Celestia arrived in Fizzlepop’s room. Fizzlepop asked “What is this test?”

Celestia smiled “I’ll show you.” Celestia teleported Fizzlepop and herself to a different room.

I saw a dais with a Sun and Moon symbol on it, other than that the room was quite bland looking. I frowned “What do you want me to do?”

Celestia sighed “To be honest I am struggling to maintain the day and night cycle after your magic burst, now it’s not your fault it was an accident but I’m going to give you a try to lift the moon by yourself.”

Fizzlepop gasped (She is giving me the honour of raising the moon, her sister’s domain.) Fizzlepop frowned “I’ll try for you but I may fail I’m not as strong as you are.”

Celestia smiled “Your right you are stronger. Just remember that the sun allows me to coax it out because of my connection to it, but the moon requires me to lift it with levitation which is incredibly difficult especially due to the distance, levitation gets 4 times weaker the further away the object is away from the caster.” Celestia's horn glowed and the sun lowered below the horizon.

Fizzlepop frowned “Don’t remind me.” She frowned as she focused her magic onto the moon; she grimaced as she felt the weight on her horn but pushed on she smiled as she felt the moon moving through the sky.

A hoof rested on her wither as she felt the moon stop “You did it my faithful student; never forget what you’ve done today. In fact I will pass the duty on to you for a couple of weeks consider it homework.”

Celestia began to trot back to her room leaving Fizzlepop to think but a half an hour later there was a knock on her door. She opened the door to see a frowning Cadence who proceeded to enter the room. Cadence shouted “You made a 6 year old filly raise the moon tonight! Are you mad?! There is no way she is prepared for that and now you expect her to keep doing it!”

Celestia cast a soundproofing spell around the room before she burst into tears “Did you really think I wanted to let my sister’s domain go to somepony who doesn't know her! I have a duty to my little ponies and if I am failing them with each day and I have fallen asleep I at least five meetings this week alone! I’m getting weaker ever since I stopped Fizzlepop’s magic burst. I don’t know how much longer it will be before I lose the sun as well.”

Cadence’s eyes were as wide as dinner plates “No, you can’t you have to remain strong.”

Celestia sighed as she stopped shedding tears “I don’t have a choice anymore; an Alicorn of my power takes 1000 years to make themselves a new body once their current one dies. I fear that my body is on the way out. I don’t have many years left now. ”

Cadence cried “What will I do when you are gone?”

Celestia smiled “By that point my sister will have returned and she will stand by you as I have. Don’t you worry about me.”

Cadence asked as she dried her tears and looked up at Celestia’s still damp face “Are you going to tell Fizzlepop?”

Celestia frowned “She has low self-confidence and I don’t wish to lower it further.”

Cadence asked “What do you mean?”

Celestia said “She never accepts how much talent she has; she believes I give her too much credit.”

Cadence nodded with a hint of venom in her tone “I see, still that is better than the alternative.”

Celestia sighed “I understand you have grievances with ponies that have a massive ego. Sunset wasn’t an ideal student I know, still I failed her, and I should have picked up on her problems earlier. I am too soft on my students.”

Cadence smiled “Don’t worry we’ll figure things out.”

Celestia smiled “Well you will, I only have enough to time to make sure that you, my sister and Fizzlepop will be ready for the future.”

Cadence frowned “I just wish you could stay?”

Celestia smiled “So do I” and the pair dozed off together as moon glowed a dark blue for a second.

Author's Note

I know this is going into really overpowered territory but I am trying to work out a few of her character flaws in some of the chapters I'm currently writing.