A Mother and Son’s Day Out
*Joshua’s P.O.V.*
“Bye, Nyx! Bye, Spike!” I called to my brother and sister as Mommy and I left the library.
“Bye, Joshua!” Nyx called back waving.
“Have fun, you two!” Spike added.
Today, Mommy and I were going to Canterlot to have some time together, just the two of us. She was going to show me some other parts of Canterlot that I haven’t seen during my time there at Hearth’s Warming. I was looking forward to it. After getting to the station and after Mommy bought the tickets, we got on the train.
After a few hours, the train was starting to slow down.
“Now, Joshua,” Mommy said, “I want you to stay close to me at all times, okay? Canterlot is a big city and easy to get lost in, understand?”
“Yes, Mommy,” I said nodding. The train then stopped. Mommy and I got off the train and walked into the streets. First, Mommy took me a park. She said that this park was where Aunt Cadance took her while she foalsat her. Mommy pushed me on a swing set that was there for a while. Then we played some hide-and-seek together. The last time Mommy found me while we were playing, she tickle attacked me.
Now, I’m very ticklish, and I ended up laughing a lot as Mommy tickled me with her hooves. I only hope Nyx doesn’t find out I’m ticklish.
Next we went to have some lunch at a small outdoor restaurant to have lunch. While we were eating, two unicorns came up to us. One was a stallion, the other was a mare, and both of them had white coats and were a little taller than Mommy.
The stallion had a blue mane and tail, light blue eyes, a small blue mustache on his muzzle, and his cutie mark was three gold crowns. He also wore a black suit kind of like the one I wore on my date with Dinky with a purple bowtie. He also had a small glass circle in front of his left eye.
The mare had a pink mane and tail, purple eyes with white purple eye shadow on her eyelids, and her cutie mark had three funny looking shapes; the big one in the middle was purple and the two smaller on either side of it were yellow.
“Good day, your majesty,” the stallion said, “How are you this fine day?”
“Good day to you Fancy Pants, Lady Fleur,” Mommy said, “I’m doing wonderfully, thank you.”
The stallion then looked at me. “And who might this young lad be?” he asked.
“This is my adopted human son, Joshua,” Mommy said, “Joshua, this is Fancy Pants and his wife Fleur Dis Lee. They’re both good friends with Rarity.”
“Hi,” I said, “It’s nice to meet you both.”
“It’s nice to meet you too, young man,” Fancy Pants said.
“Indeed,” Fleur added nodding and stepping forward a little, “How long have you been in Equestria?”
“Almost a year now,” I said, “What is that you two do?”
“Well, I work as a fashion model here in Canterlot,” Fleur said, “I put on fancy dresses and pose for cameras that take pictures for fashion magazines.”
“As for me, I’m in the trading business,” Fancy Pants said, “The business I run helps trade items between Equestria and the surrounding countries.”
“Cool,” I said, “So how do you two know Rarity?”
“Well, I met her when she was visiting Canterlot,” Fancy Pants said, “We accidentally bumped into each other while she was buying some fabric for her friend, your mother.”
“She made me a special outfit for my birthday,” Mommy said.
“I found it lovely,” Fancy Pants said, “You still have it, yes?”
“I do,” Mommy said, “But I might have Rarity modify it for me so that my wings can move freely.”
“Tell me, Joshua, are your clothes Rarity-made?”
“Yeah, they are,” I said, “Do you like them?”
“I certainly do,” Fancy Pants said smiling, “What about you dear?”
“I do as well,” Fleur said, “They make you look handsome.”
I blushed at that.
“Well, we’ll leave you two to your meal,” Fancy Pants said, “It was wonderful seeing you again, your majesty. And it was just as wonderful meeting you as well, Joshua.”
“I hope we can see you again,” Fleur added.
“It was nice meeting you both as well,” I said as they walked away. “Wow, they were so nice.”
“Yep,” Mommy said, “They have a lot of influence around other nobles.”
After we finished our lunch, Mommy took me to a giant building. She called it the Canterlot Archives. There were a lot of rooms that she called wings. And there was even one wing that had the works of a unicorn named Starswirl the Bearded.
“Who’s Starswirl the Bearded?” I asked.
“He’s the brightest unicorn mind of his time!” Mommy said excitedly, “He created over 200 spells, including the amniomorphic spell and a time-travel spell.”
“Time-travel?!” I asked surprised, “Time-travel works?”
“With magic, nearly anything is possible,” Mommy said.
“Wow,” I said.
“Also, his secret, unfinished masterpiece is what helped me become a princess,” Mommy added.
“How?”
“One night, while Spike was taking one of his seven hour bubble baths,” Mommy said rolling her eyes, “I received a package from Princess Celestia. It contained a book that held Starswirl’s secret unfinished masterpiece. He was never able to get it right and abandoned it. Celestia knew that I was the only one who could understand and rewrite it. I cast the spell to find out what it was, but nothing happened at first.
“The next day, I found what happened: the spell changed the Elements of Harmony, and switched all of my friends cutie marks.”
“Switched their cutie marks?” I asked.
“Yes,” Mommy nodded, “at first, I didn’t know what to do, but then Spike reminded me that my friends mean more to me than anything. I then figured that if I couldn’t remind them of who they are, then I could remind them of what they mean to each other. So Spike, Nyx, and I headed out with the Elements to help fix our friends’ true selves. After we did that, I figured out how to fix the spell. When I did, I found myself in a vast area with stars and galaxies and cosmic dust all around me.”
“Hey! That’s where Princess Celestia and Princess Luna found me after my parents sent me through the machine they made!” I said, “That’s where you became a princess?”
“It was,” Mommy said, “Princess Celestia told me that I had fulfilled my destiny and had achieved my title as princess. I then reappeared in Ponyville with these.” She then opened up her wings to their full length. “All my friends were really surprised and happy to see them, especially Nyx.”
“That’s really amazing, Mommy,” I said.
“Indeed it is,” said a voice. I jumped and looked behind me. Princess Celestia was behind us.
“Princess Celestia!” I said surprised.
“Hello you two,” she said, “What brings you here?”
“Joshua and I are spending the day together, just the two of us,” Mommy said.
“Yeah,” I said, “It’s been fun so far.”
“Well, I hope you two enjoy the rest of it,” Princess Celestia said walking away.
“Bye Celestia!” Mommy said waving.
After we left the Canterlot archives, we went and had dinner at a different restaurant. We heard music playing there from a group of ponies Mommy called the Canterlot Symphony Orchestra. She said they played at a big dance she went to a couple years ago called the Grand Galloping Gala. After we finished, we went to the train station to go back to Ponyville.
“Did you have fun today?” Mommy asked me.
“I did,” I said hugging her, “Thank you for today, Mommy.”
“You’re welcome,” she said hugging me back.
After a couple hours, we were back at the library. Nyx and Spike were happy to see us back. I wanted to go to bed when we got back though, so I went upstairs to get my pajamas on and brush my teeth. When I left the bathroom, Nyx was standing in the bedroom doorway with a mischievous smile on her face.
“Coming to bed with me, Nyx?” I asked as I got into bed.
“In a little bit,” she said climbing into bed with me, “But Twilight told me something that I didn’t know about you before.”
Uh oh.
“She didn’t tell you I was...”
“She did,” Nyx said, her smile growing bigger. She got closer to me. “Why didn’t you tell me?” she asked placing her hooves on my chest.
“Nyx,” I said getting worried, “Can we do this la-AUGH!!!” I yelled as Nyx knocked me onto my back on the bed and began rubbing her hooves on my chest. “NO!!! NO!!! NONONONONONO!!!” I yelled starting to laugh, “STO-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAP!!!”
“Sorry, little brother,” Nyx said over my laughing, “But I have to make up for lost time!” She then started to tickle me faster, making me laugh harder.
“MOOOOM!!!” I called to Mommy.
“Yes sweetie?” Mommy called back.
“Why *giggle* did you tell *laugh* her?!”
“Sorry, Joshua. She asked me to tell her everything that happened.”