Chapter 10. A soaked coat.
A pony and human shaped blob walked out of the room, strangely smelling of oatmeal. “Maybe we should go clean each other off, I don’t think I can go sit in court like this.” Martin said while scraping the oatmeal of his face.
“Or if the judge likes oatmeal as much as me, she’ll let you go. And no, I like how you look with a lot of food on you.” She giggled a bit and licked a large part of his leg completely clean. Her mood dropped a bit. “I’m sure you’ll do fine in court. I’ll support you all the way. You’re my little hairless monkey. And if you lose I’ll make you my personal pet.” Luna said to him while trying to get the oatmeal out of her wings.
“I hope I don’t lose. And I think Rights is supposed to be a good lawyer, so I think I’ll be fine. I hope.” Martin said while trying to get oatmeal out of his hair. It didn’t work.
“I have some other princessy business to attend to. Until next time.” Luna said to him while walking off into one of the many corridors of the castle and quickly left Martin’s sight.
‘Then there isn’t for me to do other than wait for anything to happen before the lawsuit. And that’ll get boring very quickly.’ He walked up to one of the many doors in his eyesight, there were a lot. The door he opened was, to his surprise, a library in which he didn’t, to his surprise, found Twilight reading. So he settled for just trying to read one of the many slightly understandable books about magic. They were quite interesting, for what he understood. The only thing he got from the book he was thumbing through was that using magic was channeling the energy from the surroundings through the horn and using for themselves. And that alicorn can use that energy to a larger extent and use it for self-regeneration, or in other words, immortality.
He picked up another book, this one was about all of the different species
that were in Equestria. A lot of animals appeared in Earth’s mythology so he tried to compare them to the mythology he knew from his education. He stopped after for the umpteenth an animal appeared that was composed of multiple ones, like the manticore, a draquenuus or the cockatrice.
He laid the book down on the nearest bookstand, that one was quite the low one. After he put it down he walked up to the door and walked through it and into the nearest door, trying to find something new to do.
Unfortunately the door that he opened led to a bathroom. The bathroom wasn’t meant for any stallions. So after one hell of a lot of screams and more than one brush was thrown to him he finally escaped the not so merciful clutches of the residing mares.
After spending a large amount of time trying to find the exit to the gardens he walked through two large ornate doors and walked through them. As soon as he walked through them he scared off at least 3 ponies, one screaming that he didn’t wanted to get monster filth on his gorgeous mane.
He just took for a normal stroll through the gardens, as normal as it could get in Equestria. He walked past the various statues which had so many meanings, the platters on them had so much information on them. Stuff like what it represented and the pony it was modeled after and their complete biography. It is a wonder how it got crammed on such a small platter.
After what would’ve been a calming walk he was struck by a snowball. A
snowball in mid-summer. Take tree guess on which pony threw that. I don’t think you even need one.
As the night-blue mare stepped behind from the bushes carrying a lot of snowballs in her magic. “Do you wanna have a snowball fight?” She asked while bouncing one snowball up and down in her hoof.
“Luna! Why?! In the middle of the summer! No, I was just having a small stroll through the park and then I feel a snowball in the back of my neck. Fuck! Now I got it all over me. Damnit” Martin yelled at her while digging the snow out of his neck. He got a bit too angry about it and lost his cool very quick.
“S-s-sorry.” Luna said at him while her eyes were watering up and her lip started quivering. Then she ran away.
“What, Luna, no. Don’t run away, please. I just hate getting snow thrown at me.” He yelled after Luna, trying to get her back. But to no prevail, she kept running away, wet grass behind her.
“Damn, more problems on my platter. That is going to take a while to fix.” Martin said to himself while kicking a pluck of grass. He growled some more and walked back to the castle.
He walked into the castle, somehow managed to find the library again, laid down on a large white pillow and just closed his eyes, thinking about what had happened and what was going to happen.
Then, after about an hour a very angry looking white alicorn came walking into the library. “What did you do to my sister?” A princess said very un-princess-like. “She came crying to me saying that you yelled at her.” Celestia yelled once more at Martin, who, at this point, came stood up from his comfy pillow. It was clear that her feathers were rustled.
“She threw a snowball at me!” He yelled back at her, trying to stand up against her. And trust me, standing up against an immortal alicorn princess is almost
impossible. And Martin failed quite at this game.
“But that is no reason to just go and yell at her. You need to learn to take something and not go yell at everypony immediately. You need to control yourselves.” She said, trying to regain her composure again.
“It’s that I just hate getting snow thrown at me. So I overreacted a bit. I’m sorry, just sorry. Sorry for making her sad and stuff.” Martin said to her, trying to make this better.
“You can say that to her after the lawsuit. She’s very upset about it, so you better think of something good to tell her.” Celestia said to him, finally looking a bit normal again. “We leave now to go to the court.”
“Fine, just let me grab… uhm… nothing. No, wait, the book I was reading.” Martin said. Then he grabbed the book next to him and stood up.
“Good, you’re involving yourself in Equestrian history. It’s nice to see that you’re taking interest in the place we you’re staying. Now let’s go. We’ve got somewhere important to be.” Celestia said while walking out of the door and to the exit of the castle, Martin on her tail.
As they walked to the courthouse they didn’t say much to each other. As they walked through the streets of Canterlot Martin looked at all the interesting things, there just weren’t a lot of things to see. The residents of Canterlot on the other hand (hoof?) looked at nothing else. The rumors of a large walking ape spread quickly through all of Canterlot. Every street they walked into was deserted. Every pony was behind glass of a stall scared of him. He understood that, it was quite funny to look at.
At the end they were at the large ornate wooden doors that led to the courthouse. Celestia turned to him. “In the next few hours your future will be determined, so please don’t say anything stupid. ” As soon as she finished speaking she teleported into the courthouse taking Martin with her.
And the ponies on the street finally could go back to selling their stuff. “Stupid apes.” Many ponies growled.