Endless winter
~2~ Prophecy
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Celestia swayed on her hooves, looking at the night sky, lighten up by a thound stars, which were shining like small diamonds in her tent, standing behind her.
I can't....
she thought, almost falling in sleep, but a quiet rustle in the bushes nearby immediately woke her up.
No, I won't...
The robe of darkness muted the sound of hitting something the ground as the white body of the fallen alicorn fell unconsciously aside. The night silence filed with the sound of the calm breath, which was mixing with the soft cold wind.
A misterious giggle from nowhere broke this melody of the night.
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Celestia spotted a blue ceiling of her room over her, when she opened her eyes.
"Celestia?" somepony's worried voice came to her mind somewhere from the right.
"Celestia!" she heard again, when the stranger didn't notice any reaction from the fallen princess.
"Celestia!" Solar princess noticed that someone was staring to loose his patient. She tried to get up, but she couldn't. Something paralyzed her body.
"Mhpff..." her stiff mounth didn't let her say anything. Her view range was limited to what was directly in front of her.
Suddenly, hoofsteps filled the room, and started becoming louder. Celestia was fighting with her numbness - vainly. She was trying to move her forlegs, rearlegs, head... nothing. Even her ears and tail wasere frozen in one pose. With dread, she noticed that the hoofsteps fell silent. This moment of silence seemed lost forever and it was making Celestia more unsurly, uncomfortable and terrified. Her thoughts were running through her head like the wild wolves, which was chasing a maddening princess, with exorbitant dreams about an endless power. A princess like Celestia.
Luna's face appeared from nowhere, scaring Celestia, but she couldn't show it.
"Ah, she is dead," Lunar Princess said with no worry in her voice and she disappeared from Solar princess's view range. The hoofsteps again filled the room, but each subsequent step make Celestia more depressed and sad.
I'm not dead! she yelled in her mind, but nopony could her it. The tears moved down her face, when Luna closed the doors.
"Guards! Celestia is dead, could you do something with it?" she heard her sister's voice from the hall.
No! I'm not dead! Sister! The Solar Princess was throwing herself, but again only in her mind. Her whole body was adamant her thoughts.
From somewhere, two guards in gold armors, appeared and took up Celestia.
"Finally, she is dead," the first guard, which was standing on the right, said. He was a blue earth stallion with grey eyes. The princess tried to look at his mane, but her paralyzed head, was dangling unconsciously.
"Yeah, she started to piss me off" the second voice moved from the left of Celestia's body
Put me down! Check the pulse you idiots! I'm not dead! the Princess was yelling helplessly in her thoughts.
"Hey, maybe we should check her pulse. You know, just in case," said the guard on the left, like he read Celestia's mind.
"Yeah, good idea. It's good to be sure, that this bitch is dead," the stallion said, putting a schocked Celestia down on the ground. He touched the alicorn's white neck with disgust.
What did he say? I-I can't believe that. Why do they hate me so much? Another storm of thoughts flew through her head.
"Yeah, dead. I can't feel her pulse," the guard said, taking up the body of the princess.
"Good to hear," said the pony on the left, helping his mate.
"Oh my... she is so heavy," the blue stallion groaned, when they were moving near the window.
"Hey! Maybe we can throw her out this window? We would take her, when we will be downstair," the pony on the left said excitedly. Suddenly both stopped talking. Celestia couldn't see their faces, because her head was hanging towards the back.
"You know, it's good idea," few seconds later, Celestia was falling down. The wind was blowing into her back and ears blowing out every thought, which appeared in her mind.
"Mphf," she tried to murmur something, but her mounth was still paralyzed. She put a lot of strength into saying something. Suddenly, she felt a terrible pain. Her lips began to slowly open, but they seems were stabled by a strap of her own skin. The blood from her wounds mixed with the tears in the air. Celestia was a few metres over the ground, when her terryfied scream broke the sound of the blowing wind. Then darkness appeared, again.
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Celestia woke up in front of her tent, when the sun came out from beyond the horizon.
She felt a coldness and pain in her body. This fall was so real. Maybe indeed I'm dead? she thought, before disappearing into her tent.
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The puppies without a mother, can be easily killed by hunters
someone's voice pulled Luna out of her dreams. The Lunar princess jumped out from her sleeping bag and started looking around, but she didn't spot anyone in her tent.
"It was just a dream. Yeah, just a dream," she calmed herself down and crawled back into her sleeping back.
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