Lies of Solaris

Chapter 5 - Unlived childhood

Luna’s crying lasted for a slightly long while,she stopped when she simply could not produce another teardrop,it was then that her mother and father let go of their embrace,one sighing after the other as the stallion pet her mane very delicately as if fearing she would break.

“My name is Astronimas...Luna...i am your father....myself and your mother were the King and Queen of equestria...for a long while before you and your sister were born into the kingdom...”

Astronimas continued stroking her mane,letting his words sink in before continuing

“Your sister...we fear....has been lying to you...Luna dear i need you to try and remember....when were you born...?”

Luna sniffled lightly and closed her eyes in thought,after a long while she let out an exhausted sigh

“i-i....don’t know...c-celestia just said i was born after her....”

Astronimas sighed softly as his fears were confirmed and he looked at Everdawn with a very small nod as he then turned his gaze back down too Luna.

“Then its better we simply show you what happened...from the beginning..and it seems your mother had the same idea,thats what this place is.” He spoke in a very sure,calm tone for her and gestured his hoof around to the elaborate castle “This was where your mother and i,as well as you and your sister lived when we were...around, it is located in the place now called the Everfree Forest,but you know that well enough i’m sure.”

Luna went go to speak after a couple of moments but was interrupted by the unmistakable loud cry of a foal, when she looked up at her father he was giving Everdawn a knowing wide grin before he spoke

“Heh..you really did take us back far i see dear..”

Everdawn blushed lightly and looked away with a giggle and Astronimas looked back down at Luna and smiled as he let her go from the hold.

Almost immediatly luna turned to the direction of the crying and began to trot towards it slowly,once around the corner she found a door,open wide in the hall.After a couple of moments a few clearly noticeable doctor ponies and nurses came from the room,but one pony stood out among the crowd of them,a familiar white mare who luna knew very well but looked very much different than any other time luna had ever seen her.It was a pink maned,very young looking Celestia,only about as tall as a normal teenage pony and missing her most noticeable feature of all,her sun cutie-mark, which luna,after a long moment of looking assumed hadn’t been aquired by this younger variation of her sister.

The first thing luna felt was surprise,and then in a split second,a weird kind of anger towards the young sun princess in front of her.After a couple of long tense moments luna was trotting toward her with a look of near rage,but as she got closer and prepared to scream her lungs out at her sister she noticed it,probably the weirdest thing about the mare.She was looking right at luna,but not registering her presence in the slightest.

At first she was confused,but then she slowly started to move her hoof up and wave it infront of celestias eyes.Nothing whatsoever.it was then that her father and mother came around the corner,their looks showing that they had atleast expected this in a small way,it was Everdawn who spoke first.

“Sweetheart....you can’t interact with her,this world isn’t real....that’s what we didn’t tell you....this place...and...us...aren’t physically real anymore...this is just a glimpse into the past...this happened over two thousand years ago luna...”

Everdawn seemed on the verge of tears again as Astronimas spoke in a slight more accepting tone.

“As much as i know this will hurt Luna...your mother and I...have been dead,for a very...very long time”

Luna’s face looked on them in absolute shock as she simply stood there,seeming frozen by their words as she spoke in a very low voice

“How....h-how are you....how are you here then...you’re right in front of me...y-you hugged me....if you’re not really then how is this all possible...?”

Astronimas sighed lightly and looked at Everdawn,who shook her head slightly,looking pained but stern in whatever decision she had just made

“That....is a question better saved for the end of all we have to show you...” Astronimas said in a calm voice

“Come now luna...there is something you need to see...this is the beginning...” Said Everdawn