Twilight and The Alicorn Origins
Chapter 16: Editor: Princess of Writing.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterTwilight woke up with a note taped to her face. Being careful not to rip the paper and hurting herself, Twilight took the note off and began to read it inside her head.
My Dearest Twilight Sparkle,
If you'd wish to discuss business with me, please, make some sort of charity and I'll be there! You'll notice me as myself, but wearing my old suit as a way to hide my wings. If you can't find me then, please just yell out 'Coupons!' and I'll be there! Just, really do have coupons for me if you do. Hoping to make sweet business deals to improve your ice & Castle,
Prince Monopoly.
P.S. Make sure Editor doesn't read this, I hate having another lecture from her!!!
"He's still going to get one." A disinterested sounding mare spoke. Twilight looked behind her and saw a drowsy looking mare wearing black librarian shaped glasses, her mane in a bun similar to Nurse Redheart's back in ponyville (despite it being black and her coat a really light brown), and her cutie mark was a book. Another one of Celestia's obscure siblings, but this one seems to be really calm and, well, act very similar Pinkie's Sister, Maud.
"I take it you're Editor?" Twilight asked
"You really needed to ask?" Twilight stared at her. Most of the ponies here, though crazy, were at least nice to her, but this mare was being a bit rude. "Yes, I'm Editor: Princess of writing, and you're Twilight Sparkle, the princess of Friendship."
"I am, and it's-"
"Good. Let's not play the pronoun game and just straight with each other."
"The... Pronoun game?"
"Noun: In conversation, the act of purposefully avoiding the pronouns "her," "him," "she," and "he," to hide the gender of the person being spoken about from the listener. You're a mare, I'm a mare, that's all we need to know."
"...Okay?"
"Now if you excuse me, I need to continue writing your experience here in Elysium for your ancestors and descendants."
"My... Ancestors?" Editor turned around and gave an irritated look.
"WOW!!! Really!? You can't figure THAT out!?!?!?"
"Excuse me! This is my first time here and I haven't seen any family member of mine yet!"
"You had to figure out by now that many good ponies come here after they die, they live here with Elysium & build their homes with their family members new & old, and live here happily ever after by now!"
"Are you this rude with everypony!?"
"I'm not rude, I'm just stating the obvious that writers, directors, painters, and every form of 'productive' ponies that just follow the old & never want to change things up, even after all these centuries!"
"So you're a critic!?"
"Yes and No. Yes, I criticize everything from the portrayal of characters, the settings, the dialogue, concepts, ideas, transitions, and, as you can guess, the story itself. No because I record everything that happens and, on my free time, I write down different stories." Twilight froze and shook her head.
"You... write?"
"Of course! If there's one thing I may have to love and hate about myself, it's that we Alicorns have all the time in the world to do what we want, whereas the others will just disappear like the wind, never remembered at all. I have helped written the classics that, thought I hate, schools make children read just to get a good grade rather than allow them to read on their own."
"Hold on! You wrote some of the classics like 'Hoofula'?"
"Kinda. I sometimes leave the ideas to the ponies and allow them to make it. Of course, there's E.L. Mane with her... horrible '50 shades of Hay'... that's a FANFICTION... FOR THE MOST AWFUL SHIMMER SERIES!!!" Editor began to breath hard, snorting through her nostrils.
"...I've never heard of that book."
"Good! That book was just meant for mares to 'help' find love, which caused an infamous baby boom nine months after Hearts & Hooves day. I am so glad most of those books are destroyed, lost, and forgotten. Brings a smile when I see one on the floor and Fuego burns it with me."
"Do... you get along with your siblings?"
"...Most of the time. Only Einstein and Masterpiece really agrees with me in stories, whereas everypony else calls me a 'hater' for showing my great critique!"
"Think hard on a lot of things like me?"
"Oh yes!"
"Have you read anything good that you didn't make?"
"... A.K. Yearling's 'Daring Do' series."
"REALLY!?"
"Yeah... it's... a guilty pleasure as I call it."
"Guilty pleasure?"
"Yeah... simple stories that feel cheap for the author's real life movements, but... entertaining, nonetheless."
"Entertaining, eh?"
"... Look, Twilight, I'm sorry for my attitude. I sometimes wonder why Elysium chose me instead of Tartarus."
"Elysium chose you!?"
"Yeah. Guess I got lucky there. Watch and learn,,, and criticize if you want." Editor's horn glowed a bright blue, making Twilight see the past.
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Elysium walked around her kingdom, disguised as a fair traveler from out of the kingdom. Everywhere, ponies read a something made out of paper, each looking the same with only slight variations, mostly rips & tears in the paper. Many of the ponies reading it had different reactions: some were laughing in certain sections, some were crying in others, but all were entertained by this weird thing. Curious, Elysium walked to one of the ponies: a small colt.
"Excuse me," Elysium spoke to the colt "but what is it that everypony's reading?"
"Those?" The colt replied "They're called books! Somepony made something called 'paper', which involves some trees to be chopped down."
"Chopped down trees?"
"Don't worry! She's not trying to go overboard, and she's only using what she needs to help get a better education."
"Really? What is this... book about?"
"It's about the origins of Elysium and Tartarus's kingdoms! She went around and has learned from all the elders about the two titans. She's learned many of their children, and, with great knowledge, has written down many of their origins in order!"
"And where can I find this mare?"
"She's in that house over there! Who are you?"
"Oh, everypony's seen me around here."
"Wait! Are you-"
"SHH~" Elysium winked to the colt and left to the home of the creator of this book. She knocked on the door to the creator of the book.
"Who's there?" A mare's voice asked
"Your biggest fan!"
"... Yeah right! Many ponies say that now when I made THAT BOOK!!! It's only a fad, and it's only one letter from 'Fade'. I might as well use that to my advantage and-"
"It's Elysium."
"...Who?"
"Elysium."
"...PROOF!!!" Elysium sighed and her horn glowed. She growed in size, causing nearby ponies to point and screamed a bit. The door opened and the book maker came out, who was a light brown unicorn mare! She stared and gawked at the sight of Elysium. Elysium lowered her head, nearly having her muzzle touch the unicorn. A smirk came to Elysium's face.
"How about now?"
"... Am I in trouble?"
"Oh no! In fact, you impressed me!"
"... What!?"
"Oh yes! Sure, you chopped down a few trees, but look around you! Ponies are experiencing something new, and you made it! And your book is around us! Though, I'm not quite sure if you got OUR origins down."
"Your... origins? Can... you tell me!?"
"In due time." Elysium levitated the young author up into the air and stood right up.
"What are you-"
"Your reward!" Her horn glowed brighter, and the author began to grow wings! She was now an alicorn, but also noticed she shrunk a bit. Looking ahead, Elysium opened her mouth, levitating the author in. She tried to evade, but couldn't! Elysium soon swallowed the author, feeling her land inside with her new siblings.
The new Alicorn fell to the floor, landing in front of the castle! the doors opened, and the Alicorns walked out. Natality was now a young filly, but the others were still in their young selves, now even changed one bit.
"Welcome sister!" Celestia greeted herself
"W-Where am I!?!?!?" The book maker asked
"You're inside Elysium, our mother!" Luna replied
"Y-you're mother?"
"Oh yes! Are you like Natality, who was born naturally?"
"...kinda. Who are- No wait, never mind I asked that. Care to tell me each on who you are, get to know yourselves a bit?" The alicorns looked at each other, then nodded in return.
"I suppose we should get to know each other in a more personal manner." Celestia commented.
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