Author's Note

Hey everycreature! What’s up!?

Now if you don’t know what the CYOA thing is, the idea for this came from the Equestria Girls shorts based on the CYOA idea, examples like Driving Miss Shimmer or Constructive Criticism.

Now each of these endings are going to be short, like only one part, maybe two if I feel it gets too long. For this one I’m going to start out simple with my idea of Flurry running away to Sunburst.

Choose Sunburst

She decided to go to one of the closet ponies she knew that lived in the Crystal Empire, someone who would help understand what she was going through. And that pony was none other than Sunburst, her crystaller and an uncle like figure. It was Sunburst who helped teach Flurry about magic and would babysit her when Flurry’s parents were too busy with dignities and other royal duties that needed their full attention.

Flurry first ran to her room and after getting a cloak to hide her body, wings, and head from ponies’ view, she teleported herself out of her room down to the ground the Empire just outside the palace. Making sure no guards saw her and thought she was an intruder, she trotted through the streets of the Empire, making her way to Sunburst’s house which she went to plenty of times before, with her parents when she was a baby and tiny filly and alone when she grew older. Upon arriving before the house with a hat like orange roof, Flurry took a deep breath before knocking on the door.

“Coming, give me a minute.” Sunburst’s voice sounded as Flurry heard his hoof steps coming to the door.

The door opened to reveal Sunburst, who was into a spell book he was reading, like he always does when he comes to the door. Flurry couldn’t resist laughing a little inside, it made her smile to see how her uncle like figure was such a book horse. Flurry cleared her throat before speaking, catching Sunburst’s attention.

“Uncle Sunburst.” Flurry spoke as Sunburst then put down the book he was holding up with his magic.

“Oh…” Sunburst said, surprised. “Princess Flurry Heart, what are you doing here? I thought you had to visit the sick foals in the hospital today.” Sunburst pointed out.

“I finished earlier than expected.” Flurry replied. “Uncle, do you mind if I stay here for awhile, I need to get away from the palace.”

“Sure, but can I ask why?” Sunburst asked, curious as to why the princess would want to stay away from her home.

“I found out something terrible about my past, I don’t want to say what it is.” Flurry explained, luckily that was all Sunburst needed as he knew what she meant.

“Of course princess, you can stay as long as you want, I could use some friendly company now.” Sunburst smiled and stepped aside to let the young teenage princess in, Flurry slowly coming in and seeing the messy state Sunburst’s house was in, with scrolls, books, writing material everywhere, not that she didn’t like it. “If you want some tea, just let me know and I’ll be happy to make some.”

“Thanks uncle, but I think I would just like to rest for awhile.” Flurry replied.

“Sure, is the sofa okay?” Sunburst going to a sofa and clearing out a pile of scrolls on it.

“That’s fine.” Flurry smiled as she trotted to and then laid down on the couch, sighing as she relaxed.

Sunburst left to go back to his studies, while Flurry slowly fell asleep. As she was fully asleep, she dreamt about the past, the horrible image of how she pictured she almost doomed the Empire coming to mind. Of course being a newborn when that happened, she quite didn’t remember at all what she did. However she pictured the Crystal Heart shattering, snow and ice blanketing the once clean and peaceful streets and ponies trapped in their houses, unable to step outside and huddle together around what little fire they could put in their fireplaces, trying to stay warm. She didn’t want to imagine the ponies that were unable to get inside and were left out in the cold, left alone and without any help…

It was at this point that Flurry woke up, the horrible imagery forcing her to snap open her eyes, or else she would have probably screamed and would have made Sunburst to come running to her to see if she was alright. As Flurry calmed herself down, she heard a whistle of a tea kettle coming from nearby, from Sunburst’s kitchen.

“Well, might as well take Uncle Sunburst’s tea offer.” Flurry said to herself as she got up from the couch, stretching her legs as she trotted to the kitchen, Sunburst pouring a cup of steaming hot tea for a drink.

“Oh princess, I see you’re up.” Sunburst said happily. “Come to take my tea offer?”

“Yes please, I would like that.” Flurry answered as Sunburst got another cup from the drawers above with his magic and poured one for Flurry.

“It’s good you came because I needed a drink.” Sunburst said as he was pouring the liquid. “We can have a nice chat together while we drink.”

Sunburst brought the two cups and the tea kettle, in case they wanted to drink mopre, to the table in the kitchen while Flurry took a seat on one of the strolls at the table. Sunburst sat down on the other one at the opposite end of the table, Sunburst giving Flurry’s cup before raising his own with his magic.

“Cheers.” Sunburst said while lifting his cup.

“Cheers.” Flurry replied as she lifted her own cup with her magic and softly touched Sunburst’s cup with her’s, both ponies then taking a sip.

The warm liquid was very tasty to Flurry and helped warm her cold thoughts she was having, it was like Sunburst’s tea was a medicine on its own for her, she was quite surprised, for being such a book horse, Sunburst made good tea.

“Like it?” Sunburst asked.

“Very much so.” Flurry smiled as instead of holding the cup with her magic, she held it with her hooves, to keep the warmness emitting from the cup. “Hey uncle, can you tell me what happened when I was born?” Flurry bravely admitting, wanting to know the answer.

“You know I knew one day you would ask me that kind of question, never thought it would be today until you came at my door.” Sunburst replied. “I wanted to tell you, but I thought it would be better if you heard it first from your parents, and to be honest, I thought if I told you myself, you would never like to talk to me ever again.”

“That’s ridiculous uncle Sunburst, you’re like family to me, even if we’re not connected at all, maybe I would be mad at you for some time, but I would have forgiven you sooner or later.” Flurry reassured Sunburst. “Now tell me what happened please.”

Sunburst first sighed as he prepared himself and brought his memory back 18 years ago when he was Flurry’s crystaller, the day the baby alicorn shattered the crystal heart and almost covered the Empire in snow and ice.

“It was a few days after you were born, I heard the news but being a relatively quiet pony, I stayed in my house, unlike everypony else gathering by the palace to watch the crystalling.” Sunburst began. “When I heard that the very first natural born alicorn since your grant aunties Celestia and Luna were born more than thousand years ago, I was taken aback and surprised. And it was your auntie Starlight who told me and when she suggested I could fix it, I wasn’t so keen on it…”

“What do you mean?” Flurry asked.

“Well, that time I wasn’t a great wizard like I am now, in fact barely anyone knew I was living in the Crystal Empire.” Sunburst answered. “Anyway, when your auntie Starlight told me that the city was being evacuated and mentioned the crystalling, I realized that the crystal heart can be repaired by that ceremony and when I came and saw the heart shattered into a thousand pieces I was so stunned to see how powerful you were.”

“But how?” Flurry asked, more curious. “I was just a newborn.”

“Well when unicorns are born, they of course don’t know how to control their magic properly, my mom would always tell me how hard of a time she had with me when I was born, my original home was in chaos during my first few days of being a baby.” Sunburst chuckled, Flurry also doing so, now imagining her uncle Sunburst as a little baby, that little funny side note helped lighted her up. “Anyway, I guess since you were born an alicorn the magic was stronger and hence more uncontrollable. I suggested the crystalling and well the ceremony did in fact repair the crystal heart, by gathering up the love and light of everypony that was present. And it also brought your magic under control as the Empire returned to normal and I became a crystaller.

“So, it was just because I was a newborn, not because I wanted to?” Flurry realizing what Sunburst was saying.

“Yes, what happened was not your fault Flurry, you were just a baby you didn’t know any better.” Sunburst seeming like he was going to depress Flurry, but the opposite happened. “But imagine how far you came and the good you have done, and look at you now, a princess of the Crystal Empire, you still have a long life ahead of you Flurry and you can continue being a good princess, the more you do, the more you will forget about that day.”

Sunburst said the right words that convinced Flurry she wasn’t evil or anything like that and he was right in saying that she has done good and brought joy to the Empire and will continue to do so. Flurry got up from her stroll and came to Sunburst, giving him a hug, which Sunburst gladly returned.

“Thank you uncle Sunburst.” Flurry said while tears began to stream down her face.

“You’re welcome princess, happy to help.” Sunburst replied.

And then came a knock on Sunburst’s front door and the two had a pretty good idea who it was. Sunburst trotted to the door with Flurry following slightly behind, the orange unicorn stallion opening the door to reveal Flurry’s parents.

“Hello Sunburst, Flurry ran away from home, is she here.” Shining Armor asked.

“Yes, in fact…” Sunburst stepped aside and Flurry appeared, her parents grateful she was okay.

“Sweetie, it’s so good to see that you’re okay.” Cadance sighed in relief. “We’re both sorr…”

But before Cadance could finish, Flurry just launched herself into her parents’ embrace, hugging the two at the same time, which surprised both Cadance and Shining Armor.

“I’m sorry too for running away.” Flurry apologized as well and slowly released the hug. “Sunburst made me see what truly happened and made me realize how good I am and I want to continue being a princess, if you two will let me.” Flurry said in a sad tone while lowering her view to the ground, only for Shining Armor to lift her head back up.

“Of course sweetie, you’ll always be a princess and our little princess.” Shining Armor comforting Flurry.

“Now come, lets go back home and get you a new crown.” Cadance added before turning back to Sunburst. “And thank you Sunburst, we own you a lot.”

“It’s nothing.” Sunburst blushed as he always felt embarrassed by the attention.


And so with Flurry finally hearing the whole story from her uncle Sunburst, the young princess came back home, determined to continue her good work for the Empire for years to come, to leave behind that awful memory and focus on what laid ahead for her.