Unto A New World
Chapter Twenty: How Things Were
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It's a little rushed, but it shall be fixed when I get to editing it. I'm only up to chapter six now and haven't even uploaded two yet.
Anyway, enjoy I guess. It's a lot better than when I had him asleep for four months and then have the crossover..
I'm still sorry about that okay?
Chapter Twenty: How things were.
I awoke to a figure stirring beside me.
The sun was shining through the tinted glass onto the bed of which I was wrapped in feathers and hooves.
Celestia and I had fallen asleep together on the bed the night before.
I heard the door creak open slightly and saw Luna poking her head through.
She smiled solemnly as she entered the room and made her way to the side of the bed, where she lay down, resting her head on the silky sheets.
"How'd it go?" She whispered to me, glancing at her sister then back at me.
"Great, all is the same as it used to be" I said, looking at the sleeping princess around my body "If not better".
"That's great to hear, because after breakfast you've got another magic lesson" Luna said with a contempt smile on her face.
"What will it be on?" I asked her, and with a flash she was gone.
"Teleportation, young grasshopper" She said from the other side of the bed. That made me chuckle.
"Yes, thank you Sensei".
"No I don't want to go to school!" Celestia mumbled in her sleep, squeezing me tighter.
Luna let out a roaring laugh, which caught onto me which in turn woke up the sleeping beauty herself.
"What's so funny?" Celestia said, rubbing her eyes and letting out a yawn.
"Nothing" I replied, supressing a chuckle.
"Lulu, dear sister, pray tell me what you both find so funny?" Celestia asking politely.
"Never!" And with that Luna was already out in the hallway running as fast as her long.. sexy legs would take her.
"Jackson stop drooling" Celestia chuckled.
I actually was drooling.. In front of Celestia.. Her older sister.
"Don't worry I'm not going to do anything drastic like I did before" Celestia told me, taking a great deal of weight off my shoulders.
"Thanks Celly" I said as I opened my arms to once again embrace the majestic white horse.
She was just as warm as before, and I felt my body shiver in response.
Celestia and I made our way to the dining hall and we took our seats, with Celly at the head of the table, and Luna and I facing each other on either side.
There was a small pain in the back of my head, but I decided to take no real notice of it.
"So how did you both sleep last night?" Luna said with a smirk on her face.
"Great actually. Your sister makes a good blanket" I said, giving Luna a smirk of my own.
"And your love makes a great pillow!" Celestia chimed in. I couldn't help but chuckle at Luna's jealous face.
"We're only teasing Luna!" I giggled and kicked her hoof with my foot.
"I know, besides Celestia is nothing compared to me" Luna said, giving me a wink.
"Ahem" Celestia cleared her throat "I don't need to know that". Luna blushed intensely.
"I-I forgot a-about that.." She stuttered, highly embarrassed at how she was acting in front of her sister.
"Think nothing of it Lulu" Celestia said with a smile "How's the whole magic evolution thing treating you Jackson? I could sense that pain in your head which means it's nearly over".
"Yeah its fine, I mean sure I have a headache but I'm not jumping in time anymore" I replied as four waiters made their way into the hall through a large arch door. I remember the first time I saw those doors, it was so long ago.
"That's good. I need to run through some paper work and stuff. I never really changed anything to your title.. You know.. Prince and all.. Ponies just assumed"
"That's not true Celestia, you told me that Jackson were no longer to date me and you told the guards he wasn't a prince" Luna butted in.
"Okay fine, I may have let that slip. But it will only take the matter of having you in court with me today to have you back to royalty" Celestia told me.
"This is going to be good!" Luna said in a slightly dark voice. Celestia shot Luna a glare.
"When do I need to be at the court?" I asked the alabaster alicorn.
"All day"
"All. Day" Luna repeated dramatically with a grin on her face.
"Well there go my plans" I said. I didn't actually have anything planned other than sleep and eat and that magic lesson with Luna.
"I'm sorry" Celestia replied "But you'll have to make your way to the courtroom after your lesson with Luna"
The waiters had dished out and prepared all the food for eating by this time and we all started taking mouthfuls.
"Did you hear that I got a job at the school in Ponyville?" I asked both sisters, using the specially made knife and fork to cut my scrambled eggs on toast with pepper, salt and a drizzle of tomato sauce. This has to be the best thing I've eaten my whole time here.
"Why yes, Luna told me about it. I'm very happy for you" Celestia said as she wiped her lips with a dainty handkerchief, holding it in her magic. Both Luna and Celestia were the same as me.
In this world, it's bad to eat animals.. But ponies still eat and use eggs every day? How does that work?
"I'm pretty excited, I start tomorrow" Today was Sunday "I need to leave tonight so I can get to school on time".
"Do you have enough quills and parchment Mr Teacher S-Sir?" Luna teased again.
"Quiet you" I replied, Celestia chuckled.
"That won't be a problem, court will end early today anyway" Celestia informed me as we finished our breakfast with some orange juice.
"Oh? Why is that?" I pried.
"No reason. I just can't be bothered is all"
'Now I know that's not true' I thought to myself.
'It does seem a little odd' Luna thought back.
"Time for your lesson Jackson let's go!" Luna said as she teleported beside me "How cool was that?"
Luna grabbed my arm with her magic and pulled me up from my seat before pulling me through the large double doors and up through the extravagant hallway to her tower at the top of the castle.
"Here is a note-pad and a quill. I can assure you that you won't get this first shot so you need to take notes so you can practice" Luna said as she put on some glasses with her magic, and levitated up a thirty centimetre ruler.
I picked up the notepad and sat down next to the ink pot and quill, which I dipped in the ink and scribbled on the paper to get used to the feel of the feather.
"Ready?" She asked.
I nodded "Ready".
"Alright so, the first rule of teleportation is patience" Luna said proudly, using her magic to slid her glasses back up her snout.
"Patience? Really?"
"Well you don't want to end up inside a brick wall now do you?"
"No.. I wouldn't actually. Patience. Patience is good" I said as I wrote it down next to the number one on the paper.
"The second thing to mastering teleportation is being able to visualise the world as a spectrum of light, or the space between you and where you want to go or the object and where you want it to go as a series of curtains that you must push past in order to teleport"
"That.. made no sense" Luna sighed and face hoofed.
"Okay well think of it like this. When you look through a cylindrical object, all you can see is where you are pointing it right?"
"Yes..?"
"Well think of teleportation like that, except you'll be moving your body through that cylindrical object!"
"I'm still not sure I get what you mean but I can accept that. Continue"
"Okay well anyway, teleportation is the breakdown of atoms of an object and transferring them to another place without the physical travel in between. If done incorrectly, can leave you with half a body or a full body with no memories at all. You'll basically be reverted back into a big baby, which actually isn't much of a change so you'll be fine" Luna teased, smacking my leg with the ruler.
"Hey!" I said, rubbing my now reddening leg.
"Okay, so seeing as I'm not going to let you use teleportation on yourself for a very long time, I'll teach you how to move a stationary object, much like our levitation lesson"
"I don't think you need to eat any more apples Luna, your thighs are getting fat" I teased back, receiving a gasp and two smacks across the face with the ruler, left to right and then back right to left.
"Uncalled for!" Luna pouted.
"Well if you dish it out be prepared to take it" I said with a poke of my tongue.
"Fine, well you're stupid!" Luna harrumphed.
"If you say so Thunder Thighs"
*SMACK* *SMACK*
"Seriously?" I asked in return.
"Yes" Luna pouted again; her lips were slightly curled at the side "Now, I need you to concentrate on that.. Apple"
"I knew it"
"Stop it!" Luna giggled with frustration "Anyway, concentrate your magic on it and think of the locating you wish it to be, for example, the plate in front of me"
"Why not straight into your mouth? That way you don't have to put any effort into it"
"Because I'd rather not have my jaw bone and skin fused with an apple, now do as I said"
"Fine"
I concentrated as hard as I could on the apple and saw my magic surround its skin. It took five minutes before there was a bright flash of white and then nothing. The apple was no longer there.
"Where'd it go?" Luna asked.
I looked down to find that it was not on the plate, it wasn't even in the room.
"What the Fu-"
'Luna, Jackson, what is this? Why do you send me an apple?' Celestia's voice asked telepathically.
An hour or two had past and it was now just before lunchtime, probably eleven-ish. Luna and I had finished the magic lesson for the day and I could now successfully move an apple into Luna's cupped hooves.
I was now on my way to the court room. I was told by the guards that there would be food brought there for lunch.
As we made our way towards the large ebony doors, the guards that were escorting me nodded to the guards by the door, who nodded back and opened the doors.
Doors doors doors, why can't there just be one long hallway with NO doors?
I entered the court room and I was filled with memories of my first time here. My first encounter with these ponies and I handled it pretty well I must say.
"-Plans shall be passed" I heard Celestia's voice say from the other side of the crowd.
The room was similar to before, maybe a little different.
The audience was split into two groups, who were both represented by two ponies.
In the middle of the crowd there was a long red carpet which led up to Celestia's and Luna's throne. Celestia was occupying hers when she spotted me.
"Jackson! How lovely it is to see you" She said with a warm smile. Both crowds turned to look at me.
"As you Princess" I said with a bow. I had to be formal because it was in front of other ponies.
"Come. Sit. You may use Luna's throne" She said, gesturing to the throne on her left. It wasn't as big or marvellous as the alabaster mare's, but it was big enough for me.
I made my way up through the middle of the crowd, taking light steps on the carpet before me. The room was so silent.
As I sat in Luna's throne, I heard gasps and objections until Celestia gave me a secretive wink and addressed the audience.
"Please bow to the newly re-instated Prince of Equestria" She ordered, and within a second the audience fell quiet and were on their front knees "Jackson here was treated unfairly not so long ago and was stripped of his title of prince, but all has been fixed".
"Hail Prince Jackson!" The crowd bellowed.
Cue Star Wars ending music.. No? Okay.
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