Princess Changeling Rainbow Magic Pants

by Justice3442

Chapter 7: Celestia and Luna

“Wait!” Twilight Sparkle cried. Her horn quickly flashed purple before she disappeared with a flash, appearing in between Magic Pants and two massive ornate doors.

Magic Pants stopped abruptly, but serenely. “What troubles you,” she began in a tone invoking all the soothing comfort of the expansive universe, “Princess Twilight Sparkle,” she continued, “my dear, dear friend,” she finished.

Twilight smiled meekly. “Maybe I should… erm… announce your arrival to Princess Celestia before she sees you.”

Magic Pants paused gracefully and thought about this in a brief, majestic moment. “Well, we are royalty,” she postulated intelligently.

Twilight breathed a sigh of relief. “Applejack, I’ll just be a moment.”

Applejack’s eyes shot open wide. “What?! Twilight! Ya can’t—”

Twilight’s horn flashed purple as she opened the massive double doors to Celestia’s throne room, just enough for her to fit through. She practically dove through them as Applejack hollered “Twwwwiiiiiliiiiiiiiight!” in a pleading tone.

Twilight quickly closed the doors behind her.

Celestia turned, startled by Twilight’s sudden entrance and Applejack’s cry. Sitting in front of Celestia, a spectacled female earth pony with a white coat and brown hair done up in a bun mirrored the sun princess’s expression.

“Twi—” Princess Celestia caught herself and made a correction “—Princess Twilight Sparkle! What’s the matter? Is there an emergency?”

“Not exactly,” Twilight said awkwardly.

The muffled sounds of Applejack’s sobbing could be heard through the door.

Twilight swallowed. “But it is imperative I speak to you at once.”

Celestia nodded. “Of course.” She turned to her advisor. “Raven? Could you excuse us?”

A concerned look on her face, Raven nodded and began to trot towards Twilight, bowing to the purple princess as she reached a forehoof out to the massive, golden double-doors.

“Not that way!” Twilight said quickly.

Raven pulled her hoof back with a fright.

Twilight gave her a sheepish smile. “Trust me. It’s better if you take a detour.”

Wordlessly, Raven slowly nodded and turned towards one of the other doors, trotting through the large room towards it.

Celestia watched Raven leave with curious interest, then turned to Twilight. “Now Twilight, tell me what troubles you—”

“Ahhehhahhhehhheeeehhhh…” Applejack’s sobbing increased in volume.

Celestia cast a worried glance at the door. “Tell me what troubles you and Crackerjack so?”

Twilight’s cheeks flushed slightly. “Well, I had a surprise guest show up at my castle and sorta could use some help figuring out what to do with her.”

“Oh?” Celestia replied. She smiled at Twilight warmly. “Well, you know I’m always here to help if you need it. How can I assist you?”

“Welllllll it’s just… she’s a bit odd.”

“Odd?” Celestia replied. “What do you mean?”

Twilight paused, trying to think how delicately to put this as possible. “Most ponies seem to have a negative reaction to seeing er… the… mostly-pony that showed up.”

“‘Mostly-pony?’” Celestia parroted in an inquisitive tone. “You mean to tell me you found another being that’s a mix of creatures? Like Discord or a manticore?”

Twilight nodded her head up and down. “Yes, exactly that.”

Celestia chuckled gently and smiled. “Oh Twilight, we both know outward appearances don’t matter.”

Twilight shifted nervously. “Oh, I agree… but there just seems to be something about the appearance of my… associate that rubs ponies the wrong way. Specifically their stomachs.”

Celestia let out a laugh this time. “Well, I’ve been around for quite some time and would be pleasantly surprised if there was anything in Equestria capable of giving me pause for even a moment.”

“AHHHHEEEHHHEHHHHHEHHHHEHHHEHHHHEHHHHH!” Applejack wailed.

Celestia looked up at the door again. “I er… I assume they’re here already?”

Twilight nodded. “Yes.”

Celestia’s comforting smile returned. “Please tell your associate they can come in.”

Twilight breathed a sigh of relief and turned towards the entrance. “Magic Pants? You can come in now.”

Suddenly the throne room was filled with rainbows, light, and also darkness as the double doors majestically swung on their hinges.  Magic Pants radiantly stepped through them and looked up at Celestia radiantly and smiled with shining radiance. “Hello mother.”

Somehow Celestia’s white face turned whiter.

Princess Twilight, Applejack, and Magic Pants stood in front of a large, ornate door adorned with Celestia’s cutie mark. Magic Pants’ mane billowed in the windless air and shimmered with beautiful ebony darkness.

“Whouaaaahouaaaahouaaaahouaaaahouaaaa… !”

Twilight frowned at as the sounds of hysterical crying erupted from behind the doorway to Celestia’s bed chamber. Twilight wrapped on the door lightly. “Princess… Princess Celestia?”

Applejack shook her head. “She’s cryin’ worse than me.” Turning to Twilight, she narrowed her eyes. “Thanks for that, by the way.”

“Sorry!” Twilight said. “But I needed somepony to watch Magic Pa—”

“Jus’ left me alone with her as she tried to talk to me and offer me all her assorted fluids!”

Magic Pants spoke up politely, but with resolution, “The offer for me to rub my pacification putty all over you still stands.”

Applejack cringed.

Twilight continued, “Applejack, you know I wouldn’t have done that if there was any other choice, but—”

“REEEEEAAAAAL Princess of Friendship you turned out to be.”

“But I knew you’d be safe, and—”

“Ya jus’ left one of your best friends to deal with the terrible situation all on their lonesome!”

“Okay, but—”

“Nice, Twi. Real nice.”

Twilight let out an annoyed sigh. “I’ll help with next season’s apple harvest.”

Applejack thought for a moment. “The next three seasons’ apple harvests.”

“Two.”

“Jus’ ran away, not a second thought for your—cough— dear friend Applejack”

“Okay, okay! Three!” Twilight turned towards Celestia’s door and knocked harder this time. “Princess Celestia! Are you alright?!” she asked over Celestia’s bellowing.

”HOUAAAAAAAAHOUAAAAAAAAHOUAAAAAAAAA… !”

Applejack rolled her eyes. “Ah’m sure she’s fine.”

“Shhhhhh!” Twilight shushed out of the corner of her mouth.

From behind the door, Celestia attempted to regain some semblance of control over her crying. “I’m… choke… Sorry, Twilight… sob… I just… hhehh… I just thought I had the capacity to be accepting of all living things regardless of their… of their… of their appearance… and… and… I JUST CAN’T!”

Magic Pants smiled with exuberant joy to herself. “Mother is overwrought with emotion from seeing what a beautiful and elegant beauty I’ve turned into.”

Applejack rolled her eyes. “She’s overwrought with something, alright…”

“But… Princess Celestia…” Twilight said in a pleading tone. “What do I doooo?!”

“I don’t… hic… I don’t know! Oh… oh mother of me… I think I’m going to lose my lunch…”

“Princess Twilight Sparkle!”

Twilight, Applejack, and Magic Pants turned as Princess Luna galloped up to them, a look of concern on her face.

“I heard an unexpected guest arrived and upset my sis…” Luna trailed off and came to a halt, gazing upon Magic Pants in all her sparkling splendor like stars deep within the neon rainbow night sky. “…ter.”

“Princess Luna!” Twilight exclaimed. “I’m so happy you’re here!”

Magic Pants smiled with radiant beauty (but also beauty that was deep and dark like the deep blue sea, except the sea was more of an ebony color in this case as if it were cast in darkness, but beautiful mysterious darkness that captivated the sense and left one with a deep sense of wonderment and deep contentment as they gazed up at the starry night’s sky and beheld its glorious, deep splendor as they felt a deep peace with themselves as if understanding their place in the vast, deep cosmos and finding deep contentment in the knowledge that they were a small part of something much larger, and yet still important and beautiful as if they knew (deeply) they served a significant role within the immense, vast, colossal, deep universe), and nodded gracefully. “Mother, you’re looking well.”

Expressionless, Luna replied with a simple “Indeed.” She nodded, seemingly as much to Twilight as to Magic Pants.

Applejack was shocked. “Ya mean yer not gonna lose your lunch?! Yer sister is her room cryin’ like the cows broke into the cider storage and now the barn looks like the aftermath of some horrible cattle war fought with milk!”

Twilight turned and raised an eyebrow. “That was a rather specific countryism.”

Applejack put on an irritated look and turned away. “I don’t wanna talk about it.”

Magic Pants addressed Applejack in her comforting, melodious, euphonious tone of voice, “Perhaps you’ll feel better if I took you into a magical embrace of calming calmness and shared my viscous juice of euphoric euphoria?”

Applejack’s eye began to twitch as it looked as if all the muscles in her face tried to escape to the left side of it. “There are so many phrases Ah’ve heard today that I wished I hadn’t.”

Despite the oddity of what was in front of her, Luna simply shook her head, her face expressionless. “I visit the dreams of ponies every night, and have seen both nightmares and desires far more twisted than the likes of which most anypony has ever seen. It is quite likely I’ve developed a mental fortitude far beyond that of the average pony, perhaps even my sister.”

Twilight smiled widely. “Great! Then maybe you can—”

Luna continued, cutting Twilight off. “Besides, my sleep schedule is much different than that of the average pony. For me ‘lunch’ is more like a midnight snack.”

“Uh… alright... Whatever floats your cider barrel, Ah guess,” Applejack said in an unsure tone.

“Princess Luna,” Twilight began, “look, we’ve been traveling with Magic Pants for a while now and we're hoping you could shed any light onto—”

Luna suddenly made a neat, 180-degree turn. “Now, if you will all excuse me, I need to empty my stomach of my midnight snack before going back to bed and dealing with my own nightmares.”

The hallway was lit up by Magic Pants beautiful, beaming smile as she and the other mares watched Luna trot away then burst into a gallop as she puffed out her cheeks. “Mother is so proud of me!”

Applejack simply nodded. “Right, now we’re back in familiar territory. It’s like Ah’m home and my house is on fire.”

Twilight sighed. “Why does everypony keep throwing up around her?!”

Straining slightly, Applejack raised an eyebrow. “She’s kinda an impossible mismatch of everything save the kitchen sink…”

“I possess the colon of a kitchen sink!” Magic Pants informed informationally.

Twilight and Applejack stared at each other unsure how to respond.

Applejack continued, deciding to ignore the comment. “Ah mean… It’s somehow sort of stomach churnin’ just to believe she exists.”

Twilight paused for a second. “That’s it!”

Applejack frowned. “Ah don’t have much confidence Ah’m gonna enjoy the next sentence that comes outta your mouth, sugarcube.”

“Discord!” Twilight continued with a smile. “He’s a crazy miss-mash of creatures! I bet he can stomach her and help!”

Applejack paused. “Ah was right, but… fer once I’m lookin’ forward to seeing Discord, and it scares me.”

Magic Pants put a gentle and soothing, comforting arm around Applejack. “See! You’re feeling more unified already.”

Applejack tenses as if her skin had begun crawling. “Please don’t touch me.”