Night and Day - Chapter 3
by Gabushe Shy
“On the 34th of summer 38AD (After Discord) our beloved princesses of day and night died after falling into madness. The new ruler of the day will be Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and the new ruler of the night will be Twilight Sparkle.” I sat at my parents house still trying to process the thought through. I know I should be celebrating my promotion to the captain of The Night Guard one of the best jobs a Nocturnal Pony could want. But I still couldn't process the thought that I won't be guarding princess Luna but her daughter princess Twilight Sparkle.
“Aw Knighty cheer up! It is your promotion party! You should enjoy it and laugh with the rest of your friends. You surely can't just sit here and do nothing for the rest of the night!” my sister Night Pie pulled me in for a hug her dark pink poofy mane tickling me and making me feel like I want to sneeze “Heh! Sorry about that! I must have put something in my mane… Yep! Here it is - sneeze powder!”
I loved my sister to pieces even if she was very random at times. Speaking of my sister, I haven't seen my other, older sister Night Gem and as he said: she wouldn't miss this party for anything.
There! I saw her, she was - like my sister and unlike me - a prime example of a Nocturnal Pony with mixed blood. Let me explain. We Night family are counterpart to the Day family but as a tradition goes, every once a five generations a pony from a Day family must be married to a pony from the Night family. And me and my sisters came from one of the marriage. This fact only supported the point that Pie was an earth pony and Gem a unicorn.
"Knight, don't look so scared. You were destined to be a captain of the night guard." she Gem said, trying to comfort me "A lot of ponies before you made it and thus you will make it too."
I gulped "Yes, but they were captains of a night guard but they guarded princess Luna. What if make a bad first impression. What if I make a bad schedule." I started walking around in circles "What if I say something bad to the princess. What if I... What if I... What if I get kicked out!" I officially freaked out.
"You won't get kicked out! Someone awesome as you won't get kicked out!" Day Aurora Dash flew to me. She was my as she said 'Awesome Cousin'. She was undoubtedly my cousin but I wasn't so sure about the awesome part "You will make the royal guard twenty percent cooler!" she said, trying to make me feel better "And now... I challenge you for a race!"
"Oh it is on!" I sad with a smirk "So where is the start and where is the end?"
"I suggest that we will go from here to The Spirit Mountain and back." she suggested getting ready for a flight "but I get an advantage because I can't see that well in the dark."
"Your vision does not affect your flight." I countered "We will take of at the same time and neither of us will have an advantage."
"You will have an advantage!" She threw back
"I won't!"
"You will"
"You know, you with your feathered wings have a flight advantage,” I argued, growing tired of our fight.
“But that doesn't help my vision!” Aurora countered. Seriously, is she really wanting to go first or does she just want to fight?
“Aurora, the point of what I tried to say is that I am having sight advantage and you have maneuver advantage.” I finished, letting her rethink my point for a while.
“Okay, but I will still beat you!” she finally agreed to this race.
“We will see about that.” I said a faint hint of a smirk being on my face.
We walked out of my parents house. Well if we can call it a house. It was more of a mansion that I would most likely one day inherit. I wasn't keen about that, but is Gem says - there will always be a price for your position.
We both took of and Aurora started counting until she reached zero and we both shot of at the same time. To cut Aurora some slack she was pretty good flyer. But even with her maneuvering advantage I was still a better flyer and if I actually got a cutie mark from my mother's day side it would be cutie mark somehow representing flying.
I was one full pony body in front Aurora when we made a sharp turn around The Spirit Mountain. I heard some rumors about new city being built into the mountain and I actually saw some parts of the mountain being redid so a city could be build there. But it wasn't making any sense to me, who would want to build a city on a mountain.
While I was thinking about all this, Aurora got in front of me and stopped me.
“Now spill the beans,” she ordered using her drill sergeant voice. Did I mention that she was a sergeant in the Royal Guard Academy and a captain of the new flying team named Wonderbolts? “I know there is something on your mind so you better tell me or I will get it out of by the hard way.”
“How do you know there is something on my mind?” I mused, trying to avoid the theme of what has been on my mind.
“I grew up with you…” she said in a deadpan tone “Now. Spill. The. Beans.” she ordered again.
“Okay, okay. But promise me, you won't freak out when I tell you." I made her promise so she won't cry it out in the first minute.
"Fair so... Cross my heart hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye. Ow!" she promised and cried out the second she accidentally stuck her hoof in her eye.
I started to uncontrollably laugh. I know I shouldn't laugh at someponies expense but she always stuck her hoof in her eye.
"So I here is the thing that has been on my mind. You know how I will become a captain of the night guard. Right? So anyway since princess Lina is dead I will be guarding princess Twilight Sparkle. But..." I started heavily blushing "... I may have a bit of a crush on her..." I finished, hiding my face behind my hooves.
"What?" Was her first reaction "You are kidding... Right?" was her second reaction "No, you aren't kidding. You have a crush on the princess.” was her third and final reaction.
"It seems that it will just need to work out."