Who Wants to Marry a Prince?

By NocturneD
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Note: An future interactive story where you vote who is going to win the grand prize and live happily ever after...

Prologue

It was another day in the land of Equestria, a Tuesday afternoon to be exact as the birds chirped, the grass being ever so green, the ever so blue water flowed gently through sparking streams as it passed the outskirts of the small town of Ponyville. Now that I got that starting sentence out of the way let's focus on the town. Probably the friendliest town in all of Equestria, they have a general store, a bakery, a boutique, a small market place, even a library.

Within this library is current resident; Twilight Sparkle and her number one assistant baby dragon Spike. Everyday she manages the library since she's pretty much the only one besides Spike who works there, in and out they file and arrange books in different order with one day being alphabetical then the next by author, then another day it would be by how many pages. Rather unnecessary if you think about it since the library rarely gets anyone besides her friends Rarity, Apple Jack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie to visit. This time, Twilight and Spike were sorting through the entire library from small font to large font.

"Twilight this is getting ridiculous." Spike muttered to himself as he shoved another five or ten heavy books onto another shelf above him.

"Oh good, this is starting to look abit promising." Twilight said happily as she used her magic to throw about forty books onto the round shaped bookshelf in front of her.

Spike turned his head back to what he was doing, only shaking his head in a somewhat frustrated manner and thought, "She's got nothing better to do besides sort the books in the library, why can't she go out more instead of being cooked up here?" He sighed, figuring that this was probably how they were going to spend their lunch and early afternoon on a nice sunny day like this.

Suddenly, the coo coo clock rang to three o'clock as the wooden bird chirped three times. Spike's eyes widened, "Twilight, can I watch TV? My show is coming on!" The little dragon asked in a pleading tone as his little feet lightly tapped the floor in anticipation.

"Did you get the whole wall done?" Twilight asked without turning around then shelving anther couple rows with her magic.

"Sort of..." Spike cranked his neck to look at the incomplete wall, only having done six our of the thirty, "But I can work during the commercials! Please!" He went back to pleading, somehow he knew Twilight was going to give him a lecture to get it done no matter what.

"Yeah go ahead..." Twilight waved her hoof.

Spike blinked, "Wha...?"

"It's alright, you said you come back when there was a commercial on." She smiled knowing that her assistant would be true to his word.

The little dragon wasted no time and scampered down the stair case and into the lobby. Spike set up a stood behind the librarian desk and switched on the small outdated television set that sat in front of him and turned it to channel four. "Oh boy, Power Ponies new episode," his eyes twinkled as he propped his knuckles against his chin.

Twilight chuckled at the thought of Spike enjoyed a show where five teenage ponies that wore spandex and bike helmets and fought monsters. Then she had a brain fart of on old memory of her own little favorite television show involving a single female pony by day then jamming super star by night. Figured she sing a few bars, "Jem... Jem she's truly truly truly outrageous."

About ten minutes passed and a commercial already cut into the show halted it's progress. The dragon formed a smirk on his sad smirk on his face and as promised he walked back up the stairs to continue his work, when suddenly the doorbell rang. Twilight wasted no time and told Spike to answer it as she continued her work, Spike just spun around and walked back down the stairs and trotted off to the front door and answered it. There stood Derpy the grey delivery pony with a batch of mail in her mouth, she lowered her head and spit out the letters onto Spike's feet. Spike replied with a cocked eyebrow, "Thanks Derpy..." He then closed the door slamming it, bent down and picked up the mails to find drool on it, he waved a few letters into the air to atleast dry them off. "Bill, bill... renewal subscription to Librarian monthly, JCPony sales ad."

"Spike who was it?" Twilight hollered from upstairs.

"Just Derpy being derpy again..." Spike replied still shuffling through the mail, "Mail's here."

"Just leave it on the front desk!" Twilight instructed as she put another six row of books onto the bookshelf.

Just then the television announced that the show as back on then made Spike go back to watching it, "Sorry Twilight show is back on." Twilight only grunted, figured she just let him watch his show and wait until it was over so he could get back to work. Within the next twenty minutes the credits started to roll, Spike turned off the television and was very pleased with the episode. He hoped out of the chair and raced back up stairs to find the work was already done, guilt struck over him but Twilight didn't seem to find and she put the last book on the final shelf.

"So your show done?" Twilight turned her neck to look at Spike, "Was your favorite power pony on this one?"

"Uh huh." Spike was getting all giddy, "The green pony ranger is so cool with his dragon dagger and his gold shield and helped the other pony rangers at the last minute when it all looked bad for them."

"Typical for a hero showing up at the last moment." Twilight giggled, "So did Tony summon the big Godzilla robot again?"

Spike frowned with his eyes narrowed, "His name is Tommy and it's the Dragonzord, and yes he did."

"Sorry," Twilight apologized with a playful giggle, she knew his favorite power pony was the green one because of the dragon robot and since Spike is a dragon, you don't need to put two and two together yourself to figure that one out. "Well, looks I like I got everything done, so why not go out to lunch?"

"I feel like McHooves today." Spike suggested.

"Again?" Twilight rolled her eyes.

Twilight looked at Spike as he put on the pleading look, she could kill Pinkie Pie for teaching him the puppy dog pout right now but no matter how much she tried to resist she caved in. McHooves it was, the purple unicorn gathered a couple of things before she locked down the library entirely so no animals can sneak in and make a mess out of things. Twilight locked the front door then slid the key under the doormat, she motioned Spike to walk with her to start their journey to the fast food joint.

"Spike this like the second time this week we ate at McHooves, you sure you don't want to try any place else?" Twilight tried to persuade her assistant who was still smiling at the thought of having another double cheeseburger with fries. "How about pizza?"

"That's more of a Friday thing." Spike replied as he turned his head to Twilight.

"Chinese Food?" Twilight asked again, "Sub sandwiches?"

Spike stopped and tapped his chin with his finger, "Well... haven't had those sandwiches in awhile."

"Oh thank Celestia sub sandwiches it is." Twilight felt better, she really didn't have anything against McHooves it was just more than she could bare that if they ever had to sit inside there was always something to bicker about on the way home. Like the floors being all sticky, bathrooms all dirty, service is practically unforgivable at times, that or some crazy customer causes trouble and maybe always having a parent with her foals sitting next to their table shouting and screaming. With a quick turn in another direction the two were on their way to the sandwich place but upon entering there was a long line almost to the front door where they were standing behind a grayish male pony with neck length brunette spiky hair, wearing a blue bucket hat to cover his head and an un zipped dark blue hoody.

Spike frowned and eyes narrowed, "Atleast McHooves has more than one person working the counter."

"Oh come now Spike we'll be up there before we know it." Twilight reassured, "There's just... twelve, thirteen, uh fourteen ponies ahead of us... and one pony working the counter."

"You know what, fine." Spike muttered with his arms crossed.

Ten minutes has passed and the line grew bigger as it extended all the way down the street, Twilight took a looked behind herself then infront to see if they moved at all and apparently not, she sighed. Another five minutes has passed, she could of sworn that Spike moved abit forward or maybe it was her imagination. Within the next twenty minutes Twilight could of sworn the line moved backwards somehow then she could of sworn a pony just trotted to the opposite side of the counter thinking that's where they start their sandwich order. Noon was practically over when Spike looked at the hanging clock nearby, matter of fact it was now one twenty four. "Excuse me, but what is the hold up?" Twilight asked the pony infront of her.

The pony in the blue hoody turned his head, "Well apparently somehow instead of anyone working the front, there is a duck serving sandwiches."

"I'm sorry... a duck?" Twilight scoffed.

"QUACK" The duck honked while pecking at the lettuce with its beak.

"Oh for the love of..." Another pony shouted.

"Is that what we were all standing around for?" Spike threw his arms up into the air as he shouted angrily.

"Quiet... the duck is making sandwiches!" Another random pony interrupted as if they were enjoying the sight.

The grey stallion shook his head and said aloud, "I knew I should of went to another place now my traveling plans are all screwed up."

"So why are you still standing here then?" Spike still had his arms crossed, "Matter of fact why are we still standing here?" He looked at Twilight.

"Please Spike I don't like eating at McHooves." Twilight grunted.

"You think McHooves is bad you should try White Castle... that place really gives you the runs." The grey pony turned his head again.

"No thanks." Twilight narrowed her eyebrow, totally disgusted with the comment. Spike laughed with his little hands trying to cover his mouth.

"Oh uh... sorry, I sort of picked up some nasty lingo from my friends." The grey pony scratched the back of his head, embarrassed from his comment earlier.

"It doesn't bother me, Spike here likes toilet talk because he's in that stage were he think crude things are funny but just be careful around other people." Twilight lectured the grey pony.

"So... the little guy's name is Spike huh?" The grey pony turned himself around and kneeled down to Spike's level.

Spike nodded, "Yeah, Twilight Sparkle's number one assistant," Spike extended his thumb to point to Twilight.

"Pleasure to meet you Spike." The grey pony smiled, "You know, my friends have little dragons of their own that might be around your age, I think you would like each other very much as they are always looking for playmates and always drive their masters up the wall."

Twilight snickered at the comment but couldn't believe that baby dragons could be that much of a handful without proper care and encouragement. "Did they attend princess Celestia's school for gifted unicorns?"

The grey pony put his hoof on his chin, "I remember them telling me they tried out and passed but were relocated to another school for further studies."

"They must of been some smart unicorns then." Twilight smiled then frowned, "Wait... I thought princess Celestia taught the best that's why its the school for the gifted."

"I really don't know their entire story miss uh... Twilight Sparkle is it?" Twilight nodded, "Just that I attended Sleipnir Academy along with them being transfer students and we've been friends ever since."

"Did you say Sleipnir Academy?" Twilight's eyes began to bulge.

"Yes... why?" The grey pony asked.

"That's like..." Twilight stretched her smile in disbelief, "Impossible to get in! The tuition alone must of been sky high!"

"What's Sleipnir Academy?" Spike asked.

Twilight scoffed at Spike, "Only the promising minds and athletic ponies can go there. The academy is the size of a giant city almost like Manehatten!"

"Uh... sorry to interrupt miss Sparkle but... the Academy is not that big, it's just in the center of the city." The grey pony corrected Twilight.

"Oh... sorry," Twilight blushed, "Just from the brochure I saw along time ago made it look that way sort of making it look like Paris with all the nice building structures and lights."

"You ever been there?" Spike asked.

Twilight drooped her head down sadly, "No."

"Well when it's done under major reconstruction I could drop you a line." The grey pony asked, "We get outside visitors all the time to visit the stores, hotels and restaurants, museums, parks, libraries..."

"What was that last one?" Twilight practically shoved her face into the grey pony's and finding out his eyes were blue.

"Par...Pardon?" The grey pony stuttered almost uncomfortable with a female pony this close to him especially with a wide creepy grin.

Spike crossed his arms again and frowned, "Oh boy now you done it..."

"D...d...do what?" He was almost shaking and blushing.

"You said the L word." Spike answered while he shifted his shoulders.

"Look kid, if you get your crazy friend away from me I'll buy you both lunch." The grey pony begged for Spike's help.

"Good enough," Spike brought out a quill and paper, "Twilight you forgot to write your friendship report to the princess again."

Twilight turned her head and smirked, "Nice try Spike but princess Celestia said we don't need to do friendship letters like we used to."

Spike raised an eyebrow, "You sure this won't lead to a lesson?"

Suddenly everyone in line had to move back, "Oh great, someone had a baby foal" another random pony announced.

Spike just about had it with this place and stormed out, "I'll settle on pizza then mister!"

"Uh." Twilight backed away from the grey pony, "Sorry, I'm just an avid reader and still trying to better myself with books." She was embarrassed, "Would you like to join us for lunch?"

The grey pony was silent for a few seconds, his eyes wandered left then right then up for some reason like he was weighing his options already Twilight knew this pony must of not been popular with mares, "Ye...yes after all I did offer to pay." The grey pony lifted a few bags along with what appears to be a bird cage with a blanket over it and slung them over his sides as the two excused themselves to slide out the doorway. It didn't take long to catch up to Spike who was already making his way to Pizza Joe's, hardly a crowd inside and the wait wasn't long. This pleased Spike ofcourse... They sat at booth, Spike and Twilight on one side, the grey pony on the other.

Within fifteen minutes their pizza was served topped with extra gooey cheese, green and banana peppers, Spike ofcourse took the first slice. Twilight slowly reached for a slice with the serving spatula that was provided and moved a slice to her plate with the gooey cheese practically leaving a trail from the serving pan to her plate, she looked up to see the grey pony was waiting patiently "You never did say what your name was."

The grey pony looked down at the pizza pan silently.

"Hello?" Twilight tilted her head in question, "You alright?"

The grey pony gasped and jolted in his seat, almost falling out of it.

"Are you alright?" Twilight was in concern, "You need to lie down? Need a doctor?"

"S..sorry..." The grey pony removed his bucket hat to show more of his spiky hair off as it jutted in all sorts of crazy directions, he rubbed his eyes abit then looked back at Twilight, "Eh what was the question?"

Twilight squinted her eyes at the grey pony, "Your name."

"Oh... my name, yeah I apologize my mind is not where it should be..." He managed a half smile, "My name is Watt."

"Rather unique." Twilight replied, "Named after anyone?"

"Not sure exactly..." Watt used the spatula to take a slice of pizza for himself, "All I know is that my mom and dad decided it for me."

The conversation was getting awkward enough as Twilight was asking question after question and each time Watt wouldn't answer right away. She knew Watt wasn't lying when he said his mind wandered from here to there and figured he must of been a day dreamer, she hushed herself and started eating her pizza. Figured that if Watt ate he would open up a bit more, Spike was already on his third slice, Watt on the other hand barely finished his first slice instead he was just looking down at it.

"Is there something wrong Watt?" Twilight lowered her pizza onto her plate.

This made Watt jump back to reality again, "Ss...sorry."

"Are you sure you're alright?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah you kind of been spacing out here and there ever since we met you." Spike took another bite of his pizza.

"Oh..." The stallion rubbed the back of his head, "I just... was thinking of what I want to say when I meet my mother again."

"Your mother?" Twilight held her hoof to her chin, "I'd take it you haven't seen her in awhile?"

"More or less..." Watt replied sadly replied, he reclined into his seat.

"You don't seem too happy about seeing her?" Spike took another bite and talked with his mouth full.

"Oh... oh I'm happy about it..." Watt pushed his plate to the side of the table, "It's just... complicated..."

"We're your parents divorced?" Twilight asked.

"Guess you can say... separated and I was often sick when I was just a little colt, somehow after an accident I ended up being taken care of by another mare." Watt slid his dish a bit further away, "This other mare taught me basically... everything there is to know about life... she was basically my teacher, master, provider, superior, protector... and more importantly she like a mother to me and I think that she accepted that."

"So what happened to other mare?" Twilight then slid her own plate to the side to give herself some room on the table to rest her elbows on them.

"S..she... died... a month back." Watt's bottom lip curled as he lowered his head, Spike's pizza drooped out of his mouth as the cheese dripped downward like ooze, he paused at as they heard that their acquaintance just told them that the one pony he took for granite was gone.

Twilight was instantly shocked, felt terrible for asking so many questions but then again how was she was supposed to know, her eyes were wandering trying to come up with something other than, "Oh my gosh... I'm I'm sorry to hear that." She was sincere though.

Watt only shook his head in a slight disapproving manner, "It's... fine, I'd rather tell someone than keeping it bottled up."

"Are you sure?" Twilight tilted her head, she felt guilty.

"Yeah..." Watt let out a sniff, "Just got to face my real mother, plus it's been such a long..." He shook his head, "long time... It's pretty hard to explain this miss Sparkle but after the accident within the family I was taken in by Sky Dancer took me in and my life pretty much changed, almost like I forgot I even had another family. I thought about them when I first lived with Sky Dancer all the time but as the time went on I thought of it less and less until one day..." He made a popping sound with his mouth, "I forgot about them entirely, I guess..." He paused, "I'm sorry, that sounded like a lame excuse..."

Twilight shook her head in disagreement, "You just grew apart from your family I take it, had a wonderful time with Sky Dancer and just wanted to start over."

Watt's eyes widened and felt better with that analogy, "Actually you're on the mark with that one miss Sparkle." He finally took a bit out his pizza, "Not bad..."

Twilight couldn't help but smile, "Well I'm glad you finally started eating instead of being all moppy." She rubbed her chin again, "So what does your real mom and dad do? And how did they contact you?"

At this moment, Watt rolled up the pizza slice like a fruit roll up and squished it into his mouth, with hearing Twilight's question he gulped it down and replied, "Well my mom has some sort of political job and my dad used to be part of the royal guard."

"Oh so they work in Canterlot then?" Twilight brought up, "That's pretty far, maybe a three to six hour trip on foot."

Watt's pupils went left then right, "Yeah but as for the contact part, just simply wrote me a letter saying she wants to meet with me in Canterlot that's pretty much it. Plus I could use the exercise."

"You sounded like you were upset at her awhile ago though." Spike brought up.

"It was just timing I guess... And at first I wanted to throw the letter in the trash but it said something about my father and it changed everything." Watt scratched his cheek.

"Well me and Spike are just glad you decided to give your mother another chance at setting things right." Twilight this time had a smile thinking she accomplished something.

"And I feel better miss Sparkle and Spike, Ponyville was an interesting place just wished I had more time to scout around by myself but I should be getting to Canterlot by tonight or else they'll try to send me another letter pleading me to come." Watt stood up from his seat and bowed his head to them grateful for their kindness.

"Well if you ever do decide to come back to Ponyville, Spike and I live at the library. We run it too." Twilight giggled at Watt bowing to them. Watt turned away from the two to pay the tab, Spike finished his last slice and noticed the bird cage below the table where Watt left it. Still with the pillow sheet covering it, he figured he take a peek at what was inside. He plopped himself onto the tile floor and slowly lifted up the sheet, his green eyes peered into the cage to find a bird. Fitting isn't it? Thing was... it was a black bird, with deep blood red eyes making almost scary to even look at. Spike looked at it a little longer, it turned its head looking back at Spike like if it was staring into the dragons soul, it was just creepy looking at. The black bird tilted its head in curiosity, at first it seemed fine, Spike sighed in relief, but then the black bird opened its beak and let out a thrilling shriek sounding like a monster roaring with a combination of people screaming. He let out a yelp and threw the sheet back down and , Twilight lowered her head trying to yank Spike back up. "Spike, that's not polite to go through other people's things." Spike didn't even reply, he was too scared to even move.

Watt came back over to the table and left some money as a tip for the waitress, "It's been fun meeting you t..." He noticed Spike shivering from fright like he seen a ghost, "I take it you met my bird Thanatos?" He pulled the cage from underneath the table and took off the sheet to find a sweet looking black bird chirping happily.

Twilight practically shoved her face towards the cage, "Oh my gosh its so cute."

"Yeah he's cute for now but once he doesn't get his way he can get pretty uptight." Watt chuckled, "Trust me, he's more trouble than he's worth."

"How'd you get him?" Twilight smiled at the bird.

"Could say he sort of flew into my life one day, had him ever since I was a young colt." Watt sneered then slowly put the sheet back on, "I really would like to stay longer miss Sparkle and Spike but I should be hitting the road right now." And with that, he picked up the bird cage, slid his bucket hat back on and trotted out of the pizza shop waving to the two with his belongings slung over his back.

"We better get back to the library Spike." Twilight slung him over her back, really wasn't in the mood to argue with him to move, "Jeez Spike it's like something scared you good."

"That thing is evil Twilight..." Spike was still shaking.

"Oh come on, that bird was a cutey." Twilight then asked, "You remember when Watt said his parents worked in Canterlot?" Spike only shivered, "You don't think?" Twilight wondered, "Nah..."

The purple unicorn trotted past the sub sandwich store to find out that the line was still there with the same exact people, no surprise. Little that she did know, she passed two television executives that were trying to brainstorm for a new show idea. One of the two was a green unicorn, who was throwing out constant ideas the other pony was a purple earth pony who kept rejecting them. "Come on Stage Light, you keep turning down my ideas for a new reality show."

"Because they'll all the same stupid thing!" The purple pony countered, "Try coming up with something else."

"Why? You'll just throw it back in my face." Stage Light brought up in her defense, "Besides it's hard to be original these days and the audience doesn't seem to mind. Know how many singing idol shows we made and are number one year after year?"

"Just throw out something." The purple pony moaned.

"I don't know what you want!" Stage Light barked, "Fine... Who... Who wants to..." She saw a bridal shop, "Marry... a..." head stopped at the electronic store advertising Fresh Prince of Belair DVD boxset, "Prince...?" She twirled in a circle and saw in the distance is Princess Celestia's castle. "Who wants to marry a Prince?"

The purple pony grinned, "Yes... I think that could work and Prince Blueblood I'm sure would love to star in it."

"Yeah he's practically a camera hog." Stage Light snickered, "Besides who wouldn't want to marry a prince?"

"We got to call the boss for this one, he'll flip for this idea." The purple pony brought out her phone.

"Call it something catchy though or else he won't consider it." Stage Light chimed in.

"Yes boss, this is Roll Em. Hear me out, we got a new idea for you... no it's not stupid I guarantee you that... no it doesn't involve a dancing monkey... no... no... just hear this... Who Wants to Marry a Prince: Canterlot Edition." The two waited, suddenly Roll Em the purple pony smiled and hung up the phone, "IT WORKED! Just one problem."

"That is?" Stage Light asked.

"We got to convince princess Celestia if she'll allow a show based on her nephew." Roll Em frowned.

"Come on seriously, Celestia is like a celebrity and this could be a highly rated show because you know what people want... they want to know what goes inside celebrity's lives." Stage Light answered. "Even Celestia herself watches our crappy reality shows, how can she turn this down?"

to be continued...

note: alright people, you're probably wondering what the hell you just read and would could possibly be the premise of this story. Thing is I don't know quite yet as I wanted to try another story and hoping this one would get some attention atleast. Right now, the title alone seems like it's going to be one of those "The readers control the story" as you would vote in the reviews. Well that's the half truth, but I figure I start this off with a prologue before I get to the actual first chapter, probably by now you already curious about Watt. Stay tuned people. Also please excuse the poor grammar.

note 2: yeah, why I started off with Twilight to introduce the story is a mystery. She is just easy for me to write about and the voting will commence .