//------------------------------// // 111. Just One Pony... (Songfic) // Story: Short Shorts // by Coranth //------------------------------// Gently, Celestia held her sister close as they lay in her bed. Poor Luna was weeping softly, her teal eyes misted with tears. She cried beautifully, Celestia privately thought. Her face didn't change and her eyes didn't puff up. Instead, her silvery, crystalline-like tears fell slowly from her eyes, ran down her face, and then dripped off to fall to the sheets like raindrops... as she quietly said, "'Tis hopeless, Sister. Nopony will approach us. Nopony will talk to us, or even give us the time of day. Nopony will even come to our Night Courts; they all prefer to come during the day, when you are seated upon the Solar Throne. Nopony... Nopony believes in Us!" "Oh, Luna..." Celestia said, soothingly. Then, the Lunar Princess gasped softly, as her beloved sister leaned forwards, nuzzled her... and softly began to sing! "If just one pony believes in you," she sang. "Deep enough, and strong enough, believes in you... Hard enough, and long enough, It stands to reason, that some other pony will think 'If she can do it, I can do it.'" Perhaps it was the sound of Princess Celestia's beautiful voice - or perhaps it was the Magic of Harmony starting to fill the air - but no sooner had Celestia started the next verse, then Silent Heart - the Captain of the Night Guard - entered the room, walked over to the Sisters and, looking right into Luna's eyes, sang in harmony with the Solar Princess, "Making it: two whole ponies, who believe in you Deep enough, and strong enough, Believe in you. Hard enough and long enough There's bound to be some other pony who Believes in making it a threesome," Now Quiet Step - Silent Heart's Second In Command - entered the room to stand beside his Captain and take up the song! "Making it three..... Ponies you can say: believe in me....." Suddenly, Luna gasped as more ponies entered the room, more of her Night Guards, along with some of the Maids and Castle Staff... "And if three whole ponies, Why not -- four? And if four whole ponies, Why not--more, and more, and more...." ... and now, the utterly overwhelmed Princess could hear yet more ponies singing, outside! Mares, stallions, colts and fillies; how many she couldn't be sure. Perhaps hundreds, perhaps thousands! No matter how hard Luna wiped her eyes, she just couldn't stop the tears from flowing... "And when all those ponies, Believe in you, Deep enough, and strong enough, Believe in you... Hard enough, and long enough It stands to reason that you yourself will Start to see what everypony sees in You... And maybe even you, Can believe in you... too!" When at last the song ended, something broke within Luna and she laughed happily even as she wept happy tears. As she laughed, as she cried - as she wept like a foal - her Guard Captain, his Second, those staff with her in her room... all came up to touch noses with her, share a gentle nuzzle, and offer her quiet thanks or just a few kind words; all of which moved her to tears again. Because all those ponies believed in her.