I was walking with mom in the gardens of the castle grounds during one of my mom’s many nights. We were heading to my mom’s pond where she found me on the night of the Winter Moon Festival. I was carrying my stuffed wolf along with me as I walk along mom’s side.

“Osiris, how did thou sleep?” Mom asks me.

“I slept great mom, how did you sleep?” I ask with a smile.

“I slept well my son.” She tells me with a small smile of her own. We walked in relative silence for a few moments before we stopped at mom’s pond.

“Osiris?” Mom asks me.

“Yes mom?” I ask as I look to her before we sat down next to her pond.

“Art thou lonely during mine nights?” She asks me with a blank expression.

“A little, yes.” I say with a nod.

“Would thou liketh someone to play with while I am attending night court for our country?” She asks me. I look into mom’s bright teal eyes.

“Are you going to get me a foal sitter?” I ask her with my head tilted.

“If thou want one, but I think thou art too old for a foal sitter. I was thinking more along the lines of a friend your own age.” She tells me. I smiled big and wide at the thought of my own friend to play with while mom works. But it slowly disappeared when I thought about how lonely that would make mom during her work time.

“What about you mom, won’t you be lonely while I play with my friend?” I ask her. She giggles and hugs me.

“I’ll be fine my child. Besides, I’ll have the guards keep mine company if I do grow lonely. So, does that mean thou would liketh a friend?” She asks me. I close my eyes, smile, and nod with another hug to my mom.

“Yes please.” I tell her. She giggles again, and returns my hug with a nuzzle to the side of my head.

“Then I will tell my sister thy answer, and tomorrow night thou will have a new friend to play with.” She tells me with a smile.

I smile back before everything turns black again, and fades.

I wake up from my slumber with a stretch and a yawn, but cringe at the pain in my stomach before memories of the time before I fell asleep returned.

I slowly open my eyes to a small crack to see if it was bright where I was. It was dark enough that it wouldn’t hurt my eyes, but it was still annoyingly bright.

“Noctem en AH!” I growl as pain slashes its way through my abdomen. A nurse in white clothing bursts into the room.

“Prince, are you okay?!” She asks hurriedly.

“I will be.” I growl as my pain slowly subsides, “Where is the elf or Silver?” I ask her.

“They are in the visitor’s lounge. They were told to wait until you were awake to visit you. Would you like me to go get them?” She asks me.

“Bring me Silver first. Once she leaves bring me the elf.” I tell her. She nods before she exits the room, and I hear her hoofsteps fade away as she walks down the hall.

A minute later the door opens and Silver is let into the room. She thanks the nurse, and once the door closes behind her she quickly walks up to me, and embraces me in a strong hug. I chuckle as I return her affection. I felt liquid falling onto my chest, so I look down to my lover and see that she is silently crying into my chest.

“Hey, what is wrong my beautiful nightshade?” I ask as I slowly run the back of my hand down the side of her face.

“I thought I had lost you.” She says in a muffled voice as she squeezes stronger and lets out a few sobs. My heart swells from her words.

“Please look at me my love.” I tell her. She slowly looks up to me, and I pull her into a soft passionate kiss. She hums into the kiss, and ever so slowly her tears dry.

She pulls away after she had calmed down a bit, and lies down next to me. She snuggles up next to me, and I pull her into a hug.

“How long have I been under?” I ask her.

“Seven hours and twenty minutes.” She tells me.

“Time of night?” I ask her.

“Late afternoon, early evening.” She tells me.

“Reason why my room isn’t dark?” I ask.

“You’re in a hospital; they don’t have any dark rooms.” She replies. I smile at this and boop her nose with my finger.

“I know, I’m just playing with you.” I tell her. She giggles a little bit.

“How do you feel?” She asks me. I close my eyes and wince as my abdomen flares for a second.

“As long as I don’t use magic my pain is bearable.” I tell her with a small smile. She looks at me with concern. I roll my eyes.

“I know this isn’t the worst pain you’ve seen me in.” I tell her. She lightly punches my side.

“Just be happy I’m here.” She tells me. I smile and nod.

“Yes dearest.” I say quickly, and she snuggles back up to me. We stayed like this for a few minutes. I winced every now and then as my magic recovers from the overuse when I defended my friends.

…Friends… it’s been a long time since I could use that word. I think to myself as Silver gets up.

“I guess I should go and send your elf in to see you.” She tells me as she unwantedly walks out of the room. I sigh in my short lived loneliness before the door opens and in walks Tinnuchon.

His long silver hair falls down onto his back, and his dark blue eyes look into mine with slight worry, and amusement.

“How bad is it my Prince?” He asks as he sits in one of the visiting chairs nearby.

“Nothing a tad bit of rest won’t fix. How is my mother?” I ask him.

“She has yet to awaken. The elements and your spells did a number on her. I had offered to heal Luna since none of the doctors can, but they wouldn’t let me near her as the solar Princess was there, and requested privacy.” He tells me. I growl as I try to sit up, and end up falling back onto the bed in pain again.

“Fetch me a wheelchair, and we’ll go see my mother. I don’t care what Celestia thinks she has a right to do anymore. I want her healed, and you’re the only lunar magic user here, besides me, that can do it at this time.” I was growling unintentionally from my anger at my aunt. He nods, and walks out of my room, only to return with a nurse a few moments later with a wheelchair.

The nurse helps me into the wheelchair before Tinnuchon pushes me out into the hallway, and down to a different hallway altogether. We stopped in front of the door where two solar guards were standing watch.

“Halt your highness.” The guard on the right says as they both cross their wings in front of me.

“Celestia has requested that she and her sister have their privacy.” The other tells me.

“And what right does she have to separate me from my mother?” I ask them with my eyes slightly narrowed. The guard on the right blinks and the one on the left clears his throat.

“We are sorry Prince, but we have to follow orders.” They tell me. I look back to Tinnuchon.

“Do you know any medical spells?” I ask him.

“Yes my Prince.” He answers.

“Could you perform a quick surgery without being noticed?” I ask him. He nods his head. I smile evilly at my thoughts.

“Good, castrate the guards unless they get out of my way in the next ten seconds.” I say as I look into the guards’ eyes. I see them shift a little at my words.

“One… Two… Three…” Now they were starting to glance at each other.

“… Four… Five… Six… Seven…” I can see sweat starting to form on their brows, but they stood fast.

“…Eight…” Tinnuchon flairs his magic and readies the medical spell.

“…Nine…” The guards are now looking at me in fear.

“…Te-” I am interrupted.

“Fine, we’ll let you past, but he stays out here.” The guard on the left tells me as he lowers his wing. I look to the guard on the right, and he stares at me for a few more seconds before he lowers his wing as well.

“Good, now the both of you get a small bonus for obeying me, and Elf guardian please cast a sleeping spell on them.” I say as I sit back in my chair. Tinnuchon puts both guards to sleep with a wave of his hand. Tinnuchon then opens the door, and then pushes me inside.

“I told my guards to leave me be, so how did you get in here?” Celestia asks with her back to us.

“Well, I threatened them with the one thing every stallion never wishes to loose, and then cast a sleeping spell on them. You really need to train them better, but my other point to get across is that you cannot keep me from my mother Solar Princess. I have waited too damn long to see her again, and you know that what I say is true.” I tell her as Tinnuchon walks up to my mother and flairs his hands once more.

Celestia glares at him, but he just continues with his spells.

“What do you think you are doing to my sister without permission from me?” She asks him. He just glances at her before he finishes healing my mother, and then looks at me.

“She is fully healed correctly this time, and should speed her recovery from the battle thrice as fast then before.” He tells me. I smile at him.

“You have my eternal thanks elf; now please leave us to our privacy.” I tell him. He nods, and leaves the room. I wait a few seconds to make sure he left, and didn’t start eavesdropping on us.

“Why do you hate me?” Celestia asks as she looks back to Mother.

“I don’t hate you, I just get angered at your pour decisions that you make. Tell me, had the elf not been here to heal her, how long would she have had to take to recover? You of all ponies should know that a lunar pony can’t be healed properly by solar magic.” I tell her.

“I healed her with what little lunar magic I can use.” She tells me.

“Celestia, I have twice the amount of magic you have when you raise the moon. The only reason I can’t raise and lower the moon is because mother forbade me to do so. That and I don’t know the spell.” I tell her. She shakes her head, and hangs it in defeat.

“What would you have done?” She asks me.

“I would have let the elf heal her for he is a decent mage from what I can see.” I tell her. I wheel myself over to her side, and lay a hand on her back.

“You need to trust me Celestia. Otherwise something very bad will happen. That night you came to Mother’s castle I had a plan to reform her, but you took matters into your own hooves. Your plan worked, but my plan was sure to do the same job, just faster.” I tell her. She looks to me with tears in her eyes.

“What were you going to do?” She asks me. I shake my head.

“It doesn’t matter now. Are you going to be okay?” I ask her. She closes her eyes, and takes a shuddering breath.

“I will be.” She tells me.

“Come, let Luna rest. She will need it. You have all the time in the universe now to be with her. I will have my elf guard her tonight, and you have a sun and moon to take care of soon.” I tell her as I pat her back a couple times.

She takes a few moments to recompose herself, and then takes a tissue to clean up a bit before she stands, and nods. I turn and wheel myself to the door, and Celestia opens it with her magic before we walk out together. Tinnuchon was standing at the other side of the hall.

“Elf, I would like a name I can call you by in public, please choose an alias to go by.” I say to him.

“Hmm… Fifrath will do your majesty.” He tells me. I nod.

“Very well then, you are to guard Luna for the night. When morning comes I will return to check on her, as will Celestia I presume, so be prepared.” I tell him. He nods before he casts a barrier over Luna’s room. I nod, and Celestia and I remove ourselves from the Hospital we were in.

“Where are we?” I ask Celestia as we move about the town.

“We’re still in Ponyville as the doctors said it would be too hard on Luna to move her to Canterlot.” She tells me. I sigh as we head to a familiar treebrary that was a temporary home to one lavender unicorn.

“So Osiris, please tell me what you think of my student.” Celestia says as we near the home.

“I am unsure how to think of her, but from what I have noticed her social skills are lacking, and she is a very studious pony. She has a small OCD problem, and can worry about small things that don’t matter very much. She is similar to me in a way.” I tell her as we enter the library without knocking as it was a library.

“Yes she has her quirks, as do everypony.” She says when she sits on a large cushion. I roll my eyes.

“What about the pegasus Rainbow Dash? What has become of her?” I ask. Celestia looks to me with slight anger in her eyes.

“She is still getting use to her new… augmentations. Tell me why you changed her, and didn’t just heal her.” She tells me. I close my eyes, and bring a hand up to the bridge of my nose.

“A manticore had stung her, and I was the only one strong enough to save her, and you know what lunar magic does to a solar pony.” I tell her. She takes the information in before she sighs.

“I guess I can’t be angry with you then.” She tells me as the sound of hooves on wood comes from the stares. I nod as I then remember the guard Claymore.

“What of the guard Claymore?” I ask my aunt.

“He is waiting for his new armor as well as what you have in store for him.” She tells me. I nod a couple times slowly.

We both turn and look to see who is coming down the stairs to see Twilight there. I smile a little at the sight of the lavender bookworm.

“Osiris!” She says as she teleports right in front of me, and embraces me. I put the brakes on the wheelchair before I return the embrace with a hearty chuckle.

“Why, hello to you too Twilight.” I say as she releases me. She giggles a little before she sees Celestia, and starts to breathe harder. I put my hand on her shoulder, and she slowly calms down.

“Hello Princess.” Twilight says with a small bow. I roll myself over to a shaded part of the library. I sigh as my eyes slowly pull back into my comfort zone.

“How are you my faithful student?” Celestia asks Twilight. I roll my eyes already knowing the answer. She was most likely fine, but worried about Luna.

“I’m good, but I am wondering about how Luna is.” Twilight replies. I smirk to myself at my correct-ish guess.

“Luna is doing much better now.” Celestia replies with a small smile and nod.

“How so? The last time I asked you said that she needed time to recover.” Twilight asks.

“It is because of the elf we brought with us, and you are to only speak of him as elf, elven, or by his new alias Fifrath.” I tell her. Twilight looks to me.

“What did he do?” She asks me.

“He healed her with Lunar Magic, like everypony is supposed to, but since my mother’s exile the lunar magic users have since disappeared from Equestria as far as I know, when they should have been watched over since their princess was missing.” I openly glare at Celestia as I say this, and she hangs her head.

“Why would the type of magic make a difference?” Twilight asks me as she walks up to me.

“It has to do with the pony themselves. If the pony is a solar pony, like Celestia, and all of ‘her little ponies’ then they can only be healed correctly by solar magic for the magic has a different form than lunar magic, and the opposite is true for lunar ponies. If a Lunar pony is healed with solar magic the solar magic will change them into a solar pony and vice versa for a solar pony being healed by lunar magic, like loyalty when I saved her from the poison.” I teach Twilight.

“So what is the main difference between solar magic, and lunar magic?” Twilight asks me.

“Solar magic comes from the sun, while lunar magic comes from the moon. Tell me, have you ever noticed that it is harder for you to use magic at night?” I ask her. She nods her head.

“Yes, but I don’t see… Oh ok.” She realizes what that means.

“Yes, and my magic prowess increases at night.” I say as I start to wheel myself to another side of the room to find something to explain how Lunar magic is made, since I knew that is going to be one of her questions.

“So how is Lunar Magic made?” She asks me. I chuckle silently to myself at my insight.

“I would need a model to better explain it to you.” I tell her.

“Oh? What would you need?” she asks me.

“I need a prism, and a pouch of fine powdered glass.” I tell her.

“I might have those, so give me a second.” She replies before she heads down a stairwell to what I assume is the basement.

She returns after a few moments with a clear pouch of powdered glass, and a prism.

I take them from her before opening a window to let the dying sunlight in as a small beam.

“Okay, so you see how sunlight bends into the rainbow with a prism?” I ask her. She nods with a notebook and quill at her side.

“Good, well the moon reflects the sunlight, but it isn’t a perfect reflection. The moon changes the light waves slightly.” I say as I pour a small amount of the glass onto the table, making it reflect the sunlight off of it. I then hold the prism in front of the new light waves, and show her an inverted rainbow on the walls of her home.

“Moon light makes the magic invert itself. You see Moonlight is just an opposite power source for magic. Lunar ponies are able to take magic in from the moon to use instead of the sun. Now as solar ponies have three types, there are also three types of lunar ponies.” I tell her as I clean up the glass carefully before resealing the bag of powdered glass, and setting it on the table.

“What are the types?” She asks me. I chuckle a bit.

“There are bat ponies, like what loyalty became. There are necromancer ponies, lunar unicorns, and there are vamponies, the lunar earth ponies.” I tell her.

“Vamponies and Necromancers?” Twilight asks.

“Yes, as evil as they sound they are only aggressive if you earn their aggression.” I reply as I smile at the memory of the Republic that my Mother led.

“So Rainbow Dash is a Bat pony now?” Twilight asks as she writes quickly on a long scroll.

“Yes, the main difference, that is the most obvious of the six types of ponies, is the time that the ponies prefer. Lunar ponies prefer moonlight to sunlight because the sun is bright enough to harm their eyes. Solar ponies find it easier to see in bright environments, so they are tuned to the sunlight.” I tell her as I look up to the books lining the walls.

I spot a book that I hadn’t seen in the royal library, so I ignite my right hand with my recovering magic, and pull it off of the shelf before letting it drop to my hands. I am left breathing hard from using magic at such an early time, but I didn’t feel any pain.

“Osiris, you shouldn’t be using magic yet.” Celestia tells me.

“The doctors, and you too apparently, have forgotten how resilient lunar magic users are.” I reply before I reread the title on the cover.

‘Ancient Equestrian Myths and Legends’ was the title of the book. I open the book, and look up vamponies. I start reading through the text, but became furious at the stupid lies that were put in this book. I had to look away from the book before I incinerated it.

When I calmed I looked back down to the book, and look up necromancer ponies. I ended up having to close the book place it on a table, and then growling at it as though it had killed my mother.

“Celestia, please tell me why you allowed such filthy lies into the knowledge of your ponies.” I say as I glare at her because of the knowledge she allowed to exist.

“What book is it?” She asks me. I narrow my eyes as she reads the title. She sighs before looking to me.

“What has you so angered?” She asks as she returns the book to the shelf I pulled it from.

That was the last straw. My anger turned to rage, and my dark form took over. My skin lights up with the lunar runes, my eyes become slit like a dragon’s, and my hair regains its ethereal form.

“You allowed such lies into the knowledge of your kingdom!” I shout as her before my body reels from the surge of power I had gained.

“What have I done to make you turn into this?” She asks with a calm face. As my rage increases I feel my k-9s sharpen to a point.

“You allowed one of your ‘little ponies’ to write such lies about their lunar counterparts! You should be ashamed to call yourself a Princess for letting one of your subjects spread lies! You know what would have happened back before you banished Luna? That pony would have been taken to prison, given a trial, and then executed for demoting the lunar race!” My anger started to wear away.

Celestia now looked like someone had just killed her father, and had tears in her eyes.

“You don’t know the state I was left in when I lost both of you.” She says quietly. I reverted back to my regular form.

“Tartarus I don’t Celestia. I may have been trapped in stone, but I could still see and hear everything that went on around me. I am now an emotional hurricane, because I’m now completely alone, save for a few select people. I have three people I can turn to that understand my pain. You, Luna, and Silver. You three are all that I have left.” I say as sorrow replaces my anger.

I pull my hood up, casting a shadow over my face as tears stream down my cheeks.

I feel a set of hooves embrace me. I could see white fur on them, and knew that it was Celestia that was hugging me. I wrapped my arms around her as well, and returned her embrace as we shared our moment with each other.

“I’m so sorry Osiris. I’m so so sorry.” Celestia says as she lightly cries into my shoulder.

“I know… but it’s okay now. Our family is together again.” I say as I let my tears flow, but I hid the rest of my emotions as much as I could. We stayed like that for a few more minutes while Celestia recomposes herself. As Celestia pulls away I catch one of her hooves, and look her in the eyes.

“I… I forgive you.” I tell her quietly. She smiles, and gives me another quick hug before looking at Twilight, who had tears in her eyes from the scene she just watched. I place a soft smile on my lips, as does Celestia.

“How are you okay?” Twilight asks with a shaky voice. I close my eyes.

“Because I was raised to be strong, I was raised by the Princess of the night.” I reply before I wheel myself into a spare bedroom that Twilight had lent me for the night. She had also lent Celestia a bed, but she said she had to return to Canterlot tonight to take care of the morning duties.

I manage to get out of the wheel chair and into a chair Celestia had conjured for me, and sighed as I sat back into it. I then levitate a fictional book to me called Daring Do. I chuckle a little as I remember the Do family, and open the book. I read until it was four in the morning, and I had finished the book.

I decided to get some sleep so that I could see mother in the morning, so I slowly shambled my way into the bed, and fell asleep.

Author's Note

Sorry for the long wait. I was caught up in reading some of my own favorites. So here is chpt.5.