//------------------------------// // Finding Entry Fourteen // Story: The Diary of Diddy Discord // by DreamWings //------------------------------// Dear Diary, SCHOOL WAS AWESOME. But no more on that because I have even bigger news to tell you. Guess who I saw? Bet you can’t. You’re only a book after all. Anyway, I found the filly. And she’s even better then I remembered. Her coat’s shiny white, just like my favourite chess pieces were. Oh yeah, and she likes to play chess. Imagine that, a filly who likes chess; I’ve never met anypony besides my Dad who’d want to pay chess with me. Noc—I mean, the mean ex-friend I had once, used to tell me I was boring and chess was pointless; and I believed him. Why did I believe him? He was nothing but a mean bully with mean bully problems. But I don’t have that trouble any more. Everypony really seems to like me in my class. But that doesn’t really matter to me. The main thing is I’ve got a new friend in the filly that I’d been looking for. The strange thing is—she wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. It’s not like I was expecting her to be anything amazing. I didn’t think she’d be powerful or beautiful or fun, those kinds of things are reserved for the greatest of ponies like King Alicorn or my Daddy. And yet, she was exactly like this. She was so much fun we ended up spending most of our lessons playing Moons and Sunshine’s on our paper (of which I won just as many times as she did. See, we’re just as clever as each other too). Her beauty couldn’t be denied by anypony—every colt, even the Knights, thought she was the prettiest little filly in the whole world. And as for powerful; well, her name says it all—Celestia. Tia as I call her. Celestia as a word is to do with the sun and stuff, I know because she told me. Her Daddy’s really cool too, just like her. You know who he is Diary? KING ALICORN. That’s right; I made friends with a Princess. Galloway could hardly believe it when Tia asked if I wanted to come over to dinner at hers that night. Apparently nopony had ever been invited to the Palace by the Princess. She didn’t want other ponies there in her room and looking around at her stuff. But she trusts me, she really does. Apparently I made a really good impression on her at the party (must’ve been my impression of a Knight. I can do the yelling voice really well). Not only that but she’d been hoping to see me again and was really happy to find out I’d been the brave foal to save the royal bundle—whatever that means. Galloway watched me go into the carriage with her, jealous as anything. I don’t know, I kind of felt sorry for him; after all he is my brother and he’s never left me behind in the time I’ve been with him so far. But I wanted to spend some time with Tia so badly I didn’t want to ruin the opportunity. And let’s face it Galloway hadn’t got an invite and had Knight training that evening anyway. He can come next time though, I asked Tia and she said he could. We’re going to have some real fun together. She took me all around the Palace and gave me a really big tour. We ran into the King’s Royal Advisor on the way. The purple unicorn pony that was supposedly the wisest, cleverest mare in the whole of Equestria; nopony could rival her in magic, not even the King himself. I don’t know who I met then; the purple unicorn I met was as hyper as anything. We had to stop for a whole hour (maybe even longer) just for her to finish talking. She was funny in a weird way. Tia certainly kept laughing, though later she told me that ‘with Aunt Marelin you just have to smile and giggle at the right moments. Then she’ll consider you her best friend forever’. I think I’ll try that next time. If I get in her good books Tia says she might teach me some magic spells which would be fun to learn, especially if she has a spell that can make anything into candyfloss. I love candyfloss. There was this really big bedroom in one place where a maid was doing some work. I didn’t think it would be nice to disturb her, after all she looked so busy, but Tia said it would be okay. The maid just smiled at us both when we came in, holding her hoof to her lips to tell us to be quiet. I hadn’t got a clue what Tia was trying to show me. And then I saw her. A little blue filly lying down fast asleep, peacefully dreaming of all the things she would do when she was a big foal like me. ‘Luna,’ Tia had whispered to me, ‘I really like the name you gave her Diddy. Though I call her Loony—don’t I Loony?’ And then she’d kissed her sister on the cheek. Having a sister sure did look nice, I had to admit it. I even told Tia but she just laughed and said even she didn’t know yet whether that was true. Loony hadn’t been around too long, so she couldn’t judge. It was okay. She had her whole life to decide. It wasn’t like Luna and she were ever going to be split apart. King Alicorn walked past us with his friend and gave us a nod. He was too busy to come and talk to us, and he wasn’t able to join us for dinner. And my, what a dinner. All the fanciest, prettiest form of carrots ever witnessed by pony-kind lay before our eyes. I’ve never seen such a feast. Blankety would have loved it. Honeyed carrots were his favourite treat—and mine. The servers congratulated me on my appetite and gave me two helpings of carrot cake for pudding, and they gave us as many refills of chocolate and strawberry milk as we could stomach. It turns out that both me and Tia love chocolate the best out of any flavours. She loved my idea of clouds that rained chocolate milk. One day we might even be able to ask Marelin to make it for us, if we’re on our best behaviour apparently. I was sad when I had to go home, even though I loved my new home. Uncle la loo came and picked me up in his chariot. It was awesome. Galloway’s training went well and he’s managed to sign me up to be in the same private lessons as him so we get to spend a lot of time doing fun-stuff together, though he says he likes to focus on his work during this time. He really, really wants to be a Knight when he’s older. There’s so much I haven’t seen at the palace yet. Tia said she has another brother and sort-of-cousin as well. They were away doing some other royal duties today so we didn’t get to see them, but maybe next time. Her older brother, Miamore, is meant to come up with some really fun games. I can’t wait to go. Until tomorrow.