Princess celestia paced back and forth in front of the large, ornate, oak doors and paused in her pacing. Will i be a good aunt? Will the foal be like my beloved? She shook her head and sat down in the hallway. She said she would come back out soon. Its soon.The princess groaned openly and the guards jumped a little at the sudden outburst.
The guards, guarding the hallway entrance, looked back and shook their heads at the nervous princess. "So, how goes the wait dear sister?" Luna trotted down the hallway and sat down next to her sister. Celestia flinched at the sudden contact, but quickly leaned into the embrace of the smaller alicorn. "I tire of this wait. I want to see her."
Celestia, being as old as she is, was a master at the waiting game. This wait, however, was trying her patience. It wasn't that she didn't like the wait, she loved waiting for things to come, but she didn't like to wait this long for a life to be brought into the world. Her wife, princess of the weather, aurora; has been in her room for over 11 months and hasn't come out yet.
She insisted on being in her room for the pregnancy and she had a reason for it. She wasn't like other alicorn's, no, she was an anicorn. A animorph AND an alicorn. Being half animorph, she could change into certain animals at certain times and on her own free will. She almost bit off the head of a pony who tried to coax her out of her room.
Quite literally.
If she decided to do something, and she often does, she does it. She had a tendency to take her animorph genes and abuse them; only slightly. She was the definition of a pony prankster.
Celestia opened her eyes and looked to her sister. She had grown up so much since she came back a year ago. She had made many genuine friends, created an example to the fillies and colts, and modernized quite quickly. Her height had increased slightly and her coat took a dark shade of purplish red instead of the usual dark blue. Her eyes changed slightly, but to the average pony, her eyes would look normal.
But her sister had spent the last millenia with her sister and noticed the change first.
Her eyes had become slightly darker, almost a dark green.
She shook her head and looked to the doors again. "Sister, Are you alright?" Luna had taken a notice to the way her sister was sitting and she didn't like it. When celestia was relaxed, you could tell, but she was sitting as if someone had lit fire to her coat. Her mane was disheveled, her eyes starting to form bags, and she looked ready to run at any moment.
"I am fine sister; just a little tired." She lied. She hated to lie to Luna, but if she told her how long its been since she slept last, she would insist that she go to bed. "Princess celestia!" Celestia turned her head at the direction of the new, masculine voice and straighten up when she saw who it was.
Her loyal guard, wind rider, had become the new captain of the guard when shining armor got married. He was a large stallion, almost as big as shining, but he made up for the difference in size with his strength. He had a dark blue coat and a light, short blue mane and tail. His eyes were what drew most of the attention to him. Unlike most ponies, where they were usually round and vibrant, his here more like a dragons. Catlike, dull, and almost lifeless. They were a goldish yellow and made any pony straighten up.
"Princess, i have a letter for you from... her" he shuddered at the mention of...her. Celestia grabbed the letter in her magic, broke the seal, and began to read it aloud; almost in a quiet whisper.
"Dear Princess Celestia,
I wish to meet your new daughter in the near future and ask for your permission to come to your lands once again. I wish you no harm and, by doing so, i extend the hoof of friendship or claw, in my case. To prove my intentions, i will come with only my trusted guards and nothing more. I trust that, being the co-ruler of equestria, you will leave your guards on high alert, but please grant me and my guards passage to see the new princess of equestria. My mate, Firo Bright Scales, is away in the grifforia and will visit at a later date.
With high regards to you and your wife, Queen Eqius Bright Scales, co-ruler of the badlands."
Luna took the letter from her elder sister and gasped when she finished reading it. "Eqius Bright scales? why would she, of all dragons, want peace with us?" she looked to her sister who, being the eldest, would answer. Well, she would have, had she not run down the hallway to her own chambers and shut the door with a thud.
Luna took the letter, sighed and rolled it up. "Wind rider; i would like for you to keep an eye on my sister. While i tend to someone important." she nodded towards the doors in front of her and passed the letter back to the Captain. "Of course, your highness." he bowed slightly and turned to trot to the bedroom that the alabaster alicorn disappeared into. Luna turned to the doors once again and took a deep breath before using her magic to open the large oak doors.
The doors creaked open and the princess of the night felt only one thing: fear. As she walked into the dark room, she wondered if she had a death wish or not, but one thing was for certain; she needed to do this.
Whether she wanted to or not.
As the doors swallowed the night princess whole, the guards prayed to Faust that she would come out again.
In one piece.