Author's Note

Warning: This chapter (only the first paragraph) has birth, so if you are uncomfortable with the first one, don't read. I don't make it that graphic, so I - I don't know.

Two Best Sisters

In a hospital room, a mare screamed in agony. Blood dripped from her filly hood as the two fillies came out.

"Sweetie, it'll- it'll be okay..." Quill Spark reassured his wife, who, was in complete pain.

"Hold on Heart Tune... They're almost there..." The doctor said looking up to Heart Tune.

"Celestia, make this end!" She shouted, which followed by a scream.

"Whahhhhhhh!" The sound of a baby's cry echoed through the room. A white unicorn with brilliant yellow, blue, and purple mane whined silently, as her sister, a beautiful pink pegusus with luscious purple pink and yellow mane, cried and screamed as air hit her face.

"Let...let me see them."

Quill Spark wrapped the two twins up in respectful colors, the baby unicorn in a bright blue, and the pegusus in a pink/purple. He handed the two to his wife, a drip of vomit leaving her mouth from earlier. Tears filled her eyes as the two fillies opened their eyes. The unicorn had bright blue beautiful eyes the color of the ocean. The pegusus had shocking magenta eyes a pretty as pink gems.

"I have some good senses huh?" Quill asked, expecting no response.

"Hi... Love Note," She said looking at the baby unicorn, then turned to the baby pegusus.

"Hello, Cadance.

*

Two fillies pranced around the house, laughing and cheering. "Cadance! Love Note! Dinner's ready!" Their mother shouted from the kitchen. They both ran inside hugging their father.

"Hey daddy!" They both shouted sitting down in their seats.

"Hey..." he mumbled the pen in his wing opening and closing as he tapped it against the table. He lifted it into his mouth, scribbling on papers that his two daughters didn't understand. Heart Tune slammed four bowls on the table, the magic holding them breaking. A droplet of the soup falling onto a paper.

"Watch it!" Quill Spark shouted at his wife, frowning. She said nothing, but glared in response. The two fillies stared at their parents scowling at each other.

*cough* Love Note exhaled, using her magic to levitate the spoon of liquid into her mouth, looking back down at her food. Heart Tune heard this and faked to clear her throat.

"How was work today honey?" She asked looking down and stirring her soup. He mumbled before answering.

"Fine."

"That's it?" Love Note asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah how many books did you sell in cloudsdale today? OH, did you meet Fantastic Flitter Melody?" Cadance asked blurting into the silence with enthusiasm. He chuckled slightly not looking up from the papers.

"Nope, not today sweetie. "He answered sound sad but happy too, sighing at the end of the sentence.

"But we'll go see the concert?" Cadence asked, hopefully. She had been looking forward to going to one of her concerts, and her dad said she would go. However, he only sighed once more.

"I- I don't know sweetie, we might not be able too, the library has lost so must interest, so business is low, and paying for a foal sitter would cost while mom would be looking for a job, so we wouldn't have much time for a-"

"Job?! Me! We agreed that I would stay home! I applied for eight jobs! Eight Quill Spark! Eight! Do you not understand that! I can't apply for jobs! You can't just say- Oh hey, yeah, hi honey, I said you were going to apply for jobs, just because I'm doing bad means you have to do bad too!" Heart Tune yelled standing upright, her eye twitching.

"What?! I don't even sound like that! You need to help and support this family! We are on the bridge of being kicked out of this house!"

"Support! Are you here cleaning! Making Dinner! No! You sit at a desk, watching the clock until it's time to go home, a few ponies checking by every now and then!"

"I'm still working and getting paid You-"

"Enough!" Love Note screamed, interrupting her father. The two grown ponies stared at her until Quill Spark grew angry. Heart Tune saw this then looked to her daughter.

"You-"

"Stop it! " Cadence screamed back interrupting her mother.

"You two arguing is driving me crazy, figure something out already!" Love Note said bowing her head.

"Taking care of us isn't just cleaning us, feeding us, and making sure we're safe!" Cadance told them.

"Yes it-" Quill began, but was stopped again by Cadance.

"No, it's not! WE are so bored, we have nothing to do, you both don't spend time with us, why do you think we never ask you to tuck us in, go outside to play, joke around, help with homework! We have each other so we learned not to ask you, dad was to busy with his job, and mom with cleaning and baking! We help each other..."

"Something you can't do, because you're to busy arguing about things instead of helping each other fix them, you fight about what's unfair and fair, you said when we were eight that life wasn't fair, so just shut up!" Love Note's eyes started to swell up.

"We..." Love Note covered her face not being able to finish.

"Hate you!" Cadance finished, sobbing running out of the room and upstairs to her and her sister's room. Love Dove sat up smashed her hoof on top of the table then jumping on top of it then jumping off, running upstairs following her sister. The parents just sat down in silence, contemplating what just happened.

"This is your fault..." Heart Tune said silently.

"What?!" He replied, his eyes narrowing.

"You heard me..." She talked back glancing back at him.

"Are you kidding me?! This is all your fault-"

*

Cadance sobbed into her heart-shaped pillow.

"Hey," Love Note mumbled, slowly creaking the door open. Cadance's head popped up in surprise,

"Hi..." She whispered shoving the soggy pillow off her bed and sat up against the edge of her bed, lifting a hoof to her face to wipe away the tears.

"Ya' know" Love Note started walking forward, jumping up onto Cadance's bed, wresting a hoof on the opposite side of her.

"I don't care what they say if they come up here, we were right." Cadance smiled, her sister was always the positive one. But she was always the happier one, though her sister was serious.

"How about we play a game?" She asked her sparking blue eyes glaring at her sister.

"Yeah, I've got the perfect idea!" Cadance popped up climbing out of bed.

"Come on!" She raised her roof pointing outside the hallway. Love Note followed slowly, thinking of what it was, then shrugging, putting a smile on her face. Cadance gripped a small piece of paper in her hoof then sat down square on the floor, unfolding the parchment.

"What is it?" Love Note asked staring at the marks all over it, crawling down beside her sister.

"A map! Dad and mom hid something where the X is a few weeks ago, they said whenever we wanted we could go look for it!" Cadance answered, smiling widely.

" I think they meant at day, and with them." Love Note replied, a worried face glanced at Cadance. She just rolled her eyes in response.

"You said you wanted to play a game, and this might take a while, enough for mom and dad to sort stuff out, and besides they love to argue, I doubt they'll notice we're gone." But Love Note's expression just became more worried.

"It's still in the forest, you know how dangerous it is at night,"

"So? Look if it was dangerous, there wouldn't be a map." Cadance answered, giving her sister bored eyes.

"That's so not tru-"

"Please?!" Cadance pleaded, her pupils growing wide. Love Note rolled her eyes sighing.

"Fine..."

"Yay!" She shouted trotting back to the room, gathering needed stuff in her saddlebag. Love Note did the same and they both opened the window, throwing a rope down for Love Note. Cadance's wings fluttered as she ran out. Love Note tried to stop her, but the next second, Cadance was hovering in the air outside the window, her wings making a slight buzzing sound. Love Note rolled her eyes again, gripping the rope, sliding down to the grass. Cadance cheered and said she was like a secret agent. The two fillies walked into the forest, it was dark and damp, no birds no life, just dark.

"Maybe we should go back..." Love Note asked, but Cadance trudged forward, her mind set on finding the red X. Only focusing on the map, while flying, she crashed head first into a tree, she fell down her wing smashing against a branch and millions of scars cutting on her face. Love Note rushed to help her sister.

"Oh my gosh! Are you alright!?" Cadance nodded limping to get up, until gripping to her wing and closing her eyes. Love Note inspected it seriously.

'I think it's broken. We should go back." She finally said, lifting Cadance up with her magic.

"Where are we?" She asked herself, carefully looking at the map. Cadance's eyes slowly shifted open until she gasped.

"Love Note watch out!" But it was too late, Love Note slipped the edge of the cliff hitting rocks and finally crashing into a pool of mud. The magic bond released Cadance, who fell, but unlike her sister, gripped onto the ground as soon as she impacted with the dirt. All the way on the bottom of the cliff, Love Note groaned in the mud, not moving.

"Hold on sis I'm coming!" Cadance looked around her for anything that would help, however she was an expert on rock climbing, she had always hoped if became a famous song writer or singer she would live in a beautiful place by hills and mountains to climb. She placed one hoof down, sliding , she continued this, until she reached the bottom. She swiped the sweat off her forehead and rushed to her sister.

"Are you okay?" Cadance asked her sister, helping her out of the mud. They continued to walk down the forest, the mud drying on their coat fur.

"Let's stop for a sec okay?" Love Note asked, and Cadance came to a halt.

"Sure..."

The two fillies sat in silence until Cadance asked a question darkly.

"We're never gona get home are we?" Love Note rose her head, sadly looking at her sister. Then her look turned to anger.

"Don't say that! WE could... still find a way out..." Cadance scoffed at her sister's remark.

"No, we won't if we do, or could we wouldn't be here, we would be home, in our beds, happy!"

*

Heart Tune screamed galloping upstairs.

"Girls! Pack your things! We're-" She started looking in the room.

"Girls!?" No one said anything.

"Girls!?" No response.

"GIRLS!" Nothing. Heart Tune ran downstairs, starting to have a panic attack. She told Quill Spark, and they both ran out side, screaming their names, until Heart Tune ran inside to call the police. Meanwhile, Quill Spark kept shouting,

"Love Note!"

"Cadance!"

*

"Cadance! Don't, just don't..." The Two fillies sighed and Cadance began to sob, that is until An evil changeling queen emerged out of the shadows, laughing.