Chapter 9 (Celestia's position)
"Princess Cadence and Shining Armor. It is my great pleasure that I announce you-" "CRACK, BOOM" The door to the wedding hall suddenly was blown over by something. There was a dust cloud. "STOP!" 'That sounded like Twilight, but she wasn't the one who blew down the door.' Twilight came out of the cloud with a menacing look. "Hold on one second. Are you ok Hero?" 'Hero, what hero?' "What is the meaning of this", yell out loud. The dust cleared, but there was something on the floor, with Twilight. It was an ape like creature, but it looked familiar. It looked at me and I looked at I, we were now looking each other straight in the eye. 'He looks familiar, I mean really familiar, but where have I seen him before…..OH MY SOLANCE IT'S HIM. IT'S CONNOR.'
(Back to me)
I couldn't believe it. It was Celestia. She had grown a lot, but I was at least two-two and a half feet taller than her. 'How is she here right now? She should have died a long time ago….Ah man, now I have to listen to her tell me that she hates me now.' We just continued to look at each other in a transfixed stare. We didn't even pay attention to what was going on around us. We then heard gasps all around us. "Uhhh, why does she have to be so possessive of her brother", the imposter said aloud. There were strange looks from those around the imposter. She looked surprised. "(add crying sound) why does she have to be so possessive of her brother. Why does she have to ruin my special day?" More crying sounds. "Because it's not your special day, it's mine." The real princess stepped in. There were gasps all around. "What, but how did you escape my brides maids." The princess, the unicorn, and I reminisced that moment. They smirked.
"Our friend here did that for us. He is someone that is very important in history." "Well he must be very clever, but you're still too late." I hear some orange earth pony with a southern accent say, "I don't understand, how can there be two of um." "She's a changeling. She takes the form of somepony you love and gains power by feeding on your love for them." A green flash of light entered the room where the imposter was standing. She was changing into her real form. Her wings snapped into what looked like insect wings, with holes in them. Her coat was a dark black color. Her forehooves changed back to her normal form, again they had holes in them as well. Her horn was crooked and looked like it was missing parts. Her mane went down and it was a dark blue swamp color. Her eyes opened, they here green. She started to laugh egomaniacally. She had fangs as well. She was about as tall as Celestia, maybe a little shorter. I got to say, she looked like an ponied insect.
"Right you are princess and as queen of the changelings it is up to me to find food for my subjects. Equestria has more love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it, we will gain more power than we've ever dreamed of." "They will never get the chance, Shining Armor's protection spell will keep them from ever reaching us", the pink princess said. I think I heard somepony say her name was Cadence; I'm just going to call her that. "(More egomaniacal laughing) Huh, I doubt that. Isn't that right dear?" "MMhm", Shining Armor said with a nod. Cadence looked shocked and ran at the queen. "Ah, Ah, Ah. Don't want to go back to the caves no do we." Cadence backed up. "Ever since I took your place I've been feeding on Shining Armor's love for you and every moment he grows weaker and so does his spell. Even now my minions are chipping away at it." I don't know why we all looked up at the sealing.
"(Even more egomaniacal laughing) He may not be my husband, but he is under my total control now." Cadence gasped. "I'm sorry to say that he is unable to perform his duty as captain of the royal guard." "Not my Shining Armor!" "Soon my changeling army will break through, first we take Canterlot, and then all of Equestria." Celestia and I were still looking each other dead in the eye, but I heard every word. I got up from my prone position and decided it was time for me to step in. I broke eye contact with Celestia and looked the Queen straight in the eye. "Princess Cadence, I believe it is time for me to step in as my former self, the Lost Hero of Equestria." I know everypony in the room heard me, and there were many gasps. The queen looked shocked, but then burst into laughter. "You expect me to believe that you are the lost hero. Oh that's rich." I smirked. 'I guess it is time to see if that familiar feeling is what I believe it is.' I concentrated to find the feeling again.
I found to it deep inside of myself and metaphorically grasped hold of it. The little pebbles in the room started to float off of the floor. Everypony was now focused on me. All the unicorns could tell that my magic level was skyrocketing. I hear the queen say, "No it can't be". I scream out, "Ahhhhhhhhhh". The ground shakes tremendously and many ponies were now airborne as well. They all flew up, down, or any which way you could think of. Right now however, they are of no concern to me. The ground broke into several large pieces. The tremors were now a full blown massive earthquake. I believe the castle is strong enough to handle it. My hair went up, but didn't light yet, my eyes however did. My body was now glowing faintly, but not at full strength yet. It did however look like I had electricity flowing off of my body. The queen was petrified now. I look at her with an evil face and my hair went to gold. I now fully look like I am on fire with this much magic flowing through my body and out into the open air.
The queen looked like she was going to crap herself. "You look like you have seen a ghost Chrysalis. Are you going to be ok, because I was looking forward to wiping this castle floor with your body as my mop." "I am not scared of you." She shot me with some type of blast. Smoke went everywhere. "I guess that he wasn't as powerful as we suspected, to bad he looked li-" the smoke cleared and I was still standing there in front of the unicorn I had met earlier and Cadence. I looked like the blast didn't even faze me. "You're going to need a lot more than that to put me down, really you're going to have to put everything you have into this fight if you want to beat me. Now let us finish this." 'That was pathetic; I'm like this a lot more now that I can control this power to my command.
"NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO, NO ONE. She shot me again with a lot more power. It came at me, but I knew I could easily deflect it. I pushed out my arm and hit the blast out one of the glass windows in the room. Chrysalis looked like she was going to pass out, but she hadn't realized that her attack did absolutely nothing. After a minute of heavy breathing and looking at the floor, she finally looked up to see that I still had my hand out to where I had deflected her attack. (If you want an example of what this fight looked like from beginning to end, go here watch?v=W3QXG8xRcH0, watch from O:OO-0:55, skip 0:56-1:17, and finish with 1:18-3:18, the rest doesn't apply here)
"Is that all you've got, because I haven't even gotten close to warming up. You are more like a starting point of my training exercises." "How is this possible?" "Not sure myself, I just gained the power out of nowhere, I couldn't tell you where I got them, but I have had enough of this. I'm going to finish this fight with you, get rid of your army, and allow Princess Cadence to finish her wedding with her soon to be husband." I instantly in no time flat was behind Chrysalis. She was confused where I had disappeared to. She finally looked behind herself to find a knee going right into her face. She flew up into the sealing, went through it and the many floors above it, and was sent out of the castle's roof. She however still was rising. She finally hit the protection spell the Captain was holding up. I charge an attack, an EMP (yes, but this isn't an electromagnetic pulse, this is an energy magical pulsar. It is an EMP for magic) but it was charged with a certain energy that would only affect changelings.
I sent out the EMP (Energy magical Pulsar) and it covered many miles of the area. It hit all of the changelings in Canterlot and outside of it as well. They were sent flying into the distances, further than the edge of the hills of my line of sight. They were gone and wouldn't be able to use magic for a long time. 'Ironic, I saved Celestia and Luna once in the past and now I'm doing it again, but I won't be around very long to hear about it though.' I lowered my arms from the sky. I was floating the entire time, just a few feet off the ground. I touched back down on the ground and I shut off my power. My hair went back down, went back to its original brown color, and my eyes went back to their original brown color as well. The fight was over.
All of the ponies in the room were looking at me like I just did something that was impossible. Then there was the sound of clopping hooves on the ground from one of the audience ponies. Then all of the ponies were clopping to me. Shining Armor was one of them as well, I guess we was set free from the spell. I was flattered, but I had to get out of there fast. I didn't feel like changing again, so I turned around and walked away. As I walked passed Princess Cadence I said, "Now you can have a peaceful wedding, just how I expected you wanted." I didn't look back; I just continued to walk away. By the time I was a the door I heard Princess Celestia call out for me, "CONNOR, WAIT!" I stood still.
'I guess it is time to find out what she and Luna truly thinks of me.' I heard the clopping coming toward me, like someone was running at me. I turned around, but not fast enough, because as soon as I was about 2/3s of the way turned around, I was tackled to the ground. I wasn't expecting that. I then heard crying. I looked up to see Celestia was fully laying on top of me, she had also found a way to get her hooves around my midsection to embrace me. "Don't you ever leave Luna and I ever again. We missed you so much", she said in between sobs. 'I guess I was wrong about Celestia and Luna, or at least Celestia hating me. Hey where is Luna, I know she's here because Celestia wouldn't just let her die long ago.' I decided I would think about that later. Instead, I embraced Celestia tightly, but not too tightly because I don't want to hurt her.
I heard an 'Ah' in the back ground because of this sweet scene. We stayed like this for a while until she decided to get up. I then go on one knee to expect some sort of response as to why I had left. "Why did you leave us that day Connor, what you did was the right thing to do in that situation. Solance was the one that was being a jerk that day?" "I just thought that you and Luna would hate me for almost killing him. I thought that you would never want to see me again. That was the big reason. The other was, even if I stayed, I would be imprisoned for life and I would never get to see anything ever again. I thought I had lost you both in either reason, so I decided to leave. I believed it was the best possible choice." "Oh Connor, Luna and I would never hate you even if you had killed him. You are a big part of our lives and we will always believe that you are doing what is right", Celestia said while she looked like she was going to burst into tears again.
"Well, I'm happy that I didn't actually lose you two. Now we can be happy again, but first you need to do something for Cadence. She is waiting patiently up there for you." She smiled, turned around, and went back up to the pedestal. I took a seat in the front row. I watched as one of my best friends finished a wedding ceremony, I believe this was needed to be able to get rid of some tension. Celestia finished the ceremony, Cadence kissed Shining Armor, and we had one hell of a party afterwards. I had gotten to know who the elements of harmony were, and what the elements of harmony actually were as well. They didn't exist in my life time back 1700 years ago.
It was now night time. I was standing next to Celestia. I was catching up with Celestia about what has happened during my time of absence. I found out about who that dragonicus was. His name was Discord; I never actually got his name, to busy saving his life. I'm going to have to do something about that. I also found out about what happened to Luna. I felt horrible that she had to go through that and have to be sealed away in the moon for a thousand years. She had it harder than I did, because she was conscious the whole time. I wasn't. The next thing I know is I hear another familiar voice, one I haven't heard in 1700 years, but seams just like yesterday. "Connor is it really thou?" I turned around to find a dark blue alicorn with a crescent moon cutie mark and a mane that moved on its own. "Yes Luna, it's me, and I am sorry for leaving you and your sister a long time ago. I won't be so arrogant again."
I was then tackled for the second time today to the ground by an emotional princess. I took some time to calm her down enough, but when she did, it looked like part of the Luna I knew had come back to life. She looked happier, and more cheerful. I then caught up with Luna for the rest of the night. It was now around 9:30 pm. It was time for the bride and groom to have their special dance together. I felt happy for those two love birds. After they had finished Twilight nodded to Pinkie Pie. She looked so like she was going to explode with happiness. There was also a squee noise coming from somewhere. She ran over to a station that I was unfamiliar with. She then pulled out a pony with sunglasses on. That pony had a disk in her mouth. "Let's get this party started", Pinkie said. Then there was music. Twilight sung a beautiful song named love is in bloom.
Before Shining Armor and Cadence drove away in their chariot, he talked to Twilight about something. I couldn't hear, and then he came over to me. "Thank you again for saving me, Cadence, and the rest of Equestria from that ugly changeling queen." "Heh, it was nothing. They don't call me the 'Lost Hero' for nothing. He smiled and put up his hoof. He was doing something they referred to as a brohoove. We bumped hoof and fist together and he went to his chariot. Cadence threw the bouquet of flowers into the air. I caught it. All of the mares in the audience gasped and started a fight. I knew what it meant, but it was still funny. I turned around to find that both princesses were blushing. I didn't know why, but I didn't ask.
The new couple got into a chariot, and drove off. The day ended a great way, even though it had a bad beginning, it was still a good day. We watched as the chariot drove away. Many of the ponies and including the Mane six, the princess I grew up with, and I all stayed for the after party. It was a great time. Finally the party ended and everypony went to their own rooms for the night. I was about to go find a room for myself when Luna and Celestia both stopped me. Luna said to me, "Connor we will personally show you to your room." "Ok Luna, huh just like the old days. Last time you both gave me a room, and now you're doing it again." She smiled.
All three of us had walked to a secluded part of the castle. I'm guessing this is where the Princesses and other important ponies of Equestria stay. We went to the top of the tower in the section. At the end of the hall there were two doors, guarded by two royal guards. "You are dismissed", Luna said. They walked away. I opened the doors I found a room that looked like it was made entirely out of gold. There were two queen size beds that could easily hold two of me, a balcony, a massive bathroom with a bathtub that could hold my size as well. But there were already items in the room. I started to think that this wasn't entirely my room at all. "Um whose room is this?" "This is our personal bedchambers and now it is also yours. We don't want to lose you again, so we both decided it was best for you to stay with us during the night or day, depending on when you go to sleep", Luna said. She wasn't using the royal we also.
"Wait a second, I'm going to be sleeping in the same room as the Princesses of Equestria. Don't you think that is just a little strange." They shuck their heads. "Ok, well enough for me. However, there are only two beds. Where am I going to sleep? They both blush a deep crimson. "You will sleep with us." I was confused at first, but then I remembered we used to do that all of the time, so I didn't pay attention to it. "Really now, just like the old days." They somehow blush even more. I can't figure out why. "Well I am tired after that long day. I'm going to bed." I started to walk towards one of the beds when Celestia said something. "Wait Connor, Luna and I both have something to tell you." I turned back around. "Ok, tell me." They blush again and in unison they both say, "We love you". I thought they were just being friendly.
"Well I love you two as well." They both look a little frustrated. "No, Connor we mean love as in lovers love", Celestia said. Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttt ttttttt (What elongated). "It is true Connor; we have both loved you dearly since the day you save us. At first it we were happy to finally have a friend, but over the years we got to know you better and we fell in love with you. We have for the longest time wanted to be with you, but left before we could ever tell you how we felt. So now we want to prove to you just how much we love you", Luna said. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Is this true?" They both nodded. I then thought back over the years. I am still just 16, unless you count the 1700 years I was frozen, but I don't count that. I did spend all the time I could get, when I could get it with them. Even if I was exhausted from the early training, I wasn't going to pass up the time I could spend with them. I would also do everything with them when I could. If we went outside, all of us went outside. If we wanted to play, we played and many other things. I soon realized I was also in love with them, but could a relationship like this even work. A human and two pony princesses. Yes two, because there is a law that allows stallions to have up to six mares with him as long as the mares are fine with the fact that they all want to be with that stallion. It would look strange, but I am a legend, it won't look as weird.
"I guess I love you two as-", I never finished the sentence that night. I was tackled by both princesses to one of the large beds. Let's just say that there wasn't much sleeping last night, but there was a lot of action.
(Ok, if any of you fellow readers want to send me a clopfic of this night, I will post it and I will in the chapter give you all of the credit for writing it and a personal thanks as well. I wouldn't event know where to start a clopfic like this. I would need a professional or someone with experience for this.)
