The Epic of Clearia

I awake with a jolt, "Mom!" I scream.

Candy was in the chair by the door. She looked tired, sad, broken. But still she stood and smiled like everything would be alright." Don't worry it was only a bad dream." She cooed.

"But, it couldn't have been a dream. Mom she was hurt and screaming things." I replied.

"What did she say?" She asked quickly.

"Not to come for her. And another thing who's Luna? And why did she come to my dream." I ask.

Her eyes widened,"Luna, are you sure?" She asked.

"Yeah, she said she was the Princess of the Night. Why did Mom know her?" I ask.

"Kinda, when she was a filly. I remember her when I was growing up." She said.

"Dad would pull us out of school sometimes to go and see one of her public speakings. He would tell the teacher that it was a field trip. And she would believe him." She had a grin on her face.

"Dad sounds like he was the best." I said.

"Yeah...okay, get Landy, I'll meet you guys in a second." She said.

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We began by describing my dream to them.

"Alright, lets start at the beginning, the first signs of unusual activity started when a rebellious group known as the Burning Sunset, came out and started working against the princess, but mostly Twilight was the one hurt by the raids and such. After a while though the group started targeting Twilight's shipments only. So of course Twilight made certain ponies guard the carriers. Even so the shipments would still be captured." Candy explained to us. She moved to the icebox and levitated a few pieces of ice into her glass. As so she poured herself a drink of water. Landy then took over in the story.

"And so with her troops getting captured and she was still getting raided, she started suspecting other powers involved. As so she blamed the group's thefts on a certain pony, Cadence. As she hadn't expected the group's intensions got worse. As some of her troops reappeared, others started disappearing. See, they had started training captured soldiers, to bring others out of her power." Landy stated. As so he moved to get a cup of coffee. Then Candy started again.

"And as you may have guessed, they wanted to deplete her forces, so they could overtake her and overthrow her. So she took her best course of action she could think of, she had started a pursuit of the Burning Sunset. But, every time she would get close, they would just pull out from under her. Pretty soon she had become obsessed with finding them. She had been gone from Ponyville for almost two years. The princesses had guessed this would happen, and so they imedently stopped their suport. The stress of the chase had put a toll on her patients. Pretty soon ponies stopped talking to her, after this they hid from her fearing she had gone completely mad. This didn't help with anything, either." As she finished, she took a drink and let Landy take over. They must have rehearsed this or something.

"After, a few years alone, she had time to think I guess. Because as she had accused Cadence before, she was also accusing Luna, and Celestia. She had thought that they wanted to get rid of her, so they wouldn't have to give the thrones up so easy. Now of course the princesses denied it. The scary part though was that Twilight was partially right. She was right about the princesses, they had planned that Twilight would have to deal with the rebellion. That she would stop the rebels. And the test that they had set up had worked. It told them that she wasn't ready. But after over four years of chasing a hoax, to learn it was another test, that the close encounters with death she had to go through, from timberpack wolves to plain starvation. She wasn't too happy to know she had been fooled, especially by one she really trusted. Actually she was pissed, she had spent years following them and had the rug pulled out from under her." He finished and took a breath. Sighing, he said." She believed that she did at least deserve her power, the pain she went through." As he ended, Candy piped up.

"But, with her failure, Celestia thought she wasn't ready. I guess that's what caused her to obliterate almost all of Ponyville. In her rage, she had destroyed everything. At least ponyville had evacuated in time, no one was hurt, but this had brought fear to Celestia. With Twilight's power, anger, and any little bit of push, she could annihilate all of Canterlot in seconds. She had decided to invite Twilight to Canterlot for the weekend. Then, she was going to explain her idea of what happened. It just so happened that was the night Celestia and Luna were brutialy murdered by an assassin. Even though mostly everyone thinks it was Twilight, they felt sorry for her just having her child-" She stops suddenly.

"What?" I ask.

"Oh, nothing." She said and looked away.

"What is it?" I ask." Should I know something?"

"Actually, yes you should." Landy says." Clearia, you know that mom loves you, and we love you, too. Right?" He asks.

"Yeah." I say starting to suspect something.

"Your dream that you had, about mom and her being tortured and things." He said.

"Yeah?" I could feel my heart start thumping fast.

"What you experienced wasn't a dream completely. It was what's considered a scry in the world of unicorns, and only few unicorns can scry, even less can dream scry." He said.

"So wait, what you're saying is-" My voice started to break." that is really going to happen?"

"Yes, and that's not all." He stated.

"What? What do you mean?" Tears starting down my face. I could see Candy crying to herself.

"What Luna said in your dream, about you not being mom's daughter, it was true." He said.

"What!?! Then that means-" I started.

"Yes, you are Queen Twilight's daughter and because of you, our mother has been captured. And now there isn't anything we can do."