//------------------------------// // 9 Princesses // Story: For science // by Znegil //------------------------------// I stood in the middle of the room while Twilight walked to the door. I did not expect what happened as she used her magic and opened it. A pink pony stormed inside with a huge grin on its face. Immediately it started to babble without pause. "Twilight, Twilight, my Pinkie Sense is telling me somepony new and special arrived in Ponyville, this means I will have to do a party and have to be friends and..." She noticed me and hopped over next to me. "Oohhhh, you're big." She jumped up and hugged me firmly, her feet dangling in the air. "You will be my biggest friend ever.", she announced. Her mane was right in my face. She smelled like a bag of sweets with some cinnamon in it. "I guess you must be Pinkie Pie.", I said through her pink hair. "Ahhh, not fair, you already know me, tell me your name, tell me, tell me.", she had turned her head, so instead of her mane now her face was right in front of mine. I had to remove 'hyper' from the list of adjectives to describe Rainbow, this pony in front of me was hyper. "Hi, 'Miss Candy Breath', my name is Stella. Happy to meet you." "Oohhhh, we are doing nicknames already? Okay, how about 'Big Cuddle Pillow' or 'Miss Coconut Mane' what do you use to make it smell like this, or maybe..." "Pinkie, please come down and give her some space.", Twilight interrupted her stream of words. "But she is so cuddly, have you tried it? She has built in pillows.", she laid her head on my right breast. Twilight's face color changed pretty sudden. "It's her udders Pinkie. This is the same as if I would lay on your udders." "I wouldn't mind if you think it's comfortable.", the pink hugger replied. Twilight covered her face with her hoof. "Of course.", she mumbled. "I don't mind you liking this position.", I told the pink ball of energy. "You are pretty cuddly too. But the princesses will arrive any moment, and we could look a bit more formal for them if you would let me go." "Okaaaay.", she said, let go and stood on her hooves again. "Oh, I think it was an adorable sight.", a new very calm and smooth voice announced. "There is no need to be so formal for our visit." Through the still open door entered two incredible noble looking ponies. They were much bigger than all ponies I saw so far, the white one was about my size, while the blue was a bit smaller. Their mane and tail seemed to move in a magical breeze, and both had wings and a large horn as well. I don't think I had seen any living being in my life that matched the word 'royal' as much as they did. I bowed before them and kept this pose, my eyes to the ground. "My greetings dear princesses.", I choose my words carefully. "My name is Stella Mulier. I am a human from earth. I am very pleased to meet you." "It's a pleasure meeting you too.", I heard her answer to me. "But please rise, as I said there is no need to be this formal, you aren't even one of our subjects... and we don't enjoy it when they do this either." I straightened again while they both came closer to me. The white one addressed me again: "My name is Celestia, and this is my sister Luna." Luna did a short bow of her head. "Pleased to meet you.", she said. I was fascinated by her mane which looked like a galaxy was trapped inside. "Hi princesses.", I heard Pinkie Pie next to me. "Hello to you too, Pinkie Pie.", Celestia answered smiling. "I'm so happy to meet you again Princess Celestia.", Twilight said and received a... well... Wing-hug from Celestia. "I'm happy to see you too, my dear student.", Celestia said in her soothing voice. Celestia focused her attention back to me. "It has been quite a while since I could speak to somepony the same size as me.", she said smiling. "Tell me about the portal that brought you here, who else knows about it?" "No one in my world knows about the portal to Equestria, here I only told Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Twilight. I adjusted it in a way to open every eight hours for just a minute." They seemed to be pleased with my answer, nodding and whispering for a few seconds. "Why are you here?", Luna asked me. "It's the first time I have found a portal to another world. I want to learn about it as much as I can." "What will you do with this knowledge if you have gathered all you wanted to know?", she continued asking. I couldn't tell them the truth; it would lead to questions I wasn't prepared to face. "I go back to earth and search for the next world I can learn about." ... hold eye contact, don't tense up... I hope they are buying it... They whispered to each other again. "I think we can allow it.", Celestia finally announced. "Has she been introduced to Ponyville yet?" "No.", Twilight answered. "I teleported her here. I wanted to wait for your decision first before I would introduce her." "Oh, oh, I have a suggestion for that.", Pinkie told us while she was jumping around next to me. "Yes Pinkie, a party is a great idea for introducing her.", Twilight said smiling. Pinkie Pie's smile got so big, I expected it to exceed her face any second. "Igotsomuchtoprepairbye!", shouting this, she disappeared as a pink blur. "Stella wants to go back to her world tomorrow morning to bring me some books.", Twilight addressed the princesses. "May I come with her?" "I'm not sure... ", Celestia began. "No!", I shouted to loud and quick without thinking about it. They all turned towards me. "I... my world is not as welcoming as yours is. There are heavy armed guards in the research complex I will go to, and they could harm or capture you... it isn't save, and I don't want you to get hurt.", I looked to the ground. "It's okay.", Twilight said silently. "I was just curious, if you think it is dangerous, I won't do it. But I can come with you to see the portal and get a short glimpse through it?" I exhaled quite audible. "Of course, I am more than happy to show it to you, but we have to visit Fluttershy before. I promised her to visit when I go to the portal again." "Gladly." Celestia cleared her throat. "Well, we are very interested in anything you learn from each other, we are looking forward to your reports Twilight." Celestia turned to leave the library while Luna's gaze lingered on me for a few more seconds. "We are looking forward seeing you again interesting human.", she turned and left as well. "This went much better than expected.", I mumbled. ... Me and Twilight used the rest of the day to talk about everything that came to our minds, our childhood, school, friends, algebra... As we went to our rooms, we wished each other good night. The full moon made the room easy enough to navigate. I put my sweater and jeans on a chair next to the window and tried to get comfortable in the small bed. I found it was best to have my feet just stick out over the end of the bed. I replayed the events of today in my head. I wasn't happy about the lie I had told, but I was sure they would never had agreed if they knew the truth... and rightfully so. I slowly drifted into troubled dreams.