Souls of Harmony…Go to Another World:
Those Mysterious Strangers
The D-Spider stumbled away from the battle it was just in. It was given a simple order, to find those who radiate light and crushed them. It had did just that, but it was meant with more resistance then expected. The six that interfered were more powerful then it first realized, and they had fought it without fear. And together they have managed to beat the creature into near submission.
The creature would frown, if it had the mouth for such an action. It was feeling something, something it was unfamiliar with. It boiled within the creation, making want to scream if it had a mouth for such an action. Whatever this feeling was, it was making the creation feel it even more.
The D-Spider finally realized what it was feeling. It was anger. The creature was angry, at itself for messing up like it had, and angry at those creatures that dare to interfered with its mission. With anger comes another new feeling, resolve. It was now determined to finished its mission, and make those who stopped it pay.
The D-spider looked around, becoming self-aware for the first time since it discovered it could feel emotions. It realized, in it newly discovered anger that it had returned to its place of birth. The energy of it creation lingers in the air. The newly discovered feeling of confusion was quickly overcome with anger once more, as it walked up to the small cliff.
It stared at the cliff for about half a minute, before it angrily thrust it claws into the cliff-side, and it began to feverishly tare into the rock. It began throwing away small chucks as it searched for a certain item. The creature ignored the rocks and soil it was throwing onto itself as it continued to dig at a feverish pace. Some of the rocks even began to merge with the creature’s body, feeding off of the magic that created it and still lingers in the area.
A large rock, roughly twice the size of a basketball, suddenly hit the D-Spider in the area a mouth would be located and created a large crack. The creature paid it no mind and continued to dig, digging farther with each passing second. The vibration from all the digging was quickly had having an effect on the creature, as the newly formed crack continued to widen with each passing second. Soon, a sound, jumbled at first, began to emit from the creature, and soon turned into angry growling.
The D-spider continue to dig, absorbing the rocks as they flew against his body, and using those bits of lingering magic to continue to heal and began to change as well. It suddenly stopped when it hit something solid. The creature would have grin if it was knew what the gesture was, as it began to pull on the object it just found.
The creature’s newly formed mouth opened wide with a victory roar as it reached its goal and quickly pulled it out. In its claws was a large ore of unrefined metal. The ore shimmered with the lingering magic that created the creature. It stared at ore for a few seconds, and then thrust it down onto its chest. The ore was quickly absorbed into the creature’s body and it began to shimmer brightly.
The D-spider suddenly threw back its head as it roar in the pain, it third discovered feeling. The creature endured the pain as it felt its body began to change, to shift in new ways. Though it endures the pain, it still screamed out in agony, a scream that pierced through the air and caused several birds to flee in fear.
(…)
Princess Celestia stirred, as her mind awoke faster then her body, and she began to replay resent events. She remembered Discord besting the element bearers, her sister and herself, and the fiend banishing them to some sort of alien world. She next remembered waking up and seeing strange creatures watching over her. She panicked and tried to get away, screaming in the process. The last clear memory she has was that of one of the strange creatures claiming to be her sister.
After that, there was a strange flash out light, though a dome of earth quickly covered her before she could get a good look at the light. And after that...nothing else.
The pony princess moans lightly as she opened her eyes. She blinked a couple of times, to allow them to adjust. She looked up at the evening sky, and wondered. How long was she out? What had happened to her sister? More importantly, what had happened to her faithful student and her friends?
“Ah, I see you’re finally awake,” an unfamiliar voice calmly. “How are you feeling?”
Celestia panicked upon hearing the voice, and tried to move, only for her entire body to lock up from a painful jolt. She groan and moan in pain, as her body instinctively move, to try and loosen the pain, but only succeeded in causing her more pain.
“Hey, don’t try to move,” the voice said gently. “We don’t know what’s wrong with you.”
Celestia turned her head to the right, though she noted that it made her neck arch, and saw a strange, fully clothed creature. The creature had a blonde mane, cut short and combed down the middle. The creature’s eyes were a sea-foam green and for some reason, remained Celestia of a calm ocean.
“Who are you?” the pony princess asked in a raspy voice.
The creature smile kindly as it said, “William Rolling, but my friends call me Will. Please hold still while I finished examining you.”
Celestia nearly flinched when the creature reached for her with its weird appendage toward her. Will must have seen her uneasiness and offer her a kind smile. Though the smile did smooth her own anxieties a little, she also realized that she was completely at the creature’s mercy.
So, she settled as the mysterious creature examined her. While Will was examining her, Celestia was studying the strange creature. Will was dressed in a white sweater, pants of an unknown material, and shoes she couldn’t even place. She also could spy some sort of jacket by the creature’s side, though she didn’t know what the jacket was made of. But one thing stood out among the creature was the metal bracelet on his right appendage. It had some sort of jewel, but the princess couldn’t see it clearly from the angle she was at.
Celestia watched as the mysterious life form continued to examine her, and she fellow the creature’s appendage and her breath suddenly caught in her throat. Instead of her normal pony body, she saw an alien body close in shape to the creature’s own body. She just stared at the body, almost in disbelief of what she was seeing. She was close to panicking when she felt something touch her shoulder, and she looked to her left, looking at another one of these creatures. She took a look in those deep purple eyes, and she knew who she was looking at.
“Luna…?” Celestia asked breathlessly, to which the creature nodded weak. “What happen to you?”
The lunar princess’s eyes fell as she looked away, speaking solemnly with a voice that the older sister barely recognized, “It was Discord’s magic. It sent us to this strange land, and transformed our bodies.” Luna looked at her sister with pleading eyes, “What do you remember when coming too earlier?”
Celestia sigh slightly and moan when a jolt went through her body from the small action. This caused Will to frown and pulled his free appendage to his chin in thought.
“I’m the son of a doctor and studying to be a doctor myself, and I have never seen muscles and joint like this before?” Will thought out loud for a moment, and then looked at the pony princess with a small but kind smile. “But aside for that, you’re one healthy lady. Just let the stiffness fad a bit and then get up and walk around to take care of the rest.”
And with done and out of the way, the creature known as William Rolling got his jacket, got up and walked away. Celestia watched the best she could, and sighs. She tried sit up, and was meant with a jolt of pain, causing her to groan and slump back into her place. She took a quick breather and then tried again, only to be meant with the same results.
Luna saw what her sister was trying do and helped, by sliding her strange appendage under her sister’s back, and slowly eased her into a sitting position. The act was more painful then she first thought, but the elder princess bore with it, and began to look around to get a feel of her surroundings.
She was in some sort of campsite the seating area with an out fire was the big tip off. She continues to look around and realize she was near some sort of forest. She continues to look around, and froze as she felt her stomach drop. There, sitting at some sort of makeshift eating area, was a large group eating what she believed to be dinner. It was the six female that caught the princess’s eye, however. She would always know those six, even if they were changed beyond recognition.
Those are Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Celestia thought sadly, tears threatening to fall. I could stand with just me being sent here, but not my little ponies.
The devastated princess watched as her little ponies tried to use their new appendages and fumbled a bit dropping the silverware they were trying to use into the food they were trying to eat. The group didn’t give up to their credit, and tried to grasp the silverware again. The results were pretty much the same. Still, the group didn’t give up and continue to try and get the hang of their new appendages. In the end, the creature sitting across from Twilight and her friends needed to help them by showing them how to hold the silverware, and it was still hard for the transformed ponies to use their new appendages.
It was very heart wrenching, and the princess needed to look away to avoid any more heartbreak. She tried to study the six other figures but there wasn’t enough light on them to get a proper look at. This caused Celestia to frown in thought, and she looked up. What she saw next made her uncomfortable. The sun was setting in the horizon, though she couldn’t feel any magic coming to her.
The princess’s first thoughts that it was because of Discord and his magic that she couldn’t feel the magic of the sun, but quickly realized that to be part of the truth. She realized that the sun she was looking at isn’t the same sun that she has been tether to for hundreds of years.
She continue to stay at the sun, which were close to disappearing over the horizon, and felt something, something she realized her subjects must when they watch the sun being lowed. Celestia had raised and lower the sun in Equestria for over thousands of years and was always busy with the act to ever truly see what her little ponies had seen.
It was a truly mystifying sight to behold…one that Celestia felt brought her a little closer to her subjects.
“Sister, are you feeling well?” Luna asked, placing her appendage onto her sister’s shoulder. “Why are you crying?”
Celestia blinked and felt her check with her appendage, nearly pocking her cheek due to her own unfamiliarity with the thing. It was indeed wet, and she quickly wiped them away from her eyes. She looked at the ground for a few seconds, to compose her thoughts, and then looked at her sister, a mask, built through thousands years of refinement, in place.
“Luna…” Celestia asked seriously, though her voice was still a little horsed, “What happened? The last thing I remembered was waking up to two strange creatures in armor.”
Luna frown and looked towards the ground, doubt and uncertain written all over her face. Celestia knew that look all to well, and smiled softly as she reached out to comfort her younger sister. The action was interrupted when they heard footsteps approaching them, and they both watched as a male creature came into view.
Celestia studied the creature thoroughly, taking in very detail about it. It was short, but she couldn’t tell how short, and thin with little muscle or fat on it. The creature’s skin was also a little on the pale side but was healthy looking. His mane, a chocolate brown, was slightly long and has a few loose strain here and there, but otherwise well kept.
Then there creature’s eyes…they were mismatch. The left eyes were brown, about two shades deeper then his mane, and his right eye was a sickly gold color. But it wasn’t the mismatch of the eyes that caught the sun princess’s attention. No, it was the look the eyes had behind them it remained Celestia of a barely controlled fire, just waiting to break free at any moment.
It was those eyes that scared Celestia and she looked at the outfit the boy was currently wearing. He wore a long sleeve shirt, colored red, with some sort of symbol that she didn’t recognized under a multi-pocketed, open vest. The legs on the pants the creature wore were short, barely reaching past his knees and looked a little on the baggy side. Finally, he was wearing boots of unknown make.
“You doing okay?” the creature asked in concern. “Will said you were up, and I decided to see how you were doing while he ate. You also must be thirsty, so here.”
The creature held out his left appendage, which held a bottle of water, and that’s when Celestia saw it. It was a bracelet near identical in design to the one Will wore, only the jewel was a deep red, and covered in markings the pony couldn’t place.
She looked at the bottle and realized that her throat was indeed dry. She turned her complete attention to the bottle and focused her magic into her horn…only to feel nothing! The familiar tingle any horned pony gets when they are using magic wasn’t there. The ever present feeling on lightheadedness when the magic is first directed into the horn, also not there. In short, she couldn’t feel her magic in the slighted.
Celestia clumsily brought her new appendages to her forehead, but kept her composure when she couldn’t feel her horn, just some sort of scar. She sighs faintly as she let those strange features fall to her side, and glances at the creature and the bottle he was offering. To his credit, the creature didn’t lose his composure as he kneel down and reached out, gently taking Celestia’s appendage and placing the bottle in it.
“This is called a hand,” he explained softly as he put the bottle into the palm of the newly named appendage, and gently began to close the small appendages on the hand. “And these are called fingers. You use them grasp and hold things with.”
The creature finished tightening Celestia’s fingers into a gentle hold, and twisted off the cap. She stared wearily at the bottle, but the irritation from the dryness of her throat stumped out any hesitation she might had. She left the bottle to her mouth, instantly noted how different the action felt with her altered body. She drank slowly, watering her throat slowly so she didn’t suffer any after-effects. Once she had drunk her fill, her lowered the near empty bottle from her mouth and looked at the creature was a kind smile.
“Thank you,” the sun princess said gratefully.
She frown when she noticed how different her voice sounded, but just filed it into the back of her mind for later, and focused her attention on the creature in front of her.
“No problem,” the creature replied casually, missing or more likely ignoring the piercing glare that Luna sent his way.
“Can I ask your name, young stallion?” Celestia asked kindly.
The creature cocked an eyebrow, for unknown reason, but kept his composure as he replied, “Name’s Christopher Donaldson, but most call me Chris. And trust me I’m far from a stud.”
Chris chuckled at his own joke, only to stop when he notice the awkward looks the two pony princesses were given him. He couched lightly to composed himself and looked at the two, namely Celestia.
“How are you feeling? I know Will gave you a once over, but you have been out longer then the rest of your friends?” Chris asked seriously.
Celestia offered the strange creature a kind smile, and tried to stand. She regretted the move almost immediately, her entire body arched and screamed and she was forced back to the ground.
“I will be fine, once this body stops hurting,” Celestia replied weakly. She then looked up at the strange creatures. “Please, can you tell me what’s going on here? More importantly, how are my little ponies?”
Chris just looked at the pony princess a little awkwardly from her choice of phrasing, but kept his composure as he said, “Well, we really don’t know. After the soul warriors dropped you off at our site, we have been waiting for everyone to regain consciousness to tell us what happened.”
“Soul…Warriors?” Celestia asked, titling her head to her right.
Chris chuckled, rather from Celestia’s words or action, she didn’t know, and that earned another glare from Luna. The young creature composed himself and looked at the two princesses seriously, though Celestia did notice that he still had the light-hearted aura about him.
“If the media is to be believed, the Soul Warriors are a group of superheroes who protect my hometown of Raven Falls,” Celestia instantly notice the aura around the young creature change to a more serious one, “But enough gossip. We got questions we liked to ask, and your friends are little reluctant to tell us much. They kept saying something about waiting for the princesses to wake up. That wouldn’t be you two, would it?”
“Who do you think you’re talking to?” Luna asked angrily, getting to her feet. “You are in the presence of princesses of Equestria, and you should address us as such!”
“Luna, please settled down,” Celestia said in a commanding but soft tone.
Luna looked at her older sister and notices the glare she was getting. She let out a frustrated sigh and looked at Chris, sending a glare at him before kneeling beside her sister. Celestia gave her sister a quick nod and a small smile, and then turned her attention to the creature.
“I would be more then happy to answer any questions you or your friends might have,” Celestia said calmly. “And in turn, you can answer some of our questions.”
“Sounds fair,” Chris replied cooperatively.
Then, without saying another word, Chris got beside the older princess, which didn’t sit right with Luna, as she sent a glare the creature’s way. When Celestia notice what her sister was doing, she shot her down with her own glare. Luna continued to glare at Chris for 10 seconds, before gently taking her sister’s left arm and Chris taking the right arm. Together, they lifted the older princess up, and they proceed to the eating area.
Once they head reach the area, Celestia felt her heart sank once more. Now that she could see her little ponies better, it was worse then she thought. The six were clearly fighting to stay positive in this dreadful satiation they have found themselves in, even Pinkie Pie, a pony known for her upbeat approach to life, looked about ready to give up.
The older princess tore her eyes away from the heartbreaking scene, and focus on the creatures she didn’t recognized. She began studying the creatures as she walked by them.
First was a girl with a red mane with noticeable blonde highlights. Her mane was fairly short and styled in small spikes. Her skin was a light tan color and her eyes were light red color. The oddest thought about this young female was her left ear. There was a noticeable chuck missing around the top of the ear.
The girl was wearing an odd outfit, will odd to the age-old transformed pony. She was wearing black pants of unknown design, with a chain for a belt, and black boots. The shirt she wore was sleeveless, black, and there was a chain necklace. Like her friends, this girl also wore a bracelet, only she had a light tan jewel on it with a swirling wind around the gem.
Next to the girl was another girl, who seems to be the exact opposite of her friend. Her mane, a near pure white, was slightly long and tied into a short ponytail. Her red eyes, which nearly match her friend’s coloring, shine with mature level that Celestia didn‘t expect to see in one so young. The oddest thing about the girl was the scar on her left cheek. It was small and shape like a flower.
The girl was wearing a single piece dress that went down to her knees and was wearing black knee high boots. The material of the dress appears to be a fine silk and was a navy blue color. She also was wearing a sleeveless, red jacket with pink highlights. She also has a star shaped pendent hanging from her neck. Finally, like her friends before her, she also has a bracelet, only her jewel was a light pink with flower on bracelet‘s surface.
The next one was a boy and probably the tallest among the enough though Celestia was having problem gauging his height due to him sitting down. His mane was a golden brown and slightly long, but kept well combed. The creature’s skin was far darker then his friends, nearly red even. Due to the angle he was at, Celestia couldn’t get a good look at his eyes.
The creature was wearing a pair of blue pants of unknown material, and a gray sweater with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and a pair of footwear that looked meant for running. This creature also has a star pendent, identical to the one the petite female has. And like the others, he also has a bracelet, only his has a brown jewel on it with a picture of the shattered ground around it.
And then there was the final member of the group, which for reasons Celestia couldn’t understand felt weak as she tried to study him. He was probably the biggest in terms of muscle, but she really couldn’t tell due to the outfit he was wearing. His hair was black and short, shorter then his friends with a gel in it to keep it down. Like his friend seated beside him, his face was angle in such a way that his eyes couldn’t be seen.
He wore a pair of shoes similar to his friend’s own footwear, but was in far worse condition. He wore tan pants that, like every other piece of clothing she had seen, Celestia didn’t know the material. He wore a dark green dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up pass the elbows and kept in place by fastens. The princess could see some sort of long jacket resting on the chair the creature was sitting on, but could see it clearly. And like his friends, this one also has on a bracelet, but his seem be different then the rest.
It still has a jewel, a sky blue jewel, and there was a path leading from the jewel to a two trees, one on each side of the path starting. The bracelet also had jagged edges on the bottom of it.
Celestia frown when she noticed that her sister and Chris had led her close to the one pony she didn’t want to close to. Still, years of mental training kicked in at this point, and her regna mask slip into place, as she took her seat. Chris wordless walked to his friend’s side and took a seat between Will, and the other boy.
Form corner of her eyes, Celestia noticed something wrong with her sister, and looked to her right as she watched Luna limp slightly to her seat.
“Are you okay sister?” Celestia said in concern.
Luna sighs as she took her seat and looked at her sister right in the eyes. “My leg was broken during the fight with Discord. Strangest thing is my leg was still broken when we came to this strange land, but upon waking a few hours ago, my leg felt much better.”
Celestia frown at this. She was starting to wonder if these creatures didn’t have address to some sort of magic. And if that was the case, then maybe they could help her little ponies and her sister get home?
The elder princess looked at the group, ready to begin questioning, when one of the creature, Will she realized, stood up. He looked at the group of transformed ponies with a bright, friendly smile.
“Well, since we were waiting everyone to wake so can get the introduction out of the way.” Celestia noted how practice that speech was, like he had given it before. Still, she was patient and waited for the stallion spoke.
“I will start things off…I’m William Rolling, but you can call me Will,” he gestured to his left. “And those are Jessica Bloom-” the group look to their left as Jessica waved shyly. “-and beside her is Clare Donaldson.”
The girl at the end of the foldout table flashed a cocky grin and gave the transformed ponies a two-figure salute. Celestia studied the two female creatures, and couldn’t help but compared them to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. She looked at the natural born flyers, and took in their own reaction. The shy pony just waved back at the creature, a very light blush on her face. Rainbow, on the other hoof, was glaring at the cocky creature, probably thinking something about the creature.
Celestia looked back at Will when he began speaking again.
“And these three are Chris Donaldson, Garry Gray, and the guy at the very end is Garry’s cousin, Drake Blacklight.”
Celestia bypass the one she knew and looked at the last two, namely the one called Drake Blacklight. She flinched when she thought Drake looked at her, looking at the table to avoid his hidden eyes.
Why does this creature make me so nervous? Celestia thought nervously. The last time I felt like this was when I meant Discord for the first time.
The older princess frowns as she thought back to Discord. She wanted to be angry at him, he was the reason why her sister and more importantly, her little ponies were in this strange place, facing these strange creatures. And she was mad, but not at the spirit that trapped them here. If anything, she was mad at herself. If she wasn’t so reckless and tried that spell, Discord might not have the power to send them to this strange place, where she couldn’t feel the magic of the sun.
It’s my fault my little ponies are here, and by grandfather’s horn I will get them home, Celestia thought determinedly, casting a quick glance at the element bearers.
The princess turned her attention forward when she heard Will began to speak again. “And now I believe it time for you to tell us about yourselves and why you’re here in such odd outfits,” though his approach was polite and well-mannered, Celestia did pick up on some undertones, though she was having trouble telling what the creature was trying to get out.
The older princess put those thoughts aside for the time being, and began to get up, intending to address the creatures in front of her. She suddenly collapsed into her chair, even inch of her body screaming at her and causing her to moan and groan loudly.
“Sister, are you alright?” Luna asked with great concern, as her place her new hand onto Celestia’s shoulder.
Celestia offered her sister a weak smile and patted her hand as she said, “I’m fine, sister. I momentarily forgot about the condition this body is in.” She frowned when she realized that her voice was still a little horse, probably because of the stiffness of the muscles around her neck.
The elder princess saw moment from the corner of her eyes and looked to her left, watching as Twilight Sparkle stood up. She watched as the transformed unicorn flinched slightly as she began talk, a small nervous stutter on her voice.
“W-Well, I’m Twilight Sparkle, faithful student to Princess Celestia, and these are my friends.” Celestia turned her attention to the group of strange creatures as her student began say the names of her friends.
She was a little surprised to see the group reacted indifferently from everything, as she would figure these creatures would find the ponies’ name weird. Being a princess ruler of an entire nation has its up and downs, namely going to another nation for peace talks. Celestia frown as she recalled a nasty experience where she went to a nation and she was meant with a problem because the leaders of the nation thought that the ponies were nothing more then sassy who only knew how to look pretty. It had taken every bit of self-control Celestia had taught herself from lashing out whenever she heard snickering aimed at one of her guards. And while things had ended on a high note, Celestia had made a note to keep the treaty with that nation up to date, to avoid the leaders as much as possibly.
The pony princess let these old memories die as she turned her attention to her student as she finished the introductions.
“And I know this may sound odd, but we don’t normally look like…” Twilight paused to think of a name for the body she currently had, but was probably coming up with nothing.
“Human,” Chris intervened politely, causing the transformed ponies to look at him questioningly. The young creature didn’t flatter as he calmly said, “The bodies you’re currently have belong to the race known as Homo sapiens, or human beings as we commonly known.”
Twilight nodded and took a moment to collect her thoughts. “We’re not actually supposed to be humans, we actually ponies, from the land called Equestria. We sent there to here by Discord, the evil spirit of chaos and disharmony, probably because the princesses, my friend and I have stopped him from throwing Equestria into eternal chaos many times.”
Celestia once again look at the group, and was surprised at what she saw. They creatures, the humans, believed them. Again, due to numerous times spent with different species throughout the world that Equestria rests on, she knew from experience how certain creatures react. Heck, she once meant a colony of ponies that believe magic was nothing but fairy tails.
“We believe you,” a calm voice said, drawing Celestia out of her thoughts, and drawing the transformed ponies’ attention to the speaker.
Celestia felt her anxieties returned as she looked at the speaker, namely the one called Drake Blacklight. The young human had finally repositioned his head so his eyes could be seen in the fading light, and what the princess saw scared her slightly. His eyes were a dark purple color, and looking at the transformed princess with a piercing glare. Celestia gasp as she realized something and looked at her sister. Luna has exact some eye coloring at the human she was sitting across from. She snapped her head back in Drake’s direction, and become surprised once more. Garry had lifted his head and was looking at the princess with the same purple eyes that his cousin has.
By my grandfather’s horn, what does all of this mean? Celestia asked herself, starting to panic a little. Why does my sister those eyes?
“But…I would like to know why you both have those eyes?” Drake asked, his voice turning sharp as he pointed at the princesses.
This caught Celestia by surprise, but kept herself composed as she asked calmly, “I sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean?”
This seems to make Drake a bit mad, as he got up and slam his hand onto the table. The caught everyone’s attention and they looked at the young human. Celestia noticed just how mad this human seems to becoming, but kept her composure as she stared at him.
“Where you come from purple eyes maybe common, but here purple eyes are only common in my family,” Drake said sharply. “So, I would like to know why you and your sister have my family eyes!”
At that moment, Rainbow Dash, true to her element, jumped to her feet, and looked ready for a fight. “Hey, my friend just told you, we were change into this form, so how would the princess know why she has purple eyes.”
Drake did the impossible at that moment, and caused the transformed winged pony to back down by sending a hard glare her way. Even Celestia could admit that there was something about those eyes. It was like staring at lightening at the moment it stroke, and that made the princess fearful.
Thankfully, Garry decided to intervene and grabbed his cousin by the arm. Drake looked at his cousin’s piercing glare as Garry, “Drake Settled down. We talk about this, remember?”
Drake continued to stare at his cousin for a few seconds, before he sighs heavily and shake his arm free from Garry’s grip. “Whatever.” he replied flatly.
The young human then walked off with his cousin watching him as he disappeared into the trees. Garry sighs heavily and looked at the princesses with sympathy.
“Sorry about my cousin. He’s going through a rough time, and haven’t gotten a lot of sleep lately,” he replied with sympathy.
“I completely understand,” Celestia replied with a kind smile.
Garry returned the smile, got up and walked over to a nearby pot. He spoke as he gripped a bowl and began to fill it. “I think we all have a long day. So after you fill your stomachs, I suggest we all go to bed.” He finished filling a second bowl and returned to the table, handing the bowls to the princesses. “Sorry, but all we can offer you are some fried beans. We weren’t expecting company.”
Celestia just smiled gratefully as the strange creature, and then looked at the spoon that was in the bowl. It didn’t long to learn how to use her new hands, but it was still a chore due to the stiffness of her body, but she still manage to fill her stomach, which was rather empty she realized.
As she ate her rather plain supper, the misplaced princess’s thoughts began to return to the subject of her eyes. If what that young human was saying was true, and purple eyes are that uncommon in this place, then what does that mean for her sister and herself?
She would find that thought would plague her for the rest of the evening, and will into the night and she would find that thought interrupting her sleep, though she didn’t get much due to her stiff and sore body.
(The next day)
“I don’t trust them, sister,” Luna whisper to her sister as they helped with clearing up the camping area.
The group, after being awoken from a semi-hard night of sleep, was treated to a breakfast of homemade pancakes and eggs which they had plenty of. Shortly after finishing breakfast, Twilight and the others had offered to help with the clearing, and while the humans were reluctant to accept, they had given in when they saw they determined faces of their pony friends. The ponies were even given footwear, as Clare had said that human feet aren’t made for roughing it.
Luna has found a lot of this suspicious, mainly because of the breakfast as she recalled the one called Garry saying they didn’t have much last night.
Celestia sigh as she finished folding up the table covering and looked at Luna. “Luna, I know a lot of this is suspicious, but listen, we can’t afford to be narrow-minded here,” The older sister ignored the glare that was set her way as she began walking toward a strange vehicle near them. “It’s clear that we aren’t in Equestria or any of the other nations. And while I admit that these “humans” seems dubious at best, we can’t afford to turn down their offer.”
Luna frown as she thought back to breakfast. During it, Will had offered to lend his and his friend’s aid as long as their liked. Celestia was against the idea, but he had pointed out that the ponies weren’t familiar with the land, and there was that strange creature of Discord to worry about. So, against her better judgment, Celestia had taken the offer.
“I know, sister. It just…” Luna looked at the vehicle that they were currently heading to. “…I don’t like this. These self-moving carriages are big enough to carry all twelve of us without problems.”
Celestia heaved her own sigh and patted her sister on the shoulder. “I know, sister, but we really don’t have a choice at the moment. But…I’m planning on keeping an eye on them. If anyone of my little ponies is harmed by these “humans”, I insure you that they would know the wraith of the sun,” the princess promised threateningly.
Luna nodded her own understanding as their reached the vehicles, and began to load up the supplies they had been carrying. A sudden notice, one that drew the attention of everyone at the campsite, pierced the air. The group of twelve looked in the direction they believed the noise was coming from. The noise quickly grew louder, and the princess thought it sounded like metal banging against something.
A feeling of dread started to fill Celestia. She didn’t like that noise, not in the slighted, and since she didn’t have her magic-something she had learned last night-she couldn’t protect her little ponies.
“EVERYONE!!” Drake suddenly screamed, to gain everyone in the area attention. “GET TO THE VANS!! Chris, you take the ponies and get out of here!”
Celestia was confused by this sudden outburst, but it was soon clear up as the source of the noise made itself know, and this cause all of the ponies-turned-humans to scream. The caller of the sun could feel her stomach drop as she stare up at the monstrous that was clearly made by her hated enemy, and wishing with all of her might that she had her magic back.