Chapter 21: Psychic Awareness
Twilight looked through her books and she finally found something. "This looks interesting, let's see what it has to say." Lucky and Twilight both read through it, and it did say something about testing. There were many ways. "This one seems fun. It's a thing where there's six cards and the one pony shuffles them and then chooses one randomly. Then the other pony who is behind the thing were they pick which card the one pony chose, and if they're right or wrong is up to the pony who chose a card. There's a diamond, a heart, a clover, a square, a circle, and a triangle.", Lucky said.
"Hey, that's the game I tried for my cutie mark once.", Apple Bloom said. Lucky looked at her, "Really?" She nodded. "Nice, well, did you guess it right?" Apple Bloom shook her head. "That stinks, well, you'll find what you're best at someday, and hopefully soon. It really would suck if I got mine before the three of you get yours." Scootaloo then said, "Yeah it would. Then we really would be blank flanks for life, and the laughing stocks of the whole school, plus the whole world." Lucky then replied, "Don't say that Scooter. That will never be true."
"Wanna bet? Yeah, I may be the best dancer there is, but I'm not exactly too sure that will be my cutie mark. Besides, if dancing is my thing, what would my cutie mark be? Apple Bloom is a good designer, and builder, could hers be carpentry? Hmm, maybe her cutie mark would be a scaffolding, or the blueprints of a building. Hey yeah! That could be yours Apple Bloom! Wait, I know, zap apple jam, you make awesome zap apple jam."
Apple Bloom seems to be contemplating those ideas. "I think I would really like the zap apple jam the best. I think if I keep making it, it might eventually become my cutie mark. Aw, now I can't wait til the next harvest." Lucky just looked at the two curiously. "Zap apples?" Sweetie Belle then said, "Yeah, they're rainbow colored apples from what I take it from the zap apple jam, and they only grow at a certain time. Apple Bloom, Applejack, Big Mac, and Granny Smith all know when it's time. You and Rainbow will know too when it comes time, because you're living with them now."
"Awesome, and when did you guys get here?" Scootaloo grinned. "Haha, we're ninjas, we snuck in very quietly when you were looking in that book." Lucky grinned as well, "Nice. Hey, maybe something to do with ninjas could be your cutie mark." Apple Bloom said, "Well, I can do karate extremely well. Maybe a gi and the belt could be my cutie mark." The four little fillies kept talking about what could be the CMC potential cutie marks, the older mares all watched in amusement at what they all come up with, although the four of them are accurate.
After a while, Twilight said, "Ok Lucky, don't you want to know if you are truly a psychic. That one dream may have been prophetic, probably, but we won't know for sure unless we do extreme testing." Lucky almost didn't like the sound of 'extreme testing', but somehow she knew what Twilight meant. Much more testing, like how many things she can get right in a row. Flawless meant she is psychic, halfway... eh. Not very much, not really psychic much. All of them went to the the Apple Family's farm and Apple Bloom got out her game.
It was a good day out, so they all sat outside and they put the game on a stump. Sweetie Belle was the pony who picked randomly first, basically picking the top card after Rarity shuffled them with her magic. It was a triangle. Sweetie told Lucky she was ready. Lucky could not see her or the card, and Lucky focused her thoughts onto Sweetie and the card. In her mind, she could see a very distant shape. Lucky looked confused, then she kept her mind on that shape waaaaaayyyy off into the distance.
She had a good feeling, but she wanted to see it clearly, so she kept her mind on the shape. The others all watched her closely. Lucky looked deep in thought, but she also looked very calm. After a really long period of time, Lucky finally saw the shape. It was a triangle, so she pushed the triangle. Their jaws all dropped. "You're right!", Sweetie Belle said. Lucky smiled a big smile. "Don't get too excited yet Lucky. Let's say out of the 10 of us, now 9 because Sweetie Belle just went, we'll test it from that. Scootaloo, you're next."
Scootaloo went up and Rarity shuffled the cards again after the triangle card went back in the pile. Then Scootaloo chose one. It was a clover. Lucky did the same thing she did with Sweetie Belle's. This time though, she saw a clover, though again it took a while to see it clearly. She pushed the clover. Again, they were amazed. Then Apple Bloom went up. She chose the heart. Lucky pushed the heart, it took a bit less time this time, but still took her time to see it. Then Twilight went up.
Twilight shuffled the cards for herself, she can't see them, so then she picks a card. It's a circle. Lucky focused her thoughts, and it still took time, but not as much, then she pushed the circle. They were amazed, but not too much amazed this time. Then Spike went up. He shuffled his own cards, he actually has 'hands'. Then he chose the card. A square. Lucky took a little less time this time, and she chose the square. Twilight's beginning to think she really is psychic now.
Applejack went next. She got the clover. Lucky took less time again and she got it right, yet again. By this time now, they're expecting her to get them right. One by one she got them all correct, 10 right in a row. Lucky had to really focus on everything, she didn't get them right instantly, it did take time, because most the time the shapes were blurry. It took time for them to become clear. Lucky still remembered the dream she had, where she went crying to Applejack and Rainbow. They nuzzled her and acted as parents to her in that dream. She couldn't believe it when they did become her mamas.
She thought it was just a weird dream, because sometimes she did have weird dreams, but instead that particular one was a prophetic dream, unknown to her at the time. Twilight said to Lucky, "I can't believe it. You got all ten right. We should tell your grandma that when we write to her." Lucky nodded, still a bit dumbfounded at her not missing a single one. It was now 11 in the morning, it was 6 in the morning when they arrived back home.
"Oh, and Lucky, zap apples date way back when when Granny Smith's family founded this land. Did'ja know that?", Apple Bloom said. "No, awesome, hey, maybe we can get Granny Smith to tell the story of when the founding of Ponyville first came to be." Applejack squashed that idea. "Sorry squirt, it's gonna hafta wait. Ya gotta git on back to the office. Ya gotta be our Princess again now that you're back." Lucky kicked the ground softly, "Aw shoot. I forgot about that. Well... I guess I'll see you guys all another time I guess."
They all nodded, then bid Lucky good bye and good luck with her duties as Princess. Lucky walked with Rainbow and Applejack to the office. "When can I hear the story Mama Applejack?" "Maybe tonight if ya get home early enough." Lucky smiled, "I hope I do. I really wanna hear it. It sounds like it might be interesting." Applejack nodded, "It is. I know you'll like it." Lucky bounced a little bit, then when they got to the Town Hall, Applejack and Rainbow nuzzled their little filly good bye. Lucky went in the building.
"There goes our girl, heh, she's only 5 and yet is runnin' a whole town already. She grew up fast, don'cha think?", Applejack said to Rainbow. "Yeah, I guess so. She'll know responsibility at a really early age, having to be in charge of Ponyville, and maybe other places' affairs. Plus between school and work, it's gotta be exhausting for a five year old. I hope she knew what she was getting into when she accepted becoming Princess." Applejack agreed with that. They both went back to the others. When they got to the others, the other three fillies had gone.
"Where did the other three go?", Applejack asked. "They went to their clubhouse.", Fluttershy replied. "Lunch'll be ready in a bit. They got a little less than an hour ta play. So, y'all gonna stay fer lunch, or are ya goin' back ta yer homes?" Rarity said, "We'll stay, if you don't mind and if we wouldn't be imposing." Applejack grinned, "You're always welcome here, and ya sure ain't imposin' on nothin'. It's always nice ta have guests, 'specially if they're yer friends."
"Thank you Applejack.", Twilight said. "Yes, thank you. So, what are we having for lunch?", Spike asked. "Well, if I can scrounge up some jewels fer ya Spike, you can have jewels..." Rarity interrupted, "Applejack, I can find gems for him. I do know a spell for finding them after all. I just hope that you wouldn't mind us digging to get them out of the ground if there are any on your acres." Applejack wasn't too sure about the holes in the ground, although there has to be to get them out of the ground.
"Eh. Ain't a problem. We could always fill them back up I guess." Spike and Rarity then thanked Applejack again for letting them find and dig up gems on her land, then they went off. "I'm kinda hopin' that they don't dig too many holes. It would be a pain ta fill 'em all up again.", Applejack said a tad bit worriedly. "Eh, don't worry about it Applejack, I'm sure they won't dig too many. Rarity's a little too polite to dig many holes on somepony's property.", Pinkie said.
"I hope you're right Pinkie. Maybe 5 holes the most, though 5 holes worth might not be enough fer Spike. Twilight, you live with him, how much gems does he eat fer lunch?" "Less than 5 holes worth, I can tell you that much. You'll most likely have only 2 holes the least and the most, maybe 2 ½ to 3 holes if he's really hungry." Applejack sighed of relief. "That's good. I can deal with that. Thanks Twi." Twilight smiled in response. Applejack then went to the house to see if lunch was ready yet. Granny Smith was making it this time.
"Hello Applejack. I take it yer friends are stayin'?" Applejack nodded. "Yes'm. Did'ja make enough fer everypony?" Granny Smith's reply was, "Of course. I had a feelin' they was stayin' on account of they didn't leave yet. I was watchin' out the window sometimes as I was makin' the lunch." Applejack smiled. "Thanks Granny Smith." Granny Smith smiled back and said, "It's no problem. Friends and anypony are welcome here anytime." "That's what I told them too. So, lunch ready yet?" Granny Smith nodded and told her to get the others.
Applejack went back out. "Soup's on everypony!", Applejack yelled after she ringed the triangle and after the others went in the house. After a few minutes, the others all came to the house. They all ate lunch and chatted away. After Lunch Rainbow and Applejack filled the 2 holes that were dug up. Rarity and Spike offered to help as well as they were the ones to create them, but Applejack told them they didn't have to, that she didn't mind filling them with Rainbow.
Rarity and Spike made sure if she was sure, she told them she was. They nodded and left with the others. Rarity off to Fluttershy's with Fluttershy, Pinkie off to Twilight's with Twilight, and Spike went to Sugar Cube Corner to visit with the owners and their twins. He wanted to let those two have their privacy to talk about girly things. Although he had a feeling they might like each other. He might have to ask his Princess, Lucky. From what he heard from Twilight, Lucky was good with romance, well, telling if other ponies are in love.
Spike then decided last minute to ask her instead of going to the Cakes'. He got to the Town Hall and asked the receptionist if he could have a meeting with Princess Lucky. The receptionist got on the intercom with Lucky, Lucky was shown how to work it before she actually started being Princess. "Yes?", Lucky asked. "A baby dragon by the name of Spike wants to have a meeting with you." Lucky sounded happy when she replied. "Well of course, show him in."
"Ok, we'll be right in." The receptionist then showed Spike to Lucky's office. Spike was impressed. "This is awesome Princess. You get your own office, and you don't really have many things to do right? You don't get much papers yet do you?" She shook her head. "Not really, and as you can see, I have my picture of me and my parents on my desk. They'd be proud, I know it." Spike smiled. "So, what did you want to have a meeting for Spike?"
"I have a feeling Twilight and Pinkie love each other, I mean, they're always together and acting a little too friendly to be just friends, or just best friends. What do you think? I mean, you knew Applejack and Rainbow liked each other, and I think you knew about Rarity and Fluttershy as well." Lucky grinned. "Yes, I do think the same thing. I also see how Aunt Twilight is around Princess Celestia though, like how she looks at her, and when Celestia spent the day here a few months ago, Aunt Twilight was watching her leave, then went back to the tree house after Celestia got out of sight without even saying a word to the rest of us.
I think she's torn between the two of them. I mean, she has feelings for both, but doesn't know who to choose. She's stuck between a rock and a hard place, let's hope there won't be conflict between the three of them if Aunt Pinkie and Celestia notice as well." Spike nodded, amazed at Lucky's vocabulary for her age, then again, Twilight was the same way, and also amazed at her intellect and thought processes. "I hope Twilight can choose between the two.", Spike said.
Lucky nodded, then she took out a paper and started writing. "What are you doing?", Spike asked. "Writing a letter to Princess Celestia." Spike looked at her like she was bonkers. "Don't do that, it'll be bad news." Lucky just smirked as she wrote. "I'm not telling her who exactly it is, I'm not that foalish. I'm just telling her it's somepony I know." Spike then was relieved to hear that. He's glad they have a wise Princess, despite her being 5 years old. After a little bit she finished with the letter and then read it to Spike to see if it was a good letter.
"Dear Princess Celestia,
A friend of mine has two ponies she really likes, and can't choose between them. What should she do? I don't think she notices, at least I don't know, and I know the two ponies don't, but I think sometime she might notice and be very confused. I can be a good Princess and help her if she comes to me for help if I get help from an older pony like you. Also, I had help with my spelling from Spike, and thankfully he's here with me because one he can help me spell and two he can send this to you. So, will you help me and my friend?
From,
Princess Lucky"
Spike agreed to the letter after actually hearing the whole thing, then he asked, "Lucky, will you ever use your psychic powers?" Lucky shook her head. "No way Spike, I'm not going to be ignored because of a strange thing that only I can do. I may be Princess, but I have a feeling others might not accept my psychicness." Spike understood, he remembered when Twilight followed Pinkie, but that was only because of her unableness to understand Pinkie's ability. Still, it's the same concept.
"I'm so glad I have a ton of help being Princess. When I get older though I won't have help. I basically have all the ponies in this building helping me with my duties. I also know what you're thinking, why did I choose to become the Princess? Because I come from a royal family, and because I need to get used to other ponies and crowds and everything, and this will help me with that, thankfully little by little because of me being new and only being 5, it won't come at me all at once and scare me."
Spike smiled, then sent the letter. "Well, it's on its way and I know Princess, our friends must be proud for you choosing this, they probably think the same way. It's good for you because of the meetings, talking in front of other ponies, and being around other ponies. So, my question is, does being around other ponies frighten you anymore? What do you think of it?" Lucky replied to the question, "Being around others isn't as bad as I thought, especially the ponies here in Ponyville Town Hall, they help me a lot with being Princess."
"Good, I'm glad, then I can tell everypony your progress in becoming more social." Lucky nodded, then a letter came back courtesy of Spike. Lucky giggled, she loved how the letters come back. Spike read the letter for Lucky.
"Dear Princess Lucky,
Of course I'll help you and your friend. What your friend should do is tell them, together. That way no secrets will be kept hidden and they both will know the truth. There won't be a fight if they understand her feelings. Hopefully that will be the case. If not, break up the fight, you're pretty good at that from what I've heard. Tell them that they need to have time to figure out if they too have the same feelings if they don't already know how they feel towards your friend. Maybe then you can go from there. I also thank Spike for helping you out. He's a good friend. Well, I should get back to my own paperwork so I can get it out of the way. Good luck helping your friend.
From,
Princess Celestia"
Lucky grinned, "Thank you so much Spike. Tomorrow I might be able to get all three of them in here. Spike, what time is it?" Spike looked at the clock on her wall, of course it has to be a non-digital one... "It's 3:45 in the afternoon." Lucky looked amazed, "It's that time already? Oh my gosh. Well, hopefully I can get out early enough to have dinner with my family. I would hate to miss that. I promise though, I will get the problem out of the way as soon as I can if I can't do it tomorrow." Spike nodded.
"I should probably get going now Princess. Thank you for taking time to talk with me." Lucky grinned. "No problem Spike. Anything to help a friend and citizen." Spike smiled a big smile, "You make a great Princess if that would be your response." Lucky nodded in acknowledgment. Spike left for Twilight's now and Lucky went back to work, asking others for help throughout the rest of her day. Lucky actually got out at 6. she finished her paperwork with everypony's help who worked with her in the building.
Of course, she asked anypony who walked by for help, once some papers got done, the pony who helped her walked out, then as she got to another pile, as soon as she saw another pony, she asked for help again. Mostly for reading though, and also for advice, and by the time she's 10, she might actually be able to do it all on her own, except for the foreign ones, she might need help trying to decipher what they want to tell or ask her. Lucky walked home, and she saw some ponies on the way home.
She saw a couple ponies, one who had a pink and purple mane with a cream colored coat, and one with a light blue coat which is exactly the color of Lucky's mane and tail, with a mane and tail which is between lighter and darker than Lucky's own mane and tail. One was an Earth pony and the other a Unicorn. She loved the color of the blue one. They saw her, smiled, and bowed. "Good evening Princess Lucky. Going home?" Lucky bowed back. "Yes, it was a very long day for me. I started at 11 and just ended now." The cream one raised both eyebrows. "Oh my, that's 8 hours. How can you stand it being so young?"
Lucky half shrugged. "I get through it ok. I have a whole lot of help from the others in the Town Hall. I'm very happy about that, and surprised they don't get annoyed with my asking them for help a lot." The blue one kind of giggled. "Well, it's actually part of their job description. They have to help others. There's the judge who helps out with big affairs, the mayor, who kind of got promoted to Princess Advisor, I actually don't see that as a demotion. I think of it as a promotion because the pony actually helps the Princess, who is higher up than a mayor."
"Lyra's right. They all help everypony in Ponyville. There are a bunch more as you know, and they all help ponies. I take it you'll help us out too?" Lucky grinned proudly. "Of course! Actually, I'll be helping out a friend of mine who is in kind of a pinch. See, she has two ponies that she likes, these two she likes don't know she likes them. I'm going to help her figure out which one she likes more than and if one of the two she likes, likes her back. Hope for the best that the other she likes don't feel that way because if that pony does, then there might be more trouble."
The one called Lyra said, "Wow, well I hope that problem is solved soon. Your poor friend. It must be hard liking two ponies." Lucky could only agree, because she's too young to be in that situation, but she could only imagine how hard it must be for Twilight. "Oh, my name's Bonbon. As you know from me calling her Lyra, this is Lyra. We're very good friends, such good friends that in fact we are thinking of living with each other, because we get along very well. We've never had a fight or argument, though we might disagree on some things, we don't let it get to a certain degree that it causes problems. We respect each other's opinions and take them into account."
"Yeah? I'm happy for you. Good luck with the moving, whichever is moving in with the other." Lyra said, "I'll be moving in her place. It's bigger than mine." Lucky smiled, "Then good luck with the moving Lyra. I gotta get back to my mamas. They might be waiting for me to have supper with them. The rest of my family too. It is that time and I'm hungry. It's very nice to meet you." Bonbon called for Lucky to wait. "You said mamas? Who are they?" Lucky looked back at them. "Applejack and Rainbow Dash."
The both of them actually grinned. "I knew it. I knew they'd get together. I could just see it. I know how they acted towards each other. I felt they might have been the perfect couple, if only I knew their barn door swung that way. I didn't know if they did or not, but now I see they do. Thanks Princess, now I can actually freely say, Lyra and I are in a relationship too. Although we don't show it out in public. We don't know how our friends would take it. Did Applejack and Rainbow tell their friends?", Bonbon asked. Lucky nodded, "They took it very well, in fact, they even are like that themselves. Well, Aunt Fluttershy and Aunt Rarity. I'm sure you might have seen them act like a couple in town sometimes."
Lyra and Bonbon look at each other. "Actually, we have. The other ponies took it well... hah, if you didn't point that out Princess, I bet we'd never have noticed. Thanks again. Maybe now we can feel free to show our relationship. Huh Bonbon?" Bonbon smiled. "Definitely. So, does Twilight have a romantic interest?" Lucky looked unsure whether or not she should tell them. "Well, I can say yes, but then I'd have to say she likes two. She's my friend who's in a pinch."
"Ouch. Poor Twilight. Good luck helping her out Princess. Hey, tomorrow we'll show you where I live ok? Then when you sort out the problem, you can tell only us two how it went. I promise the both of us will not say anything to Twilight about this. I'll even recite Pinkie's Promise. Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.", Lyra said. Bonbon did the same. Lucky smiled. "Thanks, now I really got to get back. I'll definitely tell you how it went when I find the time to help her. Hopefully tomorrow."
Both older mares nodded and waved to their Princess. She waved back and sprinted to her home. When she made it there were Applejack and Rainbow waiting outside the door. They hopped to their feet when they saw Lucky sprinting home. When Lucky got there, they both hugged and nuzzled her, unbeknownst to the three of them that that was part of Lucky's prophetic dream, until Lucky had a deja vu moment. "Hey wait a second, wasn't this part of my dream? Well, without me crying, the only difference."
Applejack and Rainbow looked at her then each other. "I guess you're right, this was part of yer dream." Rainbow just chuckled, "Well, it seems that it came true even more. Anyways, how was it in the office today? Any hard work?" Lucky shook her head, "Nope, just a lot of papers and Spike came to see me today, with a problem. I sorted out his problem, but now I need to sort out Aunt Twilight's. He was worried about her, and I told him I'd help her, which took a load off of him, he feels better knowing I'd help his friend."
"Good. What's Twilight's problem exactly?", Rainbow asked. "She has feelings for Aunt Pinkie and Princess Celestia." By that time they'd reach the table and started eating with the other three ponies. Funnily enough, all of them, except Lucky, had taken a drink of water. So upon hearing that, they all spit it out in surprise. "WHAT?" Lucky laughed at them all. They drenched each other. Applejack got Big Mac, Rainbow got Apple Bloom, Apple Bloom got Rainbow in return as well as Big Mac had gotten Applejack in return, Granny Smith actually got Lucky, but that didn't phase her. She thought it was hilarious.
When she calmed down her laughter enough to talk again, she said, "Yeah. You can't tell me at least you two seen it.", she said to her parents. They looked at each other and thought. "Actually... now that you say that, yes. We have seen it. She spends more time with Pinkie than anypony else, and oddly enough she wants to spend time alone." (minds out of the gutter people! lol. Not what you think, for different reasons. She actually wants to sort out her feelings, and she can't do that with distractions. She actually wants to know if she really feels how she feels about Pinkie, she can't do that with Celestia however, Celestia being the Princess and living in Canterlot.)
"Yeah, that is pretty fishy, I should have seen that, only because I'm in love too, and I should have seen the signs. So, the Princess and Pinkie. Huh... well, I hope you can help them Lucky, because that's kind of a serious problem to have.", Rainbow said. "I can definitely help them. Haha, actually, I asked Celestia for help, although I made it sound like a friend of mine likes two totally different ponies, and she thinks it's a mare liking two stallions, but much to her surprise she helped me fix a problem involving her, as well as Aunt Pinkie."
The others loved that. Lucky's smart to have thought of that, and it's pretty funny Celestia helped Lucky fix a problem that she's a part of, yet unknown to her. "So, when will you help Twilight out?", Apple Bloom asked. "I'm hoping tomorrow. If not then sometime soon." When they finished with supper, Lucky did the dishes by herself using her magic, it was slow, because she was still a bit new to it and she didn't want to break any dishes. After that they all got into bed, Lucky hoping tomorrow will be a good day.