//------------------------------// // Chapter 7:Guest Of Honor, Princess Celestia [Part 2] // Story: This Unusual Little World // by PathOfTheAwesomePie //------------------------------// Along the way to the party, Celestia,Twilight, Spike, and I were enjoying the overhead night sight of Ponyville, it was a spectacular view. Princess Celestia ordered the guards to take their time to arrive at the party for all of us to relax before mingling with the other ponies. "Wow, the view from here is great!" I said looking down at Ponyville in awe. "I suppose Rainbow Dash's flying never let you experience this view, huh?" Twilight implied laughing. "Hey, is Rarity at the party, Alex?" Spike asked tugging on my shirt with nervousness. "Oh yeah, she was being complimented on her designs by some pegasi." I said, watching him blush a little over some weird thought. "Obviously Spike's in love." "Oh, and I think...she said something about you too." I said looking in the opposite direction from Spike. "Really!?" Spike said with anticipation. "Yeah, she'll be happy that you're there!" I replied with a smile. "Did you hear that Twilight!?" Spike said, turning to Twilight while I sat patiently, enjoying the view of Ponyville with Celestia. I looked at Celestia, she looked down upon the town with a warm smile, she seemed so modest and humble, like the kind of princess I expected her to be. There wasn't much I could tell just by her appearance, but what she said at the library had me thinking...did she know me? Was my existence to Celestia known before I even came to Equestria? Did she stalk me back in my world without me even knowing!? What secrets are she hiding? All of those questions haunted me, but first I had to know what she meant when she told Twilight when she "entrusted me upon her". "Your most faithful student...I knew it was right to entrust you with me...um, you didn't happen to know my coming into this world... did you?" I asked looking at Celestia, who's focus turned from the town below and now to me. "Well I suppose I should be honest, but let's talk about this another time, shall we?" She replied with a grin. "Oh, okay..." I said, feeling a little unsure of myself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We arrived at the clearing of the party, all cleaned up after the chaos of discovering my existence. "Look, it's Princess Celestia!" Rainbow Dash shouted, putting her hooves up like a cheer. All the ponies stopped what they were doing and came stampeding to meet and greet the princess. "Welcome to your super special fantastically wonderful surprise party that's not a surprise party anymore since you know about it now!" Pinkie Pie chanted as everypony joined in on her welcome. Princess Celestia gave a smile to the ponies of Ponyville as she removed herself from the chariot, which made me visible to everypony at the party. Pinkie and every other pony gasped at my sight. "It's Alex!" Pinkie Pie said, jumping for joy. Fluttershy gasped. "It's mister Alex!" "Oh, he returned, how unexpected!" Rarity said as she stopped admiring her own decorations. "Well, what do ya know, seems Alex can't stay away for long!" said Applejack smiling with glee. "I guess all my friends are glad to see you again, Alex." Twilight implied as she got out of the chariot. Alex gave a smile to the shocked expressions of the ponies who were joy-filled to see him. "Haha...hey wait, where's Pinkie Pie, she was just over there a second ago?" I said looking around the astonished crowd until I caught glimpse of Pinkie putting on the same expressions as the crowd of other ponies who seemed to avoid getting close to him. "What the...what do you have to be afraid of, you already know me!?" I asked with a confusing facial expression. "Oh, I was just following what everyone else was doing was part of the game, sorry hehe~♪" She replied smiling ironically. "That pony's...seriously one of a kind..." I looked at the flock of freaked out ponies, then Twilight stepped forward in front of me and stomped her hoof to grab everypony's attention. "Calm down, please, as me and my friends told you before, Alex isn't bad as you think he is, he's just like the rest of us!" she said with a sharp sense of honesty. "Twilight..." I looked at all the ponies who still wouldn't come near me. All of a sudden 3 little ponies came up to me and stared at me. One was a red maned earth pony, another was a purple violet maned unicorn, and the last was a pink manned pegasus. "Hey, he doesn't look so scary." said the little unicorn. "Yea, maybe Twi's right, he seems harmless!" said the red maned pony. "I don't know, is he cool in any way?" said the pegasus who stared at me more cautiously. I pouted at that comment. The three little ponies looked at each other then back at me. Then a medium voice called out from the crowd "Sorry, excuse me, I am so sorry, pardon me." out of the crowd came a pink colored pony. "Girls, what are you doing?" asked the concerned pony. "We were just seeing what kinda creature he was, Miss Cheerilee." the red maned earth pony said looking at the pink colored pony with a sappy expression. "Still, you can't go off and study this "thing" and uh-- no offense, sir." the pink pony said in mid-sentence. "None taken...wait huh!?" I said shocked after I noticed her calling me a thing again. "Seriously, they're calling me a "thing" again...ugh forget it..." After a while, the 3 got scolded and walked back away from me while they continued to look back at me. "Um..." I stood there behind Twilight waving at the 3 little ponies. "Am I that good with pony children?" "Anyways, I hope you all won't think of me badly, like I said before I--" before I could go on, Celestia put her hoof over my shoulder. The entire crowd of ponies gasped by the physical contact of me and the Princess. "Princess..?" I asked, wondering why she would want me to stop explaining myself. "It is alright Alex, I will handle this misunderstanding for you." Celestia whispered, removed her hoof from Alex and gave a smile while approaching in front of the shocked ponies. "There is nothing to fear my ponies, Alex is a harmless human being who's heart is in the right place, I assure you, it may be startling at first, but you can come to like him if you gave him a chance." Celestia said aloud, closing her eyes and bowing her head down to everypony, hoping they will hear her plea. The pegasi, unicorns and earth ponies all started whispering and showing very unsure facial expressions about the current situation. "I accept Alex!" called out Twilight. I looked to Twilight in awe. "As do I!" said Rarity., with a fierce stare. "I-I'll accept mister Alex too!" Fluttershy said with a confident voice. (well, as confident as she could get at least.) "You bet yer fine manes I'll be be acceptin' him!" Applejack said stomping her hoof on the ground. "Hey if they accept him, I'm game too, Alex doesn't seem bad at all!" Rainbow Dash said and she zipped away from the other pegasi and came over head towards me. "Of course I'll accept him, I like Alex, he seems so super nice!" Pinkie Pie shouted, hopping out of the crowd of concerned ponies. All five of the ponies who decided to stand up for me came in front of me and looked out to the crowd. "Wow...just...wow." I stared at the six of them, then looked at Celestia. Spike broke the silence coming from the chariot saying "Can't you all see, they're all standing up for Alex because they know him very well, give him a chance, okay?" The crowd of ponies had ceased their chattering, then silenced followed, suddenly there were a few hooves stomping on the ground, then more seemed to follow, along with other ponies nodding their heads. Soon everypony in the crowd began stomping their hooves, nodding their heads, and cheering, almost as if they started to accept me. "Huh...?" I said with an astonished look. "They're accepting...?" I asked looking at the crowd of ponies with smiles everywhere. The six ponies who defended me were all amazed as well and turned to me. "We're glad that they all accept --" Twilight stopped mid-sentence and saw a few tears coming from my eyes. I kept a straight face to them. "Oh Alex..." Fluttershy said, flying next to me for comfort. "Is there anything the matter, partner" Applejack asked worryingly. "Yes, you can tell us." Rarity said with a caring tone. I blinked my eyes once, then I swept my fingers across my eyes. "N-no...I'm crying happy tears..." I replied. "Aw come on Alex, no need be teary." Spike said. "He's right, even if you're happy you should turn those sad little guys into something much better like a RAINBOW!" Pinkie said bouncing up and down in excitement. "Heh, that's Pinkie for you, but really Alex, don't go crying over something like this it was obvious they'd accept you!" Dash said with lots of arrogance. then I looked Dash in the eyes and noticed something. "Hey, isn't that... a little tear drop on your eyelash RD?" I asked, snickering underneath my breathe. Dash hesitated a bit and glared at me. "N-no!" She replied, facing the opposite direction. All of the ponies laughed at Dash's ironic lie and we all hugged each other. Celestia looked at me from afar as the six ponies who were hugging me wasn't aware of it, she winked her right eye at me and I returned a wink back, then began to walk towards me. "Always rely on a princess to get you out of a jam!" We all finished hugging and watched as Celestia walked over to me, readying to speak aloud once more. "Everypony, Alex, I want you all to live in peace and harmony and that we will respect Alex as one of our fellow Ponyville...no...Equestrian citizens from now on!" Celestia shone her horn and focused it into the night sky, once her magical bolt hit the center, it exploded into dozens of fireworks that gave of so much color and warmth. In a way, it was like the 4th of July, but in Equestria. "Wow!" Me and the other six ponies had awe inspiring looks as we seen the fiery images that displayed from Celestia's magical powers. "This place accept me...for who and what I am." I said smiling. {Wow, those are the most beautiful fireworks I've ever seen, mom!" said the excited little boy. "You know...one of these days...those fireworks will be more than just a pretty sight." said the elegant blonde women. "Really, I can't wait!"} "Wow, they're so colorful!" Fluttershy said, with sparkling eyes towards the night sky of the magical fireworks. "They're different from the fireworks at the Grand Galloping Gala,s-so...AWESOME!" Dash said, flying wildly in circles just to admire them from different angles. "And here I thought Dash WASN'T east to impress, haha." I looked at Celestia, she was crowded around a spire of ponies of every sort asking her and wishing her the best chants as the greatest princess there is that existed. "She...kinda reminds me of my mother...though she's not here with me right now..." I said mumbling to myself. "That's very sad to hear, Alex." Twilight said approaching from behind me. "W-what, wait, T-Twilight you heard that!?" I asked hesitantly. "No need to worry, I won't tell anypony about it." She stated, smilight at me. I looked at Twilight and smiled and nodded in appreciation. "What a night..." I mumbled to myself.