//------------------------------// // Drop it like it's Mom // Story: Siege of Canterlot // by Peachy Moon //------------------------------// Dinky burst through the front door of Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns. The sight of the faculty battling with changelings in front of the school only caused her a brief pause. She glanced at the elder unicorn mages trying desperately to keep their charges safe. As Dinky charged through the massed teachers and the attacking changelings she looked up trying to keep her eyes locked on the falling form of Derpy Hooves. Amethyst stopped in her tracks gasping at the sight before her. A teacher fell rolling down the stairs as a stray blast of entropic energy struck her. The pinkish unicorn gasps and charged through the carnage following in her sister’s frantic footsteps. She closed her eyes and shook her head trying to keep focused. She had to protect her sister and her mother. As the duo galloped through the changeling choked streets of Canterlot. They didn’t stop or really notice as the music began to play from every speaker in town. The young grey filly kept her eyes on their mother, her sister kept her eyes on Dinky. They’d been so happy not a few hours before. _____ “Momma I got in I got in!” Dinky dances happily in a circle around her mother. She had worked so hard on the test and passed. She was going to the same school as her big sis. “Of course you did. Your my little magical muffin!” Derpy states matter of factly pulling her daughter into a hug. “With Sparkler, and Ms Twilight teaching you you're sure to be amazing!” She continues smiling and looking at her other daughter with her mismatched eyes. The elder unicorn blushes and smiles at her adoptive mother. “I’d do anything for my little sister” Amethyst Star says watching Dinky. “You know what this calls for?” Derpy asks suddenly struck by an idea. “I’ll fly to Cloudsdale and get you those cloudcakes you like so much!” She says picking Dinky up and tossing her into the air. “We can celebrate both my girls attending The Princess’s school! Now stay here with Sparkler and I’ll be back in a flash!” She says hugging both her daughters she turns to leave before stopping and smiling “I love you both so much” She adds before taking flight out the door. “I’m proud of you too” Amethyst says walking over and hugging her sister. “Let me show you around while mom is gone” She says taking Dinky’s hoof and leading her down the halls. Dinky giggles happy as she could be. “Yay, I get to go to school with you! I’ll grow up to be big and strong just like you!” Dinky says nuzzling her sister. “Stronger than me!” Amethyst says grinning to her sister. Inside she shivered praying that Dinky would be even stronger than her. _____ “Momma I’m so sorry!” Dinky shouts to her mother’s falling form. It was all her fault if she’d just said no her momma would have been okay. She made her go. She cried as her little hooves clacked against the cobblestone street. She never saw the changelings her sister was keeping off her. She skidded to a halt in a square her heart beating a million miles a minutes. Almost directly above her the scorched grey pegasus. She stopped and closed her eyes and takes a deep breath. She had to focus, she had to do this right for her mom. She could hear Twilight Sparkles voice in her head “Reach out with your magic. Take hold of the object. Feel its’ weight and then move it.” She let out her breath and focused. Her yellowish aura surrounded the falling mare. She strained sparks falling from her horn tip as she tried to slow her mother down. She felt her aura slip as the Derpy falls free of her magical grip. “No no no no MOMMA!” Dinky screams setting her hooves and reaching out again. She wrapped her mother in her magic again, and again, and again. Her head hurt and her eyes were blurry but she kept going. She screams out in frustration and fear as she takes hold one last time. Her hooves broke the cobblestone digging into the earth below. Her horn erupted in arcane might as her eyes clouded over. Above her the pegasus slowed. _____ Amethyst stayed as close to her sister as she could. It seemed the every street the little unicorn took was swarming with the black things that had overtaken the city. She closed her eyes throwing and blasting them away from her little sister. Derpy had taken her into the Hooves household, that mare has shown her more love in a few years than she’d had her whole life. She wasn’t a foundling, no she was a Hooves! Her mind steeled Amethyst plowed on keeping the changelings from Dinky. Her violet magic lashed out swatting a flying drone from the sky. She smirked and turned unleashed a rapid fire burst of energy at the bugs. Her ears perked up as she heard music envelope the city. Somehow the triumphant music filled her with new energy. She turned following her sister through the streets. As the filly set herself to catch their mom she stood her ground firing off bursts of magic. Her jaw dropped and time seemed to slow as she saw her sister run over with magical energy. The little filly glowed with pure energy as she slowly lowered the injured pegasus to the streets. “momma….” Dinky mutters before collapsing onto her side. Amethyst caught her in her magic rushing over to check both her sister and mother. The sight of her mothers battered form drew her back to bad memories of her childhood. She shook her head and cried cradling her injured mother and exhausted sister. The changelings swarmed around them. She closed her eyes and focused. “YOU CAN’T HAVE THEM!” She screamed throwing a shield around her family. They loved her and she loved them. To the last of her energy she would guard them from harm and keep them safe. The swarm wouldn’t take her happiness away. She cried nuzzling into her mother's fur as she focused on the shield. She never saw the opal blur that streaked down scattering the changelings.