Break your Fate

Chapter 3

It's like my mind is made of glass, I could hear it shatter.

Expelled.

I fall to my haunches, looking up to Princess Luna, to auntie Luna, with pleading eyes.

She ansers my look with a stern expression.

"Captain, please accompany Prince Blueblood and miss..." She looks to Vivid Night, raising a brow.

"Cadet Vivid Night, Princess." Vivid answers with a bow.

Luna nods. "... and miss Vivid Night on their way out." She turned back around, walking up to her throne. "I want to talk to Crescent in private."

"Princess what are y-" Prince Blueblood looks up to Luna. Her eyes silencing him.

"Yes your highness." Dad salutes, turning around he looks at Prince Blueblood and Vivid Night. "Would you please follow me?" His voice was soft and almost unemotional.

Almost.

I could hear the very faint disappointment in the very back of his voice, the part where only the people that share your life, in every moment, are able to understand.

It was like he had slapped me in the face.

Vivid walks closer, looking at me, wearing a sad expression.

She opens her mouth to say something.

But I won't let her.

"Just go..." I look away, down on my hooves.

She closes her mouth, still looking down on me, her expression now hurt. She turns around and walks away, her soft hoofsteps echoing through the hall.

'Don't do that!' I think. 'Don't send her away with such harsh words. It's not her fault!' I shake my head and turn around.

"Thanks!" I look at her, searching for a reaction.

I get one.

She turns around..

And smiles.

The heavy door closes with a loud boom, locking her smile out.

I turn around to look at Princess Luna.

Her stern expression was gone. Sadness was now in it's place. With a sigh she looks down at her secretary, a strange pink coated mare with even darker pink mane and tail.

"Dream Dancer. Please leave us alone."

"Yes Princess." Dream Dancer nods, gets up and walks out through a passage behind the throne.

We were alone.

My ears perk.

We were alone, no guards, no servants. Nothing. Just me and Luna.

A blue magic surrounds me, I gasp and look at Luna as she levitates me up to the throne.

Putting me down right next to her, I'm now sitting together with her on the throne, her soft flanks against mine.

Not the first time.

Luna looks at me, disappointed and sad.

"I'm sorry." She suddenly says. Her voice was soft and warm.

"It's fine... I guess." I answer. "Dad explained it to me. You're just helping her."

I see Luna's confused expression.

"Is that so?" She asks. "What did Shining Armor tell you?"

"That you're helping her to control her magic surges so she won't hurt herself or the ponies around her."

Something flashes through her eyes, so fast I'm not even sure I saw something.

"Well then." She looks away. "Then I won't have to explain it to you." Her voice got quieter.

Suddenly she smiles.

"So you're into Vivid Night?" She looks at me slyly.

I blush, a deep crimson all over my face.

Luna laughs and opening her wing she pulls me into a soft embrace.

"Am I that easy to read?" I ask weakly.

"No, you're pretty good in hiding your feelings." She answers. "But I'm the Princess of the night." Her smile grows even wider, she was now grinning from ear to ear. "Dreams and stuff." She winks. "I can see them."

I hide my face behind my hooves, my coat was no longer white, it now was a deep crimson. 'By Celestia, please, somepony, anypony, just kill me.'

I can hear even more chuckles from Luna.

"Don't worry. Nothing to be ashamed of." She nudges me. "Siren, your mother, had once a far..." She tips her chin. "I don't want to call it weird but... it was, by far weirder."

"It was?" I ask, my ears were still burning with awkwardness. "What was it about?"

She looks down on me.

And laughs.

"You know you, kinda asked me about your mothers "dreams" right now, do you?" I facehoof, again.

I sigh, trying to stiffle the shame that creeps up my spine.

"Okay... you can kill me now." I answer.

Luna laughs, covering her mouth with a hoof.

"You're so cute when you're shy." She teases.

"I'm not shy!" I answer, looking away. "This is just awkward." Luna answers with another giggle.

I take a deep breath and try to ignore her giggles.

After a few moments she stopped and we just sit there, leaning against each other, her wing around me.

"Aunt Luna?" I ask.

"Hm?" She looks at me.

"Why did you expel me too?" I ask, glad that my coat returned to it's former colour.

I hear her sigh.

"You attacked a comrade." She looks at me, faint disappointment in her face. "I know why you did it and I'm happy to know that you tried to protect mine and your sisters honor but still, rules are rules. You hurt a pony, and for that you needed to be punished."

I nod.

"Is there a way for me to revoke the expel?" I ask hopefully.

She shakes her head.

"No. There is no way. Sure I could just give you a letter which says that you are no longer expelled but-" She looks at me. "That wouldn't be fair. And besides that it would look like I favor you, which would make me look bad."

"I understand, it's just..."

"I might have an idea." Luna suddenly says, interrupting me. "How about you work here? As volunteer."

"In the castle?" I raise a brow.

"Yes, as servant." She sticks her tongue out. "I could even allow you to work in the royal bathhouse if you want."

I blush again.

"Stop teasing me auntie!" She giggles.

"Okay, okay." Her smile fades. "Joke aside. You really could work here as volunteer. Atleast in the kitchen or maybe with the janitors. After one year I could revoke the expel and say you're on probation. This would atleast give you the chance to keep on working in the castle."

I tip my chin, thinking. 'That's not such a bad idea but...'

"And you would be able to see Vivid frequently." Luna adds with a smirk.

"I'm in." I suddenly state.

Silence.

Luna bursts into laughter, almost falling of the throne.

I facehoof.