Sitting at his throne room, the Lord of Chaos had a bored look, supporting his head with one hand and tapping one of the arms of his throne with the other. He was still pouting regarding what happened in Tambelon.
“Ah, I can’t believe I’m out of ideas!” he exclaimed. “It seems that no matter what brilliant plan I come up with I always lose to those… I don’t even know what insult to call them!”
It was then that he sensed something. It was a slight spice of darkness surrounded by a sea of light.
“But what is this delicious scent I feel?” he asked, while trying to locate that darkness. “No, it can’t be… It is coming from the Light Kingdom. It would appear someone created a little hole for me to get in. A way for me to watch over those pesky light ponies without making an effort? That didn’t happen since… Well, since Hepheus invaded the all place. But who could possibly be exhibiting suck intense darkness for me to…”
He didn’t have to think for a long time to realize it.
“No, don’t tell me…”
And he made one of his mirrors to come forward to him and then started to play something. It had a little static, but it was possible to see Midnight. She was crying in her special corner at the royal gardens.
“Oh, I hate all that light!” the Lord of Chaos exclaimed. “It’s compromising my perception! But no worries… I know who you are, little princess. I have forgotten about you with all my plans to take over the Pony Reality. But you have my attention now. Go on, my dear, keep feeling that rage and frustration. Let it all take over you! With that, you’ll be able to awake you’re full potential. In that way, the countermeasure that my brother made will be in vain and balance will be upset.”
Midnight was at her hiding place, with tears descending her face. She could feel her sadness involving her and isolating her from everyone that was around her. The pain she was feeling was suffocating. How could her parents and all the others have hidden from her the fact that her magic was dark? They should have told her.
“Why did they hide this from me?” she said to herself, while sobbing. “I don’t understand how they could have done this to me!”
Without her to know, the jewel in her mane clip started to glow. A few moments later, she felt a hoof tenderly touch hers. Midnight looked up with tears going down her face and saw…
“Star?” she asked.
“Hi, sis, how are you?” Star asked, while sitting beside her.
“Not that good…” Midnight replied, sorrowfully. “I just… found out that mom and dad… they…”
“Oh, I see, they finally told you and Sunny the truth” Star said.
Listening that, Midnight turned to him and asked:
“Wait, you knew about this?! And you didn’t tell me either?!”
“I only got to know it not so long ago” Star said. “Believe me, after you pass through what I have passed, you get to know things.”
His sister sighed and then said:
“I wished I could have something like that. Maybe I would be able to see through mom and dad’s lies.”
“I know what you’re feeling” Star replied. “I have been already in your hooves.”
“Oh, so they also told you have pure dark magic inside you as well?” Midnight asked cynically.
“No, but they told me I had an evil monster inside me” Star replied.
Remembering that his brother was a jinchuriki and that he didn’t know that until he was about her age, Midnight said:
“Oh, right… I… forgot about that.”
“When they told me I was a jinchuriki and they have agreed for that to happen, I snapped on them, just like you did” Star told. “I felt they were the sole reason why the light ponies hated me, why I didn’t fit in. At that time, I just wished to be away from them… and anypony else that knew the truth.”
“But… you forgave them” Midnight remembered. “Why? I mean, they lied to you. They hid something important about you and only revealed it when they had to.”
“That’s true and, believe me, I didn’t want to forgive them” Star answered. “But then a certain pony told me how they didn’t want me to be a jinchuriki. That the Lord of Chaos’ plan to awake Ten-Tails and the fact I was the best chance to keep Kurama away from him made them to agree with the Lord of Order’s decision. Those reasons allowed me to see through their point of view and, along with my love for them, I was able to forgive me. However that, in your case, despite similar to mine, has a key difference.”
“What?”
“Mom and dad agreed with me turning into a jinchuriki. But they didn’t agree you becoming a Dark Twin. That was the Lord of Chaos’ doing.”
“Maybe so, but still… they should have told me sooner” Midnight insisted.
“And, if they did, would you react differently from how you’re reacting right now?” Star asked.
That question made Midnight realize that, no matter when her parents could tell her about being a Dark Twin, she would react the way she did.
“I know the pain you’re dealing with, but you have to consider that this lie as you call it allowed you to grow up happily and become who you are now” Star told. “Ignorance is bliss and allowed you to be who you are today.”
There was a pause, where Midnight meditated her brother’s words. Despite everything she was feeling at that moment, the young princess had to admit Star was right about what he was saying. Perhaps she should have tried to understand her parents’ side of the story.
“I was so hard on them, wasn’t I” Midnight asked to Star.
“A little bit” he replied. “But, you know, never is too late to an apology… to both of you. And perhaps there’s more to this story than it meets the eye.”
Motivated by Star’s words, Midnight let her anger for her parents go away, deciding to forgive them and hear what they had to say.
With her dark emotions fading away, so did the Lord of Chaos’ perception of her.
“Damn!” he exclaimed. “Damn you, Star Knight! That colt is always getting in my way. But I know the day where that will end is approaching. When that day comes, for sure I’ll be able to get rid of these chains and roam through Creation once more!”
Midnight got up and then said:
“I need to return to the Mirrored Library. I just hope mom and dad are still there.”
“Even if they are not, you live in the same castle as them” Star reminded her.
“Oh, sure, you’re right” Midnight replied, blushing a little bit. “Well, here I go.”
And she moved away, with Star observing her with a smile.
At the mental plane he shared with Kurama, he said to his tailed beast friend:
“See, Kurama, another well done job.”
“Perhaps, but I just have one issue about your performance” Kurama told him.
“Oh yeah, and what’s that?”
Kurama then gave him a smack on the head and shouted:
“I didn’t like when you called me a monster!”
Star smiled, while massaging his head, and replied to Kurama, who had turned his face away from him:
“Wow, I never imagined you that touchy, Kurama.”