The Guardians Of Harmony

by AngriestDislestia


Wierdness Is Totally Magic P1

Celestia sighed. She didn't know why in Equestria Princess Twilight told her that she needed to make friends. She had friends, didn't she? Well, Twilight, of course, sent Celestia to Ponyville, the village Twilight's castle was in, to do so. Celestia would be staying at the castle for whoever knows how long, so she had brought a lot of luggage, as if she was moving castle.

"Philamena," Celestia said. Philamena turned to her and squawked. "Do you think I need pony friends? I just...Don't have time. Of course, being as patient as I am, I know the values of friendship, but...I'm much better suited to just being harmonious." Philamena stared at Celestia for a moment then shrugged. She,again, squawked. "Yes, I'll be just fine!" Celestia mumbled sarcastically.

"Is Ponyville the stop you were requested to land at, your majesty?" Asked one of the Pegasi flying the chariot.

"Oh, yes...THANKS." She just couldn't wait...

She had always heard that Twilight could be a bore, but never had she witnessed Twilight being boring in pony; Twilight always seemed so dramatic and worried, she seemed to sensitive to what was going on around her to zone off into things. It wasn't that Celestia wasn't interested in what Twilight was saying, it was that she had repeated the same things more than once; she got that not just anypony can be your friend, they have to actually care about you not that you were sent by a royal pony, or even, in her case, that you are a royal pony. They have to be your friend because they could spend the rest of their lives laughing and talking and sharing and exchanging with you. It was all very clear to her now, especially since Twilight had sent her ALL of the lessons she had learnt in Ponyville, and so had her pony friends, but Celestia had learned something already; Twilight was right, Celestia did need a friend and Twilight guaranteed that she would find one, all she needed to do was be herself.

"Ok, dear Twilight, I understand now." Celestia spoke up. "I am ready to complete my newest task; making a friend."

"Good. Now, the gentlecolts have already packed your stuff away in my guest room for you so...Feel free to start right away!" Twilight told her nicely. Celestia smiled proudly at Twilight, she really was proud of her student...Or now, Teacher! After all they had basically swapped roles, which was always odd, but no matter...Celestia will always think of Twilight as a pupil.

Twilight closed a door behind her, she needed to get ready for her tour of Equestria; to spread the Friendship. Celestia looked to the exit.

"...Nah, I have more important things to do...I'll...handle my mission later." So Celestia wandered into Twilight's library, where she decided to read Twilight's, or rather, The Elements of Harmony's Journal, for she had not read it yet and was curious to see what Twilight learnt before she got her castle, for all Celestia knew was that they would unlock the chest; she was not sure how, but by reading this, she could find out...Something about the pages Discord marked were the important ones, so she knew to remember those ones; they'd be linked and finally she'd know what Discord swore not to tell her; how exactly these ponies are connected to the chest. She and Luna were once, and yet they had never been faced with the chest.

So Celestia spent her whole morning focusing on the Journal...and honestly all she got from it was...These ponies really don't write in detail...She was expecting stories...but no. She had to give credit to Twilight, 1. For having to take on Discord for a whole day and 2. For having the best, most detailed writing.

But other than that, the journal taught her nothing but how special they are...To be honest it made her want to have friends that instant...

LUNA! Yes! Luna was her friend...and her sister, but still her friend! She'd call her over tonight to watch Princess Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship's speech. That would be fun! But now; New friends.

So Celestia put on a casual orange silk scarf, took off her crown, hoofshoes and necklace and trotted outside. It was nice to be relieved from her Princess duties for now. She felt like an ordinary pony, but she soon realised that that would not last very long; already, ponies were looking at her in awe. She guessed it was kind of easy to spot the freakishly MASSIVE Princess pony on the streets of a plain old village, even in her casual outfit. She realised that making true friends was going to be more difficult for her than she first anticipated...

As she trotted past kneeling ponies, she made sure to whisper to them

"No need for that sir/young filly/Miss, please carry on with your afternoon"

With a smile of course, and that would make them smile, get up and keep trotting. Celestia was waving away a young filly (not looking where she was going) when-

BUMP!

"Oh!" Celestia fell back a bit startled, she still could not see who she bumped into, but knew they were taller than her. She was picking up what had fallen with her magic while stuttering apologies and "I wasn't looking where I was going".

Little did she know who she was talking to.

"CELESTIA!...Philamena..." Cried an overly excited voice, suddenly she was lifted from the ground. Not by magic, but by a lion arm and an eagle claw. Discord!

"Hello, Discord!" Celestia chuckled in his overly enthusiastic arms. Soon Discord put on her on the ground and looked at her suspiciously.

"What in Equestria are you doing here?" He asked, still very happy to see her.

"Well, Discord, this might surprise you, but I was requested here by Princess Twilight to learn for myself about the magic of friendship. What are you doing here?" Celestia asked in the same suspicious way.

"Exactly the same, but I'm surprised that Twilight is now your teacher..." Discord then looked around cautiously to see if anypony was around. He became an eerie quiet. He bent toward her ear and began whispering. "Be careful, something bad is happening tonight." He whispered. Celestia suddenly got worried. What was happening? He could be trolling her, but if it was bad...

"Is it bad? Shou-Should I tell Twilight?!" Celestia asked.

"Already have" Discord said picking up boxes of what looked to be luggage for his new short-term study home.

"And what did she say? What is it?" Celestia asked quietly, but still very cautious.

Discord shrugged and moved away from the slightly angry Philamena.

"I can only predict what happens to our Harmonious bundle and what I do...but I know something bad will happen to those six fillies." Celestia was about to but in, but Discord began answering her question. "Don't try to save them now, it's too late..." This news saddened Celestia, she had stopped questioning the draconequus; she trusted him. Discord saw her face. "But don't worry," Suddenly he spoke prouder and quite openly. "I've predicted that there will be a new group of heroes. Oh, and she dismissed it as an old filly's tale"

"Really?" Celestia asked.

"For sure..." Discord said, somewhat knowingly considering he didn't know anything...But little did Celestia know, Discord knew a bit more than what she somewhat questioned him for. He winked at her.

"So...It'll all be fine?"

"Yup!"

"Then I guess I better start finding some new friends..."

Discord eyes widened, he dropped his boxes that teleported just as they hit the ground, presumably to his new house, and gasped. "IJUSTGOTABRILLIANTIDEAINEEDTOGO!SEEYOUAGAINSOON!" He squealed as he comically ran into a teleport. And he was gone.

"I'm useless anyway...As always..." Celestia mumbled as she carried on walking.

As she walked on, Celestia spotted Spike helping decorate the place for Twilight's first speech. Celestia saw how it was all going and thought she'd better see how he was doing.

"Hello? Spike, are you OK?" Celestia asked as gently as possible as Changelings flew all around her, extremely busy.

Spiked turned to Celestia.

"Oh, yes! Of course...I'm so excited about Twilight's speech, and...I really wanted to help out!" He sighed. "But it sure is hard to do it alone, I haven't had a single break!" Spike weased as he wiped the sweat off of his brow.

"Oh, so why don't you now? Go ahead! Have a quick break! You'll have plenty of time to do the rest." Celestia said kindly.

"Oh really? Good idea! Thanks!" Spike said as he shot up in the air. "Let's go!"

Celestia giggled as she poured Spike a big glass of orange squash.

"Oh, I can't wait for Twilight's first speech as uh...A real Princess." Spike told Celestia with a guilty frown.

"Oh, she wouldn't mind, I can't wait either! To see her come this far...It makes me proud..." Celestia sighed. "Also, she's now my teacher...That's why I'm here in Ponyville today!"

"It makes me proud, too!" Spike exclaimed enthusiastically. Suddenly, Spike noticed the time and looked at the clock in the centre. "Erm...We won't have to wait long..." He said nervously. He stared at Celestia concerned. Celestia blinked. "Which means that soon it might be time to lower the sun a bit...? Do you think?" He finished.

"Oh yes! I just...All this relaxation is making me forget my duties! Ha! I'll do that right away." Celestia began focusing on the sun, beginning to work her magic.

"Oh! Oh yeah...Where's Discord? He's supposed to be getting the festivities and party food ready tonight." Spike said looking around.

Celestia paused. "...Uh...He told me he had a brilliant idea...That's probably what's keeping him." She said.

"Oh...Well he'd better get here soon...We have work to do..." Spike said slightly annoyed as he walked away, carrying on with his work. Celestia now thought she'd go; she didn't want to get Discord in trouble, did she?

Soon she wondered what would happen...what was going to happen to Twilight and the others...Who would save them? She set the sun a bit more so it was a cozy type of light; dark blue shaded all of the surroundings, but everypony was up and everypony was getting ready. It was nice to be in the crowd again, to feel cozied up to all of the other ponies. Soon Celestia knew though that she needed to get ready herself, everypony was wearing a snuggly raincoat, so Celestia assumed it would rain a small bit. She went back to Twilight's castle and trotted up to her room, she passed the sound of Twilight and her friends bickering over how nervousited they all were. Celestia smiled and carried on to the guest room. She stepped in and like the rest of the castle, this room was a ominous purple with glowing Rarity's Cutie marks scattered here and there. There was a small wardrobe and celestia pulled out a golden leaf raincoat protected with a thin layer of waterproof caramel. Discord gave it to her all those years ago, knowing it was subtly chaotic. Which was sweet. There was also soiled purple magic decorating it in all manner of thin swirly patterns. It wasn't a massive raincoat; it was more of a display raincoat, that tied up around her waist, and bouncing up just covering half of her flank. It had short frilled sleeves and a cute hood, that on this occasion she put up, as it was now darker and was drizzling slightly outside. She put her hair in a ponytail and hooked it through the hole at the back of the hood; she didn't want it to flow on to the wet ground. So she also tied her tail up in a loose bun and put on matching galloshes. They weren't round and rubbery the were quite thin, but waterproof, for wearing only on wet concrete, which is where she intended to be. She wasn't the mane attraction so she didn't need to put on an important pony dress underneath. She was fine.

So twenty minutes before the Twilight's speech began, she was ready. She trotted outside, eager to find Discord or Chrysalis or Luna. She invited Luna just before she got dressed for the speech, so Luna should arrive soon.

She saw that Chrysalis and Discord had done an amazing job, and as always Discord knew what everypony liked. They all had little snack in their hooves or magical aura. There were a lot of ponies from canterlot there too. She was glad to see FancyPants, who unlike many other very important ponies, supported her harmonious filies before associating them with being princesses or anypony important. She saw Trixie who seemed very happy for Twilight and really couldn't wait to see how great and powerful she was.

"Oooh!" Quickly Celestia turned to what tapped her on the shoulder. Discord.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you, also, you look lovely in that raincoat, with your hair back but I always knew you would." He told her with a wink, again he gave some flowers, they were golden with purple centres and some where purple with golden centres; they'd definitely suite her bedroom at Twilight's. She smiled acceptably.

"Thank you. Anyway, I have something to show you...COMEWITHME!YOU'LLLOVETHIS!" Discord, again, squealed, grabbing Celestia's hoof about to drag her to his place.

"Uhm...The speech is going to start in...17 minutes, are you sure you can't wait until after?" She asked a bit unsure of how risky it sounded...She couldn't miss Twilight's speech.

"No, we can't. After the speech we'll be too busy sav-" Discord paused...He stopped saying what he said; he couldn't let her know yet. "Don't worry, you'll get to see every moment of it!" He saved himself with that one!

"Hmmm..."Celestia said unsure. Discord smiled pleadingly. "Ok...But quickly. We only have...15 minutes." Discord held her hoof and they teleported a few rows of houses back to a large twisted tree. It was a tall thin tree with a tall bent rectangular door. It didn't feel at all homey and there was no glass in the door where there should've been, so it must be very cold. It was also dark, you couldn't see anything past the door, but the tree was barely wide enough for Discord to stretch is, so Celestia couldn't fit. The tufts were purple and soily but smoothly curled.

Celestia didn't want to go in...It looked scary and abandoned...

"Are you sure it's...big enough...and safe?" Celestia asked. Discord chuckled.

"It's the most harmless place in all Equestria!"

"Discord, I'm not joking." Celestia said annoyed, yet scared. Discord's laughter stopped and he grew more serious.

"You'll be fine; trust me!" He swirled his tail around her bunned up tail and took her in. The vine door creecked open although it didn't even look solid enough to creek. Celestia's hoof past the door and she immediately closed her eyes and pushed her self in...Not to the back of a tree...but instead a dark purple wood coated the floor, it wasn't flat so you could trip here and there...but how was this room here. She decided it was like a tardis.

The fireplace fire was a light shade of blue and soared and curled in many different patterns and shapes. In a small cot, taht looked to be made out of a thin twisted log or branch, was a snoozing Platypus. She had a purple-y blue, brown body and very dark brown-y yellow bill and feet.

"Who's this sweety?" Celestia asked in a whisper, making sure not to wake up the sleepy baby platypus.. She had left Philamena at home. As a fire bird, she didn't enjoy the rain very much.

"This is my pet platypus, she's called Ka Fuffle," He whispered in reply.

"Fitting. Platypi suite you." She whispered.

"Pheaonix suite you. Doesn't your name mean "ball of fire" or something?" Discord asked in a hushed tone.

"Yep." She whispered. She shook her head watching that baby Platypus was easy; she was adorable. "What was it you wanted to show me?"

"Oh yes! Follow me!" He exclaimed quietly and he flew up the twisted spiraled staircase. Celestia strolled behind him. They walked through, or rather just made it through Discord's bedroom; it was just a hamster wheel. It spun round and round. That was how Discord slept. All night long. Apparently, he loved it! They made it to his balcony which was up very high. It was beautiful up there. This was obviously what he was talkng about. There was a small round table with a big wrapped up box on it. There was a golden, purple patterned tablecloth on it and a chocolate fountain surrounded by bowls of things Celestia loved.

"Aww...Thank you, but we've got to get back. Twilight's speech starts in...4 minutes." Celestia said.

"Oh nonononono! We can watch it from here!" Celestia sat down on a seat and Disocrd joined next to her. They sat infront of the present. "openit,openit!OPENIT,OPENIT!" Discord urged, barely containing his excitement. Celestia chuckled calmly as she unwrapped the purple ribbon. She immediately had use for that. She tied it in a bow around the bun in her tail. There. Much better than just a hairband, she thought. slit through the sellotape and opened the box to find a pair of long golden purple patterned socks, a golden beret and...This one made her chuckle, a vase for her flowers. It was just a thin yet slightly oval vase that looked like a tulip, but it had golden leaf outlines of her cutie mark printed on it here and there and purple outlines of Luna's cutie mark. Luna!...Oh but she couldn't leave..Maybe they could invite Luna up...Oh wait! Where were her manners?

"Thank you so much!" Celestia said. She took off her galoshes and put on the socks and put the shoes back over. Discord was squeeing so much! "See Discord, I told you that it felt nice to do nice things for other ponies." She told him happily.

"And you were right!" Discord exclaimed. Celestia looked at her watch.

"Oooh! Twilight's speech is about to start! Where's Luna?" Celestia and Discord spied around for Luna quickly.

"There!" Discord said.

"Oh yes! Luna! Luna?" Celestia called down. Luna turned to the driection of the sound and when she saw Discord and Celestia waving she smiled a happily at them. She flew over.

"Hello, Dear sister. Watching from afar, I see." Luna looked at the two knowingly. "I'd be more than happy to watch with you. May I?" She smiled.

"Of course you can Luna" Celestia said fondly with a smile as she grabbed the other seat with her magic and put it next to her. Discord didn't fit on chairs anyway, so he just sat on the floor next to them. The three gasped in excitement and anticipation as Mayor Mare introduced Twilight, even though Discord knew what was coming.

Suddenly the crowd cheered as Twilight made way onto the stage. She was wearing a beautiful dress like Trixie's, but transparent and purpley-dark blue. Her hair was almost crysatlised and Luna and Discord smiled at each other for the same reason; Celestia's tears of pride. She was so undeniably proud of her student that she was crying, but what made the two younger gods laugh was what she did about those tears. She quickly grabbed a cocktail stick, stuck on a few pieces of fruit, smothered them with chocolate and stuffed them into her mouth with emotional nom, nom, noms. The speech lasted about 20 minutes, then fireworks were set off and Celestia, Luna and Discord got their very own mentions. Thankfully Twilight could see them; she needed guidance still. Celestia may now be her student, but she was still her mentor.

Discord stepped back. After the final cheer of the crowd...

"Three cheers for Princess Twilight Sparkle of Friendship!" Mayor Mare cried.

"Hip, Hip Hooray!"

One.

"Hip, Hip Hooray!"

Two.

"HIP, HIP, HOORAY!"

...Three.

And Twilight...was gone.