A Fallen Goddess

by Vaughn

Chapter Null

Princess Luna sat in the deepest crater on the moon. Broken, alone, and forgotten. Her Lunar Guard had been so brutally defeated or turned on the night of the planned coupe. Now here she sat, pondering how to escape her seemingly eternal prison. Living off of small quantities of ice on the surface, as well as transmogrifying rocks into moon cheese whenever her stomach deemed so necessary. The cheese was hard, bitter, and crumbly. But it did the job. Her head was low as she studied the dull-gray surface of her once glorious moon. She traced her hoof across the dust slowly, expending as little energy as possible. She formed a heart, and drew two images in the center. On of her, and the other of her sister. Below the two stick-ponies were the words, Best Sisters Forever.

Luna sighed as she carefully rested her head sideways on the unforgiving terrain. A frown splayed across her face as she lay on her side, her hair laced with debris, and no longer silky and shiny from decades without washing. Her once elegant mane continued to flow, however, in the non-existent breeze. A flash of light quickly caught her attention as it soared across the sky, no doubt a meteor as she had seen countless times before. It was not fascinating, nor did it make her happy. What once was a great accomplishment to her, was now a sign of her flaws. There were a few more flashes, three to be exact, all coming across the sky. One, however, was closer than it should have been. This caused panic in Luna. She shot up to four hooves, and cautiously continued to watch the meteor that flew oh-too-closely to her moon. It gradually got closer and closer, and Luna began to trot away, as fast as she could. As it got closer, Luna could tell it was much larger than the ones she used to see. It's increase in velocity only stemmed her heart rate to go faster, as she was reaching the point of hyperventilation.

The meteor got close enough that Luna could make out details. Such as, it was a darker color than her moon. More riddled with holes as it continued to spiral towards her beloved celestial body. As it hit the surface, Luna felt a massive wave of force hit her in the back, all the way up to the front as a visible ring of force pushed it's way through the galaxy's being. As soon as it fully engulfed her, she was sent rocketing off the moon's surface, faster than the speed of light. As she parted from her precious, yet dusty orb, a single thought came across her mind. Death. Surely now that she was traveling faster than the speed of light, in a vast expanse with no way of getting water or food, would she survive. Right?

Luna lost all of her concept of time. How long had it been since last she had seen her moon? Was it an hour? A year? A decade? The vast expanse of space seemed timeless, much as she and her sister was. Oh sister, if only thou wert to see us.. She thought in her gloom, as she felt herself slightly slowed as she scuffed against the side of asteroids every now and again.

As she continued to rocket past solar systems, she noticed she was coming up on one directly in front of her. She closed her eyes as she got closer and closer, accepting her fate, but she took a quick glimpse. It was of a green and blue planet, one like Equestria. She then felt herself slowing down. With her eyes closed, she felt the atmosphere of the planet slowing her down even further. Luna then felt hot. Unbeknownst to her, she was in fact, on fire. But she didn't care. She knew the force of her impact would kill her. She gradually got closer and closer, and she snuck one final look and spotted a house. Her death, however, never came. She found herself submerged in what felt like water. The force of the impact knocked the breath from her as she struggled to make her way to the surface, having never taken swimming lessons. She gradually pulled herself out of the rectangular lake, and collapsed on her side right next to it. What happened next was the last thing she had ever expected to happen.

"Is horsie okay?" A small, male voice rang out from seemingly everywhere. Luna opened her eyes, and saw a small bipedal, hairless ape with sky blue pajamas spotted with moons, and stars. It was holding a small, stuffed teddy bear, obviously in fright, and wonder. She then slowly, but surely, made her way to a sitting-on-four-hooves position.

"We... we art alright, creature." She said, weakly. Her strength sapped, Luna elected to lay on her side again. The hairless ape then went inside it's house. "D-" Luna was interrupted by a series of coughs. "Don't leave us here, creature! We didst not mean to offend thou!" She said, barely loud at all. Soon, she heard scraping, and a small, yellow light came from the house. Too weak to do anything, Luna laid in way. The small ape then came out, carrying a small, blue bottle with a tip on top with what appeared to be orange juice inside it. The creature sat down next to her, and produced an equal sized, dark blue one. It gave her the dark blue one, and it drank from the one it kept. She then levitated the bottle to her muzzle, to which the ape was amazed by. It let out a giggle of delight.

"Thou liketh our magic," another cough racked her body. "Well we shalt show thou after we art well." She then took a sip from the cup, and found out it actually was orange juice, which she gladly drank down. A smile splayed across her face as the child gave her a hug, and sat down a little closer to her. She then levitated the ape onto her back, and it gave her barrel a big hug. "What is thy name, creature?" She asked, levitating the child in front of her to look for a name tag of some sort. Written in Equestrian, on it's pants, was the name, Jonathan. "Jonathan. We liketh thy name, dear Jonathan. Jonathan giggled, and booped Luna on her nose. She shorted, and put Jonathan back on her back. He then resumed hugging her.

"SInce thou liketh our magic, we shalt show it to thou." Luna said. She then Levitated the cup the juice was in, and made it dance back and forth, causing Jonathan to laugh in amusement. Soon, though, Luna realised something of dire importance.

"We art sorry, dear Jonathan, but we do not belong here." Luna said with a frown. Jonathan tugged on her hair, not noticing that the light in his parent's room was on. Luna sadly and reluctantly took Jonathan off her back, and started up a spell. Before she left however, she gave him a gift. She plucked out one of her feathers, and gave it to him. He grabbed it and the teddy bear, and waved goodbye as Luna summoned what magic had been regained from her Orange Juice to this planet's moon. Jonathan's mother and father ran out, his mother picking him up, his father the two juice cups.

"Jonathan, what were you doing out here?" his mother asked. His father had come back out to stand next to his wife.

"Horsie was sick. Horsie went bye bye after I helped horsie." Was all Jonathan said before he let out a tremendous yawn. His mother looked to his father, who shrugged as they went back in, neither noticing the midnight-blue feather in Jonathan's hand, nor felt that something was watching over them.

Author's Note:

Thinking of making a sequel, still a one-shot, where Luna meets Jonathan again.
Well, whatever.

Comments

[Sky Blue CMC]

Second liker! Are you (the author) the first?

[Sky Blue CMC]

And shouldn't Luna's humanoid name be "Mond" because "Faust" is German and "Luna" is Latin?

[PepsiMax]

So sweet, well written and absolutely cute!!!!!

[Scarheart]

Too short! Adorable!

[Vaughn]

5216254 No, actually. Never thought it'd work.

[ParadigmShift]

5216268 Reference to Lauren Faust being considered the "Mother" of MLP:FiM, and therefore the mother of both Luna and Celestia.

[Vaughn]

5217899 Exactly, mein freund!

[ParadigmShift]

This one...confuses me.

Luna was stuck on the moon..Got forced off the moon by massive impact (Believable), went flying at the speed of light (absolutely unbelivable, unless you are trying to say that she was only on the moon for about ten years by her perspective) and she passed solar systems( Which would indicate that she was flying for at least a few days..But likely far longer, due to both the speed of light and the amount travelled)...and also, hitting the water at that speed would kill her anyways...

But after meeting the kid..SHE GOES BACK? She has that much magical power? WHY DIDN'T SHE JUST LEAVETHEMOONINTHEFIRSTPLACE.

[Vaughn]

5217932 Well hmm lets see here...
1: Never said it wasnt a few days she passed through the solar systems
2: She slows down like a star wars ship as a bit of unintentional comedy
3: She slowed down, so the water didn't kill her. Besides, the family is rich. They have a deep swimming pool XD
4: going back? Nah. Probably to some Illuminati camp where she can get futuristic help to get back to Equestria for some other person to carry a fic where she returns early and takes over the world. Yay.

[ParadigmShift]

5217963
1. It would probably take a few WEEKS at bare minimum. It takes roughly 5.5 hours for light from the sun to reach Pluto.
2. I'll just chock that up to various passings of other planets/moons/asteroids affecting her speed.
3. At a speed for her to be on fire, she would actually be safer hitting the dirt. At a speed even near that, it would be akin to slamming into a giant block of solid, extremely dense concrete. A very, very giant block.

[Vaughn]

5217992 Well, then I'll explain with this - magic.

[TheEmpressEclipse]

Very cute story! Thank you for writing!

~TheEmpressEclipse~

[Sky Blue CMC]

5217899 And therefore the Namer thereof? I thought that they had names a priori the Mother...

[ParadigmShift]

5219058 ...Please restate that sentence in a manner most can understand..?