Chapter 19: The Big Hearth's Warming Party
Lucky was happy to hear that, then she went to try to find her mamas and Aunts to see if they need help with anything else. It kinda is her job to help with these things, as Princess. Eventually, she found her Aunt Rarity, who was watching ponies' every move. She had her dress on that she had on for the Gala. Lucky rolled her eyes because Rarity was being paranoid about having something being spilled on her dress. "Aunt Rarity, what in the wide world of Equestria are you doing?" Rarity looked at her, and looked happy.
"Oh thank the lucky stars you're here. With your power as Princess, you can help me keep my dress clean by keeping the ponies with their drinks and food away from me." Lucky just sighed in exasperation. "Really Aunt Rarity? Why don't you just ditch the dress altogether and not wear anything fancy to these things? You know there will be crowds of ponies around you, and yes, they will have food and drinks with them, it is their own free will, it isn't against the law you know. Why do you be so paranoid? Besides, your dress is washable... and if there ever becomes a stain, the color of your dress will hide it pretty well. Just stop being like this and have a good time."
Rarity looked astonished. Lucky really has changed since she met her. Also ever since she's become the Princess... although Rarity did think she had a point, much to her own disliking, but Rarity decided she'd have to get used to it, and agreed with Lucky that she would have a good time and try to get over getting her dress dirty. Lucky grinned and went off to find the others. She hoped Fluttershy wasn't hiding herself in a corner or something, then she'd really get impatient. She actually found Fluttershy with somepony.
"Hey Aunt Fluttershy, who's your friend?" Fluttershy looked at Lucky and smiled, "This is Four-leaf Clover. He's a really nice pony. His cutie mark is a four leaf clover. He saw that I wasn't being too social, and came up to me and started talking to me. Seems like he likes animals too." Lucky grinned, "Glad to hear that Aunt Fluttershy. Well, I'm off to find the others." Fluttershy nodded and bid Lucky a 'see you later'. Lucky then went to find Twilight and Spike. They're usually together in this sort of thing so Spike don't get lost.
'In all honesty, I do believe Twilight and Spike have a mother/son thing going on, though Twilight refuses to listen to Spike on that subject.', Lucky thought to herself. She found them going to the punch bowl. "Hey Aunt Twilight, cousin Spike.", Lucky said, grinning, trying to show she was only kidding about the subject. Spike laughed and Twilight just sighed, she's been ganged up on with the Spike being like her son because she raised him from an egg. "Really Lucky? You had to say that?" Lucky giggled. "Sorry, but in my opinion, I agree with Spike." Spike high fived her, well, he high fived and Lucky high hooved.
"Finally, somepony who agrees with me, see Twilight? It's not only me who thinks the same as you on the whole mother/son thing. You did raise me from an egg, and without any help nonetheless." Twilight just said, "I only see it more as a brother/sister thing." Lucky replied, "I guess I can see Twilight's point... because sometimes ponies might have a lot of foals, so the youngest might not be out of the house yet, or even the youngest and second youngest, so then the older sisters or brothers have to take care of their younger siblings if something happened to the parents.
"Like in my case, but I am an only foal, so I had no older pony to take care of me until I came to Ponyville. Mama Applejack then had found me and took me in until I decided to go live with Rainbow-mama. Or for a better example, kind of, because they have Granny Smith, but still, Big Mac and Mama Applejack both take care of their little sister, Apple Bloom. So I guess I can see Twilight's point too, as I said." Spike took that into consideration. "Huh, with that explanation, I guess I could see Twilight's point too. Though to me she feels more like a mother. She's always been there for me, taken care of me, helped me through the night when I had nightmares, and she kind of did some things a mother would do.
"It's only my feelings Twilight. I'm not saying you are, but I'm saying it just feels like it to me. Sometimes I might joke around with you and say you are, but really, I'm just joking around, I don't mean to hurt you Twilight. I'm sorry if I had." Twilight smiled at Spike, "It's ok Spike. I guess I can see your point now too. Now that you've really explained, I can see why you'd feel like that." Spike then hugged Twilight, "I'm glad you forgive me."
"How could I not? You are my best friend after all. Like you've basically said, we've been through a lot together." Lucky smiled, glad she could help. "Spike, take a letter.", she said. Twilight looked at her and jokingly said, "Hey, that's my line." Lucky giggled, hearing the joking in her voice, then said when Spike had out the quill, ink, and paper:
"Dear Princess Celestia,
This is Princess Lucky Fire, I've helped my Aunts Twilight and Rarity today. I especially helped Aunt Twilight. Her and Spike were kinda fighting a bit about the mother/son thing that Spike goes on about. They gave both of their sides of the story, with my help. Twilight gave her side first, then I could see her point, then when Spike gave his side, his side made sense too.
They both agreed that their sides were fair and Spike apologized for his behavior, saying that he sometimes was kidding when he called her his mother. Twilight forgave him for everything he may have said. So, all in all, her and Spike both learned something from this: Twilight learned that if somepony says something that might seem kinda upsetting, like Spike with the mother/son thing, sometimes they're joking, so learn to see a joke when one comes up so that you can laugh with them, not get mad or upset at them.
Spike learned that sometimes jokes like his mother/son joke can hurt a pony's feelings, or upset them. So they both learned to tell each other if they're joking if they don't see the joke. With another pony they're with, tell the other pony they are only joking if the other pony they're joking with doesn't know it's a joke and gets upset with it. Don't just get upset yourself and not say anything, or just laugh and walk away with no explanation.
Now for the other pony I've helped... Aunt Rarity was being paranoid about her dress getting dirty, that if somepony walked by her with a drink or some food, she'd get all weirdo and I saw that, and I went over to her and told her, it doesn't matter if her dress got dirty, it could be washed. She thought a bit and decided, I was right, I told her to go have fun and she thanked me and did what I suggested.
Aunt Rarity learned that it's ok for a gown or dress to get dirty in the process of having fun, because it could always be washed, and I also told her that if there ever was a stain on it, the color of her dress would hide it very well, she wasn't too happy about the stain part, but she went to have fun anyways. So, in ending this letter, all three learned a really good lesson today.
From,
Princess Lucky Fire"
Spike got the last of it down, then sent it on its way after sealing it up. Lucky grinned, "Thanks Spike." Spike nodded, "No problem Princess." Lucky blushed a bit. "Hey, don't call me that... I'm only being a good pony." Spike grinned, "No, you're doing your job as Princess whether you realize it or not." Lucky just grinned then walked away to find her mamas. After walking around a bit and being said hello to, she found them.
"Hi Mama Applejack, hi Rainbow-mama." They looked at her, "Hey kiddo. What's... I mean, what'cha doing?" Lucky smirked, she knew what her mama was about to say. "Nothing, just helping ponies with their problems. Like Aunt Rarity, Aunt Twilight, and Spike." Applejack looked impressed. "You're gettin' real good at helpin' others Lucky. How'd it go anyway?" Lucky replied happily, "It went great. Problems are solved." Rainbow looked proud.
"You make a great Princess Lucky, you really do. You glad you accepted?" Lucky nodded, "I am. With Aunt Twilight's help in my vocabulary, as well as speech, grammar, and magic, I think I'm all set with being the Princess, as well as going to Miss Cheerilee's school, she helps with everything else, actually, because of Aunt Twilight's teachings in grammar, oh, and I forgot about spelling, so, with her help in grammar, spelling, speech, vocabulary, oh and reading, Miss Cheerilee said that she might advance me to a higher grade of Equestrian."
Applejack and Rainbow looked surprised. "Why so surprised? You should have seen it coming, I kinda did." Then Rainbow said, "Oh, because you're too advanced for the younger Equestrian right?" Lucky nodded, surprised it didn't click sooner, but she said nothing this time. "Hehe, sorry." Lucky just giggled. "Eh, don't worry about it." Then she went around to see how the other guests are doing, other than her family. By the time the party ended, Lucky had done what she needed, ignored the crowd to do her work as a Princess, then she helped clean up after everypony left, besides her family.
She used her magic to get things down off the banisters, and the pin the tail on the pony poster, and she put them away. She had gotten better since she first arrived. She truly is advanced in her magic, just like her mother was. Her flying, well, it's getting there. Almost like her father, though she's a bit better than him. She can actually fly 30 feet in the air now, almost as high as the cloud home her and Rainbow used to live in. The home is 50 feet. She wondered who lived in it now. She shrugged it off for now and went back to work.
Lucky was happy when they were done. She stretched out while all 11 of them walked. The 11 were Lucky, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Spike and Apple Bloom. All but five, which were, Sweetie Belle, Granny Smith, Big Mac, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo, were going to Baltimare soon. "So, Mama Applejack, we're leaving for Baltimare soon right? To get the story on my mom and why she's not an alicorn?" Applejack nodded, "We're on the 3:00 train, which will be leavin' in 5 minutes. We're 2 minutes away from it."
"Ok, Princesses Luna and Celestia will be on it already right?" "Eeyup. Well, we're here. Ok Granny Smith, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac. Y'all take good care of Winona like always. Tank too now. We finally got him day before yesterday. There should be instructions on how to take care of him, courtesy of Fluttershy." The three nodded and bid the three good bye, then the others.
As the train departed, the ponies on the platform waved good bye, the ponies on the train waved back until the ones left behind were out of their sight, then they turned to each other. "So, what now? It takes a day to get to Baltimare, right?", Spike asked. "Yeah, it does.", Princess Celestia said behind them. They all turned around and grinned. "Hi Princess.", they all said, then bowed. "Hello everypony. Princess Lucky, I got your letter. Very good, you've become a great Princess already and it hasn't even been too long since you became one."
"Yeah, not even a month passed, almost though. In a week I think it would be a month.", Lucky said. Princess Celestia smiled, then turned to Twilight, Spike, and Rarity. "You three have learned a lesson from a 5 year old filly? That is amusing as well as amazing. Care to give your take on what you've learned from her?" They nodded, Spike went first. "Sometimes, if you're trying to joke around with somepony, sometimes they take it the wrong way, or don't even know it's a joke and they get offensive and upset, and they don't think it's funny. So if that's the case, tell them you're only trying to joke around with them."
Twilight went next. "And if you're on the receiving end of a joke and don't know it's a joke, try to figure out if they are being serious, because most times, they might not be. Learn to tell joking from seriousness." Then Rarity said, "If you want to bring a dress to a party, don't be all paranoid over the smallest things such as something being spilled on it, whether it be food or a drink, it will wash out.
"If it becomes a stain, well, just hope your dress is dark enough to hide it and if it isn't... well, just try the best you can to get it out, or throw it away, as horrible as it sounds and is. Well, actually, if it isn't too fancy, then you could wear it as a play clothing, like on a picnic outing which is casual enough for a dress, depending, and you go for a hike on that picnic. Well, either way, don't go paranoid over getting something spilled on your dress."
Princess Celestia smiled, "Very good everypony. It seems you have learned something from your Princess of Ponyville. Young as she may be, she's very wise for her age, perfect for being the Princess. I'd say you made the right choice, because even when you weren't Princess, weren't you always giving excellent advice?" Lucky thought back. "I think so. I think I remember telling Rarity not to sweat the small stuff like getting dirty, because she could always take a bath." Princess Celestia giggled, "Exactly my dear. So I'd say you were fit to be a Princess after all."
Lucky grinned, doubly happy she chose to become the Princess. "I think you don't even need training, other than me teaching you the ways of letting a whole nation know of something big in one night, such as you becoming the first ever Princess of only Ponyville alone." Lucky grinned, she was proud of that fact. Princess Luna then said, "It's quite simple really. You need your loud voice, the one that scared you out of the sky when you used it for the first time." Lucky just grinned sheepishly, that will always come back to haunt her, she had a feeling.
"My bad. I didn't expect that to happen." Everpony giggled/chuckled. "It's ok. It kinda spooked me my first time too.", Luna said. "Really?" Luna nodded, "Ya know, I haven't even heard yours Celestia. Never, except when the nation was in an uproar because it was in a famine many years ago, then your voice reached all over the world, and I should know too, I was in another country on the other side of the world that time and even I heard you. That was actually frightening." Celestia smiled an apologetic smile. "Sorry Luna. I had to do something to get everypony to pay attention."
"Lucky, the key thing is control and concentration. You need to be able to control your 'we' voice and concentrate it to someplace in the world, like in the time zones different from ours. The time zone in the east is ahead of us, so it's night time for them, to use your 'we' voice for that country will only serve to make them mad. If you only use it in this country, you'll be fine. Tonight however, is when the other countries on the east side will be up and around, so using your 'we' voice for that country will be ok."
Lucky nodded, understanding what was being said. "However, you need to control and concentrate it to that country and that country alone, otherwise, if you don't, your voice will be heard everywhere in the world, and if everypony in the world hears, then the ones who are in the night time zone will not be very happy with you.", Celestia said this time. Lucky nodded again, understanding what was being said.
"Understand what we're telling you?", they asked. "Yes, I understand." They smiled, "Good. Now, Japone is 13 hours ahead of us. It is a little after three, if I had to guess, it'd be about 3:45 PM already. So if they are thirteen hours ahead of us, what time is it in Japone?", Celestia asked. Lucky counted/added in her head. If twelve hours was 3:45 AM, then thirteen was 4:45 AM. "It would be 4:45 AM there." Everypony looked impressed. "Very good! It seems you're doing very well in school, am I right?", Celestia asked.
"Yup! Like I said before, I love school." Luna smiled, "Good, because even though you're a Princess, you need your education too, especially if it's regular education." "I know. I already figured that out. You can't have a Princess if she hasn't had regular education, then she wouldn't know anything and she couldn't do anything for her country or in my case, town." Everypony, again, was impressed at her deducing skills.
"Yes, very good. It seems you know how to use your head.", Twilight said this time. "Well, mama and papa wanted me to figure tings out for myself a lot, so that kinda helps. I usually got things wrong, then they told me to try again until I got it right. I got used to it after a while and I actually like figuring things out on my own. That means I don't need somepony to help me, that way I'm doing things all by myself." They all smiled, they're all glad to hear that. She'd be a great detective too, and that got Pinkie thinking.
Since that incident with the MMMM-cake, she always wanted a helper who was willing to play along with her, unlike Twilight who was at first not to thrilled with Pinkie, until Twilight got to thinking herself, then took the big detective hat away from her to solve the problems on her own. Actually, now that she does think about it, Lucky just said she liked doing things on her own and figure things out on her own, so she might do the same as Twilight. Never mind!
"Looks like Pinkie's thinking hard about something, just look at her face. She's really thinking.", Rarity said. Pinkie looked up after she decided not to say anything about detective work to Lucky. "What? I can think too you know. Just because I like throwing parties and don't seem to be that smart, though I only seem to have a one track mind because I want to. Anyways, I can think too, I am a normal pony. It's not like I'm a zombie pony.", when she said 'zombie pony', she moved like one.
The others all laugh, and she laughs along too. "I also love to make my friends laugh. It makes me happy to know I've brightened up somepony's day and brought them happiness and laughter." They all smiled, "Well, that's true, you do make everypony laugh.", Fluttershy said. "See? I'm just somepony who thinks of everypony else before herself." They all took that into consideration. "That's true, you're always giving a smile, giving somepony the time of day to help them. You are a good pony Pinkie.", Spike said.
"Glad you think so Spike." Throughout the rest of the day, they all talked, laughed, and carried on until Luna had to raise the moon. Luna set off into the sky, and then before they knew it, the sun started to set for the moon to rise. They all watched the moon and sun. When it was 9:00, Luna came back in, she's actually done. From that point on the moon moves itself, until Celestia helps it by raising the sun.
"That is awesome Princess Luna.", Lucky said. "Thank you." Lucky then thought after saying 'you're welcome'. Didn't she have a dream one night? A moon like this one was in the sky, same shape and everything, she thought and thought and thought. Then it clicked. "Oh my goodness, that's right. I dreamed that you and you would become my mamas, though I didn't realize at the time. Remember me telling you? My real mama and papa were walking away, I begged them not to leave me, but they disappeared and then I cried.
"Then I turned around after a bit and you both were there, I ran up to you and you both hugged me and nuzzled me. My dream came true! Is it possible that I might be able to see the future? I didn't see the fact that might mean you would become my parents at some point, but now that I think about it, it kinda clicks and makes sense. I mean, Mama Applejack and Rainbow-mama, you both already started to treat me like your filly at the time, even though it was very little, though still. I think that was a sign of the future."
Everpony looked at each other. Could that even be possible? Future sight? Even if it is in a dream, could it still be possible? "I don't know Lucky. Honestly I have no idea. Hopefully there'd be a library close by your grandparents' house and I can go to it and look it up.", Twilight said. "Could you please? Bring it back with you. I wanna hear too." Twilight nodded, "Alright, I'll bring it back with me and read it out loud. Most likely everypony else would be interested too, right?" They all agreed. Twilight thought as much.
By the time 9:30 came around, they all were starting to get to sleep. They're separated this time. Lucky was with the Princesses, and even Twilight was with the Princesses as well, as she was a Princess as well, by marriage, but still. That counted. Applejack and Rainbow too, because they're the mamas of a Princess, so that by adoption and by default, makes them Queens, although they don't accept that title, they are still by default, Queens. So that meant they went in the royal train car as well, only by the pleading of their daughter. Otherwise if Lucky hadn't have begged them they would not have gone in the royal train car at all.
So, Celestia was on the middle bunk, Luna on the top bunk, and Twilight on the bottom. On the other side was Applejack on the bottom bunk, Lucky in the middle bunk, and Rainbow on the top bunk. In the other train car behind them on the top bunk on the right side was Fluttershy, in the middle bunk Rarity, and Spike was on the bottom bunk, go figure. On the other side Pinkie was on the bottom bunk. Poor Pinkie all alone on the other side.
A/N: hehe, well, pretty good story so far I guess. Lucky's one smart filly for her age, well, I was too in some aspects. Knew things I shouldn't have known yet. So it is possible for a filly of that age to be one smart cookie. XD HO-KAY, really? Applejack's name for the play on Hearth's Warming Eve XD lmfao see ya next chapter and I can't believe it. 20 chapters already, ay yi yi. Where does the time and chapters go? XD ok, mass update hopefully soon. Lol, 13 chapters up already I do believe, well, gonna be 7 or 8 chapters uploaded at once. Brace yourselves! Lol.