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// Chapter Two 
// Story: Despair is the Only Answer 
// by Gravitiaxis 
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	Luna paced back and forth through the throne room as she yelled every insult she could think. "WHAT HAST THOU DONE TO OUR SISTER? WHATEVER THOU HAST TOLD HER, SHE IS NOW BOUND TO A SLEEP THAT SHE WILL NOT WAKE FROM!" Luna boomed while in her royal cantorlot voice causing Despair to cover his ears in both annoyance and out of pain.

Despair remained silent. He had nothing to say to Luna. Doing his best to keep calm, Luna turned her attention towards him and began walking until their face were but mere inches away from each other. "ANSWER US!" Luna yelled.

Wincing at the fact that his eardrums had nearly burst from the loudness of her voice, Despair began to scowl. "Luna, shut up. You're making it infuriatingly hard not be annoyed, right now." Despair said giving Luna a small glare which silently told her to back away from him, which she did. "If I were to grace you with an answer to your question it would result in you being comatose as well or worse, considering how weak and feeble you can be." Despair said getting his ears ready for another bashing.

"I AM NOT WEAK AND FEEBLE!" She thundered shaking the entire castle. She immediately recoiled as she realized that she had just proved his point.

"Emotionally. You're weak emotionally." Lifting his hooves away from his his ear, Despair began to frown. "You'd be better off not knowing what I told her. You're kingdom needs a ruler don't they?"

Luna began to grit her teeth. She didn't like Despair. She never has and probably never would, but she had to admit if whatever Despair did could put Celestia in the state that she was in, she couldn't imagine what it would do to her. Accepting that she shouldn't pry any further, she let out a stressful sigh. "How am I going to lower the sun if Celestia is asleep?" Luna thought to herself. She looked back towards Despair for help on raising the sun, but he was already gone.




Despair looked over Celestia as she laid resting and vulnerable. The guards that were supposed to have been watching over her were useless, those who stood outside couldn't do anything if someone powerful like himself decided to march right on in and slit her throat. He had just proved his point by teleporting in here unseen and unheard. If he was an adversary of Celestia's then her life was already forfeit. He leaned over and tried to plant a kiss on her lips, but found himself slamming into the wall across the room with enough force to break a mortals spine. Luna must've put up a barrier around her. She's smarter than I thought.

The guards from outside immediately rushed inside and began to inspect the room. The guards looked in Despairs direction, but quickly looked away as if they didn't seen anything. Which was true since mortals can't look at a god unless they wanted to be noticed.

A few minutes of an intense and through search the guard ponies decided to leave. "Must've come from one of the other rooms." One of the guards said.

Waiting until they fully left the room. Despair frowned as he still continued to look at her sleeping frame as if he was trying to study her, memorizing every detail that had changed over the two millennia that he had been gone. She had gotten a lot taller that was for sure. That fact caused him to smile.

However that smile quickly faded as he realized something rather important. "Two millennia? Oh my gods, I've been gone two millenia?!" He mentally screamed. He had left his wife for two thousand years. "What in tartarus have I've been doing for two thousand years?" Despair took a minute to think, but when nothing came up. He silently began to scream. "Oh my gods, I don't know where I've been. I've lost so much time. What the hell happened too me?" 

"What are thou doing in here?" Luna asked as she materialized from the shadows of the room. 

Despair looked at her with uneasy eyes. "Luna, have you seen me at all in the past two thousand years? Maybe just a glimpse or a mention?"

Luna raised her eye. "That is a peculiar question, but no we have not. We have not seen thou since the fall of Discord." Despair began to rub his temples. Something wasn't adding up. "She looked for thou. She traveled all of the universe in search of her comfort, but thou was not there." Despair could sense the animosity, it was practically leaking out of her.

Despair turned around and looked at her. "Are you being cross with me?"

"Yes, we are. Thou abandoned her in her time of need!"

"And where were you? If she needed comfort why didn't she go to you or her pillow?" Wait...that's not right. That's not me. There was a small tingling feeling within Despairs head. He had felt it before, a long, long time ago, but he couldn't figure out what it was.

"We was imprisoned." She said glaring at Despair. Watching as he turned his head away from her and looked back at Celestia.

"You're right...you're right. I'm pathetic" Despair said shaking his head. She was right. He had no excuse, she was right. What type of husband was he if he could just abandon his wife like that and not look back. He held his head down in shame. He had to leave. There was nothing here for him at this moment. Celestia would in a unconscious for who knows how long. There was nothing he could do, instead the reason for his departure was that he needed to figure out who in the universe has seen him and he had someone in mind who might have.

"Are thou leaving?" Luna asked with a stern look on her face.

"Yes, but I'll be back. I...there's something I need to do." 

"Are you going to leave her again." Despair didn't even answer, he was already gone.