//------------------------------// // Where Celestia meets the family // Story: Celestia takes a vacation // by Hydralisk //------------------------------// Many days passed and Louise only improved with her magic, by now she could levitate the three orbs. It was still with a lot of effort but she managed to get one lucky try where she held out for seven minutes. And Celestia held what she promised. “Today, Louise, we will start with the basics of enchantments.” Celestia announced. “What kind of enchantment?” Louise asked with stars in her eyes. “As I said, the basics for now, placing enchantments, removing them safely and recognizing enchanted objects.” she explained as she hovered some paper over to Louise.”To do that I need you to learn a few runes.” “They look easy enough to memorize, what do they do?” Louise asked inspecting each one of them. “The first one is a magic storage. As the name suggest you store some of you magic inside of it and then use it to fuel the enchantments you are trying to create.” Celestia started to explain.”The second one is a direction giver, it forces the magic to go a certain way. The third one is a pressure rune. It takes the magic and turns it into pressure. The finished rune that I will teach you today will create a breeze in the direction you are aiming at.” Louise looked at the runes in order before saying that.”That sounds kinda...” “Boring, I know.” The Alicorn said knowingly.”However it serves as a basis.”I want you to perfectly memorize the runes so that you can picture them in your mind without flaw, as soon as you can do that you won’t need to draw them anymore. Admitelly that sounds very boring however it is the base of all kinds of wonderful spells, as soon as you know said basics you can start working on creating your own spells.” she finished her explanation. Louise was nearly drooling at the prospect of creating magic spells on her own, she pictured herself mass transmuting earth to gold, or creating spells that could heal all sickness. She shock her head to get most of those ideas out and listened carefully as the princess started her explanation. At the end Louise was very excited, apparently there where 158 base runes she had to learn and all of them had completely unique meanings that she could combine and arrange to her liking, Celestia compared it to gears that would form clockwork, only that she could choose what the results would be. She sat at her desk memorizing the runes by drawing them as often as she could. She worked well into the night as Celestia left to do who knows what. A decision she would regret tomorrow. With a long yawn she woke up the next day, her hair a mess and her limbs feel heavy. Despite all her protests Celestia still got her on her legs and did her morning routine in which Louise would land on her face regularly. After Celestia drilled her as to why Louise was so tired. She commended Louise enthusiasm after the explanation, but that would not stop her from being punished for staying up so late. The punishment was a cruel one as she would be tickled by one of Celestias feathers each time she closed her eyes for more than what was required to blink. They were sitting in a alchemy lesson, Louise was still a bit grumpy she had to attend those but Celestia had fun learning things as well, and she sometimes managed to sneak in a few minutes of shut eye as she was distracted. The lesson was interrupted as Colbert entered the room.”Miss Vallière and Celesita, if you would please come with me. The headmaster would like to see you two.” Celestia and Louise looked at each other with Celestia silently asking what Louise did, she just shrugged her shoulders in response. The walk to the office was very strange for Celestia, who had never experienced the so called ‘Walk of shame’ that most students in her school dreaded so much. She felt a bit dirty to be honest, as if she did something wrong and tried to self reflect and whatever she supposedly did wrong. Maybe she could use that. A idea formed with a spell that would stretch the corridor to her office that she could turn on or of at will, making naughty students self reflect sounds like a good punishment. They reached the office and Colbert stopped them before they entered with a expression that told them that he questions if he should let them in. ”Miss Vallière...” he said reluctantly. “Just be careful please.” and with those ominous words he opened the door for them. “Tiny Louise!!!” the moment it was opened Louise was pulled inside by the ear and then had her cheeks stretched. “Ah! Sister Eleanor!” she tried to say but only muffled complaints came out. “What did you do this time!” the blond woman, that looked very similar to Louise when she was angry, shouted. ”I was sent here by mother because of something that you summoned, the Headmaster only sent vague letters, also what was that with you serving as a maid! How much damage have you done this time you little trouble magnet!” The assault was relentless and by the end Celestia was sure that Louise checks red and swollen, the princess looked at the girl with pity. “So you are this oh so troubling familiar, you don’t look so impressive to me.” Eleanor said with a dismissive look a Celestia. “Looks can be deceiving, something I expect a magic researcher to know.” Celestia shot back. A verbal sparring contest was just what she needed right now. “Oh, look. It can talk, can you maybe tell jokes as well?” Eleanor didn’t even bother to stay noble and aimed low from the start. ”Maybe then you actually have some use.” Well if she wanted to play like that Celestia was just fine with it, right now she was no princess might as well behave like a not-princess. ”If I wanted to tell a joke I would just need to point at your mane.” Eleanor's face twisted in Anger. ”Now look who's talking with that colorful mess on her head. What happened, wasn’t a bird able to decide what color the nest should be?” “Considering a bird would fly away if they saw the monstrosity that you have on your head that hardly qualifies as a proper insult, are you even trying or did the brain under that hair stop functioning?” The other occupants of the room where eather running away or hiding by now as sparks of pure hatred were already radiating of both of them. “Know your place. A horse should have a saddle and be in a stable right now.” Eleanor remarked with venom in her voice. “Considering that a saddle is fetish gear I now have to consider you hitting on me...” Celestia said while while the whole room turned pale. ”Which is disgusting. Please try to woo someone from your own species first, don’t try with me after being such a failure.” That crossed a line that Eleanor didn’t know existed. She was angry. “That's it, I will put you in your place.” she said pulling out her wand. ”Outside, now.” “Wha, sister Eleanor plea...” Louise tried to say. “Shut up!” She desperately tried to stop them but Eleanor's harsh words snared her to her place. There were no more words as both Eleanor and Celestia walked outside. They reached the bottom and faced each other on the courtyard both ready to unleash hell. Or at least one of them was… There was no sound and for a moment the world seemed to stand still. Then, like on a unhearable command, Eleanor fired. A Wall of earth moved towards Celestia and breakneck speed. Celestia without a second thought flew up into the air to dodge. The assault didn’t stop there as many sharp spikes flew towards her from the ground. Some of them got dangerously close to her and then she decided to do something about that. Celestia had no intentions of going small right now, as such she focused a colossal amount of magic and fired at the ground. In a blinding flash Eleanor was robbed of her ammunition. As the ground in the whole courtyard was turned into pink fluffy pillows. “I do prefer pillow fights over such uncluttered brutishness.” Celestia said starting to cuddle the Once-was-earth. Eleanor would have admired the transfusion genius that Celestia just made happen but she was too busy trying to not lose her footing and raging around. “I will make myself a leather coat out of you!” she shouted and then the fired the next spell. Celestia was lucky in hindsight, if she didn’t have such a amazing fire resistance she would probably be roasted as Eleanor set the gigantic pillow fort on fire below them. As Celestia flew upwards to escape the flame she looked down to where Eleanor stood in the fire looking perfectly fine beside the angry face. “Well can’t let a pyromaniac just do her thing...” Celestia said to herself and she started looking around. With a smile she spotted what she was looking for. “Come back here you coward!” Eleanor shouted upwards, her spells not quite reaching Celestia before fizzling out. She watched as Celestia started to fly around in circles spinning and twisting through clouds that she passed. Her eyes narrowed unsure of what she was doing as she saw the clouds starting to follow her and come together in a massive cloud that became darker and darker, unnaturally so. Celestia finally happy with the amount she collected looked at it approvingly before again collecting a massive amount of magic, this time in one of her hooves and gave the cloud one solid buck. As one all the water stored in the cloud was released onto the ground. As one all the flames were put out and Eleanor was forced to the ground and drenched in water. As she rose back up, her whole body drenched, she already started to chant again. This time she was preparing something big as Celestia braced herself. Earth rose up from the ground, from the deep where Celestia’s spell didn’t reach and formed into rocks the size of heads. Then the rocks melted to lava and where hurled towards Celestia while who didn’t expect that at all and started to dodge frantically, she had many of her feathers signed at a few close calls but the stream of small meteorites was not letting up, and by now much of the area was completely unrecognizable, with sizable holes around a crate of ashes, the leftovers from the pillows. As another meteorite singed her fur she got a idea. She went into a full dive and started to charge, this type of magic needed precision, she set up the spell and kept it charged in her horn while flying towards Eleanor at high speeds. Finally she set up the magic field and shot it outwards surrounding Eleanor and then shot the charged spell out. The beam of magic was fast and powerful, the hasty created shield of earth did nothing to stop the beam and stuck treu creating a explosion of magnificent proportions tha tenfluged the whole school. “Sister!” Louise shouted out in panic, surly her sister and Celestia both were alright, she saw how the situation escalated but Celestia was such a soft creature, she couldn’t imagine her trying to harm anyone. The smoke slowly lifted and Celestia stood where her sister was just moments ago. She looked horrible, with patches of fur and feather burned off. However the smile on her face was unmistakable. “C-Celestia?” Louise said carefully approaching them, not caring that she sank into the ashes with every step. ”Where is my sister?” “Why don’t you come and see for yourself?” Celestia said her smile widening. Carefully Louise approached as she closed in she started to hear something, it sounded strangely like her raging sister, however it sounded strange, very high pitched. Only as she was at Celestia's side she finally saw. Right in front of her something black was jumping up and down, something black and angry. “...will have your hide as a new pair of shoes and make sure that I only use you as the bottom of it so that you can eat dirt until your body rots…” the bunny raged. “I think that is enough of you for now.” Celestia said as the mouth of the rabbit was shut by a golden aura and the bunny was no longer able to speak. “Is that…?” Louise carefully asked. “Louise, say hello to your new improved sister!” the bunny was levitated up and rubbed against Celestia's cheeks. ”Isn’t she fluffy?” That was about as much as Louise could take as she fainted.