An unforgettable life with the Equestria Girls

I was walking calmly in the streets of Canterlot, heading to the castle of Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria. Why was I heading to her castle? Well, I'm a unicorn, more precisely a student of hers, along with several other unicorns. What we study is basically all that is related to unicorn magic, mostly magic spells. And seriously, this mostly gets a bit boring if you already know many of these spells. Oh, by the way, my name is Lightning Bolt, Lightning for short. Sounds like a good name for a pegasus rather than a unicorn right? Well, I do have the ability of shooting lightning bolts, so I guess this ability has something to do with my name. I mostly have a tough personality, but I'll admit that sometimes I do embarrass myself for thinking that I'm tough or cool enough to do certain stuff.

So, after entering the castle, what I saw was a rather eye-catching figure: an amber colored unicorn with red hair that had yellow highlights. Apparently, she was someone I just knew a few weeks ago, but of all the students I know, she was probably one of the only ones I find interesting, not to mention beautiful. Her name is Sunset Shimmer, damn, she even has such a beautiful name.

“Hey, you're early today.” I said curiously.

“I’ve got something planned for today.” She said with a devilish grin.

“I hope it’s something good.” I said facing her. ”Well, you’re always full of good surprises, so this one’s surely no exception; the last time we got a good prize.”

“Yeah yeah, you’re talking about that magic spell that we found, right? The one that gives you wings?” She said with a plain tone and narrowed eyes. “If so, then you’re the only one who 'got a prize' from that.” She pointed at me.

The "prize" that we found was basically a piece of paper that contained the instructions for a magic spell that gives you pegasus wings, something that seems impossible to find, but somehow we found it. At first, I got an idea of what would a unicorn at our age with wings would look like, but then Sunset simply decided to cast the spell on me, to which I, like someone stupid, just agreed. It turned out to be better than expected though, but the problem was that the wings were very visible to everyone, something that I surely wouldn't want, and unfortunately, I couldn't hide the wings, nor did we know a spell that makes the wings disappear.

The next thing I knew was that Sunset was several inches closer to me. “So, Lightning, remeber that crystal mirror we saw in one of the castle rooms?” She asked switching the topic.

“How can I forget. We even got warned while just looking at it.” I chuckled, but then realized what was she really up to. “What, are you planning on something to do with it?”

“Yeah, we both know it’s not just an ordinary mirror, I think it’s a some sort of portal to another world if I’m not wrong. So, I was thinking, what secrets could the 'other side' of the mirror be hiding, maybe there’s something interesting. I'm sure that if I'm the ruler of Equestria, everything would be better. ” Sunset finished the sentence almost whispering, though I mostly ignored it.

“Hm, you know we can get caught, right? But yeah, sounds better than spending the whole morning in this damn castle...”

“Who cares, we’re not gonna get caught, I know so. And if we do get caught, we’ll just tell that we’re looking for Princess Celestia or something.”

“Fine.” Was all I said.

Sunset and I went through the castle halls and to the room where this magical crystal mirror was. But unfortunately, our luck ran out a bit, or at the very least that was what we thought.

“Sunset Shimmer, what are you doing here, I thought I banned you from the castle?” The ruler of Equestria suddenly asked us from behind, with a higher voice than usual.

Banned from the castle? What the fuck is she talking about? I thought.

“Guards, please take these two out of the castle, now.” Celestia ordered to two royal guards that were accompanying her.

“Wait, why me?” I asked surprised with what the princess said.

She responded a scowl, briefly observing the 'new' wings that I had.

I backed a bit, surprised by her reaccion. Sunset however, was still eager to argue. “If you make me a princess now, it’ll—”

“Enough!” Celestia shouted to us. And without warning, the two guards surrounded us, and pushed us out of the castle, I almost triped, but gained balance afterward.

“This is the biggest mistake that you ever made, princess!” Sunset said to Celestia, annoyed by everything the princess has said to her.

The guards escorted us, Sunset’s eyebrows looked like they formed an incomplete triangle, while I just stayed blank, though I had a feeling that this was gonna get worse, or maybe not. Apparently, the royal guards, not only the ones that were with us, always looked like they’re spaced out or something, so surprise attacking was easy. And that was exactly what Sunset was thinking.

Sunset stared at me with her vicious scowl, still looking quite beautiful however. I could already read her mind and know what was she up to, so I just nodded to her. Immediately, when the chance came, she kicked the belly of the guard that was on her right, knocking him off to the wall, I followed, kicking the face of the guard by my left, and shooting him with one of my lightning bolts from my horn. Both guards were eventually brought down, surprisingly.

“Pathetic royal guards, just walking like idiots.” Sunset said turning her face to me. “I told you this would be a success.”

Rolling my eyes, I looked at her deadpanned. “Yeah, like you’ve said it from the start. But yeah, that was kinda surprising, I always thought royal guards were ready for anything.”

“From what I've seen until now, they just seem to be fucking idiots, and they’ll just respond if they really know what they’re doing.”

“Hm, yeah. But what was that that Celestia said to you before, you know, something about you being banned from the castle?” I said switching the topic.

“Oh, forget that, the Crystal Mirror is just steps away from where you’re standing.” She said with smirk, pointing to where the mirror was. And without saying anything, she pulled me toward the mirror, both of us fell into the portal of the mirror or the mirror of the portal or whatever it’s called. Our bodies twirled while passing through, until finally we entered another world, the other world that Sunset was so desperate to see.

By the time we came out of the portal, both of us got blasted forward, our faces almost hit the ground. Sunset landed on her back, while I landed face down, and if that wasn’t unfortunate enough, my forelimb was literally underneath me when I landed, almost breaking it.

“Ah, shit! Gah, that hurt a lot.” I murmured angrily as I tried to stand up, only to notice that it felt much harder for me. It wasn’t because of what happened when I landed, but there was definitely something odd happening. Sunset, still lying on the ground, reached her forehead, only to feel her bare skin and that noticeable wavy lock of red hair that she always had ever since.

Something was obviously missing. “Where in the fucking world is my horn?!” Eyes narrowed, same as before, she glanced at me, but instead of protesting about everything else, her eyes were now as wide as they could get.

“What?” I said flatly.

Completely stunned by my appearance, or at least that was what I thought she was looking at, Sunset immediately looked at herself, only to notice a feeling of unease. I looked at both of us speechlessly, with the same reaction as Sunset.

“OK, so we’ve literally lost our damn magic, and how we look is now fucking different?” She said looking at the ground. I remained still on the spot where I fell, but then attempted to walk like I would back in Equestria. It felt odd however, like my legs felt longer than my arms or something, and it was pretty unstable.

“You look more stupid than Celestia’s guards.” She started saying blankly, but let out a small giggle, despite the current situation that we were in.

Much to our surprise, and also embarassment, someone passed near us, a somewhat strange look started to appear on her face. Looking from bottom to top, it semeed like the majority of what she was wearing was blue. Her hair was somewhat white, but I could rapidly distinguish it from pure white. Her skin was blue, but it was distinguishable from her clothes.

As soon as Sunset saw her, she instantly stood up on two legs, but she almost couldn’t balance herself, leading to more confusion for the girl that was in front of us. After a few moments however, she started walking away, still with a confused look.

When she was at a greater distance away, Sunset tried to gain balance, this time a little more successful, and afterwards, much to my surprise, she glared at me, but it was a somewhat false glare.

“What did I do now?” I asked confused.

She kept glaring at me, but later stopped to speak. “If you didn’t do that fucking pose of yours, we wouldn't have got embarassed.”

“Can't I try to walk like I did back in Equestria? Besides, that's what you would've also done anyway.” I said pointing at her.

She rolled her eyes, and later looked away from me. She looked at our surroundings with a curious expression in her face. I turned to my right where the horse statue was, I first paid attention to the far background however, which seemed like a similarly familiar site to one back in Equestria, if I could only remember the name of that place. Looking attentively, all I could see were presumably very tall buildings that, from where we were, pretty much looked like long sticks. But my interest suddenly turned toward the horse statue that was in front of us, let's not forget, that was where Sunset and I came from, but what was even the sense of a horse statue in a world where the inhabitants aren't horses. Maybe because it has a connection to Equestria or something, who knows?

I looked toward my back, and to the huge building that was in front of us. The huge structure had an impressive amount of windows, it was majorly pinkish maroon, a color that I probably just invented, it also had a big blue dome on its roof, which was surely made of glass.

“So, what now? I'll surely not go back to Equestria.” Sunset spoke while looking at the same thing that I was looking.

I turned towards her. “I dunno.” I said flatly. Lacking ideas of what to do, I just said what first struck my mind. “Hey, even if you don't have your horn or magic, you look much better in this world.” I said with a small grin.

“Oh, shut up.” She said grimacing.

“But it’s true...”

She groaned while frowning at me at the same time. “You know what? Let’s just enter through that door over there and see what’s inside.” She said pointing at the entrance of the pinkish maroon building.

“Fine, whatever.”

Soon after entering, Sunset's lower jaw dropped down to the floor, shocked at how large that place was. “This place... is enormous.”

Noticing this, a smirk grew on my face. “Well, we have to be logical and reasonable, if the outside is huge, then the inside should be the same, that's obvious.”

Hearing that, Sunset's mouth returned to normal size, and faced me in an instance. “Ugh, shut your fucking mouth up!” She said, throwing me a disgusted look.

All I could do was laugh, which just pissed her off more. She suddenly grabbed my chest, and looked directly into my face. “Did you even hear what I said before?”

“Yeah yeah, whatever.”

She clenched her... uh, hoof, I guess, into a ball, signaling that she was still kinda irritated. She then let go of my chest, but pointed at my face. “You'll see.”

Footsteps can be heard getting closer with each step, this indicated that we weren't the only ones there. As the place was enormous, we could see who was walking toward us from a far distance. Interestingly, it was another girl, and like Sunset and the girl that we've seen outside, she was wearing a skirt, and knee-high... uh, shoes? Seriouly, we don't wear these types of hoofwear back in Equestria, so God knows how they're called; I don't even know if they're called hoofwear.

As the she was heading toward us, she raised an eyebrow. “Hey, I've never seen you two, you must be new around here. Welcome to Canterlot High School, CHS for short. My name's Rainbow Dash, nice meeting ya.” She offered a... hoofshake? Again, I don't know how that is called in this world.

The atmosphere in the place became quiet, but I instantly broke the silence by introducing myself. “Uh, I'm Lightning Bolt... um, nice meeting you as well.” I said awkwardly, not sure if the latter of what I said is true. But either way, I shook her hoof, or whatever these things are called.

Sunset gave a strange look at first, but then introduced herself anyway. “OK, uh... I'm Sunset Shimmer.” She said without extending any... I guess I should still say hooves for it.

“Sweet, I hope everything goes awesome with you two. Oh, if you need some help with something, you can always go to the principal's office,” She said pointing to where it was. “Her name's Celestia, but to be more respectful, just call her Principal Celestia.”

Obviously, all of this was strange and surprising for me and Sunset, not only the name of the principal, but also the name of the school.

“I guess I better get going, I hope you two will have a great time here. See ya!” Rainbow Dash walked away from us, waving her hand.

When she was far enough, I started talking to Sunset in a lower tone than before. “Damn, all of that was strange, everypony that... I-I mean, everyone that we've seen until now seems to be wearing clothes at all times as well, very different from Equestria.”

Sunset wasn't paying much attention to me, instead, she had a surprised look on her face. I gotta admit I also had a pretty surprised reaction, but hers was just, uh, more surprising.

“Has Princess Celestia followed us?! Is Canterlot now a school in this world?! Is—”

“Whoa, calm down Sunset.” I said, interrupting all of her doubts, which obviously are also my doubts.

“Okay okay.” She rapidly answered. “You know what, let's just go to the principal's office and meet... well, you know who.” She narrowed her eyes, with her teeth gritted.

“Hm, maybe the name 'Celestia' is just a coincidence, though I do doubt 'Canterlot' being in the same situation.”

She stopped to think for a moment, but gestured a "come with me" with her hoof, or whatever, indicating that I should follow her. “I really doubt any of these names are just a damn coincidence, remember that horse statue before, you know, where we both came from? That definitely has a connection to our world.”

As we entered, all that we saw was a large newspaper that was being held by someone. We were still pretty confused, but when the newspaper was held down, we finally saw how the principal was. She had the same colors as Princess Celestia, or maybe she was her. Sunset and I suddenly felt a feeling of nervousness and a bit of unease.

“Good morning, how can I help you?” She started speaking. As she put her cup of coffee onto the table, she looked at both us with some curiosity. “You two must be new here, a warm welcome to CHS for both of you.” She said with a kind voice.

Sunset already had her eyebrow raised, and a somewhat shocked face. However, her nervousness had almost gone by then. I remained silent, without making any funny face expressions, but inside, I was as surprised as Sunset. Seriously, the voice of the principal is the same as Princess Celestia back in Equestria, her skin and hair colors were also the same. The only things that weren't the same is that the principal didn't have the large horn that the princess had, she had clothes, like the rest of us, and her hair wasn't flowing. Just imagine if the same situation that Sunset and I were in happened to you.

“Uh, yeah, a fellow student called Rainbow Dash had already welcomed us, but I guess another welcome is appreciated.” I lied in the last part, but no one seemed to have noticed except Sunset. Trying to brake the awkwardness a little more, I somehow introduced myself. “Oh, uh, by the way, my name’s Lightning Bolt.” I said, a little short of words.

“My name is... well, I guess Rainbow Dash also told you my name already,” The principal said as she raised an eyebrow and smiled a little, and then turned toward Sunset. “And what’s your name, young lady?”

“I, uh... well, um, I-I mean, I’m Sunset Shimmer.” Sunset said discontinuously.

Principal Celestia looked a bit confused, but continued to talk anyway. “Hm, what nice names you two have. Anyways, I hope both of you enjoy it here at CHS, and don't forget, this is Canterlot City after all, so there should always be something fun to do!”

“Yeah, uh, we shall meet you again.” I said awkwardly.

The principal chuckled. “I shall meet you two again both then.”

I was kind of dumbfounded at the moment, and a little surprised as well. Sunset however, was already heading toward the exit door. I waved somewhat strangely at the principal, and then followed Sunset.

The next thing that the principal said had made both of us blush a little. “I guess you two are in somekind of relationship?” She asked kindly.

We stood in front of the door freezed on our spot, our cheeks redder than Sunset's hair. I was the first to turn around, and l said the first thing that I could say. “Uh, I... we, um, no. We're just, uh... friends.” Even I didn't know what was I talking about, Sunset and I were just classmates, or at least that was what we were back in Equestria.

“Friends?” The principal raised an eyebrow. “Okay then.”

Without saying anything else, nor looking at the principal, Sunset and I exited as fast as we could. And once outside, both of us stopped, still blushing a bit. Without looking at each other, Sunset started talking. “What was all that about?”

“I have no fucking idea.” I scratched the back of my neck. “Ever since we came out of the portal, it was all strange. But I think that's something expected.” I looked at Sunset, only to receive a scowl from her. “Not what you wanted to hear I guess.” I smiled nervously.

Sunset sighed eventually. “No, but I think I've just noticed something, everything and everypony here... I-I mean everyone here has somekind of counterpart of something or someone back in Equestria. But everything and everyone here lacks magic.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

That scowl of Sunset came back as soon as I asked that question however. “Are you really that stupid Lightning? There's a city called Canterlot in this world, there's also someone called Celestia here, and I guess there are a lot of other things with the same names as those back in Equestria.” She explained a little annoyed.

“Oh, now I get what you mean.” I said. The only thing that she gave in return was another scowl, unsurprisingly.

We walked toward the exit of the huge building, which, much to our surprise, was a school. What we saw as we exited however, were two, somewhat smaller, students. One was quite slim, while the other one was a bit fat. “Those two look like they can help us around.” Sunset turned toward me with a smirk, to which I did the same to her.