Solaria

Someone was nudging her toward the land of the living. She didn't want to wake up yet. She was too sleepy.

"Fluttershy, wake up." The voice was insistent.

Fluttershy opened her eyes and lifted her head to see a white unicorn mare with blue and white hair smiling at her. A cluster of blue flowers made up the unicorn mares cutie mark. Fluttershy looked around the stone room. She was laying on a comfortable bed. The room wasn't large, nor was it small. The walls were pink and pictures of ponies hung on the walls. A door led to a balcony while a second door led to a hallway. The unicorn mare smiled.

"Fluttershy, it is me, Princess Celestia." Celestia smiled.

"But you aren't a unicorn." Fluttershy stood, and went to stretch her wings. They felt odd. She couldn't tell if she were moving them. Turning her head, she gasped. Her sides were flat. No feathery appendages lay against her back. She turned her frightened gaze back to Celestia, who smiled.

"It's okay, Fluttershy. The spell still has some glitches that need to be ironed out. At the very moment my mind left my body, I desperately cast a transportation spell. It transported me here. I then cast an alteration spell which changed me to this. I did the same to you, but I haven't worked out all the glitches. You could say your wings got lost in the transport." Celestia gave a wiry laugh, "As you can tell, merging spells and I don't mix very well."

"Could I get my wings back if I wanted to?" Fluttershy asked.

"Of course, after I figure out what went wrong. I think it will be better if we stay like this for now." Celestia blushed slightly, "I bet you wonder where we are. This is Dream Castle. We are in Dream Valley, Equinova. We are deep in the old lands."

"What about the others?" Fluttershy asked.

"I'll bring them over here after Demonicus 'kills' them." Celestia replied, "Pinkie is next."

"You signed Fluttershy's death warrant, Applejack! you killed her! If you had not withheld Honesty, Fluttershy would be alive! You've killed us all!" Rainbow Dash screamed at Applejack, foam flecking her mussle.

"Rainbow Dash! Stop it! You know that is not true!" Rarity tackled the cyan mare to the ground, "It is not Applejack's fault!"

"She's right." Applejack looked away, "Ah caused this. Ah was too afraid of losing mah brother."

Pinkie started to laugh. It wasn't her normal laugh. This was the laugh of one who had lost her mind.

"Lost!" Pinkie laughed, "We were never meant to win!"

"Au contraire, my little ponies."

"Discord?" Twilight screamed, "You know I hate it when you do the invisible voice routine!"

Discord had been trapped in stone until Celestia found herself spilling her guts to him about Black Chaos, her worry that Luna might get infected again, and how she felt like she had failed her home. Her tears broke the statue apart and Discord found himself holding the sobbing Alicorn. He told Celestia he would gladly return to his stone prison after the threat was taken care of. In the end, after some matching making from Luna, the two imortals found themselves in love. Then Celestia was attacked and left in a coma. Discord hunted down the ones responsible, the other spirits of disharmony, and in a fit of pure rage, sealed them away. He remained by Celestia's side where he finally admitted his feelings for her. She woke up a day later calling out his name. After months of recovery, Discord and Celestia were married. a year later, they adnounced their pregnancy, and five months later, Solaria was born.

The Dragonequs poped into exsistence above them, "You will win. Celestia, Luna, Blueblood, and I planned for this. Celestia still lives." Discord flaoted to the ground, "We knew Nightmare Moon would try again. We did not expect it to join up with the evil it came from. Big Mac is gone, Applejack. He went into the Everfree fully expecting to die. Big Mac, our fifth member, has sacrificed his body for the true nightmare to possess. Even if Applejack had not withheld Honesty, you would have still lost. The true nightmare, Black Chaos, cannot be defeated by the normal attack of harmony. You need to achieve Perfect Harmony. Fluttershy lives. Celestia made sure you would survive your deaths. Demonicus thinks he is killing you. We need him to believe that. As soon as she can, my daughter, Solaria, will come for you and help you defeat Black Chaos." Discord turned to Pinkie, "Such a young mind shattered." He placed his hand over her eyes, "I will fix your mind soon. I have to go." he vanished.

The dungeon door opened as a plate of cupcakes was slid into the room. Pinkie, in a moment of clarity, pounced on the plate and inhaled the cupcakes.

"Pinkie!" Rainbow complained, "Couldn't you share?"

"No, Dashie." Pinkie laid down and curled up, "Those were meant to kill me. It is my turn to die. The poisons in the cupcakes are leathal. Already, I'm bleeding out inside."

"Pimkie, you can't die! I can't lose another friend!" Twilight cried out, "We are already down one element!"

"Twi, you know what is going to happen." Rarity looked confused. Twilight only pointed at one of the high windows with her horn. "Oh I see."

On the window still was a small black box with a blinking red light. Pinkie coughed, spitting out a wad of blood and mucus. She knew she would go quickly. Her body began to shake. Her eyes rolled in their sockets. Blood poured from her nose, eyes, mouth, any opening it could find. Her breathing went from rapid to labored and wet. Pinkie’s mane, tail, and coat fell out in clumps. She looked like she had aged rapidly before them. Her body began to shrivel up. Finally, her head sank against her forelegs. The only indication that she was alive was her laboriously rising and falling chest and sides.

They had finally reached Blue Manor. The place was ancient and run down. Blueblood looked amazed as he looked around the once impressive mansion. There was a vast orchard on the left of the mansion. It was a grove of dead trees now. Cracked blue paint and broken windows helped to convoy the once great buildings age. Broken pale blue marble columns and statues lay scattered about like some giant had knocked them over. The walls sported cracks and had caved in several places. The magic here was still strong.

“Is this Blue Manor?” Solaria asked.

“It is.” Luna looked up at the sky where a small white sun brought little heat, “I grew up here. It looked better then. That orchard was our main source of food and income. We had apples, lemons, kumquats, oranges, cherries, plums, bananas, pineapples, and grapefruit. There was a huge garden in the back that provided vegetables. Meat was rare. It was fed to us foals to ensure we grew strong. We thrived on a mainly vegetarian diet. I hated meat.” She walked up to the vast doors and tapped them with her horn. Ancient machinery coughed and wheezed. Slowly, the great doors slid open to reveal a grand hall. The inside had aged better than the outside had. The Solaria looked around excitedly.

Blue marble stairs dominated the room. A large silver and diamond chandelier dominated the blue celling. White rugs covered blue marble floors. Dark wood and iron doors led further into the manor. The walls had dark wooden paneling and white paint. The upper balcony had a set of doors in the center and two small doors on either side of the room. A second large door led further into the mansion below the balcony. A lone statue made of white marble depicting a rearing Pegasus with flowing hair sat by the lower set of doors. A second statue, this one made of green jade lay shattered on the floor. On the doors was a carved picture of a pony’s head.

“They are Princess Tiffany and Princess Pristina, leaders, sisters, and mothers serving Blue Manor.” Luna touched the carving of Tiffany’s head reverently, “I knew them, thousands of years ago. This way.” Luna went up the stairs and opened the door on the left side of the room. She walked into a dimly lit hallway. Opening a second door on the left, Luna gasped and entered the room. Solaria and Blueblood followed.

The room was tastefully furnished in pale white furniture. The walls were black. Chalk stars covered the wall. The overhead light was done as a moon. Dark blue carpet covered the floor. Moons and stars decorated the tattered bedspread. Stars hung from the black celling. The single window overlooked the orchard. A telescope sat before the window. On the table next to it lay star charts, a white pencil, a ruler, a compass, and stacks of blank charts. On a white dresser sat five dolls. All five dolls were winged unicorns. One was yellow with red yarn hair and the wings of a dragon. Two were black with black yarn hair. One had grey eyes while the other had magenta eyes. One was white with pastel rainbow yarn hair. The last one was dark blue with sparkly blue yarn hair. The yellow one had sun shaped buttons sewed to its hips. Two rose shaped buttons looking like they were made of gears decorated one of the black dolls. A set of suns decorated the hips of the white doll while a pair of moons decorated the blue dolls hips. The second black doll had a red button and two small brown buttons on its hips.

“Was this your room?” Solaria asked.

“Yes, this was my room. I was always watching the sky and charting the stars I saw.” Luna went to the dresser, “My dolls! Tiffany made them for me. We raided Pristina’s button box for the buttons, with Pristina’s help of course. The two big ones were Mom and Dad, Sunstar and Bryon. Dad had to raise me, Celestia, and Aries on his own. Tiffany was like a second mom to me. She taught me about the heavens, and her dreams to one day see the night sky full of stars.” Luna walked over to her old bed and sat down on it, relishing the sound of the familiar creak.

“You told me how Mage created the Sun and Moon.” Blueblood said, “Was that here?”

“Yes, it was. Mage moved the Sun and the Moon on his own until Celestia and I were old enough to take over. Andromeda died during our first winter here. Mage did his duty and two years after passing the Sun and Moon to me and Celestia, he had a massive heart attack and died that night. Aries was with him at the end. Aries was fine with me and Celestia moving the sun and the moon. He said he would never have the patience for that. His love was the ocean and exploration. It was Aries that fought Discord while Celestia and I found Deathstar’s lab in the old world where the Elements awaited us. I took Magic and Honesty. Aries took Laughter and Loyalty while Celestia took Kindness and Generosity. We were able to trap Discord, and somehow, my sister fell for him.” Luna explained.

As if he heard his name, Discord appeared, chewing on a hunk of meat.

“Oh good, you guys made it.” Discord said, “Celestia is safely hidden in the safe place. She is bringing each element to her as they die. Everything is going according to plan.”

Solaria flapped her small wings and landed upon her dads shoulders with a giggle. Discord craned his head around to give her a lick. His eyes shone with love for his daughter. He would do anything to protect his wife and daughter. Discord settled on the floor and offered a piece of meat to Solaria who began to chew on it. Even though Solaria looked like a normal pony, she was part Dragonequs and needed meat to thrive. Solaria’s wings were a dead giveaway to her Dragonequs nature. They combined Celestia’s wings with Discord’s dragon wing. They looked normal until you realized the back part of the wing was leather. The other giveaway was her mouth. She had sharp teeth ideal for ripping apart and chewing meat.

“That’s good.” Luna said, “We just might pull this off.”

“I only wish Mac didn’t have to offer himself to Black Chaos.” Blueblood said.

“That is Mac for you. He chose to do it. He is the logical choice. Any one of us and Black Chaos would be more powerful then we could deal with.” Discord stripped off another piece of meat for Solaria, “We still have hope.” He nuzzled his daughter, “We will save Equestria. Black Chaos will not do to Equestria what he did to the Old World.”

"Never again. He broke our family apart. For that I will never forgive him." Luna said, "At the same time, if he had not distroyed the Old World, I would never have gotten a wonderful niece and an awesome brother in law."

"And Celestia would never have tamed my chaotic heart. I would not have a beautiful daughter nor a pretty sister in law." Discord smiled, "We will prevail."