Celestia, Daughter of the Sun

Chapter 7: Celestia, Daughter of the Sun

Gallopia Bastion, The First Kingdom of Equestria

The Fifth month (spring/summer solstice approaching

Approximately 8,000 B.M.N.C.

It was a light morning at the Bastion. Since it was the Princess' first day off, she naturally had nothing to really do. On this particular day, the golden light of Equi's sun, Celion, shone through the ancient stained glass windows. The expensive and large windows, which extended almost from the roof to the floor and made Celestia stop to look at them, were depicting great ancient things such as the great battles of the Dragon Wars, the birth of both Celestia's parents and of the great alicorn dieties of old. Celestia could only imagine what those ancient days must have been like.

Standing at his usual spot, Celestia's favorite royal guard Cyclone

"Whatsa day-off anyways?" The answer to Celestia's question did not seem obvious to a young filly like her, but to Cyclone, it was like explaining why the sky was blue. A royal guard like him didn't really cared, it was his job.

"Well, in regular school, it would mean that you get to take a day long break from doing any schoolwork (sometimes homework would be involved, though) but since your school is your home, it just means Goethe and/or Starswirl will not be teaching you today. " Cyclone reluctantly told her.

Celestia made am honestly blank face. "What?"

Cyclone just sighed. "It MEANS, no more being read at, and having to perform educational tasks or even-

"OH!" The Princess of the sun cut him off. A bit silly for such a smart princess to be so ignorant.

Cyclone looked on at Princess Celestia with a hopeful look as she wandered off into another room. She had so much potential, despite being so young a filly.

"She won't be the royal family's youngest for much longer, that's for sure." Cyclone thought, remembering the content of a letter given to him by a pegasus messenger. She told Cyclone not to reveal it's contents to Princess Celestia, because of it's subject matter, by decree of the King and Queen themselves. When Queen Artemis and King Solaris were away on Royal duty outside of Gallopia Bastion, Cyclone acted as first command and the head of all castle affairs, thus being the one that received all messages from the monarchy first. However, Duchess Goethe would have outranked him in the sense of royalty, but she never questioned his tradition position as acting first command.

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The hard marble floor receded away from Celestia as she cantered to the guest room occupied by StarSwirl the bearded.

The unicorn stallion's guest room seemed to be simple on the outside, with a doorless undecorated portal leading into the main room, but complex on the inside of the suite with it's large Candelabra of a chandelier lighting away the dark of the windowless living room. The guest room was the perfect allegorical representation of the unicorn who stayed in it.

Princess Celestia entered the habitation. The Living Room was littered with books, scrolls, unwritten parchments, and other doo-dads haphazardly thrown around either by themselves or in small piles.

Also revealed by the light of the Candelabra was a writing desk with a wooden chair next to it and two doors on the right and the left of the room.

"And to think, all of this suite existed within the castle and I didn't even know it existed, and I've lived here my entire life!" Celestia mused.

The young Celestia noticed that the door on the right was cracked open a bit, and flickering light was pouring forth from that crack.

The room that Celestia entered was no larger than a good-sized bathroom. It contained only two pieces of furniture: one chair and one writing desk, identical to the ones in the living room, Gallopian originals.

Sitting on that chair was StarSwirl himself, writing in a large aged volume with a quill pen (similar to the quill pen that was Duchess Geothe's Cutie mark) with only the light of  a dying candle to light his work.

Approaching him softly and slowly but surely, Princess Celestia approached StarSwirl....

....only to step and break a piece of old cracker, which at one time was probably part of StarSwirl's dinner.

"Is that castle keeping? Or room service?" StarSwirl asked not bothering to look up from his intense work.

Young Celestia made no answer.

"Well, if it's you, that quiet Room service mare, I demand a refill on my coffee," the unicorn magically lifted his coffee cup from his desk and onto Celestia head "and a restocking on all the depleted foodstuffs in the iceroom, this includes meats." After speaking, the old stallion resumed furiously written away in the book.

"Um, I hate to tell this StarSwirl, but I'm not room service or castle keeping." Celestia informed him, putting the cup down on the hard floor with her own alicorn magic.

"Miss Celestia? Is that you?" The Unicorn stallion asked.

"Y-yeah, it's me, Celes-tia."

StarSwirl turned around in his chair with a clearly annoyed look on his ancient face.

"Okay Princess, tell me what you want from me, and get out of my room, I need to do my writing work and read up on my spell work."

Princess Celestia stamped her hoof on the wooden floor quite hard.

"How dare you! That was very rude, I am an alicorn princess! Your supposed to serve me!" The Daughter of the sun exclaimed, with a dark aura about her.

"I'm...I'm so sorry Princess..." StarSwirl said with a cowering frown. "I just was so into me work, I forgot I was speaking directly to the Daughter of the Sun..."

"I guess that's more like it." The Alicorn Princess reluctantly stated.

"Your wish is my command, my lady." StarSwirl said, bowing. "What's been, as they say 'troubling you'?"

Celestia sat down on her plot. "Well, my mommy and daddy have been gone a long time, and I've even heard rumors from all around the castle staff that they're going to be gone for an even longer time than they planned so they can convince the Unicorns not to leave the continent."

Although Celestia had stopped, she seemed to have ended the sentence in the hopes that StarSwirl would provide an answer to her dilemma. But after StarSwirl saw a good-sized tear running down her cheek, he had to break the silence. "Why are you telling me this, child? Do you want me to do something about it."

"YES!" Celestia said, tears now fully running down her face, "I REALLY miss my mommy and daddy, and your the greatest magic user in all of Equestria, other than mommy and daddy, and I know that your powerful magic can teleport ponies and send them to different time points and-"

"WAIT." StarSwirl stopped her. "You want me to send you to the future so you can be with King Solaris and Queen Artemis?"

Celestia shook her head up and down, still crying. "Uh-huh."

"Oh, silly filly, I'm not supposed to do that! One of the rules of magic is to not use it for personal gain, or in other words, a magic user is only supposed to use any magic the betterment of his Kingdom, not for selfish reasons."

"Can I ask a question then?"

"Are the rules of magic, are they enforced like any other law in Equestria, like, if a unicorn uses magic to make an anvil fall on an innocent pony..."

"I see what you mean. Well, murder is illegal, as you know, but most magic 'rules' of magic are fundamental laws of how magic works, and others are the proper use of some spells that most unicorns and alicorns don't know. Like the time travel spell, for instance. I am probably the only pony in Equestria who knows how to cast it, but there still should limitations on it, to prevent every unicorn in equestria from using it and messing up the established timeline."

"So in other words...there's nothing you can do without breaking the rules of magic, and I'm just going to have to wait for mommy and daddy to come back just like everypony else?"

"I'm afraid so. That's just how it is. I can't break the magic rules held sacred to all great magic users."

Celestia stumbled out of the writing room StarSwirl was in with a heavy heart and a head hung low.

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Princess Celestia crawled into the large pink and white bed of her bedroom.

"If I can't wait out my mommy and daddy coming back, I'll just sleep it out then."

The young Princess Celestia laid her head on the pillow, and about 20 minutes of laying there, she went off to a filly's sleep.

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The moon. Princess Celestia was on the moon.

And there was no sun in the Sky.

How was she surviving like this in her dream? She knew it was a dream, she knew she had fallen asleep.

She was in a plate curved crater. It had many micro-asteroid holes in and around it.Again, just her and the moon, nopony else to help her.

Or protect her.

Celestia felt a sort of presence behind her. She turned around quickly, a full 180 degrees.

In front of her now was a slightly needle shaped mound of pure moon rock.

Then Celestia blinked.

And the mound came closer.

"What? That's not possible. It's coming closer now?"

She blinked again. It was even closer now.

"M-maybe if I close my eyes for a long enough time, it'll go away."

She then closed both of her eyes for a very long time. She only opened her eyes because she felt something brush up against her nose and her muzzle.

It was the needle shaped moon rock.

"No!"

Celestia was now so started, she tripped over her own hooves and landed on her back.

But that made her closed her eyes.

When she opened them again, she couldn't see anything. All was darkness. She couldn't move either, she was firmly embed in a small alcove the size and shape of her body.It was like being in her mother mare's womb again.

And she could feel the rock constricting against her fur. Trying to crush her.

"No, I can't let it take me!"

She tried to use her magic, but she couldn't. She tried to scream, but she couldn't.

There was nothing to stop what was happening now. Not magic, not assistance of any kind or even fate itself. She was going to be crushed to death in the moon.

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Celestia woke up with her bedcovers wrapped extremely tight around her.

She was now hyperventilating fro the dream that she had.

She slowed her breathing and sat up in her bed. Sweat was all over her body.

She calmly got out of bed and made her way to her room's washbasin.

She splashed water on her face and even drank a little water. She looked in the mirror.

She was was the same old Celestia: uncrushed Celestia.

But what had that dream meant? Both of Celestia's parents had always told her not to look into dream interpretation, because dreams where just the brain's way of sorting out things during sleep, and following dreams would not be what the 'he' would want.

"Just got to calm it down." The Princess told herself.

Celestia's ears perked up.

"Are those..." She started to say out loud.

Bells. Welcoming bells.

"MOMMY!! DADDY!!"

She ran out of her room to meet them.

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There they were, the King and Queen Terra and Aeterna with their only daughter Celestia. All in the grand hall that was the first room ponies saw coming in from the main front gate of the bastion.

The reunion was surely a happen one, as they kissed, hugged, snuggled and told each other what had happened in the weeks each other were separated.

"No daddy," Giggled Celestia. "I missed you more."

"Well, I missed you more than the sun." Terra told his daughter.

They snuggled again.

"Solaris..." Aeterna groaned.

"What is it, my bride?" Terra asked his wife

"It's...I-"

"So, mommy, why are you early in coming back to the castle."

"Well, honey..." Aeterna started to explain weakly.

"It's alright, let me try to explain to Celestia, dear." Terra reluctantly told his wife.

"King Sombra is embedded in his plans for succeeding from the Kingdom of Equestria. We figured the more we stayed and tried to coax him out of his plans-"

"Solaris!" Aeterna called agin, now laying on a dias given to her by Gallopian guards.

"I'll be finished quite soon." He reassured her. "We figured the more we stayed and tried to coax him out of the discussion, the more damage we did to our own plan of having him not to have the unicorn tribe succeed Equestria."

"That makes sense. At least we're allllll here and-"

"TERRA! Please! I'm going to labor!" Aeterna yelled.

"Labor? But you weren't due for about another week!"

"That...*huff*...doesn't change the fact...that my water just broke and I'm-" She made a loud painful moan and laid on her back, revealing the bloated state of her belly.

"I-I'm going to have a foal, Terra!"

"WHAT!?" Celestia yelled, her mommy had a foal in her stomach?

"Daddy, what's going on, you didn't tell me mommy was pregnant!"

"I know, but mommy has issues with keeping her foals, and we didn't want to get your hopes up, and we didn't know how you'd react to a new foal sister, and we were gone for more than a month, and-"

Terra gave a loud groan again.

"Oh, this isn't the time for explaining! Guards, I need the Queen taken to the chamber of the royal doctors, and need Celestia to be escorted to her room immediately!"

With many a "yes, sir"s Celestia was escorted away as she watched her mother being taken down the grand hall to the chamber of the royal doctors.

What was happening? She had a new baby sister coming, her mommy and daddy came back, and where was Goethe during all of this?

And what was ever going to happen to herself, Princess Celestia, Daughter of the Sun Alicorn Terra?