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// At the Gala 
// Story: Rarity's Jewel 
// by Diamond Sparkle 
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Rarity smiled at her new daughter, hiding the worry that she felt inside. This seems very strange to me, maybe I should ask Twilight about it. I've never heard of a colt who wants to be a filly before. Is it my fault...did I somehow bring him up so that he wanted to be a filly? I want him, or her, if her brain truely is female, to be happy and make the most out of his or her life, but if she makes a mistake she could get hurt, badly hurt. And not just mentally either. Most ponies think that colts should be colts and fillies should be fillies, and if she was to try and...try and get a coltfriend and the colt found out the truth she could get bucked to death, or at least badly hurt. "When we go to the Gala...take care, Amber...don't let anybody know who you really are, I don't want you to get hurt.You may think you are a filly, maybe you are a filly inside, but your body is that of a colt. And don't whatever you do try to get a coltfriend. I doubt anypony would use violence at the Gala, but anypony can snap in certain cases. And finding their marefriend is a colt in disguise could be one of them. Lastly, be polite, remember where you are and that you are amongst the nobility."

When Rarity and Amber left for the train station both were surprized by the number of ponies who looked at Rarity's *daughter*. She even had a wolf whistle or two aimed in her direction. Rarity rolled her eyes in disgust. "Some ponies have no class and no sense of decorum at all. Amber, ignore those idiots." Some ponies looked dissaprovingly at Rarity and Amber when it turned out that they had their own luxury carridge hitched to the back of the train for them. As a rich pony who was one of the wielders of the Elements of Harmony and a friend of the Princesses, Rarity did not have to share a carridge with the pony masses. Pinkie Pie and Applejack didn't mind travelling on public transport with other ponies but Rarity felt it to be beneath her. When they reached Cantalot and the Royal Palace a guard who knew Rarity let them in through a side door so they didn't get stuck in the queue and searched for weapons, which could lead to Amber's "weapon" being uncovered in front of the great and the good of Equestrian society, which was something that Rarity could very well do without.

After a final warning to Amber to be careful, Rarity left her to meet with the nobles and maybe, if she was lucky, Celestia or Luna. It took her a while, but she was finally able to meet with  Princess Luna. Celestia was still busy talking to a Duke and Duchess. She bowed low for a few seconds to obey protocol, then asked Luna "Princess, could you and I talk in private somewhere?" 



"Yes, come to my private quarters," Luna replied.

A couple of bat-winged Night Guards let them through and Luna led Rarity to her bedroom. It had a big blue bed, thick curtans to keep the sunlight out when Luna was sleeping and a map of the solar system and the stars on one wall. "So what do you want to talk about?" Luna asked. 

Rarity blushed. "It's about my son, Blue. He....he thinks of himself as a mare inside a colt's body. He...I found him trying to put make-up on so I dressed him as a girl and he loves it...and passes very well. If this is not just a phase...is there a way to change him magically into a mare so he can be fully happy?"

"Well, there are body-changing spells but they are dangerous, so dangerous that they are generally only used in an emergency. There are two dangers, first that they may cause cancers to spread through the whole body, the second is that they can affect the mind, causing the pony to either become really stupid, think they are someone else and forget about their family and friends, or start thinking he or she is an immortal alicorn. There are spells to make someone look and sound like they are someone different but they need a lot of magical energy to keep up. You should ask him how much he really wants to be a she. Now, I need to go back to my subjects."

"Of course, your Majesty, I thank you for your time."

When Rarity walked back to the Gala she stared at the sight before her. Her son's pretty dress had been ripped and torn, although it still managed to cover him where it really mattered, and he now had a black eye on his left side.

"What happened to you?! Who did this to you?"

"Blue...blood...Prince Blueblood started talking to me...asked to talk privately, then asked for sex! I said no, I'm not that sort of girl...which was when he used his magic to rip my dress open, then hoofed me in the eye and called me a faggot when he saw who I was.I swear by Celestia Herself that I didn't start the trouble."

The crowd of nobles parted as everypony made way for Princess Celestia, who stared at Amber and flared out her wings in anger. "Prince Blueblood has gone too far this time. I've put up with a lot of boorish behaviour from him, but this goes too far. Guards, arrest him and cast him into the dungeon, and send somepony to find out why on Equestria he did such a thing. A noble he may be, but thuggery and attempted rape goes too far."

Soon enough the guards found Prince Blueblood, and as he was being dragged in chains down to a cell he shouted loudly "Amber is not a mare, she's a colt and a fa...mmmmph!" A guard, angry by his shouting and swearing, had stuffed a bit gag  into his mouth and buckled it up. But it was too late to stop everypony from staring at Rarity and Amber, some in shock, some dissapprovingly, and a few in outright disgust. Rarity blushed scarlet. The embarrassment of it, and at the Gala too...I should never have let my new daughter come with me. It does not excuse what happened to her, of course, but if she had stayed at home or by my side she would have been safe.