"Well then... I hope nobody heard that." I think to myself, with growing fear of the giant pegacorn now standing a few feet front of me with her guards. "She really is a big one, isn't she?"
Twilight and the others gasp while the guards glare at me. One unicorn guard on the left stormed up to me, horn glowing and spear pointing at my neck.
"What did you call the princess?" He asked in a venomous tone. Looking closer, he had a familiar crest on the chest piece of his armor, a sun with a face on it and an, even more familiar, bucket-like helmet.
I gulp. "Nothing! Urrrrpp!" I raise my hands in surrender and promptly throw up on him, feeling amusement and concern flow from the tentacles. "Uhhh... I'm sorry, mister.... Anyone got any spells to-uuurrrpp!" I throw up on him again. "Cure teleportation sickness?" I beg, tears running down my face. "It's starting to hurt!"
"I'll show you what hurts, you little-"
"Solaire, please stop harassing the little one." The princess commands in a motherly tone and Solaire immediately moved back into position, still glaring at me through his bucket helmet. Walking up to me, the princess's horn flashed and I immediately felt less nauseous. I look up at her and panic. The tentacles wrapped around me like a protective blanket, making me feel a little better. "What's your name, little one?" She asked lowly, crouching down, as if to make herself smaller.
"....." I was at a loss at this giant in front of me. "Rarity wasn't kidding, she is pretty intimidating up close."
"I am Princess Celestia." She introduces herself with a gentle smile. "Who are you little one?" She asks again.
"D-Dakota...." I say low enough for only her to hear. "Seriously? Scared of a pegacorn? Sigh.... Well, just lost whatever remains of my man-card today....." I think to myself, crying over whatever is left of my tattered remains of my masculinity. "I-I don't want to sound rude, but, w-what are you? I-I've never seen anything like you before..."
The princess only smiles at my curiosity. "I am an alicorn, one of the rarest races in the world, in fact."
"Alicorn? Never heard that one before." I think back to my Greek mythology.
"C-Can I go home now? O-Or maybe we can continue this somewhere else? I'm not liking the audience." I gesture to the crowd that gathered during Celestia's entrance. "Seriously, I'm not liking the stares we are getting."
Flash! Flash! Flash!
"Oh, great! The paparazzi is here!" I yell out, scared at the amount of ponies with cameras.
"ENOUGH!" Celestia roars, stopping the advance of the crowd and making me shrink behind Fluttershy while she tried to hide behind Rainbow. "Can't you all see that you are scaring the little one?" She points towards me. "I expected better of all of you, to not scare helpless children." Most of the ponies in the crowd winced before Celestia addressed Twilight next. "Twilight, I trust you know where her house is?" She asked, gaining an eager smile from Twilight.
"Y-Yes, Princess, I can take you right there." She confidently answered, horn glowing. I panicked. Not wanting to go through the unpleasant experience of teleportation, two of the tentacles went for her horn.
Too slow.
"Urrrpp! Why! Urrrpp! God! Urrrpp! Whyyyyy! Urrrpp!" I cry out from my position on the ground right next to Fluttershy. Surprisingly enough, I was just dry heaving this time around.
"O-oh my... G-Girls?" She gets their attention while rubbing my back, making me feel a little better about this.
Twilight trotted up to me, confusion on her face. "It usually goes away the second time.... Maybe...." Her horn flashes, making me feel more lightheaded. "Ah!" She recoils.
"What is it?" Celestia asked, quickly moving to her side.
"I tried a scan spell to see if something was wrong and...."
"What?"
"She has a weird magic field....There are four different magic fields making coming from her and they seem to originate from the tentacles on her back, not her heart." Her horn glows again, a look of intense concentration on her face.
"There is a heart inside each tentacle! This is amazing!" She exclaims, thoroughly excited.
"Can you explain that to the non-eggheads in the group?" Rainbow Dash confusedly asked.
"It means that they are two separate beings.... A symbiotic bond if you will. One supplies the magic and protection, the other gives a home and nutrients."
"A symbi-what now?" Applejack confusedly asked.
During the explanation, I recovered. "Wait, wait, wait.... I have magic?" I ask, more interested in the magic. "I SOO wanna be a wizard.... Yer a wizard, Harry. Heh,heh,heh" I giggle at the thought.
"Yes, though it is strange for a being having to have a symbiotic relationship to have magic..... Normally everything has magic, including inanimate objects." Twilight confusedly explained.
"Sweet! Let's continue this inside, I can see the paparazzi catching up and I reeeaaaallly don't wanna deal with them right now." I point in the direction of a crowd speeding towards us.
I open the door and let Celestia and the others enter. "Well... Welcome to my place. Just follow me, please." I say after locking the door, not wanting anymore unwanted visitors.
Leading them into the living room, I gesture to the big L-shaped couch in the corner. "I guess most of you'll fit on that... Or would you rather I put some cushions on the floor for you all to sit on?" I ask with a shrug. "I'm not sure how you guys use couches yet, so please bear with me." I inform them, noticing that Solaire is guarding the front door while the other three guards are moving to guard the kitchen doorway.
"It'll do just fine little one." Celestia assures me, taking a seat on the center of the couch.
"Okay then, just gimme a sec...." I try to move the Lazyboy recliner, my favorite seat in the house, so that it's facing them, only to find I can't. "Hnngg! Hnnn! Come on!" A golden glow wraps around the chair and moves it over to them, making me look at its source, Celestia. Everyone laughed while I blushed, embarrassed at my failure.
"T-Thanks....." I hopped onto the seat. "Alright, here's the two questions I've always wanted to ask since I got here.... How did I get here and can I go back?" I question them, getting to the point.
Celestia clears her throat. "As you may not know, there was a massive magic anomaly right where this house resides. Rarely, when enough magic gets destabilized, by somepony miscasting a spell, or by enough magic condensing into a certain area by natural means, it does rarely pull things through other worlds... Normally, it either explodes or form a crystal." She explains, me getting the gist if it. "....Currently, none of those things can be sent back... It only works one way. I apologise, but I can't send you back to your world.." She hesitantly finished, confirming my fears.
The room was silent, for a moment, until I got up from the chair. "I-I... I'm sorry...*sniffle." I say before I run away, in the direction of my room, before being stopped by Solaire.
"Halt! Where do you think you are goi-" I didn't let him finish. I ran past him and ran upstairs and took the first door on the left. locking the door behind me, I slump down, my back against the door, keeping enough mind to not crush the tentacles. I took in the familiar sight of my room, slowly accepting the fact that I was going to be stuck here, without anyone I know, without T.V, without the internet, FOREVER! I let out a small sob.
"Why... Why would this happen... To me of all people.... God, Loki, Sheogorath, whoever the hell it is, if this is your idea of a joke, please stop. It's not funny!" I finally break down. Getting up and climbing my bed with some difficulty. Sparring a moment to curse my new shortness, I finally get up there and scream into a pillow.
"Mmmmmmmmpppphhhh!" I scream, thankful that the pillow muffled most of the sound.
A half-hour later, I was trying to cheer myself up by playing the numerous games I have in my room. Currently, I was playing Mortal Kombat with the tentacles.
"FINISH HER!" A familiar voice commands from the T.V. A certain purple kunoichi, with a winning grin, grabs the blue girl near her and rips her head off, taking a few chomps from it before discarding it on the ground. "FATALITY! FLAWLESS VICTORY!"
"Awww! Come on! How can I lose to you? I used my best character!" I aggravatedly ask the tentacles Upset over losing EVERY match against them, I drop my controller in aggravation. They pat the top of my head in response, feeling smugness from them. I sigh. "Well, at least I am not crying anymore, thanks." I thank them, feeling joy emanate from them.
As I turn off the system, I hear someone coming up the stairs, whoever it was, it was big. "Hello? Are you feeling better, little one?" I hear Celestia ask from the hallway. I sigh. "What do you think? I got torn away from my family, who I can barely remember anymore, get put into a little girl's body, who is possibly some kind of human\slenderman hybrid, and am stuck in some weird pony world.... All in all, I should be insane right now." I sarcastically thought to myself.
"I-I'm alright." I say as I open my door. "W-What's going to happen now?"
"Everything's going to be just fine, don't worry." she tells me as we walk back downstairs to the living room. Once we got there, I stopped for a second, noticing everyone else was gone.
"I talked with Twilight and the others while you were upstairs and I learned a few things that disturbed me...."
"W-What did you learn?"
"Twilight showed me the photo album." She explains, magic holding up said book. "It doesn't leave much to the imagination." She tells me, melancholic understanding in her eyes.
"Which leaves me to this question... How would you feel if somepony lived with you?" She purposes with a smile as she took a seat on the couch.
I quickly got on the recliner, not liking where this is going. "Well.... That depends.... Is it going to be Twilight or one of her friends?" I ask, hoping it might be Fluttershy. "She seemed nice..."
"No, they have other things they have to do. Though, I do have somepony else in mind for this. Her name is Ashen Glade." She says as a pegasus walks in through the kitchen doorway. She had an ash grey mane that hung over one eye on the left. The only eye I could see was the brightest green eye I've ever seen. Her coat was a dirty hue of green that looked like she was living near an active volcano. The dark grey edges of her wings looked a little singed.
"Hi there." She introduces herself with a small wave and I suddenly get feelings of recognition then distrust flow from the tentacles. "Huh? That's new."
Hesitantly, I wave back. "H-Hi...." I look back at Celestia. "D-Does she have to stay?" I ask, earning a look from the princess.
"Only if you want her to."
Ashen Glade spoke up. "Hey, look at it like this, I'll help keep you out of trouble. I'll even let you choose the bedroom for me."
"....Fine...She can stay." I give up, knowing I'll lose this argument. "Anything else I should know?" I ask, earning a simultaneous wince from the both of them.
"Well.... Celestia looked at the translation spell that Twilight cast on you...." Ash trailed off, rubbing the back of her head with a hoof.
"It would appear she made a small mistake..." Celestia finished with a grimace.
"And... That would mean...?" I trail off, not liking where this is going.
".... When the spell wears off.... We can't cast another..."
"How does that work? I-I mean can't you just recast the original version?"
"It doesn't work like that. The modified spell had a hastily made base that gave you an immunity to those spells, a very unexpected side effect."
"So, that means I'll be back to not understanding you guys?"
"Well, not for too long. We'll be sending you to a school near here that will help you learn Equish. Though you'll have to wait a week or so, paperwork and all that jazz." Ash, oh, so helpfully adds.
"Great, school again...... If it's anything like back home, the different kid will be picked on.... Oh, and learning the language....son of a-! I barely even learned Spanish after a few years of classes, how am I going to learn this!?!" I think to myself, internally dreading the day I start going there.
"....sigh.... Is there anything else you wanna tell me? Anything you wanna know? Might as well lay everything out on the table before I go back to not understanding what you are saying." I say with resignation, not liking this at all.
"I want to know what you can eat... We are going to have some issues if I don't know what you are allergic to." Ash tells me.
"I'll eat just about anything you'll give me, though I don't think I can eat hay or flowers." I inform with a shrug. "What? There any unusual diets I should know?"
"Can you eat gems? Spike could eat those." Ash questions, pulling out a scroll and quill.
"......Gems? You mean like, rubies and sapphires?" I ask, perplexed at the thought.
"Yes, exactly like those."
"Screw it, let's get some gems. Might as well get a collection going." I think with a smile. "Sure, I can go for some of those."
Celestia gets up off her seat, happy that we're getting along, walks towards my front door and turns around. "I must go, little one, don't worry I'll be checking in once in a while. The spell, from the looks of it, it'll wear off by around..." She looks outside. "... Sunset, so, if I were you, I'd be sharing as much as I can, so as not to cause misunderstandings later." She turns towards ash. "Ash, I'll be sending you a monthly allowance of bits for anything you might need." She informs before opening the door, stopping again. "Oh, and Little one?"
"Y-Yes?"
"Some leaders of nearby nations might want to meet you, it's not everyday some being is brought over with its whole house. I'd advise caution when meeting them, they can be a little.... Intense at times." With that warning, she left, leaving us in an awkward silence.
"Grrrrr!"
The silence was broken by my stomach growling. I blush and rub the back of my head. "Ya hungry?" I ask, looking at the clock by the T.V., it says 2:47 P.M. I get up and walk towards the kitchen and stop at the doorway, looking at her expectantly.
"Nah, I'm good." She shrugs and I continue into the kitchen.
I take a seat on one of the chairs in there and look back at the tentacles. "Sooo...." I trail off, almost scared to ask. "Show me what ya can do." I tell them, earning feelings of excitement flood from them.
One quickly and gracefully make its way to the bread cabinet and pull out a loaf of bread, the cheap stuff, and another makes its way to get a small plate. The bread one put a slice of bread on the plate and, I dunno how it works, looked at the other one expectantly. The other tentacle glowed blue around its tip, a small ball of what appeared to be peanut butter formed a few inches away from the tip. It gently spread the peanut butter evenly on the bread while the other tentacle did the same to another slice, only it was grape jelly for this one and this tentacle glowed green. They both put both slices together on the plate and put the bread back, leaving me sitting there with a giant grin on my face. I look back to the tentacles.
"Can you do that with things other than food?" I ask them, gaining feelings of cockiness from my back from the question.
The two tentacles tips glowed and clapped. Slowly separating, a thin black mass stretched, forming what appeared to be a blade. They finished, tips inches away from a familiar sword that floated between them.
"Ooohhh, yeah. I'm going to love you guys." I say, excited at having tentacles that can make things appear out of thin air. I grab the sword, looking closer at its details.
"How you made Zangetsu, I won't ask..... But I do have to ask one more thing, can you put it away? I don't think that anyone will like a small child holding onto a very sharp blade." I ask, holding out the sword. Within seconds, all four tentacles moved in front of me, a few inches apart from each other sparks arcing between them for a second before a small rainbow ringed hole in the air formed between them. They slowly maneuvered the hole until it was directly in front of the sword. Feeling a small tug, I let go, seeing it disappear inside.
"Sweeeeet." I hum with a big smile on my face. "I will want to see more though. Maybe tomorrow, when I get semi-comfortable with this situation." I tell them, earning more excitement to flow. I grab the plate with the magically made PB&J sandwich and made my way back into the living room.
When I walked back in, I saw Ash away from the couch, looking curiously at the various movies I have on a shelf. "Hmmm... What are these? .... Some kind of book?" She mutters to herself, somehow taking a movie off the shelf with her wing.
I quietly put my plate on the table and walk up to her. "Kinda." I answer her question, making her wings flare out and throw the movie. Luckily, it landed on the recliner, I got one of the tentacles to get the movie and I looked at the cover. "The Lion King, huh? Nice choice."
"Don't do that!" She yells, not liking the jumpscare. "I almost had a heart attack!"
"Pfft, you'll be fine." I wave her off. "Now, didn't you want to know what this is?" I ask holding up the movie. "I think you'll really like this."
"Yeah, what is it?" She looks at it like it is some kind of trap.
"Just think of it as a special moving picture book." I over simplified.
Quickly walking over to the T.V, I put the movie in the DVD player, humming the whole time and walked back to my seat, getting my sandwich on the way back. I pat the spot next to me while taking a bite.
"Come on, I think you'll like this one." I tell her, getting her to take a seat close to me. I grab the remote and put the movie at the main menu. "Are you sure you don't want anything to snack on? This will go on for a little bit." I ask, earning a shake of her head.
"Nah, I've had a big breakfast."
"Okay then... Let's get this started.... Oh, wait..." I realize. "You probably won't understand this..... It's all in my language..." I frown, getting a little upset at the fact.
"It's all right, I'll probably get the gist of it." She says with a smile, motioning with her hoof to start the movie. "Now come on! I wanna check this out!" She states impatiently.
"Okay, okay, I'm startin' it right now." I giggle, liking her attitude and press play.
A half-hour passes, and I start nodding off, leaning on Ash's side, her wing draped over me like a little blanket. Ash just smiled sleepily at me and continued to watch the movie.
"I guess it's been a long day for you, huh?" She asks, shifting into a more comfortable position, taking care to not disturb my position.
"Mmm, hmmm" I quietly agree with my eyes closed. "You have no idea."
"Okay... I'll wake you up in the morning tomorrow. Just get your rest, we'll be going to the school tomorrow." She tells me, wrapping her wing more snuggly around me.
"I think we are going to get along just fine..... Wait..." I stop that train of thought. ".... Why am I going to sleep so early? I used to go to sleep much later than this! ....... maybe it's because of the tentacles using magic? Ehh... Screw it... I'll think about it in the morning...zzzzz" I fall asleep after that thought, dreaming of a peculiar blue alicorn.