Dark Crystal Prince
Chapter 6
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"Ughhh...that was one hell of a night" I said waking up and stretching in bed. I heard a groan from beside me.
"Quiet down your to loud" said Luna making me freeze. Dear god please dont tell me we did it. Her eyes shot open and both of us stared at each other with wide eyes and screamed.
Celestia POV
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
*SMACK*
The scream came from the master bedroom down the hall. Me and twilight were in the dining room with the young Sombra eating breakfast. We all laughed Sombra falling off his chair.
"You think the prank worked" twilight asked while Sombra whipped a tear from his eye from laughing to hard.
"Indeed so" I said taking a bite of chocolate fudge cake provided by the chefs. A red faced luna walked in with prince origin who was rubbing his cheek.
Origin POV
She smacked me right after we got finished screaming it literally knocked me onto the floor. I hit the Crystal floor with a thud as luna hurriedly got out of the bed making her way towards me. Holding my hoofs out I pleaded.
"Wait wait wait wait nothing happened I swear I didnt do it" I said still holding my hooves up. I moved them a little to see her mid swing a red face looking flushed.
"We shall never speak of this again" she said to which I nodded as fast as I could.
We made our way towards the dinning hall for breakfast when my cheek started to sting from the hit I rubbed it hoping to sooth the pain. As we made our way in celestia, twilight and Sombra were laughing there flanks off at me and luna.
"I can't believe it worked" I heard Sombra whisper to twilight
"What worked brother" I asked my eye twitching he froze and slowly turned towards me looking terrified.
"It was all celestias idea they talked me into it she put you in the bed together" he shouted pointing toward the princess in question making her stop the fork she was about to eat a whole slice of cake off of.
"Traitor" she whispered "my dear prince I dont know what you are speaking of" she said trying to get out of the blame. Looking at luna then we both nodded and our horns lit up levitating the cake and smashing it into the culprits.
Sometime later we were all sitting at the table eating me and luna clean and the other three covered in cake. The others walked in about that time and pinkie instantly got even more energetic if thats possible.
"YAY cake bath" she said jumping into the messy cake covered table im starting to feel bad for the maid. We all sat in silence eating while me and luna snickered at the others misfortune eventually the others joined in and we were all laughing.
"So brother celestia said we are invited to the canterlot castle if we want to go" Sombra said levitating a towel whipping himself clean a slurp sound came from beside us and we all turned towards a now clean celestia but she had no towel with her.
"Moving on, I would love to go but I must stay to finish repairing the city and restoring order" I said finishing my crystal berry pie.
"Brother just let the advisers handle it, may we go back with you princess" Sombra said smiling at celestia
"Why of course you may and please call me celestia" she said making him smile and nod. I got up from my spot and made my way towards my workshop to start on making the crystal empire the tech capitol of the world.
"Please excuse me I will be heading towards my workshop brother I leave you to attend to our guests." I said leaving.
My workshop was towards the back of the palace in a dark room that use to be storage. Walking in I used my horn to light a few candle which would hopefully soon be replaced by light bulbs. I looked at my desk at the blueprints I drew up hoping for a time I could share them with the nation they included ships, trains, crossbows, armors and planes. I even had written down to make things like steel and other improved metals and materials.
Sighing I collected the papers and rolled them up to be sent to Ember so she could have some of them created and used to improve the empire. Im only going to send the blueprints for the armors like heavy and light armors that provide more protection and better mobility and also lighter. I sent blueprints also for newer close quarter combat weapons and a design for a train.
"What are you working on" said luna from beside me making me jump.
"Oh..um...this is a what I call an ironclad its made for many things offense and defense transport or transport protection its just a design still. Being made of metal will help since the closest spot to the ocean for the Crystal empire is thick with ice the steel will help break it" I said explaining a small bit.
"How would such a machine be powered" she asked genuinely intrigued.
"Its steam powered but I'm working on a another way of power but its still in the beginning stage" I said pointing a hoof at a tesla coil in the back.
"What purpose does this device have" she asked shaking frag grenade with her magic. I jumped and snatched the thing before the pin could come out making her jump in surprise.
"You do not want do play with that if you would have played with it to much the pin could fall out and created a small explosion killing us both" I said gently putting in a shelf and locking it.
"Why would you have such a thing" she asked concerned with what other dangerous things may be sitting around.
"Its a weapon plain as that" I said walking towards the back going towards the tesla coil.
"This mostly just makes odd noises and a nice light show" I said telling a little lie secretly I had in my free time completed and perfected the tesla coil. It takes electrons and some extra magic that literally just floats in the air and converts it into free and clean power for a nation.
Grabbing her hoof making her blush I led her to a insulated cage in the middle so we would be safe and we both got in. I latched the door and placed my hoof on the big red switch on the side of the cage.
"Prepare to be amazed" I said pulling the lever making it come alive. It made beautiful sounds as electricity went from one coil to the next and more was added from air. It lasted only about ten minutes before I shut them off I could keep them going, all the power not being used just go back and moves on but say I hook something up to it then the power is being channeled into something.
"That twas amazing you are truly a brilliant inventor prince origin" luna said awestruck by the sight she had just seen.
"The ideas just come to me" I said rubbing the back of my neck. I hate taking credit for the ideas but I can't tell anypony I came from a different world and brought then ideas with me. We continued talking for quiet some time and about many things we even made a deal to trade I would help by giving them some ideas I deemed useful for them and in return they would install power to the city(lights, appliances, act) eventually a few hours later Sombra came in.
"Brother celestia said they will be leaving soon we must inform the advisers" he said making me sigh I still never agreed to leave.
"Well let's go then, see you in the throne room" I said to luna as we walked out me locking the door to my workshop with my magic. We walked to the council room that was right of the throne room. Inside waiting was six noble ponies highly trusted by our father.
"Advisers we will be taking a leave to equestria to sign a peace treaty with our neighboring nation in our absence I leave the nation in your hooves we should be back in a day or two" I said making them nod.
"What do we tell the public" asked Bronze Sheen
"Tell them we have took a leave so that we could make a peace treaty" I said leaving them to there jobs. We trotted back to the throne room to meet with the group of waiting equestrians.
"Well is everyone ready" asked celestia. We all nodded and her horn lit up and we teleported to a room filled with glass windows with different scenes one had discord on it I should go visit him.
"Hey princess where is your gardens I have a friend I would wish to see" I said making her raise a brow.
"And who might your friend be" she said slightly confused.
"Discord of course hes not so bad once you spend 1000 years with him" I said smiling.
"WHAT" came the voice of everypony except my brother and the princesses. I had many ponies shouting things about how I could be friends with a monster and why would I and if we should throw a party about it.
"Enough" I shouted "I only asked a question I dont know what he did to you but he is a friend of mine so if you would point me in his direction and stop badmouthing him I would appreciate it" they all pointed to a hall towards I assumed lead out side. I walked to it and followed finding a large door and pushed one open finding a big garden. Walking around I found the draconesque in question.
"Why hello old friend" I said smiling hoping for an answer. None came I sat down sad I could not speak to a 1000 year old friend. I hear hoof steps behind me but didnt turn.
"What do you truly think of discord young prince" asked celestia behind me. I smiled at the statue and turned to her.
"I think he is misunderstood, if you would take the time and get to know him you would find out he is funny in his own way he is a very smart individual and when needed a great friend to spend time with trust me I did plenty of that" I smiled at our antics in our own dimension "it not his fault chaos is in his nature but havent you noticed no one ever got hurt it was just pranks I'm sure for his freedom he would dial it down" I said making her ponder.
"I cannot free him" she said making me frown "but I can say he is not trapped in there for much longer my little ponies dont truly understand the elements they only put a slightly small prison spell on his so now my friend you just have to wait" she said putting a hoof on my shoulder. I smiled and looked up at the statue before speaking.
"I'm sure we can both do that goodness knows we both did plenty of waiting, a little longer can't hurt" I said smiling and we both walked back to the castle.
Making it into the throne room we found only rainbow.
"Finally we have been waiting the others left twi went to the library with your brother and rarity went shopping and aj and shy went back home and pinkie is well I'm not sure where she went" rainbow said trotting up.
"Come on there is a wonderbolts performance today after that I could show you around a little" she said pulling my hoof I didnt budge.
"We will have to finish the treaty tomorrow it seems I must go now" I said rainbow had finally got me to move and was practically dragging me out. I got out of her hold when she got me out of the door and turned towards her.
"You could have waited and asked" I said making her blush a bit.
"Come it the wonderbolts you have to see them" she said like I should know them.
"Rainbow I just got back to the world I dont know who the wonderbolts are" I said with a flat brow.
"Then come on I will show you" she said now pulling my hoof again while flying. Sighing I lifted into the air and followed she was still holding my hoof.
"Can I have my hoof back please" I asked as we flew. She turned quickly and looked down and blushed.
"Oh ya um in forgot let's go" she said turning and speeding up a bit. We flew for an few minutes I admired canterlot the whole time it was beautiful I just wish father could see this now. Rainbow coughed gaining my attention we were hovering above a stadium that was almost filled with ponies.
"Come on they are almost full" she said flying down I followed and we stopped at a ticket booth, rainbow pulled a bag from under her wings.
"25 bits per ticket how many" asked the stallion inside the booth. Rainbow threw down some coins and got two tickets in return.
"You didnt have to do that I dont like having to rely on others for things like money" I said following her in.
"Its fine its what friends do" she said trotting beside me.
"I will pay you back eventually" I said she just shook her head as we moved on. Eventually we made it to fair sized covered booth with about 6 ponies in it on the door it said VIP.
"Jeez rainbow you bought VIP" I said feeling bad she spent extra on me.
"Its all they had left and what did I tell you what are friends for" she said making me shake my head this time. We sat down rainbow on my left while an older made was on my right with a gold coat and dark orange man with amber stripes her eyes are the same orange as her mane.
"Hello do you mind if we sit here" I asked she just smiled and nodded.
"I'm Origin Eclipse and this is rainbow dash" I said trying to be polite.
"I'm stormy flare nice to meet you, so what brings you here today" she said.
"My friend wanted to show me the wonderbolts" I said motioning to dash who seems to have left to grab a snack "what about you" I finished.
"Oh my daughter is the captain of the wonderbolts" she said smiling.
"What is her name im a little new around here" I said sheepishly.
"Spitfire, she is right there" she said pointing at a mare in a blue and yellow flight suit with the same color scheme as stormy just lighter.
"Wow they look like the blue angels" I whispered thinking about the flying team I named mine after I just changed the yellow to black.
"Who are the blue angels" asked stormy.
"They are the part of the air force and also conduct ariel show like the wonderbolts I'm there leader, they are the crystal empires best fliers" I said fishing my badge out of from under my wing. It was just like the blue angels shield but there were four pegasi instead of planes in the cloud and instead of an anchor behind the shield it was the crystal empires logo.
"I can't say I have heard of them or the crtstal empire for that matter" she said so I told her the story as rainbow got back and the show went underway. It was a display of each of the wonderbolts showing their skills solo then they raced. It was spitfire who won barely beating fleetfoot as dash told me their names.
"Well another amazing show, how would you two like to meet my daughter" stormy asked
"Whos your daughter" dash asked finishing off her popcorn.
"Spitfire" she said making dash drop the empty popcorn bucket and squee.
"Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh your spitfires mom we would love to lets go" dash said rushing to the exit.
"She is a big fan" I said stormy just smiled and shrugged. We walked to the locker room while me and stormy talked more about the crystal empire she seemed intrigued and I offered for her to visit anytime. Eventually we reached a door labeled wonderbolts only stormy pushed right in and we followed. My face went red as we entered as fleet foot was helping spitfire out of her sweaty flight suit making my face red as I covered my eyes.
"Oh hey miss flare wha-ahh get out mares only" fleet foot shouted as I bolted out of the door. I still had my eyes covered so I just turned and ran and went right into the wall knocking me down.
"Calm down fleet its fine not like he saw much" I heard stormy say while laughing at my misfortune. I heard a huff and a slam of a locker.
"Well what's he doing here anyway and-oh hi rainbow dash" she said now smiling at dash almost completely forgetting about me. I looked up to see a hoof in my face so I flinched at first but realized it was held out to help so I grabbed it and they helped me up.
"Thank you I'm so-sor" I said but my words got caught in my throat as I starred at the beautiful mare in front of me she was amazing her strong orange eyes and her brilliant golden coat her vivid orange mane with light brilliant amber stripes. I was at a loss for words until she said something
"Are you ok" she said giving me an odd look. I snapped out of my confusion hoping to make this less awkward.
"Oh um you must be spitfire your mom told me about you I'm Origin Eclipse" I said holding a hoof out then realized in was still holding hers. We both blushed and released each others hold much to stormy flares entertainment.
"Stallions" fleetfoot said while rolling her eyes.
"Well why dont you head out we mares must talk so shoo the colts are down the hall" stormy said pointing towards the door. I rushed out and went into some pony as the door shut. I opened my eyes to see big emerald green eyes over top me I went to say something but my lips were covered. We both realized what was happening and rushed to get off each other. Once I stood up I got a good look at him. He has a very pale cornflower blue coat and dark grayish phthalo blue mane. His face was red and so was mine if the warm feeling in my cheeks was anything to go by.
"Told you he was a coltcuddler" said a voice from behind me while a boom of laughter filled the hallways. Making us both blush deeper and shy away.
"What are you doing here" he said a little nervous.
"Stormy brought me and a friend down here and told me to ger out for a second and I ran into you and we-um" I didnt finish cause I was to embarrassed.
"Oh stormy ya that makes sense um who are you though I'm soarin by the way" he said nervously holding a hoof out I took it in mine even more nervous then him.
"Origin Eclipse" I said quietly very embarrassed from before still. The door beside us opened and out came the mares it was only the four there were other mares on the team but they were not needed for todays show.
"What's going on here" spitfire ordered me and soarin were about to answer but the colt behind me beat us to it.
"These two love birds shared a passionate moment" said the one with silver hair there were two both white one with silver curly hair and the other light orange with white streaks.
"Fire streak, silver lining what are you two going on about" asked spitfire putting a hoof to her head in frustration.
"Who cares let's go I'm hungry" said stormy pushing past the mares.
"PIE" me and soarin said at the same time happily. We realized it and looked away embarrassed again.
"Let's go" spitfire ordered "you can come along if you want, dash is" spitfire said speaking softly I only nodded and followed along.
"So you like pie to" Soarin asked trotting up to me trying to make it a little less awkward between us.
"Ya especially my homes special crystal berry pie its just the right amount of sweetness, its even better fresh right out of the stove" I said as we both got watery mouths just thinking about it.
"I just love apple pie especially sweet apple acres apple pie its divine" he said with enthusiasm making me chuckle a bit. We talked a little I mostly told him and the group about me and my brother and the recent events I almost finished but we reached a diner and went it. Spitfire led us to a big table in then corner for all of us.
"Um I dont really have your countries currency but will this work" I said while grabbing a bag of copper coins we use in the empire as money.
"Origin are you serious you could buy the diner with that" said rainbow dash holding the coins in her hoof. On one side was a Crystal snowflake and the other side had the crystal heart.
"Those please its just copper thats actually a small amount compared to what a commoner would have its what I had on me" I said shrugging.
"Copper is very rare in equestria we use gold and silver is worth a little less than copper" fleetfoot said also eyeing the coins.
"Well I guess the foods on me" I said smiling while the waiter walked up handing us menus.
"Will this pay for food for the day" I said handing him ten coins. His eyes almost popped out of his head he just nodded yes and took our orders we mostly got salads, pie and cider.
"So origin tell us more about the blue angels" storm said after a bite of her salad.
"Who are the blue angels" Soarin mumbled with a mouthful of pie.
"Well this is our emblem just like you have your bolt with wings" I said laying the badge down "its just like the wonderbolts our colors are blue with black trim though. We didnt even exist until I became prince, I formed the blue angels after I became the head of the military they are the best flyers the crystal empire has to offer we did air shows sometimes but mostly they are the elites of the air force they are trained both physically and magically, the wings are strong but when you train you magic it gives it an extra boost to speed and agility" I said finishing my story I then went on to devour my fourth pie Soarin was on number five.
"So you must be pretty good at flying" fire streak asked with sarcasm and a cocky smirk.
"Little colt I wrote the book, actually I wrote four on flying magic and ariel techniques and tactics, physically I am 22 mentally I'm 1022 so dont forget with age comes wisdom" I said making him only look even more smug.
"You want to prove it why dont you put your money where your month is we race I win you hoof over the copper you got" he said looking at me trying to get me to take the bait I could cafe less but oh well.
"Streak just shut up and eat" Spitfire said scowling at him.
"No its fine but when I win you have to keep your mouth shut and act your age you little colt" I said baring my fangs he stopped for a second but held strong.
"Deal" he said holding a hoof out I shook it and the bet was on. We finished eating and went back to the stadium to use the track for the race. There were cloud rings and cloud walls for obstacles.
"Ok first one to round the track three times wins" spitfire said as we lined up. I stretched my wings out fully which was still big for my kind. I steadied my breath and channeled my natural flying magic to my body making it lighter and less dense.
"GOOO" shouted Soarin as me and streak took off. I stayed back to observe how he would race he is fast and agile but he his a little sloppy. I nimbly avoided the cloud walls and barrel rolled right threw the cloud rings. Deciding to end this quick I added some more power and shot right by Streak shocking him. It was the last lap for me and I was coming up on the finish line when a slight wind change told me to roll midair to avoid what was coming at me. Time slowed as I rolled I was upside down and above me was streak looking completely mortified he had missed and I just smirked and winked as time sped back up and I went upright. I heard a *phomf* sound that a cloud usually makes when something got stuck in it as I shot past the finish line and landed.
"That was amazing Origin how did you dodge that" rainbow asked flying up.
"Its part of the magic part of flying you can feel wind currents more when you channel it into your body" I said as soaring flew over pushing the cloud Streak got caught in with him.
"Your a great flyer that much is true but you let your fame get in the way you think it made you the best and greatest I hope today taught you different" I said trotting away back the group Soarin with me now while silver tried to get streak out.
"I have to admit you definitely know what your doing out there" Fleetfoot said smiling and holding a hoof out I bumped it in response.
"Well we have to practice tomorrow at 5 stop by if you want you might be able to show the team a few things" spitfire said with a smirk and a wink making me blush.
"Yeah bring some pie also" Soarin said then whispered the rest "or just bring your handsome self" if my face wasnt red already then if sure as hell was now. I sure wouldnt mind a mare or stallion but now I have two flirting with me.
"Um..yeah I can do that I just have to make a treaty tomorrow so I might be late so I better get going it was nice meeting you all" I said quickly while flying out with dash following. We made it to the castle as the moon was coming up and the sun went down.
"Well I guess it time to go to bed goodnight dash" I said but before I could go dash grabbed my hoof and put a kiss on my lips. I was shocked at first but closed my eyes and leaned into it making her push farther into it. I felt her tongue push at my lips and I parted them and she did the same and we fought for dominance. I felt her tongue brush my fangs making her kiss deeper. Eventually we parted for air and she smiled at me and winked.
"Thanks for going to the airshow with me" she said flying towards her guest room.
"Well scratch that three ponies flirting with me"
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