"Foals don't do that..."
"CADYYYYYYYYY!!!!" a voice could be heard in the distance. Please tell me this isn't an emergency... Cadence thought to herself.
"CADY!!! LUNA SAID HER FIRST WORD!!!!" Celestia shouted right in Cadence's face.
"T-That's nice..." Cadence said absentmindedly, rubbing the pain out of her ears. "Wait, what was that again?"
"Sorry," Celestia said, lowering the volume, "Luna said her first word! Luna, can you say it again? Say 'Tia'."
"Tia," Luna said, staring with blank confusion (and possibly a small cry for help) at Cadence.
"See! Isn't this great! I've never been more proud!" Celestia beamed, finally setting Luna down while she immediately went to go play with Cadence's pink teddy bear.
"Oh my gosh really?! That's so amazing and exciting and- wait... how old is Luna again?" Cadence asked.
"What do you mean?" Celestia said, her mood shifting.
"How old is she?"
"Um... (yesterday was Tuesday and if something happens twice every week and we've had -unintelligible murmuring- and carry the two...) About two weeks old," Celestia resolved.
"... Foals don't do that," Cadence stated blankly.
"What?"
"No foal in existence, even mortal ones, start talking at two weeks old. Maybe a word here and there at six months old, but never at two weeks old... and she did have that growth spurt..." Cadence explained thoughtfully.
"So what, she's just aging super quickly or-" Cadence nods affirmatively. "Wait... really?"
"Tia, we need to check this out."
Celestia just sat there, not a little bored while she waited to hear back from the pediatrician about the results of Luna's physical. He finally came back with the results and what he said completely rocked Celestia's world.
"SHE'S SIX MONTHS OLD?!"
"Eh hem... correction, six or seven months old, according to her biology compared to other fillies at her development level," The pediatrician said, ignoring the ringing in his ears.
"But, how is that possible? It's only been about two weeks!" Celestia exclaimed. "Answers. Now."
"We both know alicorns age very very slowly, correct? And ponies age more quickly, comparatively speaking. If my calculations are correct, and they usually are, Luna is currently on course to have aged one pony year in a total time of a month. By the end of the year, I project she'll biologically be about six years old."
"You mean to tell me my sister is aging ONE YEAR EVERY MONTH?!?!" Celestia panicked.
"Yes."
"Do we know if she'll stop?"
"No," The pediatrician stated bluntly.
Back in Cadence's room, Celestia and Cadence sat in beanbag chairs, watching baby Luna sleep on Cady's bed while they spoke in hushed voices.
"So, is Luna officially mortal now?" Cadence asked.
"I don't know. I don't sense any change in her magical signature that indicates that her immortality is gone. As I've told you before, we do age for at least some time. First, one pony year ever 100 years, and then our aging slows down much more dramatically at around our 20's until circumstances kill us, whether an assassin or very harsh illness," Celestia explained solemnly.
"I remember..." Cadence shuddered. "How old was Luna supposed to be when she returned?"
Celestia looked upon Luna, gently stroking her mane while she slept. "About 23, maybe 24. Somewhere in her 20's, though I'm not certain. We honestly stopped keeping track of our age after about a thousand years..." Celestia sighed.
"So... maybe she'll age like a normal alicorn once she has aged back to her real age? Who's to say the magic that regressed her into a foal isn't simply undoing itself?" Cadence speculated.
"I hope that's the case. I can't imaging ever living without Luna in my life again! I cost us one thousand years together..." Celestia sighed, still stroking Luna's mane as she recalled their foal-hood together. It was just the two of us... We only had each other. I should have been there for you more. I'll be there for you now. Celestia promised to herself. "I'll never make that mistake again."
As predicted, when Luna was "one month old" she was biologically a year old. She certainly had a lot more to say, but not yet enough for complete sentences.
"Tiiiiiaaaaaaa!!!!! I pooooped!!!!!" Luna yelled at her sister down the hall.
"Oh, that's nice... I'll come change your diaper in a second!" Celestia promised. I suppose one benefit of Luna aging so quickly is that I'll be able to potty train her in about another month.
"TIIIIAAAAAAA!!!!!"
"I'm coming!!!" Celestia called back, quickly running to Luna's nursery to change her diaper. Lets see if I can make that less than a month. I sure love speed-running parenting heheheh...
And that's another chapter shorter than the last one by like 100 words 
They'll get longer again now that Luna is talking, I promise 
In other news, looks like Harmony has decided Tia will be speed-running parenting. From wanting Luna to just grow up again to wishing she didn't have to grow so quickly. Such is the emotional whiplash Celestia must suffer for her own crimes LOL. I wasn't gonna age Luna up until chapter 5, but I ran out of ideas for things newborn filly Luna could do without getting too redundant (I mean, at this age all they do is eat, sleep, poop, and cry and we've seen all of that already 
). Being a little older and being able to do things and talk will make writing more chapters about this stage of life easier.
The older Luna gets, the longer chapters will be and the longer we'll spend in each age 
Can't wait for more adventures! Things get interesting now 
I did not end up doing any fan art, but here's a random cute Woona image from the internet:
Maybe next chapter 
As always, do whatever floats your boat and have a great day/night!
Stats
Page generated in 0.015 seconds
Total duration
892 users online
1,192,131 hits today, 2,073,628 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
When will we have chapters with Woona pov? Will she have any participation in important events such as Discord's release? Are you planning on making any other big changes to the show's canon or will this just be background noise while we get diabetic amounts of cuteness from Woona?
11813004
Well, now that Luna can actually talk and as she grows older, we'll get Luna POVs AND diabetic amounts of cuteness
and yes, her presence will affect literally every villain the Mane Six come across in some way or form
(now to look at the episode list and see who's first in the line-up for butt kickery...)
Will Luna continue to age at the speed she currently is?
I ask because I am confused. If, by the end if the year, she will be 6, and we assume an Equestrian year is 12 months, a year after she becomes 6, she will be 18, then 30, and so on. If she ages that fast, doesn't that kinda ruin the point of her being a kid again?
I am VERY sorry if that sounds rude, as that was not my intention. I am just confused, as I said.
Hey there. Thanks again for getting the next chapter up. Actually, the Cake Twins DID say Pinkie Pie's name at one month old, so I guess they were exceptional foals, but I digress. But, anyway, Luna aging at one year for every month (meaning she'll probably be around the Crusaders' age if not a few years older by the time Discord returns) seems like a good way for Celestia to have to learn to speed parent (especially if Luna is going to be an adult again in around two years - at which point, I hope Luna's aging will be set back to one year for every century).
At any rate, the dialogue, characterizations and future chapter set-up are well done and I'll definitely be looking forward to more of this.
She might need a LOT of naptime, and she might probably complain of muscle and skeletal pain, as they grow and stretch at such fast rate.
11813037
The idea is that by season 9, she will be her proper age of somewhere in her 20’s (assuming the series spanned a time of 2 years. I know this may be a hot take, but I really think the series doesn’t span a very long on universe time. Even if that isn’t canon, AU card being played now 😎)
I chose this specific timeline assuming that the Elements age regressed to a teen (maybe 16-18) and she was an adult 4-5 months later at Nightmare Night (20-22ish)
I also googled it, Summer Solstice is June 20th. So if Nightmare Night is October 31st, then Luna will be 4 years more aged
11813095
Naptimes sound like a good idea. Growth spurts aren’t fun, but…
Magic! (She won’t hurt too bad)
11813123
Honestly, that makes sense because we seem the Summer Sun Celebration in the first episode, then in the first episode of season 4, then in an episode of Season 9, so if we are going by that metric, would be back to normal/original age just before the celebration in season 9.
💩 💩 💩 💩
Just wait until she grows into her Royal CapsLock voice.
Never mind.
You made me LOL at church. How dare you.
I only found 2 significant errors, both in the same sentence:
Doubled "and," then missing period at end. Now that I think about it, the period after "Tia" should be a comma.
Huzzah, the and has been doubled!
11813185
(I have 14 Woona emotes and 3 NMM emotes in my server and I am obsessed with making moar!!! 
Sad that I can't use em here 
The fun in my server has been doubled X obscenely large number!!!!)
Fixed it! Glad you like this chapter!
I have laughed during chapel a little while reading funny stories, so now we're both good
11813128
)
I just looked at the episode list and it makes no sense to me at all. "Winter Wrap Up" precedes "Fall Weather Friends" and then we get to the Gala, Discord, and Nightmare Night... so forget canon cause I'm gonna just nix "Winter Wrap Up" all together and replace it sometime later with an "episode" between "Luna Eclipsed" and "Hearth's Warming Eve" (probably directly proceeding "Luna Eclipsed" which will have obvious changes to the episode due to Luna being smol
11813211
Events do not have to take place in Episodic order. Winter Wrap Up could be after Hearths Warming Eve, for example
11813239
Yeah, I’m probably moving it there