Best Siblings Together, Forever Until the End

Darkness fades into a brighter shade, as my brain begins to wake up. I smack my lips and yawn, even I don’t even feel the slightest bit tired. My eyes open slightly, revealing a newly familiar wooden roof above me, cementing into my mind once more, for the third day in a row, that me becoming a lookalike of a young Celestia was not a dream. Remembering last night, I look down into my arms, and smile as I see Elliot snoring peacefully. But I can’t help but feel there’s something wrong with-

‘Wait a minute… Wooden roof? I went to sleep outside, looking up at the stars- oh, crap! Fauren saw us! She could use this to tease me and Elliot, and other people knowing will embarrass him!’ are the thoughts that run through my head in the space of 6 seconds. My eyes snap open fully. Gently letting go of Elliot, making sure to not awaken him, I remove my hooves from around him. Then, rolling over, I begin to stand up, my legs shaking sightly, but stabilising soon after. I look around the room, and see…

…Fauren lying down on a small blanket on the floor, snoring, her face pointing towards the roof. That’s not the point, though. The point is that today I got up before Fauren. Every day after we woke up first, we were woken up by Fauren. My face slowly breaks out into a mischievous grin.

I slowly put my hoof down onto the stone floor, attempting to not create a clopping sound, but tense up when, even when I was trying so hard, there’s a loud sound when it hits the floor. I look over towards Fauren, but release a relieved breath I didn’t know I was holding when I see she hasn’t budged an inch.

Slowly sneaking up to her, like I did in the middle of the night when I was going to steal my phone back from my parents’ room (Hey, don’t judge me; it’s my phone, and I had it when I wanted it), I stop above her. Then, very slowly, I reach out a hoof…

“BOO!”

“GAH!” I jump back, my pupils once more becoming pinpricks and my face transforming into one of horror, as Fauren’s upper body lurches forward…

At which point, she bursts into laughter.

“Pfft- You should see the look on your face!” Fauren says, falling back once more as she gasps between laughter, tears on her joyful face. “I had thought you would not be so scared from a mere prank such as this! Gahaha-”

My expression slowly goes from one of horror into one of neutrality. “You knew I was coming.”

“Ha, ha ha, yeah, that’s, hee hee, right,” Fauren says, holding her hoof over her ecstatic mouth to fight down the giggles as she.

“And how did you know that?” I ask, trying a hard as I can to not get a curious look on my face.

Rolling onto her hooves and standing up, Fauren wipes a few stray tears of laughter away from her eyes. “You were as loud as a dragon. Honestly, I cannot believe that you thought I would not notice you,” she says, shaking her head at me.

“But you didn’t flinch when I walked towards you,” I point out. “And how did you know it was me and not a criminal?”

“A mare must keep some secrets to herself, must she not?” Fauren says. She winks at me, a twinkle in her eye, and I resist the urge to roll my own pair.

“Could you please not be so loud? I’m trying to sleep here,” I hear a muffled voice say from behind me. I look back, finding Elliot pushing his pillow into his little blue face.

Fauren sighs. “It is too late to sleep once more. It is time to awaken now.” And with that, she promptly levitates the pillow off of Elliot, who squints his eyes at the light.

Oh, yeah; probably should have mentioned that Fauren has a lantern in the room sometime earlier; it’s on her table. Anyway, getting off that tangent, I look towards Fauren and sigh. “So what are we doing today for ‘training’?” I ask, putting finger-quotes, which are a lot better with hooves, around the ‘Training’ part.

Fauren grins mischievously. “Oh, there is no need for training today.”

“…So why is everyone awake so early?” I ask, my face flashing into a look of confusion.

“Because today is the day that we shall be visiting the nearby village,” she says casually, levitating some ingredients out of the cupboard. “You should get dressed soon.”

She continues, but anything that she says after that is drowned out as the last few words she said begin to echo in my head. You should get dressed soon… You should get dressed soon… My eyes shrink as I suddenly realise what I’ve gotten into.

I imagine walking into town with the blue dress on, and suddenly I turn a stallion’s eye. I smile awkwardly, and wave, and the next thing I know, I’m surrounded by stallions, who are all kissing towards me. I begin to back away, but they follow towards me… then they pounce, and-

The vision pops out of existence as Fauren waves her hoof in front of my face. The smell of amazing stew comes from below my head.

“Are you alright?” asks Fauren. “I believe you were out of touch with the world for a minute there.”

“Uh… yeah, I guess you could say I was,” I chuckle, nervously scratching the back of my head through my hair. Well, more like rubbing the edge of my hoof onto the back of my head so that it feels like scratching.

“You’re back, then?” At my nod, she smiles. “Your breakfast is ready, as is your younger sister’s. In fact, she is eating hers now.” I look to my right, and just like she said, Elliot is currently face-first into his food. Wow, must’ve been imagining for longer than I thought.

“So, you said we need to get dressed?” I ask Fauren.

She nods. “Indeed. Also, there is something else…”

“Yes?” I ask, my voice gaining a curious tone to it.

“Your names do not sound like they belong to ponies, so you shall have to take on new ones.”

My mouth promptly drops open, and Elliot spit-takes.

Of course, since he’s still eating his stew… Yeah, I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.

I gasp and rear back as the stew hits my coat. It’s all, ugh, sticky! I scratch at it with the tip of my hoof, but it doesn’t seem to do much, if anything, to the icky stuff.

But before I can get it off, a cloth floats towards me in a red aura and wipes at the sticky stew, finally getting it off. I sigh in relief. “Thank god…”

“For one who acts like a colt, you sure dislike getting dirty,” I hear Fauren say with a snort.

I roll my eyes. Then, looking over at her, I answer in a slightly annoyed tone “Hey, hating to get dirty doesn’t automatically make me more feminine.”

She grins. “I jest, I jest. Anyway, for your new names, I have several ideas, but I narrowed them down to two each that feel ‘right’. Would you like to hear them?”

“Wait a minute… we won’t have to call each other by our new names in private, will we?” I ask.

“Of course not,” she says, grinning.

I smile. “Cool! So what will our names in public be?”

Elliot looks up in hope, and nods. “Yeah, what are our names gonna be?”

Fauren chuckles. “Once more, you’re enthusiastic. Alright, then. The first of the names for you,” she points at me, “would be Sunny Day, and the first for you,” she points at Elliot, “would be Starry Night. The second names would be for you,” she points at me again, “Celestia, and you,” she points at Elliot once more, “Luna.”

My front-facing eyes once more widen and my pupils transform into pinpricks at the sound of the second names. No, that’s not possible, it can’t be, I think.

Then I hear a voice say “Call us the first names for now, but we might use the second names later.”

It takes me several seconds to realise that that voice is mine.

/)(\2 days earlier

Ferrus Hoof paced through the front of his throne room, his guard standing in front of him. Several guards were fidgeting, and a few began to sweat. Stopping at the middle, he turned to face his guards.

“Gentlemen,” he began. “I have gathered you here today because it has come to my attention that a new Alicorn has appeared.

“Now, I’m sure you’re aware of the rebel scum who have been attacking our poor, pure cities. I’m also sure you are aware that it has, alongside our kin, members that are mud-wallowing ‘Earth’ ponies and those arrogant Pegasi.” The guardsponies shivered; they couldn’t imagine what living with Pegasi and Earth Ponies would be like.

“By now you may be wondering what I have called you here to do. Well, that is simple.

“I want you to capture this Alicorn so that we can use it in our battle against the rebels.

“It is in the area surrounding the forest; we do not know where it is exactly, though, so you must search all the surrounding towns. Now go, my loyal guards, and find the Alicorn so we can use it in our battle against the rebels.” And with that, the guards saluted, then relaxed as Ferrus left the room.