Chapter 14: Written in the stars

The fluorescent mare wiggled her way downwards into her couch, folding her hooves over one another and staring expectantly at the Princess. Despite Comedy not being present in the cozy home, the scars of her activities dotted the small home. Dents, crayon drawings, the occasional glued-together vase, all meshed together in the puzzle of their home.

'What brings you here, Princess?'

Luna shifted in the plush seat, a slight frown creasing the delicate skin between her brows. Her mouth opened once, closed, opened again before she clicked her tongue against the side of her mouth.

'Let me just show you.'

Azure eyes drifted shut in a bout of concentration, the top of her spiraled horn flaring once before settling into a calm glow. Around them, the same miniature galaxy spread before the two mares. Pinkie's mouth dropped open, her hoof rising to close it manually as her eyes darted to and fro.

'This is pretty and all, Princess, but what am I looking at?'

Luna cleared her throat.

'Each one of these stars represents a soul under me and my sisters reign. Throughout my many years, I have seen this representation riddled with supernovas, white dwarfs, and more, but never, never have I seen this.'

As she spoke her hooves drew in towards the base of her necklace before pushing outwards, flinging all but a few stars towards the outer corners of the room. There graced a congregation of the points of light, 6 of which orbited shakily, but in unison around 2 larger celestial bodies.

'Those two larger stars which you see represent my sister and I. They are considered binary stars, as much like both my sister and I's relationship, they both compliment and obscure one another.'

Pinkie nodded, seemingly understanding the simplified explanation Luna was throwing at her.

'Around those, you see the Elements of Harmony as represented by the stars. At one point, one of these stars faded, almost died completely.'

She shot a meaningful glance at Pinkie, and her face illuminated.

'So that star faded when I lost the connection to my Element, correct?'

A nod, then an intake of breath allowed Luna to continue.

'Correct. But that incident is not the only peculiarity about your star. At random times it seems to become what is known as a hypervelocity star, which, in short, is a star that is flung out of its orbit due to unknown reasons.'

As she spoke, the vaguely pink star orbiting the elements shot off of the steady orbit and bouncing off into the clusters of stars. Pinkie frowned slightly.

'Is that a bad thing?'

Luna shook her head, motioned to edges of the room, where the high-speed star careened its way past others, exciting them from their calm state, making them swirl agitatedly, excitedly. The pinkish star continued to wreck havoc, moving quickly through the constellations before bouncing against two larger stars into the stable orbit of the Elements.

'What just happened?

'You happened, Pinkie. Your energy excites everyone around you. It's who you are.'

Pinkie, who had had a slight frown on her face during the explanation, smiled lightly.

'That's sweet, Princess, but I don't see what your getting at.'

'Look towards the edges, where your star just was.'

Pinkie's head twisted, her eyes catching on the anomaly amongst the stars. A spiralling ribbon of light, weaving at random through the clusters, rippling into all the colors of the rainbow.

'Okay, now I'm confused.'

'That's the thing, Pinkie, so was I. But look.'

The shimmering ribbon made its way towards the center circle, joining the stars of the orbit together and making them glow brightly, stopping the shivering and steadying them.

'What is that?'

'That, Pinkie, is our very own spirit of Disharmony, the very thing needed to balance you all. See how the stars are stable?'

Curiously, Pinkie got off of the couch, points of light catching in her mane and tail before she reached the center. Bringing her face close to the light, the shine leached the color from her mane and coat and painted them a pale white. Bringing a hoof upwards, she gently poked the ring that surrounded Luna and Celestia's stars, laughing when it shocked her.

'This is beautiful.'

'Keep watching.'

Pinkie's star pulsed brightly once. Upon closer examination, Pinkie gaped at the two small points of light that now circled around the original star.

'What is that?'

Luna shrugged, then brought her hoofs together completely, condensing the display into one extremely bright point before diffusing it completely.

'Look, Pinkie. What I'm trying to say is that this-' She waved her hooves, signifying the room '-whole relationship, it was written in the stars. For me to try to break you two up was stupid and pointless. I'm sorry.'

'Oh, come on, Luna!'

Pinkie stumbled forward, trapping Luna in a hug and smiling brightly.

'You know, Luna, you don't need to apologize. I forgave you a long time ago.'

AN/ I'm curious to know if people are still following this story, or if they've given up in my absence. Nonetheless, to my returning readers, thank you for sticking by me. Hopefully, my health keeps improving and I can keep this story going.

One favorite reviewer of mine once mentioned how he wanted to see Comedy change both Discord and Pinkie. To that one reviewer, all I can say is:

Just you wait.