After the family breakfast, Luna brought me over to her wing of the castle, which turned out to be called Canterlot Castle. She was originally planning on having me bunk with her, but due to my feisty attitude, she decided that it would be best for me to have a room nearby hers. Hence, I decided to turn in for the day instead of being a nuisance, mostly due to the fact that I hadn't had any solid sleep in years... okay, make it a couple centuries to be more accurate. It was times like this that made me think that I'm incredibly messed up.
After my peaceful full day of sleep, which is weird to say it that way, I opened my eyes to receive the sight of two bright blue eyes staring at me. After blinking once, I decided to go to the most logical response to finding a stranger staring at you at close blank range while you were sleeping. "No, I will not invite you into my bed for some 'fun times'. Please go away or I will yell rape and kick you in the crotch."
Pulling their head back to reveal an earth pony mare with a pink coat, and a pink mane that looked like it was made of cotton candy, the mare said as she blinked in confusion, "It's not nice to kick a pony in there, and I'm not into foals."
Raising an eyebrow, I replied, "Okay... who are you, and you better have a good reason to be here, otherwise I'm calling the guard and they will throw you into my closet."
Tilting her head, the pink mare asked, "Throw me in your closet? Don't you mean the dungeon?"
"No, my closet, with you tied up. I may need a 'playmate' one day, so better to have one on hoof then go searching for one. Now tell me why you're here in five seconds, unless you like cramped spaces," I answered.
Smiling at me, the mare exclaimed, "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, and you accepted my challenge, so hence I'm here!"
Frowning, I said, "Well, you're not going to make me smile in bed without taking me to dinner first," before I darted my eyes to the door, wondering why the guards outside my door didn't burst in shouting 'intruder!' However, I received my answer when I saw Grace watching this scene through a slightly opened door, where she had a smile plastered on her muzzle until my pillow hit her in the face. "You're a horrible guard, Grace," I dryly commented before I felt a pair of hooves on my cheeks, my face being directed towards Pinkie.
"Now that's not nice, but that's not important right now. What's important is that you don't smile! No filly or colt should go about their day with a smile on their muzzle!" Pinkie declared in a loud voice, forcing my ears to fold against my head.
As I was about to open my mouth to let out a retort, the door slammed open, as an angry Luna strode inside, shouting, "Who dare intrudes in my fo—oh, Dame Pinkie Pie. It is a pleasure to see you here," her furious expression morphing to a pleasant one.
Great, she knows her, I thought to myself as Pinkie jerked her head towards Luna to say, "Hi Luna! Don't mind me, I'm just here to turn your filly's frown upside down!"
"You're going to need a lot of tape then," I commented, causing Pinkie to jerk her back towards me, her smile not faltering one bit.
"Don't you worry, you silly filly," Pinkie said, letting go of my face to ruffle my mane. "Your Auntie Pinkie will make this day the best day ever!"
Turning my head towards Luna, I asked, "Mother, does that mean that you're going to announce to the world my presence and the fact that I won't have to lift a hoof for any bureaucratic work for my entire life, yet everypony still has to serve my every whim?"
As Luna just gave me a deadpanned look, Grace and Shade looking at each other as Grace whirled a hoof to the side of her head, Pinkie let out a giggle as she picked me up with her hooves, saying, "You're such a silly filly, it's a wonder why you don't smile."
Keeping her look, Luna stated, "I think we should move on from this line of conversation and head to the dining room for a meal, Dame Pinkie."
"Okey dokey lokey!" Pinkie replied as she deposited me on her back before bouncing towards the door.
Peeking from behind Pinkie's poofy mane, I asked, "Mother, is this normal for her or should I be worried?"
"I... have no idea, to be honest," Luna replied as Pinkie bounced past her.
"Oh joy..."
Dinner went without an incident, Chrono and I shooting each other another short glare once we saw each other, but didn't say a thing to each other. Though I got to say, Celestia and Chrono certainly have a cake addiction, considering that they both had cake at breakfast and now for dinner. That made me wonder if alicorns have a really fast metabolism, or Celestia spends an hour working off all that excess fat she would have gotten. Or maybe she's just using a powerful illusion and is really just a giant blob.
Moving on, it was after breakfast, where Luna left in order to attend to some dream walking duties, which made me wondered about whether or not she could spy on my own dreams, leaving me in the suite room with Pinkie along with Grace and Shade, who were assigned to be my personal guards.
"So, Neby, wha—" Pinkie started to say before I interrupted her.
"Neby?"
"Yeah, it's short for Nebula," Pinkie answered with a smile, while I just frowned at her. "As I was saying, what do you like to do for fun, Neby?"
"Breathing," I stated, causing silence in the room for a short moment before Pinkie blinked at me.
"Breathing? But everypony breathes, how is that fun?" Pinkie asked as she tilted her head.
"Well, if you're not breathing, at all, are you having fun then?" I countered, causing Grace to give me a flat stare.
"That's not funny, Nebula," Grace commented.
"I wasn't trying to be fun, it was a fa—" I started to say before a hoof was stuffed into my mouth.
As I tasted the dirt that has accumulated on Pinkie's hooves since the last time she washed them, Pinkie said with a smile, "If that's what you think fun is, let me show you a real way of having fun."
Narrowing my eyes at her as I replied, "Fun is relative, what you might find to be fun, I might not, and vice versa."
With her smile faltering a bit, Pinkie looked about the room, quickly spotting the corner that held the toys. Bouncing over to them, she pointed at them as she asked, "Hey, want to play with these with me? I bet we can have a lot of fun!"
Giving the toys a bland stare, I answered, "All signs point to no. Those toys won't amuse me, at all."
Her smile fading away, she put her hooves into her mane, causing me to quirk an eyebrow as she pulled out a unicycle and a set of balls, to which she quickly got on the unicycle and started to juggle the balls. "How about this?"
"I'm more interested in how you pulled all that out of your mane more than amused by this," I said as I was tilting my head, wondering if this pony has access to a personal pocket dimension. I even went to stick a hoof into my own mane as I wondered if this applies to other ponies, only to find out that it was just a regular mane, nothing.
Dropping the balls, Pinkie looked around, spotting the bookcase as she rushed over to it, pulling out a few books. "How about a story? I know my friend Twilight really like reading books."
"No thank you, I wouldn't find it as fun. Possibly something to pass my time, but not fun," I countered, as I start to notice Pinkie's mane deflating a bit.
"How about we go to a theme park? Or a dance club? I'm sure Princess Luna would be okay with me taking you to them."
"Not interested."
"How about a petting zoo? My friend Fluttershy likes taking care of animals."
"I'm not good with animals, nor do I want to pet them."
"How about some candy?"
"I'm not one for sweets."
"How about we play some sports? Or some party games?"
"Not a fan of sports, nor am I one for party games," I blandly replied, as Pinkie slumped down onto her belly, her mane starting to straighten out for some reason.
"Oh come on, there has to be something you like to do," Pinkie whined, as her head turning around till she spotted the fridge. "Oh, how about some ice cream?" Pinkie asked as she trotted over to the fridge.
"I wasn't in the mood for candy, why would I be in the mood for ice cream?" I countered.
"Well, just cause you don't want candy doesn't mean you don't wa—why is there a block in the freezer?" Pinkie declared as she opened the fridge, spotting the block that Cadence and I stashed the previous night.
"Block, what are you talking about?" Grace said as she and Shade looked at each other in confusion, before walking over to Pinkie's side. "Huh, there is a block there, weird."
After a short moment of thinking on the origin of the block for the duo, the two turn their heads towards me, causing me to raise an eyebrow as I stated, "What? How am I suppose to know why that's there?"
"It's a wooden block, a toy for foals," Grace countered.
"And it's in a freezer that is above my ability to reach, and you already know I don't know how to levitate stuff," I replied, causing Grace to frown.
"Good point..." Grace responded, turning her attention to the freezer as she pulled out the block, only for Pinkie to let out a gasp as she slapped both her forehooves to her cheeks.
"There is only one reason why there is a block in the freezer, the castle is haunted!" Pinkie exclaimed, causing all of us to tilt our heads at her until she rushed over to me, picking me up with her forehooves. "We need to get Neby to the safe room!"
"What? There's no such thing as ghosts," Shade stated. "Calm down and put Nebula down."
"No, we need to get her to safety before one of the big mean ghosties get to her!" Pinkie declared, though the eye that the two guards couldn't see winked at me. This stifled any sort of protest I was about to muster, and instead caused me to let out an amused snort, which caused Pinkie's mane to poof up a bit. "Don't you two worry! I'll take her to safety lickety-split!" Pinkie continued as she deposited me on her back before dashing out of the room with such speed that I had to hang onto her mane with my forehooves, as the guards simply yelped in surprise.
It was mere seconds when Pinkie slowed down to simply bouncing down the hallways, as I asked, "Okay, what is going on?"
"Simple, silly. I figured that you somehow got a block into the freezer, cause you're a clever filly. That meant that you wouldn't a prank like that unless you find it fun in some way, so I realize that by getting you out of the room, we can play some pranks on some ponies so you can have some fun and finally smile!" Pinkie answered as she turned her head to look at me, even when she took a left down another hallway.
"Okay... but one question then. How did you know that I don't smile?" I asked as I kept an eye on what was ahead of us.
"Oh, my Pinkie senses told me about that!" Pinkie exclaimed before turning her head around before humming a tune to herself, as I just tilted my head at her.
She... has a sense for that? But... why would anypony have a sense for that of all things‽ Wait... Did I just said 'anypony'? Oh the void, I'm going native!