//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 - A tale of lost secrets // Story: A child of the frozen north // by Jade Inkwell //------------------------------// Celestia listened to Secret tell her about her first day at school over dinner. She smiled at Luna, Luna nodded happily. Once dinner was over, Luna took secret to her room. Secret was sharing a room with Luna, until a room was done for her. Luna had arranged for the room next to hers to become Secrets room, it was big enough for a sleep over of Secret's whole class. Secret curled up next to Luna, Luna smiled. "Goodnight Luna." She muttered tiredly. "Sweet dreams Secret." Luna smiled , and closed her eyes, entering the dream. Secret was looking around in surprise, Luna looked around too. They were in a castle of some sort. There was a chained box, a Mare stood next to it. But she was out of focus...even for Luna. Secret eyed the box and backed away. "No..." she gasped, Luna glared and woke. Secret woke at the same time with a cry. "sssshhh." Luna wrapped a wing around her. "Luna..." Celestia and guards raced in. "I think I know the source of her problems..." Luna sighed, Secret was crying. "But, it is blocking her memories...We need to solve this Tia..." "Yes, we do." Celestia joined her and placed a wing over Luna's "We'll both keep watch over her, and Twilight can watch over her at school." Luna nodded, Secret shivered and slowly calmed. Luna again closed her eyes to keep bad dreams away. Twilight came to take Secret to school the next morning. Twilight had got her a small saddle bag, made by Rarity. "It's so cute. Take you Twilight." Secret smiled "I told rarity about you from her little sister, sweetie belle. She wants to make you a dress too." Twilight smiled "i would like that." Secret nodded, she saw her friends. "Crusaders!" She called and galloped over. "I'll see you after school!" Twilight chuckled and waved off the little filly. "Right, today, I want you working in pairs." Cheerlie said. Secret and Apple Bloom became a team and so did Sweetie belle and Scootaloo. They had to make a poster about a cutie of their own choice. "Let's do Luna's!" Apple Bloom said. "Okay. Can I draw it?" Secret asked, Apple Bloom nodded. Secret got a silver crayon and drew Luna's cutie mark. Around it they wrote everything they could tell by looking at it and what they knew from experience. "Okay, the final group. Apple Bloom and Scared Secret." Cheerlie called them up. the earth pony foals went to the front. Each team so far had done the cutie mark's of somepony in their family. Scootaloo and Sweetie belle did Rainbow dash's cutie mark. "We decided to choose Princess Luna's cutie mark." Secret smiled "It is a crescent moon, and her destiny was to rise and lower the moon." "But, It is a lot more. As princess of the night, It is Princess Luna's job to watch over the dreams of the ponies of equestria. " Apple bloom added. "very good girls." Cheerlie smiled "you've have thought about it well. Now, for the rest of the day, we have a guest." Twilight trotted in with a book. The foals cheered out. Secret waved, as she and Apple bloom took their seats. Twilight smiled. "Good morning everypony." Twilight smiled. "today, I will tell you the story of the keepers of Equestria's secrets." "Huh..." secret frowned ever so slightly.. those words sound familiar... "It began Long before Celestia and Luna's regain..." Twilight smiled "Before Luna and Celestia, even before Discord, everypony knew the secrets of our land. And many used it against other, causing dis harmony amongst the different ponies. Then, From a far off land, a pony covered with a wild hair. She called herself Undifragi Secreta, she recovered all the secrets and locked them in a box with no lock." "then, how could she open it again?" Diamond Tiara asked "she left with the box, into a temple of ice. The words she spoke were carved into stone." Twilight brought out a picture for them to pass around. "Find the key to the fit this lockless box, find the true box to place these secrets. Demons appear in most unexpected visions." Secret said. Everypony looked at her. She looked up at the Princess. "then the secrets of Equestria shall be forever safe." "you know it?" Twilight asked. "I guess so...I don't know how I know it though.." Secret said "How can you have a key for a lock-less box?" Diamond tiara sneered at Secret "i don't know..." Secret said, she looked at the filly. "Maybe that is one of the secrets it holds." The other ponies laughed. Diamond Tiara looked angry. "Okay Everypony, based on that story, we are going to make our own secret box." cheerlie said "each of us will write a secret and place it in a box and place it in a dug hole in the school yard...yes Secret?" Cheerlie asked as the Filly raised her hoof. "What if you have no secrets?" Secret asked "everypony has a secret." Cheerlie smiled "I don't have one..." Secret looked down. Twilight looked at her and smiled. "I'll tell you one." Twilight smiled "You can put that in the box." "Thank you Princess!" Secret smiled. So the class got busy, Twilight helped Secret with her secret. Secret wrote it and folded it up. "Should I take it to the box?" Twilight asked. Secret nodded, Twilight put it away. Secret smiled and looked at her friends. they put their secret's in the box. The class went outside and they place them in the ground and covered them over. "there, now we have our very own secret box." Cheerlie smiled "okay, home time." She smiled. Twilight walked the cutie mark crusaders to Sweet apple arcs. Secret ran along side her friends laughing. Twilight watched her happily, she wonder how she would react to Luna's surprise... she looked at Secret worriedly.