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Clef + Pulchra

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Clef & Pulchra

Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle had just finished telling Cadence how their parents had met. How Twilight, their grandmother, had introduced Twilight Velvet to Night Light and his older brother. Although Twilight had been far more interested in introducing her daughter to Night Light's brother, famous in the Royal Guard, Twilight Velvet had been far more interested in Night Light.

Twilight Sparkle was getting a bit fidgety now without book in hoof. It was only about a month now until Twilight Sparkle would be studying under Princess Celestia. Cadence couldn't help but feel a little miserable about this. Although she knew it was beyond the best for Twilight Sparkle, and she was very happy for her, Cadence knew that as time went on, she would be foalsitting her less and less until it would cease completely. She also knew Shining Armor would see his sister less and less, if not to the same extent.

Cadence was beginning to wonder if it had been a good idea not telling Twilight Sparkle about her and Shining Armor's relationship; at this rate, she might not even work it out, plus, for some reason or another, they had found themselves not interacting in that way much while she was around.

'What about your parents?' Twilight Sparkle asked Cadence. Shining Armor scowled at his sister.

'Be a bit sensitive, Twilie,' Shining Armor told her, 'Cadence's parents are . . . no longer here . . .'

'Where did they go?' his sister inquired.

'They're gone,' Shining Armor tried to explain as tactfully as possible, 'and they won't come back.'

Twilight Sparkle didn't really understand but she didn't ask for more explanation.

'I just wondered how they met . . .' Twilight Sparkle murmured, 'and stuff like that . . .'

'Well I do happen to know that,' Cadence replied.

***

Although alicorns generally travel around, a group had settled in a small town temporarily to raise their foals, who, as immortal alicorns, took a very long time to grow up. Only one of these alicorns had a mortal foal; he was also the only stallion to settle as male alicorns, if they have an alicorn mate, normally do not stay once the foal is born. This particular stallion's mare had been a pegasus pony who had died, so, the alicorn, whose name was Dusk, had brought his pegasus son, Clef, to this place.

There was group of alicorns who didn't approve of those who mated with mortal ponies, and disliked the offspring even more. Unfortunately, all the adult alicorns that had settled there, except Dusk, were in this group. It would have been sensible for Clef to stay with his father at all times as he was treated with contempt by the adult alicorns and was bullied by both the mortal colts in town and all, or so he thought, the young alicorns.

But Clef just couldn't stand being trapped alone inside all day so he would go out anyway, keeping alert, in case he needed to run away. He walked to near the edge of town, and, like many colts before him, approached a garden gate and stared.

The garden was wonderful, magnificent, beautiful, mystical, magical, but what was even more so was the young alicorn tending it. Overcome and enchanted by it all, Clef opened the gate and went into the garden. Delightful smells came wafting from the flowers and other plants. They seemed so fresh and new.

He was so unaware of what he was really doing that he bumped right into the young mare who jumped and gave a small scream. She looked very scared. Clef suddenly came to his senses.

'Oh my gosh!' Clef cried, panicked and feeling guilty, 'I'm so so sorry!'

'Sure!' the alicorn snapped, 'that's what they all say!'

'Please, I truly am!' Clef insisted, 'If there's anything I can do . . !'

'They all say that too!' the alicorn retorted, 'before they start pressurizing me to go out to dinner with them or something! They only like me because of the way I look!'

Clef felt desperately sorry for her; he could see that she was angry, and why, but could also see that she felt intimidated and frightened, was sad, and, although she seemed to like her own company, was very lonely. Perhaps she was more like a mortal pony than most alicorns were.

'Please,' Clef began, 'I didn't mean to upset you, I would never have come in if I thought you would be, I don't know why I did come in! Please, I just want to make you feel better! If beating me up would make you feel better please do it!'

The alicorn was close to tears, but the reason for it was unclear. For a few moments, there was only silence.

'You're . . .' the alicorn said slowly, 'you're not like the others . . . are you?'

Curious, and shaking slightly, she moved closer to him. She was a lot taller than him, if she had been mortal, she would have been a bit older than he was. She gave a sniff.

'You've stepped in the lavender patch,' she told him, 'you smell lovely!' She gave a small smile. 'What is your name?' she asked timidly.

'It's Clef,' he replied, 'may I ask yours?'

'It's Pulchra. I think I'm going to like you, Clef.' She seemed sad.

'Are you okay?' Clef asked.

'It's just that, well, you're mortal,' Pulchra explained, 'you will die. I don't want you to die, Clef! I've met all the ponies in this town one way or another, and I would never want to be friends with any of them, but you . . . you're different from them, in a good way. You don't like me just because of how I look do you?'

'Your appearance on the outside is a reflection of what you are on the inside, you have a beautiful soul.' Clef's face went very red.

He didn't know where his answer had come from. It seemed to have come blurting out of no-where. It was hard to see, because of her color, but Pulchra was blushing. There was a moment of silence in which Clef noticed that most of the plants were gold, silver and pale pink, matching Pulchra's mane and tail colors and the colors of the flowers on her cutie mark.

'You know,' said Clef carefully, 'those who die never truly die as long as they live in your memory.'

Pulchra smiled, her big, silver eyes bright; the gold markings on her body almost seemed to shimmer in the sunlight. Pulchra was about to say something when they both heard an angry yell. They turned to see Pulchra's mother galloping over enraged.

'Get away from my daughter, you low life . . .'

'Leave him alone!' Pulchra shouted.

'You shouldn't be associated with ponies like him!' her mother retorted angrily, before chasing Clef, who ran away as fast as he could.

***

'So what happened?' Twilight Sparkle asked.

'Well,' Cadence began, 'Mother was forced to meet Father in secret. She was able to discourage the bullying, he was able to discourage other colts from annoying her. One day though, she came to where Father lived with a small bag full of her possessions. Her mother had found out from various sources about their relationship and was planning for them to move the next day. Mother had packed her things and had sneaked out of the window. She wanted Father to run away with her so they could be together. He agreed immediately and told his father what he was doing. He understood. Neither of them saw their parents again. Father died not long after I was born, and gave me the first part of my name, which may be why Mother often referred to me by it.'

'That was sweet!' said Twilight Sparkle, 'I wish I knew a couple of ponies like that!'

Shining Armor and Cadence struggled not to laugh. Once Twilight Sparkle realized how late it was, she rushed off to do some studying.

'I'm sorry about your parents, Cadence,' Shining Armor told her.

'It's alright,' Cadence responded a little sadly, 'maybe it's for the best. I mean, Mother was often so miserable without Father. If she hadn't died, she'd probably have been like that for a very long time, and Father would have died at some point anyway.'

Shining Armor put a foreleg around her. Cadence smiled, blushing slightly.

'Besides,' Cadence continued, 'If they hadn't died, I would never have come here and met you!'

Shining Armor smiled back.

'Hey!' They looked up to see that Twilight Sparkle had decided to come back, 'can I have a hug too?'
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that is so ad and so cute at the same time
i love it