The Equestrian Monomyth - Book 2 - Complexs of Disharmony

"WAAAAAAAAIIIIIIT!!" Screamed Celestia, raising a foreleg, interrupting Chad before he could say the word 'war'. "Wait". Then, she turned her head to her guards: "Guards, put your weapons down!"

"But, Your Highness...!" The guards tried to reply.

"Haven't you heard?! Put your weapons down, I said!" Repeated Celestia, and the guards obeyed. Then, Celestia added: "Now, go back to the castle, and wait for further orders there."

"But, Your Highness, how we're going to leave you alone with all those gryphoons?! There are a dozen of them!" Protested Shining Armor, pointing the avians with a foreleg.

"Do as I say, Captain! No replies!" Commanded the alicorn Princess.

The guards did a respectful reverence, and they made their leave, the pegasi by taking off, and the unicorns by teleporting away. Shining Armor, however, teleported to a nearby hidden room in the amphitheater, to watch for his liege.

Once all the guards are off sight, Celestia turned her head to Chad: "Alright... you... you win, gryphoon... Let that mare go. I'll go with you... instead..."

Trixie opened her eyes and muzzle wide, perplexed.

"Really? Then you'll do as we say and you won't try to escape. Will you honor that deal?" Asked Chad.

"Yes, I will..." Confirmed Celestia, looking down, with her ears drooped and tearful eye.

"HA! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Laughed Chad, turning to his fellows gryphoons. "This is simply glorious! This day wild be remembered for the centuries to come! The day when the almighty Sun Goddess surrendered to us gryphooons, without even losing a feather! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Then, he turned back to Celestia and tried to grab her.

"Don't touch me!" Angrily yelled Celestia, slapping his claws with a forehoof.

"Well, Your Highness, after you." Chad made a reverencing gesture instead, indicating her to take off.

But just when she had done that, she got trapped by Shining Armor's Bubble Prison.

"Captain, what are you doing?! Let me out! I've made a deal of honor with them! LET ME OUT!" Roared Celestia, while the gryphoons only sat to laugh.

"Please, Your Highness, you can't go with them! You'll be at their mercy, and they have none of that!" Pleaded the white unicorn, concerned.

"LET ME OUT, I TOLD YOU!!" Angrily screamed Celestia, starting to prancing and beating the Bubble's surface with her hooves and horn several times, hitting it so strongly, that her eye wound come open and she started bleeding profusely, until she fainted due the blood loss.

"Your Highneeeeeess! NOOOOOOO!" Shining Armor screamed, frightened to death, dispelling the bubble and galloping to heal his bleeding liege.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! This is the best show I ever seen!" Laughed the gryphoons. "I won't lose this for nothing in the world!"

Shocked, Trixie turned to them:

"Please, gryphoons, don't make my Princess to hurt herself like that! Trixie will go with you! Trixie will go with you! Please, don't drive her to kill herself!"

Chad looked at her, sternly. One of his henchmen commented: "What we need you for? We already have the big fish... Wait! She can be the main dish on tonight's celebration!" He suggested, but Chad raised a claw:

"Nope, this looks like a better option."

"Boss?! What are you talking about?! It isn't better to take the alicorn princess?!"

"No, isn't. Look at her, she's dying! She'll need a miracle or something to get alive to the Empire. And I don't need to tell you how dissapointed King Gryphanius will get, if we come to appear there with a corpse." Said Chad, pointing Celestia. "So, no more arguments, let's take our prize and go home. I'm hungry."

And, with that said, he took off, and the gryphoons took Trixie and Celestia's copy, and followed him.

While flying, the gryphoon that was carrying Trixie commented:

"Hey! This puny ponies are so featherbrained! They speak all that horseshit about friendship and all that crap, but when it comes to real, they stab on they so-called friends loins as easy as saying 'hello'! Just like that purple pony, she might have suspected something, so she sent this blue one to us to take instead!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" The gryphoons laughed.

Trixie's eyes quivered: She can't believe it! That bucking Twilight! She had setted Trixie up!

"You're right, my wing!" Confirmed Chad. "It's no wonder that Celestia didn't want to go to war! Those coward ponies will start quitting files from day one!"

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

A wave of fury and resentment passed through Trixie's body: 'How could that filthy traitor do that to Trixie?! It's a bucking liar and a hypocrit!' Then, Trixie looked to her front, enraged: 'The Great and Powerful Trixie will have her revenge!'

A good while had passed, until finally Celestia recovered conciousness.

"Thanks heavens!" Exclaimed Shining Armor, relieved.

Celestia raised her head, looking everywhere: "Where...? Where are the gryphoons?! Where is the little pony?!" She asked, concerned.

"She went away with the gryphoons..." Started to explain Shining Armor.

"What?!! They took her?!!" Celestia tried to stand up, but she couldn't: She was too weak.

"No, she... she went with them by her free will, so they left you... please, don't move, Your Highness, I'm going to look for help. I'll be back right away!" Exclaimed Shining Armor, still worried about the severity of his liege's injury.

"Halt there, captain!" Celestia ordered, and Shining Armor stopped short, looking behind. "Your weapon and your badge, at once!"

Trembling of embarrasment, the former captain took out his helmet, spear and captain's badge, put all that in the floor, and, with tearful eyes, galloped to look for help.

"Monkeeeeey!! Monkeeeeey!!" Desperately screamed Shining Armor when he saw me. "Princess Celestia is hurt!! Please, save heeeeer!!"

"Where is she?!" I asked.

"In the amphitheater!! Quick, hurry up!!"

We quickly reached there, and Twilight gasped of horror, putting both forelegs in her mouth, I extended my hands, trying to reach Celestia's body, but she bucked my hands back: "Don't touch me!"

I looked to her perplexed: "But Your Highness, that wound needs treatment!"

Celestia managed to stand up, with still trembling legs: "I have no need of your pity." She sourly blurted, making a grimace.

"Sorry, but I strongly disagree." I replied, pointing her with a finger.

Celestia didn't answer, she just tried to walk, but her legs failed to held her on foot, and I grabbed her just before she hits the floor.

"Don't touch meeeeee!!" Celestia yelled with a high pitched tone, making me to stumble back. There she stayed, drooped in the floor, panting and looking at me with a killer stare.

"Cellie, what's up with you, huh? You're gonna die if I don't heal that wound! Now stop being so stubborn and let me do!" I scolded her.

Celestia snorted: "Alright, but just heal the wound, don't give me a new eye. Just... heal the wound..."

After I did so, she stood up again and walked away, and while she was passing besides Shining Armor, she told him with a grimace: "And you... I don't want to see you again. Pack your things and leave." And she took off and left.

Shining Armor sat on his haunches, silently crying, and Twilight quickly trotted to comfort him: "But big brother. What happened?"

"I just... I just was trying to protect he-e-e-e-e-e-r..." Said Shining Armor among sobbings and cries.

"Don't lash too hard on you, dude. You did you best." I tried to cheer him.

"I di-i-i-i-i-dn't! I did my wo-o-o-o-o-orst! My wo-o-o-o-o-orst!" He complained, crying even louder.

I raised a brow: "Well, time for the magickal speech..."

"No!" My marefriend stopped me.

"No? Why not?"

"Not with him!"

"But why not with him? Then, I can do it with your friends, but not with your brother? That's a bit biased, you know?"

Twilight raised a hoof and opened her muzzle to reply something, but finally she gave up.

From the amphitheater, the loud scream of Shining Armor could be heard: "I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU ASK!! WHATEEEEEVEEEEEER!!"

The next morning, I went to the Canterlot palace, to check if Celestia was OK, and, by the way, to speak in Shining Armor's behalf. Twilight stayed with him, to prevent him to do any stupidity. Just in case.

Celestia received me with a cold courtesy, and when I made the plead, she ordered: "Guards, leave us."

The guards looked each other, worried: "Your Highness, are you su...?"

"Anypony wants to follow Shining Armor?!" Angrily replied Celestia.

"No, no, Your Highness. With your permission." Complied the guards, scared, and left.

When we ended alone in her throne room, Celestia stepped down and slowly walked to me and started to surround me with a stern look: "What are you trying to do, monkey? You confuse me. For moments, it looks like that you were trying to finish me off, and the ancestors are witness that you've had plenty of chances to do it. But then, you came and save me, then, you came back with a backside move, and you take down me again, and later, you came in my rescue again. I don't get it. What kind of game are you playing? What are you true intentions?"

I raised a brow. "Cellie, girl. Truly, you must have read too much conspiracy histories. I'm not trying to take you down!"

"Then, why you spend all your time defying and defying me over and over again, if you know that I'm weakened and vulnerable? What are you trying to prove? That you're better than me? Stronger? Wiser? WHAT?!!" She yelled the last word.

"Cellie, you're vulnerable because you want to! Why you don't let me to heal your eye?!"

"Because I don't want to owe a favor like that to you! I know you'll throw in my face later, and you'll make me to do something that I'll regret!" She angrily exclaimed.

"Like sending me to the moon?!"

"I'm sure I won't regret doing that! That'll be the best for Equestria! Before you and your fat crony came, my kingdom was perfect! Everything was running over wheels, there was harmony, peace and happiness! But since you came, it's only been trouble, sorrow, war... DEATH! Why you had to come to shatter my kingdom, monkey?! It was too good for you?! It made you to feel like something this nice shouldn't exist?! Explain me, monkey, because I DON'T GET IT!!" She finally yelled, panting.

I was taken aback by Celestia's confession. I truly felt responsible for all the trouble I've caused, but it was unintentional... mostly.

"Cellie..." I replied, rubbing the back of my head, embarrased. "I... I just want to make everything right. To correct my mistakes. I want to help."

Celestia huffed and turned around, ending loinside to me: "Do you know why I told everypony to leave, monkey?"

"Hummm... not really. It's not like you trust me or anything."

"Because... in despite my best judgement... I feel safe with you around. I... I don't have a logical explanation to that. It's just a feeling. And the life has taught me to trust more in feelings that brains." Then, she turned to me again. "And that... scares me to death... because... it feels alike... something I tought that was dead and buried long ago... and..." Celestia turned around and huffed again.

"What it is Cellie? Come on, you can tell me." I smiled, and raised my hand with a trustful gesture.

"And I'm worried about Twilight. I mean, I had to send her to the Gryphoon Empire recently, and there she could..." She stopped speaking and I could hear her sobbing.

"Celestia, what could had happened to Twilight in the Gryphoon Empire?" I asked, worried.

Celestia raised the head and stared at me with a look that I couldn't decipher: "Alright. I'll think about your plead in Shining Armor's behalf, and I'll communicate my decision to you, as soon as I have it. That's all I can do. Now dismiss. This conversation is over."

"Oh, no no no no. This conversation is not over until you tell me what could had happened to Twilight in the Empire." I repeated, starting to get upset.

"I have nothing more to say." Replied Celestia, walking away.

"You do." I started to walk after her.

"No, I don't!" She repeated, walking even faster.

"Cellie!" I insisted.

"No! Stop following me!" She looked me with a scared face, starting to trot.

"Cellie! Stop right there!" I started to jog after her.

"No!" She exclaimed starting to gallop away from me.

"Cellie, don't try to escape! I need you to tell me!"

Celestia gave a scared gasp and jumped from the window, taking off, and I followed her in my flying cloud.

"Come over here Cellie!" I told her, locking her on.

"AHH!" Celestia gave a short scared scream and started to teleport away from me, but I had her locked on.

I couldn't tell how long we played the cat'n rat game, until Celestia, exhausted, landed near a wall in the garden, and I cornered her.

When she realized she couldn't escape from me, she covered her head with her trembling forelegs and cried: "No! Don't touch me! Don't touch me!"

I kneeled near her, concerned: "Oh. My. God. They raped you, the gryphoons, right?" I asked her, putting two plus two.

Celestia sadly looked me, and she slowly nodded.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

"Now you understand, monkey? Why did I had to do that dreadful deal of honor? I had... I had to make sure that those cursed gryphoons didn't touched Twilight, that they'll respect her purity. I needed to protect her!" She cried.

"But why you didn't send me there too?! I could have protected her up to the best!"

"I couldn't send you, monkey! With you being so violent and troublemaker, we'll be already at war at this point! I couldn't take that risk, even with you being the best option! I couldn't...! And that's why I was so angry with you."

"Then, it wasn't for the big bat prank?" I smiled.

"Nope. It wasn't for that. Not even for the beating you gave to that gryphoon bastard. The ancestors knows he deserved worst."

"Then, why you lied? Why did you put all that show then?"

"Because I was scared... for the reaction you may have. Not to me, but with Twilight. I knew you'll try to take her from me. And I was selfish, I know it. I've lived long enough, and frankly, death doesn't scare me anymore. Solitude is. This awful certainty that I'm going to outlive any beloved one that I could have, that prevented me to get emotionally bonded to anypony, or anything... until you and Twilight appeared..."

"And your sister? She's inmortal, like you. She can accompany you, isn't?"

Celestia chuckled. "Sure. I've tried. Twice. But she always have other plans. So, that's not a real solution."

I lowered the head, embarrased to the infinitum and beyond. All this time, I had tought that Celestia had a nice and easy life. Now, I realized all the suffering, all that she had sacrificed for the well being of her kingdom and her subjects. And, here I am. calling her an 'ungrateful tyrant'. I'm such a jerk.

I raised the head, and smiling, I extended my arms to her: "Come on, Cellie. Give me a hug."

Celestia looked at me with perplexity.

"Come on, Cellie. I don't bite... too hard." We both chuckled.

Slowly, Celestia started to get closer to me, until, suddenly, she hugged me, and resting her head on my shoulder, she started to cry. A deep, painful cry, forcefully held inside herself for so many years, finally surfaced in all it's strenght and constrained feelings. I hugged her back, even kissed her forehead, and cared her mane and loin: "That's OK, Cellie. You can let it go. You can let it go."

After a long while, she finally calmed down, and I asked her: "Now you're gonna let me heal that eye, right?"

"Yes, I will." She replied, and suddenly she broke the hug and started to nervously looking around. "But not here! Not here! If anypony see us like this, they're going to think that we're... and we're not, right?"

"Yeah. We're not." I smiled.

Back on her room, I quickly made a new eye for her. It looked perfect.

"Well. How do I look now?" She joyfully asked.

"Now I'll show you." I told her with a smile, and reached for a hand mirror. Looking to the mirror, I thought 'Why not?', and, without she noticing it, I cast an image deformation on it. Then, I put the mirror in front of Celestia's face.

Her joyfully expresion slowly turned into a horrified one, when she saw herself looking like Derpy Hooves.

"Cursed Tartarus! But what's this?!!" She yelled, holding the mirror with her magic, spooked at will by her own reflection. Then, she saw me, laughing like there was no tomorrow.

I didn't see it coming. The bucking was so swift and precise, that I saw the stars, the planets, the galaxies, all the bucking universe in a single second.

"OHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGG!!" I rolled on the floor, grabbing my pained crotch.

"OH! I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Celestia quickly apologized. "I didn't mean to do it, my body just moved by its own!"

"Alright, alright. I deserved it." I waved an arm, and stood up with difficulty.

Then, suddenly, Celestia gave me a kiss in the mouth.

"Whoa, girl! What was that?!" I bumped back, chuckling.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I was so embarrased... that..." Celestia lowered the head and the ears, deeply blushing, and started to nervously look around, rubbing her forehooves.

"Let me guess. Your body just moved by its own."

"Yes. That's right." Celestia raised the head, perked the ears and smiled. "That was what happened."

I smiled. "Well, it looks that I deserved that too."

Celestia giggled and gently pushed me with a foreleg: "That's enough, you rascal. Now get out of here."

"Alright, alright. Until tomorrow, Cellie."

"Until tomorrow, monkey... Ah! And make sure to come by, so I can make you a rightful Equestrian Citizen, ok?"

"And I'll be honored, Your Highness." I smiled, satisfied from a job well done, before walking away with a respectful reverence.