The one and only chapter
Luna smiled as she trotted through Canterlot Castle. The rest of the ponies in the castle had obviously been avoiding her out of fear, but it hardly bothered her. She was much too busy being amazed at how much Equestria had changed in the last 1,000 years. There'd been farms where there were forests, rivers where there were fields. Everything had changed, and while it had made her eager to see it all, it also made her just a bit nervous.
"Luna?"
Luna had turned to see her sister giving her a small smile. Luna smiled back.
"Hello, Sister," she said. "How may I help you?"
"I just wanted to tell you that dinner shall be starting in an hour." Celestia looked Luna up and down, as if she were examining her, before continuing, "You may want to clean up."
Luna looked down, realizing just how dirty she was. "Heh, I suppose a thousand years on the moon can leave one looking a bit messy."
The older alicorn chuckled and nodded to her sister. "You already know where the washroom is, correct?"
Luna stared at her blanky.
"....You were supposed to be given a tour around the castle by the guard I left you with when we entered the castle."
Luna continued to stare blankly at her older sister.
Celestia facehoofed, and gave an irritated sigh. "Of course...."
"Well," she said, "All you have to do is go around that corner over there, and go down the stairs. When you walk down the hall, you go to the second door on the left. That's the washroom."
Luna smiled, "Alright, thank you, Sister." With that, she trotted off in the direction Celestia had pointed her to.
Walking down the stairs and across the hall, she smiled when she found the door Celestia had told her of, and walked in...
"....What."
In the washroom was a sink and dozens of expensive shampoos, conditioners, lotions, and bars of soap.
But there was no tub.
Instead there was a long, thick wire coming out of the wall, with a half sphere-like... thing with holes in it. Luna stared at it blankly for a moment.
"...Okay.... I can figure this out," she told herself. "T-this is just one of those.... updated things in Equestria. It's probably just like a tub!" She laughed nervously.
"Yup... I just need to find a bucket... get some water.... and fill it up... right...? Yeah, that sounds right...." With that, she walked outside, back the way she came to ask her sister where she could find a bucket. It was only then when she realized the first door she'd pasted had a sign that read 'supplies'.
Luna stared.
"Well, that's convenient."
She opened the door and found herself in an extremely small room filled with all sorts of cleaning supplies. But she couldn't find a bucket.
After a few moments of searching through the small closet and finding nothing but sponges, rags, and other cleaning supplies, she let out a groan of fustration. "Come on, there has to be a bucket around here somewhere...," she looked up to the ceiling, and saw something out of the corner of her eye.
The bucket was on the top shelf.
Luna suppressed the urge to facehoof. "Who puts a bucket on the top shelf?" She thought aloud. She extended her hoof to reach it, just to find she couldn't. Luna scowled quietly. Moving a few things out of her way, she then leaned her other hoof on the second shelf and tried once more to reach the bucket.
She still couldn't reach.
"Great, just great..."
Slowly and carefully, she put her hind leg on the second shelf, and then the other, and grabbed onto the third shelf with her forehoof. With her last free forehoof, she grabbed the bucket.
"Yes! I got it! Fina-"
Suddenly, the second shelf collapsed under the weight, onto the shelf below.
"...Horseapples."
Luna hung from the third shelf, silently begging for the shelf not to fall.
Fate was not her friend today.
The third shelf fell, and Luna instinctivly extended her wings and did her best to fly in the small space, causing a few things to fall off the shelf.
Slowly she lowered herself down to the floor of the supply closet, and looked around at the practically destroyed closet of supplies.
"I'll fix this.... later."
With that, she quickly walked out and kicked the door shut, holding the bucket handle in her mouth as she went to the second door in the hallway. She opened the door to the washroom, and turned on the faucet of the sink, and began to fill the bucket with water. When the bucket seemed filled up enough, she trotted over to the.... thing on the other side of the washroom, and dumped the water out of the bucket.
It only then occured to her that there was nothing to keep the water from spilling all over the floor.
And so, it did just that, and left a rather large puddle in the room. Luna frowned. "Well, that didn't work..." She began to examine the thing hanging from the wall in curiosity. "Maybe this thing.... makes the water appear."
There was only one little dot on the wall, so Luna figured she was supposed to do something with that. However, she couldn't help but wonder why the thing had been held in place that way. Perhaps, she thought, I'm supposed to take it off the wall.
So, using her magic, she pulled the shower out of the grasp of the metal thing that had been holding it on the wall. Then, she turned her attention once again to the dot, wondering what she was supposed to do with it.
She put her face up close to the dot, and sniffed it. It didn't have any paticular smell, so she doubted that was how it worked. She then put her ear up close to the dot, and listened closely for any sound that came out of the dot.
The dot was silent.
She stared at it with intense curiosity, and wondered what the purpose of the dot was.
"Maybe I should...," she trailed off, and put her face close to the dot...
...and licked it.
As soon as she did, she jerked back. It tasted horrible!
"Okay, well, I guess that wasn't it," she said as she tried to rid the horrid taste from her tongue. So she did the last thing she could thing of, she poked the dot with her hoof. Immediately, the thing had burst to life, spraying water everywhere. Luna let out a squeal of alarm, using her hoof to block the water from hitting her, to no avail.
The water sprayed from the circular part of the thing everywhere, all over the walls , floor, and ceiling.
She ran over to the thing, trying not to slip from all the water that covered the washroom, and grabbed it in her mouth. The thing continued to spray water at an alarming rate, with such force it made a few things fall. Luna walked backward to where the dot was, only to slip from a soap bar that had fallen under her. She let out a yelp of shock and the thing was released from her mouth.The water continued to spray everywhere.
Luna growled, her fear and shock had dissolved, and was now replaced with impatience. This thing was going to be turned off and it was going to be turned off NOW. She inched towards the dot on the wall, but just as she was about to reach it, the thing turned to her and sprayed water all over her Luna yelped in alarm, and attempted to block the water with her hoof. It continued to spray all over her, but Luna knew she had to turn off the water before it continued to flood the washroom with water.
Luna moved a few inches forward, and hit the dot frantically, and sighed in relief as the water turned off.
"Sister."
Celestia smiled as she heard her sister's. "Welcome, Luna, I--" It was only then when she looked up at her sister.
Luna was standing at the doorway of the dining room, soaking wet with a large puddle of water already forming below her. Her teal eyes were filled with rage.
"We need to get a tub."