It was another day in the land of Equestria and Team Natsu was sitting at the table having a leisurely breakfast.

"These apples are delicious, but I'd like some meat." said Natsu.

"In case you don't remember, Natsu, we're in a town inhabited by herbivorous ponies." said Gray.

"Yes, if they served meat to themselves, it would be almost like cannibalism." said Lucy.

"Besides, it's okay to eat fruits and vegetables once in a while." said Erza.

"I agree with her." said Charle.

"And Natsu is right, these apples that Applejack's family gave us are delicious." said Wendy eating an apple bun.

"Does fish count as meat too?" asked Happy.

Just then, Twilight entered the dining room with a letter being lifted by her magic.

"Oh, good morning, Twilight. You took a while." said Lucy.

"I'm sorry, but it's just that I received a letter from princess Celestia and the most surprising thing is that it mentions you." said Twilight to the surprise of the mages.

"The princess mentions us?" asked Gray.

"Yes. You see, the day we met, I sent a letter to the princesses explaining the situation and apparently she's curious about you, so she asked me to take you to Canterlot to meet her in person." said Twilight.

"What? The princess who rules Equestria wants to meet us?" asked Lucy in surprise.

"Yes, she's even invited the others to come, so we'll be going to Canterlot shortly." said Twilight.

"I'm a little nervous." said Wendy.

"Don't worry. I'm sure they'll like you." said Twilight.

"What can you tell us about them?" asked Charle.

"Well, they've been ruling Equestria for 1000 years." said Twilight.

"A thousand years? Wow, she's older than the old man." said Natsu.

"In fact, princess Celestia was my mentor at Canterlot Academy and she was the one who sent me to Ponyville. I wouldn't be where I am if it weren't for her." said Twilight.

"She must be a very respected princess if she has been able to rule for so long and from the way you talk, she must be very kind too." said Erza with a smile.

"She is, I assure you." said Twilight.

"Hey, so how are we going to get to Canterlot?" asked Gray.

"Oh, we'll go to the station where we'll catch the train that will take us there." said Twilight.

"Train?" asked Natsu feeling sick. "Can't we walk or teleport there?"

"We can't. Canterlot is too far away and it would waste too much energy getting you all there." said Twilight.

"Looks like you'll have to suck it up Natsu." said Happy.

"Ugh. I already feel sick just thinking about it." said Natsu.

Twilight arched an eyebrow in confusion at the dragon slayer's behavior.

"Because of the dragon slayers' enhanced instincts, they feel very queasy when they are aboard a vehicle." said Lucy.

"Really?" asked Twilight surprised that a powerful magic like that would have such a weakness.

"Yeah, sometimes it's a pain in the butt to have to carry this ballast." said Gray.

"Who are you calling ballast, ice princess?" asked Natsu punching the ice mage.

"You damn..." began Gray preparing to strike him in retaliation.

"No fighting. And you better be on your best behavior when we're in front of the princesses, understood?" asked Erza with a serious and threatening tone.

"Y-Y-Yes, ma'am." said the two mages in unison.

"Oh, Celestia, I hope she's prepared for this group." thought Twilight with a bead of sweat.


A short time later, Team Natsu and Mane 6 arrived at the station to catch the train that would take them to Canterlot.

"When will our train leave?" asked Applejack.

"According to what I looked at the schedule, it should be here in a minute." said Twilight.

At that moment, Rarity noticed Natsu trying to sneak away on tiptoe.

"Where are you going, Natsu?" asked Rarity, causing the dragon slayer to stop when he saw that he had been caught.

"Uh... I happened to have forgotten something at the palace and was on my way there. You can catch the train without me. Relax." said Natsu with a nervous smile.

"Ha. You're not fooling me, we've already heard. You don't want to get on because you're afraid of the train." said Rainbow Dash with a smirk.

"I'm not afraid of it!" said Natsu feeling offended.

"Then get on that train with us if you're not afraid." said Gray joining in the pegasus' mockery.

"W-W-Well, I would, but... but..." began Natsu trying to make an excuse that wouldn't make him look like a coward.

"Oh, come on, Natsu. Trains are fun. Especially when they take the curves and lurch from side to side and then up and down the slopes..." began Pinkie Pie as she was moving along based on what she was saying.

That caused the fire dragon slayer's face to turn green before he covered his mouth to keep from throwing up.

"And then there's that part where the train..." continued Pinkie Pie until Lucy covered her mouth.

"I think it would be best not to make him dizzy before he gets on." said Lucy.

"Don't worry. Before I came, I brought some motion sickness pills. They should take effect for the whole ride." said Twilight handing a couple of pills to the two dragon slayers.

"Thank you very much, Twilight." said Wendy bowing in thanks.

"I'm sure they work." said Natsu having his doubts.

"Of course. Zecora was the one who made them and we trust her methods." said Fluttershy.

The two dragon slayers didn't know who this Zecora was, but they decided to trust Mane 6's judgment and took the pills, just when the train whistle blew.

"Looks like it's already here." said Erza watching the train approaching the station.

Once the train stopped, everyone got on the train, though Natsu remained cautious, but when he set foot on the train, he knew the pills had taken effect.

"Hey, they work! Yes! I'm not afraid of you anymore, you stupid vehicle! I'm invincible!" exclaimed Natsu gleefully, drawing everyone's attention.

"You know? I almost wish you hadn't given him the pills!" said Charle.

Twilight patted her head as she realized it wasn't going to be a smooth ride.


And it was true, because Natsu was healthy for the first time in a long time on a vehicle, the first thing he started doing was running around screaming.

Tired of him bothering everyone, Erza grabbed him and with one punch, knocked him out, dropping him on Lucy's lap, much to her embarrassment.

Everyone couldn't help but thank the redhead for shutting him up.

A short time later, the train arrived at its destination and the two teams exited the train.

"Guys, welcome to Canterlot." said Twilight.

Team Natsu was slightly amazed at the city in front of them, but what caught their attention the most was the castle on the edge of the mountain that was twice the size of Twilight's.

As they made their way to the palace, they couldn't help but look around.

"You know? In my opinion this looks more like a rich neighborhood than a normal town." said Gray.

"I understand that it seems that way, but deep down it's not that different from anywhere." said Applejack.

"Although it's true that here is the creme de la creme of Equestria." said Rarity.

"Twilight, you grew up here, what can you tell us about that?" asked Lucy.

"Well, the truth is that back then I was more focused on studying than anything else." said Twilight a little embarrassed about how she used to be.

"Studying is fine, but it's also important to enjoy life with your friends." said Erza sagely.

"That sounds like something Princess Celestia said to me before she sent me to Ponyville and it was the best thing she ever said to me." said Twilight.

"Aw, we love you too." said Pinkie Pie giving the alicorn a tight hug.

"What happened to the friends you made here?" asked Wendy.

"Well, you see, again, I was more focused on studies, so I didn't have any real friends, just acquaintances. I did get invited to a party once though." said Twilight.

"But then Celestia sent her to Ponyville and she forgot." said Spike.

"You forgot to go to a party and didn't even give an explanation?" asked Charle.

"I'm not proud of it, okay? But I finally patched things up and now we really are friends." said Twilight.

"Well said, Twilight. No matter what happened, friends are still friends." said Natsu.

"Aye, sir." said Happy.

"I agree with the stranger." said Pinkie Pie.

After a while longer walk, they arrived at the castle. Twilight mentioned to the guards about the reason for their visit and they allowed them to pass.

As they walked through the halls, they couldn't help but notice something interesting.

"Wait a minute. aren't you?" asked Lucy pointing to one of the stained glass windows in the hallway and the funny thing was that they all featured Mane 6.

"Well, yes. Each one represents an event where we saved Equestria from a terrible threat." said Twilight.

"Wow. You have done a lot of things." said Wendy.

"Of course we have. We're awesome." said Rainbow Dash and raising her head proudly.

"Why don't we have something in the guild that says the things we've done?" asked Natsu.

"That. We too have done great things for the guild and the kingdom." said Happy.

"Because we don't do it for fame or recognition, but because it's the right thing to do." said Erza.

"Besides, if we had something like that in the guild, they would break all the time because of our constant fighting." said Gray.

"That I don't doubt." Lucy said with a bead of sweat thinking of all the fights that happened in the guild over any nonsense.

"I think the important thing isn't to have something that says what you did, but the vivid memories of it." said Wendy.

"Well said, Wendy." said Charle.

"Here we are." said Twilight just as they found themselves at the doors to the throne room. "You may have been invited, but remember to behave yourselves in front of them."

"Don't worry. We'll behave properly, won't we?" asked Erza giving a hard look to the fire dragon slayer and ice mage who nodded quickly out of fear.

Once everything was cleared up, Twilight nodded to the guard at the entrance who opened the doors, allowing Team Natsu to stand with their mouths agape in awe of the beauty and size of the throne room.

On said throne stood two alicorns who were larger than any pony they had met since their arrival, but, unlike Twilight, other than the size, was that their fur was waving as if the wind was blowing it all the time.

"Greetings, Princesses Celestia and Luna." said Twilight bowing by way of greeting.

"Greetings, Princess Twilight and friends. I see you have brought the guests you mentioned." said Celestia.

"That's right. These are the otherworldly mages I told you about earlier." said Twilight pointing to the Earthland mages.

"It is a great honor to meet you, your royal highnesses." said Erza bowing in respect, as did the others.

"Oh, no need for such formality, you may call us by our names." said Celestia.

"Or just say 'princess Celestia' and 'princess Luna' if that's how you felt more comfortable." said Luna.

Lucy and Wendy smiled at how nice the two princesses were.

"Wow, you're really nice, old Celestia and Luna." said Natsu.

That made everyone shocked at the way Natsu spoke, they knew the two princesses had lived a long time, but no one had considered them very old.

Twilight was horrified by the disrespectful way he spoke to the princesses who rule Equestria, as were the others, while Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie tried to hold back their laughter.

Erza was about to give him the biggest punch of his life when...

"HAHAHAHA."

Luna burst out laughing loudly while Celestia let out a light chuckle.

"In all the years he's been a ruler, no one has ever spoken to us like that." said Luna wiping away a tear of laughter. "Ha."

"Looks like you weren't lying about them being kind of peculiar, Twilight." said Celestia.

"T-Thank you." said Twilight mentally letting out a sigh of relief that they were neither annoyed nor angry at the dragon slayer's comment.

"You got lucky, fire idiot." began Gray whispering in his ear. "If it had been anyone else, we would have been sent to the dungeons or the guillotine."

"Oh, we'd never do anything like that. The most we would do to you would be to send you to do community service." said Celestia having been able to hear it all.

"Really? You are very kind." said Charle.

"Well, you can't rule a kingdom for 1000 years just by being cruel." said Luna.

"Well, there were times when they were a little unintentionally cruel." said a voice that covered the whole place.

While the Mane 6 and the princesses recognized the voice, Team Natsu was looking around in confusion.

"W-who said that?" asked Happy.

"It was me." said the voice.

Team Natsu looked to the side to see that, in one of the shop windows, there was a figure in the shape of a strange creature that winked at them, startling them all.

The figure burst out laughing before sliding out of the stained glass window and magically transforming into a creature that looked like a mixture of several animals.

"I never get tired of this." the creature said as he continued to laugh.

"Who are you? Or rather, what are you?" asked Lucy.

"Oh, right, where are my manners? I am Discord, the god of chaos and disharmony. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are very kind." said Discord as clapping and cheering could be heard in the background to the confusion of Team Natsu.

"Do you even know him?" asked Erza.

"Unfortunately, yes. He's a crazy friend of ours who has the power to alter reality for his amusement." said Applejack.

"Well, what's the point of having powers beyond logic if you can't use them to entertain yourself?" asked Discord.

"Why did you say that the princesses Celestia and Luna were a little cruel?" asked Wendy curiously.

"Oh, it's because they thought of punishing me by turning me into a stone statue for 1000 years." said Discord.

"Normal. You wanted to turn Equestria into the capital of chaos." said Rainbow Dash.

"Guilty as charged." said Discord with a prisoner suit and an identification sign before making it disappear and changing it to an angel halo. "But now I've redeemed myself and now I'm good."

"Only most of the time." commented Luna.

"Well, we had encounters with some very bad people too." said Lucy.

"But after certain events, they are now our friends." said Wendy thinking of all the enemies they faced in the past who became friends and/or allies.

"It just goes to show that you all have big hearts." said Celestia.

"Thank you for your words, Princess Celestia." said Erza.

"Yeah, actually, I think he's funny." said Natsu.

"You look like it to me too, boy." said Discord standing next to the dragon slayer and putting his arm around her shoulders. "I liked what you called the two princesses. In fact, you remind me of a boy in a straw hat who asked me to join his crew."

"Oh, you mean him? I haven't seen him since that story. Hey, do you know how he and...?" asked Pinkie Pie before Discord covered her mouth.

"Shh. No spoilers for those who didn't read the story." said Discord, confusing the others.

"What is he talking about?" asked Lucy.

"It's just Discord being himself." said Fluttershy.

"By the way, what are you doing here?" asked Rarity.

"Well, I heard through Twilight's letter about visiting mages from another world and I wanted to meet them." said Discord.

"Wait, you were spying on me?" asked Twilight.

"Oh, please. I would never stoop that low. I was spying on them when they got the letter." said Discord pointing at the two princesses.

"That doesn't make it any better." said Charle.

"Hey, if they don't like people spying on them, complain to the people who watch them on TV or read them in stories like these." said Discord pointing at the screen.

"I don't understand anything." said Natsu.

"Like Fluttershy said, it's just Discord being Discord." said Spike.


After the meeting with the god of chaos, the two teams decided to continue with the royal visit. While the girls of the group were quietly drinking tea, the boys, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash were with Discord elsewhere.

"So there are other dragon slayers, but some are of different generation." said Applejack, as they were talking on the subject of dragon slayer magic.

"Yes, but just because they're from different generations doesn't make them stronger." said Wendy.

"And there isn't only dragon slayer magic. In our world there are all kinds of slayer magic, like god slayer magic." said Erza.

"God slayer magic? And is that learned from a real god or is it like the second generation dragon slayers?" asked Fluttershy curiously.

"No. According to a friend of ours who possesses that magic, she learned it from some ancient texts. In fact, in our world there is a huge library in the shape of a tower that reaches up to the sky." said Lucy.

"REALLY?!" exclaimed Twilight with great excitement. "Oh, how I would love to visit that library. Surely it must be filled with books of all kinds. The amount of things that could be written there. Just the thought of it makes me..."

"Twilight, my dear, as much as I like you to be happy about the idea of being able to read more books, I remind you that we are with the princesses present." said Rarity.

Twilight's eyes widened at the revelation before giving them all a nervous smile with a slight blush.

"Hihi. Sorry. I guess I got carried away." said Twilight.

"No worries. We understand that the idea of a huge building full of books can be a site of interest to any enthusiast." said Charle.

"I have to admit, yours has all sorts of magics I've never heard of before. We can cast various spells, but they aren't as complex as your magic." said Celestia.

"Thank you very much, Princess Celestia, but your world is also quite beautiful. You can breathe peace in the air." said Wendy.

"Thank you, Wendy. We do what we can to keep it." said Luna.

BOOM

Just then, an explosion sounded near where they were standing.

"What was that?" asked Celestia.

"Whatever it was, I'm sure it's Natsu's doing." said Lucy.

"Or Discord's." said Applejack.

Wasting no time, they all headed to the blast zone where they saw the group with a cannon spewing smoke as a sign that it had been used earlier.

"Mmm. Maybe if we increase the height by 17 degrees and reduce the weight by 1.5 kilograms we should have the right result." said Discord dressed in a scientist's robe and an Albert Einstein-like hair and mustache.

"Excuse me, but what are you supposed to be doing?" asked Twilight.

"Oh, hello, girls. We're conducting an experiment." said Pinkie Pie.

"Experiment?" asked Wendy.

"We're going to see if we can make Natsu go around the world in one shot." said Rainbow Dash.

"What? That's impossible." said Luna.

"Not with these calculations." said Discord placing his clipboard in front of the night princess, who could only see scribbles on the sheet.

"I find it amazing that you're supporting this." said Lucy to the ice mage.

"Watching Natsu get shot from that far away? Like as not to." said Gray with an amused grin.

"Less talking and more shooting." said Natsu stepping into the canyon. "Got it all, Pinkie Pie?"

"Wait." said Pinkie before checking her travel backpack. "Let's see. String? Okay. Compass? Okay. Travel music? Okay. Underwear? Where did I get that?" asked Pinkie Pie pulling said contents out of the backpack before putting it on and entering the canyon with the dragon slayer.

"You two, cut the crap and get out of that thing." said Erza.

"At least wait for me to get in too." said Happy.

"That's not the point!" said Charle.

"Oh, don't worry. It's perfectly safe. Just pull this rope and then..." began Discord before pulling the rope, causing the cannon to fire at the dragon slayer who powered up with fire from his feet while Pinkie Pie held on to him.

"AAAHHH!" the two shouted excitedly as they flew off until they were lost in the distance.

"I hope they're all right." said Rarity.

"I hope they got their return ticket out." said Gray.

"AAAHHH!" shouted the two flying at them from behind.

Before either could react, Natsu made a direct impact on the ice mage, both being knocked down in the process. Soon after, Pinkie Pie landed on the ground with the help of a parachute.

"Woohoo! That was the best trip of my life! I even brought back souvenirs!" said Pinkie Pie with pictures of her and Natsu in various parts of the world along with some snowballs.

Needless to say, the others were amazed at how the experiment turned out.

"That certainly was a new record in going around the world. Suck on that, Willy Fog and Phineas and Ferb." said Discord pointing to the sky.

Despite the chaos god's confused words, the others laughed lightly at his attitude.

That visit may not have gone exactly as they had hoped, but they had certainly enjoyed it so much that they would never forget it.


AN: For those wondering what story Discord and Pinkie Pie were referring to, it's 'My Little Strawhat!' found on Fimfiction.