Celestia glides through the clear blue sky of what use to be a united Equestria. She arrives at a life size statue of an anthro looking handsome, unicorn, stallion, wearing the dress uniform of her Elite Guard Unit the Solar Guard. She lands and sits on a patch of grass in front of the statue for a little while to catch her breath. On the pedestal it reads:
Prince Justice Silverlight beloved husband and father
She flaps her wings until she reaches the statue’s stone lips and kisses it. Several of her red lip stick imprints decorate the stone lips of her husband’s statue. Whenever Celestia gets overwhelmed with her duties as the Solar Empress, she flies to her husband’s statue and just sits in front of it and talks to him.
“Well my love, I’m back again, our daughter insist on trying to overload me with paperwork.” Celestia said joking laughing to herself as she reaches up and removes her imperial tiara from her head. She holds it in her hands as a tear splashes on it.
“It’s not what you think, my love. It’s just, I miss you. You seem to know when I must take a break from ruling, you would grab my hand and take me through a magic portal you created. It would bring us to this very spot: with a picnic blanket set for lunch. You would sit me down on the blanket, remove my shoes and tiara, you would set them on a small, flat stone casing a shield on them, that wouldn’t allow me to retrieve them until I was truly relaxed.” Celestia explains as she recreates the exact scenario for herself.
“This one event would lead to a one sided, heated, argument with you. I would yell and scream that you didn’t care that I was the ruling Princess of Equestria. you just wanted my land to fall to pieces, because I didn’t do my job. The truth, is you cared more about my well being and mental clarity, than me being the ruling Princess.” Celestia explains her face long as she touches the shield with her hand causing it to lower, so she could retrieve her items. With her items in hand, she spreads her wings and flies back to the palace to continue working.
A moment later, Justice seems to appear out of nowhere from behind his statue. He makes his way over to the stone pedestal where the flat stone sat. In front of the pedestal, was a small area of sand. Justice crouches down on the outside of the sand pit. In the sand pit, were the impressions of his wife’s large, but perfectly shaped, bare feet.
Since being reborn Justice lost his connection to his wife’s heart. The simplest way to re-connect would be making physical contact by a kiss. But Justice’s Great grandmother accidentally implanted doubt about his wife’s faithfulness and now he’s not sure. He holds his hand over his wife’s foot impressions making a tentative connection with his wife’s heart. It’s just enough to keep track of her at anytime. While on her way back to the palace, Celestia has a strange feeling come over her.
“Huh?” Celestia exclaimed puzzled as she felt a dormant connection with her heart reinvigorate in her.
‘Some pony is trying to make a connection with my broken heart, I can’t let that happen.’ Celestia thought.
She flew back to her husband’s statue, at great speed, and flapped her wings to remain in midair as she scanned the whole area looking for the pony that was trying to make a connection with her heart. Once back in the area of the statue, the connection started to get stronger; this caused Celestia to gently float down to the ground, clutching her chest. Once her toes touched the ground, she sunk all the way down, letting go of her golden sandals.
“Please! Please! Whoever you are!? Stop trying to make a connection with my heart! I will never betray my marriage vows to Justice! He sacrificed so much for me! And I did the same! Leave my heart alone!” Celestia screams as her voice degenerates to a childish whimper.
Slowly, the connection to her heart begins to fade. Celestia gets to her feet and walks over to the sand pit. She blinks her eyes with surprise. In the sand were impressions of her bare feet. She figures whoever was trying to make a connection to her heart was using the innate magic that leeches out of her body. She must sending excess magic energy from her body through her feet into the ground to prevent anyone from being shocked. Knowing that, in one fluid movement, Celestia opens one of her wings and sweeps it across the sand pit covering her foot prints with more sand.
As Celestia disappears into the distance, Justice, once again, reappears and walks over to his wife’s dropped sandals and picks them up. As he lifts them up, he can sense that the sandals are just covered with his wife’s day magic energy from being worn when she released excess magic energy.
‘With these sandals I now have an unlimited source of Celestia’s day magic energy.’ Justice thought as he flew off in the direction of the Principality of Dream Valley.
Unknown to Justice, watching him fly off from the statue, was Celestia. She was flapping her wings in mid-air to hold her position. She was on her way back to her husband’s statue to retrieve her dropped sandals. Because, like him, she knew that her sandals were covered with her day magic energy. She also knew that a solid connection can be made to her heart by using innate magic in her sandals; an outcome she fears most of all.
“Who is that male Alicorn? Is he the one that’s been trying to make a connection to my heart? If that’s true, this could really test my marriage vows to my beloved Justice. If he’s just as powerful as I am, I-I-I could break my marriage vows and forsake Justice, NO!” Celestia’s voice shrills with horror as tears stream down her cheeks.
“Celestia stop this! (Shaking her head back and forth) When I made my wedding vows to Justice, I did it because he love me. Not to gain respect or position, because there was none. He love me and I love him. Whoever you are, Alicorn, my heart will stay faithful to the stallion that put the wedding ring on my finger (playing with the ring on her finger) Prince Justice Silverlight. Hear me Alicorn! My heart belongs to Prince Justice Silverlight!” Celestia scream as loud as she can toward the mysterious male alicorn that now possesses her magic endowed sandals.
“Say What?” Justice exclaims as all the energy contained in his wife’s sandals disburses in the air, leaving him holding just a plain pair of Gold heeled sandals worn by his wife Celestia.
‘Hmm, I have a feeling that Celestia has stayed truly faithful to me. Plus, I feel I should return her sandals to her. When I reunite with her, why not tonight when she is in bed. Come to think of it would be kind of fun to tease those wonderful pristine large feet of my wife.’ Justice thought with a mischievous grin as he flies back to Dream Valley to wait for nightfall.
As the six evening bells ring in the clock tower in the central spire of the Grand Royal Palace signaling the conclusion of this day’s Imperial Court Session, the large golden doors of the Imperial Throne Room shut. A moment later, the smaller doors into the Grand Princess’s throne room open, a fanfare sound signals the beginning of the Grand Princess’s Evening Court Session. From the side exit of the Imperial Throne Room, an exhausted Empress Celestia Silverlight trudges her way to the second floor of the Grand Royal Palace, back to her room.
The worry that plagued Celestia’s mind (the Alicorn that stole her magic endowed sandals) has long since vanished. The current trouble was the unreal demands by those separatists’ ponies.
‘Those arrogant separatists’ ponies, are making unreal demands of the Solar Empress and the Solar Empire. It’s no hay off my nose. From Luna’s and my own Intelligence Bureau, the separatists movement is falling apart. After that unsuccessful coup d’état that damaged several villages, the movement got a black eye. The ponies that gave them the black eye were my own foals. Somnus held back the Royal Army troops and ordered them not to assault the village, even though the separatists army was taunting them to attack, Aurora coordinated with her little sister Blueberry to secretly bring needed supplies into the village for the ponies to survive a protracted siege. In the end, the separatists army was trapped between a rock and hard place, the villagers on one side and the royal army on the other side. So in an attempt to regain control of village, they burned several buildings. This act broke the pony’s back and the villagers allowed the Royal Army to attack, end the siege, instead of leave the destroyed village, the Royal Army helped to rebuild it.’ Celestia thought as she changed into her night gown and went to bed.
As the small gold bells on Celestia’s clock chimed midnight, the light curtains that covered the opening onto her balcony gently blew open, as if pushed by a breeze. But that’s not possible, as no wind was scheduled at that time of the night. In the moon lit bed chamber, two solid red eyes appeared and scanned the room. It picked up a huge heat signature lying on a warm mattress whose temperature has remained unchanged. The eyes move towards the heat signature switching from red eyes to glowing green eyes. Through the green tint of the eyes, lying on the bed, was Celestia. Her chest rose and fell as she slept peacefully in her bed. A single tear formed in one of the green eyes as an unseen hand begins to stroke Celestia’s cheek. This causes a smile to form on Celestia’s snout and she speaks.
“Home late again, my love. You are going to work yourself to death and leave our family without a father and I without a husband. You know how much I love you.” Celestia said affectionately as she rubs her cheek against the back of an unseen hand.
“I know Tia, please forgive me.” Justice reply as Celestia chuckles under her breath.
“Now come to bed, my love. I have had a very hard day of court. I need something to snuggle up to.” Celestia said as her eyes shot open in surprise remembering that her husband had died a few years back.
Upon seeing the two green eyes in the darkness, looking at her, she spreads her wings and shoots straight for her bed chamber door to make her escape. Suddenly magic bindings form around her prefect figure, locking her arms to her side and the wings on her back. Next, magic bindings locked her bare ankles together as her horn becomes magically stasis locked. Knowing that his wife would rather negotiate for her freedom than fight, he doesn’t gag her but instead, floats her down onto the bed and sitting her on the edge, in front of him.
“I am going to assume you are not part of any of anti-royalty or separatists groups. Because you didn’t gag me and kidnap me, you are willing to negotiate for my freedom. So I will not call for the guards. Unless you do something that deems that call.” Celestia said diplomatic as the eyes move up and down.
“Very good, my captor, now the communication lines are open to negotiate.” Celestia said pleasantly as the eyes moved closer to her. She felt unseen fingers touching the nails on her toes. A second later, one of her red bottles of nail polish, floats off her dresser and gently taps on the same toe.
“In all my years of negotiating, these are the strangest negotiations I have ever. But if you’re asking if I have nail polish on my toes, I do.” Celestia answers as she winces as the bindings are slowly becoming uncomfortable.
“I have a request captor, could you break the bindings from around my arms and ankles. They are become uncomfortable. I promise I will not escape. I am a princess of my word.” Celestia said pleasantly as all the binding disappears from her body and the stasis lock on her horn is broken.
“Huh?” Celestia exclaimed as she felt her leg being lifted up and her heel being placed in, what felt like a cupped hand. A moment later she felt an unseen hand rubbing her ankle to make it feel better, continuing on the other ankle.
“I thank you, captor, my ankles feel better now. For some reason, I feel you are not here to hurt me. Please enlighten me, why are you here?” Celestia inquires as she felt her left hand being lifted up and a finger touching her wedding ring.
“My wedding ring? Yes, I am a married mare (the eyes begin looking around the room) if you are looking for my husband, he passed away. When I married him, I made a solemn promise to him I would stay faithful to him, no matter what.” Celestia said her heart breaking once again, but she quickly composes herself not wanting to lose her strong position in these negotiations with her captor.
“Tell me about him?” A male voice asked in Celestia’s head, sounding so familiar. But for some reason, the voice was trying to mask its true vocal pattern.
“I don’t know, captor, why you are trying to disguise your voice from me. But you have done what I have asked of you. So I’ll let that slide.” Celestia said forgiving as she reaches over to a framed picture from off her nightstand. She kisses and hugs the picture before turning it around toward the green glowing eyes.
“The stallion in this picture was my husband Prince Justice Silverlight, He was a wonderful and caring unicorn stallion (tears forming). He cared more about my well-being than anything else (tears begin running down her cheek). A workaholic like me, sometimes forgets to rest (the tears begins running faster down her cheek). But Justice made sure that. I-I-I rested (Soon the tears run down her cheek as a river).” Celestia said as she dissolves into tears. Suddenly she feels an unseen hand touch the side of her cheek. It felt warm and deliberate as if trying to take away the sadness.
“This is not my Celestia, My Celestia would never cry like this, She knew that our hearts would always reunite, Because she believe true love transcends time itself.” The familiar stallion voice said profound as Celestia quickly dries her tears.
“What do you mean, my Celestia?” Celestia inquiry as if a veil was pulled away from her eyes and revealing to her, Her husband Prince Justice Silverlight, his strong hand resting against her cheek.
As Celestia’s initial shock wears off, Justice slowly gets to his feet, and followed by her (even in her barefeet) she was the same height as her husband and was able to wrap her arms and wings around him in a very loving embrace.
The following morning, Celestia rolls over in their bed, her stomach in knots when she sees Justice’s side of the bed empty. Fearing that she dreamt all of it, she becomes heartbroken. Soon she notices steam billowing from their private bathroom. She leaps to her feet and runs over to the bathroom door and she looks into the bathroom. Standing in front of the fog covered mirror was Justice. He was drying his crimson red mane with a towel, while a towel was wrapped securely around his lower half.
She couldn’t help but admire the toned look of her husband’s perfect figure. Celestia gaped in stunned silence, fused to her husband back were two gold disks that attached to an unknown metal superstructure that was shaped like a pair of bird wings. Each feather that made up the wings looked like it was made out of a very delicate gold leaf. It moved as though it was natural bird wings. Before Celestia could say another word, the door slams shut, hitting her on her snout. She backed away from the door as it opened again. From the bathroom steps, Justice, he is wearing a pair of jeans in his bare feet and shirtless showing off his defined chest.
“When did my wife, become a peeping mare?” Justice said in a huff as Celestia scooted backward on the ground till she traps herself in a corner of their bed chamber.
“Celestia what is wrong with you?” Justice inquiry as he reaches out to touch Celestia who slaps away his hand in fear.
“You can’t be my husband, Justice. but at the same time I can feel that warmth and my heart telling me you are my husband, Justice. Still you were a unicorn stallion when I buried you, Now you are an Alicorn, Who are you?” Celestia said in utter confusion doubting her own senses.
“I have always been your husband, Justice. I put that wedding ring on your finger and gave you three foals of your own, yes, you did bury me as unicorn. But that was only a disguise to hide my true form, this form is an Imperator Alicorn or if you like, a Celestial Alicorn. I fell in love with a very lovely Terran Alicorn who faced so many hardships, I want to face those hardships with her and be at her side.” Justice said very tenderly as he stood Celestia up and kissed her.
“Your form might have changed but your heart has not. That’s what I love about you, my dear husband, Prince Justice Silverlight.” Celestia said loving as she returned his kiss and hugged him.