"So this is the city!" Sunset Shimmer exclaimed racing at top speed between the trees and the enormous structures the humans called 'houses'. They were more akin to mountains, even the biggest trees where she lived were utterly dwarfed by these houses. She lowered her head slightly to keep her reddish orange hair out of her face as she cranked on even more speed.
"Yes this is the city!" Crystal Heart was just a few feet behind her older sister straining her transparent wings until she pulled up alongside Sunset Shimmer. "You can slow down I promise it's not going anywhere and we're perfectly safe."
"No hawks?" Crystal shook her head. "No eagles?" Crystal shook her head. "Weasels?" Crystal shook her head. "Wasps?"
"No. The only things you need to worry about here are cats and even most of them aren't going to try to eat you. They are fat and lazy because people feed them. Some of them are still quite mean though. So Slow
DOWN!
" Crystal Heart boomed as loud as her tiny fairy lungs could manage and she came to an abrupt stop on a bird bath. It was shaped like a cupid relieving itself into the pool and was easily twice as tall as the nearly seven inch fairy resting on its head.
A few moments later Sunset Shimmer had done a mid-air summersault and returned to her younger sister standing on tip toe. "Are humans really this big?" She took a step backward to hang in front of the statue observing its endowment. "My word. How could you pleasure such a beast?"
"Oh no dear sister. They are much larger than this. The babies are about this size." Crystal Heart pointed towards a door. "They use those to come and go."
"Oh." Sunset Shimmer sank till she was walking on the surface of the water. "Just how big are they?"
Crystal Heart walked on tip toe to the edge of the statue bending at the waist to stare down at her older sister. "You really want to find out?" An impish grin twisted across her features.
That wasn't the first time she'd seen that look on Crystal Heart's face. It was the look when she was about to do something wonderful. That or she was about to do something wonderfully horrible and there usually wasn't any way of telling which it was going to be until after the fact. "What are you planning?"
"Me? What makes you think I'm planning anything?" She made a kicking motion with her foot. "I would never do anything that wasn't just sweet as sugar."
"Now I know you're messing with me." She fluttered up to face her sister. They were close enough to kiss, close enough that Sunset Shimmer could smell the sweet raspberry scent that always wafted around her sister. "Why don't you just tell me and save yourself the trouble. You never know," she moved closer till their noses were touching, "-I might just say yes."
Crystal Heart took the bait darting in for a quick kiss then skipping backward faster than her redheaded sister could catch her. "But it's so much more fun watching you squirm!" The silver haired pixie flew backwards as quickly as she could manage narrowly avoiding her sister's grasp. She spent so much time at this particular house that she could easily navigate backwards until she landed on the window sill of her favorite human. The window was open, like it had been every night since she first came here and there was even a little door cut in the screen. A heart beat before Sunset Shimmer could catch her Crystal Heart ducked into the room. She was halfway across the room when Sunset Shimmer finally, hesitantly, slid into the room.
Once the fiery headed fairy was in the room she fell silent almost drifting in no particular direction. There was just so much in the room, she recognized some of the objects even if they were unbelievably large. Books taller than she was, a hair brush the size of mouse drawn cart, a bed nearly as large as a palace. Some of the things she didn't recognize like the enormous black rectangle on the wall. When she hovered closer to it she could feel hints of lightning just beneath its glossy surface. Slowly she reached her fingertips out to brush against it and felt a tingle before she pulled back. The sound of her sister's musical laughter made her spin about. "What?" Crystal Heart didn't say anything, she just pointed back at the glossy black surface. It took a moment for Sunset Shimmer to notice her reflection in its surface and her hair standing on end looking exactly like the sunset. She squeaked adorably trying to smooth her hair back down but just barely managing to win that battle.
"I did that too the first time." Crystal Heart landed on a desk walking over to what looked like to Sunset Shimmer like some sort of fairy statues. It didn't have wings, and it wasn't made of any substance she could identify, it was painted to look like flesh though.
Crystal Heart walked around the statues for a moment considering their clothing for a moment. Then she slipped of her ice blue dress and slipped letting it pool around her dainty feet and pulled one of the outfits bit by bit off the statue and started getting dressed.
"What are you doing desecrating these statues?!" Sunset Shimmer exclaimed flying toward her sister.
"I'm not desecrating them. The human who lives here buys these for me." Sunset Shimmer slid into a pair of white knee high boots lacing them up all the way. A blue dress Asian styled dress with slits up either side, thick spiked bracelets and finally pulled her hair into buns on either side of her head. "Oh, this is that kick girl from his game!" Crystal Heart exclaimed leaping up and down several times then threw up a peace sign. "Come on, let's get you an outfit before he shows up!"
"Who's he?" Sunset Shimmer asked flying up to land next to her sister. She walked by several of the statues. She finally stopped when she found herself staring at one of the statues. It was wearing diaphanous blue pants like the genies did, and a sheer bra of the same transparent material, it was finished with a pair of slippers. "It's pretty."
"Well put it on silly." She slipped up behind her sister and undid the knot holding entire outfit together. The silky pink dress almost disintegrated around the sprite. She'd been nude in front of her sister hundreds of times. It didn't bother her in the least.
"Who is he?"
"The human who lives here! He buys these things for me and I brought you here so you could find out about humans. This is what he likes." Crystal Heart insisted.
"So he dresses you up like some kind of doll?" Sunset Shimmer asked. She eyed the costume a few moments longer before getting dressed. She'd never had this kind of fabric against her skin before. It made her want to sing but instead she just jumped off the shelf and flew around in circles.