An Immortal Life

An Immortal Life

Created by Crazyjoe33
Proofread by arandompenguin
Edited by Yobikir

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Chapter 1: Memories

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"I will always be there for you..."

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Celestia woke up from the most relaxing sleep that she had experienced all week. She shifted her white, radiant body to get more comfortable. Though her mind was relaxed, the rest of her body was not so at ease. Celestia looked out her window and saw the horizon changing from black to dark shades of purple, indicating the sun was coming up soon.

'Mmmm... that is... interesting,' Celestia thought to herself. 'I think I had a dream that could have kept anypony up, but why do I feel so... content?' She curled up into a ball, remembering what had happened in her dream.

It had, like most nights, been about her most beloved Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight, who was just a filly in the dream, was sitting by Celestia's side as they were both sitting on the balcony outside her bedroom, staring in the distance, waiting for the sun to break the horizon. As the top of the sun started to peak over the distant mountains, Celestia looked down at Twilight, who was looking at the rising sun in awe. Celestia had noticed something was rather... odd, about the purple unicorn. Something that even the real Twilight had possessed, but always kept hidden when in public.

Twilight had wings protruding out of her sides.

The first of the light had touched them, warming their bodies from the cool night breeze. Then, the light had started to shine on the rest of the waking world, illuminating everything.

When the sun finally reached over the mountain, Twilight looked up at Celestia, smiling from the view she had received from her ‘mentor’. They both looked into each others' eyes, remembering all the times that they had spent together, when Twilight was as small as the one in her dream. Celestia remembered how Twilight played in the Royal Gardens, laughter filled the Summer air as Twilight ran around, imagining her own adventures with her favorite doll, Smartypants, bouncing on her back.

Then Twilight suddenly started to grow rapidly, and the balcony had disappeared into a swirl of colors, along with the scenery. Shocked by the sudden change, Celestia broke her eye contact and looked at the circling mixture of hues. Then, just like it started, Twilight had stopped growing, and she looked at the Princess. Dream Twilight now looked like the real Twilight. Her wings were missing, which led Celestia to believe that they were somewhere where there were other ponies around. Celestia stopped looking at the sickening motion of the tornado, and focused on Twilight, which made her heart break at the sight of her student.

Twilight's eyes were red, and her cheeks were glistening in the sunlight.

The colored tornado surrounding them began to slow, and the colors dispersed, revealing that they were now at the Canterlot Train Station. They were standing on the platform where the train that was leaving for Ponyville was waiting at. 'Are you okay, Twilight?' Celestia asked with a worried expression.

'W-Will you come to Ponyville often?' Twilight asked in a heavy tone.

'Twilight...' Celestia sighed and continued, 'You do remember that I am a Princess and I have a lot of duties to attend to on a daily basis?'

Twilight looked at the ground and sniffled, trying to hold back the new tears forming in her eyes. She sighed, 'I know, I was just hoping that I could spend time with you. I just thought that you could come to Ponyville a lot.'

'Well, planning on visiting other towns is rather more work than a pony would think for a Princess,' Celestia said with a frown, but then she smiled as she had an idea forming in her head, 'but that does not mean that you could not come up to visit me whenever you like.'

'Really?' Twilight looked up, eyes questioning, 'What about Day Court and the other things that you have to do?'

Celestia chuckled, 'Twilight, one of the perks of being a Princess is that you can change the schedule to fit your needs. Although taking a few days off from work is not really a good thing to do on a regular basis, taking off a few hours is much more acceptable for myself as well as for Equestria.'

'Well, why didn't I think of that!' Twilight beamed. 'I could come up on the weekends and spend time with you up here in Canterlot!'

'Now Twilight, you do remember your assignment that I gave to you since you're living in Ponyville now?' Celestia smiled as she watched the purple unicorn bouncing up and down in place with joy.

'Oh, right,' Twilight said as she stopped with the bouncing and gave a sheepish smile, 'Then... how about on some of the weekends?'

'You can visit me whenever you want, just be sure that you also take time for your new friends.' Celestia said.

The whistle on the train began to blow and a voice yelled, 'All aboard!'

'I will always be there for you, Twilight,' Celestia then brought Twilight into a heartfelt hug.

'I know you will be,' Twilight said as she returned the hug.

'I love you, Twilight, and I always will.'

'I love you too, Celestia.'

Celestia snapped out of the memory of her dream as she felt the sun nudging the horizon, patiently waiting to be raised. Celestia sighed, forgetting what time it was, stretched out her stiff body and got out of bed. She went out onto her balcony to tend with raising the sun for the new day. Once that was complete, Celestia took in the beauty of the view that was displayed before her. The valley was breathtaking as the colors of the land had lit up as the sunlight brushed over it. The Everfree Forest was a luscious green, while the mountains in the distance were a dark purple silhouette against the bright sun in the baby blue sky. It was a sight that anypony would gawk at, entranced by the wondrous sight. Celestia smiled almost as brightly as the sun at the beauty that has been laid before her.

Celestia breathed in the sweet air, soothing her mind from thinking about her dream. After all, dreams can be unpredictable, right? She turned and went into the bathroom, took a warm, quick bath, and put on her regal vestments. While standing in front of the mirror, making sure she looked presentable for the day, she heard a knock from the door and a familiar voice asking, "May I enter?"

Celestia smiled, knowing who it was, answered, "Yes, you may enter."

The doors were enveloped in a deep blue aura as they swung open, revealing Luna. "Good morning, Celestia," Luna said with a smile.

"Good morning, Luna. How was Night Court?" Celestia asked with a smile.

It had been three months since Princess Cadence and Shining Armor had been married, along with the defeat of the Changeling Queen, Chrysalis, and her minions. Things had been stressful for both of the Princesses as many of the citizens of Canterlot were afraid that the Changelings would come back with another assault. What made it worse was that they were worried that they would succeed since they had seen and heard of Princess Celestia's fall to the dreaded Queen of the Changelings. But, after two months of long nights and days calming the ponies of Canterlot, the Princesses have reassured them that the Changelings will not come back. Also, they had promised that if the Changelings do come back, they will both fight together to ensure the defeat of Chrysalis. After that, the following weeks have been very peaceful, except a little economy crisis in Fillydelphia and Manehatten, which was quickly resolved.

"Ha! Nothing like sitting in a room full of Nobles asking petty questions for hours," Luna replied with a chuckle.

"I'm sorry, things are not very exciting at the moment."

"Well, at least things are at peace for once," Luna replied with a small shrug.

"Thank you for being at my side through all of that trouble," Celestia said with a small smile.

Luna frowned at the statement. "Sister, how many times are you going to thank me? It is getting rather old."

"I know, it is just nice to have you by my side again, after all that time being the only one making the decisions."

"Although I am still getting used to how things have changed, it's nice to be back," Luna replied with a smile.

Celestia smiled and walked up to Luna, pulling her into a gentle hug. "I will always love you Luna. No matter where you are or what has happened between us."

"I love you too, sister," Luna replied as she hugged Celestia back.

The two alicorns stayed in that position for a short amount of time until Celestia remembered what she had planned for that day. "Oh!" Celestia exclaimed, letting go of Luna and placing her hooves back on the ground.

"What is it?" Luna asked with a confused look.

"Today is Saturday, and Twilight has planned to come up to Canterlot for the weekend," Celestia replied, smiling at the thought of her Faithful Student coming up for the weekend.

"Oh, so do you need me to take over Day Court this weekend, while you and Twilight have the weekend to yourselves?" Luna asked with a hint of apprehension in her voice.

Celestia gave a light chuckle, then said, "No Luna, I will continue with my duties when I am needed. I cannot ask you to take on my responsibilities, especially since you need sleep during the day."

"Okay." Luna let go of the breath she was holding, relieved. She then turned and started out of the bedroom, "Well, I am feeling rather fatigued from the night, so I will be going to bed. I will see you and Twilight later in the evening."

"That sounds excellent. Have a good rest, Luna." Celestia smiled at Luna.

"You do not have to worry about that, Celestia," Luna smiled back at her sister. "After all, I am the one that has control over the dreams."

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Twilight woke up to find that the bright sun was starting to rise up from behind the mountains. She smiled as she stretched out her hooves and back, wondering why she felt so rested from the little sleep. Twilight had stayed up until three in the morning since she was not able to rest from over excitement. 'I guess I have been staying up late more often than I should,' Twilight concluded. She began to feel the same excitement from last night returning, making her body shake as the thought of the weekend loomed in her mind.

The unicorn then looked around the room to find Spike still sleeping soundly in his bed. She silently got out of her covers and landed softly on the hardwood floor. She moved as quietly as she could across the room to the door and slipped out, leaving the dragon to his own peaceful sleep. Twilight went downstairs to the Library portion of the building and saw that it was quite a mess from her studying last night.

"I really need to clean up after myself," Twilight spoke softly to herself, still cautious about waking up Spike.

The purple unicorn went to work on cleaning up the Library, placing the books back on their designated shelves and doing other chores that needed to be taken care of. When she was satisfied with how the Library looked, she glanced at the clock and saw it was now nine in the morning. The train that left for Canterlot would be leaving at noon. The unicorn then went upstairs to check on Spike and found that he was still sleeping. 'Poor Spike. I shouldn't have kept him awake,' Twilight thought remorsefully. Slowly closing the bedroom door, she went downstairs and headed for the entrance door until her stomach grumbled loudly.

"I guess it's time for breakfast," Twilight said to herself, trotting towards the kitchen.

Twilight brought out two mixing bowls, two eggs, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and milk and started to get to work on making waffles. When she had finished and began to eat, she wondered what to do until she had to leave. Spike came into the room, rubbing his eyes from sleep, mumbling, "Morning Twi'."

"Good morning, Spike!" Twilight said cheerfully.

"Do you have enough waffles for me, or should I make some more?"

"Oh no, you just woke up. Here. Let me." Twilight then got up and got to work while Spike slowly reached the table and sat down.

"What's with being so happy? Aren't you tired?"

Twilight came back to the table with a fresh stack of waffles and set them down in front of Spike. "Why shouldn't I be? Remember what day it is?"

"Today's Saturday."

"And?"

"And... what? Is there something going on or- Oh! Yeah. Now I remember," Spike said with a shake of his head. "Sorry, I'm still kind of tired."

"You shouldn't be sorry. I was the one that made you stay up. Now eat up! The waffles aren't good when they get cold."

Spike lifted his fork and stabbed into the pile, bringing out a huge piece of waffle with it. He then, somehow, managed to eat all of it in one bite and let out a long "Mmmmm..." afterwards. "Wow. That's good," Spike said as he went for another bite.

Twilight gave a small laugh and went back to her seat, joining Spike with the eating. The two finished and were sitting back in their chairs, enjoying the feeling of a full stomach. Twilight then got up from the table and headed towards the exit. "Where are you going?" Spike asked in surprise.

"I'm going to see if Applejack needs any help. I'd at least like to do something before I leave," Twilight said, keeping up the same speed.

"Yeah, like cleaning the Library wasn't enough," Spike mumbled to himself as he collected the dishes from the table and walked towards the sink.

Twilight went out into the sunlight and smiled to herself. She had always loved to be out in the sunlight, but not too much since it makes her sweat and leaves her coat feeling grimy. She turned towards the direction of where her friend would most likely be at and trotted off in the said direction. When the farm came into view, Twilight could see her friend in the field of apple trees carrying two buckets filled with apples on her back. "Hey! Applejack!" Twilight waved with a smile when she got close enough so that her friend could hear her.

"Well, howdy Twilight! How are yah?" Applejack responded in her heavy southern accent as she walked to the farm with two buckets filled with apples.

"I'm doing great! Do you need help with anything?" Twilight asked as she prepared herself for the upcoming response.

"Now why do yah think Ah need help?" Applejack asked, slightly irritated.

"Oh, I was just wanting to do something to pass the time before I leave for Canterlot," Twilight responded quickly.

"Hmm... Well, Ah guess yah can help me carry the apples back tah mah farm," Applejack said, with a little hesitation, and pointed to the buckets that are already filled to the brim with apples.

"Okay, I'll be happy to help out!" Twilight smiled as she trotted to a basket and levitated it unto her back.

"Okay, Twilight. Try not to overwork yourself."

Twilight shook her head. "Oh, you don't have to worry about that," She said as she began to trot down to the barn.

Halfway in with helping Applejack, Twilight was sweating and her hooves were sore from walking back and forth from the orchard to the barn with the extra weight of apples on her back. 'I'm definitely going to take a shower after this,' Twilight thought while frowning. When she had reached the barn for what felt like the hundredth time, she looked at the clock hanging on the wall and gasped.

"Oh my Celestia!"

"What is it, Twilight?" Applejack asked, following Twilight inside with a bucket of apples on her back.

"I only have ten minutes before the train leaves for Canterlot!" Exclaimed the now frantic unicorn.

"Whoa, now! Ah suggest yah better hurry and get to the train while you can," Applejack said as she wiped sweat off of her forehead.

"I'm sorry I can't help you finish with carrying the apples back to the barn," Twilight said apologetically as she placed the bucket next to the other hundreds of buckets.

"Don't sweat it! Yah have helped mah out a lot Twilight," Applejack said, smiling and shaking her head.

"Well, okay then. Bye Applejack!" Twilight yelled as she galloped back towards the Library.

"Bye Twilight!" Applejack waved to her friend, then went back out to the orchard to harvest the rest of the apples.

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"No, the last of the tax money should go towards the remodeling of the schools. It has been quite some time since the buildings have been renovated," Celestia said with a small smile.

"Yes, your Highness." Scrollworth bowed and turned to leave the Royal Hall whilst rolling up a long piece of paper with numbers all over it.

As soon as the hall was empty, Celestia's smile faltered into a sigh and she rubbed her front hooves against the sides of her head to relax a little. Celestia's face grew into an expression of pain as the throbbing in her head grew worse. She looked at the large clock tower outside her window and smiled as she thought, 'Twilight should be here at any moment now. Then I can be done with this for the rest of the day.'

As if on cue, one of the big oak doors at the end of the hall opened and one of the Royal Guards outside poked his head inside. "Your Highness, your student, Twilight Sparkle, wishes to speak to you," he said with a monotonous voice and a stony expression.

Celestia smiled at the news that was brought before her. "Please, send her in. I have actually been expecting her for some time now."

At that, the Royal Guard nodded once and shut the door, leaving Celestia to herself in the Royal Hall. Celestia leaned back into the golden throne and made herself relax. Her headache was starting to dull away, until the oak doors slammed open. The booming sound made her wince as she looked down the hall to see who would burst in with such force.

Celestia saw that Twilight was galloping at full speed towards the Princess with a wide smile spread out across her face. Celestia smiled and made her body tense up, expecting to be knocked back by the impending force. But what had happened instead was that the purple unicorn came to a halt in front of the Princess and gave her a tight hug. Celestia gasped lightly in surprise, but hugged the unicorn back and asked, "I take it you missed me?"

"Heheh, you have no idea," Twilight said as she let go of Celestia and put her front hooves back on the ground. "After all, it has been a couple of months."

"That is true," chuckled the Princess. "How was the train ride here?"

"Oh you know, it took too long," Twilight smiled as she sat down on her haunches in front of the Princess.

"Well, I believe I'm done with Day Court for now, so now we have the rest of the evening to ourselves," Celestia smiled down at Twilight.

"Well, what would you like to do, then?" Twilight asked. Since they were alone, Twilight didn't feel the need to use formalities.

Celestia placed her front hoof up to her chin as she thought, smiling as an idea came across her mind, saying, "Hmm... How about we go up to my bedroom so that I can tend to my headache. Then we can plan as to what we can do, Twilight."

"Okay! Sounds good to me," Twilight said as she moved so that Celestia can get up from her throne.

As Celestia got up, she got a little light-headed from the sudden movement, which in turn made her stumble a little. She cursed at herself in her mind for sitting for too long as she attempted to regain her balance to no avail. Twilight quickly ran to Celestia and gave her support on her side so she wouldn't fall. "Are you okay?" Twilight asked in concerned tone.

"Yes. I'm fine," Celestia said with a smile, but then she grimaced in pain as her headache had gotten worse from when she recovered from the spinning sensation.

"Do you want me to teleport us to your bedroom so that you can take care of that headache quicker?" Twilight asked, stepping away so she could look at the Princess.

"If you don't mind. It's actually worse than I originally thought," Celestia said, managing a small smile through the pain in her head.

"Okay then, here goes."

Twilight stood in front of Celestia and made her horn glow in a purple aura. The horn grew brighter and brighter with each passing moment until then, in a flash, Twilight released her magic.

Celestia felt Twilight's powerful magic envelope her and let go instantly, leaving her in her bedroom with Twilight still standing in front of her. "Thank you, Twilight."

"Your welcome. Now to take care of myself," Twilight smiled.

With that, Twilight closed her eyes and focused on her magic, enveloping herself in a swirl of purple magic. Then, with a small pop, a pair of wings appeared on her sides. She stopped her focus when she heard the pop and let the magic fade away while she stretched out her wings, feeling the joints pop from not being used in a while. "Ah, much better," Twilight said, smiling.

"Now, Twilight, you do realize that you are going to have to hide your wings again soon, right?" Celestia asked as she had finished drinking down the painkillers while Twilight was returning to her former self.

"I do. It's just that it's nice to be able to feel them again after a while," Twilight responded with a small sigh.

"Hmm... Maybe when it gets dark we can fly together, along with Luna, if she doesn't have anything urgent to take care of first," Celestia said, smiling to the now purple alicorn.

"Ooh, now I have something to look forward to," said Twilight excitedly then quickly added, "You know, besides spending time with you, of course."

"Haha, oh Twilight. Can you still fly after all this time?" Celestia asked, though already knowing what the answer would be.

"Of course! Kind of hard to forget the thrill of flying through the air. After all, I was taught by the best," Twilight said as she walked up to Celestia and nuzzled her side.

Celestia leaned down her head and nuzzled Twilight's neck in return, smiling. "So what would you like to do to pass the last hours of the day?"

"Well, if we are going to spend some hours flying, I would like to get some rest. I didn't really get much sleep last night. Not to mention that I need a shower, too," Twilight said, looking up at Celestia.

Celestia chuckled and looked down at Twilight, noticing the small bags under her eyes. "Of course, Twilight. I believe I should get some sleep myself if we are going to stay up late in the evening."

"What about your other responsibilities, like making the sun go down?" Twilight asked with a questioning look.

"Don't worry about that. The sun usually lets me know when it's time to go down," Celestia said in return.

"Oh, right! I forgot that it reminds you," Twilight chuckled.

"Right. Now about the sleep..." Celestia hinted at Twilight.

Twilight laughed. "Of course. I'll see you when it gets dark."

Twilight then wrapped herself with her magic again and made her wings disappear, before heading towards the door to leave to her own bedroom, but Celestia reached out to Twilight and pulled her into a gentle hug. "Have a good rest, Twilight. I love you."

"I love you too, mom," Twilight said as she hugged her mother back.

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