Stormchaser's New Job

by StormLuna


Prelude: An Uncertain Future

I still remember that day quite well, the day that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna retired. I knew that things were going to change and I had my concerns about my job. Here was the thing, I along with Raven were Princess Celestia's royal advisors and I had heard rumors that Twilight was going to shake things up a bit, with a change in who the royal advisor would be being first. I had heard that she was going to choose someone much closer to her for the job, someone who knew how she behaved a lot better than Raven or I did.

It was on Twilight's coronation day that Princess Celestia would confirm our biggest fear when she pulled Raven and I to the side.

"Stormchaser, Raven, I have some bad news for you, from what I understand Twilight is going to be making some changes, starting with who the royal advisor is."

Raven sighed, "Really, she is?"

I was a bit more frustrated, "Seriously, she is going to make somepony who likely has zero experience in matters such as this her royal advisor?"

Celestia replied, "Yes she is and I wouldn't exactly say the one she is choosing has zero experience. From what I understand her assistant Spike is going to be the royal advisor."

Raven sadly replied, "Ok, I understand. I guess I'll need to pack my bags and find a job somewhere else."

I was less that thrilled, "Seriously, a dragon as a royal advisor? From what I understand he screws up more than he helps but oh well, when she needs advice and all she has to aid her is some court jester and everything goes straight to Tartarus....."

Celestia quickly cut in, "Stormchaser, Spike is no court jester and besides, she might have some sort of job for both of you." She turned to Raven and added, "I know you're great with paperwork so maybe you could be the palace secretary since the one we have now is retiring since I am." She turned to me and added, "I'm not sure about you but you do have a history of negotiating with the city worker unions so she could put you in as a royal negotiator."

I gave her a slight smile, "Maybe."

I wasn't overly sure about that because the last time I was involved in negotiating with the garbage collectors' union I was failing miserably until Twilight's friends brought that whatchamacallit or whatever into town and told them it could replace them if we didn't work out a deal to end the strike. So technically I was given an assist by her friends, I didn't really pull that one off by myself.

Then the time for her coronation arrived and among all the pomp and circumstance that was going on, Raven and I were cleaning out our office. She was the first to speak while we were doing this, "So Storm, what are your plans if Twilight doesn't offer you any kind of job?"

"Well chances are I will move out to Omareha since I have family there and hopefully find a job out there. What about you?"

Raven replied, "Well I have contacted Manehattan National Bank and their CEO is in need of a secretary so if Twilight doesn't offer me a job, they told me to come there and they'd hire me on the spot."

I sighed, "I wish I had the same foresight that you do because if I did, I'm sure I wouldn't be facing the uncertainty I am."

"Don't be so negative, I'm sure things will turn out just fine!"

Once we had got our office cleaned out, Raven chose to go out and catch the rest of the ceremony while I sat down at what used to be my desk and contemplated my future. The only thing I was pretty certain of at that point that it wasn't going to be in Canterlot. With Twilight making that baby dragon of hers the royal advisor, she would have no use for ponies with many years of experience in guiding royalty through both the rough times and the good times.


A great amount of the day in Canterlot was dedicated to Twilight and her coronation. It was late in the afternoon when Raven came to what was our office and said, "Stormchaser, Celestia and Luna are doing one final check on the throne room if you want to come and tell them goodbye."

I had long gotten along with both of them so I got up and headed into the throne room. I first approached Celestia, "Princess Celestia....."

She cut me off, "It is just Celestia now, the transfer of power has taken place."

I continued, "Ok, Celestia, Luna, I want to let you know that I am certainly going to miss you two and Celestia, thanks again for hiring me back when you did. It truly has been a wonderful experience working for you."

Celestia gave me a smile, "Well it has been wonderful having both of you as my royal advisors, you always gave me advice that I truly needed at the time." She paused for a brief moment before continuing, "I do have some good news. Raven, Twilight does plan on giving you the palace secretary job and you pay will remain the same." She then got a sly grin on her face as she added, "And Stormchaser, she said she plans on keeping you around too but she blushed when she said it. I don't know what her plans are for you but all she said was that it could very well be the most important job of them all."

"Most important job of them all?" I asked.

Celestia had a huge smile on her face as she replied, "Yes, the most important of them all!" She then began to giggle, "I don't know exactly what she has planned for you but she did say something about you taking over Luna's bedroom, a connecting door between hers and yours and that you'd be very close to her!"

This was something that really made me wonder what her plans were. What sort of job would have me being very close to her and why in Equestria would she be having me take over Luna's old bedroom and even more, why a connecting door? Was I going to wind up being a personal guard or something and she needed me that close in the event she needed me at night or something? Whatever it was, I knew that I would find out probably before the day was out.

It was not long after that that Celestia and Luna left for what was likely the last time. Raven turned to me and asked, "What in Equestria is all that about? What kind of job would Twilight have for you that would require you to have to be that close to her."

I had a nervous look on my face, "I'm not sure but I just hope I'm not going to be on some sort of probation and she thinks she has to keep an eye on me and monitor my job performance."

Raven had a bit of a smile on her face, "Well maybe she just feels more safe if she has a big strong unicorn such as you nearby." She then began to snort as she laughed, "Wouldn't it be funny if she was going to make you a royal comforter or a royal lover or something?!"

My jaw dropped open when she said this, "I wish! Twilight is very attractive but I barely know the mare! I think the only time we even interacted was when Celestia and Luna went on vacation."

Raven still had the smile on her face, "Well I did notice that day that she had her eyes glued on your flank when she wasn't busy."

At this point I almost wondered if she didn't know something I didn't. She did go out to the rest of Twilight's ceremony after we finished cleaning out our office after all. Perhaps Twilight has talked to her about me when I haven't been around. Well I wasn't going to go assuming anything until I heard it straight from her, I didn't want to go making any assumptions, go in expecting a really great future only for her to tell me that I'd simply be her janitor or something else that wouldn't lead to fine times with her.