I thought for a moment, doing my best to stay calm, “What about I fly back and get a crown? That way, I wouldn’t be underdressed or overdressed.”

Luna shook her head, “No, Rainbow Dash. We already have a crown for you. Let me see if any of the dress makers have a dress for you. Follow me, Rainbow and Twilight.” She galloped out, with me following her and Twilight panting to catch up. Rarity opened the door and waved to the princesses. Wait, I technically classify in the group so I suppose that she was also waving at me.

I ran in, “Rarity, we have an emergency. I need a dress for the coronation.”

Rarity chuckled, “Darling, I made one for you last night as a backup, just in case you don’t have one.” Rarity levitated it on me and dragged me into the bathroom, tightening, grabbing, and doing all sorts of things. The one thing that I absolutely refused was makeup. The dress was already bad enough for me. I hugged her before Rarity threw a dress on herself and put on her makeup.

I asked, “Where are the others?”

She replied, “Pinkie Pie wanted to help with the party decorations, Applejack made some of the food, and Fluttershy is currently enjoying the party. I waited for you since I knew that you didn’t bring a dress.”

I smiled, “Thanks Rarity. I should probably go know.”

“Before you do, look at yourself in the mirror.” I glanced up and saw that my hooves are wearing golden shoes. With every movement, my dress shimmered as if it was on fire, which was something I liked, and my mane wasn’t too messy and had a small mane tie. All in all, I was shocked that Rarity managed to actually make this in the night.

Rarity smiled, “One of my best works, isn’t it?”

I nodded, “I actually like this dress. I should probably go now. I don’t want to be late on my coronation and give everypony a flashback for when Princess Celestia didn’t appear and Nightmare Moon came out a minute later.” Rarity nodded and beckoned me to go.

Princess Luna stared, “This dress is magnificent.”

Twilight nodded, “Probably one of Rarity’s best works. I have to admit Rainbow, this dress suits you.”

Princess Luna said, “Twilight and I will sit on our thrones. When the doors open, walk on the red carpet and wait for my sister to speak. The rest should come naturally. When you walk across, open your wings so that everypony will know who you are.” Then, she teleported and Twilight followed her, making me blink my eyes. I flew to the outside of the throne room and nodded to the guards who just closed the doors, making them jump back before finally closing the doors. Even from here, I could hear Pinkie Pie squeal and laugh. That wasn’t a surprise. After a few seconds, I heard a few trumpets blare our music. I wasn’t sure what type of music it was since I almost never listened to music, besides the time I was choosing the music for the Young Flyers Competition.

I heard Celestia say, “Thank you for coming to this coronation. It is a great pleasure to announce that another pony has achieved Enlightment.” I zoned out some of her speech, looking at the doors nervously. My gut twisted and I took a deep breath to hopefully calm my nerves.

I looked at the doors again and I heard, “Please welcome...” The doors opened and I unfurled my wings.

Celestia shouted, “Rainbow Dash!” I walked to the red carpet in tune to the music. The crowd whispered and gasped in shock, but I was making sure that I wouldn’t accidentally step onto the crowd that was gathered to see me. I finally looked away from Celestia and looked at my throne that was next to Cadence. It was cool, which I had to admit. It had my cutie mark, and blue coloring. As the designs on the edges, there were tiny lightning bolts that flashed and was bold. At least it wasn’t too fancy, unlike Celestia’s throne which was blaring in the colors of the sunrise along with her sun cutie mark. I stood at the front of the red carpet, waiting.

Celestia walked to me and motioned me to turn around. I obeyed that command and instead of calming my nerves, I saw every single pony in that crowd staring. Well, besides Pinkie, who was stuffing her mouth in the hot pepper cupcakes.

The princess smiled, “Welcome Princess Rainbow Dash to the royal thrones.” All the ponies, including Pinkie who had stopped eating cupcakes for a few seconds, stomped their hooves loudly. The other princesses stood from their thrones and walked to me, showing their support for the throne.

Celestia places a crown on my head that was like all their crowns, but with my cutie mark on it. Each movement looked like there were lightning dancing on it. At least it wasn’t decorated in hearts or small magic sparkles. It was pretty cool, actually.

Twilight said in her royal voice, “The coronation will begin now.” I walked with the others princesses to the party room. The other ponies followed after us in a few seconds. There weren’t any thrones in the party room. If there were, it would defeat the purpose of the party room and the throne room. We stood there in a line, with myself by Twilight and Luna’s side.

The ponies rushed into the throne room and they all bowed before some of them ate, danced, and just hung out. Most of them were still taking glances at me though. Some of them came up to me.

One of the ponies said, “It is an honor to meet you, Princess Rainbow.” They shook my hoof before backing away and enjoying the party. I walked with Twioight to our group of friends.

Rarity smiled at me, “Nice crown, Rainbow.”

I nodded, “Thanks.”

Pinkie smiled, “I’m going to throw you another party in Ponyville! Princess Rainbow, what do you want as your game? Where do you want it?”

I shook my head, “Pinkie, I know that you are going to throw me one of your best parties. I completely trust you with it.”

Fluttershy whispered, “Hi Rain-I mean Princess."

I sighed, “Just call me Rainbow. I might have an extra horn, but that doesn’t meant that I’m going to be a royal snob with you. Where’s AJ?” Rarity pointed somewhere and I followed her hoof. Applejack was selling pies for the Apple family. I walked over and every pony there bowed to me.

Applejack took her hat off, “You look like an alicorn to me Rainbow. I mean Princess.”

I rolled my eyes, “Applejack, you’re one of my best friends. Forget about the Princess part and just call me Rainbow.”

She nodded, “Glad you haven’t changed. Do you want some of the goods?”

I nodded in reply, “Sure, I think I want some apple cider-wait. I didn’t bring bits. I can just drink some when I have the money.”

Applejack gave me a bottle, “Ah shucks Rainbow. Just take it.”

I sighed, “Fine, but expect me to pay back when we finally get back to Ponyville, or whenever I have the time.” Applejack nodded as I used my wing to take the apple cider and I drank it. Fresh and delicious as always. After I left, I heard the ponies asking for apple cider, the drink I took, too. After that, my friends and I talked for the rest of the night and the coronation was finally over. I went to my room and Twilight popped there after a few minutes. I took off the dress and my crown before putting it in another empty drawer before Luna entered.

Luna said, “Your room is complete, Rainbow. Follow me.” I smiled at Twilight before taking out my dress and crown to follow Luna to the room across the hall. She left to do her royal dream walking duties. I closed the door before noticing that it looked like my room back in Cloudsdale. I opened the large walk in closet to see one set of pajamas, some silver shoes, and a blue dress. I put the dress in one of the hangers and put my gold shoes next to the silver ones. Then, I decided to put my crown on my drawer, to remind myself to wear it.

I went to the large bathroom and took a long, hot shower before putting on the cozy pajamas and falling asleep on the cloud bed. I didn’t dream at all that night.

I woke up early, and mentally told myself to get ready for training before realizing that I was a princess. I sighed before pondering whether or not to put on the crown. Knowing that I would have to be in the town hall to hear ponies whine, which was necessary for a princess who was in Canterlot (hopefully I won’t need to do it in Ponyville), so I slipped on the blue dress. I wore my crown before somepony knocked on the door. Without thinking, my magic opened the door and I blinked in surprise. My magic flowed in a rainbow color, which I never saw for another pony.

The pony bowed, “Princess Rainbow, I have your belongings from Cloudsdale. I assured you that we have not looked at anything in any books and have not thrown anything away. Princess Twilight wishes you to join you for breakfast.”

I gulped before managing a smile, “Thanks. What’s your name?”

“My name is Spirit Runner, Princess.”

I wondered what to say next before saying, “Well, thanks for my belongings. You can go, unless you have something else to tell me about.”

“I wanted to mention that I am your personal assistant and one of the guards you command. Every princess has three personal guards. The other two are Fire Bright and Apple Watch. I shall go now, Princess Rainbow.” The Pegasus backed out of the door. I told my horn to close the door and it did. It seemed like logic, desire, and whatever else Twilight said didn’t matter. All I had to do was demand it to do something. Easy as pie, as Pinkie would say. I looked at myself in the mirror one last time, knowing that my hair had returned to normal already.

I thought, ‘Open the door.’ My rainbow aura surrounded the door knob and it smashed open, almost taking the doors off of it’s hinges. I winced a little, knowing that I might need to be a little more specific next time and walked out. Then, I closed the door with my mouth and left. I made it to the breakfast table with the other princesses without too much problem. The princesses were wearing fancy clothes, laughing before turning to me.

Celestia blinked, “What are you wearing?”

I glanced down, “A dress.”

“That’s not a dress, that’s something a pony in poverty would use. That’s for another discussion though. Anyways, Twilight? What were you saying again?”

Twilight levitated my breakfast of smiley pancakes to me while saying, “I was talking about how Rainbow can’t do magic.” The others snorted. Meanwhile, I lost my appetite as they laughed.

Luna saw my look and stopped, “I’m sorry Rainbow Dash but all of us are former unicorns. I can’t think about how any alicorn can’t do magic.”

I gritted my teeth and stood up, “How’s this then?”

I commanded my horn through my thoughts, ‘Levitate Twilight and make her dance.’ Twilight was suddenly surrounded by my magic and began to do weird and jerky movements.

Twilight shouted, “What? How? Stop!”

I flew up to meet her, “How’s this not doing magic?”

“But no unicorn can do magic without discovering the trigger. When did you discover it? You were failing at magic yesterday the whole time!”

“That’s none of your business.”

Celestia flew up, “Rainbow, that’s enough. Twilight, it was mean to talk behind your friend’s back. Apologize.”

Twilight sighed, “I’m sorry Rainbow. It just spiraled out of control when Celestia asked me about your magic studies.”

I narrowed my eyes before lying, “Apology accepted.”

I thought, ‘Release Twilight.’ Twilight landed back onto her seat once my magic had let her go. Celestia and I flew back to our seats. I began to use my mouth to eat the food, while the others used their magic.

Twilight sighed, “Again Rainbow. I’m really sorry about the fact that I teased you. It just happens once in a while. Besides, don’t we all tease Applejack and Rarity at times?” I thought about her words before deciding to actually forgive her for that small action.

“I told you, I accept your apology.”

“We will continue to practice your mag-“

Celestia interrupted, “Actually, Twilight. I will be explaining to Rainbow about being a princess and guide her. Since she could open doors without using her mouth, she’ll be fine. You have your own duties to take care of.”

Twilight sighed, “Okay Celestia. Well, I’ll excuse myself now.” She walked out.

Celestia turned to me, “Well, I suppose that we better get started too.”