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// The Remembrance 
// Story: A Royal Secret 
// by Changeling 26 
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		“Princess… I…” Twilight didn’t know what to say. Luna had read a paper that contradicted everything that she had known. It claimed that her mother wasn’t really dead, but was an enemy to all of Equestria.
Luna looked up at Twilight Sparkle with tear filled eyes “This paper speaks lies. This cannot be true…” sniffed the princess trying to regain her composure.
“Then why…” whispered Twilight softly “Are you crying so much, princess.”
“Because…” The Princess stood up slowly, clearing the tears from her eyes “Because… tis the truth…” Luna looked down in despair. “Mother made us forget… but… this scroll”
“It made you remember” Asked twilight as Luna looked up at her “didn’t it?”
“I was almost too young to remember, but I remember how kind mother was. I remember how happy father made her.” A small smile formed on the princesses face as she recalled the happier days of her childhood, the smile quickly faded “But that all changed when Mother learned of Fathers death. She became cold, quiet, and rash. The warm open hearted mother that I knew died with father. That’s when the retched queen arose, taking mothers place and dared to ask her to call her mother!”
Luna’s body began to tense, her horn glowing slightly with rage. “She scared all the dragons out of our land, drove the ponies to poverty, and welcomed that monster into our home!” She turned to Twilight “You know Discord had the gall to ask us to call him Pa-pa?! We tried to help our mother, but…” She paused, wiping tears out of her eyes “but nothing worked, eventually we were able to scared her out of the castle. We proved to her that we could defeat anyone in our land by encasing Discord into a stone tomb!”
The Princess slammed a hoof down, her whole form standing defiantly. An angry smile spread upon her face. She was in a pose that would inspire hope into anypony who saw it. Twilight Sparkle felt reassured by the princesses’ strong new attitude. But it went as suddenly as it came, the princess suddenly looked confused and her poster relaxed. She looked around the room a few times before noticing Twilight Sparkle in front of her.
“Twilight Sparkle!! It’s a pleasure to meet your acquaintance again!” Luna exclaimed wrapping Twilight in a warm hug “What are you doing down here! It’s a wonderful day out!”
“Princess, are you ok?” The pony asked the Alicorn before her
“Why of course I am? Why wouldn’t I be?” Luna asked confused as she let Twilight out of her hold
“You don’t remember anything that had just happened?” Twilight asked, trying to understand what was happening
“Why I had just watched my sister raise the sun and I decided to take a stroll around the castle before I went to bed. Now if you don’t mind, I am rather tired, I wish to sleep now. Good bye, Twilight Sparkle!” And the Princess walked past Twilight and out the nearby door ascending to the main levels.
Twilight Sparkle stood there for a few minutes trying to understand what had just happened. She looked at the letter and reflected on what the princess had said. Her statement made sense, even if they were different in some ways, but they still ringed with truth.
What had made her more confused was the way the princess seemed to have forgotten the whole conversation. Did Luna’s alter ego force her to forget the painful memories to protect her? No that makes no sense, they destroyed Nightmare Moon awhile ago. Perhaps Discord did… no, he still is imprisoned in stone. Celestia must have something to do with this, but that would mean she knew and would recognize her own misshapen mother. Then something hit here, the princesses couldn’t rmeber because of a spell. Discord couldn’t say, because he was frozen. But what about Chrysalis, could she possible…
“No!” exclaimed Twilight shaking the thought from her head “That doesn’t make sense. If she knows then why hasn’t she..”
At that moment, a voice from behind her finished her sentence. “Taken back the throne I deserve?” The eerily familiar raspy voice chuckled. Twilight Sparkle slowly turned towards the voice hoping her ear had played a trick on her. Her hopes were crush when she saw the fanged smile of the changeling queen before her.