It was a cool star lit night with a full moon shining in the night sky as all of Equestria slept peacefully, however one pony started the day before the sun was even up .

Celestia layed in her bed sound asleep, but moments later she began to stir as she slowly woke up from a enchantment she placed on herself to tell her when to raise or lower the sun.

"Hmm." Groaned Celestia, her eyes slowly opened as she woke up from her magical alarm, rubbing her eyes as she rose from her bed.

She slowly rose from her large enchanted cloud bed, and did her pre morning stretching. Her body gave of several pleasing pops as she stretched out her legs, back, and wings before she began to head to her tower's balcony.

She was greeted by the sight of the full moon and saw the symbol of the mare in the moon, feeling sadness washed over as she looked at it.

Even after 400 years Celestia still had a sadness that weighed on her heart over what happened between Luna and her.

" Huha, Luna I miss you dear sister, but I know one day we will be reunited. " Celestia said as she gazed up at the moon, wiping away a tear with a feather remembering the night she banished Luna.

Celestia lit her horn in her gold aura and started to lower the moon and raise the sun, bringing light into the world just as she had been doing for since she learned her special talent.

Celestia took a moment to admire the sunrise as it slowly rose into the sky, bathing the world in it's golden rays throughout Equestria, signaling the start of a new day.

"Bwagu!"

Suddenly a noise from behind Celestia caused her to turn around as a 2 year old Pegasus filly flew from Celestia's room and clung to her neck affectionately.

" Good morning my little Aurora, I'm sorry did I wake you? " Celestia asked the little filly as she wrapped a wing around her.

"Aaah ~" the filly responded by yawning and nuzzling Celestia's neck, getting comfy as she began to fall asleep in her wing.

" I'll take that as a yes. " Celestia said, smiling as she looked at the filly.

" And on that day Luna I wish for you to meet your niece. " Celestia thought smiling as she looked at the moon and back to the sleeping filly, imagining the the day they would be a family again.

This little filly was Aurora Nebulae, the daughter of Celestia and the newest princess of Equestria.

She was a pale blue white Pegasus with a spiky mane and tail that were the color of the northern lights and the night sky that shined like a gem. Her eyes looked like they were made of white diamonds with a light blue hint to them.

Celestia was always seen as a motherly figure to all her little poines, but she never had any foals of her own. And after centuries of seeing so many of her little poines with their families and children, she decided to have a foal of her own.

But she knew if she found a lover it be would be a matter of time before they died, and she couldn't go through the heartbreak of losing another. So she used her magic to craft a spell to fulfill her wish, and 11 months later Aurora was born.

Celestia had used magic to hide that she was pregnant and only informed those she trusted most, knowing if news of her being with child would give the nobles and her enemies something over her and put her unborn child at risk.

But as the due date was only 3 weeks away, she had to make arrangements and announce the news. And once it was announced she was having a foal, all of Equestria was shocked as the news spread like wildfire throughout Equestria and beyond.

For never in the history of the world has an alicorn ever had a child before, and Celestia's foal was bound to be special.

Five years later

Somewhere in Canterlot castle

"Weeeeee, catch me if you can Philomena!" Aurora yelled as she zoomed through the castle halls, with the phoenix not far behind her.

*Chirp, chirp!* Philomena chirp excitedly as she chased after the young princess in one of their games of tag.

As Aurora grew up she proved to be quite a wild child, she was difficult mostly for anypony other than Celestia to look after. And when she showed signs at a young age of being gifted with a unique magic know as elemental magic, even Celestia was surprised when she found out.

Elemental magic was a art and type of magic thought lost to time to the Pegasie, it was the very origin of how the Pegasie could manipulate the clouds and weather.

At this point Aurora could manipulate the wind and temperature but what was know of what elemental magic it was capable of a lot more.

And having a hyper active rambunctious young filly with magical weather powers made the guards assigned to her jobs to look after her difficult to say the least.

" Which way did she go!" Yelled a royal guard Pegasus captain in a deep voice.

" I saw her fly down that hallway but after that I lost track of her, I'm sorry captain that phoenix distracted us! " said a guard.

" That doesn't matter now just spread out and find her before something happens to her! Make sure to take a unicorn partner and used tracking spells, there's no telling where she could be in this massive castle! " yelled the captain.

" Sir yes sir! " the guards said before they broke into groups of two and began to search for the young princess.

As Aurora and Philomena raced down the hallways Aurora zooming and evaded Philomena's every attempt to tag her, staying just out of reach.

But Philomena saw a corner coming up in the hallway and knew that Aurora would need to turn, which would cause her to slow down just enough to provide an opportunity for her.

As Aurora was in mid turn Philomena flew high in to the air and dived at the filly like a hawk, preparing to tag the filly.

*Woosh*

But as her wing was less than a foot away from tagging Aurora, a gust of wind blew Philomena off course making the phoenix fly right over Aurora.

" Hehe nice try Philomena, you were close that time. " Aurora said while laughing from her perch on a large decorative chandelier.

*Squeak! * Philomena chirped as she flew near Aurora, protesting of how the use of wind was not fair.

"Not fair, what's not fair is that you threw a bunch of your loose feathers in my face last time we played tag. And because of that I almost crashed into a wall! " Aurora said, crossing her hoofs on her chest and pouted at the phoenix as she landing on the floor.

Philomena slumped her head in defeat at that, she knew the filly had a point.

She landed next to Aurora and nuzzled her face as she apologized with soft chirps.

* Chirp, chirp.* Philomena softly chirped as she rubbed her face against Aurora's, conveying she was sorry.

Aurora sat there trying to maintain her pout, but she quickly broke into giggles in the face of Philomea's sweetness and hugged the fiery bird.

" Alright, alright apology accepted, I can never stay mad at you. " Aurora said, smiling as she nuzzled her friend and playmate back.

"I've spotted her Captain Wind Trotter!" A royal guard Pegasus yelled from down the hallway Aurora and Philomena came form.

" Princess Aurora please stop fleeing from us, Princess Celestia will be done with day court soon. We can escort you to the garden while you wait for her." A middle aged royal guard Pegasus with a light blue coat and a silver mane said, as he and a few other guards began to approach the filly princess.

" You'll have to catch us first!" Aurora said smiling as she quickly took to the air and zoomed off down the hallway with Philomena right behind her.

"Wait Princess, ahh not again!" Captain Wind Trotter yelled as he face hooved, he knew they wouldn't be able to catch the filly once she took to the air.

"What do we do now, we can't just let the princess run around the castle like this, what if she runs into one of the visiting foreign diplomats. " Said one of his subordinates, looking very worried.

"Huha, I'm afraid we'll have to inform Princess Celestia of this, go tell her while I try to get Princess Aurora to listen. " Wind Trotter said with a heavy sigh, before flying off in the direction the young princess went.

" So who's going to go tell Princess Celestia? " A guard asked, looked to his squad mates.

" Not me I did it last time. " One of them said, shaking his head to make his point.

" Well somepony has to do let's settle this like usual, not it! " A royal guard Pegasus mare said, quickly raising her hoof.

" Not it! "

" Not it! "

" Not it pony feathers! " Said a Pegasus guard as he was the last to say it.

" Well looks like you drew the short straw Dust stride. " A guard said, patting the unfortunate Pegasus's shoulder.

" Yeah, yeah your not the one that's got to tell Princess Celestia we can't even do foalsitting right. " Dust stride said as he and his comrades set off to the throne room.

In the throne room Celestia was in a meeting pertaining to some poines with weather complaints and issues.

" Now Sir Rulwork as I've previously told others on this matter, you can't keep pressing the weather ponies for more rain showers. They keep to a precise schedule for a reason. " Celestia said, restraining a annoyed sigh as she looked at the pony before her.

" But one rain shower a month is not enough, my farms are showing signs of drought. I'm concerned the clouds the weather ponies are dispersing are not enough or are being blown off course. " Rulwork said in a deep gruff voice, giving Celestia some files with papers of his assessments.

He was a middle aged Earth pony with a dark brown red coat and a copper mane who ran some large produce farms. He wore a light navy blue suit and had a plow going through some soil for a cutie mark.

"Hmm this is concerning, I'll have a Pegasus weather inspector do a field report on the weather team and the clouds dispersal over the land." Celestia said, making a mental note as she finished looking over the reports.

"Thank you for that Princess Celestia." Rulwork said , giving a bow before he started to ahead out of the throne room.

"Huha, who's next Quivil? " Celestia asked while releasing a tired sigh as she leaned back into her throne.

"Hmm, let's see you have a meeting with,

" Pardon the interruption Princess Celestia but I need to speak with you. " said a light brown Pegasus royal guard as he and a few other royal guards suddenly entered the throne room, doing a quick bow as they stopped before the throne.

"Hello Lieutenant Dust stride, is Aurora saying she's having trouble with her studies again? " Celestia asked, trying her best to keep her sadness out of her voice.

" She probably wants me to be the one to teach her so we can spend more time together. Huha I've got to do to more to make time for her." Celestia thought, feeling sad that her schedule took so much time away from her daughter

She knew her daughter was very smart and gifted, Aurora was already well past the educational level for a pony her age. But she always liked to have Celestia teach her instead of any of the teachers Celestia assigned to her.

" Ugh no Princess Aurora has been done with her lessons and studies for over 3 hours now. After that she said she was going to practice her flying and took off. She's currently flying around in the halls of the castle and ugh...we can't stop her. " The Lieutenant said, nervously informing the Sun Princess of the situation.

The news that her daughter was on the loose in the castle unsupervised was alarming, but what got Celestia's attention the most was the time.

" Over 3 hours ago, how could I have been so careless to lose track of the time? " Celestia said, going wide eyed as she teleported a golden pocket watch and saw the current time.

" Oh she must be so mad at me, especially after I promised her again I would be on time and would play with her. " Celestia thought, already imagining her daughter frowning at her for being late again.

" Quivil I need you to handle the rest of the meetings for today please, I owe my daughter some quality time with me." Celestia said, giving her Stewart an apologizing smile as she stood up.

" Of course Princess go and enjoy being with little Aurora I've got this. " Quivil said, giving Celestia a nod as he gather his papers in his maroon aura.

Quivil was a light beige elderly unicorn with a grey mane and thick grey mustache, he had a cutie mark of a scroll with a quill pen on it.

He was Celestia's Stewart and royal organizer, he set up meeting with those that needed to have an audience with Celestia in day court and worked with Celestia's royal schedule organizer to manage the time and place for them.

Quivil's main job was to help make things easier for Celestia, mainly by sorting out who needed to meet with her and assisting in working though all the paperwork she dealt with on a daily basis.

He made it easier for Celestia to focus on the more important things, like spending time with her daughter, ruling the country, looking after the citizens of Equestria and their wellbeing.

" Thank you for your hard work Quivil, it's certainly appreciated. Oh and please send a message to the kitchen staff to fix Aurora's favorite cake. " Celestia said smiling to the elderly stallion before setting off.

" It is no problem your highness, and I'm sure you will smooth things over with her. " Quivil said smiling, bowing before looking through his papers.

" Now Lieutenant don't worry I shall find my daughter, you and your squad go to the castle garden's where the outdoor furniture is and I'll meet you there." Celestia said as she walked up to Dust stride and lit her horn.

" Yes Princess Celestia. " Dust stride said, as he and rest of his squad bowed.

With that Celestia lit her horn and teleported to wherever Aurora was currently.

"Please come back here Princess Aurora!" Wind Trotter said between heavy breaths as he flew after the young princess.

He was running on fumes, and even with his training and full speed he still couldn't get close to the Princess.

" Hahaha no way, this is tag your going to have to catch me if you can slow poke! " Aurora said back, she was smiling excitingly as she and Philomena flew around and evaded the captain.

They had reached the hall of legends, it was a huge and vast hall that had large stained glass windows in it depicting legends and historical events in Equestria's history.

" Looks like I'm going to have to play her game if I want to get her to listen. " Wind Trotter thought, realizing he wasn't going to change the kid's mind.

Wind Trotter knew he wouldn't beat Aurora in speed so he changed his plan, he flew in a complex flight pattern in an effort to out maneuver Aurora. He flew high in to the air nearly to the hall's ceiling and began to fly in a zig zag pattern around the room.

"Oh that's cool." Aurora thought amazed, pausing her flying for a moment as she tracked Wind Trotter around the room as he flew.

" And now! " Wind Trotter made a sudden turn towards Aurora just as he flew behind her blind spot.

" Your good kid but I'm a trained solider of the royal guard. " Wind Trotter thought as he neared Aurora, preparing to tag her and end the game.

But as he was less than a foot away from tagging her she quickly flapped her wings and did a back flip in mid air right over the captain. Causing him to spin in the air for a few moments as he was caught in a spiraling gust of wind.

" Hahaha that was cool Wind Trotter but you still have to catch me!" Aurora said smiling down to the dizzy Pegasus captain on the floor.

"Ugh." Wind Trotter groaned as he layed on the floor.

" Now, now my little Aurora at least give Wind Trotter a chance. " came a sweet motherly voice that was all to familiar to Aurora.

"Mommy!" Aurora said happily as she quickly flew at Celestia, slamming into her chest blowing her mane back with a strong gust of wind. Aurora proceeded to affectionately hug and nuzzle Celestia, burying her face in the white fur of her chest.

" Your late mommy, again." Aurora said slightly irritated, her voice was muffled by Celestia's fur but was still auditable.

" Yes I am, I'm sorry sweety but I'm free to spend the whole day with you now . " Celestia said tenderly as she hugged and nuzzled her daughter back, trying to sooth her daughter.

" Really you can spend time with me now? " Aurora asked excitedly, looking up at Celestia with a hopeful smile.

" Of course how about we go to the gardens to play, I even have a surprise for you there." Celestia said, smiling as she looked at her daughter become excited.

" Captain Wind Trotter I've instructed your squad to meet us in the garden, would you like for me to teleport with us? " Celestia asked the captain.

" Yes Princess Celestia I'd like to, I'm still a tad worn out from chasing Princess Aurora. Next time I'm not going to let her get a head start on me and my squad. " Wind Trotter said, sounding confident as he playfully smiled at Aurora.

" Haha, we'll see about that slow poke. " Aurora said smiling back at the him.

* Chirp, chirp* Philomena chirped as she landed on Celestia's shoulder.

" Right let's be on our way. " Celestia said before she teleported with them all to the gardens in a big gold flash.

In a gold flash Celestia, Aurora, Wind Trotter, and Philomena appeared in the castle's garden where the outdoor furniture was.

"Greeting Princess Celestia, captain. " Dust stride said, As he and his squad mates gave a bow to the Princess and a salute to their captain.

" Thank you for the ride Princess Celestia. " Wind Trotter said, giving a bow to her.

"Your quite welcome Captain, and thank you for always protecting my daughter. " Celestia said, smiling her motherly smile as she watched her daughter fly over to look at some flowers.

" It's no trouble Princess Celestia she's a hoof full but she's a good kid. She certainly keeps my squad and me on our hoofs." Wind Trotter said, giving his wings a stretch.

" She is but I worry about her, she wants me to be around more and I try to be. But being a mother and a ruler of a nation is hard to do. And I'm afraid that I'm going to mess up with her and we'll drift apart." Celestia said, smiling sadly as she looked at her daughter and Philomena looking at the flowers.

" I can't let history repeat itself, Luna turned into Nightmare moon and I was the one that drove her to doing so. I can't let that happen to Aurora. " Celestia thought, remembering the heartbreaking tragedy between Luna and her.

" She loves you and knows you care about her, despite her young age she knows you have a important job. And besides you are a good mother Princess, things will be fine between you two." Wind Trotter said sincerely, getting a warm smile from Celestia.

" Thank you for that Wind Trotter that means a lot. " Celestia said softly while smiling at the captain. She took comfort in those words and felt a sense of relief for them.

Celestia looked to Aurora who was now petting a golden hair rabbit, one of the residents of the castle's garden. While Philomena socialized with the other birds of the garden.

Wind Trotter was a veteran among the royal guards and had served as one for 52 years, he was one of Celestia's personal bodyguards and was a good friend of Celestia. She picked him and those that made up his squad to guard her daughter, she trusted him and knew that he had the skill and experience to keep her safe.

" Well we'll let you two be, me and my squad need to get to patrolling the gardens. " Wind Trotter said, as he and his squad gave a bow to Celestia before heading out to commence their guard duties.

"Look mommy my rainbow roses are finally blooming." Aurora said, walking over to a few rose bushes with roses the color of the rainbow that sparkled in the sunlight.

" Indeed they are and there looking very nice, they make a great addition to the garden. " Celestia said walking to her daughter's side, smiling as she watched her daughter look over her flowers.

These flowers were very rare and were very sought after, making it difficult to find any, though Celestia got them for Aurora's seventh birthday. Aurora liked many things like flowers, art, and music and was very good at painting, something Aurora really liked to as a hobby

" Yep I made sure to water them every 3 days like you said, so what's the surprise you said you had mommy? " Aurora asked, looking at Celestia with a curious happy smile.

"Well I thought it would be nice to have some red velvet cake together before we go flying, would you like that? " Celestia asked gesturing to an outdoor white table, smiling as she saw Aurora's excited smile.

Like her Aurora had a big sweet tooth, and one of her favorite sweets was red velvet cake with pecans.

" Yes I'd love to, then we can go flying right? "Aurora asked as Celestia and her sat down at the table, looking to Celestia with excitement.

Already imagining the taste of the cake and the joy of flying and spending time with her mother.

" Hehe, of course sweety, oh look Caramel is here and she brought the cake. " Celestia said seeing a unicorn mare with a honey gold brown coat and a copper brown curly mane pushing a food cart with her light magenta aura.

She had a cutie mark of three cinnamon rolls, she was Caramel Swirl, the personal maid of Celestia and head maid of day time maids. And her sister a bat pony named Lily Nightshade was the personal maid of Luna and oversaw the night time maids.

Caramel Swirl and Lily Nightshade were more than maids, they were the oldest friends of Celestia and Luna. They appeared very young but thanks to an age spell casted by Starswirl they would stay young forever and had taken care of Celestia and Luna since they were little.

"Caramel!" Aurora said happily, quickly flying to the maid and hugged her.

" Bonjour la` Aurore, profiter la jardins aujourd'hui? " Caramel asked in her native language of Prench, hugging the young princess back.

" Oui moi et maman sont aller aentraine toi en volant, oh et regardez ma des roses sontepanouissement." Aurora said happily smiling, speaking Prench as she pointed to the flowers.

"They are indeed, you've been doing a good job of taking care of them." Caramel said smiling, switching back to equestrian as she walked up to the outdoor white table.

As Aurora sat down at the table Caramel lifted a the glass covered silver plate with the cake on it in her magical grip and placed it, a pair of knifes and forks, and a plate in front of them with a napkin under it on the table.

" Would you like to eat with us Carmel? " Celestia asked, smiling as she knew that Caramel enjoyed red velvet cake as well.

" Yes I'd like to Princess, it about time for me to take a break as well. " Caramel said smiling as Celestia teleported a chair for her.

"What do you think of my Prench mommy, was it good? " Aurora asked eagerly awaiting to her what Celestia thought.

" Your doing very well Aurora, you've got the accent down and your speech it very fluently." Celestia said cutting a slice of cake for Auroa.

Aurora gave a big smile at hearing that, she then picked up her fork and enjoyed her cake.

"Thanks for helping in teaching her Prench Caramel." Celestia said smiling as she thanked her maid.

" Oh it's no trouble she enjoyed learning it and she's a fast learner. But let's talk about something else other than work and enjoy the nice weather while we have the time. " Caramel said smiling as she took a bite of her cake.

" That's right I need to spend as much time as I can with Aurora and enjoy the time I spend with her. She will definitely live much longer than most poines, but the day well come when...she... "

" No, ,no I need to focus on the present, while she's still here. " Celestia thought, quickly pulling herself together and put on her best practiced smile.

She pushed such thoughts away before her emotions got the better of her, the last thing she wanted to was make her daughter worry about her.

" I will enjoy the time I have with my little Aurora, for as long as time allows. And perhaps in time she may be able to ascended to an alicorn. " Celestia thought hopefully, smiling as she watched her daughter enjoy her cake.

Author's Note

I always wondered what the story would be like if Celestia had a daughter. So after reading a few stories about the concept, I decided to write one.

Hope you enjoy the story :)