Love You to Death

Special thanks to my proofreaders/editors: Fluttershy3_66, RDopeth and Shysoldier94

Chapter 01

NOTE: as the story takes place a thousand years ago I decided to use all the names in Latin

The light shone through the curtains as the morning came and slowly illuminated the bedroom. The open window let the soft breeze come in, making the curtains move as if they were dancing to a slow rhythm.

The calm ticking of a clock soon came to a noisy ringing. Several grumbles came from under the covers of the bed as a blue-grayish hoof moved out from under his covers tapping the nightstand frantically to find the clock that awoken the stallion from his sleep.

Finally, the sound came to an end. An annoyed grunt came from the unicorn as he sat on his bed. His eyes were still irritated from the light.

He managed to regain focus once more and looked throughout the room, "Urgh, maybe a little more sleep wouldn't hurt." he said while laying his head back towards the pillow.

A few moves from side to side made him change his mind, "Okay conscience, you're right. No more sleep..." Dilectus Noctis said with a deep sigh.

He got up and opened the door to the corridor leading to the bathroom. He stared at the mirror for a while, noticing his messy, silver-colored mane covering part of his face. Using his magic, he raised the brush above his head, and straightened the mess on his head, or at least tried to. He did the same with his tail and to other portions of his fur that made weird knots. He didn't know how it had gotten like this.

He put back the brush in a small drawer at his side and went back to the hallway. He took a look around the hallway, and noticed several details that he was previously unaware of. The walls were made of stone and the floor was made of stone. Now that he thought about it, the place was rather dull and monochromatic.

He got himself thinking about the reason that they had to move to the Everfree, Discord was causing a bit of trouble in Equestria. Several cities were inhabitable or destroyed severely by him and the chaos that he was spreading, but the one known as god of chaos was finally outmatched. Discord had been imprisoned in stone by the power of the Elements of Harmony.

The castle situated in the Everfree Forest was no longer of use, but it served as a refuge to all the ponies of the affected regions in the time of chaos. The work of so many ponies was wasted because of such threat made the mood on all of Equestria gloomy, but the Royal Sisters were doing their best to put things back in place.

The Elements of Harmony once used to defeat Discord were destined to be guarded in the castle, just in case they were needed again.

Everypony had moved back to their homes; after all, there was so much work to be done to put things back in place and several new villages were supposed to be approved by the royalty. For instance, Ponyville, a village that was just "founded" by a group of earth ponies. Next, Cloudsdale needed to be reformed, and lastly, Canterlot, which was in its worst shape in years.

"Dilectus?" a female voice transported him back to reality.

"Uh, yes? What is it?" the unicorn answered, rather confused.

"You have been staring at the wall for several minutes. Come on, have your breakfast.

There's a lot to be done today, sleepy head." The dark-blue coated, white-maned unicorn said. She had a long curly mane, almost reaching the floor, and a five-pointed star as a cutie mark. Her name was Lumen Stella Noctis, a name that fit her physical appearance rather well.

"Sure mom, are we moving back to Canterlot today?"

"Yes, how could you forget that? The princesses scheduled it for today. We need to pack all our things, and get ready to go to our new home at the Canterlot Castle."

When Dilectus was born, his father left home and was never heard of again. He probably didn't want to have a child anyways. He was raised by his mother alone. She fought for him, and supported all of his endeavors. Dilectus couldn't say that his life was bad.

Having a solid education by studying on his own time, he managed to get to renowned colleges. Soon after finishing his studies the princesses hired him as one of the teachers in advanced magic at the Canterlot School for Gifted Unicorns, a school that had just began its activities that very year.

Even after so many troubles, Equestria was surely getting back on track. All kinds of researchers, inventors and mages were all working together to bring development back to the country. Dilectus knew that even though his education was of the highest quality, the school that the princesses had founded was dedicated to even more advanced studies. Spending his nights reading advanced books could now be considered his norm.

The day passed by quickly. It was just a whole day of packing, after all. As the night began to arrive, a carriage arrived to take their things to Canterlot.

Dilectus and his mother got on board, and they flew back to their home inside the castle walls of Canterlot. It was around nine at night when they arrived.

All the boxes were taken inside and put anywhere since they wouldn't organize everything at the time; they had a simple dinner and went to sleep.

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One day before his first class, Dilectus couldn't be happier. However, he was concerned at the same time; elemental magic was surely one of the most dangerous types. It required lots of concentration, or else an entire building could come down. But he was happy nonetheless.

Organizing all his family's things back to their original places kept both unicorns busy for the whole day. Time flew by and soon it was night once again.

In his room, Dilectus left a single candle lit up so he could read his book and plan what he would do tomorrow. It was a simple book on the principles of magic so he could begin with an easy lesson on his first day and avoid further problems.

Around midnight, the candle flickered, and went out. He was supposed to wake up early, but he couldn't shake away his eagerness.

The unicorn went to the balcony of his room to look at the stars from his favorite spot in the town. His house was situated within the castle walls, as all the other teachers' houses were, but his was in a more elevated area providing a perfect view of the surroundings.

He took a thick blanket and put it on the balcony, and laid down on it. The moon was right above his head and the stars were bright, as always. At night he could find peace in his heart. He was always the antisocial type of pony; not that he didn't like company, but he had built walls around him to protect himself from being harmed, something that he did since he was a colt.

Maybe it was because he was afraid to get in a relationship, or to be disapproved of, something that he fears the most, always trying to do his best, and when he couldn't do something, he always escaped in fear of being mocked.

He never had anything with anypony, nothing more than a simple conversation about a job or some project or research, never could he get close to a mare without freaking out, but always silently, always covered his feelings to look tough, but deep inside, he just wanted to have somepony to care for.

These thoughts filled his mind; and that was his usual activity, thinking while looking to the moon, as if it was going to answer him someday, but the answer never came and he knew it wouldn't.

Maybe he would change sooner or later, or at least he kept saying this to himself, he just couldn't figure out when... and soon he was asleep, with the moon watching him... silently.

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Waking up to the sun shining on top of your head surely wasn't the best way to wake up, and it surely was earlier than he was supposed to wake up, 'Well, at least I can organize everything better,' He thought to himself.

He got up, and his body felt rather numb from sleeping on top of his hooves. He stumbled to get inside but managed to do it without falling over his steps.

With the blanket put back in place he took out his satchel and put several books inside along with ink, parchment, quills and his small notebook where he always left important notes in case he ever need them during classes.

Considering that this was his first job, he smiled at his accomplishments. As soon as he got out of university, he received a letter from Princess Celestia, inviting him to be a teacher.

He and his mother went through many hardships in life but now it looks like life is helping him.

Everything was set up and ready for his first day. It was a strange feeling as if this was the first day at school to study, but now he would be there to teach.

He went to his drawer and realized that the Princess hadn't said anything about clothing. Maybe just a simple social shirt and a tie would suffice. He didn't want to get there and call for too much attention after all.

The teacher's houses were all the same. The main floor contained the kitchen, living room, dining room and a bathroom. On the second floor, there were two bedrooms and one more bathroom. Basically, it was a house for two ponies to live perfectly fine. The house itself was of great value; there were carpets in the rooms, beautiful wood furnishings, there was a regal touch in there.

His luck was surely on a good side, everything that he asked for was there, maybe not everything, but at least he could give some comfort to his mother and have a nice job.

He went downstairs and noticed that the table was set with plates and teacups. Some sandwiches were on a bigger plate in the middle of the table and a teapot was at its side expelling steam from it.

"Good morning, Mr. important teacher," Came a voice from the kitchen.

"Oh come on. I'm not that important," Dilectus replied with a hoof on the back of his neck.

"Yes you are! To be where you are, you must be special. Not everypony can be a teacher at the School for Gifted Unicorns," Lumen said coming out of the kitchen and sitting by the table, "Now come here and have your breakfast or else you'll be late for your first day."

"Well umm, I guess you're right." Dilectus said as he sat by the table as well and took a sandwich and poured tea in his cup.

"I hope I do well there..." Dilectus said with his head low.

"Ha! Are you kidding? Of course you will. Such a young studious stallion with a good memory to boot, you'll do more than fine."

He was half-way through his breakfast when he decided something, "Hey mom, I think I'll head over to the school early. Maybe there is going to be a meeting or something, and I want to know the place better."

"Well okay then, I won't have to work today so if you need anything, just come home, okay?"

"Sure thing." He left the table and opened the door, carrying his satchel along. He gave his mother a wide smile and waved goodbye.

Closing the door behind him, he took a deep breath and looked at the sky as he said to himself, "This is going to be a great day."