Chapter 2
Little Order
I love their home, but I don't know how they could ever have managed to build it. They're big, but how could they have lifted that much stone. Big sis Luna said that they had just found it there, but I don't know how someone could lose something so big. The house was only a mile from the clearing that Luna found me in. Celestia said that it was strange, but I knew it wasn't because I got a great sister from it.
Celestia doesn't like me, but Luna says that I'm the best little brother ever, and that Celestia is just a sourpuss. I think Luna is the best sister ever too, she always plays with me and tells me cool stories, and she lets me cuddle up to her at night. She said that the clearing she found me in was a special place to her and Celestia, and that meant I was special to her too.
I saw an eagle flying towards the deep forest. I wanted to fly like it, but Luna said that wasn't possible. I asked her if she could fly and she looked at me with a smile. "Neither of us can fly, Celestia can't either. Do you see what the eagle has that we don't?" I looked at her quizzically, then at the eagle. It had something stretched out really far, and they were covered in the type of feather that Luna would tickle me with. I repeated this observation to Luna. She giggled, then tapped her hoof to my nose. "Correct! Those are called wings, and only birds have them. Those are what let them fly." I learned about a lot of things from Luna.
One day, Luna was explaining how much time it took for a tree to grow, then she pointed to a big one, saying that it was really old. I asked her how old I was. She shook her head, saying that she didn't know. She did tell me how old she and Clestia were, though. She said that they were about 19 cycles old. I wanted to know what a cycle was, so she told me that it was when all the trees lost their leaves, then regained them.
Luna had told me to go to sleep. She waited until I was completely still, but when I was almost asleep, she left our room. Being as silent as possible, I followed her. She never left me alone at night before, and I couldn't sleep without her.
Luna had taught me the way around the big house, full of hallways and staircases, and I was grateful for that. If she got out of my sight, I could just go back to our room and wait for her. Luckily, Luna didn't get out of my sight. After a while, I could tell she was going to the observatory, the room that was made of glass. I hid in the doorway to the room, watching what she was doing. For some reason, I knew that I shouldn't ask her to come back and cuddle.
I saw Celestia standing in the center of the room, her multicolored mane covering her back, instead of its usual position to either side of her. Luna's light blue mane was in stark contrast to her dark coat, but it looked perfect. Celestia turned towards Luna as she approached. "Good, you left him. He shouldn't hear this conversation." Well, I feel that I've done something I shouldn't have. "Why do you insist on keeping him around? He's just a strange little pony that you found in the woods, and we don't need to care for anyone else. We have each other."
Hey! I'm not strange! I just woke up in the middle of the woods with no memories. Maybe she was referring to my coloring. I was white on my right and black on my left, perfectly split down the middle. My eyes followed the pattern in opposite, my right eye black and my left eye white. you could only see the pupil of my left eye.
It was Luna's turn to speak. "He is not strange!" I couldn't lift the smile off of my face. Luna was defending me! "He is my little brother, and he is a great one. He came from that place, so I think that he must be important to us."
Celestia walked closer to Luna, her eyes burning with an inner fire. "That is the whole reason that we don't need him near us. Nothing good has ever come from that place. The last thing that we found there tried to kill us!"
"Celly, I know that this is about more than that... incident. You're scared of him for another reason. I've had to save him from so many of your little traps. You fear him enough to risk hurting your own sister!" Traps? I never noticed any traps. Though sometimes Luna would go away for a minute and come back covered in dirt or leaves.
Celestia looked hurt at Luna's accusation, but her eyes betrayed its truth. "I didn't want to hurt you. I just want him to go away. I don't want to tell you why."
"Its about him Isn't it. I don't remember as far back as you, and you haven't told me anything about him. Maybe that's where your fear is from."
"Yes, its about him. It's just that the foal looks exactly like him. He was the first thing I remember, and he gave us our names, then disappeared. He just had an aura that made me afraid. Things have been coming out of that clearing ever since."
"You're still not telling the full story."
"And I will continue to refrain to."
"Oh! Thanks for reminding me of something!" Luna started hopping up and down in place.
"And what is that?"
"He needs a name! I can't keep calling him little brother. Help me think of one!" Celestia responded only with a glare. "Don't be so cold, Celly. I thought of one! I'll name him Order! Cute little Order."
"The name doesn't seem to fit, he's sown nothing but discord between us."
"Achoo!" Oops... my cover was blown. Please don't hurt me Celestia. Maybe now that Luna has caught me spying, she'll change her mind. I don't want to be alone. I didn't expect to hear the next thing Luna said.
"Do you like your new name? I think that its much better than calling you little brother." I stood there, shocked at her reaction to my spying. "Don't be afraid, you aren't in trouble. Let's leave Ms. Grumpy here, Order, and big sis will cuddle up with you in our room." I waited till Luna was next to me to start walking back.
"I like my name," I said barely above a whisper, but even so, when I looked at Luna she had one of the biggest smiles I've ever seen.
Author's Note
Is this chapter good? Character development is fun!
If any grammar nazis read this, please comment for the sake of a better story.