//------------------------------// // Pink Pony Princess // Story: The Day My Life Began // by Authora97 //------------------------------// Canterlot was a beautiful city, I will admit. The architecture, the smooth concrete streets, the stores, and the other cool looking shit. I had a to-do list before the Wedding, and I had to get my shit together by then. Lilac was in school. It was a Saturday, and Lilac was going to a sleepover at Scootaloo’s (knew she had parents). “I came here to see Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.” I told the guards. They laughed, apparently my request was amusing. “What is your purpose here?” “That’s the same question I ask myself everything morning when I get up.” I joked. They didn’t get it. “Seriously. I’m here to see Cadence. Or Mia. I’m still on the fence about that.” “You can let her pass.” A third voice said. The two guards turned towards it. A familiar white unicorn dressed in gold and purple armor stood behind them. “Shiney Hiney!” I cheered loudly The white unicorn let out a mirthless chuckle. “You can let her in, boys. She’s no harm.” Don’t joke around the guards. Don’t joke around the guards. I trotted past them, walking beside Twilight’s older brother. Shining grinned at me. “Princess Cadence received your letter.” I grinned. “Dropping in unannounced is usually my specialty, but I thought it better to at least try and be reasonable.” “So, a letter appearing over Princess Cadence’s head is your idea of reasonable?” Shining asked. “Yes.” I responded, smiling. He looked like he was going to argue. “You are actually lucky. Today, she has very little scheduled.” “Wedding planning?” I asked, knowingly. The Captain of the Guard stopped. “How did you know I proposed?” Shining asked. I smirked. “I was teasing. You just proved me right.” I said in a sing-song voice. Then, I saw the alicorn down the hall. “Mia!” I called out, trotting towards the pink alicorn. “Hello Miss Stardust.” The princess smiled gently. “No, no. Miss Stardust makes me feel old. Call me Razz.” I suggested. “That’s what my friends call me.” The mare smiled. “I’m honored to be your friend.” “I know, right?” I joked. Princess Cadence “So what brings you here to Canterlot today?” I asked Raspberry, pouring her a glass of tea. The unicorn grinned, accepting the tea. “I wanted to hang out. I realized we hadn’t really gotten together since the Gala, so I had to come up here to see you. I thought we could do that bonding thing friends are known for.” I smiled. “Well, I would certainly love to help with that.” We had come to one of my sitting rooms, simply for having tea and pleasant conversation. It was a white room, with light pink furniture. The tea table was metal, with a glass table. “So, how are things down in Ponyville?” I asked her, putting a bit of sugar in my tea and taking a sip. “Well, after Princess Luna’s visit, it was Fluttershy’s birthday. I gave her a new bird feeder and bird seed, since I knew she wouldn’t want something for herself but for her animals.” Raspberry said, adding sugar to her tea. She gained a far off look in her amber eyes. “The Sisterhoof Social came a few weeks later.” I smiled. “Oh? Did you and Killjoy compete?” Raspberry put her tea down. “KJ died.” Raspberry said. “A few days after we met you, actually.” My jaw dropped. “What?” The pink unicorn gave a sad laugh. “KJ was a daredevil. ‘Not alive until I’m almost dead’ she would say.” She looked quizzically at her tea. “So, she wanted to try a new stunt. It didn’t work.” The way she was saying it was heartbreaking. It was the same way one would explain an outing, or talking about the weather. Like she had to explain her sister’s departure so plainly. It was tragic. “But, ya know, then I came back to Ponyville-” “You were with her?” I asked, even sadder. Raspberry just looked up at me. “She was always trying to make her big sister proud.” She picked up her tea. “Ah. That’s enough sugar.” She took a sip. “Mmm. Good tea.” “Rasp-” “Then my daughter’s friend tried a shortcut to getting her cutiemark.” Raspberry interrupted me. “Used a Heart’s Desire flower, but gave herself the Cutie Pox.” I frowned. “The Cutie Pox? Is she alright?” “Yeah. Zecora made a cure, it required Apple Bloom telling the truth about why she took the Heart’s Desire. The Crusaders- that’s what Lilac and her friends call themselves- learned it was better to wait, waited two seconds, then went off to get another cutiemark.” That was when I realized. She was hiding her grief for her daughter’s sake. I had seen a few other times, with single parents. The foal needed their parent, just as much as the parent needed the foal. “Right now, Rainbow is trying to decide what pet is cooler. I bet her twenty bits that it would be a tortoise.” Raspberry chuckled. “Everypony has to learn eventually.” I was still at a loss over Killjoy. She seemed like a good mare. She was so in love with her sister, and looked up to her in the way all younger siblings did. Killjoy and I may have known each other for five minutes, but they were enough to show me she loved her sister. And, that her sister loved her. “Learn what?” I asked. “Never make a bet with Raspberry.” The unicorn joked. “I never guess. Rule Five.” “Rules?” I said. “I feel like I’m the only one talking.” Raspberry commented. “How’s the wedding planning coming?” I smiled, then sighed. “Oh, it could be going better. Shining and I just haven’t found the perfect caterer.” “Applejack.” Raspberry said suddenly. “The Element of Honesty?” I asked. “You think she could cater?” “She made things for the Gala.” Raspberry said. “She could be in charge of food. She makes a mean Apple...anything.” I smiled. “That’s genius! I could ask the other Bearers if they wanted to help!” Raspberry nodded. “Yeah. Fluttershy had her birds sing at the Summer Sun Celebration, so they could perform the Wedding March.” The unicorn sipped her tea. “Pinkie is good at parties, so she could plan the reception. Rarity is obviously going to make the wedding dress, and probably the bridesmaids dresses too.” I blinked. “Did you just plan my wedding in less than a minute?” “I’m good with plans.” Was Raspberry’s answer. “And, Rainbow can perform a Sonic Rainboom after you say your ‘I do’s. Twilight can help make sure everything goes to schedule.” “That was incredible!” I cheered. Raspberry shrugged. “Making sure things go to plan is my special talent.” She looked around the room. “This room is too boring.” Raspberry decreed. My muzzle dropped. Her horn glowed amber. I watched as the room changed. The walls changed from white to a dark blue. The couches we were lying on changed shape to become dark red triclinia. The coffee table turned into a table made of dark brown furnishing. The carpet beneath us became deep brown. The windows gained deep red curtains, pulled back to let sunlight in. I gaped at Raspberry, who had just opened her eyes. “Much better. Way too much pink last time.” “How did you do that?” I asked, gazing at Raspberry’s slowly rising form. The pink unicorn grinned. “I learned it years ago. An old acquaintance taught me.” I raised a brow. “Okay. I listened in on her conversation with somepony else, but I still learned it.” She said, walking over to a blue rug that hadn’t been in the room before. Taking another look around the room. “This is incredible.” “Not the coolest thing I’ve ever done...” Raspberry said, trying to sound boastful. I trotted up to the amber eyed unicorn. “Teach me!” Raspberry lifted a hoof, giving me a wary look. “Take is easy, Twilight.” She laughed. “I can teach you, but it’s kinda difficult.” “I can handle it.” I said, trying to copy her boastful tone. She raised a brow, smirking. “Alright.” She motioned to the ground. “Sit criss cross.” I blinked. “What?” “Like this.” Raspberry fell onto her haunches, bending her hindlegs so they went over each other. She motioned to the space right before her. “Now you.” Unsure, I began copying her movement. It took me a moment, but I finally managed to do so. “It’s...uncomfortable.” “Well, when I learned it this was the position they did it in.” Raspberry admitted. “Don’t worry. After a few times with this, you learn how to do it standing. It’s super easy after a while. “For now, you need to sit hooves up, like you’re meditating. It’s kind of like opening yourself up to the power all around you. Feel the energy of the room?” I nodded. I did feel it. A hum deep below the surface of the air. “Imagine that energy is entering your body through your hooves and your eyes and your mouth and your ears. Just close your eyes and let it fill you up.” I nodded once again. Taking a deep breath as I felt around the room. “Focus on your breathing and draw the energy from every item in the room.” After a few moments of breathing and concentration, I felt the light flow into me again. I let the breath come in through my nose and out again, filling my chest and my soul. “Think about the rug beneath us. Feel it under your hindlegs and in connection with your body. Imagine it as clearly as you can. Got it?” “Yes.” I said. “Now imagine the rug a different color. Any color you want.” Raspberry suggested. I did. “Somepony’s in love.” Raspberry joked at my choice in coloring. “Lots of ponies are white. Auntie is white. This could be for her and Auntie Luna.” I defended. “Or, anypony.” “But only one has these blue streaks in his mane.” The pink unicorn giggled. “Oh, stop it.” I joined in on her giggling. Then, the room changed back to it’s original. The pink furniture, the metal and glass table, no curtains, and white walls. The rug was still there, the one colored like Shining Armor. “It lasts for as long as you can make it last.” Raspberry explained. “Larger stationary objects take up more energy, so be careful. It was freakin’ hard to change that couch’s shape. You could probably do the same with your hair and eyes, but I never learned how to do that properly. Then again, I never do things properly.” “Huh?” I said, meeting her eyes. “Gah!” The unicorn was now a different color than the last time I saw her. Her coat was neon blue, with her mane an inky black, and her cutiemark was off a microphone with sound waves coming off. Her eyes were still amber, and there was still a horn on her head. “H-how...” “The Glamour.” The neon blue unicorn spoke with my friend’s voice. “We can change the outward appearance, but the horn had to stay.” “And...why not your eyes...?” I asked. Raspberry smacked her hoof on the ground. “Well, I guess the best explanation is that my magic is still amber. Unicorn’s magic is either based off their eye color or a color on their cutie mark. Like, your eyes are purple but your magic is blue.” Raspberry explained. “It’s because your cutie mark is blue. The same applies to Celestia and Twilight. Their magic is gold and pink, in accordance with the prophecy. But their eyes are pink and purple, in accordance with the prophecy.” I blinked. A question came to me. “You learned this magic by listening in to a conversation?” Raspberry nodded. Her colors returning to normal. “It was a very good conversation.” She said, nervously. I raised a brow. “That’s my answer and I’m sticking to it.” The unicorn defended. I laughed. “This only leaves one more thing to do to prove us friends.” Raspberry gave me a wary look. “Shopping!” I cheered. Raspberry groaned, playfully. “I forgot that normal females like shopping.”