A/N: This one was a lot of fun to write, and I hope that everyone else likes it too. It was for HappyGirl!
We have to quit fighting!
Lumina Lotus smiles at her friends, watching as Winter Melody and Sunny Amber debate the wording for the song they are writing. The two look so happy sitting there, underneath the boughs of the willow tree, like they never have had a worry in their lives. Like things are perfect.
This isn't right, and you know it!
Her friends all gather around her, cheering and laughing and singing. Even Emeraline Blanc, normally so quiet and steadfast and stern, right there celebrating her birthday. Wishing her many more years of happyness and friendship and love forever after.
She's just trying to turn us against each other - why are you letting her?!
The green furred mare sits down at the very edge of the pond, delighting in the brief moment of silence and the warmth of the summer air. Then Cloudy Breeze takes a running leap into the water and Marine Wave follows a moment later, and it is the laughter of her friends that lulls Lumina Lotus into a gentle doze.
I can't stand it anymore! I can't watch you all fight like this, watch you hurt each other! If you won't stop Shrouded Gaze, then I will.
She struggles to her hooves once more, this brave mare with the green body and the blue streaked mane. Shakes her head and paws at the ground, stares down the pony who had once been her Guardian, and then she charges - because her friends, their friendship, it all depends on this one moment.
