War for Middle Equestria

"Astral get out of bed", rainbow dash yells, "For real, we have to finish clearing the sky before 8 A.M." She kicks him out of the bed, the covers go flying with him as he lands on the floor "You spoiled, prince" He jumps up on all fours, covers still covering him, he's facing the opposite way from rainbow dash, he points thinking he's pointing at her,

"call me spoiled, one more time" his speech muffled by the covers.

Rainbow dash laughs "babe, I'm over here" taps her hoof on the cloud floor of the bed room. Astral flings the cover looks around making sure of were she is, points again

"call me spoiled one more time" rainbow dash kisses his nose, whispers in his ear

"spoiled"

Astral just sighs "why is today so important anyway..... All aunty wants to do is have a camping thing in the royal gardens.. not much i haven't done before" he stretches out his body than his wings,

"yeah well this is the first time we have all gotten everyone together in a long time, an the first time we have gotten to see the night sky from cantorlot... an you know how rarity is" rainbow dash reply's.

astral yawns "fine.. lets get this cloud thing over with so we can get there an help aunty set up" rainbow dash an Astral dart out the door to do there daily cloud control.

"So tell me astral, what was it like growing up with Celestia? couldn't have been easy" rainbow dash smiles.

"no, no it wasn't. the first few years i spent training.... after that i was knight at her side, and stood as leader of the Valkyrie squad." astral starts to slowdown as his face turns sour as he remembers his old friends an the war that cause equestria to tear its self apart.

Later that day rainbow dash an astral show up at the castle,

luna and celestia are there to greet them both "my son how are you?" luna asked as she reached to hug him,

"I'm well mother" he nods an gives her a smile he looks to his aunt, "aunty anything i can help you do to set up for to night?"

celestia smiles " yes there's much to be done"

a few hours later we find our self in the garden. tents, a telescope, an a pile of twilight's books are seen strewn about, astral stares into the sky still thinking about the past war. he gets a hard punch to his right shoulder

"Its not like you to day dream brother" a dark blue alicorn appears "what are you thinking about?" he smiles at astral.

"Nothing brother, just past scars i wish could heal" astral gets up an starts to walk over to the fire where everyone is seated, he looks around seeing everyone having a good time laughing and enjoy them-self's. rainbow dash sees him an gives him a loving smile

"she reminds you a lot of her, don't she?" astral looks over to the dark blue colt

"she does.... more than i wish she did... Zephyr let me ask you....." zephyr looks at astral with a half eaten smore in his mouth

"hummm?"

astral laughs "never-mind, another time maybe" he finally joins the group.

"So can i get a smore?" astral asks,

zephyr smacks him in the head with the bag of marshmallows "only if you can get the mellow of the marshy goodness from me" zephyr takes off running,

astral takes off after him "give them here, or ill beat you like your father should have"

zephyr turns and gives astral a serious look "bro.... that's harsh...." and runs away again laughing.

Luna jumps from the tall tower "astral stop that at once that is not how a prince acts"

celestia chuckles "dear sister let them be, its high time they finally forget an just be kids"

sweetiebell looks at celestia an asks "what mean just be kids there like 900 years old aren't they?"

rarity interjects "sweetiebell don't be rude"

luna smiles "its fine, an to what you ask? well see astral an zephyr didn't have a good child hood, see they ended up fighting a war me an my sister started"

twilight jumps up "ohohoh i think i have this book" she pulls out a book entitled 'The War for Middle Equestria' "but there was nothing in there about astral or zephyr"

celestia sighed "well that book was only allowed a few key facts, see astral an zephyr were the reasons the wars kept going?"

sweetiebell smiled "can you tell us the real story please?" astral an zephyr stop fighting an return to the group zephyr still has the bag of marshmallows,

rainbow dash laughed "you know you didn't stand a chance, no one comes between zephyr an his marshmallows"

astral sighed "was worth a shot, so whats everyone talking about"

sweetiebell jumped up "celestias going to tell a story"

astral smiled "awesome i love my aunts story's, whats it going to be to night?"

sweetiebell answered "its the story of the war with you an zephyr"

astral sighed "great........ as if i hadn't been though that enough"

zephyr swallows "quit your whining, you don't hear me complaining do you"

astral snares "its easy for you!!! your friends didn't die trying to protect you" astral gets up an walks away, celestia watches him leave,

applebloom looks at sweetiebelle "your not the brightest sweetiebelle"

celestia sighs "see long ago astral was a point of hope for our land, he was a beacon of light when a greater evil " the smoke from the camp fire swirls around, an images from the past start to appear as celestia tells the story of astral.