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// Chapter 3 - Princess Luna (Edited on the 24/12/2015) 
// Story: Twilight Sparkle The Pokémon Heroine of White 
// by TwilightXLuna 
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Star Shine gasped, a big smile growing on her face. "Twilight! Get on over here!"

Twilight's eyes widened and soon everypony in the audience was roaring with applause. Twilight looked around as the girls told her to go up there with smiles on their faces, and then began to stomp with there hooves for her. Twilight stood up slowly, she was still shocked, she walked over to Back Stage who placed the medal around her neck with a smile on his face. Star Shine went over to hug her softly and grinned down at her.

"Congratulations!" Star Shine exclaimed. "I told you you would win!" Twilight smiled slightly, looking back at her mom to see if she was watching. Her mum waved at her, and was smiling widely.

"You did it, Twilight!" Twilight smiled a big smile. One she's never done in a long time.

Twilight was now in her normal clothes. They walked out of the Musical Theater, with smiles on their faces. "I'm so proud of you Twilight."

They walked through the night, Star Shine had given her the Reshiram dress as a gift for winning, and carried it in her saddlebag with her cutie mark on it. They walked alone at night, through Fillydelphia. Her mother smiled, inhaling the fresh air. Suddenly, a group of three ponies appeared in front of them.

"We're the Shadow Triad. We will take you to Lady Nightmare Moon." One of them said, and then grabbed the both of them, teleporting them elsewhere. They were now in front of a ginormous building. It was so tall, it could be used as a skyscraper!

"Oh dear .... Twilight .... I don't think this is a five star hotel ...." Her mother said.

"Wow! It's a castle!" Twilight exclaimed, and enthusiastically followed the three as they teleported up the stairs. Twilight eagerly went up the stairs and waited for her mum. They soon entered the ginormous castle, everything on the inside was completely humongous! Twilight's eyes widened considerably! This was so cool!

They were met with a bunch of those stallions that Twilight saw before in these weird suits. Now there were mares included! Twilight was amazed, suddenly, the tall black Alicorn, with a flowing indigo mane that she saw before appeared from the crowd.

"Lady Moon we brought the one you wanted ...... The Filly." The second said.

"Very good, You, Come here." She motioned for Twilight to come over with a hoof. Her eyes boring into twilight's soul, Twilight froze on the spot. She swallowed hard, Twilight walked forward, afraid if she didn't obey, she would get hit or something. Twilight now stood in front of the old mare, she was tall, the mare wore weird clothing that caused her to stare for a little bit too long. 'Why are they dressed like this maybe, this IS a castle! Maybe I'll meet a prince or princess!' Twilight suddenly smiled. "You are the filly that wore the dress of Reshiram, correct?" Twilight nodded, her head shaking and her main and tail bouncing. She waited for her to say something, or even do something. The mare raised her hoof up in the air, Twilight closed her eyes in fear the mare would striker at her, but nothing ever came. She heard a clap, and her eyes flickered open. The mare had clapped her hooves and one of those weirdos came by her side, Twilight saw. She heard the mare mumble something to him and he walked forward, and held a hoof out. Was he going to grab her? Twilight backed away slightly, she knew he was going to grab her. But the grunt took a swipe and grabbed her arm, pulling her with him.

"Mum!" Twilight exclaimed, she was continued to being pulled on, and was lost in the group of grunts. The darn guy's grip was literally hurting her!

"Twilight!" Her mom held her hoof in the air, but the Shadow Triad teleported in front of her blocking her way, then lead her over to Nightmare Moon. "What are you going to do with her?"

"She is only going to be escorted to the Princess. There's no need to worry." A grunt had assured her. Twilight's Mum was still worried though, they'd better not do ANYTHING to her!

Twilight was being led by the arm she blinked with curiosity. Where was he taking her? They were on the fourth floor, and the grunt took her in front of a door. Both of them stood there quietly, looking at the door. It was ridiculously tall! "Go inside." He ordered, and after that, left her there. Twilight looked up curiously at the door. She hesitatingly grabbed the door nob in her magic, twisting it, and opening it slowly. She could've sworn she heard a slight gasp coming from the other side, and was even more curious. She opened the door fully, but slowly, to reveal a room filled with toys. The floor was flying with clouds, and the rest of the room looked even more childlike. She raised an eyebrow and looked around with a confused face. She set down Scootaloo, who blinked around the room examining anything she could find. She walked over to a train set, and watched it run in circles, and circles until she got dizzy.

"But, There's nobody here ... Why would they send me in here?" Twilight wondered out loud. She saw a basketball hoop just right over to the left, it's back against the pink and white checkered room. She placed a hoof to her chin, she could've sworn that she heard somepony in here. "Must be my obsession over seeing a Prince or Princess that's getting to me. I really need to stop reading those fantasy books." She took a look around, walking and sitting on her flank. She looked down at the running train, and saw Scootaloo looking and twisting her head like a Noctowl. She giggled seeing her spin her head and then falling back on the floor. "Maybe it's for us to play in?" Scootaloo chirped, agreeing with her. She jumped right over the train and walked over to the basketball on the floor. She jumped on it, and tried to stay on it, but he fell on the floor. Scootaloo squeaked, Twilight giggled more, she knew she wasn't hurt, and laughed with her as she chirped loudly. Unbeknownst that a little figure was watching her from behind a humongous skateboard ramp. Twilight looked around, she peaked under covers that she so happened to find. She frowned, "I KNOW I heard someone in here!" The figure hid itself more behind the skateboard ramp.

Twilight looked over in the direction of the skateboard ramp, but then back at the door. The figure looked over at the girl curiously, but then she noticed the little Pidove on the ground, with it's wing bandaged. That's when the figure gasped out loud, Twilight quickly turned around, seeing a little Alicorn filly that looked her age run over and fall down right near Scootaloo and examined her. Twilight was surprised, so it was only a filly! She looked similar to that Nightmare Moon was her name? The filly had a seemingly long light blue mane and tail but she kept her mane in a ponytail she also hade a dark but light blue coat. she also had an indigo patch with an white moon on both her flanks as her cutie mare showing her talent. She had an orange T-shirt on, and beige short pants. She had no shoes, nor socks on, she was bare footed. She had Green eyes that were similar to Nightmare Moons, however, her were more darker, and distant. She inspected the little Pidove, her eyes forming into tears. She looked up at Twilight, with an angry stare in her tear filled face.

"How could you trainers do this to my friends!" She exclaimed suddenly. Twilight frowned, what did she do? Had the filly thought she made that wound? "Go away! Go away!" the filly said, grabbing the Pidove from the floor in her blue magic and stood up hugging her protectively. Twilight frowned more, who was this kid? Taking her Pidove!

"Hey! I'm not" Twilight said. But the little filly closed her eyes and went forward, almost scratching her if she hadn't moved back. Twilight's eyes widened, she watched as the filly retreated with her Pidove behind the ramp. Twilight went silent, "What is WRONG with you?"

"I said go away!" The filly yelled, she could tell she was crying. "Leave me alone!"

"I can't if you abducted my Pidove!" Twilight said raising her eyebrows.

"You can't have her!" she said. She was sure a confident filly. If only she knew what Twilight would do to fillies and colts around her age would annoy the living daylights of her. Fillies and Colts! They would go home crying.

"Why not?" Twilight said, now she was getting pissed. Twilight began walking over to where she was, she took one slight glance from behind the ramp and stood up quickly. NOW she was running away! What happened to her confidence?

"B-because! You're going to hurt her like trainers do! A-and abuse her and leave her all alone in a forest to die like everyone else!" She said, she walked quickly away from the ramp. Twilight followed her, now both of them were face to face. Twilight, a huge frown on her face (More like a glare) didn't like this at all. Her eyes were beginning to widen as she backed her up.

"Don't be stupid! Why would I do that?" Twilight said, the little filly still hadn't noticed what was right behind her. She was about to trip over an airplane, Twilight was about to tell her, but it was too late. She fell back on the floor. Her entire back slammed against the hard floor, but she recovered quickly. Her eyes widened considerably, and her tears were running down faster than they should. "Come on!" Twilight walked forward raising her hooves. The little filly cried out, whimpering as she stared at her. Twilight blinked at this. "Um .... What are you doing?" Twilight touched the fillies shoulder lightly, but her hooves flew up and slapped her hoof. "Ow!" She exclaimed, the filly suddenly gasped. She covered her mouth, more tears coming forth. She backed away quicker than before. She let go of Scootaloo going to covering her head with her hooves.

"I'm s-sorry! I-I-I'm s-s-sorry!" She frantically yelled. "D-don't h-hit m-me!" Twilight was even more confused.

'Geeze, how do they even care for you? Do they abuse you or something?' Twilight thought, blinking. "Why would I hit you?" Twilight asked.

The traumatized Alicorn filly lay there, crying her eyes out. Twilight bit her lip, suddenly she felt bad for the filly. Maybe she wasn't cared for nicely, maybe she WAS abused. Twilight bent down over to her, and placed a hoof on the fillies head. She froze suddenly, she stopped crying, and looked up from the floor over to Twilight. She merely smiled down at her, she visibly relaxed a little bit, but she did NOT like to be touched.

"It's OK! I'm not going to hurt you. Pokémon are my friends! My name is Twilight Sparkle but you can call me Twilight! What's your name?" She asked, taking back her hoof and sitting in front of her. The filly blinked, sitting up quietly, but put an amount of space between them. She stared at Twilight for a long time, before she said anything.

"M-my .... name is Luna ....." She quietly said.

"Luna?" Twilight said, but then she smiled more. "This is Scootaloo!"

"I know ... She ... told me." Luna said, blinking sadly. Twilight tilted her head, she was curious.

"You can talk to Pokémon?" Twilight asked, Luna merely nodded, like she didn't have a mouth.

"I can understand them." She whispered. "You can't hear them?" Twilight shook her head.

"Oh" Luna said. "Why are you here?"

"I was told to come here .. By .. I think it was Nightmare Moon? I dunno what's her name." Twilight mumbled, Luna flinched at the sound of that name. "She's starting to scare me."

Luna hesitated in answering, she shook her head slowly. "She's ...m ...er .." She mumbled.

"You're talking so low I could barely hear you." Twilight said, then suddenly the door opened. Two women entered, closing the door behind them. They smiled over at the children, holding a basket. Twilight looked curiously at them and smiled back. "Oh, Hi!"

"Hello, you must be Twilight. I see you've already met Princess Luna Star! I am Celestia." One of them exclaimed, she had long flowing blue, green and pink main and tail, her eyes were purple like twilights but lighter in colour, she hade a white fur colour and her cutie mark was that of the a golden sun. She wore a long purple dress with gold strings tied to it. 

"My name is Cadence" The other one replied, she had long pink, purple and cream main and tail, she also hade purple eyes and they where the same as her eyes in colour. She was light pink in fur colour and her cutie mark was a crystal hart with gold swirls on either side of it. Her purple dress was the same as the other mare's, however, she had a pink sash around her chest and dangling from the sides. Twilight noticed that they where both Alicorn and she knew there was not many of them around now because of the Great Pony War 1000 years ago.

"Princess ... Luna .... Star?" Twilight asked, looking over at Luna. Then looked back at the two mares.

"Yes, She's the Princess of this Castle." Celestia exclaimed. "But my you are a pretty one! She's very lucky to have you with her ..." Celestia stopped talking, realizing Luna's face were filled with tears.

"Oh dear, has she been crying now? Luna, what have we told you?" Cadence almost mumbled. Luna looked down sadly, then she wiped away her tears, her face looking that of a Stunfisk. "Luna, You mustn't cry if you're afraid of Twilight abusing Pokémon, don't be. You, and Twilight both like Pokémon. Right, Twilight?"

Twilight nodded happily. "Look at the bond I have with Scootaloo!" Luna looked over, and saw the little Pidove really happy. Luna blinked, looking in it's eyes."

"Just think of her as you do with us, you shall come to understand Twilight as you come to be with her for the time being." Cadence finished.

"Say what?" Twilight asked.

"Oh, forgive me. They haven't told you yet. You, and your mother are going to be staying here." Celestia exclaimed.

"Forever?" Twilight exclaimed. They both nodded, a sad smile on their faces.

"We're not sure. We're merely awaiting Nightmare Moon's orders. Until then, you stay." Celestia said. "You may stay here to play and socialize with Luna. Even become friends!" Everything went silent, Twilight looked down at the floor sadly.

"Don't worry Twilight. We'll tell you what Nightmare Moon has in mind, and Luna's story when we're alone. Not right now, however." Cadence whispered. Twilight nodded, smiling again.

"Princess Luna looks delighted!" Cadence giggled. "How quick! She doesn't usually warm up to strangers so quickly."

"How can you even tell if she's delighted! The little filly doesn't even smile!" Twilight exclaimed. (She's slightly taller than me)

"Oh, by the way are any of you two hungry?" Celestia asked. She held a basket in her gold magic but of what?

"Urr, Just a little bit." Twilight admitted. Luna only blinked.

Celestia held the basket over to Cadence, and she reached in with her blue magic and grabbed two berries, handing the Oran berries over to them.

"This is all we can give you. Eat up!" Cadence said. Luna took the Oran Berries and was now biting on one. Twilight took hers with a smile and began to eat too, but not as wildly as Luna was. It's like she thought somepony was going to take it from her! But didn't all fillies and colts eat dirtily anyway? Twilight ate her Oran berry neatly, so as not to make a big mess. Cadence and Celestia smiled down at them widely, they were just so adorable.

She glanced over at Luna who now had a mess around he cheeks, and her hooves were slightly wet too. Twilight thought she would need some help, she took out a napkin from her pocket and dusted it. Luna's mouth filled with food, her cheeks were puffed. She flinched slightly, looking over curiously at her, wondering what she was going to do. She cleaned her face with the napkin in her hooves. "Sorry, couldn't help myself."

Luna just started at her, before looking down at the left over Oran berries she had. She looked cute, for some reason. Twilight smiled when she went over to try and bite his Oran berry, but couldn't because his mouth was filled. "Whoa! Slow down Luna! Nobody will take it from you!" She complied, and chewed on the one she had in her mouth, her nose twitched a little bit. She swallowed and took a bite of another one. Twilight smiled, finishing hers. Then she took another one, having one Oran Berry left. Luna was almost done, however, she left two for some reason.

"You're not going to eat it?" Twilight asked.

"It's for my friends!" She exclaimed. Twilight nodded, but then she started staring, which got Twilight a little uncomfortable. She saw Luna was eying her Oran berries, while Celestia, and Cadence watched at their antics. They smiled down upon them, thinking they were just adorable together.

"You want mine?" Twilight asked, she took her Oran Berry and held it out to Luna. Luna glanced over, her eyes shined a little bit.

"For me?" Luna asked.

"Of course for you! You look hungrier than an Emboar!" Twilight said, Luna head turned to the Goddesses (Celestia and Cadence). They smiled even more, and motioned for her to take it. She turned back to Twilight who looked happier than the Goddesses.

"You're not hungry?" Luna asked.

"No, no! Go on, take it." Twilight handed the Oran Berry, placing it softly down on Luna's hooves. Luna blinked down at it, and her mouth was twitching weirdly. She bared her teeth down at the Oran berry. "Urr, What's wrong?" She continued twitching, what was he trying to Oh! Maybe she was trying to smile? "Are you trying to smile?"

"Uh huh!" She exclaimed, a sad frown on her face.

"You're doing it wrong." Twilight replied. "Are you forcing it?"

"I know how to smile!" She said childishly.

"Then why does it look so twisted?" Twilight countered.

"Well, because that's how I smile." Luna said, her frown growing.

"That's not a smile, that's a smirk, which is completely different from a smile!" Twilight said.

"Yes it is!"

"Children"

"Nuh uh!"

"Yeah!"

"Luna, Twilight"

"No!"

"Uh huh!"

"Oh god! No it isn't!" Twilight said.

"Yes it is!" She exclaimed, at this point, Scootaloo was looking at them with wide eyes. Dearie me, she was in a pickle.

"ENOUGH!" They both yelled, getting the attention of both children. They both huffed, suddenly frowning.

"Quit being stubborn, that is NOT a smile, and even if it was, you need to work on it! Look. This is a smile." Twilight continued, smiling brightly, before returning to a frown. Luna merely stared with a frown on her face, she didn't want to admit it. Twilight crawled over to Luna and sat next to her. She used her hooves to adjust Luna's mouth, and it was a smile. "There you go! Doesn't she look better with a smile on her face?" Twilight asked the Goddesses. Luna couldn't hold it there however, and it returned to it's same posture from before. "Aww, Oh well I tried, didn't I?" The two mares giggled. They've never witnessed this before. The goddesses had left them a few minutes after, they had to be somewhere, and now Twilight and Luna were left alone again. "So, Luna, what do you wanna do?"

"Want to play with us?" Luna asked.

"Us?" Twilight said.

"They should be here by" She was interrupted when a door was opened, and one of those grunts had a Pokémon with it. It was a Deerling, and then a Zorua and a Woobat right next to the grunt. The grunt pushed them all in, and closed the door shut. Twilight blinked as the Zorua and the Woobat quickly went over to Luna and began nipping at her playfully. "My friends!" The Deerling looked frightened, it looked around the room, shaking like a leaf. It was a Winter Deerling, Twilight didn't think she would see one in front of her. And she approached it slowly, it backed away slightly, but Twilight held her hoof out. The little Deerling sniffed her hoof, and walked slowly closer to her. Until it connected it's little snout with Twilight's hoof.

"It's OK! We're not going to hurt you. We're your friends." Twilight said. The little Deerling relaxed visibly, and then gazed down at the rest of the Pokémon and told her it was alright. The little Deerling squeaked a little bit, but lowered it's ears.

"You were abandoned?" Luna asked. Suddenly, it started making sounds as if it was having a conversation. Luna visibly tensed, "You were abused? Why?" It started talking again, but Twilight couldn't understand. "Oh, because they said you were weak? You're not weak!"

"Yeah, don't let nobody tell you otherwise but, who would do something like that It's just unheard of." Twilight said. The Deerling nodded, agreeing with her. Luna sighed sadly, the Pokémon lay itself in between Twilight and Luna, Scootaloo was on Twilight's back, Woobat was on the ground near Luna, and Zorua lay on Luna's back all cuddled up and warm. Twilight pet the Deerling on it's head and then on it's back.

"I don't like Pokémon trainers!!" Luna suddenly said.

"Why not?" Twilight asked.

"These are the things that get me so ... so!" Luna started, but didn't know the word.

"Angry I know what you mean. But not ALL trainers are like that!" Twilight said.

"I hate it! My friends tell me, Pokémon Trainers are bad, and selfish, that they don't care for Pokémon and only use them for their entertainment!" Luna growled, her hooves stomping on the ground. "I hate them for treating my friends like that! I HATE THEM!"

Twilight was speechless, she didn't know how to calm Luna down. She bit her lip slightly, merely caressing the abused Deerling. "So you can speak to Pokémon? How?" Twilight said again. Luna looked up at her, and suddenly forgetting all her anger.

"Mmhm! I can hear them! They can talk to me, and I can talk to them." She said. "I was raised with Pokémon."

"Wow! That's nice!" Twilight said. She looked down at Scootaloo, and then placed a hoof on her chin. "I found this little girl hurt in a forest, but I brought her to a Pokémon Center to get her all patched up. And Voila!"

"Is it true?" Luna asked the little Pidove, she merely chirped, a smile on her face. Luna was surprised, she never expected to hear something so absurd from it. "You mean you like being with her?" She nodded again, chirping louder. Twilight tilted her head in confusion, she was curious as to what they were saying.

"Hey! I wanna talk with Scootaloo. Wait give me a second." Twilight exclaimed. Twilight and Scootaloo eyed each other, noticing she wasn't getting anything, she gave up.

Luna giggled a little bit. This was the first time Twilight heard her laugh. "No, silly! You can't speak with Pokémon by staring at them."

"You make it seem so easy, I wasn't raised with Pokémon like you were." Twilight said. Scootaloo chirped over at Luna, who spoke to her.

"Oh I guess she's very nice!" Luna replied with a nod. Scootaloo chirped more, while Luna was nodding. Twilight was SERIOUSLY curious. Scootaloo chirped once more, this time, as did the Woobat, then receiving a reaction Twilight didn't think she would ever see. Her face was slightly shocked, and a slight blush adorned her cheeks. "W-what? W-what do you mean, 'like two Alomomola?'" This time, it was Twilight's turn to blush.

"Scootaloo" Twilight said, the little pigeon laughed out loud. The Deerling rubbed it's head against Luna, and then Twilight, smiling at both of them. "Oh, I see you took a liking to us, Huh?"

"Eee! Dee!" It said, nodding happily. Luna and Twilight spent the rest of the day playing with the Pokémon, having fun, had dinner, and then played some more. By the end of the day, a grunt came by the room, going over to pick up Twilight and call it a day. But the two children were already down for the count. They all lay close to each other on the floor of Luna's toy room, Luna used Twilight's long mane as a pillow, and Twilight used Luna's. They were sprawled across the floor, and the lights were on. The Woobat, and Zorua were there near Luna giving her warmth. While for Scootaloo and the little Deerling were laying close to Twilight, both of them cuddling against her. The view looked pleasant to the naked eye, many that would barge in would have taken a picture at the sight. The Grunt smiled softly, tip toeing as to not wake them up from their slumber, where in the corner there was a large blanket fit for two. He grabbed the blanket and draped it over them, and silently walked out. He turned off the lights, and closed the doors, leaving the room pitch black, If it weren't for the light seeping through the doors. Twilight yawned in her sleep, rubbing her head against the soft hair of Luna's mane. She woke up silently, but then she closed her eyes again, smiling slightly.

"Goodnight Luna" Twilight whispered.

They slept there through the night, and oddly coming closer together.