Principal Celestia just stood there, completely frozen, she had no idea why Sunset was acting so angry towards her. Should she get Luna?
“Sunset? What has gotten into you? What is the matter?” Celestia asked as she invited Sunset inside, she studied Sunset, her eyes never going of her.
“Oh, I don’t know, or maybe I do know the fact that you were never there for Luna!” She yelled as pointed a finger to Celestia, making her jump back.
Celestia let out a sigh and closed her eyes, “Luna told you, I guess?”
“Everything.” Sunset said bluntly as she shrugged her shoulders.
Celestia nodded and gestured to the two to have a seat, “I’m not going to sit and make excuses, I know I should have been there more for Luna. I have to live with that guilt for the rest of my life. It still pains me to this day that she felt like she could never come to me when she needed me the most.” She said sadly.
“So, you admit to hurting Luna then?” She growled, shooting daggers at Celestia,
“Of course I do!” Celestia raised her voice a little as it cracked, “You don’t know how I felt that me and Luna never spoke for years, I was worried sick about her. Not one day went by that I didn’t think about her, I felt awful that it was me that drove my sister into thinking that I hated her and never cared for her! I never realised what I lost until Luna wasn’t part of my life anymore.” Celestia had a look of pain in her eyes, Sunset didn’t care what she felt though all she cared was about Luna.
She shot more deathly glares and looked coldly towards Celestia, “But, yet, you pressed charges against her and sent her into a care unit!” Sunset scoffed, she folded her arms.
Celestia shook her head, “That wasn’t me. I didn’t want to either, but our parents forced me too, they said it would be for her own good.” Said Celestia regretful, she really didn’t want to do that to Luna but that was the only choice she had, She had a fall out with her parents over it.
Sunset wasn’t having any pity on Celestia, “Do you know how Luna felt when you and your parents basically abandoned her? Do you realise what that did do to her? imagine how that must of sucked for her that her own family basically said ’Yeah, we don’t know what to do with you anymore, you’re a disgrace to the family so we’re just going to kick you out, have a nice life.’ She hasn’t admitted it to me, probably because she doesn’t want me to worry but I can tell, that stills hurts her, and even though she pretends she over it, it will never go away, that feeling, it will stay there for the rest of her life. So do you feel proud of yourself that you did that to your little sister!” Sunset was starting to get upset, her anger was more turning into tears.
Celestia just watched, she let out a small gasp, noticing a pained look in Sunset’s eyes, she walked over the seat Sunset was sitting down in and she knelt in front of her.
“Sunset?” Celestia looked her in the eyes, “You aren’t just upset about Luna are you? You’re hurting because the same thing happened to you didn’t it?” She asked softly, She could tell straight away that Sunset was hurting about something from her past by the way she was talking.
Sunset looked away and closed her eyes, “You don’t know me. You know nothing of my past so how can you sit there and make assumptions! You have no right to judge me!” Sunset yelled in Celestia’s face, she tried to stand up but Celestia put her hands on her shoulders and guided her back down.
“Sunset. Look at me.” She said sternly as she raised her hand, “I can tell with the look in your eyes, something in your past, it has an effect on you, it’s similar to Luna’s isn’t it? Did you get kicked out? Did someone abandoned you?” She asked with concern in her voice, Sunset closed her eyes, she struggled against Celestia not wanting to deal with the woman, she pushed her out the way.
Sunset bumped Celestia’s shoulder to get out of her way, “Don’t you dare act like you care! You have never cared about me! And now you want to start asking questions? you know what? Why don’t you stay the hell out of my life! I don’t need someone like you to think they know all about my life! I want nothing to do with you! You’re just exactly like her!” Sunset stormed out of the office and made a run for it.
Celestia just stood in shock, her body trembling, her?... what does she mean? she didn’t know what just happened, what was Sunset talking about? she took a seat back down at her desk and she sobbed...
Come on Celestia, gather yourself together, Luna needs to know about this, god knows where Sunset has run off too. Stupid me, all my fault. She thought to herself as she picked up the phone to phone Luna... she tapped her leg underneath the desk, it helped steady her nerves, all she kept thinking was what was Sunset meaning by her? Who’s her?
Luna picked up the phone, “Tia? Why are you phoning you know I’m literally just down the hall?” She asked in an annoyed tone,
“Come to my office quickly please.” She said as her voice sightly shakened, Luna didn’t like the sound of the way Celestia’s voice sounded, that worried her,
“I’m on my way.” Luna said as she hung up the phone and made her way out of her office, nerves growing in her stomach, What did Celestia need her for so urgently?
Once Luna got to the office, she let herself in.
“Sister! Are you alright?” Luna asked, she noticed that her sister didn’t look normally like her chipper self, she looked like someone just kicked her in the gut.
Celestia shook her head, “Don’t worry about me, we need to find Sunset, now.” She said as she stood up from her desk, making Luna’s body completely tense up.
“Sunset?” she asked confused, “She should be in class right now? Why do we need to find her?” She motioned one of her hands as the other was folded.
Celestia let out a sigh, “She came by my office at lunch, she had a few words to say about you to me. I tried to help her, Luna I’m sorry. I-I just thought this would be my chance to have a breakthrough with her, but obviously not, she has bad feelings towards me. She didn’t like what I had to say and she... stormed off.” Celestia said as she buried her hands in her face.
Luna tried her best to stay calm, and reassure her sister, “Look, Tia it’s okay, I’m sorry I should have told you that I told Sunset about our past. I told her not to do this, I didn’t want her to say anything to you, she’s obviously went against my wishes. Once I find her I’ll make sure she apologises you.” Luna said a little upset at Sunset for not listening to her, she placed her hand on Celestia’s shoulder trying to calm her down, “I will look for her, she has probably just ran outside to get some fresh air or something.”
“Don’t be mad at her, I pressed on an issue and it’s obviously affected her, it was my fault, she’s just trying to protect you.” Celestia said as she looked up to Luna.
Luna sighed, “Yeah, I know, she’s just looking out for me, but I’m the adult here, she needs to learn when I ask her not to do something I expect her to follow that.”
“Don’t be too harsh on her Lu. It’s pretty clear to me that she cares about you. Things just got out of hand, I will fix it with her.”
Luna nodded, “I'll go find her.” She said as she made her way out of the office.
As Sunset made a run for it outside of Celestia’s office, she ran outside to the back entrance of the school, her mind was going crazy, How could Celestia think she knew all about her? How dare she act like she gave a damn! As she went outside, her breathing was going so fast, she had to stop, she leaned against a wall and let her catch her breath, she was panting so hard, she could hardly see she felt that dizzy, she didn’t even notice that people were coming up towards her...
“Shimmer!” A voice yelled in the distance; It was none other than Gilda, behind her were the diamonds dogs and Trixie. She ran up to Sunset, anger in her voice as she roared. She pulled Sunset by her t-shirt up against the wall making her squawk.
“You’re coming with us!” Gilda said under her breath, She dragged Sunset with them, Sunset tried to get herself out of Gilda’s grip.
“L-let go of m-me.” Sunset choked out, she struggled against herself.
Gilda just laughed, “You think you’re going to get away with it that easily? huh?” She pushed her back up against the wall more. “You think you can just go crying to the Principal’s? please we told you, you will pay for what you did and this time we will make sure you don’t go running back to them!” She said as she flung Sunset to the ground.
“Tuck in guys!” She shouted and rubbed her hands together as she starting to kick lumps out of Sunset making her groan in pain, she was curled up into a ball trying to hide her face, she had tears running down her face,.
“Please! Stop! I’ll do anything!” Sunset said as she crunched herself up trying to protect her, “owww!”
Gilda just laughed, “Well would you look at it that! She-demon is actually wanting to surrender? Ha! Like hell that's going to happen. You’re going to suffer.”
They kept going and going, they weren’t giving up, each of them taking a side of Sunset’s body, then finally Gilda pulled her back up.
All Sunset could feel was pain, her whole body ached, she could feel blood running down her, Gilda just looked at her and laughed as Sunset tighten her eyes, she pinned her up against the wall again with her arm under her chin, digging into her until Sunset nearly choked, she let out a cough, Gilda covered her mouth, so Sunset couldn’t speak.
Gilda spat out, “You’re going to suffer for what you did. We will make sure of it.. We will make sure you suffer for a long time.” She growled at Sunset, she pulled back her fist, Sunset turned her head and tried to wriggle her way out but Gilda moved her face to face her, “Brace yourself, Shimmer,” She said as she went in for the last punch right to the jaw, then...
Sunset crashed. She fell to the ground.
Out. Cold.
After Luna left Celestia’s office she made a run for it, she checked down the halls, toilets, gym lockers, nothing, no Sunset, she made a run for it outside, she checked the front entrance first, she went over to the statute, nope not there,
She tried to reach Sunset on her phone, “Pick up, pick up” she muttered; no answer, she tried again; it just kept ringing out, “Damn it!” She huffed, she left a voice message to her “Sunset, where the hell are you? Phone me back as soon as you get this. You have a cellphone for a reason. I didn’t buy you that for the sake of it.” She said as worried filled her voice as she couldn’t find Sunset anywhere.
Luna pocketed her phone then made her way to the staff parking lot, but then she got closer to the back entrance of the school, she could see a group of people in a circle, as she got closer she could make out who it was, it looked like they were hurting someone?
“STOP!” She yelled, She got closer... closer... she panicked as she saw her... Luna’s heart sank, she felt sick...
“Sunset!” Luna screamed, she only caught the end as she saw Sunset fall to the ground, she made a sprint for it.
“Quick run! Vice Principal Luna’s here!” Trixie said panicky as she pulled Gilda away, all of them made a run for it as fast as they could away from the scene.
Luna ran up to Sunset and knelt down, she could see she was covered in bruises all over her face, she had blood running down from the side of her head and her clothes were torn into pieces.
“Oh no.” She trembled, “Oh, no,no,no. She shook her head.
“Sunset? C-Can you hear me?” Luna stuttered, she pulled Sunset onto her lap, and checked for her pulse, “Still... a pulse.” She whispered.
She felt relieved when she finally got a pulse, she shook Sunset, “Sunset... Sunset... it’s Luna... can...can... you... hear...me?” Tears were welling up in her eyes, she trembled.
“Please... say something!” She screamed, still nothing. Luna picked up her phone.
“Hello, can I have an ambulance, now please?” She said as her voice was ready to crack, she still had Sunset in her grip.
“What's the emergency ma’m.”
“My-my” she paused, “...S-Student” she coughed, “She’s been hurt, I-i think she’s unconscious, I’m still getting a pulse, b-but she’s not answering m-me.” Luna said shakily, her voice quivering.
“Location?”
“Canterlot High.”
“an ambulance is on its way.”
“Thank you.” Luna hung up the phone, she put Sunset into the recovery position and checked her airways, she phoned Celestia.
“Tia. Come quick, back entrance, Sunset is hurt. Bring a first aid kit.” Luna said, her heart was going so fast, she was starting to sweat nervously.
Celestia made a run for it after Luna phoned her, as she got to the scene she gasped, Sunset was lying unconscious on the ground while Luna knelt down and sobbed quietly trying get her to respond to her in anyway, Celestia went over to her sister.
“Lu?” Celestia said as she walked up behind Luna, “What happened?” Asked Celestia as she handed Luna the first aid kit.
Luna looked up to Celestia with tears in her eyes, “Gilda and her gang happened.” Luna said angrily, she gritted her teeth.
“Again?” She blinked, “where are they now?”
“They ran off before I could get my hands on them.” She said under her breath.
Luna could hear Sunset groaning, “Don’t move Sunset. Stay where you are.” She calmly warned Sunset, “Were getting you to the hospital.”
“...L-lun..owww.” Sunset tried to get out.
“Yes. It’s Luna, I’m here and we’re gonna get you safe. You are going to be just fine.” Luna spoke softly as she did her best to clean up Sunset’s face.
It was then they could hear the sirens of the ambulance pulling up the school, two paramedics got out of the van, Celestia noticed them walk up.
“Name please.” The man said as he took his bag off his shoulder.
“Sunset Shimmer.” Said Celestia as she approached the man.
“Can you please stand back so we can get to her.” The man made his way over to Sunset and knelt down.
Luna seemed hesitant at first but Celestia helped her get her to her feet, she stood there arms crossed, her body felt numb as she watched Sunset get an oxygen mask put on her.
“Sunset. I’m one of the paramedics, we will be taking you two the hospital, can you tell me where you are sore?”
Sunset woke up but still in shock at what happened to her, “M-my head hurts and M-my ribs are sore.”
“Okay Sunset.” The man nodded, “We’re going to take you to the hospital, we think you may have a mild concussion and some fractured bones, the nurses will be checking over you will we get there.”
The man then turned to the two administrators, “We’ve got to get her to the hospital now, she could lose consciousness again. Would you be able to contact her parents?” He Asked Celestia.
Luna butted in, “I’m her guardian.” She said, “Can I come in the ambulance?”
“Of course ma’m.” He nodded.
“I’ll be right there after school, I will deal with the others too if I can find them.” She Celestia as she gave Luna a side hug, “I’ll bring yours and Sunset’s stuff.”
“Thanks sister.” Said Luna, She took a breath as she followed the paramedics.
The bell rang for the last period of the school day, the girls all met up.
“Hey where’s Sunset?” Rainbow Dash asked as she walked up to the others.
“She wasn’t in class.” Pinkie pie said knowing that she was meant to be in art class with her.
“She’s probably just at Vice Principal Luna’s office.” Said Rarity, Sunset has told them she spends a lot of time there and goes for meetings.
“Why can I hear an ambulance?” Futtershy asked worriedly,
“C’mon on, let’s go find out.” Applejack as she grabbed Fluttershy and waved for the girls to follow them.
As they made their way out to the back entrance of the school, they noticed that Sunset was getting lifted up by one of the paramedics and placed into the chair, they all gasp when they saw it was her.
“Sunset!” They all said in sync as they gasped.
“Oh my.” Fluttershy said as she put her hand over her mouth.
“She’s bleeding.” Rarity said shocked, trying not to look so she wouldn’t faint, she hated the sight of blood.
“Girls. You should get back to class.” Principal Celestia as she walked up to them, trying to usher them away from the scene.
“W-what happened?” Question Rainbow, her face was filled with worry,
“She got into a fight with some students. She was knocked out unconscious, Vice Principal Luna is taking her to the hospital in the ambulance.” replied Celestia in her usual tone she spoke to students as she tried to hide behind the worry and guilt that filled her.
“W-who done it.” Rainbow said angrily as she tighten her fists.
“I’m afraid I can’t say.” She shook her head.
“Why not?!” Rainbow yelled,
“Rainbow Dash just leave it will ya? Principal Celestia is dealing with it.” Applejack scolded her friend.
“Is she going to be okay Principal Celestia?” Asked Fluttershy.
“I hope so.” She said, she wasn’t sure how to answer that but she was holding onto hope for both Luna and Sunset, “Now if you’ll excuse me I must return to my office and girls, you must return to class, I will inform you if anything happens.” Celestia said as she walked back to the school.
After the man bought a chair for Sunset and lifted her up to place her down, Sunset kept going in and out of sleep, her eyes not being able to focus, she had no idea what was happening, Luna stood closely by as the man got her into the ambulance, once they got her settle Luna sat next to her, she grabbed her hand.
“Sunset were taking you to the hospital okay? You’ve been knocked out unconscious, we’re gonna get you check up and get some stitches, everything will be fine I promise you, I’m not leaving you, okay?” Luna said as she spoke softly to Sunset trying to keep her waken so she doesn’t fall back into unconsciousness.
””...L-Luna.” Sunset said quietly as she tried to reach out for her, she still wasn’t aware of her surroundings, her head just kept moving, Luna’s grip in Sunset’s hand on got tighter.
“S-stay with me Sunset.” She trembled, “We won’t be long until we reach the hospital, you will be okay, you’re in safe hands, don’t panic.” Said Luna reassuring, trying to stay calm herself, she could feel everything in her body shaking.
Once the ambulance reached the hospital, they rushed Sunset into straight to the emergency ward, they got her to a nurse quick.
“She’s been knocked out, unconscious. A few bleeding areas and bruises. We think she might have a concussion.” The man said to the nurse, “Do you know how long she’s being lying out cold?” The nurse asked, “She was slightly awakened when we got there.” Luna stood by and watched, the nurse approached her.
“Hi Ma'am. I’m nurse Sweet Heart. Are you Sunset’s mother?” She asked politely, as she approached Luna.
“I’m her guardian.” Said Luna as she stood up from the seat in the waiting area, the woman gave a surprise look, “Wow. You’re not related? You both look so similar.” She said as her jaw dropped, making Luna give a small smile.
Luna shook her head and scratched her neck, “We get that a lot actually.” She smirked, “Do you know what’s happening?” She asked nervously.
The nurse nodded, “Currently, they are scanning her brain for any damaged, we will be testing her blood pressure and she will be getting her eyes checked, we have also got her booked in for an X-ray we think she may have a fractured arm and broken ribs, she will also be getting a few stitches near her head area.” She told Luna as best as she could of what she knew.
Luna closed her eyes and nodded, “Do you know when I’ll be able to see her?” Luna asked desperately as she wanted to see Sunset.
“Soon. They’re just finishing up and then they will put her into a room, a doctor will come and speak to you.” The nurse smiled, “She’s a tough girl for someone who got beaten up by a group of people, I’ve seen way worse people that have come in this condition but I assure you we will make sure she is okay.”
“Thank you.” Luna smiled feeling a little more at ease as the nurse comforted her.
Luna was in the waiting room drinking a coffee while the nurses were with Sunset in the room, she sat there worriedly as she cradled the hot drink in her hands, she was then pulled from her thoughts as someone pulled her in for a hug.
“Luna.” Said Chrysalis softly, “What happened, is she okay?” She asked worriedly as she could feel the trembling in Luna’s body.
“C-Chrysalis.” Luna sobbed into Chrys chest, “She was knocked out unconscious by some students, she’s in the room just now getting checked, i-I thought she was dead.” memories of the past came flooding back to Luna, it got too much for her.
Chrysalis just hugged her tighter, “shhhhh, she’ll be okay, everything will be okay, shhhh.” She soothed as she rubbed Luna’s back, she knew what Luna was thinking.
Luna choked, “You wanted to see her Chrys, she was just lying there, curled up, I struggled to get a pulse, but I did get one, Chrys... I can’t, I can’t lose her!” She shook her head.
Chrysalis lifted up Luna’s chin and looked into her eyes still holding Luna by her waist with one arm, “You’re not going too. We’re not going too, I promise you. She’s not going anywhere, you need to be strong Luna, for Sunset.” She comforted as she wiped the tears away from Luna’s face.
Luna sniffed, “H-how are you here?” She asked, making Chrysalis chuckle slightly, “Celestia phoned me.”
“Oh thank god she did.” She sighed, glad that her sister thought of it, she really needed Chrys here for the support.
A doctor approached the two women who were sat down, Chrys had her arms wrapped around Luna as Luna rested her head on Chrysalis shoulder, The doctor coughed, “Are you waiting for Sunset Shimmer” He asked as he looked up from his clipboard.
“Yes we are. Is she okay?” Luna asked as she stood up, she looked to the doctor.
The man nodded, “She’s stable, currently she’s asleep but you can go in.”
A smile appeared on the two of their faces, Chrysalis took Luna’s hand, “See told you, everything will be okay.” Said Chrys as she rubbed Luna’s arm,.
The two of them made their way to the room Sunset was in, Luna stood shocked as she saw Sunset with stitches in her head and some badges on her arm, she looked uncomfortable as she slept Luna went over and tried to adjust it for her, trying her best not to wake her, Chrysalis just stood there a small smile appeared on her face as she watched Luna care for the young girl. The two of them took a seat at the side of the bed.
Luna was fixing Sunset’s hair as she sat down near her side, making Chrysalis giggle, “Luna, will you stop fussing over her? She’s fine.”
“I just wished this didn’t happen.” She sighed, “I know she was bad, but she would never think about hurting someone like this.”
“I know Lu, it’s horrible to see her go through this. But I know Sunset won’t be the type of girl to let something like this get her down. She will come out stronger and she will show those bastards that.” Said Chrysalis as she gave her friend a side hug.
As school finished, Celestia quickly finished up what she was doing and made her way to the hospital, she grabbed her stuff and Luna’s and made her way to the car, she couldn’t help but wonder if this was all her fault, she caused Sunset to run off like that and if she was in class she would of never been harmed and now she’s caused not only harm to Sunset but more worry to her sister, she couldn’t help but have these thoughts as they lingered in her mind.
Once Celestia got to the hospital she asked the front desk for Sunset’s room and made her way, she noticed that Luna and Chrysalis were already there, Luna sitting closely by Sunset and Chrysalis sat next to Luna, Luna’s eyes never leaving Sunset as she slept.
Chrysalis was the first to notice Celestia, “Hey, Tia.” She looked up and waved her over.
Celestia walked over to see Sunset lying in bed, asleep, she had stitches in her head, and a badged on her arm.
“How bad is it?” She asked as she embraced the two other women.
“Why don’t we go grab some drinks? I’ll explain everything on the way.” She Asked Celestia, she turned to Chrysalis, “Are you okay with that?”
Chrysalis nodded, “Go. I'll stay with her.” She gave a small smile.
“Thanks. You want anything?”
“Coffee will do.”
The two sisters made their way out of the room and walked down the hall, Luna began to talk first. “She’s just had a few stitches, thankfully she didn’t lose much blood, and her brain seems to be stable. They’ve given her some pain relief as her ribs are damaged, the doctors said she will need to take it easy as the pain will be too much for her or it could worsen, they want to keep her in for a couple of days to check her blood pressure and make sure her ribs heal. They think her blood was up too low when they got to her.”
Celestia let out a sigh and closed her eyes, she couldn’t help but feel guilt ridden that Sunset was in this condition, “I’m sorry Luna. This is my fault.” She said as she shook her head giving her sister an apologetic look.
“Tia! Don’t blame yourself. It’s not your fault. It’s those brats that put Sunset in this condition. They are not getting away with this and I’ll make sure of it.” Luna said angrily.
“I can’t help it Luna, she’s in there because I made her run off, I should have never tried to infer with her life. She doesn’t know me the way she knows you, she doesn’t trust me at the best of times, I don’t even know why I thought it was a good idea to try and talk to her.”
Sunset started to wake up, she groaned as she tried to sit up, “owww.” She said as she opened her eyes.
Chrysalis got up from her chair and helped Sunset, “Down, girl. Don’t hurt yourself.” She pushed Sunset back down on the bed and helped get comfortable.
“Hey Chrys,” She asked looking around the room, “W-Where I am?”
“You’re in the hospital. You got yourself into a little bit of trouble...”
Chrysalis said as she patted Sunset’s head gently.
Sunset tried to move her arm, but it was too painful, “Oww. Oww. Where’s Luna?” She asked noticing it was only Chrysalis in the room.
Chrysalis smirked at the question as Sunset was quick to ask where Luna was, “She’s gone to get some drinks. She won’t be long.” She smiled.
“They did quite the number on you.” Said Chrysalis as she looked on with worry at seeing Sunset in pain.
“Tell me about it.” Said Sunset as she gave a bitter laugh.
As Sunset and Chrysalis were held up in conversation as the two others walked into the room, Sunset noticed as Luna walked in with drinks in her hands.
She beamed at Sunset, “Hey. You’re up.” She walked over handing coffee to Chrysalis, she placed her drink on the table along with Sunset’s, she gave her a quick hug trying not to hurt her, “How are you feeling?” She asked.
“Sore.” Said Sunset, She then noticed that someone else was standing in the room, she practically hissed, “What the hell is she doing here?!?!” She yelled as she pointed to Celestia.
Celestia winced, she almost dropped her drink in her hands as she jumped back, Luna and Chrysalis shared a look.
Celestia spoke up, “Sunset. I’m sorry for what happened earlier I should have never pressed you about your personal life.”
Sunset scoffed, “Don’t want to hear your apologies.” She waved off, “You had no right to pry into my life. What do you think would have happened? We’d become friends? Happy days right? You have never bothered about me, so why act like you care now?”
Luna and Chrysalis sat there watching the scene unfold, Chrysalis sat there sipping on her coffee, enjoying a little bit of drama, Luna just looked on completely lost as to why Sunset spat out all this hatred towards her sister.
“Sunset. Please, I’m sorry. I know you don’t know me much, but your part of Luna’s life now which means your part of mine too, you may be a student of mine, but I would like to get to know you more. I want to help you aswell Sunset.”
“Didn’t you hear me earlier on? I don’t need you. I don’t want you part of my life. So why don’t you stop trying?”
Luna stood up, “Sunset. That’s ENOUGH! You shouldn’t talk to Celestia like that.” She said in her authority voice.
Sunset just turned to Luna and frowned, “You’re taking her side? Seriously?”
“I’m not taking any sides. I just don’t understand Sunset, what has Celestia ever done to you?” She asked.
“She ruined my life.” She gritted her teeth.
Celestia just stood with concern in her eyes, “What do you mean Sunset?” Walking closer to the bedside.
Sunset had tears welling up in her eyes, “You asked if I was ever abandoned?” She looked at Celestia, Celestia studied her, she hoped what Sunset was going to talk about wasn’t true.
“Yes I was. I was practically abandoned twice. By two people that were suppose to be the most important people in my life. But they gave up on me.” She stared at Celestia waiting for her reaction, Celestia closed her eyes as Sunset spoke again.
“So there you have it Celestia that’s the truth. You happy now?” She asked, Celestia had her own tears welling up in eyes, while Chrysalis grabbed Luna’s hand to comfort her as she knew that if Sunset spoke about her past it hurt Luna to hear about it.
“No.” She shook her head, “What, do you think I’d get some kind of kick out of this? I was only concerned for you as I saw the pained look in your eyes, I know you were upset about Luna’s past but you were even more so upset because you went through the same thing.” She spoke softly, “Sunset. I am so sorry.” Celestia tried to grab Sunset’s hand only for her to be pushed away.
Sunset closed her eyes and sighed, “I was three years old when I was abandoned by my mother, she left me and my father, who had a bad temper and physically harmed me more than once. But then things changed after I got into magic school when I was four, I did it all on my own, I was determined to get out of the house...”
“So once I got into magic school I actually managed to catch the eyes of the Princess herself, she said she had never seen a unicorn as powerful as me at a young age and she wanted to take me on as a personal student. So then, I moved into the castle with her. At first I was shy and scared, the castle was so big and intimidating.
“The Princess obviously noticed the way I was acting and she would spend more time with me to make sure I was settled, we bonded really well and we were really close when I was younger, we would have sleepover parties, play board games, walks in the park and our favourite; Tea dates.” She let out a shaky breath, Luna grabbed her hand.
“But then, as I got older, I got too ambition, too arrogant, I got too comfortable in the castle thinking I could get away with every little thing, and The Princess would just turn a blind eye, she gave me everything, she helped me, she would stay up late with me if I needed help with an assignment or if I was scared to go to sleep, but I flung it all back in her face all because I wanted to become a Princess myself but she told me I wasn’t ready, it took time and it had to be earned.”
“One day, she showed me this mirror, which is the portal to this world. If you looked into it, it showed you your destiny, and mines, it showed me that I could become a Princess, well, after that, I kept asking her if I could learn more about the mirror, I asked her constantly but she would always say no, ‘it’s for advanced students’.”
“You think I would just listen to her right? But I didn’t, it bugged me that she thought I wasn’t ready to learn about it, so what did I do? I went behind her back.” She shook her head shamelessly, “I broke into the restricted section of the library and read all about the mirror and this world. I think she got scared in case I would have asked to travel into this world and that’s why she didn’t tell me about it.”
“She eventually found out that I broke into the library, she was so mad at me, and we argued, it was bad, very bad, I said things that cut her, I demanded her to make me a Princess, she kept refusing, i-I told her I hated her that night because she held me back from keeping me from what I thought was rightfully mines. It led her to kicking me out of the castle and removing me as her pupil so then I made a run for it and luckily for me the portal was opened and I jumped through.”
“I thought if I got away from her I would show her, show her that I could become a princess and I would do it all on my own and that I didn’t need her. She was only holding me back. I was angry at her for years but now, after Twilight defeated me I regret being so horrible to her, the way I treated her she didn’t deserve it, I haven’t spoke to her in the last five years and I wished I could tell her I’m sorry but I don’t think she would ever forgive me for what I done.” Sunset sobbed, Luna moved onto the bed and tried to embrace her as best as she could without hurting her, Chrysalis also had her hand on her leg, and Celestia just stood completely frozen.
“What’s her name?” Celestia asked,
“Huh?” Sunset replied as she raised her brow.
“You just keep referring to the Princess as her, Sunset what’s her name?” Celestia asked again.
“Don’t you see it? She was you.” She revealed as she pointed towards Celestia watching as the aurora haired woman's face fell.
Complete silence.
None of them dared to speak as they all digested what Sunset revealed to them. You could hear a pin drop. It was that silent.
It was then a nurse walked into the room.