The Three Souls

Author: OKAY SO!! I have been busier then ever this past week, with Christmas being only three weeks away, and with work getting more and more hecktic from the lack of staff and supplies. It will be longer periods between posting chapters as I have more and more work coming my way, including two christmas presents I have to write... yes WRITE a story for friends.

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Chapter Five

Terra groaned as he fell on his bed.

It had been a long day....

-Earlier That Day-

“Terra,” his mother said looking up, Celestia and Luna next to her, Discord standing with Celestia, his lion paw around her leg. That all stared up, looking at the white realm above their heads, all crafted the night before, with Star-dust looking up and watching gently from the ground as his son created something grandiose. The four gaped with awe up at the new white sphere in the sky.

Terra on the other hoof was laying on the ground, head resting on a rock, exhausted. He had been up all night apparently; using a lot of his magik and might to craft it, and what felt a few minutes was actually hours of work. He grunted as he looked at his mother, eyes dreary from the night with no rest for him.

“It is... amazing. Well done Terra,” was all she managed to say.

“Ya. Nice job little bro,” Tia commented smiling, before looking at him with a silly grin, “Bravo.”

Discord nodded gently, “A wonderful addition to the oh so bland sky of the night, if I say so myself. And that is indeed saying something Mon Captainé.”

Terra smiled weakly, as his body was extremely sore and strained. He was not going to ever do that again.

“Big Bro?” Luna’s voice echoed out as she walked over and nudged him gently with her hoof, “Is that my present?”

Terra gave a soft and slight nodded to her, body screaming at him to try and move as little as possible. Suddenly a soft caring embrace happened as Luna hugged him, without even realizing how much pain she was putting him in. She cuddled up to him smiling goofily.

“Thank you big bro. I love it,” she said, as she let go, “I’ll make sure it’s kept well looked after and loved by all. I promise this!” she exclaimed with a silly grin yet again.

Terra smiled, before pushing himself into the standing postion, moving to the house behind him, “Thanks... but I’m tired and I would like some sleep...” he said, lazily walking towards the home, with Celestia, Discord and his mother in tow going inside. Luna on the other hand sat outside, staring up at it, before a half-hour later the sunlight began to hide it from sight.

“My first duty. Ever. I will not fail,” she whispered.

-Several Hours Later-

Terra grunted as he and Discord lifted a desk up, him in the front and Discord grasping the back.

“I cannot believe you roped me into this,” he said from rear, pushing forward, while Terra slowly walked forward, grunting and panting. His uncle, Thanatos, walked up the stairs carrying a mattress for the room while they were giving the desk. Terra himself was still sleepy, since he just lay awake on his bed, staring at his roof, with his mind racing with thoughts of projects, and great new ideas.

“I’m sorry Discord... I promise I’ll make it,” he started, grunting as they started up there stairs with the desk, “up to you... okay?”

“You better, or else!” he said, as they both proceed to climb the mountain ahead of them, a single step at a time.

“Or else what? You’re not as firm with your magik as Celestia is, not as fast a flyer as Luna is... so what?” Terra asked honestly curious about what Discord meant by it, before grunting as he climbed up another step. Only another two flights after this one... Only.

“I’ll get you when you least expect it,” Discord replied, he himself grunting as they climbed, “And you will never truly expect when it will happen.”

“You mean when I’m asleep?”

“Yes... wait no.... yes... I don’t know!” Discord yelled out as they reached the top of the first flight of stairs. The let shte desk down, looking down the stairs, which was maybe twelve to fourteen, but the others were far longer than this set. Terra groaned loudly, looking back at Discord.

“I’ll just not sleep for a few nights if I have too,” he commented, before yawning, “Come on let’s get this done and over with. I’m tired, hungry and exhausted at the same time, and I really don’t like that combination of feelings.”

Discord just nodded before Thanatos floated down the next flight of stairs on his wings.

“By the way boys, there is another desk and a set of shelves waiting for you after this desk. You may want to hurry up, I hear that Luna will be coming back within a few hours,” the god of death teased, flowing down the next set of stairs, receiving strong and angry groans as the two started working again, as well as to argue the rest of the way up.

Finally, after another good two hours, they were done, after setting up Luna’s room; they came down sitting within the kitchen, Terra not even touching the food that sat in front of him. Discord floated a small fruit over to him and proceeded to eat the peeling and not the fruit itself, humming a gentle tone as he did so.

“I’m curious, Discord, as to why you do that and not eat the fruit,” Terra asked, raising an eye brow at the draconequus. Discord smiled at him and offered the fruit to him, which Terra took with a soft touch smiling, beginning to eat it slowly.

“The peel is more nutritional in my humble opinion, sire, but in your mouth it is disgusting and repulsive while in my it’s beyond delicious,” Discord told him, “Its backwards and forwards, all from ones point of view.”

Terra rolled his eyes, and sighed, “Sometimes, even when I make sense of you, it makes no sense at all.”

“Really? Trying to make sense of moi? That is quite boring and plain in the world that has no real order and rules, so why bother? It not fun at all,” he replied, a toothy grin smeared on his face.

Terra sighed again, this time stronger, before chomping down on that last bit of the fruit. He chewed as he looked Discord over. He had grown a fair bit in the last eleven weeks, now easily taller than Celestia whenever he stood up, though he tend to lean head forward and seem slight slouch to keep around the same height as the others. Over time he could grow pretty big, since it seemed he was growing a fair bit faster than Terra thought he was suppose too. Guess this was a learning experience for him. His horns were no different, his paw was far heavier than his eagle talon.  He was growing faster than ever now, possibly because of the effects of the kiln.

Terra shook his head softly, trying to get those thoughts out of his head. He shouldn’t worry and he knows that, because that tends to lead to doubt and distrust.

Within no time they had finished eating, and then rushed to finish the last of the room for Luna. Discord didn’t help much, by causing some trouble, trying to have some sort of fun while working, which made Terra panic at times since they were dangerous at points.

It was getting later in the evening when the rest returned from their day with other alicorns, Terra was sitting down, rubbing his sore shoulders then Luna popped out of nowhere, proceeding to tackle him.

“BIG BRO!!! BIG BRO!! How was your day?” she asked, bouncing up and down, pinning him to the couch accidently. Terra chuckled and smiled.

“Good, sounds like you had a good day,” he replied, “But can... you get off me... I was trying to relax.” As he finished she moved and sat on his chest smiling.

“Nope!” she said with a cheerful ring in her voice. Terra groaned as he layed his head back and grunted, before rolling over onto his side. The sudden move made Luna tumble off him, near face-planting herself into the table in front of the couch. She sat up and looked at him with a frown while he sat back up and patted his hoof on the cushion beside him. With an angry grumble and a rough motion getting up, she walked over and sat next to him.

“Tell what happened today?” he asked smiling, as he leaned back, sighing softly as he laid his head on the soft cushions of the couch. Luna put her one of her hooves to her mouth, thinking about the past day’s events.

“I met other alicorns, played with a nice one,” she thought, “Then came home.... really that’s just it for today.” Terra looked at her, surprise to hear about other Alicorns on his world.

“There are others here?” he asked sitting up curious, receiving a solid nod from Luna, who was now curious about his reactions.

“Ya. They arrived today, about eight or so,” she said, making Terra put a hoof to his head, rubbing it, “I think they plan to live here.” To that Terra looked like he was going to throw up.

‘Okay... okay calm down. Its just... eight other beings beside my family, living on a w-w-world I made... and... they are going to... Judge me on my creational skills and...’he said, eyes wide and is coat losing color.

“Excuse me Luna, I think... I think I need the wash room for a-” Terra said getting up only to start running and get to the window and throw up there.

-An hour later-

Terra laid on his bed looking out the window, sighing softly. Other Alicorns, living on his world, probably really close by and always there. Now he was terrified if he screwed up.

“Novae?” a soft voice came from the door, making him raise his head and look. There was his mother, who was smiling softly at him.

“Yes mother?” he said getting up and walking over to her, who just smiled at him being polite as ever with her.

“I take it your nervous there are others here now I take it?” she asked, her knowing eyes washing him with comfort, as only a mother can, “You’ve never gone to bed this early since we’ve arrived, so I knew something was up.”

“Y-Yes... I just not sure I’m really ready for this...” he said looking down at the floor, shuffling his hoof against some dirt, before looking back up at his mother, who wore a soft and warm smile.

“You are, you just don’t know that yet. Trust me on this,” she said, putting a hoof on his shoulder to comfort him, “Solis is going to take Luna to teach her how to control the celestial body and you have the day to do whatever you want. Discord will be with your uncle, for... obvious reasons, that or with Solis.”

The obvious reasons was cause of all the pranks and jokes he had started to do as of recent, and only Celestia really seemed to get them at times.

“Yes Mother. Thank you... I think I’ll take a good long rest before I do anything tomorrow,” he said walked over to the bed and flopping back down onto it. She chuckled and walked away, smiling at her son’s worries.

There he sat for a long time, thinking carefully. He was going to have to make things, alot of things, and create a lot more creatures for the world to become inhabited by, while also creating areas and weather for the world. He then need to create areas for the alicorns to live, to settle in, while also making them close to each other.

He had alot of work to get done, and that meant there were going to no days off for the foreseeable future.

“Big Brother?” a soft voice came from the door making him sigh with anguish.

“Come on. If you’re going to sleep in here with me then get in,” he said moving over. Luna jumped in, thanking him and going to sleep rather quickly. Then the snoring started, though it was soft as ever.

It was going to be a long night.