Tears of a Princess
"WHAT?!" Shining cried out, throwing a stack of papers from his desk. His jaw would hit the floor if it physically could. He had just received news about his sister’s attack at Canterlot, and the suspicions the two regal sisters had. The white stallion slammed his hoof against his desk, not caring he had cracked the wood. Once more! His sister was in danger and he wasn’t there to keep her safe. How could this happen?! There’s supposed to be royal guards posted! Who gave them the order to leave their post?!
"Shining, calm down and let's hear the rest of the report," Cadence said placing a hoof on his shoulder, "The first thing Luna wrote, was that Twilight was alright."
"How can you be so calm about this?!" He asked repeated hitting his hoof against the desk
"Shining…." Cadence sighed looking over at the messenger pony, "Please continue."
"Well to summaries the report, Princess Twilight has been released from the hospital with security being increased. A massive pony hunt for Moneybags and his associates has been launched. Princess Celestia has ordered Captain Silver Blade of the Solar Guards to begin an inside investigation since they suspect a mole or a traitor within. Everypony close to Twilight has informed about the attack with the rest of Canterlot given minimal information about it." The messenger pony finished, rolling the scroll up before placing it on top of the broken desk.
"We’re heading to Canterlot! I’m going to handle the investigation myself! I'm going to find that pony, who gave inside information and allowed the attack to happen!" Shining shouted before disappearing in a flash of magic.
"Shining wait-! Ugh!" Cadence groan in annoyance, quickly excusing the pony in front of her. She sighed deeply, "Great…. Now I must get Sunburst out of his house! So, he can foal sit…." The love princess mumbled.
Captain Silver Blade stood in front of the two regal princesses, his head hung low in shame with glaring eyes upon him. He is the youngest pony ever to be appointed captain of the solar guard; once Shining Armour had moved to the Crystal Empire. He could no longer perform his duties of captain of the royal guard at such a long distance. They needed a new captain and Silver Blade was hoof-picked by Shining Armour himself.
"Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, please accept my deepest apologies for what has occurred." a light grey, pegasus stallion said. He removed his helmet and quickly fixed his white mane before placing his helmet down. "The investigation has revealed, that no lunar guards were involved in the incident. It's as we fear…. There's possibly a traitor among the solar guards, and under my command."
"The Solar Guards…." Celestia whispered lowering her head down, sighing deeply before turning to her sister. My own royal guards allow this to happen…. allowed Twilight too….
"A traitor among the Solar Guards? This…. doesn’t surprise me…." Luna replied turning her head away from the two ponies.
"Luna…. why would you say such a thing? The Solar Guards are loyal to both of us," Celestia said a bit taken back from her sister’s sudden remarks.
"No, sister…. The Solar Guards are loyal to the Solar Princess, not the Lunar princess. We both know there are a few Solar Guardponies don’t trust the Lunar Guards. There are a few ponies like this… but there still some none the less." Luna said walking down from the throne and walking passed Silver. "This is your problem, sister. I’m going to check on my wife…. we have…. she went through a lot."
"Luna, we should deal with this problem together," Celestia said placing a wing over her younger sister, "The Solar Guards allowed this to happen, but we should both deal with this and ensure it never happens again."
"Princess Luna, no pony knows about that night," Silver said turning his head towards the lunar princess. Luna gave him a quick glance, she shouldn’t be too surprised Silver knew about her return to the darkness. He was Captain of the Guard, after all, he needed to know about this. He had to ensure the ponies present that night wouldn’t utter a word about it. "I’ve ordered the guards present that night, not to speak a word or face severer punishment by my hoof."
"If you would excuse me," Luna simply replied before proceeding to the exit.
"Luna…," Celestia whispered hearing the large doors being closed after Luna’s departure. She sighed deeply before turning to Silver, "Captain Silver, Prince Shining Armour will be arriving in Canterlot tomorrow. He wants to handle the investigation himself and visit his sister along with Princess Cadence."
"You don’t have to worry, Princess Celestia," Silver said bowing his head slightly, "I will happily assist Prince Shining Armour with the investigation."
"Thank you, Captain," the solar princess said, she opened the doors with her magic, "Now, I would like to have some time alone. Please prepare for Prince Shining Amour’s arrival, I’m sure he’s going to be…. quite tense once he arrives."
"Yes, your highness," Silver said placing his helmet back on his head, "Once again, please forgive me for allowing this to happen under my command."
"Captain, please go," Celestia said pointing to the door with one of her wings. Silver nodded before he left the throne room. The solar princess closed the door behind him, "I’m so sorry…. Luna…. Twilight…., I allowed this to happen…."
Flash walked down the castle hallways to head to his post, he sighed with his thoughts thinking about Twilight. He had just heard about the sudden attack on the Princess of friendship, and the massive security breach. Everypony was on edge, all trying to figure out how such a pony was able to enter the castle and able to escape without being caught.
Security has been doubled ever since the attack, ponies entering the castle are searched or refused, not to mention everypony is stressed out. Its expected, after all, a princess of Equestria was attacked and almost murdered. Flash thought, noticing more guardpony than usual around.
"There’s a conspirator among us…." Flash mumble turning a corner but quickly pulling himself back behind the wall. His ears perk up at the sound of two stallions speaking; normally he wouldn’t have done this, but something told him to stay quiet…. Something wasn’t right with these ponies.
"What do you mean she’s still alive?" Crescent whispered glancing around the empty hallway. He growled slightly and looked away, "Dammit…."
"Quiet, Crescent! The guardpony posted for this section are bound to arrive at any moment," the second voice said glancing around as well, "Yes, she’s still alive. You said, she would be dead! You can’t even kill a mare properly?!"
Crescent glared at the stallion, quickly pushing him against the wall and pulling a knife to his neck, "Listen here Spearhead!" Crescent whispered pressing the blade deeper into his neck, but not deep enough to cut the skin. "Just because you forged the signature of your captain! And was able to get rid of the guardponies posted in that wing! That doesn’t mean you can boss me around!"
Spearhead? What…… he hates fillyfoolers? Flash’s eyes widen slightly, he gulps realizing he had discovered the traitor. I must report this to Princess Celestia and Luna.
"Why didn’t you stab her in the heart or something?" Spearhead asked grunting slightly at the blade, "It would have finished her off!"
"I don’t like it when my victims die slowly," Crescent replied dropping the stallion to the ground. He smiled and stared at his knife, closing his eyes slightly feeling the presence of another pony. "I don’t have time to deal with you now. I have to take care of the rat listening on us…."
Shit! Flash didn’t hesitate or questioned what Crescent meant. He couldn’t allow himself to be killed, not until he could relay this important information to the princesses or his captain. Flash ran down the empty hallway which was filled with ponies’ moments ago. "Dammit! They probably got rid of the guards with another fake order from the captain!" he mumbles to himself. Flash quickly turned a corner, hoping to find anypony on the other side. His eyes widen when he suddenly felt something pierce the lower part of his neck.
"Oh… you were so close," Crescent whispered covering the orange stallion’s mouth, as a passing guardpony walked by. "But you weren’t quick enough," he whispered twisting the blade inside of the stallion.
Flash closed his eyes with the pain shooting through his entire body, he coughed up blood against Crescent hoof only to have it dripped onto the floor. No…. I must…. tell somepony about them! Flash bit through the pain and mustered up all the strength he could. He pushed Crescent back with the blade still inside of his neck, "You…. Tried to kill Twilight!" he shouted, hoping somepony could hear him, "YOU TRIED TO KILL HER!"
"And soon accomplish," Crescent said smiling at him, "That bitch is going to die by my hoof! But luckily for me…. Dead ponies tell no tales."
Flash’s eyes widen in horror, he slowly backed away with blood still dripping from his wound, he was surprised he could still talk. "Wh…. What is that…...!" Flash utter in fear before screeching in horrible pain.
Twilight pulled the blanket over her head, not wanting to see the horrible scars on her body. She closed her eyes thinking about the foal, she was only able to love for a day. How could this happen? How could she let this happen? Unable to defend herself. Shining wanted her to learn how to defend herself just in case her magic was cut off and like a fool…. She ignored his warnings, and now she paid the press, or her foal did.
"Love," two purple ears twitched from underneath the blanket. Luna walked over to the bed and gently lay down beside her. She nudges the little mountain of blankets, pillows, and somewhere in there her wife, "Twilight."
"What is it?" Twilight asked lowering the blanket only stopping below her eyes.
"I was thinking…. maybe we could go on our special date? I can ask the chef to make us something while we stargaze for a bit?" Luna said smiling at her, hoping to lighten up the mood and cheer up her wife.
"No…. maybe another time, Luna," Twilight said before pulling the blanket over her head once more, "I just want to be alone."
"Love, I know this is hard on you. I understand how your feeling and I want to help you through this." Luna said draping a wing over the little mountain.
"No, you don’t," Twilight whispered
"Excuse me?" Luna asked pulling the blanket down with her hoof, "Twilight?"
"You don’t understand!" Twilight shouted quickly sitting up from the bed. Twilight clenched the blanket as she glared at Luna, she was letting her emotions, grief, and pain talk for her. "How can you understand what I’m going through!"
Luna was a bit taken back from Twilight’s sudden outburst, "What…. how could you say that?!"Luna snaps back, also being led by her emotions and not a clear mindset.
"I’m the one who got attacked! I lost the foal! And you weren’t there! How can you understand what I’m going through!" Twilight shouted standing up on the bed.
"How dare you!" Luna snap back getting off from the bed and standing on her hooves, "How dare you say, that! That foal was mine as much as yours! You don’t think I’m grieving its loss as well?!"
"I don’t see you wounded or cursed!" Twilight shouted. If Twilight could see herself now, she would be disgusted about her behaviour. Deep down, underneath all this pain, grief, and anger, she was feeling. She knew Luna was in as much pain as she was in. So why? Why was she getting mad at her? For something, Luna had no part in? What kind of pony was she?
"How dare you!" Luna shouted knowing deep down, she would also be disgusted about her own behavior as well. "Don’t you dare accuse me of any of this! You’re the one who went to see Tirek! You’re the one who confronted him without even TELLING ANYPOYN!"
"BECAUSE EVERYTIME EQUESTRIA IN DANGER! YOU AND CELESTIA ARE UNABLE TO KEEP EVEN A BUNNY SAFE!" Twilight shouted back with both mares using their royal Canterlot voice.
Luna growled as she bit down on her lip, she was doing her best to stay calm but was having a lot of difficulties. "Twilight! I believe you should stop talking!"
"NO! IM SO TIRED OF SAVING EQUESTRIA BECAUSE YOU TWO CAN’T! YOURE BOTH THE BUCKING RULERS!" Twilight yelled pushing Luna back with her hoof.
"YEAH, WE ARE! I WAS KEEPING EQUESTRIA SAFE CENTURIES BEFORE YOU WERE BORN! DON’T YOU DARE ACCUSE ME OF BEING A LAZY PONY!" Luna shouted pushing Twilight back in the other direction.
"WHEN YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO CAST EQUESTRIA INTO AN ETERNAL NIGHT!" Twilight shouted using a low blow against her wife.
Luna growled glaring at the purple mare. How could Twilight bring up her past like this?! Such a painful moment of her life, "DONT YOU DARE BRING UP MY PAST!"
"Princesses! Is everything alright?" a guardpony shouted with his knocks going unheard from all of the yellings.
"I SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN TOO SURPRISE WHEN CRESCENT AND MONEYBAGS ATTACKED! YOU CAN HARDLY KEEP EQUESTRIA SAFE! I SHOULDN'T HAVE EXPECTED YOU TO KEEP ME OR THE FOAL SAFE!" Twilight shouted giving luna one big push.
The lunar princess stumbled back and bumped into a dresser. She growled as Twilight’s words cut through her like a knife. The lunar princess was so sensitive and guilt-ridden about the fact, she couldn’t keep her beloved wife safe. But hearing those words, the accusations coming from Twilight…. it broke her. "YOU SELFISH BITCH!" Luna shouted slapping Twilight across the face with such force, it sent the purple mare to the ground.
Twilight lay on the ground for a few seconds with the pain on her cheeks lingering. She sat up and touched her sensitive cheek, "GET OUT! GET OUT OF HERE! GET OUT OF MY LIFE!"
"GLADLY!" Luna shouted back before storming out of the room. Twilight shouted slamming the door behind Luna.
Luna pushed some guards out of her way making her way to an open window. She unfurled her wings quickly taking flight. The lunar princess flew towards a nearby cloud, high above Canterlot. She wanted to be alone…. as everything that had occurred started to sink in. "What…. have I done…." Luna whispered staring down at her hoof; the very hoof that slap her wife. Luna closed her eyes with tears starting to overflow, she felt her body shake and couldn’t hold it back any longer. The Moon Princess, co-ruler of Equestria, seen as a goddess by many ponies…. wept.