Chapter 3: YOU WHAT!?
It was currently ten o'clock at night and about two hour since their guest had arrived, and Celestia was currently in her office reviewing the guard report while Luna paced a line into the carpet. Furrowing her eyebrows in annoyance her sisters constant pacing Celestia set down the papers in her telekinetic grasp and looked at her sister.
Hearing Celestia set down the papers Luna stopped her pacing and met her sisters gaze. After a brief pause Luna took a set on the arm chair on the other side of her sister’s desk. Sighing and taking the report into her own magic field, Luna voiced her concerns. “It doesn’t feel quite right Tia, we talk of him and he suddenly appear? Completely by chance?”
Nodding in agreement Celestia slumped slightly in her chair. “I understand that but we both know that magic works in uncertain way when being influenced by outside forces, for all we know the Tree of Harmony could be involved or even Discord.” taking a moment to let her words sink, in celestia closed her eyes letting out a frustrated sigh, before continuing. “The guards did a magic analisis on Cerulean after the doctors cleared him, and it seems he had substantial traces of a unknown transportation spell as well as a recently cast teleportation spell.”
Luna nodded her head at this while scanning over the report before she noticed something. “It says that they could not quite figure out how he got into the Royal Archives. They think it has something to do with the transportation spell they found traces of, but can not confirm since very few can cast that type of magic.”
Shaking her head Celestia got up from her seat at her desk and made her way over to the couch next to the coffee table. “Well either way we still have the problem of a very big predator staying inside the castle, and that is making the guard on edge. We need to do something with him or there might be problems arise, especially from the nobles, and I can only vouch for him so much before there starts to be problems.” Sitting down Celestia waited till the maid was done pouring her a cup of tea before picking it up in her magic and taking a sip.
Getting up and moving to sit next to her sister, Luna looked over some treats the maid set down on the table from her cart. Picking out a éclair to snack on from the pile she nodded at the maid before turning her attention back to her sister. “Well why not get Twilight and the other bearers involved? They can just banish him if things get out of hand.”
Raising an eyebrow Celestia just continued to stare at Luna. “Really?”
“What? What’s wrong with getting them involved?”
“You do know that Twilight will try to study him, and then ask him to teach her everything he knows. Rainbow will try to fight him and end up getting herself hurt. Fluttershy will hide behind Applejack, while said pony would be waiting for him to make one wrong move. Pinky Pie would try to throw him a thousand years worth of missed birthday parties like she did you. And Rarity will probably faint in some dramatic way saying something like ‘blue on black? It’s so tacky the horror’.” Taking a sip of her tea Celestia shook her head slowly. “No I would like to keep them out of this for as long as I can. Like I told you and Twilight before, he is an isolationist he prefers to be by himself and away from the troubles of others. So throwing them at him would be counterproductive.”
Finishing off her éclair Luna poured a cup of tea for herself. “Oh… well I see what you mean. We still need to do something though, what about sending him back home?”
Diverting her eyes and taking a bit of a longer sip than usual from her tea, Celestia was content on staring at the ceiling.
Luna frowned slightly at her sisters act of avoiding the subject before pressing the matter. “Tia what did u do?”
“I umm… kinda built the Canterlot Castle on his home?” Celestia responded in a low voice knowing she messed up.
“YOU WHAT!?”
Waking up and rolling over Cerulean felt a sharp pain go through his front right leg as he tried to move it. Opening his eyes he could see that his leg was wrapped in bandages and that he was currently laying in a large bed. “Well this is a surprise given Celestia’s past discretions with threats, I would have thought I wouldn’t be waking up at all let alone in a huge bed.”
Looking around the room he could see it was pretty empty other than a dresser and a writing table with a bookshelf next to it. Seeing that there was no guards or chains on him, Cerulean decided the best option was to keep it that way and stay put for now so not to cause any trouble. “Well at least it could be worse, like ending up in Tartarus or even worse than that being used as a living magic source for dark magic rituals like the Diamond Dog mages used to do.”
“Still though how did my return spell not work? It is meant to send me tight into my living room, also the guard armor didn’t look the same” Thinking on it for a second Cerulean came to a conclusion. “No sense in worrying about it for now, I’ll get my answers as soon as Princess Celestia calls for a audience.”
Seeing nothing better to do Cerulean decided to settled back down into the bed to try to get some rest, and maybe a bit more of his magic back before whatever was to come. Drifting off to sleep while thinking about possible spells that might get him out of this mess or maybe even bringing up the Princesses previous offer, he was suddenly awoken from his sleep.
“YOU WHAT!?”