Hey all you bronies and pegasisters!
So, first of all, I thought of this short story after I answered a question from my Q and A on the Rio fandom, which was, "Who do you ship in MLP?", from SummerKitty04, and I said, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst. So I got to thinking… Hasbro should make an episode in season 7 about Starlight and Sunburst spending Hearts and Hooves Day together! So here's what I think the episode would look like…
Also, since I wrote two one shots (Plus my letter to Lauren Faust) for this fandom, I feel ready to make a short story!
Chapter 1: Letter to Starlight
It was a nice and sunny day in the Crystal Empire and everypony was spending it like they always do, and for one stallion, that meant being the royal crystaller of the new born baby ponies in the empire. Sunburst was just finishing up appointing another baby, just finishing up putting in the crowd's love that gathered into the single crystal and using it to greet the new born into the empire. As Sunburst finished, the baby pony's parents thanked Sunburst and the baby pony gave Sunburst a final hug as Sunburst blushed a bit.
As Sunburst finished, he felt tired, but first needing to tell Princess Cadance and Shining Armor that he was going home. Sunburst went inside the crystal castle, to go to the royal couple, knowing where they were. It was about time for Flurry heart's nap and they would be in the baby alicorn's room. As Sunburst arrived at the door, he knocked softly so as not to wake the baby alicorn, Shining Armor answering it.
"Hello Sunburst, what can I do for you?" Shining Armor asked.
"Oh, just saying that I'm done with all the crystalling for today and I'm going home." Sunburst replied.
"Oh okay, well have a good rest of the day Sunburst." Shining Armor smiled.
However Sunburst wasn't paying close attention to Shining Armor because he was looking into the room, where Flurry Heart was laying down in her Apple family made cradle, with the blanket Rarity made covering her and Rainbow Dash's mobile hanging above. Princess Cadance was gently rocking the cradle back and forth, to put her precious little alicorn to sleep while Cadance softly hummed lullabies. Shining Armor noticed Sunburst looking inside and was concerned by the other stallion.
"Sunburst, are you okay?" Shining Armor asked.
"What?" Sunburst replied as he was surprised. "Oh no, I'm okay, I better be going home."
And Sunburst left while Shining Armor closed the door gently and walked back to his wife and baby.
"So what did Sunburst want?" Cadance asked.
"Oh he just wanted to let us know that he's done for today and he's going back home." Shining Armor answered.
"Oh okay, anything else?" Cadance said.
"Well, he looked a bit weird, he was looking into the room." Shining Armor answered, thinking about Sunburst now.
"Well, I guess he just wanted to see how Flurry Heart's doing." Cadance suggested.
"I guess so." Shining Armor said back, not thinking about the subject any further.
However there was something wrong with Sunburst, for it was almost Hearts and Hooves Day in Equestria. And in the Crystal Empire, that day was still relevant, for couples were now trotting the streets of the empire, happy as can be. For Sunburst… Well… He didn't have a special somepony, he thought about it a little, but not that much, but the holiday was getting closer and closer.
Sunburst's friend, Starlight Glimmer, who was in Ponyville living in Princess Twilight's castle, seemed like a good choice. However Sunburst wasn't sure, Starlight was a friend, but should he take it further? And what if Starlight didn't want it? What if she just wanted to be friends?
As Sunburst finally arrived back at his home, he went inside, cleaned his glasses and went to his kitchen, where he prepared some tea to drink, of course using his unicorn magic to make it. As Sunburst made his cup of tea, he went to his study, where he pulled out some books and tried his best to think about magical spells and not Hearts and Hooves Day.
As fate would have it, a couple trotted past Sunburst's house, laughing and having a good time and as they trotted past Sunburst's window, the stallion inside could not have helped but to imagine that couple was him and Starlight. Sunburst sighed as he returned to focusing on his spells.
As nighttime came over the Crystal Empire, Princess Celestia lowering the sun while Princess Luna raised the moon, Sunburst was still studying, but he found himself losing focus and eventually he felt his eyes close and he fell asleep right there at his study.
And then Sunburst dreamt about him and Starlight. He was in one of the Crystal Empire's tea shops and he was sitting at one of the tables outside with Starlight. They were both enjoying the day, chatting and catching up while enjoying some tea. However that all changed when Sunburst asked an important question to Starlight…
"Hey Starlight, I been thinking…" Sunburst said.
"Yes Sunburst?" Starlight smiled as she put down her cup of tea that she was drinking.
"Well, we been back to friends for awhile now and I quite enjoy your friendship very much, so I been thinking…" Sunburst stammered as he couldn't get it out.
"Yes?" Starlight urged her friend to finish.
"Will you be my special somepony?" Sunburst asked.
"Wait what?" Starlight laughed. "You as my special somepony? Wow Sunburst, you're really a laugh, that's a good joke."
"But it's not a joke Starlight, I really mean it." Sunburst replied, trying to sound as sincere as he could.
"Seriously, Sunburst, we're friends and nothing more, I'm quite shocked you would ask me to be your special somepony, I thought you were better than that." Starlight said, this time a bit sternly.
"But I thought you would have liked it, with us being friends and all." Sunburst said nervously.
"No way!" Starlight shouted. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I should get back to Ponyville to learn more friendship lessons with Twilight." Starlight replied and got up and turned away from her friend, to go back to the train station.
"Wait Starlight, I'm sorry!" Sunburst shouted at his friend.
Suddenly the scene moved to one of back to Sunburst's house, where Sunburst was crying while laying down on his bed, very sad that he lost his friend because of a stupid question he asked.
However, as Sunburst envisioned his future, a shadow over him appeared and mist seemed to roll in as a figure of an alicorn showed up.
"Princess Luna?" Sunburst said as he was surprised to see the dark blue alicorn.
"Hello Sunburst." Luna greeted the orange stallion. "Having a rough night I see."
"Yes indeed princess." Sunburst replied and sighed. "I'm worried about losing my friendship with Starlight."
"Because of you asking her to be your special somepony." Luna explained.
"Yes, how did you know?" Sunburst said, surprised.
"Princess of the night Sunburst, you forget I can see other ponies' dreams." Luna reminded the stallion.
"Oh right… I forgot." Sunburst blushed. "So what should I do?"
"I think you should ask Starlight to come spend Hearts and Hooves Day with you, and ask her, what you have seen can never be, for she is your friend and she will not laugh at anything you say that is serious." Luna suggested.
"I guess so princess, I'll try." Sunburst tried to be confident.
"Well, good luck Sunburst." Luna said while putting a hoof on Sunburst's shoulder to reassure him.
Luna then went onto a small cloud and flowed up to the moon, disappearing in it as Sunburst in real life woke up, while turning around to look out the window at the moon. Sunburst then lifted his head off his desk and lit a candle. Placing the candle down on his desk with his magic, he then used his magic to place a piece of parchment, quill and ink in front of him and started writing a letter to send to Starlight.
As Sunburst was done writing out a thoughtful letter to his friend, he yawned and rolled up the parchment with his magic, making sure to put it somewhere he would remember the letter in order to have the mailpony pick it up tomorrow morning. As Sunburst finished that, he went to bed to sleep for the rest of the night, debating whether or not this will end good or not.
And done with the first chapter of this short story!
And don't be afraid to give me some advice, I might be a very experienced writer, but sometimes experienced writers need some advice!
And I'll see you in the second chapter!