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// The Valley of Inspiration 
// Story: The Forgotten Brother 
// by The Equestrian Tour 
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	"So we walked all of that way..." Celestia swept her hooves across the land, "for a bunch of grass."
Cloud Bringer began looking around, "Do you feel that?" he asked.
The two fillies exchanged a concerned look, "No," they answered in unison.
"Quick get off, I want to see something!" he ordered them eagerly.  They climbed off of his back, and he took off to the sky.  He climbed higher and higher, while his sisters watched, he climbed so high that he looked like a speck in the sky.  
"What's he doing?" Luna asked without taking her eyes off of her brother.
"I don't know," Celestia answered, "But he is going to do something."
And he did, he started flying in a circle, his speed began to pick up.  The sky looked as if it was distorting, it was shrinking, collapsing in on itself.  Then the most surprising thing happened.  Water began to fall from the sky, it hit Celestia and Luna in the face.  
"What is this?" Luna removed the water from her face.
"It's water..." she responded, "but from the sky."
They looked up again and noticed that there were other things in the sky besides their brother.  They were some that were white and fluffy, and others were a sort of greyish.  The grey ones began to glow a dark blue, then disappeared from existence, while the white ones flew high.  Cloud Bringer began to descend to the ground.
"Whoa!" Luna said in astonishment.  "What do you call those?"
"What those?" Cloud Bringer turned in the sky and pointed towards the sky.  "I don't know, they just sort of appeared."  He placed his hoof on his chin and hummed loudly, "How about: cloud?"
"That sounds like a good name," Celestia agreed.
Luna pointed at her brother's flank, "Look at that!  There is picture on your butt."
"What?!" Cloud Bringer looked at his flank with concern as he landed, "What the hay is that?!"
There were three looping lines that appeared to be moving a cloud to a different location.  "You never had that before," Luna wondered.
Celestia examined it closer, "This picture appeared when you made the clouds up in the sky," Celestia deduced. 
"Okay, but what is it?" Cloud Bringer questioned.
"Maybe it symbolizes who you are," Luna suggested.
Her siblings looked at her again in amazement, "How do you do that?" Celestia asked her.
Luna shrugged again, "I dunno,"
"Okay.  Let's play along with this," Cloud Bringer began, "This mark tells a pony what they can do.  So what do we call it."
The sisters thought.  "How about Destiny Bond?" Luna suggested.
"No," Celestia disagreed, "That makes it sound hopeless.  How about Truth mark?"
"Hokey," Luna stuck out her tongue, as if disgusted.  "How about Cutie mark?"
"Cutie mark?" Celestia pondered the name.
"Yeah, because it's like a birthmark and too be honest, it's kind of cute."
"You know.  That may actually work," Cloud Bringer agreed.
"Yeah, I kind of like it," Celestia added.
Luna celebrated her victory, "Yay!  I discovered something new!"
"Yeah, yeah!" Celestia rolled her eyes.  She turned her attention to her brother, "So your talent is making clouds?"
"I guess so," Cloud Bringer said unsure.
"Well they are very pretty," Luna added.  "How did you come up with the design?"
Cloud Bringer blushed, "Aw, you know the whitish plant we saw that one time," his sisters nodded, "Well kind of like them I guess.  Nothing special."
"But what about the water that fell from your clouds?" Celestia asked.
"Water?" Cloud Bringer wondered, "What water?"
"You know, the water that fell from your clouds."
Cloud Bringer wondered, he pawed at the ground and finally realized it was wet.  "I made water fall from the sky."  He thought for a second, "For now on this is called rain!" he decreed.
Celestia gave him an inquisitive look, "Are you just making up words, or are they already made?"
"When you're the only ponies on the land..." Luna jumped in excitedly, "you can make up all the words you want."
Celestia looked up at the sky, there was the blue sky and the white clouds.  "How is the sky so bright?  There is nothing there to shine light."
"Not sure," Cloud Bringer looked up.  He then turned his attention to Celestia, "But you're good with light, maybe you can find a way to explain it."
"Do you really think so?" Celestia asked her brother with wide eyes.  
"Well I have my cutie mark, time for you two to get yours."
"Come on Tia," Luna urged.  "Make the mysterious light, not so mysterious."
"Okay, I'll do it!" Celestia announced confidently.  She stepped forward and began to flutter her wings, she ascended to the sky like her brother did, but at a slower rate due to her smaller wings.  She stopped in the sky when she was high up enough, and began to look around, "Okay, now what?"
"What do you think she's going to do?" Luna asked her brother.
"I don't know, and she doesn't seem to either."
"Make a light big enough to brighten up the whole land," Celestia said to herself.  She hummed while thinking of an idea.  "Eureka!" she exclaimed as she came up with the perfect idea.  Her eyes began to glow, then her whole body erupted with light, Cloud Bringer threw a wing over Luna's eyes and closed his tightly.  "This is the perfect thing!"  There was a large explosion in the sky.  
Cloud Bringer opened his eyes, and stared to the sky.  "Tia!" he shouted as he saw his sister falling from the sky.  He pushed off of the ground with a mighty flap and took to the sky, he flew faster than ever before.  He stretched out his front legs and caught Celestia, who looked up at him, "Are you alright?"
She nodded, "Yeah, just a little tired from making that," she pointed up to the sky.
Cloud Bringer looked up and saw what Celestia had made.  It was a giant yellow orb that floated in the sky, and radiated its brilliant light over the whole land.  "You made a giant ball of fire,"
"Yes...  Yes I did," Celestia smiled with this response.
"Well it's very beautiful," he landed on the ground and laid Celestia down.  He shaded his eyes with his hoof, "And very bright."
Luna ran up to them, "Are you alright Tia?"
Celestia nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine."
"Hey!" Luna pointed at Celestia's flank, "You have a cutie mark!"
Celestia pointed her attention to her backside, a wide smile crossed her face, "I have my cutie mark!"
Her flank showed a big orange ball with other orange spikes coming out from it.  Luna's eyes sparkled as she examined it closer, "So pretty..." she looked at her sister, "What are you going to call it?"
Celestia looked at Cloud Bringer, then to the sky.  She looked at her creation, "Well if we can name anything whatever we want..." she pointed up to big orange ball, "It will be called the sun."
"But you didn't give birth to a colt," Luna said confused.
Her siblings laughed, "No, not as in a living, breathing son.  I mean, it is like a son, but it's on fire, so change the 'o' to a 'u'."
Luna pouted.  "What's wrong Luna?"  
"It's not fair!  You have your cutie mark, and now Tia has hers!" she crossed her front legs.  "I want mine!"
Cloud Bringer messed with Luna's mane, "Don't worry..." he reassured her, "We all get our cutie marks when we find out what we're good at."
Luna deadpanned, "I hope I can find it soon."
Celestia walked by, with her head pointed high in the sky, "Yeah.  You don't want to be a blank flank forever," she laughed devilishly.
Luna gave her sister a cold stare, "Just you watch Tia!"  Luna flapped her wings so she could hover off of the ground, "I'll get my cutie mark, and it will look way cuter than yours!"

The day wore on and Luna thought all day about what it was she could think of that would be Celestia's glorious sun.  "Ah, I can't think of anything!" Luna said frustrated.  She kicked a pebble by her hoof and watched it fly a couple of feet in front of her.
"It's been a long day, how about a rest?" Cloud Bringer asked with a yawn.
"No!" Luna objected.  "I want my cutie mark!"
Celestia was lounging on a rock when looked up to her complaining sister.  "Maybe you can be helpful, help me with the sun."  Celestia rolled off of the rock and landed on the ground.
"Fine, I'll help you with the sun," Luna said with annoyance in her voice.  "You can't do it yourself, so make your little sister slave away at it," she whispered to herself.
"What was that?" Celestia questioned.
"Nothing!" Luna answered quickly, "Lets just get the sun out of the sky."  
Celestia nodded and took off to the sky, then Luna.  Cloud Bringer conjured up a cloud and climbed on top of it, and watched his sisters.  "Okay," Luna stopped in the sky, "How do you plan to hide this giant ball of fire?"
Celestia stopped and turned to her sister, with a small smile, "Easy..." she cocked and eyebrow, "We take it and move it somewhere else."
Luna rolled her eyes, "Oh, yeah that sounds so easy.  And where exactly are we going to put it?  It shines light every where."
Celestia's smile broadened, "Think about it Luna.  Light doesn't shine everywhere."  Celestia placed her hoof up in front of her face as a visual aid, "See, when my hoof is in direct sunlight, only the front side receives light," she pointed to the front of her hoof, then to the back, "While the back of my hoof is enveloped in a shadow."
"So what..." Luna began, "Are you saying behind the land we're on now, is just a giant shadow?"
"Well it's not a shadow..." Celestia corrected, "It's still land, like the one we're on now...  Well down there at least.  It's just not in direct sunlight, so that land is in a shadow."  Celestia cocked her head, "Does this make sense to you?"
"Yes," Luna nodded, "So we're just moving the sun to the other side of the land?"
"Yes!" Celestia finalized.
"Okay.  That sounds easy enough," Luna stated.
"Okay, just spot me!" Celestia instructed.  Luna looked at her sister with a blank stare.  Celestia rolled her eyes, her horn became enveloped in a yellow hue, "If I lose grip on it, catch it."
Luna's eyes widened, "How am I suppose to catch something that big?!"
Celestia face hoofed, "Just follow me!"
Celestia began to move forward and the sun moved away from her, as if it were afraid.  The sky began to darken as the sun disappeared behind the horizon.  Luna noticed that the sky was becoming bare and completely boring, this is when she had finally came up with an idea, "I've got it," she said triumphantly.
Her horn began to glow in a black hue, as she aimed it to the sky.  When she aimed her horn at a specific spot in the sky, a white dot appeared there.  She looked at the dot and smiled, "It's like a tiny sun...  I'll call it a star, because it will outshine Tia's only one."  Luna became giddy, "But why stop at only one?"  She closed her eyes and continued to point her horn at random points in the sky, and more and more stars would appear.  She opened her eyes, and was shocked by a giant clump of stars that seemed to form a smaller version of the sun, but it was made of many stars.  "A night sun," Luna whispered.
Celestia returned from her trip to the other side of the land, and stared in astonishment at the sky.  "It's beautiful...  What is it?"
Luna smiled gleefully at her sister, "Night..." she pointed up at the sky, "Those are stars, and that big one is the night sun."
Celestia chuckled, "Night sun?  Way to be original."
"Then what do you think I should call it?!" Luna said a little angry.
Celestia began flew towards the ground, "I don't know!" she shouted at her, "You figure it out."  She turned around, "Oh, you also have your cutie mark!"
Luna fluttered there while thinking.  "Luna, come here!" Cloud Bringer called to her.
Luna's face brightened up, as she looked at her flank, "I've got it!"  Luna began to fly fast, and did wide, excited circles in the sky.  "I've got it, and I have the perfect name!"
"Do you think she's over reacting just a bit?" Celestia watched her sister.
Cloud Bringer chuckled and messed with Celestia's mane, "Let her have her fun, she just figured out what she was born to do."
Luna stopped flying and began to plummet to the ground, laughing excitedly.  Her siblings stared at her with concerned glances.  Luna looked at her cutie mark, a crescent of her new creation surrounded by her beautiful stars, this brightened her stars even more.  Before she was halfway to the ground, Luna opened her wings and glided to the cloud her siblings were on, and landed on her back.  She rolled around on it with a huge grin on her face.  
"Somepony is excited," Celestia pointed out the obvious.
"I've got my cutie mark and the perfect name!" she shouted excitedly.
Celestia examined it, "It's your night sun."
"The moon," Luna answered, as if she did not hear her.
"What?" Cloud Bringer looked up to the sky.
Luna pointed at the giant clump of stars, "That is the moon!"
"Well that was quick," Celestia said.  "You couldn't think of a name twenty seconds ago."
Luna laughed, "Well when you are the only ponies, and everything needs a name.  You can name it what ever you want."
Cloud Bringer laughed loudly, "Words from a wise stallion!"
The sisters joined in on the laughter, "Yeah.  You mean a crazy stallion?"
Celestia yawned, "Your moon makes me kind of sleepy."
"Come on Tia!" Luna urged.  "Just look at my moon."
Celestia's eyes closed and she curled up closer to Cloud Bringer, her breathing became slower and deeper.  Cloud Bringer kissed her forehead.  He uncased his wing and wrapped it around Luna and dragged her closer, and kissed her forehead also.  "Get some rest, we've had a big day, and tomorrow may be even bigger," he commanded her quietly. 
"Fine, I'll go to bed," Luna quickly closed her eyes and lowered her head.
"I know you're faking," he chuckled.  Luna rose her head and stared at him surprised, he smiled, "Just don't stay up too late.  Okay?"
"I promise,"  Luna swore excited.
He kissed her forehead again, "Good night dear sisters."  With that he lowered his head and closed his eyes.
Luna stared up at the sky in bewildered amazement, "The night is so lovely...  Only if there were more ponies to marvel it's beauty."  One thought haunted her as she watched her sky twinkle, "What if I could make more ponies?"