A blank slate...and a new beginning. (Re-written)

(Celestia's POV Four days after the slumber party)

"How much longer? I want to check on that mirror."

"Tia, is everything alright?" Luna snapped me out of my thoughts. "You've been aloof for the last days. Is something bothering you dear sister?" It's been quite a while since I've last been this focused on something to the point I've been letting my concern show.

"In a way yes. There is indeed something bothering me. Have the audiences for the morning finished?" Luna reached for the scroll containing all of the morning audiences scheduled.

"That was the last one arranged for this morning. Does your concern involve that mirror you've been checking every single moment you're not having to deal with any of your royal duties?" I'm more off then I've believed to be. "We do not wish to pry but...what is so important that has been making you lose your focus?" After I told her about the current demographic profile of our country and how that influenced the current law of engagement, she became much more attentive to her duties and me that is no surprise she would see through me that easily.

After the last calamity of our millennia, namely Nightmare Moon, the mentality of the population started to shift. Strong stallions were always on battles, which made mares responsible for multiple aspects of our kingdom basically making them the only reason our country kept working and the population ratio for males and females was around 1:1. However, after the event, the following peace made the need for strong males reduced since I could out-class any threat. That change in mentality made the birth ratio of females change, though the conception of a newborn is mostly ruled by chance the desire for a colt or a filly influences the ratio as well due to the number of reproductive cells produced that have the genetic code for a male or a female.

There is also the increase of adopted sons and especially daughters due to all the parents that died during the wars that preceded the millennia of peace. Eventually, the ratio between males and females was around 1:12, so in order to prevent our population from diminishing any further the law the prohibited polygamy was revoked and we made the current laws come into play. Now stallions can have herds that can only be formed after both the male and females involved have become of age, he must have a job so he can aid in the finances of the family and in order to get married all of the members of the relation must agree to do it. And very recently I've managed to get the approval of a law that disbands a herd in case of proved the male is having an abusive relationship with any female that is from his herd or not. I really regret the amount of time it took to approve this...many females had their psyche damaged far beyond repair before we could protect them.

"Tia?" I was daydreaming again.

"Sorry Lu, yes it has to do with the mirror." I finally answered. "Would you like to see?" I knew she was going to find out sooner or later. Might as well come clean now. She came to my side and I used a spell to open a path in front of us, this path led to a special room I originally used to check upon Luna while she was banished to the moon. There I made a special mirror that was created using magic and a crystal can be found underneath the castle.

"What is this place sister?" She asked looking around the white room that had four walls, three filled with scrolls and one that was entirely made of a smooth surface that reflected both of us.

"This room allows me to check upon every single one of my subjects," I said as I ran my fingers through the old scrolls. "I only used this room to check up on you during your banishemt...but...recentely started to use it to check somepony in particular." Lunas's eyes widened and started to check the scrolls to see if there was a spell anywhere that indicated who I was interested in. She was smiling.

"Tia, don't tell me that after all these years you still haven't settled for anypony." She said giggling. "Who might be the lucky one? Maybe that captain of the guard you recently named?"

"No Luna, I haven't even considered anypony through these years due to our...condition." Her expression changed and her ears fell to the side of her head. After we used the elements of harmony...both of us were no longer affected by time, I stopped aging at the age of 30, Luna at the age of 27. The effect started to kick in after two years of my first use of the elements, while Luna took three. So Twilight and her friends would also stop aging eventually, this doesn't make us immortals...stab us through the heart or any lethal wound and goodbye land of the living.

Needless to say that since we could no longer age having a partner...was out of the question. Having somepony by your side all the time to have them age and die while you stay the same is simply a torture. Flirting and teasing was fun but...having somepony that you could actually stay with...that never happened. Not to mention the pain of caring about the ponies around you only to see them die eventually was also really depressing. But the worst part was probably the number of ponies that tried to court us seriously in order to achieve our curse that they worshipped as a blessing.

"But Lu, it would appear that problem is no longer present." Her ears perked up as she looked back at me.

"You don't mean that..." It was so obvious the change in her tone that I couldn't help but smile at her.

"I've been checking up on Azvameth every single moment I can in order to see his health," I started slowly walking around the room. "And not a single thing about his vitals changed. If he was aging I would have been able to detect the faintest of decays in his condition due to all the spells I've been using. His body truly is stopped in time just like ours." I stopped to look back at my sister only to see a humongous smile on her face. "And if everything he told us about himself is true...he coming back from the dead would mean..."

"The possibility of having a partner and not having to fear for his age...or having to mourn his death," Luna said and I complied with her conclusion with a nod. "But how have you been checking upon him?"

I approached the crystal wall and placed my hand on the surface. "Mirror, mirror that sees all. Show me the wanderer that brings forth a new dawn." I said while keeping my hand upon the surface, the words to show the pony of interest manifest upon the caster's mind when his/her hand is placed on the mirror's surface, all I had to do was say them and the mirror would activate. The mirror turned black and then the image of Azvameth formed upon it. He was walking around Ponyville while he was greeted by the townsfolk.

No sound was emitted by the image, looking to the side I saw Luna looking at the edges of the mirror with the eyes of a child after seeing something new that picked its interest. I decided to show her something else I could do with this mirror. "Mirror, mirror that sees all. Show me for who he would fall." The image zoomed into his chest and an image of a small statue carved out of a crude black and white stone with him sitting as if he was meditating. From this small statue parted multiple strings that looked like silver webs that connected to multiple huge stained glass windows with the image of each of the current elements bearers. There were also big windows with me and Luna. From each of them, other webs shot out and made connections to the other images.

"Sister...what is this?" She said while her eyes darted from one image to another. That was pretty much my impression when I first saw this.

"This is his heart. The figure that represents him...it also shows how he sees himself. A crude being that is far too small for all the ones he holds dear. One thing I cannot say myself is if he loves any of the figures presented here in a romantic way. Though...I think I know somepony who could tell if he actually-?!" Before I could finish my line of thought, a glow came from the mirror. The look on Luna's face made me worry, I looked back to the statue and saw it start to crack and some pieces of it fell.

"Sister! What is happening?! Is he okay?!" I started to look around the image searching for anything that could explain what was happening. After some searching, I found a small green vine moving on the back of his statue. This vine was burrowing itself upon him which was the reason for his current cracking and breaking. If this got any further...his heart would be lost...I do not know what would happen to anypony who lost his heart like this. "WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!"

Just as she said that a white silhouette came out of nowhere and pulled out the vine, the vine then revealed itself to be a strange looking miniature mare with dark skin like Aza's, long green mane, green eyes that looked dead and devoid of purpose, this mare also had a long and curved horn as well as wings...insect wings. Who was that? And who was the figure? From her mouth, small fragments of the statue rolled out.

"Could the white one be Fillin?"

"That could be the case...what about the mare?" I said as I watched the white figure talk to her, I could tell that because whenever he opened his mouth a black hole would appear on his head. The mare was responding...but I couldn't hear it due to the limitations of the mirror.

(Fillin's POV)

"Lady, I know my friend over here is very sweet. But this is ridiculous!" I said to the mini-mare that just stopped moving and was simply hanging while I kept holding her. "Now, care to tell me your name?"

"Chrysalis..." She said in but a whisper, her mouth moved slowly as she said that. What is up with this chick? It's like someone...She...is so broken. This was her heart...her manifestation was skinny as heck and full of wounds. So...that's it! She was using him to repair herself, desperation is basically her middle name at this point.

"Lady, if you're that damaged why not ask for help? I'm pretty sure he would help you in a heartbeat. Literally." I said, her head turned to me and her eyes started to gain some light. I think that what she got from him right now repaired her mentality to a certain degree.

"How? I...do not know."

"Well, you already made your way here. Just ask the statue." I said pointing towards the statue was completely repaired now. I placed the mini-mare on the *ground* and she crawled to the statue. She placed her hand on the statue and closed her eyes.

She turned into a ball of light, then she shot upwards and another stained-glass window appeared. Her image was on it was completely covered in cracks. A silver string shot from the statue and linked to it, soon after the statue was the one with cracks and the art was repaired. This guy won't suffer from this cracks now that he actually agreed to help her instead of being forced into repairing her damaged heart. I guess...his heart can be a mirror to how the hearts of his friends were before they got damaged, right now these windows represent the people he would die to keep happy or safe. A small stone golem to protect things that can be so fragile...the hearts of living things.