//------------------------------// // 1 : Realization // Story: Forgotten ashes // by Akuma //------------------------------// The sun was rising, ponies woke up to the warmth of the sun right on their faces and ate breakfast. Others skipped breakfast to go to work, but their coworkers brought snacks for them to eat if they were still hungry. Royal guards greeted eachother in their own ways, some said hi, some hoof-bumped, and some said code words to eachother to know if they're imposters. Raven Inkwell looked at the clipboard that was grasped in her magic, and looked at the stairway infront of her. She sighed, she looked at the stairway with a tired look. "Faust damn it Princess. Why does your room need to have the entrance be stairs!?" She exclaimed as she started to climb up the stairs. "Well, atleast she rose the sun in a different way, maybe she's much more happy than usual because it's morning? The sun did shine brighter a few minutes ago." ———————————————————————————————————————— Princess Celestia absolutely loathed mornings, she never even liked mornings! Much less the day! Too many idiotic nobles to deal with. She turned on the faucet of her bathroom and began to wash her face after casting a spell she created so she can have hands made out of magic after taking a bath. She glared at her magic hands, 'I should have been transported to an anthro equestria, not a full-on equine one.' she thought to her mind. She was about to grab her face towel when she saw a hoofed claw grab it instead. Celestia looked beside her, seeing her long-time unicorn friend, Shadow Facade, raising an eyebrow at her, holding a strange device. Shadow Facade was a unicorn who had a maroon coat and light pink mane with neon pink streaks on it. They had blue eyes and gills on the side of their neck and hoofed claws, they seemed to have canines instead of normal herbivore teeth. "Glaring at your 'hands' won't make it turn real again, Sol. Be lucky we still have our old belongings from our universe." They stated. The white alicorn just closed her eyes and sighed. "My apologies, I just miss having to feel my hands and arms instead of magical hands, hooves, and forelegs Facade. Also what device is that?" Facade hummed, "My own DNA test machine, I already tested myself and hundreds of your guards with families with it, so it's one hundred percent accurate." They proceeded to their friend's wet face with the face towel, making the princess sputter from surprise. "Look I don't care if you're a princess or my friend, do you even know what day it is?" They asked, gaining a tilted head from the princess. "The one thousandth summer-what-now celebration? Yes I remember what day it is, you kept pestering me about it!" Shouted Celestia. Facade just facehoofed and brought out Celestia's phone (Celestia rose an eyebrow when she saw her phone) and clicked the notes app. Facade brought the phone up to Princess Celestia's face with magic, who muttered "The fuck???" When it touched her snout. "It's the first episode of the show! We need to meet your student!" They yelled, grinning like a child—or a foal—who just met their favorite superhero. Celestia groaned and covered her face with her right wing. "We already did meet her, dozens of time already. She is my student remember?" She asked. Facade just shook their head, "No no no, you don't understand Sol, we haven't met her yet during THE SHOW." They gritted their teeth at the last part, looking at Celestia's eyes, both untwitching. Silence. "Oh. Oh! During the show!? We don't even know if she's going to write the same thing to me!" Celestia cringed at the last part, ever since reading a fanfic in her human years, she started having thoughts that her just being in this body might mess up an act of hers, causing twilight to write something else instead of her "sister." Facade rolled their eyes, "C'mon dude, it's not like this is an Alternate Universe or some shit, if it was, I would have noticed immediately." Facade stated, smiling at her while she walked outside the bathroom door. "Don't test fate my friend, don't test fate." She stated and started putting on her regalia and eyeliner ("Why do you even bother putting on the eyeliner?" "I look magnificent in it."). KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. "Oh for the love of- did I not tell Raven to just yell at me to come down instead of knocking?" She mumbled under her breath, walking towards the door. Shadow Facade casted a spell onto themself, making them invisible, even placing down their device. Celestia opened the door, seeing a wheezing Raven Inkwell infront of her. Princess Celestia pretended to looked shocked, even going as far as to place a hoof on her chest. "Raven! Did I not tell you to just yell for me to go down the stairs?" She asked, concerned (and definetely not trying to laugh because of her secretary's forgetfulness of that ONE COMMAND TO JUST YELL.) for her being. Her secretary just coughed and straightened up, "My apologies Your Majesty, but your bedroom door was too far away for me to yell at." She stated. Princess Celestia rolled her eyes, amused. "Come on my little pony, I will teleport both of us back down." At the nod of her secretary, she powered up her horn, and teleported them both away. Shadow Facade decasted the spell and sighed. "I swear, she's going to break character and laugh at an accident soon like a teenager." They looked at a spot on the floor, seeing a patch of fur. Facade grinned, they grasped the patch of fur with their magic and immediately put it inside their own DNA test machine. After a few seconds, the results finally popped out in the form of a paper. They grabbed the paper with their claws and read it. "Age yadda yadda—oh wow she's actually ten thousand years old—height eight feet—that's not even her canon height something fishy is going on—and.." Facade froze, eyes wide open and mouth agape. They gulped. "Oh shit. Solaris is NOT going to be happy once she realizes that her sister Luna isn't her sister in this universe.."