How Do I Begin?
Luna could never forget what happened all those years ago. Sometimes, when she was alone, she would remember her sister and cry whishing it was her and not her sister who was gone from this world. Luna found that she had plenty of time for this because she lived in an appealing gated community on the cliffs above Canterlot for all the high ranking, troubled war veterans. She had started this process again until the guards arrived with her beloved niece and nephews; Glistening Sword, Amoura, and little Gauntlet.
Glistening Sword is an earth pony whose only major difference between his dad and him was Glistening’s emerald eyes. Glistening Sword, taught by his father, was a good, and hardworking. He was also apparently was very attractive and popular with the fillies in his grade.
Amoura was a cute little unicorn with amethyst eyes and possesses a darker pink coat than her mother and a dark purple mane that has a light pink stripe in it. Amoura, like Twilight Sparkle, was a hardcore introvert. Her difference with Twilight Sparkle was that she at least had one or two friends at a young age. She was also completely oblivious to all of the gazes she got from the colts at her age level.
Gauntlet on the other hand was completely different from the rest of his family. He was a little pegasus whose coat is a dark brown and mane is a light green color. Originally, Cadence was thought to be courting a noble. But, after some DNA spells it was learned that Gauntlet was a legitimate son. Gauntlet unfortunately, was born with a learning defect. Glistening was always thought to have Gauntlet tag along because it helped him “pick up the pretty fillies,” but this was not true because Sword really just loved his brother and didn’t want him to be bullied.
“Hello and welcome my little ponies.” was her normal greeting, but this time the children knew something was wrong and reacted before Luna could get out her words.
“Auntie what’s wrong?” Amoura asked and took a step forward.
“W-What? Nothing is wrong. Please don’t worry yourself over me, are you prepared to have fun?” Luna hastily replied.
“Auntie, please, my special talent is sensing others feelings, remember? I know when something is wrong.” Amoura said, putting concern in her voice.
“Amoura, I must request you drop this at once. I have a fun day planned for you and I do not want it ruined because you are worried about me.” she said frowning, and then added, “The truth is something you need not worry about right now but, don’t worry, for I will tell you in a later date.”
“What did you have planned for us auntie? Does it involve sweets?” asked Gauntlet bouncing about.
“That depends on if you are willing to help me bake them.” Luna said half questioning and half tellingly.
“Of course!” the trio replied ecstatically.
Months went by and everyday Amoura still persisted on finding out the problem bothering Luna. Luna knew that she would have to either mare up and do it herself or simply let the school system do it for her. She thought it would be better for the children to hear it from her herself so she set a date one week from then to give herself time to prepare.
Luna had started rigorously preparing herself before her fateful day. She kept herself from stressful situations, ate healthy foods, and got a good solid forty hours of sleep. She also went through strenuous but peaceful yoga stretches to help clear the mind. There might have been a time or two when Luna thought to herself “Am I just overdoing it here? I might just be indulging myself here…” But, she kept herself on her regular schedule.
She heard the royal chariot before she saw it. It wasn’t carrying the foals; it was instead Derpy Hooves carrying her mail. Derpy had been a messenger in the war and stayed in her profession after. She trotted up to the door and knocked. Luna answered the door and said a simple, “Hello Ms. Hooves.”
“Hiya Ms. Luna, I have a letter here for you, it’s from the King, so I recommend a speedy response!” Derpy said with a toothy grin.
“Thank you Ms. Hooves, have a wonderful day now!” Luna said giving Derpy a small tip.
Luna silently cursed in spite of herself and opened the letter. The letter was short and could have been writing better if Shining Armor had gotten help from his royal letter writing advisor. It quickly explained how the kids were all at their friends’ house for the night and she had the day to herself but, if she wanted to get out of the house and spend the day with Cadence, Shining would run the court. Luna decided that it would be good to get out of the house and spend some time with a good friend.
Luna wrote to Cadence and told her to meet her in the Canterlot Gardens in a half hour. She put on a nice cloak and gathered a nice and hardy pouch of bits and set off for the gardens. But, after a small time of walking she remembered a cake she put into the oven for the kids to ease into her gruesome tale. She flew home and turned off the oven and put the cake in the refrigerator for later use and went on her way again.
Luna arrived to the garden and hedge maze five minutes early despite her mishap with the oven. She spent her remaining time looking around when she laid eyes on the statue of the griffon king. She remembered how she and her sister led the charge in overtaking the griffon fortress and how she lost half of her invasion force to traps set by the opposition. She remembered the screams and almost went into a relapse when Queen Cadence interrupted her train of thoughts.
“Hello dear Aunt! It’s so good to see you, how are you today!” Cadence said tearing Luna away from the statue.
“Wha-What, Oh hi Cadence, I didn’t see you there, I’m good how are you?” Luna replied hastily.
“I’m drowned in paperwork, having headaches from all of the complains, trying to restrain myself from killing Blueblood, and on top of it all, taking care of three kids but other than that I’m absolutely magnificent!” Cadence answered with a sarcastic tone.
Luna just laughed and said, “Well I can’t say I envy you, the only difference between your experience and mine is the fact that I was never a mother.” Luna teased.
“Let’s just say I needed this time off, its only lunch time and we have the whole day.” Cadence said then added, “I know this great chineighs restaurant if you want try it.”
“That’s sounds just wonderful, let’s go,” Luna replied as the duo started to walk, leaving behind the bad memories of the evil statue.
The restaurant was a very short walk from the gardens and was appropriately named Royal Gardens Resturant. It was popular and Luna thought they would never get a seat but the waiter always had a reserve seat for royalty, all diners did. The duo was set in the back in privacy.
“Luna, can I ask you a question?” Cadence asked.
“Why yes of course, anything.” Luna answered while reviewing the drink menu.
“Is Amoura, um, maybe…?” Cadence stuttered.
“Is Amoura what, spit it out. Is Amoura an angel? Yes, of course, they all are.” Luna teased but fearing that she knew the question.
“No, uh.” the queen stammered.
“Hello, welcome to the Royal Gardens Restaurant, can I get you something to drink your majesties!” the waitress interrupted and said, “Our special is a raspberry iced tea.” she finished while getting out her notepad.
“Yum, that sounds good I’ll try that.” Luna remarked licking her lips at the thought of the drink.
“Yes, me too please.” said Cadence quietly still fearing about asking the question on her mind.
The waitress wrote the order down and left food menus so the mares could continue talking.
“I wanted to ask if Amoura was bothering you about, well, Celestia?” she asked, fearing she struck a nerve that would ruin the day.
“She has been asking about Celestia but doesn’t know who she is yet.” Luna explained then continued with, “I was planning on telling her about the war but, I was restraining myself because I didn’t know if you didn’t want me to or not.” Luna finished, lying.
“I trust your judgment, Luna. I just wanted to know because Amoura won’t stop taking about how there ‘is something wrong with her caretaker.” Cadence followed up with, “I’m sorry if I was prying.” she finished.
“You’re ok, I was worried I was overstepping my boundaries as an Aunt but, come now, let us see what this place has to offer so we can back to our fun day,” Luna said lightening the mood.
“Ok, I’m buying.” Cadence said chuckling.
“Obviously you don’t know how much I can eat!” Luna said laughing.
The duo ordered their food and ate a hearty lunch and had a fun day of shopping. Luna bought herself a new cloak for herself and various gifts for the foals. After a couple of hours of this, Cadence announced that she had to go back to the castle and commence damage control. Luna walked her back and went home and went to bed. To say the least, she did not have a peaceful sleep.
Luna stood watching her graceful sister, in front of the griffon fortress; give her speech to spark confidence in the hearts of the soldiers.
“SO MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM US!” Celestia shouted using her royal Canterlot voice to project herself across the whole invasion force, “THESE GRIFFONS HAVE KILLED FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FELLOW SOLDIERS, SO, LET US NOT MAKE THEIR DEATHS IN VAIN!” She finished stomping the ground as she finished her last two words.
“HOOOOOOORRRAAAAAAAA!” yelled the entire force itching for the order to charge.
“HARDEN YOUR HEARTS BOYS, FOR TODAY, WE FIGHT FOR THE FATE OF EQUESTRIA,” she yelled before adding the fateful order, “CHARGE.”
Luna locked eyes with her special general as the dream flash forwarded. Luna now was looking around the dark room from the ground immobilized, she saw the body of her dead, special general, Celestial; who was battered and beaten now from the harsh trials of the fortress and the unbearable punishment from the Griffon King, the bearers of the elements of harmony; all with their respective elements, and a small squad from the remaining invasion force.
“You LOSE Celestia,” the Griffon overlord said, “Just give up and I will spare you,”
“Twilight when I say the word, you and the other bearers CANNOT hesitate,” Celestia squeaked out.
“I-I don’t know if I can.” Twilight said, crying.
“Ah’m sorry Twilight, but we haf’ta do this, for Equestria.” the one named Applejack said stepping forward to comfort her.
“Enough of this, Celestia, prepare to meet your doom!” The overlord bellowed walking toward Celestia to deliver the final blow to Equestria.
Celestia waited a few moments for the Griffon king to walk close before she screamed.
“NOW, DO IT NOW!”
Right as the elements shot their spell Luna awoke screaming in cold blood. She looked at the clock. Three AM. Her alarm was set to go off in another five hours. Luna wasn’t tired so she got up and went to the bathroom. She took a cold shower and went to go make breakfast.
The children were coming soon and Luna decided today would be the day. She got ready, made a cake and prepared for the worst.
“You got this, Luna.” She said stretching.
Like on any other day when her services as a caretaker were needed, she set up a list of what she had planned to do that day with the foals. But, this was no normal day. She set up a plan of how much she of the story she planned on telling each day with the last part being the end of the week. Right when she finished this week’s story telling schedule, she heard the knock on the door. Luna knew it was time.
“Hello and welcome my little ponies!” Luna said trying to sound as excited as she could.
“Auntie, please, I’m begging you. I promise I can help with wha-” Amoura wasn’t able to finish her sentence, as her aunt interrupted her.
“Amoura, the day has come for me to tell you my story. Prepare yourselves, this is not a happy story.” Luna said with the nervousness of her voice trickling in.
“Auntie, I will assist you with whatever I can and if you need me to cover Gauntlet’s ears, I will.” Glistening sword said while stepping forward, “I promise we can handle it, we may be more grown up than you think.” He finished.
“Thank you, but I don’t think any of that will be necessary.” Luna said pointing to the kitchen and continued. “There is a cake in there so before I start to do anything, let’s go have a piece.” Luna said chuckling as she saw Gauntlets eyes light up.
“A cake!” Gauntlet exclaimed.
The four ate the cake as Luna listened to each ones stories of their school day. Luna decided that, because it was Monday, that the hatred for the wretched day started at a young age. After they were done and cleaned up the kitchen, the caretaker herded them onto the couches of the main room.
“Ok little ones; settle down for I have a tale to tell you.”
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Hello guys. This is my first fic so i hope you all like it.
. This chapter was slow on purpose but if you don't want me finishing this I wont.
Any feed back is wanted and appreciated. And also, big thanks to my pre-reader yayflutters for all the advice to everyone go read his fics after your done with mine.
Oh my.
I haven't read this yet, but I will.
For now though,
That picture... It's too much sad.
This story. I like it.
I thought it's good the way it is. Keep up the good work!
1717312 What do you mean by "slow"? I thought it was very wonderful. Not everything needs to be rushed, you know.
how do ah favorite it?
'it was awesome btw.
1718506 Click the star symbol next to the ratings at the top of the page. That will both favorite it and set so you get notifications for any future updates.
Also at 1717312 Read it now, and I'm interested.
Awaiting more eagerly.
Ok, guess we need to prepare our tissues for the coming chapters.
More please.
I enjoy this.
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Dude. No. THIS WAS HORRIBLE AND YOU SHOU-
Oh right. I edited this. I almost forgot.
Awaiting more
Wow I really didn't expect this, thank you for all of your kind words.
1719101 I thought you did a HORRI- oh wait this would have been worse if you didnt edit this.
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I know this was actually pretty TERRI-
Oh,
Ok.
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1725233 Thanks?
I got my eye on you too.
OHH, i'm starting to love this fic
, please make MOARRR
I am glad to announce that Chapter 2 is almost to pre read/ edit phase (Be ready yayflutters)
I suspect this will be submitted in the next day or so.