Bubbles
An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
You slowly woke up from your dreamless sleep and let out a big yawn as you sat up. You slowly look around the room and find it the same as when you went to sleep, however Pinkie wasn't in sight. She usually woke you up, so waking up on your own was a little surprising, but you figured you just woke up early, you did go to bed early last night, after all. With another yawn and a stretch you stood up and started to make your way downstairs in your pajamas; white tank top and red plaid sleep pants. Like always there is no light save what is coming in from the windows and the kitchen. You head to the kitchen expecting to find Pinkie and Mrs. Cake like always, but today you only find Mrs. Cake. She was sitting at the table with a mug of tea in front of her, she didn't acknowledge your presence.
You make your way to the coffee machine and pour yourself a nice big cup of coffee and sit across from Mrs. Cake at the table, adding in the usual sugar and cream.
“Morning, Mrs. Cake,” you greet before taking a sip of your coffee. Mrs. Cake smiles at you tiredly.
“Good morning, dear. How did you sleep?” Mrs. Cake asked taking a sip of her tea.
“Pretty good, how about yourself?”
“The baby's woke me up a few times but not bad overall.”
“Mmmhmm,” say taking a sip of your coffee. “Where's Pinkie at?”
“The library, she said something about Twilight needing her help with something,” Mrs. Cake said through a big yawn.
“Ah,” you say. Silence falls between you two and the only sound that could be heard was the sipping of
coffee and the thunk of the mugs getting set on the table. On your second cup of coffee Mr. Cake came in and sat next to his wife. You quickly drain your coffee and excuse yourself to Pinkie and your room to collect some cloths for today. There were still clouds in the air and it looked chilly so you grabbed a blue long sleeve shirt and your worn out jean pants, some
boxers that you picked up in one of the shops, and a towel and made your way to the bathroom.
In the shower you couldn't help but think of what Princess Celestia wants with you. Hopefully she found you a way home, but you're not sure. You try to dispel those thoughts from your head so you can concentrate on getting clean, but you find yourself thinking about something else that has been bothering you for a while now.
You stare at your tail, which was slowly swinging back and forth. Like it always does. You have seen Pinkie use her tail to get things that were behind her while she was mixing cake batter before so she wouldn't have to turn around, and you pretty jealous. Though you didn't let it show on your face. You had asked Pinkie how she does it but she just shrugs and says “I just do”. But she did give you tips so you could try on your free time, which you were doing now.
“Come on... move dammit!” you hiss at your tail. You squinted your eyes and glare at it with all your worth, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Until...
Twitch.
“Yes!” you yell throwing your arms up, forgetting that you were in a shower. You victory was short lived as you felt yourself falling back and you breath catching in your throat. “Shit!”
Bang!
…
“Owww,” you say holding the back of your head wincing at the pain. “Good job, dumbass.”
Knock knock knock
“Are you ok?” you hear Mr. Cake call.
“Yeah, I just fell,” you call back before pulling yourself up and finishing your shower.
Stepping out of the bathroom you toss you clothes into the clothes hamper that was in the hallway and made your way upstairs. Sugarcube Corner opened up in a few hours and you wanted to catch up on your reading.
~~~
Noon came around faster than you had expected and before long you found yourself on a train to Canterlot to meet with the princesses.
You had your headphones on, playing fantasy trance techno, as you watched the land go by out the window. You were sitting next to Twilight, who was reading a book, Rainbow was sleeping next to Applejack, who was talking with Pinkie, and Rarity and Fluttershy were talking to each other.
As you look out the window you feel your eyes get heavy and soon you found yourself in a dreamless sleep.
~~~
Your nap ended pretty quickly when you felt yourself getting nudged in the ribs. You jerk awake to find Twilight looking at you. You pull your headphones to your neck and pause the music.
“Sorry to wake you, but we're here,” Twilight said.
You quickly rub your eyes and look out your window. What you saw made you gasp quietly. Before you is a beautiful city. Tall buildings stretched to the sky, and many Pegasi were flying in the sky. Colorful plants lined the sidewalks, and the whole place had a clean feel to it.
You followed the others off the train and there you were greeted by two guards ponies.
“Mrs. Sparkle, we are to guide you to the castle, where Princess Celestia awaits you,” one of the guards said in a gruff voice, taking a step forwards.
Twilight nodded her head and the guards started to walk and the rest of you followed. You were looking at the buildings, trying to take everything in, so you didn't notice when Twilight fell back and started to walk next to you.
“How do you like the city?” she asked with a smile on her face.
“It's beautiful.”
“You should see it at night, it's breath taking.”
“Yeah, though some of the ponies here seem really full of themselves,” you say as you passed a mare in a big bouncy dress with her nose turned to the sky.
“Yeah, a lot are. But I assure you that not all ponies from Canterlot are stuck up.”
“I'll believe it when I see it,” you absentmindedly say.
“You know, I’m from here,” Twilight deadpanned.
“Oh,” you feel your ears lay flat on your head. It was a weird feel, to say the least, but you couldn't think about that right now.
“Er, sorry.”
“It's fine.” Twilight seemed to forgive you for now so you tried to change the subject before she decides it's not fine.
“So how was your child- er, foalhood?” you ask yourself, trying to see if it sounded right.
“It was alright,” Twilight said, seeming to cheer up some. “I didn't have too many friends, I always had my nose in a book.”
“Uh huh.”
“Then I got chosen for Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. I couldn't make any friends there because I had to study so I could be the best I could be. I wasn't always lonely though, I had Spike. I hatched him for my entrance exam, and I got to raise him.”
“They let you take care of a baby alone?”
“Oh no! The nurses and staff help me, along with my parents and of course the Princess.”
“Ah, I bet it was hard work, huh?”
“Sometimes, but I managed.”
“Yeah.”
“We're here!”
You looked up and saw the most beautiful castle you have ever seen.... though the castles you have seen in pictures have been abandoned and were never well kept so there wasn't much competition. The castle doors slowly swung open and you saw many guards ponies watching your every movement as you walked through the castle foyer. You were guided though a set of big wooden doors to what had to be the throne room as there were two thrones in the room. On each throne sat a being, one was Princess Celestia, dressed in similar clothing as when you met her for the first time, and another Alicorn, who looked like Celestia, only smaller. You feel as though you've met her somewhere, but you can't pin point where, exactly. You can see a small blush and her eyes widen a little when she spots you, making you confused but you shrug it off.
You and the others quickly bow to the two of them.
“Rise, my little ponies, there are no need for such formalities,” Celestia said rising from her throne and walking towards you.
“Princess!” Twilight exclaimed as she rushed forwards and hugged the princess. The princess returned the hug before addressing the rest of the crowd.
“As I am sure you are wondering why I wanted you all here, I think we should talk in my study,” Celestia said. She beckoned a hand as she started to walk to a door off the side of the room. She turned to the other Alicorn, who was still looking at you, though her blush was gone now. “Luna, I believe you had work that you desperately needed to get back to?”
“Oh yes! I almost forgot, sister, thank you for reminding me,” Luna said before her horn glowed midnight blue for a second and she vanished. The rest of you continued on your way to Celestia's study.
“What is Luna working on?” Twilight asked Celestia.
“She is trying to figure out how the toaster works,” Celestia said with a smile playing on her lips.
“Oh,” Twilight said before striking causal conversation with Celestia. You tuned them out and went to trying to memorize the path you were taking. You lost yourself on the fifth turn. The hallways reminded you of The Mansion in Resident Evil 1. You just hope there aren't any zombies. Well you were with a princess who rose the sun everyday, so you were probably safe. But still.
“Here we are,” Celestia said, snapping you out of your thoughts. Celestia opened a wooden door and everyone filed in. Inside was big wooden desk, papers and such littered the desk in an unorganized fashion and a big comfy looking swivel chair sat behind the desk, which Celestia sat in. The walls were lined with bookshelves and each bookshelf had plenty, if not too many, of books on them.
Celestia's horn glowed gold for a moment and in the room there were now seven comfy looking chairs. Celestia gestured for you to sit and you each did.
Hot damn! These are some comfy chairs, like a bean bag filled with the fluffiest feathers!
“I am sure you are wondering why I called you here today,” Celestia said, she turned to you. “Especially you.” you only nod in response. “Well I have some good news and some bad.”
Celestia stood up and walked to a bookshelf and looked at the spines of the books. You weren't sure what she was looking for as the spines didn't have anything written on them. She apparently found the one she was looking for she pulled it off the shelf. It was very big and very blue. She walked back to the desk and sat down once more, she flipped through the pages until she found the page she was looking for and slid the book towards you. Curious you looked at the page. There was a spell that was titled “Dimension traveling. Warning, not complete.”.
“That is the spell that will send you home, however, as you can see it is incomplete. This makes it a little hard to preform this spell.”
“Yeah, no kidding,” you say looking though the pages of the spell; it was about ten pages altogether.
“However, I will personally, along with many researchers work on this spell to make sure it gets complete.”
“Really?” you ask. Celestia must have heard the disbelief in your voice.
“Is something wrong?” she asked.
“No, no. It's just, why are you doing this for me?” you ask, sliding the book to Twilight; you knew she wanted to look at it.
“I believe you are lost. I am just merely trying to help you back onto your path,” Celestia said with a motherly smile.
“Huh, well then I suppose I should thank you, but I don't know what I could do to show how much this means to me.”
“There is no need to do anything, just allow me to help,” Celestia said with her motherly smile that made you just want to trust her and made it as though everything was ok in the world.
“Princess,” Twilight said, getting Celestia's attention.
“Yes, Twilight?”
“This spell, even though there is a bunch already done, finishing this spell will take a lot of time.”
“Yes, that is another thing I wanted to speak with you about; finishing this spell will take months, maybe even years. This is where the rest of you come into play. I need you to teach him, teach him how to be a pony as it will serve him well in his stay here,” Celestia said, gesturing towards you.
“We could do that,” Rainbow said.
“Sure!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Most defiantly,” Rarity said with a smile.
“It'll be easy,” Applejack claimed.
“Y-yes,” Fluttershy squeaked.
“You can count on us, Princess,” Twilight said confidently.
“I have faith in you,” Celestia said before standing up. “I think it is time to show you to your rooms.”
The door swung open and two guards were reviled.
“These two will show you to your rooms, I have some things I have to do, so I’ll see you all at dinner tonight.”
“Wait!” you say before you leave, “What about the bad news?”
“I think that can wait for this evening.”
With that being said the guards turned around and headed down the hallway, the seven of you followed behind.