Chapter Six

The large Alicorn turned his head towards me as I could see his mane was still braided as his tail had gotten longer which was spread out on the ground like a spilt glass of water. I stood there forgetting that I had my armor on still and the guards were on high alert not of me but of the dark blue Alicorn sitting in the gardens.

“Lily!” the voice of the princess made me look up at her as she came walking out of the castle with a pair of guards at either side “I thought you were at breakfast with my sister?” she kept standing as she walked up to us.

“I was but” I turned my head up at him as he placed a wing around my back.

"Micul Silver mea cum nu te-ai varsta de un pic de la Meadow dulce a murit"(My Little Silver how you haven't aged a bit since Sweet Meadow died) he had a grin on his face as I noticed his eyes weren’t the normal dark blue but they were a mixture of a light blue and a dark red.

“De ce nu te-am trimis o scrisoare sau chiar să iasă din ascunzătoare?” (Why haven't you sent a letter or even come out of hiding?) I looked up at him as he removed my wing from my back as he moved down to my head as the others came running into the gardens causing my grandfather to move his head up as I felt something off about him.

"Cine sunt aceste ponei?" (Who are these ponies?) He glanced down at me as I held a hoof out causing them the halt as I bowed to him.

""Bunicul familia mea, fiul meu mai mic craniu a fost cu Luna pe luna pentru o mie de ani, dar restul sunt decendants de sora și fratele său. Lor childern mea de la Necro craniu. Dar acest lucru este Sparkle Twilight și prieteni.dar acum putem vorbi comun?" my question caught him off guard as he stood up a bit. (My family grandfather, my son Little Skull was with Luna on the moon for a thousand years, but the rest are descendants of his sister and brother. They are my children from Necro skull. But this is Twilight Sparkle and friends. But for now may we speak common?) he walked over towards the Princess. He was a bit taller as I turned to them and the Princesses as I cleared my throat out.

“Family and friends meet my grandfather Neptune Ace, Aerial Ace, or Ocean Blue. He goes by many names I can’t keep track of them.” I rubbed my head as he sat down over in front of Princess Celestia as I turned back to face him.

“My common rusty” he had his braided mane handing low over half of his face at this point as I could still feel a cold and very uneasy feeling from him, since the fur on the back of my neck stood up on ends as Snow moved to my right along with Sunflower. As he was sitting in front of Princess Celestia keeping silent, I finally came under the weight of my armor and fell the ground causing my family and my friends to jump to their hooves running after me.

“I’m fine!” I pushed myself up as Snow pressed her body up against my side.

“Let got pick up the kids early while your grandfather talks to the princesses” she pushed me towards the entrance of the gardens “I’ll bring her back later” Snow had turned around winking at her husband “Just send somepony by the house.” We disappeared out of sight as Rarity and Fluttershy walked with us down the streets of Canterlot towards the preschool which wasn’t far from the castle. Snow stayed on one side as we entered the building; I noticed that the walls were covered in art that the kids would draw during the day. We walked towards the back of the school to the last room on the right with the numbers ‘33’ on the frosted glass as Snow pushed it open causing a few of the kids to gasp at the sight of me in my armor but mine just simply shouted with glee. After picking the kids up we meet up with Little who was standing in the middle of the noble district holding his spear in his hooves.

“Little?” I walked up to him as he patted his kid’s heads before looking up at me.

“The Princesses are calling you and the elements to the castle.” Snow had kept walking as Fluttershy and Rarity took over and walked with me as I made my blade visible getting this gut feeling I might need it. Ponies were staring again as we made it to the gardens Celestia had a very good poker face but I could tell something was wrong.

“Silver….Tree dead” my grandfather was trying his best to speak common around me and had broken the awful silence causing me to take a few moments and I had just lost it.

“I HAD JUST COME FROM TOWN!! IT WAS ALIVE AND WELL!" I shouted as I tried to keep my sanity.

"Vrei să-mi un SILVER mincinos!" (Are you calling me a Liar SILVER!)he stomped his hoof on the ground as his voice echoed in the distance causing everything to go silent again.

"nu, domnule" (No Sir) I looked down at the ground again as he moved over towards me wrapping his wing around me as his head came close to my ear.

“Apoi am văzut ce-am văzut de argint,  dar trebuie să vă amintiți acest nimic dura pentru totdeauna.” (Then I saw what I saw Silver, but you should remember this nothing last forever.) I felt my legs go cold as stone as I swear I saw a brown mouse with a pair of bright yellow eyes and a small straggle tooth coming from its mouth. My vision started to fade as I fell into his arms as the world became black, I could still feel his feathers from his wings until it was replaced by grass. I could hear everypony else scream my name till all becomes quiet and black. I was standing on the highest mountain in Equestria watching the ground become long think green ribbons as the trees gained brown ones, the clouds gained a light blue with a silver tint as the Pegasus gained a light teal green. The earth ponies gained a bright orange and the unicorns gained silver ribbons depending on the amount of magic they have they were either large or small. I saw three bright yellow ribbons two sitting in Canterlot and one in the crystal empire. The crystal empire had a large pink ribbon wrapping around it as Canterlot had a mixture of silver and orange, the dragons had a dark green and the Griffons had a white one. I saw black wrapping around the wastelands or the badlands and a dark blue to a light blue running from the frozen north along the ground connecting to the moon and sun fading. I had looked up and saw the sun and moon with two orange ribbons but one had a silver tint and the other had a dark red to it. I felt something was off as I stood on the mountain I could feel something or somepony was with me as I slowly turned my head I could see about ten faint different ribbons standing behind me that was until the scenery changes into an ocean one.

I started to struggle as I felt something weighing me down and I started to struggle as I conjured my magic firing it off causing me to wake up to a large black spot on the ceiling as I pulled my head out of the water noticing eight ponies one dragon and a draconics standing around a large massive tub as Rarity was holding my armor and Applejack was trying to hold up my sword by herself.

“She awake” Discord was looking at me as I spit a fountain of water at him as I was trying to get some air into my lungs.

“What in bloody blazes happen” I draped my body over the edge of the tub.

“You blacked out after your grandfather said something to you Lily” Celestia was looking at me oddly as Fluttershy was at my side rubbing my back.

“Okay”

“So what kind of magic were you casting? I mean I never knew things had ribbons?” Twilight was scratching her head as my eyes went wide as I looked over at her.

“Its and old magic Twilight” I placed my hoof on my head as I pulled myself out of the tub as a large towel was draped over me.

“It’s celestial magic” Celestia spoke before walking out of the bathroom with Twilight following her as I looked over towards Applejack who was struggling with my sword as I picked up with my mouth as Rarity walked out with my armor in tow.

“Now I know how you could buck that darn noble so hard” I placed the sword on my back as I looked at her as she stretched a bit.

Rainbow picked up Applejack as they left the room leaving me with Luna who picked me up with her magic and carried me through the door along after them.

“I can walk!” I shouted in frustration as she placed me on her bed as I glanced up at her.

“What?” she pulled the curtains open as I noticed the moon was high into the sky as I sighed rubbing my head.

“I was out for half a day huh?” I got off the bed landing on my hooves onto  the cold marble as I flared my horn up causing sparks to light the towel unfire as I feel to the floor in pain gripping my horn.

“WHAT THE!” I screamed causing Luna and the guards to come running in as she was kicking the towel out leaving nothing but a large pile of ash and smoke.

“I’m going to go get a doctor” She placed me on the bed again as I buried my face into one of the plush pillows as I gaze up out of the window watching the stars twinkle in the night as the windows fly open and I could hear them singing as I close my eyes to the sound of hooves against the cold stone. I knew something was wrong it was my magic something was blocking it redirecting it. I stood on the mountain again all the ribbons laid out for me as I placed my hoof on my own a silver and gold ribbon with a dark blue edge on it. I pulled it up with my own hoof as it turned into crumbs fading before me. This is it my last year on this land? My last year to live as others die before me? I placed my hoof down on the ground as I look up into the sky looking at the sun and the moon “Ask not the sun why she sets, why she shrouds her light moving or why she hides her glow when the night turns crimson grim” I had started singing an old song that the towns ponies would sing during the war between Celestia and Luna, a war that injured Necro and sent Little away and left me picking up many pieces “For the silence falls the guilty sun as the day turns to dark, one simple truth she dare not speak her light can only blind and burn” it was a song that you heard on the days when the sun would be blazing to the point plants would catch fire and many would be treated for burn wounds. I could feel the hooves of the doctors on my coat as I just sat there on the edge of the mountain.

“That song I swear I heard it before” Luna’s voice pieced my own thoughts. I smiled to myself as I opened my eye looking at her noticing my horn was wrapped in a bandage. The lights were on and I could tell her room was decorated in a dark marble or stone floor as the walls were painted a dark blue with stars lining the wall with bookcases full of books and scrolls.

“It was a song popular during the battle between you and your sister.” I watched her as she took her regalia off as I gave her an odd look.

“What about night court?” I sat up in the bed as she turned her head to me.

“I canceled it tonight plus it’s a weekend” I felt dumb not evening knowing what day it was well that and their all just one long day for me “So was their ever a meaning to that song or was it just made because of my rage?” she pulled a pillow over to her.

“The sun had turned her back upon the moon keeping it in the cold dark, but when the moon turns crimson with rage the sun finally acts but it’s too late scars are left both on the moon and the sun and even though everything is fine on the surface the wounds and the scars are left emotionally and nothing is ever the same again between the sun and the moon.” I was looking at her as her eyes became misty.

“Luna” I wanted to change the topic for her.

“Yes?”

“Can you tell me about the stars?” It was a stupid question when I spoke it but I wanted to know about them.

“What about them?”

“Can they ever sing?”

“Back to this huh? Well I never know because I talk to the moon only the stars are already there and their light is just blocked out by the sun’s own light making them hard to see during the day.” From that moment on we spent the early evening talking about the stars until she fell asleep holding her pillow. I placed a blanket over Luna as I walked out of the bedroom running into Little. I poked at his armor threating him to keep his mouth shut about tonight. He helped me sneak my armor from Rarity who was sleeping with the other in a large room and to steal my weapon from Applejack. I was standing in the throne room feeling like a pair of eyes was on me that wasn’t the guards that were in the room. I pulled the bandage off my horn as I placed my armor on as I swung my sword onto my back as I exited the castle. The train wasn’t running anymore for the night so I took the only route I knew straight off the cliff.

I walked towards the back of the city changing from a unicorn to a Pegasus on the way as I took a running start as I jumped from the edge spreading my wings out breaking up a few clouds as I get adjusted to the altitude I needed to be too catch the right air current that would send me over towards Unicorn Ridge where I could follow the tracks up north. I caught the right current as it sent me flying over a couple of small little forest and houses. So many houses and farms lining the hills and from this high up into the air they all look like small earth stars. I found myself flying over Unicorn Ridge in no time and I landed in a clearing as I pulled a cloak out from under my armor. I looked towards the north and then back to Canterlot, I had his awful feeling in my gut.

“I’m sorry Luna and everypony else but I need to do this on my own” I said my goodbyes from the area before heading into the forest out of sight of the moon and the stars.