Celestia yawned as she ripped open her mail. She got so much of it, it wasn't even funny. So many ponies wrote to thank her for the gift of her sun, Cherry Punch, Lura Hearthooves, Dumpy Muffins... Well the point was, there were so many she couldn't even remember their names! She couldn't even complain to Luna, as Luna didn't even get half as much fan mail as she did. Well, most of the 'fan' mail she got was angry letters from fillies, colts and sometimes even adults who had received nightmares and, well, they only had Luna to blame for that. Actually, Celestia really felt quite bad about that, but she couldn't do much about it except explain that Luna didnt give them nightmares, they happened on their own.
Funnily enough, they didn't listen. Maybe it was a recurring theme.
Celestia rubbed her heavy eyes and looked tiredly at her large pile of letters. It was dark outside and a cold breeze blew through the castle, chilling her to the bone. Her necklace... thingy was starting weigh down on her neck and her hooves were aching from the tight little hoof cups she was wearing. If she had to read any more letters, she would probably collapse from hunger and exhaustion. Groaning, she turned back to the letter she was already holding. Scanning it with her eyes, her groans choked into silence. A second later, her face split into an enormous wide smile.
Everypony's Favourite Pony Princesses!
Whose your favourite pony princess? Goddess Celestia, ruler of the sun? Maybe Twilight, your favourite friend? The beautiful Princess of Love, Cadance? Or r r maybe Flurry Heart, our newest and cutest princess yet! We asked, and you answered! Well the votes are in and the results are as following!
In first place, Princess Celestia, our beautiful Sun Goddess, with 798,537 votes!
In second place, the cutest one yet, the one with those wings, Princess Flurry Heart, with 51,930 votes!
In third place, lover of books, Princess Twilight, with 21,354 votes!
In second last place, with 6,094 votes, our gorgeous princess of love, ruler of the crystal heart, Princess Cadance.
And in last place, with 12 votes, Princess Luna. Better luck next time.
REMEMBER! Not everypony got to vote, so remember to place yours next time!
Celestia celebrated beating Flurry Heart in her head for a bit (she had been seriously worried about this, a new baby alicorn could seriously undermine her position as the best princess) then frowned as she looked at the rest. And in last place, with 12 votes, Princess Luna. Better luck next time.
What. Really. Twelve votes? TWELVE? Sure Luna had had her bad years with the poll, but twelve votes? TWELVE?
Celestia opened her mouth to protest furiously but then noticed her sleepy guard standing near her throne. He was looking at her anxiously, trying to read the emotions behind her mask of a face. Celestia couldn't scream her lungs out in front of him. It might ruin her perfect image.
"Go," she said simply. The guard didn't need telling twice. He had been there last year when the regal white alicorn opened the polls and found out she had came second to Twilight Sparkle. It had not been pretty.
Once the guard had left the room, Celestia began to pace back and forth beside her throne. Of course Luna had came last before, plenty of times of course, but Celestia still remembered how she had reacted the first time the polls had ever came out. When she got zero votes. Needless to say... It had not been pretty.
The sun princess shivered at the memory. She didn't want that to happen again.
Well, as she had never really worried much about it before (as Luna nearly almost came last, save for the one time when she beat Cadence by one vote), perhaps in her sleep deprived state she was looking on the negative side.
Maybe negative side was putting it a bit too lightly.
A flash of turquoise light. The sun exploded into tiny fiery embers. They rained down upon Equestria as Luna blew off her smoking horn.
Celestia shivered again. She definately didn't want that to happen again. Not ever. It had taken ages (literally moons!) to rebuild the sun and wipe the memories from everypony in Equestria. Yes, everypony.
Ok, so she would have a little talk with Luna. Maybe she could resolve the problem with her little sister.
Celestia saw the fury in her sister's eyes as she galloped and flew across Equestria, searching for the pony who had created the poll. Even in her younger years, it was a terrifying sight to behold.
Oh-h kay... so it miight be harder to calm her down once she was as furious as she probably... No, definately was now, but maybe she could...
Luna printed out thousands of flyers for all to see with the pictures of Celestia eating all of the cake at her year ten formal...
No! Not that! Anything but that! Out of all the worst possible things that could possibly ever happen again, that is the. Worst. Possible thing! Never again!
Celestia gave a high pitched scream and galloped down the hallway, fearing for her life. And her perfect image. And her sanity. As she ran, she passed a door where what sounded like a noisy argument was being held.
Luna roared with laughter as she waved the poll in Cadance's face.
"Last again! See? You owe me... TWELVE BITS! HA!"
"Twelve votes? That's pathetic!"
"You still owe me!"
"Be glad you didn't beat me... you would have owed me... what is it... six thousand and ninety four bits!"
"Hey! It's better than the time my popularity sky-rocketed and I owed you twelve thousand three hundred and forty seven bits! I was bankrupt for moons!"
Unfortunately, Celestia was shrieking too loudly to hear them.
