Twilight felt the Story Keeper's glee. "Oh, this is just wonderful! You didn't tell them!" He laughed.
"Twilight…" Starlight gasped. "Why wouldn't you tell us?"
"I have a better question!" Spike growled. "Why wouldn't you tell me?! If this stallion wanted to kill us, why didn't you tell me?! I could've-"
"There's nothing you could've done, dragon." The Story Keeper interrupted. "Twilight knew I would come for you both! She was just afraid to get rid of this book!"
"That's because you were going to trap us here! Y-you… wanted to hurt Spike, a poor innocent baby at the time! I wouldn't allow it and I wouldn't allow any other child to be trapped here, getting hurt for your amusement!" Twilight
sobbed. "Please, don't hurt him! Just take me and let the rest go home!"
"Twilight! Calm down!" Rarity gasped, hugging her.
"Yeah, you're talking crazy! You know you won't stay here, not when we're here to protect you!" Rainbow creid.
"We're all gonna go home…" Fluttershy whispered. "All of us!"
"I can't-" Twilight whispered. "You can't be here, not when you're in the book!"
"Oh!" They turned to the stallion. "That's right!" He chuckled. "They are in the book."
"You may have controlled us, but we're not letting you control them!" Alice yelled. "Oh, hush." Sunset growled.
"Don't you dare!" Twilight cried.
"I dare to, dear. I will too, if you don't do something for me,"
"W-what do you want?"
"Well, besides your life and the dragon's, I want you to tell your friends what you did, all of it, before they leave you, forever."
Twilight paled. "No…. I won't-"
"I believe Rapunzel is the first page, Swan Lake the next, hm, they're all in order! How good for me."
"Fine…" Twilight growled. Her face softened when she turned to her friends. "I'll tell you."
"When I was little, a filly, about six or seven, I loved to read fairy tales, and I don't know if you remember them too…"
"That's why we knew some parts of the stories!" Applejack gasped. "We've heard them before!"
"Yes. One day, when studying for the Princess… I went into the forbidden part of the library… Why?! Why did I do that?!" Twilight whispered, putting her head on her hooves. "... But I was drawn to that book… that wretched book."
She said, pointing. "I went to my room with it and read to Spike who was a baby… I started to read when Spike touched it, then we were in the book."
"I don't know why we were put in there, but like you all, we were placed in a story."
"Which one?"
"It wasn't published yet. He wanted to test it. He forced us to play the parts of the heros." She growled, glaring up at him.
"You were perfect!" The Keeper creid. "A little filly with her best friend, a dragon! That dragon was stolen from his true clan, angry, furious and mean! This filly and dragon who is trying to find who they are, fight to stay
friends as they face trials in order to get home again! Oh… It would've been a delicious dark tragedy…"
"Tragedy?" Spike whispered. "But we don't live in a tragedy, and not all dragons are like that! Twilight, why was it a tragedy?"
"I had never read the story, of course but I saw where it was going! Spike, I saved your life-"
"AND RUINED MINE!" The Keeper belowed.
"I was a child!" Twilight screamed through tears. "Just a stupid child! I didn't think going off the story path was going to do anything! I-"
"And you're ruining my other masterpieces as well! Was Rapunzel supposed to talk back?" He asked, glaring at Starlight. "No! She wasn't! Was Red Riding Hood supposed to be sassy and brutish?"
"Excuse me?" Rainbow growled.
"No! She wasn't! Was Snow White supposed to be the least bit suspicious about the apple?" Fluttershy squealed when he yelled, "Give a good guess! Was Sleeping Beauty supposed to be saved by a little girl from Wonderland?"
He growled turning to Alice and Rarity. "No! She wasn't! Was Odette supposed to be killed off them miraculously come to life?"
"Yes!" Pinkie squealed.
"NO! SHE WASN'T! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT TRAGEDY IS?!" The Keeper yelled.
Pinkie blinked. "I… Yeah?"
"You're still the little foals that used to read my stories, all of you! If you had just obey the story and you accepted your fate," he growled first to Twilight then at Spike. "none of this would've happened!"
"My fate?" Spike asked.
Twilight sighed. "In the story, the filly and the dragon one… Spike, if I were forced to obey that one…"
"I'll tell you what would've happened since your so called friend won't! In the end of the story, it's revealed that the baby dragon was just a pawn in the dragons scheme to get closer to the alicorn enchantress the filly studied for,
the baby betrays her and goes on a rampage, the little filly, Twilight back then, killed him, to save her true friends."
The room was silent with shock.
"No… no! No!" Spike yelled in anger. "I would never-"
"And that's why Twilight tore the pages out, returning you both home and creating my plot to kill you all, right in front of her, and then she will be forced to stay!" The Keeper yelled.
"We won't allow you to do that!" Rarity cried. They stepped in front of Twilight and Spike.
"Little foals, have you forgotten about this?" The stallion laughed, hanging the book over them. "You're my puppets and will bring them to me!"
The mares gasped in horror.
"NO!" He turned too late and the three fillies tackled him to the floor.
"Let go of me, brats! I created yo-"
"You're destroying us too!" Dorothy yelled.
"What?"
"You bend our minds to your will!" Goldi creid.
"And we'll never, ever obey you again!" Alice snarled.
The Keeper flung them off. "On the contrary, my sweet! Savor this moment, children, you will never feel freedom again!" He laughed, picking up the book. He nodded to them. He smirked as their bodies went limp. "Now come
to me," They walked to him and their friends called out and screamed for them to stop. "Capture those mares." He commanded. They walked forward, without emotion when Dorothy suddenly snatched the book away. "WHAT?!"
She threw it to Twilight then turned to the Keeper and smiled. "Do you believe in happy endings?" She asked. They showed their story pages.
"How?!" He growled turning to Sunset but she was gone.
"I used my magic, duh." Alice giggled.
"The Queen wanted to take us with her, but we escaped and watched her leave, she didn't what to be controlled, like we were." Goldi explained.
Twilight grabbed the book and at her friends. "Ready to go home?"
"But the Keeper-" Fluttershy protested. "He'll be gone when I'm done." Twilight snarled. "But you need to distract him!"
Her friends nodded.
The Story Keeper felt something hit his back and turned from the girls to see Rarity blow out her horn. "You little-"
Fluttershy chirped out a window and thousands of birds came in. They chirped something to her and she gasped in horror. "Goodness, no! Just… do anything but that!" She cried back.
The birds flew to him and started pecking him, avoiding his eyes though.
"What did they say?" Applejack asked.
"It's too gruesome to say out loud, I still feel a bit queasy!"
Rainbow saw the birds get thrown away and threw off her hood. She flew and was quick to blind him. "Hurry up!"
Applejack glanced down and smiled. She took off her glass slippers. "To let ya' know, Keeper, I hate your choice of hoofwear!" She flung the shoe at him but gasped when it stopped midair. The Keeper flung off the hood and Rainbow. "Did
you think my control only happens to ponies?!" He laughed maniacally. The slipper shattered. "I will destroy all of-"
"Swan Tiara Boomerang!" Pinkie yelled. The tiara hit him in the head and he grunted in pain.
"I'm ready!" Twilight yelled. Spike nodded and then held the book up. Twilight gave a yell of fury and let out a huge magic blast at the Keeper. He grunted in pain and slammed against the wall. "Now!" She screamed. Spike
lit the book on fire and the Keeper yelled in anger. "You little fool! Don't you see what you've done?!" The room suddenly caught fire. "You're destroying this world and everypony in it!"
Twilight ran to her friends. "Twi-"
"I can't explain now!" They watched the world vanish around them then saw Alice, Dorothy, and Goldilocks staring at them, but they're appearance was different. They were all now peach colored. Alice had blond hair, Dorothy had brown,
and Goldilocks, well, had golden locks. "Thank you!" Dorothy cried. "Even if it's our last moments," Alice said, "We'll live them in freedom at last." Goldilocks added. Twilight's eyes misted over. The three smiled weakly
at their vanishing friends. "Goodbye…" They chorused.
Twilight grunted in pain and grabbed her head. She looked up and gasped. "Girls! We're home!" They already knew. Spike yawned and glanced around. "All those fairytales…" He whispered. "Gone.."
The friends gave little whimpers and broke into tears of sadness and joy.
"Rarity! Sorry I'm late!" They turned and saw the cmc grinning from the doorway. They frowned. "Um, did anything happen?" Scootaloo asked.
"Dorothy! Alice! Goldilocks!" Twilight cried.
"Now I'm really confused…" Applebloom whispered.
After celebrating Rarity's birthday, for it seemed not a day had passed, Twilight and Spike sat in Twilight's room.
"Ready?" Twilight asked.
"Ready." Spike grunted.
"Dear readers of this book, all the ideas and stories in this book are not ours, we credit that we are just recording them, for fariytales are wonderful things that we both think should be seen again…. And even though they all begin and end
with Once Upon a Time, and The End, they're not just silly stories, they have lessons, learn from them. Thank you very much, Princess Twilight Sparkle and Spike, authors."
THE END
Okay! I'm done! I've actually already written the end of my Nutcracker story and this one is done too! I have no idea what to do next! But anyway, if you didn't get the ending, Twilight and Spike saw the world of fairytales go up in flames and some oftheirfriends go with it. They rewrote the stories to give them life again, and to all of fariytale characters. They are giving back so they can help the world with their lessons, andyes, that one part was a Salior Moon refrance, perhaps hinting at the future? ;) Also, a little trick question: Who does the Keeper's design come off from? (You all know this! The question is, who will answer first? His description is in chapter... 2? I think? It's the first apperence he makes, he also references something that would give you a huge hint and is related to mlp.)
