The Phoenix's Family

by MLPGal

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Philomena, Other, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Alternate Universe, Sad, Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna
Length: 2535

A few years have passed and Philomena wonders about her family.

It has been about 6 years now since Philomena came back home from running away. When she see's birds with their families in the trees she wonders where her family has gone and goes on an adventure to find them, but comes home to find a tragedy.

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Published 2016-09-27 01:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-09-27 01:20:01 UTC

(3) Dragons

Author's Note

Forgive me for not knowing how to spell flies or phoenixes correctly and the part with the many dragons.

(3) Dragons

Philomena flew by her family's old nest. Celestia had shown it to her on one of their flies together.

She then flew into the nearby cave before hearing a loud snore. She perched on a rock to think for a moment.

"I need to know..." she thought.

She slowly walked into the cave.

The cave was dark and cold. Due to the low visibility she eventually bumped into something.

She looked up to find a pair of glowing eyes opening. It stood up. She noticed other eyes opening and standing up. They blew a small flame to put in some light into the cave.

"What are you doing here?" a deep voice asked.

Philomena quickly came to the realization that she was in the presence of dragons.

"I asked you a question, phoenix." the voice boomed.

Philomena gulped, trying to show no fear.

"I came to ask you dragons a question." she chirped. "Around 6 years ago, you tried to take an egg from an alicorn. What did you do with the other phoenixes?"

"Why should we waste our time on this phoenix?" Another dragon growled.

"What did you do with them!" Philomena yelled. "What did you do with my family!?" She glared at the dragons who stared at her in silence. "Tell me!"

The dragons, surprisingly, showed fear in the face of the little bird.

"Tell me now!"

"We don't know!" A smaller dragon replied, fear causing his voice to quiver.

"Tell me what happened then."

"Okay, just please, don't hurt us!"

(4) Dragons side

"We were hiding in the bushes. But Zolor here couldn't stop moving his tail." The dragon muttered.

"I have a twitchy tail, you know that!" Zolor growled.

"Shut it, Zolor!" the first dragon yelled. "As I was saying, the phoenixes heard us. So they flew out at us and attacked. One flew into the sky, and created a beam of light to try to blind us, and then flew away with the other one."

"Still, the bush wasn't my fault." Zolor mumbled.

The dragon ignored him and continued.

"We couldn't find any of the eggs in the nest, so we looked around to see if any had fallen out. We then saw that filly holding one. So we chased her."

But she hit me with a blast before I could get close and I bumped into everybody, causing us all to fall to the ground."

"We haven't seen her since."

Philomena stared at the ground and thought for a moment.

"Do you know where they went?" she asked.

"No."

"Thank you for telling me."

Philomena flew out of the cave, leaving a gem behind.

The dragons cautiously took it, and added it to their stash.

Author's Note

Sorry for the dragon name... :twilightsheepish: :facehoof: also, I'm thinking about the dragons in here, being the parents of the dragons spike met.

(5) First Fight

As Philomena flew back to the castle she made a decision. She wanted to know what had happened to her family.

Philomena landed on the window sill. Celestia saw her come in.

"Well, you were gone for a long time, I almost sent out Luna." she sighed.

"I had a lot on my mind, I guess..." Philomena chirped.

"Come on down for dinner. I'm starving and so is Luna."

Philomena flew downstairs.

After dinner, Philomena told Celestia about what she found out.

"I'm sorry I was gone so long, but I had to know." she chirped. "I think I might know where my family is. I have to find them."

"I understand you want to find your family, but I don't want you to get hurt."

"I can take care of myself, Celestia!"

"I want you to stay."

"I need to find them! I need to know!"

"That's enough!" Celestia yelled.

Philomena stood in silence. This was unlike Celestia. She had never yelled at her before.

"If your family is still here, I'm sure they would want you to be safe."

"But-"

"Enough! You are staying here!"

Philomena stared at Celestia before flying out of the room, frustrated.

Celestia sighed as a tear struck down her face.

(Five hours later...)

Philomena flew to the window in Celestia's room when she and Luna were asleep.

"I promise, I'll be back, Celestia." she whispered.

With one last look she flew out into the night.

(7) Mother's Side

"I suppose you should know..." Philomena's mother said after a moments thought.

"I was sitting in the nest, watching over the eggs and your father arrived. I was happy to see him but we heard something in the bushes. It didn't take much for us to come to the conclusion that it was dragons. We left the nest to go take care of them and I suppose that's when we lost you. We didn't notice. I was over at the dragons trying to get them away but it wasn't working, noticing this, your father flew into the sky and shone a bright beam light, and told me to take the eggs. I noticed that while I was about to pick them up, they had hatched, so I told your father I would need assistance on carrying them. I picked up half and your father picked up the rest. We flew away."

"Then mom realized that you fell out of the nest and so dad went back for you." her sister finished.

"We haven't seen him since."

Philomena's sister hugged her mother.

"I'm sorry about dad..." Philomena sighed. "But I came to find you guys so maybe I could find him. WE could find him."

"It's been 6 years, sis. I don't think we could do it."

"I found you guys after all this time, I'm sure we can find him aswell." Philomena chirped.

(8) Trouble

The next morning Philomena flew out with her family. After a short flight she noticed the sun turned black, then into the moon.

"Luna..." she thought.

"Philomena, is something wrong?" her mother asked.

"Celestia is in trouble." Philomena responded.

She thought for a moment. As she was thinking she saw a beam of magic come out of the roof.

"I'm sorry, but I have to help her."

She flew towards the castle. Another beam hit the roof. She flew faster.

She saw Celestia fly out from the hole in the roof, followed by a dark mare.

The mare shot a beam of light toward Celestia, but she dodged the attack.

The mare continued shooting, Celestia kept flying, and Philomena kept flying faster to help her.

But she was not fast enough...

A beam hit Celestia. Her scream echoed in Philomena's ears.

"Celestia!" she yelled. She flew even faster to get to her. She watched her fall as the mare laughed an evil laugh.

Philomena flew to Celestia. She landed by her side.

"Celestia, I'm sorry..." she said quietly. "I'm so sorry... Please, be okay..." she cried.

Celestia slowly got up.

"You're okay!" she chirped.

Celestia looked at the moon.

"Oh, dear sister, I am sorry, but you have given me no choice, but to use these." Celestia called.

She opened a door in the floor, causing it to bring objects on a statue.

"The Elements of Harmony..." Philomena whispered. "Luna..."

Celestia flew up to the statue and levitated the objects. They surrounded her, creating a bright light to surround her.

She flew up to the sky, finding the mare. The mare's eyes glowed.

The mare shot a beam. With tears in her eyes, Celestia fired her horn.

The two beams created a bright light. Philomena watched with an unhappy feeling growing in her heart for Luna.

The beam grew closer to Luna.

"Nooooo!!!" Luna cried as the light enveloped her.

The beam sent her straight to the moon, causing a unicorn like shape to form across its surface.

Celestia flew to the ground, Philomena following her. Tears filled Celestia's eyes.

"I'm sorry sister, but it had to be done." she cried.

"I'm so sorry, Celestia." Philomena said sadly.

She cuddled with her as Celestia cried for her sister and brought forth the sun.

Author's Note

I had to watch the scene while writing this chapter. Now, I'm not sure if this is allowed but I quoted Celestia from the show so that is not a line that I will claim. (when she grabs the elements)

(9) Goodbye

After a short time, Philomena returned to her mother and her sister.

"I'm sorry, but I think I need to stay with Celestia. She needs me right now more than ever." She said when she arrived.

"We will miss you." Philomena's mother said, tears welling up in her eyes.

"If you find dad, tell him I said thanks."

After one final hug, Philomena flew back to the castle.

"Are you ready, Celestia?" Philomena said as she flew to Celestia.

The alicorn sighed.

"Ready as I'll ever be..." she muttered.

They both flew out of the castle and into the forest on their way to Canterlot.

Author's Note

Finished! I can't believe I wrote this in one day.... I am not sure if I'm going to do another one for this siris but I MIGHT. I'd say maybe a 10% or 50% chance. Anyway, I hope you liked this one as much as the other one or at least liked it. Its very hard for me to figure out things for writing. Sure, I love writing, but it can be hard. Thank you for taking time to give my fanfics a chance.

(1) Families

Author's Note

Okay, so I wanted to start this already so it might be a bit rushed. I am still new with MLP FanFiction and other things, so I don't COMPLETELY understand most things about phoenixes (have trouble with spelling still just accept it) in MLP. Or other stuff. Please just accept any errors in my fanfics and I MIGHT write more when (caution! possible spoiler in show) a special episode about spike comes out. I'm not sure if it's coming this season, or next. I hope you guys like my sequel to The Phoenix. (if it doesn't show its a sequel, sorry idk how to use this site well...)
Enjoy. (not sure how often chapters will come out though...)

(1) Familys

Philomena sat on the little stand that Celestia had made for her after coming home from running away.

She was watching Celestia do her paperwork when she heard something outside. She turned to look out of the window and saw a mother bird flying with her chicks. As they flew out of sight she began to grow sad. She had often wondered what had happened to her family. All she knew was Celestia found her and rescued her from dragons as an egg. She didn't know anything about her parents or possible siblings. After a moment of thought She flew over to Celestia and perched on the table beside her.

"Celestia, could I ask you something...?" she chirped.

Celestia put the paper she was writing on down and looked at her sad phoenix.

"Is something wrong, Philomena?" she asked.

"What happened to my family?"

Celestia sat there in silence for a moment. Philomena waited patiently.

"I don't really know, Philomena..." Celestia sighed, breaking the silence. "All I know is you were in front of me as an egg and there were dragons chasing you."

Philomena hung her head.

"Could you tell me what happened that day...?"

Celestia smiled.

"I don't see why not."

(2) Celestia's Side

"I remember walking back from exploring the forest and getting some air." Celestia sighed. "I had felt an object landing on my head before landing on the ground."

Philomena looked at Celestia with interest.

"As soon as I picked it up, I heard a roar." she continued. "I turned around and found dragons chasing me. I held on tight to you, and ran for my life."

"What happened next?" Philomena chirped.

"I tried to shoot at the dragons with my magic, but missed at first. Out of instinct, I shot another beam, causing them to fly into the air."

Philomena chuckled, imagining the dragons flailing into the air.

"I continued walking home. Right when I opened the door, I grabbed a pillow and put you on top of it. I turned around about to walk away, but then I heard a cracking sound. I turned back and found you, you where the most adorable thing I had ever seen. I picked you up in my hooves, and fell in love with you right away."

Philomena looked at the floor.

"What do you think happened to the dragons?" she asked.

"I don't know. They probably ran off." Celestia sighed.

Philomena stared at the floor more.

"Why don't you go and get some air?" Celestia asked. "Go clear your head. We can talk more later."

"Sure."

She flew to the window, but stopped for another question.

"Remind me again how long it has been since you found me?" she asked.

"Almost 6 years ago, why?"

"Just wondering."

Philomena flew out of the open window. She knew where she was going to go.

(6) Search and Find

Philomena flew into the night. After some thought on where to start she entered the Everfree Forest. She wouldn't stop until she finally found her family. She had spent a few hours flying. Her wings grew tired. She was resting on a tree branch when she heard some chirping in the distance. Her hopes raising, she followed the sound.

She saw a small flock of phoenixes. She felt like she knew them.

She noticed that they were speaking with one another. It took a few minute but she finally got enough confidence to speak to them.

"Um, hello?" she chirped.

The phoenixes turned to face her. One gasped.

"Could it be...?" it whispered.

She walked up to Philomena, who stared back in confusion.

"Sister?"

Philomena stood there in shock.

"Is it you...?" the phoenix asked.

"What happened to your missing sister?" Philomena asked, her heart racing.

"We lost her when she fell out of the nest."

"It's you! I've been searching for you all day!" Philomena chirped. "Where's mom and dad?"

Philomena's sister hung her head.

"We don't know what happened to dad. He disappeared after what had happened. He saved us, but left once we were safe."

Philomena stood silently, processing the new knowledge.

They heard a squawk in the distance.

"Mother!" Philomena cried.

The new phoenix's face immediately brightened as she came closer to the duo.

She walked up to her and embraced her.

"What happened to you?" she asked.

"Princess Celestia found me and took me in."

Philomena was truly happy to find her family, but she remembered that her sister had said about her father.

"Where's dad?" Philomena asked.

"Tell me what happened the day you lost me."

Author's Note

SPOILER FOR POSSIBLE SEQUEL:

I just thought of an idea: The dragon episode with spike, the phoenixes in that episode could be a sibling of Philomena!