Forgotten ashes

by Akuma


2 : Preparation

Celestia stood on her throne, listening to a unicorn noble explaining their problem.

"-and those peseants had the gall to say that they owe me nothing!" The unicorn yelled, making Princess Celestia raise an eyebrow. 'I'm pretty sure that they do owe you nothing, you've done nothing but complain about their land.' She thought.

"Mister Moonstone Vision, they have done nothing wrong to you, I believe you were just overreacting." Celestia stated with a motherly tone, internally she was groaning from his sheer audacity to complain instead of stating a problem to a ruler.

Moonstone grumbled, "I guess you're right princess." Celestia's eyes slightly widen at the response. 'Well at least you know you're wrong, the other nobles are shi-'

BANG!

"Oh dear heavens not again." Celestia muttered outloud, seeing that the throne doors were slammed open by her friend.

"CELESTIA- Hey uh so do you know you know who?" Shadow Facade asked, earning a spear to the face by the royal guards inside the room.

She rose a single hoof, stopping the guards from attacking. She stared at Shadow Facade with a blank look.

"Yes. Yes I do know L— you know who." She stated, raising an eyebrow for her friend to finish.

They coughed. "Yeah uh- apparently they're-" Facade coughed "—not your you know what, but instead something... else?" They gritted out of their teeth.

Celestia furrowed her eyebrows, "What do you mean by something else? I don't understand you when you just kept saying you know what!" She exclaimed.

Facade looked at her with a face saying really bitch?. "Blue pony be child and not purple pony like in other universes." They stated.

The universe we're both in turns out that Luna isn't your sister, but instead your daughter. Celestia's eyes widen. She waves a hoof around and looks at the guards and noble, "You're all dismissed."



Celestia was walking the halls with Shadow Facade, who darted glances at their sides and behind them.

"Mind telling me why she's my daughter and not my sister?" She asked Facade, who made a whistling kettle noise.

"You kind of left a patch of fur in your room, so I took it and put it in my DNA machine. Turns out your the mom of Luna and not her sibling like we thought of." They stuttered out.

Celestia hummed, "This is why I hate being Celestia, we turn into our favorite ponies and OCs and the next thing you know, we don't even have their memories." She stated and nodded at a guard who bowed at her, yet looking at the unicorn beside her.

"Hey, it's afternoon now, so why hasn't Twilight send the 'Nightmare Moon is coming' letter?" Facade asked.

FWOOSH! a scroll was immediately sent towards them.

They both blinked, "Well that was a good timing." Facade stated.

Celestia unfolded the scroll while walking, nodding at some guards who bowed. "Okay she's stating that Nightmare Moon is going to appear tomorrow, jeez Twilight, I wonder why?" She rolled her eyes, sarcasm was visible in her tone.

Facade gave her a blank scroll and a fountain pen, Celestia took a double look.

"How do you have a fountain pen? That's not even invented yet!" Facade shrugged at her question. "I bought it when we were still human. We're heading to the dining room to eat lunch right?" "Yeah." "Well write the letter while we're walking, I'll guide you." Facade exclaimed.

They coughed, "Write this: My dearest most faithful student Twilight–" Celestia immediately wrote on the scroll. "–you know that I value your diligence, and that I trust you complete." Facade looked at Celestia to know if she's writing it, she nods.

"But you simply must stop reading those DUSTY old books!" Facade exclaimed while the dining room doors opened. Celestia grinned hearing the dusty part.

"Should I write 'My dear Twilight'?" Celestia asked, Facade just nodded. "There is more to a pony's life than studying," Celestia wrote it down while talking to the chef pony for her and the guest's food.

"So I'm sending you to supervise preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration–" they looked at Celestia again, who nodded at their direction, the chef pony behind the kitchen looked at the Princess and the unicorn in surprise, seeing that they acted like old friends.

"—in this years rotation: Ponyville!" Shadow Facade grinned, earning a laugh from Celestia, who sat down.

"Should I write your next sentence down too?" Celestia asked, smirking. Facade just chuckled while also sitting down, "Yeah there's more." The pearl-white alicorn just rolled her eyes.

"And, I even have a more exensal-" "are you sure that's the right word?" "–task for you to complete." Facade just shrugged at Celestia's question.


"Make some friends!" They grinned like a madman just by finishing the sentence. Celestia smirked while writting her own name at the bottom in cursive.

She tilted her head to the side, "Do you think that my student will be shocked that my writting looks better all of a sudden?" She asked, her friend shook their head. "No, Spike reads them outloud, so you just wrote in cursive for nothing." "Damn it." She casted a spell that teleports the scroll to her student.

Their foods were immediately infront of them, "Thank you." "Thanks for the food!" Celestia and Facade thanked at the same time.

Facade looked down at their food. "Wait- did you ask them to give me meat?" They pointed at the hamburger on the left side of plate, and a barbeque on a stick on the right.

Celestia nodded, "You always complained that you couldn't eat meat because other ponies would judge you, but my chefs can cook griffon food which contained meat. So, I just said to make a hayburger but instead of hay, it's meat." Facade just gaped at her, and then immediately began to eat the food.

They ate in silence.

"...What will you do tomorrow? That's the day of your uh– biological relative, coming back." Facade awkwardly asked. Noting that the two guards beside the door they went from slightly leaned forward, trying to know what were they saying.

Celestia narrowed her eyes, "My original self would have let my combat weak student fight her with her five civilian friends." She make a tsk sound.

"I'm going to help the Mane Six, and make sure that I'll be the one fighting, while they charge up for the rainbow beam." She said, earning a gleeful look from the unicorn infrotn of her.

"You're going to use the spells you created, aren't you?" Facade asked with a raised eyebrow while grinning, Celestia nodded.

Facade snickered. "Looks like Nightmare Moon won't meet Princess Celestia this time.."

The alicorn grinned, her eyes gleaning with mischief.

"Oh, they'll meet me alright, just as Solaris instead." Celestia— Solaris exclaimed.