Twilight, Mare of Power

by Banops

"It Works Both Ways"

You know that saying “you always hurt the one you love” well it works both ways.

Oh the night of the Royal Dinner. It is a time where my sister and I sit down and eat dinner with all of the important ponies in Equestria. All of the mayors from our good cities would be here. We would all talk politics, current events. We would share ideas on expanding the borders into the unknown parts of the world.

Oh and the food would be fantastic, prepared by our royal chefs. Too bad there was going to be earth ponies present, I could really go for some fish, but because they’re vegetarian it would be offensive. Oh well. Our chefs could make even the most mundane foods taste like ambrosia, which I think was actually being served tonight. I like me some ragweed pasta.

Now where was that sister of mine? Everyone would be here in an hour for the dinner and I couldn’t find her.

Now the first place I looked was her bedroom, no one was there. Just books scattered everywhere. Books and pages of notes… I would have been horrified by the state of her room had it not already been like this for years. She had been doing some “important research” trying to discover, well, I really didn’t know. For some reason she didn’t… wouldn’t tell me. And after these few years back together one would think that I’d finally earned back her trust. Guess not.

I looked, quite literally, through the entire royal castle. She was nowhere to be found. But I did have one guess where she could be, that cursed laboratory of hers. Oh yes, that place. It gave me the creeps. Just thinking about it sent shivers down my spine.

She had been spending more and more time pent up in that confounded eyesore. I had no clue what she did in there and I didn’t want to know anyways. Either way she forbade anypony from entering unless they had received her special permission.

If she was in there, than I was just wasting time looking for her, I would just have to trust that she would do the right thing and show up to the dinner. Preferably on time.

She didn’t…

I was really going to give that sister a piece of my mind.

It was ten at night, she was still not here and everypony else was. There were the leaders of all of the cities from Ponyville to Manehatten. Anypony of political importance made their appearance… except my sister.

They entered the dining hall, each of them filling their assigned seats at the elongated table.

The sound of all the ponies talking filled the room, making it difficult to get every ponies attention.

“Excuse me, if I could have your attention…” yeah of course they didn’t hear me.

“EXCUSE ME…” I said, clanging a spoon to a glass trying again to grab their attention. They didn’t hear me again (though I suspected they had heard me, but were just ignoring me since I wasn’t Celestia)

Oh my Celestia… I put my face in my right hoof.

I looked up at everyone. Yep they were still talking. I guess I wasn’t important enough to speak to these ponies. I sighed.

I let them continue their conversation. It wasn’t worth the effort or frustration to keep trying. I wasn’t about to shout in my royal Canterlot voice, no that would be rude. Eventually, the pony in the seat on my left (who I presumed was the mayor of Trottingham) turned to me and spoke.

I got excited when she began to speak.

“May I inquire where your sister is, dear princess?” she asked, trying to feign an upper class, more sophisticated accent.

My excitement dropped. Now I was annoyed. I mocked her ridiculous fake accent in my head.

“No, I am afraid I am not sure as to her whereabouts.” I stated coldly.

“Oh.” She said then she turned her head and started speaking to another pony.

Oh… OH!!! That’s all you have to say! This was going to be a long night.

***

The night droned on and on. I don’t even remember what I had eaten. It could just been some dandelion sandwiches for all I knew. I spent the entire dinner in my own world, staring down the table at the ponies on the other end with my chin in my hoof. I went over in my head countless times how I was going to confront my sister for not being there. At least if she was there, then not everypony would have been ignoring me. She truly was the only pony that seemed to understand me. But she didn’t show up.

I was upset to say the least.

The dinner ended and the many ponies left (good riddance) disappointed at the absence of their most beloved princess. I made my way across the castle to my sisters bedroom. I was going to wait for her and confront her when she got home.

***

I lay on my sister’s bed, waiting for her to return. I knew she would return trying not to disturb anypony.

How dare she not show at dinner, and leave me there all by my self.

I kept getting angrier and angrier thinking about it.

Sure enough, just before one in the morning, a shimmer appeared near her bedroom door, and out she popped. We locked eyes for a brief moment.

“WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?” I demanded of her, rhetorically.

“Listen Luna, now is not the time, I need…” she tried to say before I interrupted.

“Now’s not the time!? Now is the perfect time. Did you not remember the dinner, the royal dinner. We waited for you and waited for you, but you never came.”

“Look Luna I understand that I shouldn’t have missed that but…”

What! How could she possibly understand!

“You don’t understand, no, you have NO idea what its like being there by yourself. You know what,” I said. Now I was trying to fight back tears, “they all ignored me, apparently I’m not as important as my big sister.” By that point my voice shook as I spoke. “Just like old times, right?”

“Luna, I…”

“NO… you were in that lab of yours weren’t you. Oh sure that’s where you always go when you don’t wanna show your face. Luna doesn’t need any help entertaining any guests, no I think I’ll just stay in my lab doing who knows what.” I said bitterly mocking her. “What is so damn important that you must lock yourself away and forget about everyone that needs you?”

She approached me cautiously and sat down on the bed next to me, putting a forehoof in my mane. She stroked my mane for a bit, while I let tears roll down my face. Of all the ponies, she was the only one that truly understood me, yet sometimes I felt sometimes she didn’t.

Her hoof in my mane felt different then it usually did. She seemed unsure about how she stroked it… in fact something about her seemed different. She seemed… scared. I have never seen her like this.

I looked into her eyes, which met mine. They were red and swollen. She had been crying. She had worry written on her face.

“Luna…” She began “It was wrong of me to leave you like that, I know, trust me I do. But, right now, there is something important we must do.”

“What is it, what happened?” I said concern growing in my voice. Now that I got a better look at her, I noticed that her face was bruised. What in the… What was going on?

“A threat, a very serious one, has been made against our people. We must contact Shining Armor at once.”

“Sister, your face, what happened?” I tried to ask

“Yes I know, don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine. We must alert Shining Armor at once. We must arrest the mare, Twilight Sparkle, at once.”

“What Twilight Sparkle, as in your faithful student, as in Shining Armor’s little sister, Twilight Sparkle?!”

She only nodded letting a single tear roll down her face.

But I couldn’t help but feel like she wasn’t telling me something important.

What happened…

Comments

[Banops]

I want to apologies, yet again, for taking a while to get another chapter out. I wrote this chapter three times and deleted it before I was finally satisfied with where it was going. And this still felt a little rushed to me. No worries, I'll be sure to make up for it next chapter.

[Wing Dancer]

Rushed? No way!

This felt really good in fact. I don't get why horses would eat fish, I'm not a veterinarian or anything, but I believe that in nature horses/ponies don't eat fish

Either way take as much time as you need, release chapters like this when, and only when you feel like it

Keep up the good work!

[Fallen Knight]

Really good but why would she not tell Luna about a magic sucking monster (she did feel it trying to do something at least with her and it told her so).

This way she is only endangering others by not telling them anything.