Gilda, The Sky's The Limit

A few weeks had passed since Gilda was told that she was going to be a royal guard and ever since then everything was going great with Luna. They had grown to be best friends and shared everything with each other. Luna was always happy now that Gilda would be staying in the castle permanently at her request. Even Celestia was happy that Gilda was staying.
At least now Luna had a friend that would always stay by her.

Luna awoke early in the morning to heavy knocking on her bedroom door. She opened to see her sister with a look of worry on her face. "LUNA!" Celestia was in a fit of worry for her sister. "Carm down sister. What’s wrong?" asked Luna.
"Discord has broken free of his prison and there are already reports of chocolate rain and cotton candy clouds and I’m worried for you." said Celestia. She wiped her face and got over her stress quickly. "Please, go with Gilda and hide somewhere."
Luna nodded and Celestia went somewhere else.

Luna knocked on Gildas door. "Should I tell her about discord or not?" thought Luna. "I think you should." said the voice in Luna’s head. "But what if she doesn’t understand?" said Luna. "Doesn’t understand what?" asked Gilda how had just opened the door. She had a look of confusion on her face. "I’ll explain later but for now we need to go somewhere safe." before Gilda could ask, Luna grabbed Gilda’s claw's, opened a portal and they both went through to Luna’s private garden.

"Luna slow down for just a minute!" Gilda stopped Luna. "Now explain what's happening or I’m not moving another step!"
Luna sighed. "Fine I’ll tell you." Gilda and Luna sat down and Luna explained the whole thing.
"Before the moon incident me and Celestia had a close bond with a guard called discord. He was a brilliant mind and an artist but no one paid any attention to him due to the fact he was partly insane but that made him unique. One day a rare treasure was brought in from a faraway land that was brought to our mother and father..." Luna was cut off by Gilda.
"You had parents?! I thought that you and your sister just appeared the hell out of nowhere." said Gilda.
"If I could finish please." said Luna. "The artefact was a helmet with 2 large horns on it that apparently granted power to anyone that wore it. One day, discord took one of the horns and did who knows what with it." Luna stopped for a minute.
"Are you okay Luna?" asked Gilda. "Yeah I’m just not feeling so well that's all." Luna started to get dizzy and fell over.
"What the heck is wrong with you?" Gilda picked up Luna and set her near a tree so that her face wasn't in the mud.

In Luna’s mind...

Luna awoke in a world of nothing except herself. "Hello! Is anyone here?!" shouted Luna in her canterlot voice.
"No one’s here except you and me." a dark skinned alicorn appeared in front of Luna. She towed over her in size and gave off a threating aura. "Who are you?!" exclaimed Luna. "I’m you of course." said the alicorn. "Don't you remember yourself?"
"Are you... nightmare moon?" Luna was scared now. "Yes I am." said nightmare moon. Luna was moving back now in fear.
"What d-do you want?" said Luna with stutter. "I don't know. Something has awoken me. Probably this discord of which you speak off. In any case though, I’ll take over now." Luna’s horn started to glow red. "NO YOUR NOT." Luna fired a ball of fire at nightmare moon, sending her back a couple of spaces. "I’m here to protect you." said nightmare moon.
"And that got me 1000 years on the moon so go away and never come back you demon!" Luna fired another fire ball at nightmare moon. "If you awake, you will never see me again." said nightmare moon, her hair slightly burnt.
"Good. I never want to see you again." and with that Luna awoke.

What Luna awoke to was Gilda by her side, holding her in her sleep. "Gilda are you okay?" whispered Luna. Gilda’s eyes opened up to see Luna.
"Hay there sleepy head." said Gilda. "Finally awake I see. You were out for a while." Gilda’s feathers were ruffled and she looked like a mess. "You kept squirming while you were asleep, so I held you and you calmed down." said Gilda.
Luna looked at Gilda and saw the blood on Gilda’s head. "Gilda your head." said Luna, worried for her friend.
"You started got a nose bleed and then you started to cry while you were asleep." said Gilda.
"Thanks’ Gilda." said Luna in a whisper. "For what?" said Gilda? "For being there for me." Luna started to bleed again but this time it came from her eye. "Crud. Hang on a minute." Gilda pulled out a couple of feathers and cleaned up Luna’s eye but she fainted again from whatever kind of sickness she had.

"Looks like my little trick is going swimmingly well." echoed a voice from behind Gilda.
"Back off or I will hurt you!" Gilda turned around and saw what looked like a bunch of animals had been chopped up and glued back together. "That’s not nice." said the odd creature. "I don't bucking care, back off or I will hurt you." Gilda made a defensive stance against the creature. "Now is that really away to behave in front of a guest? I brought my own chocolate."
Gilda was now confused but she was still on the defensive. "Just go away now or I’ll rip you 2! Got it?!" said Gilda yelling.
"But I can already do that." the creature split himself into several pieces and started to do the can-can.

Luna woke up and saw Gilda shouting at discord. "Ahh miss Luna. I trust that you had a good nap." said discord.
"Please just go away." Luna whispered barely able to stand. "Don’t you like my gift Luna? It makes up for missing 1000 birthday's right." said discord, turning a rock into a dancing ice cream. "No it doesn’t. In fact it's hurting me. Just get rid of it."
"Nope, I won't Luna. It’s just too much fun to watch!" Gilda punched discord in the face, sending him to the ground.
"Fix her or I will kill you!" yelled Gilda. "She hasn't told you I’m guessing." said discord.
"About what?" Gilda turned to Luna to surrport her. "The other part of my story. When discord became that thing, me and Celestia fought him off but he cursed me. The curse causes horrible pain and suffering to anyone of royal blood." Gilda set Luna down gently and turned towards discord again. "Take that curse of her now!" said Gilda. Discord made a cloud appear and drank some chocolate milk and spat it out into a tree, making it explode.

"Why would I do that? Now if you excuse me, I’m leaving now. I’ve got a date with princess Celestia, though I will leave Luna with some milk." discord throwed some chocolate milk and Luna but Gilda covered her and took the explosion. Luna looked over at Gilda, seeing Gilda hold back tears of pain before fainting on top of Luna.
She tried to lift Gilda up but her magic was weakened by the curse. All she could do was waiting until something happened so until then she just waited...

Many hours later...

Luna felt tired but she saw something happen. The sky stopped flashing from night to day, the soap on the ground turned back into grass and the clouds stopped raining chocolate and went back to normal. "Gilda wake up." Luna nudged Gilda but got no response. Luna moved herself from under Gilda and saw the damage to her friend: one of her wings was completely destroyed and she had lost a large amount of blood. Luna in a rush opened a portal carried Gilda back through with her magic and portaled into her room.

She placed Gilda on her bed and went to get some help. Luna ran out of her room and accidently bumped into her sister.
"Luna I was looking..." Celestia was cut off. "I need to find a doctor, quickly." said Luna. She started crying and led Celestia to Gilda. "What happened here?" asked Celestia in a shocked tone. "She saved me from discord. Now please help her!" Luna raised her voice but was muffled by her crying. "It’s okay Luna. Everything will be alright. I’ll go get the doctors. You stay here with Gilda." Celestia teleported out of Luna’s room.

Gilda layed motionless on Luna’s bed, only breathing every now and then. "Maybe I can fix her up." Luna horn shown bright but nothing happened to Gilda. She didn't move, she didn't heal, nothing at all. Luna started crying, this time in much greater quantity then before. "Please don't die on me Gilda. I don't want to lose you. Please just wake up." Luna kept crying then the door opened and some doctors came in and started to move her to the hospital.

1 hospital trip later...

Gilda was placed on the hospital and examined by the doctors. After a while, one of the doctors came over to Luna.
"She’s still alive." he sighed. "But she has some incredibly bad injuries. One of her wings is completely destroyed, except for some nerves here and there. Also she lost quite a lot of blood and this caused her to go into a state of deep shock."
"At least she's alive. Doctor Can I ask something?" the doctor nodded.
"Could I give one of my wings to her?" the doctor thought this over. "Well maybe. But the procedure is painful and..."
"I don't care about any of that." said Luna. "Please though think it over. This operation is just as painful for the both of you. Reattaching nerves is one thing but removing ones wing is painful ordeal. At least wait until Gilda wakes up."
Luna sighed and nodded. "You’re welcome to stay here as long as you like at least until visitor hours are over." said the doctor.

Luna waited by Gilda’s bed all night long, waiting for her friend to wake up, all the while Luna thought to herself about the operation. "Should I go through with it? I could die but Gilda could fly again and that means everything to her." Luna sighed.
"I don't fly that much anyway but still, what Gilda think of me if I gave up flying? She would probably think that I’m pathetic quitter who doesn’t deserve to fly. She wouldn’t think that though... would she?" after a while, Luna went back to the castle and just went to bed, barley asleep from her thoughts.