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"You know, you seem awfully calm for someone who's just been told that they're a slave." Celestia said.
"Well, seeing as how you're the god-princess of this land, it is probably not a good idea to disobey you. If you think about it, this just makes it easier for me." Alex replied. Once again, he had thought things through.
"I believe it's my turn for a question. Since I missed breakfast, can I have something to eat? I'm hungry." He said as his stomach growled. Celestia giggled.
"Just wait here."
She returned with two large salads, knowing that her human friends couldn't eat hay or grass, and the pair sat down to eat. She picked at hers slowly, while he just about inhaled his.
"I've never had a salad so good! What is with everything here? It's like a paradise!" He exclaimed.
"This is just a simple salad. Are things not like this where you're from?" Celestia stared, wondering what his world was like.
"No, they're not. We have a lot of pollution, so the plants don't grow well in many places. Lots of places have droughts or floods, so it's almost impossible to grow things or build houses. I guess that's a lot of the reason why humans invented so many things. The entire world is basically out to kill us, and it's not like we have fangs or claws to protect ourselves. We are the physically weakest species in our height and weight range. We had to be smart to make up for the things we don't have."
Now Celestia understood. Most humans ate meat because it was an easy source of iron. For them, having a balanced diet without it was extremely difficult. Life in general was extremely difficult, so their species was constantly looking for shortcuts. Ways to make things better, easier, or do them quicker.
Alex explained a great deal of his world to her. From cars and planes to cellphones and satellites. Radios, radiation, everything he could, using his limited understanding of them. She seemed intrigued.
"What about magic? We don't have any such thing where I'm from, what can you do with it?" He asked. Celestia then went over all the various possibilities. Levitation, transformation, teleportation, scrying, conjuring, and everything else she could thing of. They spoke for hours about their two worlds, having some snacks while they chatted. Both agreed that while Earth had more interesting stuff, Equestria was the better of the two.
"Well, that all pretty much lines up with the human myth and legend. I really should go now. My family is going to be home soon, and if I'm not there, or if I pop up right in front of them, I'm going to have a lot of explaining to do, and then I'll wind up in the loony bin because they'll think I'm crazy." The two of them laughed a weak laugh.
"I still can't get over the fact that you weren't surprised when you first came here." Celestia said.
"Well, it probably helps that I was drunk the first time, so I wasn't thinking clearly. Then this time I already know about it, so it's not scary. If I had been in my right mind the first time you brought me here, I'd have probably freaked out." Alex admitted. With a flash of light, he disappeared.
"Great, it's been hours. The omelette has gone bad." He said as he proceeded to dump the fly filled egg in the garbage.
"Sister." Luna said entering the room. "I thought I heard voices, is anypony in here?" Luna was worried because somepony being in the royal bed chambers was a very serious thing.
"I just had a friend over for a talk is all. They had to go so I sent them back home." She smiled. Luna looked warily past her sister and caught a glimpse of some weird drawing on the floor, but wasn't going to question her elder sister. Not when she could sneak in while she was doing her duties and find out for herself.
"Alright sister, just be ready to hold court tomorrow morning. I don't want you staying up all night with a good book and being exhausted when you have a job to do." Luna was taking the role of a concerned parent to her older sister, which Celestia thought was funny, but at the same time was annoyed by it.
Celestia slept well, all the while dreaming of the things Alex had described. Giant steel birds that carried passengers inside, carts that moved all on their own. What was also surprising is with all the things they could do, they didn't use magic for any of it. Just ingenuity. She awoke well rested for her duties that morning. Luna gave her a passing hello as they walked by each other in the hall. Celestia closed her door, but unknown to her, Luna had kept it open a crack with her magic.
"Alright, let's see what Celly has been up to." Luna said to herself as she entered the room, carefully closing the door behind her.
"A chalk drawing? On the floor? What's the point of that?" Luna was curious beyond measure. As she eyed the runic design, she sensed a small amount of magic coming from them. Focusing her magic into the circle, she found that it was rejected.
"That's odd, my power is near equal to Celestia's, I should be able to over come a mere remnant of her magic. That's when she spotted a single drop of blood in a circle coming from the first.
"Aha. A blood seal. Whatever she was doing, she didn't want anypony else to discover it. Well, too bad." Luna always was impulsive, and didn't even think for a moment why Celestia had sealed it. She pricked her hoof with her horn, causing a single drop of her own blood to fall on the design. She then focused her magic into the circle again. This time, the characters glowed a pale blue, the same as her own magic aura. The air distorted, and a tall figure appeared in front of her. A tall, wet, naked figure.
"Celestia, what the hell, I was in the middle of a shower.........you're not Celestia." Alex said worried, as he quickly covered himself. Luna looked in awe at the bipedal creature, who spoke in such an informal tone regarding her sister. Immediately resorting to old equinnish, as she was dealing with somepony other than her sister, she began.
"Who and what art thou, how dost thou know of my sister, and how dost thee dare speakest to her and I in such a manner?!" She said, not quite using the royal Canterlot voice, but approaching it rapidly.
"I am Alex, a human. I am Celestia's summoned familiar, and I speak to her that way because we both hate formality, and she's not here, meaning you summoned me, when I was NAKED." Alex was mad, but it is hard to be angry when you are embarrassed about being in the nude.
Realizing that he wasn't any regular subject, she dropped the ye olde language for the modern one.
"What's the problem with not wearing clothes? We ponies are almost always without garment." She asked.
"You also walk on four legs instead of two, and your... area's.... are hidden by the rest of your body and tail, while mine are in full view. In my culture, it's embarrassing and considered rude to be without clothing in public, especially in front of royalty, Luna." He said, red faced half from anger and half from blushing.
"What do you mean by 'familiar' and 'conjured'?" Luna inquired.
"Can I please go put some clothes on first? Besides, I left the water running and I don't want to flood my house." Alex begged.
"Very well. Um, I don't know how to send you back though." She said sheepishly. He facepalmed.
"You didn't think this through at all did you? Your sister practiced for months before hand. Go get her. She'll know what to do." He begged.
"Oh no, I can't do that. Sister will be so angry that I snuck into her room." Luna started looking a little pale at the thought of punishment by her sister.
"If you summoned me, that means you must have gone over the blood seal with your own. When Celestia tries to summon me tonight, it won't work, and she'll notice what you did anyway. It would only be delaying the inevitable. In the mean time, it's causing me a huge amount of trouble. GO. TELL. HER." He said sternly.
"Who are you to give me orders? I am Princess Luna of Equestria! You are nothing more than a hairless monkey I summoned!" She shot a blast of magic at him, not meant to be lethal, just a punishment for talking out of turn. It slammed into him, pushing him against the magic barrier he was trapped in, crushing him against it. With a poof, he was gone.
"What have I done?" Luna began to cry, seeing that this 'human' has disappeared in a puff of smoke, she assumed him to be dead. She ran out of Celestia's room and into her own, crying. She had just killed Celestia's friend, because he was trying to save her trouble.
"Holy shit!" Alex yelled as he found himself once again in his shower, and quickly turned the water off. He dried himself with a towel, and put on some clothing.
"She, she killed me. But, I'm not dead. I just went back home. She doesn't know about summoning though. Let her think I'm dead, just for a while. Maybe that will teach her not to nose around."
Alex was on guard the entire rest of the day. By on guard, I mean he spent it in his room watching television so that when Celestia brought him back, he wouldn't be doing anything important, or embarrassing. He felt a familiar tingle. Turning off the T.V, he grabbed a packet of skittles and put it in his pocket, (maybe Celestia would like them) and with a flash, disappeared.
As for why his clothes may or may not come with him, but a fork he's holding won't, it's because his clothes are close enough to his body to be considered a part of him.
And then Celestia got a skittles addiction. The end.
TASTE THE MOTHERFKIN RAINBOW.
TASTE THE MOTHERFKIN RAINBOW.
MOAR please, if thats ok with you
Bitches love skittles.
We want MOAR, it's almost addicting to a point!
Keep at it sir!
lol, hey Celestia, Taste the rainbow!
A pack of skittles...yes, just, yes. Bravo Sire, Bravo.
Can't wait for more. Love this sooo much
more now
Mental Lune abusement..... Yay!
i know im being a bit hypocritical from previous comments, but it seems like this story was a bit too focused on explaining some things. remember if something does not seem reallistic it should be changed to seem better, not given a explaination...
i really say this because i want to give some sort of constructive crit. i dont want to leaqve you with awesome story, and then be done with it.
dont let anything i say lower your morale. this chapter was great, and i cant wait to see more!
also this is just a pet peeve with the whole slave thing largely. i cant find too many other examples of it. (goodbye my whole comments legitamacy!)
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Double Rainbow, all the way across the comments section!
As for why his clothes may or may not come with him, but a fork he's holding won't, it's because his clothes are close enough to his body to be considered a part of him.
Fork in hand is 'closer' to body than most clothes.
With the fork and clothes...
You said a container would bring whatever's inside it along for the ride.
A hand would act as a container and bring the fork gripped in it.
I don't really blame you though... There's no good way around it.
I've read enough well thought out and heavily researched fantasy and technomagic, particularly Andre' Norton and Mercedes Lackey, to have two possible good reasons why the fork didnt' *poof* with him.
The first is magic-as-science; While the fork would have been within the human's biofield (The faint electrical field around us generated by nerve impulses), it's not recognized as part of the person's sense of "self", while clothing is very personally linked in the mind as part of what we see in the mirror. The clothing is seen as part of him and forks are not.
Second is magic, old skool! Anything in contact with a living creature picks up traces of its essense the longer they are in contact with it. Under this rule. If I was summoned while wearing brand new clothes and my decade old horse pendant, I would appear naked, wearing only that pendant.
For the record, Equestria has both of these things. Albeit in a slightly more rustic form. The chariot Luna rode in on during her debut in the Nightmare Night episode. And trains.
she killed me... that BITCH KILLED ME! hmm wonder if this is gonna be a regular occurrence.
3017479 Taste the Rainbow!
Okay, I'm finding this story mildly interesting so far, but I've got QUITE a few issues with Alex's attitude...
"Oh, hey you can drag me from my home at any time and completley enslave me with a simple word or command? Up to and including forcing me to stop breathing or kill myself? Well, that's totally cool and not nightmare fuel or anything. After al, you're a royal goddess, so it's all A-OK."
And on the other side of the line, there's Celestia. "Wow. This magc is ttaly dangerous and would allos unicorns to enslave al other ponies. No wonder it was secret and banned and whatnot! Well, it's a good thing I'd never use it for such purposes on my little ponies! that would be wrong!" One summoned, sentient, sapeint ape later.... "Dance for my amusement monkey! DANCE! Oh, and never lie to me."
Welcome to moral dissonance town. Population: Celestia.
Which just makes THIS part more ridiculous:
Oh, and then Luna pops up, breaks a blood seal, and MURDERS someone. Only, you know, it was a ACCIDENT. And it didn't actually STICK, so it's all A-OK again!
I mena, it's not like alex should be curled up in a ball having a nervous breakdown from his sudden near death exerience or anything. Or terrified that being of immense power can summon him at any time, force their will upon him, and then repeately kill him at their discretion. Going off and wathcing TV until Celestia re-summons him sounds like a much more reasonable response!
Really, I'm going to keep reading mostly to see how deep down the rabbit hole this madness goes. So I can't claim that it's not entertaining. Just that the characters make zero sense.
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Your comment speaks for my feelings exactly.
Very well put.
WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT that fork was not only in his fingers but it was also by his mouth, head, skull, teeth, and many other body parts, in fact, it was part way in his mouth and it's not CLOSE ENOUGH?!
(THANKYOU for the Vent needed it)