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// Seeking refuge 
// Story: Royal Origins 
// by TalB 
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The tea party continued with Megan and Twilight expressing interest in how Luna and Celestia started to explain how they got to where they are now.

“Has anypony seen Celestia and Luna?!” Posey shouted over the masses, “I can’t find them anywhere and we need to get to safety! Grogar has come back and is even stronger than he ever was before! They aren’t safe out there!” 

"Why aren't we staying with Posey and the rest of the ponies that are over at Paradise Estate?" said Luna.

"I believe that if we can find Megan Williams, we will be safe from what's going on especially since Posey said that she is Ponyland's savior." said Celestia.

Unfortunately, the two sisters weren’t able to find her.  However, they did find what is believed to be the Midnight Castle. 
They took refuge here and trusted in its safety due to it being isolated from the rest of the world.

Luna noticing the castle said, "“Tia, I’m scared. I don’t like it here. What if Tirac comes back to life and tries to turn us into his chariots like he did with the other ponies before? Or what if he-“

Celestia interrupted with, "Oh nonsense dear sister. I am confident everything will be fine! Megan Williams has already vanquished him with the Rainbow of Light and everything is back to the way it used to be! What could possibly go wrong?”

“Everything dear sister... everything.” said Luna

They stayed for a certain amount of time. When they believed it was safe, and that Grogar’s reign of destruction had ceased, they left.  After wandering for a time they came across a tribe of unicorns and the tribe took them in.

A fellow unicorn approached them and said, "I have never seen unicorns like you before, and I would like to know your names."

“My name is Celestia and this is my sister Luna” said Celestia as she and Luna came towards the other unicorns.

"Those are very strange names for such unicorns let alone ponies." said the unicorn who welcomed them.

Celestia then said, "That's because we were named by Megan Williams herself."

The other unicorns displayed great emotions of honor and welcomed them into the group. They felt that they had to, especially if Ponyland's own savior named them.

Celestia noticed some exhausted unicorns and asked, "Why do those unicorns always feel tired whenever they have to raise the sun and moon?"

That said unicorn answered with, "Because using such a spell takes a lot of energy out of them. We are hoping that, one day, we will find a unicorn(s) that can raise the sun and moon with no problems. The prophecy states that this will give the unicorn(s) who can do this very rare cutie marks giving the symbols of the sun and the moon."

Luna then asked, "Are there any possible candidates for this?"

The unicorn continued with responded saying, "Sombra, who claims himself as king of this tribe, believes he can raise the sun and the moon. He supports this claim saying that he can levitate large boulders and other heavy objects that most of us can't seem to lift. However, he has still been unable to raise the either one despite that."

They then went towards Sombra. When they got there, he was constantly hurling rocks at another unicorn. She refused to accept his claim that Megan was never going to return. He even claimed she abandoned Ponyland when she was needed the most.

As Sombra was chucking rocks at the poor unicorn, he sneered, "If Megan Williams was really going to return, then why isn't she here right now to stop me from hurting you?"

Celestia intervened saying, “Hey! Stop throwing rocks at that poor unicorn! If you don’t stop, you might actually kill her! You wouldn’t want that now would you?”

Sombra acknowledged the sisters saying, “Hey wha- oh, you must be the new unicorns. I’ll let you off with a warning... this time. But if you get in my way again, you’ll wish you hadn’t, and I won’t go easy on you or your little sister! Just because you were named by that human, doesn’t make either of you special.”

Celestia feeling curious asked, "What exactly did that unicorn do that made you want to hurl rocks at her?"

Sombra responded to the sisters saying, "She refused to accept the fact that Megan Williams isn't coming back. She STILL thinks that she is Ponyland's savior, despite the fact that she turned her back on us when she was needed the most. Not to mention she keeps a book chronicling her time here that she wrote herself, when she should be getting rid of it instead."

Luna, now curious about what just happened, turned towards Celestia and asked, "Is this true? Did Megan Williams abandon us?"

Celestia then answered back with saying, "I believe that there are two sides to every story... It might be a good idea to hear about what happened from that unicorn. Besides, I find it hard to believe that Megan Williams would do such a thing, especially if she is said to be the savior."

Both Celestia and Luna decided to follow the bruised unicorn to understand what happened from her point of view.

Celestia asked the bruised unicorn, "Since you are the one the who wrote about Megan William's history of being here, maybe you can tell us more about her and why you still believe that she is Ponyland's savior despite what happened."

The bruised unicorn responded explaining, "The reason why she wasn't here when Grogar returned even more powerful and relentless than ever was because the ponies that normal send for Megan didn't want her to be into harm's way for this one."

Luna answered with, "If she was Ponyland's savior, then wouldn't joining that fight make sense for her?"

The bruised unicorn responded, "In this case it was best that she wouldn't fight even if it meant anyone here who had to fight had to sacrifice themselves in the process."

Celestia said, "In other words, it was the ponies that she was normally with that are the backstabbers and not her."

The bruised unicorn then said quickly responded explaining, "No, they weren't the traitors either.  The reason why Megan wasn't in that fight was because despite being Ponyland's savior and the keeper of the Rainbow of Light, as well as being known for wanting to placing herself into harm's way to protect others, she was still just a human girl from Earth, and If she was to be killed in that battle, her brother and sister would have a tough time explaining to her parents why she isn't around."

Celestia and Luna then understood why Megan wasn't there and then knew it was for her sake.

The bruised unicorn insisted and told them, "Please take this book with you. because You will be the last ponies Sombra will think would have it! But please, be careful! You’ll have to do a better job at hiding it than I did to make sure he never sees it! especially when You already saw what he did with me for refusing to get rid of it."

"Don’t worry. We’ll take care of this book and make sure that he never sees it." Celestia promised.