New Life Flickers (REWRITTEN!!)

Okay, our mother was not what I expect. She was sitting in a throne craved from crystals, (what is with the crystals?!) and that's if sitting means halfway on the throne while the rest of your body on the steps leading to he throne with your head stuffed in-between your front legs.

The throne room was like a regular throne room. With a yellow carpets from the door to the throne as well as those pointy-downwards-flag thing.

The queen, or our mother, perked up a tiny bit at our arrival (after MANY tunnels, my legs aren't alive anymore). She was like a regular yellow Sparkling, but with longer legs and frills, bigger size, and pupils

"Buzzlight? Luxo? Do you have any news to share? Did you find them? Find the snatcher?! Why aren't the messages delivering the news?"

"Well your majesty..." Luxo started, "We didn't find the nymph-snatcher-"

"Then don't bother, I know we didn't find the nymphs either... Who are those nymphs? Are they...?"

"They're the missing nymphs." Buzzlight stepped up. In the blink of a eye, out mother sat up properly. "And they're also demi-royals!"

"R-really?! Seems Zeraphon is still with us... May I see them?"

Buzzlight scoffed, "Parva, you're queen. You don't have to ask. These are YOUR nymphs, after all."

"Oh, r-right..." She slowly approached taking a long look, especially with Lightray and me. "What are their names?"

"This one here is Lightray, he's a bit stubborn so far but I'm sure he'll come around." Luxo used her tail to point a Lightray who was looking blankly at the floor.

"The blue one is Firefly. She's so far the calmest." She did the same to Firefly, Firefly was taking a nap, leaning on Luxo's legs, was she so bored she took a nap? I find it funny they called Firefly "the calmest" when in fact she was the complete opposite.

"And this here is Flickers!" Buzzlight chirped. I stood proud and tall, a small smile appeared on Parva's face.

"Should I take them to where Phospha is staying?" Buzzlight asked. I wonder who's Phospha?

"Yes... Thank you for finding them, you two. Luxo, you are dismissed."

Luxo walked away soon, leaving Firefly with no support to lean on. She fell sideways which woke her up. She yawned an drubbed her head before getting up. She looked bored and calm... OH! She's pretending, she's waiting, why though? Eh, I don't really care.

Buzzlight nudged us out of the corridor and lead down another hallway. And hopefully, this Phospha won't be as depressing as our mother.

Great news! Phospha is not depressed! Bad news is, she's grumpy, like, almost all of the time. Phospha is the princess, we now share a room with that and she was less than happy about that. She looked like our mother, but about the size of Lightray, and has a bigger frill.

I also got to check myself out in a mirror near my bed (I'm surprised they even HAVE beds), My Frills, eyes, and tail puff was all a light yellow color. I personally think I look cute, which I like.

I asked Phospha about why there isn't much sparklings around, she said she didn't know. None of the adults would bring it up or answer any questions yet. So, so much for that.

Our room has four beds, one at each corner. I'm at the top left corner, Firefly is at the top left corner, Lightray's on the bottom left, and Phospha's on the bottom right. The only other things we had that didn't belong to Phospha was the huge chest at the end of the room. We could get some more belongings, but other than a small desk, chair, paper, and ink, I've chosen not to cause I don't need anything else yet. Not sure about the others, though.

I was currently in bed, thinking. I was going to use the paper and ink to draw and write, but what should I write about? I don't want to do a diary, maybe a story, but about what? I looked around the room to get some tiny inspiration, but something caught the corner of my eye. It was Lightray, on the floor, by hid bed, staring at his hooves again.

I'm getting concerned, I should probably confront him. I walked up to him, he barely even noticed me till I was close. Even then, it was barely a glance.

"Hey, brother, are you okay?"

"Yeah..." He said, still staring at his hooves.

"Are you okay?" I switched to a more firmed tone. He wasn't okay, I need to know why.

"Not really..."

"Then let's talk."

He sighed, closing his eyes for a second. Before we turned into sparklings, whenever anyone in our small family said "Let's talk." you MUST tell them what's wrong, no exceptions. He looked up at me, his ears pinned to the side. "It's just... Why are we?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's just... we didn't choose to be here!" he said a bit to loudly, I shushed him a little. Can't have Phospha hearing this... "I want to go back home, Flicker..."

I sighed, I didn't really want to go back home. Besides, we're dead, for all we know it could've been decades already. ".. I understand, but pouting here isn't just going to fix to problem. I know you're hurt, and I'm not too good of a comforter... But, I love you, and I want you to be happy. Can you do that for me?" I leaned in and hugged him. He hesitated a bit before leaning into the hug, hugging me back.

"Yes, yes I can do that..."