About five years had passed since Celestia spoke her first words. Metatron, Gabriel, and Lucifer all visited her regularly. Despite Rose being a human soul Lucifer tolerated her for two reasons. One, she looked after Celestia, and two, Celestia cared about her, so he kept his choice of words careful around her. Today was another day that Celestia’s uncle Gabriel would come by. She liked her uncle Gabriel. When came by to play he usually took her to fun and exciting places. Even to other realities.
Celestia herself was playing with a cloth doll Castiel had brought her from earth. While she could use her special powers to make one herself, she liked things from earth, and was very curious about it. Her cloth doll had simple stitched eyes, string hair, and was stuffed with hay, that Celestia tried not to snack on. As she used her newfound abilities with her horn, making light form around it then around a desired object and making it move, and made her doll do a little dance.
As she made her doll do a twirl, when it stopped there was her uncle Gabriel holding it’s cloth hands, shrunk to the size of the doll, pretending to dance with it. “Heh, sorry miss, I got two left feet.”
Celestia giggled. “Uncle, you’re silly.” She cooed, poking her tiny uncle.
“Yeah, well I like being silly.” Gabriel said, snapping his fingers and returning to normal size, and lifting up the tiny pony. “So, ready to head out.”
“Have her back by the end of the day Gabriel.” Castiel said. “Last time you two were gone for a week.”
“Hey, ice skating was her idea.” Gabriel said in his defence.
“Yes. In the north or south poles are acceptable, on a comment is going to far out of her comfort zone.”
“Hers or yours papa bear?”
“How does a fathered bear relate to this?”
Gabriel rolled his eyes. “Well alright, but one thing Castiel.”
“What?”
Gabriel vanished with Celestia, leaving behind a small wooden box. Castiel, confused by this, opened the box and found his face covered in squid ink. “I will hurt him for this.”
Gabriel brought Celestia to a place between the many versions of their universe, a place known as The Void. Within the void, angels with Gabriel’s power or higher could construct bridges between one reality or another. He had taken Celestia here many times, but today was special. “Alright Celestia, what do you think we are gonna do today?”
“Uh...World of cake!” She pleaded.
Gabriel chuckled. “No, we did that last month, and about every other month since I first brought you there. No, today we are going to a reality where everything is...well, magic. If I remember this reality correctly, some other hot shot dad like beings make a world and all kinds of stuff there, and magic is this realities top priority.”
“Cool. Why are we going there?” Celestia asked, trotting quickly for her tiny hooves and legs to keep up with her uncle.
“We are looking for an artifact.”
“What kind?”
“One of illusion. I am not sure since you already have a physical body that you can take on a vessel, so an artifact of great illusionary power should make you look and move human to the, well, humans.”
“So...I could go to earth?” Celestia said, her voice with joy. Celestia rarely got to go to earth, and when she did she never got to interact with the humans.
“Yeah. I know I could just change your body at the snap of a finger, but since you yourself are from another reality entirely, doing that might have unwanted side effects.”
“And these artifacts won't have any?”
“No, they just trick the mind and eyes into seeing things differently from anyone other than the wearer.”
“Oh. Neat.” Celestia and Gabriel walked a bit more before a door finally opened up in front of them, placing them in front of a large castle of sorts surrounded by frigid snow. “Wow.” Celestia said, looking all around her.
“Who we want is inside, now, what I am going to do is...well, trick this person into helping us get this artifact. It’s not going to hurt him in any way. Alright?”
“Uh...Alright.”
Dandre found being the colleges archmage less enjoyable than he had hoped. Traveling from his homeland to the frigid lands of Skyrim to seek the mystic arts was his dream since childhood, but now, he has mastered nearly every spell, crafted every position, and enchanted every type of item he could get his hands on.
As he was copying research notes from spare paper to a bound journal, the room suddenly was filled with light as he turned around, and gazed upon Daedric prince of madness himself, Sheogorath. “I have a task for you Archmage, and if you defy me I shall change you into a chicken to amuse me til I grow hungry!”
After that “Show” was done with Gabriel walked alongside Celestia, who now beared a specially enchanted necklace that, to even him, made her appear human. The Archmage, in a fear for his life, made two others for “Sheogorath” to do with as he pleads. After he gave them to Gabriel he wiped his mind of the experience. “So...what was that about exactly? Why did that human call you a Daedra, and Sheogorath?”
“It’s a...well, I visit all kinds of realities, and in most I make what I like to call OC’s to fit in. In that reality, I am known as Sheogorath, Daedric prince of madness.”
“What’s a Daedra?”
“The other type of god-like beings in that reality. Some have massive amounts of power, others are no stronger than a human. It all depends on the daedra. Man, that necklace works great, you look just like a human girl, though, your hair is still light pink.”
“Oh. Well, it will still work on the humans back home right?”
“Definitely.”
“Yay!” Celestia said with a smile. “So, what do we get to do first?”
“Well, maybe you can make some friends with a few humans.”
“What are friends?” Celestia asked as Gabriel opened a new link to their reality.
“Well...friends are people you trust as well or more than your family. Someone you can just...talk to about stuff and they try and help.” Gabriel explained as they walked through the gateway and found themselves some miles from a village. It was unlike what Celestia saw when she first met uncle Gabriel, Lucifer, and Metatron. While that place was all sand, small stone buildings and large constructs. This village was smaller, cobblestone homes with hay roofs and farms as far as the eye could see. “This place is called Camelot, and one day soon it will hold a mighty kingdom. Sadly though, like everything, it will fall to ruins and turn to legend.”
Gabriel realized his words fell on not even there ears as he looked to his side and Celestia was not there. He looked ahead and spotted her running towards the town. “...Meh.” Gabriel said as he quickly chased after her.
As Celestia entered the town she saw it was very different from heaven. Dirty, kind of cold, and the people here worked through it every day. Rose had told her about life on earth many times, now she was seeing it. Rose told Celestia something very important about humans, words she won’t forget. “Humans, no matter how bad things get, we move on.”
They were inspiring. Life for them was short, hard, and even when all seemed pointless, some may give up hope, others move forwards, pushing on. Celestia wanted to get to know humans better. ”Maybe I can get uncle Lucifer to admit they are neat.” She thought mentally, running along.
She then saw what any child in her situation would see, and feel happy at. Other Kids!