A Winter's Rose
Chapter 76: Chapter 76. Game plan.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe sounds of gums flapping to the tune of "Yolo" and "I'm awesome" can be heard down a gray, metal hall; lined with odd pipes, vents, and worn carpeting. My pace was slow and in tune to the towering Princess of the Moon, walking along side me with her head held high with pride, but her eyes told a different story, just like mine.
Where's my mismatched colors told a tale of tiredness and worry, Luna's was just plain cold and, focused. It was like a viper made of ice started its hunt for whatever prey unfortunate enough to cross its path. To make her aura even more intimidating; every step she took alongside me left a patch of ice where her hooves made contact with the floor.
'I don't know who shit in her breakfast today, but whoever did. I will get every single guard available, and have them all hold down the victim and smack him or her with socks filled with soap.' Taking myself away to a more pressing matter at hoof, we walked up to the location of the noise.
Behind a steel door riddled with rivets with a wheel latch found on every other ship in existence. The sounds of laughter spreading between six individuals could be heard; all of which were talking about what has happened ever since their relocation to Arcadia.
One voice—Whom I believe belonged to Fluttershy—Spoke the loudest about all the little animal friends that she made. I saw an instant change in Luna's posture as we listened to Fluttershy talk about a little girl bunny named, Lucky, and how she fawns over Angel. 'Fucking lucky Angel has a crush. That little bastard needs to die via fire for all I care.
Hatred for the rabbit set aside to vent on later when I have the time to take my revenge on the little shit for throwing more shit at me. Luna took the initiative to open the door and walk in ahead of me, earning many audible "gasps!" from the ponies within.
"Princess Luna!" exclaimed a pis-posh pony in an overly dramatic way followed by the sounds of hooves scrambling to attention. Stepping out from Luna's wonderful backside, I saw six ponies bowing to the Mare of the Moon now at my side once more, and rolled my eyes.
"What am I? Chopped liver?" I scoffed with a hoof on my chest in mock hurt.
"No silly! You're Little Rosy!" said the ponies made of Pink in the room of gray. This caught all of the other ponies off guard and looked up to find me looking around the lounge area of the ship. At the center was a gray carpet with a red phoenix stitched into the fabric. The rug had a few tables surrounding it with plush chairs with them. In one corner of the room sat a booth that could easily fit ten ponies comfortably and in another was a small bar. Against one of the larger walls was a small stage and a... karaoke machine? 'Weird.'
During this little look around, the ponies tensed up when my eye rested on their group once again. Twilight especially was the tensest in the group; her wings were stiff and twitching for a fight. Her hooves pawed at the ground, just like Rainbow Dashes and Fluttershy's, and her horn passively glowed on reflex in case magic was needed.
"W-W-What is she doing here?" Twilight stuttered out for her friends who were too scared to speak up with their eyes firmly locked on me.
"She has been invited to Canterlot on a summit revolving around the failed siege of Arcadia. It is there that we are going to finally find peace and learn the truth of my sister's blind fear and treasury," Luna replied neutrally. "While Twilight and her friends are here to use the Elements of Harmony on Tia if things go out of hoof."
I stayed quiet during Luna's explanation and walked over to Rainbow Dash. Her and her friend's eyes never leaving my body as I did so. With a blank look on my face, I let out a small yawn then sat down in front of the rainbow-maned Pegasus and stared expectantly up at her with a slight tilt to my head.
"Erm...H-Hi?" Rainbow looked back and forth between Luna, her friends, and I, nervously.
Silence filled the room.
"Hi? Just Hi?" I frowned in mock annoyance, causing the tension in the room to skyrocket over 9000! "No: 'Hey, cousin Rose! How are you doing?'"
Rainbow's jaw opened and closed a few times before I took the initiative and jumped on her head with a flap of my wings. Using her stone solid shoulders as support, I hugged her head with a light nuzzle to her fluffy ears, earning an "aw," from Fluttershy and more confused looks from her friends
"Ah... whatcha doing?" Rainbow Dash asked nervously, her posture relaxing a bit from my playful perch.
"Hugging Gay Pride. What about you sugar tits?" I asked back with a light giggle. 'The heat from her blush is adorable,' I smirked internally while repositioning myself so that I stood on her head and looked down to meet her sheepish gaze, earning more "Aw's" in the process from how silly I looked.
"I-I'm not sugar or tits. I'm Rainbow Dash!"
"Sure you are... Wait, hey!?" I whined as the familiar warmth of Luna's magic wrapping around me and began pulling me away from my long, lost, cousin. "I wanted to taste the rainbow!" I let out a half-assed cry mid-flight back to the cold, hard floor.
"You can taste the "Rainbow" later, Rose, and said "Rainbow" looks a bit flustered. Right now, we need to focus on what we are going to do once we arrive at our destination, and not before it as we have little time to plan," Luna rebuked and disconnected her magical grip around me.
'Curse you magic! I will taste the rainbow and you can't stop me for long!' With an annoyed frown to the Alicorn princess, I let out a sigh in defeat knowing full well of what needs to be done.
"Fine, rainbow-flavoured vag can wait," I groaned mockingly and jumped up to the only booth in the room with a light flap of my wings and sat at the corner of the worn velvet couch, while not paying attention to the blushing group stare at me.
"Please, be somewhat bearable during the trip, Rose," Luna groaned, while I just shrugged.
"No promises."
After that brief little dialog, Luna began to explain the game-plan to the group and what they will be doing while we are in Canterlot. With Celestia being the crazy bitch that she was, Luna told the girls, Twilight Sparkle especially, that her older sister would be very paranoid about the whole deal with them leaving.
They were not allowed to talk to her one-on-one.
They were not allowed to try and find forgiveness until everyone was certain that Celestia was sane.
They were not allowed to travel around Canterlot without a loyal guard at their side at all times.
And so on and so forth.
I, on the other hoof, had different problems other than Celestia and her craziness. As fun as it would be to fuck with her mind with a ten-foot-long diamond tipped strap-on. I had to have my way with the next best thing! Her Guards.
Knowing Celestia and her pension to kill things that threaten her land of peace and bigotry, other than those times where Twilight and her friends had to use the rainbow cannon of death. I had to tread carefully. With my two, loyal, knights at Luna Bay—One of them being out of commision—I couldn't defend myself all that well.
Sure I had my speed-enhancing wing blades, my speed-enhancing winglets, my earrings of doom and most importantly: my sexiness! Taking on the Black Guard as Luna called them, was suicide.
"And what if we have to use the Elements? Would Celestia be banished into the sun?!" gasped Twilight annoyingly, but the question perked my interest as well. Taking my gaze away from my closed eyelids, I looked over the table to see that the group was still standing near the center of the room with Luna sitting on her ass.
"That is a good question, but a flawed one," Luna began. "You see, Celestia is merely disillusioned to the point of insanity. At most, the Elements would simply turn her to stone, but the most likely scenario is that her mind will be "healed" back to the point where it was clear of all the atrocities that currently are playing with."
Twilight and her friends relaxed a little. "However, if that were the case, then Celestia as you once known her, will be gone. She might not even remember the past few centuries at all, let alone the past few years. The corruption in her mind is well rooted into her subconscious."
"Oh," Twilight deflated dejectedly, along with her friends.
"So are ya' tellin' us that the Celestia we know might disappear completely?" Applejack asked with a hint of fear in her voice. Luna nodded.
"That's absolutely horrible! Let's hope that it doesn't come to that."
Seeing my cue, I spoke up from my spot in the back. "Don't count on it the best to happen Rarity. This trip will likely be the end of this little adventure," I said softly.
"What makes you say that?" Rainbow frowned my way, adding emphasis on you.
"Call my unlucky, but I don't think I'm returning home after all is said and done."
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I watched the countryside flow on by at the slow speed of the airship flying so high. Trees, hills, and grasslands weaved and curved along the earth like nature intended, however. It was silent. Not a bird, animal, nor the wind made a sound. I didn't know if it was the ship preventing the pleasant songs of Gia, or if the land was afraid to even let out a chirp to welcome those willing to listen to the natural lullabies of life.
I let out a sullen sigh. The one thing I missed most about my home in Cloudsdale was the sounds of nature. Sure, at the castle there was plenty of it, but it didn't feel like home. It was artificial, stagnant, and out of place on the mountainside castle.
A soft clip-clopping of hooves caught my attention, and I turned away from the window of my room and found Rainbow Dash standing just a few feet in front of me. 'Strange, I figured Luna would come and talk to me first? Oh well, I wanted to talk to Rainbow Dash anyway.'
"H-Hey, kiddo. What's up?" Rainbow asked nervously, her eyes looking around my boring room on the ship.
"Not much, you?" I asked back.
She shuffled in place, not sure what to say next. Her body was tense, a trickle of sweat escaped her brow. Her wings twitched at her side. 'And I thought Spitfire got nervous when she wanted to break the ice.' "Well, ah, just wanted to see what you are up to," she coughed. "That's it! Honest... I'll go now."
Before she could turn around and leave, I grabbed a pillow from my bed and threw it at her face. "Where did you think you're going?" I asked with a smirk, as the pillow, I threw at her face fell to the ground; revealing a much more relaxed expression.
"Really?" Rainbow grabbed the pillow. I shrugged.
"Well, you came into my room wanting to talk about something. So, no running away, or you will get more pillows."
"I... I don't... I'm not good with words," Rainbow sighed, her eyes making contact with the floor. She tossed the pillow back on the bed and sat down in front of me.
I sat down in front of her, and flexed my wings, showing her my half-missing, left wing. She cringed at the sight of my metal feathers flexing reflecting light into her eyes and instinctually checked her own to make sure that they were all there. I let out a sigh of my own in wonder as to why she was in my room, but I'll let her answer that.
"I—"
"It hurts sometimes. My wing, I mean," I spoke up solemnly while making sure that all the metal feathers were lined up correctly and cut her off from whatever she was about to say.
"What happened?" Rainbow asked finally. "Fire's nor Spits told me the full story, only that you got into an accident, which I doubt."
"Is that why you are here?" I asked back quietly. "Just to hear the full story of what happened?"
"Well... That, and the game plan for when we arrive in Canterlot."
I nodded, getting my answer.
"That short story is, that, my birth mother ripped my feathers out with a pair of pliers. That long story is... Painful," I shuddered, remembering ever excruciating detail of how each and every feather felt as it was torn from my body. How each one felt like a rusty, jagged, nail, was hammered into the arm of my wing. I'll never forget that feeling.
"That's horrible!" Rainbow gasped, her voice cracking a little. "Where is that bitch! No one hurts family!" she stomped with fire replacing the horror in her tone. I let out a chuckle.
"Too late, Skittles. Spitfire already ripped her a new one. You won't finder her, not even a grave, or ashes," I yawned, and laid down on the cold, hard, floor. Her wings dropped a little and she laid down as well, but the rage was still there.
"Good, cause if I found her. I would have done that same thing that she did to you."
"Noted," I smiled, happy that she cared.
Silence returned to the room.
"So, game plan... Do you even have one?" Rainbow spoke up, breaking the silence. Taking a moment for myself, and lazily looking around the room, I asked myself. 'Do I even have one?'
Well, of course, I had one. Go in, talk to the crazy bitch on the golden throne, fuck a crazy bitch with a rainbow cannon. How hard could that be? I had Luna acting as my escort, Twilight, and her friends were the cannon, and I was the distraction. Sure we all had to deal with the treaty, and Queen Cadence and King Shining Armor.
The treaty was just one signature and done, but as for the two royals?
I can deal with it after Celestia.
Turning my gaze away from the snowy landscape of the great outdoors, I answered Rainbow Dash with a shrug.
"To be honest, I don't have much of a plan. With my title as one of the scary "Trinity Seven," I don't have much leeway with the nobles, but the gist of the plan is; get in, sign the treaty, shoot the rainbow cannon, go home," I explained. Rainbow just frowned in disappointment.
"Really? That's your overly complex plan?"
"Yep."
"I was kinda expecting a genius manipulate all of Equestria to do her bidding, followed up with a rock solo, a musical dance number and chainsaw cannons that fired chainsaw cannons. That was just plain lame with a capital 'L.'"
"Well, I would like to do that, but I just want to go home and spend Hearths Warming Eve with you and the family," said warily, but with a light brush of encouragement from a certain filly from afar, that worry disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Looking over to Rainbow, I noticed that she had another question on her mind. Take that as a hint to keep the conversation going, I spoke up again.
"Something the matter? Is the thought of spending time with little old me THAT horrifying to you?"
Rainbow shook her head. "No, I just don;t understand the whole "Trinity Seven" thing. Just the thought of seven mares powerful enough to cause world changing conflict for seven years is stupid."
"How so?" I asked quite intrigued as to where Rainbow Dash was going with her peanut of a brain.
"Well, look at me and my friends. For the last seven years, we fought monsters that should have ended all of Equis by now, and one of us ended up as an Alicorn that represents the balance of the world."
I began to see where I was going and it was horrifying, but I kept my mouth shut and let her finish.
"And if you look at our first ever use of the Elements, we fought what would have been considered the Alicorn of War. I mean, Nightmare Moon has been considered it ever since her conception. Princess Luna would have to be the seventh of the group, but that is just a thought," Rainbow explained, leaving me speechless.
'How could I be so blind?! And thank my lactating tits that Rainbow was the smart one other than myself in the family. Spitfire, you are amazing and all, but you are just one penny away from the special bin at the fair.'
"Rainbow?" I said before tackling her into the ground and gave her the biggest hug in the world.
"Um... ya?" she blinked in confusion and returned the hug in kind.
"If you weren't older than be by a lot, I would eat you out right now."
Thus, more wing-boners were born.
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