The Equestrian Monomyth - Book 2 - Complexs of Disharmony

I've had flown for a while, when Twilight finally woke up:

"Put me down..." She meekly said.

"Huh?"

"Put me down. Put me down put me down put me down put me down!" She started to buck me repeatedly, until I hadn't other choice but to land in the middle of nowhere.

There, she quickly jumped to the ground and started to trot around:

"How could you...? How could you...? How could you...?!! AHHHHHHHHHHRRRRGGGGG!!!" She jumped and screamed of anger, and her coat turned yellow and her mane and tail red fire. Then, she fell to the ground, all bristled, and then she put a hoof in her chest: "Agh..."

"Love, are you alright?" I asked, concerned.

"Of course I'm not alright, you stupid imbecile subnormal piece of idiot!" She started to buck me with her forelegs. "Why you always have to screw everything up?! Why?!!"

"Love, I..."

"Shut up! I haven't finished!" Then, she started to trot around again: "Oh, no. This is a disaster, a disaster... A disaster! Now Celestia is gonna take reprisal with Shining Armor too, and she's gonna dishonorably retire him from the royal guard, and he and my parents are gonna die of embarrassment! I don't know how I haven't died of embarrassment already!" She angrily bucked a nearby tree, and then she sat on her haunches to cry.

I sat on a nearby log, putting a hand in my head, realizing than that can actually happen. Oh no, Twilight is right, I'm such an idiot.

"Sorry, my love. I just wanted to... you know... make a good prank. I mean, Pinkie is doing pranks all the time, and she always gets away with it."

Twilight turned to me with tearful eyes: "That's because Pinkie is crazy, but you're just stupid, stupid!" She scolded me.

"Well, at least I'm not crazy." I said mindlessly. "Just stupid."

"Yeah, you're right! Stupid and unsensitive! Did you think for a second in all those ponies, scared to death, looking to that thing on the sky, believing that they're gonna be hunted, like the awful old times when we were preys, huh?! Did you think on the ponies that could have health problems, like myself?!!" She three or four times pointed herself with a hoof.

I looked to her eyes: "Love, you have health problems?!"

Twilight's angry expresion turned to a concerned one.

"I... my love... I..."

I quickly put a hand on her chest, checking with disgust that her heartbeats were erratic, and her blood pressure a bit low, symptoms of a cardiac arrhythmia.

"But why you haven't told me about this?" I scolded her, and started to heal her heart.

"I'm sorry." She lowered her head and ears, and closed the eyes. "I didn't want to worry you, or anypony else. Please don't tell anypony else." She denied with her head.

I smiled to her: "Don't worry, love. You'll just had to tell me, and I'll heal you..."

I got surprised, because that even I was casting my most powerful healing spell, I couldn't find what was wrong with her.

"It's no use." Sadly said Twilight. "I've tried everything. Everything. Healing spells, Zecora's potions, meditation sessions... Nothing seems to work..."

"Don't worry, my love. I'll study your case and I'll find a cure. Trust me."

Twilight smiled, with that beatiful and cute smile of hers: "Of course I trust you. If anypony, or human, can solve this, it's you..."

We kissed passionately, and hugged with tenderness.

"And since when you're having this affliction?" I asked her. "Since... that time in the Everfree, fighting the monsters?"

"No. Not that long. I believe it started last week, after I returned from my trip to the Gryphoon Empire."

I looked up, recalling the event: "Yeah, I remember that the gryphoons started to call us 'Easy prey'."

"Yep. But Celestia acted fast. She didn't let the other countries to think that Equestria had been left defenseless... and I think that was what affected me. The stress of doing so much in so little time..."

"Yeah. You might had been pushed way too hard, my love. And what did you do at the Empire? You never told me."

Twilight broke the hug: "I've already told you that's confidential, love! I can't tell you!" She denied with the head.

"But you're no longer at Celestia's Secret Service! You can tell me now!"

"No, my love. I'm sorry, but I still have a duty with Equestria. I can't tell you. Sorry. Now, let's go home, yes? I'm very tired and I want to sleep..." She concluded, hugging me again.

As every morning, Celestia wake up and raised the sun. And as every morning, she took a matinal bath, brushed her teeth and took her breakfast. And as a every morning since she has lost her eye in her battle with Luna, she sat in front of a big mirror, to see her eyepatch. By her mother's mane! That made her to look... evil! Like a pirate or something...

Celestia, using her magic, raised her eyepatch a bit, but what she saw beneath it, made her to quickly put it back on and made her body to shiver. Curses! It looks horrible! And there was no known spell or potion that could regenerate a lost eye... besides... the monkey. He had proposed her so many times to do it! But she can't accept his help. He's a destructive and dangerous being, and owing favors to him was the last thing she wanted. Who knows what he can ask in exchange...? And look what he made her to do! To disown Twilight! Twilight Sparkle, her most faithful student, her most promising hope! She almost couldn't still believe that she has done that.

And she shouldn't! How could she have done such thing!

Celestia closed her eye, regretful: What has she done?! For Twilight, being her faithful student means everything for her. EVERYTHING! And she, just driven by anger, has taken it from her... Oh, if only she could bring the time back!

Suddenly, somepony knocks the door, making Celestia to startle a bit, snapping her from her thoughts:

"Good morning, Your Highness. I'm sorry to bother you so early, but the gryphoon ambassador requests an audience with you. Are you going to receive him?" A female voice asks behind the door.

Celestia made a grimace: 'Curses, that odious gryphoon again!' She tought.

With regal pace, Celestia approached the table where was already sit the gryphoon ambassador, among two badass looking bodyguards.

"Good morning, Your Highness." The diplomatic chief greeted. "I'll assume that you already know why I'm here, no?"

"Good morning, ambassador Chad. Yes, I know. It's because that attack on your guard. I can explain it. It's..." Started to say Celestia, with an apologetic tone.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no. I'm not here for that." The gryphoon chuckled. "Sorry for the delay in informing you, but we already checked, and after a thorough investigation, we found out that gryphoon guard was actually violating the Equestrian laws. We already sent him back to the Empire, and he's waiting for trial in our prisons. We do apology for this rueful incident, and we'll put all our efforts to avoid such things to repeat in the future."

Celestia opened her muzzle wide: Oh no! This's even worse! She has accused the monkey and disowned Twilight for nothing!

"I'm here so you can fulfill the second part of our arrangement. Where is that clever purple pony? I thought she's always sticking with you." Continued the gryphoon, looking around.

Celestia's face was red of embarrasment: "She's not here at the castle at the moment. We... we had an argument and she left upset..." She stopped speaking, realizing that she shouldn't have said that, but it was too late.

"You had an argument with her? Ha ha! It seems that runs in the family, isn't boys?!" The three gryphoons laughed.

"Ha ha." Celestia 'laughed' too, and then she said: "Excuse me for a moment, I'm going to call her back."

Celestia trotted cursing herself, while thinking: 'Tartarus! Why did I told them that? I should have come out with some history instead...! Buckings, that doesn't matter anymore, as I've to focus on what I have to do...' Which means to swallow her pride and write an apology letter.

Celestia teleported to her room, and took a scroll and a plume. Oh, holy heavens, please, let Twilight forgive her! Then, Celestia sit to write: Wait, how she should head this letter? It cannot be 'My faithful student', Twilight wasn't that anymore. Celestia thought for a while, and then she wrote: 'My beloved Twilight Sp...' Wait a second... 'My beloved...?' No! That's so chichi!

Celestia crumpled the scroll, took another and, letting go a defeated sigh, wrote: 'My faithful student Twilight Sparkle...'

It was pretty late in the morning when I woke up, not seeing Twilight at my side on the bed. I stood up a bit from the bed, and smiled looking at her making the breakfast, or trying to.

"Damnation!" She swore when she found out that the bread was too burned. Nevertheless, she put everything on a platter and, carrying it with her magic, turned to come back to the bed, discovering me watching her:

"Wait, love, don't stand up! I'll get the breakfast to the bed, and we'll have it together there!" She said while trotting back to me.

She put the platter on the bed, and jumped back on the mattress. I looked to the awkwardly done breakfast.

"Yeah, yeah. I know what you're gonna say: 'You should let Spike do it'." Said Twilight. "But the fact is, that I wanted to do it, to show you how much I love you and, because, I don't know, I just wanted to do it."

"Well, if this is all the love you have for me, then we'll better break up." I teased her, raising the burned bread.

Twilight opened her muzzle, dumbfounded, and then she hit me in the shoulder, smiling: "Stop teasing me, you filthy ponynapper!"

We both laughed.

"Well, then try out the chocolate with milk. I'm pretty sure I did that right." She pointed to the vase.

I took the vase and tried it. It was sour as hell.

"Then, how is it?" Twilight asked, hopeful.

"Oh, it's actually good!" I smiled, taking another long sip.

Twilight smiled too, and took a long sip too:

"Pruaghffgah!" She spitted it. "Puaj! It tastes horrible! Why did you say it's good?! And how can you drink this?!"

"Because it's done with love." I smiled, she too, and we tangled in yet another passionate kiss.

There we stayed, hugging in the bed, for a while, and I was simply, like flying in heaven. Then, Twilight's voice took me back to reality:

"Love... are you sure that we should... wait for our honeymoon to...? You know."

"I've already told you, my love. I want our first time to be unforgettable, special. That's why."

Twilight hugged me even tighter: "Oh, Gus. I love you so much..."

"I love you too, my love."

Twilight stayed silent for a little while, just hugging me, and then, she spoke:

"I've sent Spike out to an errand early in the morning, and according to my calculations, it will take him all day to get it done. So we have a lot of free time, just for us..."

"We already have a lot of free time, my love, now that you haven't to do anymore chores from Celestia." I commented.

"Yeah, I know. But I mean... that we have time now... just for us... together..." She broke the hug, and she looked straight to my eyes. She was blushing and panting, and her eyes were quivering with desire. "And I don't want to wait... anymore..." She whispered.

I was trembling, as seeing her like that was forcing me to use all my willpower to not to spoil the romantic honeymoon that I had planned. Oh God! She was so beautiful! And I wanted her so badly!

"Please, my love... I need you... I want you... please make me yours..." She pleaded.

That was more that I could take, and we started kissing again, and my hand was cuddling her flank already, when Spike entered the house like a lightning, making us to make a little bump in the bed, surprised:

"Twilight!! Twilight!! You have to read this! It's an urgent message from Celestia!"

Twilight and me made an annoyed gesture with foreleg and arm, respectively.

"What does that olg hag wants now?" I protested, while Twilight, with an angry face, jumped off from the bed and trotted to Spike.

"It's a full pardom from Celestia!" Was announcing Spike while Twilight was approaching him. "You're her faithful student again! You're an element bearer again! Hoorray!" He cheered.

Skeptical, Twilight grabbed the scroll with her magic and read it, and her eyes and muzzle opened wide: "Oh, my love! It's true!" She looked at me with perplexity. "She forgave me, and she wants me back in the castle as soon as possible!"

I smiled: "Whoa, that change of heart had surprised even me! Looks you're back in the saddle, my love!"

Twilight smiled too: "Yeah, right, whatever that means to... Spike, did you do the errand I asked you to?"

Spike lowered his arms and put a claw in his mouth: "Huh... no. I was on my way when I received that message, and I just ran back here to give it to you... It says 'urgent', you know?"

Twilight scowled: "But what are you waiting for, Spike? I need that errand done! It's important research!"

"Ow... don't worry, Twilight, your trustful adjutant Spike is already on it!" And making a military salute, Spike darted out from the house again.

Twilight waited that he was far enough, and then slowly closed the door. I looked to my sleeping pajamas: "Well, I guess that if I go there dressed like this, Celestia will get pissed off again. Huh? Give me a minute to change up. Will you my love?"

Twilight slowly turned to me: "Actually, I don't think I'm going..."

I got perplexed: "What?! But the message says 'urgent'!"

"Yeah, but the reason is to attend that stupid gryphoon ambassador and his bothersome demands. I'm pretty sure that Celestia can manage that without my help."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing: Twilight was turning down Celestia!

"My love... are you serious? You're not going back? You're like, her right hand, or hoof in your case!"

"Well, I guess she'll have to find another right hoof. She doesn't need me as much if she bucked me out once. Besides, I'm not feeling well, and all that stress..." She puts a hoof in her chest. "...was literally crushing me down..."

I couldn't help but feeling guilty. Everything that was happening was mostly my fault. Twilight noticed my concern by looking to my face, and she stood in her hinder legs and jumped to hug me again:

"Please don't feel bad, my love. We'll get through this, as we always do!" She smiled cheerfully.

"Sorry, my love, but I can't help to feel... that I'm a burden in your life. You left everything behind... for my doing..." I sadly replied.

"Love, don't blame yourself. Because, believe me, loving you has made worthwhile everything that we have passed through, and if I have to do all this again, I'll happily do it again, without even thinking. I love you that much."

I smiled, relieved. I don't know why, but she always manages to cheer me up. Maybe it's because we're so in love. "I love you too, my love. And I'll do everything again too for you." Then, looking to our bedroom, I asked impishly, tilting my head: "So, do we resume cuddling?"

"Nope, all this stuff cooled me off. I think we'll better go to visit Dashie, to see how she's doing. I'll rather leave the main event to our honeymoon. Agreed?" She smiled.

"Agreed... Love?"

"Huh?"

"Are you sure that Celestia can manage this?"

Twilight mindlessly waved her right foreleg and shrugged her shoulders "Bah. It's no big deal. She'll be alright."

"This wasn't what we agreed, Princess Celestia!" Said very upset the ambassador Chad, pointing the white alicorn with his sharp-pointed finger. "You assured us that your adjutant will help us with this matter!"

"Please, ambassador Chad, just give me some time to convince her to come back, or to get another adjutant just as good as her!" Celestia pleaded.

"Just as good as her? No, Your Highness. You have failed to fulfill our deal, so, now our requirements have been increased!" The gryphoon stated. "We want you to get somepony that has higher magickal abilities, so he or she can handle better this special lighstones, and speeds the process even further! We want our request fulfilled in the next two moons!"

Celestia was taken aback: "Only two days?! That's too little time! You're pushing this too far, Gryphoon!" She angrily protested.

"I hadn't to, if only you've managed to keep your subjects around!"

"That was a situation that escaped to my control, ambassador! You have to take that in account!"

"Oh! It looks that uncontrolled situations are a rule in your kingdom! Isn't boys?!" The gryphoon thugs laughed. "And the fact that the 'uncontrolled situation' was just a naughty puny pony hitting your face with her flank only make it worse!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" The gryphoons laughed again, even louder.

Celestia's face started to turn red. How dare this pesky gryphoons to mock on her and her belov... she mean faithful student?

"Ambassador Chad... I'll ask you very politely, and just once, to take back that words..." Said Celestia, making use of all her self-control.

"Or what? What are you going to do? We have a huge army at your frontier, just waiting for you to slip your horseshoes down."

"How dare you to threaten me, ambassador?!" Roared Celestia. "I thought we had left all this behind!"

"It was until you took us for fools! How are we going to believe that you, the almighty Sun Goddess, Princess Celestia herself, can't handle a single puny pony?! That's a situation that escapes to our control!" Mocked Chad.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!" The two gryphoon thugs fell to the floor cackling, with tearful eyes from laughing too much.

Celestia was about to lose it. But she can't... no... she can't attack them... that'll be disastrous for Equestria, for everypony... please Celestia... just hold on... She has to let them to treat her as a clown, or many innocent ponies could be killed. She can't afford that.

"Three days, ambassador. Just... give me three days and I'll get a pony with higher magickal abilities than Twilight Sparkle. That's all I can do." Said Celestia, recomposing herself after a titanic willpower effort.

"And I hope you to honor our deal this time, 'Your Highness'." The ambassador Chad, emboldened, started to use a rather insulting tone. "And don't take us as fools again, 'please'. That will be 'unwise'." Then, he turned his head to his bodyguards: "Come on, boys! We're done here, as it looks that the Princess needs an extra day, to find the half of the brain that she lost along with her eye!" And he left cackling with his bodyguards.

Celestia, not merely the gryphoons made their exit, galloped back to her room with a tearful eye, locked inside, and an angered stentorian scream could be heard in all the castle, making it's walls to tremble...