All Hail Lord Nebulae

It took some time to find a chariot big enough for Lord Nebulae. Even then, he and the celestial sisters had to be in separate ones. Luna groaned at this.

"Tia, I want to spend time with Uncle Nebulae!" She wined on the way home. They planned to return later to help the ponies rebuild their home.

"Luna, trust me, you don't." Celestia could see the pretend world she had woven for her sister falling apart.

"TIA! I WANT TO STAY WITH UNCLE NEBULAE! DID YOU NOT SAY HE WAS WONDERFUL AND KIND! THOU CAN'T KEEP HIM TO YOURSELF!" Luna used the royal voice.

"LULU! BE QUIET AND LISTEN TO YOUR BIG SIS FOR ONCE!" Celestia didn't use her royal voice often, but when she did the volume surpassed that of Luna's.

"I'm sorry." Whimpered a now frightened princess of the night. Celestia calmed herself and looked to her little sister.

"Lulu, I need to speak with you as soon as we get to Canterlot, alright?" Tia hated to see her sister whimpering more than she hated using her royal voice.

Luna nodded her head. The rest of the flight was in silence, a silence only broken by the pegusi flapping their wings.

The two sisters were lighter than the other Alicorn, so they reached the palace much sooner. Celestia rushed Luna to her room, figuring they could have about ten minutes to talk.

"Lulu, I am so very sorry, can you ever forgive me?" Celestia asked, tears formed in her eyes.

"Whatever for, sister?" Luna was a bit confused.

The tears now flowed from Celestia's eyes. "Lulu, I lied to you. Lord Nebulae, he wasn't sweet and kind. He was a tyrant, he saw any pony who wasn't an Alicorn as a lower form of life. The nightmare that haunted me last night, it was a memory, a memory of Uncle Nebulae's cruelty. He gave a pony twenty lashes and a week in prison because I asked for fizzy apple juice and he brought me regular apple juice. I told uncle it was all right, but he sent him for a punishment any way. I'll never forget how his eyes screamed at me to help him. I went to the dungeon later. I tried, but I could not save his life, for he had a disease that made the littlest cut bleed like an open wound. Lulu, I'll never forgive Uncle for that day. The day all my power became worthless. I cried, for this life would not have been taken, had I not ordered that juice. I'm sorry, Lulu."

Luna's eyes had tears flowing now, too. "Why did you lie to me, Tia?"

"A very good question that I'm sure Tia doesn't want to answer." A voice said. Tia turned, but regretted doing so, as Discord made her laugh.

"Discord! Of all the things to do, why are you juggling my furniture?" Tia asked.

Before Discord gave a reply, a pegusus burst through the bedroom door. He was covered in cuts, both deep and shallow.

"Princesses! The great and royal pain in the rump, Lord Nebulae, awaits you in the throne room." He said. Barely had he finished speaking when he toppled to the ground. Lulu was at his side shortly after Celestia was. Discord stared, in shock.

"Discord! Come help us heal him!" Luna shouted at him. Discord obeyed. Somehow everywhere but his wings had cuts on it. Celestia lifted off his helmet and gasped. The helmet dropped from her grip.

"What happened?!" She asked in a voice just over a whisper.

"Sister, you've seen cuts before! What is so bad that…ugh! What happened to you?" Lulu was equally disgusted by a cut over, and in, the pony's eye.it looked as though a whip had hit his eye. His eyelids had been closed, so they were torn as well. The pony kept his eye closed, so as not to alarm them further. They could see under the cut enough the see the eye was cut. It was a bloody mess that no pony should see. After healing everything else, they sent the pony to the infirmary.

"Princesses, Discord, you wanted to know what happened. The chariot pullers weren't going fast enough. My partner, Cloud Beater, died when we landed. This is the cruelty of our Lord Nebulae. If my opinion counts, I'd say that you should beat that cutie-mark off his flank!" The pegusus said. He then turned his back and walked down the hall to the infirmary

"Well, shall we go see are long-lost uncle?" Celestia asked.

"No." Luna's bravery was gone after that pegusus. Celestia felt her own courage diminish.

"Don't worry gals! I got your back." Discord said. The princesses smiled, and walked to the throne room with Discord behind.//