Even Goddesses need love

I suddenly woke up in pain, and groaned while sitting up as my body protested, obviously finally feeling the effects of yesterday's fight with the wolves. I took in my surroundings and found that I was no longer in principal Celestia’s office. I laid on a surprisingly unstained and untainted by paint of any kind, ornate oak bed, the foot and headboard bordered with carved fleur de lis curves with bed knobs like tear drops twisted creating stylish swirls, while the room was a creamy beige color. It was sparsely decorated save for a desk with several framed photos that showed Luna and Celestia, one showing Sunset Shimmer opening presents at what looked like Hearth’s Warming Eve. Another saw Luna atop a creature I couldn't identify, only that it had been felled with a couple of spears protruding from its back. The door to my right opened, revealing Principal Celestia in a white loose summer dress. She was carrying a tray with cereal, toast and a plate of something I had trouble identifying. She laid the tray over my legs as I sat up.

“Good morning Twilight, I believe you are hungry?” Principal Celestia asked, a small smile on her face.

I was about to protest, but my stomach let out a loud growl, and I felt my cheeks heat up in embarrassment. I picked up the cutlery and looked down at the mystery food. With the fork in my right hand, I speared the mystery food. I looked up at Celestia, a little unsure of whether I should eat it or not.

“Go on, Twilight, it won't bite, I am sure you’ll love it,” Celestia said, her warm, matronly smile still on her lips. I shrugged and put the food into my mouth, and a sudden explosion of salty flavor filled my mouth. I chewed as it practically melted in my mouth, and I let out a moan of satisfaction as a smug smile replaced the warm one on Celestia’s face. With reckless abandon, I speared the long cylindrical food and bit down on it, the crunchy shell giving way.

“What is this? These are delicious!” I asked as I shovelled down the rest.

“Oh, that’s fried bacon and sausage,” Celestia responded.

“Huh. What’s it made of?” I asked after having swallowed the last of it.

“Well, bacon is made from the back and belly meat of pigs, and sausages are made from ground pork, which is also pig meat, beef, which is cow meat, and mixed with salt, breadcrumbs, onions, garlic, and other spices which is then stuffed into an intestine. Usually pig.”

“What!? You can’t give me that!?” I screeched.

Confused, Celestia asked, “Why not?”

“Because, meat’s so expensive and rare! I mean, I can understand if this was a special occasion but-” I was silenced by an index finger covering my lips.

“Hush, Twilight, it isn’t all that rare or expensive here. You can have it everyday if you want.” Celestia replied with a smirk on her face over my wide eyed expression.

“Celestia? Is this place Elysium? Have I died and been taken to Paradise!?” I queried in an astonished daze.

Celestia let out a chuckle. “No dear Twilight, you aren’t dead, and despite how much the world has recovered, it’s still susceptible to war, poverty and the normal mortal trappings,” Celestia informed. “So, Twilight, what are you going to do now that you’re here? I doubt that this is a social visit,” Celestia asked, her demeanor turning serious.

I lowered my head down. “I don’t know, what do you suggest?” I asked, not sure of what I could do.

“How about you join the school as a freshman? We have many various classes you can take, in a variety of subjects such as magic and combat. We can get you registered a bit later on. Oh! Before I forget, avoid Dean Cadance, if you can. Ever since she was ‘alicornised,’ she has been devoting her time to ‘shipping’ students.”

“‘Shipping?’” I asked, unfamiliar with the term.

“It’s short for relationship-ping, basically matchmaking.” Celestia answered as blood pooled into my cheeks and heated them up.

Celestia smiled slyly at my reaction, “Oh ho! It looks like someone has a crush! Come now, tell me who is it?”

“Uh, it’s no one you would know, Celestia!” I exclaimed hurriedly, but Celestia’s smile turned into a predatory grin as she saw through my weak lie. “And I don’t think it’s any of your business!” I huffed, turning away from her and puffing up my cheeks and pouting. Celestia’s grin didn’t disappear, she just started poking my left cheek.

“Aw! Come on, Twilight! Don’t be so stingy,” Celestia whined. However, seeing that her wheedling was getting her nowhere, she paused and pouted when Twilight continued to refuse to disclose any juicy information regarding who she had a crush on. “Fine, I’ll find out eventually, and when I do I’ll sic Cadance on you.” Celestia stood up and took the empty food tray away with her, when she went. I quickly got out of bed and froze as I found myself naked. I had the oddest urge to cover my nakedness. I pulled the covers over my head.

“Celestia, where are my clothes?” I asked, blushing madly.

Celestia stopped and looked back, a smile plastered on her face “I am washing them Twilight. I brought you a spare set of clothes. They are on the bed,” Celestia said as she left the room. After the door closed, I slipped out from beneath the covers and looked at the clothes which Celestia had laid out for me. There was a simple white shirt with a frilled plunge v neck with flared cuffs, which I started off with. Slipping the shirt on, I noticed a hourglass black corset similar to the one I wore before. However, this one was trimmed with black lace and red panels of satiny fabric, and unlike mine it had breast cups. I unhooked the front and wrapped it around my waist and then put on the black pants, which was made of a strange material. It wasn’t leather, nor was it rubber, but it was very form-fitting and very shiny. It didn’t look like anything I had ever seen before, although that was to be expected as my world’s Celestia outlawed pants several centuries ago, something about none of them fitting the royal rump.”

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“Pants are evil Twilight, I shall never let anyone else fall for their siren’s call!” Celestia exclaimed raising her forelegs up in exasperation.

Twilight looked flatly at Celestia, ”Do you mind? I'm trying to tell a story here! And the only real reason you don't like pants is … mpphh!?” Twilight glared at Celestia with an intensity that could melt steel as Celestia shoved her right golden shod hoof into Twilight’s mouth to silence her. With disdain, Twilight wrapped her right hand over Celestia's leg and removed it.

“Ahem! As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted!” Twilight stated angrily.

“Is it just me or did the temperature just drop in here?” Rainbow Dash asked, looking confused as to why it was suddenly colder in the room, though further conversations were cut off by Twilight giving them the evil eye.

*******

Shrugging, I resolved to find more about the mystery fabric at a later time, as I’d really rather not be caught with my pants down. I put them on, based on how form-fitting and tight they looked, but I was pleasantly surprised to feel no unpleasant tightness, or discomfort! They even breathed! A brief diagnostic spell brought up a number of enchantments, most of which dealt in some manner of comfort, while others dealt in its overall durability.

Smiling, I put on a pair of blue and white striped thigh-high socks, blushing as ponies often regarded this kind of garment as lingerie. my blush only deepening as I remember the silken pair I had at home with the nighttime motif. Shaking my head, I turned to see a pair of knee-high boots with a square heel. I put each on, making sure they were on the correct foot.

Once I was done, I bounced on my heels, and walked over to a wall mirror and conjured a mane brush to brush my hair. It took a while before I was done. When I was satisfied, I left the room and traveled down the hallway which had two doors adjacent to the room I just left. One of the two rooms was likely Luna’s room, and the other would remain a mystery as I was almost tempted to find out which and sneak into Luna's room, but then I thought better of it, so I don’t know what’s in either of the rooms. I hurried to the staircase and descended down them. As I entered into the antechamber, I noted how massive the room looked, with doors leading into other rooms and hallways. A head poked out of the first door on the left. It was Luna, and her eyes lit up briefly, but quickly turned into a frown. She beckoned me in what turned out to be the dining room, which sat adjacent to a living room and the kitchen.

In front of me, as soon as I entered the room, was a wooden table with four unvarnished and untreated wooden chairs. They were the simple blocky affairs that any furniture apprentice could craft after learning the basic skill and knowledge. The left end of the table was pressed up against a counter that divided the dining room and kitchen. Celestia stood cooking at the stove opposite the counter that divided the kitchen and dining room, next to the stove sat the fridge. She wore a frilly rose-pink apron.

“Where did you get those, Twilight? I was looking for those clothes.” Luna asked, pulling my attention back to her as she was looking agitated.

“Well, Celestia laid them out for me,” I replied, worried I had upset her.

Luna shook her head and called out, “‘Tia, just because your clothes are too big for Twilight because of your big fat ass, doesn’t mean you can go and give her mine!”

I blushed deeply at the revelation that I was wearing Luna’s clothes. Then a thought occurred “Hang on! Celestia isn’t fat!” I retorted, looking confused as to why Luna would make such an obviously false statement, Luna only smirking as Celestia called out in exasperation.

“I am not fat Luna!”

Luna ignored Celestia’s outburst from the kitchen. I turned to Celestia as she had turned around and I noticed a message was written in cursive on her apron “Real men like their pork pulled?” I read out, a confused tone seeping into my voice.

“It was the only one they had!” Celestia sputtered unconvincingly as a Luna snickered behind me. As I returned my focus on Luna, she continued talking, though the odd snicker slipped through.

“Well, with all those illusions she enchants into her clothes, I am not surprised you never noticed. Plus, it’s not overt in our true forms, in fact, our natural height is quite intimidating. Celestia is nine foot three inches, though I myself am only eight foot nine inches,” Luna explained.

“How come you didn’t grow bigger when you showed me your wings?” I asked.

“Oh, looking at my wings eh, Twilight? My, how forward!” Luna teased, causing me to blush deeply, which in turn made Luna and Celestia giggle. “But to answer your question, several reasons. One: getting clothing that size is hard, two: Celestia would hit the ceiling, three: it’s intimidating, and finally: it’s taxing to change our size as it isn’t an illusion and it’s hard to recompress all our mass into these small bodies,” Luna continued.

“Oh! Before I forget, you don’t have to come to the school today. However, I have a present for you. So close your eyes and don’t worry when you start to feel a pricking on your skin.” Luna ordered.

Shrugging, I closed my eyes. I felt Luna holding my left arm, before I felt a soft material I couldn’t identify wrap around my left wrist, and then I felt three needles pierce my skin. I resisted the urge to pull my arm away and grimaced as the nerves in my arm felt as if they were on fire.

“Okay, you can open your eyes now,” Luna instructed, and I pulled my left arm up as I did so. A screen projected slightly above my wrist. The device looked like a cross between a bracer and a wrist mounted computer.

Luna spoke up while I was still looking at the thing. “The ArkTech all-purpose Multi-tool and personal assistant or AMP for short has one terabyte of memory, a quantum state cpu from ArkTech, a miniature graphics processor that can provide full GHD, Giga High Definition resolution, that’s ten thousand three hundred and twenty eight by seven thousand seven hundred and sixty at five hundred gigabytes of video memory. It has a high powered torch that can illuminate up to fifty meters in a 25 meter cone, a projector for presenting information or maps no matter where your arm is positioned, DAIA or Digital Artificial Intelligence Assistant, a terabit per second Maginet connection, GPS, a to-do list, several popular video games, movies and TV for when you're bored and a mp3 and radio player. It also has a camera and it monitors your health (which you can see now alongside a compass), abilities and inventory-including pocket dimensions. It’s powered by the magic in the area, and stores it just incase you find yourself outside of the magic field. It has video calling and instant messaging as well.” Luna enthused as she explained the advanced technology.

“Now don’t tell ‘Tia, but this one also has hacking software and a lockpick. Not to mention an option to display the screen over your vision with a semi transparent GUI Graphics User Interface, which you can control by thinking about it. Neat huh?” Luna whispered and then her mouth parted into a lecherous grin and leant forward after checking no one else would hear, and began to stage whisper “And you can look at porn and no one will be the wiser.”

“Um, okay?” I said, giving Luna a sidelong look. “Thank you for the AMP.” I added with awe evident in my voice, at the piece of technology strapped to my wrist.

“Oh, and I forgot to mention that it can hold and store digital books which you can then read using using the AMP. And if you don’t want to wait for the Digital Conversion Corps to digitize a book for you, you can just scan it yourself and make the digital copy without waiting on them!”

As Luna finished saying that, I let out the girliest squeal I could as I went about looking through the menus for the books. Sure enough, I saw a tab called Books, though there were only three hundred titles in its library. While I was impressed with the technology of this world, I wasn’t overly impressed with the number of titles available. It might make for a year’s worth of reading. My world had massive libraries with thousands of titles and scrolls, so you can understand that, as a bibliophile, I had seen much larger book repositories. Nevertheless, I was very appreciative to Luna for this gift, and I gave her a most exuberant hug while profusely thanking her. Celestia shook her head in barely contained amusement before returning to the cooking

“Well anyway.” Luna said, shrugging, “I must go, as much fun as it has been spending time with you, I do have a school to run.” Luna exited the dining room to finish preparations for the workday. I made my way over to the living room through the arched entryway. Against the wall to my left was a white cotton upholstered couch, on the opposite side of the room sat a wood burning fireplace. A flat-screened TV screen was mounted to the wall above it, The strangest thing was that it looked like someone had jammed several crystals into its frame. I sat down on the couch and began to shift through my newly acquired books until one title piqued my interest, ‘101 ways to please your girlfriend’

******

Twilight paused as she felt somepony playing with her AMP, it turned out to be the mare in her arms, Luna, she had righted herself and now was looking through my AMP. Twilight leant forward and whispered in a husky voice “Luna, what are you doing?” Luna shivered in response to Twilight's question before going rigid. A dark blush coloured her cheeks in response.

“I was” Luna turned away before Twilight’s right hand on her chin guided her face back, “reading 101 ways to please your girlfriend.” Luna grumbled her cheeks burning heavily.

“Do not fret Lulu, we shall give you a copy, I actually have a present for you all.” Twilight declared, and as she spread her arms and in a flash of light there was a collection of yelps and gasps as their left forelegs were now wrapped in AMPs. “There we go, perhaps you can reverse engineer one and make them here, although the Maginet must be made first though. ” Another AMP dropped into Celestia's hooves. With a few taps on her AMP, Twilight sent Maginet and AMP research and blueprints to Celestia. “There, now you have no excuses. Anyway, back to my story.” Twilight said as Celestia grinned like a mare in a candystore.

******

I opened it and as soon as I saw the knowledge it contained I immediately closed it as I felt my cheeks heat up, I surreptitiously favorited it for later reading.

I looked up to see the amused smile of Celestia, and her eyes seemed to glint with mischief and promises of untold embarrassment that I was going to face in the not too distant future, and she was standing in the only entrance of the room.

“I have some money for you, Twilight. Magicite is a crystal that forms around high concentrations of magic, which is often around magic fonts. Each coin is a slice of Magicite and comes in two denominations; Magicite, which are the larger value coins, and kryst smaller slices, each slice is then engraved with what it is, the currency symbol. Each Magicite piece contains a magical charge, raw and larger cuts are used to power everything often in conjunction with or without steam. However, due to its rarity, steam is preferred whenever possible. As I reached out to take the bag of coins they disappeared in a beam of blue light that emerged from my AMP.

“Where did they go?” I asked in confusion looking at my AMP.

“AMPs automatically store currency,” came Celestia's reply.

“Before you leave, don't forget to equip your sword, use your AMP and click on the inventory, then on weapons then click on the icon it should automatically attach your sword scabbard and belt.” Celestia explained and waited as I followed her instructions, until light wrapped around my waist as a belt materialised.

“That is going to be useful.” I said in awe, now equipped with my sword and with a confident look on my face I bid Celestia farewell and left the house. When I did I saw a girl leaning against the gate, the girl was wearing a short black cotton skirt, and blouse. She had long brown hair tied up in a plat. She had silver eyes, her eyebrows were thin and neatly trimmed, her skin was tanned lightly. She was also wearing black stocking held up by a garter belt and a pair of calf boots with a sensible heel.

“About time you got your butt out here,” she said in a voice I recognised, waving with a smirk.

“Jo? Is that you?” I asked, as the girl in front of me walked up to me.

“I’m certainly not Santa Claus.” Jo responded sarcastically. She stopped leaning against the gate and put her right hand on her hip.

“Come on, let's go, I am your guide for your tour of the town. Afterwards, we can go see Sunset Shimmer.” Jo explained and began to walk off, so I hurriedly followed after her.

The streets were lined with houses, each had a picket fence. Jo spoke up, “This is a residential area, one of two. This one is on the east side, while the other is on the west. Each block contains eight houses, and there are ten blocks in each residential area, making for a hundred and sixty houses total. Down the center is a large in road which branches off”

As we made it to the center road Jo turned left with me close behind.
We eventually made it to the center of the town, “This is the town square and market where I took you through when you first arrived, going left here leading north is the school. Heading right will take you south towards the tourist district filled with restaurants, theatres, hotels and taverns. Outside the walls lay the farm districts.” Jo explained, “Do you want anything from the market, Twilight?” Jo asked, as she was explaining as they wandered around the stalls.

“Not from the stalls, can we go to the mall?” I asked

“Sorry Twilight, we don't have enough time. The mall is in the underground city section and it's still under construction.” Jo explained

“Underground city?” I asked.

“Yeah, it was recently added to enable us to expand the city without ruining farming land. Now come on, onto the east side residential, Sunset awaits” Jo explained, I followed her through the east residential district until coming to house number forty two.

Jo knocked and a muffled voice called, the door swung open to reveal Sunset Shimmer. She wore a white lab coat an eggshell blue T-shirt, her signature black skirt and flat shoes. When she spotted Twilight behind Jo, this immediately caused Sunset to dart forward, she cupped my face with her hands and before I could react she thrust her lips forward into mine, locking my lips with hers.

Her soft cherry flavoured lips caressed mine as my eyes widened in shock before I melted into it, closing my eyes. Her tongue was teasing my lips as she tried to gain entry into my mouth, so I opened my mouth slightly, allowing her tongue in. It slipped in and licked and caressed my tongue as I tried to return the favor, turnabout is fair play after all.

During our impromptu tongue wrestling match, an awkward Jo excused herself by going to another room. I was vaguely aware that Sunset’s hands slid down my body and slid down into the front of my pants, and when I felt her fingers caress my lower lips I pulled away. Panting, “ Sunset what are you doing!?” I demanded, my face heating up as I spoke. Looking confused and a bit hurt, she replied,

“Kissing my girlfriend?” She asked uncertainly.

“I don't remember dating you, Sunset, when I came here last time!” I exclaimed

“Hang on, where are your glasses?” Sunset asked as the hurt and confusion in her voice increased.

“Glasses? I have never worn glasses!” I nearly shouted and then a dawning recognition flittered across her face.

“Twilight from Equestria?” She near whispered, still blushing.

“Yes.” I huffed as I tried to calm myself down.

“ Oh no, you weren't supposed to know about us and- oh no, that means my Twilight is still missing!” Sunset wailed and fell to her knees, tears cascading down her cheeks. Despite the discomfort of the revelation that Sunset was dating my human counterpart, I quickly pulled her into a hug and let her cry on my shoulder as I gently stroked her head, rocking and comforting the distraught mare turned human.

“I’m sorry I kissed you, it’s just that I miss her so much!” Sunset choked out between sobs.

“It's okay. Just so you know, I already have a mare I have my eyes on.”

“Oh, really?” Sunset asked twisting her head to look at me a rueful smile on her face.

“Don't tell anyone, but it's Princess Luna.” I whispered

“Wow, aiming high, aren't we Twilight?” Sunset said as I shrunk back in embarrassment. Sunset let out a choked laugh.