//------------------------------// // gettin' a bit serious // Story: Celestiphilia // by Dr Atlas //------------------------------// Celestia quickly ran down the halls of the castle, zooming and dashing around every corner she came across. She even ran past guards standing in their positions, spinning them around multiple times before they regained their senses and tried to figure out what white blur decided to spin them. Celestia ignored this, and everything else as she ran, she just needed to get those glasses. She finally reached her destination and took deep breaths. “It’s okay...he...he probably...hasn't...oh for my sake, he’d better not…” She looked at the door in front of her and knocked furiously. “Sister! I need your glasses. Sister?” Celestia tapped her hoof impatiently. “Luna! This is very important!” Celestia groaned and decided to open the door herself. She was surprised to see that it wasn’t locked, but she didn’t have time to worry about that. She opened the door and narrowed her eyes. “Sister, why didn’t...you...open…” Celestia walked in to see that Luna was staring off into space from her balcony. Celestia raised and eye and tapped her sister’s shoulder. “Luna?” “Mhhhhhmhmhmh...Why don’t we just try doing this instead…” Luna smiled and looking around with her eyes glowing white while Celestia looked at her in confusion. “...Sister?” Celestia waved a hoof in front of Luna’s face, but she remained unfazed by it and continued smiling. Tia could only guess that her sister was currently in someone’s dream, her eyes would get like that if she wasn’t angry, but from the sound of it, it didn’t feel right to her. Luna hummed again and said, “Maybe if you were bigger then...oh...not in that way. silly bug…” Celestia was starting to become concerned. So she decided to get her attention another way by- *SMACK* “NEAh...guy..ge...what?” Luna spun around in a daze before catching her balance. “Who dares interrupt my…Tia?” Both sisters stared at each other for some time. Celestia decided to speak first. “Luna, what were you doing?” Luna blushed. “Um...just...checking on dreams, you know how ponies are with their nightmares and problems and-” “It’s the middle of the day sister.” Celestia stood taller and looked down at her sister. “Who would be sleeping at this time of day?” Luna looked back and forth nervously. She could tell that Celestia knew she was exploring dreams, and with it being day time, it was hard to hide the fact that she was forcing others to fall asleep, especially a certain bug she met. “Well, some ponies are nocturnal, you never know who could...what are you wearing?” Celestia looked down and blushed, realizing that she still had her red-balled collar around her neck. She quickly took it off with her magic and teleported it away. “Um...it was nothing, just...where are your red glasses?” Now Luna raised an eye. “My glasses, why do you need to go out and about under a disguise, sister?” Secretly, Luna had no idea where her glasses were, she remembered wearing them when she went out last night, but when she woke up in her bed, they were gone. Celestia bit her lower lip. “Um...Just to see…” She tried to come up with some excuse, she knew her sister would continue to ask why, and Celestia didn’t want anyone to know about what happened between her and that changeling. Then her ear twitched. “What that noise...is?” “Noise? What noi...noise?” Luna looked outside her window, as did Celestia. “How in Equestria.” Both of the sisters stood with dropped jaws to see a sight that didn’t normally happen, sure it did happen from time to time, but it was amazing at how organized it was. “What in my mane?” Celestia gazed at the crowd of ponies singing and dancing in perfect formation, and up front stood two creatures who led the group. “How did this happen, and why are they up front?” Luna pointed at a pair of changelings that were coming toward the castle, as were the huge groups of ponies. Both the sisters looked at each other, then back at the crowd. “Perhaps we should...go and see what’s going on.” Celestia suggested. Luna nodded and started walking out of her bedroom. Celestia took one more look at the crowd of dancing ponies and walked out as well. “How did they do it again?” Celestia asked herself. “I know it happens randomly for a small group, but half of Canterlot…” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stan zoomed through the air, trying to figure out why his wings were acting like this, and why this weird tune wouldn’t get out of his head. It was starting to bother him. He turned around and tried to stop, but his wings wouldn’t let up, it wasn’t until he hit a tree that his wings finally stopped, he slid down and landed on a bush. He rubbed his sides and groaned. “Ow…” He got up and looked at his transparent wings. “What is wrong with you two, why did you decide...to..try...How did I get to the castle already?” Stan looked up at the large castle in front of him, wondering why his wings decided to take him here. He climbed out of the bush and looked around, seeing that he was in some sort of large garden. “This is all becoming too weird, first Carl tells me that I did so many crazy things last night, and now my wings have a mind of their own. What next, my hooves trying fighting a dragon?!” “Fluttershy, come on, I was just trying to eat you!” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Clop along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do...Come on~” Shift and Lift looked up and yelped once they saw they were on top of the steps to the castle, and even more when they saw a huge crowd of ponies cheering at them. “What happened?” Shift turned to Lift, hoping to get an answer from him. Lift scratched his head and continued gazing at the sight of the hundreds of ponies “Um...I think we...I don’t know. I remember, you talkin’ about a plan or somthin’, and then we, got outside and…” “Somthin’ about singin’...and dancin’.” Shift rubbed his head and groaned. “I swear Lift, the last thing I remember is wakin’ up and talkin’ to ya about...something.” Lift patted his brother’s back. “I’m sure the crowd knows somthin’, right?” Both changelings walked to the edge of the steps and raised their hooves, causing more massive screams that made them flop their ears. “Dis is louder than when the hatchlings cheered at us.” Shift screamed at his brother. Lift and Shift cupped their mouths and yelled. “EY, CROWD OF PONIES!” The whole crowd lowered their cheering mumbles. “Listen!” Shift yelled. “Uh...do any of ya know what happened?” Louder sounds of mumbling were heard. Lift adjusted his throat and yelled, “What my brother means is, do you have an idea how we got here?” More murmurs were heard, one pegasus flew up and said. “We were cheering at ya for something!” “Yeah,” Another pony yelled. “it was, like, something about inspiration or something.” “Nah, I don’t think that was is.” A stallion said. “It was as if we got caught up in something and joined you in...something.” “Maybe it was a race!” A mare said. “Or a march!” “A song?” “No. That’s too unoriginal!” Lift and Shift clapped their hooves. “Hey!” Shift yelled. “Chilax guys, all we wanna know is why you guys are here, because I don’t think a bunch of ponies would follow us, unless it was an angry mob.” “Are we an angry mob?” One pony asked. “Wouldn’t we have pitchforks or something?” “Nah, that’s too cliche.” “You sang.” The ponies went silent and Shift and Lift tilted their heads. “Sang?” Lift and Shift looked around. “Who said,” “That we sing, me and Shift here don’t-” “Ahem.” The DJ's yelped and turned around. Seeing the the double doors to the castle were now open, and right in front of them stood two things that they never thought they would see this close. “Princesses?” Shift said. “Wait,” Lift turned to his brother. “Ain’t it princesi?” “Princesi?” Shift raised an eye and started forgetting about the all powerful alicorns right in front of them. “Why the heck would you say it like that?” “Well, anything plural that ends with an ‘S’ means it needs to be an ‘I’ instead” “Don’t you mean ‘A’ ‘S’ Since a word with a vowel at the beginning needs to have an ‘an’?” Lift shook his head. “No, that just sounds stupid.” “So is saying princesi.” “No it ain’t” “Yes it is.” “No it ain’t!” “Yes it is!” “NO IT-” “Changelings!” Both the brothers turned back to both princesses and yelped. “Can you tell us how you went into song and brought half of Canterlot with you?” Celestia raised her chin and waited for a response. Shift and Lift looked at each other, then at Celestia. “Um...We went into song?” Lift asked. “Oh, now I remember.” Shift turned back to his brother and smiled. “We were gonna see if we can get the whole town to get into song,” He turned to the princess. “No offence, but it kinda creeped us out how the ponies did this stuff, even our queen took a while to come up with her song.” Lift stepped up to the alicorns. “Do you guys...I dunno, practice?” Now Luna and Celestia looked at each other. “We’re...not sure either.” Luna scratched the back of her neck. “Even we don’t know how this happens.” “Though, it seems you really pepped up the crowd.” Celestia pointed at the ponies, causing some of them to clap. “Maybe you could, do another?” “Another?” Both Shift and Lift said. “Um...one sec.” Both of them walked to the edge of the steps again and went into a huddle. “What do you think?” Shift asked. “I dunno,” Lift shrugged. “you came up with the idea.” “But I didn’t know it was gonna work.” “Well, it did, so can you think of somethin’ else?” Shift though for a moment. “I can think of some, but what do you think it should be about?” “I dunno, should it be somthin’ funny?” “Maybe, but the princesses look pretty serious, should we sing the same?” Lift looked at the crowd, as did Shift. Most of the ponies were staring at them with eyes of happiness, while others were getting angry to realize changelings did something like this. “Well, it’s gotta be something about all of this.” Lift suggested. “All of what?” Shift raised an eye. “I mean, about what’s been goin’ on, with the treaty and the ponies hating us the us hating the ponies.” “You want us to sing somethin’ serious. We’re supposed to be the funny guys, Lift.” “I know, but look at what’s been goin’ on, the posters about us, and ponies kicking us out of places, and some fighting others too, do you really want us to live like this, with others still hatin’ on us for wrecking their town, when we are trying to fix it?” Shift started backing away from his brother. “Since when did you become inspirational?” Lift rolled his eyes. “Come on man. I know we’re supposed to be the cool DJ’s with wavy eyes, but maybe we can make another mark on us. Make us look like hero's.” Shift sighed and took another look at the ponies. His brother had a point, if they could make most of the town happy with a song, maybe they could fix all of the discrimination about them. “And I thought this was about a changeling gettin’ drunk.” Shift mumbled. He turned back to his brother. “Alright, we’ll do something serious, but we ain’t doin’ it alone.” “What do ya mean?” Lift walked up to his brother. “Isn’t the crowd gonna-” “They won’t be singing.” Shift turned to the princesses, knowing that this was probably one of the only chances they would get at having both changelings and ponies coming to their parties. “Um, can we fly to the hospital first? We need to get a chorus.”