//------------------------------// // Chapter one: The day where I meet a strange filly. // Story: The Radiant Princess // by BronyofMeddlers //------------------------------// Chapter one: The day where I meet a strange filly. It was another day in my city, within my office of paperwork and taxes. A sigh escape from me as my left hand takes a cup of tea and drink from it. Sometimes I deal with problems that are easily solved. For one, seeing over the people, which wasn't hard itself, I pretty much made a place where things were mellow and no poor people. Including a good system, as for nobles there were only three left. The rest of the selfish pricks I kicked out for being snobbish pricks. In Radiant you have to earn your title, so if you want to be a noble, then you better damn act and be a bloody noble before I decided to take that title away, your possessions away, and leave you to die out in the lands. It’s harsh, but an honest system. Another is taking someone who didn't belong back to where they came from, sometime it was easy, since they were lost, other’s not so much. Let’s just say some people were so, what’s the word? thick-headed sometimes, and needed to be, persuasive. But right now, everything changed. Because something was popping into my castle. Now the way I can tell is quite simple. I can detect ‘portals’ entering in my planet thanks to a ‘gift’ I was provided long ago. However it had it’s limits. For one if I failed to get to the trail on time then I wouldn't be able to find out where they went, or where they come from. Another limit was that if I hadn't been to the location then I wouldn't be able to travel there, but thankfully since this is my castle and all I've been all over, including the large bathing's halls where my wife wash herself. Nosebleeds and pain from a punch in the face? Totally worth it. My body went up as I moved around the desk, out of the office, and put on my glasses, I noticed a mirror by me and decided to see how I looked. I didn't look too bad to be honest. A fellow of fourteen years look at the mirror, strange blue glasses are shown on his face, behind them are a pair of blind eyes, covering parts of his face was long black raven hair down to his chin, light tan skin shown on the teen as a long gray jacket cover his upper body, underneath that jacket was a white short shirt. Blue pants down to feet cover his lower legs, a smirk came upon the face as I speak out. “Well, don’t you look fine young sir?” I asked the reflection, no answer replied back as I turned my body as my shoe-less feet walk the halls. Now of course being blind had it’s downsides, but it also had it’s perks. For one long training of sensing people, magic, and knowing the difference between living things and nonliving things. It’s quite helpful whenever you’re in a bar fight. My eyes close as I decide to think for a moment. Still I should probably get to the occurrence that’s heading in my castle right now, which is heading in, hmm let’s see… The energy seem to be moving, right before me? My eyes open in surprise as my ears hear something plop and dropped right before me on the ground. My head moved down to to see something whimpering, dark blue fur with a pair of wings and horn, wavy strange mane and tail, slit eyes with some type of blue. I seem my fair share of strange beings. But this little one took the cake and smash it into pieces. As it looked up to me my mind ponder on what it’s called. Hmm, looks like some sort of filly I believe, hard to say since I never seen this type of creature before. I think it’s some sort of equine creature, it can’t be a pegasus, it’s got a horn and can’t be a unicorn either, pair of wings on it’s side and all. Still I should, huh. It ran away while I was thinking about it. Well to be fair it’s a little young and probably don’t know where it is and what I am, I probably look like a monster to it. Still I should probably get the little one before it accidentally hurt itself. A sigh escape from me as my feet began to move and follow the little one, this little ‘chase’ went on for about maybe five minutes before the little tyke began to look tired. Both of my hands scoop it up as they turn her to her front, my eyes look down quickly to know the gender, which is a female. Now some may think I’m a pedo, but I’m not. Because if you see some sort of species that you never seen before and had no idea what to call them then you’ll have to see down there sooner or later. My eyes look to her struggling, my hands move her toward my chest to listen to my heartbeats. Sometime this trick works, as the child who is confused and scared if something new, understands that new thing is living, gentle, then they’ll calm down. Which she did as she stop struggling, my hands move her to let her settle on my right arm, my left hand gently comb her waving mane as she gives a small sighs. My feet began to move as my mind went to pondering. Now by all accounts with the horn on her head she’s a unicorn, but with the wings it’s impossible to say what she is. Hmm, better head to the library to see what this little filly is. My left hand stop combing her mane as it snapped the thumb and first finger as a portal is made, the portal itself is shape of a doorway of gray all around. We both enter in the portal and was in personal library, tall bookshelves all around us up to forty-five feet, each shelf contains a book from my travels or bargains, an entire bookshelf contains a single category. One is full of fantasy, another is full of biography, and so on. I look down to see her awe of the quick trip and of the many books around us. Kids. Always impress by something new. My eyes turn to a couch settle by the the bookshelf of facts, the couch itself is a nice soft green cushion I gotten from a market at some city, I think it was some floating city on a ocean of water? To the couch south was a desk of fine ivory wood with some books laying on it, some open, others close. I settle her down on my couch as my arm place her down with a smile on my face. “Friz'souch!” I called out, at first nothing happen, then something slowly came down before me, a form raise up in a manner of white clouds as face appears with a happy smile on it, big arms out with a chest forming in a tough guy look, with no legs to be seen except a wavy tail of sorts. Friz’souch, or Friz as he wish to be called sometimes was a book spirit that I had founded earlier a few years ago on my travels, apparently he told me that he lost his master and been stuck in some sort of old tomb, I decided to take him as my own familiar and since then been working in my private library and the common library here in the castle. He always change his form whenever he’s in the ‘mood’ of books he decided to be in. And he had decided to be a fantasy mood today. The good things about this sort of spirit is that he could take care of books and keep them from being damage. And since he's 'fantasy' it makes finding out about her easier. “Yes my master.” called out Friz'souch as he looks at me with that smile still on him. “I need information about equine with a horn and wings.” I ordered as he bowed to me. As he went searching. I turned to my guest, she still sat there with that awe look on that muzzle. “Yeah I know I'm awesome.” I merely told her. My ears began to hear a grumbling sound as my eyes look down to see her look surprise. And that probably means she hadn't eaten yet. My head turned as my left hand made a portal, my voice speaks to her as my body walk to the portal. “Be right back little one, I’m going to get something for you to eat.” As I moved through the portal and enter in the kitchen to see one of my sons working on something. Sixteen year old Sidney, tall about five feet with two inches, chef cloths cover his entire body, with a chef hat on that fox head of his. Brown fur cover his body, with a white underbelly cover starting at the front of his muzzle to the end of where it usually ends. Short dark brown hair cover his head on the back side as the short hair moves with him as he cook whatever he cooks in the stew. The half-Vixian stops to turned his head to me. “Ah, what’s up pops? Need something to be cooked?” asked the teenager, a smile form on my face as a shake of my head given the answer. “No but someone else is, a young one I founded, fresh fruits and vegetables, cut up ones preferably Sidney, can you do this while cooking?” He gave a pfft sound as he moves to one of the fridges and taken out some food. “Yeah sure old man, but why can’t you just do it yourself? You may be over a thousands year old but you still got the body a young fourteen year old.” My shoulders shrugged. “Maybe because I want to see you multitask?” Sidney rolled his eyes as he began to cut the food. “Hope your new guest doesn't mind food from Earth dad, it’s all we got since we used up the last of the food around here.” The plates of cut up food are place on the table, cut up strawberries, bananas, celery, mango’s, carrots, and peaches. “Thanks, son,” I said as my eyes look for a cart to bring it all in. Sidney on the other hand just wave and went back to cooking. “Whatever dad.” Soon a cart was found and the food place on it, with a quick moving in and out of the portal my eyes see the little filly looking at the food before me, with a push of the cart by her as she jump on the arms of the couch looking at the food with an open mouth and wide eyes, my head turn to Friz’souch with a book in his left clouded hand. I merely open my right palm to let the book fit in. “I'm afraid its what I could find sir.” Friz'souch said with regret. “Doesn't matter. Good job by the way.” I replied. “Page 320 sir.” He added as he disappear. My hand open the the book to look for the page as my body moved and settle down as my left gently move the filly and my behind rest between her and the food, at first she whined and complained with a little cute noise she made. But that stop when my left taken a slice of banana and pass it to her as she chewed the food. She seem hesitated at first, but after swallowing it she speak out more in that cute squeak as if she was saying ‘feed me!’ My left take another banana and allow her to eat more. During me feeding her my eyes finally see the page number and the information I wish to know. Alicorn. Great beings of power and magic. With the strength of the earth within their hooves, the flight of a pegasus, and the magic of a unicorn they were unstoppable. However it said here that they’re rare and not many information on them. Not to mention that they can live for a very long time, thing is no one actually knows. Well at least I know what this little one is now, question is how in the name of Insanity did she get here? I closed the book as my lap felt a sudden movement as my head look down to see the little alicorn settling on my lap, with a cute begging look on her muzzle. A warm smile appear on my face as my right toss the book on the other side of the couch and my hands switch, my left petting her head, the other feeding her. After feeding her she yawned and began to sleep on my lap. Then my ears heard footsteps as my head turned to see my adviser coming up to me. “Don?” I spoke out. “Hello sire, the meeting is almost starting, what is that?” My eyes seen an anthropomorphic wolf looking down to the little filly, black long hair down to his chest between the belly and ribs, black fur covered his entire face, his entire body covered in a brown robe, even covered the paws as the robe touched the ground. His long black tail move as he walked before me. “Sire, I thought we talk about this, no getting orphans from other realms without talking to me and your wife first.” “I didn’t grab her from another realm Don, she came here, right before me. She something call an Alicorn, some sort of equine with powerful magic, but not enough information on them.” He looked down at the little filly that was looking up to see the wolf with those big cute innocent cat eyes. A sigh escaped from him as he know what would happen. “I shall get the adoptions through sire, however you’re going to tell your wife about your newest child, and introduce her to the rest of the family.” A smile formed on me. “Don’t worry, I’ll survive.” My ears hear him muttered. “That’s not what worry me.”