Chapter 5

It took a rather long time for me to calm down. I knew it, I knew it the very moment I returned.

My friends were dead. But seeing their memorials like this...

It was a kick in the gut.

Celestia was folding her wing back up to her side, looking down at me.

"Do you understand?" she asks, a sad expression on her face, "you scared me. I really believed you were dead, lost oh so many years ago" she stands up and walks closer to Anvils statue, "but your sudden appearance reminded me of him."

I look at the statue, looking at the inscription again.

"It says..." I take a deep breath, trying to calm me some more, "It says, you killed him."

"Yes" she answers, lowering her head.

"Tell me" I say, not even sure myself if I really want to hear it.

She sighs, a loud and unpleasant sigh.

She turns around and nods.

Sitting down in front of the statues, trying to get comfortable.

"I guess, you still remember everything till the day you got lost?" I nod, "well after your disappearance Anvils heart was broken. He went berserk. He is actually the reason we defeated Disocrd that time" my eyes widen.

"If he hadn't gone berserk..." her eyes wander up to the ceiling, my eyes follow.

On the ceiling was a painting, a painting of Anvil in fight with Discord.

"He defeated Discord almost solo" she looks back down at me, "you know why, do you?" she asks me quietly, sensibel.

I nod, memories of the time we shared coming up.

"He loved you" Celestia concludes, I nod again, tears welling up again.

"I know" I answer, my voice was breaking again.

"So during his fight with Discord, as he went berserk, he broke both his wings in the fight, but still kept flying" my eyes widen, I look back down at Celestia, "he was so angry that he didn't even feel his own body getting mangled and crushed. He just kept fighting. In the end, his ferocity scared Discord" she stops to giggle, a small unhappy giggle, "Discord and scared, this will never work together. So Discord, scared by the apparently undying Anvil, lost his will to fight and fleed" her eyes meet mine, frowining she closes her eyes and goes on explaining.

"After the fight, he ran away."

"Where to?" Celestia opens her eyes again, looking at me.

"No pony knows" she answer cryptical.

"The next time I saw him was 23 years after the fight" she had her eyes closed again, "it was during a civil war between the unicorns and the earth ponies. There were rumors of a cloaked pony, rushing through the land, killing everything in its way that didn't obey me. To that time I was still a unicorn and I was getting old" she turns her head, looking at Anvils statue.

"He had changed" I raise a brow, Celestia turns back to me, "He was" she stoped, thinking for a second, "stronger, calmer overall he was all that what we wished from the captain of the Eclipse Guard" tears were now welling up in her eyes too.

"He was also my second husband" she shakes her head trying to stop the tears, she takes a deep breath.

"So time went on, we were happy. He was everything I wished for in a husband" she stops, lowering her head.

Tears were falling.

"The day he died" she starts sniffling, "was the day our daughter, White Cracks, should be crowned to the new queen of the unicorn tribe but" she takes a deep breath, trying in vain to not let her voice break, "the other tribes were afraid of the unicorns. Especially your clan, the Dark clan" my eyes widen.

"We had many problems with earth ponies and pegasi, even unicorns revolting against us, they wanted a change" she shakes her head again, "Anvil was in the dungeons, guarding all the revolutionary we had caught till that day. Lunar Eclipse was my personal guard that day" she looks back up to the painting.

"Betrayal, got a new meaning after that day" she looks back down, angry now. I shrugg.

"I never knew why, but that day he went berserk again, killing 4 of his brothers in the dungeon and on his way up he killed 7 more. The last guard between him and me was Lunar. The fight between them was furious, but Lunar was holding back, trying to convince him to stop" she lowers her head again, she had never stoped crying the whole time, "he killed Lunar. After that he turned around, grinning, grinning at me!" she takes a few deep breaths.

But they couldn't stop the tears. Celestia just sits there, crying now. After a minute or two she looks back up, her red puffy eyes showed pain, deep pain, pain like no else.

"Our daughter was already in the throne room" she whispered, her voice no longer strong enough to speak normally.

My eyes widen. The story had something final, something terrible.

"He-" she gulps, new tears falling, "he killed his own daughter! And he grinned as he did so!" she jumps up and kicks the statue of Anvil, giant cracks forming. I jumped up and away from her, first of all I wanted to get some distance to her hooves, strong enough to crack a statue.

"Princess!" I call out, she turns around, looking at me.

"You know what he said while doing so? Do you wanna know?" she was shouting at me, I move down, cowering. She moves closer, now over me.

"He laughed and said 'Never again will a Sunstrider rule'" my eyes widen.

'A coincidence?' my thoughts spin as I remember the dream.

"After that he pulled Amortheyf out of his daughters body and tried to kill me" she looks at me, her menacing expression was melting away, only sorrow was left.

"During the fight" she sniffles and gasps, exhausted of her outburst, "I ascended" she unfolds her wings and looks at the pure white down, "anger, hate, pain and sorrow are some unbelievable catalysts" she whispers.

She looks at me, her face a grimace, caught between sorrow, pain and hate.

"Please leave now" she orders coldly, "the guards outside will bring you to a guestroom" her horn radiates golden light as the cracks in Anvils statue disappear.

"I just want to be alone" she lays down, folding her wings over herself to hide underneath.

Quiet sniffs and sobs could be heard from under the blanket of down she was hiding in.

The door closes loudly. But even the massive doors couldn't stop the sound of a hurt soul.

"Anvil!" Celestia cried.

Author's Note

I know the chapter is rather short but I hope it gives some background to this, next chapter will be a big one again, atleast as big as the others, maybe even bigger.

Well..... whatever....

Seee ya next chapter.