Tom’s POV, 1,203 years ago
A yawn escaped my lips as I stretched in the back seat of the truck we were driving left the Interstate onto the streets below. We passed through the traffic slowly as we neared the convention center. There were a large amount of people dressed in costumes. The arrival of Comic Con had brought many nerds and geeks out of hiding and into one city. Everywhere we looked there were cosplayers left, right, and center. We saw many people in cool looking costume. Some of the more notable ones we saw were a guy dressed as Solaire of Astora from Dark Souls, a guy as Corvo from Dishonored, and even someone is a cool looking steampunk outfit. As we finally arrived at a parking spot we stepped out of the car and I stretched hearing my back crack a bit before standing straight again and fixing my outfit.
I stood next to my twin sister Beckii as I finished straightening my tie. We had finally gotten through into the convention center with two of our friends who were dressed as Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite. We had decided to come together as a group to Comic Con and with a lot of arguing we managed to decide on all going as people from BioShock Infinite. So now with both me and my twin dressed as the Lutece twins.
Some time later we walked through the dealer room spending money on various props we could find. Spotting two boxes I nudged my twin and we both walked over and picked them up before turning to our companions.
“Bird?” I asked James, who's cosplaying Booker
“Or the Cage?” Beckii asked as we both held out the boxes revealing the two pendants from the game.
“Or perhaps the Bird.” I replied to my twin.
“Nothing beats the cage.” She replied.
Our actions brought a laugh from James and Sarah, the girl cosplaying Elizabeth, before they chose the bird. Smiling we bought the pendant before heading off deeper into the dealer room.
Near the end of the Dealer Room I was elbowed by Beckii who said to me, “Tom, look over there.” Turning to where she was pointing I saw that she had found a stand with a large Silver Eagle coin in a plastic case. Realizing what my twin was thinking I walked up to the old man running the stand.
“How much for the Silver Eagle?” I asked him. He looked up at me with an analyzing look. An amused smile grew on his face when he saw me.
“It’s forty normally,” The old man said to me “but with your group I’ll lower it to twenty-five.” I smiled at him while fishing out my wallet. Handing him the money he gave me the coin. Thanking him my sister grabbed it from my hand and started looking at it from every angle.
“This is really well done.” She said as she tossed it over to James and Sarah who both started looking at it too.
“Hey guys, something’s happening.” Sarah said as the coin started to glow the colors of the rainbow in her hands.
“Let go of it.” Both Beckii and I said as we tried to slap the coin out of her hands. A sudden explosion of color blinded us before everything went to black.
Luna’s POV, present time
"Now Luna, it’s a simple choice.” The redheaded man said to me as he tossed a silver coin to me. “Heads?”
“Or Tails?” His twin finished as they both looked at me. Looking down at the coin I saw a sword, key, and scroll on one side and on the other a winged version of the twin’s species wielding a sword, holding a scroll, and carrying a key around its neck.
I looked back at the duo eyeing them carefully. “Why dost thou wish for us to flip thy’s coin?” I asked them.
“Heads.”
“Or Tails.” They repeated to my annoyance.
Letting out an exasperated sigh, I took one last look at the coin and said “Heads.” Before flipping it with my magic.
My eyes shot open as I woke drenched in sweat with my eyes wide. “It’s just a dream. Just a dream.” I repeated to myself as I worked to calm myself. Climbing out of bed, I moved to the bathroom. Entering I turned the tap and splashed cold water onto my face. Shaking my head to clear my thoughts I used my magic to levitate my royal regalia onto myself before I turned to the door and walked out towards the throne room.
Celestia sat on her throne answering the last ponies in the evening court. The nobles in the court had been growing more and more irritable since the recent changeling invasion. The amount of damaged property had not gone unnoticed to the big headed idiots. I watched her send the last one of the day away and announce that the court was now closed as I neared.
“Good morning sister. Did you sleep well?” She asked me with a kind smile. I paused for a moment remembering my dream before I answered.
“Sister we-I mean I- had a dream last night.” I said to her. She looked inquisitively at me as she asked.
“Oh, what was it about Luna?”
“It was about...them sister. The twins.” I told her watching her happy face fell and became more concerned.
“Luna they haven’t been seen in centuries. The last time we saw them, they were digging their own graves, literally. “ Celestia told me. I knew that she was remembering everything they had done. They had always known what would happen a long time before it did and even caused more troublesome events to happen.
“It’s not that we haven’t been seen in centuries.” A male voice spoke, causing both Celestia's and my own eyes to widen.
“It’s just that we didn’t want to be seen.” A female voice finished. Both my sister and I turned around and looked at the Lutece twins that stood casually in the hallway. The guards that were stationed there jumped in surprise at their sudden appearance.
“Hello Celestia.” Rosaline Lutece said to Celestia
“Hello Luna. Long time-” Robert Lutece said to me.
“-no see.” Rosaline finished her brother.