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Chapter 3

Twilight could not believe how warm she was. It felt like ages since she was last so ... gloriously warm. The bed was so soft and fluffy, the covers were just the right mixture of weight and 'poofy-ness' required for maximum comfort, and Luna was just so snuggly.

..... wait .....

All the warmth and happiness leeched right out of Twilight Sparkle as her brain finally caught up with the rest of her, realising that the source of this wonderful warmth was the Lunar Princess she was entangled with ... in Princess Celestia's bed!

Now shocked awake, she could remember every embarrassing moment of the night before, when she had over-reacted and thought Celestia and Luna hated her, when Celestia had explained what 'Sparking' was, and then ... and then ...

There'd been a lot of drinking, a lot of the Royal Kitchen's finest sweets and pastries, then ... then Celestia had tricked both Luna and herself into touching horns again, and then they had ... oh no!

I just want to find a deep dark hole and crawl down into it for the next hundred years! That was completely different from the last time! Twilight closed her eyes and mentally cringed, remembering how the feeling of this latest 'Clack' incident had been very ... pleasant compared to last time. She had been numbed by fatigue and alcohol and good food, but the feelings had been … had been...

The ... need to be perfect, so Princess Celestia would never find fault with her had been a driving force in Twilight Sparkle's life, driving her to study endlessly, to not 'waste' her life on frivolous things like friends, fashion or material items. But it wasn't as if her books didn't dip their hooves into ... darker waters, from time to time.

And the feeling she had experienced that moment when Luna and herself had crossed horns for a second time had made her very aware of the fact she was a young mare in her prime. And the connection with Luna had allowed Twilight to feel that despite being thousands of years old, Luna's body was in much the same predicament.

And now, they were wrapped in each other’s wings, in Celestia's bed of all places, snuggled up like two kittens with their horns still joined by ... something ... that let them flex slightly against each other. Twilight couldn't turn her head to look without drawing her muzzle closer to Luna's right now, and that would be a recipe for disaster ...

She was also trying very, very hard not to think about the sensations that were insistently making themselves known with every motion as the smooth, blood- and nerve-rich skin that covered the horns known as velvet rubbed against each other.

Blushing furiously as she tried to think cold, dry thoughts, Twilight started to run down a mental checklist of actions she could take that would not result in Luna waking up and the situation deteriorating further ... and came up with precious little.

She could not withdraw her wings, because Luna was laying on top of one of Twilight's own wings, Luna's fore-legs had wrapped themselves tightly around the barrel of Twilight's body, and there was of course whatever was holding their horns together.

Okay, calm ... calm, I am calm, there is still a way out of this. Twilight told herself, running through a list of possible spells that could work. Teleporting blindly was out of the question, especially with the entangled situation and her own Alicorn powers randomly spiking. She might teleport them into a wall, or burn them both with uncontrolled magical energy, or transpose both herself and Luna over each other during the re-materialising phase of the teleportation spell ...

Luna was one of her friends. But spending eternity fighting each other for control over a nightmarish, mish-mashed body was not something that Twilight was looking forwards to …

Perhaps a quick scrying spell, to see just what was binding their horns together? A small spell, just enough to get a glimpse would surely not be too jarring in their position.

Twilight gathered the magic from the core of her being, wondering why her magic reserves were all but exhausted, and fed the tiniest trace of that power into the spell she had in mind, funnelling it up and out of her horn ...

And just as the spell reached the very tip of her horn ... it was gone, sucked into Luna's own horn like a drop of water into a sponge.

Rather than seeing the room from the arcane 'eye' she had just tried to conjure, Twilight Sparkle had the dubious honour of making Luna moan happily in her sleep, then hugging Twilight Sparkle tighter if such a thing were possible, before rolling over onto her back and dragging the slightly smaller Twilight with her, so that Luna was lying on her back, Twilight was draped over Luna in a very compromising position, blushing furiously as her lower body slipped between Luna’s hind-legs and certain parts of their anatomies became acquainted.

The Canterlot Academy where Twilight Sparkle had attended wasn't quite as squeaky clean as the ponies of Equestria were led to believe, and one day after sneaking into the library late at night to study for an upcoming test, Twilight had come across a pair of third-year Students engaged in an extra-curricular activity of their own.

Paralyzed with fear, Twilight had been stuck in the next row of book-shelves as the two older students proceeded to do unspeakable things to each other, or so the much younger and innocent Twilight had thought at the time, but the sounds they had made together had remained in Twilight's memories. She knew what a sound like what Luna had just made meant ...

And as the 'Sympathy' between the two Alicorns rebounded the sensations Luna had felt back to Twilight, the smaller Alicorn blushed so hard she almost turned as pink as Pinkie Pie, and tried to think of deserts, sponges and dried up river-beds with mixed success.

By Celestia's Beard, I can't use magic without us having those sensations ... oh no, what happens when Luna wakes up and tries to magic us apart oh no no no bad bad bad we'll shout the Castle down around us what do IdowhatdoIdowhatdoIdo?

She'd only just managed to get to the bottom of the whole 'Clack' incident with Luna, with Celestia acting as a mediator, and now this? Luna was going to think she was a pe ... a per ... a naughty pony!

It's okay, it's fine, we're just in a very embarrassing position, Luna tends to be loud enough to be heard a mile away if she panics, we can't use magic aaaaand she just woke up. No problem ... no problem ... oh who am I fooling, we're dooooomed!

Luna's eyes fluttered open, sleepily staring at Twilight in the unfocused way a pony does when they just wake up.

"Uhhmmm .... Luna, please don't freak out, but we're stuck, and I can't get loose, and pleasedon'tusetheRoyalCanterlotVoice and I ... huuuuh ... huuuh! I'm so sorry, we're stuck!" Twilight found herself babbling before she managed to take a deep breath to stop herself from hyperventilating.

"Twili ... wait, no, get off!" Luna squeaked, her horn glowing with the beginning of a spell before Twilight could tell her to stop, and the purple Alicorn felt her fur tingle with the tell-tale prickling sensation of a teleportation spell ...

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We're in bed together, and she's hugging me in my sleep! Luna screamed mentally, the warm, blissful feeling that had enveloped her scant moments before fading to hot embarrassment as she tried to teleport away from Twilight Sparkle ... and then her embarrassment turned to puzzlement as she fed her last remaining threads of magical energy into a teleportation spell, strong enough to send Luna back to the moon, all of which drained away in an eye-blink into Twilight, who had a rather bizarre reaction.

Gasping like a fish out of water, Twilight collapsed against Luna's prone form, trembling and twitching, her wings shuddering, the newest Princess of Equestria making what would be otherwise-adorable squeaking noises under different circumstances.

Confused and more than a little bit alarmed, Luna opened her mouth to ask just what was going on when she felt the effects of the failed spell rebound through her own horn!

...please don't freak out, but we're stuck, and I can't get loose... the words came back to haunt Luna just a split second before the 'sympathy' with Twilight Sparkle allowed Luna to experience every single thing happening to the younger Alicorn, and now there were two gasping, flailing Alicorns in the bed, squeaking and moaning until the spasms had passed. Unthinking, both Twilight and Luna wrapped their legs around each other as the spasms rocked them, barely able to breath, let alone control themselves.

A full minute passed before either Luna or Twilight could speak again, laying panting in the bed and trying to not look each other in the eye, which was a feat in and of itself with their horns forcing their heads so close together.

"Oh ... oh ... oh-kaaay, new rule, no magic from either of us." Twilight panted, unable to get her limbs to obey her to pull herself off Luna's body. "We ... we need something, a mirror, so we can see what's keeping our horns locked together like this."

Luna, for her part, guiltily enjoyed the pressure of the slightly smaller Alicorn atop her and the lingering tremors in her own body for a few more moments before mustering the courage to speak, hoping her voice would not to waver. "I-i-indeed. I do not think We could endure another ... incident. If this is Tia's bedroom, there should be a small mirror on her nightstand, can you see it?"

"I ... uh ... think so. But we're going to have to move ... Uhm, can you, uhm, hold onto me, and I'll drag us over to it." The purple Alicorn blushed heavily as she spoke, and Luna was awkwardly aware of the pleasant warmth that was spreading through her body, from where Twilight lay spread-eagled and pliable against her ...

No. Cease. Desist! I am not a ... a 'Filly-Fooler'! She admonished herself mentally before awkwardly wrapping her limbs around Twilight once more, wriggling as best she could to help Twilight drag themselves over the soft cloud-bed towards the nightstand, said wriggling causing both Princesses to blush furiously as certain parts of their anatomies repeatedly introduced themselves to their counterparts and heroically ignoring the squelching noises that accompanied those meetings.

Luck was, for once, with them, and with her greater wingspan, Luna was able to reach her wing over to the nightstand, using her feathers to feel around until she felt the cool silver-plated handle of the mirror and, using the innate magic that all pegasi and alicorns possessed, manipulated her primaries, or 'flight' feathers as crude digits and snagged the mirror, holding it so Twilight could examine their horns, for the awkwardness of their position prevented Luna from using the mirror directly.

Whatever she saw, it made Twilight tremble against Luna and start to stammer and blush.

"Twilight, We command thee to tell us what is holding our horns together like this!" The Lunar Princess demanded, her voice rising in volume as her own panic rose. What could be the cause of this predicament? What had Twilight seen?

And where the Hay was Tia? She was the one who caused this whole embarrassing event in the first place with her ill-thought-out prank!

"Ou-our horns are joined, Luna! I can see the velvet on the tips of our horns, and it’s stuck together!" Twilight stammered, her eyes going far too wide even as her pupils contracted to dots. "I've never even heard of something like this? What do we doooo?"

Panicking, both Mares pushed away from each other, yelling in pain as the attempt to tear free from each other only resulting in a stinging pain in the bases of their horns and splitting headaches.

"WHERE IS TIA?" Luna hissed in frustration. With Twilight lying atop her like this, and their horns mysteriously joined together, neither Mare could get onto their hooves. They were having enough issues with both of their horns rubbing against each other, every ridge of the spiralling lengths catching on each NO THAT IS ENOUGH OF THAT, thank you very much!

"I am right here, sister." Tia's voice replied from the bathroom, sounding mildly amused, and the Solar Princess stepped out of her private bathroom and into their field of vision, still steaming from a hot shower, with her mane and tail wrapped in thick, fluffy towels. "As to what has happened to your horns, I have a theory, but I'm just glad that the side-effects of you two resonating together have finally stopped. The overflow of magic was causing random items in the Castle to animate and move about on their own. I had to explain to the Guard and the castle's staff that Twilight was undergoing some minor changes due to her changing from an Element Bearer and a powerful Unicorn to boot into an Alicorn, and that was the reason you had had to confine her to quarters, until her powers stabilizied ... which is not too far from the truth."

"Pri-princess ... do the ponies know? About Luna and I ... about our ... problem?" Luna heard Twilight ask in a small, ashamed voice, and a small part of the Lunar Princess's heart pricked with pain.

A problem, am I?

"No. As far as anypony knows, you are simply suffering random spikes of magical energy that are overflowing your natural barriers, and Luna had to try and contain the energies last night, hence the surges of 'mixed' magic flooding the Castle." Celestia replied gently, then smiled sheepishly. "I do apologise for all this mayhem. I knew full well neither of you would willingly do something as embarrassing as 'Sparking' in front of me so I could examine your 'Sympathy' in person, and I was not in full control of my own faculties ... I cannot overstate how sorry I am. I had had a little too much cider, and I had only intended to observe the phenomena and see if there was anything I could do privately to help you both handle your 'Sympathy' towards each other's magic, but the reaction was so strong I could not pull your horns apart once it started. "

A flicker of a frown crossed Celestia's face as she looked down at the blushing Alicorns in her bed "I think the resonance between you was so strong you've actually welded the velvet on your horns together. I think a simple procedure should separate you ... but you're going to lose velvet in the process. A lot of it, and the Court will notice straight away."

For several moments, there was nothing but an awkward, uncomfortable pause as the three Alicorns eyed each other.

"Uh ... did Luna and I ... did we embarrass ourselves?" Twilight asked softly, her eyes squeezed tightly shut.

"All that happened was you two blacked out and fainted on my carpet, then your combined magic ran wild and made random pieces of artwork, a dozen suits of armor and half the castle's cutlery self-animate and run amok." Celestia replied in an equally soft voice, her contrite tone completely ruined by the huge smile on her face. "Honestly, I am so very sorry ... I had the best of intentions, but the worst of executions. Still, we have resolved the issue, at least for a few days."

"Tia, dear sister, I do not see how tricking myself and Twilight into this mortifying situation is helpful in the slightest!" Luna snapped, feeling completely humiliated at their predicament. Celestia must have heard them when Luna's attempted teleportation spell had misfired! Thank the Mother Earth that the cloud-bed would silently absorb any ... leakages.

The fact that Luna knew that at least half the ‘leakages’ weren’t hers only added to the confusion and frustrations that whirled inside her.

"Well, as of this moment, Twilight could not cast any spell of note, and you, Luna, are almost out of magic now, are you not?" Princess Celesita replied gently, all traces of mirth gone from her face. "I have spent the day ..."

"DAY?" Twilight and Luna wailed in surprise and distress.

"Ahem, yes, the day conferring with my personal archivist, and have poured over several ancient scrolls that claimed to be the final word on 'Cutie Mark Resonance' and 'Magical Sympathies'." Celestia continued, mouth firmly set against smiling, as she marched around the bed to the other side. "Most are little more than mythical drivel or romantic fantasy, but a scroll penned by Starswirl the Bearded did mention that entities suffering from powerful 'Sympathies' can learn to 'ground' the excess energies caused by their ‘Sympathy’ into specially prepared crystal matrixes, and even turn those energies to good use, given practice."

"Hence, and with some reluctance, I am sending you both to the ancient castle of the Royal Pony Sisters ... in effect, the old capital of Equestria. I will not inform the Court of your location, naturally, but we will tell them that this is a training mission for Twilight Sparkle." Outlined by Celestia's golden magic, the towels on her mane and tail unwrapped themselves from her body and drifted down onto the bed, before both Luna and Twilight felt Celestia poke at the mutual 'sheath' of skin that joined the uppermost portions of their horns, shivering in spite of themselves as the act caused their horns-tips to grind against each other. "It is far enough away that no-pony can disrupt your lessons, yet close enough for me to reach you via teleportation within a few minutes if the need arises, and that if your magic begins to overflow again due to the Sympathy, it will have dissipated into the wilds of the Forest long before another Pony can detect them."

There was a moment of pain as Celestia's magic forced it's way between the two horns of the smaller Alicorns, teasing apart the velvet that could be salvaged and cutting with surgical precision that which was too deeply conjoined to be saved, until Luna and Twilight felt the last springy connection between them release, and both Alicorns could pull their heads away from each other.

"So it's exile, dear Sister, until such time as we can handle this ... problem?" Luna could not keep the bitterness out of her voice as Twilight shakily heaved herself away from Luna and crawled to the other side of the bed, away from Celestia. "And how long will that be? A year? A decade? More? How long will we be able to keep up the charade, while the Court laughs behind my back, while Twilight Sparkle's friends wonder what they did wrong for her to shun them so?"

Celestia's expression went from supressed mirth to one of shock and pain, but Luna felt far too angry to take her comment back or apologise. Twilight considered their Sympathy a 'problem', and was ashamed of being connected to Luna. Celestia was effectively banishing them to the ancient capital, the site of Luna's fall from grace and corruption into Nightmare Moon and more painful memories than Luna felt she could ever deal with. She had missed an entire day thanks to Celestia's ill-thought prank, and Mother Earth only knew what the Court would think of her now, that she could only handle three weeks of double-duty, when Celestia had managed a thousand years of it!

"Luna ... I would never, never exile you! With the rate at which Twilight learns to control new forms of magic, I expect you both to be gone only a week or two at most!" Celestia gasped, reaching for Luna with her wings and all but dragging her angry younger sister into a tight embrace. "I would never let you undergo such a horrible fate again, never!"

"And ... there is another reason why I am sending you to that place. Ponyville is not much more than six or seven hours walking distance from the old castle, and far less by flight." Luna sighed and relaxed against Celestia's chest, patting her elder sister comfortingly as the eldest Alicorn started to shake. "I-it's not too far that you both can't go to Po-ponyville and spend time with your friends, take a break e-every now and then. I don't want to send you away, but until you can control the 'Sympathy' between you, it's just too dangerous to have you both in Canterlot, and if I send one of you away, the Nobles will start to draw their own conclusions, few of them pleasant."

"Ponyville ... that's not so bad." Luna murmured to her sister softly as Celestia shook, the large white body of the Ruler of Equestria shuddering as the Solar Princess tried not to cry, before the Lunar princess sighed again in defeat and hugged her sister back. "It's alright, Tia. I'm so sorry for snapping at you, it's just been a rough few weeks, with the Sparking incident with Twilight, and the drama with the News-Ponies, and then the rumors that I'd imprisoned Twilight and was using your absence to take over Canterlot ..."

"There is ... just one more thing ..." Celesita sighed, the faint golden glow of her magic illuminating the room for a brief moment, before something fell onto the bed with a muffled thump. "My Archivist found a ... a rather unusual solution, at least for the overflow of magical power."

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If there had been a moment when Twilight Sparkle felt lower in her life ... it wasn't a moment she could recall at this time.

Not only had she just had her first ... first ...debute, as it were, but she'd had it with another Mare, and more importantly, a friend who just happened to be the Lunar Princess. And it had been a 'duet', if the feelings from the 'Sympathy' they shared had been any indication.

Or the mess you both left in Celestia’s bed! A snarky inner voice commented.

Oh shut up! Twilight bawled at the inner voice. Shut up, shut up, shut uuuuuup!

No, what was worse was that Luna now probably hated her, and Celestia must have heard them! It had been accidentally, but still! If Twilight had possessed a decent amount of magical energy in her body right now, she would have teleported herself far, far away from this place!

That the day would ever come that I would wake up in the Princess's room and feel such shame ... Twilight thought with remorse, grabbing a double hoof-ful of the enchanted cloud that made up the mattress of Celestia's bed and jamming her face into the impossibly soft mass, trying to not cry.

"TIA! What the hay are those things doing here?" Twilight's trip down pity-street took a hard right when Luna launched herself away from Celestia, collided with Twilight and sent the pair of them soaring off the bed.

"Luna! Twilight! Are you alright?" Celestia yelled, trotting around to the two tangled Mares, levitating what looked like two small, wrought-iron bangles with her magic. "Please tell me you didn't have another ... incident?"

"N-no, your Highness!" Twilight grunted, trying to pretend that Luna's flank was not resting on her head right now. "Luna, what happened?"

"Take those infernal things away! Tia, what possible use could Starswirl's Shackles serve?" Luna shrieked, scrambling off Twilight and away from Celestia, true panic in her voice. "I WILL NOT BE SHACKLED! I WILL NOT BE IMPRISONED AGAIN! TIA, NO, YOU PROMISED ME! TIA!"

Looking horrified, Celestia cast the bangles away to the other side of the room and once again grasping her younger sister in her wings and holding her tightly as Luna sobbed and whimpered, half-hugging Celestia, half struggling to get away.

"Princess? Luna? What ... I don't understand ..." Twilight murmured in shock as she unsteadily got to her hooves. The unflappable Celestia, the stoic Luna, both of them reduced to tears by a simple set of old-fashioned jewellery?

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Several minutes and a box of tissues later, both Luna and Celestia had calmed down enough for Twilight Sparkle to make sense of the situation. And in typical Twilight fashion, decided that the best way to keep herself from going into a panic was to make herself a mental list of what had happened.

Celestia had little choice but to confine both ponies to her own personal quarters after they had fallen unconscious during her 'prank' and the resulting surge of magic caused by the 'Sympathy', a surge of magic which had grown so strong during her 'test' of their 'Sympathy' to each other that their horns had been welded together, and the surge of uncontrolled magic had drifted through the castle itself and randomly animating various objects after the sensa ... the shock of the sudden 'Sympathy-attack' had knocked both Twilight and Luna out cold.

Twilight decided it would be best for all and sundry to just put down the third 'Sympathy' between herself and Luna this morning as 'that awkward situation' and leave it at that. Thank Faust for the absorbent properties of Cloud Beds!

Celestia's 'solution' to the problem of such a high rate of Sympathy, or Magical Resonance, between two of the most powerful Ponies in Equestria was to send them to the ancient ruins within the Everfree Forest that had once been the capital of Old Equestria so that the two could work together without interference from other Ponies, to understand how their 'Sympathy' could be controlled.

And the 'bangles' that had caused Luna to react with such abject terror were devices created by Starswirl the Bearded to drain magical energies or essences from the wearers into a third artefact, a pumpkin-sized, cube-shaped mass of pink quartz that Celestia's Archivist was now attempting to find in the Royal Vaults, a mystical battery known as Empathy's Core, which could store the power indefinitely in a state that any Pony with a spark of magic could then tap into at will.

Unfortunately, the bangles, known as Starswirl's Shackles, had been misused in the past by several Unicorns to artificially enhance their own powers by draining another Unicorn, or a certain Princess of the Night, who wore the second 'Shackle'. And Luna's reaction to them was nothing short of abject terror, because she had believed that Princess Celestia intended to shackle both Twilight and Luna and drain them to the point where their magical essences would be completely drained, a fate which would take even an Alicorn weeks or even months to recover their full strength.

"I'm sorry Tia, I'm so so sorry, I just panicked, everything is happening so fast, and I ..."

"No, it's my fault for trying to force a result, Lulu, without asking your permission first ..."

"Luna, Princes Celestia, I'm so sorry, this is all my fault, and somehow, I probably cast a spell when I was drunk on the night of the Coronation ..."

"No Twilight, not even you could cast a spell of this magnitude, it's obviously fate at work ..."

"I apologise as well, Twilight, you've been caught up in something beyond even my abilities to help ..."

Eventually all three Princess ran out of apologies and settled on nestling together on Celestia's bed, Princess Celestia in the middle, Twilight and Luna tucked up against her side, Celestia's wings draped over them, enjoying the closeness and the warmth of family and friendship.

Finally, Celestia sighed and began to explain. "My Archivist believes that Empathy's Core and Starswirl's Shackles can drain off any excess energies created if you two start to ... 'Sympathize' with each other again, so that you will not be drained and left trapped and unconscious like before." Celestia's soft, snow-white muzzle came down to nuzzle the top of Luna's head, then Twilight's, before her wings tightened around them and hugged the smaller Alicorns to the Solar Princess. "Due to the nature of the ... of the issue at hoof, I dare not send even a Guard-Pony out with you, for fear of information being leaked back to the Nobility, who will see the Magical Resonance as a political vulnerability they can exploit."

Continuing, Celestia turned and levitated the two 'shackles' back up onto the bed, frowning at them. "In any case, I suspect that with the magical skill that both of you possess, either one of you will be able to use the excess energy stored within Empathy's Core to provide yourselves with almost anything you might require, but just in case, I will also be providing you with a bottle of Dragon's Fire to send me letters for additional supplies, and I will show you both how to trigger the Shackles’s emergency function, so you can remove them at will if either one of you feels unsafe."

Twilight, for her part, simply leaned into the warm, solid body of Celestia and enjoyed the moment as a small part of her mind filed away all of what Celestia was saying. Celestia had a plan. Celestia was going to make everything right again.

All she and Luna had to do was somehow master a barely understood 'resonance' between themselves, or else they might be stuck in the Everfree Forest forever.

"... need shelter, of course. Bedding, food ... oh, and bathing equipment. The nearby rivers still have a slight infestation of Hydra spawn ..."

"... don't want to live in there, Tia. Too many bad memories of what I did, to you, to our Ponies, for me to ..."

" ... not certain how we'll get all that equipment out there without ... oh! OH! Of course, he can help ..."

And tucked in to the side of her beloved teacher, assured that all could be solved, Twilight Sparkle slipped back into slumber