I Never Asked For This

by SevenWays 56

Rating: everyone
Tags: Princess Celestia, Slice of Life, Sad, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other
Length: 1135

It was Celestia and Luna's destiny to raise the sun and moon. However was it really there destiny to be rulers? A dream walk form Celestia sheeds some light on this.

Everyone assumes that the royal sisters were meant to be rulers. For Celestia it is something she never wanted. During special dream she remembers the whole thing from when Star Swirl found her and Luna to her being forced to banish her only friend and family.

I made this because the thing wouldn't leave my head

Published 2015-05-17 18:20:03 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-17 18:20:03 UTC

I Never Asked For This

Another day, another court. For a thousand years I had to do this. As ponies left I knew it was getting late for the sun to set. I walk out to my room as I stood to lower the sun so Luna can raise the moon.

I walk to bed and to sleep. I let sleep take me. It was one of the few things that still gave me actual joy.

The dream I was in wasn’t a dream, at least not one mortals know of. This place was the place Twilight only knew as were she became an Alicorn. However this was more special then she realized.

Around me images showed, these went from as far into the past as my first days to the present time. it was finally that time once again. It was finally time to walk though my life again.

Twilight and Cadance were lucky really. They will never have to go through this walk unlike me, Luna, and Discord.

I took a deep breath and started my walk.

The first images showed me and Luna in our youth. We had no idea what was going on when the bearded unicorn found us. It wasn’t long until he asked us to do something. I wanted us to raise the sun and moon in front of the three tribes.

I wish we never did so.

For once we did the unicorn asked the three tribes to bow to us. Unknown to us, our peaceful carefree life was gone that day. Star Swirl had made us rulers of the three tribes that day.

To this day I still resent him for it. Me and Luna didn’t want to rule. I knew what he did was to find something to unite the three tribes. Something that would let them put the past of mistrust behind them.

Something like us. We were given the name Alicorns for we had the traits of all three races in one.

The images flew away from me as I continued down the path. Memories came of what soon happened afterwards.

Star Swirl soon was grooming us to take over leadership. The three tribes called us princesses and they soon set out to find a new home too the south. As this all happened Star Swirl became our magic teacher.

Me and Luna almost saw him as a father we had never had. We slowly learned everything we needed to know to become the kind of rulers the tribes expected us to be. Our official coronation was something to behold. The last leaders of the three tribes each bowed to us as the tribes became one.

New images showed themselves. The day we found out about this dimension was by complete accident. Star Swirl had taken notes on our magic and where we might have come from. We had entered his study intending to surprise him for his birthday. Luna had knocked down something off his desk. When we picked it up we read it by accident.

We had no idea what had happened but our mains had changed and we seemed to have gotten bigger afterwards.

At the time we thought nothing of it. However that little even triggered something all of equestria, and all of the world would have to life though.

For that day something became aware of us. That something was named Discord.

I still remembered the day he had walked into the old castle. He easily dispatched the guards causing them to be tanged in freshly chewed gum. He had calmly walked into the throne room.

We tried to stop him but really he was just too powerful. He defeated us and held us up by his magic. He had introduced himself, and then tossed us out of our palance like we were nothing.

Slowly his magic warped the land and it didn’t seemed to stop. By the end of the week all of Equestria was under his chaos, and by the end of the month the whole world.

For nearly a whole year Discord ruled the world. Nothing could  stand up to him without going mad. Many choose to end it then live under his madness. Me and Luna almost gave up hope ourselves. However StarSwirl believed he had found a way to stop him.

He sent me and Luna to brave the Everfree forest and there we found the Tree of Harmony the oldest and most powerful being on the planet.We managed to get the Elements of harmony from the tree itself, and went to brave Discord’s madness to free everything from his reign.

I continued to walk in this place. Now however memories of what happened afterwards came up. Discord rule had destroyed the world, and while the elements had imprison him in stone it couldn’t undo all the effects because of how long he had ruled.

This forced us booth to be very busy, me more then Luna because of how much more busy the day was then the night. However it would be this that would bring the darkest day in my very life, my greatest regret.

Around me the area got darker as the screen in front showed the day Luna became Nightmare Moon. As I was forced to use the elements of harmony I was given a vision.

The vision showed me what could have been. What I saw was me and Luna living happy lives. No kingdom to rule, no Discord to turn the world apart, and above all.

My sister didn’t become this thing. I held back my tears as I used the elements to banish my own sister.

I cried soon afterwards. I had just banished the only friend I ever had. The only family I ever known.

The vision I saw wasn’t just me looking at a what if. It was real, it was what our lives should have been.

At that I finally realized the truth. Star Swirl had saw the fight and came to see what was wrong. He shouldn’t have came.

It was him in who caused all of this. It was mine and Luna’s destinies to move the sun and moon, we were tied to them at birth. However it wasn’t our destiny to rule.

Star Swirl had added this burden to us. Everything that had happened under our reign would never had happened.

When I saw him I let out all my anger I had developed for  the whole hour. My main had became a raging inferno as I glared at him with killer intent.

The image was gone as a tear rolled down my eyes.

I never asked to be a ruler. I never wanted to be one. I don’t want to stay as one, but I can’t.

I was turned into one.