Unforeseen Consequences - Motherly talk

>”Actually Celie, even when I am just as hungry as you are, I do believe that before anything, we must discuss a few subjects in private” Luna turned to the three mares “Pardon me for my rudeness, but would you be so kind as to wait for us at the castle’s dinner? I promise that we won’t take too long”
>Twilight nodded ”I understand completely, this was a very confusing experience for all of us…hehehe and maaayybee I was the most confused, but… hehehe… anyway, we will respect your wishes” she then turned to Starlight and Moon Dancer and motioned them to follow her “Follow me, girls, we can talk about new spells that we have learned while we wait”
>The three mares exited the room. Cherrywood gazed at Luna, then looked down and sighed “Okay… I-I get it. See you later, Annony. I will go and see if my mom is around… Eeep!”
>Your bat got enveloped by a blue magical aura that lifted her off the floor and pulled her towards Luna ”Now where do you think you are going? This little “discussion” involves my new little best friend too”
>Cherrywood lighten up like a Christmas tree after she heard those words “Y-You actually remembered!” Your bat gave Luna a tight hug and nuzzled under her chin “I-I was so scared that you wouldn’t but you did! A-And…” She broke the hug and looked at your mom with some worry “We’re still gonna play with my masks, right?”
>”Of course we are” Luna pulled Cherrywood for a hug and nuzzled her muzzle into her mane “And in fact, once my study is back in order, I want to teach you everything I know about the different creatures that roam not only Equestria but also what lies beyond our kingdom’s borders and in more… abstract plains”
>Cherrywood returned the hug whole heartedly “You mean, like that strange totem that Anonny has in his room? Kekeke~! That sounds so awesome! And… wait, if you remember everything that happened” She turned to Celestia “Does that mean that you…”
“Yeah, I was actually afraid to ask that”

>Celestia nodded “That would be correct, just like my sister, I have all my memories about what happened” she dropped her head and sighed “And that includes everything that I did to you and Luna. Cherrywood, I understand if you never want to speak to me again, that’s something that I completely deserve, but if you forgive me, I would like for us to be friends, real friends.”
>”Oh, that? Nah, it’s not a big deal, really” Cherrywood shrugged “Thinking about it, that whole thing was kind of awesome… the only creepy thing was… well, y’know”
“The filly version of my mom being all over me… yeah, that was… a thing.”
>You narrowed your eyes at your mom Celestia
“Actually, how comes that you are so cool about that? I mean, not even a few minutes ago you were all over me, but you just shrugged it off… isn’t that a little creepy for you?”
>Your mom Celestia arrogantly shrugged ”I think you’re being unfair, my dear. As you could see, I was a bit… on the wild side when I was thousand years or so younger couple that with the facts that I couldn’t remember a thing about my adult life, and that you were going all out with your princely charm, and well…”
>”There was no way that my younger self could ever hope to resist the enchantments of the prince of harmony. Really, it’s no wonder why Cherrywood here has fallen completely for you ” Your mom Celestia ruffled your bat’s mane
>Cherrywood’s cheeks adopted a bright red color as she struggled to come up with a reply “I… well, you see… he can be… you know…Anonny is… ugh”
>Your mom Celestia smirked as she let out a small giggle “Gotcha…”
>Your bat groaned and rolled her eyes “Yeah… even when he can be a dummy, my Anonny is… well… he’s the kind of pony that once he gets inside your head, you can’t get him out, no matter what… but at the same time…”
>Cherrywood jumped out from Luna’s hooves, flew at you and then she rubbed her cheek against yours “I don’t want to get him out of my head either”

>That felt so good! You tried to play it cool though… but you failed miserably as you felt your cheeks warmer, your heart racing and an overall sense of dizziness started to overcome you.
“Heh… well, Cherrywood, what do you want me to say? I had to get back at you in some form since… you know… it is impossible for me to stop thinking about you”
>”Kekeke~! You are a dummy… and a weirdo… but that’s why I…” Cherrywood whispered into your ear “That’s why I love you”
>You rubbed your nose against hers and with a quick peck on the lips, you whispered back
“And you have anger issues are hard headed, and… you know… I love you too”
>You and Cherrywood stared into each other’s eyes before she blinked and turned to Luna
“Oh wait! I just thought something… err now that you’re an adult… do I have to call you Princess Luna”
>Your mom shook her head and gave your bat a smile “No, in fact, I would prefer if you refer to me in the same way that your mother does, that is to say, by my actual name. For you, my little Cherrywood, I will always be Luna and nothing more.
>”The same goes for me” Your mom Celestia said with a calm voice “You can drop the title and just call me Celestia if you want. That’s the least I could do for you considering that you have to put up with my son’s antics”
“Hey!”
>”Kekeke~! Thanks and I will!” Cherrywood tapped her chin, pondering for a moment “Luna and Celestia are my friends now… I-I have more friends… this… this is the best day ever!”
>Your mom Luna nodded “Indeed, despite the previous events, everything has turned out for the best. Now, to celebrate our new friendship, what do you say if we go together to the royal dinner and enjoy ourselves a nice meal made by my sister?”

>Your mom Luna motioned Cherrywood to follow her, your bat immediately flew at her and landed on her back “Yaay! I’m starving… and also confused… Luna, what did you mean by creatures that live in… other plains, you said? Were you talking about ghosts? Because I love those too”
>Your mom Luna started to walk out of the study with Cherrywood comfortably resting on her back.
>”I was referring to the creatures and horrors that lurk in ponies nightmares, but if you want to learn about the spirits that haunt the land of the living” Luna gave Cherrywood a small smirk, “I think that it would be better if we ask your mother to give us a lesson about them. There is nopony better versed in such obscure subject than Moonlight Shadow… except for maybe her mother, but I still do not have the pleasure to meet her. Not because I don’t want to, but because Moonlight always refuses my propositions about having a meeting with her mother Umbra”
>”Oh, that’s cool!” Cherrywood gently placed her hooves on your mom’s head “Because Grandma Umbra wants to meet you and Anonny too!”
>”In that case, we must speak with your mother to schedule a meeting, I would hate to leave the mother and grandmother of my best friends with a negative reply”
>You watched your mom exiting the study, and despite the heartwarming scene… you still had a looming feeling oppressing your heart.
>”You know, my dear? I wasn’t wrong when I said that you won the lottery” Your mom Celestia said as she gently placed her hoof on your head “That special pony you have is one of a kind… but she also got a one of a kind colt if you ask me”
>Now everything was starting to feel worse, because of you, this mess escalated to such extent that it threatened the safety of Equestria, the kingdom you’re supposed to serve and protect…
“Yeah”
>”Still feeling down, huh?” Your mom Celestia gave you a little tug
“…That obvious?”

>Your mom Celestia let out a small giggle “It was obvious when I was still a filly, it is even more now that I got my memories back, and speaking of that…”
>Everything happened thanks to your own arrogance and lack of honesty. Maybe… you weren’t fit to be a prince, maybe you just deluded yourself into thinking that you were destined for something greater than the miserable being that you used to, maybe…
“Agh! What was that for?!”
>You were snapped out from your depressing train of thought by a pretty hard bonk on the head that your mom gave you.
>Your mom put up a fake angry stare “For two reasons. The first one is for calling me slow so many times, I know that I wasn’t the fastest learning filly in town, but your little smug antics were too much… like my own actually… thinking more deeply about what happened… I think that it is quite impressive how similar you are when compared with how Luna and I were during our childhood…”
>”Meh… you’re my son for a reason” Your mom Celestia shrugged “Anyways, the second motive is because…” Your mom pulled you closer and placed her hooves on you “To stop you from continue thinking those horrible things.”
>Trying to cover your sadness, you let out a chuckle
“Come on, how could you possibly know what’s going on in my mind?”
>”I don’t have psychic powers if that’s what you were thinking” Your mom laughed “I just knew because you’re my son”
“I know you don’t that have psychic powers, but even if you somehow did… those “horrible” things as you called them, are actually the truth. I’m a failure… I was the ruler of Equestria for less than a day and I managed to put the entire kingdom and everyone I love at risk… the lesson I learned from all of this was, to be honest, so I have to put that into practice and face the truth… and the truth is, that even with all my efforts, I’m simply not worthy of being called a prince and never will be”

>”My sunshine, it hurts me deeply to hear you talk about yourself in such way” You felt her hooves holding you tighter “Especially because you have never been more wrong in your entire life”
“Really? Just look around you! This entire disaster happened because I was arrogant and dishonest, and it was thanks to me being an absolute brainless idiot that I almost lost you, mom Luna and Cherrywood too! I…”
>Your mom quickly interrupted you ”…Made a mistake, that is something that everypony does because nopony is perfect. You told me the same exact thing a few moments ago.”
>Your mom lowered her head and whispered into your ear “My dear Anon, my ray of hope, one of the most important traits that a ruler must have is to realize his or her own mistakes and fix them before it’s too late. That’s a lesson that Luna and I had to learn in the most painful way possible…”
>…Nightmare Moon
>”But unlike us, you quickly realized your own mistakes and embraced the value of honesty, and while it‘s true that you are not ready yet to be in charge of the kingdom, you did prove that you are more than worthy of your title…Just like you have done many times before”
“I want to ask you something and please, be honest with me. I need you to as objective as the ruler of Equestria for many generations can possibly be, do you genuinely believe that I’m fit to be a prince?”
>Your mom nodded “I have not a single doubt in my mind that one day you will be the ruler of this land.” She held you in her hooves and raised you to her eye level, your mom was holding on of those smiles that could melt even the coldest heart “My son, it is clear for everypony that your destiny is to shine like the sun and the moon. How you will achieve such destiny, however, will be up to you… that said, I believe that today, you just made your first major step in the right path”

“You are talking about what my cutie mark did, right? Hmmm… I feel like I know why that happened and why that orange light went to the Everfree Forest, but at the same time, I don’t… it’s hard to explain, almost as if the answer was right in front of me, but it was written in another language”
>Your mom slowly put you on the ground and patted your mane”The answers that you seek will come in time, you just need to have patience and stop getting so depressed every time things don’t go your way. As you said, perfection doesn’t exist, so don’t worry my sunshine, you’re doing fine”
“…You… you really think so?”
>She gently ruffled your mane and sighed “I mean, if you ask me, you are way better than me and Luna when we were your age… actually, you don’t need to ask, since you already saw how we used to be”
“Heh… yeah… I have to admit that never thought how much of a scatterbrain you used to be”
>”Oh, hoh, hoh! That’s rich coming from you” Your mom let out a chuckle and took a deep breath “But that’s my point, I was way more… meh, no point in covering it, I was incredibly arrogant when I was your age…”
>You raised an eyebrow and gave your mom a stoic look
“Was?”
>”Yes, you heard that right, I WAS arrogant” Your mom pulled a smug smirk as she arrogantly placed her hoof on her chest “What you see right now is simply me being aware in how good I am, and you know why? ‘Cause I’m Celestia, dawg! There ain’t nopony like this chill dudette!”
>You placed your hoof on your forehead and groaned
“Mom… please… stop with trying to be hip… it’s starting to physically hurt”
>”Hmmm…” Your mom Celestia tapped her chin as she looked at an empty spot in the room “I thought that after this experience, mastering the art of being cool with the kids would have been as easy as pie”
“

“Well, you were wrong, horribly wrong, but hey, you got something more awesome than being hip… kinda, you still need to work on that, but anyways, you can’t feel bad when you got absolute and complete immunity to chaos magic, right?”
>Your mom rolled her eyes and laughed “Oh my dear, I don’t have such thing”
“W-What?! But Discord snapped his talons and nothing happened to you! C’mon, mom! I know that you are immune to chaos now!”
>Your mom waved her hoof dismissively "Nah, I don't have any immunity to Discord's magic, what I did develop is a bit more... subtle, you could say that it's almost like a sixth sense... well..." she gave you a smug smirk "Considering that I can already predict many things just because I'm me, you could say that what I gained is actually a seventh sense, one that allows me to know when and how chaos magic will happen"
“… And let me guess, you are already planning on how to use that to mess with Discord, right? Because if that’s the case, well… I don’t blame you, the idea of taking advantage that his shenanigans won’t work on you anymore is too awesome to let it slide”
>”You are absolutely right, my dear, and considering that this is Discord that we are talking about, I don't see any problem with rubbing my new talent on his old face whenever the opportunity arises... I just hope that you won't get too bothered about me using this new perk on Eris too...”
“Oh c’mon, Eris is already scared of you, can’t you let her out of your little prank plan?”
>She shook her head “Nope, I will have my share of fun on her because that girl needs to be reminded who is the boss when it comes to tricks… in fact, I will need to plan with Luna how we are going to prank her, and don’t worry my dear, you’re welcome to join in if you want."
“Eh, I think that I’ll pass on that proposition. I don’t want to deal with Eris’ revenge and honestly? I don’t really want to mess with her considering that she’s cool with me… for the most part.”

“Well, you were wrong, horribly wrong, but hey, you got something more awesome than being hip… kinda, you still need to work on that, but anyways, you can’t feel bad when you got absolute and complete immunity to chaos magic, right?”
>Your mom rolled her eyes and laughed “Oh my dear, I don’t have such thing”
“W-What?! But Discord snapped his talons and nothing happened to you! C’mon, mom! I know that you are immune to chaos now!”
>Your mom waved her hoof dismissively "Nah, I don't have any immunity to Discord's magic, what I did develop is a bit more... subtle, you could say that it's almost like a sixth sense... well..." she gave you a smug smirk "Considering that I can already predict many things just because I'm me, you could say that what I gained is actually a seventh sense, one that allows me to know when and how chaos magic will happen"
“… And let me guess, you are already planning on how to use that to mess with Discord, right? Because if that’s the case, well… I don’t blame you, the idea of taking advantage that his shenanigans won’t work on you anymore is too awesome to let it slide”
>”You are absolutely right, my dear, and considering that this is Discord that we are talking about, I don't see any problem with rubbing my new talent on his old face whenever the opportunity arises... I just hope that you won't get too bothered about me using this new perk on Eris too...”
“Oh c’mon, Eris is already scared of you, can’t you let her out of your little prank plan?”
>She shook her head “Nope, I will have my share of fun on her because that girl needs to be reminded who is the boss when it comes to tricks… in fact, I will need to plan with Luna how we are going to prank her, and don’t worry my dear, you’re welcome to join in if you want."
“Eh, I think that I’ll pass on that proposition. I don’t want to deal with Eris’ revenge and honestly? I don’t really want to mess with her considering that she’s cool with me… for the most part.”

“Are you seriously telling me that you won’t make Chrysalis know what happened when you blast her ugly face?”
>”Oh, of course, I will…” Your mom put up an arrogant smirk “After she’s defeated of course. I want to enjoy the moment when Chrysalis realizes that she was beaten at her own game”
“Cool, will you let me laugh at her too, right?”
>”No”
“What?! But whyyyy?”
>”We already discussed this, my dear. Dealing with the Queen of changelings is too dangerous for you” Your mom patted your mane “But don’t worry, I will tell you everything that happened in full detail, and I will be extra careful to describe Chrysalis’ meltdown to the best of my capabilities…”
“Just promise me something. If there happens to be a little changeling runt who just happens to be extra loyal to Chrysalis and… well… with unconventional intelligence, don’t hurt him, please. Even if this is a version that I have never met, I can’t bear the thought of Scrappy getting hurt”
>”Scrappy is your inter-dimensional friend, right? Okay, my dear, if your friend also exists in our plane, I promise you that he won’t get hurt…” Your mom sighed “But let’s change the subject for a moment because there’s something that I wanted to ask you for a couple days now”
“Err… is it about your favorite chess board? B-Because I have the funniest story about what happened to it”
> You felt your mom’s glare piercing on your skull ”You mean my one-of-a-kind-totally-irreplaceable-because-the-creator-is long-gone chessboard? The one that you gifted to your friend Scrappy on a whim? That chessboard? Yeah, I already know what happened to it, thank you very much”
“Y-Yeah, I think you do, but… eh… if you didn’t want to hear my totally awesome story about how I acted all princely by giving Scrappy that chessboard as a symbolic act, then what did you want to ask me?”
>”Something much simpler and yet equally important, my dear, I wanted to know how exactly do you plan to proceed with your school election”

“Aaah, so you already knew about that… well… of course, you did. You’re the principal of the school, after all… heh heh heh, it was kind of dumb on my part to not tell you, right? I mean, I could have used your many, many, many, MANY years of experience of being a ruler- AGH!”
>Your mom quickly gave you a bonk on the head and huffed “Don’t get cheeky on me, my dear. I know that my experience is vast, but there’s no need to bring up my age… especially” She let out a smug chuckle “When I still look like a freshly picked flower. Just tell me what your strategy is because if I have to be honest, I’m dying to know.”
“Well…”
>You rubbed the back of your head and shrugged
“It is actually fairly simple, I go to each classroom to meet every pony there, listen to them and their problems so I can really get to know them, then figure out ways to solve said problems for them as a classroom and for the school as a whole”
>”Hmmm, interesting” Your mom tapped her chin and then raised an eyebrow “But then, I have to ask something else, what will you do if you lose the election?”
“Then I will find a way to solve their problems as just another student because that’s my job as a prince. I mean, that’s what leaders are supposed to do, right? Help others even when they are not officially in powers”
>”Yes, that is absolutely correct, but…” Your mom chuckled “I think that maybe you’re missing something else, something very important, and guess what? I’m not going to tell you what that is because I feel like this is a lesson that you have to learn on your own”
>You raised an eyebrow and looked at your mom with confusion
“Why do you know that I need to learn a lesson for this? I just need to take this election with the utmost seriousness that it deserves. I need to be a serious and respectable leader for every pony in my school”

>Your mom laughed “I’m going to change that maybe for an “I’m absolutely sure that you’re missing something important” and as for how I know that…” She shrugged “Meh, you could call it common sense or you could also call it my never ending wisdom as the ruler of Equestria… the second one sounds better so let’s go with that”
>You let out a sigh
“If you say so, mom”
>”I say so because I know so. Now, don’t get too frustrated, my dear” Your mom patter your mane “I know that your heart is in the right place, and I have to admit that you’re already on the right track, you just need that extra little thing that is missing and once you realize what that is, I’m sure you will take another step towards your destiny”
“Then I guess we’ll have to see, but seriously, I have to take this whole thing with all the seriousness in the world. Many ponies are already counting on me, and I can’t fail them. I have to win this no matter what and be the leader that they need”
>Your mom rolled her eyes “Oh dear… look, since you’re my son, I’m going to give you a little hint. Maybe, what they need is something better than just a leader”
“… Why are you, mom Luna and Discord so cryptic? Do you have a knack with riddles or something?”

>”Actually yes, I do like to solve some riddles as part of my morning routine and Luna places so many cryptic symbology in her dreams because that is something she has loved ever since we watched a play when we were foals. I don’t know about Discord though, I have always assumed that he sometimes speaks in riddles because age is starting to catch up with him… why do you ask, my dear?”
“…You’re seriously not going to tell me more, right?”
>Your mom shook her head “Absolutely not, as I said, this is something that you have to figure out on your own… and don’t you even think about asking Luna, she can read you faster than me”
“You mean that she was the one who thought about this whole lesson thing first”
>”But I was the one who told you first, and that’s what counts. Anyways…” Your mom stood before a giant wooden door “We have arrived; I hope you’re ready to deal with our “guests” once more”
>You gave your mom a smug smirk
“Me? It is them who need to get ready to deal with me”
>”You mean to deal with us…” Your mom smirked back at you “Too bad that’s impossible”
“And that’s because we’re the best“
>”Exactly” She opened the door, and with a confident smile, your mom replied “Now, let’s go, my son”