//------------------------------// // A Trip Down Memory Lane Part 2 // Story: The New Life with Lies // by BrightKnight 42 //------------------------------// The New Life with Lies By: BrightKnight 42 Edited By: ultra1437 Chapter 9: A Trip Down Memory Lane Part 2 Flashback - 1220 years ago Twilight was outside, watching Luna play in the royal garden, ”Lulu do you want to go see your aunt Star Light later?” A hyperactive royal blue alicorn princess came running up to her mother, chanting 'yes' over and over again, as Twilight smiled at her daughter’s enthusiasm “Now my little Lulu, you have to stop doing that, you know that it is not proper for a princess to jump around all willy-nilly. Your mother and I are lenient on how you act now, but you have to show that you are a Princess of Equestria,” Twilight scolded Luna, to get her daughter to stop jumping around. “I know mommy. I'm just happy I get to see aunt Star again! I get to hang out with aunt Cady and 'cus Sombra all the time, but –“Luna's explanation was lost due to a guard's interruption. “Princess Sparkle, your wife and her sister, Princess Cadence, have requested that you come see them alone,” stated the guard. “Ok, tell my wife that I will be there in a few minutes, and is Prince Sombra here?” Twilight asked simply. “Yes Princess, he is here,” the guard answered quickly. “Thank you. Now Luna, I want you to go find your cousin and play with him for a little bit. I will come find you to after that, and we will go to aunt Star's place. Ok sweetheart?” Twilight instructed her daughter before drawing Luna into a loving hug. “Ok mommy. I'll go find him,” Luna replied, folding into her mother's embrace before leaving the area. Sometime later. Twilight was walking down the halls of the Royal Pony Sisters’ castle. She had long-since memorized where everything was, after 17 years of living in the castle, and the last 5 years since she was allowed to go anywhere in the castle. After a bit of walking, she arrived at the throne room, where she saw Celestia was standing outside waiting for her. “Hello dear heart, how are you?” Celestia asked, giving her wife a kiss. “I’m fine, but can we hurry this up I promised my sister that I would be there to visit with Luna in a little bit, and we are going to work on finishing up our book for our family tree and traditions,” Twilight explained rather quickly. “Ok dear, we will get this over as fast as we can, but this is very important and it can’t be set aside,” Celestia motioned Twilight into the throne room. When Twilight entered the throne room, she saw Cadence sitting at a table in the middle of the room. She sat on one side of the table with Celestia then Cadence spoke softly, “Ok, now that we are all here, lets go into our discussion about Twilight, and the spell that we have found.” “A spell? Is it a new spell? Starswirl made a new spell! –“ Twilight was exited like her daughter was a couple of minutes ago, but she was stopped by her wife. “You know, now I see where Luna gets from.” Celestia stated and received a chuckle from her sister. “Thought that you would have remembered what I did after you propose to Me.” said Twilight “I remember I just –” Celestia was cut off by her sister magically closing her mouth. “Sister, do you remember why we are here? The faster we are done with this, the faster Twilight can get back to what she was doing, and the faster we can deal with the problems in my life right now. So now Twilight, this spell has been hidden by Celestia and I for a couple of years, since we found it, if anypony else knew of this spell they would have to have so much power to keep it going they would have to be a alicorn, or have multiple Unicorns powering it. Even if you have an alicorn powering the spell, you have to have two or more because if there's only one and that alicorn loses over half their power... that pony that spell effects, will die at an accelerated rate.” “But... what is the spell, and why have you been keeping it secret from me? I thought that you trusted me Celestia...” Twilight looked away dejectedly. Quickly, Celestia drew Twilight out of her rapidly worsening mood by with an explanation, “It was not trust, it was that my sister and I forgot about the spell, and after Luna was born it hit me like a ton of bricks that you are not immortal, and that our daughter and I are. So I spent the last couple of years trying to find a way to make you an alicorn, to make you immortal. I could not find one... because there was no way without giving up my own immortality, or another pony that has immortality. Then, I tried to make a spell, but it kept failing, and I asked Starswirl if he could make one, but even he failed. After he failed I remembered the spell, but I could not have used it on you just yet, because I had to get my sister's help to hold the spell, because I did not want to hurt you with it.” “Ok, I believe you on that part, but what is the spell?” Twilight asked simply. “Well, the spell is a…” Celestia was stuck on her words that she was unable to continue what she was saying so her sister finished of her. “The spell was basically will keep you alive forever, as long as Celestia and I have our magic. We can keep you alive until she can get a spell made to turn you into a alicorn, without killing one of us with a power-transfer spell.” Cadence bluntly commented to her sister-in-law “CADENCE! We promised each other that we would ease the spell on her, not just tell her in one go!” Celestia yelled, looking at Cadence before she looked at her wife, whom had a scared and dumbfounded look on her face . Celestia moved closer to her scared wife and pulled her into a tight embrace, before crooning to her calmly, “Twilight, you don’t have to give us an answer right now, but we need an answer soon. This is your decision, you can talk it over with your family, but only your family. And if you do tell them, make sure that they don’t tell anypony else.” After a couple of minutes in Celestia’s embrace, Twilight left to go find Luna. Before she could she was asked by Cadence to send her son to her if she saw him. After looking around, Twilight found her daughter playing with her cousin in the royal gardens. Twilight stood there, watching the two kids playing with each other, but before Twilight could call for her Luna she saw her mother and came running to her knocking her down. “Hi mommy! Did you finish talking to mom and aunt Cady?” asked a hyperactive Luna. “Yes I did. And Sombra, your mother wants to see you in the throne room.” Twilight called out, getting up after being knocked down by her daughter. “Ok aunt Twilight. Bye Luna, I'll see you next time we visit from the crystal empire!” Sombra yelled in reply, walking to the throne room. “Now Lulu, do you want to go to aunt Star now? “Twilight offered to her daughter, trying to forget what happened earlier. “Yes!” Luna's reply was nothing, if not energetic, as she helped Twilight to her hooves. ________________________________________ (The Present time Period in Twilight subconscious) “Now I see why you acted the way you did,“ Cadence stated as she looked back at Twilight, her eyes shining with sympathy. “Before we go back to the conscious world, what did you and Celestia talk about when I left to get your son?” Twilight asked. “What I talked to Celestia about was my husband, and what he was doing to my son and I, and what I thought he was going to do. Turns out, I was right.,” Cadence answered morosely, looking down toward the floor. “Thank you Cadence. Now let’s go and see if it is alright with Shining Armor,” with that said, Twilight's horn glowed and they were out of Twilight's subconscious. Once outside, Shining hugged his wife desperately, as if he had lost her and she just reappeared.