'Luna, I'm coming to show you the pain you left me in.' I think as I start to channel magic into my horn. My magic opens a portal to the world below, known as Equus. I step into the portal. When I come out of the silver and black mass I see myself looking at a small town. I start walking to this town, knowing that I will find somepony there.
I pass by a cottage with plenty of animals behind it. I continue walking.
"Where is the center of this settlement?' I ask myself. Just then I see a tall building with a few lights on inside. I step up to the door and knock a couple times. After a few moments of standing in the full moon an ivory unicorn with a royal purple mane answers the door.
"I'm terribly sorry but business hours are during the day, so would yo-" The unicorn finally takes a look at me. She doesn't speak so I say in my deep voice,"We are sorry for coming at such a late hour, but we were wondering if you could lead us to town hall?" this snaps her back to reality.
"I'm sorry but I've never seen a stallion alicorn, so who might you be?" she asks.
"We are The Prince Artermis, Guardian of the Moon." I tell her, "We are usually on the moon watching over this world."
"Oh, well it is an honor. Town hall is just over there." she motions with a hoof. I nod and say, "We thank you." I turn and start on my way to the town hall, but the unicorn calls out to me, "The town hall isn't open until morning." I stop and return to her threshold and say, "We thank you once more, but now we must ask where the nearest inn may be."
"The inns are no place for royalty, I will allow you to stay here in my guest room."
"We could not allow you to do that, for you have done so much already." She shakes her head.
"No,no, I insist, come on in." I chuckle as I step into the mare's home.
"We haven't heard your name, fair lady."
"Oh, how rude of me. I am Rarity."
"Well Lady Rairity, may we be shown to thine guest room?"
"Yes follow me." She replies and turns around to go upstares. I follow her up to a royal purple door and we enter the room. The room wasn't like my royal chambers on the moon but it will have to do.
"Well I hope this is fitting for you, Prince. I will be going to bed soon, so goodnight."
"Goodnight Lady Rairity." She leaves the room, closing the door behind her.
I lay on the bed, not intent on sleeping on such a beautiful night. So I pull a small sound recorder from under my chest armor. The recorder was about the size of an apple. I was shaped like Celestia's mark of destiny, simbolizing that this was her song. I rotate the center with my magic starting the [url=youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4tyvJJzSDk]song.
Once the song was finished, the center peice clicked back into place. I was soft asleep, dreaming about Luna.
The next morning before sunrise.
I wake to the soft song of a mocking jay. I slowly stand up and put the sun sound recorder back under my chest armor. I walk towards the door of the room and exit. I walk downstairs to see Rairity working on something. I notice that she is focusing intently on whatever it was that she was making. I just take a seat on her couch and wait for her to finish. The sun starts to rise and I here soft hoofsteps coming down the stares. I turn to see a young unicorn filly looking at me in wonder. I just chuckle and look back out the window to the coming sunrise. Once the sun is up in the sky, I turn to look at Rairity who is looking back at me.
"Good morning Lady Rairity." I tell her.
"Good morning Prince." She answers.
"WOW, your a prince?" asks the young filly. I turn to the filly.
"Yes young one, we are a Prince. We are Prince Artermis, Gaurdian of the Moon."
"WOW, thats so cool!" I stand up and channel magic into my horn. I feel the moon rotating and once it is at the desired position I stop my magic.
"What did you just do?" asks the filly unicorn.
"We just did our job of rotating the moon. We are responsible for the phases of the moon." I answer as I sit back down.
"Oh, but what happened to you?" asks Rairity.
"Hmm? Oh that, The Moon and I are linked with deep ancient magic, so when the moon is full we apear as we were before. However, when the moon is new, we are completely dark, our mane turns into a flowing black mass, our coat is a deep blue, and even our mark of destiny changes. Our mark shows the moon's status. So as you can see the moon is now smaller than it was last night." I explane with pride.
"That is just... oh I don't know what word fits the description of how awasome that is." says the young filly. I chuckle and look out to the sun and see that it is coming time for me to leave. I sigh and turn to Rairity.
"Lady Rairity, it is almost time for us to continue our search for the princesses." I tell her with a slightly regretful tone.
"If your looking for the Princesses, then you should visit the unicorn Twilight Sparkle, she is Celestia's personal protege." says Rairity. I think about this for a while then ask, "Will you take us to this unicorn?"
"Of coarse, she should be awake by now so whenever you're ready we shall leave." She replies. I stand and the sun sound recorder falls out beneath my armor. I sigh and pick it up and put it back under my armor.
"If I'm not asking to much, may I know what that is?" asks Rairity.
"You can never ask to much lady Rairity. The object you just saw is a sound recorder that has a song made by Celestia on it. We can't let you here the song for it is only for Princess Luna." I stand and strech my wings and legs and say, "Let us leave for Twilight Sparkle's home." Rairity nods and walks towards the door. Before she leaves she turns to the young filly and says, "Sweetie Belle, make sure you make it to school, and when school is finished for the day you can play with the other crusaders."
"YAY!" Shouts the young unicorn. I chuckle and head out of Rairity's home. Rairity follows me out and we head off to the home of Twilight Sparkle.
As we traveled trough the small vilage I notice ponies giving me long confused looks. I just shrug them off and continue to follow Rairity.
We make it to a large hollowed out tree that still lives with the aid of petty magic. Rairity knocks on the door, and a few seconds later a young drake opens the door. Upon seeing Rairity he clearly becomes smitten with her. I just chuckle at the sight. This brings the young drake to look at me. Upon seeing me he cowers and asks, "What can I do for you?" I look the young dragon in the eyes and say, "We request an audience with the unicorn Twilight Sparkle." The young dragon nods his head and says, "Sure let me go get her, in the meantime come in and take a seat." I nod and let Rairity enter the home first, then enter myself. I look around the house and see books lining the walls. My magic grabs all the books, turns the pages towards me, and starts flipping through the pages so quickly that a soft breeze is created from all the pages moving. My eyes start to glow white as knowlage starts flowing into my mind.
After three minutes of this all the books are showing their back covers to me. I reorganize the books to be in the royal order then shelf them all. I close my eyes for a few moments, letting the knowlage I just copied into my mind, settle. After all the knowlage settled, I open my eyes to see a lavender mare unicorn looking at me in awe. I chuckle and wave a hoof in front of her face. She shakes her head and asks, "What did you just do with all my books?"
"I just read them all, scanning the contents of every page into my mind."
"How can you do that, I can only scan two books a day."
"Ah, you see, I am the creator of the spell. And being the creator allows me to use the skill as much as I want."
"Not even Celestia herself can do what you just did. Who are you?"
"I am the Prince Artermis, Gaurdian of the Moon. 'Coarse you wouln't know this because it seems history has forgotten me. I will fix that later, but for now what is your name?"
"Oh, I am Twilight Sparkle, personal student of Princess Celestia. May I ask where you came from Prince?"
"I came from my castle on the moon. I am here to see the Princess Luna. Will you notify them of my pressence in Equestria."
"Sure, let me notify them right now. Spike." she calls out.
"Yes Twilight?" asks the young dragon I had seen before.
"Take a letter please. Dear Princesses, I have met a male alicorn by the name of Prince Artermis. He wishes to see you. He is here at the library with me. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."
"Got it." says Spike as he rolls up the parchment he was writing on. He blows a green flame of fire onto the scroll, sending it off to where ever the Princesses are. A few moments later Spike belches a green flame that forms into a scroll.
Twilight takes the scroll into her magical grasp and begins to read it.
"My faithful student, Luna and I are very happy to here this, we will be there momentarily. Princess Celestia." After Twilight finished reading, the two Princesses walk into the library. I sense the use of magic as the door shuts.
Luna sees me and runs at me tackling me to the floor in a hug. Celestia just sheds a tear.
"I thought I would never see you again." Luna cries into my chest.
"Come now dear Luna, I told you I would return." A tear escapes my eye and rolls down to my chin. I hug Luna tighter and say, "I promised I would return." Celestia, now silently crying, comes up to me and embraces me. We all stayed like that for a few minutes before Celestia pulls away and stands a couple feet back. Luna just holds me tighter. I levitate her onto my back and stand up. Luna is now silently crying into my ethereal mane.
"When did you return?" asks Celestia still trying to recompose herself.
"Just last night. I created a portal to bring me here. I closed it after I was here in Equestria."
"Excuse me, but I don't know if you are safe to be around." says Twilight looking at me suspiciously.
"I am Prince Artermis, Guardian of the Moon. I cared for Luna while she was there. Which reminds me. I have something for the both of you." I tell the three mares. Twilight just nods and turns back to her books.
"What could you possibly have for us?" asks Luna. I pull the two recorders from under my armor. One shaped as a golden sun, the other shaped as a half moon.
"These are what I brought you both. I would like you to use them only after we all return to the castle, but if you want, you can listen to them now." I say as I give the sun recorder to Luna, and the moon recorder to Celestia.
"I think we should listen to his wish sister." says Luna as she looks at the sun recorder before putting it under her regalia. Celestia nods and does the same with the moon recorder.
"I'm sorry this visit is cut short, my faithful student." says Celestia nuzzling her prized puple.
"It's completely fine Princess, I believe you three have a lot of catching up to do." replies Twilight while nuzzling Celestia back.
"Oh, Twilight if you ever wish to see me, just look to the moon and ask for me. I will come." I tell Twilight as I prepare to teleport to the royal palace.
She nods so I start channeling magic into my horn. In a dark blue flash the princesses and I appeared in at the castle's front gate. The gaurds let us through without even a glance my way. We all go to the royal study and sit down across from one another.
"So what are these?" asks Luna while looking at the sun recorder.
"Both of the objects I gave you two, are sound recorders that I made. To activate the sun you rotate the center, to activate the moon you slide the top peice around to make a full moon. After that is done they will replay what I have on them for you. Luna we should listen to yours first." I tell them. Luna rotates the center, making the recorder play thesong.
Once the song finished Luna is in tears staring at the recorder. Celestia then takes the moon recorder and activates it, making it play the song.
When that song was finished the two sisters were hugging each other, tears streaming down their faces. I give a soft smile and wait while the two to finish their moment. After about a minute they separate and Celestia asks, "When did you here these songs?"
"I heard them every single time the two of you sang them. Although I added the music they are still your lullabies that you sang to each other. I recorded them the second time I heard them. And knew that you would both want to hear the other's song, so I held onto these for the last thousand years making sure that you two would here them. Besides this is what your father asked of me."
The rest of the day went to us spending time together and telling stories.
A Memory of a Daughter -2-
I am currently standing on Luna's balcony, looking over Equestria. My attention is on the small village I came from. I feel Luna lean on my side so I turn my head to see her.
"What are you looking at?" she asks.
"The village I came from." I answer. I sigh and gaze at my moon. I lite my horn with magic and rotate the moon til only half is showing. My coat is now a light shade of blue, my mane slightly darker. I stop the magic as I hear Twilights voice calling at the moon.
"Twilight is calling, I will return shortly." I tell Luna. She nods and I spred my wings and take off to the small village.
I land on Twilights balcony and see her there, looking at me.
"You called?" I ask the young mare.
"Yes, I was wondering if we could talk." She replies. I give a soft smile, giving a silent yes.
"What do you wish to talk about?" I ask.
"Well first we should go inside, it is cold out here." Twilight says with a shiver. We both head inside, via a glass door. We both head downstairs into the main part of the library. I take a seat on the couch. She sits next to me.
"Alright Twilight, what would you like to talk about?" I ask with a chuckle.
"I want to know about you." She replies.
"Well ask questions, and I will answer to the best of my ability." I tell her with a nod.
"Okay, first off how did you end up on the moon?" She asks.
"Celestia's father asked me to stay there and guard Equis from the threat of outer world threats, like the shadow, and the shards of the jewel of death. The king also told me to prepare for visitors. He wanted ponies to origanally live on the moon, I, at the time, was open to such a wild idea, but then the draconiqui came from out of nowhere. I used my moon as a shield, making it fly aroung the planet so fast that to those on the world would see a white stripe across the sky. I smashed almost all of the Draconiqui on the dark side of the moon, all except one. A baby draconiquis made it passed my moon shield and landed on the planet. I never saw what happened with that young draconiquis. I asked the king if he wanted me to search for the infint creature, but instead he told me to stay on the moon and continue my job. Well, eons passed and eventually a black female alicorn apeared on my moon. She called herself Nightmare Moon. I senced a second pressence however, and seppparated the two. One being Luna, the other being my sister Dream. I sealed Dream away in the highest tower in my castle, for she was corrupt with anger and jelousy. I kept Luna with me at all times. Keeping her safe from the dangers of the moon. An eon later she dissapeared, and I was left alone on my moon once more. Can you keep a secret Twilight Sparkle?" She nods her head.
"I have fallen in love with Luna." I tell Twilight. Twilight's eyes widen at this.
"How and when?" She asks. I chuckle lightly.
"It was when she sang her lullaby to her sister when she was on the moon. I was first thinking I was just doing my duty to the king, but my heart led me to other reasons as well." I sigh before continuing, "which gave my heart all the more pain when she just disappeared. I searched relentlessly across my moon, tortured countless creatures, and even search the dark side of the moon before I even thought of returning here." A tear escapes my eye as the pain of losing Luna returns for a few moments.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes Twilight."
"If it's not to much trouble, who was Celestia and Luna's father?"
"He is still in existence. He is just an acended alicorn, as well as the first alicorn to exist. He doesn't have a name, for he is the creator of the multiverse, Luna and Celestia's mother was the second alicorn. She put the stars in the sky. She has a name, but I am not the one to tell this to you."
"Oh, so what alicorn are you?"
"I am the forth. I am the bringer of the moons, as well as dark magic." I say, filled with pride.
"Who is the third?" This struck a cord in my heart that I never wish to strike again.
"She was my previous lover. Her name is Terra Nova. We had a daughter before she ascended. Our, well now only my, daughter's name is princess Mi Amore' Cadenza." I raise an eyebrow as Twilights face turns to one of pure awe.
"You're Cadence's Dad?" asks Twilight as she starts to pace around the library. She is talking to herself at a dizzying pace. I light my horn and put a telekinetic force around her mouth silencing her. She looks at me in surprise.
"I'm going to let you speak now, but please slow down." She nods so I let my magic fade away.
"How are you Cadence's father?"
"Well I assume you understand how to reproduce, correct?" Twilight blushes and nods, "Good, well it's no different for alicorns." I feel my wings start to stiffen but I over power the urge.
"But, Cadence is Celestia and Luna's neice."
"That was a lie the King put in place when Cadence was put under the Queen's care."
"It.. was... a lie?"
"Yes, even Celestia and Luna don't know this, so please don't tell them. The only problems I had with this lie was that I couldn't be there for her childhood, and she doesn't even know I exist. I hope to change that in the near future."
"Wait, if your the forth alicorn, how old does that make you?"
"I am old enough that you wouldn't be able to count the numbers in your life time." I say. Twilight is stunned to say the least. I break into laughter. I eventualy calm down, wipping tears from my eyes.
"Please Twilight, I am only a little over eight thousand years old." I say, chuckling a bit at the end. I stand and stretch my wings planning to head back to Canterlot.
"Prince, why did you really return to Equestria?" asks Twilight.
"I'm sorry Twilight, but that is for me to know, and only me. I need to be heading back now so I bid you goodnight. Twilight, and you need to stop trying to pry information out of my mind. I have mental barriers in my mind that will put you in a coma, so please don't try anymore." I head for the door, but before I exit the library I put a quick spell into the mind of Twilight, making her fall asleep. I then exit the library and take flight to Canterlot.
***
I land outside the palace gaits. I walk up to the gaurds, expecting them to allow me through.
"HALT, state your buisness at the palace." says one of the gaurds. I sigh.
"I am the Prince Artermis, gaurdian of the moon, I am returning form a visit to Ponyville."
"There are no alicorn princes. I'm going to have to ask you to leave." I sigh once more, this time out of annoyance.
"I was planning not to have to do this." I say as I light my horn. I weave a summoning spell right before the gaurds. When the spell was complete, one of my personal Lunar wraith gaurds appears next to me.
"You called Prince?" asked Tirrany.
"Yes, I have an objective for you. Make these two allow me access to the palace, then follow me through the castle." I say with a look of pure bordom on my face. Tirrany bows and moves up to the gaurds. Before the gaurds could do anything Tirrany placed a simple knowledge spell on them. once said spell was complete the gaurds opened the gaits. The gaurds bow to me as Tirrany and I walk into the castle grounds.
***
I make it back to Luna's bed chambers without insident. I releaved Tirrany once I entered her room. Looking for Luna, I find her out on her balcony, looking at the stars. I light my horn, rotating the moon till it was new, making me turn into my darker form of a flowing black mane, deep blue coat, and my mark of destiny has a black moon in it.
Luna notices the change in the moon and turns around to see me. I walk up to Luna and say, "It is easier to see your mothers stars when the moon is new." She hugs me with tears once again falling from her eyes.
"Now now dear Luna, I'm right here." I say, trying to comfort the godess of the night.
"I know you are. I still thought I would never see you again. I will always remember how you cared for me." Luna is now a mess of tears, and sobs. I levitate her onto her bed and began to sing.
Fate has been cruel and order unkind
How can I have sent you away
The blame was my own; the punishment, yours
The harmony's silent today
But into the stillness I'll bring you a song
And I will your company keep
Till your tired eyes and my lullabies
Have carried you softly to sleep
Once did a pony who shone like the sun
Look out on her kingdom and sigh
She smiled and said, "Surely, there is no pony
So lovely and so well beloved as I"
So great was her reign and so brilliant her glory
That long was the shadow she cast
Which fell dark upon the young sister she loved
And grew only darker as days and nights passed
Lullay moon princess, goodnight sister mine
And rest now in moonlight's embrace
Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth
Through cloud, and through sky, and through space
Carry the peace and the coolness of night
And carry my sorrow in kind
Luna, you're loved so much more than you know
Forgive me for being so blind
Soon did that pony take notice that others
Did not give her sister her due
And neither had she loved her as she deserved
She watched as her sister's unhappiness grew
But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly
Takes hold of the mind of its host
And that foolish pony did nothing to stop
The destruction of one who had needed her most
Lullay moon princess, goodnight sister mine
And rest now in moonlight's embrace
Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth
Through cloud, and through sky, and through space
Carry the peace and the coolness of night
And carry my sorrow in kind
Luna, you're loved so much more than you know
May troubles be far from your mind
And forgive me for being so blind
The years now before us
Fearful and unknown
I never imagined
I'd face them on my own
May these thousand winters
Swiftly pass, I pray
I love you; I miss you
All these miles away
May all your dreams be sweet tonight
Safe upon your bed of moonlight
And know not of sadness, pain, or care
And when I dream, I'll fly away and meet you there
Sleep...
Sleep...
Sleep...
When I finished Luna was asleep. I then walked back out onto the balcony and reversed the moons rotation to its half empty state.
