Seline and Sol: The Third Alicorn

In Sol, 18 years later.....

In the Capital of Sol, Canterlot, the Summer Sun Celebration was beginning tonight. The Summer Sun Celebration was originally used to raise the spirits of the ponies, who had suffered or were injured when the two rulers fought over Equestria. The first part of the celebration, was staying up all night in order to apperciate the ponies, who would stay up all night in fear that they would not make it through the night. The ponies would stay up the entire night and leave offerings at the graves of all who didn't make it. They would then return to their homes and party for those who did survive. In the morning that followed Queen Celestia would raise the Sun, which reprsented dispelling the darkness that once lingered over the land and giving the ponies hope through the light.

It was the duty of the Personal Student of the Queen to organise the event, with the help of her assistant. The Ponies in question were Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle. Sunset Shimmer was the brightest of them all. She had been tutored under the Queen wing since she was a small foal. Because of her relationship with the Queen there were many rumours swirling, about the pony in question becoming a Wings and replacing Princess Cadance.

Twilight Sparkle was once treated as great as her sister, but just as she was leaving Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. The Queen requested, that the young Unicorn assist her sister with her studies. Twilight was crushed that she could not do what she wished, but she did not wish to disappoint the Queen or Sunset. Twilight responsed with a a yes and a big smile, and the rest is history.

"Quickly! We haven't got all day! Everything needs to be perfect!" Sunset Shimmer yelled at the decorating ponies. She then turned to her sister and spoke in a much nicer tone, "Twilight, what is the name of the head planner? I need a meeting immediately".

"Her name is Pinkie Pie, this is her first time holding an event in Canterlot. She should be arriving shortly with the other staff requested from Ponyville" Twilight said, while checking her list and information given to her about the party pony. She handed the infomation to her sister so she could read it herself and see if there was any infomation missed.

"Inform me when they arrive, you be on the look out for them so you can tick them off your list and afterwards, if there is nothing to do you can go to the library" Twilight got all excited at this, she did love ticking items off her list and she wouldn't have to interact with any pony besides the staff and afterwards she could go to the library "I'll be with the staff already here." Sunset said and then when back yelling at the staff who was decorating.

Twilight nodded and left the throne room, and raced to the enterance of the Castle. She wanting to be waiting for her guests and not be tardy. Twilight hated that word, she was never tardy.

She arrived at the enterance of the castle and went outside, she began admiring the Ponies at work. The Pegasus were flying around arranging clouds and clearing the skies for tomorrow's Sun, The Earth Ponies were decorating and gardening, Twilight noticed them watering flowers that she had never noticed before. She took a picture in her mind so she could research them later, and the Unicorns were adding wards and other spells for protection, she noted with disappointment that her brother was not there.

Twilight was decided to sit in the sun and observe the ponies and work, she wanted to see if she could learn anything from the ponies hard at work by observing. She pulled out a notepad to make notes and began making sure everything was running on schedule.

"OH MY GOSH!!!, LOOK ITS CANTERLOT CASTLE AND I GET TO PLAN THE BIGGEST PAARRTTY!!" A voice sqealed in the distance, Twilight looked at the pony in question. She was a Pink Earth Pony with a Pink mane and had ballons for her cutie mark. There were two ponies next to her, a orange Earth pony and a yellow Pegasus. She sighed in relief when she saw the guards approach, it would be nice to be able to continue waiting in peace and quiet and maybe even get some studying done.

"Sorry bout her, we're here to meet a pony named Twilight Sparkle" the orange said in a sourthern accent, while showing the guard pony a piece of paper. That the Earth pony had pulled from her saddle bag. The guard pony pointed towards her, and took all of Twilight's strength not to run off and tell Sunset there were three imposters claiming to be the staff hired from Ponyville and let her sister handle it, while she hid in the library with her books with her sanity.

The closer they got, the louder Twilight said her matra in her head. Keep in together Sparkle just dump them on Sunset and the you can spend the rest of the day studying.

Until they were right in front of her, Twilight kept repeating those words. Now she was ready and focused on them, The orange pony began talking, "Hi my name is Applejack, and this her' is Pinkie Pie" the pink Earth pony jumped up and down "and this is Fluttershy" the yellow Pegasus hid shyly behind her hair " we're the ponies from Ponyville and may I just say we're all mighty honored to have been chosen" Applejack said with a smile. Handing over the documentation as proof, Twilight slowly pulled out her checklist and gave each pony name a small tick next to it, today wasn't so bad after all Twilight thought happily.

"Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle..." Applejack then grabbed her hoof and began shaking it. "Please let go" yelled Twilight, in fear of her hoof falling off from the Earth pony's strong grip.

"Sorry Sugarcube, I forget my own strength. I'm charge of catering for this fancy event, care to sample some" Applejack said gesturing to the cart behind her full of apple treats that Twilight had not noticed till then.

"And I'm in charge of paaartying" Pinkie then started pulling out what appeared to be a cannon.

Twilight backed away slowly and accidentally knocked into the quiet Pegasus.

"What about you?" Twilight asked, as the pony in question had not said her part yet.

"Umm I'm in charge of .......animals and singing" Fluttershy whispered, impossible to hear by a normal pony ear.

"Sorry, what was that"

"....."

"Fluttershy is very shy, she's in charge of the singing birds" Applejack interjected, gesturing to the birds on the pony back.

"I see, well we best get a move on we can't be late" Twilight said, before walking away hoping the others would follow and they wouldn't have to waste any time. The Three immediately followed, and once inside the castle. The Ooh's and Aah's began, the were mostly from Pinkie but the other Earth pony seemed equally impressed. While the Pegasus just trailed behind only taking interest in anything to do with nature or animals.

Twilight on the other hoof, wasn't impressed and tried to quicken her pace so the others would too. Unfortunately that plan didn't work, finally after many stops and a thousand questions, again mostly from Pinkie. Twilight saw Sunset, she could finally drop these three off and disapear into th library.

"Sunny" she cried hoping to grab the Unicorn's attention, before anymore incidents happened like her losing her sanity.

When her sister finally turned and faced her, she felt like Celestia herself was smiling down her, Twilight's relief was so great.

"Twilight welcome back" Sunset said with a smile before turning to her sister's companions. "Are you the staff from Ponyville?"

"We sure are, we're also Twilight's friends" Applejack stated proudly.

Sunset raised her eyebrow at this. Twilight was a massive introvert and dispite every ponys best efforts, she remained friendless.

Sunset and Shining had always worried that their sister would forsake friendship, and be forever alone with her books. Sunset turned and faced Twilight to see her reaction, she had her mouth dropped open.

Sunset knew Twilight didn't see these ponies as friends, like they did her. She then decided it for the best, that Twilight be given the push she needed to make some friends. "I see, since these Ponies know you Twilight, why do you take them to their station while I have my meeting with Miss Pinkie"

Sunset smirked when she say the orange Earth pony and yellow Pegasus leave the room with the reluctant Unicorn. She saw Twilight's death glare directed at her, and she started laughing. She would thank her one day.

"This is the kitchen where you can begin your catering service, if you need anything you can ask Sugar Belle." Twilight stated in a hurry to leave these ponies and get revenge on her sister.

"Thanks Sugarcube, you sure you don't want to sample any of mah delicious treats?"

"No thank you, I'm afraid I have to go help Fluttershy get to her station" Twilight said, while looking at the Pegasus pony who hadn't said a single word in the entire time.

"Well, I'll see you at the celebration" Applejack said before heading to her workstation and beginning to prepare for tonight. Twilight left the kitchen quickly with the shy Pegasus. They arrived at the stage outside where the Queen would be raising the sun.

Twilight walked to the stage and gestured to the pony made tree, where the birds would be sitting. "So... This is your station, I can't wait to hear you preform" Twilight said, trying to be polite.

"......"

She began to walk off eager to leave the Pegasus pony, when a small creature walked into her. "Twilight!! Queen Celestia asked me to deliver a message to you and Miss Sunset." Twilight looked down at the small figure. She saw Spike the baby dragon, with a letter in his claw.

"Oh my gosh, is that a baby dragon!!" Fluttershy said, knocking Twilight and the very important letter out of the way.

"Why yes i am" Spike said with a smile at Twilight. Twilight picked up the letter using her magic and ran towards Spike.

Twilight quickly picked up Spike using her magic and dropped him on her back, "Well its been very nice meeting you, but we really must go find my sister"

Fluttershy looked as if she wanted to agrue and follow them, so she could continue to speak to the baby dragon. "Don't you want to find your birds?" Twilight asked, slowly edging away from the Pegasus.

Fluttershy then gasped and took to the skies to find her birds. Twilight let another sigh of relief and quickly ran to her sister, before she ran into any other crazy ponies.

"Sunny!!" Twilight screamed as she ran into the throne room, she knew it was immature but she wanted her sister's attention.

Sunset left the decorating ponies, again, and Pinkie Pie, who didn't notice because she was busy with her party cannon. She turned toward her sister, and noticed Spike on her back with a letter in his claw. It must have been important if Spike was with her, instead of petty revenge. "Back Again Twilight, I thought you would have been with your friends." She then turned to Spike who was still on her sister's back "Spike, is that letter for me?"

"Yes, Miss Sunset" Spike said as he tried to hand her the letter, Sunset used her magic to rip it from his claws. Causing him to fall off Twilight's back, Twilight grabbed him with her magic and glared at Sunset again.

Sunset rolled her eyes and read the letter,

Dear my most Faithful Student,

I request that you, Sunset Shimmer and your sister, Twilight Sparkle. Join me for lunch today, to discuss some very important chnages to the celebrations.

From her royal highness
Queen Celestia

Twilight saw Sunset read the letter and she patiently waited for her sister to finish reading the letter during this the letter. During this time, she looked in her saddle bags and pulled out a Ruby for the young dragon knowing it would cheer him up.

She presented the Ruby to him and he quickly began sucking and chewing the gem. She then pulled out the books, she was reading on the plants before and sat on the floor, not caring about all the chaos going on around her.

"Twilight?" Sunset asked

"Hmm...Yes, Sunset what is it? Twilight said, closing the book.

"Did you read the letter?"

"No, I can read it now." Twilight opened her saddlebag again and searched for the letter. She finally found the letter within a few minute of searching, thanks to her organisation. The letter was ruined and covered in dirt, from when she fell on the floor. Twilight almost began crying, she had ruined the Queen's letter and was going to be thrown in a dungeon or be sent back to magic kindergarten.

"Twilight its going to be okay" Sunset soothing big sister voice, to calm Twilight down. "I have the letter as well and all it says is that we are going to have lunch with the Queen to discuss changes to the Celebration"

"WHAT?!!" Twilight screamed,she would reorganise everything.

Twilight sat in on the cushion, beside her sister waiting for the Queen to arrive for their meeting. The door suddenly swung open and she saw the Queen enter, both Sunset and herself stood up and went into a low bow. "Sunset, Twilight please rise" the Alicorn said, taking a seat across from them. Both Unicorns sat again at their seats. The Servants arrived, all Unicorns, and were carrying several plates. Under these plates, were salads, sandwiches and slices of cake.

They then began to eat the food from the fabulous spread in front of them. They sat in silence for a long period but it wasn't awkward. "Your Magjesty, why did you call us here?" Sunset asked, while Twilight nearly had a panic attack. Because Sunset had interupted the Queen's lunch. She was prepared to defend her sister and offer herself. The Queen stood tall and walked towards the window. Twilight was very surprised when, the Queen answered Sunset's question.

"Yesterday late at night, I received a message from our sister kingdom. They have invited us to attend their celebration as a sign of peace and I would like you the two of you to attend this meeting with Shining Armor" both Twilight and Sunset got very excited at this, they hadn't seen their brother in a long time. The Queen continued to speak "and Princess Cadance along with staff, who I think will be very helpful. I will send you a list later of who will be attending" Twilight watched as her sister nearly turn into flames at the mention of Princess Cadance.

"I will not go if you invite, Princess I WANNA RUIN YOUR LIFE" Sunset Screamed at the Queen, the Servants and guards nearly fainted at the sight. Twilight curled up in a ball, as Sunset kept screaming. The Queen merely did not say a word and watched her student. Then the door opened and two figures were shown Shining Armor and Princess Cadance.

Twilight watched from her crouched position, Sunset was screaming at ever royal. Shining was yelling at Sunset and the Royals were observing, waiting for the petty fight to end. She couldn't take it any longer, the fight was taking her back to the past. To times she did not want to remeber, as she began to remeber. Her magic lashed out, silencing them all.

"Aunty" Celestia placed a barrier around the four ponies, including herself. Princess Cadenza gathered the unconscious Unicorn in her hooves and placed her on her back. The poor filly had exhausted herself using magic that was called on using her emotions. As Princess of Emotions, she calmed the young Unicorn down, so when she woke she would feel calm and relaxed, and did the same for the other two. She saw the Precious Celestia, leacture both Shining Armor and Sunset Shimmer. Cadance now had two new targets to manipulate, her "Aunt's" Student would be especially easy due to all the anger she was giving out. She put on her prettiest Princess voice and faced her "dear aunt". "Aunty, allow me to escort them back to their rooms. I shall make sure this treaty is a success and will benefit both kingdoms" said Cadance, putting a fake determined look in her eyes.

"Excellent, the train to Seline leaves early tonight, I'm relying on you to make sure they all arrive on time" Queen Celestia said, giving her niece a I'm serious face. The Queen's Student looked even more agitated now, with her moment to shine at the Celebration gone. She would be very easy to manipulate indeed Cadance thought with a wicked smile that no pony noticed.

She trotted out of Celestia's room and the two ponies followed. Escorting each to their room, in the castle. Cadenza then headed to Twilight's room, to drop off the exhausted Unicorn, who was still unconscious and on the Princess back.

She opened the door and walked towards the bed. Candenza placed the purple Unicorn in her bed and kissed her on the forehead. She then set the alarm clock, that Twilight kept on her bedside table, to make sure Twilight would not miss the train to Seline. Soon Cadance thought Soon everything that had been stolen from her would be returned. She then walked into the shadows in the corner of Twilight's room and disapeared.