Well, that didn't go as planned. Celestia thought to herself as she and her sister examined the results of their test. She and Luna had tried a mass teleportation spell over a very long distance. In order to not endanger anypony, they decided to use rocks instead of real life ponies. Also instead of going the long distance directly on the first try, they simply teleported from one parts of their gardens to the other. It didn't work.
Instead of teleporting any of the alicorns or rocks, right in front of them in a flash of light appeared a group of four bipedal, Minotaur like creatures, all lying unconscious on the ground. Two male and two female, a family. The older man had a dark brown skin and was wearing a suit. His black hair was cut short and there was a silver suitcase lying next to him.
His wife, assuming they really were a family, if the rings on their fingers weren't any indicators, had a brighter colored skin, but it was still dark. She had long brown hair and was wearing a dress, with flower motives all over it and on her feet she wore flip-flops.
The next was a young male, again with dark skin. His hair was longer than that of the older one, but was still kept short. He wore a black leather west, a black t-shirt under it, some kind of blue trousers Celestia had never seen before (jeans) and black shoes.
The last one seemed to be a complete enigma, compared to the rest. She had long black, slightly blueish hair and completely pale skin. It was like she hadn't seen the sun in ages. She wore a black t-shirt, jeans and also flip-flops (Celestia would learn the name another time).
"These are....rather unexpected results." Luna spoke slowly.
Celestia nodded dumbly. "Yes. Unexpected, indeed."
A few guards, who had been on patrol, happened to be witnesses of the failed (successful?) teleportation were approaching their leaders, carefully eyeing the bipedal beings in front of them. At first glance they didn't seem to be dangerous, but so did ponies. The Element of Laughter came to mind. Unknowingly to most ponies, she was under 24/7 watch.
"Your highness'" one of the guards spoke up "what should we do with...our visitors?" he asked.
"Bring them to the hospital wing and station two guards outside. If any of them wakes up, inform us immediately."
"Of course, your highness." The guard gave a salute and afterwards immediately called for unicorn backup in order to transport them safely.
Doctor Thin Needle (a beige colored unicorn, with a blonde mane, green eyes and a syringe as a cutie mark) was an experienced doctor, who visited a university in Manehatten in order to get her doctor title. She worked for 10 years in Canterlot General, before Princess Celestia herself made the doctor an attractive offer to work as a royal physician. The princesses each hoofpicked their own physicians and nurses, so it was a great honor and at the same time a great responsibility, working for them. The job from time to time also included taking care of other species, ambassadors, dukes, duchess etc.
Still, this one assignment took everypony working in the hospital wing off guard. The guests the Dr. Ponies and Nurses had to take care off, were from a foreign species, which has never been heard of in the entirety of Equestria. Even the princesses had no idea what the four might be, except that they might be somehow related to the minotaurs. Of course the doctors couldn't take any chances. As a result, they all started from scratch, while using any kind of analyzing method that was known to ponykind, with Doctor Thin Needle as the head of the...let's call it "project".
"Well Doctor, what are the results?" Princess Celestia asked, nibbling on her tea. It had been already 3 hours and none of the visitors has shown any signs of waking up anytime soon. Princess Luna still intimidated the poor doctor a little, but she was used to rather tense situation, so she managed to keep her calm.
"I must remind you your highness's, that these are just the initial results and nothing final. Despite this, we were able to make a few discoveries about our patients. Our analyzing spells showed that these species have a similar DNA to minotaurs, further strengthening the theory that these two species might be related to one another in some way. Some of my colleagues speculate about a random mutation, but that's just theory at this point.
By analyzing the teeth we have discovered that these species is capable of ripping flesh apart, which is quite different from our Minotaur friends, as you already know. However, we're positive that this isn't a requirement, as these species DNA has also a great similarity to those of apes. A diet of fruits and vegetables, which are rich of protein are enough to satisfy their needs. You can see the exact details of our results here." She levitated a stack of papers over to the princesses.
"Interesting..." Princess Luna muttered to herself, looking over everything.
"Yes, however there is one more thing, something me and my colleagues are worried about."
Immediately the attention of the princesses was back to the mare in front of them.
"You see, our scans for magic potential ended up three times negative and one positive. The...we assume she is a mare of her species, the one with the pale skin, her potential was off the charts, so to speak. We had multiple tests running to make sure we weren't mistaken with our results. Right as we speak, we're running some additional tests to make sure the results weren't disturbed by something we may have overlooked in the anatomy of our guests. But if we're correct, then the magical potential of the subject easily rivals the potential of Twilight Sparkle, your majesties."
Luna's face immediately went from intrigued to serious. Celestia was more intrigued to this sudden revelation. True, that were only a hooffull of beings who are capable of rivaling Twilight's magic, but it wasn't completely unheard of and with some of them Celestia was good friends. Luna was always the more cautious one of the sister, resulting in her first thoughts of the guests being a potential thread. Potential, but not necessarily enemies.
"Thank you doctor." Celestia spoke up, after a few minutes of consideration. "If there is nothing more to add, you can-"
The older sister was interrupted, by a guard entering the throne room. "Excuse me your majesties, doctor." the stallion nodded. "One of the patients has woken up. We managed to calm him down and he's now ready to speak with you."
Celestia and Luna gave each other a look. "Art thou ready sister?" Luna asked.
Celestia nodded. "This should be interesting."