Act by Instinct

Beginning of Chapter 6

"What's your favourite colour?"

"Lime"

"How long do firrans live for?"

"Around eighty years."

"What do you think of Equestria?"

"Well I have only been here for two days and I've not seen much outside..."

"Oh yeah sorry, silly question."

Twilight and Georgina have been sat at the dining table for twenty minutes now going through all sorts of questions, some were simple like "how old are you?", while others were a bit too personal for Georgina's taste so she nodded to Twilight to move on to the next one. Georgina didn't mind this at all, besides she had nothing else to do and this would help her to kill the time.

Several minutes later, Spike returned with his comic book 'The rise of Zoncron', which had a crazy scientist fighting off against a silver pegasus.

"Are you two STILL answering questions, I thought you both had finished ages ago." The dragon asked while getting onto a chair at the table and started to read his comic.

Georgina noticed the colourful book in Spike's possession. She has never seen anything like it before, most books back home were allot more dull and less colourful, and not to mention they were much larger. She was tempted to ask what the book was about and it's colourful features, but she quickly reminded herself that she was answering questions for Twilight and didn't bother (mainly because Twilight wouldn't  stop asking questions.)

It was another twenty minutes later, and it seemed that Twilight was almost finished through her long check list of questions.

*KNOCK* *KNOCK*

Spike launched himself of his chair and went for the door. "I'll get that!"

Georgina looked back at Twilight with a raised eyebrow. "Could that be the princesses?"

Twilight looked at the kitchen clock before answering the question. "No, it's still the morning and they will arrive in the afternoon."

Spike unlocked the many unnecessary locks that were on the front door of the library and pulled the doorknob to open it. He was instantly met with a certain pink earth pony who wore a huge joyful smile (as usual) and continued to bounce on the spot like her legs were made of springs.

"Hey Spike, is Geo in?" Pinkie casually asked.

"Yeah why-" But before he could ask, Pinkie jumped through the doorway and went for the kitchen, leaving Spike with a 'what just happened?' look on his face while he slowly closed the door.

"What do you do for a living?"

"I like to-" She was about to answer when her hearing picked up something, something different. The noise was getting louder and louder by the second, which to her felt like minutes. It didn't sound like Spike little footsteps, but it also didn't sound life hoofsteps. Whatever it was it was unknown to her, and to her 'unknown' mainly meant trouble.

Twilight was reading her check list waiting for Georgina to finish her answer, but she kept silent, making the alicorn to look up in confusion. Only to see her staring at the kitchen doorway with her ears twitching.

"Georgina?"

"Something coming..." She warned, getting into a slight defensive stance while slowly getting up from her seat.

The strange noise got louder and louder, to the point were it sounded like it was just around the door. Then it stopped, silence....

..........

...........

"Hey Geo!!"

"AAHH!!"

Jumping to near death, Georgina spun around offensively to meet her..."Pinkie?"

"SURPRISE!!" The pink pony gestured with each fore-hoof in the air while wearing her usual smile.

"Wha...how...when..." The firran was wearing her new look of confusion, she was switching gazes between Pinkie and the Doorway. How in Nui's name did she just do that!?

Twilight noticed Georgina's look and just simply tolled her "Don't question it, she's just being Pinkie."

Georgina had a feeling that it would indeed be best if she doesn't question it, thinking that it would give her more questions than answers.

Turning back to face Pinkie - who was just giggling to herself, probably due to the funny looks that Geo gave of. She sighed in relief that it was nothing bad like an assassin or something dangerous that sneaked up on her. She then cleared her throat to get her attention.

"Pinkie please do not do that again, I don't react well to sudden surprises like that. They tend to get me 'over the edge' sometimes."

"Okey Dokey!" She simply replied, her signature smile plastered onto her face like always.

Twilight decided to join in. "Pinkie, why are you here? Not that I don't appreciate my friends keeping me company, but aren't you busy at Sugercube Corner?"

In return, Pinkie shook her head while giggling in the process. "Don't be such a silly billy Twilight. It's a Monday remember? Everypony are too busy to stop by, and I'm sure the Cakes can handle a few customers."

"Umm, how are some cakes going to serve customers?"

Both Pinkie Pie and Twilight changed their gazes to the still confused firran at the end of the table, seconds later they both (especially Pinkie) tried to hold back a huge wave of laughter, but it was futile.

Meanwhile Georgina just stared at the two laughing ponies with a serious expression. "What?!"

While Pinkie was dying from laughter, twilight managed to calm down to a point where she could talk again, a few giggles and chuckles escaping her. "It's not literally cakes serving the place, their family name are the Cakes. Like Mr and Mrs Cake."

"Oooh, now that makes sense." Georgina was mentally face palming herself for thinking of such a silly question.

Twilight and Georgina waited patiently for Pinkie to calm down and catch her breath, after five minutes did she finally relax.

"Oh Geo, you come up with some funny jokes, I can't wait to tell the others."

This got a friendly chuckle from the firran, but then she remembered something. "Pinkie, if you don't mind me asking, but you never finished explaining on why you were here."

Pinkie got the reminder and gasped, she then pulled out a paper bag from nowhere (Georgina still knew that it was best to not question it.) and placed it down on the table in front of Georgina - who just looked at the bag curiously.

"I was going to make you a 'Welcome to Ponyville and Equestria' surprise party, but after knowing that you can't be seen by anypony, the party sounded like a bad idea. So I made you some treats instead, hope you like them!"

And with that, Pinkie left without a trace.

Georgina again just reminded herself to not question Pinkie's ability to just appear and disappear like like a ghost. It will take a while for her to get used to that. She then switched her attention to the cyan and pink paper bag in front of her that Pinkie left. using her claws, she swiftly opened the top in one go, before she was immediately met with a sugary scent filling her nostrils.

When Pinkie said that she made her some treats, she wasn't kidding. Inside were six cupcakes with each having their own coloured icing. There was a red, a blue, a yellow, a green, and an orange.

But the sixth one caught her attention the most, this one was covered in black and white striped icing - just like her fur, and to confirm that Pinkie did this on purpose it had a golden coloured text on top spelling 'Geo'.

"Wow, these are amazing!"

"Try one." The purple alicorn said.

Without hesitation, Georgina picked up the yellow cupcake and took a bite.

Words cannot describe the heavenly bliss she had just entered.

Georgina was known to have a sweet tooth back home. She would pay her daily visit at Melkavich's bakery and have her favourite cakes. Compared to Pinkie's cakes though, they were enough to match her old friend's goods any day of the week. They were sweet, but not too sweet to make her gag. The cake had a strong flavour of lemon - probably why the icing was yellow. The cake itself was sponge with a second layer of lemon icing through the middle, it wasn't too dry or too moist. Just perfect.

After taking the last bite out of her snack, Georgina let out a satisfied moan with a content smile across her face.

"I see you like Pinkie's cakes." Twilight added.

"Mmm, it was probably the best cakes I ever had. They were delicious."

After finally gaining control over himself, Spike walked into the room with a smile, then that smile turned to confusion. "Hey where's Pinkie, didn't she just come in a second ago?"

Twilight turned her gaze to the young dragon. "Yes she was here to give Georgina a present to welcome her to Ponyville, but she had to leave afterwards to do her usual Pinkie Pie stuff."

Spike then noticed the bag on the table. "Cool, what did she give you?"

The firran put her hand into the bag and picked a cake by random, pulling out the red one.

"She got me some cakes to welcome me. They are outstanding!" She replied while holding up the cake in her hand to show Spike.

Spike chuckled while he made his way back to his previous seat, which still had his comic on the table.

Georgina then remembered something. "Oh Twilight-" gaining her attention. "-For your question earlier, I find and collect long lost treasures and artefacts for a living."

Twilight nodded, picking up her quill before dipping it into some ink, she wrote the note onto her long check list. "Okay, I think that's everything."

"Finally" Spike mumbled to himself while reading his comic, getting to the part where the silver pegasus deactivates the device to shut down the forcefield.

Silence reigned the room for the next few minutes. Georgina knew that she couldn't bare to do this any longer.

"So, what can we do now? we got around two hours till the princesses arrive right?"

Twilight put hoof to chin while thinking, what can they do for the next two hours. They certainly cannot just sit there and do nothing.

Luckily for her though, she has her number one assistant to the rescue. "Why don't you two play some games or something?" Then something snapped inside his mind. "Hey Twilight, do you still have that chess board?"

Twilight perked up, Georgina has probably never played chess before and she loves to teach to others. "Great idea Spike, I'll be right back!"

Twilight then made her way out of the room, leaving the dragon and firran alone for the time being.

This was a good opportunity to ask about his comic. "Spike, what sort of book is that?"

Spike - a little caught of guard by the random question, paused his reading to look up at Georgina with a shocked face. "What do you mean?"

"Well where I come from, the books are mainly allot more....less colourful."

Spike then found out what she meant and where she was going with this. "Oh right, well this book is called a 'comic', think of it as an adventure-picture book than a text book. We also have the normal books here that are 'less colourful' too, but I prefer to read this when I am not cleaning the library."

Georgina nodded, the 'comic' truly did fascinate her. The colours and the design of the cover really looked inviting and she was intrigued. Maybe one day she will get the chance to read it herself.

Twilight made her entrance through the doorway, levitating a wooden board with smaller pieces on top. She placed it down in front of Georgina and sat the opposite end to her - the white pieces on Georgina's side and the black pieces on Twilight's.

"Have you ever played chess before?" The purple alicorn asked.

Georgina stared at the wooden board in front of her, which had a chequered pattern on top with a set of evenly amount of pieces on each side with opposite colours.

"No, this 'chess' you speak of, I have never heard it before. What do you do?"

Twilight smiled after finding out that she will have teach Georgina in how to play. "I'll show you."

"Check mate"

Twilight looked at the board in front of her, she had the biggest dumbfounded look right now. She went to chess club when she was in magic school, she is an alicorn princess, an Element bearer. She was unbeatable.

was...

After teaching Georgina how to play chess, Twilight had lost not one, not two, but THREE games in a row by somepony who had never played it before.

She had met her match.

"Wow Georgina, you beat Twilight at a game that she never loses three times in a row, and to make it better, this is your first time too!!" Spike was also shocked, but mainly impressed by Twilight's opponent at how she made it look easy to beat probably one of the best chess players in Equestria.

Twilight cut herself out of her thoughts and stared at Georgina with her still dumbfounded look on her face. "How...how did you do it?!" She asked in a disbelieved tone.

Georgina just shrugged and smirked at her victories. "I guess I'm just a natural."

"Well you better be ready for next time, because I'll snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat." Twilight stated in a commanding but playful tone.

"I'll be ready." Georgina countered.

*KNOCK* *KNOCK* *KNOCK*

Twilight gasped and looked at the clock.

It was time.

"That must be the princesses!" She warned with a surprised look. "We have been so into our game that we lost the track of time."

"That's a good thing right, didn't you two intend to kill the time?" Spiked asked.

Twilight focused her attention back to Spike who had a puzzled look. "Of course it's a good thing Spike. I was just caught off guard at how quickly the time went by."

"Well shouldn't you go ans answer it then?" The young dragon asked. Seriously Twilight is freaking out over how fast the time went by, but when the princesses do arrive she doesn't bother to answer the door....Well, I have seen stranger things from her before so this is pretty much normal.

Soon after, Twilight went to the door with a nervous pace. Once she reached her destination she unlocked the door and all that was left was to pull the door open.

Okay, this is it. She thought to herself before cautiously swinging the door inward.

Meanwhile Georgina and Spike were alone in the kitchen, waiting for any signal to make their appearance.

"You nervous?" Spike asked with a slight concerned tone.

Georgina snapped out of her thoughts and faced Spike with a sigh.

"Just a little bit, I mean I am going to meet royalty, and not only that but I am representing my kind at the same time. What if I mess up or anger them?" She asked in a shaky tone, her thoughts would not cease at the images of her getting thrown into prison or a dungeon, left to rot to the core.

Spike noticed the shakiness in her stance. "Don't worry Geo. The princesses are the nicest and most forgiveable ponies in Equestria. Also you're already friends with Twilight remember and she's royalty. So if she trusts you then there is no doubt that the other princesses will trust you too."

Georgina mentally agreed with Spike's reassured statement and gave him a warm smile and a 'thank you' look.

The kitchen door swung open a little to reveal a happy Twilight. "Okay Georgina, you can come in now." She then left and closed the kitchen door behind her.

The firran went for the door, she then looked back at Spike - who gave her a nod to proceed.

Okay, time to represent my kind.

The door opened, and what she saw on the other side made Georgina stare in awe. (No doubt they were staring back at her in awe too.)

There in the library were three other alicorn princesses just like Twilight, but with with different features.

The first one she noticed was how much taller they were compared to the other ponies that she had met. The tallest one being the white alicorn that was almost Georgina's height, if they had stood together face to face then the top of her head would come up to her eyes and her horn to her ears.

The next noticeable feature were the constant flowing manes. while Twilight and the pink one didn't possess such features, the navy blue and white alicorn did. Their manes were flowing in an invisible wind and were decorated with beautiful patterns. The white alicorn having a streak of pink, blue and green, giving it a pastel look. While the navy blue alicorn has a blue mane that matched her fur coat with small stars patterned all over. Giving it a look of the night sky. The pink alicorn's mane was also striped just like the white one's, but her colours were yellow, pink and purple, also giving her mane a sweaty look.

Speaking of said alicorns, they were giving Georgina a curious look, like they have never seen anything like her before (which is probably true). They were all (especially the blue one) just staring at him in awe, admiring her features from paws to ears.

Then the most unexpected things happened. Georgina took a few steps forward towards the princesses - making them tense a little. She stopped in front of the three...

And she bowed.

Not just a quick nod, but a proper, elegant bow where she got down onto one knee with her head hung low. Showing them that she respected them.

The white and blue one shared gazes for a while, this has completely caught them off guard. They were expecting it to be some savage beast with no manners at all, but this was the complete opposite to what they expected.

The blue one smiled and nodded towards the white alicorn, who smiled in return before returning to the bowed creature in front of her.

"You may rise." She commanded

Georgina did so and stood back to full height.

"What are you?" the blue one asked with curiosity in her voice.

Georgina cleared her throat before speaking, ensuring that she will speak clearly to them. "My name is Georgina and I am a firran. Long story short I am from a far away land - probably on a different planet.When I arrived I was knocked unconscious two days ago - according to Twilight, and her and her friends brought me here safely without any of the populace seeing. Since then I have been appreciating Twilight's hospitality and concern for my well being."

Georgina paused to let all of that information to slip in, the looks on the alicorn's faces varied between curious and concerned, or a bit of both.

The white alicorn stepped forward. "Well allow us to introduce ourselves. My name is Princess Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria and Raiser of the Sun."

"We are Princess Luna of the night, co-ruler of Equestria and Raiser of the Moon."

"I am Princess Mi Amore Cadenza - but you can just call me Princess Cadence. Ruler of the Crystal Empire and Princess of Love."

Wait a minute, did those two just say 'Raiser of the Sun and Moon'?

Cadence noticed the confused look on firran. "Is something wrong Georgina?"

"Huh wha?" She snapped out of her thoughts (she tends to do that allot recently) and realized that she was staring into blank space. "Oh it's nothing your majesties, I was just deep in thought for a moment."

Celestia decided that it was a good idea to try and lighten up the mood. "So Georgina, why don't you tell us about yourself?"

End of Chapter 6