Fairy Tales of Equestria

The Princess and the Pie

Once upon a time in a small kingdom, there lived a queen and her only son, the prince. For many moons, Queen Applejack had desperately tried countless times to find her son a proper princess to wed, for she was rather picky about whom the Prince should marry. She thought only a pony who could truly make her son happy would be perfect for him, but alas, it was all in vain. None of the mares she met or ran into were true princesses. One would be too mean or too sweet, too rich or too poor, too boring or too strange; not a single one of these mares the Queen encountered would catch the Prince's eye. After several months of exhaustive searching, the Queen finally threw in the towel.

"I'm sorry I can't help you find a bride, son." Queen Apple sighed.

"It's okay, mother. The important thing is that you tried, right?" The Prince replied.

"Well... I guess so."

One stormy night, there was a knock at the door.

"I wonder who that could be." The Queen said to herself as she walked towards the door.

When she opened the door, she saw a pony she didn't recognize standing on the doorstep before her. This mare has a light pink coat and a poofy magenta mane with big blue eyes; she was also drenched in mud and rain water from her head to her hooves and her clothes, coat, and mane were nothing but a dirty, tattered mess.

The Queen's son, Prince Cheese soon joined his mother and the moment he saw the strange mare, his mouth fell wide open and his eyes grew large. Through all of that water, grime, and mud, Prince Cheese thought that the mare standing in front of him was the most beautiful pony he had ever seen and he felt something pulling at his heartstrings when he gazed at her. Slowly, a smile crept onto the prince's lips. The mare shared the emotion towards him and she blushed furiously the moment she gazed into Prince Cheese's wide green eyes. But she remembered her manners and turned her head to face the Queen again.

"Thank you so much, Your Majesty. Phew! For a second, I thought I was gonna be stuck out there all night." The stranger exclaimed, wiping her brow with her hoof.

"You're welcome, sugarcube. But... who are you?" The Queen asked as she led the strange pony inside and shut the castle door.

"Oh, right! Sorry about that. My name is Princess Pinkamena Diane Pie. Or Pinkie Pie, for short." The mare said, bowing her head to the two ponies.

"A princess?" Prince Cheese commented, glancing over at his mother who smirked and shrugged at him.

"Yep." Pinkie Pie replied bluntly with a nod.

"But... but you're a total mess. What in the name of Equestria happened to you?" The Queen asked with a concerned look in her eyes.

"Well, I was on my way home from a recent vacation, but then this awful storm came out of nowhere. My carriage broke down, I got separated from my servants, and I wandered through the rain for a pretty long time until I finally ended up here. So, can I please stay for the night?" The mare asked.

Being the hospitable mare she was, instead of making her leave, the Queen decided to let Pinkie Pie stay for the night. She ordered some of her servants to draw a bath for their new guest and give her a new set of clothes. Pinkie Pie had said she was royalty, but how could Queen Applejack and Prince Cheese know for sure that this pony was really a princess?

"There must be some way we can find out." The Queen whispered to the Prince.

"But what do you suggest we do, mother? Are we just going to let her take some royalty test to prove she is a princess without her knowing about it? Get real." Prince Cheese playfully scoffed.