Chapter 11
Hello my dear friend, I think we've only talked moments ago, eh? Eager to hear the rest? Ha ha, well alright then. I'm sorry to say that there is not much left to tell for its nearly finished. Now sit down, no need to stand when I already set a chair out for you. Yes I knew you'd be coming around this part, you're always here this time of the day. I was kind of expecting you not to show. Oh goodness well enough about that.
Princess Twilight Sparkle sat on her thrown. Her eyes stung from the tears that haven't stopped for days. Twilights head stayed low and she muttered to herself, "It's all my fault….It-…it's all my fault…" Princess Celestia sat by her and put her wing around her and whispered, "It's no one's fault, Princess Twilight" Twilight stepped back off of her thrown and walked down the stairs then swung around, "Never call me that!" Princess Celestia lowered her head, "What did I do?", "Never call my 'Princess' just call me 'Twilight Sparkle'" she said in an almost assertive voice. It sounded very crackly from all the crying. Twilight Sparkle walked out of the large room. Three royal guards walked around her to protect her.
The purple Alicorn walked out to the balcony after begging the royal guards to let her go outside. She looked out into the wasteland that used to be Canterlot. Overhead she could see Ponyville. She lifted her head and stood as proud as she could and cleared her throat. Blinking twice then shutting her eyes she sung, "Life in Equestria shimmers," she opened them and felt tears fill and pool in her eyes. She stepped her front hoofs up on the balcony's rail, "Life in Equestria shines," the thinnest royal guard stepped forward to stop her from doing what she was about to do, but Twilight put a shield behind her to stop them.
"And I know for absolute certain…..that everything is…." She started to trail off. She started thinking of the silliest things, the time she forgot to write the princess a letter, the time Pinky thought they hated her, the time she almost won the running of the leafs race. Then she started thinking of the first time she came to Ponyville, when she tricked Rainbow Dash into clearing the sky in ten seconds flat, how Pinky made her first impression, how much food she ate the first time she was with Applejack, how her mane was when she first met Rarity and she couldn't help but smile when she remembered how cute Fluttershy was when they first met as well.
Twilight Sparkle's mane flowed in the weak wind. She closed her eyes and spread her wings and enjoyed the almost unfamiliar feeling of the wind under them. For so long she's been kept inside the Kingdome. She also rarely got to fly. The wind almost felt nice, making her let out a long sigh and opened her eyes back up. Her voice echoed a bit when she said, "Tell Princess Celestia it was a honor being her student." She said to the guards. She heard Princess Celestias voice reply, "It was an honor being your teacher,"
Twilight turned her head and gave Celestia a weak smile. Princess Celestia stayed still as she saw Princess Twilight stand up on the balcony. Celestia said in her soft tone, "You don't have to do this Twilight," she said, respecting the previous request on not being called Princess. Twilight turned back towards the black and burned landscape of what she could see of Equestria. Her horn illuminated the colorful light around it and her crown levitated off of her head and onto the ground, "Give this to Rarity…she always wanted to be a princess….I think she'd like it," she then stepped out of her shoes and had them put down by the crown.
"And your shoes?" Princess Celestia asked with a smile and a few tears in her eyes. Twilight Sparkle shook her head with a bit of a snicker. She lifted her hoof and Princess Celestia felt her heart snap she felt the tears start to go down her face, in a bit of a panic she lifted her hoof up and she yelled, "Wait!" Twilight turned her head. Celestia stepped back a bit, "Can…Can you give me one more report?" Twilight tilted her head in confusion. "About…friendship?" the purple Alicorn asked as she put her hoof back down on the rail. Celestia's cheeks were wet with tears now but she stayed calm. "About anything…." She said half out of breath from trying to hold back her sobs.
Twilight turned back around, "Dear Princess Celestia. Today I learned that Alicorns are immortal. Therefore, with this spell, I shall get rid of my wings." She closed her eyes again and her horn started to glow, her spread out wings began to turn into a sparkly purple dust, "I shall return into a unicorn with this reverse spell. If I am the center of the problem and I leave, maybe the problem will go away. I learned that…friendship truly is magic. The friends I've made here in my lifetime have taught me amazing things. How to love and how to forgive and…" she trailed off again and lowered her head when she felt her wings no completely gone.
"Is…Is that good Princess Celestia? I can't really think of anything else." Twilight said, still facing away. Princess Celestia smiled again, "that's fine Twilight Sparkle. You did well." Twilight lifted her head again and put herself on the edge of the rail and said in a barely audible mumble, "Your Faithfull Student, Twilight Sparkle" and with her final words she fell. As she fell the impressive distance, she sung to herself, "Yes…everything is going to be just fine"