Memories and Theories

by ~JohnStolk

MEMORIES AND THEORIES

Warning: what you area bout to read contains WildMassGuessing, Author Avatar (Needed for the Exposition), Alternative Character Interpretation and other tropes. The author will try to avoid his avatar to be Stu/Sueish. There will be Shout-Outs to other works of fan fiction, and references to the autor original work. Please, start your Willing Suspicion of Disbelief

Princess Luna entered her chambers, relive to finally be able to get ride of her escort, those royal guards that keep her company during and after the moon rising ritual. She wondered why her sister make the guard protect her during and after the ritual, she wasn't any weaker during or after it. And it was strange, it was only during that this time that any escort other than her assistant keep her company during the day.

She entered her personal chambers shooting the door close behind her and toke a good look of them. There was her desk full of books of diverse themes, history, chemistry, physics, and other things that she missed during her stay on the moon. Her trustable abacus standing over a tome of "Biology of the Griffins". Her bed, placed where the heat of the chimney was comfortable, where the wind would keep her fresh during the summer nights, and where her sister's sun would gently wake her up in the morning. All of it illuminated by the twilight.

But that wasn't right, the twilight was gone, and the moonlight should be flooding her chambers like every other night

"You are earlier than I expected." A rater small colt came out from the shadows, bowing as soon as he was inside the princess eyesight. His coat was a blueish black, whit the exception of his head and a v section under his neck that was a light blue; his mane was a blue and the eyes brown For a second the princes thought he was wearing a suit, but quickly noticed it was his natural coat.

The princess turned around and opened the door expecting the royal guards to be there ready to slay the intruder, but found herself in her personal chambers, now illuminated by her moon, and the colt next to her desk drinking a cup of tea. "There you are! I prepared tea while waiting for you."

"Who... Who are you? How did you get in here? What kind of magic is this?" The princes turned to see the same colt that was getting close to the chimney holding a teapot in his muzzle.

"Don't mind me, I'll just make the tea." The door slowly closed as the colt placed the teapot inside the chimney, some how not turning intro a blaze.

"It isn't magic, well not completely, it's an hypercube, an space that contains itself."  The colt, somehow, appeared next to Luna for her surprise, bowing one more time. "My name is Emmanuel Romasanta Blanco, at your service."

"How... How did you did that?" The now scared princess asked "How did you move so  fast?"

"I have may ways." The colt did it again, he turned  around, disappeared and reaped next to the desk  "As everyone that has ever been a vampire, I can turn intro mist, moon dust and night critters. On the other hand, I am in possession of powerful spells and technologies, like the scroll of shadows." The colt had take out a scroll for how knows where, and show it to Luna.

The princess blinked as she tried to process the information. "But... you are a earth pony, how are you able to use magic."

"That is because what you see is nothing but an avatar that I use to appear in this... plane of existence. You see, I am a god myself, just like you and your sister, a god of knowledge, and I have been traveling through the planes of existence, gathering all the information I can place my... hooves on. But enough of me, I'm here for you after all."

Luna stared at the colt for a second thinking "Are the words of this colt truth or all just a dream."

"If what you say is truth, then prove it, do or say something that only a god could. "

Romasanta stood there for a couple of seconds staring at the ground. He finally moved, his left front-hoof went past the floor and come out holding a golden helmet with the form of an eagle head.

"That helmet! Is from the Hippogriffs!"

The blue mare trotted over it and used her magic to levitate and examine the helmet. It was clearly meant to be used by a pony, or a pegasi more specifically  she hadn't seen one in years, there was not a single one of them left form the old wars, from before Nightmare Moon, from the time that she ruled Equestria alongside her sister. She remember it perfectly, she had made the specifications for the helmet, the talons and the wing blades.

The Hippogriffs had been her idea, special forces to protect from griffins attacks, paid whit the taxes of those "knights" how didn't know or wanted to fight. Fast as lighting and loyal to her and her sister, armed whit the best weapons that the alchemy of the time could provide. The last one of them disappeared, for his own sake, before  the Nightmare Moon, as for the records, the need for them was gone, no more wars happened after she was banished to the moon, or at least, that was what the records said.

"Do you believe me now?" The colt was still there, watching whit those brown eyes that past throw her like if she was made out of crystal. Just like a true god. She put down the helmet, placing it next to her abacus and bow.

"There is no need for that, you are the true goddess here."

"What do you want to know?"

"There is little to no records of Equestria before the Nightmare Moon incident, and the little that there is is... vague. I came to you, because you are one of the few that know about the pass. And there is some thing else that i wanted to asked you, if you don't want to talk about it then don't do it."

"What is it?

"It's about the Nightmare Moon incident, about the Everfree Forest to be more specific, I wanted to ask if you knew anything about what hides inside there, the thing that can make two loving sisters hate each other so much."

Luna's expression became dark as the memories from that time reach her. "There... there is something inside the forest, deep inside the forest, something that make the monsters that hide in it run away. That... that is all I know.!

A concerned look on Rommasanta show up for a second before he came closer to the princess. He put a hoof over her shoulders and drove her to the desk. "It doesn't matter" He said putting a cup of tea in front of her "There are more important matters to attend."

They talked. They talked for what seamed to be hours. They talked about the great wars, the battle of Stalliongrad, the Hippogriffs, the Lord Dragon, and many other things. They never run out o tea, and it never was cold. From some where the small colt take out a basket of muffins and a dish of cookies and crumpets, and some how they never run out of treats.

The chat lead them, yet again, to Nightmare Moon, about her scape from the moon and the Elements of Harmony, about Twilight Sparkle and her friends.

"That little filly..." She said whit a smile on her face "I don't know why, but there is some thing in her... something that make me... that make me..."

"Have hope in what the future will bring?"

"Yes!"

"I know the feeling." A moment of silence filled the room, only interrupted by a sigh that the god of knowledge let out "Don't you find it strange?"

"What?"

"The actions of your sister."

"I don't understand."

"She could have take the Elements of Harmony herself and stop you whit out the need of Twilight's intervention. Why teach her how to use them? She call Twilight 'Her must fateful student' yet, I haven't been able to find any record of other students.

She understood what he mended by that, but didn't wanted to be able to do it.

"It must be something she came out whit recently."

"And there is something else about Twilight, I heard how she became her student, using an aging spell on a new born dragon, that is something not every one can pull out, not even by accident."

Tears started rolling out her eyes falling on her teacup, but she maintained her smile.

"Twilight... what a strange name" The colt continued, his voice sad but still calm "The sun is dying and the moon hasn't come out yet, so the world is covered in darkness, even if the sky is on fire"

The princess couldn't hold her self anymore. She collapsed on the floor crying her hearth out.

The god placed himself next to her and hug her. "There is no need to cry, save your tears for when they are needed." The voice was feminine, but it was the same voice than before. When the princess turned around she saw a mare, a tall one, tall as a stallion, yet, it was the same small colt than before, only her mane was now bright red.

"That... that is one of your other forms, isn't it?"

"Yes"

"Could you... show me your original form?"

There was no answer, the mare fade on a mist that solidify in front of her.

The sight scared her.

It was standing in two legs, covered in a blueish black suit, whit two arms ending in hand like the ones of dragons.

"You are..."

"Human"

"But humans..."

"Are a myth, at least they are in this plane of existence."

He was holding a big book in his hands, and the princes could read on the cover, printed in golden letter "Complete Story of Equestria". once again Romasanta bow, placing the book in front of her.

"For me?"

"For all Equestria."

She placed a hoof over the book and then looked at the man. "Tell me, what should i do?"

"Do as your heath tell you." The silence came back, and like before it was Romasanta how brake it. "I should be going now, the Doctor invited me for a cup of tea, i shouldn't make him wait."

The mare looked up to find nothing, then down to see the colt taking something from thin air and rip it. He covered himself whit the... riped fabric of reality, leaving behind an old wine bottle and a note.

She got closer to it and unfold the note.

"For wen the time comes and the tears won't"

For the position of the moon in the sky she knew the time for the Sunrise Ritual approached, and she knew that her sister would still be at her chambers preparing for the ritual.

She graved the book and the helmet and run in the direction of her sister chambers. "Please sister, tell me it isn't true, please tell me you aren't dying, please tell me you aren't rising Twilight Sparkle as your successor."