Chapter Title: The Legendary Ponies
There was something about the land of Equestria that made Tsuna feel at peace. He had a feeling that it has been this way for a while… but recently it was usurped for only a moment before peace was restored. He had an unconscious urge to look at the moon. Call it his hyper intuition or whatever, he wished that his own world was like this. Peaceful throughout the land.
As soon as he left the kitchen with Derpy, he was hit with the sunlight shining through the window. The shards in his hand from the pendants and beret melded together to make a transparent crystal, which fashioned itself around his neck with an invisible string that made it seem that it was just levitating, Tsuna mused, as he followed the special grey pony to the Throne Room, where he would assume that the Princess, Reborn, as well as Twilight and her friends and someone else with Reborn were waiting for him.
"Muffin?"
"Ah, yes," he replied, handing the basket to his escort.
"This place is Equestria, isn't it?" Tsuna asked, and Derpy nodded as she took a baked good from the basket.
"Yes!"
There was a short gasp, and Tsuna turned towards the sound to find somepony hiding in the shadows. He also saw her grow wide-eyed at his neck.
He turned back towards Derpy, who didn't seemed to have noticed that her escort had stopped walking. He let her go as he hestantly made his way to the curtains, where somepony was shivering.
"A-are you okay?"
Tsuna brushed the curtains away to find a small foal of a midnight shade, with what appeared to be moonlight flowing without a breeze as a tail and mane. He petted her.
"You, you can see me?" she whispered softly, but not as softly as Fluttershy.
Tsuna frowned. "Not that well, the shadows..."
"You don't hate me?"
Tsuna raised an eyebrow. "Why would I hate you? I just met you! My name's Tsuna. What's yours?" He greeted, smiling softly.
When he saw that the foal was about to bow to him, he shook his hand. "N-no need for that!"
"I'm no one important," the foal whispered, looking over to Derpy. "You should go, she's been expecting you."
"Eh?"
"Tsuna! Where are you?" Tsuna turned to see Derpy going back for him, and when he turned back to the curtains, the pony was gone.
He frowned, but was forced to follow Derpy as she bit his sleeve and pulled him along the long hall. She stopped at grand double doors. "Here!"
Tsuna bowed. "Thank you, Derpy."
Derpy gave him a wide smile, and bowed. "Have a wonderful time, your Highness."
Tsuna smiled back as be placed the basket of muffins on her back. "I'm sure I will, Derpy. Thank you so much."
Derpy nuzzled herself in Tsuna's hand. "See you soon, Tsuna." She walked away with her basket of muffins.
Tsuna felt that she was the easiest to relate to, seeing more of himself in her than Fluttershy.
But now he was stalling and should probably go inside this intimidating Throne Room that wasn't really intimidating at all but Tsuna was still scared to face Reborn. Twilight's been writing about all day, he probably knows he made her pay for lunch already.
Shaking, he quietly knocked on the door, and jumped back with the doors magically opened. He flinched, shielding his eyes from the light that came from within the room.
"Ah, Vongola Tenth. Or Sawada Tsunayoshi. You've finally decided to grace us with your presence," a regal voice with gentleness chuckled as Tsuna recognized the language to be English.
"Really, Princess Celestia, no need to call him that," a voice that Tsuna recognized to be in Italian from Reborn replied. "He's useless if anything."
Princess Celestia chuckled once more. "I beg to differ, Reborn."
As do I.
Another regal voice entered his thoughts in Italian that weren't Derpy's or his own as Tsuna blinked his eyes open.
He found himself in a grand hall where all the way at the end there would be a magnificent celestial unicorn pegasus whom Tsuna determined to be the one and only Princess Celestia nexted to the human baby tutor from hell.
He quickly went down to his knees. "P-princess!"
"Here he is!"
Tsuna turned to see Derpy munching on her chocolate muffin. "The one and only Princess Tsuna!" she exclaimed, announcing the two - or three? Something was telling him three - presences to his presence.
"D-Derpy!" Tsuna stammered, blushing. "I'm not a princess!"
She nodded. "Princess Flame!" She pushed him. "Go, she and he summon you."
"A-alright," he said, walking along the lush red carpet, an awkward silence as Tsuna didn't want to walk to fast or slow to the Princess or his tutor. He heard Derpy walk away while doing so. Finally, he reached the throne, where a seat seated his tutor and another seat was empty between the baby and the throne where the Princess was seated.
Tsuna couldn't help but stare at the Princess' long flowing mane and tail that seemed to have been made from a rainbow of sunlight or something, the way it swayed in the non-existent breeze that blew in the room before kneeling to show respect. "Principessa Celestia," he addressed, growing wide-eyed as he replied in Italian, Reborn giving him an interested look.
"Welcome to Equestria, or specifically Canterlot, Tsunayoshi," greeted the Princess in English. Tsuna blinked as he was surprised that he could understand. "Please, no need to do that," She motioned for him to get up as she tilted her head towards the arcobaleno.
As Tsuna rose from his kneel, Reborn got up from his seat and gave Tsuna a meaningful glare before silently and quickly leaving the room.
When the door closed, Tsuna couldn't help but let out a little flinch at the slam.
Princess Celestia chuckled at his reaction. "Please take a seat, Tsunayoshi." She gestured to the seat beside her.
"Please, call me 'Tsuna', your highness," he replied. Tsuna was confused as he continued to answer in Italian and understanding what was being said in English. Shaking, he took the seat where Reborn was previously sitting, as something just told him not to sit in the seat in between. Hyper intuition and all that.
"Call me 'Celestia'," Celestia said, smiling. "Why do you not sit next to me?"
"E-eh?" Tsuna nervously smiled. "S-something just, I just couldn't..."
"I see," the Princess said, smiling wide. She gestured to the stacks of books behind her. "I've read all the reports that Twilight had sent me throughout your day. I must say that I'm quite impressed."
Wasn't expecting that. "I-impressed?"
She nodded. "Quite." She smirked. "I bet you're curious as to why you can understand me in English and your replies are in Italian, no?"
"Y-yeah..."
It was the muffins, Decimo.
"E-eh?" Tsuna blinked as he looked around for the source of the regal voice that reappeared. "D-did you hear that, Principessa?" He contorted his face as he forced his mouth to speak in Japanese. "C-Cel-Celes-Celestia-h-hi-hime?" He sighed. Too much effort. Sticking to Italian.
The princess laughed. "'Celestia' is fine."
The voice laughed with her but provided an explanation, unlike the Princess. The muffins had magic in them. It traces your speech back to old roots. Since humans are from a patriarchal society, it is easier to speak Italian than Japanese. The muffins also allowed for you to understand any other language. It is an amazing tool that could be used to understand and relate to others.
He was wide-eyed."Derpy made something like that?"
Celestia gave him a sad expression. "No one gives her a chance anymore." She brought a notebook using her magic. "Unlike you, however."
I'm proud of you, Decimo.
"E-eh?" Tsuna turned towards where he believed the source of the voice was.
In between the Princess and he, in the what was before an empty chair, was a faint figure that Tsuna had never seen in person until now.
"V-Vongola Primo?"
Primo chuckled. Please, just call me Giotto, Decimo.
Tsuna could only stare, before he managed to whisper for the nth time, "If… if it's like that, then just… just call me 'Tsuna'..."
Giotto smiled. If you say so, Tsuna. He turned towards the unicorn pegasus and raised an eyebrow, smirking. Well? You see the crystal, do you not, Celestia? Is that not proof enough?
Necklace? Tsuna twirled with the crystal between his fingers before taking a closer examination at it. This one?
Celestia and Giotto watched as Tsuna studied the crystal, realizing that it wasn't transparent but actually contained the rainbow spectrum.
The Princess smiled. "I do. It is final. Please come here, Vongola Tenth."
The first generation of the Vongola nodded and motioned for the tenth generation to heed the Princess' words. Slowly but surely, Tsuna approached her.
Using her horn, she removed the crystal from his neck and brought it to everyone's optical view point.
"Breathtaking, isn't it?" She said, twirling it so that it would capture the sunlight that streamed through a tall, narrow window.
Princess? Giotto looked at her meaningfully, and she smiled softly before working her magic once more.
There was an onslaught of dazzling light before Tsuna blinked back his vision.
"Take this, Vongola Tenth," she brought over the synthesized object to him, and Tsuna let it gently fall into his palm as he studied the crystal that was now embedded in a golden band of a ring with intricate symbols engraved in it.
"W-what is it?" He asked, looking up to the Princess and Primo.
"It's what your family requested," she explained. "The Elements of Harmony. I simply fashioned it into a ring for your benefit."
"Huh?" Tsuna couldn't blink as Giotto quickly slipped it on his pinky finger.
"Thus this alliance is formed, but only with you," Celestia continued. "May you never stray from the elements and what they contain."
"Honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty, and magic," Tsuna recited as the words came to him, blinking. "How -"
"The Elements," Celestia replied, sipping a cup of tea that appreared out of nowhere.
Have you met with Luna yet? Tsuna watched as both of his elders drank from tea cups that came from nowhere.
"I might have," he replied as he lowered a tea cup from his mouth. He jumped. The fuck?
"Luna!" Celestia called, taking a bite from a muffin from the high tea that appeared with a table in front of the three.
From the shadows came the same foal from earlier, smiling and not nervous at all.
"What do you think?" Celestia asked, and Tsuna was surprised when the one addressed as Luna laughed.
"He was able to see and hear me, and I believe that he currently sees me as a foal," Luna replied, making her way towards them as Giotto set up a spot for her for their little tea party. Both raised an eyebrow at this.
Tsuna, is this true?
"Eh?" He glanced over to the foal again, smiling softly. "She's about half the size of the table?"
Celestia smirked at this. "See, Luna? I told you."
Luna smiled. "That you did, sister."
"EHH? Sister!" Tsuna switched glances at the two, comparing and contrasting. Completely different.
The Royal Equestrian Sisters laughed. "Agree, Luna?"
Luna nodded. "Agree."
Why don't you try the tea, Tsuna?
At Giotto's insistence, he tried it. "It's… orange blossom?"
They nodded. "Very good, Tsunayoshi. I'm happy to see that you're able to distinguish tea flavors. Even if I'm sure that you would prefer coffee like others I know..." Celestia looked over to Giotto, who smirked.
"I prefer tea, actually," Tsuna commented, making his company look at him strangely before laughing at this statement. Tsuna couldn't help but blush at the embarrassment of having two unicorn pegasi and his ancestor making fun of him.
"Is it time?" Interrupted Luna as the laughter died down, pointing outside where the sun was starting to set.
"That would depend on you, dear sister," she replied as she ate her scone.
Luna nodded. "I believe it is. You know how long he's been here."
We really should get going. Not that I want to leave…
"No, no I understand. I just pity Twilight and her friends, being in Ponyville."
Tsuna didn't know if he was allowed to say anything and bit on a cupcake, an image of a pink pony whom he recognized to be Pinkie flashing through his head before quickly fading away.
Will he remember? Giotto asked and frowned when Celestia shook her head. "Probably not, the Elements would seal the memories, as with the previous holders. No one will, except for you, Luna, and I - of that I am sure."
"… you do realize I'm right here, right?" Tsuna reminded them, but was ignored.
"We shall miss you, Tsunayoshi," Luna said, finishing her cup of tea. "Even if we had only known each other for only a short period."
Tsuna frowned, a thought coming to him and he whispered softly, "Why do I feel like I will never see any of you again?"
That's the hyper intuition. The two royal ponies and his ancestor turned towards him, smiling sadly. Giotto replied, Oh, you're going to be seeing me a lot in the near future. For the Equestrians, perhaps not so much.
"There isn't really much we could do, Tsunayoshi, considering that you already have the Elements. So we will stay with you in spirit, and please do not stray," Luna said.
Tsuna blinked. "W-what?"
"Goodbye, Tsunayoshi. May you be able to bring your famiglia towards the harmony that has eluded them for generations," said Celestia.
Tsuna couldn't reply as he was quickly enveloped in a soft glow and watched as he and Giotto faded away from the tea party.
"Do you remember anything from the past week?"
Tsuna shook his head. "Nothing."
"And the ring?"
Tsuna raised the golden band on his pinkie where the crystal created a rainbow after being reflected in the light. "No… but I feel like I shouldn't remove it."
Reborn frowned. "The fact that no one from the Vongola family can remember what happened the week before you fell into that short coma is quite concerning."
Tsuna sighed. "You're telling me. I lost two weeks of my life."
"The fact that you fell into a week-long coma is most concerning." It was the strangest thing, Tsuna dropping unconscious as soon as he left his house that morning and didn't wake up until a few hours ago.
The yellow glass pacifier sparkled in the light reflected from the crystal, making Reborn passive. Even after going to Italy during the time that Tsuna was unconscious, nothing was resolved.
Except for that ring that Tsuna refused to take off.
"Take off the ring," Reborn commanded, pointing a gun at his student's head. The ring was dangerous.
"No! I won't!" Tsuna exclaimed, hiding behind his pillow.
As Reborn steadied his aim, a phone went off. That didn't make him lower his gun however. He answered it, and Tsuna could pick up what was being said, in Italian no less.
"Reborn, we have lost all communication with the Princess. She says that she had already handled the situation, and a side effect is that we don't remember everything. She sent us a picture to prove that you were in fact in Canterlot for a day."
"What would you have me do then, Nono?" Reborn had direct communication with Vonogla Ninth?
"Does Tsuna have a necklace containing a clear crystal?"
"No, but he has a ring with that gem."
There was a slight pause of the phone, before soft laughter. "Then it has been done."
"You don't mean -"
"Exactly what I mean, Reborn."
There was silence before Tsuna saw the baby smirk. "He does it again, doesn't he?"
"As expected."
"True. Should I do anything with the ring?"
"According to the Princess, he is to not take it off. So make sure that is the case."
"Yes, sir."
"Thus concludes the Elements Mission. Stay on standby until further orders are received."
"Yes, sir."
Reborn hung up the phone, but still didn't lower his gun. "Remember anything, Dame-Tsuna?"
"E-eh?" It had already been settled! "What are you talking about -"
"We're off on training. To make up for it, I want you to climb out of this massive pit by the time I'm done with my tea." A steaming tea cup appeared in the baby's hand as the trapdoor in Tsuna's bed activated and Tsuna was dragged down into its depths due to the unrelenting force of the harshness of gravity. "!"
"Really, Dame-Tsuna," Reborn said as he took a sip of his tea. "You never cease to impress."
A/N: Whoever actually read all of this, you get free cupcakes! XD
April Fool's Day! Because seriously when else would this be acceptable?
Also, all of the chapter titles are from MLP YTPMVs. Feel free to check it out!
Thanks for reading!