All sorts of things came to the Christening, including three little breezies.
"Is that the baby?" Scootaloo whispered, nudging Applebloom. "I love babies!" Sweetie sighed. They bowed to King Sombra and Queen Celestia. "Hello, your royaltynesses!" Applebloom said. "Hey, your majesty's!" Scootaloo cried. "Can we see the baby now?" Sweetie Belle asked. Her friends gave her a glare. "What? I like babies!" The breezie whispered. Celestia looked at the door. "Celestia, my dear, they have gifts for our daughter." Sombra said. "Oh! Um, of course, my dears." Celestia said. The girls flew up to the cradle and gave a cued "Awww!". A little yellow pegasus with a rose pink mane gurgled up at them. "Sweet Fluttershy, I wish for you the gift of beauty inside and out." Applebloom whispered, blowing yellow flower petals on the princess, who looked frightened at first but when she realized what they were, she gasped and giggled, batting at them playfully. "My gift is that you will always be kind and happy for all of your days, little princess." Scootaloo said, directing pink butterflies at the girl who let out a sneeze when one landed on her muzzle but still cuddle them as they nested in her mane. Sweetie Belle flew up and started with, "Darling baby, I wish for you to forever be graceful." She started to blow light green leafs on the child but the door flung open. The ponies gasped and parted as Nightmare Moon entered. "Sister?" Celestia whispered. "Well, well, what a glittering assemblage, Queen Celestia." The dark alicorn said, looking around. "Royalty, nobility, the gentry…" Then she glanced at the trio of breezies. "How quaint… even the rabble." She whispered. Then, she turned to her elder sister and her husband. "I must say, I feel quite upset, not being invited to my own niece's christening!" She sighed. "You're not welcome…" Celestia whispered. Nightmare Moon narrowed her eyes. "What a awkward situation." She growled. "You mean, You're not offended?" Sombra asked. "Why no! And to show I bear no ill will, I shall give a gift to the child." The alicorn said, turning to the cradle. "No! We don't want your gift!" Celestia cried. The breezies flew in front of the royal infant. "Stay away from the princess!" Scootaloo growled. "Yes! Stay away!" Applebloom cried. Nightmare Moon only smirked and waved her hoof. The girls gasped as they flung away. As her aunt walked up and gazed at her, little Fluttershy brought up her blanket to her chin and she started to tremble. "Listen well, all of you!" Nightmare Moon called. Magic tranced from her horn and went to the cradle. "The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who meet her…" The alicorn said, watching the magic swirl around the baby who hid. "That's a wonderful gift…" Sombra said. Nightmare Moon smirked. "Don't do this." Celestia growled. Her sister looked beyond the cradle and saw a spinning wheel. "But…" She whispered. "Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her hoof on the spindle of a spinning wheel and she will fall into a sleep like death!" She cried. The ponies gasped in terror. She looked to her sister. "A sleep she will never awaken from." She said. "No!" Celestia screamed. "Luna! Don't do this! Please!" She sobbed. "Alright… The princess can be awoken from her death sleep," Nightmare Moon said. The queen sighed. "But only by the words of love." Her sister said, gritting her teeth at Celestia, a awful reminder of their past. "This spell shall last till the end of time!" She boomed. "And no power on earth can change it!" She screamed, letting out a burst of magic and flying out, her revenge on her sister complete.
Celestia had every spinning wheel broken and burned in the deepest dungeon of the Canterlot Castle. Secretly, she entrusted her little daughter into the care of the kind breezies, in hope to hide the girl from her aunt's horrible curse. And so, the fillies took the princess to a small cottage, to be young Fluttershy's home for sixteen years and a day….