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Chapter 3- Twilight Sparkle

I must have fallen asleep while was waiting for Zecora to return with this Twilight Sparkle, because I woke up with a start, wondering where I was. The little recent events came back to me. I was at Zecora's hut, safe and sound, I hoped.

There was no clock anywhere that I could see in the humble residence. Most of the wall spaces were filled with shelves with jars sitting on them, drying plants, and more masks, like the ones outside but smaller. A number of things hung from the ceiling held up by rope.

I decided to take some time and look around. Maybe read the labels on some of the various jars around the room. I attempted to but most were to hard to pronounce, and some I just didn't bother to read because of the complexity of the names.

In another room, there was a bed. Probably my friendly hostess'. I figured it not nice to snoop. Least Zecora kick me out into the wild forest. Speaking of which, it looked considerably later than it had before. I must have slept for almost a whole day. Which was okay, I guess.

I laid down on the floor not caring if I got my coat dirty. I was bored and wondering when Zecora would get back. There was absolutely nothing to do. I laid there scanning the room, focusing on the hairs that fell in front of my eyes.

Suddenly, the door opened to reveal a disgruntled zebra.

"Okay Zecora, let's see this pony that you think is an Alicorn so I can get home." A voice said from behind Zecora.

Said zebra stepped inside and then to the side. A purple pony walked in the door. She had a darker purple mane and tail that had pink and violet streaks in it. On her forehead sat a horn, like mine but shorter. This must be Twilight Sparke. Hmm I pictured her a little taller. I thought. This mare was shorter than I. She only came up to my shoulder.

She hadn't seemed to notice me when she came in through the door. In fact, her attention seemed to be mainly on Zecora. That is until Zecora pointed in my direction without a word.

As our eyes met, she gasped and stood there with her mouth agape. I walked up to her and put my hoof out in greeting.

"Hi. My name's Eclipse, and you must be Twilight Sparkle. It's nice to meet you." That didn't seem to have had any effect. "Um... Are you okay?" I asked. I touched her shoulder and shook her slightly.

She finally came to her senses after a few shakes. "Hehe. Sorry about that. I just got... surprised. So you must be the "Alicorn" that Zecora was telling me about. I personally don't think that you're really an Alicorn but, I have been wrong in the past. Yes, my name is Twilight Sparkle. Zecora said you called yourself Eclipse?" I nodded. She pulled a notebook and quill out of a bag on her back and jotted stuff down. "Okay. Where are you from Eclipse?"

"I don't know Twilight." I replied.

"What do you mean you don't know?" She asked. "Everypony has to come from somewhere."

Zecora cleared her throat to get our attention. "Twilight Sparkle, if I may interlude. Why? Because I don't want to be rude. I think that this pony doesn't know anything. Nothing of his past, or his birthplace, not one little inkling."

"But he does however, seem to remember his name. He may need some testing and then maybe our opinions will be the same."

"Okay Zecora." Twilight Sparkle sighed. She then turned to me. "Will you at least let me run a solidity spell on your wings and horn? I'll warn you though. It will feel strange at first. But it won't take more than a few seconds."

Her few seconds turned out to be a couple of minutes. I agreed obviously. I didn't believe she would honestly harm me. Twilight Sparkle was right. The transparent pinkish glow of the "spell" surrounding my wings and horn did feel pretty, well, weird.

The glow dissipated. "There, all finished." She said. "As far as I can tell, your wings and horn are solid. But that still doesn't tell me if you're a true Alicorn or not. I will have to message Princess Celestia as soon as I get home."

"Okay then. What now.?" I asked. I wasn't sure if Zecora actually want me here. And not because that I was weird or dangerous, it was because the hut didn't seem like it had any more rooms or place for somepony to stay. At least, hope it's the latter.

"Well. Zecora doesn't have enough room for more than herself, so, I let you stay with me at my place. At least until we know what Princess Celestia want to do." She paused to put her notebook and quill into her bag. "Besides. I doubt that you have any mean intentions so it wouldn't be much of a problem."

"Okay." Wow. Two ponies in even less days than that have let a complete stranger into there home. I thought. I hope everypony else meet will be as accepting as these two..

"Right than. Let's go."

I followed Twilight Sparkle out of the door that Zecora held open for us.

"So long for now Eclipse my friend. Don't worry, we will meet again, whether you're an Alicorn, or just pretend." I said my thanks for her letting me stay, and she said it was nothing in her rhyming way. (No that was not intended).

Twilight Sparkle and I made our way down a path that she started down. Silence held for some time as we went.

I broke that silence before it could get awkward. "Twilight Sparkle. I have a question."

"Please just call me Twilight." she said.

"Okay than Twilight. May I ask a question?"

"Sure, go ahead." She answered.

"You keep mentioning a Princess Celestia. Does she rule here?" I asked.

Twilight turned her head towards me. "Yes. Princess Celestia rules Equestria. So does her sister, Princess Luna. They respectively take turns. Celestia rules the day, and Luna the night. Princess Celestia is also my teacher and is like a second mother to me. She the best pony that anypony could ask for. Kind and benevolent. Princess Luna is her younger sibling. She's still getting used to things around here."

"What do you mean? Was she gone or something?" I wondered.

"Well, yes. She was banished to the moon around two thousand years ago because of what Nightmare Moon did."

"Oh. What did Nightmare Moon do?" This was getting interesting to say the least.

Twilight turned her attention back to the path in front of us. "She took over Princess Luna and tried to plunge Equestria into eternal night."

The forest canopy grew thicker as we progressed. The same pinkish aura from earlier surrounded her horn and washed the area near us in a pinkish light.

"So how did Princess Luna get back here after being stuck up here for so long Twilight?"

"Nightmare Moon returned to try to place Equestria in eternal darkness again. Princess Celestia went missing and we thought all was lost. But me and my friend found out that we were the fabled Elements of Harmony and we defeated Nightmare Moon, freeing Princess Luna. Princess Celestia forgave Luna soon after, and they started to rule together again."

"Wow. That's quite an interesting story." The rest of the trip out of the forest was in silence. Sweet, sweet silence.

The forest ended. And when I say ended, I mean it. The trees just abruptly stopped in more or less a straight line. No more trees grew past some sort of unseen border. Anyways, when we got out of the forest, I saw a town not too far from where we were. And even closer to us was a small wooden cottage. Twilight walked past the cottage and across a bridge with me following all the while.

The purple pony extinguished the soft light and continued to the town using the light of the full moon that was already a quarter of the way through its journey across the sky. The sky itself filled with twinkling and shimmering stars.

The town was quiet as we walked. Nopony would want to be out at this time of night. Eventually, we stood in front of a tree that had a sign outside and a candle on the doorway. Multiple window shown with light and a balcony was even amongst the branches of the tree.

"Here we are. My home sweet home. And for now, it is also yours. Twilight pushed the door open as she walked. "Spike, I'm home." She hollered. No answer came. "He must be asleep. He is little after all." Twilight magiced the bags she had off of her and onto a table. "Here. Let me show you where you will be staying."

The thing that awed me the most about the room we had just entered, was the vast number of books that were stored around the room on shelves built into the walls. There were so many, so neat and tidy.

Twilight led me upstairs where multiple doors were lined up. "Your room will be the far one on the right. The bathroom is the middle one. Make sure you knock first before entering, and my room is the one on the left." She walked over to the right door and opened it. "There's a bed and dresser and a lamp inside." She walked back to the top of the stairs. "Make yourself at home. I'll see you in the mourning."

"Thanks Twilight." I said.

"Oh no problem." She walked down the stairs to the main room. I made my way into the room. I closed the door behind me and without checking the rest of the room, which also held a number of books, I fell into the bed I was borrowing.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring. I thought to myself. Today has certainly been an experience. I'll just have to wait and see. And with those thoughts having run their course, I drifted off into the oblivion that is sleep.

Upon a suggestion, the chapters will be slightly longer. Which in turn, will make updates further apart. I have to have time for the friends of mine that are editing this to edit this. I thank those that are reading and I hope that this can really turn out great. If you hav any suggestions, please PM me or out it in a review. Thanks again.

An admirer of her Majesty Celestia,

PheonixFire