A Friend of the Moon

A Friend of the Moon

Chapter 5

Learning The Truth about The Visitor

Celestia trotted out the patient room, using her magic to close the doors behind her to meet her ponies.

“I shall see to it that you six have some needed rest for being dragged into this, and I thank you Fluttershy for trying to communicate with Umbreon.”

“O-oh you don’t have to praise me Princess, I didn’t help at all. It was Twilight that found out more than me…” Fluttershy praised her friend.

Twilight trotted next to her yellow coated friend.

“I learned from having you talk to him Fluttershy. If you didn’t talk to him I wouldn’t have come up with the idea that we as ponies can’t understand him.” Twilight complimented her friend.

“Oh well, you’re welcome then…” Fluttershy said in a light voice.

“Come on, we’re waiting for you two, I think Rarity is about to jump Applejack and give her a makeover if you two don’t hurry up.” Rainbow Dash said while floating to the three of them.

Celestia turned her attention to Rainbow Dash and said,

“I bet everypony is tired after meeting a new type of creature today. I think it’ll be best if you all go to bed now, since the sun will be lowered soon. I trust that my fellow pony guards can show you where to go?” Celestia asked.

“I know what we can do! We should invite Umi to a 'Welcome to Canterlot, thank you for not being evil!' party!” Pinkie Pie said while hopping in place.

“No offense Pinkie, but you have the weirdest names for parties.” Rainbow Dash commented.

“Of course silly, it makes it super-duper better!” Pinkie Pie said while throwing confetti into the air.

“I would love to stay and talk my dear ponies, but I must leave to lower the sun for tonight or some ponies will freak. Have a restful evening.”

Celestia teleported out of the infirmary waiting room and reappeared in front of Luna’s bedroom, surprising Luna's Lunar guards.

“I apologize for the scare, my ponies. Is Luna in her bedroom still?”

Lunar guard on the left was the first to answer the sun Princess.

“Her majesty has been in her bedroom for the whole day, your majesty.”

“May I ask if you two leave? I have a sensitive subject to discuss with my sister that she doesn’t want anypony to hear.”

The guards hesitantly nodded from the odd request, gave a quick confirmation and headed off to the kitchen for some food.

Celestia opened the door with her magic and trotted in to see Luna in bed, but Celestia could hear light sniffling coming from her younger sister.

She closed the door quietly and said,

“Are you feeling better Luna?”

Luna used her magic to move the blankets off of her and slowly moved out of the bed to make eye contact with her sister. It was easily seen that Luna had been crying for some time after Celestia had left.

“Celestia…How is the creature recovering?” Luna quietly said.

“Well….”

As Twilight and her friends were escorted to their rooms, they talked about their thoughts on the creature they met that day.

“His coat is simply elegant! I wonder what he does to keep himself so…Magnificent!” Rarity said entranced.

“He seemed a bit…Scary.” Fluttershy said in a light whisper.

“Oh please Fluttershy, he seemed pretty cool! Did you see the things on his coat? They glowed when we were there! That is almost cool as me!” Rainbow Dash complimented as she complimented herself as well.

“We should really give him a party! I bet he would like my cupcakes, because everypony likes my cupcakes!” Pinkie stated while bouncing.

“We are missing the big picture of this, we haven’t seen this creature ever before. Even Fluttershy couldn’t talk to him, which means he isn’t any type of animal from around here…Or possibly…” Twilight trailed off as she started to think.

“Whats wrong Twy? Whats on yer mind?” Applejack asked.

“….I have to go somewhere right now, I’ll see you all later!” Twilight blurted out before galloping off in the opposite direction.

“Wha-Twilight, where are you going right now?” Rainbow Dash yelled out.

“To the library!” Twilight shouted before turning the corner.

“Sheesh, looks like Twilight went complete egg-head again…” Rainbow Dash muttered before yawning and flying off to the other ponies.

“Then we should go see him now after we do our ritual Celestia. Do you think he’ll still be awake?” Luna said.

“Shall we start now? I am quite certain that he is still awake.”  Celestia said. As both sisters walked out onto the balcony of Luna’s tower and started the ritual, Celestia’s horn glowed, a yellow aura enveloping it. Using her magic, she gently grasped the sun while Luna did the same with the moon, her horn glowing in a blue aura. The sun was gently lowered as the moon started to rise into place where it belonged.

After their ritual was completed, the celestial sisters released their grasps of their magic and trotted back into the bedroom.

“Shall we head to Umbreon, I believe we have made him wait long enough dear sister.”

“Let’s get going then, I am glad that you are in better shape now Luna.”

“Well, bringing the moon out always relaxed me. I do not know why, but it eases my worries and uneasiness away.”

Celestia smiled but didn’t say anything, since she too knows how it feels with how she raises the sun every morning.

Both of the Princesses teleported out of the room and to the infirmary wing of the castle, and with Celestia leading the way, both Princesses headed off to meet Umbreon.

Twilight levitated the last book that she could find about mythical animals and creatures. Using her magic, she opened the front cover of the book and started to read intensely.

‘Manticores…Hydras…Cockatrice…Hippalectryon...'

"I can't find anything about what Umbreon is! I checked and checked all of the books from unknown creatures to even mythical, but I still can't find anything  about what Umbreon is! I checked and checked all of the books from unknown creatures to even mythical, but I can't find anything about him! Maybe Princess Celestia has books about creatures if unknown types, but she must be sleeping right now. I should talk with Umbreon to learn more about his world." Twilight closed the book with her magic and galloped out of the Canterlot Library, leaving an angry librarian behind.

As the Princesses trotted through the halls of infirmary rooms, Luna slowly started to feel uneasy of seeing Umbreon, thinking of how he’ll act once he learns how she ripped him out of his world.

‘I wonder what he was doing when I pulled him here… Did he live in a town? Did he have a job that he would spend time to do for his family? Family, oh no! What if he had a family at his world, waiting for him to return but now are never going to find him…? Oh dear goddesses, what have I done!’

Luna placed one hoof on the tile before continuing on. With the thoughts she was having, she felt like she had destroyed a being's life for her own selfish wants. The thoughts becoming more and more painful, Luna let out a single tear before Celestia stopped and turned around to see why her sister had stopped.

Noticing the tear, Celestia became worried that Luna was thinking twice about seeing Umbreon.

“Are you alright my dear Luna? Please tell me what is wrong, I am here for you, sister.”

“Sister… Am I selfish?” Luna asked in more of a whisper, a whisper that even Celestia couldn’t hear.

Confused with what Luna had said, Celestia asked “Luna…Please raise your voice so I can hear you. You whisper quieter than Fluttershy does.”

“Am I…Selfish?” Was all that Luna said for her elder sister to decipher.

“Why would you consider that you're selfish sister? You are a very giving Princess who would do anything for her subjects.” Celestia said with a caring voice.

“If I am so giving… Why did I use the spell book? Why did I pull Umbreon out of his world? What if he had a caring family in his world? I greedily ripped him out of his world for my own benefit! I am not a giving Princess… I am a monster…” Luna lowered her head in shame of what she had thought of herself.

“Luna…Please don’t beat yourself up over this. What has happened cannot be undone, but we have to find the best of the worst things. Like I have said when I first saw Umbreon, he was hurt when you pulled him here. The spell wouldn’t have hurt him, so it might have been whatever was in his world that hurt him like that. We cannot control the wheel of fate. Even beings as ourselves are but victims to it.” Celestia nuzzled her younger sister, in hopes to make her feel better.

“We must not keep him waiting Luna, I bet he would love to meet you, he seemed to be quite a nocturnal creature, so I bet you’ll have fun being with each other.” Celestia said.

“You are right sister, we must get going now, thank you for making me feel better." Luna said, with a smile on her face.

Celestia nodded and the sisters continued trotting down the hall. Unknown to them, there was a certain purple unicorn who eavesdropped on them.

After both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna trotted into the room where Umbreon currently resided, Twilight slowly moved from the corner and thought to herself.

‘What did I just hear? Princess Luna was the one that summoned Umbreon? She said that she pulled him out of a different world! How is that possible?! Why did she do it though? I have so many questions, but I can’t just ask them! I should go back to the library, look into this and investigate this!’ Twilight turned around and headed off back to look not for creatures, but for spells revolving around teleportation spells.

As Celestia and Luna trotted into the room where Umbreon was currently staying, they noticed that he was looking through the window without his bandages covering his wounds (which made Luna grimace), gazing upon the full moon. As Celestia was about to tell Umbreon how unsafe that was, his crescent markings started to glow bright blue, and light from the moon started to wrap around him, which started to heal him from his wounds. After the healing process was completed, not a single scratch from before remained, leaving the two Princesses in shock. The pokemon opened his eyes to see the Princesses and went back to his bed, where it was comfortable for him. Unknowing to the Princesses, Umbreon used the move

Moonlight to heal himself, but knew the best time to heal all of his wounds was at night.

Luna, who was the moon Princess, was the first one to collect herself and said in a shocking, but happy tone, “By the goddesses…That was quite amazing. How could you use the moon to heal yourself? Not even the unicorns of the old ages could harness the moon’s energy to use it! But you, Umbreon, you  used it as if it was easy as pie! How could you do such a feat?” Luna said in complete wonder, forgetting her sadness while she was trotting there.

Umbreon stared at Luna, as if he was waiting for her to understand what he cannot do.

‘I wonder who this new pony is. If I remember from what “Celestia” said, she had a sister, and I guess this must be her. She’s loud, but not as loud as the blue pony, or the pink one, what were their names again? Rainbow Blaze and Pinkie Cake? Something like that. This pony though…She seems different from them… Something is drawing me in, something is making me feel comfortable, closer to safety.’ Umbreon’s thoughts were interrupted by Celestia, as she started explaining to Luna why he isn’t talking back to her.

“I don’t think I told you sister, but Umbreon can’t talk back to us. Though he can understand us, he can’t speak our language, but can answer yes or no questions by nodding or shaking his head.” Celestia explained.

Luna seemed to deflate a little bit, as she had many different questions for the creature before her, but she realized that she was asking him questions of what he did and forgot to talk about what she’d done.

“Oh, um… I apologize for my sudden outbreak just now, for it is unknown to us that somepony could use my moon like that. Nod if you understand what I said and want me to continue.”

Umbreon looked at her and cocked his head in confusion. He understood what she had

said, but there was one part that confused him for many different ways.

‘Did she say that it was her moon? Did she meant that in a metaphor, or is it really hers?

Does it involve with her “cutie mark”, what the purple pony said before? This has just

become twice as confusing.’ Umbreon hesitantly nodded for her to continue.

“I want to tell you that I know how you were brought to this world, brought here from

your own world.”

Luna began to tell how she found out about a spell book that supposed to summon a

pony, but taking the risk of using the spell despite the chance of summoning an unknown

being. During the time Luna was explaining to Umbreon, who was understanding some

of what Luna was saying, Celestia was gazing at Umbreon, looking for any anger or

anything that seemed negative.

‘I do not see any anger upon his face, unless he isn’t upset about it…That brings up

the question of why he isn’t upset. Was his life was dangerous? He might be glad to be

away from the world that keeps you in constant danger.’ Celestia thought as Luna was

wrapping up the situation.

“-and that’s why you were summoned here, specifically in my bedroom. I feel so

ashamed of ripping you from your world…I felt like I could obtained a friendship by just

using magic to get it, but now I know that I can’t just do that. I want to apologize to you

for my actions. I-I do not know if I can summon you back to your own world…I am truly

sorry…” Luna lowered her head in what she felt so many years ago, the time before she

became Nightmare Moon. Sadness.

Everything became quiet as Umbreon started to sort out what he had become of him.

‘I’ve been injured from a battle, dragged into a portal, woke up in a bed in a new

dimension, woke up to a room of ponies, met one of the Princesses of this world, and now

the other Princess is telling me that she pulled me from my world by a spell to summon

a subject to be her friend… Now I might not be able to go back to my world…But in

the end, do I want to go back? I had been hunted down for years by trainers for my

uniqueness features… Could this be my break? Could I live with the ponies here?’

Umbreon had questions running throughout his mind, not paying attention to the gurgling

sounds coming from his stomach.

Both Princesses looked at Umbreon and noticed that the sound was coming from his

stomach.

Celestia broke the somewhat silent moment by saying “I think it would be best if we get

Umbreon something to eat, I think he’s pretty hungry.” Celestia stretched her wings and

quietly yawned. “And I have to get to bed soon. It would be quite bad if the ponies would

wake up with the moon still up.”

With that Celestia headed out the room, leaving the two nocturnal creatures to

themselves.