My Zodiac

by xd77


Chapter 1: Finding Zodiac

It was a beautiful fine evening for Princess Celestia as she strolled down by the rivers that flew at the bottom of the waterfalls that spewed out of the edges of Canterlot and flowed off into the horizons of Equestria and beyond. The river was nice and smooth flowing, her sister had raised a beautiful night sky with the moon in view, and the wind blew a smooth breeze on her sparkly colorful flowing mane, but what she didn't know was that this night was fixing to turn from beautiful to shocking. As she continued to walk down by the river, she heard a strange sound, a sound that nopony would ever hear at night. Celestia opened her ears wider and followed to where the sound was coming from, some brush in the thicket that was to her right side while the river flowed on the left.

"What could cause such a sound?" she asked as she followed the sound closer towards the brush, once she was in front of it, she glowed her horn, pushed it aside, and continued digging through the brush until a brown colored object at the bottom of the bushes caught her eye. At the bottom stood a brown basket with a red blanket and something underneath the blanket was squirming and even crying loud. This is wht the strange sound was that she heard while she was walking by the river, Celestia lifted the red blanket off the top and what it revealed underneath made her gasp in surprise.

"Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed, inside the basket lay a small blue Pegasus colt with wings that looked liked they hadn't been preened in over 30 years. His mane and tail were black and ruffled up, and lastly the basket that he was lying in was soggy and covered in mud, the baby colt was lonely, hungry, and hurt inside and out. Celestia looked up and wondered if there was any clue or information about this colt that she had just encountered, but a sudden feeling of the fact that this colt's parents were nowhere to be found and that he was all alone soon got to her heart, she then looked down at the scared and crying colt, levitated him with her magic and gently held him in her hoof.

"Shhh, it's going to be okay little one." she said while the colt continued to cry.

"Shhh, do not cry, I'm here." she said still soothing, after nearly a few second of rocking him, the baby managed to seduce to a small whimper, he then looked up at Celestia's beautiful, smiling face and touched her snout with his cute little forehooves, managing in her getting a little mud on her nose, but she didn't really care as her mind was focused on this colt that had suddenly come into contact with her view and later her life.

"What might your name be dear one?" she asked looking down at the colt again. She walked back over to the basket that he had been lying in to see if there was any information, but as she searched and searched, there was no sign of a written paper or note anywhere to be found. That meant that this cute little bundle of joy didn't even have a name. She then looked once again back down at the little baby colt, who was still shaking from the cold non-stop breezes that were blowing constantly through the trees. Celestia couldn't bare to even sit out here and even watch this poor thing freeze out here nor see it being all alone.

"What pony would be so cruel enough to just leave an innocent child out here all alone?" she asked, looking down at the baby colt again, she smiled down and nuzzled him, calming the colt down just enough. The little colt could soon feel a sense that this pony that was holding him and smiling down on him had even no intention of harming him, so he reached a hoof up to Celestia's snout and rubbed it, making her giggle.

"You're just the cutest widdle thing!" she cooed, kissing him. She then levitated him onto her back and wrapped the red blanket that he had been bundled under earlier and covered him up to keep him warm.

"Come on dear, let's head back to my castle and get you cleaned up, you shouldn't be out here by yourself." she said walking out of the thicket and back onto the route that she had used when she left for her evening walk.


It was nearly half past 9:00, the guards that were working the graveyard shift were pacing through the hallways worried about Celestia, she had been gone for nearly four hours, it had never taken her this long to even do just a simple nightly thing for her to do, not even a simple walk by the river because she only did these things for about 30 to 40 minutes.

"Geez, Celestia has never been this long on her evening walks before." one guard said.

"Surely she'd be back by now." another guard said.

"I just hope nothing bad has happened."

Suddenly they heard hoofsteps approaching them from the far end of the hallway that they were patrolling and guarding, they saw a familiar looking shadow getting bigger on the wall when the shadow that the moonlight was reflecting on came into full view, it was Celestia, the three guards sighed with relief.

"Ah, your highness." one guard said bowing to her before the other guards did, Celestia looked at them. The guards then rose back up.

"We were worried that something happened."

Celestia chuckled, "Well, I guess I did go a little......off course." she said, turning to her side and showing them the still sleeping baby Pegasus colt that she had found earlier, the guards were surprised.

"Where did you find this little lad?" a guard asked.

"Shh, don't scare him." Celestia warned, looking at the baby.

"Sorry, your highness."

"I found this poor thing in the forest by the river outside Canterlot, his parents were nowhere to be found, I think he's an orphaned child."

The guards gasped at this.

"Now, return to your duties, I need to go and give this poor baby a bath and get it to sleep."

"Yes, your majesty." they said walking away while Celestia trotted off to her chambers with the baby colt.

"Say, since Princess Celestia found that child all alone, should Princess Luna be notified?" one guard asked.

"As a matter of fact, yes." another answered.

"Let's go and inform Princess Luna about this." the third said as they departed to the direction of Luna's area of the castle.

Meanwhile, In Celestia's Chambers.....

Celestia was in her bathroom using her aura from the magic that glowed on her horn to turn on the water in the bathtub to at about right room temperature, the baby colt was now in pure nude as he excitedly saw the water running and giggled like any other baby would, Celestia smiled and levitated him gently into the warm foamy bubble water and started cleaning all the mud and twigs on him off his body. As she was bathing him, she heard a knock on her bedroom door outside the bathroom, she let out a small sigh.

"I'll be right back sweetie." she said leaving him to waddle in the bath water, she then went outside the bathroom and towards her closed bedroom door, she opened and there stood Luna with a worried expression.

"Oh hi sister." she said, "What brings you to my side of the castle?"

"Well your guards had informed me that you found a baby all alone out in the forests outside Canterlot, is it true?" she asked walking inside the room.

"Well, yes, he's in the bathroom right now, I was giving him a bath when I heard you knock."

Luna was confused, "Sister, I had never thought you would ever encounter such a thing, I..." she was about to say until she approached the bathroom and soon saw the cute little colt for herself, when she saw the colt, she was in awe and started stroking his shampoo covered mane.

"Who's a cute widdle baby!" she cooed, making the baby giggle.

"Sister, he really is cute, but where are his parents, they must be worried sick."

That's when the sudden shock of the way she found him soon came back to her head, Celestia lowered her head, Luna could quickly sense something was wrong.

"Sister, are you okay?" she asked, suddenly she saw a tear going down her face, Luna walked up to her and rubbed her cheek with a hoof.

"Tia, something tells me that you found him in a way he shouldn't have been."

"You are told correct, Luna, I'm afraid his parents are nowhere to be found, because when I found him, he was crying and all alone in a cold basket, I don't know who put him there, or how he got there, but my intuition tells me he's an orphaned baby."

Luna gasped in shock at hearing this, "Sister, I had no idea." she said looking back at the baby who was still covered in soap and bath water.

"Well, I'll just leave you two together for about an hour, when you're done with his bath and he's cleaned and dried, come over to my room and we'll talk over this."

Celestia leaned overand kissed Luna on her head, "Thank you sister."

Luna then left the room to return to her side of the castle to wait for the arrival of Celestia when she was done, meanwhile, Celestia returned to cleaning up this little colt. Pretty soon than she had started, the baby was now all clean and ready to be dried off, Celestia levitated a couple of towels off the wrack that hanged on the door and then levitated the baby over towards them and started drying him off, she then wrapped him up in one of the towels and levitated him back onto her back, lastly, she drained the bath water and then exited the room for departure to her sister.

As Celestia walked through the corridors of the castle, she looked on her back and saw that the baby had fallen asleep, she smiled and saw that he was quickly taking a strong liking to her and since he was all alone when she found him, thoughts on adopting him as her son soon came to her heart because she was too starting to develop a bond with him as well.

Later......

Luna was sitting in her bedroom looking at her crescent moon shaped bed and slipped on her slippers even though she was still wearing her silver shoes while waiting for the arrival of her sister to talk about the future of this baby Pegasus colt that she (Celestia) had found earlier that evening. Just in the neck of time did she hear a knock on her bedroom door and opened it, when she did, there stood Celestia with the now sleeping Pegasus colt curled up in her hoof.

"Come in sister." Luna said stepping aside to let her in, Celestia put the baby in Luna's bed and tucked him in temporarily while Luna waited in a room where they usually had their sisterly like conversations, after Celestia had tucked him in, she then walked into their talking room and gently closed the door.

"Sister, it's still really hard for me to find out how somepony could just leave an innocent child out there all alone."

"I know, Tia, it's especially hard for me as well from the way your guards told me the way it happened, but still what are we going to do, we can't just leave him back out there, I mean all the orphanages are filled here and the foster homes are...." Luna was quickly silenced by her sister who was now smiling.

"Shh, Luna, don't worry I've got it covered, I'm going to be his mother now."

Luna gasped, "Does that mean I'm..."

"Yes, Luna, he is going to be your nephew, you're going to be his aunt, but you'll be an aunt that actually is close enough for him to play with."

Luna giggled, "Well, I guess it's time for me to turn in, I'll take the baby with me." Celestia said exiting the room and finding that the baby was fast in a deep sleep, Celestia smiled and gently put him onto her back, but not before turning around and kissing her sister good night.

"Good night Luna, sleep well, I love you." she said.

Luna hugged her and then kissed her soon-to-be nephew good night as well.

"I love you too, sister." Luna replied with a smile, Celestia then opened up the door and left to return to her side of the castle while Luna silently chanted and cheered that she was going to be an aunt.


Celestia had managed to bring the baby back to her chambers where a nice warm fire was well lit and prepared for relaxing an sleeping by, Celestia then gently put him down onto the rug that was placed in the center of her room and propped his cute little head onto the giant pillow and used her magic to poof up two blankets and bundled him up. Once she had done that, she went over to the same bathroom that she used to bath the baby, only instead, she brushed her teeth and stroked her flowing mane to where it wouldn't lose it's shine over the night.

Now Celestia had always slept with her crown, necklace, and gold shoes on, so she just plopped down onto the carpet and lay right next to the baby Pegasus colt, she could still tell that something was trouble the poor colt deep down, even though he wasn't even crying.

"There, there, sweetie, it's okay mommy's here," she said wrapping a hoof around him and pulling him up to her chest while wrapping her other hoof around him, "Mommy's got you. I promise, I will never let anything happen to you............Zodiac."