Fable Of Creation

Twilight was currently seated on an opening between shelves that acted to a corridor to a different section of the library, sitting on a cushion from high up as she watched celestia and spike spar. Celestia had grown significantly, with her hair, horn, and legs gaining length. She even had a more prominent jawline and a lithe, defined figure. She was quite slender, but had a strength comparable to 3 grown earth pony stallions and double the vitality. She was almost the same height as twilight herself, the mare realized.

The sounds of calculated magical spells, fire, and steel rung out across the library. Celestia and Spike weren’t worried about the books, any damage they gained was instantly repaired by the realm. The entire place was basically indestructible, which served their purposes quite well. Spike had taken the form of a teenage version of himself.

A beam of pure golden flames shot in spikes direction, So he closed his wings and dropped like a stone, the beam following him all the while. Right before he hit the ground, the drake spread his leathery wings and ducked to the side, making use of the acrobatic skills he’d learned over the years. He had a weapon on him, 2 chained mini-scythes named the ‘claws of hades’ that glowed with innate magic.

He threw one of the scythes behind the alicorn who was charging up another sun-fire spell, taught to her by sunset, which fizzled out as she dodged the weapon, looking back at the dragon and grinning.

“Nice miss, lizard boy. You should be a professional with THOSE skills,” she spat out the sniding remark. Her cocky grin melted when she realized spike was still smiling smugly. With a flourish of his weapon, the chain attached to the hilt of his scythe boomeranged back into his claws and wrapped celestia in their enchanted binding.

“You really shouldn’t get cocky in the middle of a fight, celly. Glad to see you’re putting those taunting lessons I gave you to good use,” he finished before yanking and pulling the airborne alicorn down, slamming her into the ground. She groaned in pain and looked up in defeat. The chains flashed then disappeared, leaving behind a disgruntled looking white mare.

“Very nice effort today, celestia.” said spike sincerely, extending a claw to help celestia up. She looked at the drake and smiled, nodding in acknowledgment.

A blue blur dashed between the 2 of them and smiled eagerly.“didst thou find the weapons I made you acceptable, sir spike?” said luna excitedly.
Celestia rolled her eyes at the fake accent and dialect, knowing full well luna was just imitating the pretentious ponies in the books she read. Too much high society princess nonsense.

The drake smiled down upon the foal, before handing her the new weapons. “Yes, this might be your finest work yet. I know i’ve said it before, but i’ve never seen a filly your age be this talented at enchanting weapons before, lulu. You’re quite the exceptional young lady.” complimented spike. Luna positively beamed at the praise, her ego inflating rapidly. “Yeah, I guess I am pretty awesome.” she said confidently, striking a pose. Her ego was swiftly deflated once more as her sister laughed at her antics, making luna blush. The filly harrumphed and teleported away with the weapons, probably off to work on a project again or to read more books. Spike nodded towards celestia and flew away, off to do his tasks.

Celestia turned away from the scene and spread her sore wings, half flying half teleporting to twilight. She gracefully landed next to the mare and smiled. “So, twilight..” she said carefully, smacking her lips at the lavender mare. Twilight blinked back, uncomprehending, until she realized what the solar mare was asking. “Oh! Yes, the time is coming soon isn’t it?” she muttered, rising to her hooves. The 2 mares walked together to the middle of the large corridor, where equipment, books, and other miscellaneous items littered the area. Graphs, boards, and all sorts of things lined the walls and floor and even low ceiling with information and magical matrices, with the more extreme experiments being a bit further down the corridor. In the middle of their organized chaos sat a circular golden metal object made of thin rings and arcs of metal with a hologram of the earth above it, showcasing a rough picture of the final product. It was the same area celestia had walked to when she first arrived here, except somehow it was in a different place. Celestia never questioned the mechanics of this dimension, it always gave her a massive migraine.

Twilight spoke, going over what they already knew.

“As you already know, the old mechanism will need to be completely scrapped when we return to the physical realm. Well need to install this new mechanism quickly and efficiently, and return to any semblance of normalcy all within the same 24 hours. The earth had to survive for far too long without the sun, and I doubt it’ll last much longer, so we need to act quickly.” she summarized. “The only hiccup is the fact I have no idea how to raise the moon. I mean, the sun is easy enough as it is my special talent, but even when my mother tried to teach me how to raise the moon I could never do it.” she finished, looking to her mentor for answers.

“Celestia,” began twilight, carefully broaching the subject, “you know you need to bring your sister with you. You need her to raise the moon, its her destiny to be alongside yo-” she was interrupted by the death glare celestia gave her.

“I know.” she spoke with a finality that broached no further conversation. Twilight, for her part, said nothing. She gave celestia a meaningful look, then spoke. “Well be leaving in a few hours after we finish the final checkups and details. You can go ahead and relax until then, I can finish up here on my own.” and with that, the mare turned away and went to one of the books on the tables, skimming off its pages rapidly.

Celestia ignored her mentor and trotted to the other direction, missing the tiny blue pony that was eavesdropping on the conversation.

Luna wasnt very happy at the moment. Her sister always acted weird when the topic of leaving the Library came up, Especially when Luna was the focus of conversation. It always made the blue filly resent her sister a little, As shamed as she was to admit it. Did celestia think luna wasnt ready? WAS she ready? She liked to think so, But only time would tell.

The filly walked one of the long corridors, until she got an idea. Using her pale blue magic, the alicorn closed her eyes in concentration and a faint popping sound is all the warning she got before she opened her eyes and the scene around her had changed.

No longer was she surrounded by endless columns of non-descript books with no end to the floor and ceiling. Instead, she was in a far cozier place. This was sunsets section of the realm, an entire district made just for her. It had carpeted floors, wooden archways, and a columned glass ceiling that glowed a deep orange- the color of sunset. The entire place reminded luna of a castle rather than a library. Unlike the main section, this area had no books lining the walls. Rather, they were simple stone lined with paintings, dressers, vases, and banners, and many other decorations. The walls themselved were saturated with paintings of the sun all in the same color that seemed to go on forever.

Luna tore her eyes away from the familiar sight and fixed her senses to locate where sunset was. She was always better at navigating the library than her sister, as the latter frequently got lost. Regardless, luna followed the ‘gut’ feeling she had and wandered into a dimly lit room filled with comfortable couches, rug, several paintings of the sky, and sunset herself sitting behind a large mahogany desk.

The mare herself looked up from the work she was doing and smiled at the filly, staring at her with those strange teal eyes.

Luna suppressed the urge to shiver and walked into the room, closing the door behind her.

“Aunty sunset.. I have questions” spoke luna, settling into one of the couches. Sunset nodded and replied, “sure. Ask away, lulu.”

Luna grumbled at the nickname then began to air out her grievances, sunsets patient eyes never leaving her. The golden mare nodded in understanding, then closed her eyes and leaned back into her swivel-chair. She sighed and straightened herself out.

“Luna, you need to talk with your sister.” she said, making sure to look luna in the eye while doing so.

Lunas brow furrowed and she adjusted her position.
“I dont want to talk to her. Every time i try, its awkward. Its like she cant decide whether to be my sister or my mother,” she mumbled the last part.

Sunset sighed again and clapped her hooves together “then im afraid youre out of options. Either you talk to her, or you keep your silence and suffer forever. Your choice.” and with that, lunas patience ended. She got up and stomped out of the office angrily, slamming the large dark oak door behind her.

This sucks.