Rarity snuggled in her bedsheets, luxuriating in the soft, silky feel. She gave a small sigh of pleasure and stretched her hooves out languorously. She reveled in the still quietness of the morning. It was so nice to wake up feeling refreshed for a change. She didn't have any looming deadlines at present, so she was able to catch up on her beauty sleep.
Another sigh escaped her lips, less happy. Soon, her wonderful peace would be disturbed by the blaring of Sweetie Belle's alarm clock, and the thunder of her hooves along the hallway. Her sister would then fling herself into the room and bounce excitedly up and down on the bed until Rarity got up, or else she would attempt to make 'breakfast'.
Rarity shuddered at the thought for a second, then banished it from her mind. She would enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasted thank-you very much! She regained her state of bliss at the precise moment Sweetie's shrill alarm went off. The mare restrained the urge to groan.
Sure enough, the clattering of excited filly hoofsteps could be heard, along with more raucous shrieks than usual. Rarity had a brief moment of time in which she thought, I really have to teach that filly how to walk like a lady, before the door slammed open. She braced for the impact of a younger sibling to the stomach.
"Rarityrarityrarity!"
Rarity's gave a ladylike 'hwuff' as Sweetie landed on her.
"Now...darling, what have I said about jumping on ponies when they are asleep?" the white mare began to pull off her eye-mask, accompanying her half-hearted question with a weary sigh.
"Oh, sorry Rarity, but, but look! At me." Sweetie Belle's voice quavered with awe. Rarity did. She frowned.
"Sweetie Belle, wherever did you find a filly-sized pegasus costume at this hour of the morning? And why are you...?" Her voice trailed off as Sweetie Belle gave the wings an experimental flap. They didn't do anything to lift her, but they had definitely moved. By themselves.
"B-buh-buh-buh-bwhaaa?" Rarity spluttered, gulping at the air like a goldfish for 10 whole seconds.
Sweetie just giggled. "I dunno where they came from Rarity! I just woke up with them." The filly gave Rarity a thoughtful look.
Rarity stopped gaping and leapt forwards to grab her sister. She poked at the feathers. Her eyes were glinting with astonishment and disbelief.
"Real? What? How did this happen? I need to-"
"Hey, geddoff me! You have your own feathers to pull on." Sweetie Belle flailed her hooves and pulled away, plonking down roughly on the end of the bed. Rarity meanwhile had turned around to gaze at her own pair of snowy white wings. She wafted them up and down, transfixed. This was much, much better than those beautiful but delicate butterfly wings she had owned before. Why had she not felt them until Sweetie pointed them out? She let out a high-pitched, girlish giggle, that was on the borderline between hysterical and manic.
Sweetie Belle was cautious of that giggle. I was the same one she heard when a celebrity came to the boutique; a mixture of euphoria and horror. The filly waited for her sister to notice her again. When it was apparent that Rarity was far too enthralled, she spoke. "Um, Rarity?"
"Yes dear?" Rarity finally stopped looking at her wings. She was still in a slight daze. Sweetie Belle gave her sister an uncertain look.
"Can we get some breakfast? Only I'm hungry and school starts in twenty minutes."
"Twenty minutes! Sweet Celestia! Come on then Sweetie darling."
Rarity was appalled. Had she really spent that long just staring at her new limbs. She made for the door at a trot, quickly grabbing her make-up and applying it as she went down the stairs to the kitchen. There was hardly any time to eat and get to the schoolhouse in time for the start of the day.
Halfway to pouring out two bowls of cornflakes, the mare froze. She had gone from being enraptured by her wings to completely forgetting about them. She chided herself on her mental disorganisation. Come on Rarity, get it together. You've only mysteriously become an alicorn overnight. Rarity paced across the kitchen, suddenly flustered again. This is the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING. Or was it? Rarity contemplated this. Did the addition of wings mean she was now royalty? This could put a spanner in the works for a number of ponies in high places, if they now had two new princesses to deal with. Surely there was a limit to the number of things one could be a princess of. She couldn't very well stay like this, no matter how pleasant it was at present. Too many horrible complications that came with such prestige. For all her dreams about Prince Blueblood, he had been quite awful. Who was to say being a princess wasn't a similarly terrible thing?
Sweetie Belle sighed, seeing that Rarity had forgotten about breakfast, and poured out some of the cereal for herself. That at least she could do without causing a fire. Probably.
One fire-extinguisher and foam-covered kitchen table later, and Rarity had composed herself to a less frantic state. She felt like Twilight must do before an exam, all worry and paranoia. Gears clicked in her head, jarring this thought to the surface. Twilight...
"TWILIGHT! OF COURSE!"
Sweetie Belle jumped, causing her slightly singed mane to bob up and down.
"Come Sweetie Belle, we must visit Twilight Sparkle!" Rarity began to race around, out into her storeroom to look for something.
"What about school? We'll be late." the filly trotted after her, a note of curiosity in her voice.
"Nonono, no school today! Aha!" Rarity found a cloak under a pile of fabric scraps. "Can you imagine the stares, the scandal!"
She wrapped herself in the cloak, making sure it covered her wings.
Sweetie squealed with joy, having only heard the first half of what her sister had said. "No school!"
"Why don't you wear this dear?" Rarity gave no option for protest as she bundled the filly into a cloak of her own size. Sweetie pulled a face but didn't try to remove the garment.
"Come on the Sweetie Belle, the library awaits!" With a swish of a cloak, they were off, Rarity in the lead and Sweetie Belle hurrying after her.
Whoop! Chapter 2!
Any massive errors?
It's either Applejack or Pinkie next.
1637994 Why choose?
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Because I have to do one before the other!
How in Celestia's name did Sweetie Belle cause a fire making a bowl of cereal?
I can see Applejack totally freaking out wondering what the hay is going on here. Pinkie, however, is going to be trying to use her new horn and wings right away.
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Maybe...friction between the flakes? Yeah, we'll just go with that.
I did not know that there was any fire-extinguishers in Equestria. Is that even possible.
Now that the topic of Prince Blueblood has been brought up, I kind of want to see his reaction to waking up as an Alicorn.
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Well, I think they ought to have them if they don't.
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Heheh, that could be interesting...
No reason I can't go see how the other non-mane-six ponies react after all!
Everypony pile into the library -- We need to know if you can fit more in there than in a fleet of VW bugs. The main issue is going to be if Spike the Alicorn can send off a letter with green flame anymore or not.
I just had the most brilliant thought!
What if... Celestia and Luna (and Cadance) woke up as... Earth ponies?! Dun dun dunnnnnn!
Also, Derpy = Princess of Bubbles?
Ah, but what was Opalescence doing at this time, or was she still asleep as cats are wont to?
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Well, there was a big party in Golden Oaks when Twi first arrived!
Well. The issue may not be the ability to send, but if the recipients are willing/able to reply... Maybe...
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Pfft, Derpy is the Muffin Queen.
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Yup, Opal is a lazy bh.
AJ's Chapter comin' up.
TOOOOOO THE LIBRARY!!!!!!
*trips and falls down steps to the kitchen*
1638050 the same way homer simpson did it. It's a cartoon
1638050 Well, she did create something like liquid carbon in the show...
But then, unbeknownst to Sweetie Bell, there was the ancient United States, which had fallen millennia ago and had just so happened to have all 14 of its Ohio class nuclear submarines right beneath their house. The fire somehow, it still not known to this day why, but activated all 336 UGM-133 Trident II nuclear missiles. These missiles launched and sped towards Stallasia and their version of the Middle East and Europe. The missiles released their payloads of eight W88 nuclear warheads, thus releasing 2,688 nukes, and making Equestria the only habitable, non-radioactive land in their world.
Sweetie Bell, you just managed to kill more ponies/people in ten minutes, than Stalin and Hitler did in their entire lives... good job. Sweetie Bell is the best mass murderer in history.
I'm loving this so far! Can't wait to read more!
3247921 and that makes her, the worst pony.
1639792 MA Larson gave her wings with the middle finger on them, so she hid herself in shame.
"Come on the Sweetie Belle, the library awaits!" With a swish of a cloak, they were off, Rarity in the lead and Sweetie Belle hurrying after her
I think there is an extra the in that paragraph... That is hard to say right.
Heh, the season 5 opener puts a new spin to this. Now there won't be three tribes of ponies, but one. Wonder if any equine supremacist will arise, having bided their time in the shadows, waiting, watching, for the perfect moment to spew their propaganda. At least they kept their cutie marks, so there is that. This type of event should definitely have an impact on societal and cultural adjustments taking into consideration the change the tribes and non-tribes have undergone. What's next? An alicorn Gilda? An alicorn Iron Will? A goat Alicorn?