Lessons Learnt

Lessons Learnt

Prologue: The Celestial Sisters

"I need you to shut up for once, Stella! I need to mourn! Our mother, our sisters, our subjects! I need some space! Just go away for once!"

Stella had left. She'd left the Everfree Borderlands for a whole ten minutes yesterday, but while she was out there, no one else was there, and that had left her alone, without anybody to play tricks on. Only her own crackling yellow mane and her orange mane. "I dids. No ones were out there so I didn't knows what to dos."

"It's called making your own fun! Pretend something! You have a strong enough imagination!" The truth was that Celestia was scared. She was scared that Vafer Stella's talents would turn to evil, and at the moment they were-or at least for mild annoyance. She would never confide that fear in Stella, for fear of proving those fears.

"Can't you wakes Luna? I likes Lunas!" It was easy to forget that Stella was still a young child, just with a talent for handicrafts. Though Celestia supposed that at this age, almost seventeen years old, most foals would've been married off to a dashing-or not so dashing-stallion. However, the Royal Sisters were to set an example as independent mares, detached from any stallion who might desire them.

"No!" Celestia screamed. "Luna's going to have to sleep for a little longer to regain her strength!" Celestia pointed towards the outside.

Stella's face dropped and paled but it instantly regained its colour as soon as she stepped outside. "I thinks I knows what my pranks is going to be todays." She smiled maliciously and rubbed her hooves together.

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"Right, Vafer Stella, that is it!"

"Whats did I dos?" Stella said, sounding genuinely anxious. Celestia knew it was a farce.

"Oh, you only DESTROYED the Borderlands! You know, woke up LUNA, so now she doesn't- CAN'T recover from the spell the zebra witch put on her!" Celestia spluttered. "You only created a- just get out! Live with the people whose lives you've ruined! See how much NICER than you they are! Come back when you have six lessons learnt!

"I don't want to see you before then."

And so begun the legendary Journey of the Six Lessons, in which the Trickster learned to wander.