Author's Note: Well, here we are folks back to where Twilight's Tale began. But you're probably wondering how it played out from The Mane 5's Perspective. Just wait and read to find out how it really begins...
Chapter 1:
Back At The Beginning/ The Magic Of Friendship 1 ½
Male Singer: Nants I-Alicorn bagthi Baba.
Background Chorus: Sithi Uhm I-Alicorn
Male Singer: I-Alicorn
At the break of dawn, a sunrise began to rise over the Land Of Equestria, turning the sky red. And alerting all of Equestria's residents, they knew the time has come and they all started leaving their homes and headed off. This was a day of great importance, something every creature had been waiting for quite some time.
While the sun was beginning to rise, The Mane 5 entered the background with Rarity leading the way and Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash following behind her. The Mane 5 looked as though they didn't have a care in the world. At least, not at that moment.
Pinkie { Speaking in the background }: "Okay, so now we're back at the beginning right, girls?".
Rarity { Speaking in the background }: "That's right, Pinkie. We're back at the beginning of the story,".
Rainbow Dash { Speaking in the background } "And here's how it really begins…,".
Male Singer: Nants I-Alicorn bagithi Baba
Background Chorus: Sithi Uhm I-Alicorn
Male Singer: I-Alicorn
Male Singer: Siyo nqoba
Background Chorus: I-Alicorn
Rainbow Dash { Explaining As The Footage Shows Them Marching Across The Land Of Equestria }: "At last, things were looking up for us. We had the sun rising on our shoulders, the wind blowing in our manes, and a song in our hearts,".
Applejack { Adding While The Footage Shows The Mane 5 Stopping And Look Back Behind Them }: "Uh…Well don't forget something else too, Rainbow Dash,".
While the Mane 5 were walking happily to The Castle Of Harmony, they looked back and saw a huge crowd of creatures from all of Equestria heading toward them. There were Yaks, Hippogriffs, Dragons, Changelings, Deers, Ponies and Kirins. Seeing them heading towards them, the Mane 5 screamed and tried to avoid either being trampled or colliding with them. It looked very undignified. But luckily, they managed to get out of the way as the last creatures in the crowd ran by.
But after they passed them, the Mane 5 saw that the other creatures were heading in the same direction they were going. So they decided to follow them.
Pinkie Pie { Speaking Over The Footage }: "And who protected us? It was no other than Fluttershy, the bravest pegasus we have ever known…,".
{ In The Movie Theater }
Fluttershy presses the pause button and looked at her friends in confusion and embarrassment.
Fluttershy { Placing A Hoof On Her Chest }: "Do you girls really think I was brave? Because I remember that and all I did was run and scream from danger too,".
Rarity { Speaking Assuring Her Pegasus Friend }: "Fluttershy, darling. You're our friend and it's our job to give you compliments,".
Fluttershy { Chuckling and Blushing }: "Oh, well, thank you,".
Applejack { Speaking While Holding Her Remote }: "Anyway, where were we?…,".
Applejack then presses the play button and resumes the movie with the sun still rising…
Applejack's P.O.V:
A few hours later, we walked to the top of a hill and gasped in excitement as we looked ahead and saw our destination.
The Castle Of Harmony!
Rarity, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and I looked at the place with a smile on our faces.
Then we hear a female singer in the background…
Female Singer: It's the Magic Of Friendship!
And it moves us all.
Through despair and hope.
Applejack's P.O.V:
Then we ran to the Castle as Rarity cheered and exclaimed, "Whoo-hoo! There it is, girls, The Castle Of Harmony!".
"Oh, boy, we're almost there!" Rainbow Dash said, also excitedly.
"Nothing can stop us now!" Pinkie exclaimed as we kept running to the Castle.
But once we got close enough to the Castle, we got the shock of our lives and skidded to a halt as we saw the biggest crowd of creatures surroundin' the Castle Ah'd ever did see.
"Um, I think we're a little late for that," Fluttershy commented, seeing the large crowd.
"Ah can't believe it. It's a land rush! We're never gonna get any peace with this crowd around," I exclaimed, twitching my eyes as I threw my hooves forward.
"I don't understand. The Unicorn Wizard pointed us in the right way in this direction. Where did we go wrong?" Rarity asked in confusion. Usually, unicorn wizards had the answer to any problem.
"Well, if you ask me, it looks like that loudmouth must've blabbed it to the whole land of Equestria," Rainbow Dash said, crossing her arms in irritation.
"Hang on, what exactly did he say?" Fluttershy asked, turning to Rainbow.
Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and posed like she was meditating like that Unicorn was.
"To find your dream home, like a flower and a bee. You all must Look Beyond What You See," She recited the Unicorn's words.
"Hmmm, you think maybe what he meant was that our dream home is beyond The Castle?" Pinkie asked, suggesting an idea.
Rarity's P.O.V:
"Pinkie Pie! You're A Genius!" I said, getting an idea from what Pinkie just proposed for the first time in my life.
"I am?" Pinkie asked, a little confused about being called a genius for the first time.
"She is?!" The other three asked in equal confusion about me calling Pinkie Pie a genius for the first time.
"Of course, maybe our Dream Home isn't the Castle but maybe somewhere beyond it," I said, explaining to them what I mean.
"Somewhere nopony has even noticed," Applejack said, catching up to what I am saying.
"Exactly darling," I said, noting that she is correct.
"Ya know that just might work," Applejack agreed, nodding her head.
"Then let's give it a try, shall we?" I asked as we all started to look beyond what we see, shading our eyes with one of our hooves and wings.
"Beyond What We See," We chanted in unison as we looked out beyond the Castle and beyond the Crowd.
In the background, we saw an old stallion walking up to a balcony and holding up something in the air with his magic for the crowd to see.
That's when I saw something that caught my attention. Behind The Castle Of Harmony, there's a garden with a small rock shelter and a garden of different flowers next to it.
I gasped before smiling, "Girls, I think I found us the perfect home," I exclaimed in joy.
"Hey, girls! Is that who I think it is?!" Pinkie asked, pointing to the stallion on the castle balcony, a familiar Unicorn Wizard.
Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, and I looked at what Pinkie was looking at and Applejack laughed with joy upon recognizing him.
"Well, what do ya know?! That would be the Unicorn Wizard!" Applejack exclaimed.
"But what's that he's holding up in the air?" Fluttershy asked, seeing the Unicorn Wizard holding something up for the crowd to see.
"It's kinda hard to tell what that is," I replied, trying to see what it was, but It was too far to tell but I could clearly tell it was purple.
"Forget about it, it's nothing important. Come on, my dream home awaits," Rainbow said as she leads the way to "her" dream home. It was the only thing she really cared about at the moment, and couldn't see anything else being more important than that.
Fluttershy's P.O.V:
Rarity gasped in surprise at what Rainbow said, "Your dream home?!" She asked in agitation as we followed behind Rainbow.
But standing in our way there, was the crowd of Equestrian Creatures. I saw the creatures in front of us and was surprised and frightened at how most of them, especially the dragons, were so much bigger compared to me.
"Uh-oh," I said, my fear of crowds kicking in.
"What's wrong, Fluttershy?" Rarity asked, realizing that I stopped.
"It's just...I don't do so well in crowds. Can we go around, please?" I asked as I backed up from the crowd preferring to take the long way.
Rainbow however was having none of it as she walked up to me, "Fluttershy, can't you see the shortest distance between us and our dream home is a straight line?! We're going through and that's that, so come on!" She said before pulling me into the crowd.
Meanwhile, everyone in the crowd was enjoying their time at the ceremony until something kept pushing them aside or should I say, someponies. And that was us moving between them, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Applejack were moving as they shoved and lightly pushed them away. Most were surprised and others just glanced down at us in surprise and insult.
"'Cuse us," Rainbow Dash said as she shoved a yak.
"Five fillies walking through!" Pinkie called out, bumping a Griffon.
"Don't mind us, y'all. Keep doing your business!" Applejack said as she brushed past a Dragon.
Rarity and I were following behind them as we walked over a dragon's tail. But for me, well I was walking behind them as we walked through the crowd. But I also had a frightened and nervous look on my face as I looked at how the other Equestrian Creatures were looking at me with confused and slightly irritated looks on their faces. Their faces didn't help to make me feel better. Then as I kept walking, I felt a sneaky feeling in my head.
'Uh-oh,' I said in my head, I knew what this feeling meant and I quickly cowered to the ground covering my eyes.
"U-um, girls. There's something I gotta tell you," I called out to my friends who were ahead of me as they looked back and saw me covering my eyes.
"Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy. We'll have plenty of time for chit-chat once we settle into our lap of luxury," Rarity said as she came and pulled my hoof and got me walking again, unaware that I still have my eyes closed.
But as we started walking, I felt my eyes start to feel like they were heating up.
"Um, I could really use a rest stop or something!" I whimpered, releasing my hoof, and began to try and scoot out of the crowd.
"Now come on, Sugarcube, it's okay. There ain't anything to be 'shamed of. And why are ya keeping yer' eyes closed like that?" Applejack asked, grabbing my hoof again and began pulling me back on route as she noticed my eyes are closed.
"Because I have a very bad feeling!" I retorted as I started sweating like crazy and my eyes were starting to tremble, which means I can't keep them close any longer.
Pinkie Pie's P.O.V:
I had no idea Fluttershy was struggling and just smiled with my eyes closed, "Don't worry, Fluttershy, it'll pass. Trust me bad feelings always pass," I assured her as Fluttershy then tried to run out of the crowd for a third time.
Then I grabbed her tail and when I did, I kinda, sorta made Fluttershy release her 'Special Power' she was telling us about before she opens her eyes and whinnies out, causing a Dragon to let out an elephant-like roar in fright for Fluttershy has unleashed…
Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, and Rainbow Dash's P.O.V:
The Stare!
Fluttershy's P.O.V:
Every creature in the crowd cowered in shock and fear to the ground from my stare. Even two tall Dragons and the little birds cowered and covered their eyes with their wings. The Yaks also cowered to the ground from the stare. But in front of them, however, in a herd of Kirins, one member looks behind them and thought they might be bowing.
"Hey, look. The Yaks are bowing to the Princess," The Kirin said to his leader of their herd.
"Oh, then we better bow down too," The Lead Kirin said as he and his herd bowed as well…
Female Singer: Till We Find Our Place…
On a path unwinding…
Original Movie P.O.V:
As the last lyrics were sung, everyone in the crowd bowed down to the new heir one by one. From Ponies to Yaks, Yaks to Griffons, Griffons to Hippogriffs, Hippogriffs to Changelings, and Changelings to Dragons.
While Starswirl was still holding little Twilight up, Cobalt and Aurora saw the crowd bowing down to their daughter and became puzzled. They have never seen anything like this happen before in their life. Never had any creature bowed to a new heir before. Luna chuckled happily as the Alicorn King and Queen and Celestia turned to her.
"Would you look at that, Cobalt and Sisters? How they kneel before the royal daughter? It is surely a sign that she is destined for greatness." Luna complimented as Cobalt and Aurora smiled at her for the compliment.
In the Magic…
The Magic Of Friendship!
Original Movie P.O.V:
Cobalt and Aurora watched with pride as Starswirl held their newborn daughter in the air for everyone had welcomed their future ruler of Equestria.
Rainbow Dash's P.O.V:
Back in the crowd, everyone was frightened except for me and the other girls who were very surprised, and our manes were messed up and dust from all the creatures falling over. There was silence between the five of us but I broke the silence and said with pride, "So that's your special power, huh? What a weapon!".
"Wait, you mean...you girls don't mind?" Fluttershy asked, shaking her head in confusion.
"Are you kidding? Darling, it was just a stare," Rarity said as she laughed.
"Fluttershy, why didn't you tell us about the stare before?" Applejack asked.
"I was embarrassed. I just didn't want you girls to be scared of me and my stare," Fluttershy replied.
"Are you kidding? Fluttershy that stare was amazing. And the best part is, it cleared a path for us to get to our dream home," Pinkie said excitedly, pointing down the path to our dream home.
"Anyway, let's go you four. There's a place with our name on it," Rarity said as she led the way.
"Right behind ya, Rarity," Applejack said as she follows behind her.
"Lead the way," Pinkie said as she follows after me and Applejack.
"Hey, don't forget about me," I said, following after them.
"Wait for me, girls," Fluttershy called out, catching up to us.
Fluttershy's P.O.V:
While we were walking past the bowed-down crowd, I stopped for a second to see the Unicorn Wizard holding up a lavender-purple Alicorn Filly in the air. I was quite confused for a second about what it could mean, but I quickly pushed such questions aside and continued on following my friends…
Author's Note: Now we know what really happened at the beginning of THE ALICORN QUEEN with all of the creatures of Equestria bowing down to Twilight during her presentation and it's all thanks to Fluttershy's 'Special Power' aka...
The Stare!
Don't worry folks, this is just the beginning of the Backstage Tour Of THE ALICORN QUEEN.
