//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: A new home // Story: A desired paradise // by SeiryuofEast //------------------------------// Canterlot’s royal castle, royal garden, day time Michael’s POV This was so strange, after getting out of my ‘prision’ I found myself outside in a big world or maybe I’m small. But, there was no time to explore this place because I got found by huge winged white unicorn with a multicolored mane, it was female as I heard her speak to me with the voice of a lady, at this moment her face was infront of me looking at me with a curious and confused expression, me on the other hand, I was so scared, if she gonna eat me? Crush my body with her hoofs? Why this was happening to me? I just want to be with my mom and dad. “Ple-please…Do-don’t hurt me.” I said to the winged unicorn trembling with fear as I feel my eyes teary. The winged unicorn just stood there looking at me, when she heard my voice she got a concerned and sad expression on her face, she then opened her mouth to talk again, but just before she was about to say something, we both heard a voice coming from behind the winged unicorn. “Princess Celestia, is everything ok? Can I come out from here?" I said the voice of a little girl, I try to look for the girl and I from where I was and saw some bushes moving behind the winged unicorn. “Yes Twilight, you can come here, everything is safe.” said the winged unicorn that now I know her name was Princess Celestia. A few moments after Princess Celestia replied to the little girl, from the bushes come out a small purple unicorn with a dark blue mane that trot in my direction and stood a side of Princess Celestia, this small unicorn was looking down to me with a curious and surprised look on her face, she also was wearing something at her sides that looks like a backpack, this unicorn, ‘Twilight’ as Princess Celestia has call her was taller than me and after a few moments of silent, she turns to see Princess Celestia. “Princess Celestia, what is this? This little creature has to do something with that light we saw moments ago?” asked Twilight to Princess Celestia calling my attention. “Cre-creature? What are you talking about? A light? What do you mean?” I asked to these two as I lost the fear as it turns into curiosity as they just stay there looking at me. “I think so, it looks like it have come from that egg.” said Princess Celestia as she points with her hoof to me. “What egg?...” I said as I turn around to look for it and saw the pieces of a egg with orange stripes on it. “What is this?” I said confused as I feel the stress coming back. “Oh look Princess, it even has little wings on its back.” I heard Twilight said. “Wings?...” I try to look to my body and noticed a terrible fact. “Where are my arms? Where are my legs?...” I said desperate while trembling as I saw that my body was missing of those parts and I also noticed that my skin was now pure white. “What’s happening to me? I want my mommy and daddy!!!” I exclaimed while I turn to Princess Celestia and Twilight as I close my eyes and start to crying in sorrow. “Oh…poor little thing…” I heard Princess Celestia said, then I feel something grabbing my small body and lift me from the ground as I start to feel warm while I was being gently rub. “Shhh, shhh, everything is ok now.” I heard Princess Celestia said to me. I feel something warm around my body comforting me while I was still crying it was not after a few minutes that my crying become a sobbing, at this moment I opened my eyes and I saw Princess Celestia's face looking me with a warm reassuring smile, she has been carrying me infront of her chest this entire time using her strange multicolored mane, I don’t know how that works but it was helping me to calm down, as she looks down to me with smiling I don't know why I was feeling safe in her mane. “What should we do Princess?” said Twilight with a worried tone on her voice. “I don’t know my dear student, but for now let’s go to the castle.” said Princess Celestia to Twilight. After saying this, Princess Celestia was carrying my body with her mane as she walks in a direction to get out of this garden, Twilight was following us too as she walks closer behind of Princess Celestia. When were walking out of this garden I saw a enormous building, it looks pretty, if this was the castle that these two were talking about? At that time, we passed to some horses wearing golden armors, if Celestia is a princess, then maybe these horses with armors are her guards? Princess Celestia then told to these two to clean and retrieve the pieces of the thing that was...My egg, she also told them to go and check a place call it the sculpture garden, to see if something happened at that place and inform her about, I don't know what she means with that but, the guards just nod and go to do what they had been told. When the horses left, we continue our way until we entered in the castle. I was amazed in how huge was everything here inside this castle, making me feel even smaller as we continue the way in the hallways until we reached to a huge and spacious room, at the end of this place at the front I saw some stairs that lead to a throne with two guards down the stairs guarding, Princess Celestia and Twilight walk their way to the throne but Princess Celestia stops to look to the guard of the left, and she said to the guard the very less word I want to hear at this moment: 'Doctor', the guard then nods and leave the room. When I heard that word my body starts to tremble in fear, is a doctor right? When he or she comes to see me they are going use a syringe to take blood out of me and I hate it, those needless hurts soo much. I look up to Princess Celestia who was still carrying me and I beg her with my teary eyes to not take me to a doctor, but she only smiles to me and gently rub me on the top of my head with her left hoof to calm me, why she doesn't understand me? As the time pass, Princess Celestia took a seat on the throne and Twilight was sitting a side of her as we wait. I don't know how much time has passed, but the same guard who has left, returned saying that the doctor were waiting in a room. By this point I was struggling to break free of Princess Celestia's mane, but she was way more stronger than me as we all go to the room where the doctor was waiting, when we reached infront of that room, only Princess Celestia and I entered in, at that moment I decided to hide in Princess Celestia's mane, then I took a peek and saw that it was a clean room with all the tools that I seem before when I visited my doctor in the past, then I saw another unicorn, this one was yellow with a green mint mane, he was wearing a doctor jacket with glasses as he smile to Princess Celestia, I also noticed that at his flank has a tattoo of a rose with that tool that use the doctors to hear your heart. "Thank you for coming here, Doctor Roses, I hope that I didn't interrupted your schedule, but this was an emergency." said Princess Celestia to Doctor Roses. "Please I don't want to be here." I plead to Princess Celestia looking up to her face while she was talking to the doctor, named Roses. "Is understandable your highness, it is a doctor's duty to help when he is needed so don't worry, my companions can manage the hospital while I'm here..." said Doctor Roses smiling to Princess Celestia. "Now about this emergency that you have told me about, it has something to do with what you have been carrying there your highness?" asked Doctor Roses. "There is nothing bad here, please just go home." I replied in my 'hiding place fearful. "Here it is." said Princess Celestia as she show me to Doctor Roses while still carrying me in her mane. "I..." said Doctor Roses astonished looking at me with his mouth open for a while until. "This...What kind of creature is this?" said Doctor Roses regaining the composure as he looks to Princess Celestia. "Well that's the reason why I called you here doctor, even I, don't know what kind of creature is this little one." said Princess Celestia to Doctor Roses. "I see, well, let's bring it to the table so we can start the checkup." replied Doctor Roses. "What?! No I don't want to!" I exclaimed while struggling. When I heard Doctor Roses's last words, I began to hyperventilate scared as I try to escape from Princess Celestia's mane, but when Princess Celestia was about to drop me on the table, instead of breaking free of her grasp like I have been trying to do moments ago, now I was trying my best to stay in her mane, but in the end she got to drop me on the table, at this point I quickly look back to Princess Celestia begging her to save me from the doctor as I start to cry in despair. Princess Celestia look to my reaction and for some reason at that moment, she got a shocked and worried look on her face, she then quickly lift me back on her mane off the table and starts to gently caress me to calm me down. "Shhh, shhh, everything is ok little one, I'm here with you right now..." said Princess Celestia in a reassuring tone as she stay like that with me until I finally calm down, when she looks back to Doctor Roses, she noticed that he was looking at her surprised by her reaction. "Eh? I...I think that, I mean." said Princess celestia nervous with a blush on her face, trying to understand what happened a moment ago. "Your highness, can you tell me what happened when you found this creature?" asked Doctor Roses confused with the situation. "Very well, you see doctor..." Princess Celestia said as she began to tell to Doctor Roses how she and Twilight found me at the garden. "And that's wha happened, I need your help know what is this little one." said Princess Celestia looking down to me concerned. "I see, we need to do a full checkup then, but this time, I think I will need your help your highness." said Doctor Roses looking at me with a small smile. "Eh? No!..." I exclaimed fearful and then I look to Princess Celestia. "Please don't let him do it." I plead to Princess Celestia. "I see..." said Princess Celestia who nods to the doctor and looks down to me. "Is ok, I be here with you." Princess Celestia told me with a warm smile. With that said, Princess Celestia brought me back on the table, with the difference that I was still on her mane as she remained close to me on the table, I was still scared but with her here with me I feel more secure. Doctor Roses then began to work, for a moment I thought that he was going to stick a needle in me, but instead he was just checking out my body, treating me with care, when it was over, Princess Celestia lift me again off the table as we both look to Doctor Roses who now has a serious expression on his face. "So...What's the verdict doctor?" ask Princess Celestia a little worried in her tone. "Well..." said Doctor Roses as he sigh. "I really don't know." said Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia. "Excuse me?" said Princess Celestia confused. "I don't know what kind of creature is, by the story that you have told me, the chirping sounds that it made and the fact that it has wings, at first I thought that it was some kind of bird, but is not." said Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia. "Chirping sounds? You mean that I have been only making bird sounds this entire time? That's explains why nobody understand me when I talk to them." I said realizing the problem with my voice. "Also, it can't be a new species of dragon, it doesn't have scales since its skin is too soft and it doesn't even have any kind of teeth, I gonna suppose that is because that is still a newborn, also there is this part too..." said Doctor Roses as he touched with his right hoof something that I feel that was on my forehead. "This thing here, I thought that it was a horn, but this has its white skin and also is soft, my verdict is your highness, that this little creature is an entire new species." said Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia. "An entire new species? But, what I should do about it Doctor?" ask Princess Celestia to Doctor Roses. "Well that's also another problem, do you know the behavior of some newborn creatures from eggs, like the birds?" ask Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia. "What do you mean?" ask Princess Celestia a little confused. "For what I have seen of this little creature's behavior with you and with what you have told me in your story, this creature has acknowledged you as its mother." said Doctor Roses with a small smile. "What?!" exclaimed Princess Celestia and I in unison. "That's right, since your highness were the first living creature that its saw after it was born, it recognized you as its mother, that could explain why it seems to be attached to you and why it doesn't want to leave your side." explained Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia. "That...That can't be true, I mean, I have my mom already...But, Princess Celestia seems to be nice with me." I said to Doctor Roses but I remembered that he can't understand me as I have those conflicting feelings in my mind. "So what can we do doctor?" ask Princess Celestia. "Well your highness, you can give it to a zoology institute for studying it, but, it will be too cruel for the little creature, because of what I already told you." replied Doctor Roses. "What?! No! I don't want that, I'm not an animal, I don't want to be put in a cage!" I exclaimed both angry and scared. "I see." said Princess Celestia looking down to me with a concerned look on her face. "Please don't send me to that place." I said to Princess Celestia, begging her with teary eyes, I really disliked the idea of the institute and also, for some reason I hate the idea of being apart of Princess Celestia, maybe what the doctor said is right? "I...I..." said Princess Celestia looking at me worried as she closed her eyes for a moment, then she opened her eyes and nods to me with a smile. "Doctor...I will take care of this little one here." said Princess Celestia determinated to Doctor Roses. "Are you sure your highness? I mean, you don't know what could happen to this creature on the future." said Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia. "I know what you mean doctor, but look at it..." said Princess Celestia as she show me to Doctor Roses. "This little one here just have been born and is all alone, it needs somepony who can take care of it and I also really in need of-" said Princess Celestia as she suddenly stops at the last part. "You need what, your highness?" asked Doctor Roses confused. "Nothing nothing..." said Princess Celestia nervous while giggling a bit. "What I mean is that I will take responsability of this little one." said Princess Celestia looking down to with a warm smile. "Very well your highness, since everything is ok, then I will be going back to the hospital." said Doctor Roses with a smile as he nods to Princess Celestia. "By the way, Doctor what can it eat? Also, is female or male, I don't want to call it little one all time." said Princess Celestia curious as she lift me over her face to see my body from below. "Hey don't look!" I exclaimed upset and embarrassed. "Well I'm not sure what gender it is, you maybe have to wait until it need to do its needs, about what can eat, since it doesn't have any teeth yet, I recommend you to try babyfood." said Doctor Roses to Princess Celestia who nods in replied. After that, before Doctor Roses retired to go back to the hospital, Princess Celestia told him to not say a thing about today and keep the secret of my existence, after that Princess Celestia come out the room with me still being carried in her mane and we reunited with Twilight who was waiting for us outside. Then suddenly my tummy starts to growl as I look to Princess Celestia and ask her for food, good thing that she doesn't need to understand me to know what I want right now since she heard my tummy's growl. The three of us walk thru the castle until we entered to a place that looks like a big kitchen, the chefs were all horses and when they saw Princess Celestia entered in the kitchen, everyone began to bow to her, I try to not pay attention to this. When this...'Show' was over, Princess Celestia ordered to a chef to prepare some babyfood for me and after a while the same chef comes back carrying a plate with my food in it, as he was carrying it on his right hoof. With this, Princess Celestia walks, still carrying me, to the closer table and sit on a chair and Twilight do the same as she took a seat a side of her, then suddenly, I saw how the horn of Princess Celestia got a golden glow and I saw that my dish also has this glow and the plate levitated from the chef's right hoof to the table infront of me, I was amazed with the sight, if she has super powers? Or maybe it was magic? Before I could try wonder what just happened, Princess Celestia used her golden glow to levitated the spoon to my food and it move closer to my mouth. "Here it is little one, open wide." said Princess Celestia smiling to me. "I don't like being fed like this, but I don't have other choice..." I thought opening my mouth as the spoon enter in it and I eat the babyfood. "Is so yummy!" I thought while tasting the warm, soupy and sweet taste that have this food. "Hehehe, it seen that it like it." said Princess Celestia giggling as she give me more babyfood. "It looks so happy eating it, Princess Celestia, can I try to feed it please?" said Twilight excited while she smiles to Princess Celestia. "Sure, just be careful with it." replied Princess Celestia. Then at that moment I saw it again, Twilight was doing the same thing that Princess Celestia do to levitate the spoon, but with the difference that her glow was purple as she feed me, at this point I try to not think much about it, besides I was enjoying my food. When my tummy was full, Princess Celestia decided that it was time go to her room, so the three of us go tru the castle to her bedroom walking for a while until we were finally infront of her room's door. Princess Celestia opened the door and I was amazed with the sight of her bedroom, it was so fancy the decoration, like in those disney movies, then Princess Celestia go to her huge bed and left me on it, this bed feels so nice that I couldn't resist the impulse and I began to roll on it, not paying attention to my surroundings. "Looks like is having fun." said Twilight giggling. "It seems so, Twilight, I have some duties to do, can you stay here with the little one until I'm done, please?" asked Princess Celestia to Twilight. "Sure Princess, you can leave it to me, I will do my best to watch it over." said Twilight smiling diligently to Princess Celestia. "Thank you Twilight, I be back soon." said Princess Celestia with a smile as she leaves the room. Then after a few minutes I stop rolling on the bed and I noticed that Princess Celestia was not here anymore, but I also noticed that Twilight was still here with me, watching me. It was an awkward moment for me since Twilight just stay there looking at me with a small smile without saying a word, like if she was waiting for me to do something, I was getting a bit bored as I look around the room and saw that there at the my left at the distance was a mirror on a table, now that I thought about it, I wasn't able to look at my body well, then I turn to see to Twilight, for a brief moment I saw her face with a bored expression as she smile again when I see her, I think she is getting bored of not doing anything right now, but first I want to do something. "Eh, Twilight right? Listen, can you help me go to that mirror over there please?" I asked to Twilight as I turn my body in the direction to the table and look back to Twilight. "Huh? Do you want something little one? Do you want to play something?" asked Twilight to me with an anxious tone. "Oh yeah, I forgot that I can't speak, how I can tell her this?" I thought thinking how I can let her know what I want. I just stood there on the bed for a while thinking in how to tell to Twilight that I want to go to the mirror, if I only could move properly, right now I only can roll and turn around, maybe if I try to roll my body to the table's direction I can make Twilight know what I want. At this point I try to roll my body to the edge of the bed but I was careless and I end up rolling too much this time. "Ahhhh!" I screamed as I fell off the bed to the floor. "Watch out!" exclaimed Twilight worried. Luckily before my body could hit the floor, I was caught in Twilight's purple glow, for a second I thought that I was done for sure, then I turn around too see my savior and I saw Twilight who sighs in relieve knowing that I was safe, but then her face turns into a stern as she was looking at me, then she levitated me back to the bed and put me on it. "Listen little one, I don't know what you were thinking, but that was too reckless from you, don't do it again ok?" said Twilight scolding me "I'm sorry Twilight." I said looking down feeling bad for what I did, again I forgot that she can't understand me. "Good, now, you seem to want to go to that table right? Do you want me to help you reach to it?" asked Twilight to me. "Wow..." I thought surprised looking at her. "I thought that she wouldn't understand what I said, or maybe she is smarter than I thought." I thought as I nod to Twilight. "I see, here let me help you then..." said Twilight as she levitated me and left me on the table infront of the mirror. "There, don't touch Princess Celestia stuff ok?" said Twilight to me with a smile as I saw her reflection in the mirror. At that time I can finally have a proper view of my new body, my eyes were pitch black like the ones of a shark, except that my eyes actually looks cute, I don't have a nose but for some weird reason I can still breathe and smell, I have something on my forehead that looks like a horn and of course, I don't have any limps except for a pair of little yellow wings on my back. That give me the idea that if I have wings, that means that I can fly, I thought excited about it and after a while, I try make my wings to move, but barely I got to flapping them, well maybe if I grow I would be able to fly, then I look back to my reflection in the mirror. "I have never seen an animal like this before, I look so...Adorable, good thing that the girls from my school can't see me like this or I will be doom for sure." I thought while looking at my reflection. "You know, you seem to be pretty smart for a baby..." said Twilight as I turn to look at her. "I mean, you seem to be able to understand my words, do you?" said Twilight with curious but intriged look on her face. "Eh, yeah I do understand you." I said nodding to Twilight. "You do really understand me? That's so awesome!..." said Twilight as she exclaimed excited. "Do you know other things? I mean, yeah you just had born today, I shouldn't ask you things like that, maybe we could do something else..." said Twilight giggling a bit with a small blush on her face. "Oh yeah I know, what do you say if I read you a story?" suggested Twilight as she check her 'sidesbag' as she took out a book and she show it to me smiling. "Sure!" I exclaimed happily nodding to Twilight. After that, Twilight stayed with me reading stories from her book for as the hours passed until finally Princess Celestia come back to her bedroom. At the moment when Princess Celestia entered to the room she smiles and giggles with the scene she found: Twilight was sleeping on the bed as I was at her side with Twilight's book infront of us. Princess Celestia then wakes Twilight because is was time for her to go home, but Twilight before she left, she told me that tomorrow she will come to play with me after her lessons, It was a fun and entertaining time that I had with Twilight when she read me that book, after she said goodbye to us, she then left to her home, leaving me alone with Princess Celestia. The time passed fast, because before I know it, it was night time and it was dinner time already, Princess Celestia requested to eat in her bedroom as some horses wearing fancy white and black clothes entered to her bedroom bringing the food, while Princess Celestia was being serve, she was feeding me with that delicious and sweet babyfood. When we finished our dinner it was time for us to sleep, Princess Celestia then carried my body to a small bed that she have prepared for me a side closer to her bed, she also prepared herself to sleep and before turns off the lights she a blanket over me and gave me the goodnights. But at night, alone in my small bed I woke up and start to crying in an inconsolable sorrow, it was because of me remembering my parents, wanting to be with them as tears were streaming on my cheeks. Princess Celestia of course, sdoesn't take her too much to wake up and she quickly go to my side and lift me in her mane to comforts me, she stayed like that for a hour until I was finally sobbing with my face clinging to her chest, at this point the warmness I was feeling was making me sleepy again, Princess Celestia noticed this as she lied on her bed with me under her neck as I feel her soft fur. "Sleep well little one, I'm here for you." Princess Celestia said to me in a soft tone in her voice. "Mommy..." I said as I closed my eyes and fell in the worlds of dreams. Canterlot royal castle, Princess Celestia' bedroom, morning time Celestia's Pov I began to wake up, last night the little creature that I decided to take care suddenly began to cry in the middle of the night, it was not after a hour that I finally managed to calm it down, at that moment I decided to sleep a side of the little one, just in case, luckily it was the right choice, it do not cry anymore for the rest of the night, I think that the poor little thing was feeling alone. At this moment I believe that it was around the 6:00am, it was time to rise the sun, I still feel drowsy, so I move the blanket over to cover the little one as I stood off the bed yawning and go to the balcony in my room, I open the doors to go outside and use my magic to bring a new day to Equestria. "Is time for another bright day." I thought smiling as I saw the sun rising with my magic until it was set. Then I returned to my bedroom to prepare myself for my duties, I was thinking in waking up the little one, I don't think I can't leave it alone so it will have to stay with me on the day, not like the idea discomfort me, quite the opposite, the little creature bring me a joy that I didn't have felt in years. But before I could giggle about my thoughts, I heard a sound coming from my bed, looks like the little one is waking up too. "Good morning little one, I hope that I didn't disturbed your sleep." I said smiling as I walk to my bed. But then, I saw the bump on my bed covered with my blanket where I supposed was the little one under it, rises to a height taller than the small creature that is supposed to be sleeping in that place. I was stunned, but just a moment after I saw how it took off the blanket and there, sitting on my bed was a not so small white creature with small yellow wings, with pink claws and feets rubbing its eyes. "Good morning." said the creature drowsy with the voice of a young colt while still rubbing his eyes. "Eeeeek!" I shrieked astonished and scared. "What happened with my little one?" I thought trying to understand what is happening.