//------------------------------// // An Awkward Meeting // Story: The Pony-Filled Life of Alexis Creek // by NightmareMoon //------------------------------// Walking down the streets of Canterlot with Twilight, I realize that there are much more people staring and pointing. I started seeing familiar faces though, like Hoity Toity and Prince Blueblood... I hate him so much after what he yelled at me... "What is that hideous monkey doing on the streets of Canterlot? He might be dangerous!" The stupid prince had said in the middle of the street, embarrassing me a lot but mostly just making me mad. I could see the hate in Twilight's eyes, too. "Excuse me, but I have a name and first of all, I am a 'she' not a 'he.' But of course you wouldn't know that since you barely have two brain cells!" I yelled back. That made him silent. "You can talk?!" Prince Blueblood suddenly yelped, surprised. "And not only that, but you're smart!" "Yes, I can talk," I said, fairly annoyed. "And obviously I'm smart, get over it." "Oh-okay.." Prince Blueblood said quietly while running - sorry, galloping - away in a hurry, looking as if he'd seen a ghost - or a human. Twilight smirked at me, witnessing everything that happened. Of course I didn't mean to scare him like that, but frankly he deserved it and I am not regretting anything. "You really taught him a lesson," Twilight said. Her face turns hard and she says, "he was always a jerk, even when he was little. Heck, it was worse when he was little. I remember him a long time ago, since I practically spent everyday at the castle, where he lived. He was horrible! He teased me and made up rumors about how I got into the Princess's school by luck. At that time, I did not have very powerful magic. I could barely levitate a book, in fact! My internal magic had to be unlocked and controlled and I did not know how to use it yet. What he did made me want to quit magic and never cast a spell again." "I'm sorry, Twi." I said, sadly. "People at my school were always teasing me because I watched, you know, the show." My voice lowers to a whisper because Twilight and the other Elements of Harmony - and perhaps Celestia and Luna - are the only ones that know about the show, and the only ones that should know. If ponies knew that they were a made up cartoon... Nevermind that thought. Anyways, we arrive at the castle. Up close, it's amazing and I can't help wonder how many years it took to build it. After all, there are very few machines or anything here and I know for a fact from watching the show only very powerful unicorns can lift up heavy objects like slabs of stone. Perhaps they just combined all their magic? I have no idea and I don't really want to know, anyways. We proceed to enter. "Step back!" One of the royal gaurds says. Oh, yeah. I forgot about the whole you're-an-alien-people-will-view-you-as-a-threat thing. "It's fine," Twilight says. "I'm coming here to see the princess." She shows the letter from the princess to the gaurds. They nod in approval but still act suspicious and hold their spears up. Really? I think. What a warm welcome. They hold their spears up, ready to stab me. We finally enter the castle, where Celestia is waiting. "Come here, my little po - err, pony and human." I beam widely. She was about to say the line! Fan-girl attack! "So, this is the 'human,' you were talking about?" Celestia asks, eying me with wonder, not suspicion like the Royal Gaurds. "Yes!" Twilight says, also beaming widely. "Um, excuse me, but I'm in the same room, you know, and I can hear you just fine!" I said, annoyed. "You can talk?!" Celestia said, shocked. "That's what the other guy said," I muttered. "Yes, I can talk! Get over it, everyone!" "Every..one?" Celestia asks. "What do you mean by everyone? Don't you mean... oh, right. You probably don't have ponies from where you came from." "Actually, we do!" I say. "But instead of the ponies being smart like you guys, they're um... they can't talk and they're animals... but we don't have pegasi or unicorns in my world. We only have regular ponies - what do you call them? Oh, yeah - earth ponies." "So, are you a girl or boy?" Celestia asks. I roll my eyes. "I'm a girl!" I say, offended. I'm even wearing a pink dress! How is it not obvious I am a girl? "Oh, okay," Celestia says quickly, seeing she offended me. I blush slightly. "It's okay," I say. "I don't see how you would know that anyway. Anyways, any more questions?" "Twilight Sparkle says something about you knowing about the existence of ponies, even before you came here. What's that all about?" I explain her about TV. "There's this thing called 'television' in my world. I know you have some kind of theaters, right? You probably do because once I saw a black and white movie projected onto a screen in Twilight's library. They're like that, but they're not projected and most people have them in their houses. You can watch many different things on TVs. There are shows where the people are filmed - which star real people - and there are cartoons, which are drawn. In my world... you are cartoons." Celestia gasps. "That's not possible!" "It is," I say sadly. "I am one of the people that watches the show. Actually, I'm pretty obsessed. There are a lot of people that call themselves 'bronies' that are men and male teenagers that watch the show. Then there are pegasisters that are women and female teenagers that watch the show..." Celestia's eyes grow wide. "Who is the person that creates this show?" "Well, the person that started it is called Lauren Faust." "Does she have a drawn pony avatar thing?" "Yes. She's a white alicorn with a red mane." Celestia's eyes grow wide. "Give me a minute, please." With that, she teleports herself away.