Twilight Finally Writes Back...

With each sigh going on the piece of parchment and quill dabbed into a pot of ink, Celestia gets more and more worried about her ex-faithful student. Her ears perked up at the sound of a knock which she called for them to come in. It was a blue alicorn standing in the doorway, looking concerned. Celestia glanced back at her paper with a sigh of despondent.

Luna stood behind her and glanced at the sheet of paper that was laying on the table in front of her sister, having the phrase 'Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle' written on it. She laid a comforting hoof on her sister's shoulder as she swayed her head away. Soon after, Celestia's horn glowed with a yellow presence and picked up the quill to start moving on the page.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,

I'm sorry if this letter is sent too late or if I'm annoying you ~~because you have other friends now~~ but I would just like to say how much I missed us writing letters back and forth continuously. Why can't it be like the old days? Remember when you would always have your face inside a book most of the time in magic kindergarten? Yeah, that was a good time.

I've missed sending letters back and forth with you, I feel like it was my mistake in turning you into an alicorn. If I hadn't then we could still be sending friendship lessons to one another. I'm sorry if I'm making you feel uncomfortable talking about my feelings but I just had to let you know...I don't know what you are doing at the moment or where you are or which friends you are hanging out with at the moment but I just wanted to let you know that, can we make things how it used to be?

I don't know what else to say but I'm sorry. I'm sorry for corrupting you by making you into an alicorn princess and now I'm ranting over it because you never write to me anymore but I guess that is pretty much my fault.

Your Worried and Stupid ex-Teacher,
Princess Celestia

Celestia had sealed the letter and ignited her horn to send the letter out of her window to evaporate into green flames and send it off to her ex-faithful student. Just thinking about her made her feel even more queasy and sick to her stomach. Celestia had laid herself on her table and slowly relaxed her eyes closed to take a nap. Luna smiled peacefully, levitating a blanket over her body and exiting out of her lounging room.

At Princess Twilight Sparkle's Kingdom, a violet alicorn was sitting on her couch in the living room whilst reading a book after a long day of spending an enjoyable day with Pinkie Pie. Soon after, a purple dragon with green scales entered the living room tiredly and hopped on the empty spot next to Twilight as he got a comic book from behind a pillow.

A few seconds later, he had burped up green flames and a scroll along with it. Twilight raised an eyebrow, getting distracted from her reading and levitating the scroll from Spike's hands. Her eyes skimmed through the letter until she lowered the paper to bit her lip and glanced at her dragon companion.

Twilight took a deep breath, rolling up the letter again. She levitated an inkpot with a quill inside it and a piece of parchment. Spike raised an eyebrow, trying to open his mouth to say something but got stopped as Twilight began feeling her hooves on her ex-mentor's paper and tearing up. She glanced at the empty sheet of paper with a deep breath and started lifting up her quill to write on the parchment.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I am sorry that we haven't been sending letters back and forth ever since I have become an alicorn princess, and it wasn't your fault. To tell you the truth, I don't like being an alicorn princess either, and instead like sending friendship letters to you. You were practically the first friend I ever had alongside Spike, and for that, I am truly grateful.

Thank you for giving me guidance and knowledge. I look up to you more than anything. You mean a lot to me and I guess I was a pain in the flank to not fucking realise that, and I'm sorry.

Yours Truly Sorrowful,
Princess Twilight Sparkle

Twilight had finished signing her name on the paper and wiped away tears she was holding back whilst writing on the piece of parchment. She rolled it into a scroll and turned to Spike who was looking concerned. Twilight smiled, handing over the scroll to him. Spike nodded, as he held it up high to swoosh the scroll to evaporate into green flames and send it to their ex-teacher. Twilight and Spike could both admit that they had missed the days of sending letters back and forth with their royal highness and ex-mentor, Princess Celestia.

Celestia's eyes started to flicker open as her ears whistled due to the noise of a scroll coming through her window with green flames. Celestia was surprised to discover that her ex-faithful student really can send letters again after all. Although her mind was starting to hurt and telling her something that she shouldn't open the letter, her heart was telling her she should open the letter.

Just like what ponies would say, always trust your heart no matter what. Celestia smiled, and got out another sheet of paper to write back to her one and only faithful student. She went by those words one last time. Her one and only faithful student. Her ears drooped as she remembered something.

Sunset Shimmer.

Maybe...just maybe, after sending Twilight one last letter, she can find the old journal she had given to a specific violet alicorn since Sunset Shimmer really needed to message her for an important event. Celestia was sure Twilight would understand if she could use her old journal to contact Sunset Shimmer once more.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,

You shall not be the one to apologise, my faithful student. I should be the one to be at fault here, I was literally the one who made you stop being my student. Yes, you stopped sending me letters for a while before that but other than that...it's my fault. I do pity you but I'm trying to say the truth here.

I'm sorry for every deed that I've done. I know you've got your friends now so I guess that means you don't need me to be by your side anymore, and besides you've got Spike to be your little...um, side chick. Gee, no offense to that, Spike.

Yours Very Sorry Mentor,
Princess Celestia

Celestia chortled to that statement she had written last about Spike, but was saddened at the fact that she can't remember any memories about her with him at all. It had always been about a certain violet alicorn with her. Nonetheless, Celestia tried shaking it off and rolled her letter to evaporate it into green flames outside her window, again.

Celestia conjured up her old journal that had her cutie mark as a logo on it. She hugged it tightly close to her chest as she smiled warmly. She opened it up and started to look at all of the old texts she and Sunset Shimmer had written in the past. This had made water swell up into the tall white alicorn's eyes. Water was dropping on the page, if only Sunset Shimmer would not notice that on her journal.

At last, she picked up her quill and started jotting down words on the page to whatever had come to her mind. Meanwhile, the door slowly creaked open and Luna could see her sister writing inside a journal instead of a piece of parchment. She had heard her sister say she used to write to her old faithful student by using a journal. Luna smiled at the side of the door before closing it back again for some privacy. She nodded, trotting back to her dorm again.

Dear Sunset Shimmer,

I know it suddenly has been such a long time since we have last talked or sent messages but I would just like to say that I'm sorry. The things you have done in the past were not your fault, but mine. I shouldn't have fucking been a hypocrite and say that you needed some friends instead of having your face be in a book all the time. You were right, I was lonely and I never had a friend before but my sister. Although, I've imprisoned her to the moon as you already knew that. But thanks to Twilight and her friends, she's back home safe with me. You were the first friend I ever had before Twilight had become my student.

It seems like I'm annoying you so I'll just cut this letter short. You probably have other friends to be worrying about at the moment now, just like Twilight. I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry and that everything was my fault. I hope we can fix our mistakes in the future. No one is perfect and you were the pony who had shown me that.

Yours Very Sorry ex-Teacher,
Princess Celestia

Celestia smiled, signing off her name on the end of the paper, hoping and waiting for a reply. She slouched her head on the table and hopefully during the meantime, Twilight will send her letter at any moment right now.

A violet alicorn was resting her head on a pillow as she relaxed her eyes closed. Spike smiled peacefully as he got out a blanket from behind his pillow and draped it around Twilight's body for warmth and affection until his cheeks puffed up. He burped up green flames alongside a scroll.

Spike turned to the sleeping Twilight and bit his lip. I guess I should do the writing this time again, Spike thought to himself, and besides it has been a long time since I did. Also, I sort of want to write something to her.

He got out a quill and parchment and started doodling down to whatever had come to his thoughtful mind. He relaxed his tongue on his chin and tapped the quill to his head since he was thinking.

Dear Princess Celestia,

This is Spike writing to you because Twilight is sleeping at the moment so I was wondering - why not write to you myself? - It sure has been a long time. We've never really had a close connection with one another though since you would always talk with Twilight or think about her all the time.

I felt sort of left out and I wondered if my birth parents ever felt the same about me. Shining and Twilight never saw me as a little brother and would pay attention to each other instead of me. Why am I saying this? I don't know. It just feels good letting this all out. Anyways, enough about me. How are you? Are you feeling alright?

I just wish I could be accepted into the family I was raised in properly. I want Shining and Twilight to stop caring about each other and also care about me too - as in think about me as their little brother - I know I said that before but I just had to say it again. I'm sorry, Princess Celestia, for dragging you into my family issues and personal problems.

Yours ~~Orphaned~~ and Lonely Dragon,
Spike

Spike frowned as he looked at the word 'orphaned' he had written on the page. He scribbled it out and rolled the piece of parchment into a tube to blow it out the window into green flames. He rested his neck on his hands on the window sill as his eyes were laid on the castle up in the hills.

Through the interdimensional mirror, Sunset Shimmer was having fun at the boba tea restaurant with her friends. They were all giggling at each other's words until Sunset got interrupted by a buzz in her backpack. She sheepishly tittered as she excused herself from the table.

She went to hide behind a wall and opened up her backpack to check Princess Twilight Sparkle's new message in her journal. Sunset's eyes widened in shock as she realised that it wasn't from Twilight at all. It was instead from...

Princess Celestia.

What is she doing with her old journal? Is she trying to pester her again? Say sorry? Because it is too late for that! Or is it...? Sunset skimmed through the words on the page her old mentor had written to her which had made her tear up on the page. She wiped it off and clicked the top of a pen and started writing on the other side of the page.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I am so, so, so, so, so, so, sorry about what I have done in the past and I'm also really extremely sorry that you are feeling sorry for me when you shouldn't feel sorry for me! Everything I have done was my evil doings, not yours. Sure, you were a bit of a hypocrite but you just wanted to help me and...I pushed you down, which is why I'm extremely sorry.

I get if you don't want to write to me anymore since you have a replacer - which I'm totally fine with that! It's just that I wish you didn't give up on me so easily and found a new replacement so quickly. I bet Princess Twilight Sparkle is a much better student than I am. She's the one that's so good at making friends and gave me a second chance. On top of that, she handed me over her friendship - something no one could ever do in magic kindergarten.

Do you remember those days of me as a filly being your student in Celestia Sunshine School? Because I do very much. I still remember the time Lemon Heart's head was stuck in that beaker in science class. Those were good times. Of course, I wasn't very much the pony to be wanting to be friends with everypony.

I will admit that you were also the first-ever friend I ever had. You were always there for me whenever I was going through tough times but then later on I've just pushed you down. I'm very fucking extremely sorry, your highness.

Yours Very Sorry ex-Faithful Student,
Sunset Shimmer ~~The One That Got Replaced~~

Sunset wiped away her tears and jotted a full stop at the end of her sentence and signed her name afterward.

After Princess Celestia had finished reading Spike's letter, she had felt a swam of guilt shuffling right through her shoulders. She slowly levitated a quill and started writing words on the piece of parchment.

Dear Spike,

I'm sorry.

Yours,
Princess Celestia

Celestia banged her head against the table until she lifted it back up to rub her head and roll the letter into a tube. She engulfed the scroll with green flames and dematerialized it outside of her window. Blowing out her candle, she was sure this would be the very last letter of guilt for today.

The End