“What the..?!” A squeaky voice rings out. The princesses snap their heads up, They see a teenage mare in the center of the room. The rainbow shards from the stone lay scattered at her feet. The confused mare is a cyan blue color with a rainbow colored mane and tail. She swishes her tail. Her eyes lock onto Celestia. She pinned her ears flat back and her beautiful eyes narrowed.
“Where am I?!” She demanded. She glared at the princesses with hard, cold, heartless eyes. After a second or two, the mare's stance softened, “Who am I?” She looked at the ground. Her rose-pink eyes started to glisten.
“Welcome. Your name is..." Celestia pauses. She eyes the teen. The parents never had given her a name. The mare before her intently looks at Celestia, swishing her tail again. Celestia is torn, she isn't sure if she should give her a name, or let the mare decide. After a moment of pondering this predicament, Celestia quickly replies, "You don't have a name young pony. Your parents never gave you one. ” Dash just stared at her.
“This isn't right,” she said, “ I’m a teenager, I was just born, and my parents, who aren't even here, didn't bother to give me a name?” The pony huffs. Her eyes narrowed again.
"Where the hay even are they? They don't even care about me?" Luna looked solemn.
“Your parents sacrificed themselves for you." Luna replied, “All alicorn parents have too. It's a thing that's for another day.” The mare looked down at her feet. A single tear rolled down her right cheek.
“So I’ll never see them… ever?” The cyan pony squeaked. All 3 princesses nodded, their faces grim. She broke down. Cadence walked down the stairs to comfort her. “I’ll take you to where you will be living.” Said Cadence in a low, soothing voice with her right wing over the teen's back. She nodded, still sobbing, and walked out of the room and down the hallway.
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As the blank-flanked teen stepped into the light of her new bedroom, she was at peace. Her sobbing had stopped and she was renewed with confidence. The bedroom was a bare stone bedroom with a king size bed in it.
“It needs decorating,” said Cadence, “but otherwise, it’s fine for now.” the multicolored mare nodded. She still couldn't believe herself. Her parents gone, an alicorn foal who was really a teenager. 'That makes absolutely no sense.' she thought.
“You should explore the village, go in some shops, meet some new ponies, I’m hoping you'll make many new friends!” Cadence explained and smiled. The cyan alicorn returned the grin. Cadence turned and cantered back the throne room.
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The mare sighed.
‘This all is happening too quickly!’ She thought to herself as she paced around the room, looking at every little crack in the wall, she walked over to the large mirror on the wall, gazing into her own refection. Her eyes traveled over every line of her body, as if tracing her own body on paper. She stopped at her flank, studying it. ‘Didn't the princesses have something there?’ She tried to hack at her mind at what it was called but couldn't come to think of it. She sighed as she heard a quiet knock on her door. Startled, the cyan mare used her horn to open the door, coming to look at a very cute stallion.
"Hello... ma'am." He said, obviously nervous.
"Hi," the mare replied, "Can I help you with something?" She asked, curiously wondering why the cobalt-maned pegasus was at her door.
"Um... I came to, uh, give you, um, this basket from the, uh, princess." He said blushing furiously, pushing in a large food basket with is wing.
"Where would you like this?" He said, "If I can come in that is." The rainbow tailed pony smiled sweetly,
"Of course you can come in, put it on my bed please." The rainbow alicorn watched him put it on her large bed, and turn to walk out the door. She caught sight of the stallion’s marking on his flank.
"Wait," The mare said, "What's the thing on your flank called?" The stallion was startled, his large emerald-green eyes glanced at her flank.
"It's a cutie mark." He replied smiling. The cyan pony smiled,
"How do I get one?" He laughed, "You get it by doing something you enjoy and it's your special talent." He grinned, "My names Soarin'. What about you?" The rainbow tailed mare sighed, walking over to the window leaning out of it, watching the activity below the castle.
"I don't have one, I was born today." She said, rubbing her head since she was still trying to wrap her mind around it. She felt a hoof lay on top of her back. She looked back and saw him looking at her with his emerald eyes gazing at her.
"Hey, it's fine, He said, removing his hoof from her back, replacing it with his soft feathered wing.
"Maybe we can brainstorm some." She gazed into his eyes, her stomach doing back-flips. She really liked this stallion.
"Okay, sounds good." He started to lean toward her, until a the door of her room slammed open, sending them both flying up into the air. She saw an angry yellow mare with fire colored mane standing in the large doorway.
"Really Soarin'? The princess sends you up here to deliver a small food basket to the new princess, and the next thing I know, you're flirting with her?! Really?" Soarin's cheeks burn. He looks into the alicorn's rose-irises and then at the huffing pegasus in the doorway. He lands and hangs his head, folding his wings in the process.
"Sorry Spitfire." He mumbles, following her to the doorway. He looks back a the alicorn.
"Sorry. Talk to you soon?" he asks sweetly. The cyan pony nods and chuckles.
"See you soon, Soarin'." She closed the door behind him and walks over to her new bed, thinking of Soarin' and slept a long night’s sleep.
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