Talking with Cadance
(Aurora's pov)
I was smiling as I walked through the gardens, there was roughly two hours left before me and Sapphy, who was currently watching me from a small distance away, needed to go meet Sun Mom in the throne room... though I doubt it is just to meet the three other guard members that I am getting. I pause in thought, please don't let it be Blueblood... Please. I sighed to myself as I started to hum. I began dancing amongst the flowers, I had cast my thoughts back to a place that I always felt warm and loved... even though it was long ago...
Better When I'm Danceing - meghan trainor
Don't think about it
Just move your body
Listen to the music
Sing, oh, ey, oh
Just move those left feet
Go ahead, get crazy
Anyone can do it
Sing, oh, ey, oh
Show the world you've got that fire (fire)
Feel the rhythm getting louder
Show the room what you can do
Prove to them you got the moves
I don't know about you,
But I feel better when I'm dancing, yeah, yeah
Better when I'm dancing, yeah, yeah
And we can do this together
I bet you feel better when you're dancing, yeah, yeah
When you finally let go
And you slay that solo
'Cause you listen to the music
Sing, oh, ey, oh
'Cause you're confident, babe
And you make your hips sway
We knew that you could do it
Sing, oh, ey, oh
Show the world you've got that fire (fire, baby)
Feel the rhythm getting louder
Show the room what you can do
Prove to them you got the moves
I don't know about you,
But I feel better when I'm dancing, yeah, yeah
Better when I'm dancing, yeah, yeah
And we can do this together
I bet you feel better when you're dancing, yeah, yeah
I feel better when I'm dancing
I'm better when I'm dancing, aye, oh ey oh
Feel better when I'm dancing, yeah, yeah
Better when I'm dancing, yeah, yeah,
Don't you know
We can do this together
Bet you feel better when you're dancing, yeah, yeah
I feel better when I'm dancing
I'm better when I'm dancing, hey
Feel better when I'm, yeah, yeah
As I was singing I heard somepony come nearer but I didn't care as I was using my magic to create a pony version of my first and only love... Sans from the DanceTale reality. As a pony he was an all white unicorn stallion with a silver mane, his eyes where the same blue as his cutie mark, which is a blue heart with a Gaster Blaster inside it, he was also wearing his trademark jacket. When the song ended I sighed and let the illusion fade away. I turned to look at the new pony. Standing from not too afar was Princess Cadence, who gently tapped the ground with her hooves, making a faint applause. "That was lovely," she says, smiling. "You must be Aurora..." she concludes, recalling things she heard of an intriguing filly.
I bow to her. "Thanks for the honest praise Princess Cadence." I said with my normal quiet voice, "And, yes, I am her." I tilted my head to one side. "May I ask what brings you to the gardens today?"
"Heheh, I just came to clear my mind, I suppose," she didn't sound suspicious, but not entirely truthful either. "Guess I got caught up in your song."
"Hmm..." I said humming a little. "I have had some small captivated listeners." I said while pointing to a small group of maids and gardeners who quickly fled once they realized that I knew they where there.
"I would not doubt it!" she laughs softly. "It was an exquisite act. Where did you learn to dance so well?"
I sighed and let a memory flash across my mind, I had realized in my room that my eyes changed to blue when I let this happen, or when I see the future. "A long time ago... or is it yet to happen?" I said simply as I walked up to her.
The pink alicorn stood in silence for a moment. "What would you mean by that, Aurora?"
I shrug. "I don't experience time in the same way you or both Moms do." I said simply. I reached out with a hoof and started to draw a line in the dirt. "Imagine this is time, most creatures experience time in a straight forward fashion, only visiting the past in memories and dreams. I see and experience flashes of both the future and the past in the waking hours... I am there, both physically and mentally, so I learn and understand things I am not supposed to at my age."
"Really? That's fascinating..." she replied with starry eyes. "I suppose that is what makes you a topic of interest in the castle?" She asks jokingly.
I shook my head. "Most ponies don't know of my ability to do that... I am a strange pony that for some reason both Celestia and Luna adopted." I purposefully didn't add the princess part, wanting to see her reaction.
For a short moment, Cadence looked dumbfounded. She's so used to hearing the princess' names said fully, that it almost didn't register they were the same. "I'm sure it was a good reason." She replied after a while. "But why tell me this...?"
"Because that makes me your cousin and I hold my family in high importance?" I said with slight confusion, though I was still maintaining my shield over my deep sadness that I still can't get rid of.
"Ah, of course," Cadence looked down with warm eyes. "This is a lot to take in, you know," she chuckled. "But I'm happy you're here. I assume you already know who I am, then."
I giggled slightly. "More than you know." I was letting my other emotions slowly come out. I knew from looking into a pond nearby that my eyes where once again that strange mixture of blue and light purple, not quite a solid periwinkle but it was there.
"Dear, are you alright? Your eyes..." the mare did not elaborate, but as one who always look into other's eyes she had noticed a strange shift.
I smiled at her. "I am fine, it is a... side affect of my magic." It really was, at least in this body.
"I understand, alicorn magic does do pretty odd things. Although, I'm guessing your magic isn't the same as ours." She gave the lake a sidelong glance through her amethyst eyes.
I nodded. "Indeed it isn't." I glanced back at the lake, my eyes where slowly losing the blue at the more serious talk as well as the purple returning to my normal dark amethyst color, so close to hers, but a shade darker. "I am an... oddity" I could think of worse words.
"Maybe, but that isn't a bad thing." She smiled reassuringly. "I would like to know more of you."
I frowned for a second. "Follow me please." I opened a new portal and walked through it into the center of the maze.
Cadence hesitantly went through it, knowing of similar spells but still being caught off-guard. She fully enterered the area and looks around. "What is this?"
I waited for Sapphy to walk through and to take her place at the only entrance to this place before closing the portal. "We are at the center of hedge maze... I didn't like being stared at my a lot of ponies who thought that they where being stealthy." The center of the maze was a small circular room with several different flower gardens with a bench in the center, it also only had one entrance like stated earlier. there was a 'lover's seat' type bench in the middle surrounded by roses, tulips, Irises, ans a few others. "Now what do you want to know about me?" I asked as I jumped up onto the bench... I miss my wings.
She looked around thoughtfully for a moment, and nodded about the first part. "You say you don't follow time. Does that mean you are something beyond our world? Not even Celestia could go through time as she pleases so easily..."
I laughed a little. "I am... and I am not." I said, both answers where true after all.
"Would you care to elaborate?" She asked in return, smiling.
I looked down at my hooves. "I am not sure you would understand it if I explained."
"Are you underestimating me?" Cadence said is a mock-contentious tone. She then laughed. "Though I'd like to know, you'd likely be right. It's a lot to wrap one's head around."
"And what I have told you is the simple stuff." I said softly, I was more focused on the past and the lives that I have lived.
"You are mysterious, young Aurora... or can I even say young? Hehe, you're probably older than I!"
I looked her straight in the eyes, which I normally avoid doing for a reason, and let down some of my barriers. "Yes... and no."
"What do you mean?" she asked, though seemingly not exactly expecting an answer. But as she glanced into my eyes, she saw all the collective sadness and dreariness they hide. She looked like she almost felt the same way just seeing it.
"I am physically five years or so... but mentally? That is an entirely different story." I said with a small sigh, I realized that my eyes where almost glowing with a blue light as my voice vibrated in the air. I took a deep breath and stabilized my emotions and to bring myself back to the present.
"There it is again," Cadence says quietly. She speaks up then. "I understand that."
"Understand what?" I was a little confused, I thought I had explained that to her, or was it latter?
"Well, the prospect of... you. To an extent, I mean. You're a wise mind in a filly's body, yes?" Her tail flicked.
"In essence, yes." I stated easily, I glanced at the sky to check the time, it was almost time to depart.
"Is something on your mind?" she asked slowly at this action.
"Mom wanted to me to be in the throne room at sundown... which is in twenty seven minutes, forty seconds and six milliseconds." I answered calmly. "I Just hope I don't have to meet Blueblood yet.." I mutter.
"Right down to the lowest, huh?" she grinned broadly, but her smile falterered. "What's wrong with Blueblood? Has... has he done anything to you?"
I shook my head. "I have yet to meet him... from the normal scope of time." I clarified. "So it isn't what he has done, it is what he will do."
"Does that make you a soothsayer as well?" Cadence asked, using her magic to move her forelock from her eyes.
"Mom and Mother both call me a Seer." I said with a smile, as I did I reached out with my magic and began feeding a group of roses near my, slowly growing them and altering them.
"Mom and Mother... that's perfect," she giggled. Cadence looks over, "Am I holding you?"
"What do you mean?" I had no idea what she meant.
"You seemed like you had somewhere to be..." she said, tipping her head. "Or maybe I'm mistaken?"
"I just told you." I stared at her blankly. I was almost finished with my mini project.
"I know," she laughs good naturedly. "I'm not sure how long you need beforehand to yourself."
"Literally no time at all." I smiled at her. "I can portal directly to outside the throne room." I giggled softly. "I love giving the guards a mini freak out still." I saw that my eyes had gone back to the weird periwinkle color again in the reflection of the fire ruby in my necklace.
"Oh, I'll bet," she grinned widely. "But for future reference, I'm not easy to scare." She winked.
I giggled. "Is that a challenge cousin?" I stood up, hiding my work from her.
"Maybe..." the alicorn said in a suspicious tone.
I laughed as I use my magic to place a rose crown on her head, though there where no thorns on them. I then leaned in and whispered. "Are you sure of that?" I used my voice to cause the ambient magic to ripple, basically causing the air, the ground, and her physical body to vibrate for a few seconds. with that I caused my eyes to switch to that of my dragon eyes.
She took a step back, eyes widening only momentarily. "I've seen worse," she said slowly, her playfully competitive side coming out. "But that was good." She looked up. "...Pretty."
"Thank you." I said with a smile, my eyes back to 'normal'. "I... create such things a lot... that and figurines, statues, and paintings." I waved at Sapphy to come closer.
Noticing the guard, Cadence nodded respectfully, and turns. "Is that where all the works of art have been coming from?"
I blushed at that. "I didn't expect mom to put them on display in there own hall..."
Noticing her expression, the princess gave me an affectionate bump. "I'm happy it's there, really lights up the place!"
I smiled at that. "I am glad you like them..." I glanced back at a group of blue violets, the flower, with wistful look on my face.
"What's bothers you?"
"Can't you feel it princess of love?" I hadn't been blocking her from my 'reading' my emotions while I sang that song while dancing with him... or at my heartbreak at leaving after he forgot due to my curse in that reality.
She looks down into the deep eyes of her adopted-cousin. "I wasn't sure what to think," she admits softly.
I laughed, both softly and bitterly. "Neither did he... even after I told him everything."
"I am sorry..." the "older" mare looked with somber eyes, no trace of misunderstanding left. She pulled me into a hug. "I know how it feels.. especially as, for a little while I... I felt your pain."
I laughed softly as I hug her back. "Don't worry, you will find your prince."
"I believe you." quietly replied the Princess.
"Good." I hugged her tightly for a moment before breaking the hug. At least one of us will get a happy ending... "I have to go now." I said as I opened a portal to just outside the throne room, me and Sapphy walking through.
