"What happened to your wings, Angel?" mom asks, surprised.
Confused, I look at my wings and gasp. On my wings is a lightning design I had never seen on my wings before. "I don't know, I've nev......," I start to say.
"Don't get mad at her, Lucy," A voice interrupts me, making me jump in midair, and almost making me forget to flap my wings to stay in the air. "It's not her fault."
Startled, mom looks at my flickering horn. "Tesla? Is that you?" I had forgotten that Tesla was now in my horn.
"Its been awhile, hasn't it?" Tesla says, laughing.
"Over ten thousand years, Tes," mom responds, also laughing.
"How do you know each other, mom?" I ask, clearly confused.
"Wait,'Mom'?" says Tesla, sounding aghast. "This is your daughter?"
"Yes, Tes. Angel is my daughter," mom clarifies for Tesla. "And your niece."
Niece? I think to myself. What is she talking about? What is a "Niece"?
Seeing my confusion, mom laughs and says, "I see you're confused, Ang. Let me explain. You see, Tesla is my twin sister, and your aunt."
My mind was reeling. Sister? Twin? Aunt? Niece? What is she saying? I don't understand!
Focus, Angel. You're falling. Tesla's voice interrupts my thoughts.
I blink and look down at the ground rushing up to meet me, and I realize I had stopped flapping my wings. I start flapping frantically to stay aloft. I finally regain control right as I'm about to hit the ground, making an upward U-turn, and hover in midair for a moment before touching down and collapsing from fright.
As I'm struggling to control my breath, my mom touches down next to me and scoops me into a strong hug. I feel something wet hit the top of my head. I look up to see tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Are you okay, Angel? Are you hurt? Did you pull a muscle? Did y........?" I put my hoof on my moms nose to stop the stream of questions spilling out of her.
"I'm fine, mom. I'm not hurt at all. See?" I flap my lightning, streaked wings and hover in front of her to show her I was in perfect condition to fly. "Thank you for getting my attention Tesla. You saved me."
"You're welcome, Angel."
Then, it hit me. "You spoke to me in my head just now, didn't you?"
"Hmmmm. I guess I did."
"But, why?"
"You weren't responding to me when I was trying to get you attention out loud. I also thought I heard you talking out loud but your lips weren't moving. That's when I realized we are mentally connected."
So, in other words, we can talk privately if we need to? I think to her.
"That's right." She pauses, then says, "You thought that, didn't you?"
"Took you long enough," I laugh. Then she starts laughing as well.
"Now that you're thinking clearly, literally, I'm pretty sure you want to know why I am your Aunt. You see...."
"No," I interrupt, " I just want to know why mom never told me and my sisters about you." I look at my sisters as I say this. "I understand what an Aunt is."
We all look at mom as her ears flatten against her head.
"She probably didn't know how to tell you about me." Tesla says. "My power was kind of unstable when I was still an Alicorn, and not just a gem. I..........." She paused."I almost..........killed her because I couldn't learn to......uh......control it."
"Don't blame yourself." mom plead. "I was the one STUPID enough to ask you to hit me with your lightning. Even knowing you couldn't control it, I still asked you to."
"But, I was the one who did it. I only did it because you wouldn't stop BUGGING me about it."
"I only asked you to give me a slight SHOCK, not an ELECTROCUTION!" Mom yelled the two words, making me and my sisters wince.
"Tesla," my dad, Astral, tried to say, "Lucena, dear, you two are making the children uncomfortable. Plea....."
"Well EXCUSE ME! I'm sorry if I COULDN'T control my POWER!" Tesla yelled back, causing me and my sisters to flatten our ears.
"Please, stop arguing you two," dad tried again, but to no avail. And Les covered her ears.
"YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED TO CONTROL IT WHEN MOM TOLD YOU TO." Mom was really yelling now.
"ENOUGH!!!!"
We all look at Les, who had an angry expression on her face, her eyes closed, and tears streaming from them.
"Tia?" Luny says, as she puts a hoof on her older sisters shoulder.
Les opens her eyes and,seeing the shocked expressions on everyponys faces, puts her hooves over her mouth, and gives a muffled "Sorry" through them. Mom and dad look at each other and dad nods at her. Mom nods back and starts walking towards my oldest sister. I could never get over the fact that mom and dad seem to know what the other is thinking without saying a word to each other. Les' ears seem to get flatter, if that's even possible, as mom gets closer. When she is standing in front of Les, she raises her hoof, and fearing of getting smacked, Les tries to shield herself with her wings and front legs.
Instead of smacking her, mom gently strokes my sisters head, and surprises me and Luny, as well as Les by saying, "I'm the one who should be sorry. We didn't mean to frighten you fillies, or make you uncomfortable. But you're right. We shouldn't have started arguing in the first place. Right, Tes?"
"Yes. I'm sorry you three, especially you Angel. It probably felt like Lucy was yelling at you instead of me. Right?"
"Kind of," I laugh. "But how did you get turned into a black diamond, Aunt Tes?" I pause. "Is it alright if I call you that?" I ask.
"Nothing would make me happier. And I would be proud to call you my niece, all three of you." She replied. "And to answer you first question, I was afraid our parents would take my magic away, but I took Lucy home and explained what happened as best as I could to our parents angry faces. After they healed Lucy to the point that her life wasn't in danger anymore, I asked them if they knew a spell that help me control my power. They told me they didn't, but knew one that could change me so I could search for somepony to merge with who could control my power. It was that spell that turned me into a black diamond. So, in other words, since i have merged with you, Angel, You must start learning how to control my power soon, or you wont ever gain control of it." She paused then. "I guess this is no longer my power, but is now yours, Angel."
I feel a big smile overtake my face as I say, "When do I begin?"