Nothing happened for the next dozen years. The nobles were pest, my family were crazy, and I was still a pony. At this point it feels weird to think of my life before Equestrian. I know I'm human, that will never change, hopefully. I just have a hard time remembering what it was like to live back in the world I was born in. Hay, the only reason I know it's called earth is because of EARTH ponies. This started to freak me out a little, so I wrought what I did remember down.
I found out that the mares have a habit of stealing from my room, since I started hearing rumors of a fur-less biped species that didn't have any magic. I had to confront all of the maids AND guards just to find the book I wrote everything down in. They never did reveal who took it in the first place. This started a chain reaction, first was being asked questions about my former species. Next came the stupid nativity that ponies are known for. After that was having to deal with the nobles demanding were the "Lowly Hoo-mins" were hiding. I swear the next pony I hear to say it like that, I'll skin them and hang it over the nobles entrance to the castle.
Why Celestia and Luna agreed that they needed one was beyond me.
Back tot he 'human problem' as they called it, I just told them that humans were not very trusting of others and more likely to either run away or start beating the whatever brains they had out. I used those exact words, the looks I got were priceless. They always had one of those -HOW DARE YO-oh shit I just yelled at a princess' kind of looks. The nobles who understood my opinion on their rank, were smart enough not to try something.
Some of the Unicorns tried arguing that since man doesn't have magic, then the were no threat to 'us.' Oh how I wanted to say that I would choose my former species over you new-born morons. Instead I only told them how man was immune to magic and they could extend this 'immunity' to anything they grabbed with their hands. The Unicorn nobles looked so scarred, I almost lost my mind trying to hold in my laughter. I remember one line that really got them, "Humans are also able to eat both plants and meat, but they only eat those who act like they deserve everything simple because they are born into a noble family." The shocked looks some of the nobles gave me were funny.
My sisters were there as well, and after words asked me how I new so much about, they said it and now I'm going to have to skin my sisters. Maybe I'll just skin that Unicorn stallion that's been trying to wed both of my sisters. What was his name? Blue Collar? I know it started with Blue. Eh, he probably won't have any decedents with how he treats mares he thinks are 'beneath him.' I just hope I see what Tia and Lulu do when they see how he acts.
Moving on from my fantasies, I just told them that I made it all up to scare the nobles into acting less like the jerks they were. Neither one seemed to by my lie. So I just told them that as long as they think it's real, then they'll believe it. And did it ever, we had started receiving word of 'human' sighting before Tia lowered the sun that day. Some noble even dropped they're titles all together out of fear, those guys were always trying to marry at least one of my sisters, so I didn't care. Besides there are hundreds of those pests, whats a couple dozen leaving going to do?
My sisters were getting upset and told me to take care of all the reports, since I started the whole 'hoo-min' thing. That's another noble getting skinned latter, after I pull a 'the cake is a lie' on Tia. I took care of the whole thing just telling everypony to simple pretend to not notice them and act like (kill me for writing this) everything is awesome. No, I did not sing that damn song, if I did then my immortality would be quit short.
It's still fun to sneak into a nobles house at night and pretend to be a human, especially to the ones that annoy me and Luna. Tia can live with it for all I care, she deserves it after all.
After the human situation passed, new problems started to arise. The griffon decided to start a war with the ponies. The griffions made the first attack, but the brand new noble ambassador that Tia sent didn't realize that they eat meat and started throwing all kinds of insults at them, in front of their ruler no less. Again, ponies are morons.
The war went on for a couple of years, with the griffins wining. One day I found out that Commander Hurricane went MIA. The next day was the unconditional surrender of the griffins after I... persuaded them into giving up. (I never thought learning all those strategies back on earth would actually be useful.) The only sign of Hurricane that was ever found was her sword. I decided that I would give her a sword in the stone type of memorial, the stone was shaped like a Lighting bolt. We had it placed next to the one I made for mom. Mom's was made from a rare, growing crystal. This meant that no matter what damage it sustained, it would be fixed in about a mouth. It was in the shape of a six pointed star, one point for each of the family. Even if our aunts didn't remember who it's for, they know it means something to the three of us.
"I still can't believe she's gone." One of us said, their voice filled with sorrow.
"I still can't believe no pony remembers our mother, or what's she's done for them." Another said with just as much pain.
"I still can't believe we had to add a third memorial." A third said, letting their gaze rest on the new tombstone. This one was designed for PuddingHead. I was shaped like, well, pudding. It had a single balloon sticking out of the top of it.
"I still can't believe there are ponies out there that want us dead." I said as remembered what had transpired within the last week.
Three assassins had tried to kill me and my sisters. The first went after Luna, but she was out with Platinum when it happened. It was the middle of the night when I heard someone in her room saying how it would be over soon. I burst down the door and found the culprit stabbing into her stuffed Ursa. We both thought it was Luna at the time. The mare didn't even get off the bed by the time I was on top of her.
The second one had tried for Celestia not even a day later. I had a few of my own guards hide in her room to grab anyone that shouldn't be there. They ended up catching a griffin in there, she was paid by a pony, but that was all we could get out of that one. I may have lost my temper with her when she started talking about how she would kill everyone I cared for. Worst part was that she had been working in the castle for a couple months now. Had to do a complete background check on all the staff since we didn't keep documents on that kind of stuff.
Third time was my turn to meet my 'end.' I had been waiting every night for them to come out, I slept the days away with quiet a few guards watching my room, most of them hiding. Things didn't go as expected when the assassin showed. I had the guards switch to night time to try and draw them out. The next day the assassin comes in during court and tries to rush me. Pudding saw this and got the was able to get the guards attention. Only problem was that the assassin wanted revenge on the one that 'stole their kill.' It was a unicorn stallion that did the deed. He blast her straight through, looked like a bullet wound to me.
The bastard thought that since he was a stallion that he would get off easy, especially since the one handling his case was Celestia instead of me. Worst part was that Celestia had a bit of a crush on the guy, and he knew it. What he didn't realize was that Celestia bonded to PuddingHead the most. He thought that he 'perfect princess' attitude was because she liked Platinum best. To say I was shocked when she sent him to the dungeon for life, would be an understatement. I thought she would just have him killed and he thought she would just banish him.
The dungeon was not something any of us used. A dungeon sure, but THE dungeon was like Arkham Asylum without the cells. It was a one way in, go rot with the rest of your savage kind, no hope of leaving without being dead in one way or another kind of place. It was a close second to Tartarus, and the only way to get sent there was to become an enemy of the world. Not many can claim that title.
This just went to show, our lives are only going to get harder the longer we live.
"Maybe that's why mom left. To escape the pain." I'm still not sure how I felt about that, but I did know one thing. The three of us were going to shape the world, we just had to make sure to do it right.