The Princess and the Foals

by Autum Breeze


Chapter 14 - Another Playmate

Chapter 14
Another Playmate
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“Welcome, your highnesses,” the royal guard bowed, then saluted. “The Princesses have been expecting you. If you will follow me.”

They all followed the Pegasus stallion down the halls, passing several other guards standing guard throughout the castle, all of whom bowed as they passed.

They all expected to go to the throne room, but were surpsied when they walked passed it and saw neither princesses in there. So where were they?

When the guard leading them stopped and bid them farewell, they were standing in front of the doors to Luna’s personal chambers.

Save Sunset, they all glanced at each other.

What could be so important that Princess Luna had to meet them in her personal chambers?

Twilight took a breath and knocked several times.

The doors opened to reveal Princess Celestia, who smiled when she saw the five of them.

“Thank you all for coming,” she nodded to each in turn. “They’re inside.”

They’re inside?

The five all looked at each other in confusion. Was somepony else privy to this meeting between royalty?

They entered room with its night, moon and stars decoration theme with a few shades of blue reminiscent of its occupant.

Twilight took note of something right away. Several items similar to what she’d purchased after taking in Sunset were laying strewn on Luna’s bed.

A box of wet wipes, a pacifier and a diaper for a foal the same age as either of her daughters.

She raised an eyebrow. What?

She felt a nudge on her shoulder and glanced at Cadance, who was on her left.

Cadance was staring at something that wasn’t the bed.

Twilight followed her gaze and saw a closed door to another room that, from the last time she’d visited Luna’s room for a meeting between herself and the princess of the night, she had not seen there before.

Her confusion rose.

“Come,” Celestia smiled, nodding towards the door.

Twilight and the others followed, Celestia opening the door with her magic.

When they entered, Twilight was more confused.

It was like Luna’s room... expect that it looked like a nursery.

The walls and ceiling had the same night, moon and stars decoration theme and shades of blue, but there were baby toys, a changing table and a small mat near a toy designed for a foal to play with as they fall asleep.

In the centre of the room was a dark-blue crib with a star mobile hanging above it. Standing at the crib was Luna with a look Twilight had never seen her wearing before. It was maternal. The look of... a mother?

Twilight led the others to the crib, where Luna looked up, held a hoof to her lips and pointed down.

They all looked in and gasped.

Laying in the crib, sound asleep, sucking on a forehoove was a tiny black alicorn foal.

Her mane was a deep-blue, deeper than Luna’s fur.

Something else that caught Twilight’s attention was the foal already had a cutie mark. It looked liked the moon... and eerily familiar.

Twilight’s eyes widened. “Is that...? It can’t be... Nightmare Moon?”

Luna nodded, but she was still smiling.

Twilight turned to Celestia, as did her brother and Cadance, all with shocked looks on their faces. Scootaloo too, had a shocked expression, though Sunset looked more confused than shocked.

Celestia chuckled. “I suppose we should explain.”

“Allow me, sister,” Luna said, moving away from the crib and standing next to the sun goddess. “It was my spell that caused all this to happen in the first place.”

Twilight had suppress an eye twitch at how calmly the two of them were talking when the very thing that had separated the two of them nearly a thousand years ago was laying in that crib.

“Then could you two please explain before Twilight has a stroke from restraining herself?” Shining Armour asked, a hint of anger in his voice.

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Celestia was just finishing putting away several documents she had had to go through with several nobles that had wanted to build several large buildings. Unfortunately the land they wanted to build on was part of Sweet Apple Acres, thus she’d had to spend four hours explaining to them why they could not build there.

It should have taken only half an hour at the most, but the nobles didn’t seem to understand that just because the Apple Family owned the land and used it for farmer and raising animal, didn’t mean the land wasn’t being put to good use.

Celestia finished putting away the last document and let out a heavy sigh. It had been a long day and it wasn’t even noon yet.

As she got up to head for her personal study for some well-needed realaxation, there was a knock on the throne room doors.

Sighing, knowing it was probably a message of something to do with the delegate from the Griffon Empire that were coming for a visit, she turned to the door, clear her throat and called, “Enter.”

When the door opened it was a brown coated Earth pony mare, with a green mane and a group of stars for her cutie mark.

She was one of Luna’s maid, which caused Celestia to raise an eyebrow.

“Your highness,” she said, bowing. “Your sister wishes to speak with you. It is in regards to Princess Twilight Sparkle and her children.”

Celestia’s confusion rose. Twilight and her foals? Why did Luna want to speak with her about that?

She nodded a 'thank you', to which the maid bowed again and left.

Celestia’s horn glowed and in a flash of golden light she teleported from the throne room, reappearing in front of Luna’s chambers.

She knocked on the doors, which was followed by Luna’s voice calling, “Enter.”

Celestia frowned. There was something in Luna’s voice. She couldn’t quite place it though.

The doors glowed with her magic and she walked in. To her surprise, Luna was not in the room.

“Luna?” she asked, turning her head and pausing when she saw a door she knew full well hadn’t been there before. She had studied the blue prints for the castle long before it had been built and the door in question had not been on the plans.

Hesitantly, Celestia walked to the door, opening it with her magic.

When she entered, she stopped dead in her tracks.

It was as if she had walked back into her sister’s room, expect looked like a foal was living in it.

Luna stood in the middle, using her magic to finish putting a mobile of stars in place over the crib.

“Luna?” Celestia asked, raising an eyebrow. “Why have you created another room, one that looks like it is meant for a foal? Are you planning on adopting?”

Luna gave a small smile. “No, sister. You are half right. I will soon be caring for a foal.”

Celestia narrowed her eyes. “And how exactly are you going to do that, sister? I do not recall you having a suitor.”

Luna sighed. “Hath thou already forgotten the spell mother taught as before she left us?”

Celestia blinked. That spell? Why? And how? Didn’t it require a male to still be present?

“Sister,” Luna said, taking a step forward. “After I watched over the dreams of Twilgith Sparkle and her children, I realized I have longed for a foal of my own. A child to raise and teach. You have Twilight, she has her daughters... but what do I have?”

Celestia almost choked on her own breath. “I— I do not have Twilight,” she stuttered, taking a step back without knowing what.

Luna snorted. “Please, do not insult us, sister. We have seen how you look at her. Though you did not give birth to her and she has another mother that did, you are the one who cared for her whilst she was your student. She is the closet thing to a daughter you have ever had.”

Celestia didn’t retort. She couldn’t. Everything Luna said was completely true. She thought of Twilight as the daughter she never had. She had been so proud when Twilight had become an alicorn, saying she was a teacher, pleased her student had succeeded.

But in truth, she was happy because she knew her daughter would not fade away like all the others she had cared for during her long life time.

Celestia cleared her thoughts with a shake of her head. “I still do not see how you plan on having a foal with that spell, Luna,” she said, trying to gain control she had lost the moment she had entered the room. “Doesn’t that spell still require a male to be present at the time of its casting?”

Luna shook her head. “Only if one wishes to even the chances of either gender being what the foal is.”

Celestia cocked an eyebrow. “You mean to say you want it to be a filly?”

Luna’s smile was her answer. Then she did something Celestia hated, because she could never resist it. Luna gave her the puppy dog eyes.

Celestia sighed. Why did she have to look? If she hadn’t she could’ve refused. But not now.

“Very well, Luna,” she gave another sigh. “But you do realize this foal will be your responsibility? I will help you, but it is you who must still raise her.”

Luna nodded viciously, the biggest grin Celestia could ever remember seeing on her face. “Yes, sister. You have our word. We will be the best mother that hath ever been a mother.”

Celestia chuckled. “Very well, then. Let’s begin.”

Luna walked up to Celestia and they both touched their horns together. Though the spell could have easily been cast by either one of them on their own, for what Luna want, a filly, the both of them working together not only made it more likely that the foal would be female, but with combined magic, it would be an alicorn.

Celestia knew that if she didn’t help and Luna had a child that was not immortal like them, she would one day mourn the loss of her daughter to the point she could end up becoming Nightmare Moon again.

She did not want that and would do whatever it took to ensure that being of evil never returned to this plain.

The spell began and magic started to swirl around them, both light and dark working together.

As they increased the magic, Celestia wondered what Luna would name her foal. How far had she planed this? How long had she planed this?

With her thoughts elsewhere, it wasn’t until Celestia heard her sister’s terrified yelped that she saw what was happening.

The magic at the tip of their horns had become a blue far darker than Luna’s. Only one had that darkness.

“Sister, what do we do?!” Luna cried, her eyes wide with panic. “I don’t want my foal to be possessed by that thing!”

“And it won’t!” Celestia declared, her voice firm. “Hold tight, sister. This will not be easy.”

Celestia and Luna both increased the magic they were producing into the spell.

There darkness wavered, then strained, then shimmered.

There was an enormous flash of white light and they both collapsed to the floor, exhausted.


Once they had regained some strength, the two sisters stood up and looked around.

There was no sign that the Nightmare had returned. Luna was herself and the sun was still in the sky, Celestia could feel it.

They both relaxed, then lifted their heads when they heard the sound of quiet breathing.

The princesses turned to Luna’s side and both their eyes widened in shock and horror.

Laying next to Luna’s left foreleg, sleeping, was a foal that looked like the very thing they had just tried to stop.

Celestia’s first instinct was to destroy it, her horn glowing, charging a spell.

But as she looked at the sleeping foal she stopped, her magic dispersing.

Even if it was the creature that had taken her sister away for a thousand years, she could never bring herself to hurt a foal.

As if on cue, the foal yawned, opened its eyes and looked up at Luna, who stared down at it, her mouth still hanging open.

Where Celestia expected to hear Nightmare chuckle and then turn into an ungoddessly horrifying form, the foal gurgled, holding its front hooves up at Luna.

Both princesses blinked.

The foal Nightmare Moon continued to gurgle up at Luna and started trying to stretch higher. Then it started whimpering.

Celestia watched the look of shock in her sister’s face slowly turn to tenderness. Luna lowered her head until she was eye level with the foal.

“Nightmare? Do you remember me?”

The foal’s answer was a happy coo as it grabbed her face and gave a wide smile only foals could give.

Luna smiled. Her horn glowed as she straightened up and sat on her haunches, the foal being levitated by her magic and lowered into her forehooves.

Once in her forehooves it gave a loud yawn that almost sounded like “Mom” and curled into Luna’s fur, falling back asleep.

Luna glanced at Celestia, who had a perplexed look on her face. “That is not how I expected her to react. Especially now that she is a foal.”

Luna looked down at the foal in her forelimbs. “Sister... I don’t think she remembers. She would not be able to fool me. I know her.” Her voice lowered. “... I was her.”

Celestia looked like she wanted to say something, then looked away. Even after all this time, that matter was one they still could not bring themselves to talk about fully.

“You’re sure,” she asked after a few minutes.

Luna’s horn glowed and a blue-light passed over the foal. She looked to her older sister and nodded. “She has no memory.”

Celestia face melted into a smile. “Then I see no reason as to why you cannot raise her, Luna.”

The night princess look up in shock. “How did you—?”

Celestia chuckled. “When it comes to the younger ones, you can’t hide your emotions, little sister.”

Luna blushed, then gave a small smile. “Thank you, sister. For... well...”

Celestia held up a hoof. “No need, Luna. Though I think we might need to give her a new name, don’t you?”

Luna looked down at the foal and smiled. “Yes. A new name, for a new beginning.”

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Twilight turned back to the crib at the sleeping foal.

Now that she had heard what had happened and weatched the contented look of the crib’s occupant... she had to admit, she was very cute.

“So, what’s her name?” Cadance asked her aunts.

Unlike Twilight and Shining, she hadn’t become angry of fearful when she’d figured out the foal’s identity. She knew, if her aunts had kept her, there was a good reason.

Luna walked back over to the crib and gently moved a hoof through the foal’s mane. “Evening Tides. Eve, for short."

Shining Armour blinked. “Um, why Evening Tides?”

Luna looked to him and chuckled. “I am her mother and the princess of the night. She is my angel of the night.”

“I think I understand,” Twilight said, putting a hoof to her chin. “The moon moves the tides of the ocean. When your daughter’s old enough, you’ll have her join you in creating the night.”

Luna nodded. “Astute as ever, Twilight Sparkle.”

“Did you want her to play with my daughters?” Twilight asked and felt her two foals wriggle in anticipation of the possibility of playing with another foal, this one an alicorn.

Luna gave a sad smile. “Not today, Twilight Sparkle.”

Twilight felt a bit disappointed, something she knew her daughters felt from how they slumped and didn’t move.

“Maybe soon, little ones,” Luna said, her smile warm again, which made both foals happy as well. “But, in truth, she is less than a few hours old. I think she should simply rest today.”

Twilight nodded. “Understood, princess.”

They made to leave, then a thought occurred to Twilight and she stopped, turning back to Luna. “How are you feeding her?”

Luna gave a wry smile. “You know just how, Twilight Sparkle.”

They and the two foals in the carrier giggled.

“Very well, princess,” she said, as they turned to leave. “We look forward to meeting for a playdate. Maybe while we’re still in Canterlot. The girls and I will be in town for a few more days.”

Luna nodded. “That would be wonderful.” She returned to the crib and watching her daughter with a contented smile.


As they walked out of the castle they discussed this new development.

“Just how many more princesses is Equestria gonna get?” Shining joked. “Counting the princesses, you four and Eve, that’s already seven.”

Twilight giggled. “Maybe my friends will become the next princesses,” she joked.

“Hmm,” Cadance said in mock interest. “The bearers of the Elements of Harmony all becoming princess?”

They all laughed, even the foals as they headed back towards Twilight’s parent’s house.