//------------------------------// // Meeting of Minds // Story: A Body for Two // by Daxn //------------------------------// "C-cousin? W-where are you?" "I'm over here. Come on, get over here, the Light awaits you on this side of the bridge!" "W-why a-are you..." "I will explain later! Move up, move up, move up!" "I-I guess... I should try to walk over there... aaah!" "Luisa!" My name is Luisa Arjani. I'm eight years old. My chest hurt badly and I wasn't really sure why. The only thing I could remember was my cousin Filiberto, some people with knives in their hands, a bridge, Filiberto talking about changing appearance and shining like a diamond, something that looked a lion's paw made of pure darkness, and Filiberto shouting one of his strange phrases in a language I could not understand. Everything was so confused... I just felt scared. I just wanted to go home! But, lucky me, apparently my wish was granted, because I felt a pillow under my head and the bed under the rest of my body. But I also feel a voice, a girl's one, talking to me. "What the heck are you? What are you doing in my mind and in my body?" "Huh?" I say, confused by it. I didn't' know who was she, but the voice sounded familiar... "Yes, you, what are you doing in this place, namely Diamond Tiara Divesnia's mind?" The voice said to me. I remain silent for several minutes. Diamond Tiara? If Diamond Tiara was there, with me, it could mean only one thing... I was in Equestria! In My Little Pony World! Now I can meet all my favourite ponies! Of course, if I could find a way, and if Diamond Tiara stops shouting at me. "Get off me! Get off me, Get off me!" I look around me, and I see her standing atop of a red velvet pillow, in a room with was decorated with stuffs that were out from an Arabian palace. "But I'm not onto you!" I say. "But you are in my most private property, my thoughts. Leave this instant, or I will make you!" She shouts again towards me, still leaving me confused, because she said I am in her thoughts. But if I'm in her thoughts, why am I seeing a room? Why am I standing on a floor? Why I'm not floating? "Sorry, but I don't understand... I mean, I'm in your head?" "Yes, you are, genius!" She says once more "Did you suddenly forgot how to get out of ponies' minds?" "But... I don't know how I did it!" I say. Sure she's annoying! No wonder the Cutie Mark Crusaders hate her! "Ugh... wonderful... I have a mind-invader with no clue on its abilities. Beautiful, just beautiful." she says, as she gets up, and walks to two shutter I did not noticed before "Well, since you are clueless in how you got there, I guess you don't know how to control me either." I try to reply, but I feel my eyes hit by a wave of hurtful light. I close my eyes tightly, and open them back once I feel more comfortable in doing so, and I see a dark bedroom. However, I still can recognize two big and fancy wardrobes at opposite sides of the room, a line of chests, and a desk just under a closed and shuttered window. I also can see that I'm under the pink covers of a bed. "Hey! That wasn't supposed to happen!" Diamond Tiara calls me. I turn around, but see nobody, so I wonder out loud. "Where are you?" "In your head, you imbecile." She says "I am in your head, and I somehow can't cont..." I feel one of my limbs moving away from me, without me commanding it, creeping me out, and causing me to flail the other limb around. "No, wait, I actually can control my body, despite seeing only from the right eyes!" Diamond Tiara said with a chuckle, as I felt all my limbs move outside the bed's covers onto the floor. I feel my heart pound harder as this happens. "Wha-" "Look, let me be quick and brief about this deal, because I don't have time for this," Diamond says, as my body kept moving without my control "You are invading this mind without anypony's permission. Therefore, act like the guest you are, and do not attempt to do or say anything without my permission, be it explicit or implicit. Understood, or do I have to repeat that, and maybe slam my pretty hooves hoof hard against a marble pillar?" I nod a little afraid, as my and Tiara's body keeps moving forwards to an open door. There, Diamond turns on the light with my hoof, revealing a bathroom with white tiles floor, with a strangely-shaped punctured tile in the corner of the room. I can also see a big mirror above a white round sink, just like Filiberto's bathroom at his house. My room-watching is interrupted by Tiara. "Liking it? Hope so," she says, as she took a toothbrush lying on the sink's surface "Because you will have to get used to it until you learn how to get out of my head." I sigh, as she puts toothpaste onto the brush and starts to brush her-mine teeth with it. This is going to be a loooong day for me... As soon as she is done cleaning the teeth and the face, she walks towards the corner of the room where the weird tile is. As she moved the body, I feel something burning on my and her cheeks as if we were blushing. "Now, Miss... Whoeveryouare, could you please shut yourself down for a bit? I need to pee." "B-but... I can't!" I say, also embarrassed by the idea of peeing with somebody else else around. "Try! I do not want anybody to peek!" She says, clearly as flustered as I am, so I try to make it clear "Neither do I!" But, of course, she keeps begin mean "Yes, but this isn't you body, this is mine, you are just a 'guest'!" "I know," I say "but I'm here too, you gotta share this body with me!" "And the Habeas Corpus? And how the buck can I share my body anyways?" "I don't know what Habeas Corpus is, and honestly I've never tried to share my body with somebody else, but I still can't avoid to see you peeing." I say, now more frustrated now. She sighs, as she moves ourselves to the tile, which now I could understand was the WC. I can't understand why it is a hole in the floor, but I think it's because ponies poop and pee while sitting on their rumps. Not unlike how human girls do it, actually. "Fine then. I guess I have no sane choice but this," she says, as she sat over the hole "I mean, the other option is go on, resisting until I wet myself at school while listening to the teacher or working on the lesson." I do nothing, as urine is let out of our body, and Diamond cleans up the private parts after that. Done with it, we move out of the bathroom and go downstairs and, as I do so, I ask. "What do you usually have for breakfast?" She snorts as she goes down the stairs of her house, the walls covered in paintings of pretty-looking landscapes. "Mint chocolate whatever, and milk. Sometimes mushroom ham, but only if htye bother toast the bread, otherwise I don't eat it at all." "So picky?" I ask, surprised to hear she is so limited in what she eats "Why that?" "Do I really need to explain, or is the answer 'I prefer those things above other breakfast foods' enough for you?" I groan offended. "I was just trying to talk!" "I'd rather not," she says, as she moves our body down a short hallway, one that seems to lead into some kind of dining room "It helps that I've got no coffee yet, and that I've been just invaded." "Coffee?" I ask, as my and Tiara's body gets sit down by her onto a red pillow-chair nearby a glass table "You drink it?" "Yes, is that a problem?" She answers, before moving our body's hoof near to the mouth, and shout. "Dolos Eliziòs, my bluter, please bring in the breakfast, because I need it...." Diamond sighs "desperately." I hear the sound of hooves quickly moving, and soon, from a sliding door I failed to notice before, a bald light blue pony comes into sight. He is an unicorn, and is levitating a metal tray, just like the butlers do in the movies. On this tray, there is a white mug and a jug that looks made of silver. "Nai, Miss Tiara," He says dryly, while he puts the tray onto the table "what else can I bring in for you, desponìda?" Not knowing what I can eat nor what Tiara's family has in the fridge, I decide to let Tiara order. "Mint chocolate cookies," she says, while the butler put milk in the mug "and a piece of cake please." He nods and goes away again. "Wow, cake?" I ask curious "How's that? Cream? Sponge bread and strawberry?" "Chocolate," she answers "With chocolate chips on top with pieces of melted chocolate in the mix, with cocoa cream in the middle." "Something tells me you like chocolate!" I say kidding. She groans as answer, and I huff to her. "Are you always like this in the mornings?" "Well," she says, as she takes, to much of my stupor, the mug in only one of our hooves "do you think you would act any better, if a beast entered in your mind and started to pester you with its pointless chatter?" "Hey! I'm not a beast!" "You count as one for me," she says, as she takes another sip of the sweet milk "after all, I kind of don't know what animal you are, and if you are just a freak accident of said species." "I am a human," I say "And, for the record, everybody I know can speak!"" "Eh, whatever," she says shrugging, the sound of the butler's hooves resonating again again in my and her ears. "Idoù to geùma, Miss Tiara," he says, putting a plate with some biscuits and a slice of the super-cake requested by Diamond Tiara, on the table where we were sitting. Thought, naturally, my attention is set to what the butler had just said, because it just sounded weird. "What?" I said, apparently not realizing I just had taken control of our body's mouth, and that I just asked that question. I felt our face begin hit by our hoof. "Ouch!" I shout, while Diamond Tiara just huffs, before saying "That's what you get for asking such a question out loud without my permission!" "But I was just asking!" "Don't ask it to him, you cretin, ask it to me!" Then she sighs "Anyways, he said 'Here's the breakfast' in Greek." "You are rude..." I say with a whine, which in turn nets me a "You are the rude one for begin in my mind. Now shut up already!" At this point, I just don't feel like protest, and actually shut up, letting Tiara go on in eating her breakfast (but still enjoying the taste of all those things), putting the books in her rucksack for school, and finally getting out of the house for go to school.