Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust
By. FoxofRarity
Chapter. 77
Disclaimer- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. Arthur's note at end.
In Fluttershy’s cottage.
“Please peel these potatoes for me Discord I’m going to cook up my signature potato for Rarity and for you.”
“Got it!” Without a snap of his fingers Discord does his task manually to get the hang of doing things without the use of his reality manipulation abilities. “You don’t have to make me some soup Fluttershy I’m all good instead just focus on your dearest friend Rarity you were brought to upmost joy when she arrived.”
Setting the temperature on the stove Fluttershy reaches for the pot she uses when cooking up her yummy soups. “Discord you do realize the pot I use is big and I don’t like wasting food.”
In the midst of their conversation Rarity is consumed by trying to sort her out her thoughts. “I have the day, I have Fluttershy back and Fluttershy is a major pillar in my life that I thought will crumble. Though I once thought Applejack was a pillar in my life but when I saw what she really wanted me for that pillar basically disappeared for it supported nothing inside of me but I still view her as my friend nonetheless. Thank you father…” Oh dear here’s why she’s consumed in thought. “I mean brother, thank you dearest brother if you were here right now I will tell you I love you though there will be plenty of that when night comes and I wonder how Gilda will treat me when we’re in the same room together.” Rarity lightly treads though her new memories especially the ones where she wakes up to the sound of brother’s voice. “Damn you Twilight for putting my brother in that position.” Though Rarity acknowledges she has been hurt by Twilight’s action she knows Gold Sky has been hurt the most by forcing him to her father.
Meanwhile in the kitchen.
“I say Fluttershy why is Rarity in deep thought.”
Taking a pause from stirring the soup Fluttershy looks over to Rarity and yes she decides not to tell Discord the obvious which has scarred Rarity. “Uhhhh she has gone through something really, really rough Discord and I will like to provide her with some ease from her past circumstance. Did you put some garlic seasoning?”
“Yes.” Discord responds.
“Alright good, good. Now let me stir it a bit more than dinner will be served. OH! Don’t forget the dinner rolls and the cinnamon butter.”
“Got it!” Luckily he already had the rolls baking in the oven out of instinct. “Good thing I anticipated the rolls.”
“My soup will put her at ease.” Fluttershy tells herself.
Back to Rarity.
“I have to say this is doing me wonders to spend time with Fluttershy and be treated with dignity and Discord not being so Discordish for once.” Rarity looks over to Discord to see him so helpful to the meek Pegasus. “I never had lunch with them before…perhaps this is Lauren’s plan. To have peace to keep me as the mare my…” A pause to make sure she uses the right word. “Brother wants me to be.” Her nose picks up the calming aroma of Fluttershy’s potato soup. “Hmmmm…oh Spike, now I can finally have a moment to think of you my dear love. Oh coming are the days where we shall everlasting bliss like we had in the cave.” This given day is full of liberty for the white mare. “I will propose to you though yes it may seem out the norm but then again there is no rule that say the stallion must be the one to propose and not me.” To finish her thought Rarity sighs the same way a love struck mare will do.
Thus Fluttershy is able to figure who Rarity is thinking of. “Spike.” She ushers out in a soft tone.
“What?” Discord asks after hearing Fluttershy say something.
“Oh!” Flutterhshy finishes setting the table. “I can say without a doubt Discord my friend. That Rarity I thinking of Spike.”
“Spike?” Discord repeats. “Isn’t he that little dragon who’s always writing down everything Twilight Sparkle says?”
“Yes that’s Spike and Rarity is in love him despite her best interests of course…well in my opinion, but if she wants to marry a dragon and then experience his true instinctive nature years from now then that is her choice.”
Once the table is completely set Fluttershy hesitantly snaps Rarity out of her thoughts. “Come Rarity, lunch is served.”
So with a eager stomach Rarity joins Fluttershy and Discord at the table. “Fluttershy darling thank you for preparing this for me.” With that and before Fluttershy or Discord had the chance to say anything Rarity digs in before words stop her. “Oh this is eternally divine!”
Both Discord and Fluttershy give each other grins to celebrate their accomplishment. “We did good Fluttershy.” Discord whispers.
“We sure did.” Fluttershy responds.
***
In the Everfree forest. Weytani sitting on a moss covered log gently passes her razor sharp nails through Master’s hair as he rests his head on her lap. “Master though I stroking your head relaxes you, I can sense an inner turmoil inside of you raging like a forest fire.”
Indeed the Xenomorph is absolutely correct but what fire is raging inside the stallion as he’s being gently stroked by his personal guard?
Inside the galaxy.
“Never will it ever come to this when I am planning my punishment for an Immortal that cannot be killed, an Immortal I love ever so dearly, and an Immortal who must pay for my end before my once beloved wife.” Even when he already professed his intentions to extract his justice from his Aunt, Gold Sky finds it reasonable to remind himself the reason this is happening. “Aunt Luna will suffer and with help from the Last Zebra of the Rouge clan I can find out who are the two who raped me! SO I CAN MAKE THEIR LIVES AN ABSOLUTE INFERNO WHEN THEIR VILE TAKEN GIFT BECOMES THEIR CURSE!!”
“Master?” Now Weytani can definitely feel Master’s rage rising with no end in sight. “Are you…alright?”
“May I find the will to look back when this is all done and ask myself if I am doing the right thing by…” Justice will bring a pain in his heart. “No longer being family with Luna…she is no longer a part of my family, I am not her nephew, she is not my Aunt, we are no family. We are two Alicorns that’s it. The end, THE END! THE END OF EVERYTHING BETWEEN ME AND LUNA! THE END OF HER ELITE COMMANDO GUARD, THE END OF HER REGAL PRIDE THAT ALLOWS HER TO HOLD HER HEAD HIGH! OH SHE WILL RUE THE VERY DAY I COME FOR HER, I WILL MAKE HER SUFFER A MILLION TIMES OVER IF I FEEL LIKE IT! I WILL END HER! I WILL BREAK HER!!”
Weytani now becoming afraid of the rage inside her dear master can only pass her hands through his hair and hope yes hope for the first time this will comfort him.
“I…” Yet Gold Sky wants to relent. “It will break her heart oh my dear Aunt Luna! It will break her heart when I disown her and throw back the rock from Halley’s Comet she got for me as a sigh of her love. NO! I never back down, I will break Luna, I will destroy her, I will shatter her mind, and I let her see who deserves to be rightfully feared. For I am Love in its physical form yet I’m either damned or blessed with Mortal instincts luckily not hate. Thank the Great Spirit I cannot hate.” If he was a lesser stallion Gold Sky will hate Luna with every ounce of his power and add in killing a few thousand mortals for good measure too since it was mortals who violated him.
“I will break Luna.”
Declares the Stallion.
“Master? Who will you break and who is Luna?” Weytani temporary pauses passing her hand through master’s hair but more importantly his rage finally subsides to a level she cannot sense.
“Luna is my Aunt and she me had me killed…”
*gasp!* Weytani comes to hear of her master’s death and in her young emotional spectrum feels sadness when her highly sonar senses pieces together the scar behind the stallion’s heart. “Master if she is your family then how can she kill you…! WHY WILL SHE TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ME!”
The stallion sensing Weyani’s pain motions her to continue stroking his hair. “Fear. Fear of the irrational Weytani is what made her kill me so now I must show her if she is going to have fear then I will be that fear.” *TING* However. “But Weytani while I am your master and you are my personal guard, there is somebody else you should be protecting with your life just like you do for me.”
“What do you mean?” Asks the Xenomorph with a tilt of her head.
“I need you to protect my daughter Weytani for she is my heart and before you ask why I’m telling you this I’ll leave it at this. I am the best fighter in this entire world for I have no equal as for who is number two that will be you and your sisters Weytani so who else besides me is most qualified to protect my daughter?”
Weytani now understands why Gold Sky is telling her this. “You don’t want me to be in harm’s way.”
“Correct Weytani, for like you said I treat you and love you as Family.”
***
“Uh Rarity tell me, are feeling okay?” Fluttershy asks while Discord is busy cleaning the dishes so she can talk to Rarity.
“If you’re asking what I think you’re asking then yes I am able to keep moving forward because I have to in order to get what I uhh need, really need.” Hard part is Rarity trying to keep her voice from going raspy which will tell Fluttershy she is in quite an angered state.
“Rarity does look better…well I really don’t know what better is supposed to look like after what she went through but from what I’m getting from her now I guess I can say she is better.” Fluttershy thinks. “I hope we can do something together today.”
In Rarity’s mind. “I know that look on her face. She wants to go somewhere with me and I can guess the Crystal Empire just so I can admire it’s beauty once more since Fluttershy wants to make me feel happy.” Details, details, details, the one thing Rarity can read without a flaw.
So low & behold. “If I remember correctly, Rarity does love going to the Crystal Empire. Perhaps I can have Discord open a door for us.” On second thought. “No I think going by train is better.”
“Rarity will you like to come with me to the Crystal Empire?” Fluttershy asks in the manner Rarity expected which is being behind her mane.
“Yes.” Without a moment to think Rarity is already ready to enjoy more of her day.
Discord feeling happy to see his dear Fluttershy smile snaps his fingers which opens a door to the gates of the Crystal Empire. “Here you are you two.”
“Ooh thank you Discord!” Rarity gives Discord a lovely and took a step forward towards the temporal rip in the fabric of reality. “Huh?” A hoof on her shoulder stops her.
“We’ll take the train Discord but thanks for your consideration though.”
Unoffended Discord closes the door. “Alright well you two have fun, I’ll stay here and wait for Big McIntosh and his assistant to tutor me in trigonometry.” With a snap a chalkboard, desk, and a pile apples await the red stallion.
And in the train both mares head to the Crystal Empire while unbeknownst to them in the last cart is Princess Luna with her dear son. “Delta my son, maybe Cadance can help with this Immortal Daughter problem.”
“I don’t know mother, for if this Immortal is an Alicorn like you and has the strength of her father which I bet she does then what can Cadance do?”
Being brought down to the hopelessness she first felt when Flying Havoc was thrown through her window. “Nothing, for I took her brother from her.”
“WHAT!!!? YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS MOTHER! YOU CAN’T!!” At first Delta Scorch didn’t think the Immortal’s death will be so serious but now hearing he’s the brother of her majesty Princess Mi Amore Cadenza then now he’s really worried how much mother damned herself.
“Yes I am but thankfully we’re pure Immortals thus vengeance can’t told of her so I’m safe from her.” Luna points with a sigh of relief.
“I hope you’re right about that.” Delta Scorch mutters before telling himself all is lost…soon...for mother that is.
Back to Rarity and Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy darling just why did you want to use the train than to use the door Discord opened for us?” Rarity asks while she shifts her hair to her left shoulder.
Fluttershy before answering lays her head on Rarity’s right shoulder to feel comfortable with her dearest friend. “I just wanted to enjoy the opportunity to feel this close to you in this train ride; I want to feel close to you Rarity when I went through a period without a mare that’s a basically a piece of my heart.”
Rarity quietly gasps but then sees this as something many will or maybe some call little moments. “You are enjoying this little moment and well there is something I love doing and believe it or not this is the first time I tell somebody about this.”
Looking up to Rarity’s cheek Fluttershy asks her what Rarity has been keeping secret.
With a light chuckle Rarity can’t believe she is actually telling somepony about this. “My own little thing. Haha ahem, any who, once or twice a week I will go in my upmost disguise just so I can be seen as someone who does not warrant attention to the Glowing Kiowa at around eight to eight fifteen in morning which as you might or correctly guess is when breakfast is served. Of course breakfast is solely reserved for the guests but the owner knowing that I happily pay in gems will let me join. So first thing I’ll do is get the newspaper, a cup of coffee with three sugars and two hazelnut creamers. Then I’ll get my table which is always in the corner of the dining room and after I get my food, I finally sit down.” Rarity pauses to remember the slight pleasure she gets when she has breakfast at the Glowing Kiowa.
“Why do you like you have breakfast at a hotel and in a disguise?” Fluttershy asks in the pause.
“Well there is just something about eating breakfast at a hotel where there are ponies from all walks of life, with different accents, voices from the most masculine to the most adorable feminine, and of course just watching them be…uhhhh, be normal in their life. They are just doing whatever they please and I will sit there witnessing what life has to show me and how I can enjoy it in my own way. Do you get what I’m saying Fluttershy?”
“No.” Plain & clear.
Rarity slowly leans her head onto Fluttershy’s head to feel the skin of a mare who has not violated her but nonetheless, harmed her though forgiveness has its divine way of giving back the warmth only Fluttershy can radiate and that warmth is quite lovely as the diamonds on Rarity’s cutiemark. “Let me put it this way Fluttershy, I just enjoy witnessing ponies enjoying themselves and I experience a calm being around my fellow ponies thus breakfast is the opportune time to have this calm I love. A calm like father…” *COUGH* Rarity performs a fake cough to stop herself from being influenced by the memories she has of little brother being father. “Oh of all the times I have to talk about him it has to be now! Dear me, I need him to use his telepathy on me.” Rarity does another cough to keep up with the temporary but necessary charade. “A calm that only I can find among all things.”
Thankfully missing the father part due to the coughs Fluttershy replies that she fully understands Rarity appreciation of a unique little thing.
“Thank you for forgiving me Rarity.”
“You’re welcome darling.”
***
In the Crystal Empire.
“Arms up, arms up damn it! Otherwise he’ll slap your flank around like a piece of weak frakken idiot dumb frak now arms up you dumb frak!” Can’t blame the Drill Sergeant for trying to compete with Chef Gordon Ram for saying the most f words in one sentence.
“Take aim fire!” Bolts of magic strike their respective targets. To which here in the grounds of the palace future guards train for there is one meat bag in their service and one is more than enough for them.
At a distance Aunt and Niece walk by but Gilda hearing the sounds of the metal striking metal, loud grunts reminiscent to the same grunts her Marines once under her command expressed in the battlefield, and the whistling of arrows zooming towards straw filled targets.
“Does this seem familiar to you Gilda?” Princess Cadance asks.
Oh it does look so familiar but all of this reawakens her pain from the war and once again when she needs Father he isn’t around to wrap his protective arms around her. “Oh no! AH!” Gilda falls to her knees grasping her head while her ears can only hear the sound of dear Jun-Park asking her to save him. “I can hear him! My dear Jun-Park, my friend I hear him, Cadance! Please help me!”
“Uh-oh!” Cadance witnesses Gilda’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder where there are many eyes that can gaze upon the poor Griffon and think of the wrong wonder for her. “I’m covering you. “ With telepathy Cadance hides Gilda from everyone that may see her. “Gilda what’s wrong? Please tell me what’s harming you at this very moment so I can try to help you.”
“G-g-ge-get me out of here please!” From the sound of Jun’s pleas, the sound of metal clashing, the sound of flesh being stabbed, and more dire that sound of her whipping her father fade away thinking she’s has gotten away from her pain’s grasp but such an eclipse of relief can only be a lie for a new sound appears but this sound is different from the rest. Because while yes the rest do sound rather dreadful or downright horrifying to the common mind this news sound is simply the sound of troops marching…the sound of marching. To where, who knows? Why, who knows as well. Purpose…? Oooooh the clear meaning of purpose is what troops will want to know before donning their armor and grabbing their spears. Thus for Gilda, the sound of troops of marching is the pinnacle of her guilt for marching into war thinking she can change something but in reality the only thing that changed is herself…she was practically unbroken like a porcelain vase when she donned her helmet now after taking it off she’s riddled with cracks that if one stimuli albeit prolonged procession by her PTSD were to touch her she will break into pieces. “I need…” The paternal warmth by her father will sooth her but right this isn’t a luxury so to improvise and of course in memory of Tabitha, she decides to seek a maternal touch for the time being. “I-I-I-I need your uhhhhh I-I –I ne-need your maternal love Aunt Cadance. Please.”
Well, a mare’s maternal instinct has to start somewhere and to tap into it to comfort somebody who solely clings to paternal love is the ultimate opportunity to bring it to fruition. “Oh dearest niece I may not give you the best I can but right now relax for the pain in you is great but my love and my undying desire to understand you is far more greater than your pain oh my dear Gilda.” Just like the graceful majesty of her voice shines a light in the core of Gilda’s mind her arms bring the Griffon to her heart so Gilda can hear the beating heart that is connected to the beating heart that has a scar over it. “I am not a mother Gilda but my love for you can be translated as so.”
With her ear clearly hearing the beautiful heartbeat Gilda is taken away from the world of pain and feels a motherly love she felt long ago with Tabitha. “I guess this is what motherly love feels…it feels so…”
“Amazing?” Cadance helps.
“No. That’s not the word I wanted to say dear Aunt Cadance…hmmm I never quite gotten used to a mare’s touch before but to be touched like this from you I can get used to it.” In a slight pause Gilda takes the chance to giggle like she going share a secret that needs to be shared. “Far. Far, that’s the word.”
“Far?” Cadance mews like a kitten hearing its owner offer it a treat. “Maternal touch feels far?”
Gilda nods while pressing herself harder against Cadance’s chest to get a much clearer sound of the heart of the mare who can spread love and a much more clearer sound of the heart of the mare who was created in the hands of the Son of the Great Spirit. “Far as in now having it in my grasp but not knowing what to do with it.” *ting* “Aunt Cadance, I want to know something.”
“Know what Gilda?”
A perfect time for whatever can be a perfect answer. “My father your brother who created him?”
“My Father, Gilda.”
“So that will give some sort of a divine sense in a way?” Well if he isn’t an Angel then he’s just father which for Gilda, father is more than enough for her.
“Hmmmmm.” Cadance thinks before answering along with really simplifying her response for Gilda to completely understand. “Created by the Divine yes, but any sort of Divinity no if that is what you’re wondering Gilda. But! Unlike me, Celestia, and Luna who have what can be seen as a divine sense which is being completely immune to death your father has a piece of my Father’s love. Therefore, your father’s love while just a grain of sand among the entire sand of my Father’s love which to visualize it is the entire, entire, entire universe filled top to bottom with endless sand.” Cadance briefly pauses just to make sure her next words are accurate. “Ahem, your father’s love while a grain of sand is infinity more powerful than the love I, Celestia, Luna, and every being of this Earth can ever amass. AND, yes AND, a fraction of that grain of sand in your father is in you.”
That last piece is too much to even try to think about thus Gilda stays quiet to enjoy how long her embrace of Aunt Cadance can carry on. “I guess that explains how I got a sudden strength surge when I was fighting Flying Havoc.” Well at least Gilda is able to see that father’s love gave her strength.
Any who. “Blonde you say.”
‘Huh??” Gilda lets go the mare.
Cadance lovingly chuckles and goes back to the bonding moment before being interrupted about the mare murdering the innocent child. “Didn’t you say that the first thing you seek in a stallion is blonde hair?”
“OH! Hahaha oh, I remember now Aunt Cadance. HA! The reason I want a stallion with blonde hair is because to me blonde hair means innocence and beauty…well innocent beauty. Now tell me about that red stallion without wings and a horn. I-I-I was sort checking him out and I touched another stallion’s flank with my tail.”
*GASP!* Funny when previously mentioned Cadance thought nothing of it but know with motherly instinct running about inside of her now she can think clear about it and boy does she get MOTHERLY! “YOU DID uh oh hold on.” Cadance stops to concentrate her telepathy to keep them from getting attention. “Okay ahem did you just sexually harass a stallion!!!?” Now out with the loving motherly voice and in with the upset motherly voice. “Tell me you did not do what you just said because if you did then I will become very disappointed in you.”
Uh oh. “Uhhhhhhh…” Gilda wishes she can take back her words but what is said is said so she might as well own up to her actions for she is a strong responsible Alpha mare not some weak pathetic irresponsible self-entitled Beta mare. *sigh* “I did.”
“YOU…AAAAAHHHH” Cadance tries her best to contain her massive disappoint. “Why!!? What in the world gave you the slightest idea that you just go up to some random stallion and intrude in his personal space by diverging into a lustful act and get away with it! HUH! Tell me! What gives you the right to do that when you know full well it’s wrong! You hear! You know it’s wrong!!”
Now ashamed for what she did to Thunderlane Gilda frowns so she will not see make eye contact with her biological Aunt. “I-I lost control of myself, I-I just wanted to feel how a handsome stallion feels like. I never meant it to be sexual in any way…I’m sorry for what did.”
Being motherly and allowing her to feel the guilt inside Gilda. Cadance calms down and becomes understanding. “I understand Gilda. You never meant it to be sexual in anyway and you’re still young to what Love is. Still I should tell your father what you did to that poor stallion.”
*HOLY FRAKKEN NO GASP* “NO PLEASE DON’T TELL HIM! I will never do it again I promise!! I’ll never do it again!! I PROMISE! I PROMISE! I PROMISE!!”
Humph, cheeky mother. “Very well I won’t tell him Gilda just you know think before you act all right and never do it again EVER!! Now we should really take a pause from stallions and have something to eat. You up for some pizza and ice cream?”
A nod says yes. “Phew.” Gilda is more than happy to keep father in the dark about the sexual harassment she did to Thunderlane. “I should apologize to him and be prepared to whatever he’ll throw at me.”
“Perfect! But never, never do it again ever!! Now let’s go my dear niece.” Meanwhile in Cadance’s mind. “I know I got through to her and I think this is the first time she felt a touch of maternal love or getting reprimanded by a motherly figure.”
***
Looking into the large crystal to see her reflection Rarity quickly fixes her hair and passes a small comb through Fluttershy’s hair to make themselves presentable and get the hard earned attention from everyone. “There you are Fluttershy looking beautiful like nature itself.”
“Hmm thanks Rarity huh??” Fluttershy’s eyes catch someone. “Is it just me or is that Princess Luna?”
“Princess Luna?” Rarity turns to the direction Fluttershy is pointing to. “Ooooooh it is her majesty Princess Luna with one of her guards. Say let’s go and greet her Fluttershy, c’mon darling.”
“Okay.” Fluttershy follows her dearest friend.
“Come my son let’s find Cadance oh it’s Fluttershy and…” Oh boy. “Rarity, humph what is she doing here.” Even when Rainbow isn’t here Luna is still bit testy towards the white mare. “Still I have to tolerate her or Rainbow won’t be very pleased if Rarity tells her I mistreated the pomp mare.”
Delta Scorch who unlike his mother admires the flawless Rarity and is quite happy to her coming his way so with a quick pass through his hair he makes himself looks his best on the spot. “Oh I hope I can kiss her hoof!!”
“What!??” Luna screeches before realizing her son has nothing against Rarity. “Well don’t overdo it my son.” Can’t blame her son for being fond of Rarity
“Your Majesty Luna!” Rarity greets. “It’s nice to see you here!”
“Hi.” Is all Fluttershy manages to say.
“Rarity.” Luna says with a drawl tone. “Fluttershy my lovely sweet Pegasus!” Quite happy in this tone of voice.
Now Delta’s turn. “Madame Rarity!” Joyfully he gives her short bow and kisses her right hoof.
“Oh thank you darling.” Rarity is quite flattered by Delta’s exquisite greeting and then asks the Princess of the Moon what brings her to the Crystal Empire especially without a guard detail.
“I just need to have a word or two with Princess Cadance nothing much and none of your concern Rarity but if you wish to accompany us you can however, once in the palace I suggest you leave me and my son be though Fluttershy may come if she wishes.” Taking a few steps forward and flicks her tail. “Come.”
Following closely behind and constantly seeing Delta take a look back to look at the flawless Rarity, Fluttershy leans over to whisper something to Rarity. “Why is she being so cold to you Rarity?”
Rarity leans in closer just in case Princess Luna has enhanced hearing. “She’s totally insecure about Rainbow Dash.”
“What?” Fluttershy replies.
“She thinks that I will take Rainbow Dash away from her which will never happen since I am in love with Spike but you can’t blame somepony like for being a bit insecure.” Then in a daring action Rarity raises her voice a few decibels for Luna to clearly hear. “My heart belongs to Spike, Luna on the other hoof will lose the most loyal thing by holding it close to her fear instead of holding it close to joy.”
Clearly catching every word Rarity said Luna’s ears drop. “Frak you for being right Rarity.” But continues walking forward with her head high and being regal when the crystal ponies bow down to her.
Up above well up above in the clouds and not up above in the Heavenly Paradise, Lauren awaits the moment when Luna and Gilda make eye contact. “I will change Gilda’s glowing red eyes to yellow. But then again Rarity is there and she will show Gilda how caring she is even when Gilda no longer sees her as well Aunt Rarity.”
***
In the palace at Canterlot.
“It’s still there! Heh, I see it every time I look in the mirror but I never wondered what will happen if I touch my wings and horn.” So the gray mare foregoes putting on her bowtie and proceeds to touch the horn & wings.
Sudden upon contact the wings & horn disappear surprising the gray mare for the out of place reaction but then again Octavia see this as something that will happen again the next time she touches her reflection.
“So Octavia are going to see her?” Princess Celestia asks when the gray mare comes out of the bathroom.
Octavia lightly snorts from the corner of her mouth. “Yes I am going to see my mother and I really don’t want but I will and can I borrow Twilight Sparkle?”
“Borrow Twilight Sparkle?” Celestia says with a tilt of her head. “You make it sound like she’s my indentured servant.”
“Well can I borrow her still?” Octavia asks once more.
“Yes you can ooooh I-I mean you can ask her yourself Octavia but why do you need her to go with you?” Celestia’s magic ties Octavia’s bow tie around her neck.
“Thanks Celestia. Well with her I feel like I can be open to her for even when she is a very smart mare she nonetheless simplifies herself without having judgement because I talked about my mother with Rarity she might be well a bit dramatic about my hatred for that wretched mare.”
Not surprised one bit. “I knew you will hate your mother you are mortal I mean you were once mortal after all. Well you have all the right reason to hate her, for she committed infidelity, harming your father, showing you how vain she is, then attempting to get you to join her and abandon your father, and then just straight up leaving the two of you when she decided to never look for both of you. That Octavia is a prime example of Hypergamy.”
“Huh??” Now it’s the gray mare’s turn to tilt her head. “What is Hypergamy??”
“Hypergamy is when a mare gets a stallion out of the hopes that the stallion can make her life very convenient such as providing wealth, suitable or pompous housing, a unique lifestyle, and a stable, really stable lifestyle with some health wealth in the end as well.”
“Oh.” *TING* “I-I get it now.” Now Octavia’s ears drop.
Taking Octavia’s response as an understanding Celestia continues. “The act of Hypergamy your mother committed is going to another stallion to have a unique lifestyle or in other words to have an adventure, an ounce of an extravagant spark, or just do something out of the norm. Her norm that is which the norm is being to your father. Thus why she easily harmed him.”
There was a reason for the ‘TING’ inside Octavia’s heart and boy does it drive to bear the wrath of Celestia’s anger. “In the end Celestia I see I am no different than my mother.”
“What!!? What do you mean you are no different tha…” It hits her like a spear going straight through her heart. “No. I-I wanted my son to be with a mare I wanted for him not a mortal minded Earth Pony like you! YOU DID SOMETHING DIDN’T YOU! YOU DID SOMETHING!!! WHAT DID YOU DO!!!”
Amazingly calm in front of the Powerful & angry Princes of the Sun, Octavia first moves her hair out of her face. “I wanted a child, my dear Gold Sky was not ready but I, even when I had everything I went…I had an affair…”
Celestia becomes engulfed by flames showing she is furious as flairs that lash out from the Sun. “You! I CAN’T BELIEVE I LET MY SON MARRY A FOWL MARE LIKE YOU!! I LET CADANCE CONVINCE ME TO LET HIM FOLLOW HIS HEART! I LET HIM FALL IN LOVE WITH A MERE MORTAL!” From the fury red fire that engulfed Celestia it changes color to dark blue as in tune with her emotions. “He caught you the same way your father caught your mother didn’t he!”
Ever so calm as the King Cobra in the path of a treading elephant Octavia takes a breath to answer. “Yes but believe when I say this. Though I had an affair the worse that come from it was just a kiss.” Oh frak it! Octavia will just lay it bare. “We never had sexual intercourse if that is what concerns you the most Celestia because before Gold Sky caught me I realized the wrong I’m committed as I was kissing the other stallion.”
“STILL!” Despite the clear anger in her voice the flames around Celestia lessen a bit. “You harmed my son; the most honorable stallion that any mare can have yet you still hurt him because of your stupid emotions. So what if you wanted a child does that give you the right to make a life changing decision without him!? ANSWER ME!”
“No.”
“Exactly! Humph you typical mortal mare! Another prime example of Hypergamy at its best! You mortal mares! Your husbands devote themselves to you to give you the world but yet you are never satisfied when you can’t have the speck that’s on the ground. I can’t believe I’m going to say this to you Octavia…my daughter in law. But my son made the unwise decision of marrying you. Because you when you were walking down the aisle, I thought of something in the back of mind that one day you will hurt him and sadly I was right.”
Dauntless. “This is why he didn’t tell you what I did for he knew you will react like this.”
With the flames lessening Celestia sees how right the gray mare is. “My son forgive you. He wanted to strike you I bet but he can never bring himself to hit the mare he loves with all his heart. I know you fell on your knees begging for his forgiveness out of fear that he will justifiably leave you.”
Octavia is very taken aback by Celestia pinpoint accuracy about the begging for Gold Sky’s forgiveness part. “For three months no four months I begged him to forgive me, for four months I slept on the couch, for four months he did not speak a word to me nor bothered looking at me when I looked at him. For those four months I stood basically in the world of uncertainty until finally I broke the silence by telling him that will find him a mare to pleasure himself with in order to even out the things I did.” *sigh* “When I said that, he basically embraced made eye-contact with me and told me he forgave me.”
Celestia snorts blue fire from her nostrils. “Of course he will.”
“He said I’m the only mare he wants. He wants me nopony else and reminded me of his vows that through sickness and through hell he shall always be with me…then I talked him into joining me in bed and we had sex.”
Still in flames Celestia decides she had enough so she heads out the room but stops short of completely leaving. “The next time we talk it will be after you give birth so until then you can stay here in the palace but never come near me ever again. And the words I said before, you know the ones I said you are the right mare for him given how he accepted you for being unique. I take them back. Jump.” *POOF!*
Octavia sighs and leaves the palace to find Twilight Sparkle. “It could have been worse. Anyway hello mother. Humph…why do I practice saying hello mother? Eh I could just go to Eternal Damnation but that’s not very proper on my part.”
Up on the top of the tallest tower Celestia looks down to see Octavia walking towards the train.
“Frak you Cadance. Frak you Octavia. Frak me. For allowing myself to be convinced that my son should follow his heart and marry Octavia.”
In the Crystal Empire.
“Big Macintosh, Gilda.” Princess Cadance exclaims like she discovered the secret of turning any metal into gold.
“What?”
Cadance grins first before indulging the Griffon. “You know the red stallion with the dark blonde hair you were checking out.”
Being very alert Gilda chooses her words carefully. “We can talk about stallions now??” Well carefully choose her words more out of being afraid of Cadance’s motherly anger.
“Sure why now Gilda you have a full stomach so you will have a full mind. Hehehe.”
From the end of the corridor Luna, Delta Scorch, Rarity, and Fluttershy enter Cadance’s field of vision but out of the four Luna stands out the most. “Oh no, no, no, no this can’t be!” Cadance freezes in place instantly killing the happiness that was being shared between her and Gilda.
“Cadance I finally find you in the maze of this palace.”
“Huh?” Truth be told Gilda never gotten a good look of Princes Luna so this dark blue mare with a black crown arouses her curiosity. “Who’s that?” She whispers.
“Father please help me.” Cadance pray inside her mind before turning to answer Gilda’s question. “Tha-that’s Princess Luna.” Oh how she wishes she can teleport Gilda out of here.
*Tirah*
Gilda’s eyes glow yellow.
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My dearest viewers, I guess my new busy schedule really is busy so judging from how long it took me to write this chapter I guess I have to make new chapters shorter just so I won't make you wait for so long. Any who, regarding the music. I will always use the Hobbit motif from the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, to symbolize the relationship between Rarity and Fluttershy. Because Howard Shore is a very good composer though he is my second favorite while my absolute favorite is none other than the living legend John Williams.
Once again thank you my dearest viewers for your patience.