Chapter 13
Chapter 13
This was it. The big day. The day I would finally be revealed to my little ponies, as Celestia is so fond of saying. I was very, very excited, and also so very scared.
I couldn’t help but wonder, what if Celestia was right all along? What would I do if there was panic? Would they accept me? Would they be willing to have a non-pony be their prince? If they decided to attack, would I survive?
All these questions and concerns kept me up for much of the night, even with Luna’s attempts to help calm my dreams. I’ll give her credit for her attempt too. It takes a lot of magic to have any effect on me in a normal incident, dreamwalking in my head nearly exhausted her magic reserves. It was just one more reason why I loved my family, they made it very clear that they loved me. Maybe Equestria would too.
I was sitting on the edge of my bed, watching the sunrise, when my door opened and in walked two mares in maid uniforms. Both were surprised to see me up already.
“Chris, you’re awake already?” Bunny asked.
“Hey, yeah. Had trouble sleeping, even with Aunt Luna’s help.”
“Your nerves bothering you, Dear?” Rarity walked up and placed a hoof on my shoulder.
“Yeah. Silly, I know. I’ve wanted to be able to walk out that gate without and escort or disguise for over a decade. Now, that the time is here, I’m worried about how the populace will react. I mean, with the exception of Mom and Fancy Pants, everypony who’s met me has responded with fear and occasionally anger. How will several hundred ponies act?”
“I want to say everything will be fine, but nopony can say that with any certainty. What I will tell you though, is that no matter what anypony else says, you have others that love you and want you here. I don’t think Iron and I would have made it without you and we probably wouldn’t even have Cotton now if it weren’t for your help.” Bunny hopped up onto the bed next to me.
I smiled a little, “thanks, Bunny, that means a lot to me.” I reached an arm around her withers and hugged her tight. “Rarity, in light of today’s events, I hereby release you and your friends from your sentence. You are free to go… or stay, or whatever you want. However, I would consider it a favor if you all stayed… for moral support.”
“Wow, you really are worried if you want Pinkie Pie’s help,” Rarity snarked, “but if it will make you feel better, than I shall be there. Even if for no other reason than to ensure the suit Fancy Pants and I made for you remains undamaged. Speaking of which, I brought it with me for you to try on and allow for any last minute alterations.”
“Excellent!”
“Indeed it is, but I won’t let you put on this beautiful new suit while you’re all sweaty. Now, get cleaned up while I bring it in for you.”
“Alright, thank you, Rarity.”
I showered, shaved and brushed my teeth. When I came back out of the washroom, Rarity had shed her maid uniform and set up my new suit on a rolling clothes rack. It looked amazing. A three piece suit with a classic black jacket and matching pants with a blue stripe down the outside, silver and blue vest, white shirt and royal blue tie with Celestia’s and Luna’s cutie marks in a checkerboard pattern.
“Wow, Rarity, it’s amazing. You and Fancy Pants do work well together.”
“Thank you, Darling, but you still have to try it on before we can call it a success.”
“Fair enough, but may I please have some privacy?”
“But I need to make sure it fits properly. I don’t really see the ne-“
“Yes, your highness,” Bunny said as she magically grasped Rarity’s tail and dragged her out of the room, shutting the door behind them.
“Well, that was quite rude.”
"I know and I’m sorry, but there is a reason he asked for privacy.”
“Oh?”
“You see, his… anatomy is a little more… exposed than ours and believe me, that was one awkward morning that I don’t wish to repeat.”
“Oh, I uh, I see.”
“I certainly hope you don’t,” I teased when I opened the door, “that would mean you messed up the design quite a bit.” In fact, no mistakes were made anywhere on the suit, it fit perfectly. I only hoped the press conference would go as well.
*****
“MY LITTLE PONIES,” it always amazed me that Celestia could make the Royal Canterlot Voice seem motherly and reassuring. When Luna used it, she sounded terrifying. She continued, “I THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING HERE TODAY ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE!”
It was noon, and I was sweating like mad off stage. Celestia was at a lectern in the center of the stage set up just outside the main entrance of the castle. Luna, Cadence, Shining and Twilight were all seated behind her on cushions. Waiting with me was the five mares who, until recently, were ‘imprisoned’ in the palace, Dust Bunny and her family, and Blueblood. During breakfast, they had all been there and offered their support, Blueblood was just silent, which was good enough for me.
“I’M SURE YOU ARE ALL WONDERING JUST WHY I CALLED FOR THIS PRESS CONFERENCE, BUT LET ME ASSURE YOU, IT IS FOR A GOOD CAUSE!” There was some murmuring and the snapping of many pictures amongst the gathered crowd as ponies wondered, theorized and gossiped. When the chatter died down, Celestia addressed them again, “I HAVE CALLED YOU ALL HERE BECAUSE I HAVE MOST WONDEROUS NEWS FOR YOU ALL, I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH A SON!”
The courtyard erupted in cheers and hoorahs. It was very lifting and heartwarming. The citizens really did love her, and as one of the ones who loved her most, I was very happy to finally see with my own eyes.
“THANK YOU, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!” I could just make out a single tear rolling down her cheek. “HE HAS BROUGHT ME MUCH PRIDE AND HAPPINESS AND I HOPE YOU ALL WILL ACCEPT AND COME TO LOVE HIM AS EVERYPONY ON THIS STAGE WITH ME HAS!” More cheering came from the crowd. “THOUGH I MUST CONFESS SOMETHING TO YOU ALL, I HAVE BEEN HIDING HIM FROM THE WORLD!” Absolute silence fell. “I HAVE HIDDEN HIM, NOT BECAUSE I WAS EMBARRASSED OR ASHAMED, BUT… BECAUSE I WAS SCARED! YOU SEE, MY LITTLE PONIES, HE IS NOT A PONY! IN FACT, HE IS NOT OF ANY SPECIES KNOWN TO EQUESTRIA!” Now that got them all talking. “HE IS, IN FACT, OF A SPECIES KNOWN AS HUMAN AND IS THE ONLY ONE OF HIS KIND HERE, SO, PLEASE, WELCOME HIM INTO YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS!” She turned and looked directly at me and smiled, which I took as my cue. “SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, HERE HE IS, MY SON, PRINCE CHRISTOPHER SOL!”
I took a deep breath and looked around at the ponies around me. They were all looking up at me and smiling, even Blueblood, which in hindsight, I should have been concerned about. I stepped out from behind the curtains and tried to ignore the shocked gasps of over a hundred ponies at once. I put on my best smile and walked forward.
So far, things were going… okay. The ponies were stunned, clearly, but nopony was panicking or screaming. Well, they weren’t at first. As I was walking out on stage, a wrinkle suddenly appeared in the carpet, as if by magic. I tripped over the wrinkle and stumbled with my hands out to catch me. Unfortunately, this made it look like I was attacking the ponies in the crowd.
I caught my stumble, but the damage had been done. Mares and stallions near the stage were cringing and shaking. Then, somepony screamed out, “the monster’s going to eat us all!” and all Tartarus broke loose.
Mothers scooped up their foals. Stallions stood between me and their families. Ponies of all types were galloping around and trying to reach the exits. Guards were doing what they could to keep anypony from being hurt or trampled. It was as if my nightmare had just come true.
I felt the energy leave my body. My legs gave out and I collapsed to my knees, my world crumbling around me. Then, on the edge of my horror, I heard hooves approaching on either side of me. A lot of hooves.
All four princesses were standing beside me, Luna and Celestia n the inside. I felt a familiar wing wrap around my shoulders. I looked up to see Celestia, and she was pissed. Her horn, as well as all the other alicorns’, was glowing furiously.
As if with one voice, all four of them yelled “STOP!!” An immobilizing spell was cast over the entire crowd, guards included. Celestia walked to the front of the stage.
“SHAME, SHAME ON YOU ALL! I COME TO YOU WITH WONDEROUS NEWS AND SHARE MY SON WITH YOU AND YOU ALL TREAT HIM AS A-A-A… MONSTER! THIS CONFERENCE IS OVER! GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES SO I MAY RETURN TO MINE!”
The spell was released and a wave of relieved sighs went out amongst the gathered ponies. Celestia stood beside me and allowed me to pull myself up by her withers. We all turned to go back inside, I was struggling to fight back the tears.
“What is wrong with all of you!?” Rarity’s voice called from behind me. “So he’s not a pony, so what! The Prince is a kind and gentle stallion who would never hurt anypony let alone eat them! Frankly, I’m ashamed of you all and pity anypony who is unwilling to give him a chance!”
I stared at her, shocked and stunned into silence. The other four mares from Ponyville coming to her side and voiced their agreement. Cotton Tail galloped straight for me and leapt into my arms. I squeezed her tight to my chest and nuzzled her. Her parents trotted up to me, too, but didn’t leap at me. Cotton squirmed from my grip and climbed up onto my shoulders.
“You’re all a buncha meanies!” Cotton yelled at the crowd. Then then hugged my head, not held on so as to not fall, but actually hugged my head. It was quite possibly the cutest thing she’s ever done.
We began to walk again. Our group of fourteen gained four more when Twilight’s parents, Fancy Pants and Fleur Dee Lis all jumped up on stage and joined us. With Cotton still on my shoulder, I walked back in with, literally, all the ponies in the world who cared about me.
*****
“Well, Mom, it looks like you were right,” we were all in the throne room and the atmosphere was very low. Even Pinkie Pie was quiet, “I never should have left the building. I won’t be making that mistake again.”
Celestia put down the cake she was angrily devouring and wrapped her wings tightly around me. As she nuzzled me, she told me, “don’t think about them, Honey, they don’t know what they’re missing out on. I’m only sorry my own ponies acted so-so-so-… thick headed.”
“It’s not your fault, Mom.” I hugged her close before we let go of each other.
I flopped down onto the Celestia’s throne and ran my hand through the one of the water pools. I had never felt so defeated. Cotton Tail climbed up in my lap and snuggled against my chest, that little filly always knew how to cheer me up, and I held her like a teddy bear. Right now, I just wanted my world to be smaller. About the size of the throne room would be good.
A guardspony approached the throne, he looked like he really didn’t want to be doing this right now. “Your highness, there are some ponies outside who wish to speak with you.”
“I HAVE NOTHING I WANT TO SAY TO ANYPONY OUTSIDE THIS ROOM! DID YOU MISUNDERSTAND MY ORDERS OR DID YOU SIMPLY CHOOSE TO IGNORE ME!?” Celestia seemed to be trying to kill the guard, and whoever was on the other side of the massive doors, with her voice alone.
“A-a-ap-pologies, P-P-Princess-ss, b-b-b-but it-it-it’s n-not y-you they w-w-w-wish to see,” I swear, if this poor guy wasn’t so well trained for high-stress situations, he would had to fetch a maid to clean the floor too, “th-they wish t-t-to see the pr-prince.”
All eyes were suddenly on me. “I’ll leave the choice to you, Sweetheart,” Celestia said.
“How many ponies are there?”
“Around a dozen, your majesty.”
“Fine, send them in.”
The guard bowed and galloped off as fast as he possibly could. I didn’t need to see his face to tell how relieved he was to be able to go anywhere else but near four of the most powerful creatures on the planet who were as angry as anypony had ever seen a pony be. In fact, he was galloping so fast, he slammed into the door before it could be opened.
When it finally was opened, there was indeed a dozen ponies waiting to enter. I even recognized one of them as Mayor Scribble. Yes, Canterlot has a mayor. Celestia and Luna can’t worry about day-to-day minutia of a city and the bigger problems of an entire country, plus the safety of the whole planet. They would never be able to get any sleep.
Scribble was doing his best to remain calm, and doing a convincing job of being placid. Not an easy thing to do under the circumstances, those being Luna and Celestia standing beside me, Twilight, Shining and Cadance directly in front of me and all the others lined up before them. Cotton was still in my arms.
“Prince Christopher, these ponies and myself wish to apologize for our actions. We were out of line and would like to try this whole thing again.”
I stepped forward, weaving through the ponies who had placed themselves before me as a living shield. As I passed Iron Hammer, I placed his daughter on his back. I had a feeling, whatever would come of this would be the best I could hope for.
“If you think you can stand being in the same room as a monster,” I snarked, “then I would very much like the opportunity to speak with you all.”
We all sat and talked for well over an hour, except for Fancy Pants and Fleur since they couldn’t leave their store closed all day. I explained as much as I could about my species and mentally complemented him on how well he handled the whole omnivorous thing, the other eleven ponies all cringed, be it ever so slightly. He told me about his family and about his political career. On a normal day, with normal ponies involved in the dialogue, this would have been an insanely boring, but I was a one of a kind creature and he was the first political figure outside the family that I got to speak with. The others were still a little too nervous for conversation, but I did get a chance to speak to them. All in all, I considered it a success. He even agreed to run damage control with the press over this morning.
*****
I walked up to the guards outside Blueblood’s chambers. It was very late at night and only the guards, Luna and a few key staff members needed for the orderly running of the palace were still awake.
“Hey, guys, why don’t you head down to the kitchen and get something to eat. I think there are still a couple of Pinkie’s cupcakes left over.” They looked at each other and grinned, they knew what was coming. “Just remember, you never saw me. In fact, I order you to, if asked, say that you were here all night and you don’t know how I got in.”
“Yessir.” They both trotted off, speculating as to just what I had planned.
Once they were gone, I took out the hair remover I snuck from the infirmary and the dye from the salon and snuck inside the room. I was going to enjoy this.
After fifteen minutes, I was done. There were lovely designs and notes scribbled in his fur and a lovely shade of green in his mane, brown streaks in his tail. With a satisfied smile on my face, I left a note on the mirror in his washroom. It read:
Blueblood,
Next time, try disguising your voice.
Love,
Chris
And that was how I was introduced to the world.
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And here I was at 5:30 in the morning, bitching and moaning about no stories being updated. And here comes this one, just in time! Thanks man, damn near died of boredom till you saved the day, and great chapter as usual!
Blueblood was the heckler? That S.O.B!
I had a guess it was Blueblood how screamed. This damn ******* !!!
4321458 Happy I could help. If you haven't already, You should try Memory Pending.
4321475 Yeah I read that a while ago lol. It feels like I've read everything on this site now.
4321481 Hmm, maybe 'Displacement' or 'Xenophilia' (its a clopfic but also a very good story with a ton of one-shots after) I also have three other stories myself.
damn blueblood you a bitch.
Blueblood did that? KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!! KILL HIM NOW AND RIP ALL OF ORGANS OUT!!!! (Don't think we'll find a heart in there though)
Hey you got featured it seems, congrats!
pissed Celestia is awesome Celestia.
Blueblood is going to have a bad time in the morning. 
4321487 As the son of Tia he is more close to the crown, so why didn't he use that to give a real punishment? Because after what Blueblood done, he not only could have destroyed the life of chris, but the trust of the ponies in their leaders, he deserve to be striped from his crown.
4321574 Would you run to Mommy when you had a way to get even?
4321614 he doesn't need to, he is above him, he is more royalty then he will ever be, he can make hip pay by himself.
.........Ok, someone needs a good,old-fashioned boot to the head.
dude this is like the normal stories i like you are swesome and great job and when i say normal it's not bad for me atleast
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of course blueblood did it, i was a while ago all like "i bet blueblood is gonna mess this up." and the author was all
and then i was all 
and he was all 
And the best part is Blueblood can't complain to Celestia without exposing himself.
Tee hee hee.
I would like to compliment author on his good work and humbly request for MOAR!!!
Celestia really shouldhave Blublood castrated so that the threat of he being able to reproduce will forever be gone from questria.
In retrospective, Chris did in fact save Blueblood, life, did you remember how furious was Celestia? If she finds out about Blueblood actions and she probably will do, a university type prank would be Blueblood last of his concern, yeah there are 4 alicorn are REALLY piss, and they found out that he made something really horrible and that could had ruined a lot of things…
Yeah Celestia turn him into a mouse and put him in a glass cube surrounded by angry cats, would be going easy on him in that kind of situation.
So yeah…Chris just save his life
4066800 Did you even read the Story? The Explanations are already there. And she not really could keep him a secret. The ponys how saw him just dont know he was Celestias son and thinking he was some kind of "bighoof".
Hey I had this question, where is Discord? all that chaos must had attract him, also I was wonder if he and Chris get along
4322331 You know that his comment was written at the beginning of this story... ? ...as in 'only the 1st chapter was written'. And is one works out from what was written in the 1st chapter, that was in fact a very relevant question.
4322491 Really? No, I didn't saw when the comment was placed. Then I have to Apologize to him.
4066800 I wish to apologize for my previous comment. I didn't saw the time when you wrote this comment. I hope you can forgive me...
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I prefer the sort of chaos that makes sense. (Now go ahead and try to work that one out.)
Besides, Discord tends to work with the impossible much more than he does the improbable.
But yes, it's still ironic, and I find that amusing.
4322513
I was getting ready to get all angry at you for your unjust accusations, but as you saw your mistake and offered an apology before I had the chance, you are free from my wrath and I accept your apology.
4322614 I thank you for your generosity to accept my apologies.
Wait 4 alicorns, I thought there was only 3 at the moment unless I miss something
I thought Celestia was going to get all
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4322619 My work here is done.... BACK TO THE INTERNET!
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4322699 Twilight, Candence, Celestia and Luna = 4
4322437 Like in the show, Discord doesn't exactly live just down the road. I may introduce him later, but I'm not sure.
4321917 Valid point,
but maybe I just needed an excuse to introduce King Gurfon.
Oh, Blueblood was a heckler. I thought he tripped Chris...
I am definitely happy that I found this story in the featured section. It is full of small errors, but great all the same.
4322938 oh must of miss that part about twilight
4322938
Fair enough, we just had to meet him, meeting Chris I mean we all know how weird it was that Celestia decided to give Discord a chance, and I was wonder if she did, because Chris ask her, or something, you know?
I mean why would she give him a chance if she leave him be for more than over 1000 years, what change now?
read this story from start to now and im addicted, i really really want more right now...
if. if you dont mind that is
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4322975 I was trying to hint that he did both
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the Shy
4323397 and the beating, can't forget that.
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That its what all say yeah
4323355 I fought aliens when I was playing pretend. Who's to say others didn't fight zombies, or Nazis?
4323615 lol u just reminded me of that. *happy sigh* those were the days, fighting nazis in Germany or dinosaurs on Jurassic island to fighting for survival in the amazon... I miss it.
next chapter plz
Oh how subtle of you Blueblood, right up their with trying to assassinate someone with one of your known bodyguards. You think you can play the game of thrones but you are just a wannabe that has too many resources at his disposal for the good of the realm. One day you'll fall I only hope you don't bring anything down with you before and when it happens.
damn! Chris has the patience of a saint what with everything hes put up with, its actually quite inspirational. just a few silly curiosities: how will the diamond dogs react to him (i geuss it doesn't really matter) and do cocatrices have any effect on him?
regardless, i started/finished reading this story today and im glad to add it to my favourites.
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I wasn't insinuating anything..I was just thinking out loud.
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Ah, now I get it.