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“... Why did you forgive me so easily?”

Celestia craned her neck back a bit with a small jolt.
“Lulu-”

Luna cut the indignant sentence off before it could hardly start. She shot a stony look, keeping a solid expression despite twinges of confusion and grief flicking through with every twitchy nerve or muscle.
“I mean it though! I tried to make myself an only child for beyond petty reasons, destroy our home and endanger others, force you to go through what you did, then plague your nightmares for years as you kept me from going after the ponies in their sleep. And then when I get back, I start doing the start of the mayhem all over again, only for you to accept me again the very next day!”

With no hospital staff in this hall and the diarchs all alone, Luna held nothing back in regards to the exasperation in her rambles. Xenilla and Godzilla’s conflict had been plaguing her and opening up a few hard questions she’d been trying to lock away, and now some of them were bubbling back up. It took a lot of restraint for her not to bring up a plan involving a self-inflicting nightmare entity she’d put on hold after Godzilla showed up. Luna looked into Celestia’s eyes while practically begging.

“Tia, how hard was it to forgive me?”

Celestia was frozen in place for a time. Then she began to tremble, closing her eyes to hold her nerves back down as she reached up and removed her crown. When she opened her orbs again, they were looking into her reflection on the gleaming metal. A full thousand years had passed and she still felt like the reflection staring back at her wasn’t her own, not with a mane stained by using the Elements of Harmony alone and against another bearer. She could still practically feel the cold snap that went through her when her connection to them was severed while doing so.

She sighed, chewing at her lip a bit.
“In some ways, very hard. In others, very easy… It’s... difficult to describe… Why are you asking me this?
”
Celestia looked Luna in the eyes, locking gazes with her for a time before the younger alicorn almost shamefully looked away and back out the window.
“I’ve always admired you sister. If I were in your horseshoes, I might not have been able to forgive. But with these brothers… I fear that with all that’s happened between them, what happened before will just repeat again and again until one of them is dead. Given his remorse about it all, probably Xenilla.”

“Yet you’re worried about Junior, aren’t you?”

“That force we encountered on the mountain, I looked into his eyes then. All I saw was wrath and bloodthirstiness, destruction given a body and a face. He didn’t even look like that when we fought… Tia, what I saw on the mountain was as far removed from Junior as Nightmare Moon was from me. And I'm scared that if that form returned again, there might not be any going back. It wasn't Junior...”

Princess Celestia kept her voice down involuntarily as the memory pushed back into her. When she saw that burning monstrosity trying to get to his prey with her sister between the two, the oldest alicorn was more terrified than she’d ever been in her life. That same fear shot through her again in phantom sensations that persisted even as her mind pulled up the memory of the interview chamber. Luna was right on the money when she said Junior didn’t look like himself. The visage of the flaming beast and laughing unicorn just refused to mesh together, so alike in body form but so completely different in image.
“I think.. Even he was aware of that, how he wasn’t like himself. That's why he left.”

“There was a moment I remember best, like its burned into my mind. He looked…”

Celestia expected the answer to be something in the ballpark of demonic, terrifying, or out of control; something to express how chaotic and dangerous the King of the Monsters looked. Instead she got-

“-scared.”

Sensing the raised eyebrow she was getting, Luna elaborated.

“In the last moments before he canceled out the blazing glow around him, when he was trying to find a way around myself and Colonel Dancer. I could tell he was thinking about how to get past us and finish Xenilla off. It was only for a brief instant, but whatever he thought of left him terrified. That’s when he cut his powers off. I think he realized what he would have to do, and he was scared the thought occurred to him… Tia, he hates Xenilla so much he went out of control and nearly did something I know he’d never do, all in an attempt to finish it. If even you could have a difficult time forgiving me, what chance does Junior have at forgiving his brother?”

“... You’re afraid for him.”

“I’m afraid of what might happen if he loses himself again, on here or on Terra. Please, Tia-”

Luna felt her eyes grow a bit damp as she pleaded to her sister.

“You know more than me about forgiveness. I still have a hard time managing to do it to even myself… Do you know anything, anything we could do to help? I don’t want him falling into the same trap I did...”

Story created by tarbano
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are owned by Hasbro
BG inspired by one of :devLimeDreaming:'s pictures

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Read "The Bridge" here! www.fimfiction.net/story/12183…

“... Why did you forgive me so easily?”

Celestia craned her neck back a bit with a small jolt.
“Lulu-”

Luna cut the indignant sentence off before it could hardly start. She shot a stony look, keeping a solid expression despite twinges of confusion and grief flicking through with every twitchy nerve or muscle.
“I mean it though! I tried to make myself an only child for beyond petty reasons, destroy our home and endanger others, force you to go through what you did, then plague your nightmares for years as you kept me from going after the ponies in their sleep. And then when I get back, I start doing the start of the mayhem all over again, only for you to accept me again the very next day!”

With no hospital staff in this hall and the diarchs all alone, Luna held nothing back in regards to the exasperation in her rambles. Xenilla and Godzilla’s conflict had been plaguing her and opening up a few hard questions she’d been trying to lock away, and now some of them were bubbling back up. It took a lot of restraint for her not to bring up a plan involving a self-inflicting nightmare entity she’d put on hold after Godzilla showed up. Luna looked into Celestia’s eyes while practically begging.

“Tia, how hard was it to forgive me?”

Celestia was frozen in place for a time. Then she began to tremble, closing her eyes to hold her nerves back down as she reached up and removed her crown. When she opened her orbs again, they were looking into her reflection on the gleaming metal. A full thousand years had passed and she still felt like the reflection staring back at her wasn’t her own, not with a mane stained by using the Elements of Harmony alone and against another bearer. She could still practically feel the cold snap that went through her when her connection to them was severed while doing so.

She sighed, chewing at her lip a bit.
“In some ways, very hard. In others, very easy… It’s... difficult to describe… Why are you asking me this?
”
Celestia looked Luna in the eyes, locking gazes with her for a time before the younger alicorn almost shamefully looked away and back out the window.
“I’ve always admired you sister. If I were in your horseshoes, I might not have been able to forgive. But with these brothers… I fear that with all that’s happened between them, what happened before will just repeat again and again until one of them is dead. Given his remorse about it all, probably Xenilla.”

“Yet you’re worried about Junior, aren’t you?”

“That force we encountered on the mountain, I looked into his eyes then. All I saw was wrath and bloodthirstiness, destruction given a body and a face. He didn’t even look like that when we fought… Tia, what I saw on the mountain was as far removed from Junior as Nightmare Moon was from me. And I'm scared that if that form returned again, there might not be any going back. It wasn't Junior...”

Princess Celestia kept her voice down involuntarily as the memory pushed back into her. When she saw that burning monstrosity trying to get to his prey with her sister between the two, the oldest alicorn was more terrified than she’d ever been in her life. That same fear shot through her again in phantom sensations that persisted even as her mind pulled up the memory of the interview chamber. Luna was right on the money when she said Junior didn’t look like himself. The visage of the flaming beast and laughing unicorn just refused to mesh together, so alike in body form but so completely different in image.
“I think.. Even he was aware of that, how he wasn’t like himself. That's why he left.”

“There was a moment I remember best, like its burned into my mind. He looked…”

Celestia expected the answer to be something in the ballpark of demonic, terrifying, or out of control; something to express how chaotic and dangerous the King of the Monsters looked. Instead she got-

“-scared.”

Sensing the raised eyebrow she was getting, Luna elaborated.

“In the last moments before he canceled out the blazing glow around him, when he was trying to find a way around myself and Colonel Dancer. I could tell he was thinking about how to get past us and finish Xenilla off. It was only for a brief instant, but whatever he thought of left him terrified. That’s when he cut his powers off. I think he realized what he would have to do, and he was scared the thought occurred to him… Tia, he hates Xenilla so much he went out of control and nearly did something I know he’d never do, all in an attempt to finish it. If even you could have a difficult time forgiving me, what chance does Junior have at forgiving his brother?”

“... You’re afraid for him.”

“I’m afraid of what might happen if he loses himself again, on here or on Terra. Please, Tia-”

Luna felt her eyes grow a bit damp as she pleaded to her sister.

“You know more than me about forgiveness. I still have a hard time managing to do it to even myself… Do you know anything, anything we could do to help? I don’t want him falling into the same trap I did...”

Story created by tarbano
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are owned by Hasbro
BG inspired by one of :devLimeDreaming:'s pictures