My Little Pony: Friendship is magic: Origins: Celestia & Luna

Prologue

Screams echoed down the otherwise quiet halls of the ancient hospital. Private Pansy paced in front of the rustic doors wherein ponies rushed in and out.

"Is she in there?!" Pansy's eared perked up at the voice of Clover the Clever, who was rushing up to meet her. Pansy simply nodded.

"It's been hours, and I simply couldn't stand to watch anymore," She explained, "I didn't think I was gonna make it, Hurricane must be in such pain." Clover cracked open the door, seeing the aforementioned laboring pegasus on a hay bed, her hind legs in the air, and her forehoof firmly wrapped around her mate's. Another scream caused Clover to jump. Undeterred, she pushed through the door, leaving Private Pansy to herself in the hall to wait for the others.

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The halls of the hospital were finally quiet. Understandably so, as Canterlot had hardly been formed only a year ago when the three pony tribe reconciled their differences, The hospital was largely empty except for workers who had been hurt excavating the amazing city in a mountain.

In the maternity ward, five ponies surrounded the new mother, as she waited for her foals to be washed and given to her. A nurse pony lightly placed one of the twins on her lap. The foal was a dark blue color. It stretch and yawned in its mother's lap, unintentionally showing off its wings to everypony in the room.

"She's so precious..." whispered Private Pansy. The nurse pony very slowly turned and put the other foal in her mother's lap.

The red pegasus, Hurricane's mate, looked at the foal's back, seeking something.

"Where are her wings?" he asked the nurse. Looking back at the foal, he saw it. On top of the light gray filly's head was a horn.

His jaw dropped as he realized what he saw. The ultimate shame of his race, giving birth to a groundling. Having to spend the rest of your life on the ground to raise it.

"Red Dawn, did you...?" began Commander Hurricane. Red Dawn looked away from his mate for a moment, then looked back.

"My grandfather..." He said simply, "On my mother's side... He was a..." Red Dawn couldn't finish his sentence. Hurricane looked at the unicorn foal in her lap.

"This is GREAT!" Clover exclaimed, "What better way to unify the tribes than-"

"SHUT UP!" Red Dawn yelled at her, causing her to freeze in shock, "You have no idea the shame that my grandfather has brought. We pegasi pride ourselves on wings and flight! It's a disgrace!"

"What's wrong with a unicorn foal?!" Princess Platinum demanded, filling in for the shocked Clover.

"It cannot fly!" He roared.

"It's a she!" yelled Chancellor Puddinghead.

"What's wrong with not being able to fly?!" Smart cookie demanded.

"How would you like to birth a earth foal?" Red Dawn directed his question at Princess Platinum.

"Well, I-" She began.

"What's that supposed to mean?" interjected Smart Cookie.

"Everypony BE QUIET!" screamed Private Pansy. All the others looked at her in shock.

"My commander has something to say" she whispered over all the shushed ponies.

"Princess Platinum," began Commander Hurricane, "how do you name a unicorn?"

Clover, recovering from shock and seeing a chance to explain something, jumped at the opportunity.

"Naming conventions for unicorns generally fall into two fields; Adjectives as nouns, such as rare becoming Rarity, or beautiful becoming Beauty, or cute becoming Cutie. The other field is celestial. Constellations, Planets, among others"

"Celestial, eh?" asked Commander Hurricane, holding the unicorn foal in her forehooves,"Well I think we can combine the two and call you... Celestia"

She put down Celestia and picked up the other foal.

"And you," she said, nuzzling the dark blue pegasi, "You're going to fly higher than all of us, aren't you? Higher than the moon! I think Luna is the perfect name for you"

"Celestia and Luna, huh?" said Red Dawn, sighing, "We're going to need a house in this mountain, aren't we?"

"Yes," Commander Hurricane said gently.

"We have to give up our cloud fortress... don't we?" He asked, already knowing the answer.

"Yes," Hurricane repeated.

Red Dawn slowly walked out of the room, his head lowered. Each of the other ponies glowered at him as he left. Hurricane picked up Celestia again, cooing to her.

"You're going to flip our world upside-down, aren't you" She said.

Celestia smiled.