knock knock knock! came the sound of three knocks of a hoof on the large purple painted doors.
Luna lit her horn with her blue magic as she turned her head back to face the balcony doors. The same dark blue aura surrounded the golden handles, opening them. Standing there with a smile was the solar goddess, Princess Celestia, her rainbow mane flowed with the wind, her eyes sparkling under the moonlight.
"It's beautiful out tonight, isn't it Luna?" Celestia asked as she stepped out onto the balcony, closing the doors behind her.
"Why yes it is," Luna replied softly as the cool winds whipped around them. Luna had just raised her moon, a quarter full, among the stars that decorated the lightly clouded night sky. "Just to think, I was there for a thousand years..." Luna looked down in sorrow, since she could never forget what she had done as Nightmare Moon.
"It wasn't your fault Luna," Celestia said, as if she knew Luna was blaming herself for her actions.
"I know, it's just that ever since that happened, looking at my moon has never been the same. I feel the joy from it's beauty, as well as regret because of how I was foolish to think I could make it last forever." She let out a heavy sigh as she looked to Celestia who gazed back at her with a sincere smile.
"It's alright Luna, it happened a long time ago. You couldn't help it what happened. Just know that you're doing better now, and try not to think about it much, okay?" Celestia hugged her stressed sister, in hopes to lift her spirits.
"Thank you, Tia," Luna smiled slightly.
"Now, lets head off to bed, shall we? It's getting late," Celestia smiled at her younger sister as she left the balcony.
"I agree," Luna yawned, following her sister back into their room. "It's been another long day," she said as she took her crown and shoes off with her magic, setting them down on a nearby dresser.
After that, she climbed into her bed, covering herself with the large purple blanket, which had the image of a crescent moon in the middle. She faced Celestia as she laid down into her own bed on the other side of the room, after placing her shoes and crown on the dresser as well.
"That it has, Luna, and we all just need a little rest." Celestia closed her eyes, and slowly drifted off into sleep.
Luna lay awake still, staring up at the ceiling, wondering what Celestia had gone through while she was stuck on the moon. She could only imagine the pain and sorrow of having no choice but to send her own sister away for such a long period of time. She wished she could just go back in time and fix what she had done wrong, but she knew it wasn't possible. Even if she time traveled, she would only be there for a short time, to try and persuade her past time self to change her mind about trying to make the night last an eternity.
She wondered how many ponies had missed her because of her wrong doings, if anyone at all. And because of her actions, she wasn't there to say her last goodbye before her closest friend passed. A blind filly named Snowdrop. The pony reasonable for the snowflakes during winter, the pony reasonable for making others see the glory of night, and the wonders is brought. Because she turned bad, it ended up with Snowdrop alone once again to those her bullied her for being blind and such.
There was so much she wish she could fix, and try to start over again, but there was no possible way of doing so.
Luna turned to her side, laying her head on a foreleg over her pillow, finally deciding it might be best to try and get some sleep. Still with so much stress on her mind, it had taken a while to accomplish, but she managed to finally fall into a deep slumber.
When she awoke next morning, right away she noticed something was off. She always woke up at the same time everyday, like her body had set a systematic alarm within itself, and usually, with waking up comes the squinting of her eyes adjusting to morning light, but when she looked out of the window, she came to find it was still dark out.
Confused, she turned to face Celestia's bed, and the large lump in the sheets that would show she was there, didn't exist.
"Maybe she's gotten up, but hasn't raised the sun yet?" Luna thought as she sat up in bed, trying to focus on what she could in the little amount of light.
She yawned long and loud, stretching her limbs to get ready for what should be a beautiful morning, which followed with the rubbing of her hooves on her eyes. She then got up out of her bed and began to head for the door which lead to the bathroom. It was closed as usual, and the light hand't been turned on.
"Tia, are you in there?" Luna whispered with three knocks on the oak wood door. She got no answer. She asked again, but still got no reply. She then contemplated if she should open the door to see if Celestia was inside, but if she was, she would have answered, and the light would be on.
She shrugged as she then walked over to the door which lead out of the room, under the pale moonlight, which hardly served her with enough vision to see properly. The floor boards creaked under her hooves as she came to the door. She was about to open it when;
"Achoo!"
Luna suddenly whipped around, searching the room for the source of the sneeze. It certainly wasn't Celestia, the sound was way too high pitched to match Celestia's.
"Show yourself!" She said into the darkness. She lit up her horn to light the room better, followed by a facehoof that she could have done that before to see.
Nobody showed up, so she decided to investigate. Judging by the fact it sounded like the sneeze of a filly, she decided against threatening whoever might be there. But what filly or colt in their right mind would break into their room? For what purpose? The windows were still intact, she made sure the balcony door was locked, which it was.
There appeared to be no signs of forced entry, and the room door was locked too. Teleportation into the room wouldn't work, since it had been sealed off from the outside. Plus there were guards who would have seized the intruder before they even got close, and would have come to warn them.
"Aaachoo!" the 'intruder' sneezed again, but it sounded as if it were right next to Luna.
She turned her gaze to Celestia's bed, to see a small form squirming under the covers. Slowly she approached the bed, and with her magic, she drew the covers back.
Her breath was suddenly taken from her body as she let out a loud gasp at what was right before her.
A white filly who seemed to be the age of five lay in the bed, with a bright pink flowing mane and tail, and two large magenta colored eyes. She had a horn which stuck out of her mane, and two wings on her sides, and she looked a lot like;
"T-T-Tia?" Luna took a step back as she filly reached out for her.
"Mamma!" Said the filly.
"What? No!" Luna became light headed, hoping this was only a dream. Her vision became blurry as her eyelids became heavy, and with a loud thud against the floor, she fainted.
"Mammaaa!" The filly whined.
She wasn't out for long, maybe just a few minutes, but when she finally woke up, Celestia had laid herself down against her chest, looking up at her, with a bit of her mane in her mouth. It took her some time to register this, and remember what had happened as she came back to what she hoped wasn't reality, and she'd wake up anytime now to a sunny morning, and tea at breakfast with her sister.
She sat up, and rubbed her aching temples. Celestia began giggling as she rolled across the floor with a wide grin. She sat watching as Celestia played on the floor, trying to figure out what could have possibly caused this, and only came up with one solution. The god of chaos:
Discord.
Luna sat in the middle on the room, frustrated and confused above all things, as she rubbed her aching temples. Celestia ran cheerfully about the room, jumping from one bed to the other, without a care in the world. Then again, only being a filly, what can anybody really expect her to do? Luna knew for sure what she wanted; to wake up from this horrible nightmare.
Luna held her head in anguish, a headache making itself present within her brain. After a minute more of running around, the sound of clopping hooves suddenly ceased in front of her.
"Mom? Is something wrong?" the little god bound filly asked with a hoof on Luna's shoulder.
Luna gazed up at her older sister who had apparently now become her daughter. She'd expect a foal she actually gave birth to, to refer to her as their mom, not her own sister. She desperately needed some answers, and through her stress, she contemplated asking Twilight for help, but she didn't think even Twilight would know what to do!
The lunar goddess only stared for a few more moments before softly answering,"Yes...m-mommy just has a headache."
Already with enough stress from the general idea of the situation, she decided to go along with it as to not upset Luna and possibly make her cry, which was the last thing she needed. Then suddenly, wishing she was napping, there came a tapping, as if somepony rapping, rapping at her chamber door.
"Ugh, who could that be at this time of night!?" Luna groaned ass he got to her hooves and groggily made her way to the door. "If this is some trick, I am not in the mood so I suggest you take your leave." Luna stated firmly.
There was the hort ambience of silence of which Luna had been begging for since she had gotten out of bed to her sister being turned into a filly.
"Luna....it's just me." said a voice Luna had not heard for many a millennia, and was one she hadn't forgotten since she herself was a young filly. "Why haven't you raised the sun yet?" the all too familiar voice asked.
Luna was now shaking, her knees threatening to fall from beneath her, she froze.
"Are you gonna open the door, mom?" Said Celestia who flew up to perch herself on her 'mother's' back.
With a gulp, Luna reached a shaking hoof out to the door handle, turning, turning it, ever so slowly. With a click the door began to open inward, which Luna took a step back to avoid being hit by the door. In came a tall white mare who beared both wings and a horn. She had a long and messy red mane much like Twilight, and a tail to match. Her eyes were of a sky blue color, and her cutie mark was that of a quill in an ink jar. Luna couldn't believe her eyes, her mother who she has not seem in so many years, walked in as if everything was okay.
Luna wanted to be mad, but she missed her mother so much. Too much so that her anger didn't even matter, and tears began leaking from her eyes.
"M-mom?" she asked, her voice shaking like the rest of her body.
"Um...last I checked, I am your mother, so..." said Faust with a hoof to her chin.
Unable to hold it in anymore, the lunar goddess threw herself into the mare who only lived in fairy tales, fables and legends, to everypony else on Equus. "It's been so long, mother!" Luna cried,, burying her weeping face into Faust's chest.
Faust seemed rather confused as she only tilted her head, but being the loving mother she was, she returned Luna's mournful embrace.
"Luna, whatever is the matter? What do you mean it's been so long? did you have a bad dream?"
Luna wanted to yell still, but she couldn't find i in herself to do so. She began to think things through.
She woke up to Celestia being a filly, claiming she's her mother. Suddenly being the one who has responsibility over the sun, and Faust seems to be back just like that.
To her, nothing adds up. Of course nothing adds up! This can't be real!
Right now, all she wanted to do was to embrace her mother who she'd not seen in thousands of years. She didn't know if this was reality or not, nor did she care.
"I love you mom," Luna managed to finally say. "I love you so much!" Luna dried her tears, hugging her mother as tight as she could.
Faust was taken back by the sudden burst of affection, and being a mother, she was just fine with that. "I love you too, my little Lulu." Faust said ever so softly, as she held Luna in her forelegs. She smiled and plated a soft kiss on the tip of Luna's horn.
"Tia, come here," Luna reached a hoof out to her 'daughter' and pulled her in for a group hug.
Celestia giggled. "Love you mom! Love you grandma!"
"We love you too," said Faust in a gentle voice.
The held each other for a few more moments before Faust decided to be the one to break the hug first. Luna sat smiling up at her, tears staining her cheeks with thin trails. Luna knew this must be some sort of vivid dream, even more so that the others. She'd had plenty of dreams of her mother's return, but this one just seemed to real. She had felt every aspect of it, from the tears sliding down her cheeks, to Faust's cold breath down her back as she held her, and her movements weren't comparable to that of of turtle since in most dreams, one finds them self barely able to move at will, if at all.
But what if this wasn't a dream? What if she was stuck here in this alternate reality? Is Luna the high ruler? What about Faust? Who did she even have a relationship strong enough with to even have a child?
All of these questions flew through her mind yet she couldn't seem to find a reasonable explanation to either one of them. If she could go back, if the chance were to present itself, would she go? Back to where nopony really cared about her besides the mane six and her sister? Or stay here where she was the mother to her own sister, and to have her own mother back? But wouldn't that be selfish?
"Mom?" Lun asked.
"Yes, Luna, dear?" Faust replied in her usual sweetened tone, wearing the same small generous smile as always.
"Um...last I checked...Celestia was my older sister, and she was the one who would rais and lower the sun, and me the moon, and you weren't around at all. So, what's going on?"
Faust only tilted her head in confusion.
"What do you possibly mean? This is how things have always been. Did...did you have some weird dream? Are you feeling okay?"
Faust put a hoof to Luna's forehead.
"You don't seem warm at all, so what's the matter? Celestia has always been yours as well as Twilight who is in magic school. Do you not remember? Did you hit your head really hard or something?"
"No, I...I don't know...I..." Luna stuttered, still unable to think straight.
"Luna, get your rest, I'll take care of Celestia, and I'll raise the sun for you. But this just means you're doing it tomorrow and the day after that, since today was your turn." Faust stated firmly.
Luna nodded. "Okay mom. Celestia, go with Faust, okay?"
"But I wanna stay with you, mom..." Celestia pleaded, hugging Luna's right foreleg.
"Tia, please listen...mommy needs her rest."
"Okay..." Celestia trotted over to Faust where she flew up onto her back. "Sleep well mamma!" She said with a smile as Faust trotted out of the room.
"Breakfast will be done in a bit. I'll wake you up then." Faust said before closing the door.
Luna now sat alone in the room. She didn't want to be alone right now. She wanted to go back home, yet she wanted to stay at the same time. She was suddenly a mother of two, and she's always wanted to have a child. It was quite ironic her sister and best friend suddenly became those two daughters. She knew how a parent should always be there for their child, and since in this reality Tia was her child, she decided she'll be there for her as long as she is here.
She got up and ran out of the room after Faust. "Mom wait up!" She called out.
"Luna?" Faust turned to see Luna galloping up to her. "I told you to rest."
"I don't need rest." Luna said firmly as she came to a stop.
"Then what do you need?"
Luna pointed a hoof at Celestia.
"Mommy!" the destined sun goddess chirped, and jumped from Faust's back and into Luna.
Luna couldn't fight the smile that spread on her face, even if she wanted to. She held Celestia tight, gently nuzzling her cheek. She'd made up her mind. The two things she has always wanted most in life were now right in front of her. Her mother, and a daughter of her own. The stress was suddenly gone, and she couldn't be happier.
