It was night and the moonlight shone down upon the ice and snow blasted realm of the Crystal Empire, a lone stallion stood on the single balcony of the Crystal Palace that was now his home.

Shining Armor sighed deeply as he looked up at the stars, once again wondering how wrong things were. We barely discovered that bug bitch’s plan, almost too late when we found out my sister had been right barely managing to push back their forces. And then to find out that Twilight was banished from the world effectively dooming Equestria without the elements. Twilight could be dead for all I know and I wouldn’t even be able to tell or do anything about it. I have doomed Equestria, doomed my little sister and screwed up again here. Now the whole of the country is grieving the loss of Twilight, Princess Celestia has withdrawn to mourn her as well. At least Princess Luna’s trip to Ponyville went well.

The bearer’s managed to seal away Discord again with aid from Princess Luna
Sombra had also almost won had Celestia not been there with Luna this could have been a total loss if the crystal heart hadn’t reacted to Fluttershy’s confession of love. Celestia and Fluttershy had fallen in love after months of the pegasus comforting and being there for Celestia. I am glad that Celestia finally found somepony who she can just be herself without those blasted masks she wears,

“Shiny, come to bed. You’ll catch a cold,” came the plaintive voice of Cadance from inside their bedroom. She stepped out of the room looking haggard her mane experiencing epic bed head.

“I am sorry Cady, I just can’t sleep, not after what I have done,” Shining replied, eyes watering

“Shining Armor, enough. Stop blaming yourself! You were being manipulated! If any pony could be blamed it would be Celestia, Twilight’s so-called friends, and your parents, they weren’t under any mind control spells and none of the evidence found after a mind control victim is released was found in any of their minds. They didn’t listen, I foal sat her for Faust sake she knows me better than anypony. Heck, we knew each other so well I would have chosen her as my next romantic partner (once she’d grown up of course) if you and I hadn’t worked out,” Cadance exclaimed waving her forehooves exaggeratedly in the air.

“Wait. Huh? What? You’d date Twilight?” Shining blinked in confusion, Cadance giggled into her hoof at his expression.

“Of course I would! She’s a beautiful mare, Oh that reminds me I always wanted to try turning you into a mare, it would be something different to break the monotony of our usual bedroom activities. I bet you’d love it,” Cadance whispered huskily into Shining’s ear holding him to her chest. Shining was now suffering whiplash from the sudden subject change.

“Cc-cadance, that sort of thing is the furthest from my mind right now!” Shining protested squirming in her grip and failing. Damn alicorn strength. Shining pouted.

“Besides, I think you underestimate your sister too much, wherever she is I bet she’s thriving and she will return on her own. Come on it’s only been a few months, it’s too soon to give up now,” Cadance reassured him gently pulling him with her back into their room

Meanwhile back in Canterlot as two ponies went to bed another lay awake, crying to herself.
Another set of hooves landed next to the grieving mare. Luna recovered her balance before folding her wings at her sides and trotting over to Celestia.

“Sister, I understand that thou carest for thine student, but this level of grief is not normal, you never grieved for your previous students thusly before, and even with your friends thine grief was transient. Come, pour thine innermost secrets unto me” Luna pleaded she walked over to Celestia and hugged her, “Talk to me?”

“Lulu …” Celestia swallowed something, “She wasn’t just a student, she wasn’t even just a friend. She was like a daughter to me … . Nay, you deserve the truth. She is my daughter, your niece. In fact, I had two foals by different fathers. I was so glad that I had managed to capture Twilight’s older sister when she returned from her self imposed exile. During the attempt to steal the element of magic, she hadn’t been counting on the fact that the artifact was lost with Twilight.”

“So waiteth that is not cake weight?” Luna said with a smirk, receiving a playful punch from Celestia, Luna sighed, “‘Tia, I wish thou wouldst hath told me prior to tonight.” she added with an exaggerated pout getting a sly look on her face, “Pray tell whomst ‘tis the sire?”

Celestia looked away and mumbled something Luna couldn’t hear, “I am sorry dearest sister but those of us with ears didst not hear thee,” Luna said snaking her neck around Celestia’s to look in the elder alicorns face where she noticed a deep blush now colored her cheeks.

“Thor, Odin’s son is Sunset’s father, and mumble,” Celestia’s blush increased as she turned to face the other direction with a smirking Luna following,

"She was conceived while we engaged in an orgy after he swore himself to the herd."

“And who else?” Luna pressed,

“Twilight Velvet, ahem, I herded with House Sparkle as their stallion in secret you see, we chose to have Twilight live a normal life amongst the other members of my herd. Which reminds me I have to properly introduce Fluttershy to Lucent and Velvet they only know her on a surface level.”

“Wait! What about Shining Armor?” Luna inquired, causing Celestia to blink.

“Damn I had hoped you missed that,” Celestia muttered wiping her ears of dried tears.

“I can’t believe I missed it before, tell me who’s the sire,” Luna pressed giggling.

“I am,” Celestia muttered just loud enough to hear her face had gone completely red

“Oh so Velvet-”

“No Lucent was Shining’s dame, you see he isn't exactly a stallion at heart, he doesn't have any desire to sire foals and instead prefers to take it. So he had a vasectomy.” Celestia interrupted and faux coughed as her whole coat was now red,

"Wait, but he is part of a herd filled with mares?" Luna blinked in confusion.

"He is bi, but prefers stallions over mares, though that is more to do with his wish to be a mare himself rather than a stallion. Unfortunately the gender bend spell is temporary, hopefully that is something we can eventually rectify."

“Well aren’t thou kinky, although thou wouldst have an advantage over most mares,” Luna responded amidst a peal of unhelpful giggles

"Luna, I thought that we weren't going to mention, our unique condition again." Celestia gave Luna half hearted glared

"Oh none sense, you should embrace it, so we also have dicks, it's given you great foals." Luna brushed off her sister's glare

Celestia grumbled, " be that as it may the walls have ears Luna."

“Well anyway, we suppose that doth explain thine current state, and explains their closeness with the royal family,” Luna concluded happily as yet another mystery had been solved. “So art thou going to explaineth this to my erstwhile niece and don’t think I didn’t notice you withholding thine eldest’s name, out with it!” Luna demanded imperiously, Celestia shook her head at her sister’s antics.

“Her name is Sunset Shimmer, she used to be such a sweet filly, maybe it’s her Asgardian genes slipping through,”

“Aye ‘tis sooth, when I was betwixt Freyja's legs and in mine bed, she was a rather aggressive lover. Unfortunately, the procreation was unsuccessful. I wanted to try again, though alas I was possessed afore we couldst try and I haven’t heard from her since. What of Thor?” Luna asked

“He knows of his child and keeps up communication, but he’s been rather busy with this Avenger thing, he wants to meet her but I am keeping him away, for now, Sunset needs a lot of therapy and I have told her who her father is, it seems she recognized and knew of him. But that is all I got out of her before her eye twitched and she fainted,” Celestia sighed, “I wonder how she will feel when she finds out that the filly she was jealous of was her little half-sister. Note to self: have the therapist’s room fireproofed,” Celestia sighed heavily,

“How goeth thine therapy?” Luna asked sincerely,

“It’s been tough, but we’re making progress, the therapist suggested we have her apologize to the students of the world she was in exile at. Hopefully, they can make up and become friends. Note to self: upgrade fire extinguisher spell ” Celestia muttered to herself making a note.

Luna blinked, “Is she really such a fire hazard?”

“Yes she is, she feels it more than twilight being a full god rather than a demigod, but she so Twilight’s flame episodes only happen under extreme stress and anger. And unfortunately, Sunset inherited my temper from before I reigned it in,” Celestia explained with a drawn-out exasperated sigh.
Luna sucked in air through her teeth, “Yeah I remember that ‘twas the day we swore not to anger thee after thou madeth a dragon piss itself running away from thou.”

“Regardless we have a long way to go before we can properly deal with the issue,” Celestia sighed and flopped on the floor.

“Lulu, a bit of advice if you ever managed to have foals, do not do what I did. It is difficult to watch your children from afar grow up. You know, I almost messed up the Summer Sun Festival sun raising because Twilight was there watching me. I had forgotten to flap momentarily.” Celestia paused, “I miss her so much Lulu, I hope she can forgive us for what happened at Cadance’s wedding.”

Author's Note

The next chapter still short but at least I am getting somewhere with it.