MLP: Prelude pt 5
#5 of MLP: Prelude
"So she had a son?" Solaris nodded before a much larger dragon. The one in question was covered in sapphire blue scales from the tip of her snout to tip of her tail. Her underbelly was covered in opal colored scales. The spines that ran down her back were the deepest of green. She lay within the throne room and looked down to the alicorn mare with golden slit eyes.
"Evening Star and I had both confirmed it. She must have become pregnant before Azure's death then used her magic to stall the child's development. But for fifty years Chia, we still can not understand why she would have waited that long."
The large dragoness scratched her chin. "You say your daughter and Gaia's son shared a bond?"
"Yes, we call it a Destiny Bond. It's a connection that links two alicorns together throughout their life span. As I told Evening, it's not rare among our kind but it is uncommon. Nearly all cases of two alicorn sharing such a bond end up becoming life mates."
"And those that don't?" The dragoness lowered her head to the queen. Solaris sighed softly.
"It's only happened once that I know of and it was the reason that we had to leave our home. The reason that Evening, Gaia and I were the only ones that survived. There may yet have been others but we have not felt their presence."
Chia nodded her large head. "I will take from your sighing that this pony had such a bond with one of your friends, the one whom sealed them no less."
"Yes. She and Azure Sky shared such a connection but at the time Azure was already in love and married to Gaia." It was then that Celestia came bursting through the throne room doors only to stop dead before her mother and the dragoness.
"Celestia Dawnstar I thought I told you to knock before entering a room." Solaris scolded.
"I'm sorry mother but there is a ghost in the eastern corridor. I went looking for Lunar and Luna and it chased me down the hall. Oh hi auntie Chia."
The dragoness chuckled deeply, lightly making the walls shake as she did. "I suspect a young colt and filly may have had a hoof in that apparition. Be at ease child, there is no ghost in this castle."
"Are you sure?" The young princess whined to which her mother nodded.
"Yes Tia, Chia is correct. It may have just been Lunar and Luna playing a joke on you."
For that the princess stormed out of the room as the dragoness shook her head. "To be young again."
It was sometime later and the dragoness sat out in the courtyard as Luna and Celestia chased Lunar all around the place. The soft crunching of leaves and blades of grass caught her attention and she turned her head. "Oh good morning Evening Star."
"Good morning Chianna. I take it that you have spoken to my wife already?" The dragoness nodded. "So then you know of Lunar."
"I spoke with him briefly." She watched the three of them as Celestia tackled Lunar to the ground before Luna pounced him and the two princesses started to tickle the downed colt and made him give a fit of laughter.
"He sounds just like his father and looks just like his mother. Though I heard from Solaris that he was raised by mortal ponies." Evening nodded his head.
"Two of our best. Both were cut down in a Diamond Dog raiding party."
"Filthy beasts they are. Always looking to steal our jewels." The stallion sat beside the large dragoness as she looked up to the sky.
"So I guess you will be staying for the fall festival?" Chia nodded.
"How long has it been Evening?" The stallion thought for a moment. How long had they known the dragoness. They left there home now well over sixty two years ago by then the four friends were adults. It took the stallion to remember.
"Well lets see we found you wounded in the forest of Eden over what, two hundred years ago? So over two and a half centuries. But before you ask, yes I know Solaris and I did not have any foal till well after we left. We were fairly adventurous then and the thought of children did not pass our minds till well after we left. But what of you? Surely you must have had hatchlings by now."
The three friends laughter echoed through the inclosed courtyard. One of Lunar's feathers had fallen out and was quickly scooped up by Luna as she ran after her sister. Celestia screaming and running away before Lunar popped in front of her and she slammed into him. The two elder ponies tumbled for a few feet before they were both pounced on by Luna.
"I have yet to find a suitable partner. Most are too enthralled with their own hoard to even take the time to find one. Which makes it harder on our kind thanks to our greed."
The stallion placed a hoof to his friend's shoulder and smiled. "No matter what Chianna, you will find that special somepony and when you do, you will know that they were meant for you." Evening then rose to his hooves and turned before heading back inside of the castle.
It was middle of the night and Lunar was sitting on the window sill of his room. Celestia had once again crept in during his singing and was now resting peacefully upon the rounded bed that was the colts. The fire in which Autumn had started for him, burned within the fireplace and casts its warming glow throughout the room. He looked up to the twin stars that shown brightly beside the moon. A sound of flapping wings breaks the colt from his trance as the large dragoness ascends to his window. "Good Evening young Lunar. I wonder if I might, ask you to join me for a night flight."w
"But what if Tia wakes up and I'm not here? She would wonder where I went."
The dragoness softly chuckled. "It is as they say." Lunar looked at her in a bit of a confused expression. The dragoness shook her head. "The princess will be fine young colt, you have my word. Right now she sleeps soundly."
The colt looked back to the sleeping princess before opening his wings and joining the dragoness out in the night air. Chianna smiled as the colt flew out to her. "It maybe best to climb upon my back since I can fly faster then you." Lunar did as instructed and landing upon her back and folding his wings. He latched onto one of her spines before she turned and flew off into the night.
"Where are we going?" Lunar shouted with a mouthful of dragon spines.
"You will see young colt."
The dragoness flew over the dense forest before diving into the trees and landing with a resounding boom as she hit the ground. Releasing the spine from his mouth, he looked around himself. He had not been this deep in the forest before, mostly because Evening Star and Solaris did not want them to come this far but because he was with Chianna he thought it might be ok.
"Where are we Chianna? I don't think I've ever seen this place before." Lunar took a few steps and looked around himself. Before him was a large pond which glistened in the the light of the moon.
"This is the Pond of Starlight. When the light of the moon shines upon the water, the stones within the ground reflect that light back and twinkle like stars." She slowly walked up beside the colt and sat beside him. "Evening has told me that he did not see those two stars beside the moon one night and the next night they were there. Not to mention that when he saw you that day, you had your cutie mark. Now were I an ignorant dragon I would think this mere coincidence. However being as I am not I believe that those two stars are because of you."
Lunar sighed deeply and nodded his head. "Yes, I made them. I don't even know how I did it. I was just singing a lullaby my mother used to sing to me when I was a foal. The next thing I know two balls of light form in front of me and shoot to the sky. The only pony that knows about it is Tia, well and now you."
"Do you think you make another?"
Lunar looked up to the dragoness. "Won't evening Star be mad?"
Chianna shook her head. I don't think he would be that mad. Besides it is you special talent."
Lunar nodded and closed his eyes. His horn started to glow softly at first and his mane began to billow behind him. His dark blue coat started to sparkle as the magic around his horn grew in intensity. Chianna watched as it seemed like his body turned into the heavens themselves. Before she knew it, a small ball of light formed before him and grew at a steady pace. The light of the orb grew in strength and the dragoness had to shield herself with her wing.
Lunar then tilted his head skyward and the orb shot of into the heavens. Chianna lowered her wing and watched as the star too into the sky. It placed itself within a cluster of a few other and formed what looked like a pattern of some kind.
"So he was right." Lunar's form slowly started to turn to normal but his mane remained floating behind him much like Celestia's. The colt took a deep breath to regain himself as he looked up to the dragoness.
"Who was right?"
She smiled softly and lowered her head to the colt's height. "Evening Star thought that it was you who made those, for they will be needed in the future. But that there..." She pointed to the twinkling pattern of stars. "You made that with that one little star. Like Evening Star you can control them."
This made the young colt start to panic. "Oh no, oh no oh no oh no. He's going to be really mad at me isn't he? Probably throw me out of the castle. I won't be able to see Celestia and Luna again." Tears started to trickle down the colt's face. This made the large female dragon shake her head and fold her wings around the trembling pony.
"Lunar, Evening will not be mad with you, trust me. If anything he may even teach you. Don't always jump to the worst case scenario. Come, I'll take you back to the castle." Chianna lowered herself to the ground and allowed the colt to climb back up before he clamped onto one of her spines. With a few wing beats, the dragoness was airborne and headed back for the castle.
It didn't take the pair long before they returned, Lunar hoped off of Chianna's back and onto his window sill. "Remember Lunar. The Starlight Pond is a special place, no pony outside the royal family knows about it."
"But I'm not royalty." At that the dragoness giggled and flew off. Lunar looked up to the moon and the two stars beside it. He admired his work before climbing down and closing the window. He slowly walked over to the sleeping Celestia and laid beside her. The white filly shivered against his cool coat. Lunar used his magic and covered them up as he lay his head next to hers and closed his eyes, letting the soft touch of sleep take him.