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// Chapter 3: Tartarus 
// Story: Child of Silver 
// by WilliamShakeshoof 
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Elysium, near Tartarus

Luna slowly descended to the fields of Elysium, and to the only colt she had ever loved. Pip. She had loved him so much that the first time, when she had killed him, as a result of her sister's trickery, she had pleaded with with Death to let him live again. The next time, Pip had been killed in Changeling's first uprising, killed by Chrysalis' scorpion.

There was no possible way for Luna to convince Death to allow Pip to live even if for one day longer, she had tried. Pip would have to drink from the River Lethe just like the other souls. Still, he would be the only colt that she had or would ever truly love.

Pip looked out over the fields of Asphodel and sighed.

"Hello Pip" a voice came behind him.

He turned, and even the most glorious Hell became a heaven to him once again.

"Luna." Pip said, smiling. "It's nice to see you again."

"And you as well." she replied. Formalities, over, the two rushed to each other and embraced.


"Pip, my sister's tricked me into having agreeing to bear a foal."

Pip's face filled with anger. "What! The nerve, of her. If I were alive, I would march out of here and kick her shiny golden backside."

Luna laughed. "I swore on the Styx. I have to do it. But Celestia never said any specifics."

Pip didn't know where Luna was going with this, but she normally knew what she was doing.

"I want you to be my son." she said. "Pip, all you have to do is drink from the River Lethe. I know you haven't wanted to go anywhere near it, but please do it for me."

"How can you be sure I'll be reborn as your son."

Artemis smiled. "I'll pull a few strings, I am the goddess of childbirth. That way I won't break my vows. I'll still be a virgin, but I will still give birth, and you will be of my blood."

"Loony" Pip asked her, using her old nickname from way back

"Yes?"

"I'm afraid. I don't want to lose you. If I drink from the Lethe, that's what will happen."

"Don't worry. I'll be right there with you until the end." She told him, as they both walked to the shores of the River Lethe.

Luna sat next to him the whole time, as each drink, he became younger, and younger, she remained at his side. Even to the point that he was simply a spirit, like the mist.

Luna gingerly held her lover's spirit close to her. It was time. She held Pip's spirit closer and closer until she finally enveloped it inside of her. It was completed, she was going to be a mother.