To see Twilight
Rememberance
By King of Malta
“Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle.” Celestia read softly, the words themselves coming from the first letter that Twilight Sparkle had written her following the return of Nightmare Moon and the revival of her sister, Luna. How many years had that been? ‘Close to a century,’ she thought wistfully, silently cursing the perfect memory that came with nigh eternal divinity, ‘How time has passed but, this last century has passed ever so slowly…’
Equestria and Celestia were in mourning for the loss of one of their brightest Unicorns and dearest of companions through the passage of life. It was almost as if day had merged with the night, Celestia had ordered the bright banners of gold to reflect the sun be replaced with black banners to represent her sorrow and that Equestria should contemplate the special light that had disappeared. Celestia knew though that Luna would not take offense from it because, even the sun seemed to pale and glow dimmer reflecting how Celestia herself felt over the passing of her most favorite student. She would never admit it but, she was silently happy that Twilight Sparkle who had once had been devoted only to herself and studies, who had then blossomed into the best friend ever possible for five other ponies, who had also been equally devoted to her Princess. “She held out,” Celestia softly whispered as tears fell from her cheeks to the precious letter of her student “She held out for me. She delayed her passing for so many years after her friends had gone to comfort me.”
Try as hard as she might no matter how much Celestia read the hundreds of letters her student had sent over the years the passing of her student would not be healed in her heart. Standing up from the mound of letters around her, Celestia cantered to her private desk using her magic to sift through one of the drawers and pull out a particular scroll from the many others. It was one she knew well but, had not used since Twilight had traveled to Ponyville for the first time. Except for the Parasprite Incident, rather than see all of Equestria devoured she had used it to warn herself a week earlier to prepare for the parasprites and delay her arrival in Ponyville by another hour. Opening the scroll she read the title “’Starswirl the Bearded’s Time Travel Spell’, oh Starswirl, you were my second most cunning student.”
Mentally clamping hard on even older memories then the ones of Twilight she quickly cast the spell the magic surrounding her. Even though it tore at her heart to remember she concentrated on a night years and years ago, the night of Twilight’s arrival at the castle. The magic of the spell surrounded her, closing in on her and flowing through every fiber of her being before with a blinding flash of light she found herself in the same room she had left. The same room she had left yet, this room did not contain any of Twilight’s letters and it did contain not only a very young Twilight, but a slightly younger Celestia. Past Celestia smiled up at her future self, not phased by her appearance “I was wondering if you would show up tonight.”
“Then that can only mean one thing,” Future Celestia said with a smile and a wink, her eyes dropping down to the sleeping form of a filly aged Twilight Sparkle. The younger Twilight nuzzled up to Past Celestia, causing her future self’s heart to tighten in her chest “She will be worth teaching and being with day and night.”
“I had a feeling that she would be something special.” Past Celestia replied, leaning down to gently nuzzle Twilight’s sleeping form before, using her magic to ever so gently pick up Twilight and step back from her bed.
“That feeling I think will grow into something…magical” the future Celestia whispered as she settled down on the bed herself, using her magic to take Twilight from her past-self and lay with her young pupil. Even though she had just lied to her past-self that she was from tomorrow night and not many years away Celestia knew that it was worth it to save herself from the gnawing thoughts of her new pupil’s death. Just feeling Twilight sent a shock of motherly love and devotion through Celestia that she had been unable to fulfill for some time. Sensing the light beating heart of Twilight as she slept with innocent dreams made the emotional burden of Twilight’s passing disappear like it was never there for Celestia. Letting out a soft sigh she began to nestle against Twilight Sparkle carefully wrapping the sleeping filly in one of her wings when her past-self spoke as she tip-hoofed towards the chamber’s doors.
“I will take care of my sister’s night but, I have to ask. Is there anything tomorrow I should be forewarned about?” winking as she backed out the door.
“Oh my yes,” Celestia said with a soft giggle to herself “When Twilight insists to be left alone so that she can practice the levitation spell be sure to return after thirteen minutes to contain the small fire, lightly chide her, and forgive her with a hug.”
“Is that so? I will sure to do just that. Good night and sleep dreams. If I put just enough magic into Starswirl’s spell then I will be gone by the first light of dawn.”
“Good night Celestia” Celestia said to herself as her past-self closed the door. Now alone with the young mare she settled down for a peaceful sleep.
“Is that so?” Celestia spoke softly from behind the doors, just quiet enough that not even her future-self would be able to hear her. She would not be able to understand why or experience the feelings until she actually lived them but, walking away she could not help as she cried and felt sadness for the years to come and the eventual passing of her newly, faithful student Twilight Sparkle.
“That sounds just like…today.”
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needs to be longer,tho its ok. there needs to be more... sadness...
the longer it is the longer it makes the reader sadder and might make them cry if long enough.
Funny thing, I always assumed Twilight would end up as an alicorn (or discover whatever it is that makes Luna and Celestia "ageless")
381816
actually, there not ageless, celestias life span is as long a the sun. once it burns out she dies... or at lease it think. if not, im sure you cant live without a sun...
Nice "Back to the Future" reference towards the end there, sir
I don't really know what to say. It didn't affect as some others have but it was good.
381818 What about luna?
381861 when the sun turns into a red giant it will engulf the moon... so you get it right
or the moon gets hit by a large asteroid and exploded, if the moon brakes/gets destroyed and Luna dies.
381871 i knew that
381875 or did you >.> <.<
381877 I did.
381878 ok......
381881 yep.........
bored nao BAI
381884 bye.
what to do now
381818
Applejack notices too much of fancy science. She is not pleased.
381956
physics FTW!!!!!
381958
While I agree to a certain degree, with Rainbow's tricks there's no place for physics.
381977 yes there is, only pinkie pie screws physics.
381987
Twilight Sparkle disagrees.
381993 with what? pinkie pie screwing physics?? or rainbow dash having physics?
381813 Thats a good thing, right??
382029
well if you want it to pull heartstrings then yes... im guess that's what this story is trying so yes.
All things come to death.
Good day.
That is such a touching story.
"all good things..." but why this thing. Why? If celestia and luna are linked to the age of the sun and moon shouldnt twilight be linked to the age of magic?
382084
no, she just has a strong connection to it, its like saying rarity should be linked to fashion.
381818
I sincerely doubt thats how it works. Plus, that would make Celestia far, far older than she is portrayed to be in the show. (Luna too) i am of the personal opinion that Alicorns, while not immortal, are ageless after a certain point.
382170
what i think is that they somehow managed to "link" them self's to objects and live as long as that object is existent
Ah wow. Thanks for the comments and other stuff. I was quite surprised this morning waking up. This started as an idea, a sad idea that I felt needed to be explored and to get out of my own head. Looking at Celestia's reaction to Twilight's death and a possible time paradox from using the time traveling spell.
If people really do want to see it continued there are only one of two ways that I could think of at the moment to continue it, but it would only be a two parter.
381813>>382076>>381963>>381926>>381833>>381813
382227
you put my name twice
382269 I'm not used to editing and using this reply system
382283
... i got put twice.
i feel so..... special
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398631 Heart Attack?
399572
From how touching the story is.
399872 Ah! Thanks.
The description is intriguing, but "remembrance" only has three Es.
7940364
Yes, I did not do a lot of editing in my early days of writing.
7940836
Any chance of a fix?