The Gift
Luna giggled in delight as she twirled around the dark blue room with stars elegantly painted onto the walls. They would shimmer so beautifully in the absence of light, their soft sparkle made the filly feel as if she were floating.
It was peaceful and silent, a rare moment amongst apparently war-torn kingdoms. This tranquility enough to ease the embarrassment of being dressed up as a dusty ball of rock.
"Kill me now, please." Tia groaned with bright red cheeks as she lazily floated amongst the stars dressed in a chunky ball of fluorescent light.
Luna knew her sister was fat with all the cake she consumed on a daily basis. But as they hung on the bronze bar by sturdy ropes, Tia seemed nearly ten times her normal size. Plus her chunky butt stole so much gravity, that Luna was suspended up high near the ceiling giggling.
"So girls, what have we learned?" Starswirl mused as he appeared in the middle of the room by a puff of smoke.
"That you're a nut who enjoys dressing up little fillies. '' Tia spoke sarcastically as she began to spin out of control one way and then back the opposite.
"You'll never learn if you refuse humility. " Starswirl scolded the pink-maned princess with those deep insightful eyes.
"That um if we wish to contwoll cewestial boobies, we need to become one with them?" Luna held up her hooves as she giggled at the sight of her sister now flipped upside down.
"Exactly! Magic is more than just enchantments and powerful spells, it's a part of our very soul and inner strength! " Starswirl sighed as he used a hoof to reposition Tia on the bar.
"Yeah, dressing like an idiot doesn't inspire me to do better." Tia blew a loud raspberry from across the room.
Starswirl slowly stroked his great big bushy beard."Tell me what the world would be like if the sun never lifted?" He questioned the children with much interest.
"Eternwal night!? It would be bewtiful! " Luna extended her hooves to twirl in awe as her eyes glowed like the stars above.
"No, we'd all freeze to death, dummy!" Tia flung backward to buck her sister's dumb costume sending her flying around the room like a bouncy ball.
"Destruction rises when balance isn't achieved. " Starswirl pointed to the few cracks which lined the walls of his private study.
"Balance is impossible with her!" Tia growled annoyed as her little sister gazed down at the floor with a somber attitude.
"I'm sorry, Tiwa." Luna sniffled as her hoof brushed away tears from her eyes.
"I mean you always run around, you get into trouble, and always ask questions! " Tia spun in place with a look of annoyance.
"I just want to be stwong like you." Luna began to sob softly.
Tia felt her eyes widen at the sound of those words as her heart sank."You want to be like me?" She turned to face the tiny filly with a look of warmth.
"Mm-hmm, you're my hewo." Luna locked those large blue eyes upon her sister.
Tia shifted into a poised stance as she shifted toward her little sister. The bar angled at a center position as their weights evened out, Tia pulling her sister into a long and loving hug.
"Well, I honestly want to be as passionate and inspiring as you." Tia placed a soft kiss atop the forehead of her sister, a click heard as both were released from the bar above.
Both toppled to the floor, Tia easily snatching her little sister out of the air and squeezing her lovingly. Starswirl chuckled as he walked over to the front door of the study, unlocking the wooden frame as light poured into the room.
"Today's lesson is complete! Please enjoy the day to play in the garden, or help yourself to dark chocolate cake in the kitchen." Starswirl gave a knowing wink to each child.
"Whoo-hoo, I wuv the garden! Tiwa can eat all the cake, she's more piggwy than ponwy!" Luna squealed as she darted out the front door in a midnight blur of color.
Starswirl began to take his leave as Tia sat there on the floor in silence. " She needs me to be her strength. " She let her voice echo across the room faintly.
"Mayhaps, but you need her to be your compassion. " Starswirl stood in the open doorway with a slight smirk.
"You think I'm heartless?" Tia lifted her silent gaze towards her mentor with folded back ears.
"Neigh, but you are proud and stubborn as a mule! " He turned chuckling heartedly in place as Tia felt her cheeks burn a bright red.
"Let her kindness and wonderment guide you, see through the eyes of youth and know that innocence has its own merits." Starswirl exited the room slowly as the young alicorn was left to her thoughts.
"I'll do it for her." Tia used her hoof to unclip her costume as she was freed from its confines.
With one deep breath, she walked out into the lovely sunshine of a new day. The faint sound of arrow fire and the howling of war upon the horizon. Yet for now, her attention fell upon the tiny moon rolling around the garden free of fear or anxiety about the future ahead.
Laughing aloud Tia freed her sister from the round cumbersome costume.
"Let's play something new!" Tia smiled like the sun down to her frazzled lifelong friend.
"Your games are nevwa new." Luna blew a cute little raspberry towards her older sibling.
"I know, that's why you're choosing! " Tia winked playfully as her sister squealed uncontrollably in excitement.
"Omigosh, I have this one game awbout an owl who is hungie for ideas so he eats books and…" Luna began to share a world unlike anything seen before, full of magic and friendship.
One of peace.
A gift of life, she'd hold dear to her heart always.
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Praying you win something!
Hmm.
That cover art is beautiful <3
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Coverart sauce: https://www.deviantart.com/rocket-lawnchair/art/Gravity-Hog-ATG-X-Day-2-844315107 (SFW)
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Thank you, I could only trace it back as far as Cheeseburger.
11226165 NP. Derpibooru has a neat reverse search thing you can use to find (generally pony) images, or you can always use saucenao.
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Isn't it?
The moment I saw this, I was inspired to write sister fluff.
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Need to use derpibooru more then, the art showed up when I searched mlp art, lol.
A lovely look at both the young diarchs and Star Swirl's... unconventional teaching methods. Though Luna dropping the cutest "r = w" voice after one line bothers me. I just wish it was consistent one way or the other.
But that's a minor quibble. Overall, a good lesson for Celestia with a nice undercurrent of impending tragedy. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
hehehe so true
aww, Luna is so mean it's so cute!
ehehe, love the contrast between Luna and the older and grumblier Celestia
hehe, she's so easy to amuse!
oof, foreshadowing!
auaugh this is extremely heartwarming i love it
augh that is just too cute
ehehe, Luna is just the age to be so rudely blunt without even considering it!
augh, the folded-back ears are the perfect touch. and yes, the contrast between Celestia's aloofness and Luna's emotion stretching back to their fillyhoods is a great thing to explore like this
and this Starswirl is just so warm and wise! very fitting to be Celestia's mentor
augh, that is such a cute mental image! a tiny moon rolling around!
and that is the world Celestia spent her long reign doing her best to build for her little ponies! argh.
this was a lovely mix of heartwarming adorableness and heartbreaking future tragedies foreshadowed, joined by the strife and terror of a world at war far in the background. what a contrast to the Equestria of the modern age that we see, underscoring the gulf of time that separates the Royal Sisters of the present that we know, and the vastly different world that they grew up in.
and augh, i am so impressed with just how much personality Celestia, Luna, and Starswirl have here, and how perfect they are as the younger versions of the much older characters we see in the canon. i can imagine perfectly how they grew up from this point to what we saw, and how time has changed them. amazing work!
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XD, went back and added more lisp speak on Luna.
Didn't expect for that bomb to be dropped so early. Suerly there was more to that than this one small exchange of sentences to give a spark. The rest of fic is pretty good for what it is. I like it!