Dear Diary

Luminous runs to the end of the hallway. Dark Knight quickly follows.

“This is it!”, Luminous said with glee.

“What now?”

Luminous used her magic and opened the painting, revealing a room with stairs, swirling down.

“Are we really going in there?”, Dark Knight said.

“Duh. Don’t tell me you’re scared?”

“Stop asking that question, can we just carry on?”, Dark Knight said. He then flew into the room.

Luminous giggled and followed Dark Knight. Luminous took a torch and used a spell to light the torch. She gave the torch to Dark Knight and lit up her horn with a spell.

They walked down the swirling stairs which led to the hidden room that was in Luminous’s dream. She walked forward and looked up. And there, was the painting of her mother.

Dark Knight looked wooed. “Damn, your mom was hot”.

Luminous looked at Dark Knight in a weird way for a second but she turned back to what was in front of her. The chest.

She opened the chest, and there was the notebook. She levitated the notebook up and she noticed the pink star at center of the notebook. Below the star, it said, “Flurry Heart’s Diary”.

“Oh. My. Luna.”, Dark Knight said in shock.

There were dresses, jewelry, books, and a lot more in the room.

“I think this all belonged to my mother”, Luminous said.

Dark Knight flew around, observing all the items in the room.

Luminous closed her eyes, frowned, and hugged her mother’s diary.

Dark Knight flew to Luminous and looked at her. He hated to see her sad. “You okay Lumi?”, Dark Knight said.

Luminous sighed and said, “I guess . . . seeing all of my mother’s belongings made me have flashbacks about her. Especially the one about . . . about her death”. She then shed a tear and lowered her head.

Dark Knight wipes the tear with his wing and put his wings over Luminous. She felt his wing over her and opened her eyes. She lifted her head up and smiled at him.

Her smile made him blush but quickly looked away from her so she won’t notice.

“Let’s go Lumi. I think we had enough time here.”, Dark Knight said.

Luminous nodded, and followed Dark Knight out of the secret room. When they got out, Dark Knight saw Luminous was holding the diary.

Dark Knight pointed at the diary and asked, “So you’re going to take that with you?”.

Luminous nodded, levitated the book in front of her, and said, “Maybe this can help me understand what actually happened to my mother”. She levitated the book to her hoof and hugged the book.

Flashback

Luminous never knew what happened. She was six when it did. Her father declared that the Queen would be executed at noon. Luminous didn’t even know what executed mean until that day.

The morning of that day, when Luminous woke up, her mother was there. Luminous didn’t know that, that was the last morning she’ll have with her.

All morning, Luminous and her mother played.

Luminous and Flurry Heart was lying on the floor. Luminous was trying the levitate the dolls while Flurry was writing in her diary.

Luminous gave up trying to lift up the dolls and looked towards her mother. “What are you doing mommy?”, Luminous asked.

“I’m writing in my diary, my sunshine”, Flurry Heart replied.

“Can I read it?”

Flurry Heart chuckled and said, “One day you will.” Flurry then closed her diary

Flurry Heart kissed her daughter in the forehead and hugged her.

“Mommy?”, Luminous called.

“Yes sweetie?”

“Why is everyone acting so weird today?”, Luminous asked.

Everyone was acting weird to her. She was so puzzled.

Flurry Heart’s lowered her ears but tried to fake a smile.

“Just know that mommy will be fine. And no matter what, follow your heart, my little Amorevole Cuore Luminoso”, Flurry said while pointing to Luminous’s heart.

Luminous was still confused.

Suddenly, the doors slammed opened. The guards walked in and pulled Flurry. Flurry tried to fight back to get back to Luminous but the guards won at the end. While all of this was going on, Luminous was screaming for her mommy.

When they finally dragged Flurry Heart away, a maid came in and went to Luminous.

Luminous was bawling and screaming, “Mommy”.

“It’s okay Princess, your mother will be okay”, the maid said, trying to comfort Luminous.

The maid helped her stop crying while ignoring the questions Luminous kept asking. Then, the maid walked her to the courtyard.

Luminous still didn’t know was going on until she went to the courtyard. Many ponies were there, including her father. The maid took Luminous to the stand where her father was.

“Daddy, What is going on?”, Luminous asked.

King Sombra bent down to her daughter and said, “Your mother did something really bad sweetie, so she is getting punished”.

Then, two ponies walked to the courtyard. One was her mother, who had a black hood on. The other pony, who also had a black hood on, was the executioner.

The executioner took Flurry Heart to another stand. The executioner made Flurry lay down as he levitated a big sword.

Luminous gasped and said, “Daddy, what is he going to do to her?”.

Sombra ignored his daughter and turned to his subjects. “Ladies and gentlecolts, we are all gathered today to witness the death of the Queen. I’ve recently learned that the Queen was going to betray us and thus, she will be punished”.

The crowd was gasping, and mumbling something to each other.

“Executioner, if you may?”, Sombra said.

The executioner took of the hood off her mother and levitated the big sword up slowly.

“Daddy?”, Luminous said, turning to her father.

“It will be all over soon sweetie”, Sombra said.

Luminous turn back to her mother, seeing that she was looking at her. Flurry was mouthing, “I love you” to Luminous. Luminous understood and started getting teary.

And at that second, the executioner swung the sword down.

“Mommy!”, Luminous yelled.

Then everything went black.

Back to the Present

It was night, there is no moon in the night at the shadow realm. Instead, red crystals shine throughout the night for the creatures in the shadow realm.

Luminous was in her room, laying on her bed with the crystal lamp on. She is staring at her mother’s diary which laid in front of her. She is debating if she should read it or not.

Her mind is saying one thing but her heart is saying another. She inhaled, then exhaled. She put her hoof on her heart and used her magic to open the diary.

On the first page it had a note. It said, “Sacrifice is part of life. It’s not something to regret, it’s something you hope to inspire. - Twilight”.

Luminous raised a brow. She looked confused. She shook her head and went to the next page.

It was the starting page of her mother’s story. Luminous smiled and started getting excited.

She begins to read . . .

Flashback

At this time, Flurry Heart is 16. Flurry Heart lives in the Crystal Empire in the Light Realm.

Flurry is walking around the castle, with her mother, looking at all the decorations the Crystal ponies are putting up for her upcoming day.

“I just can’t wait for your coronation Flurry. The Empire has been waiting for this since your sixteen birthday party.”, Flurry’s mother said.

Her mother is Princess Consort Cadance, the coruler of the Crystal Empire.

Flurry rolled her eyes and said, “I know mother. You’ve been saying it over a million times now”.

“I’m sorry sweetie, I’m am just excited”

“Well, I’m not”, Flurry said quietly.

“What was that?”, her mother asked.

“Nothing”, Flurry said and lowered her head and ears, trying to hide and frown from her mother.

Cadance stopped Flurry and lifted her head up.

“Listen dear, I know how you feel. You don’t have to hide it. When your Aunt Twilight gave me this kingdom, I was nervous at first as well”, Cadance said.

“But you make it look so easy. I’m nothing like you.”

Cadance smiles at her daughter and lead her to the doors of the throne room.

“Well I know somepony who came all the way from Canterlot who’s in the throne room right now, waiting for you.”, Cadance.

Flurry’s frown turned into a smile and her ears lifted. She opens the doors and she saw her Aunt Twilight.

Flurry Heart’s aunt is Twilight Sparkle. She is the Queen of the Light Realm and the sister-in-law of Princess Cadance.

“Aunt Twilight!”, Flurry said as she ran to her. But she stopped right before she was about to hug her.

“Oh right”, Flurry said and bowed.

“Your majesty”, Flurry greeted.

Twilight laughed. Flurry got up and was confused.

“You know you don’t have to do that Flurry. Come here and give me a hug”, Twilight said.

The two hugged.

“I’ll be back for her”, Cadance said and walked away.

“So what are you doing here Aunt Twilight?”, Flurry asked.

“I’m here for you of course”, Twilight said.

“Right . . . the coronation”, Flurry said with a frown.

“That also, but mostly you”, Twilight replies.

Flurry’s frown turned into a little smile.

“Listen Flurry, I can’t tell you I know how you feel because I’m not you.”

“At least some pony is finally being honest with me”, Flurry mumbles.

“I was going to wait till after the coronation to give you this but, I think you’re going to need it”

Twilight pulled out a present and gave it to Flurry.

Flurry opened the box.

Flurry is in her room, laying on her bed, with a crystal lamp. She’s staring at the diary which laid in front of her.

She inhaled, then exhaled. She put her hoof on her heart and used her magic to open the diary.

On the first page it had a note. It said, “Sacrifice is part of life. It’s not something to regret, it’s something you hope to inspire. - Twilight”.

Flurry Heart raised a brow. She looked confused. She rolled her eyes, chuckled and said, “Oh Aunt Twilight”.

Then she shook her head and went to the next page.

The starting page.

She levitated a quill over to her and started writing.

“Dear Diary,

My name is Flurry Heart. Many know me as Duchess Flurry Heart but soon, it’ll be Princess Flurry Heart of the Crystal Empire. I am having my coronation tomorrow as my mother step down and as I step up. I am nervous. I fear I won’t be a good princess for my subjects. My Aunt Twilight gave me this diary as a gift. She told me if I write all my thoughts down, all my “flurries” will go away. And yes, my Aunt actually said that, it was a thing she made up because I always get worried. It annoyed me but it’s not like I can tell her to stop, she’s the Queen for Celestia’s sake!”

Flurry stopped writing. She read over what she wrote and chuckled afterwards.

Then she started to write again.

“Honestly, this is working out. I guess my “flurries” are going away. Thank you, diary and thank you, Aunt Twilight.”

Flurry yawned after finishing her last sentence. She closed her diary and put it under her pillow. She put the quill away and turned off the lamp.

She looked at the window to look at the beautiful bright yellow moon and went to sleep.

Back to the Present

Luminous finished reading page one of her mother’s diary. She had so many questions. Like, who is Celestia? Who is Twilight? And where is this “Crystal Empire”?

She yawned. She decided that she’ll figure it out in the morning. Luminous closed the diary and put it under her pillow. She turned off her lamp.

She looked at the window to look at the glowing red crystals that are around her kingdom and went to sleep.