Everyone Knows the Storiesby Ferrel Drath
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1. Chapter 1
Everyone knows the stories.
The land of Equestria is ruled by the two princesses', Princess Cadence and Princes Twilight, controlling the powers of love, and magic. But it was not always so.
For there once was, in the ancient past, The Solar Princesses' Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
These two princesses's controlled the powers of sun and moon, sisters in their art. They trained the Princess Cadence in the power of love, and Celestia, when grieving for the loss of her sister, trained what was to become princess twilight.
But the Solar Princesses slipped away...
The sisters had out-lived 500 years in Equestria, for the new sisters to take over. The princesses now passed through the land, raising the sun and moon, waiting for their time to return.
The Princess Cadence, the eldest sister, ruled over The Crystal Empire with Prince Shining Armour, whilst Princess Twilight ruled in Canterlot.
The land of Equestria was at peace.
100 YEARS LATER
Up in the land of Cloudsdale, the Night family paced urgently around the hospital waiting room. Nurse ponies kept pushing in and out of doors, and Vale Night was growing anxious. His eldest son, Markus, held him by the arm, trying to tell him that mum would be fine, whilst holding his younger brother Ferris in his seat.
Finally after what had seemed to be hours, a slightly frazzled pegasus nurse beckoned them inside, Vale almost running her over, Markus close at his heels, and Ferris trotting cheerfully behind them, smiling at the nurse.
Vale barged into a room and ran over to his smiling wife, who clutched a small bundle in her arms. He pushed his violet muzzle to her black one, the navy Markus and midnight Ferris charging into the room just behind their father.
"Is is a boy or a girl? Is it alright?" He panted, anxiously, breaking away from his wife Lia.
Lia's face broke out into a big grin
"We have a baby girl, our own little filly!" She cried with excitement "Did you hear that boys, you have a baby sister!" She called over to her two boys.
Markus trotted over to his mother, smiling.
"Does this mean we don't have to share a room with her?!" He said ecstatically.
His mother frowned, but Ferris trotted over to inspect the small bundle in their hooves, while his Mother and Father instructed Markus on how this was more important than rooming arrangements.
"Mummy?" Ferris interrupted
"Yes sweetie? What is it?" she turned to her youngest colt
"If you and daddy have wings then why does she have a horn? And if you and daddy are dark, why is she white?"
Her parents froze.
Quickly they all looked down on the sleeping filly, and carefully lifted her up.
The young filly had a white coat, and a mane flowing steadily from white to deep green. However the filly had indeed a horn. And a pair of wings to go with it.
Everyone stared at the child for a moment, blinking slightly.
The child stirred and opened its eyes slowly, and there dark eyes met her emerald ones.
"An alicorn," Vale breathed, not quite believing his eyes.
At that moment the doors swung open and a guards pony trotted in, bowing to the family.
"My apologies," The pony stated in a formal tone, "The doctors have informed me of the race of your child, and I have been instructed to guard outside your door. Congratulations Mr and Mrs Night.
The guards pony trotted back out of the door, leaving the family dumbfounded.
"So about the rooms?" Markus inquired hesitantly
"Not now Markus." Came the cutting voice of his mother.
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2. Chapter 2
It had been 2 days since the birth of Clover. At 2 days old, Markus had been gurgling, and Ferris had been wriggling, but not Clover. She just sat and watched as the 1 doctor bustled in and out of the room, carrying charts and graphs. He was the royal doctor at the hospital, on the orders from Princess Twilight to be the only doctor to be allowed to even know about Clover.
Vase Night looked down as he saw Ferris trying to teach Clover how to hit her hooves together, but instead Clover just kept swishing her tail and gazing around the room with her emerald eyes. In the end Ferris got tired, and walked up to his father.
"Daddy, can we goooo noooww?" The young colt whined, boredom leaking into his voice.
Vase sighed, he supposed he had better take the boy out to the cafeteria or somewhere where he would be a bit more entertained.
"Yes, yes we can," He stated standing up and putting the young Clover on her mother's lap, quickly explaining that he was taking the young colt for some air, and started walking for the door.
Just as they were about to leave they heard a little cry,
"No,"
It came from Clover
Lia sat up straight and Vase ran back to his filly, gaping. Markus just stared, while Ferris stood by the door with his head cocked, confused.
Lia gasped as a sudden bright green light emerged from her tiny horn, and she floated over to her younger brother, hooves out stretched.
Ferris raised his hooves, and slowly Clover came to a slow stop making a small "clip clop," sound as there hooves hit. Ferris clapped his hooves excitedly, happy that he had taught his little sister a new trick.
Slowly Clover floated shakily back up, and began to flap her wigs gently and landed on her mother's lap, who held her softly. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a guards pony entered.
"I present, her Royal Highness Princess Twilight Sparkle," He projected across the room, as Vase quickly gathered his two awestruck sons and bowed in one motion, as the Princess entered.
The princess quickly dismissed the guard back to his post, and through the door a small purple dragon came bustling through, carrying a small bundle of scrolls over his back.
The three colts raised their heads and stared awestruck as the princess walked over to the now sedate Clover. The Princess lowered her head down to Clovers eye level and smiled, and looked back up to Mrs Night who was now frozen in a mixture of awe and fear.
The then princess began to speak in a surprisingly unregal voice.
"I'm sorry I have not been able to come and see you sooner, but I'm afraid some business had got in the way," She greeted warmly
The whole family stuttered, until Lia spoke quickly,
"Oh we're honoured that you came Princess," She said with her head lowered.
"Thank you, but I'm here to see your child here, what is she called?"
"Clover, Princess!" Ferris said with a small burst of excitement
A small smile tugged on the princesses lips.
"A good name for her, hello Clover, my name is Princess Twilight and you are very special," her smile still visible.
The princess then turned to the rest of the family, her smile wavering.
"Has she shown any unusual behaviour? Such as magic, flight, speech, walking, reading or writing?" The princess asked with a serious tone.
Markus then relayed back to the Princess back all that had happened before she came in, and once he had finished Twilight nodded.
"Mr and Mrs Night, if you would permit, I would like to personally teach Clover here. It would involve moving to Canterlot castle, however we would see to it that each of you are well cared for and – "
"Will we get a room each?" Markus butted in, and then put a hoove over his mouth, realising his mistake.
The dragon behind the princess chuckled, and the Princess smiled and said formally,
"Why of course Master Markus," She chuckled along with the purple dragon behind her as Markus blushed abashed.
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3. Chapter 3
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It had been 5 years since Clover Night had moved to Canterlot. No one knew a lot but Clover, and they had not really cared too much about her after she walked around town. She was a quite girl to strangers; however behind closed doors she was hard headed and stubborn like any other filly out there.
Currently, Clover was trotting around her room, irritated, her older brother Ferris messing around with a gear, sat on her bed making small notes, with the tip of his tongue peeking out of his muzzle.
"I don't get it Ferris!"
She said in an exasperated tone as she tried with all her might to move herself to the other end of the room. Levitation, simple spells and symbols were all easily inside of Clovers reach, so now Princess Twilight had put her up to the advanced regiment of spells.
Teleportation was on the top of the list.
Ferris stopped messing with his gear, and waved his hooves in the air,
"How am I supposed to know? Pegasus remember?" He said pointing to his wings.
"Argh, how am I supposed to do this? I'm going to the library." She stated heading for the door.
Ferris leapt up and chased after her, pulling her back,
"Coat." He said firmly.
"Fine, fine." Clover said in defeat.
The coat was to hide her wings from the public. If it were found out that a young, manipulatable alicorn filly was in Canterlot, she was bound to be danger.
She slipped the green and black coat over her back, restricting her wings. Whenever she wanted to go and fly, her father would take her up with her two brothers. Normally, Ferris decided to go down first, followed by his father. Her eldest brother Markus, looked after Clover whilst she swooped and swirled around the nights clouds.
In the end, even Markus had to stop, and then her fun would end.
But for now Clover and Ferris now trotted through the echoy corridors of Canterlot Castle, heading towards the Royal Library. As they rounded the final corner, they ran into the Princess Twilight and Princess Cadence. Literally.
Ferris and Clover stumbled backwards, and quickly bowed, apologising.
The Princess's chuckled together.
"Heading to the library are we" Cadence asked in a good natured way.
"I couldn't figure out a spell Princess," Clover stated, whilst Princess Twilight nodded wisely.
"And you were getting a book?" Princess Twilight chipped in
"Yes princess" Clover stated quickly.
The two princesses's looked at each other, and peered back at Clover.
"Clover, I and the Princess Twilight have both agreed that your magic and knowledge have grown quicker than has ever been expected of a filly your age, and we believe that you are now ready to take the exam into Celestia's School for Gifted Fillies. With the permission of your parents, we shall take the exam immediately." Princess Cadence finished.
Clover gawped.
Ferris suddenly realising his sisters' shock closed her mouth.
Clover stuttered in her surprise,
"Yes princess, I-I would like that!" Clover smiled
"Very well, the exam will take place in 3 days. We hope to see you there." Both the princess inclined there heads, and walked back down the corridor.
"Ferris-s?" she asked quickly
"Yeah?" He said dazedly staring at where the princess's had come from
"I think I need that book." Clover said limply.
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4. Chapter 4
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Clover pushed her head through the door of the examination room, the hall filled with talking unicorns, who had come to watch the latest fillies and colts who would join the prestigious school.
She walked into the centre of the stage, and waited for instructions. Eventually, the general hubbub settled down to study Clover. She heard murmurings of
"A bit young, has she got lost?" and "Is this the next candidate?"
Clover brushed her hoof over the stage floor looking down, embarrassed.
A stern voice female echoed over the crowd,
"Miss Night, please can you show us this spell please,"
A board flicked up in front of her. Clover blinked, a simple levitation spell?
On the cart in front of her she picked up the gem stone with her magic, and twirled it easily around her head, and sent it careering over the heads of the audience, entranced by the little filly.
Clover then spiralled it slowly back down onto the cart.
The examiners voice piped up again from the crowd,
"Now Miss Night, can you please can you translate this spell is in Equestrian, and what it would be used for?"
Another board flicked in front of her, covered in ancient runes.
Clover spoke with confidence now,
"Wings are meant to carry you high, away from the ponies of the land, send me up to join them, let me walk in their land," She finished
"And it's use?"
"Well, if performed normally it allows an earth or unicorn pony to walk on clouds," she finished.
The audience was stunned for a second, and then burst into hoofplause, hitting there hooves together quickly and excitedly.
"Quite now please." The voice said sternly silencing the tense audience.
"And finally Miss Night, you now have the stage to perform a piece of prepared magic. What shall you perform?"
Clover sat up straight and stated,
"A piece of my own magic," She said boldly
The audience was stiff with anticipation as the examiner asked,
"And what shall this piece of magic do?"
"I should prefer to show you, lady examiner," Clover stated, motioning to the door as a guards pony brought in a small cart of boulders, which he grunted as he lifted them onto the floor.
"Very well, begin in your own time."
Once the pony had left, clover raised her head slightly and her horn began to glow. She took a big breath in as a small orb raised above her head. The orb misted over and then suddenly split into too, a navy blue side, and a golden white side which separated to an image of a sun and a moon.
The two orbs pulsated and sent out a bright light, enveloping two of the boulders, and turning them to dust.
Clover let out a huge sigh as the audience let out a huge cheer, and rounds of hoofplause.
Just as Clover was about to leave, when the dust swirled and moved airily around the room until it floated in front of her and began to form a shape.
Two tall images of ponies' appeared before the young fillies eyes. The crowd gasped as the form began to resemble two alicorns. The two spectral images lowered their heads in greeting, and blew away in the gentle breeze from the open window.
Clover could only stare at where the ponies were. That was never in the spell she designed to break the rocks. She suddenly realised she was being approached by the two princess's, both with a slightly confused look on their face.
Before clover could say a thing, Princess Twilight stated to her quickly,
"Clover, I do believe that I shall be tutoring you exclusively from now on. Congratulations Clover," the Princess smiled and walked away with the Princess Cadence following.
She walked shakily of the stage to her parents, who embraced her and stroked her mane.
"Congrats Clover! You got it!" Her brother Ferris said excitedly,
"What?" Clover asked, confused.
Ferris pointed to her flank, which had previously blank, to which now had an intertwining lines of burning flame and navy darkness, with a swords passing through the centre.
Clover stared at her flank. Her mouth broke into a big grin, but on the inside she was confused. What did this mean?
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5. Chapter 5
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It had been 10 years since the examination day. Clover had tried to recreate the effect of the alicorns, but it had always ended with two broken rocks, and Clover's unanswered questions. The princess Twilight had no ideas either about what her cutie mark meant. However, Clover had decided to tell the Princess's of the two Alicorns. She didn't understand but the experience was personal to her, and she didn't want to share it.
As it turned out, no pony in the exam room saw the two figures made from the rock dust, however Clover didn't mind. It was her secret. But that still didn't tell her what her cutie mark meant.
But 10 years on, and her studies continued. Her knowledge of ancient runes was practically complete, her magical ability was astonishing, and she could brew almost every potion she wanted, so long as she had a manual.
Clovers eldest brother, Markus was in the crystal empire, studying crystal weather patterns, while here other older brother Ferris was in Cloudsdale, an apprentice to an inventor, and yet her mother and father had stayed in Canterlot with Clover.
She still wore her coat, and still the only ponies that knew her identity was her personal royal guard Lancer, her close family, the royal doctor, and the two princesses', which Clover was personally ok with. She didn't appreciate the idea of being stared at.
Little did Clover know that was all about to change.
It was just before her usual lesson with the Princess, when her mother, father and the princess walked in. Clover bowed trotted nervously over to the trio of ponies.
"Clover," The princess started, "You have been an outstanding pupil to me over these years. However your training is not complete. Do you know what I am the princess of Clover?" She asked.
Clover almost scoffed,
"Friendship and magic princess," She replied dutifully.
"Correct. You have more magical ability that any other pony I have met. However, that is not all there is to magic. There is also the magic of friendship."
Clover nodded. In the past, when she sometimes went to the occasional lesson in with the students of Celestia's School for Gifted Fillies, she tried with all her might to make friends, like the princess asked but, once the rest of the fillies learnt of her private tutoring with Princess Twilight, they grew envious and left her.
"Yes Princess," She replied.
She suddenly looked over to see her parents embracing, smiling sadly at her. Clover suddenly grew worried, what would she have to do?
The purple princess sighed.
"Clover, I want you to know that it has been a pleasure to teach you. However, I cannot teach you in this magic. Clover, I and your parent have spoke, and we both believe that it is now time for you to leave Canterlot."
Clover froze. Leave Canterlot? Her home?
"Clover," Her mother chipped in "We want you to make new friends, but I and your Father can't come with you." She finished sadly.
"What?! Why!" Clover demanded, angry that her parents were springing his upon her.
"Your Mother and I are getting older now Clover. As are you." Her Father stated "You need your own place to breathe, but you can visit anytime you like." He added optimistically.
"B-but were will I go? I've never left Canterlot." Clover stammered
"We have arranged or you to stay in your own cloud house in Cloudsdale." Princess Twilight replied coolly, "we have also decided to make your presence known to the ponies of Equestria."
This was the most shocking piece of news yet. Ponies would finally know of a new alicorn.
There was a short silence.
"When do I leave?" Clover said quickly looking up.
"Two weeks, good luck my pupil." She bowed, and walked out of the door.
6. Chapter 6
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Two Weeks Later
Clover sat outside staring at the sky. The two weeks had passed like a flash, the Princess had given her the more advanced spell books, her mother had given her a small cook book, and her father had given her a set of quills ink and parchment.
The royal doctor had delivered a set of potion books for minor injuries, and her guard Lancer had quickly passed her a small bundle in the corridor, with a sly grin on his face. The bundle had turned out to be an alarm clock, to which Clover had smirked at. He knew she could never get out of bed in the morning.
And so the time to go had come. She had said her goodbyes to her well-wishers and family, and it was time to leave.
"You know Clover, I felt probably as you do know around 120 years ago." A voice came up next to her.
Clover looked to her side to see the Princess next to her. She stumbled quickly to her hooves and asked hesitantly,
"Why did you go?" She said inquisitively
The princess smiled.
"For the same reasons as you, but at the time I did not know it. We are very much the same Clover." She ended mysteriously.
The pair stood in silence, looking at the sky, until her parents came bustling out of the door, an trotted nervously towards her, checking her over for any damage done in the 10 minutes she had been away from them.
"Oh sweetie, I will miss you!" Her mother said whilst pulling her into a big hug, followed by one by her father.
Eventually they broke apart, and looked towards the sky where a chariot had come into view. It took a few minutes, but eventually the chariot landed.
"Good luck my faithful student," The Princess said, slightly smiling at her words.
Clover climbed onto the chariot, her parents smiling tearfully at her from the ground. A guard came and deposited her saddle bags next to her, and Clover looked over the whole of Canterlot again.
"It will be the last time I shall see it like this in a while." Clover thought regretfully.
Clover raised a hoof and waved as the chariot took off, leaving her family behind her. Clover peered over the edge as the chariot took off into the swirling skies.
"Goodbye Canterlot," She said quietly.
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7. Chapter 7
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It had taken roughly over an hour to reach Cloudsdale, and Clover was nervously tapping her hoof against the chariot. The sky was clear, hardly a breeze at all in the skies near to the city, however that was not what Clover was worried about.
She pulled open her saddle bags, looking at the empty space, where soon a coat would be. The very coat she was wearing.
She mused over the ideas of keeping her coat on during the flight, but considering that was not what the Princess had requested, she decided against it. She had also thought of wearing a hat to hide her horn, but she doubted that the Princess would be pleased with exploiting loopholes.
She sighed, sitting down in the carriage.
"I could just fly away as soon as I land," She thought optimistically, before pushing the idea aside. However the thought kept creeping back up at her, before forming into a fully fledged plan. She would step out of the carriage, and walk calmly to the nearest building, keeping her head down-
The city of Cloudsdale came into view, the throng of ponies bustling through the skies and streets visible from the chariot. Any hopes of her not being seen were quickly dashed. Clover groaned, and tried to think of a way out, but none came. The best she could think of was to keep her coat on.
"I'm sure Princess Twilight won't mind if you keep it on for a day or too, just so you get used to it," A voice in the back of her head said, in a supportive tone.
Clover couldn't help but totally agree with this, and settled down to view the bustling metropolis. She noticed that on the North side of the city, the streets were smaller and compact than the open ones to the South. There were ponies of all ages, genders, and most were pegasi, however she did spot a few unicorns, their horns glowing with the magic that kept them stable on the clouds.
She did her best to keep calm, and not start to hyperventilate and die on the spot, whilst the coach started a steady descent onto the clouds below, and one of the chariot pullers detached, allowing the others to land the chariot. Her glided over handing her a crisp rolled up document, and said officially,
"A map to your home your highness," He lowered his head with respect, leaving Clover spluttering in the carriage, trying desperately to explain that she wasn't a princess, but stopped.
She was an alicorn. Alicorns were Princess's right? Was she a Princess, or not? She pondered these questions, as the chariot bounced slowly to a holt on the clouds. She unrolled the map, and found not only directions to her new dwelling, but a small note from the Princess. It read,
Dearest Clover,
I understand that you will be nervous, but I assure you with whole- hearted belief that you shall do fine. Clover, you must understand you face a challenge harder than most. Princess's are admired, and respected, but people often are not honest with you. You must be careful to whom you put your faith in. Good Luck my student,
Faithfully,
Princess Twilight Sparkle.
She quickly scanned the letter, and rolled it up with her magic, the note only raised more questioned than it answered, did people only consider her princess, or was she a Princess that no one acknowledged?
She sighed and stepped of the chariot, looking at the few ponies that gave her curious looks. She pulled her mane slightly over her face, and thanked the ponies that pulled her carriage. Just as about she was about to leave a guard tapped her on the shoulder with his hoof.
"Your highness, I've been instructed to bring your coat back with us to the Princess," He said in low tones. Clover stared for a moment, realising the slyness of the Princess, but in the end she slipped of the garment handing it quickly to the guard, thanking him with a rushed voice. He bowed and flew off with the rest of the chariot ponies.
She gulped, as the curious looks turned into awful stares. Before she could run or hide, she heard a voice pique up behind her,
"Clover, is that you?" She twirled around quickly, her long mane flapping wildly to show her her brother, Ferris, standing with perplexed look on his face.
His look of purplextion turned to horror as he noticed her without a coat, and brought her away from the slowly forming crowd.
"Clover, where id your coat!" he hissed, glancing at the curious ponies
Clover was quickly becoming more and more worked up.
"The guards took it, the Princess wants people to know what I am!" She said in a panicked squeak.
Ferris paused.
"Do you know where you're staying?" He said seriously.
"Yes, yes I have a map," said dismissively, watching as Ferris almost ran into a mare coming towards them. He grabbed her saddle bags from where they were deposited, and placed them onto Clovers back.
He looked at her, and said quickly,
"Clover, go to your house, I've got to go back to work, try and stay out of sight ok?" He sighed and added in a slightly happier voice, "but it's good to see you Clover," He smiled and hugged her before pushing her towards the skies to which her house lay at.
"Good luck!" He shouted as she took off from the clouds leaving him on the clouds.
She shook her mane in the winds, feeling slightly unnerved. It had been a while since she had been flying, let alone on her own. She unrolled the map with her magic and studied the directions, until she was being directed to a lavish estate, with tall cloud mansions, and carriages.
She landed on the clouds with a light "Flump" and looked at the address.
18 Various Avenues
Cloudsdale
Equestria
It read, and as Clover looked at the addresses she found a huge mansion at the top of the state, with low walls, and rainbow ponds. Clover gawked.
It was smaller than the castle at Canterlot, but knowing that she had full roam of that place made her head spin.
She quickly trotted over to the gates, where a grey guards pony stood. She studied the pony. His mane was a lighter shade of grey to the stallions coat, but judging by the way he was quaking, she reckoned this was the first time he was going to be guarding someone, hat he assumed was important.
She approached, her head swivling, taking in the massive building, drinking in the sight before stopping before the pony. He straightened up, before saying with a slight quiver in his voice,
"Greetings your highness," He didn't meet her eyes, and she smiled and said warmly to the guard, waving a hoof with new found confidence,
"Oh, don't call me that, just call me Clover," She said smiling, but inside she was unsure of being titled as a Princess.
"Yes your magi- I mean Clover." He said sweating, eyes darting round nervously.
She stood there slightly awkwardly as he opened the gates to the manor, and shut the behind her. She spotted to more guards at the door, and realising she did not want the same awkwardness of before, just smiled and accepted there muttered greetings. She pushed open the door cautiously and trotted slowly inside. The floor was fluffy with clouds, leaving Clover bouncing with every step.
She did a quick sweep of the rooms. She counted 5 bathrooms, 8 bedrooms, all ensuites, 2 kitchens, a conservatory, a living room, a grand garden, and to Clovers joy, a large library.
After the tour of the house she finally sat down in one of the plush chairs in the sitting rooms, taking in the sounds and sights of the lavish interior, until she noticed another scroll on the table. She grumbled, remembering the unanswered questions the last ones gave, but opened it none the less.
It was from the Princess, and read
Dearest Clover,
I hope you find your accommodation satisfactory, and hope you are well. I have arranged for you to be beginning tutoring at a school in Cloudsdale with ponies your own age. Please read the details enclosed, and I hope you are adapting well to life in Cloudsdale.
Faithfully,
Princess Twilight Sparkle.
Clover Gawped for the second time that day.
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8. Chapter 8
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Clover jumped out of her armchair, and marched up and down the room, grumbling as she did so.
"It isn't as if I'm stupid! I don't need to go to school!" She moaned, hitting a cloud wall with her hoof, but it bounced back and hit her in the face, sending her flying into the table where she had left the letter, and the details from the school floated gently onto her face.
She groaned again and sat up, and begrudgingly opened the scroll. On it was some drawings of happy, working ponies about her age. She rolled her eyes and looked down at the information.
It began by telling her that she was being put into a happy learning environment, and the letter continued this way for about 3 paragraphs. She skimmed down it to the timetables. A brisk 8am start, and ending at 3pm. Not too bad. Bring your own lunch, no running in the hallways; be nice to every pony, no swearing, lingering or being late to lessons. The rules continued in a swirly font and Clover quickly placed the letter back on the desk.
She sighed and picked up her saddle bags. It was 4 in the afternoon, and she wanted some time alone. She walked up the stairs, and into one of the rooms.
It was one of the smaller bedrooms, a large king sized bed against the wall, a dresser and mirror, a wardrobe and desk were all in the room with a small cabinet by the bed. Clover levitated the bags of her back and onto the bed. She slowly started un packing her things. She placed her alarm by her bed and her writing materials on her desk. She then placed her books in an orderly pile on her dresser.
Clover, was about to deposit her bag in the wardrobe, when she noticed a few other items in there. She placed her hoof into the bag, and drew out a triple framed picture.
In one frame, was a picture of her and her parents and brothers, before Markus had left for the crystal empire. In another was a picture of the royal doctor and Lancer, smiling at her. And in the final frame was a picture of Clover sat at a desk as a little filly, grinning like a mad man, as a much shaken Ferris stood on the opposite side of the room, with a slight bit of smoke coming from his mane. Both the Princess's were in the photo, smiling at her achievement.
Clover suddenly remembered what that day was.
It was the day after her exam. Both the Princess's wanted to asses her ability, and Clover had been told to teleport herself over the room. She focused, but suddenly her brother walked into the room, and all Clover could do was watch as Ferris yelped as he moved with a green flash over to the other side of the room. Clover laughed, and a flash of a camera went off, as her mother took a picture.
Clover gave a smile at the memory. She placed the frame onto her dresser, and watched a small light green lily fell from the frame and onto the floor.
Clover lowered her head to the floor, and lifted up the flower. She twirled it round before placing it back on the dresser by the frame. She assumed her mother put it there to wear.
She sighed and walked out of her chosen bedroom. She wandered down the hallways for a bit, looking out of the large windows at the lavish garden in front of her.
Clover yawned and decided that a sit out in the sun would do no harm, and she took off and glided down the stairs with ease, and rounded a few corners, before heading out of a pair of bay doors into the garden. She let out a satisfied sigh as she walked up the garden path, letting the sunshine reflect of her coat.
Eventually she grew tired, and curled up quietly on the grass heading into sleep.
When she awoke it was around dusk, and Clover shivered at the cool air, before quickly trotting inside. She found herself back in the living area, looking at the documents on the table, reminding her of what tomorrow would hold.
She sighed before B-lining into the kitchen. Clover peered in the cupboards, before heading back upstairs to fetch her mother's cookbook, and looked up the recipe for scotch carrots.
30 minutes later, Clover was surrounded with mess; however she did have 30 good looking scotch carrots.
Clover looked around at the batter on the walls, and the carrot peelings that were in her hair, and laughed. Her horn glowed as the batter lifted off the walls, and into a bowl and the peelings into the bin.
She placed 4 carrots on to a plate and carried them upstairs, and put them down into her room. She pushed through another door, and into the bathroom.
The bath was huge, as was the shower. The air was filled with smells of shampoo, and different soaps. On a rack were 3 fluffy white towels, and by the sink was a set of toothbrushes and toothpaste.
Clover walked slowly into the glittering room, and turned on a tap for the shower, jumping back at the cool spray.
Once she had finished her shower, she dried her hair, and hopped into bed. It had been a long day.
She set her alarm for 6:50 and drifted off into sleep
So! The next part is the part I've been DIEING to make :D
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9. Chapter 9
Hey Guys!
So, I've literally wanted to write this for AGES! So here it is thankfully! :D
Clover covered her head with her pillow as a cutting alarm went off. The first day of school. Hurray.
Clover lay there for a few minutes, too lazy to even turn of the alarm, before growing annoyed by the shrill noise and sat up and switched of the alarm.
Clover walked over to the dresser and pulled a brush through her bed head. When her mane didn't look like it had been attacked by a pack of timber wolves, she walked over to the dresser to fetch her saddle bags, when she noticed a dark green coat.
Clover stared at the garment, tempted to put it on before realising that the guards outside were probably told to take the coat of her. She snorted before slamming shut the wardrobe. She tipped her books in her bag, before marching down the stairs, shoving some carrots in her bag for lunch and grabbed an apple for breakfast.
She slipped her bag on, and marched out the door, locking it behind her. She trotted down the drive and to the gates where she noticed no guards stood. Clover didn't find this strange. They probably were only there for her arrival, and then went off to guard someone more important.
That was before she heard a small commotion outside the gate. A rather disgruntled guard pushed himself through the gate, carrying a small bundle.
"I apologise your highness," He bowed "But a small group of reporter ponies are outside."
Clover audibly gulped before saying,
"What should I do?" She asked nervously.
He passed her a bundle, before adding
"Put this on and act very surprised," he replied in a hushed voice.
Clover almost laughed,
"Do I need to act?" She thought
She slipped the garment on, and walked out behind the guard, to an incredible scene. There were at least 20 ponies with cameras and notebook shoved in her face, before she could breathe out a word. The guards shoved a few of the more persistent ones back before Clover shouted,
"What is going on here?!" she said loudly
The crowd fell silent, until a voice said from in the crowd,
"I think we have the wrong house boys."
The next few minutes were ponies shuffling out of the way, and mumbled apologies. One of the guards turned to her and said,
"I would get used to that your highness," Before hurrying the rest of the reporter ponies along.
Clover stood there for a few minutes before she started again to trot down the road. It took her 5 minutes before she reached the end of the cloud avenue, and she slipped of her coat, and took off into the sky.
She flew around for a good 15 minutes before finding the school. She looked at the bell tower to the East of Cloudsdale,
"Just in time," she thought before landing in a more secluded area, and slipped her coat back on. She trotted up to the double doors and cautiously pushed it open. To her left was a desk with a grey mare, working as a receptionist.
She wandered up to the desk, before she looked up and said,
"Ah, there you are, you're in room 23 class 10WMZ, of you go." She handed her a map of the school campus and a timetable before returning to her work.
Clover stood still for a moment, before quickly walking through the halls of the school keeping her head down. She eventually reached room 23, and hadn't yet run into any pony. To Clover, a good start.
She let out a shaky breath, before knocking lightly on the door, and walked in.
The room was filled with lounging ponies, flying paper aeroplanes, and shouting. Clover walked carefully up to the front desk, and stood there awkwardly.
She looked at each of the ponies. In one corner, a group of colts sat throwing a football (English) around, and a group of giggling mares sat staring at them. In another, a group of ponies sat talking and chatting, whilst another sat 3 colts playing a board game. From what Clover could see, it was Empires and Manticores. Scattered throughout the room sat friends chatting with each other.
Finally, another older stallion walked through the door, and the class immediately settled down. He had a dark brown mane with flecks of grey, and a slightly lighter brown coat, and looked over at Clover, then back over to the class, before saying,
"Good morning class, as you can see we have a new student with us today," Clover watched as the class looked at her, then up to her horn, gaining some curious stares.
"So, what is your name?"
Clover looked over to the stallion before opening her mout-
Suddenly Clover was no longer on her hooves but lying behind the teachers' desk, with a dark blue blur on top of her. Clover sat up rubbing her head, whilst what was a blur turned into a dusk blue coloured colt, with a darker blue mane.
She heard a grunt from the teacher as he pulled up the colt, and said
"Fellfall, if you are late again you will be in detention. Do you understand?" He said in a somewhat exasperated tone.
"Yes sir," He said quickly before being released were he went and sat with the other 3 colts which were playing Empires and Manticores earlier.
Clover got back up on to her hooves, and the teacher asked again
"Your name?"
"Clover sir," she stated
"Well Clover, I am Mr Bouroughs, please come see me if you have any problems. However, if you have any injuries I subject you see matron." He scowled slightly in Fellfalls' direction.
"Take a seat there," He said turning to the board.
There was one free seat, next to the blue colt, and Clover could have growled at the pony, but instead she pulled out her books and seated herself behind the desk.
The next 50 minutes were a lecture on the weather formations above different cities and towns, and taking sheet after sheet to write on. Soon a bell went from the corridor, and every pony started to pack up. Clover opened her bag, and using her magic shoved her books unceremoniously into her bag. She pulled out a timetable the receptionist had given her, and decided that finding her way over to that room wasn't such a bad idea.
She trotted quickly out of the room, into a pretty much clear corridor. She wandered down the corridor, looking at each of the rooms, before she heard a shout from behind her.
She turned around to notice the blue colt that crashed into her running towards her. She groaned but turned around, before saying
"Yes? What is it?" she said quickly
He stopped panting slightly, before saying
"Sir asked me to show you round," he said out of breath.
Clover sighed. Damn teacher.
He held out a hoof.
"Fellfall." He introduced.
"Clover," She said unsurely, taking his hoof and shaked it.
"We're lucky you know." He said "We're getting out of Biology,"
" I've got games after Biology." She stated grumpily, looking at her timetable.
"Me too!" He said excitedly
Clover looked incredously over to the colt, before saying,
"You like games?" She had only known guards to like games.
He flapped slightly off the ground saying in a dreamy, but serious voice,
"Yeah! I love aerial sports the most though, can't do any of the cloud based ones." He seemed to grumble something about girls only going for the football team, but then asked,
"So, what can unicorns do then? Do you have magic school and stuff?"
Clover was surprised, he seemed generally curious.
"Well, yes I guess. We have normal schools like here in Cloudsdale, but we have specialised schools in magic, and other talents." She finished with a dismissive wave of a hoof
"So what's yours?" He asked
"My what?" Clover asked frowning
"Talent of course!" He did a lazy somersault
Clover paused. What was her talent? She could do magic, but what else?
Fellfall broke the silence by saying,
"Ok, how about your cutie mark?" He asked quickly
Clover snorted out loud before chuckled
"I've been asking about that for years!" Before covering her mouth with a hoof, but not quickly enough.
"Ok let's see it! Maybe I could help," He turned his head to look at her flank, and Clovers mind started to race, looking for anything to distract him. She noticed a slight fleck of red on his under mane.
"What's that?" She pointed at his mane, glad of the distraction.
Fellfall recoiled slightly, brushing his mane back out of sight, mumbling about colour inheritance. He quickly recovered by telling her about how the vending machine at the end of the hall was faulty. Fellfall landed and asked her happily where she would like to go next, when the colts playing with the football in class sauntered up to Clover. They appeared to be quite muscular, compared to Fellfall.
The ring leader, a large yellow colt with a red and orange mane leaned down and said with a crooked smile,
"So you're the unicorn everyone's been talking about, eh? I'm Buck, and this is Toran and Belf," He pointed at the grey and purple colts behind him who gave her a leering smile, "And what's your name?" He leaning in slightly as he said it.
Clover heard Fellfall pique up next to her,
"What, not listening again Buck? Or don't you have the memory for names." He growled slightly.
The stallion turned to him and sneered
"Oh, your hanging out with the weasel, come on, we'll show you round," He winked walking away
"I don't think she wants to go with you."
Buck turned around marched over to Fellfall, who suddenly cowered at his bulk. He slammed him across the corridor, and pressed him against the locker.
Clover couldn't help it, she shouted at the large colt,
"Put him DOWN!" Her horn starting to glow involuntary.
Bucks two lackeys marched menacingly over to Clover as Buck raised a hoof to strike the blue pegasi under him saying,
"Or what? You'll spark your little horn?" He laughed
Clover charged at the stallion, and hit him with a bolt of sparking light. Buck went flying off of Fellfall, smoking slightly, as the two other colts went to his aid. Clover stood between the two ponies, waiting for another blow to come.
"Yeah, you might say that," She said through gritted teeth. Her horn was glowing more strongly now, as she felt power rush through her. Buck stood up, and looked like he was about to charge at her before saying,
"Bad choice unicorn. Bad choice." He turned and marched away, his two minions scampering behind him.
Clover panted slightly at the excursion, and faced Fellfall with a worried expression. Fellfall, appeared to be fine as he stood up shaking himself of. He looked down before he said in a depressed tone of voice,
"I'm really sorry Clover, I really am," He kept his mane covering his eyes.
Clover couldn't believe her ears! He was sorry? For what?
"Why?" She asked straightening up slightly.
He turned and raised a hoof at the sky as if he was cursing it.
"I've made your life hell!" He kicked a locker, and winced. "Buck will make it his mission to make you pay, you know that? And it's my fault!" He ended angrily.
"So?" She ended shortly.
"So! You won't have any friends!" He said worriedly.
Clover stopped, feeling a pang in her chest. What would the Princess say when she found out she didn't make any friends? Clover shook her head, dismissing the thought entirely.
"I don't care; I don't want to be friends with him." She shuddered.
Fellfalls ears perked up at this, and lifted up his head.
"You don't?" He asked earnestly.
Clover openly laughed.
"I just fried him! Do you even think he'll let me!?" She said incredously
"Well I guess he wouldn't," Fellfall said in deep thought, rubbing his chin comically.
The two ponies laughed, and Fellfall pointed out the window to another building.
"On with the tour?" He asked.
"Defiantly," Clover grinned.
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10. Chapter 10
Hey guys :D
So here's the newest chapter, hope you like it. Please leave suggestions, cause I will read all them!
A/N : E&M is Empires and Manticores. Because I'm lazy :3
Clover and Fellfall were now in the Gym, Fellfall pointing out small details such as to avoid the vending machine in there. Now that Clover thought about it, it seemed that most of Fellfalls tour consisted of good vending machine areas.
Clover felt odd. She felt as if she was with her family and well wishers, but better. Fellfall agreed with most of what she said. They seemed alike, well, as much as an alicorn and a pegasi could be. But Clover still didn't understand, she had only known 5 ponies (if you call spike a pony) in her life properly that weren't her family, 3 of which were princesses and a dragon. If you compared that to how long Fellfall had known her, well that's hardly a blink.
From there conversations, Clover had gleaned that Fellfall had 3 other friends. This didn't' surprise her; she had an idea that he was friends with the E&M game players. The colts were called Nolan, Breezy, and Bolt. Clover was yet to meet them, however by the way Fellfall described them they seemed to be similar to him.
"Clover? Are you alright," Fellfall asked next to her jovially waving his hoof in front of her.
Clover snapped out of her dreamy trance saying
"What?" She said quickly, slightly embarrassed.
"I said it's almost games, you need to get your kit. Did you space out back there?" He accused, giving a laugh.
"Oh shush." She replied, knocking him lightly on his side. "Where do I get my stuff?"
Fell fall rounded a corner to face a small wooden door. He rapped on it lightly, and an old pony wearing an apron wandered out. She smiled widely, and said in an raspy voice,
"Got a mare friend then Fellfall?" She frowned as she looked at her before saying, "What's wrong with her?"
Clover shuffled uncomfortably as Fellfall blushed,
"She's a new student Gran." He said shortly
"Ah, new it was too good to be true," She stated turning round, pulling out a bundle of clothes, handing them to Clover.
They were about to go when she leaned into Clover and said,
"If you ever change your mind deary..." She winked and walked back into her little room.
They walked in silence for a few minutes when Clover said,
"Your Gran works here?"
"Yep..."
"Huh."
Fellfall directed her to the lockers to deposit her saddle bags. When they got there Clover levitated them into her locker, and was about to shut it when Fellfall noted,
"You need to leave your coat in your locker too; we're not allowed to leave things in the changing room. Not after the stink bomb incident," He shuddered inwardly.
Clover froze. What know? Everyone would see, she would lose her only friend, everyone would hate her! Clover was panicking now as the milliseconds ticked by.
A part of her clicked. Everyone was still in lessons, only Fellfall would see. Hopefully, he would be kind. It was her best shot.
She turned to him slowly, and said
"Ok, but you can't tell anyone ok?" She said pleadingly
"Ok,I won't!" he laughed
"Pinkie promise." She said in a deadly serious tone. Pinkie promises were almost soul binding until the other pony said it was ok to break it.
Fellfall paused. He seemed to be thinking and studying her at the same time.
"Fine. Cross my heart hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. Happy?" He said
Clover shakily undid the buckles on her coat, Fellfall watching her. When they were finally loose she sent out a silent prayer to anypony listening, and levitated of the coat.
Fellfalls eyes went wide. He stuttered a bit as Clover stretched her wings, getting them comfortable. She looked at Fellfall, as he looked back. This was it, would he run, or would he stay.
After a while he just said
"Wow,"
"Yeah,"
"I see why the pinkie promise was needed," He said slowly
"Yeah," She replied. Clover was terrified, what now? Would she have to tell everyone? She certainly hoped not.
"So, do I have to call you Princess?" He said after a while,
Clover gaped
"No, sweet Celestia no! I mean, I don't even know if I'm a princess or not." She ended slightly disappointed.
"What? Well the Princess obviously thought that you were a good choice to be a princess- wait. Do you know the Princess?" He seemed quite excited at the thought.
"Which one?" She said slowly
"Either, any!" He said quickly, his smile growing into a big grin. Considering he had just found out that she was one of the most powerful beings in Equestria, he was handling it quite well.
"Well, I know Princess Twilight Sparkle, Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armour." She replied, listing the off.
"Whoa... So were you a pegasi, earth pony, or unicorn before?" He asked inquisitively
Clover peered at him as if he was delusional
"Um, neither, I was kinda born this way?" She stated unsurely.
Fellfall seemed taken aback by this statement.
"B-but never in pony history has this happened! We're unsure of the creation of the Solar Sisters, but we're almost certain they were created." He mumbled to himself as they walked towards the gym again.
"They were!" Clover shouted, chasing after him begging for answers.
"Oh yes! We're unsure due to the unrecorded history of Equestria before the birth of Star Swirl the Bearded; however we are sure of this due to the non existence of alicorns before the bonding of the races. It was not possible for alicorns to be created without the alliance. Celestia and Luna were much after that time. There were no alicorns to breed together." He ended, before squinting at her
"But, you were born like this? So that means you're the daughter of an alicorn, bu-" Clover held up a hoof, and said
"Fellfall, how do you know all of this?" She said suspiciously
Fellfall laughed
"Well, you could say it's my special talent. When I was just a foal I was interested in why some ponies was a pegasi, or unicorns, or earth ponies. I got my cutie mark when I went to Canterlot for the sun celebration." He smiled slightly showing her his cutie mark.
On it was a wing, horn and hoof crossed together on his flank,
"An alicorn is as interesting to me as, well magic is to you I suppose," He said rubbing his chin, before asking,
"So what's the story behind that? I would have thought you would have had a clover or something." He said inquisitively pointing to her flank
Clover sighed as they neared the changing room.
"Tell you later," She said pushing open the door, before Fellfall said
"One more thing, pleeaasee?" He whined earnestly, pulling the cutest face he could
Clover huffed mockingly
"Fine, what?"
"Promise you'll tell me about this stuff later," He bounced up and down happily like a adventurous foal.
Clover chuckled
"I pinkie promise," She mimicked putting a cupcake into her eye, which made Fellfall grin happily as she shut the door to get changed.
"Guess there's no turning back now," she mumbed
11. Chapter 11
Hi Guys :D
I've had writers block, and friends pointing out plot holes. Which I intend to fix. Screw you plot holes!
So yeah, I'll be writing more know, and also I don't mind reviews guys, tell me what you think :)
Clover fitted on the well fitted uniform. It was a blue streamlined suit allowing her wings, hooves, and head to poke out of it.
Clover squeaked as she tried to shove her wings back into the suit, but to no avail. They simply would not budge. Her fear of being seen with a pair of wings and a horn had shrunk slightly when Fellfall had seen them, but the image of those reporter ponies from that morning made her shudder.
Then it hit her. Magic! It was so simple, why had she not thought of this earlier!
Clovers horn started to glow, fuelled by her instinct to hide, as her wings started to turn transparent as a golden mist surrounded her. When the spell was finished she felt slightly woozy, but her wings were unnoticeable.
She stepped out of the changing rooms to see Fellfall in a similar outfit, but with his cutie mark embroided on the flank.
He wandered up to her looking at her before his eyes widened in shock and he poked her side, where her wings should have been.
"H-how did you do that! Transformation is a class three magic spell!" He gaped at her.
Clover was now feeling light headed, the magic draining her energy. She saw sleep on the horizon of her vision.
She thumped onto the floor, and she saw Fellfall mouthing something at her, but all she could hear was fuzz. She tried to speak but she couldn't, it was if she was drowning.
Her vision flitted, and a vision of a tall blue pony with a flaring orange mane stood before her. She could make out a horn and a pair of wings. He lent down and a whispered message floated into her ears,
"Stay strong Clover," The voice melted away as Clover drifted away from the pony and back towards Fellfall, who was still mutely shouting.
As she grew closer and closer, his voice became clearer.
"Clover! Clover wake up!" He turned away and shouted down the corridor for help
Clovers eyes fluttered open as she saw a pink and white nurse mare running towards them, with a crowd of students behind. She noticed before she blacked out again a strange orange glow surrounding her wings and hiding them. Clover smiled and drifted into the ink blackness of sleep.
When she awoke, she was lying in a small room on a hospital style bed. Clover groaned groggily, and sat up her head banging. The nurse mare who was sat in the corner jerked upwards, obviously from a nap, and said
" Ah, you're awake! It seems that you have fainted, probably from the all the excitement," she chuckled, "We've called your brother to take you home, he said he would be here in a few minutes, he seemed quite worried," She ended, standing up and walked out of the room.
Clover waited for a minute, before hearing a crash outside, and then Ferris zoomed into the room, crashing into the wall. He recovered quickly, before checking her over
"Where are your wings Clover?!" He asked worriedly,
Clover groaned and muttered
"Spell...Too much...Fellfall...got help," She mumbled
The nurse galloped back in with her wings flared and pushed Ferris off of her.
"SIR! What in the name of the crystal empire are you doing!" She snorted angrily
"I am looking after my sister!" He growled protectively, shaking out his purple mane
She paused.
"Sir, may I point out that she is quite obviously not related to you in any way." She stated bluntly
Ferris opened his mouth, before Clover quickly interjected
"I'm adopted!" She blurted out
Ferris turned around to stare at her blankly, and Clover mouthed to him "go with it".
The nurse seemed shocked before saying
"I apologise sir, I didn't- I mean-" She stuttered
Ferris murmured
"It's fine, we should go now Clover," He took her by the hoof and led her out the room.
They walked a few meters away from the door before he asked
"Adopted?" he asked inquisitively
"Thinking on my hooves," Clover said gritting her teeth whilst trying to dispel her headache.
"What were you doing Clover? And we're are you're wings," He grunted
Clover sighed
"Transformation spell," she muttered as she reached her locker taking the opportunity to grab her coat.
"Clover! What were you thinking? You know full well it takes years to develop that kind of magic, you could have died!" He shook her shoulders, staring into her eyes.
Just as Clover was about to pull away, a blue pegasi whizzed up next to Ferris.
"Clover! Are you all right? What did you do?" Fellfall seemed as worried as her brother.
Ferris turned to Fellfall, and squinted at him,
"Clover, who is this." The black and blue pegasi said in unison.
Ferris snorted indignantly, whilst Fellfall glared slightly
Clover sighed, pointing to each in turn
"My brother, Fellfall, Fellfall, my brother. Happy?" She was still cranky from her headache.
"YOU! What did you make her do!" Ferris jabbed a hoof at him
"What did I do! She just walked out the changing room with no wings and fainted, I called for help!" He reeled back defensively
Ferris jammed a hoof over his mouth and turned with a small fire in his eyes.
"You. Told. Him?" He said through gritted teeth.
"Well done genius," Clover said sarcastically. She was tired, and she could feel her wings tingling, obviously the spell was fading. Her head pounded, and she just wanted to go home.
Clover started to walk down the corridor, leaving the two colts alone.
"Clover wait!" Ferris shouted to her, but not before saying to the blue pony,
"You tell nopony." Fellfall tried to defend himself, but Ferris just repeated more firmly "No. Pony." He walked away towards Clover, leaving Fellfall sat in the middle of the corridor.
All he could do was think. Was that really her brother?
"They look nothing alike," He murmured
Fellfall sighed. It had been a long day, he had crashed into an alicorn, got beaten up by Buck, watched the same alicorn beat up Buck, watched Clover faint right in front of him, and had been pinned down by her crazy brother.
He looked around the halls, no pony to be seen. Fellfall sighed and grabbed his saddle bags from his locker.
"I need a nap," He muttered, setting of home.
Clover marched down the halls, out the building, and to the edge of the clouds. Ferris walked up next to her.
"You've been reckless," He said simply
"So have you." She said in an angry but stable voice
"How, how have I been reckless? Have I been telling every pony on the street that I'm the most powerful being in the whole of Equestria? Have I been knocking myself unconscious? No!"
He sighed but put a hoof around her, but Clover shook her mane.
"He was my friend, he wouldn't tell anypony," She said shaking slightly
"Clover. Ponies aren't like that, you know what will happen whether either of you want it or not." He ended.
"Well, then let it be! I don't want to be locked up anymore, I want some friends that's what I want!"Clover shouted angrily
"Clover-,"
"No!"
"You don't know what I was going to say!"
"I don't need to," She growled
Clover took of her coat and placed it at his hooves.
"Take it, burn it, keep it, just get rid of the damn thing," Clover said angrily and took off.
Clover flapped into the sky, and her brother leapt after her, shouting her back. Clover flapped harder, and harder. She was nearing the clock tower, she circled it a few times, throwing her brother of, and b-lined for various avenues.
Clover choked back tears as she galloped through the gate to the house, leaving startled guards behind her.
She teleported inside, and ran up the stairs. There, on her bed was a scroll levitating in a small green fire, before it dropped onto the bed.
Clover grunted and swept the scroll onto the floor, and crawled into the bed. She cursed being an alicorn, she cursed being special, what was wrong with being normal! Why did she have to be the one pony in Equestria that was born this way!
Another scroll came out of thin air, and hit her back. Clover brushed it to meet the other, but the scrolls kept coming, until Clover sniffed, and unrolled one.
It was from the Princess.
Dearest Clover,
I've been informed of today's stressful events, and would like to send my apologies. We did not fully warn you of what would happen when you went out in public.
Clover, I still need you to carry on with your studies; however we have also been informed that you have made progress already. With this encouragement, we believe that you can reveal yourself at your own pace and leisure.
However, I suggest you do this before the Summer Sun Celebration. I have arranged for you to be at this event to be presented to Equestria.
Good luck my faithful student,
Signed
Princess Twilight Sparkle
Princess Cadence
Clover groaned, and through the paper at the wall. She was not in the mood for the Princess's at the moment.
She pulled the covers closer over her, and fell into an uncomfortable sleep, a flitting image of a blue and orange pony crossed her vision, before dissipating.
Who is this mystery pony?
Next time, we go into dream land, hurray! Remember to R&R my lovelies ;)
Seeya next time!
12. Chapter 12
Hey Guys!
Sooo...
Yeah...
I know, I know, I should have updated sooner. But thanks to the season 4 finale, I was busily trying to repair the plot which now has a gaping hole in it, until I realised I didn't care or want to, so I just decided to leave it how it is, yey :)
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Clover awoke and clicked the alarms off. She crawled out of bed and flapped gently down the stairs, grabbed her saddle bags, landed and pushed her coat on.
It had been a month since she had come to Cloudsdale, and life had turned out pretty normal from its hectic beginning. She had organised a permanent taxi ride to school, gotton an excuse note to get her out of games for the rest of the year, and so far Fellfall was the only pony that new her secret.
She had quickly gotten to know Fellfalls friends. Breezy, tended to be the most organised one of the group, whilst Bolt the more jovial. Nolan, all together was rather normal compared to his prankster and tidy friends.
Buck hadn't gotton his revenge yet on Clover and Fellfall, but she was pretty sure it would happen sooner rather than later but yet every day no tricks came, only a sneer in her direction from him and his cronies in her general direction.
Clover walked out the door, locking it behind her and trotted down to where a rugged taxi driver sat waiting.
"Morning Grey," Clover said yawning
"Morning yourself, I've been up since 6," He said grumpily
She climbed in as he set of, Grey saying
"So, how's ya friends then Clover? Good I take it?" He asked
"Yeah, there fine, you?"
"I can complain,"
"The usual then," Clover said smiling slightly
"Eup,"
They reached the school and Grey landed, the taxi giving a soft thud behind him
"Your stop ma lady," he said smirking
"Thanks," Clover said stepping out, handing him a few bits extra
He smiled at his tip, and nodded his head towards her, setting off again
Clover walked into school, surrounded by chatting ponies. Clover heard the bell go and the ponies dispersed, Clover included. She spotted Fellfall grabbing some books from his locker. Clover walked up next to him, and tapped him on the shoulder.
He turned around and said
"Mornin Clover, what's up?" he said
"Not much, but I swear your deaf the bell just went!" She said jokingly
"Meh, I have a few minutes," he said shrugging his shoulders
Clover laughed but tugged on his shoulder
"Come on,"
He huffed, but shut his locker and jumped into the air
"Alright then,"
Clover galloped down the corridor, Fellfall zipping in front of her. They burst through the classroom door, and sat in their seats where Breezy and Bolt sat arguing over something with Nolan trying to calm them both down.
"No! You can't just-" Breezy said his hooves in his mane
"Whoa, guys what's the problem?" Fellfall asked jokingly
Breezy and Bolt looked at each glaring daggers, when Nolan sighed saying
"Bolt broke Breezy's folder," He said exasperatedly
"Oh boy," Fellfall said rubbing the back of his neck
"And he hasn't apologised," Breezy said through gritted teeth.
Breezy's folder was his pride and joy. He had all his years' notes, all organised in order of importance. The folder now had a broken spring, one of the latches loose, and sheets were all over Breezy's desk.
Clovers ears hit her head as all 4 colts started arguing
"Guys. Guys? GUYS!" Clover shouted silencing the arguing ponies
"Bolt, just apologise," She said sternly
He sighed
"Fine, I apologise for breaking you folder," He said looking at his hooves
"Breezy?" Clover said with her eyebrows raised
"I accept your apology," He said with his nose raised, sniffing
Clover snorted, as her horn lighted up; bring the folder back t its former glory. Breezy looked ecstatic.
"No, will you stop being so uptight?" She laughed
Breezy harrumphed, but the other 3 laughed, as Mr Bouroughs walked in as they took their seats.
The day went as normal, lessons, break, lessons, until lunch came.
Normally, Clover would meet up with Fellfall and the others for lunch because they each had different classes. But today Fellfall was nowhere in sight. Clover shrugged it off as they ate, but when they had finished and he didn't show up, even Bolt was starting to worry.
"Maybe I should go and find him," Clover said unsurely standing up.
Just as she did Buck and his so called friends grinned at her. Normally this would be unnerving, but now Clover was panicking slightly.
She tapped Nolan on the shoulder, and said quietly
"I think something has happened to Fellfall, make sure Buck doesn't go anywhere," She hissed, but acted casual as she walked away waving to the ponies on the table.
Breezy turned to his friends before relaying the message given by Clover. Buck however appeared to be quite happy to stay where he was and he happened to be in a very good mood.
"This is bad," Nolan cringed to himself
"Fellfall? Fellfall!" Clover said in an anxious voice as she trotted down the deserted corridor.
Clover went to his favourite cloud, the classroom, everywhere, before reaching his locker. She heard an "umf" coming from the locker, and Clover peered down through the slits. It was complete darkness, blotted out by a large object.
The sound came again when she had realised what Buck had done. Clover tried to pull open the locker door but to no avail. Realising that someone was trying to open the locker the sounds came out more loudly and quickly.
Clover steadied herself, this would need some concentration. Clover imagined the lock on Fellfalls locker. She saw its bumps and ridges as she filled it with magic until finally she twisted it and a disgruntled Fellfall fell out.
Clover shook her head at the slight fatigue, as Fellfall groaned on the ground, standing shakily on his hooves.
"Fellfall? Are you alright?" She asked worriedly
"Yeah, I'm fine," He grunted pushing his mane out of his eyes. He turned his head towards her and Clover stared.
The flesh around his eye was swollen and bruised with black and purple patches. His lip cut and a slight trickle of blood came out of his snout. Clover looked at his mouth, and could see a tooth that had been chipped and a large lump on his head. He had several multicoloured bruises running down his body.
"No, you are not 'fine'" Clover said sitting him against the locker, looking at his wounds
"Oh, Buck will pay for this," Clover thought bitterly
After inspecting him Clover stood up saying
"Come on, we have to go to matron," She said trying not to run down the corridor to find Buck and belt him one.
Fellfall shook his head
"No, I'm not going to matron," He said grumpily
"Fellfall, you need an ice pack or something!" She said waving a hoof in the air
"Can you fix it?" He said tiredly
"Um, I guess I could, but that's not th-,"
Fellfall shook his head
"Can you try?"
Clover sighed, but relented
Clover's horn lit up as she started on the chipped tooth. Bruises could heal on their own, but teeth, well not so much. As the tooth started to grow Fellfall squirmed slightly at its foreignness, and when she was finished she said
"That'll grind down back into shape in a few days," Clover grunted
"Thanks," Fellfall replied
Clover then started on his broken snout. As she did the flesh clicked and jolted, and the cartilage moved against its will back into place. When she had finished she corrected the black eye, bust lip and a couple of the larger bruises.
Clover sat down tiredly next to Fellfall, but eventually they got up, Fellfall thanking her as they walked down to grab whatever they could from the canteen. They managed to get some apples, munching on them hungrily as they walked up to their table.
Bolt, Breezy and Nolan were all still there as they sat down.
"What happened Fellfall? Where'd you go?" Nolan asked
As Fellfall explained, Clover scowled at Buck, who was staring in disbelief at Fellfall relatively clear face. Once Fellfall had finished, the three colts around him were seething, Bolt even looked like he might go over there and do something he would regret
Clover put a hoof on his shoulder
"Leave this to me," She grunted
The ponies looked at one another before saying
"You have a plan?" Bolt asked
"No, but I'm very good at making them," She said getting up, the 4 colts following.
What's Clover gonna do? Teehee!
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13. Chapter 13
Hey Guys!
This is the story right before things start to turn into SERIOUS BUISNESS!
I think, I might add another chapter right before, but hey the more the merrier right? On with the show!
Buck was very confused. He had beaten the weasel till he was bruised more than a peach dropped from Cloudsdale clock tower.
He figured that his unicorn friend had fixed him up. He had to find a way to make that one pay too. As he pondered different ways to make Clover suffer, he opened his locker to find a cloud, snowing in his locker. As he reached out to grab his books, his hoof went numb as he yelped and scrambled back.
"She. Will. Pay!" He thought angrily
As he managed to grab the cloud and throw it out of his locker, he heard a few sniggers from around the corner. He managed to spot 5 ponies scrambling out of sight towards their classroom.
"Scratch that, all of them." He thought bitterly
Buck rounded into the classroom, to find another shock. He growled as he pulled down a poorly pony-shopped picture of him in a dress, with the ponies around him laughing there stupid heads off. Buck has fuming.
"The ways I will make them pay, oh," He mumbled
He looked around to find the culprits, but could not see them.
"Gah!" He shouted over the voices of the laughing ponies around him
Clover and the others sat sniggering outside the class room. They had just enough time to teleport out of the classroom before Buck saw them, watching through the glass.
"Oh, oh man, that was worth it," Fellfall said wiping a tear from his eye
"Defiantly," Bolt said grinning
"I don't want to see what Buck has in store though," Nolan said worriedly
"It'll take him a while to get a plan together, until then; we avoid him like the plague," Breezy said good naturedly
"I hope so," Clover replied
They had finished their lessons, and Clover hopped into her taxi.
"Hey Clover," Grey greeted her
"Hey Grey,"
"Anything interesting happen today?" He asked nonchalantly
Clover shrugged
"Not really,"
They carried on in silence as they reached her house. Clover tipped him as usual, making Grey smile before he drove off.
Clover walked into her house and dumped her saddle bags in the corner, slipping of her coat. She yawned, walking up to the coffee table.
As expected, a scroll appeared. Every Wednesday, her family would write to her sending her a scroll, which Clover would reply to.
Clover smiled, she enjoyed listening to her mum and dad's stories. As she unfurled the scroll, she blinked. This was not from her parents.
Dearest Clover,
I have had a letter from one of your school friends named Buck. I am delighted that you have made friends with such a pleasant young colt, but I'm afraid I'm not so pleased with what he had to say.
He has informed me that you have made yourself an associate of 4 rather rough colts, and I have to say I'm not pleased. I am not impressed at there or your actions. As an alicorn, you must show decorum around other ponies, and this is not it.
Clover, after hearing Buck's letter, I fear that these colts are not your friends. I ask of you to cease contact with them, and try and apologies to Buck. I feel that he wants to be more of your friend than of theirs.
Please listen to my suggestion,
Sincerely,
Princess Twilight Sparkle
Princess Cadence
Clover was aghast. How had Buck managed to get a letter so quickly to the Princess? What did it say?
Clover growled slightly. Who was the Princess to say who here friends were! Clover rolled up the scroll seething, and yanked her saddle bags up the stairs, throwing them into the corner of her room.
"We'll see about that!" Clover said penning a note to the Princess
In her note to the Princess, she described how she didn't want to be used as a puppet, how she would decide who her friends were, and most defiantly that she would not be present at the sun celebration.
Clover cast a spell around the scroll. By the time the princess had read it, it would be early morning.
Clover furiously trotted around the house, grabbing food and water and carrying them up to her room.
Clover scribbled another note and stuck it to her door, before marching inside and slamming it, locking it as she did so.
Now, Clovers fury had died down enough for her to feel despair. As she began to feel a pit in her stomach form, she slipped into sleep.
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14. Chapter 14
Clover gritted her teeth as her alarm went off for the 20th time. She covered her head with her pillow, and hit the snooze button again. Another scroll bumped her back, joining the small pile of unread scrolls.
The phone downstairs had been ringing since 9:30, and Clover could hear a thumping on her front door as somepony tried to convince her to leave her room.
Clover had made a decision. She was not going to be ordered around like some little filly, and she was not going to school. She would be leaving as soon as the spell on her door broke. And when she could be bothered to get up.
Clover groaned as the alarm went off again, and a bang of the front door echoed around the house. She sat up turning of the evil device and doubled the seal on her room. She could hear hooves scrambling up the cloud steps as she grabbed her saddle bags and shoved everything into them, including the scrolls that she had been given, just to be sure she didn't miss anything.
She heard a bang on her door, and opened the window. Clover had put a force field around the window to prevent any unwanted guests. Surely enough, a group of guards was floating outside of her window, blocked by the bubble of magic.
On sight of Clover the guards shouted down to the ponies on the ground as Clover took off, the bubble surrounding her.
She had no idea where she was going, but she had plenty of bits, and could easily make some shelter. Clover considered all of the options, and remembered the castle of the two sisters, right outside of ponyville.
Clover could hear muffled shouting behind her of the guards, and she could pick out the voice of her brother franticly trying to convince her back.
Clover gave out a slight 'erk', as her bubble was pushed slightly by a guard behind her. She grunted as a hoof slid through the field, and decided that she wouldn't be able to lose them on wing. She suddenly remembered a cloud Fellfall had shown her on her tour of the school, high up and away from anypony.
Imagining the plush cloud she saw its edges and curves and imagined herself there, and ignited her horn. Suddenly she was stood on a cloud alone listening to the gentle breeze around her. Tired from teleporting from such a large distance, Clover lay down and moulded the cloud so she was in a small hollow inside protecting her from the wind.
She had at least two hours before they would find her here. She could be in all of Equestria for all they know. Clovers eyes fluttered shut as she listened to the whistling around her.
Fellfall rounded the school again. When Clovers brother came to him franticly this morning that Clover had locked herself in her room, and then teleported away Fellfall had whole heartily agreed to help.
As he flew up into the sky for the 5th time, he spotted the cloud he had shown Clover deciding to take a small rest before looking again. As he reached the cloud he noticed how it sagged slightly underneath, and the sides curled around a pony sized object.
When he floated above it he could only see white, until he noticed a curl of green like in Clovers mane. He gasped as the form shifted, shivering.
It was freezing up in this height, and Luna knows how long she had been up here! It appeared by her bulging saddle bags that she had grabbed everything she had and tried to make a dash for it. Fellfall picked out a scroll with a broken seal, obviously read by Clover.
He cringed at what it read. Fellfall tucked the scroll back into her pack, as Clover began to stir.
Clover gave a small squeak as she awoke, and tried to get up, struggling against him. She eventually sighed saying
"I'm not going back Fellfall," she said determinedly
Fellfall thought for a moment before sitting next to her. He didn't like what Clover was thinking of doing. He also didn't like the position she was put in.
After a while, he said
"Aren't you cold? It's freezing up here you know," He said pointing to her bags that had gained a slight brittleness to them.
She shook her head and pulled out her coat. From the stories he had told her, that coat had caused years of misery.
Fellfall grabbed it, and threw it down onto the school roof below.
"You must be sick of it, knowing you're different, knowing whatever you do you can never change what you are? I know the feeling," He said sadly
He lifted up his mane to show her that underneath was streaks to rainbows, under the dusk coloured locks on his brow.
"I'm the great great grandchild of Rainbow Dash. The only descendent actually. My parents were the best flyers in Cloudsdale, as were there's. They expect me to be the fastest, strongest pony, to be on all the sports teams, but I can only fly fast. That's it. No football, or frisbee, or throw ball, and if I can't do that, I'm a failure to them." He said angrily, kicking a cloud that drifted past
They sat there in silence before Clover said
"I don't want to go back Fellfall. I'm tired of it all, and I'm not going back," She said determinedly
"Clover, you can't just leave your famil-," He said before Clover interrupted
"No! I'm not going back to being a big secret, I'm not going to have guards around me everywhere I go, and I don't want to my door kicked in if I don't get up for school on time!" She shouted
"Well don't then." Fellfall said honestly
This is when Clover looked like she was about to have a break down. She was shaking violently, half shivering, and half crying. Fellfall wasn't too sure what he had said, but he put a hoof slowly around her in a hug.
Clover let out a choked sob, her voice cracking
"I can't though Fellfall! *sniff* I can never do it, because the princess won't let me! My brother won't let me, and even you have been sent to hide me," She snivelled
Fellfall laughed
"I just through your coat down there, where it can stay for all I care, and you really believe I'm going to stop you?" He chuckled
Clover sniffed again, and shook her head
"Why did you come to find me? I could have just been sick you know," Clover said anxiously
"Your brother came and got me, why?" He said honestly
"Well, I got a scroll saying tha-,"
"That I was a 'rough colt'" He laughed
"Yeah, so why would my brother of all people ask you to come help, no offense," She said frankly "he must have gotton a note too," Clover sniffed
"Well he said that he felt that since you trusted me, and I hadn't sold you out to the paparazzi, that he could rely on me," He said smiling, pulling her slightly closer
"Seems like him, but it took him long enough though," Clover chuckled slightly
"Ok then, now that has been settled, shall we get down from here?" Fellfall was becoming more and more aware of how close Cover was right now, and was beginning to feel slightly uncomfortable.
"I can't go home." She said quietly
"Well, were do you want to go then?" Fellfall said quickly, not wanting for her to cry again.
"I don't know, can we fly? I want to fly," She said cheering up slightly
"Ok then, we will go and fly," Fellfall said standing up slowly, pulling Clover up steadily
They took off, and Fellfall pondered what to do. For a while he watched Clover twirl in and out of the cloud, she looked so free.
"You know, she kinda pretty," His mind said, before Fellfall shook his head.
"Not now Fellfall," he muttered
She couldn't go back to school right now, and her house was out of the question. There were two options. One, fly away and never deal with the issue, or... His house...and his family...oh no.
What can I say, I'm fluffy on the inside XD
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15. Chapter 15
Sup Guys!
So, I'd like to thanks my lovely favourites', followers and reviewers whom I all want to squeeze individually, along with any of you reading this, because I feel so loved at the moment :)
So, as they say, on with the show!
Fellfall had explained to Clover that they probably needed to get going, as they would soon be seen. Clover had agreed, but seemed reluctant to go onto the ground
"Fellfall," She said slowly
"Yeah?" Fellfall asked
"Where are we going? I don't think I should be out in public in this state," Clover said anxiously
Fellfall turned to her perplexed
"What state? You look more than fine to me," Fellfall said truthfully
That's when he noticed her shuffling her wings to try and them. Oh.
"Come on Clover, my house is just around the corner," He said sympathetically
They hadn't ran into any pony, when they reached the front door. Fellfall paused at the door, and said
"We might want to go through the window; I mean my folks are pretty nuts," Fellfall said quickly
Clover was about to agree when the door was pulled open.
There, was a white mare with a multicoloured mane. She peered down at Fellfall before asking
"Fellfall? Why aren't you at school? Who's that behind you?" She said curiously poking her head around Fellfall
Another pony came to the door. This time, it was a dark blue stallion, with a white mane. He stared at Fellfall, before asking
"Fellfall what have you forgotten?" he sighed
That's when an elderly pony peered around the door,
"Why he has a friend," She said peering at Clover who was busily hiding her horn in her mane trying to hide behind Fellfall.
"Oh? Who is he Fellfall?" His mother said poking her head over him, and gasped
"More like a her!" The elderly pegasi said
"A mare?" His father asked "That seems unlikely," He chuckled
"Dad" Fellfall groaned
"No! It is a mare, well don't just stand there, come in!" Fellfalls mother said quickly
Clover was ushered inside. The room was rather large with a rocking chair, a plush armchair, and a sofa. Clover was sat on the sofa, whilst the other ponies bustled inside
"I can't believe you have a female friend!" Fellfalls mum said ecstatically
"I can't believe he has friends," his father chuckled
"Nova!" Fellfalls mother said aghast
"What?"
Whilst the two ponies were arguing, the elderly mare had walked up to inspect Clover. Clover had suddenly realised that the pony was Fellfalls grandma, the one that worked for the school.
"Why she reminds me of that other white unicorn you showed me Fellfall! Twins?" The mare asked jokingly
"No-" Fellfall said cut off by his mother
"By Cadenza! Look at her!" His mother exhaled
Clover sighed, this was it. She was going to be found out, chased by reporter ponies, surrounded by guards for the rest of her life.
"She's so pretty! I can't believe you haven't mentioned her!"
Fellfall sighed
"Mum, Clover, Clover, mum, now can we go upstairs?" He asked earnestly
"Fine, but don't forget to show her the flying gear!" His mother called after him
As they trotted up the stairs, Fellfall let out a long winded sigh as they reached his room.
"Well..." Clover said after a pause
"Sorry about that," Fellfall muttered as they entered his room.
The room was as usual, padded out with clouds, but on the walls were photos of Fellfall with his friends and family, an old battered poster of the wonderbolts, and a large map of Equestria. The furniture was as you would expect, except for the mass of books that he owned.
Fellfall pulled over 2 beanbags, and they sat down.
"So what are we going to do about this?" Fellfall asked eagerly
Clover sighed
"I don't know, the guards will check here soon enough, I may have insulted the Princess, and I'm pretty sure if I'm no found you guys will get blamed," She said waving a hoof sadly
"Wait, what did you say to the Princess?" Fellfall asked slowly
It all came tumbling out, how the Princes would 'reveal' her at the summer sun celebration, how Clover had reacted to the note. By the end of her tale, she was angrier than ever.
Fellfall nodded
"Right, so let's break this down a bit," He pulled out a pad of paper and a pencil
"Problem 1, housing. You can't really stay here for too long, and basically there isn't really anywhere else. I suppose we could make a cloud house. It would be small, but you could sleep there?" Clover nodded eagerly
"Ok, then problem 2, Summer Sun celebration and the Princess, we could write a note to the Princess explaining what really happened I guess," Fellfall said rubbing his chin
"What? That you got beaten up, but there are zero bumps or bruises, so we decided to humiliate him and make it snow in his locker?" Clover said worriedly
Fellfall crossed something of his list
"How about you just don't go to the summer sun celebration? I'm sure you could hide out long enough," Fellfall pondered
"That brings me on to point 3. Guards. What if the guards do find me? It'll probably make things worse," Clover muttered.
"Well then it looks like reasoning is our only hope. The guards will catch up eventually, but if you ask the Princess to not reveal you, then you'll go back to your home, then I suppose all our problems would be solved," Fellfall wondered
"And our friendship problem?" Clover said unrolling the scroll from the princess.
Fellfall lent back thinking.
"Wait I've got a plan!" Fellfall said loudly
"What?" Clover said cautiously
"What if Buck admitted what he did?" Fellfalls eyes gleamed
"How? Get the Princess down to Cloudsdale?" Clover said sarcastically
"Is there a spell that can record a voice?" Fellfall asked
Clover paused
"Better! I can attach a moving image of a pony speaking and talking onto a scroll, and send it to the Princess!" Clover clapped her hooves together happily
"So we have a plan?" Fellfall asked
"Defiantly!" Clover said jumping into the air.
So, I know it's a tad short, but hey it's something!
Love ya all :)
FD
16. Chapter 16
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Oh my god, I can't believe I'm up to Chapter 16 already! Can you?
It was now around mid day, and Fellfall and Clover were up in the sky gathering rouge clouds for a hut. They had already gotton enough to make a floating base and the foundations. Clover dragged over a large fluffy cloud, pushing it into a wall moulding it with her hooves.
"Hey Clover?"
"Mmh?" Clover asked with a mouthful of cloud, trying to add more padding to the wall.
"Why don't you just use magic to do this?" He asked curiously
"Well, don't look, but your Mum is staring at us out of the window," Clover said unsurely
Fellfalls eyes widened
"One seck," He said, zipping back into the house through the window
He came back waving some goggle at her, and said
"Look really interested," He said, pointing to the goggles as if he was explaining something.
"Why?" Clover said flying over, pretending to look at them
"Because she won't leave otherwise," Fellfall stated blandly
"Oh, ok," Clover shrugged
Clover peered over to the window and the figure had disappeared
"She's gone Fellfall," Clover breathed
"She'll be back though," Fellfall said quickly "Come on," he said flying back into his room, dumping of the goggles.
When Fellfall had returned, Clover stood on a rouge cloud.
"Fellfall! I'm gonna move the hut," She called over to him
Clovers horn lit up as the clouds were surrounded in a green light, and slowly moved upwards and further away from Fellfalls house. Clover had decided that if she was going to be found, she would be nowhere near Fellfall. He was in enough trouble as it was.
When she had finished Fellfall had brought over another cloud with his teeth and crafted another wall. Together, they finished the walls, and punched out some holes for windows and a door
They spent a while trying to find a cloud large enough for a roof, but when they did it took all there pushing and pulling to get it onto the walls.
""Well, it's done," Fellfall sighed
"Yep," Clover replied, walking into the shelter
It was bigger than Clover thought it was going to be. The room was slightly smaller than Fellfalls, but from the windows, Fellfalls house was really far down. If any guards came around, they wouldn't look up here.
They spent a while gathering some cloud to shove in one corner and flatten into a bed, and a chair. They flew back into Fellfalls room and brought back a few spare sheets and a pillow case.
After they had finished they gathered Fellfalls notepad, a few scrolls, ink bottles and quills.
"Right, this letter," Fellfall said sitting on the chair.
Clover levitated up a quill and scribbled down a draft, holding it up to Fellfall to judge
"Ok, I like the way you're asking her to not be at the Sun Celebration, but you can't say 'I told you so' to a Princess Clover," Fellfall laughing
"Hmm, ok then," Clover said rubbing her chin comically
It took an hour before they had threaded together a letter which had their wishes, and a lack insults from Clover.
"Right, so we send this with the video then?" Fellfall asked "How do we get Buck to admit what he did?"
Clover shuffled uncomfortably
"You really don't have too you know," She said quickly
"What? Clover, what is it?" Fellfall said suspiciously
"Well..." Clover said
A few minutes later Clover had finished, and Fellfalls mouth was hanging open
"You want me to do WHAT!?" He shouted
"I did say you didn't have to!" Clover exclaimed
Fellfalls head thumped back onto the wall. There was silence for a few seconds.
He sighed, and sat back up.
"Fine, I'll do it, but you owe me," He grunted
"Thanks," Clover said gratefully
"Mhmm," Fellfall replied
Clover yawned slightly. The sun was lowering under the hills that surrounded Equestria, its golden light turning red across the land.
Clover walked out of the open doorway and sat on the cloudy island, her hooves dangling of the edge, Fellfall joining her. Clover remembered something from when she was just a filly
Clover and Markus sat on the balcony watching the Sun go down.
"Markus? Why does the Sun move?" Clover asked him
"Well, there is a tale of two Princesses'. There was Princess Celestia, who raised the sun and Princess Luna who raised the moon." Markus explained
"Wow, they must be very important ponies! Where are they?" Clover asked earnestly
Markus paused
"Well, the way I heard the story, they used to rule Equestria before they vanished. Some ponies say they wander all of Equestria raising and lowering the Sun and Moon, looking after all the little fillies," He said holding her close
Clover had nodded. The next day, she would ask the Princess about the princesses
As the Sun was out of sight, the Moon peeked it head out of the hills.
"Shall we go?" Markus asked
Clover nodded eagerly as they set of into the sky for a flying trip.
As Clover smiled, Fellfall said
"Clover? It's getting late," he stated
"Hmm? Oh ok," She yawned
"See you tomorrow Clover," He said shaving himself of
"Seeya," Clover yawned again, wandering back into the house
Clover crawled under the sheets; she was tired and wanted to sleep. The cold was starting to nip at her as she crawled into a ball and fell asleep.
Little did Clover know, sleep would be the last thing she would be having that night.
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17. Chapter 17
Hey Guys :)
So, I've been a bit occupied by stuff and exams recently, so chapters may be a bit delayed.
However, I'm not going to give up on this story, so stay tuned guys :)
So here's the next chapter to make up for it,
Clover didn't normally dream, but right now she hoped she was
Clovers head swirled as she came to in a round cylindrical room, filled with four tall ponies. Clover shook her head as it banged against her temple, moving her suddenly ache filled joints.
When Clover looked up she stumbled back in shock, and stared at the ponies.
There, in the room with here were 4 alicorns. Clover first recognised the stallion that had spoken to her when she had fainted on her first day of school. On the stallions head was a golden crown, and on his chest was a plate a ruby, contrasting against his blue coat. Next to him was another stallion. He appeared to be the opposite of the colt next to him. He had a fiery orange coat with a deep blue mane, with a silver crown and chest piece embedded with a large sapphire.
However, it wasn't the two mystery alicorns that startled her. Next to the princes, was a pair of female alicorns. The first was a pure white alicorn, with a pastel coloured flowing mane, with a set of golden crown, chest necklace, and hoof pieces. Standing proudly next to her was a slightly shorter navy blue pony. Her mane was darker and flowing much like her sister, with a navy chest necklace, silver hoof pieces, and a jet black tiara.
Clover's jaw dropped when she remembered them from years ago. They were the spectral ponies from the examination room when she was just a filly.
Clover scrambled slightly to her hooves as the white princess began to speak to her.
"Hello Clover, do not be alarmed, you are safe," She said in a regal, but comforting voice
"W-who are you? " Clover stuttered, taking a few steps back
The white princess bent and looked into her eyes for a second, before saying
"I am Princess Celestia, and this is Princess Luna," The blue moon alicorn tilted her head in greeting "Prince Concord," the orange stallion nodded towards her, "and Prince Valorous," Princess Celestia finished pointing towards the blue stallion who's eyes narrowed, but bowed his head.
Clover could not believe her eyes, Princess Celestia?!
"B-but, how can I see you, H-how di-" Clover said tongue tied
The white princess held up a hoof, silencing Clover
"Clover, we don't have a lot of time, let me explain," She motioned for to sit down.
Clover suddenly wished that there was at least a blanket to protect her from the icy floor when she down, but when she did, no discomfort came. Clover looked around her confused as she was sat on a large plush cushion.
"Wha-" She began, startled
"As you can see Clover, we are not in your world, so to speak," The white alicorn started
"You are actually asleep right now, but your mind is here, with ours," Princess Luna explained "I have taken you out of your body to here, the astral plain." She waved a hoof, indicating to the space around them.
"Clover, we have come to warn you of a task you must face. The summer sun celebration is upon us. Are you aware of the story of nightmare moon Clover?" The white Princess said sat on an equally plush cushion as hers
"Yes, when Nightmare moon escaped with the aid of the stars, didn't she?" Clover said, intrigued
"Indeed she did escape, but they were not stars Clover. It was a force beyond our control." Prince Concord said gravely, "These were an entity that controlled and manipulated not only nightmare moon, but all the other evils of Equestria and beyond."
"But, what does this have to do with me? Who are you anyway? I have never heard of a Prince in Equestria, other than Prince Shining Armour, and Prince Blueblood," Clover said confused
"Clover, have you heard of myself and Princess Luna?" Princess Celestia motioned to her sister
Clover nodded
"But have you ever seen a picture or statue of us? A written story?" she asked
Clover was about to say of course she had, when she froze. Had she?
"That is because there is none Clover. When an alicorn leaves this world, they remove all trace, but of memory. No stories, or statues of us remain, just names and memories." She said with a hint of sadness
"Then how do I know who you are?" Clover said suspiciously
"We have passed on, but the current royalty knows of us, that means you do too," The dark furred Alicorn said
"But what about my original question?" Clover said quickly
"I will tell you a story now Clover, please make yourself comfortable, this may take a while." Prince Valorous spoke for the first time in Clovers presence
"The story of hearth warming eve is where we begin. The Windigoes started the storm due to the fighting, but that it not the full story. The Windigoes are normally peaceful creatures, but they were possessed by an entity which we call Malice.
When the fire of friendship banished them, Malice ran weakened through Equestria, hiding from danger.
When Malice's strength returned, he sent a many of creatures to kill the ponies that supported friendship.
That is when I was born. I grew into a trained warrior, and when my town was threatened, I saw the creature Malice.
Malice raised an army, an army far larger than that of the garrisons in Equestria. That was when I called for all ponies, griffins, and any creature that believed that friendship was still as powerful as Malice. The battle was long and hard, but eventually, we succeeded." He finished
"Then, I was born unto Equestria," Prince Concord said, smiling slightly
"Yes, when my brother was born there were still threats in Equestria, and as he grew we extinguished these threats,"
"When I was a Stallion, Equestria was a land of no enemies, but filled with warriors. It looked like ponies were going to turn on each other when no enemies attacked one year as tensions grew." Prince Concord continued, "As an alicorn, ponies held me with some regard, and when two tribes of pegasi turned against each other, I spread the message of love and peace through the tribes,"
"Clover do you know the point of this story?" Princess Luna asked her
Clover shook her head
"The point, is that these two alicorns were born when they were needed by the ponies of Equestria. Eventually, the Princes passed on as we all do to the astral plain, and I and Luna were born. However, malice was not finished. Fuelled by the knowledge that the Princes' of War and Peace had passed on, he struck again."
"This time, he manipulated the draconis Discord, Tirek, and many others. They were defeated, but not without the elements of harmony and the loss of Princess Luna," princess Celestia said sadly
"We were born to keep the peace of the land in Equestria, that was our purpose." The princess Luna stated regally.
"The Princess Twilight and Cadence repelled malice in the forms of Nightmare Moon, Discord, the Changelings, Tirek, and many more. The Princess Twilight was born for the elements of harmony, and the Princess Cadence, to show the strength of love. We all have roles Clover," Luna finished
"Clover, it has been many moons since Malice has struck. We believe that he will strike again, but this time there will be no protection. The two current princess's power is not enough to defeat Malice. Clover, your purpose is to save Equestria once and for all. You cannot fail, for if you do all of pony kind will fall." Prince Valorous said gravely.
Clover was dumbfounded. How was she supposed to save Equestria? She didn't even know it was threatened!
"Why can't you come back and save Equestria? You're the Prince of War, surely you can save us!" Clover said desperately
"We cannot. If we could then all our magic would easily destroy Malice, but we are bound here until we are summoned back to this world, along with the rest of the bound ponies which have saved Equestria," Princess Celestia explained.
"The rest?" Clover asked uncertainly
"These ponies have made a difference which has tipped the balance of Equestria back to one of friendship," The alicorns horns glowed as several ponies trotted through the doors.
There were several ponies Clover recognised, a light blue unicorn with a star printed hat, named star swirl the bearded, followed by Clover the Clever, Smart Cookie, Private Pansy, who chatted merrily to one another. Then, Chancellor Pudding head, Princess Platinum, and Commander Hurricane each marching with dignity.
The next group made Clovers mouth drop. 5 Ponies walked into the room, but they seemed slightly sombre. Two pegasi, two earth ponies, and a unicorn all trudged into the room. On sight of Clover they all smiled and laughed, a pink earth pony's mane inflated to full size as she bounced around the room.
"They have been waiting to be summoned so they can see their long lost friend. You see Clover, when we come back, we can freely enter and renter Equestria to see our family and friends. There friend was the dearest to them and now they shall see her again." Prince Concord said happily.
But quickly his face turned grave
"Clover, it is your duty to bring us back. It is on the day of the Sun celebration when we must return, and that is the day Malice will strike. Malice will appear where ever you are Clover, he has seen of your existence. Not only has this, he tried to sabotage the most powerful magic inside of you. Friendship."
"Do not believe that it was mere coincidence that the letter that caused you so much trouble reached the Princess so quickly. Do not believe that you are out of danger." He finished
"This is your duty Clover, you have three days," princess Celestia stated
"How? What must I do?" Clover asked quickly
"You must wake up now Clover. You must wake up," Princess Luna said sadly
The five ponies walked up to her, an orange pony with 3 apples as a cutie mark said
"Don't leave your friends behind sugar cube,"
"You'll do fine darling!" Another one chorused
"Um, we believe in you," A pony said timidly
"YEAH!" A pink pony said flying out of a canon she appeared to have pulled out of nowhere
A rainbow maned pony floated down in front of her. She gave Clover some encouraging words like the rest, but then said quietly as a white pony with a dark blue mane landed next to her
"Look after Fellfall," She said smiling sadly, before nodding
The cylindrical room spiralled.
Clover awoke sweating in the cold night.
"That was not a dream," Clover murmured
The Summer Sun celebration was in three days.
Clover rapped herself in some blankets and sat near the window. It was the middle of the night, and Clover could barely see. Down from her cloud hut she could see the lights of the city, the smell of smoke in the air from the fire places.
What confused Clover in her groggy state was a group of bobbing lights. As Clover stared at the lights she began to notice shapes. They were ponies carrying lanterns.
Clover watched as the light began to gleam of the ponies for some reason, until Clover froze. The light didn't gleam of the ponies, it gleamed off of their armour. Guards.
Clover hurried as she gathered her items together. She noticed the lights start to fly upwards, and she sped out into the night. She checked behind her, there were no lights.
As she blindly flapped into the night she flew straight into something. It was soft, and made a grunting noise. Clover cautiously lit up her horn to find herself face to face with her brother, Ferris.
"AH!" Clover exclaimed
"Clover!" Ferris shouted
Suddenly the sky was alight with bobbing lanterns. Clover tried with all her might to teleport away, but her panic and fear blocked all access. There was no way out.
Clover did all she could. She flew up until she could no more, until the air became so thin Clovers head spun into blackness. And she fell.
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18. Chapter 18
Hey Guys!
So yeah, I did abandon this story a tad, but I WILL FINISH IT!
But yeah, this will be a bit short, but at least it's something!
When Clover awoke, she was alone. There wasn't a pony in sight. Clover crawled out of the bed and stumbled when her hoof hit the ground. Ground?
Clover blinked as she tried to remember what happened, when it came flooding back. She wasn't in Cloudsdale anymore...
Clover nervously trotted to the window. Outside, she could make out banners and signs being put up, guards training in a courtyard. She was back in Canterlot. Clover tapped the glass with a hoof, only to be bounced lightly of the surface. Every now and again, the glass flashed a light lilac light.
"Figures," She grumbled
The Princess obviously wouldn't let her get away.
It was only now that Clover had noticed her surroundings. The room was large and lavish, he bed a large circle mattress, emblazed with a sun.
"I swear I've seen this before," Clover mused as she looked at the sun
It was then she heard hoof beats coming from outside the room. Clover scurried under the covers, pretending to be asleep.
Her door creaked open, as a set of hooves gently moved over the floor. Clover didn't risk a peek, but she had an idea of who it was.
"I know your awake Clover," Came a motherly tone
Clover refused to sit up, if she was going to act she might as well be convincing. The voice sighed, and Clover felt herself being lifted into a sitting position.
Princess Cadence sat down next to her as Clover looked blankly at her.
They sat in silence for a few minutes
"You had us worried," The Princess stated
Silence
The Princess tried again
"That letter you sent," She started
Clover almost cringed
"I'm afraid that your wishes may have to be put after the good of Equestria. Clover, you must be seen! An unaffiliated alicorn in Equestria could be seen as invasion, if something were to happen to me and the other Princess, you would be the only alicorn left to rule. Imagine the issues you would have Clover! People would be against you every step of the way, even if it is for their own good. Ponies are stubborn like that," She finished
Clover remained stubbornly silent
Cadence sat up straight and said in a strong voice
"It has already been decided, this is what you must do Clover. You are the only trained pony fit to rule." She turned around and marched out off the room
Clover growled and stood up.
" 'My own wishes before the good of Equestria' Pah! I'm the one trying to save it" She exclaimed to herself
Clover sighed; her anger expelled, and went to sit by the window. She watched as the happy ponies of Canterlot prepared for the Summer Sun Celebration. She thought and thought on all that had happened, but her dream, no not a dream, but what the royal ponies had told her. She could not do anything now. All she could do is waiting.
"And make sure no pony gets hurt," She pledged
Eventually, the best she could come up with was either to run away, which was unlikely, or let things unfold. Clover liked neither option.
Malice was coming, and Clover was the only pony that could stop it. She was all alone, and no pony new it, not even Fellfall. Clover slumped on the window sill as she imagined how he would feel right now. Shocked, saddened, and scared. Clover felt guilty, she imagined his tussled mane slumped over his face, his usually bright, and handsome- what?
Clover shook herself, and started to stare out the window. All she could do was wait.
She spotted a group of about 20 fillies and colts split of into 3's and gallop of around the city. Clover smiled, since the rule of Celestia there had been cutie mark crusaders. Clover continued to watch each little group, until she got attached to one particular group.
Along the day, she saw two ponies from the 20 jump in the air excitedly, but the group Clover was watching were not doing any activities, but just trotting through the streets. Eventually they got to a main road. Carts whizzed by at lightning speed, no place for little fillies.
It was then one of the fillies sprinted forward, and dragged something Clover couldn't see back. It was one of the newest gainers of their cutie marks. The filly had just saved the others life.
Clover waited with eager anticipation, hoping that the brave filly would jump in the air, but no. The fillies just continued on their rounds. Slowly, Clover noticed a pattern; they went to were there seemed to be trouble, each time a different filly saving another.
Clover wondered what in Equestria they could be doing when all three of the at once smiled and jumped ecstatically in the air. It was only then did she realise what these ponies were doing.
These fillies new full well what their talent was, but they all wanted to get it at the same time. Clover smiled. She hoped they went far.
But Clover was brought back down to earth when a guard walked in with a tray levitated above him, a note on the side. In the tray was some food, the note read
The Summer Sun Celebration will be in 2 days.
Be prepared
Clover grinded her teeth. At least she would be busy.
So what'd think?
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19. Chapter 19
Hey Guys!
Here it is. The penultimate chapter. Or the third to last, I'm not sure XD
So, I know I haven't updated for a while, so here is an extra long chapter for ya!
Clover trotted around the room, thinking.
She had been at it for hours, trying to think of ways of not having to face Malice in Canterlot, but to no avail. The best that she could think of was leading him away, but from the stories of destruction and possessions, Clover doubted that the creature would leave the innocent ponies of Canterlot alone.
She was also worried about Fellfall. No doubt he will have realised what has happened by now, however that didn't mean he wouldn't try and come after her. Clover missed him.
Bu it was not just loneliness that filled Clover, but doubt. From what she had been told by the Princes and Princesses, she would be the one to bring the end to Malice, the creature that possessed Princess Luna, Discord, Tirek, Sombra, the changelings and many others. If they couldn't completely destroy him, who could?
Clover sighed and sat by the window again, but she only saw the ponies that would become enslaved in a matter of days. Clover spotted a large field by Canterlot, where the celebrations were being set up. Where they would watch the sun rise for the last time.
Clover heard another set of hooves comming from down the corridor. Clover listened as she heard the door open and a voice said
"It is time Clover," Came a soft voice
It was unmistakeable. The Princess Twilight had decided to pay her a visit. How sweet.
Clover did not respond
"Well, Cadence told me you were uncooperative. Here, you must wear these tomorrow," She heard the chick of metal on the floor, and the regal hooves walking away.
When Clover was sure she was gone, she turned around and looked at the items that the Princess had left.
There were a full set of short silver hoof shoes and silver tiara, with a small emerald encased at the centre. Clover scoffed and went and sat again by her window, pondering what was yet to come.
It was now, ironically, twilight. Clover stood and watched Luna's moon rise before going to the bed embroided with the sun's emblem and prepared to go to sleep. Tomorrow, her life would change, for better or worse was unclear, but it would undoubtedly, change.
It was dusk as Fellfall flew through the sky. He had found out from Clovers brother that she had been found flying through the night, before knocking herself out due to altitude. The sun celebration was tomorrow, and he didn't have much time.
Fellfall didn't know what he would do, but he knew just being there for Clover at this point was the best thing he could do. As Luna's moon rose, the temperature plummeted. He felt his wings starting to numb, and small amounts of ice crystals on his hooves. Sun rise was roughly 4 hours away, so Fellfall descended to a warmer climate.
Fellfall already missed Clover. He missed her sarcasm, her jokes, but most of all her. When he had found that Clover was not in her cloud hut, his heart had plummeted. He already knew what had happened, but he still had to check.
And so, Fellfall had left for Canterlot. He had roughly 80 miles to go, so he quickly sped up to 9.3 wing power and charged through the night.
Clover was quickly awakened by her mother. It was still dark, and she could see vague pony figures heading out to field where the celebration took place.
Clover sighed and slipped on the silver shoes and tiara begrudgingly at her mother's whim, and when she opened the door, a patrol of guards surrounded her. Eventually, they reached the darkened courtyard, where a chariot, literally, awaited her.
Clover clambered in with the guard following her closely. It was hard to see without and light and she doubted the guards new who she was. Oh good.
Clover waited patiently as the chariot rose and then descended behind a large tent, located behind the stage.
Clover was pushed eagerly into the tent were the two Princess's stood.
Clover sat heavily in an armchair and tried to go back to sleep, but it was too late. The princesses glided towards her, and said
"Clover, I hope that you will find today enjoyable, but you will not be required to speak to the ponies of Equestria, however we hope you could put on a smile," Cadence said happily
Outside a large gong was heard and the general chatter outside became silent. The two Alicorns nodded to her before saying
"Exit the curtain once we announce you. Good Luck," Princess Twilight said quickly before the two of them left to the raucous hoofplause of the ponies outside
"I'll need it," Clover muttered
It was almost sunrise; Fellfall had flown through the icy night to see Canterlot on the horizon. However, looking over the powerful city, it was deserted. Peering around the city he spotted a large field to the west of Canterlot, where a large gong could be heard ringing out.
In the field lay chattering ponies, waiting for the bringing of summer. He quickly spotted the two princesses glide out of the tent to the roar of approval of the ponies of Canterlot. Fellfall dived towards the field, but it would be a few minutes before he could get there.
Clover could hear the ponies outside quieten as the two Princesses addressed them.
"Citizens of Equestria! Today we welcome a new summer!" Princes Cadence began
The crowd cheered happily as Princess Twilight began
"This day brings new light, more plentiful times, and happiness to all in our fair land!" She declared
The two Alicorns turned away from the crowd, their horns beginning to light up when a rumble rocketed through the ground. The crowd gasped and stumbled back in horror at what they could see in the distance.
Clover poked her head out of the tent, to see what could only be described as Malice.
Fellfall swooped down to the field; he had not yet landed but suddenly a tremor ricocheted through the ground. Even the very air shook in fear.
Fellfall looked around; he was still high above the crowd and saw a terrifying creature.
The monsters skin was dark as night, and tendrils of jet black seemed to emanate from its very body. It seemed to be constantly changing, morphing to more terrifying shapes than the last. On what seemed to be its face was two red eyes, with streams of green, purple and black emanating from it. Its mouth was formed into a large, sharp toothed grin, whilst on its head was a pair of long, grey horns.
It grinned at the crowd, and raised a fist, and a solid dark blue fog to its back.
Fellfall stared in horror as the Princesses flew into the air to tackle the beast.
Clover saw as the Princesses charged at the beast, their horns glowing with raw magic which they released directly at his chest. The creature laughed, and said in a voice that made Clovers whole being crawl.
"Did you believe that a light show would stop me?" He chuckled in a deadly voice
The princesses snarled, but were knocked sideways out of the air and into the ground, leaving groove in the dirt.
Clover could take no more. She rushed out of the tent, quelling the fear and doubt inside her heart, and launched into the air in front of the shocked crowd.
She flew as fast as she could towards the creature. She knew not what she would do, but Clover knew she would not be killed in a tent, cowering.
Malice turned with a look of amusement towards Clover.
"Why, after the two most powerful beings in Equestria have just fallen, to what will soon be there demise, why would you be hear little one?" He sneered
Clover growled slightly
Malice sighed expectantly
"So be it," He grinned, raising a fist, swinging it at Clover, when a cry echoed through her head
"NOOO!" A voice cried as a blue blur shoved Clover out of the way in time, before being sent flying to the ground.
The voice was unmistakeable, the blur, her saviour was Fellfall.
"FELLFALL!" Clover shouted as he landed on the ground, Clover chasing after as a booming chuckle echoed from Malice's ever changing chest.
Fellfall watched as the Princesses fell in shock, but not as much when he saw Clover galloping out of the tent and into the air. He watched as the crowd gasped and pointed at her. Fellfall just watched as the events unfolded.
As Fellfall heard the creature speak, he was awoke from his frozen slumber, and flew as fast as he could over the petrified crowd.
He heard Clover growl and before he knew what was happening, a fist was directed at Clover, whizzing through the air. He cried out, and flew directly into Clover, pushing her out of the way in time before he was sent spiralling towards the ground.
He heard his name being called out up above as he crashed into the hard ground, blackness enveloping him.
Clover landed with a thud and ran up to Fellfall, dust clearing from the impact.
His body had a developing bruise on his right side, and the dust from the ground had settled on his body.
Clover sat next to him, and a tear dribbled down her cheek and landed on Fellfalls chest, which was know breathing raggedy breathes. Clover called out his name between a sob, shaking him gently. He was out cold, blood trickling from the side of his head.
Clovers horn lit up as she healed his wounds, wiping her face she stood up and faced Malice's eyes.
"How quaint. At least he'll be able to breathe when he dies," he chuckled "or maybe I'll choke him, who knows?" He laughed again, as Malice waved a tendril, and the darkened mass of fog behind him, enveloped her.
Images flitted through the fog around her, before seeing creatures of evil march towards her.
Clover quivered as a spectral alicorn dark as the night with teeth as sharp as diamonds march towards her, her moon cutie mark flashing for all to see. Next to her, a ghostly image of a draconis grinned gauntly at her. As well as this, there was a large maroon centaur, grey unicorn with a sharp curved horn, ended with blood red, and grey, green and red smoke emanating from his eyes. A large female changeling stood cackling to their left, as well as diamond dogs, timber wolves, hydras and many more.
A voice boomed from the darkness
"Do you see them? They could not save themselves from me, what makes you think that you can!" Malice's voice faded away before coming stronger stating
"Even your teachers couldn't protect themselves!" It shouted in her ears, which Clover flattened against her head, as two alicorns glided from the shadows, darkness permitting there being.
Clover sat in despair as they surrounded her, laughed at her. Clover felt like giving up was her only choice; perhaps Malice would help her if she gave up Equestr-
"NO!" Clover shouted, magic filling her horn the light banishing the shadowy figures, to show her once again Malice, and thankfully Fellfall.
Malice looked slightly surprised.
"Very well," He whispered, his eyes manic with playful glee.
Malice sent down a tendril towards her, which Clover sliced with a beam of magic.
Malice cried out as the darkness evaporated, and snarled at Clover
"I suppose I underestimated you. I will not make the same mistake twice," He said through gritted teeth.
Clover stepped back slightly. She felt it.
Magic flowed through her body, from her mane to her hooves, magic flowed to one concentrated point, gathering to one glowing red hot point that filled the maintained the elongated darkness.
She was no longer Clover Night.
Clover opened her eyes as light spilled from the, and a voice that was not her own said as she floated into the air without aid of her wings said
"Leave hear Malice and never return," Said many voices as one
Malice reeled at the light, and said wildly
"What are you!?" He screeched
"Your end," The voices said hauntingly
Clover's horn let out a blinding light as the crowd watched in awe at the spectacle.
The Sun and the Moon together raised in the sky, until the merging together, light spilling from them. The orbs started to twist gently as it split into two tendrils of flame and navy darkness, which intertwined themselves.
Malice screamed in pain at the sight, his body contorting.
Suddenly, a spectral image of a sword passed through the spectacle, and light flowed down to one point in the ground.
Clover walked up to the 4 alicorns that stood, horns glowing around the screaming Malice. Clover nodded to each of them, and together their horns lit up, and a brilliant sea of rainbow engulfed him, and in one swift movement, they each swung their heads and Malice screeched in pain as he was thrown towards the strange symbol in the sky which enveloped him and vanished.
As the light from Clovers eyes faded, she felt like sleep was about to carry her away, but not before she spotted hundreds of ponies flit over her vision, as she fell to an unwilling slumber next to Fellfall.
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20. Chapter 20
Hey Guys!
So I feel like I've neglected you somewhat, so to make up for it, here is another chapter on the same day :D
Clovers head spun. She saw flashes of nurses and guards ponies, even at one point seeing her family. Clover drifted from mild consciousness to unconsciousness.
When, finally Clovers body did not feel like it was weighted down she opened her eyes slowly, light coming through the shades. Clover could hear the beeps of a machine, and felt something in her arm.
Clover sat up groggily. It felt like she had run a marathon whilst fighting a ten ton hydra as she peered over to her arm, poking the needle that lay inside her gently.
She heard sounds of arguing outside,
"No, she needs her rest!" A nurse's voice said
"She's asleep! I won't be disturbing her!" A frazzled voice came out
Clover yanked out the needle and marched to the door, pulling it open
"Well now you have!" Clover said menacingly, before seeing who it was
Fellfall stood stunned; a large bandage around his torso, but that did not cover all the bruising. His right wing was in a cast, the tips of his feathers slightly crooked.
"Clover! You shouldn't be walking!" Fellfall said worriedly, limping up to her
Clovers head spun at the new angle of "standing," and stumbled slightly before muttering
"You're telling me," As the nurse helped her back into her bed, Fellfall snuck in behind her.
"Alright, since she's up and it keeps you out of my hair," The nurse sighed before walking out of the room.
Fellfall gingerly took the spare bed next to her before Clover asked
"What happened to me? Are you alright?" She said with a mixture of curiosity and guilt
Fellfall looked startled
"Don't you remember?" He asked worriedly
Clover shook her head
"I remember dismissing the darkness, but after that it's just a blur, something to do with a rainbow?" She said her face a picture of concentration
Fellfall shook his head
"I've been told what happened by a few visitors, but I doubt that it's all fact," He mused
Clover laughed, but her head reeled at the action.
"So, are you alright?" Clover asked again
Fellfall scoffed
"It'll take more than a big beasty to take me down!" He said shaking a fist in the air, making his voice comically deep
Clover raised an eyebrow at him
Fellfall laughed at her before asking more seriously
"Do you know what that thing was Clover?" he asked timidly now. Obviously Fellfall wasn't holding up as well as he made out.
"Malice. Pure Malice," Clover said bluntly
Fellfall scratched his chin
"I've never heard of it," Fellfall mused "How do you know?" He asked curiously
Clover sat and pondered for a while, before saying
"I'll tell you later, right now I have a question," Clover asked
"What?" Fellfall asked, slightly put out
"How long was I out for?" She said worriedly
Fellfall looked down before saying quietly
"3 days, no one knew what had happened, but they suspect magic exhaustion,"
"Three days! Oh my gosh, I haven't eaten in three days!" Clover exclaimed
Fellfall could only stare for a second and laugh as Clover looked hungrily over at him
"Hey! Remember, friends don't eat each other!" He said through chortles
Clover harrumphed
"So when can I get out of here?" Clover asked excitedly
"Today probably, they will have to do some checks, but yeah," Fellfall said quickly
They sat in silence for a while
"Thanks by the way," Clover smiled
Fellfall looked confused
"For what?" he asked
"For taking probably the biggest punch of all time for me," Clover laughed
Fellfalls chest inflated, but probably not as much as his ego
"No problem, the doctors said that if you hadn't have healed my wounds, I probably would have been 6ft under by now," Fellfall joked
"Well I guess we both are even," Clover added
"Yeah," He finished
Soon, a nurse walked in with two trays of food for the two of them, and Clover ate with gusto, whilst Fellfall pushed some sticky thing around his plate.
"Ar yu going t' ea tha?" Clover asked with a mouthful of something that glued her mouth almost shut.
Fellfall pushed his plate away
"Be my guest," He added disgusted
Clover finished his meal as well before standing up steadily
"Hey hey hey!" Fellfall said in protest, but Clover waved him off, she felt fine enough
"Come on slow poke!" Clover laughed
Fellfall grumbled, but eventually joined her in their little walk.
Clover poked her head out of the door to see a guard or two in the corridor. Clover sighed slightly, before pushing open the door
The guards looked at her before saying in a military tone
"I have instructions from the Princesses not to let you leave the hospital," He said with a salute
Fellfall limped up to him before saying
"I don't think she wants to, and trust me, she would get very far if she tried," He put bluntly
Clover glared but the guard pondered this for a second before waving a few guards down a hallway
"Alright, but we have guards at the entrance," He said finally saluting
The duo limped down the halls, to where even more guards were stationed
"Who's in here?" Clover asked with wonder
Fellfall looked at the guards before saying
"The princesses, they took a nasty fall," He stated
"Are they alright?" She asked worriedly
"Yes, there awake, but won't be active for a while," He said solemnly
Clover sighed, but they moved on don the corridors, before Fellfall insisted they head back to her room.
When they returned the guard nodded towards them, before saying
"Miss Night, your family is here to see you, shall I let them pass?" He asked
Clover nodded before pushing open her door, and crawling into her bed
Eventually, her door burst open, as her family filed into the room her mother flew up to her and smothered her with kisses
"You're alright! Oh, it's our entire fault, but you're alright!" He mother said through tears
Clover chuckled before saying
"It wasn't your fault mum!" She said wriggling under her hug,
"No, but we read your letter to the Princess, I'm sorry Clover," Ferris said walking towards her bed
Clover nodded
"I forgive you," She murmured
Her family nodded with approval, even Markus was there. It appeared he had flown all the way from the crystal empire, judging from his messy mane and flying goggles
Another knock came at the door, and Clover shouted to come in
The door opened as 4 figures walked in to the room.
Everyone gasped
Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Prince Valorous and Prince Concord glided into the room, a slight mist around them.
"Your Highnesses," Clover bowed to them
The four broke out a smile and chuckled
"Well done Clover, we knew you would do it," Princess Luna stated happily
"Yes, congratulations are in order," Prince Concord said merrily, the rest chuckling behind him
Clover looked around the room. Her family stared gobsmacked at the declared deceased royalty in front of them.
At the sight of the royal ponies, images spilled into her mind. Memories which didn't feel like her own, like they belonged to another person. Did she really do that?
"Ah," Princess Celestia said looking around the room "I do believe explanations are in order," And the Royalty began to explain what they had told Clover in her dream.
Once they had finished, the family stared at them even more
"So, you said that the passed on could come back? Like zombies?" Fellfall asked worriedly, but nevertheless in awe of his royal idles.
"No Fellfall," Princess Luna joked "The zombies in your dreams are just fantasy," she winked at him as Fellfalls jaw dropped
"No, they come back as whole as they have always been, at whatever age they desire, they can even return to the astral plain if they want for a while," Princess Concord confirmed
"And Clover made this all possible?" Her father said in awe
The alicorns nodded
"Ever since her cutie mark appeared, she was destined to open the gate way between us,"
Clovers mouth dropped. Her cutie mark, the exact same shape as the magic that banished Malice.
"So, let's say in theory, my great, great grandma could come back, could she be the same age as me?" Fellfall said curiously
"Already have squirt!" A voice came from outside as a cyan blue pegasus with a rainbow mane floated into the room, followed by a white pegasus with a dark blue mane.
Fellfall's jaw hit the ground as she landed next to him
"What? Too young?" She said as she morphed into an older version of her life
"Oh boy," Fellfall said, clutching at the bed rest, trying not to fall over in shock.
She laughed, before saying to the Princesses
"I think the other princesses might want to see you your highnesses" She said with respect
The Royal Pony Sisters smiled before bidding farewell, the Royal Pony Brothers following as well, Rainbow Dash in hot pursuit.
They sat in silence for a while before a guard marched into the room.
"Your Highness," He bowed low, leaving Clover startled
"We have been informed that you can now be discharged, however we must insist on a royal escort back to the palace," He said humbly
Clover nodded, she was starting to get annoyed by the beeps of the machine next to her.
"Are they coming with me?" She asked indicating to her family and Fellfall
He bowed and saluted
"We will have it all arranged your highness," Before exiting
Once he had gone Fellfall asked
"Will that happen...often?" He said curiously
"What?" Clover replied
"The 'Your Highness'" He scoffed slightly
Clover grumbled silently
"I certainly hope not," She muttered
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21. Chapter 21
Hey Guys!
So, this is the penultimate chapter :(
BUT FEAR NOT!
I will be carrying this on later, but I want to do something different, but that doesn't mean I'm abandoning it ;)
Next chapter I will be also be welcoming new ideas for the next series thingy :3
As Clover had gathered her things to leave the hospital, Fellfalls discharge papers had come, and the doctor had brought a large bag of painkillers for the two of them.
"Now, take these once a hour, these twice a day, and these before you go to sleep," Pointing to the many in the bag.
Clover nodded occasionally, giving the odd "yep," of agreement, and when he had left Clover yawned
"So what happens now?" She was tired and hungry from the unfilling meal of the hospital food.
Everyone shrugged
"I honestly don't know," replied her Mother
"I suppose the Princesses will tell us sooner rather than later," Clover replied trotting to the door, the others following.
"Speaking of which," Her Father said in a tone that indicated he had planned out a speech
"Clover, the Princesses wish to see you, I'm not sure what about, however we hope that you will be civil with them, they took a nast-"
Clover sighed. She might as well get this over with.
"Yes, alright I'll go," She mumbled
Her Dad nodded,
"Go on then, we'll see you later," and with that her family smiled and trundled around the corner
Fellfall gave a nod of encouragement before Clover said
"You should probably go with them, it's just tha-"
Fellfall nodded again
"I understand, it'd be awkward?" He laughed
Clover laughed with him until they waved their goodbyes and Clover was left alone as she moved down the hospital corridors.
As she moved further down the corridor, she heard laughter coming from there room, and just as Clover raised a hoof to knock on the door, it was suddenly swung open by a bubblegum pink mare with a huge bubblegum like mane.
Before Clover knew what was going on, she was pushed into the room hearing
"Are you excited! Cause I'm excited I've never-"
"PINKIE!" Came a chorus of laughing voices from around the room
Clover blinked. In front of her was a sight to behold.
In the air 2 pegasi mares floated gently, one with a light pink mane with a creamy yellow coat, whilst her aerial companion was the same cyan blue pegasi she had seen before, Rainbow Dash. On the ground, a strong tan earth pony with a hay yellow mane was pulling back the bubbly pink mare by a lasso. It didn't look too comfortable, but the pink pony was still bouncing happily whilst the sweating mare tried to yank her back.
To the struggling pair's right was a dazzling white unicorn mare with a royal blue mane, which seemed to be not so impressed with the scene next to her, muttering something about decorum, and magically separated the two earth ponies, whilst the air born pegasi chuckled slightly at their antics.
As strange as the situation was to Clover, it wasn't that that drew her attention
But there in the beds were the Princesses
Prince Shining armour was sat next to Princess Cadence, each smiling at each other, the Prince stoking her mane gently. When she walked in he smiled broadly at her, nodding in brief greeting before returning his attention to his injured wife.
Princess Cadence had a similar bandage around her middle to the one of Fellfalls, but not only that, one of her hind legs were in a cast as well as her left wing which hung slightly limp in her plaster cast.
Princess Twilight looked not much better.
Her side was not bandaged like her sister in law, however she was still mottled with bruises, and her foreleg and snout each had a bandage covering them, as well to Clover's dismay, her horn.
A broken horn was one of the most painful things for a unicorn to go through. It was essentially another bone, however, since it was imbued with magic, it became extremely sensitive.
When Princess Twilight spotted Clover she smiled weakly and waved her over to her, an once she was by her bed side she began
"Clover, I'm sorry," The Princess said sincerely
"It's alright-" Clover was interrupted by Princess Cadence shaking her head gently
"No, it's not. We've been told what really happened, and we cannot be sorry enough, as well as grateful," She smiled at her husband
Clover stood slightly abashed, whilst the ponies around her smiled.
Suddenly the door swung forward, a purple dragon carrying some papers walking in muttering
"Damages to the west fields, damages to the east-" He stopped and stared at the ponies in the room, who stared equally at the 3ft dragon
"SPIKE!" The 5 ponies cheered in chorus, and the orange earth mare eventually lost her grip on the pink pony who rushed over to him jumping up and down, pulling him into a big hug.
Soon all 5 of the ponies were hugging the dragon, Rainbow Dash rubbing the top of his head
Clover looked at the scene awkwardly. Now she wished she had brought Fellfall with her. Princess Cadence looked at her before nodding and smiling, and Clover took this as permission that she could go so she quickly trotted out of the door before the bubbly pink mare could squeeze her with one of the killer hugs she was giving Spike, who was turning a rosy shade of red due to lack of air.
Clover walked around a corner, before a voice next to her came
"You did a great thing Clover," Clover looked around, startled.
Clover wasn't quite sure what to say. Yes, the Princess was reunited with friends, many others around Equestria would be doing the same, but Clover felt that something was too unworldly for her.
"Are you sure Princess? Because I don't feel that this is all...right." Clover said quietly, trying to voice her fears.
Princess Luna stood stonily next to her before saying
"Change is a strange thing Clover. We become settled in our lives, and we hope everything will remain the same, but it ultimately will change. The question is, do you change with it?" The Princess said wisely
Clover shook her head
"But this feels too good to be true Princess," She replied anxiously
Luna nodded in understanding
"Sometimes things seem that way, but can we ever expect a good thing to happen if we are constantly suspicious?" She asked
Clover shook her head
Luna smiled slightly
"Clover, do you know what you want?" She asked randomly
Clover paused, trying to think of a decent answer.
"I want to live a normal life. For a while at least," Clover stated rubbing her chin
Luna chuckled
"Yes normality is good for a while, but don't get stuck down by it, It's rarely as fun as it looks," She winked and turned on her hooves and glided down the corridor
Clover stood still for a second, watching the Princess go before heading to the exit were her family and Fellfall awaited her.
Clover listened in on their conversation, which happened to be on her brother's work.
"So, you're a crystal weather pony? What's the difference?" Fellfall asked Markus, who rubbed his chin a bit
"Well, I really work on keeping the weather in the crystal dome sunny, seeing as we live in a constant snowstorm," He chuckled
Fellfall nodded
"What do you do Ferris?" He asked, turning to his darker maned brother
"I make things," He said smugly
"Like what?" Fellfall asked, intrigued
"Like mess," His mother grumbled while Ferris blushed
"I generally make new technology, I've been recently been working on a device that sprinkles water from the ceiling if there is a fire," He said proudly
His Father gave him a scowl
"I thought you gave up that project," He said dangerously
Ferris gave an uneasy laugh
"Why would you want to stop developing that?" Fellfall said honestly
His Father looked angrily over to Ferris
"How do you think he tests it?"
Everyone was silent for a few seconds before Clover coughed
"So, when are we going?" She asked
"Right now by the looks of it," said Ferris, striding over to one of the guards that had just landed outside.
His Father tapped him on the shoulder just as he was going
"Don't think we're done with this," He grumbled
Ferris nodded as he started a conversation with the guard.
When he returned he said
"Ok, there are about 100 reporter ponies out there, they want a picture of you," Ferris asked
Clover sighed
"Fine, let's get this over with," She said walking out with a small smile on her face as light flashed in her eyes. She gave the crowd a small wave before hopping into a chariot with Ferris and Fellfall, whilst Markus and her Mum and Dad jumped into the one next to her as they headed towards the palace.
It was midday at the palace as Clover read the headline of the newspaper in front of her
"NEW PRINCESS ON THE BLOCK?" It read in bold letters, with a picture of Clover smiling emblazoned on the cover.
Clover groaned before she heard a knock at the door, here a guards pony stood
He bowed before relaying his message.
"The Princesses have sent you a telegram your highness," whilst levitating a scroll towards her
Clover thanked the pony, who saluted and left her alone once again
Clover's mouth dropped open in disbelief
It read
Dearest Clover,
We hope that this letter finds you well, the Princess and I are almost about to return to the palace tomorrow if all is well, but that is not what we are here to inform you.
Clover, after a conversation with the Princesses and Princes, we have decided that if you wish you can return to Cloudsdale today. We hope you find this satisfactory,
Sincerely,
Princess Twilight Sparkle.
Clover grinned like a mad pony, before standing up shakily and trotting down to where Fellfalls room was.
She knocked on the door and trotted in to where Fellfall was sitting reading a telegram, with an open maw.
"Fellfall?" Clover asked uncertainly,
Fellfall jumped into the air and fell back down with a groan back onto the sofa
"Clover?" He grumbled
She stumbled over to him
"Are you alright?" She said worriedly
"Yeah, yeah I'm alright," He said sitting up slowly, before brightening substantially
"OH! I just got a telegram from th-"
"Princess? Yeah, me too," She replied, levitating the scroll next to her.
"What did she say to you?" Fellfall asked
Clover relayed the information to Fellfall who sat listening, and once she had finished he nodded
"Well, It's nice they gave you a choice for once," He chuckled
"Hmm," Clover replied
"Are you going then?" He asked
"What?" Clover said questioningly
"To Cloudsdale?" He asked
Clover thought for a bit before replying
"Yes. Yes I think I might, are you coming?"She said turning slightly, and gave him a grin
He looked longingly at the sofa, before sighing
"I think it is time to go home, I think mum might want to see her Gran," He gave a small smile
Clover nodded,
"I'll meet you in an hour," She smiled before limping out of the door, leaving Fellfall alone
Clover looked around her room, gathering her saddle bags and filling them of comforts. It felt like yesterday that she was doing this when she was leaving Canterlot for the first time in her life.
Clover had just said her goodbyes, and was just about to head out to find Fellfall, when she noticed a small book, lying on top of a shelf, a thick layer of dust on it.
Clover's curiosity peaked, and she gave a small sigh of defeat and levitated up the book, shaking of the dust.
Once the dust was gone, Clover smiled at the tiny thing. It was a journal that she got when she was just a filly. Obviously, she hadn't written in it for a very long time, however Clover flicked open the book and read a few chapters of the hardly legible scrawl of writing that slanted down the page.
It wasn't until she reached one of the last few entries that she had truly forgotten about writing. There on the page were a few short sentences of her confusion of her cutie mark, and a little charcoal drawing of it.
Clover closed the journal, and placed it on the bookshelf before pausing and sitting on a chair, where she pulled a box over to her.
Inside were a bundle of small jagged pebbles, two of which Clover pulled out and placed on the desk. It had been a long time since she had done this however.
The doctor had said no large amounts of magic, but Clover had been doing this since she was 5, she knew what she was doing.
A small orb of light burst into existence, which spun slowly for a few seconds before splitting into two image of a sun and moon, which slowly spun pulsating light as it began to envelope the pebbles and with a flash of light, which splintered into fragments.
Clover sighed. It wasn't as if the spell would work differently now, she didn't know what to expect. She levitated the fragments up, when she noticed something strange about them. They seemed to glow, almost like a rainbow.
She lifted them to eye level with her magic and her eyes open wide. The rock was beginning to colour a dusky blue, whilst the other a pale green. After a while it stopped and Clover was left with two oddly coloured rocks.
Clover heard a call from outside her room, and she shoved the rocks into a draw and trotted to where the voice was coming from.
"Clover? Clover, are you ready?" said Fellfall coming around a corner
She nodded and lifted up her saddle bags creakily and they set off to the court yard
"So what now? Are you coming back to school?" Fellfall asked
Clover scoffed
"I don't think I would here the end of it if I didn't," She chuckled
Fellfall seemed quite happy by this reply and was walking backwards and chatting to Clover freely now, until Prince Valorous walked around a corner and Fellfall backed straight into him.
"Umf! Sorry, I didn't see you ther-," He was left mouth wide open as he scurried away from the royal pony that didn't look too pleased
"Your apology has been accepted. Clover," He tilted his head in acknowledgement
"I heard you were returning to Cloudsdale, I wish you best of luck and hope you will take my thanks," He said stonily
"Thank you, what shall you be doing now?" Clover asked
"Well first I shall be making my way towards the Frozen North and Crystal Mountains; I might be gone for some time." He said sighing for no reason
"Well, good luck then," Clover said rubbing the back of her head awkwardly
The stallions' lips twitched into what could be described as a smile, before facing Fellfall
"I understand that it was you who pushed Clover out of the way of what could have the demise of Equestria, please except my thanks," Prince Valorous' horn glowed and Clover heard a small "pop" of Fellfalls' wing straightening, and then felt a bright light behind her eyes and once her sight returned she stared at him.
All of Fellfalls' bruises were gone, a few scratches were left, however his wing and side no longer were mottled with purple colourations and Clover felt a wash of energy come over her, as if the last few days had never had happened.
"Whoa," Fellfall said in awe, flexing his wing experimentally
"Thank yo-" Clover began, but the Prince was gone.
"My wing is healed, look!" Fellfall began excitedly peeling of the bandages
He gave a hesitant flap of his wings, lifting shakily into the air before steadying himself and giving a small twirl mid flight.
"I think there better than ever!" He laughed ecstatically
Clover laughed, and jumped into the air to join him, and before long were zipping down the halls of Canterlot Castle before reaching the courtyard where a chariot lay waiting.
A royal guard approached them and saluted
"Your highness, one of the pegasi guards has sprained is wing and I am afraid he will not be ready for flight," he said bowing
Clover nodded
"That's alright, I think we'll fly today," Clover grinned at Fellfall who looked over mischievously
"Your Highness, I don't thin-," The guard started, but it was too late, they were in the air and were gone.
Clover laughed as they reached the clouds above Canterlot. Fellfall pulled slightly ahead of Clover, who pulled back the ground easily, and flapped her wings harder, putting her ahead of him.
They spiralled out of the city's skies and reached the air above the countryside. They could spot a few Earth ponies harvesting crops, who looked up and waved at the two airborne ponies, who waved back.
"Do you want to race?" Fellfall asked flying up beside her
Clover shrugged, before zipping of between the clouds
"Hey!" Clover heard Fellfalls' voice behind her as she sped up between the clouds. By now, she was surrounded by the thick clouds and laughing as she heard Fellfall trying to catch up to her. Before long she felt a pair of hooves grab her middle and yank her up out of the clouds.
"Hey! Get off!" Clover chuckle as she was set down on the cloud
Fellfall chortled as she squirmed of off the cloud and back into the air
"We're almost there, where do you want to go first?" He asked
Clover thought before replying
"What day is it?" Clover said slowly
Fellfall paused.
"I think it's a-," Fellfall began before a voice above them said
"Saturday!"
Clover and Fellfall looked up confusedly before a head poked out from behind a cloud
Nolan sat grinning above them before floating down and shouted above him
"It is them!" He yelled as Bolt and Breezy leaped of the cloud and landed on theirs
"If it isn't Your Highnesses," Bolt chuckled as the three bowed low, trying to suppress a giggle
"Hey! I'm not royalty!" Fellfall said offended
"No, but you'll be made a Prince when you get married," Breezy sniggered, behind him Bolt pretended to be running in slow motion shouting a deep "Nooooooo," over to Nolan who put a hoof to his head as if he was going to faint
Fellfall glowered, until Clover looked playfully over to him, and with her magic, suddenly a pink frilly dress appeared on Breezy who gave an outraged cry as her tried to struggle out of the garment, causing Clover and Fellfall to start laughing as Bolt tried to yank it off causing him to trip and fall face first into Nolan.
Once the lot f them had calmed down and Breezy was suitably out of the dress, they sat down on the clouds
"But seriously, what went on out there Clover?" Bolt asked curiously
Clover sighed, and together Fellfall and Clover began to recite what happened over the last couple of days, getting a few gasps from there willing audience of three.
Once they had finished, they sat in silence for a while before a grumble came from Bolt's direction
"So do we actually have to call you princess or what?" He began
Clover laughed
"You know what? I think I'm going to be telling a lot of ponies no to that," She chuckled
So there it is guys!
I hope you enjoyed it, and I will see you for the last chapter :(
Don't forget to R&R,
Love ya ;)
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22. Chapter 22
So here it is...
The last chapter :(
But WAIT! I am thinking of new ideas for the next series/installement/next bit of writing that I want to do because I enjoyed doing it ;), and I want to see if you guys would put in a (much needed) input :)
So go ahead and comment them, because I will read every last one :)
Once Clover and Fellfall had finished explaining exactly what happened to them, Bolt, Breezy and Nolan looked at them in shock.
"So, what happens now? Has the Princesses told you were to go and stuff?" Nolan asked nervously
Clover shrugged
"I'm not sure they really want to get involved. I still think they feel guilty about the whole thing," Clover shook her head side to side
Bolt growled slightly,
"If that Buck thinks he can get away with this," Bolt made some violent hoof gestures "Let me get my hooves on him,"
Clover shook her head again
"I don't think that's really necessary," She then gave a big grin "Besides, I'm sure he has got the message,"
The four colts stood with open maws, staring at her
"Says the mare that kicked the snot out of him," Fellfall pointed out
Clover smirked
"Oh, I don't know, I guess no pony knows what he's done, do they?" Clover hinted
The ponies stood confused before Fellfall laughed
"And, I guess we don't have to tell anypony about it, unless of course," He chuckled "We need to,"
Nolan blinked, Bolt grinned, and Breezy gave a dangerous smile
Silence fell over the 5 ponies until Clover coughed a little
"So, are we going or what?" She began in a good natured way
"Where?" Nolan asked suspiciously
Clover shrugged, but Fellfall rubbed his chin thoughtfully
"Well, I don't really want to go back home, and I'm sure that if one of you guys showed up with an alicorn at your front door- well you get the picture," He finished lamely
The other colts nodded
"I don't mind going to my place, are you coming?" She asked walking to the edge of the clouds
The group looked at each other before nodding, and with a leap, Clover was swerving towards the east side of Cloudsdale.
Clover dipped slightly, before flying over a stream of pegasi, and into a clump of houses. She swerved to avoid hitting some rogue clouds, and landed on the pavement area of the little cloud island
She heard the gentle thuds behind her, indicating that the four other pegasi had landed.
Clover turned to see the ponies gawking at the houses around her, before Fellfall managed to choke out
"You live here!" He seemed slightly unnerved by the size of the buildings
Clover shook her head,
"Not this one, I'm at number 18," She said pointing to the mansion up the road
The other four ponies seemed a bit dazed, so Clover, with a sigh, got behind them and shoved them a little bit
This seemed to snap them back to reality and soon they were trotting down the road towards the over-sized house.
"So Clover, who do you actually live with?" Bolt said curiously
Clover laughed
"I don't live with anyone, I was told I was going to live here, but my brother lives in the city centre," She said nonchalantly
Breezy looked confused
"But, no one lives with you?" He asked worriedly
"No, is something wrong," Clover asked slightly unnerved
The colts shook their heads
"Just seems a bit odd's all," Bolt mumbled
Clover nodded, now that she thought about it, it was weird that Clover was sent here instead of to see her brother, but Clover shrugged it off as they approached
The guard stations were deserted, obviously they weren't expecting her.
Clover jumped and flapped her wings until she landed over the gates, the others joining her whilst she fumbled in her saddle bags to try and find her keys, before cursing
"Damn, I must have left them inside," She muttered before her horn lit up, and suddenly she was looking at her hallway, and heard a few surprised outside. Chuckling, Clover turned around and opened the door to see every pony staring at a small scorch mark on the floor
"Hey, are you coming in or not?" Clover asked
The ponies jumped and looked at her in surprise, before nodding
As they walked into the building, Clover began
"I'm not sure if the food I've got is in date, but I'm sure there's something," Before flapping into the kitchen "look around if you want," She said, yanking out some carrots out of the cupboards
Fellfall watched as Clover left and the other shrugged and began to split up and have a look at Clovers house
Fellfall sighed, before perking up slightly. He still hadn't seen what happened to Clovers room. He had heard a brief story that the door had been broken down in her escape, but he still hadn't seen the damage. But then again, a pony probably had come round to clean it all up.
Fellfall shrugged; there was no reason not to look anyway.
He flew up the large staircase, and rounded a few corners, looking for any signs of broken doors. He spotted a few leaves on the carpet, and followed them until he spotted a shard of wood
Suddenly, Fellfall was faced with a battered open way, showing a room with leaves scattered all over the floor, blown in from the smashed open window.
He heard a sigh behind him. He spun around to see Clover holding a bag of carrots. She placed them on the floor
"It's not as bad as it looks you know," She said offhandedly "Have one if you want," Pointing to the bag
Fellfall wandered over to the bag, and grabbed a carrot tossing it into his mouth
He watched as Clover gathered the leaves and placed them outside, before levitating up the shards of glass and placing them back into the window, before grunting and the pane became whole again. Fellfall rushed up to her
"Your not supposed to be doing magic, doctors orders," He said sternly
Clover gave a weak smile
"And you weren't meant to be leaping in front of huge fists," She said with raised eyebrows, before going back to her task, this time fixing the door.
"Yeah, but that wasn't optional," Fellfall said seriously
Clover frowned slightly
"Why wouldn't it be optional, you've always got a choice," Clover said pulling up a knocked over cabinet.
Fellfall shook his head
"You try watching your best friend being attacked by the biggest threat to Equestria and try not to do anything about it," He said jokingly, but Clover could still hear a hint of seriousness
"But that didn't have to be nearly getting yourself killed," Clover said darkly
Fellfall sighed, but eventually nodded
"That goes for you too, you're as reckless as I am," He pointed out
"Fine, we'll both not try and get ourselves killed?" she said exasperated
Fellfall nodded
"I think I can do that," He muttered
"Good," Clover replied
An alarm went off as Clover groggily sat up in bed, and stumbled onto her hooves.
She had been back in Cloudsdale for 2 days now, and the guards had returned, standing stock still outside in the early morning sunshine
Clover groaned but managed to brush her mane and teeth before scoffing a carrot from the bag in the kitchen, and pushing on her saddle bags. Clover looked unappealingly at the driveway were the guards were stood, and marched out her back door, before taking off and flying over the driveway.
The skies were quite that morning, as she only saw a few pegasi going about their business. Clover spotted the clock tower, reading that it was only 6:30, she landed on the nearest cloud and rested her wings, cursing her faulty alarm clock.
She was too awake to have a nap, and didn't really trust herself to wake up at the right time, so she watched the clouds below her. Over time, the skies grew more crowded, and soon Clover decided that she should probably be off.
Clover took off again, this time moving into a large stream off pegasi. No one seemed to notice each other as they stopped, waiting for another group of ponies to cross their path.
Eventually, they were moving again, and very soon Clover exited the group and spiralled down to the school campus.
Clover peeked around, and spotting no pony, scampered inside.
The corridors were deserted, as Clover jumped and glided down towards her classroom. As she reached the room, she saw a large group of ponies stood outside, waiting.
None of the pegasi seemed to spot her, so Clover landed next to one silently and whispered
"What are we looking at?" She said conspiratorially
The mare that answered her had a light purple coat, with a matching pink mane with blue stripes that whispered back, not looking at her
"Well, we all heard that Fellfall and Clover had come back today, and we wanted to see them," She said, watching the windows outside. Clover considered herself lucky that she landed on the other side of the campus.
"Ah," She said, slightly worriedly
Soon, she felt another presence next to her. She glanced next to her to see Fellfall standing with raised eyebrows next to her
"What's going on?" He asked
Clover grinned as the mare that had spoken to her earlier jumped
"F-Fellfall? C-Clover?" She stumbled as the rest of the group spun around in shock
"Yes? What can we do for you?" Clover said smiling, on the inside curling into a little ball with all the eyes on her
"Um, we were all just-" Another mare piqued up before another interrupted
"Wondering if you were ok is all?"
Fellfall blinked, but Clover answered hurriedly
"Oh, were fine thanks," Before practically leaping into the empty classroom, Fellfall following
Thankfully, the group didn't follow them, but Fellfall said
"You realise that it's going to take some time before they get used to the idea you know?"
Clover shook her head
"I just don't like ponies I think I know staring at me like I'm an alien, is all," She muttered
Fellfall chuckled
"Well, I just want to see how a teacher would handle it, would you give a detention to the heir of the throne?" He laughed
Clover groaned, but Fellfall put a reassuring hoof around her
"Hey, I'm sure whatever happens; just know that ponies will probably have forgotten about the whole thing in a month or two,"
Clover gave a weak smile, but as ponies began to enter the room, going about their business, Clover felt more confident. Ponies adapt well to change given enough time, and Fellfall was right ponies would forget. Eventually.
And besides, it's not like everypony new the story. Right?