"Woah, slow it down Princess Skystar! This is an epic adventure but still, I didn't expect hippogriffs to fly that high! I can't even see ants from Ponyville!" said Pinkie Pie in an excited tone while being carried by Princess Skystar on air. Princess Skystar couldn't understand what Pinkie Pie meant by ants but she decided to slow down. Princess Skystar loved hanging out with one of her closest friends, Pinkie Pie.
After few more distance traveled, they landed on the grass. "Pinkie, Skystar is just fine. Princess makes it formal, our friendship shouldn't require royal distance," she said.
Pinkie Pie giggled. "I actually always wondered Skystar." she said and noticed it sounded weird for her without the tag 'Princess'. Princess Skystar looked at Pinkie Pie in a curious way, eager to learn what was bothering Pinkie Pie's mind. Pinkie Pie cleared her throat. "Why did they name you Skystar?" she asked.
Princess Skystar looked at the sky and smiled. "My mother named me. I have never seen my father actually," she said and looked down. "I was born on a day where you guys are familiar," she said. "It kind of hurts to have a birthday on a day which you can't even celebrate because of the painful remarks." she continued.
"Day we are familiar? Oh my, were you born on the day where the cake was forbidden?" Pinkie Pie asked. "That is a disaster. Wait a minute, is that even a thing? Who would restrict cake silly?" she said and looked at Princess Skystar.
"No, not the cake day." Princess Skystar laughed softly. "I was born on the day, when 'The Storm King' attacked to us," she said.
"Oh no..." said Pinkie Pie. "Please do tell me with details." Pinkie Pie added. Princess Skystar sat on the grass with Pinkie and started to watch the dawn.
Skystar cleared her throat and began. "It all started with my Grandmother, Queen Stella. She was a strong hippogriff, however not a kind and a merciful one. She was ruling her kingdom, in her middle ages. Her daughter, my mother, had newly stepped to adulthood that time.
Queen Stella, on the land, took hippogriffs from eight to thirty-five years old forcefully from their family. Every five years, a hundred hippogriffs were picked to be trained for the hippogriff army against battle. Queen Novo, at that time, Princess Novo had a life in castle's garden. She loved and still loves animals and nature's pure beauty. One day she came up to a time in which the army was training. There my mother first saw my father.
However, my father was not only interested, it was love at first sight. After some time, they started meeting secretly at the garden. Every day or two, they were both sneaking during the lunchtime and they were laying on the grass and watching the clear skies. Princess Novo, those times sure did not know she was falling for a guard who was still in his training.
One day at a very special sunset, they met in front of the garden again. They couldn't hold themselves from each other anymore, therefore my father, the guard, proposed to my mother with a gorgeous and a unique purple round pearl. Princess Novo was shocked, it was like a fairy tale. She couldn't resist and jumped his arms. 'I still didn't hear my answer.' my father said. She was about to reply the confirmation yet..." Princess Skystar inhaled and frowned a little.
"Yet what? Have you seen me not talking for this long lady? GO ON!" Pinkie Pie said in an excited way. Skystar smiled a little and she nodded.
"Yet, a sound like a thunder blocked her confirmation. 'PRINCESS NOVO OF HIPPOGRIFFIA!'. Princess Novo turned her head and it was her mother.
'M-mother what are you doing here?" she replied to that fury.' Princess Novo was scared and shocked. She was hiding her relationship for years, however, it was found out.
'I wanted to ask you the same question to you.' she said. 'How dare you attempt to create a bonding with someone not even from royalty. Guards, take this traitor for harming my daughter! Get rid of him immediately." she said. However, Princess Novo stepped forward and opened her wings.
'If she is your queen, I am your Princess... Leave this scene now!" Princess Novo was so angry.
"Step away from that filth daughter! Guards finish him!" yelled Queen Stella.
"NO! You can't hurt him..." Princess Novo said. Tears started to come from her eyes slowly.
"Why on Equestria not?" her mother asked.
Princess Novo took a step forward. "Because I am carrying his baby," she replied and a sudden gasp from everyone followed it by. Even the guards, even Princess Novo's love were shocked.
"Say WHAT? Oh, my Celestia! This is not only interesting but also exciting! Say WHAT WHAT? Oh, My..." Pinkie was interrupted by Princess Skystar.
"Pinkie let me finish..." Skystar said and giggled.
"Who is the baby? Who is the baby tell me..." Pinkie Pie started repetitively asking while making Skystar laugh more.
"The baby is me, of course, Pinkie," she replied and both giggled again. "Anyways back to our story...
With this knowledge, however, this didn't make Queen Stella less angry to be stopped. With more hatred growing inside she spoke up and said 'Poor baby will grow orphan then.' and with the final order with head nodding, Princess Novo witnessed her lover's death.
Times passed and Princess Novo was almost ready to give her birth. She was never talking to her mother, although her mother tried her best to approach her. She was deeply depressed, and all she was thinking about the good memories with the guard that she loved.
However the depressed and sad days were not over, instead, it was just the beginning. One stormy night, Princess Novo woke up from her bed with the noise of a loud thunder. She got her lamp on her hand and started walking downstairs from her room. She came across to her mother. Her mother tried to apologize to her once again however she rejected.
'All I want is your forgiveness, no one would have accepted rumors like that. That baby is the only reason I couldn't make you get married to a prince." Queen Stella shouted and went upstairs to her room.
With a little-upset face, Princess Novo decided to get water however suddenly a knife slash sound came from her mother's room. She got shocked and rushed upstairs. What she saw caused her scream and guards came to Princess' cries of agony.
Her mother, Queen Stella was dead and laying on the ground... It was not a suicide, because there was someone else in the room.
"This was indeed a good message and warning for all of you." the monkey-faced person said. He had a staff in his wand and he approached the young hippogriff lady.
"M-mother!". Tears came from Queen Novo's eyes. As her mother was dead, she was the queen from now on. As the new queen, she must be the one to save her kind and her people from this danger. She walked forward to the monkey looking creature. "Who are you and what do you want?" while she was saying those words, her guards were behind her.
"Ah, my apologies. Let me introduce myself. I am Storm King. Here is the deal hippogriffs, I need your magic, and as you can see, unless I have it, I will be killing anyone who comes on my way." he said.
Queen Novo was in shock, she was still trying to understand what was going on. "We can do this the easy way and the hard way.". Storm King said.
With a sudden face punch, Storm King fell on the ground. While he was standing up, Queen Novo left the room and two of her guards were following her.
'What will we do my Queen?' one of the guards asked.
Queen Novo stopped. 'What did you say? Q-Queen?'. She shook herself and climbed down the stairs. Suddenly she fell. 'Not now...'. Queen Novo's baby, I, was coming!" Skystar stopped for a second and took a deep breath. "This story even makes me get excited every time I recall it," she said and giggled.
Pinkie Pie started clapping in a little angry and sarcastic way. "Congratulations Princess Skystar, you decided to come just at the perfect time," she said. They both giggled again.
"The baby was coming and Queen Novo had no choice else but to hide her kingdom... But where and with what? Suddenly she remembered her royal magic can be consumed in an item and grant wishes. She decided to collect all the magic of the land but she was thinking in the meantime where to put all the magic into. Suddenly, her eyes met with the pearl. The purple pearl her lover proposed to her with. She had a tear dropped from her eye and she hid all the magic in there.
Storm King entered the room and killed one of the guards. Queen Novo's baby was coming in the meantime all the magic of the Hippogriffia was getting into the pearl. Storm King approached Queen Novo and he prepared his staff to attack Queen Novo. "You know what they say..." Storm King said. "Like mother like daughter." and when he was about to finish Queen Novo, the pearl blasted storm king away.
However, Storm King's army was still attacking their land and Queen Novo decided and thought deep. Deep enough to reach the bottom of the ocean and she whispered to the pearl. The pearl took all the people in Hippogriffia and teleported them all under the sea with a great environment for life. The pearl also provided an adaptation for the hippogriffs to feel comfortable in the sea.
Everyone was almost safe and now it was time. The baby was born on this terrible and cursed night. Queen Novo, gave a birth to a female baby hippogriff. It was time to name the baby. Just like the time with her lover, Queen Novo was looking at the sky, the dark sky. At that very moment, she recognized a star in the sky, which was bright. As bright as hope. So, she decided to name her child the representation of hope and future, Skystar. That is all it basically." Princess Skystar finished her story.
She looked at Pinkie Pie who was still shocked at what was going on. However, she sure was amazed and she loved the story. The hipogriffs suffered in the past and Queen Novo, in her first mission as a queen, while struggling all those hard issues, decided and came up with the best solution to save her land and her people.
Pinkie Pie opened her picnic basket and gave a cupcake to Princess Skystar.
"So what did you think?" Princess Skystar asked in a curious way.
"I am truly amazed, that is why instead of being talkative I am shocked right now. Your mother faced a lot and I really and deeply am so sorry about your father Skystar." Pinkie said. Princess Skystar came to her and hugged Pinkie Pie.
"You do not have to be Pinkie. I can't even tell you how lucky I am. Thankful for my mother for her great establishments. However, after you came, to visit us, I am more thankful because I met new friends. I am so glad and blessed to have you all as friends." Princess Skystar said.
"If you continue, you will make me cry!" Pinkie said. "Hey, we are out of cupcakes... Would you like to come with me to Sugarcube Corner? I can bake new ones." she continued. Princess Skystar nodded and with Pinkie Pie, they started walking their path to the Sugarcube Corner.
Pinkie Pie was still thinking about all story... She was now even more glad to have hippogriffs as friends of ponies. One thing was sure that this sad but remarkable survival, must be told to grandkids in the future.
-END OF PRINCESS SKYSTAR'S STORY-
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After the party, with a gesture, Rarity decided to take Capper to the spa before he would go back to his hometown in the middle of a desert.
"Well Rarity, thank you so much for an invite to the spa." Capper began his words while Aloe was doing a massage to him. "This place you call, 'spa', I am sure I have heard it before, but haven't been to one in my whole life." he continued.
"Ah, anytime. I would love to spend time together here with my friends. Aloe, be a darling and bring me more moisture, please. My back needed this rest after the tiring epic adventures." Rarity said and smiled. "So, Capper, how did you find my cat?" she asked.
"Well Rarity, your land is sure different, however, we only have birds that we capture or snakes in our hometown as pets and I haven't seen a cat being used as a pet before. It is quite shocking that Opal cannot talk. She sure is lovely but also scary. I did feel some hatred from her for the first impression that I made." Capper replied and took a deep breath.
"I was shocked when I saw a cat that is talking too. I have a cat that does not talk but who knows what this world holds, secrets and mysteries everywhere darling. So, tell me how it all began." Rarity said meanwhile Capper held Rarity's hand to let her gently inside the hot tub as a friendly gesture.
When they entered to the hot tub and Lotus was refreshing the hot water inside, "What do you want to know?" asked Capper. "I sure was not always a thief and a secret black marketeer that you know," he said. "I was born in that place in the middle of nowhere. When my mom gave a birth to me and my two sisters, she died and my sisters were sold to other places for serving and slaves." he continued.
Rarity gasped. "Haven't you searched them?" she asked. "Didn't you search for your sisters?" she continued.
"Zillions of times. Why would I include a map in my home if it wasn't especially for them? I, unfortunately, did not have a chance to remark their faces. I was too little, without even knowing how did they look like, searched hopelessly. I haven't found them at all." Capper replied. "My father was too afraid to raise kids, so he already abandoned us before our mother gave birth to us." he continued.
"If they were taken and sold as servants, what happened to you then?" Rarity asked curiously.
"When you are an orphan or a kid without a family, you are in the arms of the cruel streets and since you have seen our city, you know how we love selling illegally and earning money from the highest bidders. I was sold too." Capper replied.
"Well, if you want, we can change the subject. I do not want to dig down your pain and release it all again." Rarity said.
"It is fine Rarity," Capper said and laid his back on the edge of the hot tub. "I was sold to Verko, the naked mole rat. The mole that I tried to sell all of you back in Klugetown. He took care of me, protected me and taught me how to survive in a cruel and a needy land like that." he continued. "Sometimes I am glad my sisters left that place, because of how pathetic our lives go on in that town."
"Is it true that you cats have nine lives? How many did you waste?" Rarity asked and laughed, she was hoping that by changing the subject it could relieve the atmosphere.
Capper laughed too. "Four, oh wait... Five, if you include the zapping that Tempest caused on me. Because I lost one of them there I assume." he answered.
"Would you mind telling me the other four?" Rarity asked.
"Sure, but you wouldn't want to listen. It might get both a little boring and foolish." Capper replied. Rarity was still looking at him in a curious way and was expecting to hear them all. Capper rolled his eyes.
He cleared his throat. "Alright, alright. Let me recall them first," he said. "My first loss would be at the age of seven. When I was working for Verko. I was like his super elastic agent, the helper, the assassin. Back in time, they called me the fiddler on the roof. Not because I played the violin but almost all the city knew, there was a cat silhouette that lurked on the rooves of the houses in Klugetown."
"Were you doing Verko's dirty works?" Rarity asked.
"Not 'were', I was doing it until the time you, the pastel-colored ponies came.". Capper answered. "It was the easiest way, for a cat, to do all the stealing and hidden jobs without even being noticed. However, one day, while the newest shopper in our town, but a gorgeous gem on their shelf to sell, I had to be the one to get it. I indeed achieved, however, the owner had securities. It was one of the worst security a dog." Capper continued.
"Did he get you?" Rarity asked with an excited tone. She was too adapted to the story and forgot how her hooves got wrinkled under water.
"If he got me, I wouldn't be here talking to you. However that would be a cooler story to tell, but no, while he was chasing, my attempt to jump from one roof to another failed and I hit the ground too hard. That is how I lost my first life. The second one is the coolest one actually." he said and stood up and got his towel.
"I was in Saddle Arabia in search of finding my sisters. However, my stealing instincts made me the center of attention over there too. I met with the meanest pony over there. I can not recall his name, Doctor Caballeron, or Caballson, but he sure was different. He was not only trying to trick me with the information he gave about my sisters, but he also wanted me to work for him." Capper said. "His bodyguards, after my rejection to work for him, beat me up really hard and I knew I lost my second one there. Since then I never wanted to go there ever." Capper said and shivered. "Even if my sisters are there, I would definitely think twice to step back to that horrible place again." he continued. "Rarity what is your biggest fear?" he asked.
"That guy is an enemy of Daring Do, we sure know who he is. He is untrustable. My fear is, obviously mud and dirt. Only two, oh and sometimes dust. It differs according to its' type though." Rarity replied and turned to Aloe. "Pedicure, please?" she gently asked after receiving a nod from Aloe. "What is yours? Water?" she asked but she realized they were in the hot tub.
"Well, unlike other cats, I am not afraid of water. I do not think cats do too, they just hate it." Capper said. "Mine is loneliness in which I faced the most on my other adventure, to the Yakyakistan. Another attempt to find my sisters. Also, another trial that ended up with losing another life of mine." Capper said.
Rarity laughed. "Did you lose your third and fourth life in search of your sisters too?" she asked.
"No... Only the second and third. The fourth one is when I was about to be pray of a dragon. Anyways, while I was in Yakyakistan, I saw a great army of changelings going through me. They called them changelings. I was alone, in the called, and they offered me to some food and clothing for a direction of a place, named 'Canterlot'. I didn't know and showed them a fake place to get the food. If I said, I didn't know I wouldn't survive at all, and I was starving. However, since they found you, I guess I told them the right path without knowing." Capper said.
"What? How can you lose a life, if they helped you survive?" Rarity asked. "Thank you so much, by the way, we almost lost Equestria because of them." she continued and rolled her eyes. "Past is in the past let's say."
"I lost a life because they stole my love. Without love, you lose kindness, and in a place where money is everything and after your love is being sucked, you expect others and yourself to be less polite, thoughtful, caring and kind. After my love is stolen, I felt like I lost another life. Also, the queen zapped me and threatened me to tell the place." he said and laughed. "So I really lost a life there."
"Wow, you really traveled all places, except Ponyville and Canterlot I guess..." Rarity said.
"I have never been to pony lands. You six were the first pastel colored ponies I have ever seen, to be honest," he replied.
"So, tell me how did you lose your fourth one, since you lost the fifth because of Tempest?" Rarity asked.
"As you know, Rarity, I am indeed a thief. I was about to sell something most precious that could worth zillions. A dragon egg. For that, I had to go to the dragon land. In which, the king Torch's newest and first child's egg. I was an elastic sneaker, he was giant, I was small. It would be nothing for me to grab the egg without noticing. However, their sense of smell was good enough to notice me. Yes, I was carrying Princess Ember's egg, to sell it, but I was chased. I grabbed it and tried to run but the egg was heavy and big enough to slow me. So I had to leave it there before I found myself in King Torch's mouth." Capper said. "I was almost safe when his long-shot fire burnt my whole body. Finally, I lost my fourth life," he said.
They were all finished with the relaxation and the service. They paid for all the benefits that they got the usage of and left the spa building of Aloe and Lotus.
"Well, we talked about myself a lot. What about you? What was the worst event that happened to you?" Capper asked.
Rarity laughed. "Once, I was captured by dogs," she answered.
"Now that might be something I am afraid of," Capper said. "Dogs and I, to be honest, talking or not talking, cannot get along. It is like, they want to prove themselves in their own way while we do the same thing too." he continued.
"We should do this more often..." Rarity said. "I like hanging out with you." she went on and smiled. She opened her house key and said "Before you leave, let's have a sleepover and play hide and seek, what do you say?" she asked.
Capper nodded. "Who wouldn't say no to a child game," he said.
After a long game and gossip night, Rarity knew she had a special friend. Furthermore, all the past is in the past and the bad things do not last forever, she knew she could trust this cat.
Before saying goodbye, although she already made him a new clothing, she sewed a new one. This was made from silk and there were real gold buttons on it. Hoping a new friend of her likes it, she closed her eyes and couldn't wait to give it to Capper at the morning.
Meanwhile, although Capper wanted to steal lots of stuff from Rarity's stuff, all the appealing gems and mines, he could not. He knew Rarity and his other pony friends care about him and showed kindness and he knew it was also the time for him to do the same gesture to the ponies.
With these thoughts, he also closed his eyes after he packed up his bag. He couldn't wait for the next time to meet Rarity again. He was wondering what more activities could they do and within these thoughts, he fell asleep.
-END OF CAPPER'S STORY-
Author's Note
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