Chapter 14: The Alicorn from Las Pegasus part 2
They found a seat and sat down, Lucky's next to the window, Applejack's in the middle and Rainbow on the outside. "I told ya we'd get here on time.", Applejack said. Lucky nodded, "Yeah, you did. We had 5 minutes left to get here when we got here. I can't wait to meet my cousin." Rainbow nodded, "Me either, can't wait to see what she's like." Applejack agreed. So the train got going and Lucky was getting hungry for lunch. "Applejack, will there be food on this train?" "Yeah, there usually is a lunch cart that comes around."
"Good, 'cause I'm hungry for lunch. What do they usually have?" Rainbow answered, "Apple juice, sometimes they have sandwiches, like dandelion sandwiches, or sometimes they have a variety of fruits or vegetables." Lucky grinned, "That sounds good, I hope they come to where we are soon." The lunch cart pusher came right around 12:30. "Hello girls, anypony interested in something?" Lucky looked at the selection. "Hmm, I think I'll try the sandwich, what kind are they? Dandelion?" The mare nodded, then handed Lucky a sandwich.
"Anything else my dear?" Lucky took an apple off the cart with her magic. "Thank you.", Lucky said. The older mare smiled, then asked Rainbow and Applejack if they'll have anything. They both had what Lucky had, then thanked the mare as well. "You're welcome. Enjoy your lunch." The three nodded and started eating. At about 1:15 they came to a full stop at the station in Canterlot and when they got of they saw Princess Luna. She must have been sent by Princess Celestia. "Hey Princess Luna.", Applejack said. "Hello Applejack, Rainbow, and... and... another alicorn?"
Rainbow looked at Luna curiously. "Princess Celestia didn't tell you about Lucky?" Princess Luna shook her head. "I'm usually sleeping during the days because I raise the moon at night and stay up all night because I usually do royal business during nights. I work best at night." "I see, ok then. Princess Luna, this is Lucky Fire. She's kinda taken to Rainbow and I as her parents, and I guess you could say Rainbow and I've taken to her as she was our own little filly." Lucky looked at Princess Luna. Not as tall as Princess Celestia, then again, if she recalled correctly, she thought Twilight told her Princess Luna was Princess Celestia's younger sister.
"Hi Princess Luna. Nice to meet you." Princess Luna smiled, "Nice to meet you as well Lucky Fire. Well, I also see you all look very nice in your attire. I will take you to meet Princess Fire Dancer now. Can this little one fly? I can easily carry Applejack on my back." Rainbow looked at Lucky, "She can fly, yes, but she can only reach six feet and I don't know how long she can fly without getting tired. We can try flying but if she gets tired, we'll have to walk the rest of the way." Princess Luna nodded.
Applejack hopped on Princess Luna's back and then Luna, Rainbow, and Lucky took off. "Oh yeah, and Lucky once flew up to my cloud home once from halfway to the school. She fainted though, and two days ago she flew from my house to Appplejack's, she didn't faint that time, but that's only because she wasn't paying attention to the fact she flew from way up high to way down low and further on. She was talking to her new found friend Derpy."
"Derpy? That special mare? That's really nice Lucky. What do you guys do when you're together?" Lucky then told Luna what her and Derpy did when they got to Applejack's from Rainbow's. "That sounds like fun, playing in the orchard. Do you have other friends as well? Obviously Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Twilight would be your friends too." Lucky nodded, "Also I have Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom as friends. Apple Bloom is Applejack's little sister and Sweetie Belle is Rarity's little sister."
"I see. Well, we're almost there, are you getting tired yet Lucky?" Lucky shook her head. "I'm fine right now still. I think I'm getting used to flying now. Though I have to practice more magic, better magic than what I can do now. I think I'm ready for harder spells. I can already pick things up and move them, now I wanna do things with stuff, like with Rarity, she can use her magic with a lot of things at once. I can't yet, I wanna try sewing with magic. I know it won't come out good, but I still wanna try."
"That's good that you want to learn. Very diligent in your studies. You like school then right?" Lucky grinned. "I love school! I love to learn." Luna smiled, then she looked ahead. "We're here, but we need to go up. Think you can handle the altitude or do you need to walk from here on up?" Lucky looked up, "How far do we need to go?" "Just about 20 feet up." Lucky looked unsure. "I have an idea, let's do this as training. Go as far as your wings will allow you to, I'll be underneath you so if you need to stop you can be on my back and I can fly you up."
"That's a good idea Rainbow, I wanna do that." The others nodded, Rainbow went under Lucky, then they started going up. At about 12 feet Lucky started getting tired, so she landed on Rainbow's back. "Ugh, my wings hurt now. Flying from the station and going up hurt them a lot." Rainbow, Applejack, and Princess Luna looked at Lucky and said, "That was very good Lucky." Rainbow then said, "6 more feet now, 3 more and you'll be able to help water Applejack's crops next month, well, only once, in the beginning of the month, right?"
Applejack nodded. "They'll need a tiny bit of water, not too much like this past time 'cause they'll need ta be harvested next month fer the winter months and to be sold to ponies so they have food fer the winter." Rainbow nodded, then as they got to 20 feet, they got to the steps to the door was and landed there. Lucky asked, "Where does this go to?" Princess Luna answered her with, "This is the library, and Princess Celestia is in here doing her work, and Princess Fire Dancer is in there with her."
Lucky hopped up and down, forgetting she was on Rainbow's back, Rainbow wincing everytime Lucky came down. "Lucky, did you forget about something?" Lucky looked down, "Oops, sorry Rainbow." Then she got off Rainbow, then she followed Princess Luna inside, after Applejack got off Luna's back, hopping up and down, reminding Applejack and Rainbow of Pinkie. They grinned. "Celestia dear sister, the three ponies are here to meet with the Princess of Las Pegasus." Princess Celestia looked up from the papers. "Ah, hello again girls." She then turned to Fire Dancer. She spoke in another language that was unknown to any of the others, even surprisingly Luna.
Fire shook her head, then looked at Lucky. "Dear cousin, I am very sorry that Aunt and Uncle had passed away. I give you my sympathy. I am Princess Fire Dancer.", this pony had an accent, although it was barely there, it was still noticable if you paid close enough attention. "Your Aunt, my mother, is from overseas, in a place called Japone (that's a horrible pun T_T i suck at creative things to do with pony puns x.x). So if you hear me speak in a language you don't understand, it's Japonies. (XD another horrible pun.)" Lucky nodded, "Why Japonies? Why not English like the rest of us?"
"Because I wanted to learn Japonies when I was old enough to talk and know the difference in language. I am 13 now and can speak it almost fluently." "I wanna learn!", Lucky exclaimed. The older ponies smiled at Lucky's enthusiasm at learning. "Well, maybe later, but for right now, I wanna do something, I feel like dancing right now, one because I haven't danced in forever and two, I'm so excited I finally get to meet my little cousin. How old are you now anyway? I haven't seen you in forever it feels like and the last i saw you, you were just a bitty baby filly."
"I'm 5 years old now." Fire Dancer looked amazed. "5 years old and without parents? I also can't believe it's only been five years. I thought it's been longer than that." Lucky looked at Applejack and Rainbow. "Well, kinda but kinda not." Fire looked confused. "What do you mean by that?" Lucky looked at Celestia, "Princess Celestia, you didn't tell her? You should have told her, I thought you would have." Princess Celestia smiled and giggled lightly at being scolded by a 5 year old. "I did tell her, but I think the way you said it confused her." Lucky grinned sheepishly.
"Oops, my bad. Sorry Princess and Fire Dancer. Um, what I mean by that is yes, my parents died, but I kinda found new parents, I think I can say, maybe. I think of them as parents anyways. They think of me as their filly. It goes for me and them, but we don't really say it for sure yet. We have to get used to the idea as Princess Celestia said." Fire Dancer nodded, "I understand now. Ok. Um, my question is now, who?" Lucky looked at Applejack. "Applejack and Rainbow Dash." and when Lucky said Rainbow's name, she looked at Rainbow.
"Oh, um, aren't they both mares?" Lucky nodded. "Why two mares as parental figures?" Lucky shrugged. "Dunno, I just became attatched to them as the others put it and then everything turned into a family thing. So now they're kinda like parents to me and they kinda see me as their filly." Fire kinda looked a little unsure, but then she shrugged it off then said, "Nice to meet you both Rainbow and Applejack. I do like your dresses however. Very pretty. Yours too Lucky, yours is cute." The three smiled, "Thanks."
Fire then turned to Princess Celestia, "So, is there someplace we can dance, and where there's a CD player?" Princess Celestia nodded, then led them to the room where Rainbow and Applejack recognized where the Gala was being held the last time. "Nice place. This is a wide open space big enough for all of us, and even more too.", Fire said. "Well of course. This is where the Grand Galloping Gala takes place every year." Fire looked amazed. "Oh yeah, Fire Dancer, how come your wings are different from mine, Rainbow's, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna's, and all the other pegasi I've met?"
"I inherited these wings from my mother. I told you she's from Japone. All Japonies wings are like this." She then stretched her wings out. Her wings had way much longer feathers than normal pegasi that Lucky's seen. "Oh, wow.", Lucky said. So then Fire put in her favorite CD and started it. Lucky recognized it. "Backstreet Colts! (T_T and yet another horrible pun) Oh my goodness, you like them too?" Fire grinned and nodded. Lucky hopped up and down, then started dancing. So did the other ponies. Princess Celestia though went back to work. Princess Luna stayed however so she and Lucky could get aquainted more.
"So, Lucky, what is the full story about you? How did you meet the 6 ponies?", Luna asked. Lucky looked at her. "Do you want from where mama and papa and me started from Fillydelphia until I met Applejack for the first time?" Luna nodded. Lucky sighed, then gathered up the strength to talk about that day. Now the other three ponies stopped dancing and looked at Lucky, all she ever told them is an accident happened in Manehattan and that she wanted to continue her parent's ambition to move to Ponyville.