Eight audible gasps were heard, one from each of his friends, including Spike, and one from not Star, but Princess Luna, who just walked into the door "Is this true Tia?" she asked
"Yes, I take full blame for everything that has happened to him" suddenly Celestia looked on the verge of tears, but she shook her head and took on a more calm look, though she still seemed slightly shaken up "When I placed that spell within your mind to block any further memories from arising, I also looked through the memories you have now and that you have remembered, I have to ask you one thing, do you really want to remember all of this," she gestured towards his face "you already have another life, do you really want to be haunted by memories of an old one?"
Star looked to the ceiling in thought for a moment "Yes, I have to know"
Celestia made an expression that looked both hopeful and relieved, Star couldn't tell because the expression was gone before he could fully register it "One moment then" she said, her horn started to glow and suddenly Star's head wasn't clouded and he didn't have trouble thinking anymore, he hadn't wanted to trouble anypony, but since Celestia had blocked his memories, he had a hard time recalling anything that he had remembered previously, but now he could recall every flashback clearly.
"What did you just do?" Twilight asked curiously
"I undid a spell I cast onto his mind, when I found that Luna was going to be helping him remember his past I found where in his mind his dormant memories were stored and I blocked them off" she explained
"It was also making me forget any flashbacks I already had" Star added
"What was the point of that?" Luna asked
"I guess that is what I'm supposed to be explaining isn't it?" Celestia said to herself more than anypony else "Alright, now where to start from" she said putting a hoof on her chin in mock thought
"Stop stalling Tia" Luna said impatiently
Celestia sighed "You are right, I guess that it would be better to show you all then to tell you"
Her horn started to glow a light magenta color and the aura soon covered everypony in the room. Suddenly Star was brought to a scene that he recognized, it was just at the end of his tantrum flashback, when he had attacked Discord, it was in the exact perspective of when he had left off in this particular flashback.
"How are we seeing this if I am the pony that saw this?" he thought
"I am showing through your memories, if I showed them through my own then we would be able to feel everything I did, seeing as it would be a self-inflicted spell" another voice said
"Celestia?" he guessed
"We will all be able to speak to each other through thought while we are connected like this" Celestia explained
Suddenly the scene in front of them shifted and started to play out
"NO!" the Star in front of them suddenly shouted with a very layered voice
"Star please stop this" came a calm voice from the pony in front of them
Stars eyes started to turn from the golden glow back to their silver-green state "m-m-mom?" he asked in surprise as Celestia walked out of the shadows
This caused everypony to gasp in shock "D-d-d-does that mean that Star is…..?" Rainbow asked
"But sister, you never had a son!" Luna said in shock
"All will be explained after this" was all Celestia said, regardless of the other ponies prodding at her for answers
They watched as Star ran towards Celestia and hugged her, both of them were clearly crying. After a few minutes passed Star finally spoke up "H-h-he's gone" he then let out a wail of sadness and buried his head into Celestia's chest
She whispered reassurances into his ear until he finally calmed down enough to speak "What happened?" she asked
"H-he finally did it, even though we both t-told him not to, he went and tried anyway. He failed a-and that THING was born" he said between sobs and sniffles
"Thing?" she said sadly
"He called himself Discord, he told me that he killed Starswirl, he also said that he was going to kill you and that he was going to rule the kingdom" he managed to explain
"Wait, this isn't what happened" Celestia interrupted
"What do you mean?" Star asked
"I will explain after this" she answered
Celestia's eyes widened in surprise "We have to stop him! Follow me, we have to get back to the castle"
They ran through the forest until they came upon a clearing, it seemed eerily familiar to Star "Wait isn't this where Zecora found me?" he thought to himself
Sitting in the center of the clearing was Discord, for some reason he seemed to be arguing with himself "This was a horrible idea! We should have killed the kid when we had a chance! Now he will warn the princess and the whole plan will be ruined!"
He then turned the opposite direction and spoke to himself in a different much deeper voice "No it isn't, we can still destroy the kingdom, it will be simple, nothing can defeat us regardless" he then gave out a diabolical laugh that sent chills through Star "Wait, can I even have a chill sent through me mentally?" he questioned but was not answered
Celestia crouched near Stars ear "I have contacted Luna, she will bring the elements of harmony"
He stared at her with wide eyes "That's insane! There is no telling what they will do!" he whispered back
"I doubt I would be able to defeat them myself" she said almost cryptically
"Who is there?" Discord asked suddenly turning to Star and Celestia "Ah, if it isn't the little crybaby son of Starswirl and his soon to be dead mother!" he said with an insane grin and that deeper and almost more evil voice
After this Star looked like he was about to explode with rage on the spot, but suddenly it looked like something inside him snapped and he looked at Discord "You won't get away with this" Star said with no emotion, almost as if he had no opinion on the matter, but it was more fact than an opinion
"Little daddy's boy is getting all upset now isn't he?" Discord prodded getting right into Stars face and nudged his side with his elbow
Star didn't flinch, he simply turned his head to Discord with no expression and emotionless eyes "You aren't going to win"
Discords flinched and retreated back to his earlier position at the far end of the clearing "Geez, what did ya do to this kid? It's like he got so mad that his rage just broke" he said in his normal voice
"That doesn't matter, just destroy them both" he said turning and speaking in the deeper voice again
He charged Star but was intercepted by Celestia who hit him with a missile made of pure magic "You stay away from him!" she said her voice full of rage
This blast caused him to hit into a nearby tree, he quickly recovered "How unexpected, the mother protecting her young" he taunted before this time charging Celestia
Before he could hit her she dove out of the way and tried again to shoot him with a magic missile but she missed, hitting a tree just past him. He charged her and swung at her, he grazed the side of her cheek causing three claw marks to form on her cheek that started to bleed almost immediately.
She retaliated by thrusting the pointed end of her horn at him, she hit her mark and stabbed him straight through the gut. She pulled out her horn in triumph and started to walk away but was stopped by a sudden insane laugh "Did you really think it would be that easy?" he asked
Celestia turned in time to see the whole she had left in his stomach being healed. Just as it closed up he immediately rushed at her and using the sudden distraction of his healing he landed a solid blow to her side that sent her flying through the air into a tree where she was impaled onto a stick that went right through her leg suspending her on the tree, also causing her to lose consciousness.
Star watched as she was pinned up in the tree, he could see the pain that it caused her and something else snapped in him, though it would be more accurate to say that something was rekindled inside him, as if his rage was reborn again "DISCORD!" he shouted in the strange layered voice again as his eyes started to glow golden
Discord turned just in time to see a faint golden aura wrap around Star, it got denser and denser until all around him was a form of magic. He was suddenly surrounded by a formation of a dragon made up entirely of his magical aura, Discord looked at him with interest "You have already mastered using an avatar have you?" he said in the same deep voice he had been using earlier "No matter, you still cannot defeat me"
Star charged Discord but he jumped out of the way "You missed!" he said in delight
"I WASN'T TRYING TO HIT YOU" Star said as he broke off the branch that was holding Celestia and pulled it out of the wound
As he was closing up the wound as best he could with his magic he was hit in the side by a wave of raw magical power, not like a missile that Celestia was shooting at Discord, it was a complete wave of raw energy that shot through the air like a sound wave. It knocked Star to his side and threw Celestia back into another tree causing her to regain consciousness.
She stared up at Star "Star?" she asked dazed
"Yes, Starswirl was teaching me about using avatars before he…." He left the statement hanging in the air, as if he dare not speak it
Celestia just nodded in approval "Good luck"
"Such a heartwarming moment! But if you don't mind, I would prefer not to waste my time on such pitiful beings" Discord taunted
Star turned back to Discord and struck at him knocking him away. Star smiled triumphantly, but this was short lived because he suddenly felt an immense pain on his forehead, he looked up and where his horn usually was he saw a small stub of its former glory.
The avatar disappeared as he fell to the ground "Looks like I've won" Discord said triumphantly
"I don't think so" Celestia interrupted
Discord turned in time to see Celestia and Luna with the six elements of harmony surrounding them. He was too slow to react and was hit by the magical beam that they shot out.
Discord looked at his feet and saw a wave of magic running up his body, turning him to stone, in one last ditch attempt he turned to Star and cast a spell on him, suddenly Star was disappearing much the same as Discord was "If I am to be imprisoned for eternity then so shall your child! As long as I am stuck in this prison so shall he be stuck in my mind!"
Celestia watched with a look of horror as Star disappeared "No!" she ran to Star and started to pull on his cloak and what was left of his head that she could see. Star looked at her and smiled one last time before disappearing along with Discord turning to stone, his words echoed around the clearing as Star faded "As long as I am stuck in my prison so shall he be stuck in my mind!"
Star once again found himself in the changing room in the theater, and he was immediately embraced by a very large group hug. After they all let go of him he found himself in tears, he turned to see Celestia with tears running down her face too "Why didn't you just tell me?" he asked
"As I said before, I did not want you to have to relive something like that, nopony should have to" she said in a very sad tone
"How do I not remember you having a son?" Luna asked
"After the event, I did not want anypony to remember that it had ever happened, especially myself, so I destroyed all evidence of that night, I burned down the library and set a spell on all things that Starswirls magic touched, the spell made anything that his magic touched to be unreadable or complete nonsense, I did the same with Star's magic. I even went to the trouble of hiring a fake Starswirl so that nopony would suspect anything, I also erased your memories of him, I did not want to, but I did not want to remember this event either"
"Does that make me an alicorn?" Star asked
"Yes, you are" Celestia answered, her tears had stopped flowing so freely
Without further thought he took off his cloak and heard this time not 8, but 9 audible gasps "What?" he asked
He looked at a nearby makeup mirror and was stunned at what he saw, his body , much like his face, was white, but he did not have wings either, there was just a small rigid patch of skin where they once were. The rest of his body was just as shocking, it was covered with a large amount of scars, scars that ranged from the entire length of his body, to ones that looked much smaller, but much deeper "When did all of this happen?" he asked
Celestia looked on the verge of crying again "That monster" she said to herself in rage
"You mean Discord?" he asked
Celestia shook her head "That is what was wrong with your memories, Discord wasn't the only being that was there, along with him was an entity by the name of Destruction, Discord was seemingly harmless compared to this being, he only wanted to see things be crazy and unorganized, but Destruction, he wanted to see the end of everything, he wanted to watch the world burn, so to speak"
"What happened to him?" Star asked
"We defeated him the same way we did Discord, we used the elements of harmony, but the elements of harmony bring harmony to the situation as it is. With Nightmare moon the first time, I needed more time to find the bearers of harmony, so the elements sent her to the moon for a thousand years where she could not effect anything or anypony in Equestria. When she came back we had the bearers of harmony so it was able to cleanse her of the evil that plagued her. With Discord he wanted to keep on the move, make sure that nothing ever made sense or stood still long enough to think how crazy something was, but when the elements affected him they turned him to stone, stopping him completely and giving him time to think with himself instead of act continuously and on impulse, literally putting a stop to him. But with Destruction it was different, he simply wanted to destroy and hurt every living being in Equestria, he had no motivation, it was simply what he was. So with that the elements couldn't just stop him, so they did exactly what the name implied, they brought him harmony, but because he was a being made up entirely to destroy, he was destroyed in the process himself" she explained
"So what does he have to do with this?" Star asked gesturing towards his body
"When he was destroyed, it was only his physical body that was destroyed, his essence exploded outwards and affected the whole forest, also a large amount of it went into Discords statue, which I believe is how you ended up like that, Discord may have been evil, but he wasn't a monster, he probably couldn't have hurt you that badly if he tried"
"I have two more questions" Star said after a few moments of consideration
"What is that?" she asked
"Firstly, what is my actual name?" he asked "Throughout everything I read and saw, my full name was never once mentioned"
Celestia smiled in amusement "You always hated your full name and insisted upon being called Star instead, but if you must know, your full name is Starlight Sky"
Star mouthed it a few times before nodding his head in agreement "Yeah, it's a nice name, but I don't really like the idea of being called that"
"What was your second question?" She asked
"Oh yeah, why did nopony know that you and Starswirl were in a relationship and why did nopony know that you had a son? I guess ponies could have known, but I doubt it" he asked
"I told you, I erased all traces of both you and Starswirl, but you are correct, nopony but myself, Starswirl, Luna, your cousin and your aunt knew" she answered
"My cousin and aunt?" he asked
"She was Starswirls sister and he was her son, you two were best friends, his name was Iceberg Wind and her name was Snowy Day" she said with a smile
"So, again, why didn't anypony know?" he asked again
"Because I was only a few hundred years old and I was a foal, I fell in love with a peasant, he was a great magician who would come by the castle and preform for me, eventually we fell in love and you were born. But if ponies were to find out about this then there would be a retaliation, simply because I was royalty and he was lower class, I wish it weren't so but it was" she sighed
"So wait, wouldn't that make you Queen Celestia instead of Princess Celestia?" Fluttershy pointed out
"You would be correct if we were to have been wed, but we did not get married, as I said, there would be retaliation" she explained
"What was he doin that both of ya disapproved of so much?" Applejack asked
Suddenly Celestia looked very exhausted "Why don't we continue this another time? I need some time to rest and think" she suggested
"Me too," Star agreed "Besides, it's Hearth's warming day tomorrow" he put his hoof to his chin for a moment considering asking her a question that came to his mind before shrugging "I will ask her tomorrow"
As they left Celestia approached him "Would you like to stay in the castle? We have plenty of room, and you will be able to spend more time with your friends, because they are staying there too" she offered
Star thought for a moment "Thank you for the offer, but I think I will just stay in the hotel room I rented, please don't be offended" he pleaded
"Why would I be offended?" she questioned
"Because, you finally have your son back after well over a thousand years and he won't even come home with you" he pointed out
"It is quite alright, we have plenty of time to spend with each other, I will see you in the castle tomorrow morning?" she asked
"That sounds great" he agreed
With that they departed and Star found his way back to the hotel, back to his room and fell asleep on his bed with a kitten lying on his chest.