> Eclipse Rises > by Demon Killer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.A Brother's Return > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Princess Twilight and her friends rushed to Canterlot because Princess Celestia told them that something urgent has come up and when they got there Celestia and Luna are panicking and cleaning the castle "Princess...we came as fast...as we could," Twilight said trying to fight back her exhaustion,"Is something attacking Canterlot?" "No not really but it's urgent you see Luna and I have a little brother and he's returning." Celestia was so busy she couldn't stop and talk for a second. "You two have a brother!" all of the mane six yelled in surprise except for Fluttershy who almost passed out from all the running and still recovering. "Yes and he's been on the moon, but unlike me when I was Nightmare Moon he was able to come back when he pleased because he and Celestia didn't have the best feelings towards each other." Luna was also in a hurry, but she was able to stop for the time being for a brake. Celestia came to a halt when she heard that,"I care for him as you do he just didn't like that is all." "Why is he coming back now and how do you know that he is?" Twilight asked still processing the fact that Luna and Celestia had a brother. "He sent a letter saying when the lunar eclipse happens he'll return which is a few minutes away." Luna said while getting back to work. The other six ponies looked out the window to see a lunar eclipse forming. "Wait its almost a lunar eclipse so we'll see this brother soon?" Rarity was both frightened and excited to see this brother that she didn't make it sound like she was all that worried. The ponies decided to help finish cleaning and after they where done the eclipse formed and a white alicorn with a black and white flowing mane appeared in front of all of them. "Brother," Luna greeted her brother and gave him a hug,"Twilight and friends this is our brother Prince Eclipse." > 2.The Reunion > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eclipse just stood as he was taking in the scene of the castle that he has not been in since his last visit which he doesn't even know how long it has been. Once he took it all in he looked at Luna and gave her a smile, but once he look at Celestia that smile turned into anger then turned to Twilight and her friends and just looked at them. "Dear sister who are these ponies?" Eclipse finally spoke and his words where dark and mysterious. "They are the ponies I told you about on the moon they are the ones who bared the Elements of Harmony." Luna said and laughed because he should have known especially since they could still monitor Equestria from the moon. Eclipse gave the six ponies a dark look and started walking towards them. "So these are the ponies who defeated you when you were Nightmare Moon," Eclipse walk around the six observing them, "Where are the Elements now?" "They are back at the Tree of Harmony brother." Luna told Eclipse when he stopped at the purple alicorn. "You must be Twilight," Eclipse gave Twilight an angry look, "the one who replace Sunset Shimmer." Twilight didn't know what to tell him and she was about to introduce the others but he stopped her before she could. "She should have been an alicorn not you." His words were like knifes that cut into Twilight and Rainbow Dash confronted Eclipse. "Now listen her she's been an awesome alicorn and you should lay off," Rainbow's face was red in anger and Eclipse just laughed, "What's so funny?" "What's funny is that you think that I don't think she's a great alicorn I just said I think Sunset should have been an alicron," The room went silent and after he finished looking at the six ponies he turned back to Luna, "Dear sister where's my good friend Discord you said he was reformed?" There was a chuckle and then Discord appeared in a flash. "Oh I didn't believe it when i heard it, but I heard you outside and I had to great my dear friend," Discord hugged Eclipse and he couldn't really hold back his excitement, "Want to pull of pranks like the good old days?" Discord let Eclipse go and started his normal behavior and started messing with the other ponies and Eclipse was trying so hard not to laugh until Discord got to Celestia and changed her hair into cotton candy then Eclipse busted laughing and fell on his back. Celestia gave Eclipse an angry look but Eclipse couldn't stop laughing. "Discord change my hair back now!" Celestia was yelling so loud that even a banshee would cover there ears. "But I'm just having fun with my dear friend of course he could join also since I taught him some of my powers," Discord was also hold back laughter and had to take some deep breaths before he could continue, "Maybe too much but still." Eclipse finally stopped his laughter and his horn started to glow and Celestia's tail disappeared. "Eclipse give me my tail back," now everypony was laughing except Celestia, "I thought you'd learn from Luna when you two were on the moon." Twilight was laughing under her breath and tried to stop before she went to confront her former teacher while Eclipse followed his sister's instructions and gave Celestia her tail back. "Umm Princess Celestia...what did he do to become an alicorn like you exactly?" This was actually bugging Twilight since she was introduced to Eclipse. "I was a unicorn and i was the first pony to turn into an alicorn especially since i make eclipses so I'm like Luna and Celestia and move the sun and the moon." Eclipse decided to explain instead of Celestia, so she didn't mess any of the details. He didn't give any interest of the purple mare and just gave her another angry look while he was talking, and he started walking out. "Luna can you show me where my room is I can't remember since it's been a long time?" Eclipse wasn't lying he really couldn't remember where his room was this castle was very different then the old castle and he didn't stay in this one for very long, but Luna nodded and smiled then ran to her brother, and she took him to his room leaving the others standing there except Rainbow Dash who was still flying. > 3.Time for an Explanation > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After a long silence Twilight broke it by asking Celestia why he doesn't act like a brother to Celestia. "He believes I took his friends away," Celestia sighed and the others could see tears forming in the alicorn's eyes, "I don't know what made him believe that." "Maybe because you told him to make friends and he made friends like me then you "took" them away."Discord decided to butt in and try to make a good reason for Eclipse's thoughts. "But you were a bad influence for him at the time," Celestia shot an angry look at Discord for his words, "and you almost drove Equestria intto chaos." "I know i just wanted to bring that up because that's when he started thinking that." Discord was confident that this was when it started and he felt like Celestia needed to know that information. "Ok but how does he know Sunset?" Twilight asked this was bugging her since he arrived. "Unlike Luna when she was Nightmare Moon he wasn't technically banished so he had the freedom to come back and visit and eventually over the years he met Sunset in the middle of her studies." Celestia free explaining let out a sigh and walked to a door that was locked away "What's that princess?" Applejack asked in a true confusion, "I don't think we've noticed that room before." The other ponies nodded including Discord he also hasn't noticed this room before even after he was reformed. Celestia unlocked the door and a room with the sun and moon on opposite sides of the room and there were some foal toys lied on the floor just there to gather dust and webs. "This was his room when we first came here but nopony knew him except me, Luna , and Discord. He was a newborn when me and Luna found him he was and this room was brought from the Castle of the Two Sisters only Luna and I are allowed in here and we only came in here when we needed to think of what he needs to do in his future when he returned." Discord walked in the room and looked at the toys and memories came rushing back to him and he began to laugh playfully. "I still remember the day when we played that prank that day he got his Cutie Mark." Discord said to himself and was almost in tears of the fact that his little friend is a full grown stallion even though he still watched him grow when he was in his stone prison. "He was a good colt and then he started playing pranks with Discord, but they weren't dangerous except for that one," Celestia was explaining the his story to the six mares and after she was done she took everypony out and locked the door once again never knowing when that door shall be open again. "Once Eclipse comes back you should spend time to get to know him better." "Ok Princess, but what if he doesn't want to know us he didn't really seem that enthused about us?" Twilight wasn't really excited to know him either after how he treated them earlier, and all the others wasn't excited either except Rarity because she wanted to see if she could get him to be a little bit nicer. "Come on darling we must at least try if we can get to know him he might act a little different." Rarity was trying her best to persuade her friends to do what she wants to see if her plan actually works "I would also not to mention Nightmare Forces cause he's become a keeper for them and they stay in his head and he's had a problem with one that he doesn't like mentioning." Celestia's warning came a shock to everypony they didn't know that anypony could be a keeper of Nightmare Forces and even saying them brought back awful memories to Rarity. "Why is that one trouble?" Twilight asked her former teacher. Rarity was getting nervous about him now, but she still wanted to know him it was just saying one was giving him trouble made her a little scared. "He says he's still out there but I don't know if he really is, but just don't mention it please." Celestia was also nervous because she thought they'd ignore her warning. "Okey Dokey Lokey," Pinkie said with a little excitement in her voice, "We cross our hearts hope to fly stick a cupcake in our eye." Pinkie did the motions as she made the promised and the others waited a while before they did the same. The six mares left the room and looked for Eclipse when they ran into Luna. "Luna can you tell us where Eclipse's room is?" Twilight asked liked she was in a hurry even though she wasn't. "His room is down the hall, but he's at the barracks to see the guards, and he wanted to see your brother since Shining Armor and Cadence are here." Luna told the six ponies this and they were confused "Why's he talking to Shining Armor?" Twilight asked, and Luna looked at them for a while then smiled and told them "Eclipse is going to be in charge of the guards and he wanted to get to know his new right hoof pony. " Luna had to think for a bit then she left l, and the six went to the barracks. > 4.Eclipse's Good Side > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight and her friends went to the barracks and saw Eclipse talking to Shining Armor, so they waited till they were done. After a good half hour they finished chatting and Shining Armor walked to them. "Hey Twili are you here to talk to Eclipse," he seemed happy like Eclipse didn't act bad to him, "he's a nice guard he always was when I saw him when he visited actually if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be a guard now." This shocked the six mares because they thought since he was related to Twilight Eclipse wouldn't treat him that nicely. Shining said his goodbye and the mares continued to Eclipse when he noticed them he let out a angry sigh. "What do you want I'm busy getting these guards into shape." Eclipse did look rather busy, so Twilight started backing away, but the others where in her way. "W-W-We want you to get to know us and some about you, and you'll see that you don't have to hate us." Twilight still wasn't excited about this, but they had to try and see if Rarity's plan would work. "Ok but make it quick I don't have all day to chat." with that they began their story of how Twilight came to Ponyville and how they stopped Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra, and Tirek and how Twilight became an alicorn and how they know Sunset Shimmer and Twilight told him about the human world through the mirror. After they where finished Eclipse was a little bit surprised of all they done but not fully impressed. "I bet you still want to know about me too," Eclipse was trying to hide his surprised look and the mares nodded in sync, "Ok I was born as a unicorn, but I never had parents, and one day by chance Luna and Celestia found me and they took me in as their brother and I was with them when they met Discord and came to Ponyville, but as time went on it was Luna who took care of me Celestia never really help that much to begin with and Celestia told me to make friends and she took them away from me," This proved Discord's theory of why he was mad at Celestia and mares just looked in shock,"So after Nightmare Moon was banished I didn't want to be here anymore, so i went to the moon to be with Nightmare Moon." Eclipse gave a look of relief and a sigh then he smiled at the mares, "Thank you I needed to let that out....I guess i was wrong about you Twilight you deserve to be princess I was just upset that Sunset wasn't cause I was expecting to come back to see her as an alicorn." "I accept your apology now we can be friends," Twilight gave him a nervous smile like she was expecting him to reject her request, "If you want to that is." Eclipse thought about it for a good few minutes then he nodded and he gave them another smile and began to walk off and headed to his room and once he was gone Rarity let out a laughter of success. "Haha I told you it would work darling," Rarity was doing a gloating kind of dance and she was laughing uncontrollably, "I'm not like this usually, but this is a special occasion." The other mares were trying to ignore her but they had to tell her that she was right. After Rarity was finish her gloating they left to tell Celestia the good news. > 5.Trouble Begins > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eclipse went in his room and he was surprised that Celestia and Luna were able to keep it clean for so long even if he didn't stay that long after this castle was built. He lied down in his bed and he smelled a wonderful aroma from the sheets like they were just cleaned. Luna came by and knocked on his door and Eclipse jumped cause he was starting to fade in a deep sleep. "Sorry brother i need to talk to you," Luna had a little bit of a worried look on her, "It's about Twilight and her friends...they are really nice ponies and I think you need to really know them before you make your final opinion on the." Eclipse was confused that his sister thought he didn't get to know them if they were at the barracks talking to him. "I did get to know them we became friends we are all good know." Luna let out a sigh of relief and she looked around the room and began to smile. "That's good," there was a silence before she spoke again, "This room makes me think of all we did together when you where young...when we were young; although, this isn't your original room it's good to see you here I know you where with me when I was Nightmare Moon, but I always wanted to be back to normal when I saw you again." Eclipse looked at Luna giving her a worried look. "It's ok though...Celestia also needs to talk to you also in her room," Luna said acting like what she said didn't say it at all or thought it was just in her head, "Do you want me to tell her you're on your way?" Eclipse just nodded and Luna left and he was once again alone, but something was building up inside of him and he soon wouldn't be able to control it. Eventually he got up and went to Celestia's room to see what she wanted. "What is it Celestia I was just about to get some needed rest." Eclipse wasn't very happy with this not only was he not sleeping, but Celestia couldn't go to him herself and sent Luna to tell him to go to her. "I'm sorry Eclipse but we need to talk," Celestia needed to talk to him alone for a while but never had time till now, and she wasn't letting this opportunity pass by, "It's how you've been treating me lately you're acting like I'm the reason for everything that's happened." Eclipse gave her an angry look but this time it was a look of rage about to explode. "You are the reason for all the pain that has inflicted me for all these years." Celestia was almost in tears for what her brother just told her all she wanted to do then was walk to him hug him and apologize for whatever she did to him, but she couldn't move. "What do you mean all I've done is help you and protected you with Luna." Celestia is at the point of breaking down and started to walk to him but he just backed away. "You told me to make friends, and then you took them away from me; you sent our own sister to the moon because she just wanted ponies to love the night like we do, and you have the nerve of telling me that all you did is help me." Celestia finally broke and started crying, and Eclipse left leaving his sister her crying and heartbroken. > 6.Anger Rises...Again > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Later that night, Twilight and her friends started leaving and they were heading out when they heard yelling coming from the throne room and they couldn't help to overhear. As they got closer they realized the voices were Celestia's and Eclipse's. "What are they fighting about." Fluttershy asked sounding like she was afraid of what will happen. "I don't know Fluttershy, but it sounds like they are not making up," Twilight answered silently opening the door and seeing how bad the fight is," I'm worried though maybe we should tell them to stop." "But maybe we should see what they're fighting about first and then we can help from there." Rarity insisted having to speak a little louder so her friends can hear, but not loud enough that Eclipse and Celestia can hear. The mares listened then Eclipse yelled louder than any of them expected anypony could yell. "I can't believe you're doing this again I just got back and you're already trying to take my friends away again!" Eclipse's eyes were full of rage and Celestia looked afraid of what to say so her brother doesn't let his anger cloud his judgment more than it is already. She finally got the courage to get the words out after her brother's outburst. "It's not that dear brother it's just that i don't want you to spend too much time like you did with Sunset and.."just mentioning Sunset's name sparked something in Eclipse cause he just teleported away leaving his sister alone and Twilight and her friends decided this was a good time to go in and ask what was going on. "Princess what happened why where you fighting?" Twilight asked and Celestia didn't answer for a moment thinking about what happened as well like she was out during the whole fight. When she came to her senses she walked to a window and looked outside and saw Eclipse flying to the Everfree Forest. "I told him to not be around you when I heard that you, and your friends were able to become friends and he took it the wrong way," Celestia tears up and there was another silence,"All I want is for us to get to know each other since we didn't when he was young and get along."