The Forgotten One

What is the worst thing that you could ever imagine? Would it be the monsters hiding in your closets and beneath your beds, is it the fear of heights or drowning? Do you fear death itself? My fears are a little less substantial than that of foalish tales and the stories that parents tell their young ones. What I feared has already come to pass, the thing I fear the most out of anything else in this entire world, is being forgotten the silence of not being recognized by even what used to be your closest compatriots, it's a silence that deafens and rings throughout one's head.

I apologize for not introducing myself earlier, my name is Prince Eclipse Star, I'm the captain of the E.S. North Star and the Equestrian Navy. The first ever nautical and aeronautical ship. In much more simple terms I'm in charge of a ship that can float on the sea and take to the skies. It's a design I made myself and I'm quite proud of it. I'm an Earth Pony I have a white coat similar to my mother's and a dark brown mane, alongside my black beard and sea-foam green eyes courtesy of my dearly departed father. My cutie mark is that of an eclipsed sun over the ocean. Make of that what you will, but I believe it was a call to adventure. Three indomitable forces of nature all right there stamped upon both sides of my flank two of those forces already controlled by my very own mother, the immortal Princess Celestia, the third one beckoning like a siren's song. I knew my fate lay within the waters as soon as I knew how to swim.

However, because of the position that I was born into I knew that that fate would have to be one that wouldn't last for long. Mother grew tired of attending meetings, the pressures of the school for gifted unicorns, running the country, raising the sun and moon, as well as training her personal students at the same time. Anypony that of whom weren't blind could see that she had stretched herself far too thin. So I had slowly but surely started attending the meetings alongside her, helping her with the day to day in order to ease her burden and prepare myself for the ascension to the throne.

Looking back, I can see how mistaken I was. I was just a colt hoping to win the affections of his mother hoping to help out the best I can when she had already placed her affections in another. A unicorn by the name of Twilight Sparkle. This was the same unicorn...well....former unicorn that I had now stood across from in the throne room of canterlot castle. My green eyes holding a steely gaze with her deep purple ones. My eyebrows furrowed as I stared a hole straight through her as she readjusted herself in the throne, she took one look at me and recognized who I was immediately. Her dragon didn't have the benefit of memory at the time but Twilight did remember who I was. I walked up to her, stood even with her shrinking in the throne and I only said two words.

"Get out."

Thus the throne room was emptied. I was sat upon the steps leading up to the gilded chairs, the seats of power, the center of the nation. The thrones were empty, the room was empty save for myself and the guards that were scrambled to my position, I looked up to see a litany of spears pointed at me, the pegasai with their bows, arrows notched and at the ready. The only thing I did was kick the false ruler out of my mother's throne and proceeded to sit down and eat an apple. The guards flinched each time I took another bite of said fruit. Waiting for me to do something other than eat. I rolled the half eaten snack around in my hoof before balancing it once more and taking another bite. My gaze still lording over the guards of the palace.

Their armor was polished to the point that it was giving off a glare, and their spears were nice and shiny. Which told me one thing, they were inexperienced. A good guard will keep his armor and weapon in good condition, make no mistake about it but there has never been such a thing as a perfect spear. Spears will get dropped, tossed into the dirt, stuck into target dummies, the edges and tips of the spears will roll and round themselves out, but still be sharp enough to impale. Armor will dinged, tarnished, bumped, and dulled; however it will still be tough enough to stop a spell, arrow, spear, or hoof or claw or fist or what have you. This is something that every experienced guard or soldier will know. The perfect little soldiers, with their shiny toys, and their heavily inexperienced minds. Their show of force was one comparable to a foal waving a stick at a full grown stallion. It's cute, but at the end of the day you know who has the real power, and it isn't these guards.

The sound of multiple hoofsteps rang out through the corridors preceding the throne room and finally those big golden doors were lit up in a similarly golden aura. They were flung open to see my mother in her full glory a face I've seen very few times before because after the first time I was too scared to even try and act up around her again, not without good reason. She wasn't angry, she was livid. When she's livid she'll make a grand speech. Typically overusing the word of, and making a vague thing about her being the princess of the sun.

"I don't know who you think you are coming into Canterlot and kick Princess Twilight out of her castle but you had best be prepared to face the full face of the wrath of the sun before you experience your last moments of-" She stopped herself, when she got a look at just who she was threatening. She took several steps back before gasping, and behind her were several other alicorns. There was a dark blue one I hardly recognized beside from story books and very old paintings. Then there was a pink one who I knew very well, and there was Twilight. Twilight accompanied by several other ponies of varying races.

"Tia, why did you stop?" The dark blue alicorn asked, "Pray tell, who is this pony?"

"It can't be, it's impossible." My mother only muttered.

"My name." I began somberly, "Is Eclipse Star. I am Captain of the E.S. North Star and the Equestrian Navy. I am also the son of Princess Celestia, that of which would also make me Prince Eclipse Star and heir to the throne of Equestria." I stood up, "Ten years ago, I was given the task to chart one of the last parts of the Celestial Sea and because of a storm I was thrown off course and sent into the unknown. Therefore I circumnavigated the globe to find myself back into Horseshoe Bay. And when I returned, I found that someone besides my mother was sitting on the throne, another alicorn no less. So, mother; when were you going to inform me that you had already found my replacement?" I asked the stunned silent alicorn. The guards had now lowered their spears looking to the white alicorn for answers.

She could only look back at the eyes staring at her and then look to me, my steeled gaze upon her. She could only squeak out a measly joke. "It looks like we have a lot of birthdays to catch up on?"