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// Friends 
// Story: Celestia's Daughter 
// by Splodge Inks 
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Cadence is staying over at the castle for a few days. I guess it's for a small holiday. Shining Armour is looking after the Crystal Empire for the moment. I wonder why you don't see stallion Alicorns. It's really weird. Well, I haven't seen any and Mum hasn't told me she has seen any. Maybe my Dad was an Alicorn! Like a super special stallion! But then broke Mum's heart and banished all stallion Alicorns... It doesn't seem very likely. I'd like to believe my Dad was an Alicorn. What if Mum banished HIM to the moon?! I shall fly there with Auntie Luna's Royal Guards! 

11:15pm
I was wrong, there is no stallion on the moon. Mum didn't know where I was for the... 4 hours I was gone. She freaked and started making Royal Guards go round looking for me.When I got back, she was all like "Stardust! Where have you been?!" And all that. She said I should ask her before I go and disappear randomly. 'But Mum! I thought you banished my Dad on the moon! So I went there and looked for him!' I yelled.
'Stardust, I told you not to go looking for him!' Mum said, looking frustrated.
'Well, I need to know who he is!'
'But it's dangerous!'
'No it isn't!'
I stormed off to my room then. Cadence came through and asked my why I want to see my Dad so much. So I told her that I NEEDED to see him because he is my Dad! But Candace said what's wrong with Celestia?
'Candace, she has kept this secret from me for a long, long, long, long, LONG time!'
'So? Maybe she doesn't like your Dad anymore so doesn't want you to know,' she said in a wise like fashion.
Her words buzzed around my head like angry bees. 
'N-no... That's no true...' I said panicky. I didn't like where this was going.
'Oh, Stardust, she just doesn't want you to know. Has she told everypony else and you feel left out?'
'You mean you DO know?!'
'No, no!'
I flew to my balcony and flew off. She told Luna and Candace! I didn't want to hear any more. I flew to Ponyville (which is where I am now).

I'm at Twilights house. She looked shocked to see me, but she is letting me stay. I looked in her mirror. I looked at me. My tiara made a nice touch to my head. It had a star and then to crystals that wound around it. I looked at my hooves. I frowned. I wasn't wearing my matching shoes. I put on the wrong ones. Rarity would freak at me. I wasn't and am not going back. I tried to look at my personality. Nice. Sweet. Maybe a bit pushy sometimes. Angry. I'm not angry all the time. It's usually the ponies who make me angry makes my personality into an angry one. Wait, what? Nevermind. I thought of Cadence's words. I thrust my hoof at the mirror.
'Ahh! What did you do that for?!' cried Twilight.
'Oh.. Sorry, I remembered something. I didn't like it...' I said lamely. 
'That's no reason to punch my mirror!'
'I know, I know! Sorry, sorry!'
'Why are you angry anyway?'
'...'
I flew out of her window too. I am officially running away. From my family, my friends and all that. I slammed in to Rainbow Dash. Oh no I thought.
'Yaah! What are you doing?! What's your problem?!' she screamed.
She saw it was me.
'Stardust? Hey, where are you going?' she yelled.
I could hear her catching up to me. I flew faster. The blue Pegasus is too fast for me, but I flew faster anyway.  She caught up to me. She flew past me. I was blinded by a Rainbow.

I turned and flew into a cave. She went past the cave, looking back for me. She called my name. I don't like my name. It's a stupid name. Rainbow Dash gave up and blasted off. She was probably going to blab to everypony I was gone. I flew out of the cave and into the cave where the huge red dragon was. He left with all his treasure. Oh well, no jewellery for me then. THIS is where I am hiding. THIS is where I'll live. In this here smelly, damp cave. Yes, I'll just live here! Be independent. Sounds fun. Sounds fun, right? Ugh, I wish I had Pinkie Pie here. To cheer me up. But I need to stay out of sight. I remember Fluttershy taking out the dragon. I never saw that side of her. I can hear Rainbow Dash again... She's quite far away. I'm going to have to fly.

2:41am

I heard some ponies talking when I flew around. I'm hiding in yet ANOTHER cave, but it's much further away from Ponyville. But I can still see it. Anyway, I heard them saying about me being missing. Apparently Mum is making guards and ponies look around for me. Great. They were some night owl ponies. Up at 2am talking. Auntie Luna must be happy. They shouldn't miss me. I'm not a important Princess. I looked at my Cutie Mark. It's a shooting star, it's white outlined with blue and blue and white stripes following it. I thought about making a new identity, but I'm an Alicorn. And everypony knows me. So, I just need to hide. I always liked the name Astrid. That would be my new identity. But I have to be silly old Stardust. Who am I kidding? I can't live like this. I need someone to look after me. But I can't trust anypony. I can't go anywhere. I can't leave this cave.