//------------------------------// // Chapter I - Crazy Girls. // Story: Double Surprise // by 654_nosneb //------------------------------// As Celestia's sun was rising in the morning of equestria, all the ponies were slowly strarting to wake up, a few of them were already awake due to their jobs, and even a fewer number of them had nothing to do that Monday morning. But there was an unicorn mare that indeed had stuff to do, but she was deeply asleep on his bed, probably beacouse she spent all night reading that book that she borrowed from twilight, about a human hero than travelled trough universes and saved countless of human, alien, pony, dragon, and even Celestia and luna once; his adventures were deployed trough several amount of volumes written in different languages, some of them known to pony kind, and some of them extinguished but still translatable. "Lyra wake up!" Said her roommate Bon-bon "it's seven in the morning, and you have to go to see DJPon3 for your next play!"she said. No pony answered "Oh Lyra!" said Bon-bon tired of having to go through this again, as she entered the room "don't tell me that you didn't sleep beacouse you were reading about humans again." "What... No, no, no, I was just" She said as the book she was reading last night fell to the floor as she woke up. "Lyra, how many times I have told you, humans are not real!" She screamed. "They are just a story made up for little colts to teach the about studying and teamwork, and what happens when you don't follow it." As Lyra was waking up she tried to put in order her mane before answering to Bon-bon. "But there is so much evidence of their existence" She replied to her, "Maybe they didn't in this universe, but the proofs than point to the fact that they visited us from beyond equestria are abundant; like the construction of canterlot's castle for example, our architecture wasn't that developed when the castle was build as well as the city itself, and how do you explain tha... "Enought Lyra", Replied her friend. "Today I made the breakfast and will get cold if you don't hurry. "Okay, okay". Bon-bon leaved Lyra on her room for her to prepare for the day, which she did but sadly. "I wish than everypony could see humans the same way I do". She thought. Beeep!-Beeep!-Beeep!, the phone alarm in Sophia's cellphone started to sound, and she immediately turned off. Just for her book about a unicorn that visited the earth from a magical world, fell of her face unto the floor. "Ups, the grandma's book" She said "I better pick it up before my father sees it". She loved unicorns since she was a baby, her first plushie was an white unicorn than she called Bibi, but for some reason that she already guessed it disappeared about one week ago. Probably was for his father that never really approved his fascination for those creatures, he said than they were just a story for little kids to teach them about friendship, loyalty, honesty, kindness, and other lessons. But she was almost 10 years old and still sometimes dreamed about meeting a unicorn, and see magic in action. "She would be 10 in 2 weeks and still holds on to believing that those horn horses are real." His father thought down in the kitchen. "Maybe it's time to give her something useful for life instead of another of those stories". He believed that for a person to be successful in life he must start thinking seriously from a young age, since that's how he became a successful programmer and could afford buying that house, a good education for Sophia, and was paying for all the medications that Sophia's grandmother needed to stay alive. "Good morning daddy" She said walking down the stairs "How are you." "I'm fine" He said "did you sleep well last night?" He asked after noticing his daughter's sleepy face. "Yes" She lied "I did". "Well don't forget to wash your face, today you have a school trip to the ancient European museum". "Oh yes!, I almost forgotten." She said as she started eating her breakfast; she was very excited about this museum beacouse it might have a clue that would suggest that not only unicorns, but even pegasi, sapient ponies, and 2 alicorns once visited the earth. When she finished eating, she rushed to the bathroom to make herself ready for the day. It would be an exciting day, but no in the way she thinks. Lyra was returning from the reunion with DJ PON3, in which both decided to attend a play at a party next week, but she still had something to do, since according to the newspaper some archeologists found a unique artefact that might prove for once the existence of humans in other worlds, although they don't think is that, she could recognize human decoration from almost every place, and the artifacts were going to be exposed on the museum this day, and she wanted to be on the first line. She trotted through town, ate a hay burger for lunch, visited some friends, and attended to the museum 20 minutes earlier; they were not so many ponies as she was expecting, in fact she was the first to arrive. "Okay, now it's just wait" She thought to herself. Sophia was already at the museum, but she was not paying attention to the guide or to the exhibitions, she was searching for something more "specific" and just in that moment the guide said something that cached her attention. "And this is the equestrian amulet it's original purpose is still unknown to science, but we believe than it might be some sort of superstition to attract gold while mining" She said "And here we have... The rest was not meaningful for Sophia, when the group started to go to other section she approached as she could to watch it close. Suddenly a light beam was fired from the amulet and impacted her, it was so fast that if you blinked you could miss it, this caused Sophia to jump and almost scream as the blue stone on the center of the amulet became dark. She was reading of this amulet in the internet page, and the "equestrian" word caught her attention, but she never expected this to happen; suddenly she heard a soft voice than said to her: "You still believe!" Lyra finally entered the exhibit, trotted a little bit through the building, and finally fined what she saw on the newspaper: The "Earth" amulet. She was about to pick up his camera to take a photo for later, when a light beam was fired from the amulet and impacted her; it was so fast that if you blinked you could miss it. She almost screamed from surprise, but managed to control herself, suddenly the blue stone on the amulet turned dark. She didn't expect this to happen, could be just an alucination from stress?; but then she heard a soft voice saying: "You still believe". Sophia ended her day of school and museum, and was been taken from there in his dad's car. When they reached home his father spoke: "What is this?" while he showed his book about a unicorn from equestria that visited earth. She froze totally at it, she knew that this would happen if her father founded the book. "We already talked about this" he said"You'll never grow up as an decent and functional adult if you grow up attached to this nonsense! "But it was a gift from my grandmother, she..." - She isn't in conditions of thinking well!" He shouted "In his mind her granddaughter wanted something and she gave her that something." She didn't say anything "From today on it will stay with me alongside Bibi and all the other..." He stopped when he noticed that he revealed the fate of the plushie, although Sophia already supposed it. She just went down the car, grabbed his backpack, and rushed to her bedroom and searched for her stuff as tears begun to flow from her eyes, but almost everything was gone. Lyra was already at her home, but she didn't felt tired at all; she had meal with Bon-bon and went to her bedroom to study all the pictures she has taken to the amulet, but she eventually just gave up "The only thing interesting was that light beam that she saw, but I doesn't think it was something" She thought "I really wish I could see the human world; they are so creative, dedicated and wonderful." Sophia was crying on her bedroom with an older photo of her, her mother, and father; back when her mother was still alive, and her father loved to watch sci-fi movies. "I really wish to see a unicorn" She thought "They are so magical, peaceful and friendly." Suddenly Lyra felt than her bed vanished from his back, and she fell into the floor of other room. "What?!, AAAAAAAHH." After saying that some kind of portal opened on the sealing, and something than appeared like a dream, but it was real appeared from it and crashed unto the floor, a mint green unicorn. Both girl and unicorn stared at each other, not believing what was in front of each one, but Lyra was the first one to react. "A HUMAN GIRL!".