the second diarchy

by flowgninthgil

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Rainbow Dash, Romance, Tempest Shadow, Adventure, Twilight Sparkle, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 2310

trust is so hard to won but so easy to lose, and lost trust lead to hurtful outcome

it's been since the incident of the summer sun's celebration, the Elements' friendship isn't on a fine line anymore and heal slowly but surely with time going by. at the same time rainbow and twilight are getting closer as day pass, it sure had been difficult for twilight after the hospital otorized her to leave but rainbow was here for her. now is time for a great event: twilight brother is getting married and with a mare named 'mi amore candanza' twilight is happy for him but who is this "mi amore"?

(tag will be updated with the chapters; will probably need a cover art later if you have any idea feel free to DM me)
inspired by The Alicorn Warrior, Rise of the Harmony Kingdom and A Rainbow in the Dark. the later is sort of a prequel with a different ending than from the fic. the two first because this story will be a mix between the two.
spoiler alert: imagine if the europeans weren't dumb and decided it would have been a good thing to developpe their wole colonies instead of just reducing their population as slaves and exploiting the recources without care for anything else

Published 2020-10-12 22:30:00 UTC
Last updated 2020-10-12 22:30:00 UTC

a simple lack of trust

So that was it? My so-called friends decided to show their true feelings, finally. At least Rainbow is still by my side, the only one I could still trust and love with all her heart, not like her 'friends'.

I'm happy I made the choice to believe in our relationship, even though it had a really bad start. After all, it was our friends' fault, if they had not been so curious and insistant, maybe we wouldn't had have a mental breakdown, one that nearly killed us.

What kind of friend constantly spy on you when you start your first relationship, to the point when you can't enjoy a single moment alone? Apparently mine do, it put lots of stress on me not being able to have a 'secret' relation or some intimacy with rainbow, and with the stress of organizing the summer sun celebration put on me, it wasn't my best

Rainbow hadn't got it any better, she was afraid of having her heart broken and my behaviour made her think i didn't loved her, that i ouly agreed because of pity, our friends doing seemingly everything possible to make her stress even more on it and the fact that I was way too short from having a mental breakdown to try understand what made her so stressful and possibly help dash feeling better.

It came down eventually, not even four days after we slept together, Rainbow was just outside of our room with our friends trying ot get her speak of us, and, not wanting to regret what she would say, tried to fly out of the hotel by the balcony, pinkie attempted to stop her by closing the door only for it to result in dash losing her balance as she got through it and falling from the balcony without being able to slow down her fall.

When I heard the noise, I immediatly got out of our room only to see rainbow falling from the balcony, my only though had been to save her. i didn't think, I jumped to catch rainbow before teleporting her back on the balcony. the fact that she was safe was all i needed to know, and weren't it for Luna watching us it would have been my last thoughts. i got slowed down a bit but still lost conciousness, broke seven ribs and three of my legs.

When I woke up the next day in the hospital, our friends decided to let me alone with Rainbow after explaining me the overhall of her situation. For a moment, I wanted to tell Rainbow that it would be better to start from scratch once I would be healed, instead I made my mind on it told her that I wanted her by my side for as long as it was possible.

The whole time I spent at the hospital, rainbow was here for me. It helped both of us, I managed to learn to listen to my heart and stop thinking when needed, Rainbow learned to let free her feeling from time to time while slowly fearing less and less the dark. When I was healed and free to go we were both sure of our feeling and didn't want to leave each other's side.

The day the hospital let me out, our first move was to move all of rainbow's things inside the library. Sadly, even the letters of our friends saying how much they were wrong and sorry didn't totally healed our friendship, resulting as a distancing between Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow and me, Fluttershy having been forgiven very early after I learned she only gave advices to Rainbow, and I could only agree they were good ones. Even spike had been a bit let down after the incident, not as the same as our friends but still a bit after supported our friends behaviour.

When I got news from my B.B.B.F.F. being married, things has started to go better, sadly fate had other plans in it's head. I knew it, Cadance wasn't her Cadance, she wasn't the caring, loving foalsister I grown up with, but our friends belived her justification of so-called "stress". The only really support i had was rainbow who, even through she didn't know her, belived that i was right.

When I openly opposed myself to the marriage, I found herself alone with Rainbow. My brother hated me, my mentor was very disapointed of how I acted, my friends followed the princess because why would they support their friends to a monarch caring and all-knowing? Even spike followed her. Rainbow hadn't done anythink to stop it, she knew as well as I that it wouldn't change anything since her thinking was 'biased' by her feeling.

that's why we decided to leave, only the two of us in the wild of equestria, we headed to ponyville first to stop at the golden oak where we will take the minimum we need, then we will take the train south with no wish of coming back.

if any of my friend read this, and i'm sure you will, as well as Celestia, Cadance, Shiny and probably Luna, knows that we are sorry for what we've done but don't regret anything since it show how less you cared about us.

Adieu,
Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash

When Twilight and Rainbow disapeared and chrysalis uncovered while her swarm invaded canterlot, Luna didn't took long to beat her off, she then asked chrysalis where she had put the three mares. Once she has freed Cadance from her cave, she not so politly asked her where she had put the other two. At this, chrysalis laughed and told her to ask her sister about a certain page of a diary. it confused Luna enough for chrysalis to escape her while a group of four mares, a stallion and an alicorn started to feel nervous.

It didn't took long for Cadance and Luna to understand how, because of some so-called 'stress', Twilight and Rainbow decided to leave their friends to live on their own. not only were they outraged by how Shining Armor told her little sister that she won't be welcome at his marriage anymore, but the fact that her mentor and friends choose a pony over a friends and student that knew her from longer than any of them.

Cadance immediatly put the marriage on hold until they found where the two mares were gone and, after some long searching nights by the night guards, they found that the two ponies had headed to the badlands, at Equestria's south and where no pony will find them. The only sign of their past presence was a message writed by twilight that she made the station's pony keep in case she was searched for by some ponies, this message was adressed to Luna and Cadance, and only them.

Since it's obvious our disapearance will not go unknowingly, and opposed to what Rainbow might say, here's a message for Luna and, later, Cadance (the true this time).

Firstly, I'm sorry for leaving you so suddenly, you've donne ~~aweso~~ admirable progress in your reintegration in our society, I'm just sad I wouldn't be able to see it, keep this going, with time more ponies will see the beauty of your night and your night court, it came to me that you started one some weeks ago with more or less sucess, will surely be as full as the day court might be, I just hope for you it will be more commoners wanting to do reforms for the good of the little villages like ponyville.

Secondly, I would like to ask you to stop the search here, I know you want to make sure we're safe and all but we decided to be on our own and it would be a lot easier for us if we didn't have to hide and useful for you if you didn't kept some of your guards constantly searching for us.

Finally, i think you would have noticed if Cadance was not herself so I will take it you already found the true one when you find this, do not worry, I'm not mad at her, I'm not mad at anypony, Rainbow is but it will be fine with time. I will send letters to you and Cadance from time to time with the help of a spell I learned some weeks ago. I do not exept an answer but those letter are for you and only you. They will tell you about how it's going for us or things like that, know that Rainbow support you and consider you as "the coolest princess ever" since she had managed to not fear the black anymore.

Your friends, for now and forever,
Twilight and Rainbow

This part is for Cadance but you may read it if you want to.
Cadance, firstly i wanted to be sorry not being able to be here for your marriage, I know you probably wanted me being here above any other pony but you might know why I'm not here anymore. For that, i wanted to be sorry for not searching to save you back then, I was probably too focused to show the others that it wasn't you.

Secondly, do not worry, like I said to Luna, I'm not mad at you, you weren't yourself or maybe it wasn't you at all, that I don't know, I will send letter to you and Luna from time to time to tell you about how things are going for Rainbow and I, I give you my best wishes for you and Shining Armor.

Finally, Rainbow and I are fine and it feels like we are closer than ever, I have to be short because Rainbow want to know what I'm wrting and I wanted to hide thiis part but, our love is strong and Rainbow will never hurt me and neither would I, we are happy and all you ever wanted me to have with a lover.

your little sister-in-law and her loyal marefriend,
Twilight and Rainbow

A week later, when the first letter came, all search for Rainbow and Twilight were stopped. Luna understood why twilight felt this way and decided to let her live free, Cadance stopped when she read the the message but the letter she received aproximatively at the same time as Luna's conviced her to ler them go, even though, she didn't accepted to finish the marriage and it was left on hold. She never told anything about the letter, only that it didn't said anything that could make her refuse to marry Shining Armor anymore.

The capitain of the royal guards was in a bad time after that, he wasn't being married anymore, his lover was a bit more distant, and he lost his little sister. His parents could not belive he was entirely sane at this moment and put all the blame on the changeling queen.

For the four other Elements, it was also a hard time, they abandonned two friend over an unknow pony while the deep cut in their relationship from the summer sun's celebration's events were only healing. Each tried to drown their culpabilities on their own way, Applejack worked harder than ever, Rarity started to save money to open a second boutique in Manehatten or Canterlot, the later having painful memories making it a second choice while Pinkie made even more parties or even more ponies.

For Fluttershy it was different, she was seen less than ever but it was heard that she started to learn from zecora so she could be closer to her animals friends, it's even say that she was seen with some timberwolves at the edge of the forest.

The only big change for ponyville was the increasing number of parties and a purple maned filly with an orange coat missing her idol stoping her 'crusading'.

It took a week for the sun princess to reopen to court and even then it was seen that she wasn't so prone to accept some noble's request for more influence.

For two mares, at the border of Equestria, things were bad but promised to be better. They had each others, and neede nothing more for now. the badlands was a harsh life but a promising one if well played.

They had their life for themselves and were gonna use it as such.

Author's Note

thanks for reading, i wanted to say two things.
first: it took me 2hours to write this and it was around 2:30am, october the 12 of 2020. i rewrited and corrected everything the afternoon (took me around 2hours too) of the same day and here it is!
secondly: I'm sorry, i know i started two fics and i'M starting another one now but know that i will try to be more efficient for this,i have MANY project that need to be rewrited before being publised, the read being that i always write at impossible hours so there is lots of things to correct and i usually take so much time before doing so that i get better at writing and get better plots for them, meaning i need to take even more time for it (not that i don't have time, i have so much time that i'm starting to run out of fic to read xD)
feel free to DM me if you see lots of mistakes so i could correct everythings

-Flowgninthgil, known too as Flow Księżyc