//------------------------------// // Seperation // Story: Mother Night, Uncle Shadow // by Edguy0009 //------------------------------// "TWILIGHT!" Nightmare Moon shouted as the rainbow overtook her after Celestia used the Elements of Harmony against her sister, leading to the artifacts turning to stone with magic disappearing while the face of her sister appeared on the moon as the mare cried. Unknown to her, someone saw the rainbow from Unicorn Range and departed there. It happened, as was foretold. A 14 ft tall, red-eyed, black masked being with onyx colored armor and gun metal hands, feet and joints thought as he walked through the devastated Castle of Two Sisters, teleported Luna's room after hearing the wailing of a child that slowly died down and came across a hidden passage in her room, leading to another with a lavender coated alicorn filly with a purple mane and tail with pink highlights inside a crib, She never told me she had a child despite our connection. He thought, determining her to be around a month or two where a foal is at their weakest before Celestia entered the room. "Makuta Kratus, Lord and Master of Shadow." She said, earning his attention "Why?" she asked, earning a sigh from her adoptive brother. "Didn't I do anything?" "Exactly, why didst thou become distant and not take action and help our sister before she became Nightmare Moon?" "Because I had no other choice, if I took a side one sister would resent me for my choice, and I'd either hasten, delay what happened or made it worse." He replied before reaching into the crib, "But now I have a chance to make up for my inaction." "What dost thou mean?" She asked, only for the Makuta to reveal the filly in his arm. "A child?" "One that I'll take care of as penance." He replied. "But thou dost not know how to care for a child." Celestia said before noticing something wrong with the foal, she was barely breathing as a curse drained her life force and magic. "Dark magic is causing her harm, she shall perish if we never rid her of it." She said before casting a spell that had the side effect of removing her earth pony and pegasus magic, turning her into a unicorn filly, "She needs time to recover." She added after the spell took effect, "So, she shall sleep 'til the time comes for her to awaken." She finished casting a stasis spell on her niece before attempting to take the child. Only for Kratus to pull her away. "I've taken care of children a long time ago." He said, remembering a life lived eons ago with Celestia remembering something. "Thou said thou couldst not act, why?" "Because I knew what would happen, A sister shall fall into shadow and the other shall banish her, after a thousand years the Bearer of Power shall save her." "A prophecy." Celestia said, earning a nod from the Makuta. "Foretold by another eons before the birth of you and your sister." "We see." "I intend to let her know of her heritage." "But she shalt side with our sister." "No, for I'll make sure she knows the difference." Kratus said, "The Bearer of Magic shall save her." He added after seeing a vision of the future before Celestia spoke. "Thou needest a name for her, our sister said something when we banished her." She said, thinking back, "Twilight, we believe she wast referring to her, so she we shalt call her Twilight Sparkle." She added, neither noticing the plaque on the floor before the armored behemoth teleported to his lair and watch over his niece as she slept, waiting to achieve her destiny. For we all have one. Kratus thought as he ordered the creation of Twilight Sparkles quarters. Though he would watch over her as she slept, he didn't neglect his duties. 986 years later. "Uncle Kratus! Uncle Kratus!" A filly Twilight Sparkle said, running up to the Makuta who turned around from an experiment, even though he'd been more of a father than an uncle. "What is it?" "Look how much I can lift now!" Twilight said before levitating multiple Rahkshi towards her who looked around. I never knew that Rahkshi look funny when they're like that. Kratus thought while trying to stifle his laughter at the sight of his sons' confusion, especially since he could feel it thanks to the mental link they share, though once he got control of his laughter he spoke, "I'm impressed at how far you've come in practicing levitation." He said, smiling, "Now let them go back to their patrols." He added with the filly letting go with a pout. "I don't see why they need to watch the halls, nopony other than me knows this place." "That's where you're wrong, Celestia knows about this place." "Then why doesn't she visit?" "She's busy, which is something you already know." Kratus said, before Twilight returned to her room as Kratus went back to his experiment. 2 Years Later. Twilight Sparkle was studying in her room before book caught her eye, one that contained the Tale of Two Sisters. Try as she might to ignore the feeling of wanting to read it, she gave in and read the tale, though she also remembered the look of sadness in her uncle's eyes when he looked at the night sky and dodged the subject when she asked what was wrong, and now determined to know the truth, she wrote a letter to Kratus as the gears in her head turned. "Is there anything else that we need to discuss?" A Makuta with crimson armor asked the gathered Makuta, including one that has white colored armor and a golden version of Kratus' Kanohi. "Not that I know of, Miserix." The white armored Makuta said, the aforementioned Makuta dismissing the group before a letter appeared in front of Kratus. I knew this day would come. He thought before the white armored Makuta interrupted his thoughts. "Is there something wrong?" "It's time to tell Twilight the truth, Teridax." Kratus replied. "Even if I hoped I could hold of telling her a little longer." "You best get it done and over with." Miserix said, the youngest Makuta nodding with a sigh before teleporting to Twilight's room. "Uncle Kratus, who is the Mare in the Moon to you?" The lavender unicorn asked, her uncle thinking on how to tell his niece as he knew what she meant. "She was my other sister and a mother to my niece." "Your niece?" Twilight asked, wondering if she had a cousin or a sister she never knew before she connected the dots as she saw her uncle looked at a picture of an alicorn foal that looked… just like her when they entered each other's mindscape during their training with final pieces of the puzzle put together. "I'm her daughter, aren't I?" "You're Princess Luna's daughter, not Nightmare Moon's." Kratus replied before Twilight burst into tears and teleported to her room with the Makuta sighing and giving his niece her space with her exiting hours later to eat. "Are you mad at me?" "Only a little, since she was my mother and you left her." "There's a chance of you reuniting with her." Kratus said. "How?" "It's almost a thousand years since the time she fell into shadow with the seal breaking soon." "Then I've got to prepare for her." "Unless something is done, it'll be Nightmare Moon who'll remain." "What do I need to do?" "I'm running out of teaching material, so you'll need to go elsewhere for lessons. And the closet place is in Canterlot." "You mean I'll have to go to her school." "Yes, but do not be angry at her, for you'll have to remain angry at me." Kratus said before explaining why, resulting in Twilight unable to do so, even though her uncle kept the truth from her. He still took care of her since her mother could not. 1 year later. "Twilight." Kratus said, earning the filly's attention, "I'm done with my projects." He added, shapeshifting into a red-eyed stallion with an onyx coat and gun metal mane and tail with a cutie mark with a ray of light blocked by darkness in the shape of his Kanohi, "Now then, are you ready to try out for her school?" He asked, picking up the filly who nodded eagerly, earning a chuckle from her uncle/father figure, "Remember how to teleport?" He asked. "Of course I do!" She replied. "Let's see how far you can take us." The disguised Makuta said with the filly nodding before the two teleported towards Canterlot with the stallion teleporting them the rest of the way after the filly teleported them half-way to Ponyville, and arriving in time for the entrance exam to start though, as she contiued her attempt to hatch the egg, a loud boom startled the filly, causing a magic flare that caused the egg to hatch and the dragon to grow with Celestia intervening, and taking in the filly as a student after pointing out her cutie mark, though her uncle would find the time to visit her.