//------------------------------// // I, Megan // Story: My little Short Stories 2- Paradise Edition // by Paradise Oasis //------------------------------// I, Megan "Milady, milady, it's time to get up!" The voice breaks the stillness of her slumber. The blonde woman's eyes open, and she rises from her bed to greet the day. Dressing to greet the new day, the noble lady puts on a ruffled white gown, embroidered with all sorts of colorful flowers. Washing her face in a small basin, she opens the door, and greets the servant girl with a warm smile. "All right, Jeanette. I'm awake." The noble woman told the servant girl. "I'm awake. What's on the itinerary for today?" "Princess Aline will be visiting you today, my lady." Jeanette tells her, curtseying to her mistress. "You need to make those arrangements for the banquet you and your husband will be holding in Sir Huguenot's honor next week." The fair lady had forgotten this important date, but she took the news in stride. In her younger years she had handled everything from demonic centaurs, to evil witches and their unstoppable glob monsters, to wild penguins who could freeze livings beings with a simple gaze. In light of all these experiences, simple preparations and planning for a noble visit were easy matters for the lady to deal with. Reaching for her daily planner, the lady began directing the servants to hanging tapestries and setting tables. Originally being a farm girl from the other world, the noble woman was very adept at getting a great deal of work done in a very short amount of time. But nothing had prepared her for the demanding level of coordination and planning skill that marrying a knight in the court of King Scorpan's court would entail. Still, she had taken on larger problems in her life before, and she had jumped into this challenge the way she had all of the others." "Jeanette, make sure my husband receives an invitation to the banquet." The noble told her handmaiden gently. "You know how Alonzo would forget his own head if it were not attached." "Yes, Mistress." Jeanette replied, drawing the curtains in the dining hall's open. "It shall be done." The noble lady glided about the room, her graceful movements and beautiful form matched by none other in the castle surrounding her. The peak of femininity, she was the envy of many of the ladies at court, and desired by many of the males. Very few of these nobles would believe that this goddess in human form had once worn armor, and cut down many a fell beast with a blood-soaked sword. A warrior maiden, who came across the rainbow from earth, and protected Ponyland from any villain who dared threatened them! But this had been a different time in the lady's life, a time she wished to put far behind her. She had done everything in her power to move away from the young blonde woman with the take-charge attitude, making the transition from a heroine to the simple wife of a knight errant. Better to put the horrors and nightmares of the past behind her, to bury the tomboy underneath layer upon layer of frilly and lacy dresses and undergarments with ruffles. This was the peaceful life she desired, no more violence, no more blood... ... no more saying goodbye to dear pony friends, putting them into the ground when they died at the hands of a monster she stubbornly insisted on fighting. "Megan, are you done with your planning yet?" A white mare asked the noble woman, trotting into the great hall of the castle. "It's almost time to go and meet Sir Alonzo. Are you ready to go yet?" "Just a minute, Sundance!" Megan replied, putting a few finishing touches on her arrangements. Sundance... a dear friend from her younger days, she was the pony Megan saw the most these days. True, she went to visit the others at Dream Castle whenever she got the chance, but Lady Megan Williams-Pendragon rarely had any spare time to speak of these days. Still, she had promised Queen Majesty that she'd come and pay her respects with the coming of the new year, and she did technically have a free day coming up after Sir Huguenot's visit, after all... "Say Sundance, how are things back in Dream Valley?" Megan asked her dear friend. "I haven't heard anything from my brother, or any of my old pony friends in quite a while." "Oh, everything's great back home, Megan!" The white earth mare replied, smiling. "Oh, sure, we have an occasional monster attack now and then, but everyone's doing pretty much all right, know what I mean?" "Yes, it would be so great to see everyone again." The blonde-haired noblewoman replied with a sigh. "We could catch up, maybe have a tea party, do each others hair..." "And then we could go on an adventure!" Her pony friend replied excitedly, at which Lady Megan immediately turned pale. "An... adventure?" Megan closed her eyes, and a rush of unwanted memories- a battle with a troll, Baby Shady jumping in to save her friends, the horrible screams, the blood... "No, no more adventures!" The noble maiden said in a panic, her eyes as wide as a deer in headlights. "I don't want anything to do with an adventure!" "Oh, okay Megan, if you say so" Sundance replied in a disappointed tone, trotting a little slower towards their destination. "I still think it'd be fun to go out on a quest again. No, Megan thought to herself, she had put that life behind her a long time ago. Just like she had put her life in the other world behind her. Better to look ahead to a brighter future, she reasoned, than staying mired in a painful past. The two friends then rode of for the rest of the trip in silence.