Well...there had been a minor setback with the initially hired clothes designer, so Celestia had to call on another that was supposedly a "friend" of some personal student of hers. I've never heard of a princess have a "personal student before. Seeing Celestia, however, the possibility of make-up lessons was certainly out of the list of possible things she would teach. Then again, I could annoy her with that...muahahaha! Either way, this new designer would arrive tomorrow first thing in the morning. That was just great. Either way, I was now chillin' on the walls of the castle with a chair that I made from spare pieces of wood lying around. It wasn't grade A, but it would suffice. It was nice to watch the sunset in a mixture of orange, yellow, red, and black. It gave my eyes something to appreciate while stuck behind gray walls. I also noticed that Philomena, despite her incessant pecking on my head, seeped her claws less deeply into my shoulder. I considered this a good thing. Who knew what kind of damage I could get if she went too far?
Peppermint also seemed to have become a personal messenger for me, as well as a taskmanager. She was just too adorable to refuse any demands, however, this last one was asking too much.
As Philomena flew away for the night, I took one more sip of a glass of orange juice given to me by the guards for my hard work, but I heard that wierd "clippity-cloppity" sound the ponies would make when they would gallop towards me. Agently head turn the right, adn I could see that whitish pony holding a parchment in her mouth.
"Take it." she mumbled.
"Ooookayyyy...ew..."
A careful inspection for slobber and I broke this parchment open. I was quite surprised to see that this was actually well written. Magic? Probably. Anyways, the letter was from Luna asking me to attend to a private dinner with her and Celestia to "better" our relationship with eachother. I tossed the letter aside.
"I'm sorry but this is too much to ask, even if it comes from Luna."
"Princess Luna."
"She's a princess? YOU DON'T SAY?!"
"You're being too formal with them."
"They don't seem to care and neither do I. I have no appreciation of royalty unless they did something amazing for their country. Therefore, I call anyone by their first name."
That did get me in alot of trouble with the big boss of the construction company I worked for, but seeing as I worked hard, proved by my workmates, he would let it slide. I was lucky to get such a boss.
"But, the princess-"
"I don't care. Besides, even if I went, what do you think it would look like? I smell, I have just a shirt as well as underwear and pants on, and I don't even have my shoes, so my feet must be as black as coal."
"You do know that there's a shower in your room that was adjusted to your size, right?"
"Isn't the dinner now?"
"No. It is in half an hour."
"Fine, but I'm only taking a shower. I'm not going to he dinner."
"Please?"
Oh no, it's...the FACE... those big 'ol eyes are too much to bear!"
"OKAY! OKAY! Just sto doing the face! It's too much!" I yelled while trying to shield my eyes.
"Hah! The sad eyes always work."
"You win this round, but you will pay. Oh yes! You will pay dearly."
"I'm sure I will." she said with a sigh."
Damn these ponies and their adorableness, they cause me to have emotions.
I hurried up to my roopm to clean myself and my clothes the best I could. It was pretty hard cleaning clothes and hoping they would dry immediately, but they did. I'm not sure how that happenned. I really need to get back home if I want to keep the correct laws of physics in my mind. A knock on my door as I was putting my slightly cleaner clothes on caught me off guard. Moaning, I opened the door to the narrow outside corridor, only to see a guard there waiting.
"Have you accepted the invitation?"
"Unfortunately."
"Heh. Then follow me."
I had to follow this guy throughout the castle just to find two golden colored doors. That was unimpressive for a dining room, however, the interior was much different. The guard opened the door and lift a hoof as I was invited insie. This room was basically the cliché of castle dining rooms. A bit of those big-ass tapestries adorning the walls, lots of litten chandeliers dangling from the roof, and a very long wooden table able to accompany atleast fifty guests. However, it came to my surprise that there were a few others here, namely a white pony who looked gorgeus! However, I'm not sure if it was artificial beauty that she used, but she still looked ravishing. A few whispers at my entry brought my attention, as well as me and Celestia's eyes meeting, which caused us to both grin at eachother. I noticed that there was a spot free next to Luna, so I approached it and asked:
"Is this seat taken?"
"No, it is not. You may sit there."
"Thank you. I apologize for my attire. As you know, I didn't get to meet the clothes-designer due to a lack of the pony being here."
"It is quite alright."
I was lucky that these seats were made "over-size". My gigantic buttox fit snuggly on the seat while the other ponies certainly had enough room to lie down on them. Except of course, for Celestia and Luna, who were the biggest ponies I had seen so far.
I waited patiently at my spot, staring blankly into the open, while the other ponies seemed to bend slowly forward to get a better look at me. However, I noticed Celestia huff while still staring at me blatantly. So I decided to mess with her as I kept a smile on while looking mad.
"Problem, princess?"
"No...I just understand why YOU would come to this finner, despite my sister sending you an invite." she said as she looked at Luna furiously from the corner of her eyes. Luna shrunk a bit.
"Perhaps it's because I like to define what I see and how I see it? Or maybe it's because I have a sense of humor? You don't seem too..illuminated on the subject." I said with a smile reaching my ears.
"And you don't seem too 'fit' for your job."
"I guess being bright isn't too necessary for doing some jobs."
"And you have the audacity to mock me in front of everypony?"
"I guess I'm just having a sunny day." I said while lying back against my chair, hands behind my head.
The other started to shrink as Celestia started turning red.
"Please, princess, red is NOT your color. You look better with your sparkly white coat." She looked confused.
"Take that! The mindfuck of the day."
"I would like to interject here. I know it is none of my concern but, who and what are you?" said a stallion with a blue mustache.
"My name is Mark Fénix. I'm a human. And you would be?"
"My names is Fancypants."
I "monobrowed".
"What?"
"Nothing. And who is that to your side? She i quite dazzling for the eyes of my inner artist."
"This Fleur de Lis."
"Pleased to meet you." she said...with a french accent?
"The pleasure is all mine. You see Celestia, I have good manners. You needn't mentally overheat by thinking about what I could do."
"..."
"Why do you speak to her majesty like that? It is quite uncouth for...some..."
"Someone."
"Someone, thank you, to talk to royalty like that."
"Ah! But you see, I don't have much patience when it comes to royalty. Let's just say that the world where I come from had many,MANY kings, queens, emperors, leaders, and so on and so forth, that have brought almost nothing to the countries of the world. Our history goes far, and it was with the hard-working train of thinking from the average 'peasant' that my species is where it is today. Although, I'm sure we're at the same point as we were a few hundred years ago now as we were in the apst, but just with more advanced technology."
"Interesting. But I suppose I can understand your viewpoints on royalty from that perspective, however, I think you will note that princess Celestia has done a fine job ruling over Equestria these last thousand years."
"Wait...then what about Luna?"
Both princesses hung their heads in shame.
"Am I missing something here?"
"It's best that you not learn of our past." said Luna.
"Fine by me. I won't dig deeper than needed."
Celestia seemed taken aback by my reply. I'm pretty sure that she was pretty sure about me being the rude one., but something certainly came to mind when she asked me a question that I had the pleasure of answering:
"I suppose that if I said that, you would have insisted on learning about our past."
"Hmmm, let me think...Mmyes, very much so."
I saw growling in her eyes. This was so much fun to annoy royalty. However, the rest of the night was spent without much trouble as I traded words with Fancypants as well as Luna. AND I got to see my meat replacement. A tasteless blackish-brown rectangle. It was basically a protein bar like the ones on Earth. Meh, it's better than nothing. I was going to get out of my room early tomorrow morning so I could start working on the roof of this castle...well...one of the roofs. I didn't know why, but I could feel that I would be hit on the head by something other than Philomena...hmm...I'll have to be on my guard.