she doesn't flinch at all, what happened?"See there you go! I may not be a unicorn but I've seen some unicorns struggle. You're doing good." What the fuck. But my anger is still steaming over and I look over to see the binder floating in a light blue aura. Twilight looks between us."Well that wasn't my plan for bring out is magical abilities but thank you Angelic Shield. Now lets practice levitation now. You fucking trickster Angel, fuck you.
Ugh my head feels like it'll pop. We've been at it for a good portion of 3 hours. Raise it. Lower it. Raise it. Lower It. Turn it clockwise. Turn it counter clockwise. Ugh it hurts just to think about. My horn feels numb honestly. Dammit is this what unicorn feels all the time? But thankfully we've been taking a break for about 10 minutes now. Twilight was very kind enough to get me something to drink, mainly water. Angel though, she's been getting me riled up on purpose this entire time! After almost smashing her head in twice mind you, she explained her cold nature to me. Apparently Twilight actually sorta asked her to be mean to me, which is the most ironic thing for the Princess of Friendship to do. But the reasoning behind that is that some unicorn's magical process is sometimes triggered by emotions rather than willpower, but this only will happen once so I don't need to be angry again, though Twilight told me that anger could escalate if I'm pissed enough. Oh boy I feel the title 'Prince of Anger' coming on, hell no. And Angel said she's still pissed at me for nearly killing her, but she'll 'lighten up' as she said but I'll doubt it.
There's the sound of hooves running down the stone stairs, rather fast mind you."Twilight Sparkle are you down here?" A new male voice calls out. Out from the doorway a unicorn stallion walks out and into the main training area. His coat is a steel grey color while his mane and tail are a very cool blue color. and his cutie mark is a scroll frozen in ice. I've honestly never really paid attention to the ass tattoos here. I don't have one so I didn't really cared. Angel's is a bright blue and gold shield with a gleam on it. Lunar Star's cutie mark is three stars with the moon in the background. Anyway the stallion, who I will not fucking lie, looks kinda cute, not lying. Twilight trots up to him with a concerned look on her face."Yes I'm here. What's the matter?"
"My apologies for interrupting your training with Kyra here but Princess Celestia requires your assistance immediately." Twilight immediately brightens up, either for better or worse."Alright. Everypony stand still, I'm teleporting us all to her chambers." But before she does the unicorn speaks up."Actually we're going to the Royal Meeting Room." With that Twilight nods and my body feels the ice cold of nothingness and then we're in the meeting rooms. Celestia and Luna, who I'm surprised is even awake at this time of day, are gathered around a large round table."Princess Celestia you need to see me? Is there a friendship problem? Am I needed back in Ponyville?"
"No Twilight this actually involves Kyra over there." Celestia gestures a hoof over to me and instinct checks in."Hey whatever it is, I didn't do it." Celestia actually chuckles a bit."Calm yourself Kyra. But we bright you here today because we received a letter in your name. While this normally wouldn't cause for any alarm, this letter wasn't received through email or dragonfire. It was delivered by hoof as well as it is encrypted. Only your name is spelled out in Eqquish. The rest is mixed with several different languages. Here take a look for yourself." Said letter is floated over to me by Celestia and immediate looks confirms what they said. Only the words 'Dear our Prince Kyra' is written in English. Further inspection of it releases something really really odd. This entire letter is written in Latin, Persian, and German. But not just like every paragraph is a different language, no every sentence is intertwined with each language! It splits words in half and looks like a jumbled mess."This is hella confusing. But I know what it wants to say but fucking hell its almost literally jumbled." Twilight immediately grabs the letter from my hooves.
"I...I...even I'm stumped on this! How can you tell which word is what and...and...this is such a challenge!" She looks slightly jealous. I shrug at her."I'll give a bit of an explanation. I've got relatives who are both German and Persian. You've gotta learn how to read, write, and speak both just to get anywhere with either of them. And Latin is more or less just icing on the cake, curtsy of College." I take a few paces."This is really weird. Someone clearly knows me personally to write something only I could possibly read." I let out a sigh and rub my head with a hoof. My brain really doesn't want to deal with this right now. Celestia walks up to me, either for more questions or something.
"Can you translated it at all?"
"Possibly. I don't know for sure. Could take a few hours, and I'd need my laptop." I shrug and the unicorn from earlier steps up."I can help if you need any. I'm a scribe after all." Well a scribe could be helpful.
"Alright you can help. Two minds can work better than one."
"What about three?" Twilight speaks up."I can help too! Ice Cutter and I can gather any books we have about languages if it can help." Ice Cutter? That's a dumb name for a scribe, but whatever."Alright that'll work too. Twilight can you teleport me to my room real quick so I can get my laptop?"
"Of course Kyra." With that we zap into my room, scaring the shit out of the maid in there. I grab my laptop and my phone and we teleport back. Okay time to do some actual work.
-3 Hours Later-
This has been a LONG three hours. Who knew a 3 paragraphed letter, which also had a card attached to it that no one saw, could be so hard. Well its more like that almost ever word in it needed to be translated twice, some even needed to be translated three times! I was manning my computer, which had some older language help programs from college but even then it wasn't enough. Twilight and the unicorn Ice Cutter tried their own translations using books from the Library. Luna and Celestia have been relatively quiet during this time. After all of this time we finally got the damn thing decoded and translated. I lay the letter down for Celestia and Luna to read and Celestia reads it out loud.
"Dear Prince Kyra,
We have been watching you for sometime ever since your arrival in our great nation of Equestria. The artifact you discovered in your home world belonged to us but it was lost till you gracefully found it. With this in mind we would like to formally welcome you into our ranks, as you are now a full citizen of Equestria. We present you this invitation to a costume party on the eve of the 18th in October, at the Canterlot Art Memorial.
When you arrive approach the bartender and ask for the S.O Special to gain your next clue. We know you are guarded by members of the Royal Sister's guard. You may bring them if you so desire but remember we are watching your every move. We know you are smart enough to translate this into Eqquish. Please wear a nice costume, and be curious of who you will be partying with. If you are in need of a costume to be designed, we are sure Rarity in Ponyville.
We will be watching and waiting so do hurry once you receive this letter. Sincerely, your future partners- The Society"
We all blink after Celestia finishes reading the letter. An invitation to fucking costume party by some creepy stalkers? All that work for nothing."Well this is...unsettling." I mutter."All of that work for a fucking invitation. By some sort of Illuminati type figures, just great. Any ideas on who this might be from?" Luna immediately perks up.
"Sister, could The Society really be making a come back? After all this time?"
"Possibly. It seems that they require Kyra's attention for something. Kyra, what do you think of all of this?" Celestia turns her head towards me."I have little to no clue. Who or what is this 'Society' anyways? A cult?"
"Yes and no. We've had...a few encounters with them. They were originally called the Ancient Order of Spellcasters, but that name didn't have a good ring to it so they just called themselves 'The Society' from now on. They've dealt in Necromancy and illegal potion dealing. They're older than Celestia and Luna but have faded out into obscurity. But it seems they've come back and under a new banner. So this 'Society' is either a completely new order or its the Order of Ancients." Twilight speaks up."But what they want with you Kyra, is beyond us." I let out a groan. I don't like this at all, and I've got a bad feeling about this. Wait...the 18th is what...just four days away? Damn has time passed that fast?
"So what do you think I should do?"
"We think you should go. Despite the possibility to get hurt, you are still allowed to bring your guards."Luna says while reading over the letter again."We can use this to our advantage. Stage a espionage while you're getting the next clue. Lunar Star would be good for that." That does kind of cool and fun, I could play the part of a spy then. Cue the OO7 theme song, but wait...something pops up into my head."Wait. What about me? I will clearly be recognized by everyone for being an Alicorn. How much of the public knows about me?"
"Well not going to lie, but most of everypony knows about you by now." Ice speaks up for the first time."Your arrival was pretty much broadcasted across Equestria. Not to mention all of the social media posts about you. But this party is a costume party so you could cover up your wings if you thinks its going to be a problem." Well shit that actually makes sense."Plus we could inform the party's host, Sketchbook, about your situation."
"Sketchbook? Who's that?" I've never heard of that name.
"He's one of Canterlot's upcoming artists. He's pretty nice, but sometimes keeps to himself. We could call him if you'd like Kyra."
"Alright sounds good. So now what? I still need a costume." I shrug. Twilight rubs her chin for a moment."As creepy as it sounds, Rarity would probably be more than willing to help us out. Any ideas for a costume that's not to conspicuous?"
"A few. But what about Angelic Shield and Lunar Star?" I look over at Angel who just shrugs at me.
"I could dress up. Need something that's practical just still functional so I can shoot somepony if needed." Wait what?
"Y'all got guns? I didn't know that."
"Yes firearms are becoming a staple for military. But mostly only guards and members of the Equestrian army have them at the ready. You really can't tell that they carry them." Celestia pipes up. Makes sense."We will need to make plan of action."
"Agreed." We all kinda say that at the same time.
-That Night-
I can't believe that some creepy cult is after me, calling me a Prince and shit. Man I don't play with no cults. I've seen all of the movies about cults. I've played Outlast 2, this shit doesn't make any difference. I may be kidnapped, shit. But after everything we finally made a plan of action. Go to the party, get the clue, wire tap the place and steal any plans I can find. That last part was my own idea that no one else knows about. I've done it in the past and I'll do it again. And I did finally come to a conclusion for what my costume will be. I want to cover my wings just in case someone will try to mob me due to what I am. I've decided to dress up as Morgan Yu from the game Prey. Its a fun game and I really like how the TransStar uniform looks. Sleek and slimming plus it'll hide my wings very well.
I'll talk to Rarity tomorrow with Twilight. I guess Twilight arranged somethings with Sketchbook so that he knows of the situation and that the place will be wiretapped before the party. Twilight said he's actually really eager to meet me on Friday the 18th. Angel and Star are both coming with as 20s styled flapper girls, which is kind of sexy a bit, just slightly. I hear a groan as Star trots into my room. She looks tired and stressed."Hey, sorry for being late. Just got the whole run down for Friday after a really intense training regimen. Ugh I'm tired and I'm not even done with my shift." I look at the clock and its already 1 in the morning.
"I hear ya. Magic training was hard, and then the whole letter thing just got my mind in a tissy. Ugh..." I rub my head a bit."Hate to do this to you but I'm probably going to go to sleep in a few." I yawn and Star instinctively yawns back.
"Good, cuz I was probably gonna sleep if you were. So move over so I can get in with you." With that Star takes off her armor and climbing into bed with me. I was already laying in bed but I was also fucking around on my phone for a while. Star snuggles up next to me after I put my phone down on the nightstand."Mmm you're warm.." Star snuggles my body, but she touches the sensitive bits of my wings causing me to gasp. Star seems to know what she was doing because she lets out giggle. "Don't worry, nothing will happen...yet." What the hell?
"Wait what? Star...what are you planning?"
"Shh, just go to sleep. I'd rather get to know you a bit more, and then we'll fuck in the shower." I can't help but feel really really worried. But unfortunately for me, my eyes start to close as the bat pony, who should be guarding me mind you, is snuggling me with falling asleep herself.
Why I am always stuck with the weird ones?
(A bit of a shorter chapter but overall the plot thickens a bit more than just random shit. Will have one more random chapter before the big party happens. And romance will start to become more apparent soon. I just hope its not too cringy for you all. And just to be fair, Prey is a very very fun game so sorry but not sorry for any references. Also I have to add this in as a fucking shameless plug, I'm doing it for most of the places I'm on. If you guys wanna see me stream, look me up on Twitch Username- ZammaGaming12. I stream from my Xbox One mostly in the evenings. But anyway if you guys want more from this story, PLEASE LEAVE ME SOME FEEDBACK!. Till next time peace-AJ)