Chapter 4:
Celestia and Samantha entered the spacious dining hall. The room towered over everypony making them have a feeling of being smaller then they were. In the middle of the room stood a long table covered with a snowy cloth upon a crimson and golden rectangle rug covering the ivory and ash glassy checker floor that found throughout most of the castle. On top of the alabaster cloth, two mauve table runners that outlined in violet that on each side came to a point and hung vertically in the center of the table while a slightly more red cloth in rose in the same shape was cast over the two with a golden tassel at each end. Each of those runners gave compliments to the centerpiece fruit bowl that filled with just about every piece of fruit that one would ever want. The pastel amethyst walls were shown to be brighter as they bathed in the morning light from the four large clear windows on opposite sides of the room two being on each side of the doors the others stood just behind the other side of the high table. The left and right side of the dining room where full of stained glass windows that were absent of any significant events. Samantha was sure one day all the windows will display the momentous events that will have played out in Equestria, but most not in her time. Plum fabric draped down around the room being held in place by golden ovals with a dark purple diamond shape in the center pinning the material to a very light lilac colored pillars. Samantha and her mother each walked to one of the two chairs that set at each end of the long table. Celestia walked the cherry trimmed in a gold chair opposite the door they came through while Samantha took the same type of chair closer to the short table. The table behind her had the same colored cloth as the large one. The top of the table was a bit more straightforward only holding a press machine, a couple of table plants for decorations, a bowl with some of Equestria's best apple that exclusive came from a small farm in a small town called Ponyville, and a brass punch bowl. Next to the table a little bucket next to the table that used for a trash can for any waste that needed to dispose of. As Samantha sat down in her chair a plate full with french toast topped with a little drizzle of cream cheese with beautiful plump strawberries cut into fourths on each piece of toast placed in front of her along with a glass filled with apple juice by her mother's light gold magic aura. A smile spread a mile wide across her face as she looked at her mother who had own plate with french toast only covered in whip cream pecks.
"You made my favorite!" Samantha exclaimed excitedly as she beamed at her mother. Celestia happily nodded enjoying seeing the smile on her daughter's face.
"Yes, I did. I figured it was a great way to start a Mother-Daughter day together. After I had lowered the moon and raised the sun, I went down to the kitchens and shooed the cooks out. I don't get to cook as often as I would like, but when I do get the chance, I get to make all our favorites." Celestia said with pride in her voice, but also a hint of sadness. She did enjoy cooking and was melancholy that she didn't get to do all the things that mothers do for their children. Like cooking all their meals and sweets, go shopping, see a children's movie at the movie theater, and many other things because of being a royal. Having many duties that get in the way with that, but she got by with that she could and made the most of it for her little girl and herself. Celestia knew the life of a princess since she was a small filly along with her younger sister. She knew what was ahead for Samantha in that department, but she was going to make sure Samantha felt loved at every turn and not to feel like her mother didn't have time for her as she and her sister thought at the time because their parents had things to attend. She will spend every free time that they had together done things and one of her favorites was their nightly sits around the fireplace in her room when they are cuddled together on the luxurious amethyst rug with a long golden body pillow with tassels on each end. Where would she cover Samantha with one of her wings while her daughter told her about her day and all the new things she learned or did. Sometimes Samantha would read a story out loud to her, or she would recite Samantha a story from one of her many books. The best times were when she would tell Samatha a story about a lonely Princess who lost her way. Samantha was always a little lost at the ending for the story had no end, but soon the conclusion will come and on hopes and dreams that it will be a happy one, but only time will tell. She always told her daughter that story on Nightmare Night, and the night before the Summer Sun Celebration it was those nights that she missed Luna the most, and she was often imagining what it would have been like if she was here with them now no doubt she would be spoiling Samantha to no end. Although the emptiness in her heart for her sister, her daughter brightens her day. She smiled as she ate as Samantha chatted away to her trying to guess what was in store for the day, but he lips were sealed. Once breakfast was finished Celestia used her magic to clear the table of their dishes. Bring them into the kitchen before rejoining Samantha as they began to make their way out of the castle side by side. As they made their way out, Celesta walking silently across the floor as if she was made of air while Samantha playfully skipped ahead of her mother turning around every few seconds to watch her mother then start again, when the ground beneath their feet shook as if it wanted to split in two and swallow everything up in one gulp. Celestia and Samantha stopped in their tracks. Samantha looked at her mother with concern written all over her angelic face.
"Mama, what was that?" Samantha asked with a little tremble in her voice as she tried not to sound a frightened as she felt. Her cream colored skin became almost pure white with her fear. Celestia stood shocked to the core but quickly recovered to her normal composed self.
"Stay here, and I will check it out," Celestia spoke softly as she walked towards the door, but not before passing her daughter and placing a small kiss on the top of her head in the hopes of returning her to a calm demeanor. Samantha stood as still as the statues around her and waited for her mother to leave before as silently as she could follow her mother out. She knew she should stay put like she was told to, but she was as curious as ever to see what was happing in her world and hoping to see a bit of her mother's heroics only sweetened the deal for her. She watched as her mother stood in their manicured courtyard looking around when a crash was heard to the left. It sounded like it was coming from the gifted school for Unicorns that she ran. Celestia turned her head elegantly in the direction of the commotion, as did Samantha and gasped at the sight of soft pink lighting coming from one of the golden towers where a light periwinkle dragon with leafy green scales stood head busted through the roof. Samantha watched her mother walk in quick trot towards the tower while Samantha tried to keep up without making a sound. Once in the tower she followed her mother to the exam room and hid behind the dark wooden door frame as her mother laid a comforting hoof on a light grayish mulberry colored unicorn filly surrounded by the bright orchid color of her magic and floating a foot off the ground. She looked to the left and seen the examiner ponies surround by the same light floating in the air along with their clipboards. Samantha was shocked to see such power coming from someone so young as herself. Her mother smiled gently at the small unicorn. Her mother always had a motherly way with any pony and Samantha always thought that was why all the ponies loved her. She knew that was why she loved her and that fact that she was her mother despite the fact she wasn't a pony. Her mother never hid the fact that she was different and told her it never made any difference to her what Samantha was because she loved her with all her heart and soul. Samantha watched with eager eyes as the filly calmed down from her loss of control. Her magic disappeared slowly as she had fallen to the ground landing on her feet. The soft pink lighting appeared again only to turn the full grown dragon back into its original form of a newly hatched baby dragon who began to suck its pointed tail cutely, the examiner ponies feel to the ground, and two potted places turned into a mare and a stallion. Samantha's mother smiled and began talking to the filly telling her that she has never seen such magic come from one so young. Samantha nodded her head in agreement to such a statement as her mother told the filly that she wanted her as her student at the school. Samantha giggled as she filly jumped up in excitement before dropping back down to the ground at something her mother said. Samantha really couldn't hear over her filly's 'Yes!' while her mother pointed to her flank. On her side was a bright pink star with six points combined with six points in-between the pink points and to finish it off five small white stars scattered around the bigger star, her cutie mark that in a flash showed up out of nowhere when she found her extraordinary talent, something that made her special.
"My Cutie Mark!" She exclaimed once she was up from the gray floor she bounced around Celestia in a series of 'Yes.' Her parents stood by her as she hopped around. A light gray mare with the moderate purple and gray stripped mane with three stars in the same shade of purple as her mane stood next to a stallion with a dark phthalo blue mane that contrasted perfectly with his grayish azure colored coat. Both stood with a proud, loving look on their face at their daughter's achievement.
"Samantha, please come and introduce your self," Celestia called to her daughter with a smile on her muzzle. Samantha gulped and came out from around the door frame with a shy look on her face as she the young filly stopped and looked at the youngest princess of Equestria with awe. Samantha strolled to her mother with her head slightly down at the shame of being caught. "I'm not mad at you dear now come and say hello to my newest student." Samantha looked at her mother once more to see if she was really in trouble, but the smile stood as real as she was. Looking to the little filly with her parents behind her, she curtsied to them and gave them a proper greeting as she was brought up to do when meeting new people whether they were of importance or commoners.
"Hello, my name is Samantha. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance," She stated sweetly before standing up and giving them one of her beautiful smiles that showed off her small ivory teeth. The filly and her parents bowed deeply to show their respect to their princess. "Oh, please that isn't necessary. I'm just like everypony."Samantha said quickly. She was never one for formalities, after all, she was just a kid.
"Samantha why don't you take Twilight to the gardens and play while I work out the details with her parents." Celestia kindly suggested with a knowing glint in her eyes. Samantha nodded.
"Come on Twilight I will show you my favorite place to read in the garden," Samantha said as she turned as she walked side by side with the light grayish mulberry colored unicorn filly. The tiny unicorn's face brightens like a thousand suns shown down on her.
"You like to read?" Twilight asked shyly as they headed out the door.
"Like? No, more like love. I read everything I can get a hold of."Came Samantha's reply.
"Me too!" twilight roared as the girls voiced began to fade as the distance. Each was discussing their favorite book or what they were reading currently. Their parents looked at each other with a grand smile each thinking the same thing 'Their daughter was finally making a friend.'
A/n: Sorry it took me so long to get out this chapter, but I couldn't settle on how I wanted this chapter to go so I kept rewriting and then deleting it because I just wasn't happy with it. Then I started getting lost in other fanfiction from Tokyo Ghoul, Riverdale, Dragon Ball, and Yuri on Ice. Then after a nasty storm I was on my way to work and stepped on a big branch and slid down the bottom half of the stair of my apartment and hurt my ankle really bad so I was out of work for a week this week which gave me a chance to finish this chapter.
The next chapter starts at the beginning of MLP:FiM and will go from there because I think you guys have enough of the back story and much more will be relieved as the story goes on.