Morning arrives, in each room, a row of hanging clothes were placed. As the humans awaken from their slumbers, they see the clothes in their rooms and each has five different sets of clothes with their name tags attached to the hangers. Claudia also woke up with a new set of clothes hanging on a rack next to the door most are new and it seems her clothes from Ponyville were delivered to her as well from Rarity. There's a note attached to the rack and it writes:
Darling Claudia.
I felt super terrible for unable to meet you and the new humans. So that's why I asked Coco Pommel to take your new measurements, so I can pass this lovely long blouse and sets of leggings for you.
Hope you love them!
Signed,
Rarity.
P/S: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE THAT HORRID CLOAK OF YOURS. I CAN'T STAND IT.
Claudia rolled her eyes, shaking her head while looking at her new clothes, a blue glitter blouse and a pair of leggings presented to her on the hanger; beautifully crafted by Rarity as usual and on her blouse, she would always put her initials on the side of the blouse.
Claudia gets herself ready for a shower then off she goes to meet Twilight in the throne room first to discuss today's activity with the humans. Twilight was excited to hear about Claudia’s plan on doing a tour around Canterlot, she wished she could follow, and being a royalty have quite the work and she WISHED she could really go out like she used to.
“I really hope the humans can enjoy what we have to offer. I can bet they can get comfortable around the snobby pony outside,” she chortled.
“I’m sure they will be but it will be a little awkward,” she snorted, “You should have seen when they met the fashion designers yesterday,”
“I’m sure it was fun for them to finally work with a lot of humans,” Twilight said as she looked up at a floating scroll and begin to read, “Well, I have to meet my little niece at the Crystal Kingdom right now, some problem she needs help with Cadence,” she gets up and trot down the stairs with Claudia.
“I can’t wait to hear what the others have to say after their activity today,” she stops and turns to Claudia, “Oh yeah, Starswirl also contacted me last night that he will be back to Canterlot in three days from now. He’s almost done with his ‘friendship’ vacation with the rest of the Pillars too,”
Claudia nods and will remember that.
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Later around noon, the other humans are waiting for Claudia in the foyer, all dressed well from the new clothes they received. Almost everyone complimented each other, McMirth usually grumbles when Kammy and the others compliment how suspenders fit him well.
Claudia just arrived, not wearing her cloak this time with the new blouse and met all of them at the foyer, sang as she saw all of them in new clothes and looked so fresh.
"Oh my gosh, you all look so amazing!"
"You're looking good as well, Claudia," Herman compliments her, looking at her head to toe.
"Aw, thanks," she blushes.
"We couldn't believe they could make a lot of clothes so fast and this kurta they made for me based on my old kurta is amazing as well," Kammy gestured at her clothes and it also came with her scarf, covered in jewels as well.
"Well, since some of the ponies are Unicorns, they use magic a lot to sew things fast, but they never forget about quality!" Claudia gets closer to them and looks at all of their clothes.
"Just curious, these jewels they added in some of our clothes...are they… Real?" Kammy asked.
"Yes, they are. Emeralds, diamonds, you name it are so easy to find in Equestria and some even use them as payments to most things, well expensive stuff mostly,"
"Wait, so they do use money?"
Claudia nods and takes out her gold coins.
"They call them Bits, they are gold coins for us,"
Everyone else coos, the kids all took a closer look at the coins, jokingly said they looked at one of those chocolate coins.
"They do, don't they?" She laughed and put her coins back.
"How did you even get these?" asked Terry.
"I work, and earn money, that's what I have been doing in most of my time. Then save them in the Bank,"
"They have banks too?" McMirth spoke, raising his eyebrows.
Claudia hummed, "They do, maybe we can drop by the bank, so I can get some money out for all of you," she smiled.
"Oh you don't have to do that," Kammy bellowed.
Claudia insisted and began to wave her hand to magically bring out a long flag like one of those tour guides always use and the flag wrote 'Human Grand Tour' on the fabric.
"Shall we begin the tour?"
Simultaneously everyone responds, and some of the smaller children start to walk next to Claudia before they begin their tour out from the castle.
As expected when they are out of the castle, the ponies, griffons, and any creatures on the streets of Canterlot stopped their doings to look at a parade of humans just walking down the road with Claudia talking loudly introducing them to the part of Canterlot's districts and Magic School.
McMirth was staring back at them when he heard chattering as they walked by, he began asking Claudia to just go back inside so they don't get embarrassed like this.
"Don't worry, they will get used to seeing all of you outside, besides, I'm pretty sure everyone just staring at your fancy outfits," she hummed
"I just noticed something, some of these ponies are wearing lots of fancies, probably expensive stuff, are they for some reason one of those High-end people?" asked Terry as he looked around, seeing some ponies in suits and ties, and the female ponies all having beautiful mane and necklaces around their necks.
"Well yes, they are. You could say Canterlot is a place for the sophisticated, rich, and high standard ponies but that's just like in our world where many people are trying their best looking like rich People," she sneers, "As snobby these ponies look, they are actually kind-hearted. Depends who you meet,"
Claudia continues to show them around the districts of clothes before they arrive at the bank, the doors automatically opened by the security unicorns as they entered, their jaws opened wide as Claudia with the rest of the humans entered the building; there were not many ponies in line at the counters so Claudia easily just greet the mare receptionist the next line. The receptionist met eye-to-eye with Claudia and replied her greet happily, she semi gasped as she realized the humans behind her.
"Shall I call Mr. Cashmoney?" asked the receptionist.
"Oh if he's not busy. I have very quick stuff to do," she leans and points to the people behind her, "I want to spend stuff for my guests for today,"
"Did...she just say cashmoney?" Niki whispered to Jenny.
Jenny just shrugged, "I heard that too," she whispered back.
The receptionist bowed her head before leaving the counter inviting the others to take a seat, multiple floating individual chairs appeared and lined up in the waiting room. Kammy and the rest sat down and just peering their eyes at the entire bank feature.
"This bank looks so big yet has so few people... I mean ponies around," Kammy said as she looks around and stares at the big picture of a business suit-wearing stallion shaking hooves with a Rainbow-haired Pony that they don't recognize, the next picture of Twilight and Claudia in the photo.
"Well that's because this bank still actually new like I said before, this bank is a collaboration between two companies that -"
"- She solved amazingly between two friends that almost lost their friendship over silly ideas," a stallion in new dark blue suits entered the waiting room with the receptionist, "I don't expect Miss Claudia be bringing her humans along,"
Claudia held out her hands, shaking the stallion's hoof.
"How did you know about the humans?" she asked, even though she should have guessed.
"Why, the newspapers of course. I never anticipated for you to bring them to my establishment," Mr. Cashmoney turns to the humans, "I am Golden Cashmoney, the co-owner of the Cash and Bash Bank. Anyway, what do I have to do to help you, Miss Claudia?"
"Well, I am here, to cash out a few bits and diamonds so I can share a bit with my friends,"
"Oh for sure and how much do you want to be deposited?"
Claudia begins to count how much she needed before giving the actual calculation she wanted, Mr. Cashmoney didn't hesitate before instantly calling his receptionist again to instruct the banker to arrange the number of bits needed by Claudia.
There are twenty tiny bags were presented to the people in the waiting room, each given to the humans. Jenny and Niki check inside, gasping.
"Claudia, you don't have to do this. We don't even know how the currency works here," Kammy said shakily after taking out a diamond and put them in the bag.
"I insist, besides I will teach you about how the currency works here when we are out of here. Thank you Mr. Cashmoney,"
"You're welcome, you can come anytime soon, you are our best customer," he winks and leads Claudia and her friends out the banks.
After a few currency lessons later, Claudia brought them to the food district and reminded them that most they eat here are all greens but all are good and delicious.
They stopped at a few restaurants looking at their menus, and a lot of chef ponies found the opportunity to introduce their varieties of menus. There were so many to choose from, the twenty people in the middle of a busy street have different interests in food.
The teens found a hipster type of place and seem like they serve pasta and they are fine with it.
"How about all of us meet back here after we finish our lunch?" Claudia suggested and everyone agreed and they all went away to their preferred restaurants.
Kammy, McMirth, and the children are the only ones who haven't decided which restaurants to go to, so Claudia continues helping them search places for lunch.
Then suddenly Kammy stops, sniffing the air.
"Wait, am I smelling curry?" she turns around, tapping Claudia's shoulder.
"Smells like Indian food?" McMirth concurs after taking a whiff of the smells.
Claudia slapped her forehead, "Of course! I forgot," she started to bring them to a junction.
They were greeted by a vibrant restaurant, with upbeat music played from the inside and many ponies and other creatures were eating outside, waiters and waitresses in somewhat Indian-designed clothing were serving the customers.
"This is very weird," Kammy said but also looking super excited seeing how the place reminds her a lot at home.
"Yeah, there's a LOT of things in the geographical sense I need to teach you guys. Come on let's get ourselves a table," Claudia beamed.
As they got near the restaurant, one of the waiters tugged his colleagues after seeing Claudia and the others. The other waiter starts to run inside before you know it, an older pony with dark Fuschia mane and earrings greeted them in an eastern accent.
"Welcome to the Tasty Treats, where we serve a quality taste of foods. I'm Saffron Masala, how may I be at your service?" She greeted them with a happy smile.
"Yes, I don't suppose you have enough tables to fit eight of us?" Claudia said while pointing at Kammy, McMirth, and the children.
"Oh yes, of course, I can send my boys to prepare extra tables out here if you don't mind at all?" Saffron started to turn to the nearby waiters and whistled them to get more extra tables to be set.
Before they know it, they have already been seated and looking at the menus. Of course no surprise to them all vegetables and Oats. But it looks different than any restaurants they've been through and it's similar to Indian foods. It's exceptional now.
Saffron Masala came to their table to take orders but couldn't help but notice the outfit Kammy wore and begin to compliment her. Without hesitation, Kammy started to talk about the country she lives in and how almost similar the designs of her restaurant, and Saffron herself reminded her of home.
They kept talking for a moment before McMirth interrupted and began to order. Saffron's face turns a tiny dash of red but soon gets herself back in the game, taking orders from McMirth then the others. Claudia on the Other hand, has been looking at how happy Kammy is when talking to someone she could relate to and comfortable to be in company with.
The food arrived and it was a lot including a flatbread served for the children, they instantly enjoyed eating with their hands.
"This tastes good!" Sanjit exclaimed, dipping the flatbread into a curry.
"This curry Oatcakes are so amazing," Kammy complimented.
Saffron drops by to their tables again to ensure their foods are served best and not missing any other orders, Kammy and Claudia instantly answer that nothing is missing on their tables, Kammy begins to talk to Saffron again nonstop. Saffron offers Kammy to stay for a while so both can share recipes, she turns to Claudia.
"Is it okay if I stayed after lunch for a while? I am enjoying talking with Saffron,"
"Oh, I guess we'll be fine, we are just going to explore around town, we have only a few districts to go for the tour. You enjoy yourself, but we will meet back where I told you because I think we have another time to go to another place a small town called Ponyville where I live,"
"You didn't tell us we are stopping at another place," McMirth turns to Claudia looking rather upset.
"Well, if everyone is tired, we could change the program to tomorrow," she grinned.
McMirth just gives a stare at Claudia before continuing eating. Kammy pats Claudia's back, continuing her discussion with Saffron.
Claudia brings McMirth and the children back to their meeting point leaving Kammy behind for a while. Terry, Herman, and Georgia already stood at the meeting point looking at the sky because they heard something that sounded like a jet flying.
"What is that sound? We kept hearing them around, is there a plane here?" Herman asked as Claudia got closer.
The kids all looked up as well and pointed at the moving clouds, there's a trail of clouds forming as well with a dash of the rainbow following behind.
"Oh that's no plane or jet, they don't have that here. But they do have The Wonderbolts," Claudia smiled, as the sound of the jet-like wings flapped can be heard passing through the sky above them.
"The Wonderbolts?" simultaneously everyone gawked and looked back at the sky as they saw six pegasuses fly by and one of them had a rainbow-colored mane and tail as they passed by.
Claudia started to explain to them what they are, as she talks the other humans have just arrived and they looked at the sky as well. Telling them stories about the Wonderbolts and how awesome their leaders are, what the pegasus also do in this world.
"They sound cool," said John, hoping to see another of the Wonderbolts fly by but the sound stops.
"We can go and see them closer to their training grounds in Ponyville," Claudia said, "But Ponyville is a mile away, we will have to take the coach if anyone feels like going,"
"How about tomorrow?" asked Niki.
"Tomorrow?"
"Yeah, Jenny and the rest of the teens just had a hangout date with a griffon and a goth pony earlier while we were having lunch and they were cool for asking us to hang out with them in Ponyville?"
Claudia's eyes went wide, disbelief the teens had already made friends in town. She proceeds to discuss her plan, everybody else agrees to the next tour.
"Besides, I do promise you guys to get a chance to charge your phones,"
Kammy finally joins them after a while and asks Claudia where to go next from here, Claudia brings them to the end of the streets of Canterlot to show them a view of the rest of Equestria. They can see vast lands from where they are and a road leads to several places. Claudia points where Ponyville is then pointing at a building on the clouds where they can see tiny rainbow droppings from the clouds.
"That's Cloudsdale, most pegasus lives there, and home of the Wonderbolts,"
"Oh! Can we go up there?" Said John and Tulip simultaneously.
"We could but we need a spell to be able to walk on the clouds," she giggled.
John pouted.
Claudia also pointed to the place where Kammy and the rest were staying before and told tiny details about the Everfree forest again.
"I guess that's it for the tour for today,"
"Can we go home now?" McMirth grumbles.
"Yes, Mirth. We can go back to the castle now," Claudia turns around and rolls her eyes.
She then felt a tugging on her blouse and it was Lulu.
"Excuse me, Miss Claudia. On the way here, I saw a bookstore and I was wondering if I could stop there to get something to read?"
"Oh, me too!" yelled Sanjit.
"Me three!" John also responded.
"Me!" Tulip shouted.
"Okay, okay. All of you can go to the books stores together,"
Without waiting the children start to run towards the bookstore and Claudia starts chasing behind them followed by the humans. Emma and Ilya were the only ones who stayed looking at the view, then realized the others just walked away as well.
Emma walking hand in hand with Ilya then stopped in front of a wedding boutique, Emma gasped at the pretty dresses on the pony mannequin. Ilya joins and just wows on how gorgeous the design is. Both of them stare at each other and instantly get inside the boutique.
After handling the kids in the bookstores, they got out and met up with the rest who were waiting and even just window shopping. Claudia also bought a few maps to give to the others, as she counted the maps she bought, she just saw Emma and Ilya got out of the wedding boutique across the streets with their happy faces, waving at them to hurry up so they all can go and get a good rest.