//------------------------------// // Where Celestia has an eventful breakfast // Story: Celestia takes a vacation // by Hydralisk //------------------------------// Louise was practically radiating, she had summoned an Alicorn who, if the words of her familiar could be trusted, was a rare variant of an, until now, unheard of species. Take that Kirche, who has the best familiar now? Celestia, for her part, simply found it amusing how during her explanation the little girl had gotten a bigger and bigger smile. If she understood it correctly, then the familiar was not simply a helper but would also represent the mage, as such the girl must felt incredibly proud of her summoning, normally such an attitude would be unhealthy but Celestia chose to ignore it and let Louise have a bit more fun. That and the big smile on her face was so cute to look at, it remind Celestia of how Twilight looked when she made her first successful teleportation. They walked down the stairs of the tower and got intercepted by a girl with long red hair.”Good morning Zero, how are you on this fine morning, did you sleep well? Outside? In the cold?” She asked in a mocking voice. Louise instantly lost her jolly attitude and had anger written all over her face “Shut up Zerbst.” “What’s wrong Zero?” Kirche leaned forward empathizing her Assets ”Did the cold froze you so stiff that you lost your sense of humor? Ah sorry, I forgot, you Tristan's are all like that.” Celestia had to suppress a giggle, she simply always found the idea of teenagers competing in such a way, and annoying each other, just adorable. That, at the same time, got her the attention of the large redheaded, who promptly took a step backwards, a fact that didn’t go unnoticed by Louise who in turn got a sly smile on her face. “Now Kirche, why such a reaction? After all, if you followed all the rule of the school you should have nothing to worry about being close to a unicorn.” Kirche only flinched away even more. ”I-It’s getting late, we should be getting some breakfast, Tabi, don't you think?” Kirche said to her companion who somehow managed to stay unseen until now, reading her book, and they made their way to the dining hall. That surprised Celestia considerably, her earth pony magic should have made her feel her presence. “What was all that about?” Celestia asked. “Well, Unicorns have a very different meaning for people in this country. Basically, here unicorns are aggressive towards everyone who is not pure.” Celestia let that run through her head for a moment. “Are we speaking about spiritual purity or purity of the body?” Louise was a bit confused by that. “Spiritual purity? What is that supposed to mean?” “I once knew a mare who had the purest soul you could find, she could make a Saint look evil, that is how kind and gentle she was.” Celestia got a melancholic face remembering the past. “At the same time she has shared her bed with more males than the amount of feathers I currently have and she didn’t limit herself to ponies.” After some thinking she added: “Or males for the matter.” Louise was blushing furiously at the very idea. “P-Purity of the body, d-definitely of the body.” She stuttered out while trying to cover her face with her hands. “Now let’s get to breakfast.” As Louise went into the dining hall to get her breakfast, Celestia stayed outside as Familiars weren’t allowed inside. Not that she minded, she preferred open spaces anyway and she also had company in the form of a blue young drakaina who was overjoyed that she had a friend who could speak draconic. “... and then He pulled his tail out and a HUGE fish had bit onto it, he was running around screaming, and then, AND THEN my little cousin decided that the fish looked really yummy and bit my into my uncle’s tail and they ran around like that for half a day.” Celestia had to laugh at Illococoo’s story, not being able to banish the mental image out of her head, but her stomach interrupted her. Like on cue, four maids showed up with small carts bringing food which reminded Celestia of the fact that familiars were meant to be animals. Well we can’t have that, can we? Celestia had standards. She made her way to one of the maids that she recognized from the last day, her companion already rushing to the cart with the meat, and spoke up.”Excuse me?” The poor maid, not expecting anyone to talk to her, nearly got a heart attack and as she turned to the Alicron she timidly spoke ”Yes?” “Could you get me to a table and serve my food there?” Celestia asked politely. “Of... course.” The maid, Siesta, said, and while she was a bit unsure if that had just really happened she just passed it off as mages and strange magic things. Louise walked out of the dining hall, fully satiated and ready for the day, only to be greeted by the strangest sight that she had ever seen. There, at one of the tables, sat her familiar accompanied by a blue wind dragon who was happily munching away a fish while making grunts and short screeches towards her familiar, who was eating with a gracefulness that nearly made her envious of her own familiar. She even had cutlery and everything else. Next to them was a maid who looked like she had no idea what to do, so she simply did as she knew best and refiled the alicorns glas whenever it got empty. Also Celestia was answering the dragon with the same sounds that it was doing to her. Well it was never too late, or too early considering it was morning, for some wine, so she seated next to her familiar on the chair that was provided by the maid. “Ah Louise, how was your breakfast?” Celestia asked cheerfully. “Very good, thank you.” Louise said. ”Now, could you explain how this happened?” She asked pointing at the table, the dragon and the maid in one go. The Alicorn looked around uncertain what she meant. “I don’t think I understand your question.” Louise’s eye twitched a bit at that. “You are currently sitting at a table with a wind dragon about three times your height and chatting with it.” The dragon in question gave an annoyed grunt at that. “‘It’ wants you to know that she is a proud girl.” Celestia said in a disapproving tone. ”Also I learned draconic when I was visiting the dragon islands for a year.” Celestia said while taking a sip out of her tea cup without missing a beat. “Wait, you can speak to animals?” Louise asked even more confused than before. Celestia thought about that one for a moment “I speak many languages, so it depends on what you view as animal.” Louise decided to not get herself involved into that. “Nevermind, sooooooo.” Louise, while perplexed, was more curious to find out more things about her familiar. “Yesterday you said all of your kind can do some form of magic?” “That is correct, earth ponies can shape the world with their body, pegasy can shape the sky and fly, and unicorns can shape the world with the use of their mind.” She explained while taking another sip from her cup. “I, as an alicorn, am the exception that as I have the power of all three races.” She thought about that for a moment. “But what can you do with that? Can you cast spells like human mages can?” At that Celestia got thoughtful, what would be a good demonstration of pony magic? She had to take another sip from her cup until she got an idea and started to lazily float the cup in front of Louise who only now realized that Celestia was not holding it in any physical way. “Levitation!” The surprised girl exclaimed as the cup was surrounded by a golden hue, the same shade of gold was also surrounding Celestia's horn now that she looked at her more carefully, so unicorn horns can be used as wands? “Among other things.” Celestia added. “There isn’t really a limit of what a unicon can do provided the skill and patience are there.” Louise’s mood suddenly dropped at that. There was no way that she could brag about her familiar now if word got out that Celestia was better with magic than her… she would never hear the end of that! Celestia, for her part, was simply confused why the mood of her summoner had suddenly dropped so dramatically but chose not to bring that up for now so she avoided the subject for now. “How about you tell me a few things about human magic in return?” At that Louise could barely stop herself as she went into her lecture mode, something that reminded Celestia so much about Twilight that she simply couldn’t think about anything but how adorable it was. She went on and on about Brimir, the church, the elves, how they were gifted the magic system and improved the spells and potions since then; about the lost element of the void and how her mother was one of the strongest wind mages to have ever lived; the elements and the royal family, her childhood friend who was the princess of Tristram. It was funny for Celestia: A pony, a Dragon and a human were sitting on a table and talking about magic, someone could make a great joke out of that. She talked so long that at a point the maid had to excuse herself to get more tea. Louise was so enraptured by her own words that she didn't noticed the sudden commotion that was visible just a few tables away. It was what appeared to be one of the students being enraged and screaming down at one of the maids, specifically the maid that had made the table for her and her dragon companion. “What is that all about?” Celestia interrupted Louise and pointed towards the maid and the blond student. Louise got a distasteful look on her face “The maid probably managed to stain his shirt or something of similar caliber, and the blond fop is being over dramatic about it.” Now that she mentioned it Celestia noticed two faint, red, hand shaped marks on the boys face, and he was getting louder and more aggressive, Celestia's teacher instincts were kicking in and she barely prevented herself from walking right up to them and starting to lecture him. But she couldn’t just leave it the way it was, It was doubtful that any student would do anything to intervene, additionally it didn’t seem like any teacher was close either, that got Celestia an idea. “Louise, can you point at the headmaster's window or that of a teacher from here?” Celestia asked. Louise got a questioning look on her face “Why would you need to know where the headmaster’s office is?” Louise asked back. “Just trust me for a moment.” Louise decided to play along and pointed at the window at the top of the tower. Celestia got a smile at that and started to concentrate, a feather fall charm if she missed her target and she was ready to go, and it was about time as the blond teen just started reeling back to strike the maid. While normally a teleportation was nearly soundless, here in Halkeginia Celestia realized that was not the case because of the reaction of magic to the world. As such everyone in the area was immediately drawn to where Guiche was just a few seconds ago. Suffice to say no one, except for Celestia, was expecting the sudden loud bang and the following disappearance. As such, the shocked expressions that everyone had on their faces were just too hilarious and a short laugh left her mouth. Unfortunately that had the unexpected side effect of getting everyone's attention. And sadly one of them had enough brain to make a connection “Z-Zeros familiar, the Unicon, just blew him up!” “Oh dear.” Celestia said as she herself became aware of the implications, for Guiche had just attempted to strike a maid while in the presence of a winged unicorn.