I stood next to my sister the both of us were covered in small nicks, cuts, and bruises from fighting off the twisted forest that Discord had warped with is magic. He couldn’t destroy the tree of harmony like he wanted and was either too lazy, insane, or bored to stand watch over it hence the now transformed miles of forest and his vile creations inside it. Our foe sat upon his throne mocking us as he snacked on some black looking rocks? or pellets? They could have been hoof shavings for all I knew or cared for that matter.

My sister, Celestia, stepped forward her four golden shoes squeaking like jabbering squirrels as she proclaimed our victory. Despite the both of being equal in every way our stature, our power, wing spans, horn size and even when we got our cutie marks as twins should be, She however was more loved by our ponies before Discord appeared. I didn’t care though the lack of attention on me meant I could spend more time painting my lovely night sky during court. She was always considered to be superior to myself simple because of her calling me her little sister as a joke since I was born a full 3 minutes after her. I always rolled my eyes whenever she called me that.

Discord began laughing even harder as he snapped his figures making a strange…well I guess one would call it monocle appear. The large white part attached itself to the side of his already twisted head with a small piece of green stained glass covering one of his eyes. Our magic begun to flow and surge through the elements of harmony when he bolted up right. Pressing a talon of his eagle hand against the side and the monocle made a beeping noise as he looked up to his chaotic sky.

“Ooooooooooooooooooooohhhhh that should do very very nicely.” Discord said disgusting levels of pleasure in his voice as he snap his talons again making the monocle disappear. The elements fired at the God of chaos in a bright rainbow arch. He quickly adopted a pose akin to that of a minotaur opera singer and sang out at the top of his lungs. “CHA LA HEAD CHA LAAAAAAAAAA!” The lord of chaos held the note as his body slowly turned to stone.

My sister and I looked at each other, puzzlement on our faces, with raised eyebrows as the elements returned to our saddle bags. No words were exchange as we shrugged dismissing the soon-to-be garden decoration’s actions chalking it up to his chaotic nature. The world slowly began to return to the way it belonged all except the forest surrounding the scared tree. Thankfully we understood that the tree’s magic would slowly correct the damage in time. With exhausted sighs we teleported back to Cantorlot and begin the long process of rebuilding our city.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It had been nearly a year since Discord’s defeat and all things had been returned to normal. Including the number of visitors I had during my night court which I could count on my legs for the past six months. I sat upon the throne my sister and I shared in deep concentration as I warded the dream realm. Many of our little ponies were still suffering nightmares as a result of Discord’s reign. There was a part of me that knew that these horrible dreams would likely last a generation or two. It was approaching the wee hours of the morning by the time I had finished with the last of the nightmares. I was extremely thankful that I had actually managed to get them all tonight. Despite the realm of dreams being my domain I had not been able to get to all of them till now. The numbers were simply too great.

As my concentration returned back to my physical body I became painfully aware of how stiff I had become. My muscles and joints protested as I slowly stood and stretched. The joints all throughout my body popped slightly. I wasn’t sure if this was a sign of my age or if it’d just been stress of the past year but at the moment I didn’t care. I had a wonderfully comfortable and warm bed in my room and it was calling my name loudly. It was only two hours till my sister was to raise the sun which sadly meant I couldn’t go to sleep just yet. I looked to my assistant Quick Quill a much older unicorn mare who was sleeping soundly on a large pillow just behind the throne. It was slightly frustrating that she didn’t have a good the courtesy to stay awake during the night court as she was my assistant. However, I could not honestly blame her. It was night when most ponies slept and the boredom was absolutely mind numbing. I pulled the blanket out from under the pillow gently and covered her with it making sure not to wake her.

I told the guards to close the night court as I was going to go for a walk until it was time to lower the moon. I slowly paced around the corridors of the castle stepping onto the marbled floors gently as not to accidentally wake a sleeping pony. The entire time I had wandered thinking if I was even needed beyond my dream warding. We had both proven capable of moving both of the heavenly bodies. The two of us had been charged with if it need be. We would both take part in the day to day workings of Equestria normally discussing issues over our own breakfasts and dinners respectively. More often than not Celestia would be getting proposals and delivering new decrees when they were made. I never had any objections she brought everything to me, asking for my input. To which point I would agree, disagree, or suggest a compromise of some kind. When we couldn’t reach an agreement which rarely happened, the matter would be put aside and addressed later if at all.

My musings were cut short however when I found myself on the garden balcony. The fresh night air filled my muzzle and instantly felt refreshed as I looked up at my sky. No pony else appreciated it, but that didn’t matter though as I had not yet finished it yet anyway. The movement of the moon itself was my talent painting the sky was just a hobby, one that I was slowly beginning to take pride in. So when I noticed something that I hadn’t put there myself I was perplexed.

“Just where did you come from?” I asked the small flickering light as it moved across the sky. My confusion and curiosity quickly changed to worry as the shooting star became a falling star. My eyes widened in fear as it streaked just past Canterlot Mountain to quickly for me to use my magic. The star impacted with a force that shook the city , the castle and the mountain itself. I had no more as spread my wings to investigate when Ceslestia Teleported next to me still in her baby blue bath robe.

“Luna what in the name or our mother Faust was that!?” She asked startled and on edge. Irritated at her choice of words I bopped her on the muzzle with my wing.

“Firstly, don’t take our mother’s name in vain. Secondly, it was a shooting star. One that I didn’t bring down. Thirdly, I was about to investigate. Now do you want to come along or get to your bubble bath?” I said as I thrust my wings down lifting myself into the air Celestia was quick to follow as I flew around the mountain.

“How could it be a star that you didn’t call down? Also how did you know I was going to take a bubble bath?”

“To the first I have no idea sister that’s why we are looking into it. As to you second question…” I pointed to the pink wooden duck bath toy in the pocket of her robe. “… You always take Commander Waddles when you need to destroy your bubbly adversaries.” I responded with a huge smirk on my face.

“You leave Commander Waddles out of this. He is a very capable Admiral of the royal navy.” Celestia pouted with a large amount of pink on her cheeks as she quickly cradled the toy in her fore hooves.

“Honestly, Tia. And you call me the little sister.” I let out exaggerated sigh as we started rounding the mountain.

“Oh? And just who is the one that still binge eats sugar cubes hmm?” Tia challenged a smirk of her own as she place her toy back in her robe.

“I could counter that with the cake you eat widening your flank.” I replied with a smile. It was so rare anymore that we were allowed to just be ourselves since when had started ruling 300 years ago. Oh how I had ached for moments like these. The two of us going back and forth at each other our mock fighting as just sisters. No court nobles watching, no guards “protecting” us, no expectations, no responsibilities, and no boring proposals. Just us as sisters as friends.

“I will have you know you, that the marriage proposals have doubled since my flank has gotten wider thank you very much.” Celestia said with a mix of mock and genuine pride.

I rolled my eyes and shook my head at her comment and was about to counter but the words got caught in my throat as I caught sight of a carter on the ground. The smiles on our faces fell into looks of determination as we descended to the new scar on the ground. I kept a ghost of a smile though seeing such a serious look of my sister’s face. Carrying a nearly three century old bath toy to a crisis had a small amount humor in it. When we touched down there was the small making of a grass fire but with a quick flex of our magic the flames were put out. In the center of the crater was something that I could only describe a mental sphere with a spot of red glass. We approached it cautiously our horns at the ready. We nearly jumped out of our hooves when it began to beep. We spread our wings out ready to take flight when the most curious sound entered our ears…. crying.

“Lulu do you hear a foal?” Tia looked over at me with confusion on her face. I was certain I looked the same.

“I was going to ask you that. Is it coming from inside that thing?” I asked her pointing at the sphere with a hoof.

“I think so..” We both began to approach again only to be stopped again as it began to hiss and crack along a prefect line. The sphere opened like a door and inside we saw the cutest little furless monkey setting on some sort of chair. Its eyes were closed as it cried loudly enough to make us both pinn our ears to our heads to drown it out. That didn’t stop us from letting out a coo at its cuteness much like one would a newborn foal. My sister was quick to approach the crying monkey.

“Awe..There there little one. There no need to cry.” She let out gently as she pushed her muzzle into its chest gently nuzzling it. The tiny creature opened its eyes and it became clear that this wasn’t an ordinary furless monkey even if it did have a tail like one. There was intelligence in its eyes and strangely I felt a tingle travel down my spine as something spoke to me. Predator was what echoed throughout my body and I was sure Celestia felt it to as I saw her flanks shiver. The monkey did stop crying though and its dark brown, nearly black eyes met my sister’s.

The little thing reached out with its tiny hand and punched my sister right in the eye. My cheeks bulged out as I quickly brought a hoof to my mouth to keep from laughing out loud. Celestia yanked her head backward and took a few stumbling steps away from the sphere and rubbed at her eye with a fetlock.

“Perhaps your *snort* not… as good with foals as our ponies believe sister.” I said barely able to keep in my laughter as the tiny fighter crawled out of the opened sphere which was still beeping now and then.

“Oh ha ha ha..” She replied dryly as she lowered her hoof back to the ground. My laughter nearly broke free as I could see the bruise already starting to form.

“The mighty Princess Celestia Banisher of Sombra, Imprisoner of Discord, and Raiser of the Sun bested by a furless monkey!” I proclaimed in a dramatic fashion with one foreleg raised in the air as if to proclaim to the havens above as if it was great tragic play. Then quickly fell on my back laughing so hard that my sides hurt as I held them with my forelegs.

Celestia glared down at me clearly unamused. “Well then why doesn't the Mighty Luna, Exiler of Tirek give it a try?”

“Why not? I cannot possibly do worse than you did.” I laughed as I struggled back to my hooves and made my way over to the tiny being. It was crawling away from us and as I nudged the tail that was raised up and I turned to look at me. For the briefest of moments I thought I saw a look of anger it its eyes, but when they met mine the young infant plopped on its flanks and just stared at me. The look of wonder in its features could not have been any clearer.

As it stared at me the first thing that became apparent was that it was female. Its skin was slightly tanned and the nipples on its chest meant that in all likelihood it was a bipedal creature like a minotaur. The mane on the top of its head covered most of it but was strange at how pointy it all was. The hair was short in the front and longer in the back, going just passed its shoulders. The pointed bits of hair in the front formed jagged looking bangs while the hair in the back was slightly reminiscent of a porcupine even with the tuffs of hair pointed down.

After I took in its appearance she crawled forward and wrapped her tiny arms around my muzzle, cooing happily as she kept staring into my eyes. A smile slowly formed on my face as I nuzzled into it playfully. She giggled as my fur tickled her skin and she nuzzled her cheek against me. That moment my heart melted and I lowered myself to the ground my legs tucked under me.

“It would seem that she likes you.” Tia stated as she lay down next to me her voice a mix of disappointment and wonder.

“Indeed. I like her too. She is just so cute.” I mused as I reached out with my fore hooves gently pulling her closer.

“Yes but I fear the how and why she is here to begin with.”

“You think it could be Discord’s work?” I asked a small amount of fear in my chest as I tickled the child with a hoof.

“That is the only thing that makes sense. But he is imprisoned and has been for a year.” Celestia lowered her glowing horn to the child taping it gently on the head. “There isn’t any chaotic magic…or any magic within the child to begin with.”

“No magic at all? How….How is that possible? Shouldn’t she have already died then?”

“I…I honestly don’t know sister..” She looked over to the strange sphere and enveloped it in her magic. “That thing doesn’t have any magic either. However I am picking up the very faint traces of a spell similar to that spell Star Swirl was working on.”

“Wait you mean that one that involved going back in time to meet the founders of Equestria?”

“Yes he insisted on working on it despite my forbidding him.”

“He is still young Tia. He thinks he knows best and we all make mistakes. Or have you forgotten your “want it need it” or “clouds to cakes” spells?” I asked with the biggest of grins on my face.

“I was just a filly back then and we agreed to never speak of that again!” Celestia nearly shouted her cheeks red with embarrassment.

“A filly at the tender age of 45 and your only upset because those mare twins were licking cake off you. What were their names again? Glitter and Flitter? Or was it Sparkle and Shimmer? Or oofff..” I was cut off by her clamping my muzzle shut with her magic.

“Not. Another. word.” She said icily her tone leaving little room for argument but her deeply blushing cheeks made it hard to take it seriously.

“I’m only teasing you Tia” I smiled as I raised my head up to nuzzle her hot cheek tenderly and nipp at her ear. The little monkey cradled in my forelegs began to doze off.

“I know Lulu I know.” She murmured gently as she returned the nuzzle. To any pony else it would have looked rather scandalous but we knew how we felt about each other and we were not THAT close. We sometimes just need to reassure each other with such levels of affection. This was not that of lovers merely that of sisters that cared for one another very deeply and we rarely had time together because of our duties. That made moments like this all the more important when we could get them. Both of our internal clocks told us it was time for the sun to raise. We broke from the nuzzle and sighed as we charged our magic. Celestia’s bright, warm sun started rising over the horizon as my lovely moon that had just started to enter its waxing phases disappeared below it.

“So what do weeeeeee do now?” I yawned out my question then looked at the child in my hooves then the metal sphere it came out of.

“I’m not sure Luna but I know you need your rest. Why don’t you take the child with you for the time being? I’ll be sure to have a midwife or maid posted by your door should she need anything.”

“You’re not concerned sister?”

“No the poor little thing seems so tuckered out already. Besides it has no magic. What possible harm could it do?”

“I guess you're right.” I said as I cradled the child with magic. As I stood Celestia did as well.

“Don’t worry I’ll deal with things here once I take a shower.” She then pulled out Waddles and held him out in front of her pouting slightly. “Sorry commander. Destroying the bubble tyrants will have to wait for another day.”

“Are you sure? I can stay up if you need help I mean you already have a lot on your plate already.”

“If you mean a lot of nobles complaining at me for more bits all day long then yes I’m sure. This will keep me busy for several days so I won’t have to deal with the flank holes.” She said sounding rather gleeful at not having to deal with the nobles not that I could blame her.

I let out a little giggle as I charged my teleport spell. “Then you are most welcome for the extra work. I’ll see you at twilight sister.” With that I popped into my room and pulled a blanket and spare pillow from my closet as I climbed into bed. Flopping down on it I placed the pillow and blanket near my chest as I lay down on my side. Magicing away my regalia, i placed my tiny charge close to my chest. My heart warmed as she curled up closer to me.

“Hmm…we’ll have to see about getting you some clothes and a name….hmmm….”

I had to think about that for a moment. What would be a fitting name for now based on what I knew about her.

“Hmm…Monkey Star?..no that’s stupid…Semmy Simian?...no too on the muzzle hmmm…”

I thought about it for a moment more. She was very much like a monkey hands, feet, and cute tail included. But she was smarter that a monkey. That much was clear so I had to be clever. I thought about the different species of monkey and apes throughout Equus, but I couldn’t think of anything that made any kind of sense.

“Well I guess there is no real rush I can think of one tomorrow.”

Author's Note

You probably notice i don't have Luna or Tia speaking on ye oldie time speak. That crap is hard to write at least for me. Next up I'm not sure if that mature rating is going to stay there as I'm not sure if there is going to be clop or gore for that matter. I'm just not sure what i can get away with on that its just there as a precaution for now. Light bleeding from shallow cuts apply here? Then again i'm sure tossing a served...

Okay maybe it should stay there but i really only have one chapter that going to be excessively gory.Same goes for the clop. Should I lower it to teen for the occasional boob grope or flank smack? and have the cloppy and gory goodness in a separate story?

What are you guys thoughts?