Welcome to the jungle

by Hiver

Chapter 42

The day had actually been pretty light. A lunch with the King, then Sunny and Sparks had taken a tour of the city.

I had gone over all of the reports and such while they were out. Which is what I was still doing now. I didn’t have Sparks close to photographic memory, I actually needed to study.

I wasn’t actually here to help the Griffons though, I was here to oversee the talks and mediate, not take a side, which was something I had to keep in mind.

Sparks poked her head in from the balcony, “Page, they’re here.”

Looking up from my notes, I nodded and jumped off the bed and headed out to join Sunny and Sparks on the balcony. Celestia’s Sun was setting in the distance and it took me a second to spot what Sparks were looking at.

A dot in the distance, slowly growing larger.

Sunset put a hoof on the stone railing, peering into the distance, “Just one airship.”

“Yep,” I agreed, “That’s according to what they sent to the Griffons so that’s as planned. The real work starts tomorrow… you girls ready?”

Sparks nodded, “Ready,” she agreed and then smiled at me, “I made a list.”

“Everypony is very surprised,” Sunny teased and winked at her before she snorted in amusement, “And I’m ready as well… well… as much as I can be, this show is all up to you two. I’ll just sit there and be pretty.”

“And you do it very well,” Sparks teased and kissed her cheek, causing the unicorn to blush softly.

“Very well indeed,” I agreed with a smile before turning back to looking towards the incoming airship. It made a very familiar silhouette.

Same model as those that attacked Canterlot.

Not a happy memory. I sighed softly and Sparks brushed her wing against mine as she looked at me, “We should all go get some sleep. There will be an early morning tomorrow.”

I just nodded and sighed, “You’re right, we should,” I admitted and flicked one ear. I really need to talk to Celestia about this entire thing.

“Want to watch the Sunset first?” Sunny asked, “The view from here is amazing, as good as from Canterlot.”

“Oh, I don’t know,” I said and smirked, “I think I prefer watching Sunset inside. What about you, Spark?”

“Mmm… definitely. Can be a very nice view.”

Sunny blushed.

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I slowly opened my eyes, looking out into the brighter and now slightly blueish haze of my little bubble of dream stuff. I no longer floated in the middle of nothing, now I laid on a circle of some sort of glassy black material.

Progress, at least. Nobody said that making a new… well… not world exactly, but area… would be fast in any way shape or form. I mean, even somebody that was meant to be almighty was supposed to have taken seven days, after all.

Stretching my wings, I sat up and then got up and stretched with a small yawn. Whatever it was, it was exhausting.

So enough for tonight. Sunshine should be asleep by now anyway.

Exiting the bubble, I left it behind and headed towards Celestias dream. It was where I expected, silvery and blue and I barely paused as I walked into it.

The dream crashed into view, leaving me in a square in… not Canterlot… ah, the village outside the Castle of the Two Sisters, I could see it in the distance.

Nopony else was in sight, but Celestia was lying beneath the tree at the center of the square and next to her was the world's largest cupcake. Topped by the world's most massive cherry. Seriously, the berry was larger than a pony!

Fucking dibbs!

I tapped my hoof against the cobblestones as I approached, solidifying the dream. Celestia looked up towards me and she smiled,

“Page. How was your day?”

“Studying,” I admitted and stopped, looking up at the muffin, “I like your dream.”

Celestia grinned and shifted her wings, “Don’t ask me. You’re the Dreamwalker.”

“Well,” I said and eyed her, “It certainly draws attention to your cherry.”

“Hungry?” she asked with a smile, “You can have it anytime you like.”

I smiled, “I certainly wouldn’t mind. One of the good things about dreams, you can have as much as you like. You never tire.”

Igniting my horn, I lifted the pony sized cherry down and floated it along as I walked to lay down on the grass next to the larger alicorn, “The Yeti arrived today,” I then added.

“Long day tomorrow,” Celestia agreed softly, “Remember, you’re not-”

“Not on anypony’s side,” I said and shifted my wings, “I am here to mediate, not take sides.”

Celestia nodded as she regarded me. I delayed by taking a bite of cherry, chewing thoughtfully,

“It’s difficult,” I admitted after a moment, “To think like that. I like the Griffons. I dislike the Yeti. Putting that behind me and being neutral… it’s difficult.”

“Welcome to holding Court,” Celestia said gently, “Often, you just mediate between two sides. Especially for us, that has been something we have done often.”

“Princesses?” I asked after swallowing a mouthful of cherry.

She smiled and shifted her wings, “Alicorns. Even before unification, some ponies asked for us to mediate because of that.”

I nodded. That made sense. A thought struck me and I took another bite of cherry before I looked up at her, “Sooo… how long was it before ponies started to worship you?”

Celestia smiled wryly, “Around the same time as it became well known that we could move the sun and the moon. Unfortunately, discouraging it didn’t really help for quite a while.”

“Well, to be fair,” I said and had some more cherry, “Not like praising the sun requires a physical being. There is that big great glowing thingy in the sky.”

“No,” Celestia said and flicked one ear with a small thoughtful frown, “But it does get decidedly more creepy when they make statues of you and sacrifice creatures to it.”

I blinked and then nodded, “Ah. Yes, that would do it,” I agreed and frowned, “Did that happen?”

“A few times,” Celestia sighed softly, “Usually some far away cult. We always discouraged ponies worshipping us, but it never seemed to help much. Nothing like that has been widespread for a long time, thankfully.”

I eyed her, “...Beautiful Immortal god-princesses, moving the heavens, at least twice as large as any other pony and with aspects of all the tribes,” I said and raised an eyebrow, “What could possibly have brought that reaction from some ponies.”

Celestia shot me a displeased look and I cheerfully took a large bite of cherry, chewing.

“You may find it amusing now,” Celestia said and raised an eyebrow of her own, “Just wait until it starts happening to you.”

I grinned and then licked juices off my muzzle, “Oh please, nothing I do is anywhere near flashy enough. I barely ever even enter dreams to adjust them away from nightmares anymore, nopony sees me work most of the time. Cadence, definitely. Sparks, oh yeah. Me? Eh, kind of doubt it.”

Celestia, Princess of Equestria and Alicorn of the Sun, rolled her eyes.

I took advantage of her distraction and went muzzle deep in the juicy fruit.

Comments

[HELLO THERE]

Thanks for the chapter

[Mitril]

“Hungry?” she asked with a smile, “You can have it anytime you like.”

Oh ....don't worry he isn't in a hurry

I smiled, “I certainly wouldn’t mind. One of the good things about dreams, you can have as much as you like. You never tire.”

OHHHHHH
Also, try to explain the stains to Twilight and Sunset and why your psychical body is strained and in pain

“Well, to be fair,” I said and had some more cherry, “Not like praising the sun requires a physical being. There is that big great glowing thingy in the sky.”

OHHH eat her out--I mean how big is that cupcake's cherry?

Celestia shot me a displeased look and I cheerfully took a large bite of cherry, chewing.

To eat that cheery you would need a long neck-I mean long tongue- I mean a big mouth--FUCK!

Celestia shot me a displeased look and I cheerfully took a large bite of cherry, chewing.

Now you make eye contact while you eating her--I mean the cherry!?

[ShadowHell]

“Well,” I said and eyed her, “It certainly draws attention to your cherry.”

“Hungry?” she asked with a smile, “You can have it anytime you like.”

I smiled, “I certainly wouldn’t mind. One of the good things about dreams, you can have as much as you like. You never tire.”

Now imagine to read this without any context. You would think that this is some sort of clop story

[Asolem2]

Celestia, Princess of Equestria and Alicorn of the Sun, rolled her eyes.

Yeah, she knows it'll happen

[UnamusedWaffle]

Murphy’s Law, Page. Murphy’s Law.

[Silent Wing]

Now, if Cadence was to watch this dream, her frustration with those two would know no bounds.

[shadow wolf1573]

Page likes eating sunbutts fruit eh? Nice. Nice indeed

[Bobbles]

“Well,” I said and eyed her, “It certainly draws attention to your cherry.”

“Hungry?” she asked with a smile, “You can have it anytime you like.”

[Black--Soul]

Hmmm Page~♡ You really enjoy Celestias cherry and cherrish every drop of juice 👍

[KKSlider]

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He is willing a time travel arc into existence

[Caffeinated Pinkie]

Loud construction was ongoing in the distance. The Shipping HQ was being rebuilt following it's utter destruction. In the meantime, Cadance built a mighty fort of cardboard boxes from which shipping may be done. Her entire face was wrapped in bandages due to being inside the HQ when it was destroyed. Also, Discord was there.

Discord: How are you doing Cadance?

Cadance moved her hoof in a so-so manner.[/]

Discord: That's good! Have you been keeping tabs on the Pagelestia situation?

Cadance moved her hoof extremely aggressively. She was either angry or her tail was stuck.

Discord: I know. Those two are so frustrating. I wish I could just use my magic to make them stop this nonsense.

Cadance glared at Discord. He couldn't see this through the bandages.

Discord: I know, that's not how love works or whatever.

The ground started violently shaking. Cadance looked around frantically.

Discord: By the way, did you hear that Chrysalis and Page finally kissed?

Cadance let out a silent scream as both the cardboard fort and the distant HQ construction collapsed to the ground.

[drFraud]

“A few times,” Celestia sighed softly.”

A little sacrifice here... A small sacrifice there... Some offerings and a nice circle of blood and *puff* comes the magic goddess, and she doth not look pleased.

[windy_prance]

Page: Oohhh...it seems I have found the center!

Celestia: Well it took you long enough. HEY! Stop playing with it!

Page: But I can't help it~! This pit is so hard and we--- wait wait stop stop! Time out!

Celestia: What's wrong?

Page: All of these cherry innuendos are not as fun without anypony being annoyed by it.

Celestia: You're right...we should visit Cadance's dreams and do it in front of her!

Page: AGREED! Lets show her how Karma is a cruel mistress! LETS GO!

...CITIZENS OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE ARE AWAKEN TO THE SOUNDS OF FRUSTRATED SCREAMS HOURS LATER...

[Alzrius]

I mean, even somebody that was meant to be almighty was supposed to have taken seven days, after all.

Six days. The Genesis creation narrative has God create everything in six days, resting on the seventh.

[FoxyLove]

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You know that sooner or later if you piss off the Alicorn of Love too much then she WILL bring out the TOUGH LOVE ordinance on Page & Celestia.

And when they finally give into love/lust, she will lord it over them EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!!!!!

[The Great Scribbly One]

Oh please, nothing I do is anywhere near flashy enough.

Famous last words, Page. Famous. Last. Words. You'll get dragged into it if nothing else than by association, what with being an alicorn yourself and being married to another.
Incidentally, I just noticed that 'alicorn' is apparently not considered a word by the spellcheck, never mind that even outside of the setting and its influence on wider language it is the technical term for the material a unicorn's horn is made from.

Grammar jackboot:

headed towards Celestias dream

Possessive apostrophe needed, it should be: headed towards Celestia's dream

it took me a second to spot what Sparks were looking at.

There's only one Twilight (here anyway), so 'were' should be 'was'.

[duckmagee]

nopony sees me work most of the time. Cadence, definitely. Sparks, oh yeah. Me? Eh, kind of doubt it.”

the great blank page, who saved the thestrals from extinction, brought them together in the land of dreams and led them on a great journey to reforge the ancestral homeland of Nocturnis, hail the alicorn of destiny and salvation who broke the curse and brought freedom and life to all thestrals

worship him worship him worship him

page: "not one word celestia not one word"

[Bojack H]

damnit hiver you absolute tease

[Bojack H]

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"BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GODDESS!"
"Nope, sorry. I'd actually have prefered a cake thank you for the effort though."
"CAKE FOR THE CAKE THRONE!"
"That's more like it."

[UnamusedWaffle]

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I’ve spend an embarrassing amount of mental energy in a vain attempt to try and understand your 𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 response.

[Bojack H]

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Page found an ancient statue of an alicorn thestral in a massive temple and they speculated that he was the one who first cursed the thestrals thousands and thousands of years before even celestia or luna came about

Its possibly a giant chekov's statue in that page might actually be the alicorn depicted there but who knows with hiver...

[UnamusedWaffle]

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I completely forgot about that, that was so long ago, thanks for explaining that to my room temperature IQ looking ass

[malcolm75k]

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To be fair, nothing he's done is *godly*, per se. He qualifies as achieving legendary heroic feats:

Defeating Tirek (David vs Goliath with added Ulysses for health)
"Liberation" and migration of a people (Moses)
Unification of the Changelings - (Nobunaga Oda)
Exploring the Thestral home-jungle/temple - (Indiana Jones :) )

Now, if he dies and comes back, moves heavenly bodies on command, or creates new life from background energy, call me.

[Kevin Lee]

“No,” Celestia said and flicked one ear with a small thoughtful frown, “But it does get decidedly more creepy when they make statues of you and sacrifice creatures to it.”
I blinked and then nodded, “Ah. Yes, that would do it,” I agreed and frowned, “Did that happen?”
“A few times,” Celestia sighed softly, “Usually some far away cult. We always discouraged ponies worshipping us, but it never seemed to help much. Nothing like that has been widespread for a long time, thankfully.”
I eyed her, “...Beautiful Immortal god-princesses, moving the heavens, at least twice as large as any other pony and with aspects of all the tribes,” I said and raised an eyebrow, “What could possibly have brought that reaction from some ponies.”
Celestia shot me a displeased look and I cheerfully took a large bite of cherry, chewing.
“You may find it amusing now,” Celestia said and raised an eyebrow of her own, “Just wait until it starts happening to you.”
I grinned and then licked juices off my muzzle, “Oh please, nothing I do is anywhere near flashy enough. I barely ever even enter dreams to adjust them away from nightmares anymore, nopony sees me work most of the time. Cadence, definitely. Sparks, oh yeah. Me? Eh, kind of doubt it.”
Celestia, Princess of Equestria and Alicorn of the Sun, rolled her eyes.

Oh, shit!
The Doomsday Clock has started ticking again!
The Stormking has brought a Temporal Mine to the negotiations!

[Bojack H]

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WHO'S NOT HUGHMAN, I'M HUGHMAN, YES PERFECTLY NORMAL ADULT HUGHMAN, WHY WHEN I WAS BUT A LARVA... oh hypothetical

[Kadigan]

“You can have it anytime you like.”

Uhhh, I'm aware that she doesn't have hers, but... am I reading too much into this, here? ;D Because I don't think I am...

[Herald of Opera]

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Good, I wasn't the only one who remembered.

As an aside, I'm pretty sure that both the extended timespan and the day of rest were technically unnecessary for Him. It was all about setting a good example of not working your slaves to the bone (for whatever good it ended up doing; it took Him quite some time to understand humans if He ever managed it at all)

[kklusmeier]

>“Oh please, nothing I do is anywhere near flashy enough. I barely ever even enter dreams to adjust them away from nightmares anymore, nopony sees me work most of the time. Cadence, definitely. Sparks, oh yeah. Me? Eh, kind of doubt it.”

Ah, Page, I have news for you about horny girls and women worshiping a pantheon that contains exactly one male, who also happens to be ridiculously handsome...

[OminousBrony]

Soemwhere in the Crystal Empire, Cadence let out a shriek of Frustration loud enough to crack some crystal because she just knew somehow, somewhere, Page And Celestia were doing their flirting/not flirting thing.

[The Great Scribbly One]

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Blast, they're on to me. CHEESE IT!

[Bojack H]

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Pff, wimp, 13 day work schedules, No compromise!

[Sipioc]

“True, but remember Page, your the one who can get them pregnant with an alicorn foal.”

“…no I can’t. It doesn’t work that way.”

“Try telling them that.”

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[Crimson Eon]

Celestia is getting terribly blunt and Page is still fucking it up.
You know, I'd probably be just as clueless.
How many members of royalty before he starts to figure it out? and how long before he marries all royalty on equis and becomes god-pony emperor of equis?

[Crimson Eon]

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Let's just hope he doesn't have to take the long way around if he does

[Fireeaters]

Turns out, innuendo is still funny.

[Prysmkitsune]

I took advantage of her distraction and went muzzle deep in the juicy fruit.

.....naughty boi

[ArcherStern]

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Honestly, I think it's pretty obvious they both know what they want deep down. I think Celestia and Page just aren't making a move because of the same reason:

Luna

Celestia won't make a move yet because this is the first time in a long time Luna has found someone she loves and is happy. I think Celestia is afraid that if she tries to join now it would take away from what Page and Luna have. And she wants to keep her sister happy, even if it may cost her own. Celestia can also afford to wait for the right time, neither her or Page are going anywhere anytime soon.

As for Page, it might be a few things. He loves Luna the most, and even though he is slowly accepting polygamy, he hasn't fully gotten used to it yet, and is afraid to losing her if he makes a mistake. How would you even approach that conversation? " Hey Luna, would you mind if I hook up with your sister too?" In the end, he--also--doesn't want to mess with the current status quo at the risk of it going bad.

[f0st3r21]

I took advantage of her distraction and went muzzle deep in the juicy fruit.

Am I the only one who imagines MC motorboating Celestia’s giant cherry right there just to see how she’d react?

[Klamnei]

Fruit bat's gonna fruit

[Swordfighter125]

“You may find it amusing now,” Celestia said and raised an eyebrow of her own, “Just wait until it starts happening to you.”

His intelligence might increase, as well as his magic(but slower than the Princesses.

[Okie Brony]

Yet another innuendo chapter without Quagmire in the comments. For shame!

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