Last Days Of Sunshine
Chapter 2
Author's Note: I hope you guys are enjoying this! If this gets enough good reviews, I'm hoping to send it to Equestria Daily, so be nice please. What a short chapter this is.
"Dear Twilight Sparkle,
This is Princess Luna. I'm writing this letter to inform you that my sister is really, really sick. Since you are her favorite student, I'm asking you (and your friends) to come stay over and spend some time with my sister. It pains me to write these next lines, but I fear something terrible is going to happen. We don't know what's wrong yet. I'm scared, and I need a friend.
Signed,
Princess Luna."
Luna sealed the scroll, and walked over to her sister's study, where she kept a bottle of dragon flames. She eased open the jar and burnt the letter. It would soon be on its way to Spike, Twilight Sparkle's dragon assistant. She glanced at the old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall. 6:00 AM. Maybe it was a bit too early. Oh well.
"Your Highness?" a voice said.
The source was a dark-brown unicorn guard.
"Yes?" asked Luna.
"The doctor would like to see you."
Twilight Sparkle looked out the train window, thinking about the first time she had arrived at Canterlot. It was to take an entrance exam to enter Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, and she was most certainly gifted. It seemed like only yesterday that she was spending almost all her days with the princess alone in her study, laughing and talking about magic.
"Twilight?"
Applejack put a hoof on Twilight's shoulder. "Time to get going."
Twilight grabbed her saddlebag and jumped off the train to meet up with the rest of her friends who were now standing on the platform.
"So, we're staying at the castle, right?" asked Rainbow Dash, stretching her wings. "You had a suite there once, didn't you Rarity?"
"Oh yes, it was simply divine," gushed the white unicorn, using a perfectly manicured hoof to brush her perfectly styled mane out of her gorgeous azure blue eyes. Yes, Rarity was quite beautiful.
"We best be heading on then," drawled Applejack, adjusting her hat on top her floppy blonde mane. "It's getting' awfully dark."
The other ponies gave a small nod of agreement, and began their walk to the castle, where they would be spending the next few days.
"Twilight! You came!" Luna hurried down the grand staircase to meet the purple pony and her entourage.
"Thank you for inviting us, it's very kind of you," replied Twilight. She didn't expect the welcome to be so…cheerful. Maybe Celestia was getting better?
"I hope all of you will be comfortable here," continued Luna, a slight blush appearing onto her cheeks. "I've never had friends over, so please forgive me for any mistakes."
"Is this your very first sleepover?" asked the most exuberant and hyper pony of the group. "This is going to be so much fun!"
The rest of the gang all smiled at Luna.
Luna cleared her throat. "There was a reason I asked you all to come down here though. It's… my sister."
That was enough to silence everypony. Twilight made the first move to put her foreleg around Luna's shoulders. "What's wrong with her?"
"We don't know yet. This hasn't happened before. She's got rashes all over her body, and they won't stop bleeding. She…she's got this bump on her neck." Luna sat on the floor, a tear forming in one eye. "I don't know how to help her."
"We're here for you, sugar cube. We'll help you get through this," promised Applejack, taking her hat off and placing it across her heart.
And that's when Luna looked up into the eyes of all her friends, while something warm began to glow in her heart.