Young Again

Twilight stared at the younger Celestia, her eyes wide and mouth hanging open.

“Now, now Twilight. You’ll only catch flies like that.” Discord said sarcastically, one of his eyes still scanning the book in his paws. “Quite undignified for a princess.” Twilight tried several times to speak but her mouth had gone dry. Luna stood by the bed with an irritated expression while the young Celestia danced vigorously, singing at the top of her lungs.

“That you don’t know what you really need! Are we there yet, a-a-are we there yet!?” it was Celestia’s voice, but it sounded so…well, youthful and energetic. She completely ignored Twilight and Luna, but she wasn’t being rude. As she sang she kept her eyes shut and the music was loud enough that Twilight could hear the lyrics and instruments from the headphones. The song was strange enough that Twilight saved her questions about Celestia for a later time.

“Discord?” she asked, keeping her gaze locked on Celestia, who was now shaking her rump energetically. Twilight stifled a chuckle as she shook her flanks much like Fluttershy had when she had seen the Pegasus at the Ponytones performance.

“Yes, dear Princess?” ignoring his snarky comment Twilight asked,

“What is she singing?” Discord laughed heartily and appeared next to Twilight in a flash of white light, as he normally did.

“You see Twilight, I was sitting in my chaos dimension, watching three or four dust bunnies fight off a particularly nasty chuppacabra, when my musicorinominatorerer picked up a bunch of songs by some Gryphon. I thought they were rather good, so I threw them in those headphones I…borrowed from that mute unicorn in Ponyville.” She pointed at Luna, whose eye was twitching as she listened to Celestia’s now shrilly loud voice. “Luna summoned me and demand I fix Celestia, but alas, I didn’t and she was rather annoying before I gave her the headphones.”

“She was annoying… before the headphones?” Twilight asked disbelieving. While Celestia’s voice wasn’t bad but her perpetual giddiness was starting to grate Twilight. It was no wonder Luna looked so irritated, if she had been dealing with this for any length of time…

Finally, it seemed, the princess of the night had enough. “TIA, STOP SINGING!!!” She screamed in the royal Canterlot voice, shattering the window of the room and causing the very floor to shake. While Twilight had jumped a few feet in the air and landed in Discord’s arms out of sheer surprise, and even Discord looked startled by Luna’s explosion of rage; Celestia simply looked at her sister, opening her bright purple eyes and removing the headphones from her ears.

“Lulu! Where have you been? The music in these things is awesome! Can we play it on the castle’s stereo?” Luna’s eyes twitched and Twilight thought she might actually strike her out of pure annoyance.

“Tia, this is Twilight. She is here to fix you.” She pointed a hoof at Twilight. When Celestia…or Tia, turned her gaze to Twilight, her eyes grew so large that it made Twilight very nervous.

“OH MY GOSH!” she rushed forward with a flap of her wings and wrapped Twilight in a rib cracking hug. “Lulu! Why didn’t you tell me we have more family? Is she your daughter, did you finally get with Echo or what?” Luna blushed brightly, turning her normally midnight blue coat dark red. Twilight vaguely remembered that Echo was the name of one of Luna’s bat pony guards.

“N-no! Tia, this is our cousin, Twilight Sparkle.” Tia’s eyes widened further and she hugged Twilight even tighter.

“Oh my gosh! Hiya cousin, we’re going to be best friends you and I! Let’s go hit the town; we’re going to have so much fun!”

“Tia!” Luna said sharply. “You are not leaving until we fix you…”

“Fix? You’re the one who needs fixing.” She lunged towards Luna, strapped the headphones onto her head then cranked up the volume. Then Tia’s horn glowed brightly, and a bunch of tape wrapped around Luna’s head.

“What the.?!!” Luna spun as another song with the same voice blared out from the earphones.

“Come on cousin! Let’s hit the town, uncle Discord! if you would?” she gestured to Discord who smiled mischievously.

“Where to Tia?”

“Surprise me!!!” with that, Discord snapped his claws and Twilight and Tia disappeared in a flash of light; leaving Princess Luna struggling to remove the headphones that were duct taped to her ears.