My Grave Error
Chapter 1 - Love at first-(ish) sight
Load Full StoryNext ChapterPrincess Celestia sat upon on her throne, within the throne room. Slowly sipping on a cup of herbal tea, accompanied by some pastries. Celestia basked in her day but felt bored. Being immortal sure was fun, but had its downsides. Life was repetitive, and boring most of the time. There were small times of excitement, and the only thing stopping her from being bored to the bone was royal duties, sure they weren't fun, but they kept her preoccupied, which was good nonetheless.
Minutes seemed to pass by...
Hours then passed by...
Nighttime came...
Celestia met her sister exiting the tower, exchanged pleasantries and news (and maybe gossip) and headed towards the throne-room. Laughing as they entered, they sat on their respective thrones for the late night courters to come and show them why the Princesses should accept them into royalty, but of course, their attempts would cease and would be seen as futile. But nonetheless, the Princesses did so anyway, to give Equestria some minuscule amount of hope. The courting took around an hour and all but 2 ponies remained. A unicorn stallion with a green mane and red fur, passed by the two waiting stallions, spoke to them and then all the courtiers left, an expression of pure relief swept over their faces. Both sisters prepared to leave until a bright flash of light happened in the throne room. Time seemed to slow down for both sisters, hearing yelling, cursing and seeing the bright flash expand, guards jumped to their side, unicorns pegasi earth ponies, to protect their princess. The bright flash ceased as a creature found itself on the ground lying down, and a forest of spears grew around the creature.
"Halt, who trespasses into the royal throne-room without such clearance?!" Said the Captain Of Guards.
"Who the what now?" Said the creature looking at all the guards with an expression of fear, and fear of the unknown.
"Make way!" Celestia said as she moved through the forest of spears, and seeing the creature. Luna shortly followed after Celestia.
Celestia and Luna observed the creature, then gasped at almost the same time, bewildered by the exotic creature that was before them.
"Celestia is that a-"
"Human? Yes, Luna." Celestia interrupted.
"Guards lower your weapons," Celestia commanded to her guards, whom, slowly and cautiously lowered their spears.
"Human, what is your given name?" Celestia said
The human, finally having space, stood up, and met eye level to the Princess.
"I'm Dave, but I don't know how I got here, all I saw was white and I don't remember anything," Said Dave the human.
"I didn't ask, but how unfortunate," Celestia said.
Celestia outstretched her hoof and Dave outstretched his hand and shook the Princess' hoof.
"Some-pony prepare a room for this human," Celestia shouted, "Make it near our quarters," Celestia said
"Dave, are you hungry?"
"No, thanks, I'm not hungry, I remember eating, but I don't know what," Dave replied.
"You must be sleepy Dave are you?" Celestia said
"Yeah, I am kind of tired," Dave said, then yawned for extra effect and to further express his sleepiness.
Dave followed Celestia to his room whilst Luna observed, the Human had muscular features, not like a bodybuilder from ponies she's seen, but just muscular enough so you can see the muscles. He stood around eye height to Celestia, which, Celestia must've found nice, for she didn't have to bend over to talk to her, and he had black hair, short cut, and brown eyes, and had fair coloured skin. Luna watched the way he walked, talked, Luna felt something, like a spark from first sight... could it be? Couldn't it have? How could Luna have such feelings for a creature that cowered under the spears? But she had feelings for the exotic creature. Love is what it was called... Love...
It felt like 4 minutes when Celestia had brought him to his room. Dave stared at it. The room was bland and the bed was decently sized but small. And the mattress looked lumpy and uncomfortable but Dave was extremely grateful that the Princess had given a place to eat and sleep, but would probably coax him into working for the castle or somewhere in the land of Equestria. Dave tucked himself into the bed and slept into what seemed like a restfulness night.
Nightmares came to him, speaking of dangers and craziness, the heat of the blankets making it feel like it was hell and he was caught in the fiery inferno and depths, the only thing that saved him was a word, that seemed to clear out all the demons from his nightmare, all the craziness of it all, all the madness. The voice that spoke of the word was deep and sounded threatening, scary. And day came by, waking him up from the night of horrors, and walked out of the room, seeing Celestia.
"Hello and good-morning Dave!" Celestia said
"Good morning? Bah, great morning!" Dave said
"Why's that Dave?" Celestia questioned
"I had a nightmare last night, and it was unusual, never had one like it,"
"Is that so? You should talk to my sister Luna, but address her as Princess Luna, she is new and is trying to adapt to the new Equestrian lifestyle, since she was banished to the moon for so long."
"Why?"
"Luna became jealous, and a different part of her grew, turning her into nightmare moon, a creature of evil and darkness, Luna wouldn't stop the destruction and carnage, so I used the elements of harmony, which are ancient artefacts that harness and increases the users' magical attributes."
"Lost you at ancient artefacts, but I'm guessing that they are strong and can obliterate things."
"Not obliterate, but subdue,"
"Okay," Dave replied, absorbing all the information
"Well, follow me and we'll eat breakfast, or for my sister Luna, dinner."
Dave followed Celestia into the dining room, where several foods were laid out, from dinner stylised food to breakfast stylised food, Bacon (tofu), eggs, bread and there were hay burgers, hay fries, hay such and such. Dave sat at the side, whilst Luna and Celestia sat, opposite from each other.
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