Suddenly, I was awake. I found myself on a rather comfortable bed, uncovered by the soft velvet blankets. However, as I sat up, I heard a melodic voice say, "Ah, you are awake. How are you feeling?"
I turned to the voice, where I saw a beautiful woman standing before me. She was tall, but not grotesquely so, and she had long hair reaching her lower back. Said hair was the rainbow pastel that I had seen before. It was also moving with no wind behind it.
She exuded kindness, and this came forth through her eyes the most, with the magenta orbs looking at me over a soft smile. Her white outfit was simple, yet complemented her perfectly, with golden accents tastefully placed all around the outfit. The most eye-drawing point was the large sun emblem right above her heart.
While I took her form in, I said, "I am fine, I think. At least, I don't feel like anything is broken..."
She nodded her head with the smile never moving from its position. Beside her, a dark blue form materialized from the shadows, where a slightly more powerful voice asked, "That is good. Now, wouldst thou explain why you crashed into our throne room?"
The one who spoke was also a woman, though she was slightly shorter than the other one. Her hair was also around the same length as the other's but was transparent and filled with points of light, like stars. It was also waving in a non-existent wind.
She was much colder in her body language, and her icy blue eyes never left mine. I figured she was the bad cop of the situation. Her outfit was about the same as the other woman's, but was a dark blue with black accents. Like the white and gold one, there was a crescent moon over her heart, along with a splotch of black underneath it.
The first woman spoke up, turning to the second woman with a calming tone, "Now now, sister, she just woke up from what I don't doubt was a very hard fall." She then brought her mouth closer to the woman's, her sister's, ear and whispered, "You also slipped into the old tongue." The smaller of the two blushed slightly, but regained her composure well enough.
However, I did answer her question by saying, "Well, I woke up on the top of the mountain above your castle, where I accidentally set off an avalanche. I didn't hurt anyone, did I?" I crawled to the edge of the bed and took on a pleading tone for my question. I brought my hands in front of my chest and gripped my right fist with my left hand. I dearly hoped that I hadn't.
Both of them looked at me curiously, while the first sister said, "So you were the cause of that...it should do you conscience well that no one was harmed. The walls around this city were magically reinforced against such a thing." The smile was back on her face. I breathed out a sigh of relief and relaxed, closing my eyes in thanks to whatever deity was watching over me.
"Thou-ahem, you still have yet to answer my question. How did you end up in our throne room from the top of the mountain?" the, presumably, younger sister asked.
Crap, I think of a good story to get them off my back. But I don't want to lie...But then they might lock me up for sounding insane...AGH! Fine, I'll see if I can get a good story up to snuff, I thought, trying to look like I was remembering the journey.
I took another glance at the women, when I suddenly noticed that they both had wings as well. The taller sibling had alabaster colored wings, while the younger one had dark blue wings. This led me to believe that my wings were not that strange, as evidenced by the kinder sister not asking about them. Though, I was wondering why they did not ask about my golden skin. I folded my legs to my right side, like I was about to recount a story.
"I...It's hard to remember..." I started. Taking a deep breath, I tried to look like I was focusing. "I think I was flying over the mountains on an adventure, when I was hit by an extremely strong downdraft. I was slammed into the side of the mountain, where I presumably fell into the snow," I said, taking a quick glance at the two sister's faces.
They both did not look too amused. The nervous smile on my face dropped, and I bowed my head a little in guilt. I could feel my wings droop a little as well.
I heard one of the two breath in, like she was about to speak, but she was cut off. Footsteps came towards me and I felt a soft hand on my left shoulder. I tensed up, but I didn't need to. The taller one was suddenly in my vision as she knelt down to my level.
"If you do not truly remember, then you need only say so, child," she said in an extremely soothing voice. She still had that small smile on her face, inviting me to trust her.
I looked away slightly and said, "It's not that I don't remember. It's just, the truth is hard to believe. I wouldn't believe it myself if I wasn't here."
"Let's just take this one step at a time. Why were you in such an uncontrolled fall that you crashed into our castle?" she asked calmly.
"I...I had just figured out how to use these," I said, fluttering my wings a little, while trying not to shred the blanket underneath me. "I was trying to fly away from the avalanche coming after me, so I flapped down as hard as I could. But...something happened, and I suddenly shot off the mountain. As my wings went all the way down, I could almost feel as if something was shooting me out of a cannon."
"You mean, you did not have wings before?" the young sister asked, who had come to sit next to me on my left. She looked a little puzzled. Not that I would blame her. I was relatively sure I was not on my Earth anymore, as evidenced by the fact I was now a golden angel thing, two women with wings were asking me questions, and I'm pretty sure they had mentioned magic earlier.
"No ma'am," I said, shaking my head.
"...Tia, I don't think she is lying now," she said to the taller sister. She had stood up by now and had a hand to her chin in contemplation. I waited for a couple seconds, while 'Tia' was thinking.
"What were you before you gained your wings?" she suddenly asked me.
"Uh, I was sort of a blacksmith with a focus on decorative armor and weapons, nothing meant for war really," I answered truthfully. Even if I did leave the part out about being a guy and also being not-gold.
She nodded her head once, still in the same pose. Then she asked another question, "Is this change permanent?"
I opened my mouth to answer, but closed it again as I thought. I then said, "I honestly don't know."
She 'Hmmm'-ed.
I looked at the other sister in confusion. She glanced at me before she stood up and said to her sister, "I will oversee the repairing of the window before the Day Court begins." Tia nodded absentmindedly.
Then the younger sister left the room. While Tia was thinking, I looked around the room. It was very extravagant, with white walls and pillars with other colors designed into the wall, making interesting symbols if I looked at it in a certain way. There was a small balcony through which the sun could be shown rising. The vista outside reminded me of the sight from the mountain, with green fields and blue lakes dotting the landscape.
I heard a light chuckle from Tia, and I turned back to see her smiling wistfully at the same balcony I was looking out of from the bed. I believe we both knew what she wanted to say, but we also both knew that it was unnecessary. Breaking the comfortable silence, Tia said, "Alright, since nothing was really damaged and no one was hurt, and since you are quite obviously new here, I have an idea for you. But I would like to use a small spell to analyze your memories in order to determine the kind of person you are. I will not personally see these memories, but this small orb," she help up a crystal clear ball that had materialized from somewhere, "will indicate who you are based on your memories."
I didn't see any harm in it, so I nodded. She held out the crystal and indicated for me to take it. The instant I touched it, the crystal started swirling with colors, probably getting aligned to my body. Once the colors died down, a small golden ball appeared in the center of the crystal, and just kept swelling in size and brilliance. White stripes flowed around in the gold, like clouds across a golden planet.
I looked up at Tia, who was smiling almost giddily. With a wave of her hand, the orb disintegrated and flowed to her hand. It reformed in her hand while I looked on in awe. I had never seen something so simple and yet so beautiful. She set the orb down on a desk and said, "Thank you. Now then, I shall introduce myself. I am Princess Celestia, and my sister who left a few minutes ago is Princess Luna."
I hastily got to my feet and bowed, but Princess Celestia laughed and said, "Don't worry about that, child." I straightened my back and held my hands in front of me.
"I am...Celedon," I said, hesitating at the name. It almost seemed to come to my mouth without my knowledge. But the name just seemed to fit.
Princess Celestia smiled and nodded, "Well then, Celedon, I formally welcome you to Equestria."