A/N: Hey fellow bronies what's up and welcome to the second chapter of Serenity. If you are just joining the story then I suggest you go back and read the first chapter just so you can be up to date with what is going on in the story. So I hope you enjoy this chapter and please Read & Review.
Soon Summer turned into Autumn in Equestria. Serenity was still living with her cousin Rarity. Tonight though was a special occasion. Tonight was Nightmare Night a holiday for young filles to collect candy and dress up in costumes. Rarity was invited to a party at Twilight's house for Nightmare Night. Rarity would have to decide on what or who to dress as for tonight. She then decided to dress as a spider because they always seemed to creep her out. After she had made her costume she asked her cousin Serenity if she would join her.
"Nah, I don't think I'd like it, I'm not one for dressing up, but I might stop by later," she said to Rarity.
"Oh all right then, well don't say I didn't ask," replied Rarity. She looked at the time and said, "Goodness gracious, I'm going to be late, okay if you get hungry there is some salad in the fridge and if any filles stop by the candy is on the counter in the boutique." Serenity nodded and said, "You can count on me." Rarity hugged her cousin goodbye and left for the party. After she left Serenity went into the basement of the boutique and found Rarity's alcohol stash. She browsed through the alcohol and found nothing but wine. "Ugh, I'm sure she might have something stronger than red wine," she said. She continued looking and found some rum and vodka. She smirked and picked out both bottles with her magic and brought it upstairs. She put down a glass and made a half rum and half vodka drink.
She sipped it and felt it go to her head immediately. "Whoa..." was all she could say. She then heard the doorbell and went downstairs. When she arrived in the boutique she saw a few filles outside. She used her magic to grab the bowl of candy and greeted the fillies. She gave them all the exact same amount of candy, they thanked her and moved on. She frowned and said, "I don't think I remember what it was like to celebrate Nightmare Night." She went back upstairs and chugged the whole glass of the rum and vodka. She definitely felt it go to her head she then went out to the costume shop and bought herself a costume. She had bought herself a witch pony costume. She put it on and locked up the boutique and went to the library because she could hear music coming from it.
At the party ponies were socialising with each other. Pinkie had thrown the party herself. Her hair was back to its regular poofyness. Rarity was talking with Rainbow Dash and Applejack, "Listen girls I'm sorry about what my cousin said to you, it was awfully rude to you, I should've stood up for you." "Ah don't ya go worryin yourself 'bout that, we know it ain't right to hold a grudge," said Applejack, "Yeah I mean we've done it sometime or another in our lives," said Rainbow Dash. Rarity smiled and said, "Thank you for understanding, I'm glad to see you've let by gones be by gones." "So where is she anyway?" asked Applejack. Rarity replied, "Oh, she said she might come by later." At that there was a knock at the door. Twilight opened it and said, "Ah Serenity, so glad you could make it." Rarity smiled and went to her cousin, "Oh my gosh, I love your costume." Serenity smiled and said, "Thanks Rarity, I like yours too." Pinkie Pie jumped over and said, "Serenity, hi, glad you could make it," Serenity looked at her and said, "Hey Pinkie, you know I'm really sorry for a few months ago for what I said."
Pinkie only hugged her and said, "Don't worry about it silly." Serenity approached the others and apologised to them. Then Twilight spoke to the guests, "Hey everypony, it's nearly time for Princess Luna to appear." The party went outside to the centre of Ponyville. They stood there waiting to see Luna appear. "Rarity who's Princess Luna?" asked Serenity. Rarity gasped and asked, "You don't know the younger sister of Princess Celestia?" Serenity shook her head. Before Rarity could explain, suddenly the wind picked up and the leaves began to blow through it. The sky turned cloudy, then out of nowhere blue mist intertwined its way through the crowd. The crowd was in awe, and from the mist came Nightmare Moon. The crowd was shocked and then began to laugh. Then Nightmare Moon smiled and turned back into Luna.
Rarity nudged her cousin and said, "That's Princess Luna." Serenity gazed upon the Princess of the night. Her mane flowing like her sister's, she smiled and said, "Greetings to you all on this fine Nightmare Night, I hope you will continue to enjoy." Rarity pulled Serenity over to Luna and said, "Princess Luna may I introduce you to my cousin Serenity." Luna smiled and said, "Well I must say I have not made your acquaintance yet." Serenity bowed to her seeing as how she was a princess. Luna smiled and hugged Serenity and said, "Fear not to hug me, I am a friend to Rarity therefore making you a friend to me." Serenity hugged her back.
Soon after that, the party was back inside with Luna joining. Serenity had hit the punch bowl hard seeing as how somepony put some booze into it. She was all over the place, stumbling and trying not to make a fool of herself. But unfortunately that is exactly what happened. She went over to Princess Luna and said, "You know what, Rarity once farted at a wedding of one of our cousins and blamed it on the best man." Luna giggled at this, Rarity was embarrassed. Then Serenity continued, "This other time, she got so drunk she actually put a pair of underpants on her head and danced on a table." Luna continued to giggle. Serenity continued again, "Did you know when she was younger she used to cut herself whenever she didn't make a dress good enough." Luna's eyes widened and looked at Rarity. And asked, "Really?" Serenity nodded drunkly.
Rarity grabbed her cousin and said to Luna, "I'm awfully sorry about that, she's had too much to drink it seems." Luna then asked Rarity, "Rarity is it true about the cuts?" Rarity scooted Serenity to the couch where she could lie down for a bit. She turned to Luna and said, "Yes it's true, I used to cut myself for a long time when I thought a dress I made wasn't good enough, and unfortunately my parents were forced to send me to rehabilitation." Luna looked at her and said, "Maybe you should take your cousin home." Rarity nodded and then was hugged by Luna. Rarity was lucky that Serenity was so drunk she passed out, so it would be easier to get her home.
She set Serenity into her bed and closed the door for her. Rarity went to her room, changed out of her spider costume, put on her sleeping mask and turned out the light.
Rarity's dream...
Rarity was standing in her boutique and made the most lovely dress and then she looked over it, making sure she had made it well. She then had second thoughts about it, she looked at all the dresses and saw how imperfect they were.
She immediately used her magic and used it to bring a knife to her. She immediately began to cut herself and these cuts were not flesh wounds. Rarity was intending to actually kill herself. Suddenly a darker blue magic aura formed around the knife and it disappeared. Rarity then heard a familiar voice which said, "I have seen enough." Then Princess Luna descended to Rarity and said, "So it still haunts you." Rarity grew sad and said, "I don't know why Serenity had to say that about me." Luna looked at her and asked, "How long has it been since you last saw her?" Rarity looked at her and said, "Well by the way she was telling you, it seems that it wasn't when we were young fillies only." Luna nodded and asked, "Do you know why?" Rarity shook her head.
Luna opened a door and she led Rarity through it. Rarity saw that she was at a wedding, she looked and saw her and Serenity talking with each other and said, "This was the wedding she spoke of." Luna looked and said, "That must be the cousin you blamed," Rarity looked and saw another distant cousin of hers. Then she looked at her and Serenity again, they were still chatting to each other and said, "I wonder why we're not so close," Luna looked at her and said, "Maybe this will remind you, she stamped her hoof and they seemed to fast forward to the evening. Rarity looked and saw herself talking to some of her friends, she moved closer and heard, "You know what, Serenity is actually quite annoying. I can't stand her, I mean she's always styling her mane every second week. I mean surely you would know what mane style you would want and often I see her with emo mane." Rarity then looked to the corner and saw Serenity run off crying.
She chased after her and found her cutting herself. Rarity didn't know she had upset her so bad. Luna walked up beside her and said, "It seems you hurt her, so then she decided to hurt you." Rarity looked at her and asked, "What do you mean?" Suddenly Rarity was at a party and saw herself acting like a fool with underpants on her head. She facehoofed and said, "Oh Celestia why?" Luna giggled and said, "I'll admit you look like fun," she shook her head and stamped her hoof again. This time Rarity saw herself outside. Serenity came and sat next to her and said, "Hey why aren't you inside?" Rarity looked at her and said, "Oh yes well I don't feel like a party right now." Serenity went inside and poured her a drink.
She offered it to Rarity and she drank it, the she became a wild one. Rarity was confused and looked at Luna and asked, "One drink made me go wild?" Luna shook her head and stamped her hoof again. This time Rarity saw Serenity pour a whole lot of strong alcoholic drinks into the glass. Rarity said to Luna, "So she actually mixed a lot of drinks together." Luna nodded and said, "You see vengeance is never the answer ask me I understand although I don't have I cousin my sister still outshines me." Rarity looked at her, "Really?" Luna nodded and stamped her hoof one last time. Rarity was now in the castle of the two sisters and she saw Celestia speaking with Luna, "Luna I told you before, we can't make the night longer it can be that way in Winter," Luna spoke, "Tia it's not fair, you can have the day as long as you want, but when I wan to make the night slightly longer you say otherwise." "Enough Luna I will not speak with you about this again." replied Celestia.
Then Rarity found herself in Canterlot castle. "Luna I said enough is enough I will not speak again," said Celestia. "But Tia if I can harness the power of Nightmare Moon I can be much stronger." replied Luna. "I can not risk you succumbing to Nightmare Moon again I'm sorry but I will not speak to you again." answered Celestia.
Rarity looked at Luna and asked, "What happened after that?" Luna told her, "I didn't listen to Celestia and I tried to harness he power of Nightmare Moon, but I had too much anger in my heart and soon I began to succumb to the darkness. You must try to make amends with Serenity for what you did to her many years ago. Because anger can turn into something of nightmares." Rarity turned her head and saw Luna struggling to contain Nightmare Moon.
Rarity woke up and saw that it was 6 am. She went to Serenity's room and knocked. Serenity groaned and said, "Come in." Rarity entered and sat down on the bed next to her cousin and said, "You know Serenity I completely forgot about that wedding, and I wanted to apologize for those things I said about you mane." Serenity looked at her and said, "It's alright, I'm sorry for majorly intoxicating you at that party when you made a fool of yourself."
Soon the two became closer that ever. Like sisters even. They had their arguments but they managed it. Soon Winter came and that meant Hearth's Warming Eve. It would also mean that Rarity would have another member of her family to celebrate it with. Although she also liked spending it with her friends. She decided to invite her friends to spend Hearth's Warming Eve with her, Sweetie Belle and Serenity. Soon the time came for Hearth's Warming Eve. It would be the first Serenity would spend with her cousin or in fact any family. Because when she was put into the mental institution her parents moved away forever. She had spent many without anyone to spend it with. Rarity's friends came over on that night and accepted Serenity as a friend. The tree was put up and decorated. Rarity carefully put on the tree topper. It was made of crystal, shaped like a star and if one did not put it on the tree correctly it would fall and shatter into pieces. It was also very expensive.
Everypony made sure not to play games around the tree. Rarity had spent over 300 000 bits just for the tree topper, in fact when she had brought the star she had gone massively into debt and it was the only one of its kind. The board games were brought out and the red wine of course. Although Serenity didn't enjoy wine as much as her cousin, she made the exception. Rainbow Dash was drinking apple cider which she enjoyed the most. Unfortunately Sweetie Belle was still way too young to drink alcohol, but Rarity made a plan with non-alcoholic bubbly. Soon the time went on and then it was time for bed. Luckily Rarity always had many blankets and pillows. Serenity went to her room, Rarity's to hers and Sweetie Belle to hers. The next morning the friends ate lunch at Rarity's dining room table. After lunch they gave each other presents. Serenity gave hers last. She gave Rainbow Dash her gift first and said, "For you Rainbow Dash I got you an authentic Wonderbolts flight jacket." Rainbow Dash tore into the present and read the signature on the jacket, "Wow! You actually got Spitfire to sign this?" Serenity nodded, Rainbow Dash had to know, "How'd you get it?" Serenity explained, "She's a dear friend of mine, we met at a concert. I got her to meet the lead guitarist."
She then handed her gift to Applejack, "For you AJ I got you two cowboy hats you should know of." Applejack opened her present and saw two hats she recognised them immediately. It was her mother and father's hats. Her eyes began to tear she then asked, "How did you get them?" Serenity explained, "I know that your parents died and I wanted you to have a piece of them, I saw pictures of them in a magazine from Manehatten. The owner is a personal friend of mine so it only cost me 2000 bits for both." Applejack hugged her and said, "Thank you."
She gave Fluttershy's next. "I think you'll like it." Fluttershy opened it and saw an artistic painting of her made of different animal pictures. She was stunned and said, "Wow how did you get this?" Serenity explained, "I asked a friend of mine who does this sort of artwork to make one of you, I specifically said to use animal pictures seeing as how you love animals so much." Fluttershy smiled and said, "Thanks Serenity." She turned to Twilight. She bestowed her gift onto her. "This should be an amazing addition to your library collection." Twilight opened it and saw a thick book, she wondered what it was. Serenity explained, "This is the first book that Star Swirl the Bearded wrote on about magic," Twilight flipped the cover of the book and found Star Swirl's signature. Before she could ask Serenity explained, "I know you like books, so I asked the library in Canterlot and they said they might know of a book. So they came back to me and told me about a book that might interest you. I asked the Manehatten antique shop if they had this book and I kinda payed over 20 000 bits for it. It would've been over 100 000 bits if I didn't know the owner." Twilight thanked her and opened the book to read it.
She turned to Pinkie Pie and gave her to her. "It's also a book." Pinkie tore the wrapping off and squeed with excitement. "Oh my gosh, I can't believe you did this for me!" "It was nothing Pinkie." Rainbow Dash was interested, "What did she give you?" Pinkie read, "The Official Professional Pinkie Pie Guide to Throwing Awesome Parties." Serenity explained, "Whenever I heard you speaking about a party I took down lots of notes and asked an author friend of mine known as A.K. Yearling to put it into a book." Pinkie hugged Serenity. She then turned to the one she had been saving for last. Rarity. She handed her gift to her and said, "I hope you like it." Rarity unravelled the parchment and her jaw hung, she couldn't believe it. Serenity spoke, "I know you like designing dresses so I got you your own company." The others looked at Rarity and read the piece of paper. It read, "This document officially states that Miss Rarity of Ponyville has her own dress making company as of which she owns everything. She has the will to name it whatever she wants and hire as many ponies she wants. Her headquarters shall be situated in Ponyville however the main office is located in Manehatten and she shall appoint a pony of her choosing to manage the office. Signed Princess Celestia and Princess Luna."
Rarity couldn't believe it. Her own company which was approved by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. She hugged Serenity and said, "Thank you so much Serenity." After the gifts were given everypony else left for their homes with their gifts. Rarity cleaned up with some help from Serenity and Sweetie Belle who had gotten a special brush from Serenity. After they cleaned, Rarity and Serenity sat on the couch. "So how did you manage to get me my own company Serenity?" asked Rarity. Serenity smiled and said, "It wasn't easy, trying to get the Princesses to sign the document without you noticing was difficult. Then I had to pay for your office in Manehatten and to make sure you could stay in Ponyville." Rarity nodded and asked, "So how much did you pay for the office?" Serenity coughed into her wine and said, "Uhm, well you know that tree topper of yours?" Rarity grew suspicious and asked, "Yes...?" Serenity continued, "It cost that much." "Oh okay, wow that is a lot of money, by the way how did you have enough money to pay for that?" Serenity just said, "That's private information." Rarity smiled and they continued their conversation.
Rarity allowed for Serenity to stay longer for all those years they didn't spend together despite the few occasions they did. Soon the new year rolled past.
Which meant that Rarity's dresses would be released in a few months time. Serenity decided to get a temporary job in Ponyville for the time being. Rarity was cleaning her house part of the boutique while Serenity was out. Rarity opened Serenity's door and saw the state her room was in. She sighed and got to work. She threw away the wrapping paper, made up the bed and sorted her clothes. She opened a draw to put Serenity's manebrush in. She then saw a few receipts. She said to herself, "I probably shouldn't pry it's none of my business." and she left it at that. She went back to the lounge and saw the Hearth Warming tree was still up. She shook her head with a smile and set to taking it down. She carefully undecorated the tree making sure the topper wouldn't fall. Then she heard the boutique's bell jingle and she knew she had a customer. She called to downstairs, "I'll be down in a second." She left the tree and went downstairs and tended to her customer.
After the customer was gone she returned and saw the topper wasn't on its place. She began to panic. Quickly she looked for it hoping the damage wasn't too bad. She searched frantically and before she knew it she stood on something, "Ow!" She lifted her front hoof and saw a piece of glass in it. She looked at it and noticed that it was glass. She used her magic to pull it out and looked around to see if a glass had fallen. But there wasn't. Then it hit her, the topper. "But that can't be right, it's made of crystal. I know my stones and crystal doesn't shatter like glass. It only breaks even if it is cleaned and made pretty." she searched the rest of the floor and found the pieces and moved them into the dustbin with her magic. She then grew curious about what Serenity had said a few months ago. The words replaying in her head, "You remember that tree topper of yours?" "Yes...?" "It cost that much." Rarity then shrugged it off and said, "I maybe have brought out the glass one, they do look very similar."
After that Serenity came home and saw Rarity putting a bandage on her foot. She walked over and asked, "What happened?" Rarity looked at her and said, "Oh, the tree topper fell off when I was with a customer and stepped on some of it." Serenity looked shocked and asked, "Was it the crystal one?" Rarity shook her head and said, "No it was the glass one thank Celestia." Serenity nodded and said, "Yeah... yeah... of course." Rarity noticed the nervousness in her voice and asked, "Are you all right Serenity?" Serenity nodded her head.
Rarity then asked, "Were you worried that I lost the most expensive thing I bought?" Serenity nodded and said, "I know how much it means to you."
Later that night when Rarity had fallen asleep, Serenity opened a draw in her bedside table.
She picked up the receipt and it read, "Trade in for 1 crystal tree topper worth 300 000 bits for Miss Serenity. If client is unhappy with decision they have a time period of four months to have it returned to them before it is put up for sale and if it can not be sold it shall be returned to the owner and they will be allowed to keep the money that was paid for it." She used her magic and crunched it up into a ball and threw it to her bin. It missed and landed on the outside, but, she didn't notice and went to sleep.
A/N: This can't be good 0_0 oh dear. Anyway I hope you enjoyed please Read & Review it is greatly appreciated it helps me to keep making Fanfics. I only have one reviewer for this Fanic, so a special thanks to mlplightningstar hope you enjoy this chapter and feel free to PM me about anything I really don't mind.