> The Legend Ends > by 654_nosneb > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter I - I'm tired of magic! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sky full of stars, alongside the ocean that mirrored it in which I was standing, told me that I was asleep; dreaming, more specifically. As soon as I realized this, I cursed myself for being so dumb. "Sure thing, William!" I exclaimed sarcastically to myself. "Shout out loud 'one thousand years' and be sure that you ain't gonna see Fluttersy or her friends ever again. Why couldn't I just say 'one year' or 'one month' instead?" One thousand years was the quickest thing I could think of back when Opaline had me at the edge of death. It was just after I said it (now) that I realized how bad my plan was. Traveling to the future was the only way of escaping certain death that I could think of. Too bad I never learned how to teleport myself without the use of portals. If I knew how to, I'd have done it instead of launching myself into the unknown mysteries of the distant future. This dream, even though was beautiful, had to end. Me being dreaming meant that I was unconscious inside the Celestial Archives. Maybe it was even full of spiderwebs and it was completely abandoned. No, that's completely absurd. Celestia and Luna are still around. And if they didn't abandon human culture in 20000 years, I really doubt that they would in just 1000. Either way, I had to wake up. I decided to hit my head with my sword, and that did the trick. When I re-opened my eyes, I was no longer asleep. I was still at the Celestial Archives; however, the place had lost all of the beauty that it once had. As I expected, there were tons of spiderwebs all over the place. The golden, royal aesthetic that the archives emanated was no longer present. Instead, the whole place now had a creepy, abandoned, dark vibe. There was no light source. All of the yellow lamps that decorated the Celestial Archives were off. The only light that let me see through the darkness was the one that my sword was emanating. Maybe it appeared because so I did in my dream? Who knows, I'd ask it to Luna later. That's if she's still around, of course. ... But what if she isn't. What if... ... No! Thinking this way won't help. I didn't even get out of this vault yet. I still have no real reason to believe that they're dead. Opaline wouldn't have stood a chance against the elements of harmony. Everything should be just fine out there. ... Then why is this place abandoned, then? ... I desperately made my way to the entrance. I still had difficulties to walk since Osvaldo practically kicked my ass back then. Anyways, I resisted my the pain of my aching stomach and muscles, and got to the vault that was the only exit I knew this place had. The vault looked completely different from when I entered here once I found it: alongside the hole for my sisters' horns, there was a place to put a human hand sculpted on the gold as well. Also, there was a carved message on the gold as well: 'William, if you ever read this, and there wasn't any welcoming party to receive you after one thousand years, that means that the Equestria as a kingdom no longer exists. Our biggest fears have come true. We cannot tell you what it is since we don't really know who's behind of all of this yet. Just remember one thing, we still care about you. However, please do not...' that part was damaged by a crack on the metal. 'With love, Your sisters, Celestia and Luna.' ————————————————————— "What the hay is that noise?" I said as I awoke from my slumber. "I don't know," replied Zipp, my pegasus friend, from her bed with a sleepy voice. "I wanna sleep, Sunny. Bridlewoodstock lasted more than I expected thanks to those weird ghost things. I'm *yawn* currently not sleeping very well recently." The noise that I was hearing came from downstairs. It sounded like a sad voice, but very distant. I decided to go and check if somepony was there. As I approached the source, I confirmed that it was indeed the voice of somepony. But whoever was there was crying deeply, as if somepony died or something. It sounded towards the basement of the lighthouse, in which my father kept all of the ancient artifacts from the old Equestria. As I made the last hoofsteps towards the basement, I could hear that a male somepony was the one who was crying. The sorrowful cry came from a massive golden vault door that had the faces of Celestia and Luna carved on the metal. It sounded as if he was inside it, but that was ridiculous. Even though, I couldn't simply just do nothing about it. ————————————————————— "Hello?" I heard somepony's voice from out of the vault. "Is somepony in here?" the mare asked with a really confused voice tone. I cleared my throat before responding; I tried to wash out out some of my tears as well, "Yes, but I'm not quite 'somepony'. Anyway, who are you?" "I'm Sunny," the feminine voice replied, "Sunny Starscout. And you?" "Well, don't be too surprised, but my name is William, William Tyler." Instead of a loud gasp of excitement, the pony named Sunny simply said: "Well, it's indeed a weird name, but why would I be surprised?" "Wait, you don't know me? I mean, it has been just a thousand years since I was gone." "A thousand years!" she excitedly screamed. You mean that you're from the times of Twilight Sparkle!?" "Yeah," I replied. "So, you know Twilight?" "Of course I know her!" Sunny excitedly replied. "She was the Princess of Friendship one thousand years ago!" "Wait," I said fearing the worst already, "so you mean that she's not the princess anymore?" "Well, no. Nopony has seen her in a millennium. Someponies even think that she didn't even exist in the first place, and that she was just a myth for young colts." When those words came out of her mouth, I had to contain myself in order to avoid crying. The fact that she already heard me cry like a little kid was already embarrassing enough. I had to ash, though, about something even more concerning than Twilight herself. "What about Celestia and Luna?" I spoke. "Do you know what happened to them?" "Well, no, but, as long as I know, they used to rule Equestria together alongside Princess Cadence in the Crystal Empire until, one day, they hoofed the throne to Twilight and left the kingdom for... some kind of retirement, I think?" "Retirement?" well, I guess that ruling a kingdom throughout all of eternity isn't something that you'll want as your life plan. "Wait, so you're telling me that Twilight ruled all of Equestria... on her own!?" That hit a nerve on my brain. I simply can't picture that unsecure purple mare in-charge of an entire nation. "Why wouldn't she?" was Sunny's reply. "She was the most capable pony of her time. Nopony could be better suited to replace Princess Celestia and Princess Luna than her." "So let me get this straight. You know almost everything there is to know about Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and even Cadence... but you don't know about me or humans?" "What's a human?" "Oh, no." I was about to cry again; instead, I redirected my sadness into anger. My thin blue sword materialized in my right hand, and I hit the golden vault as hard as I could with it. A very loud bang could be head from both sides of the golden door. However, the vault seemed undamaged. "A-are you ok, William?" Sunny asked in a fearful voice tone. I gave no answer; instead, I hit the golden door again, again, and again. My rage was building up. "I... lost everything... again! And all thanks to that stupid," I hit the door, "idiot," I hit it again even harder, "named," my last hit was even harder than all of the previous ones, which ended up opening a huge crack in the golden vault, "OSVALDO!" I saw Sunny for the first time. She was an earth pony with a dark orange coat; purple hair, with a strand of rainbow hair, and green eyes. In her facial expression I saw no other thing that wasn't fear: pure fear. Probably the only thing that prevented her from running away in panic was the fact that she had a brief talk with me. I realized that I was most likely inside her home, and that appearing with a sword, filled in anger, and out of a magical vault that defied the continuity of space-time probably wasn't the best first impression that anypony could give to somepony else. "Excuse me," I said to her. "This isn't how I'm supposed to act. Let me start once again. My name is..." "AH!" she screamed in fear. "In the name of Equestria, WHAT ARE YOU!?"