Solar Child: The Original Chapters

Solar Child

Chapter Thirteen

Written by Bakmah Genesis

       Celestia watched as the spell worked.  The five pictures that included Twilight burning into ash.  Any other photos in existence doing the same wherever they may be.  Her excuse simply being it too much to handle for her when in reality it was to protect her daughter.

      She sighed and looked at the mental report sitting on her desk.  Twilight's anxiety and paranoid OCD became more extreme as well as recurring episodes at the sight of blood or the dead.  Celestia could understand this.  Though she wanted nothing more then to wipe it from her memory, Luna and Cadence stopped her, saying it would be more damaging for her to forget then find out later.

        It has been two weeks since she declared her daughter dead and she placed a spell on the staff and guards so that they cannot tell anyone that she lived.  It was cruel but needed.  The guards were more than willing to help keep the young princess safe.

      She set the report aside and looked at the charges for the six remaining members of the AntiCelestia group that wasn't splattered across the old outpost.  One was a Guiding Spear, the current leader after Gleaming Shield.  She obviously had deep seeded hate for Spear and she would be more than happy to give him the death sentence.  The public wouldn't expect less, either.  It was the most unthinkable thing, murder.  And he did it to a foal.

     She looked over at the clock and saw she still had half an hour until she was supposed to be in the throne room to start court.  She closed her eyes and started to collect herself.  The last thing the public needed to see was Celestia unleashing the darkness in the middle of court.  That would not help her case.  There was a knock at the door and a guard poked his head in.

     "Princess, Twilight Sparkle is here to see you, as well as Lady Twilight Velvet and Sir Night Light."  She sighed.  Velvet and Night Light were minor nobles who took in Shining and were more then glad to take in Twilight when she asked.  Shining was not happy when he learned he lied to him about Twilight's death but agreed on her decision.

       The door closed behind the three.  The small lavender filly shot forward and wrapped around her mother, brining her into a warm embrace.  Celestia smiled and returned the hug.

      "It's good to see you too, baby.  I hope you are staying both out of sight and trouble?"  The filly nodded into her shoulder and looked up at her with a smile.

       "Yep!  I got to go in the kitchens for awhile and they let me help with some of the meals."  She nuzzled into her mother.  Celestia froze as she felt tears stain her coat. "But I don't want to be like this forever.  I hear some of the citizens when they come for court and I'm in the study next to the throne room.  I hear them always mourning for me.  'Oh poor filly, she was still so young.  Those bastards should burn.'  I don't like being dead."  Celestia stroked her daughters mane.

      "One day.  When you are a young adult, your true self will awaken and then, then Twilight Solar will once again live.  I don't like this either but we have to be strong."  She felt her nod.  "Now, go through the passage that leads to the study, from there you can hear the court."  Twilight got up and walked up to one of the book cases.  Giving it a slight pull with her magic, it revealed a hallway.  Celestia motioned for Velvet and Night to follow.  Once the three were in the hallway, the book case went back to its normal position.  Celestia sighed and headed down to the throne room.

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         "Presenting the accused, the last surviving members of the AntiCelestia group and their leader, Guiding Spear."  Celestia watched as ten guards brought in the six ponies.  Each one limping slightly and with multiple cuts on their body from both their treatment in the dungeons and their encounters from Celestia.  She glared at each one individually, tears in her eyes.  She still felt the pain from nearly losing her daughter again.

      "We are here to judge the AntiCelestia group with foal napping and first degree murder of Princess Twilight Solar.  How do you plea?"  She hated to ask the question since she knew they were guilty so did everyone else in the room, but it was law.  Guiding Spear smirked.

      "Guilty."  Celestia allowed a small smile, just enough that only ponies close to her could see it.  She started to raise the gable and sentence them when he spoke once more, making her drop the gable in the process.   "But she is not dead."  The silence that hung over the court was heavy as all eyes fell upon him.

      "Your so-called-princess is lying to you.  She is alive and well.  She was carried out of the outpost with the rest of us."  He smirked as he saw the court mumble among themselves.  Celestia remained silent.

      "Yes, we'll, she died at the hospital."  The silence rained down on the court again.  Guiding Spear's smirk disappeared and his eyes widened.  "I got there as quickly as I could but the medical staff could do nothing.  She lost too much blood and the trauma from the events was too much on her."  Tears stained Celestia's cheeks.  It was actually partly true.  Twilight lost a great deal of blood and slipped into a coma.  They were barely able to bring her back.

      She lifted the gable again and brought it down with a resounding crack.  Spear winced at the noise, waiting for his sentence.

      "I here by sentence the remaining AntiCelestia members to be hung publicly."  The six gulped.  "Mr Spear, however, will be executed by myself in private."  Spear turned visibly white.  Celestia fought back a triumphant smile.  She brought down the gable again, dismissing court.  She stood and Cadance followed her through a side door.  There sat Twilight next to a rose red mare and a grey stallion.

      "Well, I think you made a fine point of why no pony bucks with Princess Celestia." said Night Light as the two entered.  Celestia and Velvet glared at him.

      "Language, dear.  Twilight is in the room."  Night Light smiled sheepishly.  Velvet nodded and turned back towards Celestia.  "I'm guessing Spear's execution is going to be a bit more, to say, gory?"

      "Every last second of it." said Celestia as she sat down.  She motioned for the filly to join her.  She smiled as Twilight wrapped her hooves around her.  "I only hoped things could have been different so I didn't have to watch her grow up in a life like this."  Cadence wrapped a wing around her.

      "You can't predict everything, auntie.  Be glad she is here.  Now come on, lets head back to the study, I'll have someone get some ice cream."  Twilight gasped and beamed at Cadence.

      "Really, Caddy?" asked the filly, her eyes gleaming.  Cadence giggled at how ice cream could cheer up the wrecked filly in an instant.  She nodded.  Cadence led the others down the secret hallway to the study farther in the castle.  Celestia hung back and looked out the window.

      "Why is it that heart ache must follow me, Lulu?"  She sighed and followed the group.