deer luna.
missis dream wants me to practis my writing so I have to tell you about what I done this week
On monday I went to my first day at unicron school. my teacher was a nice pony with a REELY long beerd and i met some other unicorns fillys there and they where nice but i reely wish you where there too, i missed you when i was lonely at lunch time. and the school was very boring and mr starswerl told us about what unicorns are made to do by raysing the sun. i was very bored...
Celestia Auri Sunshine, the next in line to the unicorn throne after her grandmother, Princess Platinum Sunshine, along with her sister, Luna Midnight Eclipse, was currently five whole years old. (The same age as her sister, take a few minutes, making Tia the older twin.)
Celestia and Luna were brought up by their honorary uncle, Hopeful Twist, who currently was out on a diplomatic mission with the Zebras, meaning that they had their grandmother's residential mansion all to themselves, apart from Dreamscape, the family maid who kept Celestia and Luna in line when Hopeful was off at work.
Celestia was a Unicorn and her sister Luna, a Pegasus; they were regarded as the bridge between the pony tribes, social wise at the very least. Everypony now-a-days embarked on this massive cultural adjustment of working together, the fifth Hearth’s Warming Eve soon to be held in a few weeks.
Although, while growing up, despite their fame, the two of them were kept very well protected in their royal status, allowing them to have a somewhat normal upbringing. If you called having a sister of a completely different race which has never happened before in all of pony history normal, that is.
Ever since their youngest moments, Tia and Luna defined their personalities quite well. Celestia quickly became entranced with pulling pranks and playing; being loud and showing off were some of her most refined talents. While Luna was more interested in the subtler things in life. She liked looking at pretty things and petting animals; her sleep pattern as a filly was so concrete she managed to snooze right through every one of Celestia's midnight tantrums demanding her bottle or toy or whatever it was, which happened every single night up to around the age of three or four.
As they grew, Celestia forced Luna to play ball games with her in the yard all day, sprinkled in between nights where Luna would read bedtime stories with her hyperactive sister. And despite the fact neither of them actually wanted to do what the other wanted, they always found themselves enjoying spending time with each other. Whether it was Luna failing to kick a ball or Celestia falling asleep half way through the storybook, they managed to make it fun. As long as they were with each other, everything seemed fun. That's why they promised each other they would be together forever; they would never leave each others’ sides. As children neither had fully grasped the concept of "forever" though, so they could not anticipate that their dream would come true in the upcoming future, but that's a point for later, as for right now, the purely unicorn filly sighed her seven thousand millionth sigh, somehow louder than all its predecessors as she audibly expressed the boredom Starswirl the Bearded’s class forced into her heart.
“MISS CELESTIA! What is your issue that you must interrupt our lesson?” Starswirl lowered his book from the tip of his muzzle down to press against his lower beard as his old eyes crossed down at Tia, who failed to sit straight in her small stool, prompting to instead use her filly-sized desk as a makeshift pillow.
“Nothing, mister.” She lazily poured out of her lips, sighing once again immediately after.
“Is this perhaps boring you, miss Celestia?” Starswirl trotted up to her desk, looking down from his four towers for legs, the entire class's attention drawn to Celestia.
“Yeah.” She confirmed, somewhat bewildering Starswirl, he didn't exactly expect her to just own up to her actions without even an excuse, normally his students begged for forgiveness but as far as he could tell, she didn't care.
“Well... If you do not wish to listen to the lesson, then you may leave. I am not holding you here, but just think of how disappointed your guardian would be if he hea-” is how far he had gotten before Celestia stood up and began trotting towards the door of this small stone-walled room at the top of some stupid magic tower.
Although, as her quite weak filly magic projected out to wrap around the door's nob, Starswirl's powerful aura slammed the door shut and held it there.
“CELESTIA! Take your seat at once!” The ruffled old stallion spat out at her.
“But... You said...” She protested gently, somewhat frightened by his tone.
“I know what I said, miss Celestia, please do not make this any more difficult; I do not wish to let us get off on the wrong hoof.”
She sighed, again. Trotting to her desk with a heavy grievance against the teacher, she hated school. Every unicorn in the class had their eyes trained on her, they were all amazed by her defiance, all being royals themselves they had never even conceived the idea of misbehaving so garishly, she was so... Cool. At least in five year old standards.
Starswirl, having seen Celestia back at her desk, returned to his lesson. “As I was saying, the sun and moon are what give us unicorns the magic we use every day, and while most of our magic is drawn partially from both sources, depending on our emotion we can diverge from one to the other...”
“Hey...” A voice unknown to Celestia came in the form of a whisper into her right ear. “Hey.”
Tia turned her head over to its other side, she saw that the pony sitting beside her was trying to get her attention. “Hi?” She responded with an ounce of curiosity.
“You're so cool. Can we be friends?” The unicorn filly requested, she was about the same age as Tia, she had a pale, chilly-blue coat and light purple mane wrapped in a tight ponytail.
“Sure, what's your name?” Celestia casually accepted.
“Vernacularous Tarcialambare Gloryraise.” She pronounced exquisitely.
“I'll call you Verna, I'm Tia.” She stretched over the gap between their simple wooden tables to shake her hoof, something that struck Verna really weirdly, shaking hooves is an Earth Pony traditional greeting, which made her reluctant to accept it but with enough peer pressure coming from Tia's expecting eyes she had done it.
“It's nice to meet you, Tia...” She whispered.
“You too.” Celestia didn't.
“CELESTIA!” Starswirl belted out her name once more, “If you are not willing to take part in the lesson may you please have the common courtesy to remain silent during it?”
“Okay...” She pouted and rolled her eyes, doing as he said, remaining silent for the rest of the class.
After Starswirl's one thousand year long talk about basic laws of magic functionality, it's occurrence in the anatomy of a unicorn, and several other big words Celestia failed to understand or care about, they were finally released for lunch.
Celestia, being the first out of the door, found herself in a haste as she galloped down the sharply cut stone blocks which formed a circular staircase down the tower.
She was stopped around halfway when she heard a voice calling her name from above, and it wasn't Starswirl's. If it was, she would have sped up, no, it was actually the voice of the first friend Celestia had ever made, bar her sister of course.
“Tia!” Verna squeaked from atop the staircase, her voice clinking off of the echo-chamber which was this stone-sealed tower down to Celestia. “Tia where are you going?” She asked, confused by her rush.
Celestia found the question dumb. Where else would she be going? “Outside!” She replied, continuing on after a short thought. “Do you want to come?”
In the time of this conversation, Verna had finally climbed down far enough to reach Celestia and speak face to face, she looked exhausted. “Yes... I... Would... But, can I ask you... Something?” Her high-pitched pants came to an end, although if half a flight of stairs wore her out that much then she had obviously been skipping leg day.
“Shoot.” Celestia leaned against the wall of the staircase, it's rough, cold stone brushing against the bristles of her fur like a brush.
Although, Celestia's cool-girl attitude did not translate well to Verna, as she jumped at the word ''shoot''. “W-what?”
Celestia gave her an odd stare before she realised the problem. “Sorry, Earth Ponies say that. It means yes.” Earth Pony seemed to be a foreign language here.
“Oh... okay... Well, why do you want to go outside? There's a library here, we could read togeth-”
“Pffh!” Celestia interrupted her with a short gust of breath whistling through her lips, “Liberry? That's boring. Let's go play catch!”
“C-catch? What do you mean?” She was concerned.
Celestia thought that was hilarious. “Come on! I'll show you! I promise you'll love it!”
“O-okay, friend.”
Celestia and Verna trotted down the rest of the stairway, finding themselves on the ground floor. Celestia ignored the caretaker trying to ask Tia what she was doing down here and sprinted past a few shelves of magical whatevers and burst through the door, her hoof leading Verna out with her. Both of them were now smiling and Verna giggled in fearful excitement as she was brought on the first proper adventure of her little filly life.
They whisked out onto the grass outside of the tower, now surrounded by the majestic landscape.
This was Canterlot. At least, the beginnings of Canterlot. Celestia currently stood at a large open field close to the base of the mountain, many dirt and cobble paths wove intricately down to the hoof of the mountain like veins in a pony. There were many small stone structures already built, a few towers, a small keep around the size of a town square where royalty lived as their castles were being built, and a lot of small stone hobbles which housed all of the royals’ servants. All of these scattered around with lots of room for plain grass, bushes and flowers to sprout from.
While they were currently on a very low level of the colossal mountain, there were still many cliffs at trotting distance, and more importantly there were more roads leading up the face of the mountain; all finding their end at the largest platform in the center of the mountain where construction on a great castle had begun several years ago, and its size made it the most ambitious project any unicorn tribe had ever begun. When it would be finished, the castle would be visible from nearly any point in Equestria as a shining beacon of power.
“Tia! Where are we going?!” Verna begged to know in between a girlish giggle, her heart was racing with excitement like never before.
“I dunno, here's fine.” She slowed her pace to a halt, landing approximately a dozen yards away from the tower, the bright summer sun gently warming their furs.
“So can you explain what ''catch'' is?” Verna asked with bright eyes, eagerly waiting for an answer.
Celestia stretched her legs out like a cat waking up from a cozy night's sleep. “It's a game. I have to catch you and you have to run away. And if I catch you, then you have to catch me!”
“Oh...” Verna began thinking, “Do you mean, like this?” She questioned as her horn lit up and Celestia felt a small tug on her long, pink, fluff-ball of a tail. She turned her head and saw that Verna was using her magic to pull on it.
“No!” Celestia said in mild frustration, “You gotta use your hooves!”
Verna stopped her spell and tilted her head in confusion.
Celestia sighed, gained a devilish grin and jumped up at Verna and pressed a hoof against the startled filly's shoulder, before swiftly turning heel–“YOU'RE IT”– and running away.
Verna's brow perked up and a jolt of energy ran through her as she realized it was now her turn to catch Celestia. “Hey! Come back!” She ran after the pale filly, her completely inexperienced legs left her sprint slow and unbalanced.
For a few giddy moments Celestia absolutely demolished any hope Verna had of catching her due to Celestia being, if measured in filly units, a zillion times faster. She laughed in her sprint away from her friend until she turned around and saw Verna trailing behind, her small and gleeful attitude being worn away by the worthlessness of her legs as they failed to catch Celestia.
Celestia didn't want her brand new friend to feel bad, so she swallowed her winner’s pride and began running at a pace closer resembling a jaunty stroll than anything.
Verna giggled as the tides turned so dramatically, she saw Celestia's tail fall closer towards her. The two then collided a fair ways away from the tower in the direction away from the mountain’s face. Verna jumped and bit onto Celestia's tail and yanked it back, managing to stop her with a grass-launching skid.
Celestia twisted her head around and smiled. “You did it! You caught me! Now it's my turn again!”
Verna giggled meticulously and turned to gallop off, running away from the tower and closer to the cliff, Celestia immediately noticed this and sprinted after her yelling, “Stop! Wait! Don't go that way!”
“Hehehe! You can't catch me! You can't catch me!” Verna had her eyes almost shut, completely oblivious.
Tia growled to herself in a determined rage to catch up, galloping with an adrenaline rush so quick that in just a few seconds she was in range of biting her friend’s tail to hold her back from the ever approaching cliff edge.
“MISS CELESTIA!!!” The gruff old voice of Starswirl called out to Tia from the tower, completely catching her off guard and stunning her in surprise for a split second, causing her to lose her hoofing and stumble into the dirt, rolling over a few times and groaning in pain as she stopped.
Verna heard her friend’s tumble from behind her, and she turned her head around to see Tia layed out completely ruined on the grass, and she tried to stop but it was already too late. The cliff was beneath her as she wobbled backwards, falling onto her ass and sliding down the cliff face. She looked down, the drop more than enough to kill her, and she was plummeting to the bottom.
Starswirl flashed over in a teleport to Celestia's side, clearly his old eyes not managing to see Verna drop below the edge. “What is the meaning of this? Sprinting around on your own out here?!”
Celestia didn't give him an ounce of attention, all of her focus was dead set on her friend, along with her magic as her horn lit up like a spotlight on her forehead, her face wincing as she slowly powered through.
“Celestia! Answer me! What is the... The...” Starswirl turned to watch as Verna appeared from the cliff edge, being floated up within Celestia's golden telekinetic field. Star swirl immediately teleported Verna over to his side, then looked at Celestia in wonder. No filly her age had ever been able to lift much more than a pen or open a door, but Celestia held up an entire filly's weight by herself. This level of magical strength at such an incredibly young age left Starswirl speechless.
“V-Verna! You're okay!” Tia ran over and hugged her friend tight as to not let her escape again.
“Tia! I am so incredibly sorry! I was not paying attention! H-how... Did you do that..?” Verna was shaking in her friend’s hooves.
“Do what..?”
“Save me... How did you lift me up?” They looked into each other's eyes both quite confused.
“Oh... I just used my magic. I've lifted up my sister in the air a bunch before... Are you okay?”
“Yeah. I am... Thank you, Tia.” They hugged again.
Starswirl cleared his throat. “Vernacularous, please return to class... Celestia. I wish to speak with you alone.”
Tia and Verna frowned and hugged a third time goodbye, Verna leaving the two of them to return to the tower.
“Am... I in trouble..?” Celestia pouted and looked up to her teacher.
“Perhaps... Though that is not why I asked to speak with you alone... You have an incredible magical ability. I would like to have your magic tested today after class.” Starswirl began to walk Tia back to the tower.
“I dunno... What's in it for me?” Tia slyly grinned.
“I may provide you with a lollipop, perhaps?” He said with worry, somewhat sure that's what children enjoyed.
“Deal! See you!” Celestia accepted and bolted away to chat with her friend once more.
Dear Tia.
Thank you for telling me about your day.
I think your story was very interesting and im excited to meet Verna.
Today I went to flight school and that was very interesting.
The first thing I did was wake up in the morning and eat breakfast with you.
After breakfast misses dream brought me to the flying school close to the mountains and forest it was in the clouds...
Luna Eclipse, the soft hearted, sweet, little, dark blue filly pegasus, had just arrived at her first day in flight school. She clenched her cutesy little notebook covered in suns and moons to her heart; it beating in sweet anticipation as she bridged past the main cloudy gate and towards a cloudy field.
A dozen little fillies were being brought in by their mums and dads, Luna would have loved for their maid Dreamscape to bring her in, but she was a unicorn so they had their goodbyes at the ground before Luna flew right up, all by herself, all the way to the clouds.
Now she was alone, for the first time in her little life.
A little nervous, the little filly wandered over to a Pegasus wearing a smart looking ocean blue suit and cap, militaristic in their shape and medals along their heart.
“H-hello... Miss... Um... Luet-ent-ant?” Luna touched the ponies shin softly.
The pastel-purple furred Pegasus Lieutenant with a soft gray flowing mane looked down with a smile filled with delight. “Hello there, my little filly! How did you know my rank?”
Luna blushed, “E-eh... M-my daddy is a... Com-and-er... And he taught me all those lines and their names.” Luna motioned at the mare's stripes.
“That is splendid! Very impressive knowledge from one of your age... I am Lieutenant Fritz Blastwave, and yourself?” The Lieutenant took her hat off and placed it at her heart, letting herself be more approachable.
“L-Luna Midnight Eclipse!” Luna squeaked.
Fritz took the moment to think, “Luna..? Oh! That's it! I have heard of you. Commander Hopeful's daughter, isn't it?”
“Y-yes! That's me!”
Fritz giggled and her smirk shone, “Your dad is a hero, you know that?” She ruffled Luna's mane.
“Yeah... Hehe.” Luna blushed once more, feeling quite ecstatic now.
“Well, it is an honour to be your flight tutor.” She put up her cap again.
“T-thank you, Luet-tent Fritz!” Luna was gently pulled to the soldier’s flank and brought into the center of the cloud-field. Fritz called out for the fillies and colts to be brought into a line. Once all the parents said their goodbyes, then their second and third goodbyes, the kids were pulled away from their parents by the flight assistants and brought in front of the Lieutenant.
“Go on, line up with your friends.” Fritz patted Luna's back.
Luna ducked her head and shyly walked over and slotted into the very side of the line of skipping, lively, giddy little children ready as ever to learn to fly.
“Greetings, students! I am Lieutenant Fritz Blastwave, I was awarded for excellence in flight technique and maneuvering after saving the lives of six falling Pegasi in under thirty seconds. And I will be your flight tutor for the following year.” Fritz walked up and down the line sizing all the fillies and colts up, utter joy in her heart as the kids’ excitement ran through the air.
“Now, you won’t be flying for a while, it might take you the full year to completely learn, but I promise I will teach you until you are as proficient as your parents!” She stood proudly and the little kiddies cheered.
Luna even let out a soft 'yay', gentle as the feathers on her midnight-painted flanks.
“Now let's get everyone's names. You there, little sport, what's your name?” She started at the top of the line, the other end to which Luna was on.
And Luna waited patiently, despite a light-lime filly to her side. “Psst... Hey... Blue filly. You look cool... Wanna be friends?”
“S-Shh... We can't talk...” Luna whispered back as silently as she could to warn the filly, but not get caught herself.
“Eh. Fine.” The filly grumped.
Luna turned her head back to the front and listened to every other filly and colt's name as the Lieutenant asked for them over the faint minute, reaching Luna at the end with another wholesome nod. “And finally, little Luna. All right, that's great, everypony. Let's get those wings flapping!”
Everyone was separated into three smaller groups, two of which supervised by the tutor's assistants while she demonstrated for everypony the proper form to lift off. The supervisors mirroring the teacher's movements precisely.
“Front hooves forward! Apart by two hooves distance, in line with one another. Knees bent softly and lean down onto them a few inches. Hind legs far apart and straight as a tower! Wings straight out, and keep your backs straight! And now let me see.” After demonstrating, Fritz turned and looked over the three groups, fixing the posture of most of the Pegasi children by at least a little, but not Luna's, Fritz just smiled in approval at her. It made her feel wonderful, she adored doing something well and being rewarded for her hard work. In this case, all her personal home training was really paying off and she loved it.
“All right! There you go! As good as soldiers, I tell you all! Hehe... Now, this group...” She moved to the right group. “Flap your wings as hard as you can and let's see how far you can hop!”
The kiddy battalion did just that, flapping their wings like loose, panicked chickens in the air, barely gaining any height from it at all. They each dashed through the sky at least a few inches before they tumbled down and fell into the soft cloudy mattress, some ponies even managing to get a meter and a bit, which the Lieutenant was greatly impressed by.
“Great work! All of you! Wonderful hop!” Fritz turned to her other lil' troops. “Group B, try hop!”
The leftmost group then hopped as well, their helpless flaps waving in the air desperately as they all stumbled back into the cloud. “Awesome! Good job! And now you, group A. Hop!” Fritz pretended to hop, getting giddy herself.
That meant it was Luna's turn! And Luna was incredibly excited, she sprung her legs back and lowered her head, throwing up her wings in preparation and sh-
“Ah!” The colt beside her slipped over and knocked into Luna, sending them both tumbling to the side while the others hopped for better or worse.
“Oh!” Luna looked up at the grey-toned colt.
“A-ah sorry! I slipped!” The cold stood up from Luna and helped her up.
“Oh... It's okay... Ah...” Luna turned her eyes away and blushed massively, being covered head to toe in cloud fluff now.
“Sorry...” He turned away and did his hop a bit more properly, leaving Luna in her little embarrassment. And without a thought she flew a few heads up into the air and used her hooves to brush and kick off all the cloud fluff.
This turned heads. All of them. And in utter awe.
Fritz spoke out first as Luna landed gently, not yet having noticed that she had managed to captivate everyone's attention. “L-Luna! Y-You’re already flying?!”
Luna gasped at everyone's looks and curled into her shoulders in great timidness. “Y-Yes... Sorry... I know I should do the hop first... I-I can do it now...” Luna did a quick hop, gracefully flapping her tiny baby wings a few times to get her a meter ahead, sheepish and in fear of having broken some form of rule.
Fritz put her hoof to her heart as it melted, “Luna! Don't mind about the hop! What you did was amazing! I've never seen a filly your age fly so well! That is wonderful!”
Luna was confused, she wasn't told to fly yet, why was she being praised for it? “It... It is..?”
“Yes! Most definitely!” Fritz sat down on the cloud and clapped her hooves softly for Luna, and then so did the assistants, and soon every pony in the class clapped her along.
Luna's little heart pounded like a jackhammer, she began feeling dizzy from the attention, she couldn't handle it. “S... Uh... S-Stop... I can't... Just... Ahhh!” Luna hopped into the air and flew off to the flight school building and quickly dashed around its side to hide there.
Fritz watched the little moon hide herself away, “Um... The assistants will help you all perfect your stance, I'll be right back!” Fritz, in a single tenth of a second, flat, flew over to the side of the building Luna cowered behind, finding the little filly hyperventilating intensely. “Hey! It's okay! No need to panic!”
“T-They were all looking at me! And clapping! Everyone!” Luna blurted out.
Fritz lowered herself down to Luna's level, laying down on the cloud beside her and taking off her cap. “Yes they were... They were all just very impressed! Like I am! That's a good thing... Right?”
“I... I guess so... I just... I didn't know what to do... Or what they were all thinking...” Luna calmed down a smidge.
“It's all right. You don't have to worry about them, I think you are the best student I've ever had.” Fritz put on a smile to warm the filly's very soul.
“R-really...?”
“Really.” Fritz gave Luna a pat, and Luna showed a little joy. “And if it's okay to ask... I think I'd like to spend some time after class with you, and see how well you can fly proper.”
“R-Really?! Special time with a teacher?!” Luna beamed at the concept.
“Mmm Hmm. I'd love to see... How did you learn to fly so well anyway?” Fritz asked to quench her own curiosity.
“Oh... I... I learned just playing with my sister... She likes playing all sorts of outside games and she likes helping me fly... I also practiced a lot by myself before I went to flight school.” Luna rubbed her shin shyly.
“That's great... Okay, if you’re too shy, you can sit out this lesson, or else you can come back with me and you can just do everything everyone else is doing for now.” Fritz stood up kindly, encouragement in her eyes.
“O-okay... I... I can go back with you... Thank you Lu-tent-ant.” Luna very gradually stood up herself.
“Just Fritz, thank you.”
“Oh... Okay... Thanks... Fritz.” She couldn't help but giggle at the end.
Fritz led Luna back down to the lesson, where she rejoined her gleeful classmates.
The colt that knocked her over quickly ran over, “S-Sorry for knocking into you, you're super cool!”
“Yeah!” The filly she stood beside in line ran over too. “I knew you were cool!”
“T-Thank you... So much...”
“Wanna be friends?” Both of them asked simultaneously.
Luna blushed and smiled wide, “O-Oh... Okay!”
Luna's two new friends hopped in place happily, Luna was also very giddy on the inside, letting out a simple and subtle...
“Yay!”