Chapter 12.
Martin woke up and got out of his bed, put on his clothes and walked towards the breakfast room. When he arrived there he saw that there was only one pony there, a sad one. It was Luna. He then realized that he still needs to properly apologize to her. So he sat down next to her.
“I’m sorry that I jelled at you. It just is that I hate getting snow thrown at me. I never meant for you to get hurt or anything. Snow in the summer is not something that I would expect. Will you forgive me?” He asked her, while grabbing a bowl and making some breakfast for himself.
Luna laid her head on his arm and said, “I forgive you. And I apologize too for throwing the snowball at you. I couldn’t have known that you would react to that.” Martin feels relieved that Luna forgives him.
“Do you want to get a cup of coffee after the lawsuit?” Martin asked her, trying to cheer her up more.
“Yes! I would really like that. Thank you,” Luna hugged him, “I have to do something.” She says and runs out of the room, leaving Martin to himself. ‘I have no idea what just happened. But hey, I’m going to get a drink with the moon princess. How bad could that be?’
Martin settled on his chair and grabbed some milk for his Celesti-O’s. Then the face on the box walked into the door, sat down, and grabbed some cereal from the aforementioned box. “I just saw a very happy Luna walking out of this room. Did you talk to her?” She said to Martin while floating the milk towards her.
“I did. I apologized, then she apologized and then I asked her if she would like to have a cup of coffee after the lawsuit. Then she thanked and hugged me. The rest you know.” Martin said through a mouthful of cereal.
Celestia looked at him as if he just asked her sister out, which in fact he did. “You do know that asking a pony out to drink coffee is like asking somepony for a date?”
“That is quite the twist.” Martin said while grabbing a cup of coffee
“You aren’t going to cancel this now are you?” Celestia asked him. “Because that would make me angry and her sad.” Celestia grabbed a cup of coffee too and started to sip it.
“No I won’t. Why would I? She’s a nice pony and I wouldn’t mind going out on a date with her.” Martin said, his cheeks red.
Martin sighed and shook his head. He continued to eat his food. “On Earth saying you want to grab a drink with someone usually means just that. If you say that you want to drink a cup of hot coffee with someone that usually means that you want to sleep with that person.” Martin said calmly.
Celestia spat out her (ironically) coffee and yelled, “What!? You wanted to sleep with my sister.”
“No, no, no. I’m just saying. Because asking someone to drink coffee with you has a different meaning here I just wanted to point out that it is the same on Earth. But you have to say the exact phrase otherwise it means just what you would be saying literally. So don’t worry. I have no intention to sleep with your sister nor you.” Martin said while wiping the coffee from his clothes.
“That is good to hear. Your planet is a weird one.”
“Yea, and pastel colored ponies are normal for me you mean?” Martin said with a smile.
“Oh, no. This all must have been very strange for you in the beginning.”
“The first time I saw one of you the thought that going through my mind the most was what a weird place this must be.”
“I’m glad that you feel at rest here instead of freaking out all the time. From what I heard form Twilight you did that quite a lot in the beginning.” Celestia giggled some more.
“Oh spare me the shame. I acted like an idiot back then. It’s not like things has gotten better since the hospital, but I feel a lot better since then. And I have met many good ponies too, like Luna and Twilight.” Martin said while pouring another cup.
“And why those ponies in particularly?” Celestia said, knowing that this would be hard to answer for the human.
“Uhm… uhm… ah, yes. Twilight because she is so interested in the humans and because she own a library, how awesome is that. Luna because she is fun to hang around and likes to play games. And there both a bit socially awkward, just like was back on earth. That, I think, are the reasons that I like them” Martin said, a little bit of red visible on his cheeks.
“Those are good arguments. And the fact that they are my student and my sister does help.” She smiled at Martin. “Don’t worry. Whatever happens today we will stay with you. And if you go to jail we will bring you your food every day and your cuffs will be fluffy, for whenever Luna comes by.” Celestia almost couldn’t hold her laugh in as she said the last part. Almost. She burst out in laughter and fell of her pillow. She regained herself and got back on her pillow. “Sorry. It is just that the first human in Equestria is hooking up with my sister. I have no problems it is just that this is about as unlikely as it is that you grow wings and fly into the moon. I have a feeling that after today things will be a lot better. And if they won’t, the cell are very comfy.” She calmed down and started sipping at her cup again.
“Thanks, I guess. Anyway how late do I have to come to the courthouse or are you going to pick me up again?” Martin asks her while finishing his meal.
“I will pick you up from where ever you are. And you aren’t so hard to find, but the second part of the lawsuit will begin in about 4 hours and the scales are in your favor. So you can already be glad about that.” Celestia said as she cleaned up her bowl and cup. “I have some other things I need to attend to, I will see you afterwards. Bye” She smiled at him and walked out of the room and towards her own study room.
‘And then there was one. I need to find something to do. I’m not taking a walk again. I think this idea would please Twi. TO THE LIBRARY’ He screamed out in his mind as he began walking towards the library.
In there he found many more books on magic and so many other things. He then came across a book which was supposed to help unicorns which can’t use magic at an age when they should be capable of that. It, like the other book, speaks of the almost infinite energy that is present in the nature and that unicorns can access through a special portion in their mind. It also said that earth ponies and pegasi also have this portion only that it is used more passively that actively. It is possible for other races that unicorns to actively use magic, but this is only a very small portion of the Equestrian population. Griffons also can have this portion, but this portion is so small that it is negligible. It basically comes down to that every living creature has this portion, but in almost every case, outside unicorns, it is too small to be used actively. Dragon’s use it to breathe fire and fly, pegasi for flight, earth ponies for crop growing and even chickens to help lay their eggs.
‘Maybe this applies to humans too. What a show it would be if I could use magic. I would like to see the look on Twi’s face when that happens. Maybe I should try if I have anything, Mathilda style, moving things with my eyes and such.’ So he sat down one of the large pillows and grabbed a pencil from a nearby stand. Then he realized that some pony had that in his mouth. So he simply grabbed a book and laid it in the perfect center of the small table.
He got comfortable again and concentrated on this book. And he tried and tried, he even did all the ridiculous gestures they do in the movies. He tried until he felt his eyes were going to pop out. But after a while he gave up, because nothing seemed to happen to the book. So he grabbed another one and started to read, this one about the eating habits of birds.
He read his way through books until he saw Celestia coming into the room. “Hi Martin. I hope you had a good read, but we have to go to the courthouse. You go and wait by the front door. I just have to put a book back.” She says while floating a large book next to her.
“Sure. I will see you there.” Martin walked past her out of the room and towards the front door.
Celestia walked to the bookstand and put her book back. She looked at one of the nearby tables. There laid a book on it. Celestia wasn’t one for perfection, but her books needed to be perfect. So she laid the book back onto the center.