"Prince Blueblood!" The voice of Princess Celestia echoed throughout Canterlot Castle, carrying through the many halls and into the quarters of Prince Blueblood. He looked up from his mirror and groaned. The prince did not like to be interrupted, especially in the middle of one of his meticulous grooming sessions. However, his better judgement told him to go see what his aunt wanted, and he got up with a sigh.
He trotted into his aunt's throne room, and Celestia looked at him, her face stone cold. "We have a lot to talk about." she said sternly, and Blueblood's eyes widened in shock.
"Wh-why?" he gasped, putting a hoof to his chest in surprise. "I am a perfect gentlepony."
"That is debatable." Celestia muttered under her breath, then cleared her throat. "You remember the Grand Galloping Gala a few years back?"
"Indeed." Blueblood nodded, although he wasn't quite sure where Celestia was going with this whole thing.
"You treated Ms. Rarity absolutely horrible that night." Celestia said sternly, earning a confused look from the prince. "As well as acted quite rude to Ms. Applejack. As far as manners go, you had the absolute worst of anypony at the Gala that year."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Blueblood said, a confused look on his face. "I did what was best for me! After all, I am royalty, and she was a commoner. I was doing her a favor for simply allowing her to be in my presence."
Celestia gave an exasperated sigh. "Blueblood, you have shown that you have no idea how to be a good friend."
"What?!?" Blueblood shouted, looking annoyedly at his aunt. "You must be delusional! I am the picture of perfection! I will not-"
"SILENCE!" Celestia shouted in anger, her voice so loud it caused a few birds to fly away in fright. "Tomorrow, you will be leaving to live in the town of Ponyville with Princess Twilight Sparkle for a month. I hope you can learn something there."
"Ugh!" Blueblood snorted in frustration, stomping his way back to his quarters. What did I do wrong, he thought as he sat on his bed, looking at himself in the mirror. Now that he was thinking about it, though, it seemed there was some truth to his aunt's words. Not many ponies seemed to want to be around him ever since that night. He had always noticed a spark of disdain in the eyes of the ponies he talked to, and most of his dates did seem to end in disaster. But he knew that it was their fault. Right?
He recalled what his aunt had said, about living with a Princess in some backwater town for a month or something. He didn't quite understand what made this particular pony so special. Celestia had chosen this 'Twilight Sparkle' for her personal student, and had become a princess about a year ago. As far as he knew, she wasn't as great as him. Surely she must have been chosen because of her regalness and elegance. Yes, Blueblood nodded to himself, that must be it.
Later that night, Celestia came into her nephew's room as he looked at her angrily. "What do you want?" he snapped. Celestia sighed, looking at her nephew with concern.
"You're leaving tomorrow, you know." she said, "I hope you will behave well."
"Of course! When do I not?" Blueblood laughed, causing Celestia to sigh in annoyance. "I'll have to pack my-"
"There is no need for that." Celestia cut him off, and he looked at her in surprise. "You will live in the castle of the princess, and she has many guest rooms. You will also be wearing a simple blue scarf to fit in better with the ponies of the town." she added, levitating a large, dirty blue neckercheif in front of her, and he looked at it with disgust.
"You want me to wear that?" Blueblood asked nervously, as Celestia levitated it over to him. He backed away from it a bit, as it it were a tarantula.
"Yes." Celestia nodded without flinching. "You have to."
Blueblood sighed at this trivial detail, but he relented and put on the scarf, although he kept squealing and making annoyed noises as he did so. He looked at himself in the mirror, now wearing the scarf instead of his usual suit and bow tie, and made a face of disgust.
Celestia looked at him. This was going to be one long month for Princess Twilight.
Twilight Sparkle levitated her book in front of her, placing her bookmark into it and laying it on her nightstand. She had just started reading Daring Do and the Eternal Flower, and she yawned as she sat on the edge of her bed. As she was about to hit the hay for the night, she heard a loud burp from downstairs, followed by a bright flash of light.
"Spike!" Twilight called to her assistant as she trotted down the stairs. "What did the Princess send?"
"It's a letter!" Spike answered as she came down the stair, and she levitated the letter in front of her. "Mind telling me what it says?" he asked, and Twilight cleared her throat and began to read.
Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,
This letter is to inform you of an important event. For the next month, my nephew, Prince Blueblood, will be staying in your castle with you and Spike. This is to help him be better educated in friendship, and who better to teach him than the Princess of Friendship herself? You know very well why, after all, you were at the Gala a few years back. You have many guest rooms in your castle, if I am not mistaken, so he may stay in one of those. Please make sure that he behaves himself. He will not be coming with any luggage, so make sure you have a bed and any things he may need in him bedroom. Spike needs to come to Canterlot as well, as there is something going on here that he may find interesting. I hope this isn't too soon. He is coming tomorrow on the train.
Your mentor,
Princess Celestia
Twilight Sparkle let out a little shriek in surprise, then growled. "Spike, go prepare a guest room, and then get your things together to go to Canterlot. I need to go to sleep." Spike nodded curtly, running off to his room excitedly. He knew what the princess had meant when she said that he might find something interesting there; it was DragonCon! A gathering of all of the dragons in Equestria to talk about any and all things dragon! He was exited to see Mina, his friend from Dragon Town who owned a comic shop, again.
Twilight trotted up to her room and reread the letter. Then, she reread it again. She shook her head. Then, she read it again. No, she wasn't imagining it. Princess Celestia had asked her to have Blueblood live with her! Twilight didn't know how to react. On one hoof, it showed that Celestia had more trust in her student to fulfill her duty as the Princess of Friendship. But it was Prince Blueblood. He wasn't exactly the most charming prince out there; Rarity had made sure that Twilight knew that. And even recently, she had heard barely anything about the prince. From what Celestia had written, it seemed that he had not changed at all.
Twilight heard a rumble from Spike's bedroom, and she knew that he was probably trying to stuff as many comics in his suitcase as he could. She laughed a little, and then used her magic to roll the scroll back up and place it on her nightstand. She turned her light off, and lay staring up at the crystal ceiling.
She didn't know whether she was looking forward to this month or not, but she knew it was going to be a very interesting one.
A good premise, but it felt a bit rushed. I would have liked to see a bit more of Blueblood's thoughts, and Celestia's sudden decision to just send him away felt a little awkward. But you seem to be paying attention to your grammar, and the story promises to reveal Blueblood's better qualities (maybe not chivalry, but perhaps compassion or loyalty).
I look forward to reading your next chapter.
Yeah, i also felt the intro was a bit rushed. I mean, i like the potential this story has. But, just work on more dependment on the first part of the story between Celestia and Prince Blueblood. :) I want to see where this goes :)
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Yeah, I'm planning to do more with that.
Thank you for keeping this ship alive
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No problem.
So far, I like what I'm seeing. Can't wait to see what happens next.
Okay. I like the premise, but the time is completely wrong. Why did Celestia decide to do something now about Prince Blueblood, instead of years ago when she first heard how Blueblood treated Rarity? That just doesn't fit.
What does this have to do with his behavior at the Gala? He wasn't there to make friends.
So... insert every "Blueblood is sent away" story ever. The End.
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There will be more explanation on that as the story progresses. Sorry for the confusion.
This looks like it is going to be a good fic can't wait for the next chapter
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I think what would make this line better for the story is, replace 'friend' with Person.
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That seems good, but he's not a human.
Okay, why did my first comment about Celestia waiting so long to do this get a thumbs-down?
Color me intrigued, I want to see where this goes.
I'm surprised Celestia raises her voice at her nephew now when she didn't shout at Discord turning Equestria into a realm of chaos, Chrysalis threatening to enslave all her little ponies, her sister Luna refusing to lower the moon and make way for the day, or Twilight Sparkle driving a princess bride to tears right before her wedding.
I mean, why now? What's worse about what Blueblood did that makes Celestia lose her cool like this?
On an date you did not mention here, Prince Blueblood was forced by Princess Celestia to move out of his home temporarily and to engage in interaction with the Princess of Friendship herself, Twilight Sparkle. Could these two royal folks live together without driving them crazy? (Hum Neal Hefti's Odd Couple theme here.)
The scenario you gave Blueblood and Twilight Sparkle appears to be based on The Odd Couple, which started in 1965 as Neil Simon's famous Broadway play, then was seen as a motion picture starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in 1968; I have a VHS copy of that film. It was followed by a successful ABC television series (1970-1975) that starred Tony Randall and Jack Klugman (later reprised in a series of Eagle Snacks commercials). An unsuccessful Black version was seen on said network during the 1982-1983 season, which starred Ron Glass (a cop on Barney Miller & Randy Carmichael on Rugrats) and Demond Wilson (Lamont Sanford on Norman Lear's Sanford and Son, the most famous thing the late great Redd Foxx was associated with, alongside his quite raunchy Lp vinyl records). Later, there was yet another, and much more unknown, version featuring women in the title roles. One of the more recent, at one point touring the US, stars Jamie Farr and William Christopher, both former regulars on the hit TV series, M*A*S*H (CBS, 1972-1983). This scenario was also adapted in an episode of Rugrats, also titled ''The Odd Couple''.