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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Twilight's little princess problem 
// by sakuralovelight 
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When the smoke finally subsided, Twilight stop coughing and began to look at where she last saw Princess Celestia.

But as soon as she did, she gasped. Instead of seeing the tall regal Princess, she saw a little Alicorn filly with a pink mane that wasn’t flowing anymore with Celestia’s Cutie Mark. So by this, Twilight could tell that this little filly that looked no older than seven years old was Princess Celestia.

The little filly was still coughing from the smoke that subsided from the explosion.

“P-Princess Celestia! Um...I don’t know if I should ask if you’re okay because I’m not sure you as a filly counts as you being okay," Twilight gulped, feeling worried.

At hearing what her faithful student just said Celestia just froze right then. Then she slowly started looking around her to see that everything seem so much bigger than she saw a few moments ago.

She slowly turns to her student, seeing that Twilight was now taller than her words made Celestia feel a little awkward about all this.

“Well other than the fact that I’m now reduced to a filly, I think I’m all right," Celestia smiled kindly even though her voice shrank. "Although I do feel a bit weaker than before.”

At this time Celestia looked at the clock and saw that was around the time when she would normally start lowering the sun and beginning to raise the moon.

So she began to charge up her horn and try to set the sun, but the sun when not budge and she got exhausted right away. “Deathly my magic got weaker," she continued. "I can’t lower the sun.”

At this everypony gasped and started to panic even though it was true that years ago before Celestia took the throne that unicorns used to raise and lower night and day. But it took a bunch of powerful unicorns to do so, and they lost the spell to do it. They couldn’t just bunch up a unicorn and activate what they don’t know anymore.

Just then Bright Mind came up to Celestia and Twilight; he thinks he knows what may have happened. “If I may Princess," he stated, "I think I may know what has happened. You see the two projects of the Time Twins, somewhat merged, and the binder spells to some extent. Past Time’s part of his project is where that crest and turned you into a filly. But I’m afraid that Future Time's project, which was meant to transfer spells, instead took the magic that you had from your grown-up age, all the way back to the age you are right now. It appears to be a seven-year-old filly and more than likely transferred it all up to your student Twilight which would explain the beam that left your body and hit her before all this smoke appeared. So I would have to assume that at the moment your student has all your magic and is the only one who can reason lower the sun and moon until we fix this mess.”

As soon as Bright Mind finished his statement, everypony was staring at Twilight which made her very nervous.

She was about to have a panic attack until Princess Celestia places a hoof on Twilight's foreleg. Twilight looked down toward Celestia and saw Celestia giving her a reassuring smile, “It’s all right, Twilight. Unlike the spell that takes multiple unicorns to raise and lower the sun and moon, my magic normally makes it a lot easier. Just think of the sun as a toy ball that somehow naturally floats on its own over a table. You just have to get the ball to go from one side of the table to the other side of the table, then for the moon to do it at it revert pulled the moon out of the out of under the table and place into the sky. There's no need to worry.”

After Celestia said all this, Twilight just nodded her head and concentrated on her magic. Her horn aimed towards the sun from a window and the sun set slowly. Then, she used her magic again to bring forth the moon. Twilight was shocked that she was able to do this, but then she noticed that the stars were still missing. “Um...Princess, not that lowering the sun and rising the moon was such an honor and was very interesting for me to do so; but why aren’t the stars out with the moon?”

As soon as Twilight said that, Celestia realize that she forgot about the stars herself and began to giggle at that, “Well, when it comes to the stars, they work a little bit differently. All you need to do is tell your magic to bring out the stars while thinking about the stars and constellations and imagine where they should be. Imagine the night sky as a canvas and you’re doing a portrait. You already painted the moon, but you just need to bring forth the night. Now, I know you’re into astronomy, because ever since you became my student I have caught you in the astronomy tower stargazing, and I had to literally, drag you off to bed at times. And I also know you make notes about it with such details so this should be just fine if you imagine it’s like that but on the real night sky okay?”

After hearing what Princess Celestia had told her, she nodded and began to focus her magic once more. She imagines the night sky of every star every constellation nebula, and everything else she knew about the night. Then she let it out and the stars appeared in the night sky. After this Twilight smiled, “I can’t believe it! I did it! I really~ did it!”

Celestia just smiled at her student beaming with pride. (Twilight is natural at this. I remember when I tried to replicate Luna’s night. It took me at least 10 years to start getting a hang of it.)

Just then Celestia’s eyes widened at the sudden realization. (LUNA!!! OH NO!!! The 1000 Summer’s Sun Celebration is this summer! The very summer solstice where Nightmare Moon will be set free. What am I going to do?! What will my sister do when she sees me as a FILLY?! Okay, Celestia, calm down. We're not even close to summer. It's December, and it's not even Heartwarming yet. I just need to get this fixed before summer comes.)

But before Celestia could think some more, Royal Guards came rushing into the room even though they were too late to help.

Soon, after most of the guards came in, Twilight's B.B.B.F.F. (Big Brother Best Friend Forever), Captain Shining Armor came galloping in. “Is everything all right in here?" He asked anxiously, hoping Twilight wasn't hurt nor the crowd and Princess. "We saw the explosion. By the time we got into the school, a lot of other magic inventions projects were going off. It took us forever to get up here. And…Why is Princess Celestia a little filly?”

Celestia looked shocked at Shining Armor. She was surprised that he with able to tell right away that she was now a filly. But soon after she composed herself, she started walking towards Shining Armor. “Captain Armor we seem to have had a little magical mishap here." 

Celestia said, trying her best to sound stern. But sadly a filly is never serious, that she had heard. "I think from now on, we will only have the students who are around Twilight's age to mix technologies with magic exams instead of young fillies and colts. And as much as I would love to tell you in more detail what has happened, I would think it would be best if we inform the magic counsel and my niece, Princess Cadance, to know about the situation as well. I would like to only bring this up once. Twilight, come along; you are needed for this meeting as well.”

The two siblings looked at each other, then back to Princess Celestia, then back to each other again. They both agree to follow her, but before they left, Shining Armor ordered half of his guards to get the information about what has happened in the examination room and ordered the other half of his guards in that room to go get the Council and Princess Cadance.

Soon after that was done Shining, Twilight and Celestia started heading off to the Royals' throne room.