Selena laid on the cloud with both hooves on her chin. King Sombra continued his tale. "The insect-like ponies dragged the advisers away, and Arnaldo calmed Queen Calla down. But then the bundle began to make snuffling noises. Arnaldo glanced at the bundle.
Queen Calla looked sheepish. "Oops." I glanced at her. "Oops?" The snuffling turned into the unhappy wails of an infant filly.
King Alaric looked at the bundle, puzzled. Arnaldo drew back the covers of the bundle.
A light mint green Pegasus filly with a strawberry pink colored mane was wailing in distress. Queen Calla looked at her sheepishly. "I kinda woke up the filly, huh?"
Arnaldo tried to calm her down, but failed. King Alaric's face softened slightly at the sound of the crying.
He took the filly tenderly, and rocked her. The filly calmed, and looked at King Alaric. She burbled, and outstretched a hoof in his direction. King Alaric looked at her with a gentle smile. He spoke.
"All the advisors that were against Arnaldo are now captured, and imprisoned. Arnaldo is safe. My side of the deal is fulfilled. Will you fulfill yours?" Queen Calla nodded.
"In the Crystal Empire, there is an island called Mafrica more towards the warm south. There is a large system of caves in Mafrica. The natives there would be more than happy for you to live there.
There are resources for you to gather, and no monsters have been reported to be there." King Alaric raised his eyebrows in surprise. "They would not mind our presence?" Queen Calla shook her head. "They have a god, that looks almost exactly like your kind.
I am most certain that they would, according to their customs, allow you there."
King Alaric nodded, satisfied. Arnaldo looked at the filly. "As you see, that filly is the one that we chose for you to have. According to the deal." I looked at her.
The filly was a happy one. Hearing Queen Calla scream at the top of her lungs would startle any one. "Where did she come from?" I asked, stroking the filly's soft mane. Queen Calla's face hardened.
"She was found on the doorstep of a noble. She is in perfect health, and is a bright child. No one could figure out why she had been abandoned." I sigh, and caressed her cheek. The filly's skin was still baby soft.
"Ponies will abandon anything that is different. Pegasus are very uncommon here. The parent must of thought that she was cursed." I could feel the griffon's wound on my eye. The phantom pain that haunted the wound.
"Just like my eyes." I mutter. King Alaric looked at me. I'm certain that the king understood my plight. He looked at Queen Calla.
"What is her name?" Queen Calla looked at the filly. "Bernice. It means strong." Selena jumped as a loud bang from below startled her.
A wagon on the ground below had tipped over from a broken wheel. The owner went down and looked at the wheel. Then she tossed her hat on the ground. “Apple Bloom!” A voice cried out.
“What have I told you about playing with the wagon?! Argh, and on the night we were supposed to pack for Canterlot too.” Grumbling ensued as the owner of the voice began to pack up the apples that had fallen off the cart.
Selena felt pretty much like snickering. King Sombra glanced at the pony, then continued. Three months after that meeting, I received a letter from the Bat Ponies.
It was an invitation to learn to use a magic called shadow magic. " Selena's eyebrows raised. "Shadow magic?" King Sombra smiled. "It's a type of magic that is a tool, and a weapon.
Unlike other magic, you don't need a horn to cast it. Which is why the Bat Ponies were able to use it. I accepted and learned how to by your father." Selena stiffened. "What was he like?"
King Sombra smiled. "He was long of the Bat Ponies. Basically their alicorn. He had a horn, but also the wings of a Bat. Your mother met him after she got caught in one of his spells."
King Sombra chuckled. "What a day that was. I was in the middle of learning how to use the magic with your father's help, when she flew right in the spell without even seeing it. Since she did not have the wings of a Bat, she fell straight to the ground. What a sight that was."
King Sombra's smile grew. "It was how she met the Bat Ponies. Became devoted to their side, married him, got pregnant with you... The rest is history." Selena cocked her head at him.
"What happened to my father?" King Sombra frowned. "I don't know. Before your mother was banished, I had a reawakening. I don't remember much of the details, but I can recall a nightmare where it was shown to me Princess Celestia's crimes.
I used shadow magic to fight against her, and ended up on the moon. Then a year after, she showed up." Selena chewed on her lip in thought.
"Why do you call them, Bat Ponies? Back when we were on the moon, we called them, Lunar Ponies."
King Sombra nodded. "Good point. Before your mother." Here King Sombra paused, and looked down. Selena felt her stomach clench.
"My late mother." She thought bitterly. King Sombra cleared his throat and continued. "Was sent to the moon, the Bat Ponies had chosen to be named the Lunar Ponies after her in honor for her protection. Nowadays, that is no longer the case."
Selena nodded. Feeling tears threatening to spill spill from the edge of her cheeks, she roughly drew a hoof across her face. King Sombra looked at her sorrowfully. He settled next to her on the cloud, and stretched a warm hoof onto her back. Selena leaned on his warm back, and cried into his mane.
No matter how long it had been, she still felt the hole in her heart. King Sombra's hoof stroked her back. He felt tears threatening to spill from his eyes as well. He glanced at the moon. "Don't worry, Nightmare moon.
You shall have your revenge."