//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: New Home // Story: Love you again? // by Cynthrey //------------------------------// ~ “... I still consider this a bit hasty. We always wanted the younglings to visit Equestria before they were older, before their young and adaptable minds withered and betrayed them as foreigners when dealing with equestrians. We even considered establishing ourselves permanently on that land once Luna was old enough to understand the need to hide her true self from the rest of the world along with the rest of us. But, above all, we had planned to leave Earth Heaven in times of peace. Now our plans are altered by the twists of fate and the call of duty. I can not get the wizard's words out of my head. Those about how the equestrians interpreted our wings and horns. Until I heard them, I had never questioned why life was given to us. But I must postpone my doubts for another time. With everything that happened, Celestia worries me...” ~ “What do you mean with that we are moving?” he asked incredulously. “Just that, Discord,” Celestia said continuing her work. “Mother and father have made the decision while we were sleeping; we left to Equestria today as soon as we finish gathering everything we could need there. I must warn you that we are almost done with this task and father will probably be upset with you if we delay, so you must hurry before he and Mr. Star Swirl return from the cave.” Celestia turned to look at him at that moment. He was even more incredulous than before and his face probably prove it. He only blinked and stood there stunned, but this didn’t stop him from complying with his friend's warning or order. He snapped his fingers and all his clothes flew inside a bag that made appear on his bed and on which he sat once everything was kept inside these, all this without losing his astonished expression. Celestia looked at him with a mixture of confusion and amazement but then sighed and rolled her eyes before selecting her own dresses again. The minutes passed: Celestia picking up and Discord stunned. He couldn’t believe that they were really going to leave Earth Heaven. So long had he dreamed of seeing the world outside that encapsulated earth and now the dream came true. Of course, his dream was always different, something more like that Celestia's birthday or Nebula's insistence would visit Equestria and he and Celestia would probably get into a crazy adventure where they would meet all kinds of equestrians and then return with adult alicorns and promise to meet with their new friends someday. That would have been a more exciting adventure than going to Equestria to deal with a race that threatens to enslave and, or, exterminate the other three. There was also that matter of being members of royalty, “By the way, thanks for last night,” she turned to look at him with a smile. “I completely do not know what you're talking about”, he lied without worrying about pretending honesty. Celestia pretended to be offended and threw a clothes to his face, which he couldn’t dodge. She laughed at his lie and he accompanied her. That Celestia, that one was the one he liked to see. After a few moments of laughter Nebula entered the room, she also looked like the Nebula that Discord was used to seeing: radiant and divine. “Oh, you woke up, you little rouge! Good morning!” she smiled. “Good morning, mother!” after that, Celestia threw another clothes to his face although in that occasion it took more time to him to understand why she did it. “It seems that you have finished collecting your things. Your breakfast is on the table, you should eat it before the bread dries and hardens.” “That is not a problem for me, mother,” and left the room, but not before returning to Celestia the last two textile attacks. Discord's breakfast consisted of a couple of slices of bread and butter that he toasted when putting them in his hands and a juice that he drank directly from the orange after shaking it a bit. A simple but delicious breakfast since the bread and butter were prepared by his mother and the orange was harvested by it. If it came from Nebula, everything was worthy of the gods. “I cannot believe we are going to Equestria,” he said as he cleaned the dishes and Nebula checked some strange boxes in the room, no bigger than a head. “I hope you do not dislike it,” Nebula said in a maternal tone but Discord found something strange in this. “I do not, I feel well. But, I wonder: What have you decided on the proposal that Star Swirl has made to you about governing Equestria?” “We decided to wait a little to know better the situation of Equestria before making a definitive decision,” her motherly tone faded more and Discord realized the sadness and fear in her voice. “Even if we are not needed as leaders, we will settle in Equestria definitively once everything is over.” “We will not return to Earth Heaven?!” he could not believe it. “No,” she said sadly as he looked at one of the boxes, a golden one. After her review, she placed the box next to a black one and with a sad expression walked towards him. Once in front of him she bowed so that their faces were at similar heights, it was not much, he was always quite tall. When they were face to face she placed her hands on his shoulders and said: “Discord, listen to me, my dear son: when we arrive at Equestria, for your safety, you must hide your appearance. No one must know that you are a draconequs. You can still show how you are when you are with us and Star Swirl, since he already knows.” “Hide my appearance?” he recoiled in confusion. “Why, mother? What danger can I run for being what I am?” “Discord,” she took his hands. “The people in Equestria are in panic because of a strange being,” she caressed his face. “There is nothing and nobody like you and fear and the desire to survive could lead them to hurt you even being in our care,” the sadness in her expression grew and mixed with fear, he understood that being hurt would not be the worst thing that could happen to him. “Please, my son, for me, do you promise to hide from me?” “If you wanted to convince me, mother, you only needed to ask me in your name,” he smiled and changed shape, becoming a brown unicorn with a blue horn. Nebula smiled tenderly and hugged him. Discord hoped that this memory would be pleasant but for some reason it was not like that. He actually felt a knot similar to the one he felt when Celestia mentioned her name and Galaxus in the castle. “I love you so much, my son,” she said. “I could never forgive myself if something happened to you.” Then why that feeling? The only idea that occurred to him didn’t like him very much: that Nebula had done something to him that modified his perspective of her as a loving mother, perhaps, even leading him to hate her. No. That was illogical even for him. She would never do anything that could change her perspective of her. What could she do in 3 years that he still had to go in his head that she had not done in previous 15? Or, maybe it was he who changed. Had his madness affected him so much? Enough for, in the absence of a less hurtful expression for himself, not to appreciate so much the woman who raised him without distinction of those who were truly her daughters? What could have turned him into the madman he once was? Or, rather: Who could have turned him? Discord finally decided not to brood over the matter and let his memories advance before waking up and confusing Applejack with Granny Smith. When he and Nebula broke their embrace, she kissed his forehead and Celestia left her room. She carried a full bag on his back and placed it with the others stacked in the room. Not without first stopping to observe the change of Discord. “What do you think?” he asked. She examined him up and down and with a face of slight discomfort said: “It will take me some time to get used to it. Why the change?” “Mother has begged me to. He said it would be safer for me.” “Why safer?” she turned to Nebula. She was about to speak when Luna began to cry and, after making a sign to Discord to give the explanation himself, had to go to the moans of the baby. “Mother said that if people saw me in my natural appearance fear would enter and attack me even being in the company of their great saviors,” explained putting a bit of sarcasm in the last part. “Oh! And why a unicorn?” “So I have an excuse to continue using my magic. Although I admit that it will take me a while to get used to looking at myself in the mirror with this face instead of my beautiful being,” he boasted boosting a slight and ironic laughter to Celestia. An awkward silence arrived, no one knew what to talk about. Discord then had the idea, good or bad he didn’t know, to ask her how she felt with everything that was happening. That doubt remained in his head to never leave his lips, because when he was going to formulate it, Star Swirl and Galaxus arrived. The first was visibly surprised by Discord's change in appearance, while the second didn’t even seem to flinch. “Good morning,” he said dryly. “Good morning,” he answered with the same tone. “Have you taken what you plan to take?” his tone didn’t change. Discord snapped his fingers and the bag he had left in his room went to keep the others company. Galaxus seemed satisfied with this and redirected his attention to Celestia after examining the room a little. “Where is your mother, Celestia?” “Luna cried and went with her.” “Thank you, my daughter,” he advanced to her with a smile and stroked her head and then said with the same smile. “I will talk to your mother for a minute, maybe we'll leave when everything is ready.” Celestia nodded and Galaxus went to his and Nebula's room in which they also kept Luna. “Good morning, young man,” said Star Swirl. “Hello, old man,” he replied laughingly. Celestia gave him a hit for that disrespect. That made the wizard laugh, but Discord didn’t even try to correct his lack of respect. “Excuse him, sir,” Celestia asked. “It is fine, young girl.” Silence reigned in the house again. It was barely possible to notice the murmur of the adult alicorn in one of the rooms. “I must say,” the magician broke the ice. “That language that adorns the walls of the cave that Galaxus has shown me is quite interesting. It could take me years to understand it, even more dominate it.” “You say you do not know that language, magician?” Discord asked. It seemed very curious to him that someone who must master a thousand ancient languages ​​to give more power to his magic did not know the lartsecna. “Discord, remember that the lartsecna is a divine language, only a privileged few are able to understand it,” Celestia explained. “And are you able to understand it without studying it?” Star Swirl asked. “Yes, sir,” she said. “I myself have been able to understand her and speak her without problems since I have known its existence. The same goes for Discord and only time will tell if the same case happens for Luna.” “Then, if I have not understood it nothing else to see it I will not do it with years of study either,” he said with certain air of disappointment. “I am sorry, sir.” “No, young girl, even if I cannot understand it the way you do, I plan to understand it as much as I can. Anything that involves acquiring more knowledge will be strongly appreciated by me even if my efforts are in vain.” Although that was touching, Discord was more interested in seeing how he could take advantage of this situation to get some fun out of it. He grinned mischievously as he approached Star Swirl and then told him a certain word in that language that if his mother had come to listen to him she would have made him eat soap for a month regardless of his pleas and apologies. “Discord!” Celestia shouted before pulling her ear hard and hitting her head multiple times. That show brought his laughs to Star Swirl, who then said with one of those faces adults put on when a young man is incorrigible: “By the reaction of your sister, I intuit that what you have said has been serious.” There was a word in that sentence that caused both of them to stop what they were doing and slowly adopt a more serious pose. "We are not siblings," said Discord. Star Swirl adopted a more attentive pose showing some surprise on her face. “Well, not in blood at least, I suppose,” tried to correct himself. “Not even frater,” Celestia said. The magician again adopted the same pose as seconds ago before Celestia continued: “It is true that we have been raised up in that way, mother above all, but we have never seen ourselves that way.” “Especially not me,” said Discord. “Curious,” said Star Swirl. “Those who are raised together often tend to consider themselves family, sometimes cousins, sometimes siblings.” “You have said it, old man, ‘frequently’, not ‘always’.” Star Swirl looked at them with some curiosity, adopted a pensive posture and then asked: “And you have known each other for a long time?” “I was in this room the day Celestia was born,” Discord said in a rather cold tone. “Not even Exodus could make me forget that day,” it was not a memory that he liked to relive. “It is a long time, without a doubt.” Discord heard Celestia say something to the old man and to this one but that conversation was only a murmur echoed in his head. He was busy dealing with the memories of his childhood linked to the then-soon arrival of Celestia. A specific memory was an idea that he kept in his young mind for so long that he became attached to it with the passage of time. “I suppose,” he said with a wry smile. “If I have never seen Celestia as my sister is because as a child my mother explained to me that the child that grew in her womb would be her and Galaxus’ child,” she laughed. “At that time I was unaware of the requirement of a man and a woman to conceive a child and I believed that I could only consider as my brother or sister a child that was a child of Nebula and only Nebula, no one else.” Both Star Swirl and Celestia laughed at that innocent occurrence of a small child and Discord accompanied them in their cackling. “What a nonsense!” Celestia said. “What do you want from me?” continued Discord laughing. “I was 2 years old, besides that I had always called our mother ‘mother’ while your father never allowed me to call him that way so from my point of view I did not need a father to be born.” Upon hearing this Celestia bended over with laughter, had to lean on a piece of furniture so as not to fall. Star Swirl, on the contrary, had stopped laughing a few seconds ago and was looking at him again with curious eyes. The curiosity of that man was a bottomless pit! “And are you able to remember your life from such an early age?” Star Swirl asked. “Even before,” Discord replied. Actually the memories of Discord began approximately when he was 1 year old, months more, months less. But there were some strange memories that over time became less and less clear. Although most likely it was a dream he had when he was younger and could not forget, mainly because they always came to him when he dreamed, like the day he remembered when he started this journey. Then Nebula and Galaxus left their room, the first carrying Luna wrapped in a cloth tied around her neck and the second carrying a bag in her hand. For Discord, that could only mean one thing. “Now everything is ready,” Galaxus said with a sad air “It is time for us to leave.” Then everyone took the bags. Celestia, Galaxus and Discord each took two bags while Nebula and Star Swirl took one each. The golden box that Nebula had placed so much interest in minutes before was kept by Nebula in the bag she was carrying with her. A similar but black box was taken by Galaxus and he kept it in one of the bags he was carrying. What could there be in those boxes? Discord ventured to open the door for others. The adults left first and when it was Celestia's turn to leave, she stood at the door looking towards the interior of the house. Discord thought she had forgotten something and also looked inside trying to see what he could forget. It was then that he understood the problem. That house saw them be born. They had lived there all their lives. And now they should leave it. Forever. To live in a land in crisis where they would be foreigners. Discord had lived little more than Celestia in that house and although he wasn’t someone to stay in the past, it hurt to leave that place where so many adventures and good times. Even the bad times didn’t seem so bad anymore, mostly. To be reliving that moment didn’t help Discord that it hurt him less to leave home. But, there’s a need to remember that he wasn’t someone to stay in the past. Finally he closed the door with a quick slam. He thought he saw Celestia take a small jump in shock to the door slam. He sighed, gave her his classic carefree smile with an equally relaxed look, walked to her. Once with the alicorn girl, he offered her his hand. She looked at his hand and then at him in disbelief. He rolled his eyes and pointed his ears at the adults, who were waiting for them several meters away from them. The translation of the message he wanted to give to Celestia was more or less: do not worry anymore and just keep going before you start crying. In his humble opinion, he thinks she read the message quite well, after all, she laughed and accepted his hand. And so the road to their new home began. He took the bags he carried with him on his shoulder as he walked foolishly, taking Celestia by the hand. He knew that Galaxus was wishing him a few dozen different deaths for every second he spent holding hands with his daughter, and he enjoyed every minute when he realized the suffering he was bringing to the alicorn. He could only walk even more foolishly from the joy of bringing agony to Galaxus, that, of course, when he wasn’t busy answering the infinite questions of the magician along with Nebula. He remembered talking again and again with Celestia but didn’t remember exactly what. In fact, at a certain point, he wasn’t sure whether before or after going through what little remained of the lonely tree that had been exploited by the changelings the previous day, they did not even open their mouths again. What a luck! Every time he had the chance to ask Celestia about how she was doing, something had to appear to stop him! As if it was not enough the awkward silence that arose between them also taking his hand was something... awkward. It is true that they were always very close, but exactly not the physical aspect. They rarely did have physical contact or signs of affection of this kind in general, especially not for such a long time. In addition, the most usual thing was that Celestia showed signs of affection for him and not the other way around. She always gave him a nice phrase or a hug so brief that he could not feel the absence of it. His head almost exploded when he remembered that it was he who had offered his hand. He hadn’t taken that initiative since he was a child. He prayed so much for Celestia to not notice his blush, or would not have stopped bothering him looking for the reason for it if she had noticed. Although she would had known the reason just seeing how his walk had become more rigid as his hand despite his grip had decreased. He tried to convince himself that there was no reason to be ashamed. Not that he was in love with her or one of those silly boy stupidities. If he hardly had come to consider accepting her as her sister, emphasis on ‘consider’. “I do not think so,” he thought. Either way, he tried not to think about that much. After a while they reached the limit of Earth Heaven: a complete nothing. He couldn’t help but tilt his head like a confused animal. There was nothing he hadn’t seen if he had ventured to want to see when he was a child. Where was the exit? Suddenly Nebula took a few steps forward and her horn shone, increasing its brightness more and more. Then his magic culminated in an intense glow and when his eyes adjusted back to normal light, in front of them was a cave. Deep and dark He always believed that Nebula and Galaxus simply used an illusory spell to hide the entrance to Earth Heaven, but it turned out that adults were much more cautious than that and had used magic to block the bridge between Equestria and their home. The adults lit all their horns and the younglings soon replicated this action. The couple entered first, followed by the magician. Celestia followed them but stopped when she noticed Discord. He was completely paralyzed. They were really going to leave Earth Heaven. An hour ago he hadn’t worried much about leaving home, but now that he was literally 10 steps away from going to a new place, he was terrified of leaving. A part of him told him to move forward, that he had a bright future a few steps away from him, while another part was shouting at him like a small, frightened child not to leave, who was in his home, who did not need anything else. “Discord,” he heard Celestia say and his trance ended. Maybe it was just an impression caused by the low light and the considerable amount of darkness, or it could have been the own security and calm that Celestia transmitted to him at that moment, but even after going from a warm and bright day to a cavern almost completely dark Discord did not feel the weight of the gloom affect him and induce him again to fear and doubt. As soon as he was in the cave with the others, the entrance was closed. Discord panicked. He touched the wall in an almost hysterical way, looking for any... failure? Opening? Point where the two dimensions come together weakening the fabric of reality? In general, he was just looking for something that would prove that it was still possible to return to Earth Heaven. But there was nothing. “You waste your time,” Galaxus said in a cold tone. “Earth Heaven and this world have separated... until the right time comes,” concluded with a tone even colder than the previous one and, if it had not been Discord's idea, even with sadness. Those words struck Discord like an iceberg. The pain of leaving ‘his land’ caused an ironic smile. If he needed proof that he could no longer go home he just needed to lay his horn against the wall. He smiled at his own misfortune and got up without stop looking at the wall. Then he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Celestia. It was then that he realized that he had let go of her hand, which he corrected once he paid attention to her. After all that depression on the part of Discord they were finally able to continue. Celestia squeezed his hand, smiled at him with tenderness and empathy and guided him with the rest of his family into the cave. They walked for several minutes in which Discord believed that the cave was eternal. Beyond the light emanating from them there was only darkness, darkness in front and darkness behind. Darkness… Darkness... Darkness... Celestia… Darkness… The end of the cave... Oh! Right. The brain has the good habit to forget things when they become very monotonous. Spend almost half an hour walking in an eternal corridor of darkness where every meter to come was the same as the past was something that Discord could describe, not just as monotonous, as the most boring thing in any world. But finally the exit! He ran, unable to wait to see natural light coming from a real star and not a luminescence created by magic. It took him a few seconds to realize that Celestia was still holding his hand and it was only because she was pulling it, as if she was trying to stop him. But he was too excited to care about that. Celestia let go and he kept running even though Celestia was no longer with him. Then, a few meters from the exit he noticed something that made him slow down. He walked towards the exit calmly, each step confirmed his suspicion more and more and when he arrived it was clear. They were at the top of a mountain surrounded by forests and more mountains, some larger, some smaller. There was no sign of civilization nearby. It was a little cold, it was the first time he felt cold without having to directly come into contact with some material with that temperature. But that didn’t interest him as much as a small detail: There was no sunlight. There was not even light. But the moon’s. “It is night,” he said to himself. He heard Celestia and the others arrive in a matter of seconds. His friend went to the head but nothing else put a foot outside stopped and with the lost glance she looked at the horizon. He barely gave importance before turning his gaze to the adults, all had disbelief painted all over his face. “Mother, did not you tell me that if it is daytime in Equestria it is also in Earth Heaven?” he asked in a tone like someone who feels cheated. “I think you were wrong.” “Stupid child!” Galaxus shouted. “This is not something to joke around!” “He is right, boy,” Star Swirl said with concern. “It is almost half a day and the moon does not yet touch the top of the sky. Something is terribly wrong.” “If so,” Celestia said without taking her eyes from the same point she had looked out of the cave and with the tone of someone who pays so much attention to her own affairs that she does not bother to disguise her interest in conversation alien to these. “Then we must arrive with your people.” “Let me stop your feet,” Discord told him. “Because you have not noticed: We are in the middle of nowhere, we do not know where is the village of this old man!..” “We are far away, yes,” said Nebula. “We are closer to the capital of the Old Earth than to Equestria’s.” “From here, risk to use the teleportation would be a suicide and using it from time to time it will take us hours to reach the capital of Equestria,” the magician complained. “The typical teleportation is a bad choice, there is no doubt,” Galaxus said drawing a magic circle on earth. “But one through circles is much safer, especially with a power like ours,” got up and began to formulate the spell in a low voice. The circle began to shine, Nebula immediately went with her husband and replied the action of this also murmuring the spell. Their horns shone and a line of light went towards the circle drawn on the ground, which remained intermittent for a few seconds. Star Swirl entered the circle immediately and Discord was about to do the same, but stopped and turned to look at Celestia. She was still lost in infinity. Once a circle is fully charged with energy it is only a question of the one who casts the spell activating it, it could delay it, yes, but it wasn’t a control that could be maintained too long, not even an alicorn or two. In addition, the amount of magic required to empower a teleportation circle is directly proportional to the distance between the point of departure and arrival, and if they were really as far from the capital of Equestria as his mother had said then that spell could not be of those which stay under control for a long time. Galaxus called Celestia and she vaguely reacted. Discord got fed up with all that spectacle of the special girl who sees things when others do not and pulled her into the circle with the others. She seemed to come to herself for a moment. Finally the horns of Nebula and Galaxus went out and he circled brightly with great intensity. As if it were an explosion, Discord and the others ended up bathed in a blinding light that lasted a vague second. When arriving at the capital of Equestria the terror invaded him. They arrived in the middle of a village from which many houses were on fire. People ran from one side to another screaming, carrying buckets of water, helping whoever they could, saving whoever they managed to. Chaos, one that Discord didn’t enjoy at all. That scene reminded him too much of a dream that haunted him for as long as he can remember. In it he saw only blurry patches of orange and red as I listened to things breaking and people shouting. Wherever he was, he would shake a lot from left to right, suddenly he would hear a great rumble and feel gravity pull him against the ground. He no longer heard the screams and the patches of vanished. He could feel a pleasant presence wrap around him and then hear the voice of his mother, Nebula. "Changelings!" Someone shouted behind them and as he turned he saw a furious crowd armed with whatever they had at hand. "Miserables!" a middle-aged unicorn pounced on them with remarkable anger carrying a stick still burning. “Stake?! Stake! For the love of the creator: What happened?!” Star Swirl asked. “Do not steal the face of my friend, parasite!” that unicorn tried to strike them but then there was a glare and he fell into fear. Actually there were 2 glows, one golden and one dark blue, almost black. The light soon faded, revealing Nebula and Galaxus both wearing magnificent armor. Both armor had details in the form of wings and spirals that highlighted the femininity of Nebula and the masculinity of Galaxus along with the power of these, but disagreed in colors and ornaments. While Nebula's armor was completely gilded and adorned with multicolored gems, Galaxus' was black as the night becoming clearer in details and with just a handful of white gems (probably diamonds) here and there. Seeing them, the whole crowd stopped. In their faces he distinguished from jubilation to doubt and rancor. He didn’t understand why. “The saviors!” someone shouted. “They have arrived! Our prayers have been heard!” After those words many people knelt before them as each village does when their messiah arrives. Discord knew that the gesture wasn’t directed at him, but he liked, very much, to think that they could worship him like that. “Ingenuous!” the same unicorn shouted from moments ago as he got to his feet. “Do not trust them! They are just changelings wanting us to lower our guard!” “Stake, for love of Equestria who is still young: What has got into you?!” said the magician. “As if you did not know, parasite!” the unicorn tried again with the stick that was still in his hand. While Discord backed away from the danger, Galaxus stepped forward and in a quick move disarmed the man and brought him to his knees. Many people reacted negatively to this action and those who previously maintained a hesitant position were running towards them with the obvious intention of defending that unicorn. Suddenly golden scythe dawns rained down from the sky that surrounded Galaxus and his family, he knew where they were coming from, all he had to do was turn his head to see that it was his mother who had invoked those weapons. Those who a second before wanted to attack them backed up. The unicorn struggled trying to reach the rod that Galaxus had made him pull. When he was about to reach his goal the alicorn placed a hand on his forehead and both his eyes and those of the unicorn shone with a light that changed from red to yellow and finally to blue. The brightness vanished, Nebula made the scythes vanish, the unicorn began to cry and Galaxus removed his hand from his forehead and then helped him up. "Such a fair leader for this village," Galaxus said empathetically. “And have to pay such a penalty.” “They…” the unicorn said between tears. “...They did not deserve ... they should had not...” Star Swirl suddenly took a few steps forward to the unicorn. “My friend,” said the unicorn. “Please forgive me. The anger has blinded me... and the pain...” “My friend, what happened?” “Yesterday, in the night, the changelings attacked. It was an attack without warning or mercy or more goal to weaken us. They killed right and left all the unicorn they found on their way. They did not discriminate against women, children or the elderly.” "Have you also attacked other races?" Nebula asked, stepping forward. The unicorn stepped back and instantly, with a face of terror, bowed before Nebula. “Oh, my lady! Oh, my savior! I do not deserve your mercy but I want you to know that I regret having tried to attack you! I am sorry, oh, how sorry I am!” he begged and wept like the criminal who prays a thousand prayers to a king. “There is no need for such apologies, good sir,” Nebula said as she encouraged the man to get up. “I know you were not in the voice when doing such a thing. But, and I repeat: Have you attacked other races?” “Anyone who tried to help us, my lady, but they did not attack pegasus or earthly villas. They have not killed alone here. Send for help and I received the news that every village or town of unicorns was going through our same situation. If we have not been able to raise the sun, it is due to...” Discord no longer heard what came after that. Celestia had just released his hand and he gave more importance to this than to the conversation. Celestia walked like in a trance, she didn’t even seem to care about the crowd at her side that had tried to hurt them a few minutes before. At a certain point she stopped and stared at the horizon as she had done in the mountains. That started to make Discord nervous. He was about to float towards her when he remembered that he was no longer a draconequs but a unicorn, and unicorns do not float without magic. He opted better for the option of teleporting. Already by her side he looked at her face. While her face didn’t reflect any expression, in her eyes there seemed to be a dozen of these. There was a glint of innocence in them that Discord had to rub his eyes and look back to be sure her eyes were not really shining. “Tia? What is happening to you? You have been with that behavior since we left the cave. Do not tell me that the air of Equestria makes you lose your head,” he joked. He expected her to reply that this was nonsense, but that was not the case. “I am sorry,” she said without letting me look at whatever she was looking at. “It is just that...” she raised a hand and as he followed it with his gaze Discord only saw the horizon. “...there is something there and... it seems to call me.” “And... What does it say?” he said barely having any idea what to ask. “I do not know but…” Then she closed her eyes and placed her hands as if he were holding something. Her horn began to shine. She began to raise her hands with difficulty as if whatever she was ‘holding’ would constitute a great weight. Her horn also shone brighter and her face betrayed her effort. She then extended her wings, causing Discord to depart, and then began to rise slowly. Discord didn’t understand what she was doing, then he noticed how in a house he struck a light that did not come from Celestia. He turned his head to where he thought the source of light was, it turned out to be the sun rising on the horizon. He understood that Celestia was raising the sun, it was the first time that the princess of Equestria did that work. Her horn shone brighter and rose higher in the air. The Sun was almost touching the top of the sky when the brightness of Celestia almost did not allow Discord to distinguish its form. Then he realized that it was not only Celestia’s horn that shone, her whole body was doing it. The sun finally reached the highest part of the sky and an explosion of light enveloped Celestia threatening to leave Discord blind. He covered his eyes and while waiting for the outside light to diminish enough to not be a risk he heard people saying things like: ‘It's a miracle!’ ’Great blessing!’ ‘Thank you, young goddess!’ And things like that. He wondered if something else had happened while he had covered his eyes and discovered them to check. Then his eyes met a vision he had never appreciated. Celestia. She looked like a goddess. Her whole body was wrapped in a golden sight. Her dress and hair fluttered in the wind in a fluid movement like the waves of the sea. Her eyes were completely white but they shone with a purple light like her beautiful eyes. He had never seen her so beautiful.