Runaway

Queen Diamantina magically opened the door leading to the room of her eldest daughter. Nisha was sitting down in front of a mirror being levitated by the unicorn working on her mane in front of her dresser. Nisha’s usually straight white mane was now in a bun with two small bits of hair curled and loose from said bun. The unicorn levitated Nisha’s sliver tiara with a black gem in the centre front of it onto said princess’s forehead before beginning to curl her tail. Looking into the mirror, Nisha saw her mother walk in with another mare wearing saddlebags, making her frown. The mare working on her tail stopped to bow respectfully to the queen. She took a step back so Diamantina could put a hoof on her daughter’s shoulder.

“I thought I told you to take off the necklace before the mane stylist came in,” She whispered in Nisha’s ear.

Nisha looked down at the black rock with a sliver gleam she was wearing around her neck on a midnight blue and white string, “You told me to take off the royal neck piece so I decided to wear my ‘rock on a string’.”

Diamantina rolled her eyes as she untied the necklace she despised but knew was special to Nisha, to remove it from her daughter’s neck, “At least this rock on string is easier to take off than your necklace.”

She levitated it in her pink aura down next to a silver neck piece with a black jewel on it on the side table next to Nisha’s queen sized bed. The mare that followed the queen into the room started to take Nisha’s measurements with a tape measure from one of her saddlebags.

The queen turned to the mare, “What colour would look best on my daughter? I’d like her to look beautiful at her coronation.”

The mare opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by the princess, “Nothing. I’m not becoming queen!”

Diamantina put her hoof back onto Nisha’s shoulder in an attempt to calm her down, “Sweetheart, we’ve talked about this.”

“You call telling me I have to become queen over & over again a conversation?!” Nisha jumped up out of her seat to face her mother. “Just because I’m your eldest daughter doesn’t mean I have to be the next queen!”

The two mares that were with them had stopped in their tracks. They’ve seen the queen argue with her daughter multiple times because of the fractured relationship between the two mares but it always amazing to watch to alicorns fight, even if it was only verbally, especially if one the fighting alicorns always acted calm like Queen Diamantina.

“Sit back down sweetheart,” Diamantina forgot about the other mares around her and began to lose her composer. “You’re not ready yet.”

“I’M NOT READY FOR ANY OF THIS!” Nisha was now yelling. “ONCE I BECOME QUEEN MY CHANCES OF FINDING LOVE DECRESE MEANING EVEN IF I DO FIND A STALLION WHO LOES ME, HE’LL BE TO AFRIAD OF ME TO TELL ME!!”

“That’s enough!” The queen lost it. “Sit down and let Threads & Silver Gem prepare you for your coronation!”

Nisha’s pure white aura surrounded her black horn, “No because I’M NOT GOING TO BECOME QUEEN!”

The queen was about to yell something back at her daughter but was cut off by a bright flash coming from Nisha’s horn as the princess teleported away.

While all this was happening, a Midnight blue pegasus was sitting on a cloud near the palace walls sketching a picture of the sparrow next to her notepad. She had almost finished her drawing when a bright white flash below her scared the bird away. Curious about the flash that frighted her muse away, she looked at where the flash occurred. The flash appeared to have been a teleportation spell performed by a black coated alicorn mare with a half curled white tail, mane in a bun and almost white irises with pale grey pupils. What’s Nisha doing out her- the pegasus’ thoughts were cut off by Nisha flying as fast as she could away from the palace. Without a second thought, the pegasus followed suit and was soon joined by many of the royal guards pegasus members. Nisha began to send off numerous spells in an attempt to lose the guards and her friend unsuccessfully when the midnight blue pegasus spotted a white coated, black maned, emerald eyed alicorn foal chasing her back coated sister on hoof with her purple eyes. Seeing this too, Nisha created a note from thin air and gave it to her friend as the mare flew down to her sister.

“NISHA! NISHA WAIT! DON’T GO PLEASE?!” The white alicorn called out to her sister as the blue pegasus landed in front of her, forcing her to stop running.

The pegasus wrapped her white tipped wings around the royal foal, “Shh, its ok Wish, the guards will bring her back.”

“Well what if they don’t- what’s on that piece of paper?”

The pegasus unfolded the piece of paper and began to read it aloud:

Dear Moonlight & Wish,

I have written, or more or less conjured up, this note to let you to know that I am running away because I wish to not become queen, especially if it’s because of my father’s death. I don’t know where I’ll run to, but I know I’ll miss you both. I love you both, so please look after each other. I hope we cross paths again.

Love from, Nisha

P.S. Don’t tell my other sisters & mares-in-waiting about this note. I don’t want them to become jealous.

Wish dried her tears, “She loves me?”

Moonlight nuzzled her, “Of course she does, you’re her sister.”

Moonlight then carried the young princess back to the palace as she thought up as many different ways to break it to Queen Diamantina as she could possibly think of, thankful that New Hoofland only lost one princess that day.

Nisha was now outside her kingdom and in a forest. She knew it was dangerous as it could contain creatures such as coctrices and manticores but she decided to hide in one of the bushes anyway. Choosing a dark leaved bush that contained pure white flowers, so her mane & coat would hopefully blend in, she closed her eyes. Nisha sat hidden in the bush until she could no longer hear the clank of the guards’ metallic armour. She flew just above the tree tops and ducked back down when she realised she was still close to her kingdom as she could faintly see her palace in the distance. Nisha realised she was probably in the Broken Forest, a forest in one of the neighbouring kingdoms that was well known for being dangerous. Knowing she’ll be recognised, Nisha flew out of the forest in the opposite direction to her kingdom, flying faster than she knew she could go.

She had flown over country after country when she came upon a wide river. As it was almost night time she magically created a warm blanket to sleep in with what was let of her magic from when she was creating random spells earlier. Nisha wrapped herself up in the blanket as watched the sunset with a smile. For the first time in her life she felt free. Free from her responsibilities, free from her bossy mother and best of all she was free from being the most recognisable member of the royal family. Her smile turned into a frown when she remembered her freedom was at the price of the worry of her friends, her family and her subjects. She knew her mother loved her she just didn’t act on it like her father did before his death. Nisha started to cry, remembering her father’s death like it was yesterday. Her tears stained her eyes and her new blanket and for once the night felt too long rather than too short.

Sunlight hit Nisha’s eyelids, forcing her to wake up earlier than she wanted. She looked up at the sky and saw that the dawn had just risen making her roll her eyes Remembered she would usually watch the sun rise as the new day began, but she must have been too tired to wake up in time today. She lapped up some water from the river and looked ahead making her eyes pop out of her skull. OK I knew I flew far but how did I make it to Equestria within a day?! Her thoughts were all jumbled up now as she tried to make sense of it. She shook her head, grabbed her blanket and started to fly across the river towards the world renowned country, the country whose rulers were literally in charge of the sun & moon. Once she reached the other side she was forced to walk rather than fly, after all wouldn’t your wings hurt if you flew far away from where you started at high speeds, which was lucky as it would prevent her from being tempted to fly. She placed her blanket on her back in order to hide her wings so she could keep a low profile as alicorns were usually royalty and she wanted to hide the fact that she was a princess, especially as alicorns were so much more powerful in this kingdom and her power levels, though high in her kingdom, were only slightly higher than the average Equestrian unicorn. Nisha continued to trot until she reached a town called Fillyadelphia, but by then it was night time and she was so tired that she could barely move. She collapsed at the town’s entrance and was she was sleeping so heavily she didn’t notice that she had been moved overnight.