Ten Days, Ten Pony Stories

Ten Days, Ten Pony Stories

Day 8: The Tea, by Celestia

Spike, would you kindly write this for me?

Hello, I am Princess Celestia of Equestria. And as you know, I am the ruler of kingdom of Equestria, with my sister, Luna. I raise the sun to bring the day into my peaceful land.

This morning, I was sent a letter by Doctor Who of the 611th dynestesty of the tribe of Fan. He request me to write about a rather humorous experience I’ve faced this month. I had heard word of this Doctor whom had sent the same sort of letter to a few of my subjects, even my niece, Princess Cadence of the Crystal Empire. My pupil, Princess Twilight Sparkle, had written of a time when she rented her book to a subject of mine. Her friends, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy, had written about a worm infestation, a trip to a Wonderbolt show, a date, … I… simply don’t know, actually and a movie.

So, considering how none of this is harming my subjects in anyway, I have decided to partake in this.

I so very much hope that you will enjoy this.

Your Royal Writer,

-Princess Celestia

It started on a another day created by me. It was eleven past six in the morning, when my servant, Silver Dish, served me my daily breakfast on a silver platter in bed. I had Celesti-os (my divine favorite), some woodland strawberries and some earl grey tea and biscuits. But… there was a small problem.

        “Um, excuse me.” I asked.

        “Yes, your highness?” Silver Dish asked.

        “There is a… small problem with the tea.” I explained.

        “Oh, but of course, your highness.” he said, then left with my tea to fix it. A moment later, he returned.

        “Thank you, Silver Dish.” I thanked.

        “It is my pleasure, your majesty.” he replied with a bow of his head. I was just about to drink my tea at last, when I noticed something…

        “Silver Dish?”

        “Yes, you’re royalty?”

        “There’s a… another slight matter.”

        “Oh, but of course, votre Majesté.” he said before he left again. Once when he returned, I found something else wrong with my tea, and then I asked him to fix it again. He returned, and I found another conundrum with my tea, and asked about it again. He returned, then I found another problem, and then the whole process looped over, and over, and over again.

        “Um, perhaps maybe I should fix the tea.” I finally said as I rose out of bed.

        “No, no, you’re graciousness, you don’t have too.” Silver Dish interjected.

        “Indeed, but I think I should fix the tea myself. You are dismissed, take the rest of day off.” I informed him with a dismissing wave. He bowed his head, said,

        “Thank you, your trolliness.” he said, then left before I could ask. So to follow my word, I left to solve my problem.

        I was in my kitchen, re-brewing my tea, when I noticed just what was missing. My tea wasn’t perfect because it was missing that one thing; dried poison joke. A poison

 joke flower is a blue flower that plays a prank on you when touch it. But, scientists had discovered recently that the poison joke flower doesn't affect you, but the particles that is on it. So they dry it out, then put it in my tea. And it taste rather divine, if I dare so say so myself. In fact, I rather prefer it. There was no way I would eat breakfast without my dried poison joke earl grey tea.

        So, I knew exactly what I had to do; I needed to go out into everfree forest to find some blue-joke. But, since I am a Princess, ponies would crowd around me. But luckily there was one solution...

        “So, how do I look?” I asked my sister, Princess Luna.

        “Sister… why art thou lookest’ so different all the sudden?” my sister asked.

        “I need to go out and get something, and I don’t want to start a scene. Which I why I needed a disguise. So, how do I look?”

        “Thou… lookest fine, I suppose.”

        “Good. I thought I looked great in the mirror.” I said.

I used an advanced transformation spell to make myself look mortal. I still had my same white coat, and my mane was just pink, and rather… normal… well, what would be normal to my subjects. Still, I was in the perfect disguise, I knew my way to the forest and back, so nothing could go wrong. I gave her a friendly wave, then turned to leave.

        “Sister…?” she asked. I stopped. “I love thee, thou knowest that, right?”

I smiled.

        “Indeed, sister, I do.”

        “Dusk thou promise to return soon?”

        “Yes, sister. Indeed I swear on the name Mother Faust herself.”

        “Pinkie Promise…?”

I was finally at Ponyville, the town nearest to the Everfree Forest. It was a good thing I sent the Apple family there on that land to create that town, for I would have had to walk there, instead of riding a train. I wore a black hoodie with a skirt to cover my cutiemark, so I could lay-low. I was half way there, when suddenly…

        “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie!” said a disturbingly familiar voice. I flinched. “Are you new here? I know everypony in ponyville, and I don’t know you, so you must be new! What’s your name?” Pinkie Pie, a friend of my pupil’s, asked. I was taken off guard, and quite sadly, hadn’t thought it all the way through.

        “Oh… u-um…”

        “‘Oh ah, um’? That’s a weird name.”

        “No, it’s… ah, yes, that’s my name.” I lied, trying to get away from Pinkie Pie as soon as possible in order to proceed my way to the everfree forest.

        “Hey, you wanna’ have a tour to Ponyville? Since your new and all?” Pinkie asked.

        “N-no, o-of course not. I can perfectly leave, myself.” I said.

        “Wow, you sound like Princess Celestia!” my eyes popped open. “That… is… so… awesome!!!” Pinkie exclaimed.

        “Oh… don’t be ridiculous… I don’t sound like Celestia, not one bit. Ah-” I cleared my throat, then altered my voice to a smaller, not-as-similar-to-mine voice. “- wha-... what are you talking about?” I asked with the new voice.

        “Hah, your voice changed… I thought…- nah! There’s no way your Princess Celestia who wanted to get a certain ingredient that you could only find in the everfree forest, and you need to put on a disguise and lay-low in order to go get that ingredient and go back to your kingdom. That’s silly!” said Pinkie Pie. I was stunned, but then got my act together.

        “I-it was nice meeting you… bye!” I said, then trotted off.

        “Wait!!!” called Pinkie. I stopped in my tracks. “I hadn’t even sang my welcome-song to you yet!”

        “Oh, th-there’s no need…-”

        “Here, I’ll wait outside the station, then I’ll sing!”

        “But…-” before I could object in anyway, Pinkie Pie had already dashed off. It was obvious then that if I lefted then, she would sing the song. Having no choice but to play along, I decided to hear just the one song.

~Welcome, welcome, welcome,

A fine welcome to You!

Welcome, welcome, welcome,

Welcome to Ponyville today…~!

Pinkie Pie stood still in a pose, awaiting for my response.

"Um... that's... splendid. Yes, splendid, indeed. I'll... go now-"

"Oh! Oh! You gotta' meet everypony!" Pinkie declared. Before I could object, she grabbed my hoof and dragged me throughout Ponyville. "This is Time Turner, Colgate, Lyra, Bon-Bon, Derpy Hooves, Granny Smith...-"

***

"-... Button Mash, Button Mash’s Mom, Lickety-Split, Sweetie Belle, Dinky Doo, Bad Wolf- um, I mean Rose Luck, Carrot Top...-"

"-... Applejack, Applebloom, Scootaloo, Milky Way, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, that really, really, old guy...-"

"... Crank-a-Doodle, Mrs. Cheerilee, Big Macintosh, Discord, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon…-”

***

“-... and Spike and finally Twilight!” Pinkie introduced me to everypony in Ponyville… including my pupil. I ducked my head, hoping she wouldn’t recognize me. I have been her guide since she was a little filly. If she knew what I was doing, then what kind of example would I be? Thinking about that, I was just about to come upon a realization, until…

        “So, now that you know everypony, let’s have...” she proposed with a pause. And before I knew it... “-... a party!”

There I was, in the middle of Sugarcube Corner, as if she somehow skipped time itself or teleported me five minutes into the future. She suddenly pulled out a cake out of her cupboard. It was all with sprinkles and a cherry on top, with a message written with icing, saying ‘Welcome to Ponyville’. I tried to sneak out but she noticed me and said ‘’Where are you going?’’

‘’Um… toilet.’’ I answered

‘’Ok’’ she said happily. She bounced away to mingle with the other ponies. I took the advantage to make my escape… with little success.

“Hi!”

“Oh… ah… hi…”

“Hello!”

“Y-yeah, ‘hello’...”

“How are you doing?”

“Escap- I mean… mingling…”

“I like your hoodie.”

“Y-yes, yeah, of course… thanks…-”

I struggled my way through the crowd. Finally, I found the exit, but then…

        “Oh, hey.” said my pupil… Twilight… I froze, unsure of what to do. I looked away, trying my hardest to make sure she can’t see my face. “What’s wrong?” she asked concernedly.

        “N-n-nothing…” I said, then headed for the door.

        “Are you leaving so soon?”

        “Oh, what? N-no… but of course not… I’m…- hey, look over there!” I tried to get her away, continually hiding my face from her.

        “Hey… it’s alright, don’t be shy.” she assured me. It was not helping… not quite at all. “I’m Twilight.” she introduced herself with a smile. I continued to look away.

        “I’m…-” this time, I took some consideration into a name. It was harder than I thought, so I decided to think about the thing I like most. “-tea… um… Grey Tea.”

        “Nice to meet you, Grey Tea.” she said, then offered her hoof for a hoof shake. I just couldn’t risk it.

I was finally on my way to the everfree forest, when something had caught my eye…

“Dad?”

“It’s me, Frost Bite.”

“Daddy! Have you brought food?”

“I had.

“... I thought you said you were going to get me cheese…?”

“Sorry, I could only get us this half-loaf of bread. I wish I could have gotten you cheese...”

“It’s fine… I like bread, anyway. It’s better than nothing, right?”

“Yeah… you're right, it is… we could’ve just had nothing to eat tonight...”

I froze where I was. Luckily, I was wearing a dark hood with a dark purple skirt, so there I couldn’t of been noticed unless one puts the effort into it. There was a homeless stallion, with a filly, both dirty and their manes messy. Never even once had I ever thought about the lower class. I had favorites. Twilight Sparkle, her friends, I treated them different than any other pony. Years ago, the six of them ruined the Grand Galloping Gala, and… I just simply pardoned them immediately without even setting them trial. While if any other pony would have done it, I would have put them into sentence. I was an awful Princess. I wasn't a ruler, I was just on the highest class a pony could dream of.

"Thanks Daddy..." Frost Bite thanked, then her and her father hugged. What was I doing? I had spent the whole day just to remedy one little problem with my royal breakfast, and sacrificed all three of my meals all together. Not only did I realize how foolish I was, but also how hungry I was. Once when my stomach growled, the only thing my mind was on for a time was that and that alone. "Oh, hey." Frost Bite suddenly said. I realized that I, by instinct, waltzed over to the poor family.

"Ah- oh, I-I'm sorry, I was just-" my stomach growled.

"Are you hungry?" the stallion asked. I would have lied and said I was fine, but I found myself nodding instead.

"Here.. have half of mine." Frost Bite offered, and broke her share of the bread in half.

"N-no, I'm...- I'm not...- I'm just...-" I tried to refuse, but struggled with the temptation to take both of their halves and gobble it up. She dropped the half, and I picked the half up with my magic by reflex. I wanted that bread. I couldn't make myself give it back. It was mine, and I wanted to keep it.

"Th-thank you.. I..- um, I mean, Princess Celestia herself.. would thank you for your generosity." I told her. The filly smiled.

"It's no problem, really. Every pony diverse some food, no matter how fancy it is. No pony should ever starve." I smiled at that.

"I'm Grey Tea." I introduced myself.

"Frost Bite." the filly introduced,

"Snow Storm." then the stallion introduced himself as well. I smiled with a tear in my eye, hidden beneath my hood.

"Thank you..." I said, then lifted my hood, forgetting everything I had planed. "And one day... I shall repay you." I said before I left. The two ponies looked with very shock looks, but must of dismissed it and thought that what I had revealed must not be true after I turned and ran away.

"Celestia, where art thou'st been!?" Luna exclaimed. We braced in a hug.

"It... took awhile long than expected... but I got what I needed." I explained, and please note what I meant by 'What I needed'. "Attention all staff!!!" I yelled. Once when all of my servants, except for Silver Dish, where gathered in my second ball room, I got up on the stage to prepare an announcement. "Fillies and Gentalcolts, I had gathered you all here to order what can possibly be my biggest order in all my years, yet." I started. They all leaned in, including my sister, with very, very curious eyes. "My little ponies... I want all of you to gather 75% of my food supply, then we will head down to Ponyville and give the feast of a life time...!"

Questions were asked, of curse, but eventually everypony did their duty and prepared the feast to feed all. It was a glorius festival. I had given no warning of my arrival. Everypony was shocked at my appearance, and all bowed, and I dismissed it. My servants had set up a large table and most of my entire food supply all in plates, put together in a random order. Just all placed there, as swiftly as possible. And while all my little ponies, rich and poor, feasted on all the food I had given to them, I had caught Frost Bite and Snow Storm in the corner of my eye, both looking at me with wonder, with faces that say that they had been foretold of this. And indeed they had. I had secretly dedicated to the entire feast to them, and every single other feast I server upon all the other cities and towns in my fair country. I glanced down at the little piece of bread that may not seem much, but was worth more than I can ever give. I smiled when I saw a rainbow shine through it, and knew what I had learned.

And from that day forward, I myself had learned a very valuable lesson on friendship. I had learned that you don't need to have things your way in order to be happy, but to be able to have things at all is enough to appreciate.