Chapter Six
Twilight Sparkle blinked, and realized for the umpteenth time that she was staring out the window. Again. She shook her head and looked back at the piece of paper in front of her.
A myriad of crumpled-up balls of paper occupied the floor space behind her. After a moment, Twilight crumpled up the paper on her desk and started writing on a fresh piece.
Dear Princess Celestia, she wrote. It has come to my attention that…
Twilight shook her head and balled up that piece of paper as well, throwing it over her shoulder before she readied a new one.
Why is this so hard? I’ve never had this much trouble writing to the Princess. Never!
Twilight bit her lip.
Dear Princess Celestia…
Twilight sighed deeply. This isn’t helping. None of this is… I need a break.
The alicorn stood up and made her way toward the kitchen, noting in the back of her mind the mess she had made. I’ll pick that up. Later. Twilight knew that if she didn’t, Sunset Shimmer would.
When Twilight wandered out of the kitchen a few minutes later, she realized that that thought had come too late. There was Sunset Shimmer, scrabbling around on the ground as she tried to pick up the papers without using telekinesis. For a moment Twilight pitied her. Then Twilight felt bad, because she knew Sunset didn’t want her pity.
“I can do that.” Twilight’s horn lit up, and the papers levitated off of the floor and into the wastebasket underneath the desk.
Sunset Shimmer stood up.
“I… I had it sorted.”
“…Right.”
“I did!”
Sunset Shimmer seemed almost startled by her own sharp, sudden words, but she didn’t flinch back.
Wait. What?
Twilight looked at Sunset again and realized how closely she had been monitoring the unicorn’s body language lately. It was getting easy—disconcertingly easy—to tell whether Sunset Shimmer was being defiant or submissive. Twilight could look at her slave and just see if Sunset was afraid or not.
And Twilight found that fact almost unfathomably disturbing.
“Do you—do you need something?”
Twilight blinked, snapping back into the present moment. “Uh… no. No, I don’t.”
Sunset nodded, and then turned toward the basement staircase.
“Don’t go,” Twilight said. When Sunset looked at her with a confused expression she tried to elaborate. “You really don’t need to stay down there—I mean, if you want to that’s fine, but it’s—I mean, if you think—” Twilight shook her head, as if that would clear her muddled thoughts away and give birth to some coherent idea.
And then, as if by Celestia’s magic, an idea struck.
“Do you like to read?”
Sunset Shimmer arched her neck. It was a scornful gesture, Twilight thought, although it was just barely there.
“Of course,” Sunset said. “I—” She paused, as if remembering herself, before going on in a more cautious tone. “When I was
at the Academy, with Celestia—I studied history. And magic—but I liked history.” She approached one of the bookshelves cautiously, as if it might bite her if she got too familiar with it. “Do you—” She stopped herself.
“What?”
“Do you have anything by Star Swirl the Bearded?”
Twilight felt herself deflating, if only a little. “No. Most of his manuscripts have to stay at the library in Canterlot. But I do have a study—” Twilight broke off and scanned the bookshelves, hoping to find the book she was looking for. After a moment she simply removed an entire block of books and began to sort through them with her magic. “It’s a research analysis done by the Manehatten Society for Study Devoted to Magic Theory. It starts with the texts written by Star Swirl during the Pre-Classical Era and works from there to show how magic theory has evolved since.”
Sunset Shimmer was nodding now, her eyes alight with excitement.
“I read part of that while I was studying under Celestia, I think, but I never finished it. I—” She stopped again and ducked her head. “I mean, could I—could I borrow it?”
“Of course.” Twilight lifted the heavy tome from her pile of books and handed it over to Sunset Shimmer, who took it somewhat clumsily in her mouth.
Twilight began re-shelving the books she had pulled down. As she did she thought about the magnificent library Canterlot boasted. She thought of her old study tower, and she thought of Princess Celestia.
I haven’t seen her since we were in the Crystal Empire—before all of this.
And then, as if a bolt of lightning had struck, Twilight saw what she needed to do to clear her head and work through her problems.
“Sunset, do you think you could watch the library for—oh, I don’t know—a day?”
Sunset started, and then, when given the chance to consider, nodded.
“Yes, I think so.”
“Oh, good.” Twilight hurried over to her desk and scribbled out a quick checklist, studiously entitled What to Bring on a Trip to Canterlot (to See the Princess). “Let’s see,” she muttered. “Books, dragonfire candles, paper, quills—maybe some clothes.”
“Uh—”
Twilight looked up again. “What?”
Sunset blinked at her. “Can—do you still need me, or…”
“Oh, you can go back to the basement.” Twilight looked down at the paper, then up again. “Um. If you want to.”
Sunset just nodded and then turned toward the stairway. Twilight went back to her blossoming checklist, a new feeling of delicious delight taking its place in her mind.
I’m going to see the Princess!
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I am most glad to hear that.
Dis is gud. Like and fav for you!
If I was Twilight, I would be pissed that Celestia went over my head on this. It should be Twilight's right to have a voice in her punishment. What if she had wanted a slave who could use magic?
If someone steals from a store, do you cut off their arms and lags then make them work at the store? No. It would hurt the store more to have a person who can't do the work, at well, working there.
Celestia has said that Twilight is now her equal. So, I hope Twilight rips into her. A good princess should not go: "I had my fun. Now clean up my mess" to their equal.
4285361
True. At the same time, to my way of thinking Sunset Shimmer is one of the most magically skilled unicorns in Equestria. And since this is slavery for life, it's probably--probably, mind you--safest to just remove the possibility of Sunset using magic altogether.
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4285361 I have to agree on that. The way I see it, Sunset Shimmer was a former student of Celestia, and as we can plainly see from Twilight, Celestia doesn't take just anyone under her wing. I don't think it would be difficult to assume that Sunset is not only one of the stronger unicorns, but may even be a solid match for Twilight in a one on one fight, assuming being an alicorn doesn't give you some sort of I don't know like a magic boost or something. And unlike Trixie, Sunset isn't dumb enough to fall for any tricks were they to fight. Honestly if I were Celestia I'd do the exact same thing. It might seem a bit over the top, but Sunset with magic is just too dangerous.
As for Twilight and Celestia being equals, I don't really think that has anything to do with it. I mean if you're a cop who commits a crime for whatever reason, it's not like your buddies on the police force are going to call you up and say "Hey! We're about to come arrest you, where would you like to go, the jail downtown or the prison up north?" I think the same kind of applies to Celestia. The fact that Twilight would be her owner doesn't have much to do with it. The laws the law and all Celestia really did was enforce it.
Then again maybe I'm just reading too much into this.
So, um... this story still alive?
I`d like to see more of this story. It`s an interesting premise and I REALLY want to see Twilight get mad at Celestia. A lot.
MUST...HAVE...MORE...
make more pls i wanna see where this goes mlp.bartstuff.eu/mlp-dlulz.png
Are you going to continue the story???
pls continue this!
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Even then It is hypocritical of Celestia to enforce that law when Luna have been even worse.
Sunset's crimes:
- Theft of ''The Element of Magic''.
- Attempting to harm Twilight.
- Attempting to conquer Equestria.
- Placing the safety of the Kingdom at risk.
Luna's crimes:
- Kidnapping of the ruler of Equestria and probably assault to. (If Luna was the reason Celestia didn't appear until the end...)
- Destruction of ''The Element of Harmony''
- Attempting to harm Twilight.
- Attempting to conquer Equestria on two accounts.
- Placing the safety of the WORLD at risk.
- Attempted world-wide genocide of 3rd degree through the effects of 'nuclear winter'
All of Luna's crimes are merely Sunset's own, turned up to 11, and then some.
So unless Celestia is a hypocrite, she should have laid down at least the same punishment for Luna.
Let it be marked that Sunset is set for life, and not just (lets say) 100 or 200 years. In which would in practicality mean for life, in Sunset's case, BUT this merely sets the judicial standard!
Please don't abandon this story! It's too good to be abandoned...
Someone needs to continue this.