//------------------------------// // Visit (5) // Story: Summoned // by BlackWing //------------------------------// Visit "You know, you seem awfully calm for someone who's just been told that they're a slave." Celestia said. "Well, seeing as how you're the god-princess of this land, it is probably not a good idea to disobey you. If you think about it, this just makes it easier for me." Alex replied. Once again, he had thought things through. "I believe it's my turn for a question. Since I missed breakfast, can I have something to eat? I'm hungry." He said as his stomach growled. Celestia giggled. "Just wait here." She returned with two large salads, knowing that her human friends couldn't eat hay or grass, and the pair sat down to eat. She picked at hers slowly, while he just about inhaled his. "I've never had a salad so good! What is with everything here? It's like a paradise!" He exclaimed. "This is just a simple salad. Are things not like this where you're from?" Celestia stared, wondering what his world was like. "No, they're not. We have a lot of pollution, so the plants don't grow well in many places. Lots of places have droughts or floods, so it's almost impossible to grow things or build houses. I guess that's a lot of the reason why humans invented so many things. The entire world is basically out to kill us, and it's not like we have fangs or claws to protect ourselves. We are the physically weakest species in our height and weight range. We had to be smart to make up for the things we don't have." Now Celestia understood. Most humans ate meat because it was an easy source of iron. For them, having a balanced diet without it was extremely difficult. Life in general was extremely difficult, so their species was constantly looking for shortcuts. Ways to make things better, easier, or do them quicker. Alex explained a great deal of his world to her. From cars and planes to cellphones and satellites. Radios, radiation, everything he could, using his limited understanding of them. She seemed intrigued. "What about magic? We don't have any such thing where I'm from, what can you do with it?" He asked. Celestia then went over all the various possibilities. Levitation, transformation, teleportation, scrying, conjuring, and everything else she could thing of. They spoke for hours about their two worlds, having some snacks while they chatted. Both agreed that while Earth had more interesting stuff, Equestria was the better of the two. "Well, that all pretty much lines up with the human myth and legend. I really should go now. My family is going to be home soon, and if I'm not there, or if I pop up right in front of them, I'm going to have a lot of explaining to do, and then I'll wind up in the loony bin because they'll think I'm crazy." The two of them laughed a weak laugh. "I still can't get over the fact that you weren't surprised when you first came here." Celestia said. "Well, it probably helps that I was drunk the first time, so I wasn't thinking clearly. Then this time I already know about it, so it's not scary. If I had been in my right mind the first time you brought me here, I'd have probably freaked out." Alex admitted. With a flash of light, he disappeared. "Great, it's been hours. The omelette has gone bad." He said as he proceeded to dump the fly filled egg in the garbage. "Sister." Luna said entering the room. "I thought I heard voices, is anypony in here?" Luna was worried because somepony being in the royal bed chambers was a very serious thing. "I just had a friend over for a talk is all. They had to go so I sent them back home." She smiled. Luna looked warily past her sister and caught a glimpse of some weird drawing on the floor, but wasn't going to question her elder sister. Not when she could sneak in while she was doing her duties and find out for herself. "Alright sister, just be ready to hold court tomorrow morning. I don't want you staying up all night with a good book and being exhausted when you have a job to do." Luna was taking the role of a concerned parent to her older sister, which Celestia thought was funny, but at the same time was annoyed by it. Celestia slept well, all the while dreaming of the things Alex had described. Giant steel birds that carried passengers inside, carts that moved all on their own. What was also surprising is with all the things they could do, they didn't use magic for any of it. Just ingenuity. She awoke well rested for her duties that morning. Luna gave her a passing hello as they walked by each other in the hall. Celestia closed her door, but unknown to her, Luna had kept it open a crack with her magic. "Alright, let's see what Celly has been up to." Luna said to herself as she entered the room, carefully closing the door behind her. "A chalk drawing? On the floor? What's the point of that?" Luna was curious beyond measure. As she eyed the runic design, she sensed a small amount of magic coming from them. Focusing her magic into the circle, she found that it was rejected. "That's odd, my power is near equal to Celestia's, I should be able to over come a mere remnant of her magic. That's when she spotted a single drop of blood in a circle coming from the first. "Aha. A blood seal. Whatever she was doing, she didn't want anypony else to discover it. Well, too bad." Luna always was impulsive, and didn't even think for a moment why Celestia had sealed it. She pricked her hoof with her horn, causing a single drop of her own blood to fall on the design. She then focused her magic into the circle again. This time, the characters glowed a pale blue, the same as her own magic aura. The air distorted, and a tall figure appeared in front of her. A tall, wet, naked figure. "Celestia, what the hell, I was in the middle of a shower.........you're not Celestia." Alex said worried, as he quickly covered himself. Luna looked in awe at the bipedal creature, who spoke in such an informal tone regarding her sister. Immediately resorting to old equinnish, as she was dealing with somepony other than her sister, she began. "Who and what art thou, how dost thou know of my sister, and how dost thee dare speakest to her and I in such a manner?!" She said, not quite using the royal Canterlot voice, but approaching it rapidly. "I am Alex, a human. I am Celestia's summoned familiar, and I speak to her that way because we both hate formality, and she's not here, meaning you summoned me, when I was NAKED." Alex was mad, but it is hard to be angry when you are embarrassed about being in the nude. Realizing that he wasn't any regular subject, she dropped the ye olde language for the modern one. "What's the problem with not wearing clothes? We ponies are almost always without garment." She asked. "You also walk on four legs instead of two, and your... area's.... are hidden by the rest of your body and tail, while mine are in full view. In my culture, it's embarrassing and considered rude to be without clothing in public, especially in front of royalty, Luna." He said, red faced half from anger and half from blushing. "What do you mean by 'familiar' and 'conjured'?" Luna inquired. "Can I please go put some clothes on first? Besides, I left the water running and I don't want to flood my house." Alex begged. "Very well. Um, I don't know how to send you back though." She said sheepishly. He facepalmed. "You didn't think this through at all did you? Your sister practiced for months before hand. Go get her. She'll know what to do." He begged. "Oh no, I can't do that. Sister will be so angry that I snuck into her room." Luna started looking a little pale at the thought of punishment by her sister. "If you summoned me, that means you must have gone over the blood seal with your own. When Celestia tries to summon me tonight, it won't work, and she'll notice what you did anyway. It would only be delaying the inevitable. In the mean time, it's causing me a huge amount of trouble. GO. TELL. HER." He said sternly. "Who are you to give me orders? I am Princess Luna of Equestria! You are nothing more than a hairless monkey I summoned!" She shot a blast of magic at him, not meant to be lethal, just a punishment for talking out of turn. It slammed into him, pushing him against the magic barrier he was trapped in, crushing him against it. With a poof, he was gone. "What have I done?" Luna began to cry, seeing that this 'human' has disappeared in a puff of smoke, she assumed him to be dead. She ran out of Celestia's room and into her own, crying. She had just killed Celestia's friend, because he was trying to save her trouble. "Holy shit!" Alex yelled as he found himself once again in his shower, and quickly turned the water off. He dried himself with a towel, and put on some clothing. "She, she killed me. But, I'm not dead. I just went back home. She doesn't know about summoning though. Let her think I'm dead, just for a while. Maybe that will teach her not to nose around." Alex was on guard the entire rest of the day. By on guard, I mean he spent it in his room watching television so that when Celestia brought him back, he wouldn't be doing anything important, or embarrassing. He felt a familiar tingle. Turning off the T.V, he grabbed a packet of skittles and put it in his pocket, (maybe Celestia would like them) and with a flash, disappeared. As for why his clothes may or may not come with him, but a fork he's holding won't, it's because his clothes are close enough to his body to be considered a part of him.