Soulful - A Forced Romance Story

In one of the chambers of the Crystal Empire, a royal princess, pink in color and with elegance to match, waited and sat comfortably onto her couch while she was with a cream stallion that had a very grim look on his face.

“I’m sorry to say princess but, there is nothing we can do. We have thought of every possible means to help you with the situation but it has come uncheck for some time.” Doctor Heart, the unicorn spoke with dread and with worry as he was sure that this news would surely upset their princess.

With a heavy sigh Crystal Empire’s own princess, Princess Cadence was not enjoying the news, one that begs her to accept the fate but she cannot, not even for a moment.

“Is there anything else? I’m sure magical medication can stop it? We can also look for some unknown cure elsewhere. There can be something done that we can do so.” Cadence spoke with regal and poise but her worried expression and her watering eyes betrayed that outward display from the inner conflict of her sorrow and distress.

Doctor Heart sighs greatly hearing their princess at such distress, but he cannot change the facts. “I’m sorry princess but what you have is something unknown, even the archives here cannot explain what you have. We have done Magical remedies, but they can only do so much. Foreign cures may have some effect but it is hard to tell what they can do to a pony, much more, an alicorn of your power and magical reserves.” He spoke clearly the news not helping his position as royal doctor but he has done his best as he has gone through their hospital so many times and added that he had to appear out of their Prince’s sight every time his appointment with her came up.

Cadence felt defeated, nearing to collapse onto her couch. Her eyes continue to water as the news ebb away at her, there was no hope unless she looks at every possible means to find a cure. “I have yet to check on the records in Canterlot, I’m sure somepony might know what to do.” She desperately spoke, the hope trying to rebuild itself as she tries to get to her hooves but the royal doctor spoke in.

“Princess, I’m sure you may be thinking a lot but strain of any physical sort will further develop this problem you have.” He tried to reason with the alicorn princess as his look of worry, one he wore every meeting he had with their princess.

“I cannot, I just can’t let myself succumb to this! I have a nation to lead, a nation you live in!” She argued to her doctor who kept himself in his stance still. “Princess, exerting yourself will surely make the inevitable closer than before. I know you have exponential power in regards to removing the tyrant off this world, but you need to calm down and think. You are immortal, the fact is true, you have spent countless times proving you are both the beauty and the power that an alicorn can ever show, but with logic and reason, we know this will not be if you keep feeding the disease stuck inside you.”

With the long but very sensible talk, Cadence found her own stuck in pause as her doctor was both versed in speech as he is in his medical profession. “But what can I do? I know hoping is something to keep us safe and with miracles happening upon us, but I want to live my life!” She shouted some more as she slumps down onto the couch finding her form weak in the knees, all four to be exact.

Doctor heart sighs as he was sure he needed to feed hope to all his patients, even the princess if he had to. One look at the princess of his nation, the leader of his home, in a heap of worry, tears and dread, it was a sight most unbecoming, even for him. He sighs loud for both his new decision and with how their princess will react. “If you truly wish to find a cure, or some comfort to your… predicament, I shall and will allow you to go to Canterlot…” The doctor spoke, clearly acting like he was the higher authority but he knew it was for the moment as he had a patient and it was a patient who was in need.

Cadence, hearing his answer, rose up from her seat and look at the doctor with a hopeful smile, even when there was a slow black mark of her ruined makeup by her tears in her cheeks. “Thank you Doctor Heart.” She spoke with her regal tone, friendly and with enough proper manners to both tame and suppress anger yet the undertone of her worry still stung.

The doctor bows to his princess, not wanting their conversation to extend as he too, regardless that he kept a straight face and with a hopeful tone himself. “I shall allow this princess, but when you come back, I expect you to be in better moods than this, regardless of the result of her search.” He spoke out as he pack up his things and levitate his white back with his own purple aura of magic that came from his horn. “I shall see you when you ask of me for our next medical appointment. Please, care princess.” He spoke with proper and with straight thought as he leaves the bed chambers of their two ruling ponies.

As the crystal door, one adorned in white and in a mix of crystal blue and pearly white sheen, closed for the privacy of the princess. Cadence could not only sigh in relief of opportunity to have a cure but also the stress leaving her so. The revelation was very daunting and dangerous, one that poses a threat not just to herself, but to her people, the crystal ponies, the crystal heart and this wonderful kingdom… But most of all, she worries how her mortal husband would feel if he heard her dreaded news.

“No!” Cadence shook her head some, trying to dismiss the thoughts, “I have to think positive, I am the princess of love and I shall do this with all that I can manage. I will find a cure, I will try, but when there is none…” She choked at that thought, imagining her husband, mortal that he is, to be sad beyond repair at her grave. She felt her eyes water once more, the news still strong in her mind. “I shall find another to rule it with him… I shall think of that when I get there…” She spoke with a forced poise and regal tone but her own crying eyes and hiccups of her distress broke through as she moves to her and her husband’s bed, crying her tears out with the tissue by the bed.

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Today was no different, though this is after the week that Cadence’s own Twilight Sparkle changes from her sister-in-law to fellow princess, Princess Twilight Sparkle, one title that was a mouthful, rivaling her own more proper name and title. But that was not why Cadence was reminiscing about her former charge, but about the news she might catch on, being keen and very observant when she wants to. Cadence sigh, Twilight would know about her arrival, as many times as this has happened but she knew it was bound to be true.

She has sent a letter to her aunts, both asking to check the archives for some information that seem her own do not contain. It was formal, that was for sure, and this was to mask what she tries to find in Canterlot Castle. She was quickly moving to the castle, once the reply came with greetings from both her aunts and new sister. She was thrilled and joyous about the matter and was very keen on trying to fly over there, of course leaving Shining to do what he deems best for the empire, but she knew he won’t move any political things.

She chuckled at her thoughts as a crystal chariot she rode was being pulled by two Pegasus ponies, one a visible red and the other a visible blue. Both were mares, as insisted by Shining when he heard the news that Cadence needed to check by Canterlot. Shining was thrilled to hear it but knew well enough to stay, as acting prince, the fact that he tries to still get used to but not completely. But Cadence was determined, to find a means, a way to help her or through the troubling news of her situation or to find a suitable, if not proper mare to help Shining in his time of need as the new princess of the Crystal Empire.

But, only time will tell if one or the other will be needed… but she disliked her later plan as only one pony, or thing, can really take her place as royalty, the fact remains as she has done so before.