A Forgotten Life

by PeriwinkleLove

Chapter 18 ; Part I

Next day at the afternoon in Ponyville

The sun was up in the evening sky,it was still early for the sun to rest behind the high hills anyways,a hustle and bustle could be heard throughout Ponyville as rumours about Discord’s sister were spread throughout the whole town(it was probably a curious eavesdropper that happened to hear Rarity’s conversation with her sister,but it is still unknown),many gasped and were left with unimaginable shock as the following words reached their ears
‘Discord has a sister’
and some were not even convinced,well,they just have to wait in order to reconsider that...

“Well,we already bought supplies,anything else on the list?” Twilight asks her fateful assistant as she was carrying with her magic two bags with the mentioned supplies,while walking through the town’s market.

“Yep!We can now-”

“Princess Twilight!”A colt’s voice interrupted the little drake.

“What can I do for you young colt?” Twilight turns with a smiling face at the grey colt pegasus known as Rumble.

“Are the rumours true?” He asks.

“What rumours?”

“About Discord’s sister,duh?”A white-coloured mare with a red mane by the name Roseluck that owned a flower standard together with three others answered to her.

“W-W-ait,what?”Twilight and Spike tell in unison as they were awestruck that there were already rumours spread around about her.

“W-where d-did you heard this?”Spike asks the colt.

“A friend of mine heard it from another friend and that friend heard it from another friend and that friend heard it from a couple chatting about it!”Rumble replies without taking a breath.

“Oh…”Twilight sights.
“Well,I dunno if I should,I mean,it’s wrong to talk about others behind their backs and-”

“So they are true!Thanks princess,”He thanks as he leaves the scene to places unknown!(Well actually he’ll just announce it to his friends,but that kind of description is more dull)

“O...kay…”She then blinked her eyes at that and returned to Spike.

“Oh boy...That's bad,imagine what kind off rumours might be spread about her,”Spike suspects in a hint of worry.

“Nuh,it’ll be fine,I mean:what other kind of rumours can be spread?
Only the fact that she’s his sister tells quite a lot anyways,”

“True that,but,shouldn’t we like...do something?”

“We’ll just reassure whoever is hesitant about her that she is no threat to anyone,I mean,it worked with Discord and Luna,why not with her?”

“I dunno...but as far as I’m concerned she isn’t called his sister for nothing,isn’t she?”

“L-Let’s just go,”She suggests as the two continue walking,their goal to be out of the crowded place as quickly as possible without being asked any further questions.

“Princess may I-”

“Nope!Sorry!” Twilight apologizes to Pipsqueak as she dashes together with Spike to get out of that market place.

“I was just going to ask where the cookie standard is,geez,”The young coult exclaims disappointed.

A few hours after in The Castle of Friendship

“Well,Spike,everything’s ready,what time is it?” Twilight asks him.

“Almost six!Has anyone arrived yet?”

“Nope,but,Discord and Arrist will be a bit late,something to do with a chaos-order incident,”

‘KNOCK-KNOCK’

“Guess that’s the others!I’ll open,you know,I still can’t believe Discord has a sister,you think the princesses will get along with her?”

“Arrist is the abomination of order,Discord’s complete opposite,they want order and she is the spirit of order,I think they will pretty much become besties!”

“Really?Well...I can’t wait to see that!”
He then dashes out of the dining room to open the door to their guests.

“STARLIGHT!” Twilight shouts.

Then with a spark of blue magic Starlight’s form appears just in front of Twilight.
“Yes?”

“They’re all here,are you ready?”

“Emm,yes...Twilight,everything will be fine,have Discord and Arrist arrived?”

“Not yet,they’ll come a bit later,”

“Who will come a bit later?” A voice asked.

Both mares turn around and spot the two royal sisters and their other friends that were in the doorway of the dining room.

“Princesses!Nice to see you again!” Twilight greets.
”Please sit!We have a lot to catch up on!”
All seven ponies and Spike get more further into the room and take a sit in the table.

“Thank you Twilight,it has been a while since our last time in here,”
Luna accepts the offer sitting in a chair besides her elder sister

“But,might we ask;
Have you learned Discord’s problem?” Celestia asks concerned.

“Emm,we actually solved it!And we have a surprise for you,”Fluttershy replies.

“Is the matter that serious?Girls,both us and my sister are kinda worried about Discord,what’s wrong?”

“Emm,don’t worry your highnesses,you shouldn’t be worryin ‘bout that!”Applejack assures.

“You will pretty much get the shock of your lives right now,”Rarity warns.

“Why should we be surprised?Is it a good surprise or a bad surprise?”Celestia asks.

“Well,no!It’s a very good surprise!But,you might at first get a tiny bit horrified,” Pinkie answers.

“Alright...can you give us like a prologue thing at least?”Luna requests.

“Well...Discord and she will be in just a moment,” Starlight replies.

“Is ‘she’ that special guest you were referring in your letter Twilight?” Celestia questions.

“Yes,she is a very special being,kind of like Discord!Only different,” Fluttershy replies.

“Wow,now I can’t wait to meet her!Is she nice?”Celestia cheerfully continues with her questions.

“Oh but yes!She is very nice and quite a friendly spirit,”Rarity says.

“Spirit?” They both confused look at her.

“Oh,yes,you will definitely be shocked,like a lot,I was,” Spike mumbles.

“I can’t understand where are you going this with.Who is she?”Luna continues asking.

“You’ll find out soon” Starlight answers.

‘KNOCK’

“O!That’s them!I’ll get it!”Spike exclaims and rushes once again through the open door.

“Okay...now I feel like I am going to see something that will strike me to the end of my life or anything!”Celestia admits.

“Me too,”

Spike meanwhile was running through the hallway to get to the double-sized doors,when he got there,he opened them to reveal the two siblings.

“Hey Spike!” They both tell.

“Sorry for being late,something happened last moment,we had to fix that up,but anyways,are the princesses here?”Arrist explains.

“Oh yes.And they are curious to death to find out who you are,don’t worry,they will be just shocked,nothing more,don’t misjudge their terrified expression,it only comes natural,”
Spike told as they were walking.

“Alright,now I feel like I am going to make the actual princesses to faint or something!”

“Don’t worry,everything will be alright,nothing will happen,trust me,I already told you this,”Discord tried to calm his sister,but she was too nervous herself.

“What if they simply faint!?Get shocked,lose their mind- ANYTHING!?It’ll be my fault!Uhh,I am freaking out again!”She starts to sweat and pretty much tremble a bit.

“Wow,she gets as nervous as Twilight here,I think she and her will get along easily!”

“You think!?If she was a pony I would have thought that they were sisters!” Discord admits.

“Really?Well,actually would make sense,they both freak out kinda like the same,”

“Yeah,but she thinks that she will manage to make the actual princesses to faint,”

“YOU’RE NOT HELPING!” She informs,still sweating.

“Oh right!” Discord mumbles
”Sorry for that,just breathe in,breathe out,you hear me?Just breathe,everything will turn out fine,trust me,I’ve been through this,”He suggests.

“Wow,she’s nothing like you…”

“Thanks for pointing out the most obvious thing!”

“Still not helping!”

“Look,Arrist,everything’ll be fine, the princesses are nice,they won’t get terrified by your appearance,just because you’re his sister doesn’t mean they’ll faint!They actually might just like you!Now,are you both ready?”

“Yep!” Discord said with cheerfullness.

“Sure….”Whereas Artist’s was a bit hesitant.
“And thanks Spike,at least someone helped a bit!”She looks at her brother with annoyance.

“What?I am not a supportive character!You should know that as my sister!”

“Huh,why did I had to get stuck with him?”

“Yeah,good luck with him,now,get ready”

“Okay then!Get ready!”
Spike then knocks on the door;

‘KNOCK’

“That’s them!”Twilight flies to open the door.

“Finally!”

“You don’t say?I wonder what all the fuss was about big sis,”

Twilight opened the door;

“Speaking of older sisters...”Discord tells
”Hello there my beloved my favourite and most kind-hearted duo-princesses!”He compliments with a wide smile.
“You,em,please don’t faint,speaking of that ‘guest’ she is right here!”

Arrist then hesitantly enters.
“Hello,you must be princess Celestia and princess Luna,I heard a lot about you,I’m so glad to finally meet you,”Arrist voice appeared with as much cheerfulness as she could manage right now.

The girls gave her a
‘You’re doing great! look.
She nodded in appreciation in return.

However,when Celestia and Lunas’ eyes landed at her, confusion… would be a huge understatement on how they felt.

“Em,welcome?Sorry for our shock,but,emm,”Celestia managed to blurt out, rubbing her eyes in case she was not seeing well.

“You look a bit like-”

“Him?Yep!Not a lot,but there are similarities”Spike fils Luna’s words.

“I-I’m sorry,”She laughed a bit awkwardly, her eyes never leaving Arrist though.
“If you can;can you tell us who are you?I haven’t seen you before that’s for sure,”Celestia still confused asks.

“We’re not surprised,really,we aren't…”Twilight replies still looking at him with a bit of crudge for not telling about her earlier.

“You know,I still can’t believe that you hid this from me,us,EVERYONE!
I still feel shocked!”Fluttershy admits.

“I still don’t know if I should punch you for that!”Rainbow debsits with herself.

“Again with the punching?Gets annoying you know!”

“I actually might need to hold the princesses with my magic from not attacking you after you tell them who she is to you!”Starlight expects.

“Alright,that's it!”Luna finally raises her voice for the first time.
“You shall not act so foolish around a guest, where are your manners?”She lectures.
“Excuse me for my outburst, force of habit,”She apologises.
“Now, if I may ask: can we actually get an answer from the guest herself?”

“I… Think you really should…”She answered back.

Next day at the afternoon in Ponyville

The sun was up in the evening sky,it was still early for the sun to rest behind the high hills anyways,a hustle and bustle could be heard throughout Ponyville as rumours about Discord’s sister were spread throughout the whole town(it was probably a curious eavesdropper that happened to hear Rarity’s conversation with her sister,but it is still unknown),many gasped and were left with unimaginable shock as the following words reached their ears
‘Discord has a sister’
and some were not even convinced,well,they just have to wait in order to reconsider that...

“Well,we already bought supplies,anything else on the list?” Twilight asks her fateful assistant as she was carrying with her magic two bags with the mentioned supplies,while walking through the town’s market.

“Yep!We can now-”

“Princess Twilight!”A colt’s voice interrupted the little drake.

“What can I do for you young colt?” Twilight turns with a smiling face at the grey colt pegasus known as Rumble.

“Are the rumours true?” He asks.

“What rumours?”

“About Discord’s sister,duh?”A white-coloured mare with a red mane by the name Roseluck that owned a flower standard together with three others answered to her.

“W-W-ait,what?”Twilight and Spike tell in unison as they were awestruck that there were already rumours spread around about her.

“W-where d-did you heard this?”Spike asks the colt.

“A friend of mine heard it from another friend and that friend heard it from another friend and that friend heard it from a couple chatting about it!”Rumble replies without taking a breath.

“Oh…”Twilight sights.
“Well,I dunno if I should,I mean,it’s wrong to talk about others behind their backs and-”

“So they are true!Thanks princess,”He thanks as he leaves the scene to places unknown!(Well actually he’ll just announce it to his friends,but that kind of description is more dull)

“O...kay…”She then blinked her eyes at that and returned to Spike.

“Oh boy...That's bad,imagine what kind off rumours might be spread about her,”Spike suspects in a hint of worry.

“Nuh,it’ll be fine,I mean:what other kind of rumours can be spread?
Only the fact that she’s his sister tells quite a lot anyways,”

“True that,but,shouldn’t we like...do something?”

“We’ll just reassure whoever is hesitant about her that she is no threat to anyone,I mean,it worked with Discord and Luna,why not with her?”

“I dunno...but as far as I’m concerned she isn’t called his sister for nothing,isn’t she?”

“L-Let’s just go,”She suggests as the two continue walking,their goal to be out of the crowded place as quickly as possible without being asked any further questions.

“Princess may I-”

“Nope!Sorry!” Twilight apologizes to Pipsqueak as she dashes together with Spike to get out of that market place.

“I was just going to ask where the cookie standard is,geez,”The young coult exclaims disappointed.

A few hours after in The Castle of Friendship

“Well,Spike,everything’s ready,what time is it?” Twilight asks him.

“Almost six!Has anyone arrived yet?”

“Nope,but,Discord and Arrist will be a bit late,something to do with a chaos-order incident,”

‘KNOCK-KNOCK’

“Guess that’s the others!I’ll open,you know,I still can’t believe Discord has a sister,you think the princesses will get along with her?”

“Arrist is the abomination of order,Discord’s complete opposite,they want order and she is the spirit of order,I think they will pretty much become besties!”

“Really?Well...I can’t wait to see that!”
He then dashes out of the dining room to open the door to their guests.

“STARLIGHT!” Twilight shouts.

Then with a spark of blue magic Starlight’s form appears just in front of Twilight.
“Yes?”

“They’re all here,are you ready?”

“Emm,yes...Twilight,everything will be fine,have Discord and Arrist arrived?”

“Not yet,they’ll come a bit later,”

“Who will come a bit later?” A voice asked.

Both mares turn around and spot the two royal sisters and their other friends that were in the doorway of the dining room.

“Princesses!Nice to see you again!” Twilight greets.
”Please sit!We have a lot to catch up on!”
All seven ponies and Spike get more further into the room and take a sit in the table.

“Thank you Twilight,it has been a while since our last time in here,”
Luna accepts the offer sitting in a chair besides her elder sister

“But,might we ask;
Have you learned Discord’s problem?” Celestia asks concerned.

“Emm,we actually solved it!And we have a surprise for you,”Fluttershy replies.

“Is the matter that serious?Girls,both us and my sister are kinda worried about Discord,what’s wrong?”

“Emm,don’t worry your highnesses,you shouldn’t be worryin ‘bout that!”Applejack assures.

“You will pretty much get the shock of your lives right now,”Rarity warns.

“Why should we be surprised?Is it a good surprise or a bad surprise?”Celestia asks.

“Well,no!It’s a very good surprise!But,you might at first get a tiny bit horrified,” Pinkie answers.

“Alright...can you give us like a prologue thing at least?”Luna requests.

“Well...Discord and she will be in just a moment,” Starlight replies.

“Is ‘she’ that special guest you were referring in your letter Twilight?” Celestia questions.

“Yes,she is a very special being,kind of like Discord!Only different,” Fluttershy replies.

“Wow,now I can’t wait to meet her!Is she nice?”Celestia cheerfully continues with her questions.

“Oh but yes!She is very nice and quite a friendly spirit,”Rarity says.

“Spirit?” They both confused look at her.

“Oh,yes,you will definitely be shocked,like a lot,I was,” Spike mumbles.

“I can’t understand where are you going this with.Who is she?”Luna continues asking.

“You’ll find out soon” Starlight answers.

‘KNOCK’

“O!That’s them!I’ll get it!”Spike exclaims and rushes once again through the open door.

“Okay...now I feel like I am going to see something that will strike me to the end of my life or anything!”Celestia admits.

“Me too,”

Spike meanwhile was running through the hallway to get to the double-sized doors,when he got there,he opened them to reveal the two siblings.

“Hey Spike!” They both tell.

“Sorry for being late,something happened last moment,we had to fix that up,but anyways,are the princesses here?”Arrist explains.

“Oh yes.And they are curious to death to find out who you are,don’t worry,they will be just shocked,nothing more,don’t misjudge their terrified expression,it only comes natural,”
Spike told as they were walking.

“Alright,now I feel like I am going to make the actual princesses to faint or something!”

“Don’t worry,everything will be alright,nothing will happen,trust me,I already told you this,”Discord tried to calm his sister,but she was too nervous herself.

“What if they simply faint!?Get shocked,lose their mind- ANYTHING!?It’ll be my fault!Uhh,I am freaking out again!”She starts to sweat and pretty much tremble a bit.

“Wow,she gets as nervous as Twilight here,I think she and her will get along easily!”

“You think!?If she was a pony I would have thought that they were sisters!” Discord admits.

“Really?Well,actually would make sense,they both freak out kinda like the same,”

“Yeah,but she thinks that she will manage to make the actual princesses to faint,”

“YOU’RE NOT HELPING!” She informs,still sweating.

“Oh right!” Discord mumbles
”Sorry for that,just breathe in,breathe out,you hear me?Just breathe,everything will turn out fine,trust me,I’ve through this,”He suggests.

“Wow,she’s nothing like you…”

“Thanks for pointing out the most obvious thing!”

“Still not helping!”

“Look,Arrist,everything’ll be fine, the princesses are nice,they won’t get terrified by your appearance,just because you’re his sister doesn’t mean they’ll faint!They actually might just like you!Now,are you both ready?”

“Yep!” Discord said with cheerfullness.

“Sure….”Whereas Artist’s was a bit hesitant.

“And thanks Spike,at least someone helped a bit!”She looks at her brother with annoyance.

“What?I am not a supportive character!You should know that as my sister!”

“Huh,why did I had to get stuck with him?”

“Yeah,good luck with him,now,get ready”

“Okay then!Get ready!”
Spike then knocks on the door;

‘KNOCK’

“That’s them!”Twilight flies to open the door.

“Finally!”

“You don’t say?I wonder what all the fuss was about big sis,”

Twilight opened the door;

“Speaking of older sisters...”Discord tells
”Hello there my beloved my favourite and most kind-hearted duo-princesses!”He compliments with a wide smile.
“You,em,please don’t faint,speaking of that ‘guest’ she is right here!”

Arrist then hesitantly enters.
“Hello,you must be princess Celestia and princess Luna,I heard a lot about you,I’m so glad to finally meet you,”Arrist voice appeared with as much cheerfulness as she could manage right now.

The girls gave her a
‘You’re doing great! look.
She nodded in appreciation in return.

However,when Celestia and Lunas’ eyes landed at her, confusion… would be a huge understatement on how they felt.

“Em,welcome?Sorry for our shock,but,emm,”Celestia managed to blurt out, rubbing her eyes in case she was not seeing well.

“You look a bit like-”

“Him?Yep!Not a lot,but there are similarities”Spike fils Luna’s words.

“I-I’m sorry,”She laughed a bit awkwardly, her eyes never leaving Arrist though.
“If you can;can you tell us who are you?I haven’t seen you before that’s for sure,”Celestia still confused asks.

“We’re not surprised,really,we aren't…”Twilight replies still looking at him with a bit of crudge for not telling about her earlier.

“You know,I still can’t believe that you hid this from me,us,EVERYONE!
I still feel shocked!”Fluttershy admits.

“I still don’t know if I should punch you for that!”Rainbow debsits with herself.

“Again with the punching?Gets annoying you know!”

“I actually might need to hold the princesses with my magic from not attacking you after you tell them who she is to you!”Starlight expects.

“Alright,that's it!”Luna finally raises her voice for the first time.
“You shall not act so foolish around a guest, where are your manners?”She lectures.
“Excuse me for my outburst, force of habit,”She apologises.
“Now, if I may ask: can we actually get an answer from the guest herself?”

“I… Think you really should…”She answered back.

“Alright then, go ahead!” Celestia insists kindly.
“If we wait for the others to give us an answer it will be when we die,” She jokes.

“Fair well then, let me introduce myself:I am Arrist,and I happen to be the spirit of order-”

“Spirit of order?You are the spirit of order?Discord,how come you never told us that there are other spirits?Sorry for cutting you off dear,please continue,”Celestia questions concerned.

“Well,here,it goes,I am,em,are you alright?”
She was for one moment concerned with their impatient looks.

“Oh yes!We’re fine,excuse our behaviour,we had quite the day...please proceed,”Luna explains,while they were both drinking their teas.

“If that is so,I am Arrist,spirit of order,also here known as...Discord’s sister,”Her answer.

Upon hearing the last word,the teacups that the princesses were holding fell but didn’t break,their blood suddenly run cold and looked at her with unmistakable horror.
‘Whaaat???’ Was the thought that run in their minds.

There was an awkard moment of silence,so much that someone could heard a penny drop.

"Discord.You.Have a sister?”Luna was the first one to break the silence,then she rolls her eyes to see him, her head always facing Arrist.
“How…Unexpected…”Celestia adds with a fake smile.

“Yeah...I have a sister here,I know,shock is a clear emotion of what you feel right now,don’t worry, she isn’t offended!”
He casually and a bit awkwardly tells.

“W-We can…hope?”Luna turns to her, more freaked out than ever.

“Don’t worry,I am not here to take vengeance on any of you,I come in peace,”She reassured them.

“Phew!” They simultaneously relaxed their bodies thanks to relief.

“Weird though,since you were the ones that imprisoned my brother for a thousand years,it would actually be expected of me to chase you down with an axe or something for stoning my only brother,”She adds with a frustrated frown.

‘We’re dead…’
The only,most important thought that was racing in their minds.
“‘Gulp’” They both then looked at each other with fear clear in their faces.
‘Should we run?’Luna telepathically asked her sister.
‘No, no, I think we will only anger her more,’
‘Maybe flee the land? I have a friend who can change our identities, we can fly over to The Crystal Empire for the next decade or so,’ Luna suggests.

“That won’t be necessary,” Arrist interrupted their telepathetic-conversation while shaking her head in denial.
“Don’t worry,I am not mad or anything!Why would I be?Sure, a thousand years alone was bad,but you did what you had to do as princesses!I am actually excited to meet you!”Arrist replied more joyfully now.

Their eyes twitched for a moment at that.
They were constantly opening their mouths, but there wasn’t a single word coming out

“You...you are not mad at us?For imprisoning your brother?You understand?”Celestia finally manages to ask.

“Of course!” She replies smiling.

“I...em..sister...might we talk alone for a moment?Please?”Luna asks her.

“If you excuse us,” Celestia and Luna then slowly but steadily exit the room still with shocked faces.

“Wow!They took it more calmly than I expected!” Discord admits.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAA”Two scream were heard from the hallway, the owners of the voices we're undeniable.

“Nope!Take it back!”

“Wow!They scream like they are being murdered or anything!”Rainbow has to admit.

“They should go for an Oscar!” Pinkie has to give credit.

Then the door bursts opens to reveal them once again.

“Sorry,for that,just,em,we just,em,needed to let it all out,”Celestia apologises shakingly.

“O...Well,sorry for that,”Arrist tells.

“No,no,no it’s alright!Just,em,Discord why didn’t you mention before?!”Luna asks him.

“It’s a long story...but anyways,seems you didn’t faint after all!
Told you nothing serious would happen!”Discord tells.

“They screamed Discord,I think that’s how I would act if I was in their place,”

“Oh...well,got a point,”

“So em,Arrist is it?You’re the spirit of order?” Celestia asks recovering from her outburst.

“That’s right,and as you probably guessed by now;I’m Discord’s opposite too,”

“Wait...you don’t want to make Equestria all orderly like Accord tried to do,right?”Luna questioned.

“Ha!Where did you remember that!He he...” Discord laughed a bit awkwardly.

“He basically tried to make Equestria a land filled with same ponies,same houses,no chaos,no disharmony,only order,I think your sister kinda might be like him,since,you know,because she is the spirit of order,”Celestia explains.

“Who is that ‘Accord’ you are talking about?Haven’t heard of another order bringer!”

“Oh,that was your brother actually!Long story...you might die from laughing actually!”Pinkie explains.

“Wait..WHO?DISCORD?!”
She then started laughing.
“Oh,Discord...as an order bringer,and I thought that this would only happen in my nightmares!
Now I want to hear everything!”She tells excitedly.

“Em,let’s talk about this another time,and NO my sister is not a female version of Accord!”He assures.

”And...just so happens that she can outbeat Discord,”Starlight adds.

“Wait...you're more powerful than him?” Luna curiously asks.

“Well...in a way,yes,why do you think he never told you about me?”

“You know,now that you mentioned it,how come you never mentioned that you have a sister!?Hmm?” Celestia turns to him with a fake smile.

“Emm,well,I told you!It’s a long and dramatic story of ancient times!”
He then made a background of a tower appear and he was dressed like Romeo and hold ,hopefully, a fake-pony skull.
”You will pretty much be left with open mouths of what we had to pass through,”

“Passed through?”Luna asks.

“Oh,yes,that...Not the best times,”Arrist says frowning,Discord started to frown a bit and he was back to his normal form sitting beside her,both looking sad.

“Emm,I am a bit freaked out,sorry,you both have the exact same expression when we last saw you Discord!What’s wrong?”
Celestia asks.

“Hey...Equestria to Discord,are you in there?”Rainbow waves at them.

“Oh,sorry!Sis,”He shook her a bit.

“A!Sorry what you said?”

“Emm,what’s the problem?You both seem troubled by something,” Luna asumes.

“No,nothing,we’re fine,”He assures

“You know,you never told us anything about your childhood years you know Discord,how come?”Celestia questions.

“It hurts to remember, Arrist are you alright?”He turns to see his sister staring at nothing.

“Emm,yes,just,emm,’gulp’,the screams of hate by them,you know,still carved inside,”She admits sighing.

“Is she alright?”Luna asks concerned.

“Em,you’ll understand soon why she is like that,she hates to remember.She has passed a lot than you might think,”He explains.

“Are you sure?She seems frightened by something,did we said something wrong?”Celestia touches her necklace.
”We are sorry if we said something that disturbed you,”

“But,you don’t have to fear us”Luna assures.

“We're not going to cut your head off or anything!”Celestia assures.

“‘Gulp’” The draconequuses gulped aloud touching their necks.

“You had to say that example!”Spike slams his hand on his forehead.

“What?I was joking,”

“Never repeat that joke again,please,never again,” Discord then shivers with fear.

“It’s alright,they don’t know,” Arrist assures.

“Emm,might explain us,because we feel like we missed a lot!”Luna asks.

“Well...here how it was…”

After a long explanation to the princesses

Shock and sadness were clear emotions of The Princesses faces.

“We-We’re sorry….”Was all Luna could manage.

“I,em,how come you never told us anything Discord?” Celestia asks him.

“As I told,it hurts to remember things,especially this kind of,I was afraid to remember,and,most importantly, recall all the happy memories that I had with my sister,they are a part of me,but,I still kept them inside because I couldn’t admit the fact that I have a sister,betrayed my own blood I just couldn’t!For some reason it,simply hurts,very much,”

“It’s alright,we all make mistakes,and,’sigh’,you’re not the only one...” Celestia admits

“Yes..I myself have not been the best sister,”Arrist tells.

“You think I was?I should have been more logical and not let my powers take the best of me,I should have seen that...”Luna pauses.

“I am not the only one?That there are others too,that you love but...your efforts seem unappreciated?”Arrist adds.
”You fail at being all,best sister and caring one?And that title of the worst sister is just thrown back at you at times in your head?”

“Me too,just seems that you are not good at being an elder sister!You try but-”

“You simply can’t,even if you want the best for them you simply fail and end up the bad one?The unfair?”Arrist fills Celestia’s words.

“Exactly,hm,you seem to relate to us Arrist...”Luna realises.

“Well,we are both three sisters that failed at realising our mistakes,and when we did...It was already too late,”

“Hm,exactly,your sister is actually understanding Discord!”Celestia joyfully says.

“I think you Arrist can understand me,being left alone for a thousand years isn’t easy, huh?”Luna ironically asks

“Indeed...Be all alone and live with guilt huh,the worst feeling”

“Yes,huh,guilt,you can understand us Arrist,imagine,being free but not be able to talk to anyone because of guilt,fear,huh,that must have been terrible,we are so sorry you had to pass this,”
Celestia apologizes.

“It’s alright,hm,at least I know my greatest fear now,being left alone...”

“Ha,strange sister,we have the same fear,’sigh’ and we faced that fear for a thousand years,seemed unfair,but also seemed scary,”Discord tells.

“Wow,you four understand each other pretty neat!
I can’t imagine having to live like you!I’d rather stay myself!”Rainbow admits.

Arrist chuckles a bit.
”You are right on this,but I wouldn’t change my life to the slightest bit actually!”

“You wouldn't?”Fluttershy asks.

“Of course!Sure,there were bad moments,but they are valuable experiences,and I want to keep those lessons!”

“You seem more optimistic than me now!Truly my opposite,”

“Yep,you might be annoying,but you’re my annoying brother,that won’t change,want it or not,”

“Alright,stop calling me annoying!Really what have I done?To be called like that?”

“I have a list,” Twilight informs.

“‘Huf’”He looks annoyed with his arms crossed at her smile picking one side.

“Ooo,someone got a taste of his own medicine after all!Twilight we might become besties when it’s about annoying Discord!”
Arrist happily tells.

“I like you Arrist,oh,we two are gonna have so much fun~,”Twilight admits.

“You know,I bet me and the girls will love you for sure!Besides the fact that you’re his sister,”Fluttershy expects.

“And I would love that!Isn’t that right,Discord?”

“Oh yeah sure!One day if I get out of control,you girls won’t have to use the elements!You just come to my sister!Great!”He annoyingly looks at them.

“You know,you're right!Next time we simply come to her,and she will deal with you,and we won’t have to lift a hoof,”Rainbow lazy like tells.

“Welp,since we are quite done with all the explaining part...Who wants cake?”Applejack asks.

“Me!” Everyone told

“Of course!” Pinkie exclaims grinning.

They were all chatting and the princesses were still adjusting to his sister,but they got to know that she is nice and they,obviously,had tons of questions.

“So,did he ever caused any trouble when he was a kid?Was he always an-let’s say-an annoying being?”Luna asks.

“Well,he wasn’t very naughty as a kid,but,annoying being...in a sense yes.You don’t know what I had to pass through,and as it seems,all the efforts that I had tried to make him less annoying were all for nothing!”

“So you practically raised him?How come he didn’t take anything from your character?” Celestia asks.

“Ask him,I’ve got no idea,I never raised him into becoming a trickster,what went wrong with raising you?”

“Nothing went wrong,I was raised perfectly fine!You just overreact!”

“Like,when you were still as stone when you first saw your sister in your house?That kind of?” Fluttershy ironically asks.

“In my defence, I thought she was going to kill me!”

“Right...Kill my own blood Discord,you’re more stupid than I hoped you were,”

“Now you're calling me stupid!?What’s wrong with you now!?For a manifistation of order I clearly can’t figureyou out!”

“Because you have no clear sense of what a sane being is like,”

“Ooo,Discord's just got dropped!”Spike yells.

“‘Sigh’,those moments remind me that you are my sister after all,win this round,big sis,but next time you won’t be so lucky,”

“Oh thank you!It will be adorable of how my little brother is competing against me!”She then squeezes his cheeks.

“Sis…”He tells annoyed.

”Remember Discord,I learned you everything you know,I was the teacher and still am,"

“Yeah,yeah,quit the ‘older sibling quoting’ and eat your cake!”

“You know,I see how you two are related now!You two could make a sitcom actually!Ha,so,em,Arrist might I ask a,emm,personal question?”Luna asks.

“Sure!What is it?”

“How are you sure that Discord is your real brother?”

“Oh,don’t even start it!
I called him ‘unofficial brother’ until he was twelve!Well,actually…
did you know that one time you called me mom?”

“What?Really?”

“Uh-uh,you don’t seem to remember,well,it was one of your first words,or was it ‘stars?”She pauses for a moment.
“Aaa,you very first word was ‘blue’,
I don’t know how but it was your first word!”

“Blue?He literally said that?” Rainbow asks disbelieving.

“Yep!Truly a spirit of chaos,as to why you said that,no idea!”

“So,wait,I practically called you,emm,mom?”

“Yes,when you were a baby and one day I fed you you said ‘mommy’ literally,you don’t know how all that pain in my life disappeared after you said that...”She admits smiling.

“Aww,that is so cute!You can be a sweetie too Discord after all,”Celestia admits.

“Ahem,yeah,yeah,as a baby I was completely cute and adorable and all that,anyways,I,really,called you mom?”

“I’m not surprised really,I raised you and your natural instinct is to see me as a mother,well,technically I am just your sister,but you get the point,”

“You’re more than a sister Arrist,I can’t imagine where I would end up without you,you’re my blood-related family,I at least have a sister,I can’t imagine how dull and boring my life would have been a thousand years ago without you,you really mean a lot to me”

“Aw,you always have a way with words!Guess you took that from me!Hopefully,”

“‘Sniff’ You're sweet sometimes Discord,sometimes” Luna admits crying a bit.

“Come here Lulu,” Celestia tells hugging her with her wing.

“See everyone,told that he can be a sweetie,in some cases,such as this one,and,Discord,seems that hypothetically speaking you have a mother and a sister,*sque*,I wonder how it was raising him,I bet it was an,let’s say,interesting experience,”Fluttershy bets.

“Yep,we two have so much to talk about!”

“Great,here come embarrassing memories!”

“Oh hush Discord!I want to hear everything about your childhood!All embarrassing moments and all,but,can I ask a question?”Celestia asks.

“Sure,”

“Emm,maybe in private,please?”

“Emm,all right,we two will come back in a moment I guess?”

“How come you want to be in person?” Discord asks her.

“Emm,it’s nothing,just emm,want to ask something!”
Celestia nervously tells as she and her were heading outside in the hallway.

“Well,what is I-”She got interrupted by Celestia's hoof in her mouth.

“You promise not to tell anything to Discord?”

“Emm,mm,” She tries to answer.

“Oh,sorry!” She quickly frees her mouth

“I was trying to say,ok,now what is it?”

“You promise not to tell anything to your brother?This stays between us,”

“Alright,now what is it?”

Celestia then started to frown a little,with a deep sigh,she said:

“Arrist,I,”She began.
“I want to say sorry,for everything,”She continues.
“I never knew that Discord had a sister,I swear,with all my heart, with all my righteousness,if I knew ,I would have tried reforming him more earlier,or if something didn’t work out I would have never left you on your own in any case,”She says.
“After what you said of how much you suffered all alone,I…
I feel guilt…”She pauses.
“Y-You had to suffer so much, he is your only blood-relative,and I took him from you,”She says holding a tear.
“You were left alone,all alone,I wasn’t left all alone when I sended my sisterto the moon,sure I felt guilt for punishing my sister,I still do trust me,I felt so alone,but not so alone as you,I’m so so,but so sorry…”Celestia apologises.

“It’s alright,really,it wasn’t your fault,actually you did what you had to do for your subjects,I couldn’t interrupt,I knew my brother did something that would follow up punishment,yet I remained silent,it wasn’t really you,and if that helps:I forgive you,”

“But... you forgive me for locking your only brother away in stone? You really forgive my student and her friends for doing the exact same thing?”Her eyes shut,tears,flowing silently.
“Y-You forgive somepony who has stripped away countless years of your and his life..."

Arrist only kept her mouth shut,until she silently appeared a box of tissues.

“Here,” She offers,as she takes a tissue and gives it to her.

“Thank you,” Celestia tells as she accepts the tissue with her magic and wipes some tears.

“I’ve been in your place,princess,many,many times,I was,and still am, guilty for not trying hard enough in my tries to stop my brother,yes,I felt bad in those one thousand years,heck,who wouldn’t?

“But I am really grateful for your decision to reform Discord,I know there were hiccups along the way,like the first time the girls freed him he tried to get things under his control,his betrayal with Tirek,and that incident with the Grand Galloping Gala,really,I should apologise for my brother’s behaviour,I raised him after all...Every child’s problem begins from how it was raised,or in Discord’s case,mine…”

“But you tried your very best to raise him!
It wasn’t your fault that you were a kid yourself when you had to take care of your baby brother!
And honestly,we all think,that despite your young age,you managed to raise a wonderful brother,sure he made mistakes,but he learned,isn’t that enough? To prove that you raised him the best way you could?
I think Discord will think of thousands of reasons to convince you that you did a great job,if his reasons don’t convince you,ask us,his friends,sure he isn’t perfect,no one is,so...Let’s say that we all make mistakes,but we also learn from them,don’t you agree?”

“Yes,now,I think we should return back,I dunno what Discord will come up as to what we are talking about!” Arrist says cheerfully.
“And thank you,without you I don’t think that we would be here,really,thank you…”Arrist tells,with a tear in her eyes.

“Your welcome,and thank you too for forgiving me,I think we pretty much understand one another,am I right?”

“Truly,now let’s join the others,don’t you think princess?”

“Oh please,cut the formalities! From now on you can call me simple Celestia,like everyone else, well,expect my other subjects of course!”Celestia assures giggling.

“I always wanted to ask;how is it being called ‘your highness’, ‘your majesty’ or ‘princess’ all the time?Personally I wouldn’t be so excited!”

“I almost lose my calm when someone calls me like that,please don’t say those ‘formal words’ again,at least not all of them at once!”Celestia requests.

“As you wish,princess,” She said bowing her head, but whispered in the last word.

“What did I tell you?” Celestia asks giggling.

“Sorry,slipped!”She tells jokingly.

Then tthe started giggling as they entered the room.

“Emm,you see what I’m seeing?” Discord whispers to them.

“Celestia and Arrist giggling about something,nothing extraordinary,” Luna tells casually.

“Their combination is extraordinary!”He whispers frightened.

“I think you’re overreacting,again,”Fluttershy guesses.

“No,no,no,no,no!First you six get along,then Celestia gets along,then soon will follow Luna,Spike,Starlight and all of Equestria if I’m sane!”

“Which leaves me to wonder about your saneness!”Twilight exclaims with an obvious tone of wonder.

“Oh please!Like I have any time to think about that when my sister starts to tell embarrassing stories!”He tells with worry.

“Oh come on!How bad can she be?” Rainbow jokes.

“As much as your parents,as to how you have described them to me of course,”His reply.

“Oh dear,sorry buddy,” She tells with a hint of understandment.

‘‘Sigh’, I really dunno know what’s more ridiculous;
Discord freaking out because of Arrist and Celestia getting along,
OR that he thinks that he is actually a sane being?’Twilight wonders.

“Discord,you’re overreacting,they’re just getting along,you should be happy about that!” Fluttershy tells cheering.

“Be happy about what?”Arrist asks.

“Nothing!” Replies Discord.

“You shouldn’t be happy about nothing?”Celestia asks confused.

“No!I mean,I should be happy,no!It’s nothing!”

“Okay…”Arrist tells unsurely.

“Anyways,how about some cookies?”Twilight offers

“Hey...Speaking of cookies,it reminded me of,”Rainbow then turns to the two alicorns.
“You know,you remember that awesome-pulled prank one thousand years ago?Mrs Velvetia reminds you something…?”

“Oh!That!Yeah,the best-pulled prank in history!I remember it like it was yesterday,yeah,saved me from some boring magic lesson that day,”Luna recalls.

“Well,your welcome,”Arrist tells grinning.

“For what?” Celestia turns and asks.

“She pulled that prank,” Rainbow points over to her.

“Guilty as charged,” She admits biting her bottom lip.

“You pulled that prank?!” They both ask in utter surprise.

“Yep!”

“You serious?” Celestia awestruck turns to her.

“HOW did you come up with the idea?”

“Long story short,it was a bet with Discord,to make any address the most talked about place in all of Equestria without using magic,”

“You won?”Luna interested question.

“Uh-huh,”

“Wow,that was an impressive clever-pulled prank I’ll give you that…”Celestia has to admit.

“Thanks,”

“How did you come up with this particular antic?”Luna has to wonder.

“Honestly,I don’t quite remember!I have alzheimer at times,”

“Come on,everyone forgets things,”Discord reassures.
“But still,you might want to check for that,”

“Thanks for your concern,”She replies pissed.

“Anything for my dearest sister!”His reply as he snapped his fingers.

‘SNAP’

And he was dressed in a costume of a doctor ,a notebook on his claw and a pen on his paw.

“So Miss Arrist,have you been having constant amnesia?You remember what you had eaten for breakfast three days ago,right?”He questions .

She had to facepalm herself at that.
“Tell me Harmony;how come I haven’t strangled him yet?”

“Me too,”Twilight admits,now face hooving herself too.
“How did you manage,all those years?”

“Dunno,I simply dunno,”

“Ah!Here we go!You forgot how you still put up with my antics!You have a serious case my dear!”Discord exclaims as he scribbles something in the notebook.
“Here!This should help!” He then gives her the notebook,sighing,she accepted and read it out loud.

“Chocolate milk?”

“What?It does wonders!”

“Mark my words:I’m going to sent you to Tartarus one day,”She assures tiredly.

“What?Together with that,you-know-who?” He tells kind of hurt and with little fear.

“No,I’ll just ask Cerberus to bite your flank,he’ll like a marathon after a long time,”

“I will pay to see that!How much?” Rainbow asks jokingly.

“Thanks for encouraging my sister to make me dinner for Cerberus,Rainbow,”

“Eh!Anything for my friends!”She assures.

“Note to myself:remind me to reconsider my friend decision one fateful day,”

“It’s like that old saying:you can’t choose family,I think the same implies to you,only with your friends here,”

“Yep!So true at times,”

“Shut up Discord,I might consider that too,”Twilight warns.

“Pft!I want to see you try,you aren’t getting rid off me anytime sooner,”

“By the way;Arrist can I ask you some questions?” Pinkie interrupts with an out-of-the-topic question.

“Oh…”The girls exclaimed worried.

“Sure,bring it,”Arrist assures.

“It has to do with your name…”She starts.

“OH…”She exclaimed a bit unsure.

“Arrist,”She thought out loud, pause to ponder the name for a moment
“Is it written with one ‘r’ or two ‘r’?”She finally asks.

“...” Arrist paused for a moment in that question.
“It’s two ‘r’s, Pinkie, two,”

“Okie-Dokie-Lokie!”Pinkie then appeared a piece of paper and wrote ‘Arrist’ in it.
‘Hm,’ She thought about it for a moment.
She also added writing: With two ‘r’.

“Okay!”She then placed the paper in her hair.
“‘Gasp!’”When she realized sth.
“You guys!” She cheered.

“What is it Pinkie?” Discord asked her.

“You realise the place where the hippogriphs live is named”-She paused.
-“Mount Aris!”

“Eh,soooo?”RD wondered,obviously not getting it.

“Mount Aris!What would happen if you just added a ‘t’ at the end?”

“Well it would be Ar…”RD then stopped when she realised it.

“Wow! Didn’t thought of that!”Luna exclaimed surprised.

“Really now…”Arrist realised.

“Wait! You don’t happen to know Queen Novo, do you?”Pinkie wondered.

“Just heard of her,isn’t she the Queen of The Hippogriphs?” Her reply casual.

“Yeah,huh…Imagine the look on her face if she found out there was someone that has a name almost like the place she lives in!”Twilight snickers at the thought.

“How come your name is so similar to Mt. Aris?”Celestia just has to wonder.

“I don't know,I guess it’s just a coincidence, I mean;my name was selected by the author long before there was any info released about the movie,oh you should have seen the look on her face!”

“Huh,’gasp!’You know about-?” Pinkie gasped in awe.

“Shhh,”Arrist shushed her while a finger was in front of her mouth, winking at her.
“This is a little secret we two gonna have, got it?”

“Uh-huh!” She winked back.

“Em,what are you two talking about?” AJ asks them a bit concerned.

“Oh nothing special,” Arrist replied knowingly.

“Okay…Moving on from the 4th wall-breaking joke,”Discord interrupted.
“You know, I always wondered why didn’t you choose Catrina,far more cooler if you ask me,”

“Catrina?” Everyone except Discord and Arrist asked confused.

“Oh,that…”She replied a bit awkwardly.
“Yeah…Just decided Arrist was better,you know…”

“Wait, you have two names?”Twilight asked.

“Well,yes…In a way,My full name is Arrist Catrina Draconequus,but Discord here convinced me to just choose one of my two names because he was bored to death that day,”

Fluttershy had to giggle at that.
“Really?” She asked.

“Absolutely,” She assured her.
“And, well, because it would be more convenient anyways,Discord was more hyped on Catrina than Arrist,if being honest he almost convinced me to Catrina, but then again…I guess Arrist stuck out to me the most,”

“And again;Catrina would have been better,” Discord said.

“Discord!”Fluttershy called out to him frustrated.

“What?” He asked confused.

“You really wanna know?”

“It’s okay,but believe me;I haven’t heard the end of it since then,”

“I stand firmly on my beliefs!”Discord then was dressed in a judge’s costume in front of a court.

“Yeah,firmly on your beliefs,”

“How come you choose Arrist though? What made Arrist more special than Catrina?” Luna addressed interested.

“Well,it was just more closer to my character,I dunno, something about it made it special, not that I hated Catrina obviously,no,it just… fit me better,”

“I feel you,”

Arrist raised her eyebrow at this.
“Huh?”

“I mean;I had to choose between my two names, for the same reasons,”

“Really?”

“Wait,Wait,Wait,Wait,Wait…You have two names?”Spike asked surprised.

“Luna…And Selena,”

“Woah!Cool name!” RD comments.

“Thank you,” Luna replied back.

“Hmmm,I can understand why you had such a big dilemma,” Arrist admits.
“Both names are very symbolic for you,since both Luna and Selena mean ‘moon’ in ancient Dlatinic,well…Luna mostly fits in Slabiyak,but you get what I mean,”

“That’s right! It was so hard to choose! It’s so difficult to select between two wonderful names!”

“I think Selena would have been better…”Celestia admits.

“HERE we go again!” Luna rolls her hoof annoyed.

“What?”

“For the last time:Luna is my first name, just DEAL WITH it for crying out loud!”

“I’m just saying Selena would have been far more better,”

“You know there were Copyright reasons involved!”Luna fights back.

“Could have been Selina,”

“That’s still the same!”

“No...there is an ’i’,”

“UUUHHHHH!” Luna then throws her head on the table.
“Someone kill me,” She pleads in a muffled voice.

“Eh, sorry, you ain’t supposed to die, immortal, remember?” Arrist reminds.

Author's Note:

Hello there my faithful readers, yeah, at this point you are all like
'Where have you been?'
'I totally forgot about your story! '
Yes, I know, my story has been on a hiatus, but I'm baaaack!
What? You thought I quit the story?
Tartarus no!

Anyways, speaking of Arrist's name, yeah, it was a complete coincidence, and I did NOT name her after Mt. Aris, really, the whole things was just a coincidenceXD

And what? You thought that just 7,543 words would be enough for Arrist and The Princesses to meet?

Nope, still on the wait!

Oh, and just a quick but important update:
Soon I'll publish a prequel chapter for my next story, now how much soon is... You're gonna find out yourselves, enjoy, and thanks for reading my friends.
Keep reading~

Comments

[Winter Willow]

Nice, but for some reason the beginning of the chapter repeats on itself. Also, don't the girls already know that so wouldn't it be Luna and Celestia surprised at the news?

[A_User]

Can you summarize everything that happened in this story? I had a vision problem and I have about 100 stories to read, I won't have time to read the big ones anymore