"This is Blue Blazer, Dasher, Stonehoof, and Bastion," Celestia said, gesturing respectively to four nearly identical brown unicorns in royal guard armor. "and these are Bristle, Brush, Cloud, and Breeze." All the mares gave a bow as their names were mentioned. They were, as the guards, all nearly identical, bearing blonde manes and white coats.
"I thought they were just for the ceremony..." Twilight looked to her mentor questioningly.
"No Twilight, they are now your royal bodyguards, heralds, and hoofmadens, and they will be accompanying you back to Ponyville. They are to serve you for anything you need. I'm sure that they will be of great help to you from now on. Speaking of your trip back to Ponyville, aren't you going to be late to Pinkie's 'alicorn party'?"
Twilight's eyes grew wide, nopony missed a pinkie party, NOPONY. Twilight had seen firsthoof what happened when the guest of honor didn't show up to a Pinkie party, and it wasn't pretty.
The shock and akwardness of having eight new retainers was dwarfed by the possibility of being late to Pinkie's latest party.
"We should go right now!" Twilight gasped as she took to the air, about to dash out the nearest window.
"Primcess!" a wavering voice called behind her. Twilight turned back and looked to the mare in question, (Breeze if she remembered correctly) and then to Celestia, who was watching with some amusement.
"Oh..." Twilight had forgotten about her entourage already, and now noticing that of the group, none had the benefit of wings. "Ah... Is the train to Ponyville running today?" Twilight asked with a embarrased chuckle.
"Princess Twilight, if you say there is, then there is. ...but yes, there is a regularly scheduled route leaving in about ten minutes." Celestia Opened the door to the small chamber they were in, "If you leave now, you may still make it."
Twilight gave her mentor one final hug before sprinting out the door and down the hall.
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"Surprise!" the entire populous of Ponyville yelled as Twilight exited the train onto the cramped platform at Ponyville station.
"Were you surprised? Were ya?" Pinkie shouted as she bounded towards Twilight, "I knew you'd expect a party, so to make it more of a surprise I had everyone jump out here at the station rather than at the library! So were you supprised? Huh! Were you? Come on~! Tell me!"
Twilight was surprised alright, but not by Pinkie. Instead she was quite surprised by the reaction time of all of her new guards, actually by all eight of the ponies that jumped on her when the whole town decided to act as an ambush. Even the hoofmadens joined in on the princess-protecting pony-pile.
Everyone that was not pinkie grimaced as they watched their princess get crushed by guards, but the pink pony remained as oblivious as ever.
"Please get off me." Twilight eked out from the bottom of the pile.
Nearly as quickly as the guards covered her, they got off, and returned to surrounding her. The hoofmadens did the same, apologizing profusely the whole time.
"It's alright, I know you all were just trying to protect me."she turned from her posse to the gathered crowd and got her first good look at the ambush-welcome. It looked like the entire town was there, and above them flew the banner "Welcome Back Princess Twil" with "ight" on a picket sign being held off to the side.
The mayor came forward with a deep bow. "Thank you princess for gracing our humble town with your presence. We may not have much to offer but-"
Twilight cut her off. "Mayor, please don't. I'm still just the librarian I've always been."
"Princess, I'm sure that you-"
Twilight cut her off again, this time with a little annoyance in her voice. "Mayor, if you want to make me happy, then please just treat me the way you always have. I'm just the librarian and your all-team-organizer."
"But princess! We really can't-"
"Goodnight." Twilight stomped away from the crowd back to the library.
When she arrived at her library abode once more she let out a sigh of relief. "Finally time for bed." she began the treck up to her room before she herd a cough behind her. She wheeled to find her guards standing awkwardly standing against the wall nearest the door, hooofmadens standing in a line right in front of them.
"Oh! I didn't even think of where you all would sleep. Um... The library isn't meant for... Um..." Twilight paused a moment, cursing herself for getting rid of the spare bed for the sake of fitting another bookshelf in her room. "Gentelcolts, you'll have to take the couches down here, and um you all can have my bed."
The guards seemed to be ok with the arrangement, but the mares looked to each other awkwardly.
"Uh princess," one of the mares began in a voice sounding a lot like Fluttershy on a particularly timid day, "We couldn't take your bed, we'll just, uh, take the floor." the other three watched in awe.
"That's a nice thought, but I'm not going to have guests sleeping on the floor."
"Princess, we aren't guests, we are your servants, we should take the floor."
"How about we all share the bed?
"We couldn't impose upon you princ-"
Twilight was upset, she just wanted to get to sleep as soon as possible. "How about this then, I order you, as princess, to sleep with me on the nice comfey bed as opposed to the hard floor."
Twilight didn't bother to check their reactions before turning to the bathroom, beginning to unfasten her dress along the way.
"Let us get that for you princess!" the mares called after her. The purple princess paid them no mind, until they all jumped after her, tripping over eachother and landing, once again, ontop the positively perturbed purple pony princess.
"This is going to take some getting used to..." Twilight said with a huff.
Oh, how right she was...
Preview: Spike woke as the sun pierced the tiniest of slits between the curtains and landed right in his eyes.
"Twilight~ what time is-" he turned to see his maternal figure splayed out on the bed, a blonde mare wrapped around each of her limbs.
"You know what? I'm not waking up today."
I like it!
Oh my ...
I look forward to the followin chapters
Hmm...That is a good question.
I think that when the cutie marks (and by extension, their destinies) were changed by Twilight's errant spell, it manifested itself in what they do first. Let's look at Rainbow Dash for example. Obviously, she is extraordinarily astute at her duties of being a weathermare, and taking care of Ponyville's climate. We know that her lifelong dream is to be a member of the Wonderbolts, but dream does not necessarily has to be exclusive to duty. Rainbow's the only one out of all of them where their destiny has not been completely lined out, since everypony else has shown out who their respective destinies are gonna be or are right now. Another thing is her cutie mark, the cloud with rainbow bolts, what that represented originally is that she is exceedingly fast (she's the only creature so far to perform the Sonic Rainboom), not that she's a future Wonderbolt or weather mare. So hers has not been fully decided.
2148997 I know we had the Wonderbolt Academy episode, but i do thing that the points you presented need to be addressed in a future episode. Most series wouldn't do so until the grand finale or even in a post credits ending of the final episode.
...but then again Twilight just became an alicorn so who knows!
Anyway, thanks for the input!
Funny concept, may want to get some pre-readers though.
2148997 Really I thought it was obvious that Rainbow Dash's destiny will most likely be her joining the Wonderbolts. Really only Pinkie Pie is the one who's destiny we don't really know about since well what happens when her apprenticeship with the Cakes ends?
this seems interesting X3 Can't wait for more!
In regards to the author's note: I think that's only going skin deep.
Weather patrol is a career that manages to let RD do what she does best; flying through the sky in record times, clearing out clouds. Being a Wonderbolt is one thing, but the weather is something in RD's current path of life. It also appeals to Rarity's actual talent of designing, showing that while RD's mark compelled her to work with the skies, her true innate senses were shining through..
Please do not end the story after only 20k words
Like it!
Interesting idea that the blonde quads and the guards are part of Twi's new 'household'. Of course, making use of them is going to be a completely different issue. I mean, Twilight strikes me as a fairly independent Mare. She's likely looked after herself all her life and is quite happy with that.
The first step would be to introduce them to Spike and make sure they realise he has been working with Twilight for a long time. That means he has seniority and what he says goes, no matter what they taught them at the Canterlot School of Service. Additionally, if the Princess wants to dress or groom herself, she dresses or grooms herself. If she want to make her own snack, she makes her own snacks... Yeah, I think their help keeping the place tidy is probably needed. Similarly with the guards - the Princess does not have a problem with being touched by her friends and will wish to mix with Her Little Ponies in Ponyville without them jumping on them (or her) all the time. Get used to it.
I think Twilight should be able to find a book or two... Maybe Polite Company's "Managing the Noble Household" or Waiting Serve's seminal "The Gentlepony's Gentlepony". Once she knows the roles the girls (and guys) need to play, she can integrate them - it's really just a question of research and organisation, something that we all know she's good at.
FWIW, I think she'll be grateful for the girls when there is a formal state event. I bet they've forgotten more about the Royal Canterlot Mane-Style and putting on Royal Vestments than Twilight has ever known!
Regarding your A/N, I think that Larson just baulked at working out how a Rarity who thought she needed to be a stunt-pony would behave. He did actually almost get it right with AJ - Rarity's cutie mark is about making things beautiful, not gems or dresses.
Continue man, it seems to have the feel of an actual episode.
twilight x her royal entourage
here is a question about the cutie mark thing as well...
If everyone lived where the other person lived when they switched cutie marks where did rarity live at?
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rainbow dash's cloud house of course!
Waking up to find your mom covered by blonde women that helped undress her. NOT a good day.
BTW. AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT NOTICE THAT TWILIGHT'S CUTIE MARK CHANGED!? THERE'S AN EXTRA STAR NOW!
The ending man! I can't stop cracking! XD
Make that firsthoof please.
Also the way Twi worded it to get those 4 blond bombshells into her bed would be an inspiration to every clopwriter out there. Espically that ending, Spike must think he´s on the weird part of his dream world again. XDDDDD
Was Blue Blazer promoted from the Irregulars?
Well, Celestia's got some explaining to do
i don't think they are living their destinies, they are just going towards their destines
Ah, but that would depend on if you can actually get on board with the idea of a single preconceived destiny, which I can't.
Story is good so far; I like the preview of the next chapter. Yay for awkwardness!
No, it means that some idiot writers didn't bother to fully familiarize themselves with the MAIN CHARACTERS BACK STORIES!!! Weather is in no way related to anything Rainbow Dash was doing or feeling when she got her Cutie Mark, in fact, plenty of ponies are shown with 'day jobs'. That right there is one of the larger plot holes of the episode.