The Long Lost Princess of Equestria

Chapter Eleven: A Mystery Revealed and An Overdue Conversation

***Author's Note: Sorry this chapter took so long. I realized that the timeline didn't make sense, so I decided to go back and fix it before continuing the story. The timeline is now fixed, along with any grammar mistakes I noticed along the way.***

*11/14/2024 Edit: All edited chapters have finally been published.*

*The Day After They Get Back From the Field Trip* (*February 2nd*)

Rainbow Dash's POV

Rainbow Dash was laying on her bed staring at the ceiling, bored out of her mind. The school had given them the day off to unpack from the field trip. Her friends were all still busy unpacking their stuff and doing laundry after the field trip, her aunt and uncle had left for the week after telling her to stay out of trouble, and Rainbow had already finished her review packets for the two tests she had next week. After a few more minutes staring blankly at the ceiling, Rainbow decided to work on her mindscape. She got up and walked to her meditation corner. Rainbow sat crisscross on the floor and cleared her thoughts before sinking into her mindscape.

After she double checked and strengthened her front line mental defenses, Rainbow moved towards where she stored her memories. She stood in front of her Casa de la Memoria. The rainbow-crystal towers of the castle shimmered in the moonlight, though if you looked closer the crystals the castle appeared to be made of seemed to glow from within. The castle was made of a strong-as-diamonds ivory stone that had slight swirls of white quartz throughout, covered in rainbow crystals on the outside giving the castle the appearance of being made of crystals.

Rainbow walked through the front doors of the fortress-like castle, and headed towards the massive library, strengthening all the defenses along the way. The inside of the castle looked to be made of the same stone as the outer wall at first glance, but had small flecks of crystal throughout that the outer wall didn't have. Rainbow stepped through the library doors and stared at all the memories floating around randomly. Walking to the middle of the room, Rainbow began the long task of sorting all the loose memories, and the information and emotions that went with them, starting with the most recent one and working backwards.

Academic knowledge and similar information were turned into books and placed on the bookshelves. Anything about her powers, the suspicious behavior of her guardians, the missing princess, or her friends were turned into note pages and placed in separate folders on the table in front of her to be stored somewhere else later. Her emotions were placed in neatly labeled potion vials and set on the table. Other memories and information was turned into books and stored on the bookshelves at the back of the library.

Once everything was gone over and sorted, Rainbow levitated everything that was on the table and walked to the back corner of the library farthest from the door to the cozy reading nook with a crackling fireplace. She walked towards the fireplace, strengthening the library defenses as she went. Sensing their creator and her intentions, the flames in the fireplace went out and the entire fireplace slid to the side into the wall revealing a dark hallway. Rainbow levitated the folders and vials into the hallway in front of her before walking into the hallway herself. The entrance closed behind her, and small flecks of crystal in the walls began to glow bathing the hallway in a dim, multicolored light.

She walked down the hallway until it opened to a room full of multicolored steam. The walls and roof of the room was a tile mosaic of a moonlit beach near a forest. The floor had a five foot wide stone walkway going from the tunnel Rainbow was standing into a tunnel across the room with a circle of stone, that was big enough to have four people sitting cross legged without blocking the walkway, in the middle of the room. The rest of the floor was covered in vents, which is where the multicolored steam was coming from. With a single thought the vents levitated seven feet above the ground, revealing many pools of water with steam rising from them. Each pool was the same size, but different colors and levels of fullness.