THE ALICORN KING:
ROYAL REUNION
BY
Scarlet Rhine
&
Tempest Flare
Pinkie in response used some of her pinkiness to stretch out and grab Alex, dragging him back to her. "That is an invitation in my family so you're going to follow through after you have that drink." She said, hearts in her eyes.
Alex smiled and said, "After the party Pinkie, I want to tank up before we have some time to gather." He then patted her belly, "You'll have a bunch in your oven after that and that means all six of you will be cuddler."
After the party had died down, the sleepy thestrals were guided to the abandoned Thestral District which had been maintained by Celestia. It had been sealed off by Celestia and hidden behind a wooden wall and maintained by the royal guard. It was a first posting for royal guards in training whose training was nearly completed. Celestia had it maintained as an encouragement for the thestrals to rejoin their day pony cousins. Those that had lived there moved back into their long abandoned homes while the rest where settled into various Hospitality sites originally meant to house visiting thestrals.
Celestia was overjoyed that she could start opening up the district.
"Lord Alistair" a tall Mare in sky blue armor approached Alex's group Twilight and Rarity immediately recognized her due to her voice and looks. "Your holdings will be returned to you now that you have awoken." She continued with a deep bow of respect.
Alistair looked towards the mare and said, "It's Mister Viator ma-am. As I am no long fit to administer my holdings because of being out of date, I am stepping down in favor of my son." He motioned to Alex, who stepped up with the main six. "May I present my son, the new Lord Viator, Alexandre Viator-Sparkle!" Rarity fainted to be caught by Applejack.
"You cannot step down sir as husband of princess Luna your title remains" the woman said insisting that the title would still remain similar to how a doctor would still be called a doctor after they retired from practice. "You may step down from the responsibilities but you cannot renounce the title as long as you're married to an equestrian princess."
"Lady Fleur-de-lis is right brother." Celestia said. "Once you take on a noble title it is part of your life forever especially when you are the husband of one of the rulers of the country. The only way to remove the title would be to divorce Luna and have her renounce it from you, something I know you are not want to do."
Alistair sighed. "Then, you can call me Lord Viator, Mrs. Pants must. But only if it's at a ball or an official event, Call me Mr Viator. Only my wives (God that's weird saying it) or my friends call me Alistair."
"Fancy Pants is not my husband as most would believe." Fleur-de-lis said plainly. "He is my first sponsor, the one that got me into modeling after retiring, l follow him most times to avoid being questioned about my eligibility as a mare."
"Fleur-de-lis' family has been stewards of your properties while you were sleeping," Celestia explained. "and due to the fact that she is one of the few nobles that still acts noble, she and Fancy pants have become extremely good friends thanks to their similar personalities. Nothing more, Fancy Pants does not wish for more as miss De-lis has eyes on his younger sister."
The model's eyes widened surprised that Celestia had picked up on her crush with a certain young DJ and cello player couple since outside of the cello player working with the orchestra she rarely interacted with the two especially fancy pants as younger sister outside of family reunions that Celestia was privy to visiting. "Lady Celestia you troll! You send Octavia to my modeling events specifically so that Vinyl could come with don't you?"
"I may not be my niece but even I can see such obvious desire and I should let you know it's mutual." Celestia said with a giggle.
Mr Viator smiled. "I'm thankful your family watched over my lands. I am glad none of those greedy nobles were given that duty. One noble family had planned to use some of the land to build a summer home, Before Luna & Celestia gave it to me he threw a fit like a spoiled brat. Honestly, I think do the nobles its some good if their children had to work a few years cut off from their wealth to learn the value of hard work."
Alex looked at Celestia and asked, "Aunty, are there any noble families that are pissed at my father being granted land?"
"None who still live." Celestia said coldly. "They along with a large portion of the people who murdered the thestrals before they went into hiding were purged by my hand. Your family and your father marrying Luna are part of the reason they began their slaughter."
"The thestral revolution, unfortunately yet aptly named." Twilight said as she remembered what it was called in the history books. "It was the last time Sol's Hammer was used."
"That it was Twilight to make an example of the monsters they became. I destroyed them as such using one of my most devastating abilities. I opened a portal to the solar core and let the plasma burn them before I closed it. The area was uninhabitable for 700 years and even now there are some problems with growth in the Appaloosa area thanks to it." Celestia said having had enough distance of time from the event to act like a teacher lecturing their student instead of someone lived it.
Both Viators gulped. Alex gathered his thoughts before asking, "What would Dad's marriage to Luna enrage them so? By the way, where are the Viator holdings?" One of the thestral mares walked up to Alex and said, "Because your father treated the sister's as equals rather than his superiors & had compromised Princess Luna's virtue." Alex looked at the mare in surprise.
"Not only that but he refused to kill me," Tempe said, explaining a bit more. "After I was born and it was learned that I had draconic blood in me the nobles wanted to destroy me as an abomination of nature. It's part of the reason Nightmare became a thing. Part of it was the anger at the nobles for trying to kill her only child. They were constantly hounding mom to kill me 'to remove the stain on the Royal blood' and tried to convince dad to do so. He may not be the father I'm related to but he's my father all the same."
Emerald flames outlined Alex as he his anger grew. He stopped and began a breathing exercise where he his arms ahead of him then moved them apart when he inhaled then brought them together as he exhaled. Slowly the fire faded away until it was gone. He then looked to Fleur de Lis. "Lady de Lis, is a mansion in Canterlot among the Viator holdings?" Tempe, his herd, Father & the princesses can hear an impshness in his voice.
In that moment Fleur saw something in Alex; it wasn't his pheromones or anything that affected anyone else alongside her desire to be with the Vinyl Scratch and Octavia a spark head formed. "Sir Alex?" She asked as she approached. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine. Please answer the question, I have something in mind. But I need to know if I have an estate in Canterlot, preferably in the nobles quarter for what I have planned."
"Your Estate is the old castle." Celestia said. "Seeing it as you're the son of Luna's husband and you've already gone to work on repairing it, it only makes sense that a prince is yourself should have a castle for a home."
"Dad practically lived in the old castle back then, technically his lodging was the barracks but he was almost always with Mom as her personal guard." Tempe clarified further. "Before you question about stuff in Canterlot no, there is actually a place in Equestria strictly for Thestrals and their nobles, the town of Hollow Shades, dad founded it."
Feeling awkward while saying this to Celestia, Alex queried, "Aunty could you send some guardspony engineers, and some archaeologists to help me restore the castle?"
"I had planned on making it a home for Luna when she couldn't take any more of the nobles as she adjusted a familiar setting with more good memories than bad even if some of those memories are fresh." Celestia said, hinting that she's already begun looking for such people. "Since you and Tempe are her children you would of course be allowed into the castle no matter what but moving in will have to wait. It will take a while since there are many mechanisms in the castle that still work but are old that need to be restored to full operational capacity, which means I have to look for people outside of my ponies as there aren't very many that have studied the ancient mechanisms that would also be able to repair them within our borders. Minotaur and dragons still use such mechanisms in their day-to-day lives so I shall reach out to Lord Torch and King Minos."
"I practically live there already. I'm currently working for the Equestrian Historical Society to restore it, currently I'm mapping it out and removing books and taking them to the Golden Oaks Library for Twilight to sort." Alex told the Solar Princess. Alistair in the meantime gathered the Thestrals together then said, "Your Majesties I'm going to lead the Thestrals to Hollow Shades." Then the bat-winged thestrals took wing except the few in the guard who went to find the captain of the guard. Alistair then lead the ground bound thestrals on the March to Hollow Shades.