//------------------------------// // Chapter Eighteen // Story: Bubbles: Derpy's Return // by RoxyMoronNERDy //------------------------------// Chapter Eighteen Princess Celestia and her sister, Luna, stood across from each other. Celestia's eyes were wide from shock, in reaction to what her sister had just told her. "I asked you a question!" Luna repeated, angrily. Celestia looked around the room, looking to see if her sister was joking. "I-I don't know what you're talking about!" Celestia replied, embarrassed. Celestia stared at her refelction in the light-pink-colored marble floor. "An answer shoud be very simple." Her sister shot the words at Celestia as if they were arrows, and they seemed to pierce Celestia's coat and make her bleed. She stared at her sister as if she were a stranger. Was this really Luna? Luna never acted so... so HOSTILE toward her before! "All I asked was why you put a poor little filly's mother in a sanasilum!" Luna's eyes were cold as ice, not glistening like they normally did. Celestia slowly looked toward the window, where there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and she could see that it was time for her sister to raise the moon soon. However, she knew that this wasn't the time to worry about that. "Truthfully, I don't really know." Celestia replied, quietly. Luna grunted in frustration at her sister's answer, which clearly didn't please her. "Luna, please! I-I thought I'd be doing something good for the filly! Her mother always seemed so... incompetent!" Celestia knew immediately she'd chosen the wrong word, and was about to say something to fix the mistake, but it was too late. "INCOMPETENT?!" Luna yelled angrily, her face seeming to burn hotter than Celestia's sun. Celestia put her front hoof up to console her sister. "No, wait! I... I meant INCAPABLE of caring- wait, no..." Celestia stumbled upon words to show her sister that she hadn't meant to be rude at all. Everypony loved her, but when Celestia was under pressure, she found it difficult to stay calm and say the right things. Celestia sighed sadly and did a face-hoof non-comically. "Forgive me, for I assume I"ve made a mistake." Luna spat the words out as if they had a vile taste. Celestia looked up in horror at Luna. "What are you saying?!" She asked frantically. "I'm saying you're incompetent. Goodbye." Luna retorted as she unfolded her wings. Celestia frantically trotted after her sister, thinking of what she could say to prove her innocense. "Wait, Luna, I thought that Derpy Hooves wasn't capable of being a good mother! But from what you've told me, I... I was wrong! " Celestia started to cry as she chased after her sister, who was walking toward the balcony, getting ready to fly away. Queen Galaxia only know where... "I'M SORRY!!" Princess Celestia screamed at the top of her lungs. Her hoarse, frantic voice echoed through the city of Canterlot. She knew that her subjects had heard her, but she paid no mind to it. Celestia winced as she sobbed, wanting her sister to stay. She's always been soft when it came to her sister, becasue she knew that she had lost Luna once already. She wasn't about to do it again. Ever sisnce Luna was sent to the moon, Celestia felt it was her fault, and she shouldn't have doen it in the first place. Celestia dropped to her forelegs and sobbed, feeling her through burn from screaming in a way she had never done before. Luna stopped dead in her tracks, feeling a shot of pain in her heart. Her sister knew what she had done, and she hadn't meant it. But Luna felt as though this wasnt right... Was it really okay of her sister to do such a thing? Was it really worth her worrying about? Luna suddenly felt as though she didn't know what to think. If she just returned Dinky's mother to her, then... wouldn't everything be alright?... Luna suddenly felt sorrowful and resented on her sister. Luna folded her wings and smiled to herself sadly as she walked over to her sobbing sister. She placed her horn atop of her sister's, and closed her eyes as she used a spell that shot a fuzzy, warm happy feeling through Celestia's body that consoled her. Celestia halted her sobs and allowed her sister to console her with her magic. When Celestia felt only the crusty remains of her tears on her cheeks, she stood and hugged her sister. She had felt so badly about what she had done. She knew it was wrong, yet she did it anyway... "Oh, Luna..." Celestia sighed. "If only I could make it right again..." Celestia's sigh was shaky, and Luna suddenly broke away from her sister, getting an idea. "Actually, you might." Luna said, beaming as she raised her precious moon, knowing that she was delayed a little. "I have an idea."