{"sf1_id":791259,"sf2_id":null,"title":"To Boldly Hoof It Ch 1. Prologue","author":"BluebloodFan91","words":1912,"posted_at":"2014-12-03T18:39:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Blueblood","Character Development","Clean","Dream","Equine","Fantasy","Friendship is magic","Horse","Humor","MLP","My Little Pony","Pegasus","Plot Development","Pony","Prince Blueblood","Sci-Fi","Story Progression","Story Series","To Boldly Flee","Twilight Sparkle","Unicorn","parody","surprise"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791259-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-1-prologue","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/791259","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=791259\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Ch 1. Prologue\nThe little colt, Prince Blueblood, sat at his desk\nin magic kindergarten in Canterlot. Blueblood was casually levitating a\npencil with his magic to drawing a picture of himself as a spacepony in\nhis notebook, only half paying attention to the teacher's lecture.Blueblood\nsaw the little purple filly named Twilight Sparkle out of the corner of\nhis eye sitting ahead of him, raising her hoof in the air eagerly to\nanswer one of the teachers questions.How he hated her.Twilight\nSparkle was Celestia's hoof picked apprentice in magic. But he knew\nthat the only reason Celestia had picked her to be her student was just\nbecause the little nerd had been born lucky. She had been born with\nextremely great and rare magical potential. And just because of that,\nthat annoying purple commoner had been blessed with all the privileges\nand training of that of a royal. It wasn't fair!Not\nthat he himself cared about learning great magic. He had no interest in\nmastering advanced spells or things of that nature. Although,\ntruthfully, he didn't really know what he was interested in. He\ndidn't care about learning magic, and he had no interest in the other\nlessons and practices his parents forced him to take. He hadn't gotten\nhis cutiemark yet, so he had no idea what his special talent was yet. He\ndid enjoy drawing and painting. Art class was always his\nfavorite class in school, although he admittedly wasn't very good at it,\nso he doubted his cutiemark would be that.He\nwas snapped out of his thoughts as a yard stick slammed down on his\ndesk with a loud snap, causing him to drop his pencil out of his\nlevitation. He looked up and saw the teacher glaring down at him.\"Young Prince, it is not time for art class yet,\" she said. \"Stop your doodling, and pay attention!\"Blueblood\nhuffed and reluctantly closed his notebook. The other students all\ngiggled at him as the teacher walked back up to the front of the class\nroom.Blueblood sat there and listened as the teacher resumed her lecture.\"Now\nwhere was I,\" the teacher said. \"Oh yes. Not long after the unicorns,\npegisi, and earth ponies realized that peace and love were better than\npetty fighting, the alicorn Princesses, our wonderful ruler, Princess\nCelestia, and her late sister, Princess Luna, came and helped us build a\nnew kingdom here in Equestria, and also helped us continue to learn\nabout the joys of love and peace and togetherness, and put us on the\npath to our destiny. In time, other races began to accept our way of\nlife and join us, like donkeys, thestrals, and the crystal ponies. But\nunfortunately, creatures such as the griffons, dragons, diamond dogs,\nand many others, were not so enlightened. They did not understand the\nhappiness that love and peace could bring. They even attacked us; they\nwere so full of hatred and arrogance. But luckily, we had Princesses and\nthe Elements of Harmony to protect us from such evils. And so, today,\nall who embrace love and peace in Equestria continue to prosper and live\nhappy lives.\"Twilight Sparkle raised her hoof up into the air again.\"Yes Twilight?\" said the teacher.Twilight\nlowered her hoof and spoke. \"Why were those other races even resisting\nus to begin with? Why wouldn't they want peace and love and togetherness\nlike we do?\"\"An excellent question, Twilight.\"\"I heard that dragons like to kidnap ponies and feed off their love like food!\" said some other filly.\"That's changelings, you moron!\" said a colt behind her. \"Dragons eat rocks!\"\"Changelings aren't real!\" she spat back at him.\"They are too!\"\"CHILDREN!\" the teacher raised her voice. \"Remember, no fighting!\"The class settled down.The\nteacher continued. \"It is true that there are dangers out in the\nuntamed regions of the world. So with how perfect our lives here in\nEquestria are thanks to our wonderful Princess, why then do creatures\nlike the griffons, the dragons, and the diamond dogs continue to resist\nour way of life?\"\"Because we meddle,\" said Blueblood without raising his hoof.Everyone looked over at Blueblood.\"Blueblood?\" said the teacher.\"We\ntry to tell them how they should live their lives,\" Blueblood\ncontinued. \"We try to make them live like us. Tell them what to do, what\nnot to do, what to think, and what not to think. We try to force our\nmorals and lifestyles onto them, and they don't like it.\"The\nteacher smiled and walked over to Blueblood's desk. \"Young Prince, we\naren't trying to tell them what to think,\" she said sweetly. \"We're just\ntrying to show them how to live right.\"Suddenly,\nBlueblood heard the bell for recess. Only it didn't sound like the bell\nfor recess. It sounded more like his alarm clock.Alarm clock?..................................Prince\nBlueblood suddenly jolted awake. He looked around him. He was in his\nbedroom at his estate in bed. He looked at himself. He wasn't a little\ncolt. He was an adult stallion. He threw his covers off of himself and\nlooked at his flank. His compass rose cutiemark was there, right where\nit was supposed to be.Blueblood sighed\nand rubbed his front hooves to his temples. \"The same dream again,\" he\nmuttered to himself. \"That's five nights in a row now. Why am I suddenly\ndreaming about my school days?\"Blueblood\nonce again shook his head of the dream, just like he had been doing for\nthe past several mornings, and got out of bed and walked out of his\nbedroom.After using the bathroom, he\nwalked downstairs, hearing the echo of his own hoof steps as he went,\nremaining him of just how big and empty his mansion now was. After his\nloss of money, he had to let the many servants he had used to have go,\nand now only had one house keeper, who only came once a week. So the\nrest of the time he had to take care of himself.He wasn't upset by this. At least not any more. After a year, he had grown quite accustom to this.He\nwent to the kitchen to prepare himself some breakfast, turning on the\nradio as he did so. As he got some coffee and breakfast.\"In\nother news,\" the voice of Vinyl Scratch on the radio spoke, \"ponies are\nstill baffled by the unusual occurrences as of late. Ponies are still\nmaking claims of, how they describe them, cracks appearing in thin air,\nglowing with bright light, and then disappearing. It is still\nunconfirmed if these reports are true or not. More on that later. Also,\nwe may have an epidemic on our hands. Ponies have been reported to be\nhaving strange dreams, headaches, visions, and even sleepwalking.\nDoctors are baffled, but what is curious about this is that the one\nthing the ponies with these symptoms all have in common is that they are\nall unicorns. Hmmm. This is Vinyl Scratch, and I'll be keeping you\ncompany all day right here on Equestria's number one radio station!\"Just then, the song 'Equestria Girls' started playing on the radio. Blueblood quickly flicked the radio off with his magic.\"I hate that song!\" he muttered as he took a sip from his coffee.\"WELL I\nLOVE THAT SONG!\" a white mare with a yellow blond mane and tail shouted\nin a high pitched voice as she suddenly dropped down in front of\nBlueblood from out of no where.\"GAAAAAHHHHH!!!\"\nBlueblood screamed as he fell backwards onto the floor, his hot coffee\nspilling all over him. \"GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!\" he screamed again in\npain.The white Pegasus mare, whose name was Surprise,\nbrought her hooves to her mouth with a gasp at Blueblood's misfortune.\n\"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry, Blue! Here, let me help you up!\"She\ngrabbed Blueblood and tried to help him up, but he was understandably\nupset at her and pushed her off of him, getting up himself. The coffee\nhad cooled since it spilt on him, so he was no longer in pain, but he\nwas still angry.\"SURPRISE! WHAT IN THE WIDE WIDE WORLD OF EQUESTRIA ARE YOU DOING HERE?!\" he screamed.\"I just wanted to visit,\" she said with an innocent smile on her face.\"WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST RING THE DOORBELL?!\"\"Because I knew you were asleep, silly,\" he giggled. \"I didn't want to wake you.\"Blueblood\nsighed and tried to calm himself down. Surprise was his former\nassistant, slash recent friend, slash long time stalker. \"Surprise, we\ntalked about this. You can't keep popping into my house whenever you\nwant! I have a marefriend now!\" He was referring, of course, to the\nGreat and Powerful Trixie.\"What does that have to do with anything?\" Surprise asked with a shrug.\"Well,\nif ponies see a mare who I'm not dating sneaking in and out of my house\nall the time, they'll start thinking things that aren't true. Do you\nknow what I mean?\"Surprise thought for a\nfew seconds. \"Oh. OH! Oh, I see,\" the perky mare said with a blush and\nan embarrassed smile on her face. \"Gotcha.\"She\nwas about to take off when Blueblood's recent conscience caught up with\nhim. \"Wait,\" he said. \"Since you're here, you might as well stay... and\nclean up this mess you made while I go get cleaned up.\" He pointed over\nat the spilled coffee on the floor.Surprise\nstopped and turned back to him. \"Um, actually, I have to get to work.\nMy boss says if I'm late one more time, they'll turn me into rainbows! I\ndon't know if she was being serious or not, but either way, I don't\nwant to risk it.\" Surprise flapped her wings and flew out the open\nwindow she had apparently come in through.\"Can't she just use the front door like normal ponies?\" Blueblood muttered to himself, shaking his head.Blueblood\nsighed and got ready to clean up the spilled coffee on the floor when\nhe heard the doorbell ring. Blueblood wondered if it was Surprise again,\nfinally learning to use the front door. He walked over to the door and\nopened it. He was surprised to find that it was in fact NOT Surprise.\nInstead, it was two royal unicorn guards.\"Hello?\" Blueblood asked them, confused as to why they were there. \"Prince Blueblood?\" asked one of them.\"Yes?\"\"I'm afraid we have to place you under house arrest.\"\"WHAT?!\" Blueblood shouted in shock. \"On what charges?\"One\nof the guards levitated out a scroll and began to read it. \"Destruction\nof private property, as well as, and I quote, being a self-centered,\nunprincely, royal pain,\" said the guard. \"You allegedly damaged the\nElement of Generosity, Miss Rarity's dress at the Grand Galloping Gala\nand treated her badly the entire evening. Now she is suing you for\ndamages, as well as for emotional distress.\"\"What!?\" Blueblood exclaimed in disbelief. \"But... But that was... a couple years ago!\"\"I'm\nsorry, your highness,\" said the guard, \"but you will have to wear this\nfor the time being.\" They levitated out a black collar from behind them\nthat had wires and a small black box on it. They put the collar around\nBlueblood's neck, locking it with a key so that he couldn't get it off.\"This\nwill shock you if you ever try to leave your house,\" said one of the\nguards. \"It will also shock you if you attempt to remove it physically\nor with magic.\"\"Have a nice day,\" the other said. They bowed to the prince, and then turned and trotted away from Blueblood's property.Blueblood still stood there in his doorway, completely befuddled by this unforeseen turn of events.\"What the heck just happened?!\" he said to himself.","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791261-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-2-midnight-visitor.json"}