A New Sun Rewrite

by Pinklestia

Changes

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, volumen IV, 1792 English translation by Richard Graves of Marcus Aurelius Latin original.

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When Mag woke up, she noticed that her house wasn't as clean as usual. There were posters in the walls, movie posters of old and classic movies like "Casablanca" and "All Dogs go to Heaven". There was even a picture of her drawing with a marker on Celestia sleeping face, and childhood pictures of herself were she was with old friends. There was also a new table, and four chairs.

And she could somehow guess her fridge would be fully stocked if she opened it.

"Luna, I think we need to define what counts as an emergency when it comes to taking control of my body." Then again, at least this meant she didn't have to go shopping herself for a while.

"Celestia did reveal magic to the World on live Tv." Luna said using Mag's mouth in the most deadpan tone possible.

"Okay, fair point... but what does that have to do with the changes in my house?"

"I sold Celestia big shinny rock and got money to expend. Then after I got food I decided to redecorate. You have been asleep for a week."

"What." Now that did explain why her nails looked so good, Luna must have taken care of then.

"Also your hair natural color seems to be pink now and yes the carpet does match the drapes."

"What?" Mag ran to the bathroom, saw herself in the mirror and... yes it looked like Luna was right after she checked under the clothes.

"You are the one who did this to yourself, remember?"

"Can... can you fix this or teach me how?" Mag didn't think pink was her color but then again, she didn't use to think she would be happier if she was adopted by an alien pony goddess.

"Mag, this wasn't just the equivalent of magical hair dye, you changed something about yourself permanently. And it has been a week so it set in, you are lucky it was something so harmless. Take this as a warning of the dangers of casting magic without having a clue of what the fudge you are doing."

"Fine, but if I change my eyes or grow a horn I want your help to fix that. And couldn't you have fixed my hair while I was asleep for a week?"

"The Eldest offered to keep trouble away from us until Celestia woke up if I didn't."

"What? That son of a... Celestia has not woken up yet?"

"She has been pushing herself too much, more than you did. And Earth magic being so thin didn't help. She is in basically a state of sleep healing and so waking her up would be a bad idea."

Mag ran to her couch but Celestia wasn't there, then she ran to her bed and noticed that her bed had been replaced by a King sized bed, or in this case, Goddess sized bed.

Celestia was sleeping in the bed and she smelled of expensive soap.

"Did... did you give her a bath?"

"Yes, it wasn't easy, but even with the reveal of magic most people still cannot see my sister."

"You said most... who saw her?"

"I had to give her a bath outside since she didn't fit in your bathtub, a hobo and a few children saw her."

"Okay." said Mag despite the fact things weren't okay. "How has the whole reveal of magic worked out?"

"Most people seems to think is fake, but there is a minority that thinks is real. There has not been any coverup attempt as far as I know."

"And as soon as I go out some wizard or witch will try to.kidnap me, right?"

"Celestia didn't woke up yet, so the Eldest is still keeping trouble away from us."

"Wonderful, is there anything I can do to help Celestia wake up sooner?"

"Unless you can increase the ambient magic about ten times? No."

"Then... what can I do then?"

"I warded the house as best as I could, I even use some of Celestia hair and fur for that. So... we could continue our magic lessons to let you be better prepared when trouble comes. And later we could go out to have some fun, since living in a self imposed house arrest would drive both of us crazy... maybe a tad looney. That was a joke, you can now laugh."

"Ha ha. So... what will I learn to do in Looney Luna Magic school?"

"Go to sleep and find out, but later. Now go to use the Google and read the reactions to the revealing of magic, you may notice something I didn't."

Mag did just that, but didn't know what exactly to look for.

"She... She has a fanclub?"

"Yes, it started as a joke in a web forum, but after a few days... well let's just say I wouldn't want any of those people near my sister."

"What the hell? Someone drew porn of her human form?"

"It is the Internet Mag, isn't it made for porn?"

"Shouldn't you be... more angry? This is your sister we are talking about!"

"Mag, there was a lot of erotica about my sister when Equestria was still around. Not so much about myself due to my... thousand years time out on the moon, but is something both of us have got used to."

"But she is my mother! I do not want to watch porn of her!"

"Then don't, there is a safe search option on the Google."

"But that might block something relevant..." Mag protested then used the safe search option anyway.

With that done, the things she found were less mental scarring.

"Hey... some kids drew Celestia flying in her pony form."

"Save the drawings, I think she will like them."

"There is also drawing of her biting someone head off. I guess safesearch isn't perfect or the drawing is jusy too badly done."

"Save that one too, she might find it amusing."

"Luna... I am going to become... not human?"

"Why are you asking that? And no, I don't think so, despite the pink hair you are still very much human and think like one."

"Because I am scared... and maybe because letting a literal goddess live in my body may change me?"

"To live is to a change a little bit every day, is it not? Do not fear change itself, change can be good or bad, and if you end becoming not human, that will be because you want to stop being one, or because I couldn't stop you from doing something stupid, or maybe something of me may rub in you.. I hope is my charming personality and good looks. You could use more friends, maybe someone to help you warm at night, maybe a lover."

"Don't lie to me Luna, you are a loner too, maybe not as much as me, but I think that in that we are alike."

"I am not Celestia, I am not going to smile and pretent to be okay, because I am not okay. I am also not in my own body, and going out and making friends wouldn't be what would count as an emergency . Not while you were sleep for days and I worried sick you wouldn't wake up!"

Mag sat down on the couch, her couch was still the same at least, had Luna used the couch as a bed?

"We... we are quite broken aren't we? A goddess with no world, her sister who also has no body and me... who has lost her faith in humanity goodwill so much I trust the first talking equine I find instead." Mag was not crying, the tears were from Luna or so she told herself.

Luna didn't say anything else and just let her cry for a few minutes.

Then she walked to her room, that had been turned into Celestia's room, and hugged the sleeping sun goddess while she cried some more.

"Mag? Why are you crying my little sunshine?" Celestia's voice asked.

"Because you been in a coma for a week and... and I don't know!" Mag said and keep crying. And then she noticed Celestia had actually woken up and nuzzled her face and that she just had not imagined Celestia talking.

"I am sorry to have worried you Mag, I am a terrible mother."

"No, you are not terrible! You just... need to learn to rest sometimes."

"Than you Mag, but I still feel I could have done things better."

"My dear sister, how do you feel?" Luna interrupted.

"Rested, and a confused."

"You decided to reveal magic to the people of Earth, remember?"

"I did? And then what happened?"

"Not much really, at least for now." Mag said. "Well besides the fact you got a fanclub."

Mag then did the best she could to dry her tears but she still knew that she looked awful.

"Did you dye your hair pink?" Celestia asked.

"So who is hungry? I am hungry! I know, I am going to make you food, you haven't eaten in a week!" Mag said trying to change the subject.

"Mag."

"Later, let's... Let's me pamper my dear mother a bit, okay?"

"Fine."

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Mag was confused with having so many ingredients and a full fridge, to the point that despite her protests Celestia left the bed and helped her to cook.

For once, Celestia stopped asked like a goddess of grace and manners and just ate all the food she could. It seemed that even for her, a whole week without eating was too much.

"Mag, now will you tell me why your hair is pink?" Celestia asked.

"I messed up with magic and apparently is now permanent." Mag confessed.

"There, was admitting that so hard?"

"You are not angry?"

"Considering all the things you could have done, why would s change of hair color brother me?"

"But is permanent!"

"Even if that's the case, there are hair dyes you can use if you want. And I don't think it looks bad on you. By the way, your skin looks better, and your nails look amazing, have you been taking better care of yourself?"

"No, I was asleep for a week so Luna was the one who took care of me."

"That explains all the changes in the house and why it looks dirtier than usual."

"You may like to play being a housewife sister, but I do not. The house is clean enough anyway."

And then someone knocked the house door.

"So now that my sister it awake and the Eldest is not keeping trouble away, that probably means trouble is knocking at Mag's door."

Celestia looked at the door, then to Luna.

"Sister, did you put protections on the house?"

"At best as I could."

"Then let however it is keep knocking while I made myself presentable." Having said that Celestia took into her princess like human form and went to take a bath, while the nocks at the door continued.

"Uh, I didn't think she would do something like that. Usually she would have fixed her looks with magic then opened the door right away."

"Does this mean she is still weak?" Mag just had to ask, because she really cared and Celestia had proven less invencible than she had thought.

"No, I would have noticed that. It just means that she decided to drop the princess mask for once, because we are her family and she cares more about us that about whatever is outside."

"Good." Mag said and then went to change, fearing what kind of clothes Luna had stuffed her wardrobe with.

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Mag opened the door, outside there was a potbellied man with a red-orange mustache and an old gray beanie, in his thirties or forties. Mag guessed he was a reporter and was starting to wonder why she has suck bad luck with annoying fat men.

He had a notepad and wore the face of a man about to wager his soul, probably due to Celestia, in human princess mode, being behind Mag.

“You're Ms. Margaret Wilson?” asked the man.

”Yeah, and this is Princess Celestia,” said Mag and pointed behind her. "She's kind of my adoptive mother, we haven't done the paperwork yet.

He stood up straight. “Does, uh, do... so it looked like her majesty speaks English?”

“I do,” said Princess Celestia who looked that she was trying hard to not laugh. “May I help you, sir?”

He clutched his tie. “Your, er, your majesty, and you as well, Ms. Wilson, would you two care to answer a few questions?”

“Ah,” said Celestia, pleased.

“How about Luna?” asked Mag.

“What?” said the reporter.

“You're talking to one human and two magical aliens,” said Mag. “The third has no physical form and she lives in my head and yes I know that sounds crazy.”

The reporter stared at her helplessly. Mag created a pink ball of magic light and bounced it between her hands.

Mag nodded. “Too weird for you. Got it.”

“Do write that down though, please,” said Celestia. “That part is going to be difficult to explain to humanity, and it might be best if we mention it as early as possible.”

“I was rather hoping to be the secret princess,” said Luna. "Then again, I can always always make those who annoy me just fall asleep."

"Luna, you are not that boring." Celestia said with a smile.

"I meant with magic!"

“Don't worry; a lot of people aren't going to believe you exist Luna,” said Mag."And way too many people will think I am crazy."

“Good, then there is fun still to be had ” said Luna.

The reporter had a stub of a pencil set against the top line of his notepad, but hadn't written a word yet, or even looked down at it. He'd lost his nerve.

“Celestia, maybe you should just tell him what to write.” said Luna.

Celestia then changed into her pony form, and the reporter fainted.

"I think he just wet his pants." Mag said with disgust.

"Can I scare the next one?" Luna asked in a eager tone.

"I didn't want to scare him, I just wanted to know if he could see my real form." Celestia protested.

"I am not touching him, so what? We just close the door and leave him outside in the cold?" Mag asked.

"That would be rude." Celestia said. "Move to the side so I can levitate him inside, Mag do you have fresh clothes he could wear?"

"Not as far as I know, Luna did you buy some?"

"No, let's just seat him near the heater and put a few towers over whatever seat we use."

"And then drop some perfume on him? Wait that cannot be very hygienic." Mag said.

"Then let's just ask the cameraman behind him if he can take care of the idiot."

There was indeed a camera man behind the fainted man. Mag had failed to notice him before for some reason, maybe because he was so quiet.

"So, is this going live?" Mag asked and the camera man nodded his head.

"Hi kids! Eat your veggies!" Luna said in a cheerful irritating tone.

Author's Note:

A beta reader is still wanted.

I think these three are starting to act like a real family, don't you think?

Comments

[BestinDworld]

this is cute keep it up

[lolitsjack]

Moar plz

[Detsella Morningdew]

I can be a beta reader. And if you have something like Google Docs (so I can make suggestions more efficiently), I can help more effectively with editing in general.