Explanations
"So tell us! I mean, dear Celestia, I haven't seen that much blood in my whole career! She must have been kickin' some serious flank out in the forest to come home like that without a scratch on her."
"Well actually... About that..."
Twilight couldn’t help but crack a smile as she trotted up to her room. The look on her "guards" faces were definitely the highlight of her otherwise terrible morning.
Closing the door firmly behind her, her smile faded as she remembered what she had to do, bearing great fear for what she might find.
“May as well get this over with…” She crossed the room to survey the damage in a mirror. Giving herself a through look over, she could see just how bad the damage really was.
Oh no…
Seeing the signs of a panic attack coming on, she shook her head to drive away the terrible thoughts that began to fill her mind. “NO!” Looking once again at herself in the mirror, she reached a conclusion, and she had to accept it.
"This is going to take forever to wash off!" She tried to get a closer look at her tail, but it was so weighted down with mud and blood that she couldn’t lift it with her tail’s strength alone. "Might as well get this over with... Now I kind of understand why I might need hoofmadens.
She ran a bath with a weary sigh.
"Thanks for the party Miss Pinkie and for letting us sleep over Miss Applejack" Soft said as the four mares and one dragon passed through the farm gateway.
"Thanks for coming, it's always nice to welcome new ponies to Ponyville, but are you sure you don't want to stay for breakfast?
"Sorry, we can't, Somepony has to make the princesses’ breakfast, and from what you told us we'd rather not let her highness try herself."
Spike hoped off of Rarity's back, "I'll go, I always do it anyway."
Soft raised a hoof, waving off the idea, "All the more reason for us to do it Sir Spike. Take the day off, we'll handle it. Besides, this lets us use what you all taught us last night."
Well alright, but y'all come back anytime now. We're always open for company here at the Acres!"
"You should! It'll be great! We could have another party and invite-" Applejack closed Pinkie's mouth.
"Heh, and she's always ready to party. Have a nice day girls, and remember what we talked about. Ponyville's a crazy place, but you'll learn to love her."
"We will, and thanks again!" and with that, Bristle, Brush, Cloud, and Breeze left the farm to head home to the library.
Before they got past the gates of the acres, Spike came running up behind them.
"Wait!" the little drake shouted.
"Sir Spike, you need not come back with us, we said we'd handle breakfast today." Soft spoke for the group.
"Yeah, you can do it, just give this to Twilight." he passed her a scroll marked with Celestia's seal, "It just arrived from the princess. Celestia that is."
"We will."
And with that, Spike ran back into the house, utilizing every second he could in the presence of his beloved.
As the troupe entered Ponyville proper Brush addressed them all, “When we get home we should ask the princess how she wants us to look."
"Oh! Good idea, after breakfast we can head back over to the spa and finally get this all sorted out. I'm not too big a fan of how everypony keeps bowing at me..." as Breeze spoke, another unwitting early-riser of Ponyville bowed their head to the passing "princess".
"Aww! Come on! It's hilarious!" said Cloud, "It's not like it's hurting anyone!"
Soft gave Cloud a hard stare. "Regardless of who it hurts, we shouldn't be parading around town impersonating royalty."
"You're making it seem like-!"
"No Cloud, we're not arguing about this. We're here, let's just find the princess and get this sorted out."
"Sure, whatever." Cloud scoffed under her breath, "killjoy"
Soft opened the door to the library and allowed the other members of the quartet to enter, following close behind.
Let's go help the princess get up and ready before we start on breakfast.
Passing the sleeping Blue Blazer on the sofa, the girls made their way up the stairs and into Twilight's room.
Finding the bead empty, and noticing the light under the door, they made their way over to the bathroom.
When they opened the door, a terrifying sight met them.
There lay their princess, half under the surface of the tub, head lulled to one side, the water deep red with blood.
They screamed.
Twilight was enjoying a wonderful dream of flying when she was suddenly jolted awake by screaming what felt like inches from her head.
Her limbs bicycled for a second before she remembered where she was. She flipped over, sinking momentarily into the water before raising up to see what the screaming was about.
"ZOMPONEEEEEEEEE!"
"...Ok, do you understand now? I. AM. NOT. A. ZOMPONY. Why does everypony keep thinking that zomponys are the logical conclusion! I just happen to be an immortal alicorn. Nothing unnatural. "
After her bath had been interrupted by screaming, waking her up causing more screaming, which caused the guards to come bursting in screaming, Twilight sat them all down for a talk.
"Sorry princess, we just thought-" Breeze began.
"We were surprised to find you like that. -We are sorry princess." Soft finished.
"I guess it's my fault for... Uh... Well it's probably my fault somehow, so don't worry about it." Twilight tucked her wings, and flopped into a chair. Freshly bathed and with a small nap, she was feeling a little bit better, but now that she wasn't so preoccupied she could feel she was starving.
*Grumble*
"Oh! Princess, we’ll get started on breakfast now!" the group tripped over themselves to get to the kitchen and make it up to their princess.
"Oh! Princess," Soft turned back, producing a scroll, "Sir Spike said to deliver this to you."
Twilight took the scroll, thanking Soft for delivering it.
As Soft walked away to help in the kitchen, Twilight unrolled the scroll.
"Dear Twilight,
I trust you are settling in well to your new station? I am happy to announce that your coronation continues to excite and inspire the population of Canterlot. But you know how slowly news seems to travel out of Canterlot.
-No kidding, the entire city was preparing for weeks before the royal wedding and we didn't hear anything until Spike's letter.-
It has now come to my attention that many still remain unaware of their newest princess, and as such, I have taken the liberty of preparing for you a series of appearances across Equestria that shall help the citizens of Equestria better embrace their newest princess.
A copy of your itinerary is attached.
-Celestia"
Twilight flipped the page to find the itinerary on the back.
"Huh... The first location is Appaloosa... On the sixth..."
"..."
"That's tomorrow!"
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The title the title DEAR GOD THE TITLE!
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2583740 PAAANIIIIC!
...um you might want to do a quick spell check on you title.
Wow Twilight your life sure isn't getting any easier.
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And yes, it is a fine day for a panic.
All the panic.
groanns why zompoies why not wereponies or vamponies
alright watching you now whenever you post a blog I will know.
so... how long until twilight and her hoofmaiden look alike meet up with a certain traveling showmare
or a pair of fast talking twins?
It would probably be helpful to add the hoofmaidens full names at least once in the chapter. I had to guess that Soft and Breeze where the same pony.
Celestia definitely seems to be developing a habit of saying/writing "this is my way of telling you", isn't she? "Oh! Didn't I mention that solving Starswirl's riddle would make you ascend?" "Oh! Didn't I mention that Shining Armour has proposed to Cadence?" "Oh! Didn't I mention that you have a nationwide tour starting tomorrow?" If I were Twilight, I would feel very, very hard done by.
I think that's an indication of just how bad Twi looked that those poor hoofmaidens thought that she was a zompony.
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Or maybe include an OC cast list at the start of the next chapter perhaps?
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Love that idea! "So, Twilight Sparkle! The Condescending and Envious Trixie notes that you now have your own fan-club!"
2584791 I don't know about you, but I wake up yelling when splashed with water. The water is not melting the flesh off my bones or anything but I'm still startled enough to yell in shock.
Just because she doesn't feel pain doesn't mean she doesn't feel fear. I addressed this before about when she twisted her ankle and shouted about that, it was not the pain of the twisted ankle, it was the fear of falling on her face. (Just like how you flinch when something hits your windshield. Despite logically knowing it can't really hurt you, you still flinch.)
Somehow it looks to me Celestia is not the most organized princess if she tells Twi that she had to be in another city in half a day. XDDD
and the guards and the maids just got a FRONT ROW SEAT to one of Twilight's PANIC attacks, now THAT will get educational
I wonder how many will make a mad dash to get Spike to calm Twilight down
Something I was hoping would be addressed in this chapter but wasn't.
If she got some feathers ripped out and they stayed missing (since she complained that gave her trouble getting home) and she was then brutally killed several times. Shouldn't she be missing large parts of her coat, mane, and more feathers? so much so that those first few are insignificant.
And Twilight is gonna get angry at how little Celestia seems to tell her.
Ok, you really need to give the characters FULL names before you start randomly switching around which name you use. Otherwise it's completely meaningless to the reader, you may as well be saying "Random Mare" instead of "Soft"... the name Soft could go with ANY of the hoofmaidens.
EDIT:
Ok, so far I have determined that Soft is not Cloud or Breeze... hopefully by the end of the next chapter I'll know which sister was talking/acting half of this chapter.
On another note, lots of missing quotation marks.
The red is clearly dialogue.
Yep, that's Trollestia for ya.