Venerandum

                                                                          Venerandum filia reginae

A small shuffle under the blanket marked that she was finally awake. Though after a few minutes of agonizingly tossing and turning and trying to get back to sleep, she surrendered, and opened a single lazy, and unfocused eye; that was immediately assaulted by warm, and unwanted sunlight. Grumbling and huffing, the mare lifted a well hooficured hoof to her tired eyes to block out the sun. After a minute or so of trying to find an excuse to stay in bed, she started to climb out of her comically large bed.

Letting out a yawn that could rival the roar of a lion in power, and starting a ritualistic line of stretches, she finally decided that she was awake.

After blinking a few times to get the sleep out of her eyes, and to adjust to the lighting, she hopped out of bed, and slowly made her way towards her dresser. It was made out of marble carved into the wall; which was shined and cleaned to perfection. The doors of the dresser were made out of the finest birch wood with twin swirling patterns taking on the colours of pink and gold on both doors that all in all made for a wondrous sight to behold. She opened the great doors, and removed a surprisingly large set of golden horse shoes, a light white-lemon colored aura surrounded her horn as it picked up and magically placed them on an end table next to her bed. Next, she trotted towards the bathroom, and opened the beautifuly large doors, that were also made out of clean birch wood. Stepping into the bathroom, and making her way over to the sink, the sleepy Celestia reached out to turn on the cold tap, but instead; ended up lightly punching the porcelain stand.

Blinking a few times and shaking her head, she looked up to see the bowl a few ft. above her head. Though slightly surprised at this, Celestia knew how she had a tendency to redecorate her room in her sleep due to the nature of her dreams. The princess tried to lower the sink only to find that she could not form enough power in her horn to do so. Huffing, and ruffling her wings, she tried again. But was only met with the same results.

Giving the sink a glare, Celestia trotted out of the bathroom and towards her serving bell by her room’s door. Intending to call a maid to find her sister who had clearly put an enchantment on the sink. The princess of the day pulled the little piece of string and moodily waited there contemplating how to repay her sister for disturbing her precious morning beauty regime.  A wicked smile spread across her mouth as she remembered how much Luna liked that trophy she won while apple bobbing during Nightmare Night a few months ago.

While the princess waited, she thought that she might as well get the rest of her regalia ready, and magically picked up her tiara. As Celestia was lowering the crown towards her, she noticed something was odd about it. While looking it over trying to figure out the problem, a knock at her door announced the maid had arrived to assist her. “Come in.” Celestia called, and the door opened slowly and revealed a Khaki coloured mare in a maids outfit, but with a naughty strand of blue mane sticking out the side of the mare’s hat. She could not have been older than twenty one, and there was a glint of fear in her eyes that could only mean she was a new made. The young mare looked around the room for a few seconds with a confused look on her face before she called out; “Princess Celestia?”

Furrowing a brow, the princess who had been peeking her head out from behind her bed walked out into the centre of the room with a moody pout plastered on her face. 'I swear, if Luna has bribed my servants to pretend I am invisible…' Her thoughts were ended when the young maid noticed Celestia, and her jaw fell to the floor. Stuttering, the mare rushed out of the room shouting “Guards! Guards! There’s an intruder in the princesses chamber!”

Caught completely off guard by this behaviour, the princess just stood there with a look of shock on her face before trotting over to the door, just as several guards rounded the corner with either horn’s aglow with what was clearly offensive spells, or with blades drawn. The guard at the head of the group noticed her first. And with a loud growl, made to charge the princess and instantly shot a spell at her. Celestia dodged the incoming fire just in time, and scrambled to cover at the far side of her bed, only to suddenly notice how much her bed towered over her. 'I must have had one strange strange dream'. she thought to herself just as the guard who had shot a spell at her rounded to the side of the bed Celestia was hiding behind. She retaliated by shooting a spell meant to throw the guard against the wall. What this powerfully charged spell actually did was push him back a couple of inches. He instantly recovered from his "ordeal", and the last thing the princess of the sun saw before her world went black, was a teal bolt of light shot right towards her.

Celestia opened her eyes slightly only to see nothing but dull grey, and blackness. Figuring that she must be under her blanket, she tried to lift it off her, only to adorably smack the air instead. Wondering if she was having a weird set of repeat dreams, she went to whack her foreleg hoping it would wake her up. It did not.

Opening her eyes, the confused princess of the day noticed she was moving. No. Being dragged down a dark cobble hallway, and feeling the harsh grip of hooves on her shoulders as her assailants dragged her to an unknown location. What felt odd though, were the size of the hooves on her. Much like her sisters, if not larger. Trying to twist her head around to look at the pony - or ponies moving her only got another one of her assailant’s attention.

Hearing a grunt, and in a hard gravely voice “You, little madam, are going to be in big trouble. How did you even get in the princesses room? And what did you do to her?” This only confused Celestia. She was about to respond, but only to be interrupted by the sound of a door opening, and being unceremoniously thrown to the floor in a large and dark room. The floor was mahogany, and the walls were carved out of solid rock, with the occasional drape over them, depicting star systems, or the moon. Feeling rage building inside of her, Celestia tried to charge her horn up, only to be hit with a huge bout of nausea. Looking up at her horn, she saw a small thimble shaped device fitted on her confusingly small horn. Realizing that a magic blocking device had been placed on her, and knowing she could not use magic, Celestia turned to charge her attackers, but with a sudden stop as she noticed they were huge, but wearing the armour of the solar guards.

'How in the world did they break into Canterlot being that big' Celestia thought as she looked around the room for any kind of escape route. A large shadow appeared behind Celestia. Turning slowly to look up at this huge beast, she saw it had dark blue horse shoes, and a midnight blue coloured coat. Slowly turning her gaze upwards. Celestia let out a sound that sounded like a confused puppy as she saw her sister staring down at her with an angry scowl. Regaining control of her brain, Celestia decided to ask the only thing that came to mind; “Why are you so big, Lu?” This brought a very confused look to her sister’s face. “Why does thou call us by that name, intruder?”  Luna picked up her big sister with her magic, and floated Celestia just inches in front of her face “Speak now, or we shall throw thou in the dungeons!” The now even more confused Celestia let out a small squeak. Not being used to her little sister speaking to her like this, left her almost brain dead. Luna dropped Celestia on the floor after waiting for a reply, and was about to turn away when she noticed Celestia’s cutie mark

“Why doth thou hath our sister’s cutie mark?” Luna was becoming visibly angry “SPEAK!” she bellowed in the royal Canterlot voice. Celestia feeling very much like a filly, finally getting some semblance of intelligence back, and spoke up “What do you mean, Lu? And why are you so big? Do you not recognise me? And why have I been assaulted and dragged out of mine own room by my own guards?” The elder princess tried to put on her best, scowl while Luna just stared at her. “C-Celestia?” was all she muttered.

A/N This is my first released fan fiction and it is mostly a test but if I like the way it turns out and if you sexy readers like it I will continue writing it, my Pre-reader and editor Coffee_For_The_Horse who also drew the cover picture.