//------------------------------// // The Sisters Royal // Story: One Week At A Time // by 1pony4all //------------------------------// “Unnnhhhgggghhhhhh...” I moaned loudly as I started to come to. “Oh, he's awake!” A voice said from what sounded like a couple dozen feet away. I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry. I tried to sit up, but something held me down. Rapidly blinking to clear up my vision, I tried to figure out where I was. I seemed to be in a large, white room filled with beds set up side by side just a few feet from each other. The smell of antiseptic surrounded me. A hospital. Standing over me was... a pony? My head started to feel light again. “Sir? SIR!” The white unicorn mare shouted at me, “Sir, I need you to stay calm! Nurse!” A blue colored unicorn mare trotted over with a small bowl of water. She proceeded to splash a small amount on my face with her magic. The shock brought me out of my stupor. “Wah- huh?!” I incoherently said. “Sir, please try to remain calm.” Said the white pony, she was using her magic to hold me down. I blinked over and over again, expecting to wake up from a dream. It didn't happen. “You- y-y-y-y—you're real!?” I stopped trying to sit up, but I was shaking uncontrollably. “I am very real sir, please take a deep breath and try to calm yourself.” She looked at me with serious, blue eyes. I took one deep breath, then another, soon, my shaking slowed and finally stopped. The reality had set in. I looked at the ceiling, “This is really happening...” I muttered. The nurse sighed and her horn stopped glowing. I felt the pressure release from my chest. I noticed she had bright blond hair. “Nurse!” She yelled for the blue unicorn again, she quickly trotted over yet again. “Yes Dr. Pureheart?” “Let the princess know our guest has woken.” “At once doctor.” The blue mare quickly ran off from the gymnasium sized room. The doctor turned back to me. “Sir... could you tell me your name?” “My name.. I'm K-” Suddenly, a thousand thoughts ran through my head. One in particular stuck out. “If I'm here, am I in the show?” Nobody that really knew me would recognize me in the show... but word might spread... Nobody must know. That left me with a dilemma... What WAS my name? “I... errr...” I stammered, reaching out for anything I could grasp. “Name... name... screen name...?” That was it, my screen name. It would work fine for the time being. “My name is 1pony4all.” I said with a smile... then I realized exactly how stupid that sounded being spoken aloud. Luckily, the doctor didn't have time to question my impromptu name, as the nurse had returned with none other than Princess Celestia herself and two guards in tow. The doctor gave a small bow, “Ah, princess!” she said as she brought her head back up, “Out guest has woken, he seems far more calm now than you described when you brought him in.” “Good, good. Is it alright to talk with him?” The princess asked. She was almost twice the doctor's size. “I-it should be fine.” “Good, that is all for now doctor.” The princess smiled and the doctor and nurse walked off leaving me facing a bright white monarch and two of her guards. My stomach tensed up. “Can you tell me your name?” She asked politely. I sat up on the edge of the bed. “My name is 1-” The though of saying that name was just too wired... but it had to be done. “...1pony4all.” The princess eyed me, she seemed to almost be reading my mind... wait... “Okay then... 1pony. Interesting name.” She giggled slightly. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the two guards exchange glances and shrug. The Princess continued, “I must admit, I've never seen a being like you before. You're not a pony obviously... what do you call you're self?” I nervously looked around the room, “What am I doing here? This is crazy.” My mind was still working on overdrive, but I manged to answer the question, “I'm called a human.” Then I broke into one of my infamous babbling fits, “Scientifically Homo Sapien which is Latin for wise man or knowing man. A mammalian species of the primate family-” I stopped myself just shy of going on about the origins of the species when I noticed the dumbfounded look on the princess's face. “Errr... human. Just human.” The princess blinked, then regained her composer, “I see... I do not believe your kind exist anywhere here in Equestria.” She looked down slightly and sighed, “I'm sorry... 1pony... but it seems you might be in for a long wait while we try to figure out how to get you home.” I lowered myself back onto the pillow on my bed, “How did this happen?” I muttered to myself. “Actually, about that...” Celestia looked a bit sheepish, it betrayed her usual regal presence. She looked at the guards behind her, “One of you, go and fetch Princess Luna.” The guard on the left saluted with his hoof, “Yes your highness.” He galloped off. Celestia turned her attention back to me, “You see, I actually know why you are here-” I shot up once again, “Wait what!?” I cut her off. “...partially, anyway.” The princess finished. I realized how rude I had probably just sounded. “You see, this is all just a big accident.” I thought back to my last, non-pastel colored memory, “I remember something, a tornado or something... in my room...” I thought out loud, “It knocked over my desk and sucked me in... then...” I though hard. The princess blushed and lowered her head, “A-a-anything else?” She stammered. I racked my brain for any more details, “The vortex must have thrown me into the wall... I don't remember anything else.” The princess let out a relived sigh, “Yeah... the vortex...” The door opened again, the guard had returned, fallowed by Princess Luna, her star filled mane flowing gently behind her. I noticed my jaw was agape yet again, I thought if I would ever get used to seeing them fore real. “I can't believe this... they're both real.” I muttered. Luna arched an eyebrow, “WHAT DOES THOU MEAN, REAL!?” Her magicly amplified voice reverberated around (and probably right through) the walls. I was nearly knocked out of my bed. “Luna!” Celestia snapped, “We've discussed this.” “Oh... r-right.” Luna blushed slightly, “My apologies, old habit.” “A thousand years old...” I muttered yet again/ Celestia looked at me in shock, “H-how do you know that!?” I kicked myself under my blanket to remind myself to keep my mouth shut, “I-I... Uhhhhh... I...” I stammered dumbly. “How crazy would it sound? Your lives are all a story for children! You're not even real! Yeah, real smooth...thinkthinkthink...” My mind raced, trying desperately to find a non-moon banishing explanation for my inexplicable knowledge. “Uhhhh... it's uhh... and expression? Yes! It's an expression where I'm from, the older they habit, the harder to kick... right?” I smiled awkwardly. Luna seemed satisfied by the explanation as she simple nodded and sat down next to her sister. Celestia however seem to have reservations, but she continued, “As I was saying, this was an accident. My sister, Luna, was experimenting with a new kind of spell, a long distance teleportation spell.” Luna spoke up, “Yes, I originally designed it to improve upon the limitations of out current teleportation spell that limits us to...” She started to rattle off a lot of facts and figures about things I didn't understand. Once again, my mind began to wander off about where I was, would I ever get home? Would I ever see my family or friends again? The thought finally hit me, I might never go home again. The sudden downturn of my expression must have caught Celestia's eye and she quickly held her hoof up to stop Luna's stream of consciousness. “The point is, this is our fault, and we are very sorry. I assure you, we will do everything in our power to return you to your home.” She sounded truly apologetic. Her voice inspired confidence in me. “Thank you.” Was all I could muster. At that moment, a green wisp of smoke flew in through one of the high up windows, down to Celestia where it transformed into a scroll. Celestia quickly picked up the scroll with her magic, “My apologies 1pony, I need to take care of this. I'll be back in a moment.” She took the scroll and left me there with her smaller, darker colored sister. Princess Luna stared at me with cold eyes, she was far more intimidating than her sister. “That makes sense,” I thought to myself, “she was Nightmare Moon...” Then it struck me, I was a few feet away from one of the coolest villains I could remember from the past few years of television. An inspiration to my writing and my more dramatic flair for story telling. I looked at her, not realizing the stupid grin on my face. Luna blinked, taken aback from my sudden change of demeanor, “Right... so, tell me, what are the peoples like where you are from.” It was an awkward attempt at conversation to say the least. “My people?” I paused to conciser what I should say, I had just been made ambassador to the entire human race to ponykind. My shoulders suddenly felt very heavy. “Well, we are a very culturally diverse people, rich in heritage. We always strive to better ourselves...” I trailed off, realizing I sounded like every science fiction character that was making first contact with an alien race. The deep blue princess shook her head, “That's just political mumbo jumbo,” I tried my best to stifle a snort of laughter at the phrase “mumbo jumbo”, I half succeeded, “I meant, what are the people you know like? Your friends?” I stopped cold, I had grown up a recluse having only a few very close friends my whole life out side of my immanent family, I often though that might be why I liked the show so much. “Well... I've never been really all that good around people.” I shrugged, “People tend to think of me as abrasive.” To my surprise, Luna smiled slightly, “I think I know how you feel, When I returned to the kingdom after my... absence, I was amazed by how much the people had changed, yet I was still the same. Stuck in old habits and mannerisms. I was lucky enough to make some friends that understood me and why I was the way I was. They helped me to adapt and better myself. Surely you have friends like that?” “I... well I do...” The though brought a small twinge of guilt to the base of my neck. I though of the last time I had spoken to my best friend, about the argument we had. I wished I could go back and make it right. I noticed Celestia had returned. Celestia smiled softly, “You remind me of somepony I know.” She walked back over to her sister, “In fact, that letter was from her. I was wondering, since we really don't have any room here at the castle, and due to the local's... shall I say... particular taste in company,” The princess seemed concerned about what she was about to say, “and since it's probably going to take a while before we can send you home,” I admired her ability to cut straight to the point... no matter how much it hurt, “if I could offer you a place to stay in a not too far off village. I assure you the people there are friendly to strangers, and you will be supervised by my personal student.” I instantly knew who she meant... Twilight Sparkle. Princess Celestia was shipping me off to Ponyville. “H-how long am I going to be here?” Celestia sighed, “We can't be sure, we have out top mages studying the remnants of the spell that brought you her, plus myself and Luna will spend out free moments assisting them. I promises you, we will send you back as soon as we can.” There I was, a human in Equestria, just like all the fan fictions I had groaned at. I should have been happy, I was living a dream. To live in a world with out war or crime. A world where everybody was treated fairly, where neighbors all smiled at one another and everybody was friends with each other. It was happening, and all I could think about was my family and how much I missed them. “I guess I don't have a choice.” I admited. Celestia nodded and rose to her hooves, “Excellent, I shall inform the mayor at once to acquire a place for you to stay.” I gave her a small smile. “Thank you Princess.” As Celestia left the room, Luna stood up and looked at me one more time, “Her student's name is Twilight Sparkle. She can be a bit odd, but she has a genuinely good heart. She's one of the ponies that helped me. Perhaps you to could learn from her and her friends.” She walked out the door behind her sister. I thanked her as she walked out before sitting up fully on my bed. “To think... here I am, in Equestria, living the dream. It's going to be a long, long time.” I though to myself. I decided to stretch my legs and walked around the large room. I had only ever seen a hospital room like this once before, when my local hospital was out of room and they set up a makeshift recovery room at a local high school gym. There were four rows of beds, one down each wall, and two down the middle set up head to head. There were no privacy screens aside from two corners at the back end of the room where I assumed were the showers for patients. I guess when everybody knows each other, privacy isn't in as high of demand...” The entire room was empty, there were no patients in any of the beds and the nurse had not returned since being asked to leave. I wandered down to the far end of the room, there was a mirror on the wall. For the first time I got a look at my self in this new world. My entire body had been stylized, most of the features on my face were removed, facial hair, the card from when I was first learning to ride my bike as a child, all of it was a flat, outlined, cream colored circle. My eyes were overly large and bright teal, my hair was nothing more than a collection of light brown spikes on top of my head. My body was also interesting. I no longer had my tan colored button up, instead I had a black T-shirt and a red trench coat with green cargo pants. “Great... now I even look like a poorly designed OC...” I moved my fingers into the shape of a gun and pointed at the mirror, “Stop right there, crime doesn’t pay when officer Donut Steel is on the job!” I realized how stupid I sounded and looked. I walked away from the mirror glad that nobody was in the room to see me. I returned to my bed and noticed that something was under it. I bent down to discover, “My bag!” I exclaimed loudly to nobody in particular. My black messenger bag was underneath the bed, it still had all of it's contents in it, my note book, my binder, all of my drawing pencils and paper, even some job applications I had forgotten to take out the other day. It was all there I happily swung the bag over my shoulder and smiled, the bag always felt like a part of me, I never left my house with out it and it filled me with happiness that it somehow made it to Equestria with me. Dr Pureheart returned to the room, “Mr. 1pony?” I turned to face her, “The princess told me to give you this.” She levitated an envelope to me. I quickly opened it, inside were two tickets and a note: “There is Royal business I have to attend to. These tickets are for the train to the Village I told you about, Ponyville. I have ranged for a carriage to take you there, it's waiting gust outside the castle. My Student, Twilight will be waiting for you at the train station. I'll send word to you as soon as I can to make sure you are settled. -Princess Celestia” I folded the letter back up and placed it inside of my bag. “I'll have the guard escort you to the carriage.” The doctor said as she waved one of the pegasus guards into the room. I thanked the kind doctor and fallowed the guard through the grand corridors of the castle and to the carriage. The bright pink carriage shaped like a heart. I sighed as I opened the door and stepped in, “I'm never going to get used to this...” I thought as the carriage began to roll down the street to the train station. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Author's Note: Due to the amount of time that has passed between this chapter and the last, heavy revisions to the story have been made to fit more nicely into the canon that exists around the show. This story no longer takes place in the same universe as my other stories and is much closer to the show's universe. Also, my new found, cartoonish features are based off of the first, original character I ever created back in middle school.