//------------------------------// // Being a Young Mare (teens) // Story: The Sun's Life // by DiscordFan //------------------------------// It was Celestia's birthday. She was entering young-mare-hood. She had been alive for 4,745 suns. Mother had told her a while ago that you celebrated your birthday every 365 suns. Celestia quickly did the arithmetic in her head. This was her thirteenth birthday. (By the way, she is slightly smaller than the CMC.) Celestia had awoken early, so she could attempt something important today. She woke up before the sun was up. Celestia was planning to raise the sun. Mother had never let her do it alone... But Mother wasn't awake! Celebrating trotted giddily to the throne room's balcony. Once she got there, she did a little happy dance. Mother and Father weren't awake! She looked at the moon. Uh, oh. Who's gonna lower the moon!?!! She started to hyperventilate. She couldn't do both!!! Then she heard the clopping of hooves. I am dead... Celestia turned slowly, and she saw... Elder Platinum? Elder Platinum was a white unicorn with a gorgeous curled, purple mane and tail. Her eyes were a lovely blue. Her eyelashes were long but perfect. Her toga was purple, and she was wearing a silver laurel wreath on her head. Only elders that use to be royals got laurels. Elder Platinum told Celestia she used to be a princess. "'Tia darling," Elder Pudding said, "why are you up so early?" "I'm afraid I must ask the same," Celestia replied. Elder Platinum sighed. "True. Well, I am up because I couldn't go back to sleep. What about you, darling?" "Pudding Promise you won't tell anypony?" Elder Platinum smiled delicately. "X my heart, Wish to soar, Stick a biscuit in my eye. Now, 'Tia, why are you up?" Celestia sighed. "I wish to attempt to raise the sun, but forgot that I needed somepony to lower the moon. Aren't I a 'clever?'" Celestia put her head on the rail of the balcony and sighed. "Darling?" "What Elder Platinum?" "May I tell a few unicorns? Not the Queen of course..." Celestia thought for a moment. "Why?" "So we can lower the moon, 'Tia!'" Celestia blinked, slightly surprised. "Y-you're not gonna stop a filly from raising the sun?" "Maybe a different filly, darling, but you, I'm sure you can handle it!" Celestia trotted over and hugged Elder Platinum's leg and part of her chest. "Thank you..." Elder Platinum laughed delicately. "Don't thank me until I get those unicorns, 'Tia darling!" Celestia giggled. "Okay." She continued to giggle. Elder Platinum trotted away to go find powerful unicorns. Celestia was feeling jitters now. Calm down, 'Tia. Calm down. She breathed deeply and slowly. Better? Better. Good. Note to self: talk to ponies and make friends your age. Celestia heard a chorus of clopping hooves. She turned and saw Elder Platinum with, maybe, ten unicorns. Celestia smiled. "Thank you all for helping me in my, uh... wish." "Wait," one of the male unicorns spoke, "Elder Platinum, are we letting a filly raise the sun?!" "Obey your princess, Bright Moon," Elder Platinum stated, "and be rewarded forever, darling." Bright Moon muttered something. Probably something rude or unpleasant! "Care to share, Bright Moon," Celestia asked. "N-no, Princess," Bright Moon stammered. Celestia felt a little bit giddy at the unicorn's wariness and (petty) fear. Just 'cause she's Royal doesn't mean she's a tramp and a brat! "I was merely jesting," Celestia said. "You don't have to cower." "Princess," Elder Platinum spoke, "it's time, darling..." Celestia turned to see the moon was "stuck" on the horizon. *deep breath* It's time. Okay. "Unicorns," she commanded (kindly), "please lower the moon, now." The unicorns, including Elder Platinum, lit up their horns and lowered the moon. Celestia then lit up her own horn. Her wings fluttered, instinctively. She hovering in the air now. The east horizon turned orange and yellow and all the other millions of colors of dawn. Her horn brighten as a ball of pink and orange rested on the east horizon. The ball rose up higher until it was yellow, and the sky was blue. Clouds drifted here and there. Celestia had attempted and succeeded in raising the sun. Celestia smiled. She had done it! Then her flank made a flashing sound and shone white. She turned her head (while she was still in the air), and she saw a yellow sun with yellow-orange rays. She earned her cutie mark... "Of course she earned her cutie mark, DiscordFan," Elder Pudding Head, popping out of a beer barrel said. Wait, why a beer barrel? "Ask my Pudding Sense. 'Cause hey, screw physics, I'm Pudding Head." You, my friend, are an ancestor of Pinkamena Diane Pie. "Who?" Somepony from the future. "Oooo... The FUTURE!!! Cool!" Celestia, very weirded out, was staring at the pink Earth Elder. Wait, why are we conversing? "Um, I think it's 'cause I appeared out of a beer barrel." Oh yeah! That's it! Well, I'm gonna continue the story now. She earned her cutie mark... Then, Celestia heard the flapping of wings and the clopping of hooves. She turned around completely to see Father in the air and Mother on the balcony. Celestia's expression turned from proudness to sheepishness. I'm busted. Mother's face was serious, and Father's face was also serious, but he had that usually jolly twinkle in his eyes. Celestia landed on the balcony. Father landed on the balcony three seconds later. "'Tia," Mother said fiercely, "what were you thinking!?" "She was thinking that she wanted to do something special for her birthday, and she thought we were being overprotective," Father said. Elder Pudding Head gaped. Elder Pudding Head appeared in front of him, "You can break through the fourth wall, too??!?" "Shh, yeah." Wonderful. I'm gonna go bang my head on the wall over there. Pudding, take over or something! Cool! I'm the narrator now! Look out Equestria! Pudding Head com'in through! "You," Mother asked, "You think we're overprotective? Dusk, are we?" "I don't know, Dawn," Father said. "Maybe we are." "A little," Celestia said sheepishly. She shifted her hooves and gazed at the floor. This had not gone as she planned... But then again, she hadn't planned far ahead. Mother sighed, "Let's go have your birthday breakfast." The three Royals trotted away to the dining hall. "So," Father said, "you're raising the sun from now on?" "What," Celestia asked. "Well, your cutie mark!" "... I guess..." ===== 17-Years-Old Princess Celestia (now a little shorter than an average unicorn mare) had been raising and lowering the sun for four years. Ponies now truly respected her. Celestia wasn't sure if she should be glad or disappointed. She missed being treated like a foal. It was better than being feared and avoided. After all, nopony wants to scare the controller-of-the-sun. She would surely scorch them. Ponies... On the 36th sun of Celestia's 16th Spring, Mother made an announcement at the dining hall. "Dusk," Mother said cheerfully, "'Tia, I have something very important to tell you." "Mother," questioned Celestia, "what is it?" She beamed at Father and Celestia, "I am having another baby." Dusk's eyes widen, and Celestia "squeed." She was going to have a brother or sister! "Oh, Mother," said an excited Celestia, "does this mean I am going to have brother or sister?!" Mother delicately laughed, "Yes, 'Tia! You're going to have a brother or sister!" "SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!