A several days had passed since Michi and Harry came to Equestria. Princess Celestia had ordered the pony maids to clean one of the multiple bedrooms that had an adjoining door to turn into a nursery for Harry.
The alicorn filly was sitting on her window alcove seat staring out her window. She had everything her little heart could wish for, but she yearned for a friend. As much as she loved her brother, Harry just wasn't fun, and there are just so many times she could play peek-a-boo without being bored enough to fall asleep. Right now, her brother was in the bathroom getting bathed by a pony whose only job was to care for him. But she was bored. This was a life she was not used to, and her heart ached for her to see her mother.
To top it off, she found out that she and her brother were royalty in this world.
"Your highness, it's time for lunch. You and your brother are requested to be in the private dining room." A servant pony stated.
Michi sighed and nodded; getting up, she started walking toward the dining room.
As she made her way through castle, strange ponies bowed to her. Michi still was not used to formalities, and being called "your highness."
Michi was just a little filly, without her parents. Sure, she liked Celestia a great deal, but the princess just wasn't her mother.
"Ahh, Michi, so glad you came to join us" Celestia greeted with a smile on her delicate muzzle. "How are you adjusting to life here?"
Michi stared blankly, unable to answer, and used the simplest levitation spell she knew to lift a slice of apple to her muzzle. Cadance walked into the room, and the Princess of Love went over to nuzzle the newest member of the family. The young filly jumped a bit at the foreign contact.
"Go now?" Michi whispered, her plate was still half full of greens and slices of fruit.
"Michi, you have to eat more. You need to keep up your strength." Celestia answered, worried for the young foal.
"Not hungry," Michi replied, jumping down from her chair. She solemnly started walking out of the room.
"Very well then, I'll be by later to see how you are doing." Celestia stated very worried now.
Michi exited the castle went to the gardens. As she walked through the gardens, she looked at the pretty flowers, and some of the animals that lived within the gardens' compound. Strangely, she heard a voice just outside the garden's large, ornate gate.
The voice belonged to another filly. "Oh, please come back here, I haven't finished studying you!"
Searching for the voice, Michi saw a pretty purple unicorn chasing a butterfly across the field.
Michi tilted her head, confused, but she giggled in spite of herself.
"Aww, come on, I just wanted to study you." The unicorn futilely yelled again.
Michi trotted over to the other filly to see what was going on. "What are you doing?" She queried.
"I'm trying to study this butterfly, but he won't stay still so I can actually see 'im!" The purple filly answered, slightly blushing.
"You're funny." Michi giggled.
"Why am I funny?" the filly asked, "I want to learn about it, that's all, but he just won't cooperate!"
"You want a creature with wings to stay still? It doesn't work like that." Michi stated with a smile
"Well, then, how would you do it?" the filly asked.
"Flowers." Michi answered, as if it was the simplest thing in the world.
"Flowers? How will they help?" The unicorn asked, tilting her head to the side.
"Butterflies like flowers." Michi explained, her tiny wings buzzing.
"Really? Wow! Ok, I'll try that. Anyways, I'm Twilight Sparkle" the purple filly stated. "What's your name?"
"I'm Dimension." Michi answered, "But I like Michi."
Twilight's eyes open right up. "Oh, no, I'm so sorry. Your highness, I didn't mean to sound rude." The unicorn filly bowed to the alicorn foal.
Michi sighed, "I don't like being called 'your highness' or 'your majesty.' Please, just call me plain Michi, not even 'Princess Dimension.'"
"Ok, ok, Michi, I'm sorry" Twilight apologized again.
Michi smiled. "Its fine. I wish you would on this side of the gate, I would love somepony to play with."
"Why would anypony want to do something as wasteful as playing, when studying is so much better?" Twilight asked Michi with a huff.
The alicorn foal just stared in disbelief. So much for trying to make a friend of this filly! "Have fun," she stated, as she turned and left, upset. She just wanted somepony to play with without being a princess.
"Wait, Michi!" Twilight called out to get the alicorn filly to come back. "I still want to say 'thank you' for the help with the butterflies."
Michi went back to the gate and plopped down on the grass, as graceful as a foal. "You're welcome."
"I'm sorry if I was rude. My foal-sitter always says I need to make friends, but I guess I'm just kinda shy around most ponies." Twilight explained in a soft mumble.
Michi looked over at the purple filly. "I just want a friend. I only have my brother; he's not fun very fun for very long."
"I know! I got one, too, but he just got into guard training. He don't play with me anymore." Twilight replied, sitting down next to the alicorn filly on her side of the gate.
"My brother is just year old." Michi replied, looking at the grass.
"Really? That's tough. You can't even talk to him, 'cause he won't understand. Well, if you ever want a pony to talk to, you can ask me." Twilight stated with a crooked smile. Did she just make her first friend?
Michi looked over at Twilight with tears in her eyes. "My mommy and daddy are gone; Aunty Tia is caring for me and my brother now. If I can't have my mommy, I want a friend."
"I'm sorry about that, but I'll be your friend! That is, if you want to be my friend," Twilight said as she stared at the ground.
Michi nodded "Yes, please." Michi grinned, happy.
"Yay!" Twilight started bouncing in circles just outside the gate.
The two foals talked about magic, and what spells they could already perform at their young age, all the while, unaware that somepony was watching them from the sky.
"So, she is the one the Princess wants me to take under my wing?" The Pegasus pony asked herself. She already had her Cutie Mark, which consisted of flames in the form of a phoenix. This specific pony was none other than Spitfire, who was still in training to be a Wonderbolt before she headed into the palace to join her mentor and the Princess.
Just as they were getting lost in their conversation, they heard a voice calling. "Twiley, where are you?
Twilight jumped to her hooves. "That's my brother. I have to go." She looked at the alicorn filly. "Bye."
"Bye. We'll see each other again, I promise." Michi stated before she stood up and went back inside the palace.
~~inside~~~
Cadance trotted over as soon as she saw her cousin. "Aunt Celestia has a surprise for you!"
Michi looked at Cadance "Really? What is it?"
"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise," Cadance answered. "I was sent to fetch you."
"Aww, please tell me!" Michi begged, prancing around her foal-sitter/cousin in anticipation.
"No." Cadance replied as she led the way toward Celestia's study, where the Princess's informal meetings took place.
Once outside the study, Cadance tapped on the door, and entered when invited.
"Ahh, Cadance, so glad you came! Ahh, you brought Michi. Good." Celestia greeted with a gentle smile on her muzzle.
"Am I in trouble because I was talking to a strange unicorn filly?" Michi asked, wondering if her aunt had found out about Twilight Sparkle.
"No, dear, why would I be mad?" Celestia asked, wondering why the filly would be in trouble for talking to foals her own age. "If you make new friend, then that's wonderful!"
"Mommy told me not to talk to strangers," Michi muttered, looking at the books on the shelves.
"Yes, well, most of the time that's true, but here, at the palace, things are a bit different." Celestia explained, giving a mental sigh of relief. It was just a mother's concern for her foal. Lily had taught her four-year-old well.
Michi nodded, "Cadance says you have a surprise for me?"
"That would be me," a Pegasus with light golden coat answered, her mane and tail were light orange and amber. "I'm Spitfire." She gave a nod of respect to the youngest princess.
Spitfire studied the filly in front of her, trying to put a hoof on who the little filly reminded her of. The shape of the filly's wings and her stance was that of Storm Chaser, the current Captain of the Wonderbolts, and a founding member. Could it be that the Wonderbolts' Captain was this filly's father?
DarkPriestess66: This is slightly before Twilight got accepted into Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns, and if you ask me Spitfire is the same age as Cadance/Cadence however you spell her name. So Spitfire right now, is a teenager.