//------------------------------// // Star-crossed and Moonlit // Story: The Legend of Starlight-Book 3: The Good, The Bad, and the Trixie // by twow443 //------------------------------// Chapter 3- Star-crossed and Moonlit. Spike was Twilight's assistant at her library. He was a purple baby dragon with green spikes. He and I had bonded rather quickly after my landing in Equestria. Being a baby, he only reached up to about the middle of my legs. So imagine my surprise when I flew to Twilight's and saw my dragon friend as big as the house. He seemed to be screaming in pain, so I dashed over to him. “Spike?! What happened to you?!” I yelled. I reached out and could feel that a spell had been used on him. Spike turned and seeing me, decided to blast me in the chest with a green fireball. “Whaaaaa!” I yelled, slamming into the ground. I heard Twilight yelling at me. “Starlight! Drain it!” Drain? Oh, his magic! It was a constant spell, like when Gilda had messed with Twilight to drain her magic. I leapt up and tapped into Twilight's cutie mark, turning my clothes purple. “Stay back, Twi!” I yelled, then shot into the sky. … Twilight had heaved a big sigh of relief after the prince had arrived. Not only did that mean that Spike would be alright, but she was free to do her next task. Yelling at Trixie. “What were you thinking?!” she yelled at the blue unicorn. “He volunteered to help me Twilight.” she said. “I must have accidentally overcharged the spell.” Twilight was furious. “He doesn't understand that much about magic yet! The last time this happened he almost destroyed all of Ponyville! Now you go and make him giant again?!” The two unicorns flinched as Starlight flew past them and slammed into the ground. He had a blue line of magic leading from Spike to his hand. Spike seemed to be growing smaller also. “Not too much longer now!” he yelled to them, flying back up. Twilight turned back to the unicorn. “Well sense you are the all-powerful Twilight, maybe YOU should go help him instead of making the prince do it.” Twilight scoffed, “I wouldn't of cast that spell anyway!” She stopped talking, trying to relax as a fireball almost hit her. “You just need to relax around here, Trixie. Don't make me try to get you on a magic restraint.” Trixie gave a mocking laugh. “Oh look at the great Twilight. Just because you're the princess's student and the prince lives in your house, you think that you're better then anypony. Well, let me tell you something.” She walked closer to Twilight in a almost threatening matter. “Someday a unicorn is gonna show up that you aren't stronger then. Then what are you going to do?” “Learn their secrets.” Twilight said in a dangerously calm voice. The two unicorns continued to stare each other down. They both turned to the side as they heard a explosion. Spike suddenly shrunk down to the ground, and apparently the blast of magic had been so strong it had blown Starlight clear though Twilight's bedroom window. Twilight winced as she heard crashing inside the house. Suddenly, the prince burst out the front door and landed infront of them, completely unconscious. His clothes changed back to their blue colors. Spike slowly walked up to them and looked at Twilight. “I know you're mad, and you have a right to be, but can you chastise me later? Tired....” He passed out next to Starlight. Twilight angrily stamped her hoof. “Nice job, Trixie. You've been here 3 days and you successfully knocked out the prince and almost destroyed the town using my dragon assistant.” Trixie shook her mane, “Well, I can't say that my experiment wasn't a success.” “No. You can't” Twi said. “Because it failed.” “Why you.....” Trixie started. “SILIENCE!” Both of the mares jumped and bowed down as Princess Luna landed next to them. Wait, Twilight thought. Princess Luna was HERE. In the DAY. This can't be good. “Twilight Sparkle.” Luna started. “We were coming to visit our brother when we sensed very powerful magic here. Now, my brother is unconscious on the ground with thy dragon assistant. We wish to know what transpired here.” Twilight visibly paled and started to speak. “Well Princess. Trixie was attempting to cast a growing spell. She used it on Spike, but because she didn't ASK,” here she glared at Trixie, “she didn't know that growing that suddenly would trigger his natural dragon instincts. Basically, to destroy everything.” “I did get his permission first, your highness.” Trixie chimed in. “Quite...” Luna said, thinking. She pointed her horn at her brother and channeled her magic to effectively restore the energy he had lost. He stirred, then slowly opened his eyes and stood up. “Boy, for being the so-called “Most Powerful Alicorn Ever,” I sure don't know much about magic.” he said, half-joking. His eyes slightly widened as he saw his sister. “Luna? Why are you here? Shouldn't you be sleeping about now?” “We thought that you could use some help here.” Luna said. She saw that Starlight noted that she was talking in the royal speech, but she very slightly shook her head. Seeing him acknowledge not to mention it she said, “Twilight Sparkle, take your dragon inside and take care of him. Trixie, return to thy home, We must talk with our brother.” As both mare started to do what they were told, Luna turned to Starlight. “Come,” she said, flying off, Starlight not far behind. … Luna and I were walking down the road that led from Ponyville, her initiating the conversation. “Truthfully, I should be asleep, brother. But I did want to talk to you.” “Why were you using your royal voice?” I asked. “I thought that you didn't talk like that after the Nightmare Night that Twilight told me about.” “I was rather aggravated, having to wake up in the day. Seeing you have to deal with that spell drove me over the edge.” Luna said. “You had to deal with things like this before?” “I had to stop Rainbow's old friend from taking over the town.” I said, avoiding the real reason. Luna smiled, “I know what you went though,brother.” she said. “I just wish I could help you more.” We walked in silence for a bit. “Starlight. We need to talk about our sister.” “Celestia?” I asked. “What about her?” “I believe that she is hiding something from us, or more importantly, you.” she said. “What do you mean?” I asked. “After you landed here, Celestia contacted me immediately for me to return to Canterlot.” Luna said. “But when you were on your way here with Rainbow Dash the day of your coronation, we sensed that Nightmare was attacking you. My first impulse was to come to your rescue, but Celestia wouldn't allow me.” I knew that neither of my sisters would have left me to myself if I had been in danger. “Why do you think she wouldn't let you help me?” “She said it was because I was weaker in the daytime and that if she left, the ponies would worry. She also said that it was your test.” Luna said. “Personally, I am glad that you beat Nightmare on your own. It would have been a rather “harsh” ending to the day if you had been captured.” “Don't I know it.” I said. “Luna? When she possessed you, what happened exactly?” My older sister thought for a moment. “I was horribly jealous of Celestia. That gave her the power to possess me, my own darkness. I felt much stronger and Nightmare was guiding me...to overthrow Celestia. When I had been banished for that thousand years, I fought Nightmare for control. I had weakened her enough for the Elements of Harmony to remove her from me. But it isn't enough, we need a way to eradicate her forever.” I rubbed my right arm, where my true cutie mark was. It was a beautiful star with light beaming from it. Above it was a sun and below it was a moon, symbolizing that I had Cutie Stamped my sisters. “This stamping thing is more trouble then it's worth.” I said, slightly annoyed. “And maybe I should just walk around as a pony all the time.” Luna forcefully shook her head. “No, the stamp is your greatest weapon against Nightmare. In fact, I think you unlocked some of the marks true powers.” She inspected the hand that had my friends marks on it. “The butterflies indicate that you will, control butterflies when you have that active. The rainbow cloud means that you will control electricity and the apples mean that you will control farm foods.” “So what was the deal with them before?” I asked. “When this ability was more common long ago, many ponies could not fully control their powers. Thus, the marks would go int a “panic” mode and do random things, but it would tie into what the mark actually symbolized.” I was quiet. Luna had given me a lot to think about. “Starlight, I don't want you to doubt what Celesta’s plan is for you. I just want you to know that if you ever want to talk, just look to the moon.” “Thanks, sis.” I said. She smiled and lightly punched me. “We will figure out how to uncurse your body, but for now it's better that you have a way to wield your sword.” She gave a huge yawn then. “Go get some sleep sis.” I said. “And thank you.” Luna nodded and lifted off into the sky toward Canterlot. When she was gone, I thought about what had happened in the past month. Landing in Equestria, meeting the Mane 6, becoming the prince.... “Man,” I thought. “This really is my home.” I turned to start walking back to Ponyville, and got shot in the chest with magic. Hitting the ground I saw....Trixie. “Hey! What the buck are you doing?” I yelled. “Awful sorry about this, Prince. No hard feelings?” She said, then disappeared. I stood up, and saw Nightmare Moon. “Well then, it's been quite a while.” she said. “How have you been?” “I'll be a lot better after you're gone!” I snarled, summoning Stormtide. “Oh, you naive little alicorn.” Nightmare said. “I hope you know that I'm not going to play nice anymore. We have a lot to talk about when I get you back.” “Back where...Ahh!” I stared before getting blasted to the ground again. I used a simple teleportating spell to warp above Nightmare, kicking her in the head. She gracefully landed on the ground, where then I beaned her in the head with a magic bolt. I landed and switched to Rainbow's cutie mark. Rainbow colored electricity danced around my body. “Well, this is new.” I said. Nightmare recovered and flew at me, turned to buck me in the chest. I spun though the air and stopped upside down. I sparked my hand and shocked Nightmare's legs, making her shudder and unable to move. I landed, summoned Stormtide backhanded and rose upward, braining Nightmare in the head. As she flew upwards, I sparked my hands and blasted her again. She rose above me and started shooting magic at me. My speed enhanced by the mark, I dodged them all with ease, then shot above her. I pointed my hand her like a gun and basically sniped her between the wings, sending her to the ground. I fell then, slamming in front of her and proceeded to beat the living hay out of her. I punched and kicked her as hard as I could. She sparked her horn and a dark blast of magic came out, knocking me away from her. I summoned Stormtide again and rushed her, stabbing her deep in the shoulder. She roared and whipped around, kicking me in the head. Dizzy, I backed off. She looked at me, clearly upset in all the times I've seen her. “Enough playing for now.” she said softly. She stepped back and launched a small ball of magic in front of her. It suddenly zoomed at me and slammed into my chest. It exploded, draining ALL the energy from my body. I felt the worst pain I'd ever felt and fell to the ground, Stormtide desummoning. The last thing I saw before I passed out was Nightmare walking up and saying, “We are going to have a lot of fun, Prince......”