Best. Sleep. Ever.
This was Asa's first thought when she woke up that morning. After the ceremony, Celestia showed Asa her new room. It was painted blue on top and slowly went down to the scarlet carpet. She had the stuff from the underground vault brought up. Asa had a lot of stuff she wanted to keep.
Because of her renewed title, Asa was taking some things that Celestia was already doing. Paperwork, taxes, pleas from citizens who needed help with something. The thing where ponies came to Celestia herself and pleaded for something.
Silently groaning, Asa got up to find one of many 'dresses' in her closet.
The dresses had more gems than the treasury. Each! Some had only one type of jewel, some had symbols made with jewels, some looked like the whole dress was made of them.
"I need to talk to the Royal Dressmaker and explain my style." She said out loud.
Searching the room Asa found a dress from Rarity, a bright red one with sleeves going out to her elbows.
"This is what I'm talking about." Asa smiled as she got dressed.
Standing proudly in the Throne Room, Asa tried to handle as many problems as she could. Sometimes having visions on it and other times simply agreeing to it. But sadly there were those who Asa had to decline, saying 'maybe next time'.
And there were those.
Upper class mares and stallions came to ask Asa how she ended up coming to Equestria. She kicked them out on the spot. Each one saying they would do something with their money, or whatever it was rich ponies complained about. That was all Asa heard; ‘I never’, ‘I paid good money’ and ‘how Celestia let her be Queen I will never know’.
The one she had just spent ten minutes talking to, was preparing to go.
“Be assured Ms. Roseluck, I’m sure your flowers will shine brighter than the others.” Asa waved as the yellow earth pony with red hair left.
Sure, the day was kinda slow but that just meant everything was getting along alright.
“Could I possible take a small break to get some fresh air?” Asa asked the guard closest to her.
“Of course your Highness.” The guard answered.
“Thank you.” She stood up from the throne. “Tell the crowd I’ll be back in ten minutes.”
Not wasting any time, Asa calmly walked out into the garden for a moment of silence.
“Asa, how are you today?”
Forgot about him. Asa thought.
Turning back, Asa saw Discord floating behind her in the garden.
“Somepony missed me.” Discord joked.
“I’m still mad at you for giving Blueblood the cake.” Asa lied. She thought it was funny but didn’t want him to know that.
Discord laughed too. He knew she was lying, but thought it was cute that she was trying to hide it.
The draconequus floated above Asa, ending up behind her and moving forward. Not really wanting to be alone during her break, Asa followed him.
After a minute of walking and floating, Discord stopped.
“So tell me, what’s the Equestria’s newest Queen doing out in the gardens?”
Asa sighed, she didn’t have a perfect answer to that.
“I don’t know, I just wanted some fresh air.” This was what she told the guard, seemed like a good enough answer.
Discord rolled his red eyes.
“That’s not the whole reason and you know it.” He explained to the Queen.
“Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the whole reason, but it’s still a reason and I’m sticking to it.” Asa said while aiming a finger at Discord who laughed.
“You can do better than that Asa.”
Knowing she probably wouldn’t get peace until she thought of a better answer, Asa tried to think of one that seemed to work the most.
“Maybe I did miss you, but only a little bit!” Asa corrected as she saw the smile starting to grow on Discord’s face.
“Hey. No need to get all defensive. I was just asking.” Discord explained. “Besides, I would want a break too after being made Leader of a Country.”
“A keyword that you forgot in the sentence is if you even get a country to lead.” Asa pointed out.
“Hmm,” In a flash, a large flashcard with Discord’s sentence plastered on it appeared. “You’re right. I did forget the if.” Discord joked.
Asa laughed at the humor.
The two continued to walk around the garden the remainder of the break, talking about small things and making jokes. When the break ended, both outcasts wished for a minute more.
Life in Ponyville was slow, nothing ‘exciting’ had happened since the Coronations and even then life remained calm. Nothing of great concern. The only thing that was different was that one house had sounds of arguing in it but it turned out to be a fight between marefriends Lyra and Bonbon.
The Everfree Forest, now that was a different story.
It was still safe enough for Apple Bloom to talk to Zecora, but something was still off about the place. More than usual.
Inside the Forest, near a large tree with a small patch of Poison Joke next to it, sat a small pool of blood. Nothing too special about it, except for the part where it belonged to Asa.
The Manticore had long since moved to a different part of the forest, same for the Timberwolves. Neither wanting to get into the Poison Joke.
The pool had slowly been moving across the grass, almost making a beeline for the blue flowers. Almost ten minutes after Asa left Discord in the garden the blood had reached the joke. The effects immediate.
The blood starting getting bigger, almost like it was making more. Soon enough it started to shift, creating something.
Pony shaped.
The figure made of blood started getting fur, slowly and painstakingly. Red was changing to sunrise orange, a tail and mane appeared and started turning deep blue with small lavender stripes. A cutiemark of all things came next, it was of a sun coming up but the color of blood. Eyes the color of the strips appeared behind the lids yet to open. Wings appeared on it’s back as well as a horn on it’s head.
After the Transformation, the orange alicorn fell to the ground.
A moment later it got up, opening her eyes to the world. Her name was the first thing that came to her mind as she looked around the grassy patch of land.
Blood Dawn.