"Princess Celestia, a messenger just brought this." Celestia's new assistant, Raven, said as she handed the sealed scroll over.
"Thank you, Raven." Using a light burst of magic to loosen the seal, she unrolled it and began reading.
Given that she had only gotten the job a month ago, Raven normally would have left the room by then. However, it was the next thing to pass the Princess' lips that stopped her.
A hard, flat, "What!?"
"Your Highness?" She asked tentatively, noticing her grip on the document gradually tighten and the sound of a jaw clenching in pure anger. By time she was finished, her fingers were almost punching holes in it.
Looking up from the scroll, her voice was calm, but the iciness in it made even the nearby guards uneasy, "Raven, I don't care what you have to do or how many guards it takes," She flipped it around to show her the signatures on the document, "But I want these ponies here within the hour, understand? Drag them here by their tails if need be!"
"Of...of course, Princess Celestia!" She squeaked, running off to perform the task.
True to her word, within fifty minutes, eleven stallions and mares were being led, dragged, and in the case of two, carried while protesting vehemently.
"Celestia!" One of the ponies, a rather haughty-looking mare, called out in a demanding tone, "What is the meaning of this outrage!?"
"You'll find out soon enough." She said, before getting in the mare's face, snarling, "And that's PRINCESS Celestia to you! Understand?!" Once she gulped and nodded, Celestia began, "And you don't even KNOW the meaning of 'outrage'! Imagine mine when I received this!" She held out the message and read it out loud, " 'Princess Celestia, it has come to our attention that in recent months, you have been harboring a beast within the palace walls. This unconscionable act cannot be allowed continue. Therefore, it is the will of the landed gentry that you cease and desist with this foalishness and submit this abomination to be returned to the wild or destroyed. Non-compliance will be met with drastic action.' There's another paragraph or two, but quite frankly, it just pisses me off even more."
"It is for the good of Canterlot you...!" One of the older stallions started to say before a golden glow encircled his mouth and clamped it shut.
"Did I gave ANY of you permission to speak? No! So I suggest you keep silent!" Celestia growled, using her magic to levitate all of them into a circle around her, "How. Dare. You...How dare you think you have any say in who I call family, how dare you call any foal an 'abomination'," By this time, the floating ponies could feel their blood run cold as they watched Celestia's mane begin to whip up in fury, "HOW BUCKING DARE YOU try and order me to give up MY CHILD!!"
Another stallion blustered, "That thing has no place in the royal family! It..." He let out a extremely undignified shriek when he suddenly found himself upside down and a scowling princess filling his vision
"Care to repeat that?" Celestia hissed.
*whimper* Was all that came out of him.
"I thought not." She glared as she began to slowly spin them around her, "To be honest, I don't know what angers me more, your arrogance at thinking you blowhards could dictate something like this to me. Or your unbridled stupidity in not realizing you committed borderline TREASON with this!" She snapped.
"T-treason!?" One of them yelped.
"The line about either I do as you say or you'll take action; in effect threatening the Crown Prince."
"WHAT!" The first mare screamed, "You can't possibly be serious! How can...!"
"The adoption papers were signed and filed within the week I got him, over four months ago." She grinned at their expressions to that info, " And I have copies, so don't even think you can try and send somepony to mess with them." Clumping them together in front of her, she took a deep breath, "As irritating as I find it, consider yourself lucky that Canterlot law does not permit me to simply toss your pompous flanks in the palace cells, regardless of how satisfying it would be. HOWEVER," She added after seeing a few of them getting smug looks, "There will be NO second chance. If ANY of you even think about trying a stunt like this again, or try to get others do it for you, I WILL come after you. Not as a princess, not as an alicorn; no, you'll learn first hand how vicious a mother can be, especially one who's more than capable of sending you to join her sister...Is That. Clear?"
Eleven shaking faces nodded rapidly.
"Good. Now, guards!" She yelled, "Get them out of my sight!" Her eyes never left the group until they were led back out, "Raven?"
Being silent during the whole thing, Raven almost squeaked in alarm at her name, "OH! Y-yes, Princess Celestia?"
"Take the rest of the day off. I'm going to go see if my son is awake and spend some time with him."