Princess Skyla

Skyla and breazle walked through the doors meeting the glare of two other ponies.

"Hehe.. Hi mom, dad" the filly laughed nervously.

"Skyla? why did you stay out so late? we were worried sick, I almost sent a search party for you." Shining said as he waved a group of royal guards away.

"Breazle was just showing me the sunset up on a hill it was beautiful!" Skyla sighed.

"Well you missed dinner." Cadence said walking up to the group.

"Oh me and breazle ordered food from the hay burger." Skyla smiled.

"Oh very well then if you already ate the you should head off to bed its getting late." She said walking her daughter to her room leaving Shining behind to talk to breazle about what time Skyla should have been home.

As they made it to her room Skyla started brushing her mane. "Mom? could I ask you a question?" As soon as she was done Cadence walked over.

"Sure sweetie what do you want to talk about?" She said starting to braid her daughters mane.

"C-could I go to school? A-at the empire?"

"Oh but honey you do."

"I mean at the school with other ponies. I'm tired of being alone at the castle the only pony with me is the private tutor which only stays for school hours and breazle."

Cadence obviously caught off guard put a bright blue hair tie in her daughter mane and started braiding her tail. "W-well I-I don't think I have the time for this kind of talk right now honey."

"Why? why cant I go to school with other ponies, y'know? its really lonely in the castle alone."

"You got breazle-"

"Not the point, you know what I mean mom." as Cadence put the last hair tie in Skyla turned to her with a serious look. "Mom did I do something to be grounded for my whole life?"

Shocked the grown alicorn gave her daughter a sad look. "N-no you didn't do anything sweetie, I-I'm sorry I made you feel like your being punished for something you don't even know what you did." she sighed.

"W-well I guess I don't feel completely grounded I mean you buy me anything I want I can get dad to do whatever I want." Skyla giggled. "Actually the only thing standing in the way of me controlling dad is well... you."

Cadence joined in on the silliness too. "Well its not his fault your so adorable you got that from my side."

Skyla giggled again but then got serious again too. "But still besides getting almost anything I want I get everything except being with other ponies." She thought for a minuet. "This is when yolo comes in."

"Yolo? What that?"

" you only live once.."

"Where did you hear that?"

"Breazle said he read it in one of the libraries books."

"Figures he used it on me when he convinced me to let you out for the day."

"Anyway the point is.. why do you keep me inside all the time?"

Cadence sighed. "When you were just born we and after we brought you home we kept you a secret for a while only the other princesses, the guards, and our family knew. The more the time went by the more me and dad had to work on royal duties. We had to get you a baby sitter and almost a full time on too, Because none of the guards knew how to take care of  a new born, Flash wanted to he volunteered many times and at some point when the baby sitter wasn't able to make it, he was there for you. But what we forgot to do when we hired the baby sitter was tell her that we didn't want anypony to know you were here yet. She went around telling friends and her friends told friends and friends told friends and by then the whole kingdom knew, news spread fast around here. We knew we couldn't do this for long so we finally set a party for you and everypony got to see you and give gifts it was one of the biggest parties we ever had in the empire. But towards the end not more than 5 ponies showed up and they look different from the rest, you see all changelings have been in battle so how you can tell is their scars cant morph like them so if you see a pony with black scars or if a pony bleeds and when have green oozing from their wound then they are changelings in disguise.

"So they were changelings?"

"Yep the "normal" ponies had black scars all over their body. as they neared you, you started to cry and flash came to you side before any of use could, I swear its like he has super powers when it comes to you. Anyway when he picked you up the first thing you looked at were those changelings and started crying more. We quickly found out they were changelings. All the guards in the room surrounded them and before they fled they said "'Sombra and Chrysalis have been waiting for this day, we are only messengers if we fail to get the princess and it looks like we have. They said they will get their revenge for banishing them to the canyons for five years and for taking their kingdom from them.'" And just like they were there a flash of green light and they were gone."

"So I've been here longer than I thought?"

"Actually kind of we let you outside for as long as we kept you in as a baby so around six months but many times you were out there you started to cry and sure enough there was always a changeling around. Flash stayed by your side the whole six months and each time you cried he was there in well a flash. But each time your cried while outside the castle we found a changeling nearby, still some changelings are good but for some reason you don't cry around them only the ones that are evil. We kept you out only a little longer than six months to test our theory and soon we realized you have some feeling when there's evil nearby, but we all agreed you cried over it too much and they got too close to you, we've had some close calls but thanks to your 'instinct' were able to get to you in time but we all agreed its for the better if we keep it in."

"Well I'm not a baby now! I'm not defenseless."

"Yes true but do you know how to fight?"

"W-well.. no.. but I'm sure I can get dad to teach me!"

"Dads always busy honey."

"I can get dad to teach me!"

Cadence sighed and face hoofed. "We have got to get him immune to your cuteness."

Skyla giggled. "Please! I want to go to regular school PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE-"

"This is going to get annoying." She sighed.

"PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE-"

"Fine! I'll talk to dad about it!"

"YES! THANKS MOM!" the little princess gave her mom and hug and snuggled into bed.

"Night sweetie." Cadence said and kissed her daughters forehead.

"Night mom love you!" With that she left. Breazle came in not even a minuet later.

"Skyla it would have been a lot easier if you would have stayed with me and your dad his wrath would have been less wrathful you would have bailed me out."

She giggled. "Sorry breazle I had a talk with mom she told me about why she keeps me in here all the time and I got her to talk to dad about letting me go to regular school."

"Wow well I wished you luck so I have to be part of it, Anyway night Skyla."

"Night breazle."

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"Wow!" Skyla whispered as she got closer to the dark kingdom. "It looks so cool!" The closer she got the more she could hear a voice. 'don't do it' She heard the voice whisper. 'Turn back' it got louder but something was drawing her towards the castle. Soon she was at the line, the line that separates the two kingdoms. She stared at it for a while, the voice sounded like it was in her head but it wasn't it was all over the place. 'Don't do it' Skyla stepped over the line. 'Turn back now' Skyla kept walking changelings all saw her they all started closing in and fast Skyla turned to go back but there were changelings there too. She was full of panic, She got down to the ground, she put her head under her hoofs closed her eyes and waited for the changelings, but none of them came. She looked up, She saw a blue shield around her. she looked up just in time to see it explode and all the changelings within a mile away got thrown back, she looked up to see the cause of the protection. Luna slowly flew down and touched the earth below.

"Princess Luna!" Skyla shouted running over.

"Princess Skyla thou didn't listen to our warnings."

"S-sorry Princess Luna. But W-why were you here?" Skyla asked.

"Thou is in a dream. I are the princess of the night thus it is my duty to come into your dreams."

"Oh.. so you were the voice?"

"Yes thou should have listened. Come lets go."

As they walked they finally made it back to the kingdom. "But I don't get it why does the dream seem so real."

"Dreams do that. Now It's time to wake up."

"Wake up? but I don't want to wake up, Luna I want to talk some more there are still things that I know you know that I don't!"

Luna started walking back and as she got further she started to disappear.

"Luna! WAIT! I WANT TO TALK!" Skyla shouted running towards her.

"Wakes up Skyla." Luna said once more with a smile before completely disappearing.

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