Chapter 6: Severe Repercussions
Auntie Celeste and I walked to her carriage, which was parked near the back of the school, which was where I was when she caught me.
Coincidence is a bitch.
I didn’t say, or rather, I wasn’t able to say another word to Rarity or Octavia before Celeste left with me in tow. Once we got to the carriage, she made me go in before her, and I sat down without saying a word.
The ride to the castle was dead silent. I tried not to look at Auntie Celeste for the whole trip, but I could feel her gaze piercing through me, and it made me shift in my seat uncomfortably. I dared to look up at her for just a second, but I looked back down when I saw the expression of sheer anger on her face.
I was SO gonna get it.
When we got back to the castle, the guards stepped back and let us in. I saw the looks of fear on their faces. They didn’t say a word as Celeste and I entered the castle. She walked in front of me, and I knew that I was to follow her, wherever she was taking me.
It turned out that she was taking me to her room. She opened the door with her magic and looked at me.
“In,” she said coldly.
I nervously walked into the room and took a seat in a nearby chair. I looked to my left, and saw that the fireplace was lit. The dim lighting from the fire made the atmosphere more tense and scary than it already had been.
Celeste walked over to the fireplace and stared into it for a moment. This was my chance to get myself together. I may be scared, but I can at least stand my ground. Despite the fact that I did break her trust, and while I was ready to take any punishment that I was going to get, I still believed that I was in the right. I still believed that she should’ve let me go to that party in the first place.
I steeled myself and prepared for my tongue lashing.
“I cannot believe that you deliberately disobeyed me, Marcus” Celeste said, her back still turned towards me. “I thought you knew better than that… To go behind my back like this… I’m incredibly disappointed.”
I said nothing.
“And to think that Luna helped you, too,” she continued. “All this effort just to go some ridiculous party.” Auntie Celeste then turned to face me for the first time since we got home. “So what do you have to say for yourself?”
I already knew the responses she expected.
“I’m sorry.”
“I shouldn’t have done that.”
“I’ll never do it again.”
She wasn’t getting any of that from me.
“I don’t have anything to say,” I told her calmly.
She narrowed her eyes at me. “Nothing at all, huh? So you’re not even the least bit sorry for breaking my trust and going to that party?”
“I never said that I wasn't sorry for breaking your trust,” I explained, “but I’m not sorry for going to the party.”
“And why is that?” Celeste asked. I could feel her frustration rising with every word.
I took a deep breath and stood up, looking her dead in the face. “Because I should’ve been allowed to go in the first place.” I then proceeded to explain myself to her in the calmest way possible.
“Auntie Celeste, I’m seventeen years old. I know how to act at a party. I don’t go to parties to smoke and drink alcohol. I go to parties so I can spend time with my friends. It’s like you don’t trust me to take care of myself.”
“I told you before that that wasn’t the case.”
“Then what IS the case!?” I ask agitatedly, forgetting to-
“Watch your tone with me, Marcus!” Celeste said threateningly.
I took a moment to compose myself before speaking, but then she continued.
“You think you’re grown, but you’re not! I’ve lived several of your lifetimes and I’ve seen things that you’ve never seen. I know what’s out there, and I know what’s best for you. When I tell you that you can’t go somewhere, it’s because I’m trying to protect you!”
You know what? Fuck it. I needed to speak my mind.
“Protect me from what!?” I ask angrily. “It was a friggin’ college party!”
“I told you to watch your tone with me, Marcus. And I don’t appreciate that language, either.”
“Well, if you just let me go to the party instead of locking me up in the castle all night and treating me like a damn baby, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation!”
It was then that I felt it. You could call it guy’s intuition, or some sort of sixth sense, but whatever it was, it didn’t change the fact that I sensed it.
Celeste’s last nerve had snapped.
“Alright… that is IT!!!” she yelled, her voice causing the room to shake. Her horn lit up and emitted a shockwave that almost knocked me over, and the flames in the fireplace flared up violently. When I recovered, though, I looked up and saw that Celeste was airborne, staring down at me with glowing white eyes.
“I’VE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF THIS!” she yelled in a voice I’ve never heard before. It sounded like her normal voice on top of a deeper, more distorted voice.
“I AM YOUR AUNT AND YOU WILL SHOW ME RESPECT! YOU THINK YOU’RE BEING LOCKED UP IN THE CASTLE, WELL I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT THAT’S REALLY LIKE! I’M KEEPING YOU UNDER LOCK AND KEY FOR THE NEXT MONTH! YOU’RE GOING TO COME STRAIGHT HOME AFTER CLASS EVERY DAY, AND YOU AREN’T TO STEP FOOT OUT OF THIS CASTLE FOR ANY OTHER REASON! STEP OUT OF LINE EVEN ONCE, AND I’LL KNOW!”
I opened my mouth in a pathetic attempt to object, but I was quickly interrupted.
“DON’T EVEN TRY TO SAY ANYTHING! YOU’RE LUCKY THAT I WAS GENEROUS ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU A MONTH AND NOT A YEAR. NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM, ORION!!!”
I blinked. “What did you call me?” I asked in confusion.
Realizing what she had just said, Celeste snapped out of her goddess-like rage trance and lowered herself to the floor slowly. She had a look of… fear? Hesitation? Uncertainty? The look was hard to read, but I could tell that something was on her mind. However, she simply shook it off and turned her back to me. “Just go to your room,” she said coldly.
Knowing that there was nothing more I could do, I left her room and slowly walked towards mine. As I walked, I noticed some of the guards looking at me fearfully. They must have heard when Celeste was screaming at me. Their constant stares quickly started to annoy me. “WHAT!?” I yelled, and they quickly looked away. I grunted and continued on to my room, which was now guarded, and slammed the door behind me once I entered. After changing into my sleeping clothes, I angrily got into my bed.
This was such BULLSHIT! Why did Celeste have to treat me like such a little kid!? I tried to wrap my head around why she would do that, but it only made me angrier!
But then I remembered the last thing she said when she was yelling at me. She called me by a name I’d never heard before. What was it… Orion?
Just then, I heard two thudding sounds from just outside my room. “What the hell was that?” I thought as I walked to the double doors. Before I got to it, though, the doors opened on their own, then closed two seconds later.
“What the-”
“Relax. It’s just me,” a voice said.
“Luna?”
“Who else,” she said as she suddenly appeared right in front of me. “I had to use an invisibility spell to get here undetected.”
“And I’m assuming those loud thuds were the guards falling to the ground.”
“Quite perceptive, aren’t you?”
“You didn’t knock them out, did you?” I asked worriedly.
Luna scoffed. “I would never take such barbaric measures,” she said defensively. “Not anymore, at least. I simply lulled them to sleep with a spell.”
“Why go through all this trouble just to see me?” I asked.
“Why do you think?” she answered with an incredulous look. “Celestia, of course. I got quite the reprimanding from her when she found out that I helped you sneak out, and she told me to stay away from you while you’re grounded. She said that I was being a ‘bad influence’ on you.”
“I guess we both got busted, huh?” I sighed.
“I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to keep Tia from finding out,” Luna apologized. “She would have been completely in the dark had it not been for one minor oversight.”
“It’s okay,” I assured her. “Wait a sec… What minor oversight?”
Luna put her fingers to her forehead and sighed. “Blueblood. He saw us leave the castle from his room.”
I twitched the moment I heard his name. That stuck-up little prick snitched on me! I would have to teach him a lesson later.
You know what they say: snitches get stitches.
“I can’t believe it!” I exclaim, trying not to be too loud. “This plan would have gone without a hitch if that jackass hadn’t gotten in the way! Now the both of us are in trouble.”
“Yes, but you more so than me,” Luna lamented. “I could hear Tia using the Royal Canterlot Voice on you. You weren’t too scared were you?”
“I didn’t cry, if that’s what you meant.”
“That’s rare. Most ponies end up drowning in a pool of their own tears when Celestia uses the Voice on them. Then again, the instance of her using the Voice at all is rare in and of itself.”
“Did she use the Voice on you when she found you out,” I asked.
Luna shook her head. “No. What had happened was… You know what? Why don’t I just show you?”
“You can do that?”
“Sure. Just hold still,” Luna said as she took her hands and held my shoulders to keep me from moving. She then focused some magic into her horn and rested it on my forehead. The next thing I felt was my mind going blank; as if every thought was being washed away to make room for what was to come. Before I knew it, I was standing in Luna’s room, watching her being confronted by Auntie Celeste.
“Luna,” she said to her little sister, “where is Marcus?”
“In his room, sleeping, like I told you the last time you asked,” Luna answered sarcastically.
“That’s interesting,” the older princess said, “because Blueblood told me that he saw Marcus flying out of his bedroom window towards the school.”
“You do realize how ridiculous that sounds, right?”
“Of course, but then Blueblood mentioned that you were flying with him, and that you were using a spell to carry him with you. Sounds a lot less ridiculous, doesn’t it?”
“That may be so, but you’re forgetting that you saw Marcus in his room sleeping not ten minutes ago. I was there with you when you checked.”
“I know, but after Blueblood told me what he saw, I checked again and saw that it wasn’t Marcus sleeping in his bed, but a mere illusion spell meant to fool me.”
Luna cursed under her breath at the realization that she had been found out.
“You’d think that I could trust my sister not to go behind my back,” said Celeste.
“What was I supposed to do?” Luna asked.
“Mind your own business, for one,” her elder sister retorted. “Raising Marcus is my responsibility, and my word is final. I don’t need you being a bad influence on him.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Raise him? He’s seventeen! He’ll be grown in less than a year. If anything, you’re merely taking care of him.”
“Regardless of his age, I’m still his aunt, and he needs to get over his problem with authority.”
Luna scoffed. “If there’s anyone with a problem that they need to get over, it’s you. You keep treating him like a baby when he’s almost an adult. Did it ever occur to you that the more you try, the more you’ll push him away?”
“Luna, I’m warning you, don’t push me!” Celeste threatened. “I don’t want you near Marcus for a month, got it?”
“See? This is exactly what I’m talking about. You have this incessant need to control everything. Mark my words, Marcus will end up wanting nothing to do with you.”
“That’s enough Luna!” Celeste warned. “Drop it or I’ll-”
“You’ll what? Use the Royal Canterlot Voice on me? We both know you can’t bring yourself to do that to your own sister.”
Celeste hesitated when she heard Luna say that, because she knew she was right. The elder princess merely grunted and left her sister’s room, and the memory started to fade as my mind came back to reality.
“Phew!” I said in exhaustion. “That was… something.”
“It is quite the trip the first time around,” Luna said. “Well, there you have it. That’s the lecture I got.”
“Lecture? More like an argument,” I chuckled.
“Oh hush, you,” she said as she playfully shoved me, and then she put her arm around my shoulder. “Again, I’m sorry you had to get in trouble. If it’s any consolation, I don’t think you did anything wrong. If it were up to me, you would still be at that party right now.”
“Thanks, Luna,” I said, and then I remembered something. “Oh, before you go, I’ve got something for you.”
“A present? For moi?” she asked coyly.
I chuckled and reached for my bag. I dug around a little and found what I was looking for. “Here ya go,” I said as I presented the gift to Luna.
“Ah, so this is one of those Blind Boxes I’ve been hearing so much about,” she said as she took the gift. “I wonder what little trinket is inside…”
Luna fidgeted with the box a little before getting it open, and she gasped at what was inside. I curiously peered into the box and saw that it contained a necklace with a hooded unicorn emblem engraved into it. The back said “CUFTA Pre-Nightmare Night Festival.”
“Thank you, Marcus!” she said excitedly. “This is beautiful!”
“I guess I got lucky,” I said. “You never know what you’ll get in those things. Anywho, I’ve got something else for you.”
“You shouldn’t have,” she joked.
I rolled my eyes as I pulled out a plastic bag. “Here, I got some treats for you at the festival.”
“How sweet!” she said, chuckling to herself at her pun
“Well, I won’t be able to go out on the actual Nightmare Night, and I wouldn’t want you to gobble me up.”
Luna chuckled again, only this time it was more sinister. “Well unfortunately for you, child, this meager amount treats isn’t sufficient enough to satisfy me. Looks like I will have to eat you anyway!” The princess then tackled me, and I fell backwards onto the bed. I tried pushing her off of me, and succeeded after a few minutes. While I knew that Luna was obviously holding back her strength, I still felt a sense of victory when I got her off of me.
“I should be leaving, now,” she said. “Those guards might be waking up soon.”
“Hold on, Luna,” I said. “There’s one thing that I need to ask you before you leave.”
“Yes?”
“Does the name Orion mean anything to you?” I asked.
Luna looked at me with a sad expression and shook her head “No, I don’t recognize the name.”
“Oh, okay,” I said.
Luna smiled, said goodbye, cast her invisibility spell, and left the room. I sighed and went to bed. It was minutes after midnight, and I needed some sleep.
Then again, considering the fact that I won't be able to leave the castle for any reason besides school, I’ll most likely be getting a lot of sleep.
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A new chapter right when I was about to go to bed. You evil man/woman/genderless-internet-identity.
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Yes I am. Now get reading.
celestia is being way to overprotective.
and its true. shes babying him. to much.
but hey just my opinion.
I'm waiting for the packs for GTA 5 to download to my xbox so I just decided to get on and found this update, perfect timing, also, good chapter hope to see more
I doubt there's anyone that thinks Celestia isn't overreacting.
This "Orion" guy... Whatever this name leads to is the key to this. I'll take a guess and say he's a past young friend/relative of Celestia's that she couldn't protect. And now she's overdoing it with Marcus to make up for it.
I don't want to hate Celestia (or for Marcus to hate her) after all she's done for Marcus, but...
Well, at least Marcus can keep himself occupied during this month to plot a perfect revenge scheme on Blueblood. Sucker has it coming.
Celestia's being a cunt
Interesting. As for the name, is it gonna be the name of another human that wound up in Equestria and died when she was supposed to be taking care of him? Hm...or maybe a son she once had that nopony really remembers/knew existed.
The possibilities abound. Good job with the chapter, I look forward to the next one.
Anybody know what that comment that just got deleted said?
Very interesting. Also, on a side note, why does every interaction between Luna and Marcus make me think that they're gonna get it on? Maybe I'm just deranged or something. crazypinkie.jpg
I think Celestia should be the one punishment and actually I think Marcus punishment its very severed, its just down right cruel, she is literally private him from the entire world and don't let him breath.
I'm serious Celestia should be the one that need to teach a lesson, no Marcus in fact…yeah I want Marcus to break that rule her insanity its just hurting him.
Oh and Celestia is so going to get it now, 3 kiss and 5 hugs? yeah right after what she has down she will get lucky to receive a hi. She want to play cold ok lets play cold, Celestia meet the silent treatment, lets see how much she can take with Marcus don't saying a single world to her, touch and down right ignore her in every single way possible.
Yeah that it, that its what this story need now, Marcus fight back, he showing that he is not a baby, if he need to stand his ground he better go with his A game, because Celestia has just declare war
You are so cruel i had to go to bed but then the new chapter appeared Why did you do this to me?!
anyways i think marcus shouldn't have been punished he did what every teenager does for petes sake!! 
Maybe Orion was Celestia's deceased son? I might be spouting nonsense.
Celestia was a mother?
Hmmm..
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No, I don't think so, something so big as that would have be heard no mater what, maybe Orion was the son of friends of her, very dear friends, something bad happen and their parents never forgive her so she is drown on guilt and sorrow, whatever happen must had be very very horrible
Now,from Celestia's point of view ,she's doing the right thing.It's because of maternal instincts and whatnot.Its just that Marcus is like every other teenager in the world,as he wants to be independent.They both are doing nothing wrong from each of their respective viewpoints.
Another Chapter down!
Now what do I do?
Sweet chapter
keep up the amazing work!
-Sly Moon-
Well I think that Marcus was definitely given the shaft there. Luna I could see that punishment being given due to a breach of trust, but even then that's still a little harsh. Maybe not being able to do anything together with Marcus for a time may have been a more acceptable punishment instead of absolutely no contact. As for Blueblood I think he deserves to have sweet revenge taken upon him.
Even though Celestia is being too overprotective and should have let him go to the party in the first place, I'm of the opinion that Marcus and Luna should have expected some sort of punishment if there plan went south. They both realized they were going directly against her word, wether she was in the right or wrong was irrelavent, they both willingly chose to break her trust. I want to compare it to being pulled over for going over the speed limit. Sure, it was stupid that the cop pulled you over for going 65 on a 55 road when there are literally no other cars around, but you should have realized you ran that risk when you chose to go over the limit hoping that there weren't any officers around that still needed to meet there quota for the month.
So yeah, Celestia was wrong for denying his reasonable request, and Marcus was wrong for going anyways behind her back.
Well in a way Marcus did deserve a punishment just as every teenager does when they break a rule like that. But it was cruel, also Orion or whatever, could it be possible that could have been Bluebloods dad? I mean he is Celestia's nephew. And yes she is being overprotective but i'm sure everyone can see that she does have a reason.
For some reason I thought that fight was going to go a little differently.
especially when the royal canterlot voice came out.
I thought Marcus was going to have a "choose your next words carefully" moment, or some other threatening warning.
and then he'd pull out the "I will leave you and go back home" card on her.
.....i figure something like that would be....like his ace in the hole......even if it was a bluff.
But who knows...maybe the time wasn't right
past regrets from Celestia? I mean, maybe she had a son/nephew before and messed up and ended blaming herself for it? or some other cause like past son/nephew didn't end up listening to celestia and ended up paying the price for it?
So many questions but so little answers,well I shall wait and see.
I freaking hate celestia now
Why is she so protective? Simple.
As she had not enough taken care of his younger sister 1000 years ago before she was corrupted, she feels guilty and thus decided on landing in this lack of protection by overprotecting Marcus to give her a clear conscience.
Awesome chapter, and yeah Celestia is being very well mother hen on Marcus, but
damned that Blueblood. 
... Celestia has child problems, replacing him with her son
So something happened to a youngster under Celestia's care a while ago. Son perhaps? I'm genuinely curious what had happened to her in the past.
3693644 If you lost something once, you would do anything in your power to keep it safe again. Lets say a very valuable piece of jewelry, if you got two and one was stolen, then you would want to keep the other one even more safe, It's quite obvious that Celestia lost a person (Possibly a son) who was name Orion and didn't want the same thing to happen to Marcus.
Also, in reply to the Authors Comment, I believe that Celestia had every right to do that to Marcus and Luna. They did every thing they could to get one measly night out and for what! There would be other parties and if not they can make one.
Hm.. I wonder who Orion is he/she somewhat related to Celestia? Who died or have been involved in an accident? Well anway great chapter cant wait for the next one.
Well he didn´t get killed so thats a plus... I guess.
Anyway great chapter as usual, but there is one thought that i cant get out of my head:
Man its going to be awkward when he meets Rarity and Octavia at school!
From my own perspective, I would have to say that they all are in the wrong. While Celestia was being far too overprotective (possibly due to whatever happened to this Orion fellow, a subject I can't wait to read more upon
), Marcus was also in the wrong to have disobeyed her. She's 1000+ years old for pete's sake, she's bound to know something! Luna also had enough of a punishment due to her assisting Marcus, even if it was a bit harsh. All in all, they were all in the wrong. And as Luna said, the more Celestia tries to hold onto Marcus, the more he'll try to push her away. That's just a simple fact about the teenager mind from what I can tell.
You know, while Celestia is being overprotective, Marcus should have seen this punishment coming. I mean, he broke her trust. Not just that, he lied to his friends. And he thought he could just get away with that?
Dude, there will be other parties. You could have talked her into going next year. Think through things before you do them. 
No one likes a liar.}
{If he thinks Celestia's pissed, I doubt he'll want to see his friends right now.
Holy noodles man, Orion is the name of my OC!
Both are wrong in their own ways, yet understandable to a degree. Marcus is a teenager after all, and Celestia has watched quite a few of her loved ones die so her maternal instincts are kicking in to protect Marcus. And like everyone else is saying that Orion is, well was, her son, and she's being overly protective. Yet, I'm still a little hesitant on that idea. Don't know if you'll pull a quick one on us and change things up. Either way the punishment was a little much, but oh well...
I'm just hoping Marcus doesn't go do something stupid to Blueblood. That would not end well no matter what.
"You think you can do these things, but you can't Nemo!"
That's what this chapter made me think of
I think celestia is overprotective because she don't want to fail again as an aunt. Maybe that explain the name Orion
I'm loving everything you have done so far. The playful way Luna and Marcus act is very cute and I'm curious about this Orion character. Still hoping for that Luna romance. Overall, I give this a 10/10. Love it all!
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Wait till the next one.
why does the name Orion sound familiar
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It's a reference to the term "Helicopter Mom," which was what Celesta was being through the entirety of this chapter.
Well, Helicopter Aunt, anyway.
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Because Celestia was hovering about, at least that's what I thought
Well done :) .
Well I hate Celestia now, and not for the punishment that she put on him.
No I hate her because she's using Marcus as a replacement for whoever this Orion is.
Who I'm guessing is either her son that she had after Luna was sent to the moon or a foal she found on the street and raised herself.
And I'm going to guess that one night she let Orion go out on his own and he was killed/kidnapped/raped or all 3.
no time to pounder on who that person she spoke of for i must get to my job at my work place but good chapter anyway man keep up the good work man
Of course I would side with Marcus and say it was unfair but story wise I thought it was perfect. Keep up the good work!
I would lock onto that name mistake instantly and have her explain herself.
If there is one thing i hate it's punishments without reasons, and bad reasons only makes it worse.
You know what this means...
Blueblood is going to DIE!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA MURDER THE PRETENDER WITH A MEAT CLEAVER!!! DECORATE THE HALLS WITH HIS INTERNAL ORGANS!!! HAAAAHAHAHA!!!!
.............. Or, you know... Put hot sauce on his pancakes or something.
3694884 woah woah woah this isn't cupcakes bro chill
3694417 Rainbow Factory?