Princess Twilight Sparkle flew around the clear skies of Ponyville as she enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere: birds were singing, flowers were blooming, pillow were being thrown at the sky-
Wait, what?
Twilight barely got the chance to think about this bizarre phenomenon before she was struck by a pillow so hard, she was sent plummeting down to the ground, right into the hooves of the one who threw the pillow.
She was a small white filly with a silver, spiky mane and blue eyes. She held a pillow on her mouth until she dropped it upon taking a closer look at Twilight. "You're not a bird!" she said.
"No, believe it or not, I'm not a bird," Twilight answered as she stood up and dusted herself. "And if you don't mind me asking, what are you doing out here with a pillow?"
The filly pounded the pillow proudly. "I never go out without one of these!"
"Well, then I guess it's time to introduce ourselves, I think," Twilight replied, hoping she could wrap her head around that kind of answer later. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship-"
The filly grabbed her pillow, threw it at the princess, then ran all the way back to a fortress made of, what else, pillows. "I, Feather Lancer, won't bow down to you!"
"Well, that's okay, it's perfectly fine," Twilight said as the pillow fell off. "Why would you think you have to bow down to me... Feather Lancer, right?"
The filly's eyes widened. "How do you know my name?!"
Twilight turned to the reader with a look of disbelief. Was the filly for real?
"Because you're a princess? As in, a member of royalty and someone actually important? I thought bowing down to them was mandatory," Feather got ready to throw another pillow. "But I will stand to my beliefs: I will not bow down to anybody who doesn't prove their worth as a pillow fighter!"
"Oh, so you just want to have a pillow fight?" Twilight's horn glew as she gathered some pillows from seemingly nowhere and created a fort of her own. "Well then, you're going to regret challenging me!"
And so, the pillow war begun.
Feather Lancer grabbed several individual pillows and threw them once at a time at Twilight's fort, managing to strike the pillow forming the fort a bit, but failing to do anything against the alicorn.
As for what Twilight was doing, she was trying to come up with the appropriate strategy to fight against the little filly. She could try to bombard the enemy forth with pillows, but not only was a pillow fight much too silly and comical to do something so extreme, but she was fighting a filly. One that had the nerve to not only attack a princess but also refuse to bow down to her, assuming that was obligatory in the first place, but still a filly.
The entire roof of her fort being taken out in mere seconds convinced the alicorn she didn't have time to waste, and thus, she used her magic to grab a few pillows and threw them over to the enemy fort, some of the pillows hitting incoming pillows thrown by the filly.
Then, Twilight looked at her side to see some pillows landing on the ground nearby... and then she noticed her wings.
And then she remembered she could fly.
And then she slapped herself for taking so long to remember.
The alicorn promptly spread her wings and flew up, using her magic to grab a couple pillows to throw at the fort soon after. The pillows successfully damaged the ceiling of the fort, but just as Feather Lancer became visible for one clear shot, the filly grabbed one of her many pillows and ran away, just in time to dodge the barrage of pillows too.
Twilight, however, wasn't going to give up just yet; she chased after the filly as fast as she could, throwing a pillow once in a while hoping she would manage to hit the young pony. Alas, Feather Lancer managed to dodge the incoming pillows as she looked around the scenery for something, anything that could give her an advantage, or at least a better chance, against the alicorn.
Eventually, she found a rather convenient sent of stone platforms connected to a mountain, so she ran up to them, began jumping up them, and Twilight stopped to look at the filly as she landed at the top of the mountain, the alicorn following soon on the opposite extreme end of the mountain top.
Now with nowhere else to go, the ponies kept their pillows at hand, Feather Lancer rubbing her hoof against the ground as Twilight gritted her teeth, ready to give one final shot at the filly.
Screaming at the top of their lungs, and with a little enchantment on Twilight's part, the ponies threw their pillows just as an unexpected newcomer appeared: Princess Celestia.
"Here you are, Twilight! Where have you-"
Celestia was interrupted when Feather's pillow hit her flank, followed by Twilight's enchanted pillow hitting her in the face before it exploded, bathing a surprised Celestia under a shower of feathers.
"Hey, old mare!" Feather complained as she and Twilight ran up to the princess. "Don't just pop in whenever you want: we're in the middle of something important here!"
"Don't act so rude right now, kid!" Twilight stated as she used her magic to take off the feathers. "This is Princess Celestia! The ruler of Ponyville, the alicorn who controls the sun, the alicorn who controlled both the sun and the moon for over a thousand years!"
Feather Lancer hummed to herself, then crossed her front hooves. "I've never heard of her."
"You're kidding me," Twilight narrowed her eyes. "You seriously haven't heard of the single most powerful alicorn in Equestria?!"
"Calm down, Twilight, just because I'm a big deal on Ponyville, doesn't mean the rest of Equestria knows a good deal about me," Celestia turned to the filly. "Where are you from, little filly?"
"I have a name, you know? It's Feather Lancer!" Feather responded sternly. "And I'm from Manehattan."
"Yeah, I don't visit Manehattan very often, and when I do, it's only for quick business trips, so I'm not surprised," Celestia took a deep breath and turned back to the princess of friendship. "Anyway, Twilight, what were you doing with this filly?"
The filly narrowed her eyes. "Feather Lancer!"
"We were having a pillow fight because she said something about not bowing down to anybody who doesn't prove their pillow fight prowess or something," Twilight explained, scratching her mane. "Although, I don't see how one thing correlates with the other one."
Feather Lancer rolled her eyes and bowed down to Twilight. "Anyway, you've proven your worth, Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship. You really are a worthy pillow fighter."
"And you're also running late for the School of Friendship," Celestia pointed out.
Twilight gasped, remembering she had work today, so she ran off and flew towards the school, leaving Feather Lancer and Celestia alone.
This gave the former the perfect chance to throw a pillow at the latter. "Twilight proved herself, now you have to do it!"
Celestia used her magic to take out the pillow, but instead of looking sternly at the filly, she had a little amused smile as she responded, with a determined look:
"You're going to regret challenging me."
Author's Note
This was probably the most random thing I've written since I started a few months ago. Not a bad thing in the slightest, however, and it was nice to try my hand at an original character for once.
Maybe I'll use her for other projects later, or maybe she'll just vanish into obscurity. I don't know.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed it, and if you haven't already, join the writing contest at the Shameless Self-Promotion Bureau. It'll be a lot of fun.
Draxonos135, flying away!
