Author's Notes:

This is a collection of min-shorts all 500-1000 words in length, each detailing a tragic death in Equestria. Updates will come five a day with three original chapters, and two guest chapters. Should anyone wish to submit a guest chapter, PM the author or comment a link to a google doc. And yes. It will have 1000 chapters.

Luna relaxed as she watched the steam rising from the royal hot tub in her bathroom. She always enjoyed being able to come here after a long day of bickering with idiotic and corrupt nobles and just sigh all over her troubles away. Luckily for her, the hot tub was already running and filled to the brim with extremely warm water. She stuck a hoof in and sighed happily as she felt it heating up, the muscles already starting to relax after a long day of standing and looking pretty.

Luna huffed, taking her royal dressings in her magic and unceremoniously tossing them aside. If she wasn’t so stressed and eager to relax, she might have seen the sign in the corner pointing out that some of the jets were malfunctioning. Unfortunately for the immortal soon-to-be-unimmortal moon goddess, fate just wasn’t on her side today. With a happy sigh, she sank into the water of the hot tub, spreading her wings out wide to both sides.

“Oh… That feels so wonderful… Oh glorious hot tub, how I have longed all day for your embrace…”

A small chuckle of relief left her lips as she layed on her back in the water, knowing that nobody would probably be coming to join her today, and that even if they did, she could just usher them out by royal decree. What she didn’t notice in her brief moment of respite, was that her splayed wings were coming dangerously close to the only two malfunctioning jets in the hot tub. What was malfunction about them you ask?

The jets were sucking water in rather than spewing warm water out into the tub.

With her eyes closed, Luna felt something strange going on with her wings. It seemed as if the very tips were being tickled. And then further along the tips… Her eyes shot open in panic as she felt herself being drawn just under the surface of the hot tub, her wings getting sucked even further in.

Now, being the all powerful alicorn princess that she was, Luna could have easily figured a way out of the situation with a calm mind. Unfortunately for her, this was the exact moment she’d chosen to panic. Her blue legs thrashed wildly about as she was sucked under, her face just under the surface of the water, but her body unable to rise any further due to the suction on her wings.

She began to cry silently as she shouted for help that would never come, bubbles bursting to the surface as she began to draw water into her lungs. But nobody would come. Because everybody knew that the hot tub was closed due to having a malfunction. A few moments later, all that was left of the once proud princess of the night was her lifeless body floating to the surface, her slightly relaxed wings allowing just enough buoyancy for her non-breathing muzzle to stick itself above the water.

Just like that, Equestria had lost one of its rulers. And nobody even knew for two days.