The Love in the Night

by EPP

First published 7th of September, 2014

Supernova is a normal soldier from night guard, Luna is a Princess of Equestria, and this is their love story.

Supernova led the normal, calm life of a Night Guard, sure he had some ambitions like becoming captain one day but other than that he didn't really have any plans.

Suddenly his whole life was turned upside down because of a stupid bet.

Here we go, Supernova was created by kilala97! Go check out her deviantart.

Now with a reading! (Dat is a link to 1st chapter tho.)

Chapter 1 - How it all started.

Supernova walked through the huge hallways of Canterlot's castle, making sure there weren’t any unwanted visitors. The normally calm and collected night soldier nervously swayed on his legs as he trotted back and forth.

Reason for his nervousness was a challenge given to him by one of his friends on their night off, as he patrolled the area he couldn’t focus on anything else then what was he supposed to do.

Supernova walked down the streets of Canterlot as the night breeze covered his fur, making him shiver. Nights these days were cold, but no matter the temperature they were still majestic.

Besides, why would he care about a slight chill when his destination was much more important? He was going to hang out with his friends from night guard on their night off.

After few more minutes of trotting, he finally arrived at the big tavern called “The Prancing Pony”, their favorite place to hang out at nights.

He walked inside and immediately spotted his group of friends sitting at the table, he sat down at the free spot right next to Dashing Star who like the rest of his friends was a bat pony, his fur was jet black and his mane white and combed.

“Look who finally showed up! Our dear future captain!” Void Night shouted from across the table. Supernova’s roommate, his fur was of similar shade to Nova’s while his black mane was long and straight, with a few grey highlights here and there.

“Yeah yeah, shut up Void, did you get me my beer?” Supernova stated smiling.

“We sure did, one Equestrian Pilsner coming up.” Adamant Sky said and passed him the cup full of beer, Adamant’s fur was grey and his mane was long and unkempt, it was crimson red.

“Well then, what are we waiting for?” Supernova asked as they simultaneously raised their cups and cheered before taking few big gulps. He put his glass down and sighed in satisfaction as suddenly he felt a slight push on his back, he turned around and saw one of the waitresses, smiling nervously. “I’m really sorry sir.”

“Don’t worry about it.” Nova said and watched young mare walk away.

“What a player.” Void said mockingly.

“Hey,” Nova talked back, “what was I supposed to do? Ask her out cause she bumped into me?”

“Oh please, you wouldn’t have the guts to ask somepony like her out, regardless of the situation.”

Nova puffed out his chest, “I can get any mare I want, mark my words.” He said, half jokingly.

“I sure will.” Void said and took a sip of his beer.

The night went on as they talked and joked around in the tavern, this night it was almost full, most of the customers were bat ponies, not really surprising.

It would be just like any other night off, but suddenly something happened.

A small unexpected event that was going to change Supernova’s life forever.

“Hey listen guys, guys listen,” Void shouted, as always he was first to get drunk.

“Yeah we’re listening what’s the deal?” Adamant asked while finishing his fourth mug of beer.

“I was thinking about something. Supernova you said earlier that you can get any mare you want right?”

Supernova flinched but nodded, “I did say that.”

“Well then, how about a small bet?” Void asked smirking, both Adamant Sky and Dashing Star rose to attention upon hearing his statement and waited for Supernova’s answer.

On the other hoof Supernova wasn’t very amused, he knew what the bet will be about that’s why he wanted to decline but he simply couldn’t, he can’t just chicken out of it.

“Let me guess, you’ll pick a mare in the crowd and I need to ask her out right?”

“More or less, yes.”

“All right then, let’s do this.” Supernova stated trying to sound confident, Void’s grin widened.

“Okay, but you see the mare I want you to ask out isn’t here, sadly.”

Nova raised his eyebrow, slightly confused. He scratched his head as he asked, “Well, then who?”

“Oh don’t worry, you know her very well.”

And here he was, trotting through the hallways of the Canterlot castle thinking about how is he supposed to ask Princess Luna on a date.

How did he even get himself into this mess? A simple night guard trying to ask out the Princess of Night herself, his heart was pounding as he thought about the possible outcomes, like getting thrown out of Night guard, or maybe getting send on the moon.

He really didn’t want to be banished on the moon. He figured it would be cold there.

However as these thoughts about his possible punishments flew through his mind something else started to emerge, he started to think about the subject of his challenge, Princess Luna.

He never really thought about her in that way, but now he started to realize how much he actually adored her, how gorgeous her flowing sky mane was, her wonderful teal eyes, her beautiful face and dat fla…

Supernova shook his head as his thoughts wandered to the place they weren’t supposed to be.

Oh buck it, here’s what I’ll do: when I’ll see her I’ll simply walk in front of her, tell her she’s completely stunning and ask her out! That’s right Supernova you can do it! Supernova cheered himself on and something caught his eyes, he looked through a window into the royal gardens.

“Huh would you look at that.” Supernova mumbled to himself not being sure if he should curse or thank his luck that his chance showed up so fast, here in the garden Princess Luna walked forward alone.

For some reason his previous nervousness completely faded as he unfurled his wings and flew forwards.

Princess Luna walked slowly through the garden enjoying the silence of her night…

“Hello!”

“Guhh!” Luna gasped and jumped in place startled as a bat pony landed in front of her, she calmed herself after noticing the familiar curves of night guard armor.

“Did I startle you? Sorry it wasn’t my intention, kind of a habit I guess.”

“A habit?”

“Oh yes! I’m from a night guard, surprise attacks are our speciality.”

Luna nodded.

“But that isn’t why I’m here. I wanted to ask you if anypony has ever told you that you’re gorgeously beautiful?”

“Not for a long time..” Princess Luna said blushing lightly.

“Well that just can’t be! Princess Luna, you’re gorgeously beautiful.”

“Thank you.” She said with a small smile forming on her muzzle as her eyes wandered around the place.

“No problem, I’m just saying the truth! By the way my name’s Supernova.”

“Nice to meet you dear Supernova, so is complimenting me the only thing that you wanted to do?”

“Oh not, of course not! Thanks for reminding me, I was wondering if maybe you would like to go on a date with me?”

Luna was completely caught off guard by a sudden question, she stood dumbfounded amidst the chilling night breeze of royal gardens staring down at her smiling suitor.

“Well I..”

“You’re not going out too much? Don’t worry I’ll take care of everything.”

Luna sighed, “You’re quite an interesting fellow mr. Supernova.” She chuckled, “I guess I do need to go out of the castle from time to time.”

Supernova smiled. “Well then how about Saturday Night?”

“Very well then,” Luna stated still blushing lightly.

“Great! See you then!” Supernova stated and flew off to his post, as he landed in the huge hallway his adrenaline that was driving him this whole time stopped flowing through his veins and his legs started to shake crazily as he thought about what he just did, I just asked a Princess of the Night on the date, I just asked a Princess of the Night on the date, I just asked a Princess of the freaking moon on the date.

Chapter 2 - Are you calling me fat?

A/N Edit: Now proofread by UnseenLegacy

Celestia walked through the regal hallways of tremendous Canterlot Castle. The sun was at its zenith as she entered royal kitchen and slowly trotted towards the fridge, all the while a huge frown adoring her face.

Celestia opened the royal fridge and, not surprising anypony working in kitchen, took out a slice of chocolate cake.

Princess turned around ready to leave the place with her precious loot but instead she was stopped by her very special somepony, or rather very special somedraconequus.

“What do you want Discord?” Celestia asked, the heavy frown not leaving her face for even a moment.

“Oh why so serious Tia? I wanted to ask what you are bothered about and how can I help.”

Celestia sighed, she walked pass him and left the kitchen, choosing her own bedroom as the place to consume her cake.

“How do you know that I am bothered by something? Is it the cake?” She asked him as they walked side by side towards her destination.

“What? The cake? Oh no no no, why would I ponder about something you do every day? No, it’s just rare to see you with a frown on your pretty face all day.”

Celestia sighed and they walked for a few moments in silence, suddenly she halted her movement in the middle of the hallway and turned to face him.

“It’s about Luna.” She said and Discord nodded motioning for her to continue.

“You see, I noticed that for quite some time now she looks sad and concerned all the time, she’s frowning a lot and only smiles when she notices me watching her. I tried talking with her about that but she changes the subject as soon as I try asking her.”

“Well maybe you should try… Do you hear that too?” Discord said, his ears rotating.

Celestia cocked hey eyebrow but suddenly she heard something from the end of the hallway, it sounded like somepony was…

Humming?

Soon enough the source of the noise was identified as Princess Luna, who happily trotted towards them smiling widely from ear to ear all the while humming something to herself.
“Oh hello there sister, hello there Discord how are you two today?”

“L-Luna?” Celestia asked not sure if the pony in front of her truly was her little sister.

“Of course Tia! I couldn’t sleep so I went to kitchen and got myself some warm milk.”

“I see.” Was the only thing Celestia managed to say.

“Well then see you later my dear sister, bye Discord!” Luna stated and continued her trot towards her royal lunar quarters leaving a stunned Celestia and an amused Discord alone.

“You were right, she seems really depressed.”

“I-I don’t get it! What the hay was that?! I swear she was all gloomy and sad few days ago and now she’s… humming to herself?”

“Well that is just horrible! We have to do something about that.”

Celestia give Discord stare full of daggers “I am just worried about her! Such changes in behavior aren’t caused by just anything, something big must have happened and I have to know what!”

“Then maybe I’ll go ask her.”

“Why would you go and not me?"

“Beeecause if she didn’t want to tell you anything before, why would she now?”

Celestia opened her mouth to say something but after few moments of pondering in silence she sighed “Maybe you’re right.”

“Of course I am dear! Just give me a minute and I’ll be back.” Lord of chaos said and snapped his fingers disappearing into thin air with a flash, Celestia sighed and continued towards her bedroom with her cake, concerned about her sisters weird behavior.

Luna walked into her room and yawned, it was almost completely dark cause of the dark-purple curtains blocking most of light coming in from outside.

She climbed up onto her bed and enjoyed the silence of her room as she slowly drifted into her dreams…

“Hey I don’t come here very often but you got a really nice place!”

Luna’s eyes shot open and she jumped into the air startled by Discord.

“Oh come on! I’m not that scary am I? You should see your sister when she has one of her 'bad days', now that’s a scary sight.”

“First off...” Luna said slowly calming herself “We are well aware how frightful our sister can be, secondly what are thou doing in our room?!”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk Luna you’re jumping into that old speech of yours again..”

Princess of the night sighed and rolled her eyes. “That’s because you scared us… you scared me anyways. Why are you here?”

“I’m here to ask you why you were all sad and gloomy all the time for Faust knows how long and suddenly you’re all happy and stuff.”

“Well, I don’t really want to talk about it.”

“I pinkie promise I won’t tell Celestia." Discord said as he mimicked the motions of a Pinkie promise.

“It all started when I was saved by elements of harmony when they got rid of my dark powers.” Luna started talking without hesitation.

“When I first came back I knew most ponies would be scared of me at the beginning, that was understandable, I tried to cover their world in eternal night, twice.”

“Yes that was very mean.” Discord commented munching on his popcorn.

“Like I was saying...” Luna continued “ I wasn’t really surprised or concerned that they feared me at first, but recently I got worried because even though it has been four years, most ponies are still afraid of me.”

“I think you’re exaggerating.” He exclaimed while sipping his chocolate milk.

“No I’m not, sure I somehow managed to make friends with Twilight Sparkle and rest of the elements of harmony, I also became acquainted with Princess Cadance and Shining Armor. It also seems citizens of Ponyville don’t fear me any longer and bat ponies seem to like me, especially the night guards.”

Luna sighed heavily “But that’s about it, almost everypony else in Equestria fears me and loves my sister, actually now that I think about it, it seems that even you’re less feared than I am.”

“I would doubt that, especially after the Tirek fiasco.” Discord spat out last words remembering how he betrayed the only friends he ever had, even though they all forgave him long ago he was still feeling ashamed.

“Well you’re the husband to their Princess of the sun.”

“Pardon me Princess Luna but I think we somehow drifted off the subject, I’m glad you explained your previous behavior but what was the cause that changed it so recently?”

Luna blushed lightly and smiled “Well I…”

“Ohh, this looks like it’s going to be interesting.” Discord said as he teleports in a recliner and sits back.

“Ohh fine! Yesterday while I was walking through the gardens I got asked out on a date by one of my guards! There! Happy now?!”

“I’m more confused than happy but sure.” Discord said scratching back of his head “Why would you be so happy about that?”

“Did you not listen to me?”

“Well I did and I remember you saying that bat ponies seem to like you so what’s the big surprise here?”

“I said they like me but I didn’t say they don’t fear me and my former dark powers, then suddenly one of them jumps in ’literally’ and asks me out on a date!"

“All right then, but I certainly can see why you didn’t want to speak about this with Tia.”

“Yes she can be really protective of me, especially when it comes to stallions.” Luna said and rolled her eyes.

“What’s his name?”

“What?” Luna asked surprised by sudden question.

“What’s the name of your suitor my dear sister-in-law.”

“Oh that, he goes by the name of Supernova.”

“Sounds chaotic, I like him already! So tell me, is he handsome?”

“Well he’s… wait are we really having this conversation right now? And why am I having what sounds like 'girl talk' with you?”

Discords shrugged “I guess that’s Fluttershy’s influence."

Luna cocked her right eyebrow. “Anyways” Discord continued “Now that I got my answers I shall leave and let you have your sleep.”

“But you won’t tell Tia right?” Luna asked a bit of worry written on her expression.

“Of course not! I pinkie promised, you know what happens when somepony breaks this promise…”

They both flinched and shivered remembering some old memories. Soon after that Discord snapped his fingers disappearing from Luna’s room, said alicorn smiled once again and laid her head on the soft pillow and slowly drifted into her land of dreams.

Celestia just finished consuming her royal snack as Discord appeared in her room.

“So what was Luna concerned about?” Celestia asked without hesitation.

“Ohh she thought that she put on some weight but it turned out that her scale was just broken.”

Celestia simply sat there dumbfounded trying to process Discords words.

After few moments of that stagnation she snapped herself back to reality “Discord that is just plain stupid, why would somepony be all sad and grim because of their weight?”

“Exactly! She should have taken example from you!”

Celestia cocked her eyebrow and pierced Discord with her stare “Are you saying that I’m fat?”

“W-What?! No of course not Tia! You have a perfect figure!” Discord said trying helplessly to save himself.

“Now that I think about it, earlier today you mentioned how I always eat cake, were you implying that I should go on a diet?”

Discord backed away.

’Sometimes I miss the old times when I was a stone.’

Chapter 3 - Legendary

Edit: Now proofread by UnseenLegacy

Supernova and Luna walked side by side towards the most glorious restaurant in Canterlot known as “Porte-monnaie tueur”, they were accompanied by unstoppable flashes of paparazzi’s cameras as they walked on the red carpet.

Supernova, smirking the whole time, waved his hoof towards the crowd quite pleased by all the attention he was given, his beautiful marefriend leaned into him and although she was not as excited as he was, she surely was happy to be here.

They finally made it through the entrance and were guided into a room which could only be described by one word: posh.

Waiters helped them take their seats and Supernova finally could take his time to relax and have dinner with his marefriend, the Princess of the Night herself.

“Heh Luna, would you look at that, this started as a stupid bet and look where we are, a happy couple in most expensive restaurant in Canterlot.” He said and smiled towards his lover who returned the gesture.

“Nova, it’s time for our shift.” Luna answered

“W-What?” He asked suddenly thrown into utter confusion.

“Get the hell up dude, sun is setting already we’ll be late.”

Supernova’s eyes flew open wide as his marefriend spoke with a low voice that he recognized very well. Soon everything around him started to collapse…

*THUD*

“Oh good you’re awake.” Void Night blankly commented staring at his friend whose muzzle had a close encounter with the floor.

“What the heck was that?” Supernova asked rubbing his sore face with his hoof, as he tried to stand up his mind remembered few parts of his dream which resulted in a smooth facehoofing.

“Woah dude! You all right?” Void asked pretending to care.

Supernova nodded “Yeah I just couldn’t sleep too well, you know, nightmares and all that stuff…” He answered half-lying.

“Well then we better get going, sun is setting and royal guards of her majesty Sun-Butt are going to sleep soon.”

“I always wondered if you would dare to call Princess Celestia “Sun-Butt” in the presence of her guards.”

“Depends.” Void answered quickly.

“On what?”

“How many guards are we talking about.”

Supernova chuckled and shook head, he walked up to his wardrobe and took out his night guard armor.

“Oh by the way Nova.” Void suddenly said while putting on pieces of his armor.

“Yeah?”

“I was wondering if you already gave up on that little bet of ours.” He smirked mischievously being sure of his triumph.

“Yeaaah, about that there’s something I’ve got to tell you.” He answered wearing similar smirk while putting on his helmet, rest of his armor already set in place.

Dashing Star and Adamant Sky trotted together through the royal hallways of Canterlot Castle constantly gazing throughout the windows at the raising moon, soon enough they arrived at their destination, doors leading to their captains office where they were given orders every night.

Star raised his hoof just about to knock on the door…

“No bucking way you did that!”

Both bat ponies looked at each other in confusion before turning around and noticing their two friends, Supernova and Void coming towards them through the hallway.

“I totally did and she agreed.”

“There’s no way in Tartarus that she agreed to go on a date with you! You’re just a freaking guard and she’s the Princess!”

“Guys, what the heck are you talking about? And stop shouting for Faust sake.” Adamant Sky asked his approaching friends.

“This cocky bastard claims that he asked our Princess out on a date, and she agreed.” Void said with rather furious expression, on the other hand Supernova stood there proudly puffing out his chest.

“You did what?!” Now Adamant shouted in disbelief which resulted in Dashing Star covering his ears on reflex.

“What? You too?! Well then Mr. Fastest-flier-in-whole-of-Equestria what about you? You don’t believe me as well?” Supernova asked turning his attention towards Dashing Star.

“Well I…”

“What the Tartarus is going on here?!” Dashing Star was cut off by the Captain of the Night Guard who was standing in the open doors, he was a huge bat pony with dark-brown fur and scarlet red mane, he had a huge X-shaped scar on his muzzle as well as many others smaller ones hidden under his armor.

“Oh captain Riddick, we were just…” Supernova tried to explain but was soon cut off by him.

“To be honest I don’t care what was all that shouting about, but let me catch you four screaming at my doors once more and mark my words, you will wish to be banished to the moon, you got that?!”

All four bat ponies nodded quickly quite intimidated, Riddick nodded and gave them their assignments for tonight, luckily enough they were going to patrol the same area, Canterlot Royal Gardens, just on the night when they really needed to talk.

What a coincidence.

Soon enough four night guards stepped into the gardens and got on their posts, for first few minutes silence fell on them like rain on a rainy day.

But every rain must stop sooner or later and so did their silence.

“Ok Nova, let’s get this out of the way, did you really ask our Princess out?” Void Night asked.

Supernova nodded.

“And she, said yes?” He asked another question with a bit of hesitation in his voice.

Nova just stood there for few moments wanting to build some tension like he saw on the movies, but after few quick seconds he nodded his head once again.

And the rain of silence came back upon them as everypony pondered over the information Supernova just revealed, but soon enough Adamant Sky smiled and walked up to Nova.

“Well I don’t know if this is true or not, but I guess I will believe you and soo…” He finished by raising his hoof in the air.

“Dude you have a date with a Princess, I require a brohoof.”

Nova smiled as well and bumped his hoof with Adamant, Void and Star looked at each other, shrugged and walked up to Nova repeating the gesture.

“Thanks guys, I guess that’s cool.” Supernova said trying to look like he didn’t care that much.

“Cool? Cool?! Come on man you’re having a DATE with the PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, that’s not cool that is Legen…” He suddenly stopped making other three bat ponies look at him with confusion.

“..wait for it.” He added.

And they did.

But soon got tired of waiting and Void turned towards Supernova “So my friend there are so many questions I want to ask but firstly, where are you going to take her?”

Nova’s expression melted into panic upon hearing his friend words “I-I didn’t think about that yet.”

“Well then, when are you going on your date?” Void asked with confident look on his muzzle.

“Saturday night.”

Suddenly Void’s confidence melted into a frown “Dude that’s like… two days from now?”

Nova sat there in panic, all the colors left his face along with his earlier confidence.

“Ok man, don’t worry we will figure this out.” Void said and quickly looked around making sure nopony else was in the garden at the moment.

“Ok let’s sum this up, you want to go on a date with Princess who, because of her duties, doesn’t really leave the castle, not counting the travels connected to her job.”

“Ok” Nova added with hope in his voice “What does that give us?”

“Absolutely nothing.”

Nova facehoofed.

“Maybe you could take her to a Club?”

Void and Nova turned towards Dashing Star.

“Club?”

“Yeah, you know these night clubs with loud music and stuff, I never was in one but I heard it’s a lot of fun.”

Suddenly Supernova hugged him in a way friends do sometimes “Star you don’t talk too much but when you it’s always brilliant.”

“Well I do actually talk a lot, it’s just you guys are constantly cutt…”

“...DARY!”

All three bat ponies turned towards Adamant Sky and simultaneously facehoofed.

After that the four friends returned to their duties and started to patrol Royal Gardens, not wanting to have anymore trouble with Captain Riddick.

However unbeknownst to them a pair of red eyes was watching throughout their whole conversation, and he was more than amused at what he learnt.

Chapter 4 - The night before tomorrow.

Proofread by Wacuire

Somepony would say that tonight was like every other silent night, stars gleaming in the sky accompanying the glorious moon, but for Supernova it wasn’t that easy.

Because tomorrow he was going on a date with the Princess of the Night.

Nova was nervously trotting back and forth in one of the hallways not really focusing on his job as his mind was invaded by possible outcomes of his date and most of his visions weren’t too optimistic.

‘Ohh this is bad, definitely, what if I screw up and she’ll send me to the moon? No wait she wouldn’t do that, she would banish me to the sun more likely.’ Supernova shivered in fear of disappearing into sun’s blazing flames.

“Nova, get your flank over here.”

Supernova looked around confused before spotting his Void poking his head from around a corner, he shrugged and walked over to his friend.

“What are you doing here? We will have problem if Riddick finds us.”

“Don’t worry about that, I just saw him going into kitchen.”

“Oh good then we have around 20 minutes, wassup?”

“Don’t you “wassup” me, dude you look like you’re about to shit your pants, if you had them.”

“I do?” Supernova asked not realizing that he was still shivering in fear and his face was turning more and more pale as they spoke.

“Let me guess, you’re nervous?” Void asked smirking.

“Well I… oh who am I kidding of course I am bucking nervous! I’m supposed to go on a date with a Princess, me a simple guard, with the Princess of the bucking Night!” Nova finished his sentence by dramatically throwing his hooves into the air.

“Yeah well, about that, I came here to give you some advices.”

Nova cocked his eyebrow “You do? Seriously?”

Void nodded.

“Who are you and what did you do to Void?”

“Ha ha very funny, even I might want to help out friends from time to time.”

“Fair enough, so what was that about advices?”

“Yeah...” Void coughed few times before continuing “Well since you’re going to the club I asked my friend who is a DJ a few questions and…”

“Wait you have a friend and he’s a DJ? Wait you have friends? Other than me Sky and Star?”

“Once again very funny, yes I do and it’s not “he.” SHE’S a DJ. But whatever do you want me to tell you these things or not?”

“Of course sorry for stopping you go ahead.” Nova said smiling dumbly.

“Well then, first off she told me which club you should go to, of course I didn’t tell her you’re going to be with Princess but that shouldn’t be a problem, as you might have guessed it she’s a DJ there.” Nova nodded.

“Next thing is that clubs are, well extremely expensive, ok maybe extremely is a bit of exaggerating but she told me that you two should firstly have few drinks in some other place, perhaps a small bar or something like that.”

“That would actually make a good addition to the date, good idea, you got anything else?”

“Not really, well I do if you count “Just go in and have fun with everypony else while DJ will drop down some sick beats.” as an advice.”

Supernova smiled and nodded “Thanks that seriously helped, I’m totally fine now!”

“Really?” Void asked cocking one of his eyebrows.

“No! I’m still scared as hell but thanks for help anyways, I’ll remember these advices, so what’s the club called?”

“Coolloseum.”

Supernova sighed “Really? “Coolloseum?”.”

“What can I do, I’m not the owner and neither is she.”

“Well I just hope your friend is right and this date will go great.”

“We surely hope for that too.”

Suddenly both bat ponies jumped in placed surprised and turned right, the sight which unfolded before them made Nova’s face even paler then it already was.

Here before them stood Princess Luna smiling widely.

“I got you this time.”

“Well you certainly did, y-your majesty.” Nova said as both night guards bowed in respect.

“Oh my would you look at that, from what I remember you weren’t acting like that last time.”

‘Yeah because I had freaking tons of adrenaline going through my veins making me do stupid shit like asking Princess on a date.’ “W-Well I…”

“Relax Supernova, I just came here to ask on what time you are going to pick us… I mean me, up.”

Supernova flinched “I actually didn’t think about it before, h-how about 9 P.M?”

“Excellent, I shall be ready when the time comes then.” And with these words Luna nodded her farewell towards both bat ponies and walked away.

Both guys stood there frozen for couple of minutes before Void finally spoke.

“I have to say I didn’t fully believe you before.”

“It’s fine I still can’t quite believe it myself.”

Same Castle, a few minutes earlier

Luna happily trotted through the hallways of Canterlot Castle, her night just began and it wasn’t like every other night, tomorrow she was going on a date.

And of course she wouldn’t admit it but she felt like a little filly on Hearth's Warming Eve, but who could blame her she hadn’t on a date for like, forever.

And forever is a very long time.

With her thoughts constantly running towards tomorrows night she trotted into the direction of royal kitchen in order to eat some breakfast, she just woke up after all.

“Good morni… I mean good night Luna.” Princess stopped and turned to her left where Discord stood smiling widely.

“Good night Discord, may I ask what are you doing here?”

“Oh you know, I couldn’t sleep so I went on a little walk to stretch my limbs.” Discord said as he detached his limbs one after another and quite literally stretched them back and forth.

“Yes I can see that much, well if you don’t mind I was going to get something to eat so…”

“Ohh of course I just wanted to ask, what time is your date starting at?”

Luna flinched as her eyes went wide “I-I don’t know.”

“Ohh?”

“I forgot to ask him, wait no he forgot to tell me, ohh whatever, he’s one of the night guards he must be in here somewhere, thanks again Discord!” Luna said and trotted away to search for Nova.

Discord smiled widely and started to walk away before he was stopped by a green fire raging out of nowhere above him.

His smiled widened as the flame slowly changed into a letter which he quickly opened.

“Dear Discord

I’m so glad you wrote to me about this! I’ll be so happy to help you, ohh it’s been a long time since I pranked somepony, I remember good old times when I did all those jokes with Rainbow Dash, ohh those were the times.

I will come to Canterlot tomorrow in the morning! I’ll bring some cupcakes so we can have a small party!

Now sorry but I have to finish this letter before Twilight will wake up and get all mad at me for waking up Spike in order to send you this letter, but I had to I mean I could have send it by mail but they don’t work at night so you would get it in the morning and that wouldn’t make sense because I would probably already be there, or maybe I would still be on train and then it…

Never mind, see you tomorrow Discord!

Your Auntie Pinkie Pie!”

Discord closed the letter and started to laugh, quietly at first but it soon evolved into a maniacs laugh.

“Oh tomorrow shall be the best night ever.”

Chapter 5 - It's time

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It was yet another morning in great capitol of Equestria, moon was already lowering itself leaving his spot on the sky for his older brother, however Sun wasn’t raising yet because his Princess was still asleep in her bedchambers.

Princess Celestia yawned and slowly opened her eyelids, she smiled as her eyes laid on her enemy from the past whom now she calls lover.

Discord was far from waking up, he was snoring loudly as Celestia slowly stand up and stretched herself. She left her royal bed and proceeded with raising of her loyal Sun.

Soon enough it’s glorious light was shining upon Equestria, indicating the beginning of the day quite a marvelous sight.

After her duty was done Celestia calmly walked towards her royal bathroom where her servants already prepared a warm and relaxing bath.

And even though water was indeed relaxing and nothing bad happened yet, Celestia’s smile soon disappeared as she once again started to ponder about her sister.

She didn’t believe her husband, but if why wasn’t he telling the truth? Did Luna ask him to keep it a secret from her?

These thoughts and many others rampaged through mind of Sun Princess, at the same time her loving draconequus silently left their bedroom and disappeared, he had a very important guest who will soon arrive at Canterlot train station.

Celestia sighed and stood up, ready for another day of ruling her country and making sure her subjects are safe, however this day wasn’t like any other day, she still couldn’t stop thinking about her sister.

Especially after what she heard in the gardens the night before.

Few hours earlier, almost midnight.

Princess Celestia trotted through regal hallways of Canterlot Castle towards her favorite place in the castle, the kitchen.

She couldn’t sleep too well tonight, she wasn’t sure why but she decided to have a slice of cake, it always helps to calm her nerves.

As she was trotting trying to conceal her yawing suddenly she saw something unusual, two ponies from night guard where having a friendly conversation while on duty.

This scene was unusual cause of their captain, Riddick who was known for his rigor.

“No bucking hell dude, he really did that?”

“Well that’s what everypony is saying, he straight out asked our Princess on the date.”

And suddenly the subject of their conversation became very interesting for the sun Princess, who quickly used a simple hearing-enhancing spell on herself.

“Why would he even do that? I mean if this isn’t just rumor this will be quite a thing, I mean a guard on a date with one of two rulers of the whole Equestria.”

“Yeah I know, by the way if this isn’t just a rumor why do you think she agreed to go with him?”

“Who knows, she was on the moon for so long maybe she missed, you know.”

“A Roll in the Hay?”

“Yeah.”

For few moments silence fell upon them, Celestia was now even more confused, she also wasn’t sure how should she react to a roll in the hay remark because she actually wasn’t sure for herself if they aren’t right in this case.

“Sooo, our Princess of the Night wants to bang him?”

“What a lucky bastard, I mean imagine those flanks riding on your…”

‘Okay I heard enough.’ Celestia thought and showed herself to the two unlucky guards who immediately froze with expression full of surprise and fear.

“G-Good Night P-Princess Celestia, how can we help you tonight?”

“Oh your help won’t be necessary, however from what I remember captain Riddick clearly stated that you are not supposed to distract yourself with talking while on guard duty.”

“Y-Yes your majesty.” Both bat ponies answered.

“So mark my words, If I hear you two blabbering again I’ll make sure captain Riddick will take good care of you, understood?”

Night guards nodded as they were too scared to answer with voice.

Celestia sighed and left the scene with an angry scowl on her muzzle which soon changed into confused frown Is Luna really thinking about courting somepony and she didn’t tell me? No that’s is impossible she would definitely tell me…

Princess of the sun walked slowly towards the kitchen as her hesitation was growing in her with each step, as she finally made it to the fridge and took a slice of her favorite chocolate cake.

Slowly munching on her snack she now didn’t understand anything, was her sister really going a date? If yes then with whom, when, where and the most importantly, why didn’t she tell her?

Celestia finished her midnight cake and with these thoughts drifting through her sleepy mind she laid down next to her lover who quickly embraced her in a warm hug, as if he knew she needed one right now.

Celestia sighed quietly and nuzzled neck of her sleeping husband, soon enough sleep came over her and she drifted away into the land of dreams.

And here she was, in the dining room of her castle, eating her breakfast and pondering about her sister.

‘ Ohh what the hay, Luna is my sister but she’s not a kid anymore, if she really wants to start dating somepony and not tell me that’s her decision, I shouldn’t do anything about it.’

“…”

’Well maybe I should send somepony to look after her, just in case. But who? Somepony from my guard? Well they will probably go out at night and I want him to be in good condition, I guess I’ll have to send one of night guards after all.’

Same day, 8:45 p.m

Supernova trotted nervously back and forth in the hallway of Canterlot Castle, in fifteen minutes from now he was supposed to pick up his date, Princess of the Night herself.

When he asked her out few days ago he was very confident and sure of himself, he doesn’t know if this was because of adrenaline, or because he thought she will decline his offer anyway.

But as the time passed he was starting to realize what was going on, and right now just before the date he felt like passing out.

‘ Come on Supernova! You’ll be fine, right she’s just like any other mare, except she’s a Princess, and she’s more beautiful and hot than every other mare you saw before, and she’s an Alicorn…

No! I can do it, I will manage to do it all on my own.’

“Hey Nova! Wassup!”

“Oh god Void! I’m so glad you’re here I think I’m going to fucking faint.” Supernova almost shouted embracing his comrade in a friendly hug.

“Yeaaahh sure.”

“But what’re you doing here? Aren’t you supposed to, oh I don’t know guard something like right now?”

“Well funny story you see, I’m coming with you.”

Supernova cocked his eyebrow “You do?”

“Yeah man, you’re born under some lucky star, Princess Sun Butt came to me earlier today and ordered me to look after Princess Luna tonight, she didn’t tell my why though.”

“So you’re telling me that Princess Celestia knows I’m going on a date with her sister? How the hell was I born under lucky star!”

“Well she asked me to look after her, if it was somepony else that would be bad, excluding Adamant Sky and Dashing Star of course.”

Nova sighed “I guess.”

Void chuckled and patted his friend on his back “Hey don’t worry it’s just one date after all, you should at least try to have fun.”

“Well…”

“Come on! You probably won’t get any chance to go on a date with her ever again, you should make tonight memorable.”

Nova smiled slightly as his friends words took small part of his nervousness away, only small part though.

“Thanks man, that helped.”

“You’re also lucky you got friends like us, by the was what time is it?”

Supernova turned his head towards huge clock on the hallway wall.

“It is 8:52, almost the time.”

“Well then, better don’t be late.” Void said with a smirk and Nova nodded, they started walking towards Luna bedchambers, Nova becoming more and more scared with each step while Void was having more and more fun with each step.

They arrived at the door, they didn’t have any clock around this time but it was maybe a minute or two before 9 p.m.

Nova gulped and raised his hoof in the air ’All right then, here we go.’ and his hoof fell on the door knocking a few times.

After what felt like hours for Supernova they finally heard a smooth voice of their Princess coming from the doors.

“I’ll be out in the minute!”

And just with that Void quickly turned around and caught his friend who almost fell on the floor, his legs giving up on him.

Void chuckled. ‘Oh boyyy, this will truly be a memorable night.’

Chapter 6 - Cheers!

"Dude get a hold of yourself.” Void stated trying to get Supernova off the floor.

“J-Just give me a second.”

Suddenly their ears perked up upon hearing the sound of opening doors “I don’t think you have any seconds left, now get your flank up.” Supernova nodded and stood up still shaking nervously a bit as Lunar Princess stepped out of her room.

“Good night dear Supernova, I am sorry but I truly didn’t know what to wear since you never told me where are we going.” Luna stood in front of them without her royal regalia wearing only her diamond horseshoes and an onyx necklace with a dark-blue sapphire shaped as a crescent in it.

She looked very, causal to say the least, Nova’s nervousness was removed for a moment replaced by a admiration for her beauty.

“S-Supernova? Are you all right?” Luna asked a bit concerned as Supernova could do nothing else than stare with wide eyes, like stone statue standing before her.

“Don’t worry about him Princess, he’ll be back in few moments.”

Luna flinched and finally noticed Void Night standing near her date.

“T-That’s great, but who are you?”

Void bowed in respect “My name is Void Night your majesty, I am one of your loyal soldiers from the night guard.”

“And you’re here because?”

“Princes Sun-B… I mean Princess Celestia ordered me to watch over you tonight and report to her about everything tomorrow.”

Luna cocked her eyebrow in utter confusion “So she wanted you to look over me and tell me about this?”

“No I was supposed to do it in secret.”

“Then…”

“But my loyalty belongs only to you your highness.”

Luna stood there for a second before smirking “I’m very glad to hear that, very well then if our.. mine sister wants to spy on me then we will let her.”

“What do you want me to do?”

“Tell my sister this.” Luna said and lowered her head in order to whisper something into his ear Void cocked his eyebrow in confusion.

“Trust me, this will be priceless.” Luna said with a smirk.

“Of course, I will do as you say your high..”

“…utiful.”

They both turned their heads and saw Nova shaking his head.

“Oh look who woke up.” Void commented.

Nova only gave him a quick glance before turning his attention to Luna, which in turn made all of his fear come back.

“G-Goodnight P-Princes Lu…”

Luna chuckled cutting him off “Oh dear Supernova, we are going on a date right? Just call me Luna.”

Nova gulped and smiled dumbly “O-Ok L-Luna, then we better get going r-right?”

Princess of the night nodded and all three of them took off.

All three of them?

“Void?” Nova asked.

“Yeah?”

“I thought you’re not going to spy on us?”

“I won’t, but since I got a free night I thought it might be a good idea to hang out with my friend I told you about before.”

“This DJ-mare?”

“Her name’s Vinyl and yeah.”

“So we’re going to the same place after all.”

“Ohh so we’re going to a club?” Luna asked smiling.

“Oh yes, right…. Aaaand I just screwed the surprise, great as if me being more nervous than that one day in elementary school when my parents made me play in the school play was bad enough..”

“That’s great I always wanted to try it but for some reason in the end I never did.”

“R-Really?” Nova asked his hopes building up.

“Of course! So to which club are we going?”

“Well I’ll let that one be a surprise, but first we are going to have few drinks in a bar that’s just around the corner.”

“Why?”

Nova stopped and flinched Why?! What am I supposed to tell her, that I don’t have enough money to buy more than a few drinks in a club?”Well that’s, because….”

“That’s because Nova thought it will be cool, romantic thing before going to a rather noisy club.” Void stated blankly.

Nova’s eyes went wide as she smiled sheepishly Void I swear one of these days I will…

“Ohh that’s a great planning.”

‘Hug you and tell you you’re my best friend.’

From that point on their journey went on with small chatting, it was long before they made it to the “Shazam Bar” were they parted with Void and walked inside.

Nova picked a place and ordered two “Blue Lagoons” as this was the only drink he knew.

Supernova took their glasses and sat down on his seat in front of his date, Luna who was smiling with excitement the whole time, a sight that made Nova’s heart beat faster.

“Y-You look very excited.” Nova commented and took small sip of his blue drink Not bad I’ll say, but nothing beats Pilsners.

“Well of course I am! You said it yourself, that I’m not going out too much.”

“Ohh seems I did, haha…Oh my god, I am on a date with a Princess, what the hell is wrong with me? I mean it is a big deal but I’m feeling like I’m about to faint and….”

“Supernova.”

Nova’s flow of thoughts was interrupted by Luna’s soothing voice, he brought his attention back to her.

And immediately froze seeing her expression full of concern.

“Supernova, am I… am I doing something wrong? Up till now I had fun but you seemed to be troubled with something all the time, is it because of me?”

“No! Of course not…. Okay yes, yes it is.”

Nova sighed.

“The thing is, I-I am extremely scared and nervous, to be honest I wasn’t on many dates in my life and now I’m on a date with, well you the Princess herself.”

Luna’s expressions showed nothing for a moment before turning into a huge grin “So you’re troubled by that?”

Nova nodded in embarrassment.

“Well then, I think I have an idea that might help.”

Luna said and her horn started to glow with dim blue light, for a few seconds nothing happened “Close your eyes.” She said.

Nova did as he was told, after few seconds she tapped him slightly on the shoulder, Nova slowly opened his eyelids before his expression changed into pure shock.

Cause the mare in front of him was no longer Luna, Princess of the night, before him sat a mare with blue fur and long dark mane stylized similar to her original form and even thought there were some similarities to her alicorn form, right now before him was sitting a stunning unicorn mare.

“Better?”

Nova nodded dumbly and shook his head “What was that? Transformation spell?”

This time it was Luna who shook her head “No, it’s an illusion, I placed it upon me before so that everypony other than you was only able to see me in this form. After all a Princess spending time on a date in town with one of her guards would make a great story for press.”

Nova chuckled already feeling that small portion of his previous nervousness flew away before a certain thought kicked in front of his head.

“Wait a moment, then was Void able to see you as well?”

“Ohh that, umm you see when placing that spell I had to imagine a pony that was going to be able to see my real form, and since we saw each other for only a couple times before, I well….”

Nova cocked one of his eyebrows.

“Well you two do have a similar shade of fur.” Luna said a bit irritated puffing her cheeks, Nova stifled his laughter, it was only a small change of appearance through magic, and yet he already felt like he was on a date with a normal mare, a normal causal pony just like him.

Nova picked up his glass and lifted it high in the air “Well then Luna, let’s have a toast for our date.”

Luna smiled, it has been ages since she was able to just casually talk with somepony else then her sister, well and Discord recently, and finally here she was, on a date with a plain night guard feeling excited like a small filly.

She lifted her glass in the air and they both half-shouted.

“Cheers!”

Chapter 7 - Luna is here! Luna is there, Luna is everywhere!

A/N Not proofread yet.

Supernova and Luna walked towards the club side by side, smiling and occasionally swinging left and right as they both were a bit tipsy already.

Princess of the Night of course didn’t understand why they needed to drink those few drinks even before making it to the club, but she enjoyed their stay in café so she shrugged it off.

Nova on the other hoof was having more and more fun, as Luna’s illusion combined with ethanol flowing through his veins were enough to get rid of his nervousness.

They enjoyed this simple walk in the silence of the glorious night through the streets of Canterlot, they spent this time talking about the city itself.

Their conversation mostly consisted of Luna asking Nova questions about night.

And by asking about night, I mean asking about ponies who spent this time other way then sleeping through it, Luna seemed mesmerized by Nova’s stories about hundreds of ponies who partied throughout the whole night, about unicorns who studied the stars their constellations, and of course some stories of his own adventures with his friends.

That is if you can call going out to have some beers an adventure.

Time passed swiftly and they didn’t even realize how close they were until the huge neon light shone right into their faces.

“So here we are my Princess.” Nova said trying to sound posh and bowed while motioning with his hoof towards the entrance.

Luna chuckled “It seems so Sir Nova.” They both laughed and once again walked forward.

“Good night my friend! How much for the entrance?” Supernova asked the bodyguard protecting the entrance, it was a huge earth pony with very short mane, his huge chest was adorned by a black suit and his eyes were covered by a pair of shades.

Said bodyguard looked down on Nova and Luna who was covered by her illusion “Sir can I have your name?”

“Emm, yes of course, I guess, it’s Supernova.”

Huge earth pony pulled out a small chit of paper and nodded to himself “I was instructed by manager that I am supposed to let in a bat pony named Supernova for free tonight.”

It took few seconds for Nova to understand what he just heard, a small smile appeared on his muzzle “Wow, thanks, let’s go Lu….Woona.” He said and grabbed his date by her hoof without even thinking about it, Luna taken by surprise by how he called her, and suddenly having her hoof grasped by his, reacted in only possible way.

She blushed madly.

After few more moments they were inside, they walked together still holding hoofs through the shining corridor adorned by many different neon lights, music was getting stronger with each step, so was Luna’s blush.

When they finally made it to the main room, their eyes went wide in shock and admiration.

It was a huge room with a dance floor right in the center which currently was used by what seemed like hundred of ponies dancing and jumping around.

Left side of the room was used for sofas and tables where ponies could rest and have a drink, and quite possibly make out with each other while resting and drinking.

Right side consisted of few different things, corridor leading to toilets, stairs leading to the roof which was off limits for customers, and a DJ-Stand, which currently was empty for some reason.

And finally behind the dance floor there was a bar, an extremely wide bar with 8 bartenders working behind it simultaneously, serving drinks and beers to the clients.

“W-Wow…” Was the only word Nova was able to say.

“Wow indeed.” Luna agreed.

But as they were admiring the room Princess started to notice something that annoyed her.

“N-Nova? What is this well emmm, music?”

“Huh? Oh you mean dubstep? That’s the music they usually play in the clubs, but don’t worry it will get better.”

“May I ask when?”

“Depends.” Nova said shrugging.

“On what?” Luna asked with one of her eyebrows cocked.

“How much alcohol do you need to get drunk?”

They both laughed a bit and Luna finally understood why did they visit this café for few drinks before even coming here.

“Well I’m not sure but I don’t think I had enough to enjoy this… “music.”.”

“Very well then milady, take a sit on this empty sofa and rest while I’ll get us something to drink.”

“Nova?”

“Yes?”

“Stop with this fake posh accent.”

Nova blushed and scratched his head earning few chuckles from Luna “All right then, take Manehattan for me.” She said with a wink and walked away towards the free place, Nova watched her walk away and he could swear she was swinging her hips more than usual.

‘Wait a moment, I can tell that’s she’s swinging her flank more than usual? Nova pondered about how much time he spent paying attention to the royal moon butt as he was passing through ponies towards the bar.

As he finally made it through and sat down at one of the places, patiently awaiting a bartender he felt a hoof on his right shoulder.

Nova turned around and smiled “Void! Good to see you!”

Void only nodded in response.

“So, did you find your DJ friend? What was her name? All right! Vinyl?”

Void nodded once again. “Yeah I met with her after I got in, we talked only for few moments because she didn’t have time, but I managed to ask her for a small favor.”

“Which was?”

“And how much did you pay for going in?”

Nova’s eyes widened slightly “Really? You actually asked her to let us in for free?”

“Yeah and she asked club manager for that, he agreed since it was only two of you and she’s a really good DJ.”

“How about you Nova?” Void asked.

“Oh great, when you left us alone before I thought I will faint, but then we had a couple of drinks, and she put me under illusion which makes her look different, and it got much better.”

“Wait so Princess is under some kind of illusion now?”

“Yeah, but actually I’m not sure if it will work on you.”

“Why is that?”

“Well you see…”

“Hello! What can I give you two handsome gentlecolts tonight?”

They both turned their heads towards the bartender that just arrived, it was a mare with pink fur and pink mane.

“I’ll have a beer, and do you have something to eat perhaps?”

“Of course! Only for tonight we have a special edition Lunar Cupcakes!” She said smiling widely as she poured beer into the glass while picking up a sweet looking cupcake with a dark-blue frosting.

“Thanks, how much for that?”

“5 bits for beer and Cupcake is for free.”

“All right cool.” Void answered as he paid for his drink and took a bit out of his meal.

‘ Oh my gosh, this cupcake is glorious!’ Void thought while trying his best to not show any emotions on his expression.

“And what for you?” Pink mare asked loudly pointing her hoof at Nova.

“Oh well I’ll have one Manehattan, and…. I don’t know actually, can you maybe suggest something?”

“Of course! Maybe you would like an orgasm?”

Void spitted his beer on the floor and started to choke on his muffin while Nova stared at the still smiling mare not fully comprehending what he just heard.

“Excuse, could you repeat I think I didn’t hear it right.”

“Or maybe you would like screaming orgasm? Or a multiple orgasm?” Void was now fighting for his life choking madly while Nova started to blush.

“A-Are those, n-names of the drinks?”

“Of course silly! What else did you think.”

Nova was now blushing even harder while Void who managed to stop his choking started to laugh at his friend.

“I-I think I’ll just take a blue lagoon…”

Pink mare nodded and prepared both drinks quickly, both stallions nodded and left the bar.

“Nova can I ask you something?”

“What is it?”

“Would you like an orgasm?”

“Shut the fuck up.”

“Relax, relax, I’m just teasing, by the way doesn’t this mare, oh I don’t know seem familiar to you?”

Nova turned around to look at the pink bartender once again, who right now was talking with other employer, this one had gray fur, he was wearing a suit and his muzzle was adorned by a goatee.

“No why?”

“I can’t help but feel that I saw her somewhere before.”

“Maybe you did, who cares.”

“I guess you’re right, so, you’re now heading to your date right?”

“Yup, and you’re going to have some quality time with “Vinyl”?”

Void nodded.

“All right then, see you later Void!”

“See you later, maybe we could enjoy some orgasms together!”

“Shut your fucking mouth!”

“So tell me, how did it go?”

“Ohh great, I didn’t even have to offer him the cupcake, he asked for it himself.”

Discord, who right now was adorning a form of a pony clapped his hoofs and chuckled.

“I just hope I didn’t go overboard with this special cupcake of mine, it is only supposed to make him a bit more, open.”

“And what will happen if you overdid it my dear?” Discord asked.

“In worst scenario we will have to change this fic’s rating from teen to mature.”

“Well that’s… wait a moment, rating? Fic? Ohh who cares actually most of your actions don’t make any sense.”

“Is, is that bad?” Pinkie asked slowly frowning.

“Bad? Bad? My dear Pinkie Pie! It’s brilliant, not bad, I mean where’s fun in making sense?”

Pinkie smiled widely once again “Thanks Discord!”

“No problem my dear.”

“Well this cupcake will surely make it interesting with Voidy tonight, but what about Nova?”

Discord smiled mischievously “That my dear Pinkie Pie, is of my concern.”

Supernova trotted gritting his teeth in anger, he managed to calm himself down as he finally made it back to the place where his date was waiting for him.

“Here you go, one Manehattan!”

“Thank you.” Luna stated and grasped her glass with magic, she levitated it to her muzzle and took a small sip.

Nova sit down next to Luna and deciding that it is time for a brave move he unfolded his right wing and placed it over her, he was quite sure if it wasn’t for the alcohol his nerves would never let him get this close and this intimate with her without fainting or vomiting.

Luna blushed again and smiled “I’m sorry Nova but can you take your wing off for a second?”

“Oh, well of course I can… I…”

“Oh no no! Don’t get me wrong, I just have to… *cough* use the toilet.”

“Ohhhh of course.” Nova said, still blushing and removed his wing.

“Thank you, I’ll be back in a second.” Luna stated and walked away.

Supernova sighed and took a sip of his drink as he felt a hoof on his right shoulder, he gritted his teeth “Void, if you’re here to have another comment about that stupid drink, then get the hell out of here before I lose control.” He said without even turning around.

“Ohh what stupid drink? Now you made me curious.”

Nova’s eyes went wide as he quickly turned his head and noticed his date, Princess Luna standing there in her unicorn form.

“L-Luna?! But you just… You just went to the toilet how did you…”

But his sentence was cut off and he felt another hoof on his other shoulder, he turned around and felt his blood freeze as he saw nopony else, but his date standing there in front of him.

“L-Luna?! There are two of you?!”

“Actually my dear.”

Nova’s eyes widened to the point where they almost falling out as he slowly turner around and saw another Luna standing behind him.

Nova turned his head forward once again, and took a huge breath.

“What the fuck is going on?!” Were the only words that he managed to shout out.

Chapter 8 - Backdoor.

[A/N] Not proofread.

“So, you think they’re having fun?” Adamant Sky asked Dashing Star who tonight was his fellow guard on duty.

“I think so.” Star answered as they did another turn and started their usual patrolling routine again, starting from gardens, through the hall into the kitchen and back.

“I mean how cool is that, Nova has a date with a Princess, Void got a night off for some reason, crap baskets I’m jealous.”

“Well I…”

“Actually when I think about it I didn’t go out with any mare lately, Star when do we have next night off?”

“On Tuesday.”

“Perfect! Then on Tuesday we suit up, you’ll be my wingpony.”

“If you say so but…”

“No “buts”. But goddamn, no matter what will we get we can’t beat Nova now, imagine that right now that lucky bastard must be having time of his life getting it on with Princess.”

“This is one of the freakiest and scariest things I saw in my life! And I lived through family dinner with my Aunt for fucks sake!” Nova shouted to himself barely hearing his own voice through the loud music as he ran forward not paying any attention to his surroundings, right now he only wanted to get as far from those “Lunas” as possible.

Suddenly Nova saw somepony that managed to bring some hope to his heart “Void! Oh I’m so glad I found you again.” He shouted running towards his friend.

Night turned towards incoming Supernova with no emotions written on his face “Void, there’s something weird going on here, you see… Void? Hello? Equestria to Void?” He said and waved his hoof right in front of his friends face.

“Yeah I’m here.”

“Oh good you’re back…. Are you high?”

“No I’m not.”

“That's great listen then, Luna…”

“Supernova?”

Nova cocked his eyebrow “Yes Void?”

“Did I ever tell you that you’re my best friend?”

Nova took a step back and smiled awkwardly “Well, emm *cough* no, no you didn’t.”

Void got a little bit closer a small creepy smile adorning his muzzle “Did I ever tell you that you’re really handsome?”

This time Void didn’t get his answer as Supernova dashed away leaving a trail of dust behind him “My date was cloned and my friend suddenly turned gay! What the hell is wrong with this place?!” Nova shouted and ran forward without noticing two sets of eyes watching him closely.

“Pinkie my dear what was that?”

“I think I overdid it with the cupcake.”

“Wasn’t he supposed to be more open? So this means in the bottom of his being, he’s gay?” Discord asked scratching his head.

“No I don’t think so, I’m quite sure that at the moment he’s gay and straight, and whatever else will come in his eyesight.”

Discord gulped “Can you pinkie promise me that you’ll never feed me this cupcake?”

“Okie dokie! Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” Pinkie recited and laughed.

“What’s so funny dear?”

“Oh nothing, it’s just I like this promise so much more than first version.”

Discord cocked his left eyebrow “Wait so this isn’t like the first and only pinkie promise? What was the first version?”

“Oh you don’t want to know.” She said and bounced off happily following Nova.

Discord scratched his head “This pony will bring me to madness one day, and I’m the god of chaos here for Faust sake!” He said to himself and followed his pink partner in crime.

Meanwhile their victim was running away as if he was fighting for his life.

Supernova made it to the backdoor exit and quickly opened the door, not even stopping for a moment he ran through them only to bump into somepony.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t expect to..”

“Nova?”

His eyes went wide open as he recognized this voice, he slowly turned his head and he saw nopony else, but his date Princess Luna in her unicorn form leaving the bathroom doors.

“So you had to use the toilet as well?” She said visibly swaying in her hooves.

“What?!” Nova shouted and looked around only to find out that doors behind him led to a man toilet.

Nova nervously started to close and open the doors hoping for something to happen, earning a rather confused expression from his date.

“Tell me Nova, is this some kind of game ponies play nowadays?” She asked.

“But this door! Backdoor! And you! There was many of you!…. A-And then Void being gay! And, and, and…”

“Whoa, calm down what happened?” Luna asked now genuinely concerned.

“Ohh is this another part of this madness?! Are you one of them?”

“Nova what are you talking about?”

“Oh you know what I am talking about! When you left to use the toilet all this crazy stuff started to happen, firstly I see multiple you, then Void hits on me, I swear this all seems like a… crazy…. Illusion?”

Tick, tick, tick, tick

DING DING DING

“Luna! Is this some kind of joke?!”

Princess of the Night flinched not expecting such outburst “Pardon me?”

“I’m asking if this is some kind of joke? You know another illusion of yours? Making me see many you and then these doors, I have no idea how you made Void gay but… Actually when I think about it, that’s mighty impressive but still!”

Luna’s muzzle was once again adorned by a confused expression “Nova I didn’t do any of these things, if you will calm down and make your statement a bit less chaotic then maybe…”

Tick, tick, tick, tick

DING, DING, DING, DING

“Discord!” Luna shouted with her royal caps lock voice completely breaking through the music surprising and startling Nova as well as other present ponies.

Meanwhile somewhere in the crowd.

“Oh crap, she found us.” Discord commented.

“What do we do now?”

“Well we can act mature and take responsibility for what we have done.”

“Or?”

“Or we can act like some cowards and run away.”

Discord and Pinkie looked at each other and smiled.

“Backdoor?”

“Ladies first.”

Luna was gritting her teeth while she looked around trying to find Discord somewhere in the crowd of stunned ponies but to no avail.

“Emm Luna?”

“Yes what is it?” She asked with an irritated tone.

“Earlier when you said that you don’t want to have too much attention, I’m afraid it didn’t work the way you planned.”

Luna stared at him for a few moments before turning her head around finally noticing all these ponies watching her closely.

“Ohh…”

“…”

“…”

“Backdoor?”

“Ladies first.”

Chapter 9 - Stars.

[A/N] Not proofread

Luna and Supernova dashed through the backdoor as quickly as possible, not paying attention to their surrounding and thus not noticing two silhouettes hiding in the shadows just behind the doors.

They started to slow down after few minutes of this crazy run, by the time they returned to calm walking they were far away from the club.

“Well that was, something.” Nova said trying to catch some air.

Luna didn’t say anything, instead she walked forward not daring to look Supernova in the eyes.

“Luna? Is something wrong?” He asked with a concern in his voice.

Princess of the Night said nothing and just continued her walk, only to be stopped by Nova jumping right in front of her.

“What’s going on?”

Luna looked away from him “I’m truly sorry for ruining our date.”

Nova stood there completely dumbstruck as he witnessed a sight he never wanted to witness, his beloved Princess of the Night’s eyes were starting to water.

“What do you mean you ruined our date? You didn’t ruin anything!”

“But I did! You planned this whole café and then club and I just straight up blew it up by using royal canterlot voice…”

“Well that might be true, but you did it for a reason right?”

“I did it only because I got angry at somepony Nova!” Luna shouted at him startling him a little, she took a step back and locked her gaze to the cold ground.

“See? I did it again.”

Nova watched with growing sadness and irritation as Luna was blaming herself for everything that happened tonight, after few moments of deep thinking a small idea popped into his head along with a smile on his muzzle.

“Well then, as far as I know the night is still young.” He said with a wink of his eye. “There’s something I always wanted to do, but for different reasons I never did, maybe you would like to help me with that?”

Luna lifted her head “What is that?”

Nova smile widened “Come with me.” He said and broke into quick gallop once again, much to Luna’s surprise.

After few quick moments it finally hit her and she started to ran after him, trying to catch up.

This lasted for good few minutes before they ran through the city gates, then after minute or two of running between some rocks she saw what looked like an entrance to some sort of cave.

With a small bit of hesitation in her step Luna walked through it and she stopped, the sight that revealed before her was astonishing, here in between walls of hard rock, just behind the capitol of Equestria was a beautiful meadow full of white snowdrops.

In the centre of it was a small hill on top of which stood Nova, looking down on her and smiling.

She walked up to him as she gazed around in awe “I didn’t know there’s a place like this so close to the Canterlot.”

“You’re not the only one, which I find funny considering how easy it is to find that place, actually it was Void who found it and showed it to me and others later.”

“Really?” Luna asked.

“Yeah, he stumbled upon it when he was just a small colt. He was on a trip to Canterlot with his parents and got lost, after some time of wandering around he somehow landed here.”

Nova laid down on a grass and turned his head towards Luna “Like I said earlier, I always wanted to lie down somewhere and stargaze.” He said and looked at Luna, who finally once again put a smile on her muzzle and nodded. She trotted over to him and laid down just next to Supernova.

They laid together in this sea of white flowers for minutes, or maybe hours, neither of them cared about time as they simply enjoyed their company.

Luna who finally after all these centuries found someone who cared for her, wasn’t scared of her, and was able to make her smile.

Nova’s feelings at first weren’t as deep, what started as a stupid bet and was driven by physical attraction towards her was now slowly changing into something else.

He was far from saying “I love you” but he was sure about one thing, right now he wanted to be nowhere else but here. On this beautiful meadow watching stars with Luna.

“Hey Nova?”

“What is it Lu…” He was cut short by a quick kiss on the cheek from the Princess of the Night, Nova turned towards her, his heart was pounding and his cheeks were deep red but now even a bigger smile adorned his muzzle.

“Thanks for everything Nova.” Luna said being in similar state as her date.

“No problem Luna, what would you say if I would propose doing it again in the future?”

“I would be really happy.”

“Then we should do it again sometime in the future.”

Luna chuckled and moved closer to him, finally laying her head on his chest right under the neck. Nova unfolded his left wing and covered Luna with it.

She nuzzled him a little and he returned the favor, and they laid embracing each other while thinking about nothing but themselves, and those beautiful stars above them.

“So, they didn’t notice us or what?” Discord asked nervously scratching back of his head.

“No it seems not.” Pinkie commented.

“Well good for us I suppose.”

“So what now?”

Discord snapped his fingers turning back to his original draconequus form “I guess I better go back before Tia will realize I left the castle.”

“Now that I think about it, how didn’t she realize that yet? Aren’t you two sharing bed or something?”

“Two words: Body Pillow.”

“Ohh…. Well then I guess I’ll see you later?”

“Oh yes! I have to say I had a lot of fun tonight dear Pinkie, we should hang out more often.”

“I totally agree!”

“I’m glad you do, well then good bye my dea… Is that Void?” Discord asked pointing his claw behind Pinkie.

She turned around and noticed two ponies leaving the club through the backdoor, one of them was surely Void, he was dragged by a pony Pinkie knew very well.

“Vinyl? Where is she taking Void?”

“You know her?”

“Oh yeah from some parties we through together, she’s a great DJ you know.”

Discord scratched his head “Well considering the state Void is in I think I know where is she taking him.” He said and winked.

“Well but I didn’t give it to Vinyl!”

“My dear Pinkie Pie, reality isn’t always as we expect it to be, for example, one day you’re an evil lord of chaos and next day you’re married to your biggest enemy.” Discord said and snapped his fingers again disappearing from her sight, leaving the pink mare alone with her thoughts.

“I wonder what would happen if I ever gave this cupcake to Princess Celestia.”

Chapter 10 - The book.

Supernova stared with burning passion into gorgeous eyes of moon goodness who laid next to him in their royal chambers of the Canterlot Castle.

“Ohh Luna, you don’t know how long I’ve waited for that moment.” He said and moved closer to her.

“Hush now dear, if you can use your mouth for talking, then you should use it for something else.” She said giving Nova the best bedroom eyes he ever saw.

“Oh I surely will…. Did you hear that?” He said and raised his head searching for the source of noise

“What are you talking about my love?”

“Is, is it just me or is someone knocking?”

“Well I don’t know, but Nova…”

Supernova turned his attention back to Luna “Yes?”

“Open the fucking door!”

Nova’s eyes opened wide and instantly lifted himself from the bed he was sleeping on.

After few moments he heard knocking again “For fucks sake! I can’t even dream peacefully nowadays.” Nova commented and stood up.

He rubbed his eyes and yawned as he walked up to the door to his room, he already knew who was on the other side, he knew that voice all too well.

Nova raised his hoof and unlocked the door “Void, why are you up? It’s the goddamn middle of….. the day?” He asked getting confused upon seeing the state his friend was in.

Here before him stood Void Night, his face was adorned by a frown, well nothing new here but what caught his eyes was a completely messed up mane, bags under his bloodshed eyes and finally some kind of sticky substances was visible here and there on his fur.

Without saying any more words Void entered into the room and walked to his wardrobe.

“Dude, what happened to you?”

“I don’t remember.”

“What do you mean you don’t remember? You’re a total mess.”

“Thanks that helped a lot.” Void said bitterly and finally found what he was looking for, a towel and a bottle of shower gel.

“What are you going to do with these? Take a shower?”

“No cook a freaking apple pie, of course I’m going to take a goddamn shower!” Void commented and turned around wanting to leave, only to be stopped by Nova.

“You ain’t leaving till you tell me everything.”

Void gritted his teeth and growled but after few minutes he gave up and sighed. “Fine I’ll tell you everything that I remember ok?”

Nova nodded.

“Honestly last thing I remember was making fun of you in the club, I blacked out right after that.”

“Well then where did you wake up?”

“I hoped you won’t ask about that.”

Powerful rays of sun invaded Void’s face through the window, after few minutes of fighting he gave up and slowly opened his eyelids. “Nova why are the blinds up?”

After few minutes of not receiving answer Void stopped staring at the ceiling and turned to his right “Nova for… goodness…. sake?”

It was now that Void fully woke up after he came to a simple realization, he was in a bed in a room, but neither of those were his.

He looked around but found nothing that would help him, it was a small room with yellow walls, a wardrobe, a bed he was sitting on and a huge stereo system.

Stereo system?

“Ahhh, are you up already?”

Void’s muzzle went pale as his blood froze completely, he turned towards the source of the voice and it was nopony else but his friend.

“V-Vinyl?!” Void shouted and fell of the bed with a loud thud earning few laughs from white mare.

“Hey dude wassup, I never thought you would be up so early, being bat pony and all.”

It was now that Void took a look at himself, after few seconds his brain needed he fully understood what happened.

But he needed to be sure.

“V-Vinyl?”

“Yes cowboy?”

“D-Did we, umm well, wait did you just call me a cowboy?”

“What if I did?” She asked with a bedroom eyes.

“W-W-Well if you d-did I should…”

Vinyl didn’t let him finish silencing him with her hoof, she stared at him with her lustful eyes and smiled “Saddle up cowboy.”

“And then I ran away.”

“You what?!” Nova shouted.

“Hey, what would you do if you woke up in your friend’s house, looking like a mess, find out that you banged her last night and you can’t even remember it?”

Nova opened his mouth to respond but no sound came out of his throat, he scratched his head for a good few minutes before sighing in defeat. “That’s actually a really good vital question.”

“Thank you, now I’m going to get a quick shower and try to get few hours of sleep, and you can take this and give it to princess of that fucking thing that woke me up.” Void said and passed a small envelope to Nova confusing him further.

“What is that?”

“That’s the report for her about last night.”

“When did you write this?”

“On my way to the club since I didn’t have anything else to kill time with.”

“Wait a second why would you take a sheet of paper and something to write on it to the club?”

“Just take it.” Void said and left the room his annoyed frown not leaving him for even a second.

Nova sighed and left the room, on his way to Princess Celestia office he started to get nervous ’What if she knows I’m the guy who went on a date with her sister? Nooo Void wouldn’t tell her

Just few more steps.

’But what if somepony else told her?! But who knew about this? Me, well I’m sure I didn’t tell her, Dashing Star and Adamant but these two wouldn’t betray me.’

And finally he arrived at the doors of Princess’s office ’Wait, all this crazy stuff that happened yesterday! Luna said it was Discords doing, isn’t he her husband?’

With heart pounding in his chest he slowly raised his hoof and knocked on the doors.

“Come in.”

Nova feared those words but he couldn’t go back now, he slowly opened the doors and entered the room that might have been his place of death.

A small relief grew in his heart as he quickly noticed a smile on Princess Celestia muzzle “It’s rare to see a batpony during the day, what brings you here?” She asked with a smooth and caring voice.

Nova now mentally sighed in relief as now he was sure she doesn’t now. “I’m a friend of batpony named Void Night, and he told me to bring you this.” He said and handed the envelope over to the Princess.

“Did he tell you what is it?” Celestia asked as her soothing smile still shined on her muzzle.

“No your highness.”

“Good thank you for your work, you can leave now.”

Nova nodded and smoothly left the room stumbling only twice before making it back to the hallway. ’Actually, now that she mentioned it I wonder what is in that report.

Celestia caring smile slowly changed into satisfied grin as she looked down on the small envelope on her desk.

“Oh my a batpony walking and working during a day, what a twist isn’t it?”

Celestia turned towards her husband “It’s definitely something unusual, but you like weird things right?”

“Well I married you.”

“Excuse me?” Celestia asked staring daggers into Discord.

“Oh I’m just messing with you Tia! Now tell me, what is this?”

Celestia kept her iron gaze on him for few more moments before deciding to let it go this time, after all she had more important things to do.

Like for example learning the identity of her little sister mysterious stallion.

Just as she was about to open it, an idea popped into her head “Discord can you do something for me?”

“Of course sunshine! What is it?”

“Can you open this and read it out loud?”

Discord scratched his head and nodded, he took the envelope and opened it with his claw, he took out a small sheet of paper and cleared his throat while Celestia was dying with anticipation.

“Well then here I go:

’So Luna didn’t actually have any date?’ Celestia thought to herself becoming a bit embarrassed.

Celestia put a hoof to her mouth her expression changing into a sad frown ’Oh dear Luna! I’m so sorry for not trusting you.

“You want me to read it to the end?” Discord asked.

“How much is there left?”

“Only few more words.”

“Then go ahead.” She said and waved her hoof.

Discord nodded and once again cleared his throat.

Room fell silent for few moments before Discord burst out in an avalanche of laughter, while Celestia gritted her teeth with anger.

Chapter 11 - I want to see you.

[A/N] Not proofread.

Supernova trotted back and forth performing his duty as a night guard. Tonight he was supposed to make sure nothing bad happens inside the castle, one of his posts this night was the entrance to Princess Luna chambers, providing some excitement.

After all it was already 3 days and 3 nights since that date and hadn't spoken with Luna ever since, there simply was no occasion for that.

Supernova didn’t have much time cause of his guard duty, and for some reason captain Riddick was keeping an eye on him much more than he used to, because of that he couldn’t just leave his post and try to find Princess Luna on his own.

On the other hoof said Princess had a few other problems, some of them were concerning the country or its citizens but her biggest obstacle was in fact her sister, Princess Celestia.

Three days ago Discord read out loud the report that Void gave to Celestia, he stopped laughing yesterday.

Celestia however was not in the mood for laughing as instead she tried to speak with her sister about that night, as unfortunately she didn’t fall for the fake report.

I wonder why.

And so with these obstacles in front of him, Supernova trotted once again passing by the door to his possibly future marefriend, hoping that she would happen to leave her chambers at that moment.

Which didn’t happen this time.

Unbeknownst to him somepony else was watching these doors, somepony who decided to sacrifice her sleep in order to finally find out who took her little sister on a date.

“I think you’re exaggerating sunshine, I mean your sister can handle her own life can’t she? Especially her love life.” Discord commented while Celestia kept her eyes on the doors to Luna’s chambers through her telescope.

“She might me an adult but she’s still my little sister, if she’s really going out with somepony then I think I at least deserve to know who this pony is! It would be much easier for both of us if she would just tell me.”

“So that you can banish that stallion to the moon?”

Celestia stopped her observation to give her husband a death glare before turning back to her tool.

“Luna knows you’re overprotective and that is why she isn’t telling you my dear.”

“I’m not overprotective!”

Discord sighed in defeat and laid back against the wall ’Well I have to admit one thing, she’s so concentrated on watching these doors that she wouldn’t probably even notice me leaving…

His eyes shot wide open and he smiled mischievously, soon enough he was gone from the tower leaving nothing behind him.

“When you said we suit up, I didn’t think you meant it literally.” Dashing Star commented looking at Adamant Sky in his black suit.

“My dear Star, suits are full of joy, they’re the sartorial equivalent to baby’s smile.”

“If you say so.”

“Yes I do! Believe me, if we didn't have to wear those armors during duty I would wear suits!”

“Why aren’t you wearing suits when we go out with Nova and Void?”

“Because I’m always afraid that they will end up covered in beer.”

Star looked up into the air and started to scout through his mind in search of the memories from these nights.

“I guess that’s a valid argument.”

“Yes indeed, now Star before we get there I wanted to ask you a question.”

“What is it?” He asked cocking his eyebrow.

“Nova asked me this question yesterday, and I have to say this is a very good question that every stallion should ask himself at some point of life.”

Star nodded.

“What would you do if you woke up in your friend’s house, looking like a mess, find out that you banged her last night and you can’t even remember it?”

Star opened his mouth to respond but nothing came out of his throat, he stopped to think about an answer but he gave up after few moments.

“Man, that is a hard question.”

“Of course it is! I’ll let you think about it, oh by the way here we are!”

Dashing Star looked in front of him and frowned “What is this place?”

“This my friend, is our promised land.”

“A strip club is our promised land?! Wait a moment how does that even work we are always naked!”

“You know nothing.”

“I… what now?”

“Oh come on, it’ll be amazing!”

“Well I… I don’t know… I’m a bit nervous.”

“Well you weren’t nervous when you participated in the Equestria National Race for Flyers, by the way you were third right? Just behind that mare with rainbow mane… never mind, you get my point.”

“That was different! Back then I…”

“Just trust me! Let’s go towards the adventure!”

“Ohhh I’m so going to regret this tomorrow…”

“It would be boring otherwise, now come on.”

Luna trotted nervously in her chambers with a frown on her muzzle, she wanted to meet with Nova again for the past three nights but she couldn’t, mostly because of her sister.

Of course if they were going to create some kind of stable relationship with him, then sooner or later she would have to tell her sister anyway.

But she preferred the “later” version.

“I’m sorry may I interrupt your trotting?”

Luna’s ears perked up and she turned around with a scowl on her muzzle “Discord! I’m still angry at you for what you did.”

“Oh come on, can’t you take a joke?”

“Ruining my first date in centuries is a mere joke for you?”

“Now now Lulu, calm down. As far as I know your date wasn’t really ruined was it?”

Luna took a deep breath trying to calm herself before speaking “Yes indeed, Nova took me to a very special place afterwards, but still! What would you do if he ran away instead?”

“But he didn’t! And that’s great isn’t it?”

Luna didn’t want to look happy at the moment, she wanted to look angry! But no matter how hard she tried thinking back to that meadow and stargazing with Supernova always brought a smile to her face.

Discord noticed that and smiled warmly “Would you like to meet with him?”

“Of course! But I’m sure Celestia is watching me from somewhere, I could teleport of the room but she would notice it.”

“Then how about you go under cover? You know change your appearance to look like a maid using your illusions?”

Luna sighed “That won’t work either, first of all no maid came in here so it would be weird for one to leave it.”

“Oh really?” Discord asked and as soon as he spoke the second word Luna heard somepony knocking on the door.

“Who is it?”

“Moonlily your highness! I’m one of your maids and have brought the food you requested.”

“Food? I didn’t or… Come in!”

Doors opened and into the room stepped a beautiful young earth pony mare, her fur was light blue and her long straight mane was purple. She was wearing the usual maid’s outfit but the most noticeable aspect of her look were her eyes, they were an extremely rare shade of blue, Luna thought that they looked like the night sky.

“Good night your majesty, I brought your order!” Moonlily said with a wink of her eye.

“Discord, can you explain?”

“Of course! I asked Moonlily here to help us out, you will change into her and fool Celestia, who is in fact watching the doors to your chambers, into thinking your still here!”

“That would be great, but there’s still one problem. Like I said earlier Celestia knows my magic very well, if she’s observing my chambers she might feel me casting an illusion spell.”

“Yes! But she won’t feel me using my chaos magic on you!”

Luna’s eyes shot wide open and her smile widened as she turned towards Discord “Really? You would do that for me?”

“Oh it's no big deal! I owe you something after those pranks that I pulled on your date, besides, you might have not noticed but I do enjoy making a fool of my wife every once in a while”

“Yeah well, anyway thank you! Thank you so much.”

“No problem Lulu, well then I guess we better get started.” Discord commented and snapped his fingers, covering Luna in pile of dust.

Soon that curtain fell and before them was standing a pony that looked like a twin sister of Moonlily.

“Thank you!” Luna said once again and left the room trying to conceal her emotions so that her sister wouldn’t become suspicious.

Discord stared at the closed doors with approval before he felt somepony’s hoof on his leg, he turned his head and saw smiling Moonlily looking at him with her mesmerizing eyes.

“What is it?”

“I think you did a really good thing tonight.” She said with a smile and nodded approvingly.

“Yes, I guess I did….Oh god, I’m becoming too soft!”

Soon the chamber was filled with Discord’s laughter and the sound of Moonlily facehoofing herself.

Chapter 12 - Suit up!

[A/N] Not proofread.
Big thanks to dracone and Aerigim for pointing out few grammar errors in previous chapter, I appreciate it!

“I’m still not sure about this Sky.” Dashing Star commented as two stallions were finally entering their promised land which coincidentally was known as “Paradise Club.”

“Man up Star! You’ll love it, trust me your mind can’t even imagine what these mares are doing on a stage, it is a pure art!”

“I think I prefer paintings when it comes to art…”

Adamant Sky sighed and shook his head, even though Star was still against it, he followed his friend into the club.

They passed the bodyguards and paid for entrance, soon they made it to the narrow staircase illuminated by what seemed like hundreds of neon lights in all colors of rainbow.

Sky felt his heart pounding from excitement, he wasn’t here for way too long and tonight he was going to have a lot of fun, and perhaps he might end up spending the rest of the night with a cause of this fun.

On the other hoof Star was nervously making progress slowly walking down the stairs, each next step was harder for him and as they were getting closer his desire to go back was getting stronger and stronger.

Finally they were at the bottom, Sky didn’t waste any second and opened the doors to the main room of the club while Star followed him with lesser enthusiasm.

He made it through the door and stared in awe, it was much bigger than he expected.

In front of the doors he was standing in right now, was a bar, it wasn’t very big but it also wasn’t small, it was however equipped with many different liqueurs.

On the left and right side of the bar were stages, each looked like reversed “T” letter with poles at its ends.

Star noticed that there are quite a lot of stallions, including his friend Adamant Sky who already took a seat on one of the sofas in front of left stage.

He sighed ’Fine, let’s give it a try.’ Star decided and quickly trotted over to Sky, who right now was ordering drinks.

“Oh hey Star I’m glad you came, what would you like to drink?”

“Beer, I guess.”

The waitress nodded and wrote their order down in her small notebook “So, one beer and one scotch, be right back!” She said and left their table, noticeably swaying her flanks.

“You drink scotch?” Star asked.

“Yeah but only on special occasions.”

“And going to a strip club, is a special occasion for you?”

“Duhh?”

“Well I think that…”

“Shhh! It’s starting.” Sky hushed his friend who only sighed in defeat.

Lights dimmed and soon she entered the stage, “she” was an earth pony mare endowed with an incredible body, her pink fur seemed to shine in the light and her long, slightly spiky mane looked like it was made of gold.

She was wearing two pairs of black socks, on both front and hind legs, something that Star found extremely arousing.

Pink mare slowly walked towards the pole, her movement was mesmerizing, the grace with which she stepped was out of this realm, it was just a beginning of a show and Star already forgot all about his nervousness.

“Wow.” Was the only word that left his mouth, Sky chuckled a bit watching his hypnotized friend who didn’t even notice the waitress who brought their order.

“If you think this is amazing, just wait.” Sky said to Star who didn’t pay him enough attention to understand it anyway.

And finally, after what felt like hours to Star she started her dance on the pole, and only thing that he could do was stare with awe.

He couldn’t believe that making moves like that using only pole and her body was possible. Her moves were erotic and graceful at the same time, like Sky said it truly was an art, a mesmerizing, erotic and incredible art.

Soon it was over, mare landed on her legs and bowed to her audience receiving a huge amount of applause, she then left the stage leaving Star completely stunned, much to Sky’s amusement.

Void trotted back and forth patrolling the gardens, there were few things he liked about this job, one of them was the amount of time he had to think.

And right now his mind was occupied with only one thought, that thought was about white mare who liked loud music.

Since he came back three nights ago, Void couldn’t forget about what happened, well he didn’t remember how it happened but he knows that it did in fact, happen.

Well shit happens sometimes.

And so here he was, walking from point A to point B trying to figure out a way of sorting things out with Vinyl.

’How the hell am I supposed to do it? “Hey Vinyl, sorry I banged you but I can't remember it because I was drugged myself with a cupcake!” Yeah that sounds smooth.’

Night knew that sooner or later he will have to deal with it, what he didn’t know was that it will be sooner then later.

“Soldier Void Night!”

Void immediately stopped in his tracks and saluted on reflex hearing Riddick’s intimidating voice.

“Yes Captain!”

“There’s somepony who wants to see you.”

“Who is it Captain? Is it her majesty Princess Luna?”

“No, it’s a civil.”

Void blinked a few times “A-a civil? Sir you’re letting me meet a civil, while I’m on my duty?”

“I can see your confusion soldier, but this night was very calm so far, we have a lot of other soldiers at their posts, and it seemed it was something very important for her.”

“Her?”

“Go, to my office, I will keep an eye on the gardens until you comeback, but don’t take too long.”

“Yes Sir!” Void saluted.

He trotted towards his captain office with a mix of confusion and nervousness, that Captain Riddick making him leave his posts to see some civil mare? That should have never happened.

Void quickly made it to the entrance of the room she waited in, he knocked on the wooden doors and after few moments instead of an expected “Come in.” or “Who is it?” Doors slowly opened revealing the mare that wanted to meet him.

“Hey Void.”

Night gulped and nodded “Hey Vinyl.”

“Crap, where is next show starting? Come on!” Star said and downed his beer.

“Hey hey, take it easy buddy, next girl is a new one so don’t expect a show of this level.”

“You know her?”

“Not personally, but I do know that she’s pretty hot, aaand she’s a bat pony. Maybe she will be the one that will accompany me through the rest of the night, if you know what I mean *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*. ”

Star shrugged his shoulders and suddenly his ears perked up as the lights once again dimmed, soon the moment he was waiting for came and she entered the stage.

This time it was a bat pony mare with a black fur, and white short mane, she had a beautiful green eyes, something quite unusual for bat ponies. Her sides were adorned by a pair of powerful wings she unfolded with pride as she was walking towards the pole.

Star’s excitement started to fall the closer she got to the front of the stage.

“Oh my god.”

“You said it Star! She’s hot.”

“That’s Twinkle!”

“What? Who? That mare? Ohh you know her? This just got even more exciting! Maybe she’s your friend from childhood? That would be hot.”

Star stood up keeping his gaze on the stage where said mare was almost starting her pole dance, his muzzle distorted into an angry scowl.

“She isn’t my friend, she’s my freaking little sister.”

Chapter 13 - There we go again.

[A/N] Not proofread.

Void stood completely frozen and stared with confusion and a little bit of fear.

If Vinyl’s goal was to catch him off-guard, then she succeed. Time completely stopped for poor stallion whose brain was trying to think about any solution, but to no avail.

The atmosphere in the room was so dense that you could cut it with a knife, and they stood right in the middle of this awkward silence.

“So…” Vinyl said and dropped her gaze on the stone floor.

It took Void few moments to notice that she spoke “So… how are you doing?” He asked and mentally facehoofed himself.

“I’m doing good, I think.”

“Ohh well, that’s great.”

And so the silence fell upon them once again, Void searched his brain through and through but he couldn’t think of anything.

“Look Void, we have to talk about what happened back then.”

He sighed and nodded “Yeah, we do.”

“So?”

Void cocked an eyebrow “What?”

“Well I hoped that maybe you would tell me why did you ran away after that night, if you wanted to blow me off then you could have at least do it a bit smoother. I mean we are friends for how many years?”

Void lowered his gaze as he couldn’t stand the piercing daggers that came from Vinyl’s eyes, which tonight weren’t hidden behind her shades. “I’m sorry it turned out like this, I didn’t want to blow you off I…”

“Then what?” Vinyl shouted infuriated “If you didn’t then why the fuck would you go to bed with me and then just ran away in the morning?!”

“I was scared!” Void shouted back surprising her. “Look, I’m sorry but it truly wasn’t my fault, back in the club there was a pink mare, a bartender who gave me a free cupcake, which I realized way later, was drugged.”

Vinyl cocked her eyebrow confused “Let me get this straight, she gave you drugs, in a free cupcake?”

“Yes exactly, I realized it was drugged yesterday when I finally put two and two together.”

“So, this night in the club, then what we did at my place, you..”

“I don’t remember any of it, last thing I remember is Nova running away from an army of Princesses, I guess it was another effect of this stuff she gave me.”

Vinyl stared at him in utter confusion, her shocked expression slowly started to change into a sad and disappointed frown. “I see, I’m sorry I reacted like this.”

“Don’t be sorry, I deserved it.”

“No you didn’t.” She said once again locking her gaze with his own “You had no idea what was going on, I see ponies on drugs on daily basis because of my job and yet I didn’t realize that you were one of them.” Vinyl finished and lowered her head once again, a small tear started to escape her eye.

“Is it really so bad that it’s worth wasting your tears?” Void asked concerned.

“Maybe not, I thought I was used to it, one-night stands, every stallion I met always wanted one thing from me, I enjoyed it at first but recently I started having doubts you know.”

Void nodded.

“When Tavi got married I was so happy for her, but I also got a bit jealous, but I never was good in these “stable” relationships you know, the only stable relationship I had with a male is you, as my friend.”

“You must be joking, putting romantic relationships aside you must have other male friends?”

“There are a few that I hang out with from time to time, but I know what’s on their mind, on the other hoof you are different, whenever we talked about something you were thinking about our conversation, and not about what would you do with me in bed like they did.”

“So when you started to hit on me in the club, I was confused and surprised at first but, I thought that maybe this is a sign, that maybe this could become something…”

Vinyl bit her bottom lip trying to stop her tears “And then I just straight up blew it and took advantage of you, maybe it was unintentional but what kind of relationship starts from jumping into bed?”

Void raised his hoof thinking that maybe he should hug her, or at least tap her on the shoulder but he stopped mid-air, there were times in his life when he didn’t know what to do, that time when Star’s sister started to hit on him, or when he met captain Riddick for the first time.

None of these could even compare to what was going on right now.

Void felt his heart rip into pieces upon seeing one of his closest friends tearing up because of him.

For these next few moments his brain completely stopped working, without thinking about his words Void opened his mouth, and said.

“Vinyl.”

Said mare raised her head and looked at him with watering eyes.

“Are you doing something on next Friday night?”

Supernova finally made it to the turning point, he stopped looked around pretending to search for any kind of problem and then made a quick turn which resulted into a crash.

“Ouch that hurt, I’m sorry.” Nova said rubbing his forehead, he picked himself up and offered his hoof to the mare who still laid on the floor.

Said mare was one of the maids. “Oh no problem, it happens.” She said and accepted his help.

“I’m still sorry though, I should pay more attention to my surroundings in the future, well then it was nice meeting you and see you later.” He said and started to walk away only to be stopped by her crossing his way.

“Leaving already? You didn’t even give me your name.” She said with half opened eyes, which he had to admit, looked amazing.

“I’m Supernova.”

“Supernova? That’s a really nice name, mine’s Moonlily.” She said as she batted her eyelashes seductively.

“Well then *cough* it was nice meeting you miss Moonlily but I have my duties and so…”

“Since you have such a nice name, maybe you would like me to blow your mind?” She asked and moved herself closer to him.

“What?” Nova asked confused.

“There’s a nice empty room here, maybe we could go there and, have a little fun?”

Supernova gulped and stared at her for few moments, before shaking his head “I’m sorry miss but like I said I have duties to do, and sorry to disappoint you but my eyes are set on somepony else.”

Moonlily backed away and changed her seductive expression into warm smile “That’s very nice to hear.”

Nova blinked a few times “I think I know this voice.”

“Oh do you?” Luna asked and chuckled while Supernova put two and two together and frowned.

“Ha ha, that was very funny, how dare you toy with a stallion feelings like that?” He said and turned his head away.

“I’m sorry, I just couldn’t help myself since the situation was so perfect.”

Nova turned his gaze back and smiled widely, he moved closer and embraced her in a warm hug, surpring and startling her at first, but she quickly returned the favor and hugged him back. “I really wanted to see you.” He whispered into her ear.

“Me too believe me, but my sister was watching me very closely these past few nights, either by herself or her guards. Right now she thinks I’m still in my chambers which she observes.”

Nova stopped the hug and looked into eyes of the pony she changed into, maybe these eyes were beautiful, but Luna’s eyes were surely more mesmerizing. “That’s not good, how are we supposed to go on another date then, that is if you want to.”

“Of course I do.” Luna chuckled.

“Oh good, I’m a bit glad you showed up like this, I don’t think my brain would let me feel so relaxed with alicorn Luna.”

“You’ll have to get used to it.”

“I know, I know, so what do we do about your sister?”

Luna pondered about his question for a few moments “I guess we could either tell her the truth, which I don’t think she’s ready for.”

“Or?”

Luna smiled mischievously.

“Have you ever been on a date in a dreamland?”

Chapter 14 - Backstage, smile and not a joke.

[A/N] Not proofread.

Adamant stared at his friend with his eyes wide open, his gaze switched to the stage for few moments and then back to Star, he repeated that process a few times before finally comprehending the situation.

“That’s your little sister that you talked about?”

Star nodded.

“Duude, your sister is a stripper, high hoof!”

“What? No!” Star shouted out and stood up, dimmed lights seemed to be enough to hide him from his sister vision, which was rather weird considering she was a batpony.

“What is she doing here? I thought she’s working as a waitress in a café in town called Ponyville.”

“Well I don’t know why would she lie to you, she does a pretty good job up there.”

Star growled at his friend “Sky, is there a way I can talk with her?”

“Perhaps, after a show if you have some connections that could lead you to backstage.”

Star cocked an eyebrow. “Well do you?”

“Sure I do, we can go there after it’s…. oh wow Star your sister has a really nice a….”

“Don’t you dare finish your sentence.”

“Okay I won’t.” Sky said and smiled, Star nodded and started to leave, he stopped after few steps and turned around “What are you doing?”

“What?”

“Dude that’s my sister.”

“Hey, I won’t miss a good show just because she’s from your family ok?”

“Guhh fine, I’ll wait at the bar.” Star said and left the place with an angry frown on his muzzle.

Vinyl stood frozen, few last tears fell from her eyes, she wasn’t sure what she heard.

Void almost as if he knew that repeated his question “Are you doing something on next Friday night?”

Vinyl wiped those few tears that still were hanging from her eyes and finally a small smile made its way onto her muzzle “No, I don’t have any plans.”

Void cleared his throat “Well then, what would you say about going together to a nice restaurant? I’ll pay of course.”

Vinyl opened her mouth to respond but she couldn’t find her voice, they stood there in calm silence, the only sound they could hear was a gentle whistle of wind blowing through the window.

“Are you asking me, on a date?” She finally asked.

“Yes, but this time, no loud music, no drugs, no cupcakes, how does that sound?” Void asked with a hopeful smile.

Vinyl could swear that in that moment somepony lifted a huge stone off her heart, that pony was standing right in front of her.

She smiled widely and cheerfully answered “Sure I do! So at what time should I expect you?”

She already sounds more like herself, good. “How about 8 p.m?”

“Sounds good to me, well then I guess I won’t hold you here anymore, this captain of yours might get a bit angry.”

Void chuckled and nodded “See you on Friday.”

Vinyl nodded and started to walk towards the doors, only to stop near Void and give him a quick peck on a cheek “I can’t wait.” Were her last words before she left the room, leaving Void alone with his thoughts.

Which were soon interrupted by the intimidating voice he knew way too well.

“Soldier! I can’t see your guest here anymore! But the real question is, why I can see you here?!”

“Sorry Sir!”

“Don’t you sorry me, get your ass back on your post this instant!”

“Yes Captain!” Void saluted and quickly left the room, he closed the doors behind him and noticed something weird.

Did Captain just, smile? No, no it was my imagination.

Star sat down at one of the bar seats and slowly drank his beer. More or less 10 minutes passed since he left the stage, but for him it felt like 10 hours.

Finally he felt somepony’s hoof on his shoulder, he turned around and saw Sky, smiling dumbly at him.

“If you’re here, that means it’s over, right?”

“Yes it is.”

“Can we go and see my sister now?”

Sky nodded and motioned to follow him, Star did so and after few moments of walking, and going through doors that they shouldn’t be allowed to go through they finally made it to the backstage.

It was bigger than Star expected, staff members were in constant rush, running from one place to another, he saw few mares and even noticed the earth pony mare that mesmerized him so much with her performance.

After few talks with bodyguards and a bit of walking they made it to the changing room.

“They said she’s in here.” Sky said.

“Thanks.” Star answered and moved closer to the entrance, he raised his hoof and waited few seconds before finally letting it fall down on the wooden doors.

“Who’s there?” They heard a soft voice coming from the inside, Star had no doubt who it belonged to.

“Oh nopony special, just your older brother.”

“Dreamland?” Nova asked confused.

Luna nodded “As you may know, one of my duties is to guard dreams of my subjects. It’s my duty because I’m the only pony who can access a dreamland, in simple words it’s a like a huge hallway with a door to everypony’s dreams.

Nova pondered on her words for a few moments before coming to a simple conclusion “So you basically can spy on everypony’s dreams?”

“What? No!” She replied offended “I don’t spy on my subjects! I only go into one’s dream when I know he or she needs my help with her fears and nightmares.”

Well that’s a huge relief I’ll say. Nova thought to himself remembering some of his previous dreams about Princess of the Night. “I suppose it sounds interesting, how would that work?”

“Honestly, I’m not sure myself, I never before took anypony in there with me, but I have few ideas how will it work out, so what do you say?”

Supernova thought for a few seconds before adorning his face with huge smile “I’ll say it sounds amazing! When do we do that?”

Luna chuckled “How about today? You sleep through the day right? So I’ll go into your dream and try to take you with me into the dreamland.”

“Sounds good to me, but knock first, who knows what will be going on before you enter.”

Luna laughed and shook her head “I really like your sense of humour Nova.” She said and trotted away towards her chambers, leaving Supernova alone once again.

Nova stood there for few moments pondering about her last words Sense of humour? I didn’t even tell any jokes tonight.

Chapter 15 - Love is in the air.

Sky and Dashing waited at the doors impatiently, Star wanted to ask his little sister a few questions, on the other hoof Sky was just excited since they were about to have a talk with hot mare.

Doors started to open and soon they saw Twinkle, standing before them, she didn’t wear her stage socks, the only thing that adorner her body was a pink dressing-gown.

Dashing did nothing but stare at his sister with disapproving glare, it took Twinkle a few moments to fully comprehend what’s going on.

Batpony mare smiled “Dashing! Oh it’s so good to see you!” She shouted with excitement and jumped onto her brother embracing him in a tight hug.

Star stood there speechless with his sister almost hanging off his neck, in all of his imagination he didn’t expect this kind of reaction.

“Ohh, it’s been so long! Come on in we can talk a bit before my next show, and who is that?” She asked emphasizing last words.

“My name’s Adamant Sky, and I have to say you’re an amazing dancer, Twinkle.” He said with cocky grin.

“Oh my, brother you sure have some handsome friends, come on in!” She said and walked back inside.

Star gave his friend a death stare, Sky responded with a shoulder shrug and entered the room, Dashing soon followed him.

“So, Dashing, I have to say that I didn’t expect to see you here!”

“That’s my line, what are you doing here?”

Twinkle chuckled and sat down on a sofa “Since you didn’t notice yet, I’m working here.”

“You know that’s not what I meant.”

Twinkle gave her brother a confused stare.

Dashing sighed “You told me that you work as a waitress.”

“I didn’t lie, I worked as a waitress at that time.”

“You did?”

“Yeah, in this club, then one of the dancers asked if perhaps I wouldn’t like to try and dance myself, and guess what, turns out I’m good at it!”

“Oh you are indeed.” Sky commented and received another intimidating glare from his friend.

“Twinkle” Dashing said turning his attention back to his sister “Why are you doing this?”

“Doing what?”

“Showing off your body for money!”

Twinkle’s happy expression suddenly changed into a disappointed frown “Brother, I can’t believe you’re one of these ignorants, I’m not just showing off my body, I’m an artist, a dancer to be precise.”

“If you wanted to dance, then you could always…”

“What? Try “Normal” dancing?” She asked making quotation marks with her hoofs.

Twinkle stood up from her sofa and walked up to her brother with a smirk on her muzzle. “For my whole life I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I didn’t have any real goal or at least a hobby, but now it’s different.”

“I love performing here, I enjoy knowing that all these stallions are drooling themselves because of me, if you can’t accept this, then you have a problem cause I’m staying right here.” She said right into his face and smirked “And you can’t do anything about it.”

Dashing was once again speechless, on the other hoof Sky’s admiration for Twinkle grew with every moment.

“W-Well then, what about you future? You know you’ll have to find a stallion that’ll be ok with you being a dancer?” He asked about first thing that came to his head, right now he had no idea what else he can say to try and convince his sister into changing job.

“How are you so sure I’m looking for a stable relationship? But if I will in the future then I’m sure I’ll find somepony who will “accept” my passion.” Twinkle said.

“If there’s a stallion out there that can reject a mare like you then he must be an idiot.” Sky commented.

“That was so corny.” Twinkle said and then smiled seductively “But it kinda made me horny.”

“Dude I think I’m falling in love with your sister.”

“Shut up.”

“Oh calm down brother, we are just joking, aren’t we?” Twinkle said with a wink.

“Of course we are, do you mind if I ask you a question?” Sky said.

“Go ahead.”

“What do you think about an idea of open relationship?”

“I never thought about this, but it seems like a good idea, after all being with only one pony for too long might get boring, so having other partner from time to time will only add coal to a fire.”

“Dashing?”

Star greeted his teeth and turned to Sky. “What is it?”

“Can I marry your sister?”

“That’s it we’re leaving.” Dashing commented and quickly turned around, without saying any other words he left the room leaving his sister and Sky alone.

“Well it was nice to meet you, but I guess I have to go and help this guy calm down.”

“I’ll be thankful for that, also Sky.”

“Yes what is it Twi….” He was cut off by a pair of lips colliding with his own, her warm and soft skin felt great, Sky closed his eyes and enjoyed this very short moment of passion.

“Damn you surely don’t beat around the bush.”

“That was just a taste, now go after my brother.” Twinkle said and winked seductively.

“Well then, have a good night Miss Twinkle.” Sky said earning few chuckles from her before leaving.

Dashing Star walked through the silent city still greeting his teeth in anger and irritation, suddenly his ears perked up as he heard somepony calling his name, he looked around few times before finally noticing Adamant Sky running after him.

“Sorry about that, you know I was just teasing, right?” Sky asked half-lying.

“Yeah I know, I don’t really care about that anymore, its just, ohh I don’t know maybe Twinkle is right, maybe it is me who has a problem.”

They stood there in silence for a few moments before Sky sighed and moved closer to his friend, he tapped him on his shoulder a few times “Take some time to think about it dude, maybe you’ll come to a conclusion that’s not a big deal, or perhaps you’ll still dislike her job, but you shouldn’t think about it right now.”

“But the truth is, no matter what you decide Twinkle seems to really love her job, so maybe you should learn to accept it?”

Star looked at his friend and sighed “Maybe I should, I don’t know.”

Sky felt really sorry for Star, but soon an idea came to his mind “Well then, I think I know what will help you forget about this for now.”

“You do?”

“Yeah, how about we go to “The Prancing Pony” and drink until one of us will have to carry the other one back to the castle? Sounds good?”

Star looked at his friend and smiled “It sure does.”

Chapter 16 - That escalated quickly.

Proofread by Wacuire

It was a silent and cold night in Canterlot, as long as you didn’t go near any clubs, the only sound you could hear was the whistle of the cold wind.

However there was a place that was far from being silent but it wasn’t a club, it was a big tavern known as “The Prancing Pony.” It was a big building made entirely of wood, if somepony would stumble upon it, he would hear an inviting cheerful voices of its clients accompanied by a folk music.

During nights like these it was certainly hard to decline such invitation, and so this chilled and tired stallion entered without any sign of hesitation.

Soon enough he was invited by two bat ponies to drink a few beers with them, and so the night went on in the loud and warm tavern.

“Soo, you’re sellin apples?” Dashing Star asked the red stallion just as his fifth beer appeared.

“Eeeyup, Ah’am here in Canterlot casue of our Apple family business.” He answered and took another sip of his own golden drink.

“That’s cool, we are the guardians of the night!” Star announced and threw his hooves dramatically into the air, almost falling off his chair in the process.

“Whoa whoa, watch out my friend, say Big Mac, how do you like the capitol?” Sky asked, visibly swaying on his chair.

“It’s not like Ah am here for the first time, It’s nice but Ah prefer mah Ponyville.”

“Ohh yes I heard of it, we have to go there on vacations in the future.”

“Star, we don’t have vacations, as far as I know.”

“Shit.”

“Well then, let’s drink for Ponyville!” Sky shouted and they all agreed raising their cups in the air before downing them in one go.

“Tell me, *Hick* Mac, you said Apple family, do you have any siblings.”

“Eeeyup.”

Star swayed back and forth on his chair for few moments before he finally managed to focus his gaze on red stallion “Any sisters?”

“Eeeyup.”

Star smiled and Sky sighed knowing very well where’s his friend going with this.

“Tell me, Mac, what would you *Hick* do, if y-you found out that one of your sisters, is a stripper, and she refuses to leave the job cause she *Hick* claims that she love doing it?”

“Ah would get mad.”

Stars smile widened, he opened his mouth to say something but was stopped by Mac.

“But if this is really what she loves to do, then Ah can’t stop her, Ah don’t know if Ah would ever accept it or not, but Ah can’t just tell her to stop doing it.”

Star frowned and he could swear that Sky laughed silently, after few moments he sighed “I guess so…”

Mac only nodded and ordered another round of beers, it was only his fourth even though the other two were coming closer to their limits, especially Star.

Suddenly his frown changed into huge, dumb smile “Oh screw that! It’s not the time to be sad!”

“Exactly! You should take example from me, when I’m sad I stop being sad and be awesome instead.” Sky commented.

“Eeeyup.” Mac agreed and took his mug into his hoof.

“Let’s drink for our sisters!” Stars declared and raised his mug in the air as well.

Discord slowly and silently entered the tower, thanks to a small help of his chaos magic he managed to do it and stay unnoticed.

Celestia was still focused on her spying telescope, God of Chaos chuckled a bit and slowly moved closer to his wife.

“Hey there sunshine, don’t you think it’s time to go to bed?”

“Not now Discord.”

He cleared his throat “Seriously though, you’ve been up for only Faust knows how many hours, you need a rest Tia, you have a lot of royal duties tomorrow.”

“I’m not going anywhere until I find out who is… what’s that?”

“What something interesting?” Discord asked quite curious.

“I would say that it’s rather unusual for a guard on duty to be this cheerful while he’s on his own.”

Discord cocked his eyebrow confused “Whatever do you mean?”

“Well usually our guards are not smiling like idiots and jumping into the air occasionally.”

“Oh my, I wonder if something good happened.” Discord commented and chuckled.

“Well then I better get back to watching my dear sisters doors, or else I might miss him.”

Discord frowned, being sincerely concerned now. He moved closer to the Princess of the Sun and slowly embraced her in a soft hug, he placed his muzzle atop hers and started to whisper into her ear “Sunshine, you’re too tired to continue this, you should go to sleep, rest for few hours, we can cuddle if you want, I know how much you like that.” He said and teased her ear with a tip of his tail, knowing very well how sensitive they are.

Celestia moaned quietly “That actually sounds very good… but I can’t, I have to watch ooohhhh…” She groaned as Discord gently bit her other ear.

“So what do you say.” He asked and slowly moved his talon over her neck, gently scratching her skin.

Suddenly Celestia turned around and jumped onto a surprised Discord, she tackled him to the ground and gave him the best bedroom eyes she could.

“You. Me. Bed. Now.”

“I’m glad you changed your mind Sunshine.” Discord said and snapped his fingers teleporting both of them back to their royal chambers, leaving the tower empty.

“Thanks for help Mac, I appreciate it a lot.”

“Eeeyup.” Macintosh answered as he gently put down the passed out Star onto the bed.

“I doubt I would be able to drag this guys all the way back to castle myself, in this state that is.”

“To be honest, you don’t look drunk at all.”

“That’s because I can talk as if I am sober if I wish to.” Sky answered, true to his words he learnt that skill at some point in his life, he couldn’t remember when exactly he did learn how to do this, but since it made his life much easier at times he didn’t care.

Mac only gave him a confused look and raised his hoof “it was nice meeting ya.”

“Eeeyup.” Sky answered and they both laughed for a second.

“I’ll lead you to the castle entrance, I don’t want you to get lost in here.”

Mac nodded and they left the room leaving unconscious Star alone, they walked through the huge hallways occasionally passing by some random night guards. Throughout their whole journey neither of them said any word, but the silence they kept was far from awkward.

Soon enough they appeared at the front gates and said their goodbyes, Sky watched Mac walk away until he disappeared behind the corner. “What a funny guy.”

“I bet.”

Sky’s ears perked up and after what seemed like a minute he managed to turned around.

“T-Twinkle?” Sky asked not being sure if his vision isn’t altered by alcohol flowing through his veins.

“You missed me?” She asked batting her eyelashes.

“What are you doing here?”

She moved closer until their muzzles were only few inches away “When I said that kiss was just a taste, I didn’t lie.”

“Well I was sure you didn’t, but…”

“So what do you say, maybe you would like to visit my place tonight?”

Sky gulped “Why are you doing this? Not that I am complaining or anything.”

“Well you are certainly my type, handsome, hot and awesome.” She said and started to walk past him “And I love the idea of an open relationship.” She added whispering right into his ear.

Sky smiled, he shook his head and once again turned around “Where have you been my whole life?”

Twinkle chuckled “Come on, night’s still young.”

“Fine but, what about your brother? You know he won’t like it if he founds out.”

“Does it bother you?”

Sky smiled.

“Not at all.”

“Well then come on, I’m going to blow your mind.”

Chapter 17 - Spread your wings and soar into the dreams.

A/N Proofread by Wacuire.

Supernova didn’t waste his time and so as soon as his shift ended he ran to his room, took the armor off and jumped into bed.

Void wasn’t even here yet and Nova was already slowly drifting into the lands of dreams, his excitement wasn’t making it easy for him but it couldn’t be helped, after all he’s going on his next date with his marefriend.

Suddenly his eyes snapped open and he lifted himself into a sitting position Wait a moment, she is my marefriend, right? I mean we’ve only been on one date, but she had kissed me on the cheek, and we nuzzled and…

“I didn’t think you’d be here already.”

Nova turned his head towards Void who just entered the room and stopped his train of thoughts “Yeah, hey dude can you help me out?”

“Depends, what is it?”

“From which base on can you say that the mare you’re meeting is your marefriend?”

Void scratched his chin “Well what base are you on?”

“Does kiss on a cheek count as first base?”

“Maybe in kindergarten.”

Nova sighed “I guess you’re right, so we aren’t even an item yet.”

“You mean you and Princess Luna?”

The only response he got from Nova was a slow and sad nod.

“Look dude.” Void started with reluctance “I have no idea what is going on between you two, but I have to say that since that date on Saturday, I don’t know how to put this.” He scratched his chin once more. “Lets say that you seem much happier than before, when we had shifts together you were only talking about the Princess and how gorgeous she is, how mesmerizing her eyes are and so on.”

“What’s your point?” Nova asked and raised his eyebrow.

“My point is, maybe you’re not an item yet, maybe you haven’t kissed her yet, but if she feels about you like you feel about her, that’s just a matter of time.”

Nova pondered on his words for few moments and smiled widely “Thanks Void, maybe you are an asshole, but an asshole that helps his friends in need.”

“I’ll take the compliment, thanks.” Void said and without any more words he started to take his own armor off.

On the other hoof Nova with renewed confidence laid his head on the pillow and closed his eyes, soon he felt his consciousness fading and after few more seconds he was finally on his way to the dreamland.

Luna entered her chambers walking with her usual royal grace, she closed the doors behind her and lowered the curtains to block the sunlight.

She laid down on her bed and slowly let her consciousness travel to the land of dreams, where she was the one to dictate the rules.

After few moments of drifting through the dreamspace, and with a little help of magic, she stopped at the grand hallway which looked like it belongs to some kind of grand castle.

If it would be any other day, then Luna would just walk from one door to another and try to look for any nightmares that her subjects would need help with, but today was different.

She had a specific pair of doors to look for, it didn’t took her long to find them and so soon enough she stood before the doors to Supernova’s dream.

She smiled unknowingly and entered.

She passed the boundaries of his sleep and stopped a bit surprised at the sight, it took her few moments to comprehend the situation but soon she smiled and flew forward.

“I missed you so much Nova.” Luna said in seductive tone as she was moving closer to the said stallion.

Supernova smiled “So did I, Luna.” He replied “Now my dear Princess, what should we do?”

“How about we use our lips and tongues for something else thank talking?” She asked with a seductive wink.

“You read my mind.” Nova said and started to lean forward, his imaginary Luna closed his eyes and he was about to do the same until he suddenly heard another voice coming from behind.

“Oh my, so you’re cheating on me, with me?”

Nova’s eyes snapped open as he quickly turned around until his gaze stopped on the smirking Princess Luna, the real one that is.

“L-L-Luna?! I told you to knock before you enter!”

Princess of the Night chuckled loudly “Don’t be silly Nova, it’s just your dream, you can do whatever you want in here, however I must say I am flattered.” She said and stared at her copy with proud smile I knew I didn’t need any diet

“So umm, what now?” Nova asked.

“Now we go, spread your wings and follow me.” She said and took off, at the same time her horn started to glow with magic which started to wrap itself around Nova.

Said stallion stood there for few seconds in confusion before shrugging and jumping into the air after Luna.

Soon they appeared at the doors through which Princess got in his dream, thanks to her magic, Nova was able to follow her even through the doorstep.

“Ta da! Welcome to the Hallway of Dreams.”

“Wow.” Was the only thing that came to Nova’s mind as he stared in awe.

He stood in what seemed to be an endless hallways with thousands upon thousands of doors, each of them had different color and design but they had something in common.

Above each of them was a small gem, however some of them shone with green light and some with blue.

“Luna what are…”

“Those gems?”

Nova nodded.

“They are what I call dream shards, their color describes the state of the dream.”

Luna walked to the first door on the right “If the gem shines with green light like this one, it means that the dream is calm and safe, the blue ones on the other hoof.”

Luna said and motioned with her leg towards the door with blue gem. “Blue ones mean that the pony isn’t sleeping right now, and thus what’s behind these doors is just projection of his last dream.”

Nova nodded, he didn’t expect this to be so interesting. “Are there any other kinds of light?”

Luna frowned. “There’s a red light, it means that the pony is going through nightmare, however if it’s a red one then I’m not supposed to interfere, I am supposed to help with black gems, which indicates the nightmare born from extreme fear.”

Nova felt shivers going down his spine. “Dreams made out of fear huh? What else…”

“Can they be made of?”

“You’re starting to creep me out a little bit.”

Luna chuckled. “Dreams are usually a pure creation of imagination, but can also be made from memories, both happy and sad, joyful and scary.”

“All right, is there anything else I need to know?”

“Not really.”

Nova smiled. “All right! Then lets go!” He said and turned around, he stared into endless hallway for few seconds before frowning “Lets go, where exactly?”

Princess chuckled once more, much to Supernova’s amuse “I figured we can just walk from one dream to another, maybe we will see something funny, honestly there’s nothing else to do here, however.”

Luna moved closer to Nova and smiled “I’m happy we can talk at least once more, without hiding behind Discords illusions.”

Nova returned the smile and he moved closer as well “So am I.”

They stood there only few inches apart and stared firmly into each other’s eyes, at that moment an idea popped into Nova’s head.

Is this the moment? Should I go for a kiss? He felt the nervousness coming back to him, however he had gotten used to it already.

His question was answered by Luna, who smiled and moved away a bit “Shall we go then?”

Nova felt a bit disappointed but nodded nevertheless.

They walked together, side by side through the endless hallway, they passed by dozens of doors by now and at that point Nova figured out another question “Luna?”

“Yes?”

“If we just go into somepony’s dream, aren’t we violating their privacy?”

Luna smiled mischievously “We totally are.”

Nova’s expression showed nothing but astonishment as he would never expect a Princess to be okay with something like that.

“Is something wrong?” Luna asked concerned that she just ruined their date.

“No, I think I’m falling head over hoofs for you.” Nova replied without even thinking.

Luna felt her cheeks redden and she smiled sheepishly “T-Thank you.”

After her answer it was Nova’s turn to blush as he just realized what he said “No problem.”

They stood there for few moments in awkward silence, not even looking at each other.

Supernova couldn’t stand this any longer and looked around to find some kind of solution, some kind of way out from this situation, and he found it.

He saw a pink door, with a lot of balloons on them, the gem above it shone with blue light.

“Oh look! These doors look interesting.” He said and ran forward before Luna could even react.

“Which doors…Wait Nova! Don’t go in there, that’s…” But she was too late as Nova already peeked inside, only to withdraw his head a few seconds later, with nothing but horror written all over his muzzle.

“Nova you okay?” Luna asked as she moved closer to the stallion.

“I’ve seen some shit in my life, but this, what the hell was that?!” Nova shouted.

“Whose dream was that?! I don’t think I’ll never be able to eat cupcakes again, oh my goodness that poor mare with rainbow mane.”

“Yeah, I was supposed to talk with Pinkie about that dream…”

“Pinkie? Who’s Pinkie?” Nova asked curious.

“Oh you probably don’t know her personally, rather as an element of harmony, to be precise element of laughter.”

Nova felt his face muscles twitch “Laughter? An element of laughter?! More like a freaking element of horror!”

Luna moved closer and embraced Nova in a hug, while nuzzling him at the same time “Calm down, that’s only a dream, some of us dream about Princesses, other about…. Cupcakes.”

Supernova returned the hug and they stood there for few moments in silence, before it was broken by Luna.

“Hey Nova?”

“Yes?”

“Would you like to go and see my sister’s dream?”

“Heck yes.”

Chapter 18 - Finally.

A/N Proofread by Wacuire.

Nova and Luna walked side by side through the hallway of dreams, said stallion was still shivering with these horrible pictures of Pinkie’s dream coming right before his eyes.

“Don’t worry, it was just a dream.”

“The fact that somepony dreams about something like that is still terrifying.”

Luna chuckled “You might not believe me, but actually Pinkie is a very funny and nice mare, she’s a lot of fun.”

“I’m sure she is.”

Luna giggled and stopped as a certain door caught her attention.

“Supernova?”

“Yes?”

“Well that is not a door to my sister dream, but I think you might be interested.” She said and stood before blue doors with black frames, this time gem shone with green light.

“Green light? So this pony is sleeping right now, which means bat pony?”

Luna nodded. “Or some other pony is taking a nap, or didn’t wake up yet, but this time it is a bat pony, namely your friend, Void Night.”

Nova’s eyes almost jumped from their orbits “Void’s dream?!”

“Indeed, I thought that you might be curious.”

“I’m not sure I want to know what this guy dreams about.”

“Well as you wish, perhaps behind those doors are some embarrassing secrets about your friend, but if you don’t want to then…”

“You changed my mind.” Nova said and walked over to Luna who smiled mischievously.

“Ladies first.” He said and opened the door with his right hoof while bowing a little.

Luna chuckled “What a gentlecolt.” She said and walked in, what Nova didn’t expect to happen however was Princess’s tale tip running across his muzzle.

He stood dumbfounded for few moments then he cleared his throat and entered the room after Luna.

“Where are we?” He asked as they walked through some kind of stone hallway, its walls were adorned by many different paintings and cold floor was covered by a long red carpet.

“I don’t know, some kind of castle? Temple maybe?”

They walked side by side with growing confusion until they found another pair of doors, normal double wooden doors.

From behind them they could hear somepony talking but couldn’t distinguish the words, they looked at each other and nodded.

Luna and Nova simultaneously opened their sides of the door and entered the huge room.

“I can’t believe it.” Supernova commented agape as he stared at the scene before him. “I expected everything else, but this…. this is…”

“A wedding ceremony?” Luna finished his sentence for him as they both stared at Void Night in a tuxedo standing before a white mare in a wedding dress.

“This bastard is dreaming about getting married? Void? Luna is this….”

“His inner desire? Perhaps, but we can’t judge it so easily.” She said and turned back. “If you’re really curious, then you will have to ask him personally.”

“Well maybe in the future, when he will be drunk or something.”

“Suit yourself.” She said and started to walk.

“Are we leaving already?”

“Of course, unless you want to talk with your friend about something?”

Nova looked towards the altar and then back to Luna “No thank you.”

She smiled in response and after few moments they were back in the hallway where they renewed their journey.

They walked in silence for few minutes, then Luna flinched as she felt something on her shoulder, after realizing what it was she smiled and turned towards Nova.

“I’m glad to see that you’re getting used to my real form.”

Supernova raised his eyebrow.

Seeing confusion on his face Luna just smiled and slowly moved her stare towards her right shoulder, Nova followed her gaze and suddenly felt his cheeks redden.

His right wing was covering Princess’s Luna back and right shoulder.

He immediately started to retreat his wing. “I’m sorry I didn’t even realize when it happened I…”

He couldn’t finish as he felt her smooth lips touching his cheek as she once again gave him a small kiss on it. “Don’t you dare take it away.” She whispered into his ear.

Nova felt a shiver going down his spine, but this time he shivered with joy and excitement.

And so they once again walked in silence, but they weren’t just walking side by side, Luna who was still covered by his right wing leaned onto him constantly nuzzling his neck.

They traveled like that until they’ve finally made it to the white doors with a huge sun emblem, its gem shone with blue light.

“I haven’t seen my sister dreams since last nightmare night.”

“I have to say, I’m quite curious, I mean who wouldn’t be? I am about to see what is Princess Celestia dreaming about, Princess of the Sun who ruled Equestria for thousand years completely alone, her dreams must be epic.”

“Her last dream was about cake.”

“Say what?”

Luna chuckled and nuzzled him again. “In that dream from nightmare night, she was in a huge cake factory and worked there as a taste tester.”

“Our ruler working as a taste tester, in some cake factory?” Nova repeated not sure if he heard that right.

“Indeed.”

“Now I really want to go in.”

Luna chuckled and nodded, she move away from him and walked towards the doors. “Let’s go then.” She said and opened them, Nova quickly followed her and they both entered Celestia’s dream.

“What is that? Bedroom?” Nova asked as they watched what seemed to be Celestia’s royal chambers from the sky. “And why can we see it from here?”

“My sister is very used to my magic, if we would get any closer she would probably notice me, we’ve got a pretty good view though.”

“I guess, hey it’s her!” Nova stated.

Just like he said, Princess Celestia entered her bedroom, but she wasn’t the only one to enter it.

“Is that, Discord?” Luna asked becoming a bit concerned.

“I think I know what’s on your mind, but don’t worry, see? He got her a cake!”

“Yeah, I guess that’s…..oh my goodness, you don’t eat with that side!.” Luna stated and covered her mouth in disbelief, Nova stared at the scene unfolding before him with his eyes wide open and his mouth agape.

“I had no idea you can do that with a cake….HE’S EATING IT NOW?!” Nova shouted.

“I don’t think this was the best idea to come here.”

“Yeah, but hey, now I can’t look at cake nor cupcakes, It’ll be really good for my health.” Nova commented.

“Let’s get out of here before they will do something else.”

“Like using that huge, long, black dil….” Nova couldn’t finish his sentence as Luna dragged him back into hallway with his magic.

They stayed in there, not daring to look at each other for Faust know how long before Nova finally broke the awkward silence. “How about a promise that we will never talk about that?”

“About what?”

“Good.”

Luna sighed. “I’m sorry, I wanted to make this fun, but instead I’ve traumatized your vision of cupcakes, then you’ve discovered something rather shocking about your friend, and now….”

“Hey it wasn’t that bad, I mean… Ya okay it was horrible.”

Luna’s expression changed into angry frown, she turned around only to see Nova, looking right into her eyes with his smile adorning his muzzle. “Better now?” He asked.

Luna chuckled “I guess.” Suddenly an idea popped into her head.

She grabbed Nova by his hoof and dashed forward, poor stallion barely kept up.

“What’s going on?!” Nova shouted.

“I know how to make this date better before it ends! Trust me!”

Nova was confused, but he decided to trust her.

Not that he had any other choice.

After few minutes of crazy running they’ve finally stopped, Nova took few big breaths.

“So, what was all that about.”

Luna smiled and motioned with her hoof towards the doors behind her.

It took him few moments of staring before he finally realized what this is.

“Luna is this…”

“My dream, indeed.”

Nova walked closer to the dark-blue doors with a crescent emblem on them, its gem shone with blue light.

“What happens when we…”

“Go inside?”

“I would appreciate if you stopped doing that!”

Luna chuckled “If we go inside, then with my magic I’ll be able to change the reality of the dream, basically meaning that we…”

“Can do whatever we want whenever we want?”

Luna stared at the doors with stoic expression for few moments before turning back to Nova “You’re right that is annoying.”

Nova nodded. “So, what do you want to do when we go inside?”

“You’ll see.”

She opened the doors and entered first, Nova gulped nervously, closed his eyes and followed her lead.

After few moments with his eyes still closed, he felt a wind blowing across his fur, and something gently landed on his nuzzle.

It was very soft and small, he almost couldn’t feel it at all, it felt like a petal?

Nova opened his eyes and gasped, he stood in the middle of the snowdrop meadow, the same meadow he showed Luna on his first date, the same meadow that Void showed him and Dashing Star years ago.

“Luna this is…”

“I really love this place you know, not only it’s silent and beautiful, it reminds me of my friend from the past.”

Nova smiled. “So what do we do here?”

Luna chuckled and slowly laid down on the warm ground, covered by beauty of pure white snowdrops.

Supernova didn’t waste time and soon was near her, he covered her with his wing and they moved closer to each other.

Nova once again stared straight into her eyes, his heart started to pound harder and harder threatening to leave his chest.

But this time was different, he didn’t think about what he’s doing, he didn’t feel his head leaning in, nor did he feel his eyes closing.

And then it happened.

Supernova’s and Luna’s lips connected in a warm kiss full of passion for each other.

Nova couldn’t believe how incredibly smooth her lips were, if it wasn’t for their warmth he would think that he’s kissing a petal of flower.

After what felt like hours their lips finally parted and they both started to gasp for air.

Luna opened her eyes and took one more look into his eyes before closing them, and once again gently resting her head on his chest.

Chapter 19 - Soprano.

A/N Proofread by Wacuire.

Nova and Luna were lying peacefully on their flower bed in center of the Snowdrop meadow.

Their feelings were becoming a huge mess, they both felt joy and happiness, excitement flavored with a bit of nervousness.

They were so close to each other that they could even feel each other’s heart rhythm, which in both cases was beating faster and faster.

“Supernova?” Luna asked quietly and nuzzled her coltfriend gently.

“What is it?” He responded with the same gentle tone.

“I can’t even express how good I feel right now, but we have to wake up, night is coming.”

At this statement his eyes opened wide and his expression distorted into sadness and disappointment. “No kidding, already?”

“Yes, sadly time in dreamland flows differently than in our world.”

“How can you tell it’s night already?”

Luna raised her head from his chest and laid it down on the earth in front of his muzzle. “Magic.”

“Oh, right…” Nova said and sighed in defeat. “I would prefer to stay here with you, but if we have to…”

“Oh don’t be like that, we can meet in dreams again tomorrow.” She said with a cheerful smile on her muzzle.

She looks so adorable when she smiles”Then I’ll have something to look forward to on my duty.” Nova replied with a cocky grin on his muzzle.

They closed their eyes and laid in silence for few more minutes, Luna was about to stop the dream with her magic sending both her and Nova back into real world, but was stopped by said stallion.

“Luna, before we go can I ask you something?”

“Of course.”

“Would you like to go on a another date with me? In real world.” He said while awkwardly looking around trying to avoid her gaze. “I mean there’s nothing wrong with meeting here, it’s awesome, but I still would like to see you, well, in person.”

Luna grinned and held his muzzle with her hoof, making him look right in her eyes. “When would that be?”

“Well my nearest night off is two weeks from now so…”

“That’s way too long, how about this Friday.”

Nova raised his eyebrow. “Pardon me?”

“Who’s your captain Nova?”

Nova’s expression fell and he cleared his throat. “C-Captain Riddick.”

Surprisingly, instead of gasping with terror, Luna smiled with joy. “That’s perfect!”

“How is that perfect?”

“From all of my guards, he’s the one with the most loyalty towards me, if he’s your superior then you can rest assured, I’ll make sure you’ll have a free night this Friday and my sister shall never know about it.”

I think I’m in love.”Amazing.”

“There are some pros to courting a Princess, my dear Supernova.” She whispered last three words and closed her eyes, this time Nova knew very well what to do.

He closed his eyes and leaned in closer, he didn’t have to wait long before their lips met, once again throwing them into a sea of passion.

This was their second kiss, and it was even more powerful than the first one, time seemed to completely stop around them, even wind stopped whistling and petals stopped flying becoming frozen in midair.

They stayed like that till they used up all of their oxygen, their kiss finally broke and time started to flow again as they both gasped for air in ecstasy.

Maybe I wasn’t with many mares in my life, but I never felt something like this after a simple kiss on the lips. Nova commented in his thoughts and felt the reality around him disappear into black void, after few moments he opened his eyes and saw the rooftop of his room.

“Hey look, the sleeping princess woke up.”

Were the first words Nova heard after returning from the best dream he ever had. They were spoken by nopony else but his friend Void, who already was in his armor and ready to go.

“You better hurry or you’ll be late, Riddick doesn’t like us being late.”

“I guess you’re right.” Nova answered, he still had that wedding ceremony before his eyes, he could still see Void in a tuxedo standing before a white mare.

A mare he recognized from somewhere.

“Hey Void?”

“What?” He asked stopping right in front of the doors.

“What do you think about marriage?”

It took Void a few moments to make sure he heard his friend right. “Where did that come from? I mean that’s rather weird question.”

“Is it?”

Void sighed. “If you ask me, I think I would like to get married in the future, like in very far away future. What about you?”

“Huh?”

“What do you think about marriage?”

Void’s sudden question made cogs inside Nova’s head work. That’s right marriage, if this will continue then one day, I will get married with Luna? Nova had been on two dates with Princess of the Night, he cuddled with her, he kissed her, but a vision of him and Luna at the altar seemed too far and too unrealistic for him.

“Hello? Equestria to Nova? Oh forget it.” Void commented and left the room without saying anything else, leaving Nova with thoughts.

What’s up with him? Asking about marriage out of the blue. Void walked through great hallways of Canterlot Castle on his usual route to Captain’s Riddick’s office.

Soon enough he stopped bothering himself over his friend’s weird question, after few moments he made it to his destination and knocked few times on the doors.

“Get in.”

Void cleared his throat, and opened the doors.

“Void Night, I’m glad you’re on time, this time.”

“Yes Sir!”

“Today you’re going to work with Guard Supernova, your post for tonight will be the Royal Gardens. By the way where is he?”

“If you mean Guard Supernova, then he is still in his room, Sir.”

Riddick mumbled something under his muzzle and gritted his teeth, which was enough to send a shiver of fear through Void’s body.

“Go tell him that I want to see him, right now.”

“Yes Sir!”

Void didn’t waste any second and ran madly towards his and Nova’s room, it didn’t take him long to get there.

He opened the doors and saw Nova putting on last fragments of his armor. “Yo Nova dude?”

“Yeah?”

“If you die can I have your money?”

“What?”

“Riddick wants to speak with you, he doesn’t seem happy.”

Supernova’s muzzle became completely pale. “Oh, t-that’s great, then I’ll b-better get going.”

“Good luck.” Void said and saluted as Nova made his way to where he believed his execution would take place.

His walk felt like hours, while it only took him around two minutes to get to his captain’s office, as he didn’t want to be even more late than he already is.

He knocked on the doors meekly, and waited.

“Get in.”

Nova gulped and slowly opened the doors to the room, he entered and closed them, before finally turning towards his captain.

Who looked back at him with stoic expression.

“Supernova.”

“Y-Y-Yes sir?”

“I talked with Princess Luna.”

“You did?”

“Yes, she told me about you two, and cause of her order I’m granting you a free night on Friday.”

Nova sighed with relief as he felt a huge stone being lifted from his heart. When did she talk with him? Didn’t we wake up at the same time? Oh who cares, I’m alive!

“However Supernova.”

“Y-Yes Sir?”

Riddick stood up from his chair and agonizingly slowly moved closer and closer to Nova, until his furious muzzle was only inches from the scared colt.

“If you will dare to break our Princess’s heart, or even leave a small scratch on it, then mark my words, I’ll make you pay for each one of her tears with your own blood.”

Nova lowered himself feeling that he was about to faint.

“And if she will stop herself from crying, then I’ll just rip off each of your limbs and beat you with them until you won’t be able to scream for help anymore.”

“Yes Sir.” Nova replied in voice so high and quiet it was barely hearable.

“Good, then get the hell out of here, and get to your post! You’re guarding Royal Gardens with Guard Void Night.”

Nova only nodded and slowly left the room, he closed the doors to his captain office and sighed with relief.

“How was it?”

Supernova turned around and saw Void standing in front of him with something unusual for him, a concern written all over his muzzle.

“Good, I guess, but you’ll have to guard Gardens alone for few minutes I need to take a quick shower.”

“Why is that?”

“I think I peed a little.”

Chapter 20 - Death Wish.

A/N Proofread by Wacuire

There are different types of pain.

Sometimes you feel physical pain because someone punched you. Other times you suffer cause something bad happened to someone close to you. Or even sometimes the pain might come from words.

But there is one kind of suffering, one kind of pain that tops it all.

It’s the “Fuck this I am not drinking ever again.” Kind of pain.

Dashing Star felt his consciousness return as he was starting to wake up, he opened his eyes and stared at the roof of his room. He could already feel his head starting to throb and his throat asking for water.

‘This is going to be a long night' Star thought to himself and discovered that even thinking was bringing him pain.

He started to slowly stand up from his bed when suddenly, somepony knocked on the door.

For Star it was like having a bomb exploding near his ear.

“W-Who is it?” He asked trying not to be too loud and hoping the pony on the other side will hear him.

“Hello, my name’s Moonlily, I’m one of Night Maids.”

Star put his head between his hooves “Come in.” He answered and felt something in his head explode and felt his vision going grey for a second ’Great, here goes my occipital lobe.

Doors opened agonizingly slowly, and soon the beautiful maid Moonlily entered the room as she pushed iron cart filled with some kind of food and water.

Star’s eyes went wide as soon as he noticed the blessed bottle of transparent liquid.

Moonlily chuckled. “Here you go.” She said and handled him the said bottle, Star didn’t waste any second and downed it in one go.

“Oh my, don’t worry I have more of these.”

“Oh my goodness you’re my savior, acutally how…”

“How did I know you would need that? I saw the state you came back last night, I figured you might need some help in the morning, especially since your buddy didn’t stay here.”

Star stopped his mad drinking as he noticed something thanks to her.

Adamant Sky was absent.

“And I always help others! Especially when they are handsome stallions.” Moonlily said with a wink.

Star blushed and it was then when he finally looked into her eyes, that mare was already beautiful, but her eyes were something out of this world, at least in his opinion.

Each of them looked like someone took the most majestic night sky and put it inside them, he couldn’t stop staring at those sapphire orbs, which of course didn’t go unnoticed.

“See something you like?”

Her question brought him back to Equestria making him blush even harder, Star kept his stare at the floor and said nothing.

Moonlily giggled. “I also brought you some food!” She said a bit too loud reminding Star of his punishment in the form of hangover.

“Ohh sorry.” She added now whispering, much to his relief.

“Drink the rest of the water and eat that stuff, it’s light so you shouldn’t have any problem, even in your state.”

Star nodded and risked another look, when his stare went from floor to her muzzle he saw an adorable and honest smile adorning it.

It was enough for him to become embarrassed, as he once again stared down at the floor.

’He’s so cute!’Moonlily chuckled, adding a few throbs of pain to his head and started to leave the room, she almost made it past the boundaries of her doors but then Star stopped her.

“Sorry Miss Moonlily, can I ask you one more thing?” He said mentally cursing alcohol with each of his words.

“Of course!” She said, too loudly.

“Do you know where Sky is?” He asked massaging his temples.

“Sky? Oh you must mean your friend! From what I saw he went somewhere with some bat pony mare, since he didn’t come back I’m quite sure he spent that night with her.”

Figures.”Thank you.”

“And boy, she was one nice mare, black fur, white short mane, it looked like her hairstyle was mess but I know she made it look like that. Oh and those green eyes! That’s quite surprising for a bat pony.”

Star felt his eyelid twitch as he listened closely to Moonlily’s description. “Green eyes? Sorry but is there any chance you heard him calling her by name, or something?”

“Oh I think he did call her something, let me think… Trinket? Trinkle? Twinkle? One of these I think.”

Star’s pain miraculously disappeared as he felt his head heat up with what seemed to be rage.

His eyelid was twitching beyond his control and his hooves were shaking, he smiled nevertheless. “Thank you very much, you helped me out a lot but can I ask you one more thing?”

“Sure!”

“Do you know a good place to bury a body?”

“Woooah, he really said that?”

“Yeah, now I can’t stop picturing him ripping of my legs and beating me using them.”

“That sounds like our Captain, but… more.”

“So like, if normally he’s Riddick, this was, Riddickier?”

Void shrugged and laughed. “Oh boy, you better make sure she’s happy.”

“As if I ever had planned something else.”

“This is so weird, to think that two weeks ago you were just a normal guy, now you’re dating a Princess.” Void said with a smirk.

“Yeah, incredible.”

“On the other hoof I have a date with a DJ.”

Nova’s ears perked up. “You’re going out with that DJ mare?”

“Her name’s Vinyl, yeah I asked her out.”

Suddenly upon learning this information Nova’s mind started to show him the vision of his friend and said mare during the wedding ceremony.

“I-I wish you luck then.” Nova said not sure what he thinks about it.

“Thanks, by the way when is your date?”

“Friday night?”

Void raised his eyebrow. “Seriously? Same here.”

Nova smiled. “Well then, how about we…”

“No.”

“…but…”

“No.”

“Could you let me finish?”

“Fine.”

Nova cleared his throat a few times. “Well then, how about we go on a double date?”

He asked and waited for answer which didn’t came for too long, Nova sighed in defeat. “That’s all.”

“Oh okay. No.”

“…I hate you sometimes.”

“Love you too.”

After that small conversation they stood silently on their post near the small pond in the royal gardens, until one of them noticed something interesting.

“Hey Void, isn’t that Sky?” Nova asked and pointed with his hoof towards Adamant who was trying to sneak by undetected.

“You’re right, and that doesn’t happen too often.”

“Asshole.”

“Why is he sneaking by, and more importantly why isn’t he in his room to begin with?”

Nova shrugged. “Who knows, we can ask him later, or maybe Star will know.”

Void nodded.

They stood together in silence once again, they were sure nothing interesting will happen tonight, they could almost hear the wind blowing through their fur, it was a very beautiful and silent night.

Until.

“Sky! Get back here so I can chop your head off!”

Void felt shiver going down his spine. “Was that…”

“…Star.” Nova finished for him.

“Should we go and see what’s going on?”

”I’ll make sure you’ll get a nice place on the graveyard, stop running away!”

Void and Nova looked at each other and at the same time.

“Nahh.” They both said.

Chapter 21 - Race.

Proofread by Wacuire

“You are delaying the inevitable Sky! Get your ass over here!” Star shouted as he ran madly after his prey.

“Dude I’m sorry! Can’t we talk about this?”

“What is there to talk about? You banged my sister, and you did it on the same night when I found out she’s a stripper.”

“Well when you put it like that.”

Sky ran for his life not caring about anything else, he kept running into small rooms and hallways hoping that in his rage Star won’t think about taking off into the air.

Two bat ponies were continuing their chase endlessly through the whole castle, they passed by many night guards, eventually their race was noticed by the Princess of the Night herself.

Luna stood in confused shock for few moments after two bat ponies just dashed before her eyes only leaving a trail of dust behind.

“Princess! Are you alright?” Captain Riddick asked as he approached the ruler of the Night.

“I’m very fine, thank you, but what in Equestria is this?”

“I have no idea my majesty, these two have been going like this for quite some time now, I was just on my way to stop them and…”

“Don’t.”

Riddick blinked dumbly a few times and shook his head “Pardon me? I think I didn’t hear right could you repeat Princess?”

“Don’t stop them.”

He scratched back of his head in confusion. “I will do as you say your majesty, but may I ask, why?”

“Come with me, you’ll understand.” Luna said and begin to trot forward chuckling all the while.

Riddick was once again dumbfounded but he followed her nevertheless.

“Sky! Here’s the deal, if you will stop right now…”

“We will talk?”

“No, I will kill you quickly so you won’t feel pain.”

“Screw that kind of deal!” Sky shouted back.

“Then I’ll make sure you will feel each second of your death!”

Sky ran forward fueled by fear and adrenaline flowing through his veins, at this point of the run they already were making a full circle and so he jumped into royal gardens.

“Seven minutes and thirty-two seconds, I win.”

“For Faust sake, if only they came here one minute later.” Nova said facehoofing.

“Well whatever, you owe me 10 bits.”

“Hey is that Princess Luna and Captain Riddick?”

Nova raised his head and followed Void’s hoof with his eyes. “You’re right, where are they going? And is Luna, chuckling?”

“Seems so, you think Riddick told her some kind of funny joke?”

“Yeah, sure and I am next alicorn Princess.”

Void pondered on something for few moments, he looked at Nova and stared at him with his hoof under his chin.

“What is it?” Supernova asked.

“You would make a nice Princess.”

“All of my hate.”

Meanwhile the race for Sky’s life continued as he once again ran into the hallways of great Canterlot Castle, this time however guards knew what was coming and simply stood near the walls.

Some of them even cheered for Star or Sky.

The race itself was coming to an end as Sky’s muscles were slowly starting to protest.

“Oh for Faust sake, come on my legs! If we stop now we won’t be able to run ever again.”

Star too was slowly getting tired from all of this crazy running, but he continued his chase with rage as his only motivation.

This event was being watched by a certain alicorn Princess and her captain from atop of the observatory tower.

Luna observed the race through one of the telescopes chuckling madly.

“I am glad to see that you’re amused your majesty.”

“Oh I certainly am, what do you think, who will win?”

Riddick scratched his head. “Dashing Star my Princess, he is in better physical condition when compared to Adamant Sky.”

“Interesting. I bet it’ll be a tie.”

“A tie?”

“Yes, well then, lets watch the rest of the show!”

Sky jumped into the royal kitchen knocking tables and chairs over as he ran, hoping that this will stop Star at least for a moment.

His plan however backfired as the said stallion unfolded his powerful wings and jumped into the air in order to dodge obstacles.

Not having any option left Sky too took off and flied as fast as he can, he knew that if the race will take them to the skies it will be just a matter of time before he will get caught, Star was after all the third greatest flyer in Equestria.

But now it was too late and he could only hope for the best as he maneuvered his way through the hallways of the Canterlot Castle.

With every second they spent in the air, Star was getting closer and closer to his target, they both were about to faint from exhaustion but none of them was about to give up, Sky however realized by now that he has no chance of escaping.

So he decided to try one last thing.

Sky landed in the middle of dining room and folded his wings, as he stopped using his muscles and started to relax he finally fully felt all the exhaustion in its true form.

He said down on his haunches and gasping for air observed as dumbfounded Star landed before him.

“Look Star, we are friends, and I know you don’t do things like that to friends but… Your sister isn’t like any other mare dude, she’s special.”

“You have time to talk until I’ll gather enough strength to beat you up.”

Sky sighed. “We are similar you know? Me and her, we have same view on the world and on the relationships.”

“Look dude, I know you would prefer it if your sister was somepony else than a stripper who likes to have a one night stands with stallions, but…”

“Get to the point.”

“Right, I really like Twinkle you know? And she likes me too, we actually wanted to try and have a relationship, an open relationship but still, it’s something, right?”

Star gasped a few more times and took one big breath, he cleared his throat and spoke again. “So you want to date Twinkle, and she wants to be with you, but the two of you will be able to bang other ponies during that relationship?”

“That’s right.”

“Sounds like a bullshit, but you’re right perhaps it’s better than just leaving her on her own.”

Sky smiled widely as he felt hope in his heart. “I’m so glad you understand! So we’re good?”

“Yeah sure, we will be good after I’ll punch you in the muzzle.”

Sky gulped. “Well I guess it can’t be helped, I broke one of the bro’s rules so...”

“Three times.”

“What? Dude, no wait that’s not how…”

SMACK

“I told you they would tie!”

“To me it looked like Sky gave up and…” Riddick stopped as he saw irritated gaze of his Princess. “What I meant to say was, you were right Princess.”

“Of course I was! Now tell me, do you know if my sister is asleep?”

“It would seem so, she didn’t leave her chambers ever since beginning of today’s night.”

“Very well.” Luna said with a grin.

Riddick was once again confused but decided not to ask.

“Well then my dear Captain, I shall see you again later, pardon me now as I have some royal duties awaiting me.”

“Of course your majesty.”

Luna slowly and gracefully walked away, huge smile adorning her muzzle all the while.

Chapter 22 - Please?

Finally got proofread by Wacuire

“This is ridiculous! There’s no way I’m doing this!” Void protested.

“Oh come on, it won’t be that bad, besides, I’m sure this bed is much comfier than yours!” Nova replied trying to change his mind.

“No, we are friends but this is where I draw a line, hell no.”

“Mr. Void Night, you are the only pony who can help us with this, please.” Luna pleaded.

Void shook his head. “Sorry your majesty but I won’t do this, not even for you.” He said and threw away the wig he was holding in his hoof this whole time.

A few minutes earlier, an hour before dawn.

Void and Nova stood patiently in the gardens waiting for their duty to end so they can both enjoy some sleep, however for Supernova it meant much more than just sleeping.

It was his time to once again meet his marefriend in the dreamland.

Nova smiled, now he was sure calling Luna his marefriend was correct, after what had happened last night, just remembering this incredible sensation sent a shiver down his spine.

Suddenly his patience started to run away as he started to imagine laying together with Luna on the Snowdrop meadow, or maybe something else, after all they had countless possibilities, their only restriction were the limits of their imagination.

Void noticed sudden change in Nova’s excitement but he didn’t ask for it, he didn’t care.

And so minutes were flowing slowly irritating Nova with their length, but suddenly happened something neither of them expected.

They were visited.

Princess Luna silently walked up to Nova from behind and covered his eyes with her hooves. “Guess who.”

Supernova got startled at first, but soon he comprehended the situation and smiled.

“Captain Riddick?”

Void stifled his laughter while Luna punched Nova on the shoulder.

“Hey just kidding, just kidding.”

“You better be.” She smiled and her angry frown changed once again in blissful smile, she turned her muzzle towards Void. “Good Night Mr. Void, it is good to see you again.”

“Your majesty.” Void replied and bowed.

“You don’t have to be so formal, we are friends.” Luna scratched her head. “We are friends, right?” She asked uncertainly.

“We are Princess, but please allow me to call you with all the formalities.”

Luna looked at Void confused but nodded nevertheless. “Of course, if you must.”

“Thank you your highness.”

“Well then Luna, what are you doing here? You’re not afraid that Princess Celestia will see us? Or other night guards?”

“She’s asleep Nova, and what’s wrong with Princess talking to her guards?”

“Maybe there’s nothing wrong with talking, but covering their eyes from behind and then punching them…”

“Relax, I made sure you two are the only guards that have posts in royal gardens tonight.” Luna said with a wink.

“I guess it is safe then.” Nova said with a smile and moved closer.

“It is.” Luna replied and with half closed eyes slowly made few steps towards Nova. “I’m really happy to see that all of your nervousness is gone.”

“Yeah, I think I got used to the fact that I’m dating the Princess of the Night, I still can’t believe it but hey at least I’m not shaking in fear anymore.”

Luna chuckled.

Void coughed in attempt to get their attention, but to no avail.

“Excuse me your highness, but did you come here only to make out with Nova? The dawn should be starting in around 50 minutes.” He said that as loudly as he could without shouting, hoping they will hear him this time.

And although Nova was still absent, Luna snapped back to reality and with a blush on her muzzle she cleared her throat before speaking.

“You’re right, I came here because I have a big request for Mr. Void.”

Upon hearing his own name Night flinched slightly and raised his eyebrow. “For me?”

“Yeah for him?” Nova added.

“Yes, Mr. Void are you aware that last night I came up with a way for me and Nova to meet daily outside of my sister’s eyes?”

“I do not, how if I may ask?”

Luna started to walk forth and back. “It is really simple, we are meeting together in dreamland, realm of dreams or however you wish to call it, this is possible because of my powers.”

“Well that certainly is interesting your highness but…”

“What does it have to do with you?”

Void nodded.

“Tonight I came up with another idea, there is a way for us to make these meetings better, it is simple but it’ll let us feel more “realistic” in our dreams.” She said making quotation marks with her hooves.

“And what is this way?”

Luna stopped walking and kept her stare at the ground as her muzzle started turning red, she kicked the ground with her hoof nervously. “Cuddling.”

“Excuse me your highness? Could you repeat louder?”

Luna sighed. “We have to maintain physical contact during our sleep, or in other words we have to cuddle.”

Void blushed slightly while Nova only grinned.

“Y-Your highness, I still can’t see my role in all of this.”

“The thing is, my sister has been so obsessed recently with finding out who is that stallion that asked me out on the date so.” She scratched her head. “I need to make sure she won’t find out, at least for now.”

Void nodded.

“So, my request for you Mr. Void is this, while I will spend the night with Supernova in your room, you will…”

“I’m really sorry Princess, but putting on a special wig that looks like your hair, painting my fur with this removable paint and sleeping in your bed in order to fool Sun-bu… Princess Celestia is too much.” Void said irritated. “Besides do you really think she’s so stupid she will believe it is you?”

“Calm down Mr. Void, if she will go into my chambers it will be only for a moment, this wig and paint were created using unicorn magic. This wig looks exactly like my mane and it acts the same, the paint on the other hoof is created in such a way to fool her eyes at the first glance. Besides you will be covered under quilts and my room is always dark when I’m sleeping.”

“Even if this is going to work I still say no.”

“Oh come on Void, just for tonight? You will feel like a real princess.” Nova said.

“You little….”

“Nova, you’re not helping.”

“Sorry Luna.”

Void gritted his teeth in irritation, after few moments he took a big breath and sighed. “Fine, I’ll do it, but just for today.”

Luna’s expression shone with excitement. “Oh thank you so much Mr. Void!”

“Yeah yeah, whatever.” He added and picked up the magic wig.

“We have to leave before my sister will wake up, in order to cover yourself with the pain simply say “Painting.” out loud, to undo this say “Unpainting.”.”

“Unpainting? How original. Well then you two better get out of here before I change my mind.”

Luna nodded and with one more thank you she left the room, Nova quickly followed her leaving Void alone with his shame.

“Luna?” Supernova asked as they were walking quickly through the hallways towards his room.

“What is it?”

“Couldn’t you just place illusion of yourself sleeping in the bed?”

“I told you already, Celestia knows my magic too well she would see through it.”

“Okay, but I’m sure you had somepony who would suit this role better, like some mare you trust?”

“You’re right.”

“Then why Void?”

Luna stopped suddenly, she stared forward for a few moments before bursting out in laughter. “Well don’t you think it is hilarious?”

Nova confused at first quickly changed his dumb stare into gaze full of awe. “Marry me.”

Luna chuckled. "Maybe later, come now, we don't have much time left before dawn."

Author's Notes:

All of you that thought Luna is planning something really devious. You were wrong this time.
Or not.
Well I guess it depends on how you define devious.

Chapter 23 - Troubles already?

Proofread by Wacuire.

Void laid in Luna’s royal bed, currently unable to relax, he was nervously rolling back and forth trying to forget about where he is.

Sadly no matter how hard he tried, it was no use. This magic wig he wore felt almost like his own hair, which even though was quite surprising at first, in the end it let him get used to wearing it quite easily.

Problem laid somewhere else, he was in the bed of his beloved and respected Princess Luna for Faust sake, how was he supposed to just relax.

Void suddenly stopped his rolling, he stared up at the ceiling and took a huge breath, he counted from one to ten and released the air from his lungs.

I can’t go like this through the whole day, I need some sleep. Void closed his eyes and after few minutes of repeating the breathing process he finally managed to relax his muscles.

When he did that he finally noticed something very positive. Nova was right again, this bed is really comfy. Huh he was right two times in a span of few hours, how unusual.

Void sighed and smiled. Maybe this isn’t so bad after all, the more I relax the better this bed gets, holy crap is this what heaven feels like?

And finally, when Void entered the state of calm relaxation, and was about to drift off into the land of dreams, he heard a noise that made all of his previous tension come back.

A knocking on the door.

You’ve got to be kidding me, I hope this whole plan works. Void covered his whole body with quilts, except for his head.

He couldn’t see it but he heard the doors slowly open, and then the sound of hoofsteps, one after one getting closer and closer until they stopped, surprisingly far from the bed.

It stopped being a surprise after the pony who stood near his bed spoke.

“Princess Luna? I’m sorry to interrupt you during your sleep but I forgot to give you a report about tonight patrols.”

Void’s muzzle went pale as he felt his blood freeze. From all the ponies in this fucking castle, it had to be him?! Does the fate hate me this much?!

Said pony scratched his head. “Your majesty? Are you asleep already? I am very sorry but I have to wake you up.” Captain Riddick said with his intimidating, deep voice.

I’m dead, I’m so dead, if there was a contest in being dead, I would win it but couldn’t get my reward cause I would be too dead to reclaim it! Void felt drops of sweat flowing into his eyes as he started to shiver in fear under the blankets.

“I-I am….” Void stuttered out and his eyes went wide with yet another shock today, words that came from his mouth were his, but his voice wasn’t.

“Oh Princess Luna, so you’re awake, I’m glad.”

Void felt his heart pumping faster and faster, but it seems he have found a way out of this. “Uhh, yes, indeed I am, what are you doing here Captain Riddick?”

“I came to give you report about last night patrols, where should I leave it.”

“On the desk.”

Captain Riddick nodded, which of course wasn’t seen by Void who was still covered with quilts and shivering in fear and anticipation.

Riddick put the whole report which consisted of twenty pages on the desk, he then walked up to the doors and bowed. “I’m sorry to interrupt your sleep your highness, I wish you a good day.”

Void waited to hear that blissful sound indicating that he is safe, seconds felt like hours as he counted Riddick’s hoofsteps and then listened closely to the sound of closing doors, until he finally heard it, doors were finally closed once again.

The relief that fall on Night this moment was indescribable, he felt like a prisoner who escaped from the death sentence, now few minutes after Riddick’s arrival and his leave, Void finally managed to calm down and comprehend the situation.

So, either this wig or paint changes my voice to Princess Luna’s voice, she didn’t mention that but hey at least I’m fine now right? Void asked himself and with a frown on his muzzle he stared upright. “Right?” He asked out loud.

The answer he got didn’t bring a smile to his face, oh no.

“Luna? Can I talk with you.”

Void felt his eyelid twitch uncontrollably as his mouth opened in the mute scream of anger only he could hear.

“Luna? Please I know you’re not asleep yet.”

Oh for fucks sake, why me?! What did I do wrong? I was a good guy, I help others, sometimes, I work hard as guard, what did I do to deserve this?! What! Void massaged his temples with his hoofs for a while and then with a defeated sigh he shouted. “Come in.”

Star walked into his room a huge smile adorning his muzzle, he started to take his armor off while humming a catchy song he recently couldn't get out of his head.

Sky soon also entered their room, he however was far from smiling, both because of his mood, and because smiling hurt more than any other facial expression.

“Hey Sky don’t be like that, It doesn’t look this bad.” Star said with joy in his voice.

“I still cfan’t bhfelieve you acftually hit me thfree times.” He said trying to sound as clear as possible with his swollen muzzle.

“I was actually thinking about four, but hey we are friends right?”

“Thfe bfest.” Sky replied sarcastically.

“Oh cheer up! You will be back to normal in no time, and now that I got whole night to think about it, you are right.”

“I ham?”

“What? No, no you’re not ham.”

Sky facehoofed. “I said I h-h-h… I AM.”

“Oh, yeah, Twinkle is Twinkle and I can’t change her, no matter how much I would like to… sadly.” Star said with a sad sigh, while Sky rolled his eyes, well just his right eye actually, he couldn’t open the left one cause the eyelid was too swollen at the moment.

“So, I don’t accept this, I don’t know if I ever will but, if she wants to live her life like that then, at least you could have an eye on her.” Star said.

Sky tried to smile but quickly resigned after he felt a jolt of pain going through his nerves. “Tfhanks brof.”

Star chuckled. “I don’t know for how long will you look like this but this is priceless, or even legendary!.”

Sky facehoofed.

“What? Did I do it wrong?” Star asked.

“Oh yfoung phadawan, you hfave a lhong whay to gof.” He replied and took off the last piece of his armor before jumping into his bed.

Star stared at the place Sky stood second ago and after few moments of thinking he asked.

“What the fuck is phadawan?”

Chapter 24 - That's not my sister.

Proofread by agentporpoise

Void cursed his luck covering himself with the blankets as he heard the sound of Celestia’s hoofsteps, closer and closer.

As she finally stopped just few inches in front of the bed, Void was sure this is the end for him, luckily Celestia didn’t get any closer and instead chose to stay where she was. “Luna, I wanted to talk with you about, all of this.”

Not wanting to push his luck, Void decided it will be the best to speak only when he has to.

“Tell me sister, are these rumors that pushed me to the point of spying on my own sibling true? Are you courting somepony?”

Void gulped, what was he supposed to say? He could say yes but as far as he knew Princess Luna didn’t want her sister to know yet. I guess there’s no other option here. He thought and trying his best to sound as tired as possible replied. “No Prin…sister, I am not courting anypony right now.”

He could feel Celestia’s eyes gazing at him for Faust know how long before hearing her sigh in disappointment. “Luna, are you telling me the truth? I’m tired of all this, if you are in a relationship, you can tell me.”

Void’s confidence shivered for a moment as he believed Celestia’s words, however right now he wasn’t talking as a Void Night, he was speaking for Princess Luna and only thing he knew is that her relationship with Nova wasn’t supposed to reach Celestia’s eyes.

“I’m saying the truth sister, now could you please leave, I’m really tired.” He said and yawned.

Celestia raised her eyebrow and stared at her sister hidden under the blankets, she knew her sister for decades and today, something was off about her.

“Really Luna?”

“Yes, I’m tired.” Void could feel his heart raising its pace with each word that left his mouth.

“Fine then, I guess I’ll go and take care of my phoenix Philomena, you know the one that you love playing with?”

“Oh yes, of course you can go and do that.”

A small confident grin appeared on Celestia’s muzzle for a second. “No, no I can’t.”

“Why not dear sister?”

“I don’t have any pets.”

Void felt all of his blood freeze, similar to when Riddick came in here but worse, he started to sweat and his brain stopped working for a moment, after few seconds, when he finally fully comprehended the situation Void took a big calming breath and silently said one more word. “Fuck.”

Luna and Nova finally made it to the room, the sun was already up, but so were the curtains that blocked every single ray of irritating light.

Supernova stood in place not sure what to do now, in their previous times when they went through with things like cuddling, or recently kissing were all fueled by the momentum of current moments.

Now they just stood there after a walk through a castle, but this time they had plans, unlike when he took her to the Snowdrop Meadow for the first time, or that completely unexpected first kiss.

Luna decided to make a first move as she started to take off her royal regalia, Nova released the breath he was holding without even noticing it, and proceeded to take off his armor.

The situation they were in brought back the feeling Nova was starting to get used to, he once again was nervous.

Sure ponies walked around without any clothes all the time, but with just him and her in the same room, both of them taking their clothes off, well not really clothes but close enough.

Nova as a healthy stallion he was couldn’t help but create some imaginations in his head, most of them were not proper for a teen rated fic.

After they were done the awkwardness came back and they simply stood next to each other, both staring at Nova’s bed, now that he looked at it he started to question if it will even provide enough place for both of them.

Nova wanted to say something, anything, but everything that came to his mind would only made situation worse, so he came up with another idea.

Without saying any words he simply walked to his bed and laid down, making space for his Princess.

Luna smiled glad that this was finally over and following suit she placed herself on the bed, it was small, on the meadow they had a lot of place to share, here not so much.

But depending on how you look at it, this might not have been so bad, in order to fit together they had to get really close to each other, Luna placed her muzzle under his being slightly smaller than he was. Nova unfolded his wing and placed over his marefriend, he also moved both of his front legs behind her back.

And finally they laid together, sure they had cuddled before on the Snowdrop Meadow, but this time it was much better.

Nova could feel Luna’s soft breath on his neck as he gently moved his hooves on her back and shoulders, making her purr from time to time, Supernova quickly decided that it is the cutest sound he ever heard.

And so the two laid together slowly drifting off into the land of dreams, without the previous awkwardness and nervousness in the way, Nova felt his consciousness slowly fade away.

“So, who are you, why are you here, where’s my sister? I want an answer to these questions in this order exactly.” Celestia asked with an angry frown on her muzzle as she looked down upon Void, who was still covered by the blankets.

“What if I tell you that I knew you don’t have any pets and I just wanted to make fun of you?”

“Jokes on you then, I do have a phoenix called Philomena.”

Void cursed under his muzzle. “I guess you got me.” He answered hoping to sound confident, although in reality he was barely holding himself together.

“I guess I do, now, three questions, you got ten seconds.” Celestia said and started to tap her hoof on the floor signaling the passing of his time.

Void felt that with each tap of her hoof he was getting closer to the moon, not wanting to go there though he decided to try his last chance and answer her questions, he raised from the blankets and took of his magical wig, followed by a simple “Unpainting.”

Celestia stared in awe as the magical paint was being removed revealing his true color, which wasn’t that much different.

“The name’s Void Night Princess, I’m one of the night guards.”

Said Princess kept her gaze on him for few moments before she finally found the memory she was looking for. “You are the guard that I asked to spy on my sister aren’t you?”

“Y-Yes your highness.”

“Fine then, next two questions, why are you here, and where’s my sister?” Celestia said and moved closer to Void, her horn starting to shine with a dim light.

Void felt all of his strength leaving him as he shivered on the bed. “I really don’t want to be on the moon.” He silently mumbled out.

Celestia was about to ask another question before she heard something, a sound she got used to after hearing it so many times now.

Discord laughed his ass off as he floated in midair above Void and Celestia. “What’s so funny?” She asked her angry frown still present.

“Oh Tia! We got you!”

Both Void and Celestia stared at Discord in utter confusion.

“Ha you should see a look on your muzzle, we totally got her, bravo Void!” Discord shouted and patted bat pony on his back.

“Emmm, thanks?”

“I don’t get it, what’s going on?” Celestia asked as her confusion grew with each second of this nonsense. One would think she should get used to being surrounded by nonsense when she married a god of chaos.

“Me, Luna and Void here, we totally got you, well Void was just helping us out without really having a choice but he did a great job! Don’t you get it Tia? This is all a small prank on you.”

Celestia listened to his words as her eyelid started to twitch. “A prank?”

“Indeed! It was Luna’s idea but I absolutely loved it, she hid herself for today not even telling me where she went, while leaving Void behind.”

“What was the point of this prank, honey?” The way in which Celestia said last word in her sentence sent a shiver down Void’s spine.

“To get you a bit frustrated, but it was also for your own good.”

“How was this good for me?”

“It’s training of strong will, Sunshine.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“You tend to eat even more cake than usual when you’re angry.”

Celestia felt her nerves finally breaking and her whole body twitching without control.

“I don’t have any problem with cake!” She shouted out in her royal canterlot voice.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, getting this angry is not good for your health Sunshine, why don’t you go and take a relaxing bath? And remember no cake!”

Sighing in defeat Celestia started to leave the room with annoyance written all over her expression, but this whole situation wasn’t the worst.

No, the worst thing was that she actually really wanted to have a slice of cake right now.

After few moments Princess left the room and Void sighed feeling the biggest relief in his life. After few moments he looked over to the god of chaos still present in the room and smiled.

“Thanks, really I though It’s over for me.”

“You’re welcome, although I did it mostly for Luna and her coltfriend, and it is always nice to see Tia frustrated.”

Void chuckled. “It definitely is.”

“Well then I’ll be going, I can’t lose such occasion.”

“What are you talking about now?”

“Tia’s probably taking a shower, usually she does that before I wake up so I miss on the chance of giving her a surprise.”

“What kind of surprise are we talking about here?”

Discord smiled mischievously. “A chocolate rain kind of surprise.”

Chapter 25 - Naughtyyy.

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“Welcome darling, how did your day go?” Luna shouted from across the hallway to Supernova who just entered their house.

“Pretty good honey, we had a meeting with a client today, it wasn’t going too well but Sky somehow saved the day.” He said while taking off his suit.

“May I know why darling?”

“Our client was a mare.” Nova said and adjusted his glasses.

Luna chuckled. “Ohh our dear Sky, he will never change.”

“That’s right, remember when he disappeared on our wedding and later it turned out he actually picked up a waitress?”

“I sure do.” Luna answered and entered the hallway.

“Oh yes, good times, our… wedding. Our wedding? Luna why are you wearing an apron?” Nova asked.

“Why shouldn’t I darling?”

Nova stared blankly at the wall as cogs in his head finally started to work.

“Wait a moment, we have a house, we are married, I have a job in some kind of big company, and you’re wearing an apron, oh my god this is…”

“A dream Nova, indeed.”

Supernova jumped startled and turned towards the real Luna who was standing at his site, visibly amused.

“H-How long have you been here?”

“Long enough.”

“Is something wrong darling?” Imaginary Luna asked.

“Why is she still at it?”

“Cause I didn’t alter the dream neither did you.”

“Darling, would you like to have a dinner first, or maybe a bath, or perhaps…”

“I think we heard enough let’s go!” Nova said in hurry and took off his glasses.

“I didn’t think you’re into housewives.” Luna said chuckling.

“Yea I didn’t either can we leave for Faust’s sake?!”

“Oh fine.” Luna said and covered Nova in her magic, soon enough they were once again in the endless hallway of dreams.

“I was here before, but it still amazes me, I mean is this really endless?”

“Here in this hallways are dreams of all ponies in Equestria, it isn’t endless but it sure is huge.” Luna stated.

“Still impressing.” Nova said and whistled. “So where are we going today?”

“Well we could either go to my dream where I have control over the reality, or we can do a little sightseeing.” She answered with a grin.

Nova pondered on the options for a moment and nodded. “I am sure I will regret this later, but I am quite curious about few dreams.”

“I hoped you’ll say that.”

“You did?” Nova raised his eyebrow. “You like peeping on others dreams?”

Luna felt her cheeks redden, she kicked the floor with her hoof nervously. “Well umm, maybe a little?”

“Well, aren’t you one naughty Princess.” Nova said leaning closer towards Luna, with his eyes half closed.

“N-Nova?”

“You know, naughty Princesses should be punished.”

“S-Supernova?!” Luna shouted.

“How about we… What was that?!” Nova shouted. “What the hell was that? Why did I say that?”

Luna stared mindlessly at her coltfriend, her cheeks were red and her eyes wide open as the situation calmed down.

“Luna what was that? Is this some kind of dream magic thingy?”

“N-No, at least not something I know about.”

“Well I don’t know what got into me, but I’m glad it is gone.”

“Yes, I’m glad too.” Luna lied.

“Well then, shall we get going? There’s one dream I really wanted to see.”

“Of course, whose dream is it?”

“Well, god of chaos dream.”

“I’ll murder him one of these days.”

“Princess, you can’t just kill your husband.” Celestia’s personal assistant Ross said.

“Why can’t I? I’m a Princess I could always say he disappeared without a trace or something like that.”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea after all your highness.” Ross added as she tried to get last fragments of bubble gum from Celestia’s mane.

“And here I thought I could enjoy a shower once in a while, no he had to change water into chocolate and my shampoo into bubble gum.”

“But you still love me!”

Tia’s eyelid flinched without control as her head slowly turned towards Discord who have just appeared in the room.

Ross could swear she heard Tia’s neck creaking.

“Oh come on Sunshine don’t be like that! It’s just a bit of gum!”

“Just. A bit. Of. Gum?”

Discord scratched the back of his head nervously. “Y-Yeah?”

Celestia felt her nerves breaking down as her horn was starting to flare with her magic, for a few moments Discord was sure he was going back to the stone times.

But soon enough Celestia took a deep breath and released a bit of her tension. “You know what forget it, I need sometime for myself, Ross I’ll take care of rest of my mane myself.”

“Yes your majesty.”

“So we are good?” Discord asked hopefully.

“No we are not good, we will talk about this later, I’m too mad at you at the moment.” She said and left the room with an angry frown on her face.

Discord stood speechlessly looking mindlessly at the door through which Celestia left the room.

“Somepony here is in big troooouble.” Ross stated.

“Indeed Rossy, indeed.”

“Well I have things to do for our Princess so now I’m going to leave you all alone with your problems, even though seeing you frustrated isn’t something I can enjoy every day.”

“You really like tormenting other ponies don’t you?”

“A little, it’s the only fun I can get here.”

“I sometimes wonder why Celestia chose you as her assistant you know.”

“We have something in common then, I always wonder why she chose you as her husband.”

“Just go.”

Ross nodded and left the room happily trotting away.

“I think I really messed things up this time, but what can I possibly do to… That’s right!” Discord’s frown changed into a smile as he thought about only pony who could help him with his troubles, a pony who was an expert in putting smiles on other’s faces.

He almost teleported himself out of the room before he felt something weird, a weird tickling in the back of his head.

It didn’t took him long to realize what that feeling was. Our dear Nova and Luna are spying on my dreams? Very well then, I’ll make sure to make this date of their, much more naughtyyyy. Discord chuckled mischievously and snapped his fingers disappearing into nothingness.

Chapter 26 - Just the tip.

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“So this is it?” Nova asked Luna as they both stood in front of the doors to Discord’s dream, ornaments that were adorning the stone gate were perfectly designed, chocolate milk exploding on the meadow full of popping popcorn and some flying rabbits soaring the sky while purple clouds were chasing them. Truly a gateway worthy of Discord.

“Yes, that is a door I never opened before.” She answered.

“What? Why?”

“For some reason I didn’t really see this as a good idea.” She said nervously scratching her head.

“Well, I am sure this is a great idea and nothing bad will happen to us while we are in there.”

“W-Why did you emphasize those two words?”

“I did what?”

“Yeah right, Nova I really think we should just go to my dream, or if you want to watch some dreams then how about your friends? Or maybe Riddick, wouldn’t you like to see what your Captain dreams about?”

“Actually that sounds really good, but I have see what’s in there.” Nova said with pure determination in his voice.

“But… fine, let’s do this.” Luna gave up and sighed, Nova smiled and gently took her hoof with his own.

“Don’t worry Lulu, it’ll be fun.” He said reassuringly. Luna smiled and nodded with small blush on her muzzle.

“All right, there’s no time to lose, we only have few hours left before the night.”

“Already?”

“I told you, while you are in this realm your sense of time will go crazy, only I can tell what hour is it in the real world thanks to my magic.”

Supernova smiled gently and with determination written all over his muzzle he nodded and pushed the door open.

“Come on everypony smile smile smile! Fill my heart up with Sunshine, sunshine…” Pinkie sang to herself as she happily bounced around in the kitchen of Sugarcube Corner.

Like every morning she got up early and started her day by cooking some delicious treats, her fiancé was currently helping her by working at the counter, greeting customers and selling her sweet creations.

However Pinkie’s usual morning routine was interrupted by Pierce, who suddenly entered the kitchen with something held by his magic.

“Umm Pinkie, this just appeared out of thin air and it is addressed to you, any idea who it might be from?” He asked and handled her what turned out to be a letter in paper envelope with words ‘To Pinkie Pie.’ written on it.

“A letter suddenly appearing from nothing addressed to me? Either Twilight found a new way to send letters or….” She didn’t finish and instead ripped the envelope open and took out its contents.

She stayed silent and read the note with her eyes quickly jumping from one word to another, Pierce stared at her and waited for his answer, until suddenly Pinkie’s smile widened and she jumped into air.

“What was in the letter Pinkie?” Pierce asked getting more and more curious.

“Oh just one of my friends asking me for a help with something! Piercey would you be so nice and get my recipe for special Cupcake?”

Pierce sighed in defeat knowing very well he won’t learn the identity of the pony who send this letter. “Sure honey, give me a second.”

Pinkie bounced around giggling all the while. “Oh Discord! There’s nothing better to help with your problem than my super duper special cupcake! Nopony shall resist it’s deliciousness!”

“To be honest I expected something more…”

“Chaotic?” Luna finished his sentence as they walked holding hoofs through a silent road in the middle of calm forest.

“Yeah, so far we didn’t meet anything weird, I mean so far almost every time we entered somepony’s dream we either saw something I didn’t expect or something that got me traumatized.”

“Yeah sorry about that.”

“Oh it’s not your fault, and besides I never really liked cake or cupcakes that much.”

Luna chuckled and leaned closer into her coltfriend resting her head on his neck. “Maybe it wasn’t what you expected, but it sure is nice, isn’t it?”

Nova smiled. “Yeah, I guess.”

They continued to walk in silence, enjoying this blissful moment of just being together without anypony to interrupt, until they finally found something that caught Nova’s eyes.

They saw the end of the road they walked on for so long, it was a small wooden tavern.

“What do you think this is Luna?”

“Who knows.”

Nova smiled. “Maybe this will get a bit more interesting.”

“I think I prefer it when it’s calm Nova.”

“Oh come on, where’s your sense of adventure!”

“You sound just like Pip.”

Nova raised his eyebrow. “Who’s Pip?”

“Oh he’s the bravest, most adorable pirate in Equestria, you’ll love this kid when you meet him.”

Nova sighed with relief. “So he’s a kid? Good I was afraid I have competition.”

Luna giggled. “Who said you don’t?”

Nova stopped suddenly and laughed. “All those ponies who say that you don’t have a sense of humour should hear this, good joke, yeah good joke.”

Luna said nothing and instead continued her walk towards the tavern with smirk on her muzzle.

“That was a joke right? Hey Luna! Come on!” He shouted and quickly ran up to his marefriend who was on a verge of bursting out into laughter.

“Oh very funny.” Nova commented

“I didn’t think you would fell for that, I mean he’s just a kid.”

“Well pardon me, I thought that somepony who is over thousand years old won’t really care about age difference.”

Luna suddenly stopped surprising Nova who did the same after few more steps and turned back only to see Luna with annoyed expression. “Are you calling me old?”

‘Oh shit.’ Were only words that came into Nova’s mind.

Pinkie, who got to work as soon as her fiancé brought her the recipe was almost done and her masterpiece was soon to be finished.

She smiled proudly as she finished the job by gently putting few sprinkles on top of the delicious looking cupcake.

“Aaand done! My super duper special cupcake once more will save the day! But how am I supposed to deliver it to him?”

“We’ll have to deliver it like every other cupcake won’t we?” Pierce asked, he entered the kitchen not so long ago.

“Well yeah but that would take a lot of time and…” Pinkie didn’t get to finish her sentence as the cupcake suddenly vanished into thin air. “Oh hey that works too!”

Pierce stared at the table which now was empty with his eyes opened wide. “Seriously Pinkie who did you make that cupcake for?!”

“Oh just a friend of mine.”

“But… forget it, I’ll be selling stuff if you need me.”

“Sure Piercey!”

He was about to leave the kitchen but then something hit him, a small detail that went unnoticed until now. “Hey Pinkie?”

“Yeah?”

“Wasn’t your super duper special cupcake white with pink frosting?”

“Yes? Why are you asking?”

“Well the one you made and your friend teleported, was blue with dark-blue frosting.”

“It was?” Pinkie quickly took up the recipe and studied it carefully. “Uh oh.”

“Uh oh?” Pierce asked concerned. “Pinkie what uh oh? Don’t give me uh oh! Last time you said that I ended up covered in frosting with carrots glued to my back!”

“Well it seems I didn’t do the super duper special cupcake.”

“Then what did you create?”

Pinkie smiled nervously. “Remember that cupcake with special ingredient which was supposed to make ponies more open, but instead ended up making them horny for everypony and everything that they saw?”

Pierce’s expression went pale and his whole body shivered. “You don’t have to remind me this, I will never forget that day.”

“Yeah I bet that bear won’t either!”

“Pinkie!”

“Sorry ,sorry.”

“So, you send him that cupcake?”

“Yep!”

“What will happen now?”

“Only author knows.” She said and happily bounced away.

“Oh yeah that’s… wait who?!” Pierce shouted.

“I’m here!” A colt with brown fur and a red tie shouted from outside the kitchen.

Pierce stared without focus for few moments and sighed. “If I didn’t love that mare I would go mad long ago.”

Chapter 27 - And that's how Illusion was made.

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“No I didn’t mean that! I swear!” Nova said throwing his hooves into the air as he was backing away from Luna towards the wooden tavern.

“You just said I’m over a thousand years old.”

“Well, you are, aren’t you?”

Luna gritted her teeth. “You’re digging your own grave.”

Nova chuckled nervously “Well then, I uhhh…. Bye!” He shouted and dashed towards the house, it took Luna few moments to comprehend the situation but soon enough she started to ran after her prey.

“Come back here!”

“Sorry Lulu maybe later!” Nova shouted and jumped through the doors. Unfortunately he landed on the table which didn’t manage to withstand his weight and collapsed, resulting in Nova’s muzzle kissing the floor.

“Damn it, this was supposed to be dream why did it hurt me.”

“Cause of my magic.”

Nova gulped and turned around, his pupils shrank in fear as he saw his marefriend staring at him with almost pure killing intent in her eyes.

“H-H-Hello.”

“You have one last chance.”

Nova gritted his teeth and felt all of his brain cells working with all of their strength in order to find a resolution, a way out of this mess.

And when he was sure that doom is near, he saw a small ray of light in the tunnel, his last hope.

“Luna, you may be over thousand years old, but you look like twenty two at most.” He said and closed his eyes awaiting for the result.

“Thank you.” Those two words brought him the relief he was so hoping for.

“Well was it so hard? Now then, where are we?” Luna asked and looked around, they were inside the mysterious tavern, but there was nothing weird or mysterious in here.

Few tables and chairs, a piano and a bar, the only thing that caught their attention was the fact that it was completely empty.

Nopony was here, silence took over the room when they stopped talking, a very creepy silence.

“I don’t think I like it here.” Luna commented.

“What, are you telling me the powerful Princess of the Moon is scared of an empty tavern?”

Luna blushed. “No, I’m not.”

“Ohh, are you sure? Cause you know I could always give you a hug or something…..” Nova was cut off by the loud squeaking sound coming from upstairs.

“Well, well, well, a brave night guard is scared of a little squeaking noises?” Luna asked with raised eyebrow and a smirk on her muzzle as she held Nova in her hooves, in which he jumped a second ago.

Supernova smiled dumbly and jumped down on the floor, he cleared his throat. “So, I wonder what was that?”

Luna opened her mouth to respond but before she could say anything, noise came back, and this time it was repeating itself getting louder and louder.

Now they knew what it was, steps, someone was coming from upstairs.

Luna and Nova stood side by side and waited patiently, after few minutes of nervously observing the staircase they finally saw him.

“Emm Luna, do you know who this is?” Before them stood a stallion with gray fur and long black beard, his mane was covered by black Stetson and in his hoof he held two sheets of paper.

“Why hello there! You must be our newest visitors!”

Luna and Nova shared a quick glance before giving their full attention to weird pony in front of them.

“Let me introduce myself! I’m Cord, and I’m the owner of this tavern you’re in right now!”

“Aren’t we in Discord’s dream?” Nova asked.

“Why yes, this tavern is located in his dreams! But wait, it gets better, you see in our offer we have a special tour around Discord’s brain, it’s totally free!” He said with proud smile and trotted towards them.

“I would like you two to sign these though.”

“What are they?” Luna asked.

“Oh nothing much, just few documents saying that we aren’t responsible for your physical and, or mental injuries and stuff like that.” He said nonchalantly, waving his hoof in the air.

“Injuries?!” Nova suddenly shouted.

“Oh you know, nothing important, just sign them.”

“Like hell I will, Luna let’s get out of here.”

Luna wanted to tease Nova using the situation, but after looking at the document in her hooves and reading the part about electrocuting, she decided to simply nod and follow her coltfriend.

Cord smiled as they handed the sheets of paper over to him. “Good decision! You won’t regret this!”

“I’m sure we won’t!” Nova shouted and didn’t turn back, nor did Luna, which is why neither of them saw their signs on the previously empty spaces on Cord’s documents.

“Have fun you two!” Were his last words before Luna and Nova finally left the building, Nova shut the door behind them and sat down on his haunches, his stare glued to the floor. “Well that was weird.”

“Emm, Nova?”

“I mean I know this is a dream of a chaos deity, but still having a pony inside his head that is a manager of a tavern, that’s also in his head?”

“Nova…”

“And what was with these sheets? As if I would sign them, did you see the part about cupcakes? Cause I think I had enough of these and…”

“Nova! You have to see this!” Luna shouted startling him a little.

“What is it Luna, why did you have to… shout… in my…. ears.” Nova’s expression fell and his pupils widened as he finally looked behind him.

Instead of a calm road he saw a sky full of pink clouds and rabbits flying around, he looked down and no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t see the ground from up here.

“I’m starting to think this wasn’t such a good idea.” He commented.

“You think?”

“What do we do now?”

“What choices do we have? Let’s go and see what’s over the horizon!” She said trying to sound dramatically.

“What do you think there is?”

“We are inside the head of the most random and chaotic creature that there is, not counting Pinkie Pie, what do you think there might be?”

Nova shivered at the mention of Pinkie’s name and sighed. “Fine then, let’s go and have a look.”

Celestia sat down in her room and searched through many different sheets of papers, reports about her guards and country’s economy, basically boring stuff.

But it at least helped her calm down after she got so angry at Discord, she sighed as she thought about her husband.

’I know he’s a god of chaos and loves pranks and stuff, I mean I like them too and I love this part of him, but I wish that he could from time to time just come in here, say “Sunshine, I got this cake for you.” Perhaps followed by a “Love you.” Do I really wish for so much?’ Celestia looked down on her hooves and with another sigh she got back to work, which soon was interrupted by knocking.

“Come in.”

On her command doors opened and Discord entered the room with huge smile on his muzzle, and Pinkie’s cupcake on a tray in his hands.

“Hello there Sunshine, I got this special cupcake for you.” He said simply and walked over to her desk, he put delicious treat in front of his dumbfounded wife and winked.

“I’m really sorry for what I did, and I want you to know that I really love you and don’t want you to be angry at me.”

Celestia stared at cupcake with her mouth agape as she was completely taken aback. “Discord, can you read in minds?”

“I’m afraid not Sunshine.”

Celestia smiled warmly and looked at her husband, all of her anger were gone and now were replaced with same feelings she had when she fell for him. “Thank you.”

Discord smiled, and it wasn’t his usual mischievous smile or a simple smirk, it was an honest smile.

“I’m really happy that you aren’t mad at me anymore, now then I shall not interrupt your feast.”

“Actually, I would like you to stay, searching through all these papers alone gets really boring.”

Discord nodded. “Very well then.” He said and sat down in front of Celestia who took a cupcake into air with her magic and started to eat it.

It started with a calm bite, but as soon as the flavor struck her taste buds Celestia couldn’t help herself as she devoured whole thing in few seconds.

“I’m glad you liked it.” Discord commented.

Celestia blushed and giggled. “It was an amazing treat, where did you get this?”

“Pinkie Pie.”

“Oh yes, of course.” Celestia chuckled and got back to her work, filled with happiness, confidence and horniness.

Wait, what was that last one?

Celestia blinked a few times and shook her head as she felt the world spinning for a few moments.

“Tia, are you all right?” Discord asked with concern as suddenly his wife started to rock back and forth in her seat.

“Y-Yeah I’m good.” She said and with final shook of her head she looked over at Discord, her eyes were half closed as her gaze was scanning Discord from his head to his feet. “Better than good.”

God of chaos raised his eyebrow. “Tia, are you all right?”

Celestia’s horn shone with magic and soon Discord heard a click behind him. “Did you just close the doors?”

“We don’t want anypony to interrupt us, don’t we?” She asked as she stood up from her chair and slowly moved closer to Discord, swaying her hips all the while.

“S-Sunshine?”

“Tell me, darling, do you really think my thighs are too big because of my cake eating problem?” She asked and turned around, giving Discord a perfect view.

“Oh my.”

Celestia suddenly jumped on Discord with a hunger in her eyes. “What do you say Discord? Will you plow the royal plot?”

Draconequus felt his excitement building up. “B-But Sunshine! Aren’t these, you know, dangerous days for you?!”

Tia smiled mischievously she leaned over his ear and broke his last line of defense. “Then let’s make a little pony.”

Chapter 28 - A sea of chaos.

“Luna! I don’t care about your sister finding out about us anymore! I am never again coming back to dreamland!” Nova shouted as he dashed through the sky flying at his top speed, behind him was Princess Luna, riding a huge, adult-dragon sized rabbit with wings.

“Ha come on Nova, don’t be a wuss!” She shouted at the top of her lungs.

“Why are you even chasing me riding a huge rabbit?!” Nova shouted. “No matter how I say it sounds like a fucking absurd!” He added.

“Oh come on! Loose up and have some fun, where’s your sense of adventure?!” She shouted back.

“I think I left it at the doors, seriously Luna I…” He couldn’t finish his sentence because of a pink cloud made of gum suddenly jumping into his muzzle. “Hmpf pffh hampf!”

“What did you just say?”

“He said that he’s getting tired of this.” Rabbit answered in deep manly voice.

“Oh thanks.” Luna replied.

“This thing can talk?!” Nova, who got rid of gum in his mouth shouted. “Luna I swear to Faust stop that!”

“I can’t, even if I would want to, Discord made something with his dream and now we’re stuck in here.”

“You don’t sound too sad about it.”

Luna chuckled. “That’s because I’m not, I didn’t have so much fun in ages! Now rabbit lets speed up!”

“Roger!” Rabbit replied and grew a new pair of wings bringing Nova into further confusion.

Supernova tried his best to escape, but to no avail. No matter how much he tried rabbit and Luna were getting closer and closer to their target. However, just as he was about to give up, he saw a hope a small ray of light in dark tunnel.

He saw a pair of wooden doors.

Suddenly he felt all of his strength coming back to him, as if he just ate a mystical bean with immense rejuvenation properties. With his newly found determination he made a final dash of hope towards the doors.

Rabbit and Luna also sped up, said Princess shouted in excitement as they were getting closer to Nova, they were just few inches away, but those few inches were enough for Supernova. At a top of his speed, Nova dashed through the doors and so did Luna, who jumped off the giant rabbit. “See you later Roger!” She shouted and closed the door behind her.

“Wheew, now that was fun!” She said and barely withhold her enthusiasm.

“Really? That was fun to you?!” He asked with pure rage in his voice. Luna smiled sheepishly.

“Oh come on Nova, we are in a dream! Sure it’s a dream controlled by a mad God of Chaos, but still nothing bad would happen.” She said.

“Oh well, if you say so.” He said.

“Yeah, so let’s go on and… what’s that on your head?”

Nova raised his eyebrow questioningly and looked up, he raised his arm and poked a red fabric that now was placed firmly on his head.

“That’s a fez.”

“A fez?”

“I wear fez now, fezzes are cool.”

Luna raised his eyebrow in confusion. “What?”

“What?” Nova replied.

“No, I mean where did that fez even come from?”

“What fez?” Nova asked confused.

Luna scratched her head. “A fez that’s on your head?”

Nova chuckled. “What are you talking about, fezzes are stupid, I don’t wear fezze…oh my that’s a fez.” He said as he held a red piece of fabric in his hooves.

They both stared at Nova’s new hat for only Faust knew how long, both taken aback by utter confusion. “So… are you going to wear that or…?”

“Yeah I sure do, fezzes are cool.”

“But you just said that they are dumb.”

“Yes I did.” Nova replied and put fez back on his head.

Luna stared at her coltfriend feeling that her brain was about to explode.

“Can we go now Luna? I really would like to get over with this place.” Nova said and started walking forward leaving dumbfounded Princess of the Night behind.

It took her few moments but soon said Princess caught up to him and once again they together ventured through the mysterious depths of Discords dreams.

“What do you think we will find here?” Nova asked with a mix of fear and curiosity in his voice as they walked through the small hallway with brick walls and wooden floor partly covered by blue carpet.

“Who knows, I hope it will be another Roger.”

“Roger?”

“That’s how that Rabbit was called, he said it himself didn’t he?”

Nova stopped and stared at his marefriend in confusion. “What are you talking about?”

“What? He did shout his name when I told him to increase his speed.”

Tick
Tock
Tick
Tock
Tick
DINGDINGDINGDING

Nova burst out in laughter and started to roll on the floor leaving his marefriend in a state of confusion. “What? Did I say something funny?”

It took good few minutes for Supernova to finally calm down to the point where he started to catch his breath, moments later he tried to speak. “You… Roger… you thought that… rabbit… Roger!” Was all he managed to say before once again bursting into mad laughter making Luna blush in embarrassment as she didn’t understand the joke.

When Nova finally stopped laughing, he stood up and shook his head. “Pheew, I’m sorry, I will explain later.” He said and scratched his head until his hoof found something new. “Is that a fez?” He asked.

Luna gritted her teeth and grabbed the hat with her hooves, she threw it into the air and using her magic to generate some flames she burnt the fez into ashes.

“What was that all about?” Nova asked.

“I’ll explain later, now lets go.”

And so they did, they walked for minutes and possibly hours in silence, they couldn’t feel the time passing and even Luna’s magic didn’t help, here in Discord’s world nothing made sense, even the time itself.

But after walking for who knows how long in an awkward silence, they finally found something, new doors, wooden doors with nothing special to them.

“This seems a bit too…”

“Normal?” Luna finished his sentence.

“Yeah.” Nova added.

Luna stared at the wooden entrance for a moment and then shrugged. “We don’t really have a choice do we?” Nova nodded and they both entered new room.

“Well that’s, surprising?” Nova said as he stared at the small room with nothing but a two-ponies sized bed and a small nightstand on its right side.

“What is this about?” Luna asked and started to walk around the room trying to spot anything else, she was sure that there must be something more to this place than they can see.

“Nova, did you find something?” She asked as she carefully watched ever brick in the wall, looking for anything out of place. “Nova?” She asked once again after not hearing an answer from her coltfriend.

When once again he didn’t reply, Luna turned around and saw Nova staring down at open nightstand, his expressions was calm and didn’t show any emotion but his eyes were wide open, as if he saw a ghost.

“What’s in there?” She asked with a curiosity.

Nova suddenly smiled, but that wasn’t a normal smile no, that was a smile of a madman. “Look what we have here Lulu.” He said and raised his hoof, which new held a small cupcake with pink frosting.

“N-Nova?”

“A cupcake, isn’t that nice?” He asked and stared maniacally at the sweet treat in his hoof.

“Supernova? W-What are you doing?” She asked as her coltfriend was getting closer and closer to her with the cupcake in his hoof.

“Oh I just thought that, you were a naughty little filly you know? Chasing me on that rabbit and everything, and you know what naughty fillies deserve?” He got even closer to Luna, who suddenly couldn’t use any of her magic, Nova leaned in and whispered to her ear. “A punishment.”

Luna’s eyes snapped open with a gasp as she jumped into a sitting position almost hitting her head with a bed above her.

She sighed with relief. “I’m never again peeking into Discord’s dream, ever.” Then her attention was taken by a quiet mumbling she heard, turning her head towards Nova she saw him quietly speaking under his nose.

Luna leaned in closer, curiosity growing inside of her.

“Oh yes Lulu, you were a baaad Princess, now you will take this and…” He couldn’t finish his sentence as he was forcefully woken up from his dream by Luna’s powerful punch to the muzzle.

Nova landed on the floor with a loud thud, after few moments he massaged his sore cheek and raised his head. “Why did you do that?”

Luna in answer only turned her head away making a hmpf sound.

Nova was about to ask another question, but was interrupted by Void who without knocking walked in and quickly closed the door behind him. He held magic wig in his hooves and sighed with relief. “I’m so glad that’s over.” He commented finally noticing that his friend and Princess already woke up.

Nova smiled sheepishly, while Luna only nodded her head and left the room without saying anything else.

“Woow dude, what the hell did you do to her?”

“That’s the problem, I can’t remember what happened after we walked into that last room.”

Void nodded, not really feeling like asking about that room. He walked over to his wardrobe and threw in a wig, Princess forgot to take and started to take out his armor. “Oh hey Nova!” He shouted as he suddenly remember something. “A week from now there’ll be a huge sale in Canterlot city mall.”

Nova raised his eyebrow. “You’re the last pony I imagined to be interested in something like that.”

“Usually I’m not, but they have sales on everything, including food.” He said and licked his lips, Nova chuckled. “But hey, maybe we could find something cool, they have this huuuge shop that sells hats, they have everything in there, even fezzes can you imagine…”

“Enough with the fezzes!” Luna shouted from somewhere in the castle startling both colts.

Void raised his eyebrow and looked at Nova. “Seriously dude, the fuck happened in there?”

“Who knows.”

“Who?”

“Exactly.”

Void shrugged and continued to put on his armor, he didn’t get too much sleep but he surely was ready, for tonight’s duty.

Chapter 29 - Lookin good feelin good.

Not proofread.

The night after their dream adventure was calm and silent, Discord and Celestia were nowhere to be seen, Void and Nova took on their posts and Luna took care of her royal duties.

Star and Adamant spent the night on their own posts, the latter one was still having problems with his swollen muzzle.

The night slowly passed and another day came around, without any complications they jumped into their own beds, much to Void’s thankfulness and slept peacefully.

Although, this day wasn’t so peaceful for everypony.

Discord yawned as he slowly opened his eyes which soon were met by aggressive rays of light coming from the sun. He covered his eyes with his palm and stretched out giving another tired yawn.

“Discord!”

God of Chaos sprung to attention upon hearing his named shouted from the lips of his beloved wife, who was standing near the bed looking extremely unamused. “Good morning Sunshine.”

Celestia raised her eyebrow. “Good morning Sunshine? Good morning Sunshine?! Is this all you have to say?”

Discord backed away a little and let out few nervous laughs. “Well I umm, you look great today?”

Celestia shook her head negatively.

“Did you lose weight or something? Oh please Tia help me out here, you know I’m not good with this.”

Celestia sighed. “Do you know what happened yesterday?”

Discord smiled mischievously. “Oh sure I do, how could I forget.”

Princess of the Sun blushed lightly and coughed. “Discord, do you know that yesterday was dangerous for me? What will we do if I’ll get… you know.”

Smile left Discord’s muzzle as he quite quickly realized that now isn’t a good moment for jokes, he stood up from the bed and scratched his goatee. “If that happens then, we will love it, we will raise it, we will be mommy and daddy.” He said with his smile coming back.

Celestia shook her head. “It’s not that easy and you know that! Are we ready to have a child Discord? We are together for only a couple of years, and we just went through an argument. Moreover I’m a Princess and I have my duties, and, and…”

Celestia was cut off by Discord, who silenced her by sealing her lips with his finger. “Sunshine, it’s all right. If that were to happen then I assure you we would be great parents, I mean come on, who wouldn’t want to have a God of Chaos as his father.” Discord chuckled. “It’ll be fine.”

Celestia averted his gaze, she gave thought to the idea of raising child with her husband and suddenly her imagination started to show her incredible sights. She saw her little foal having fun in the garden with his father, she watched as her kid ran down the hallways of Canterlot playing tag with his aunt, she saw herself, smiling.

Celestia raised her head with big wide grin on her muzzle. “Maybe you’re right, maybe that won’t be so bad.”

Discord nodded. “I’m glad you think so too! Also don’t worry about your duties, if you won’t have time I’ll take care of our foal!”

Celestia raised her eyebrow and stared at her husband for few moments. “Yeah, I’ll need to find a foalsitter.”

Discords expression fall. “What do you mean by that?”

“Maybe Fluttershy could help? Or Twilight.”

“You’re kidding right?”

Celestia turned around and started to leave the room. “Or perhaps Pinkie Pie, I’ll have to think about it.”

“Tia you’re joking? Tia?!” Discord shouted and ran after his wife leaving their bedroom empty and silent.

Rest of the day was calm for the two, Celestia took care of her duties and Discord decided to help her out, and so after hours of daytime, once again moon raised onto the sky signaling new night.

For our heroes however that also meant something more than just a new night, tonight they both were going on a date with beautiful mares.

Although Void wasn’t as excited as Nova, he too started to look forward to the date.

Said colts woke up in their room and both yawned almost simultaneously, Nova was first to place his hooves on the floor and stretch his muscles. “Good Night Void.”

“Yeah, yeah Night.” He replied and managed to get out of his bed, ever since spending night in Luna’s chambers he couldn’t get too much sleep, whenever he laid down on his bed and closed his eyes he couldn’t help but expect for somepony to come in and send him to the moon.

Nova made his way to the shower and let the cold water wake him up fully, as his friend was cleaning up Void decided to look through his clothes and perhaps wear something else than armor for once.

Much to his disappointment the only clothes other than his armors in the wardrobe were some old shirts from his teenage years. He scanned through the pile of old clothes and took out a black shirt with “Luna is #1 Pony” written on it.

“Like hell I will wear this.” He commented and with a small blush quickly hid it back into the wardrobe.

Void scratched his head and sighed in defeat. “Nova, remember about that sale in Canterlot city mall I told you about?”

“Yeah?” Nova shouted back from under the shower.

“We actually might have to go there after all, don’t know about you but I don’t have any good clothes here.”

Nova stepped out from the shower and walked back into the room drying himself with a towel. “Well I don’t see why not.”

Void nodded and made his way towards the now free shower. “What are you going to wear?”

“Nothing, why should I care about clothing?”

“Well that depends on where you’re going ya know.” He said.

“Well, it’s Luna’s turn to pick a place, but come on, I’m sure she won’t wear anything either.”

“If you say so.” Void replied and took his time under the shower, after they both got ready Nova left their room first, as his date was starting much earlier than Voids.

Supernova walked through the hallways of Canterlot Castle, he woke up pretty late this night so for his breakfast he only ate few apples and drank some milk, after few moments he arrived at his marefriend’s bedroom, more precisely at the huge doors leading to her room.

Nova calmly knocked few times on the wooden gate. “Coming!” He soon heard and waited patiently, this time he wasn’t nervous at all, all the anxiety from previous times standing before these doors was now gone, replaced by excitement and happiness.

The doors finally started to open and soon his gaze met beautiful eyes of his marefriend, but tonight something else caught his attention.

Luna was wearing an incredible silver dress, on her head rested an Sapphire tiara which sparkled in moonlight like thousand little stars. Her front legs were adorned with golden and silver bracelets, and finally the crème de la crème was the amazing necklace, created by small sapphires and one huge black crystal in the middle.

Nova stared completely mesmerized at his marefriend who only chuckled in response.

“L-L-Luna, can I-I ask where are w-we going t-tonight?” He asked with familiar feelings returning to him.

Luna smiled. “Tonight my dear Supernova, I’ll show you how the food from the best restaurant in Canterlot tastes like.”

Chapter 30 - Bring forth the catastrophe.

Nova and Luna trotted joyfully through the castle hallways towards the main gate, Princess of the Night already put an illusion spell on herself so they didn’t have to worry about other ponies noticing them. Without worries and with big hopes for fun the unusual couple made their way into the city of Canterlot, ever since Nova moved to this city he managed to see almost every part, every brick of this magnificent town.

Except one place, Canterlot’s most fancy street known by normal ponies as “Posh Street” he never went there as there was nothing he could be interested in, or so he thought until tonight.

Supernova followed Luna and soon they were placing their hooves on the most prestigious place in whole Equestria. He didn’t want to admit it, but the “Posh Street” left him more than impressed, he couldn’t help but stare in awe at magnificent baronial buildings with beautiful stained glasses which shone in the moonlight.

“Incredible,” He said as his gaze landed upon one of the most high-rise buildings he ever saw, “what is this?”

“Oh that?”—she pointed her hoof at the building in question—“That’s one of the best hotels in Canterlot, it’s called ‘Grand Tour’.”

“A bit weird name for a hotel.” He said and almost fell over on the loose brick. “The richest part of the city and still things like that happen.” He commented quietly under his nose.

“I have to agree with you, but the staff and rooms are more than outstanding, believe me.”

“All right”—he scratched the back of his head—“I’ll have to believe you on this one, it’s not like I’ll ever get enough money to get a room there.”

Luna chuckled. “Are you forgetting you’re dating the Princess?”

Nova put his left front leg under his chin. “You’re right I am,” he sighed, “sometimes it is hard to remember all of these mares you know.”

Luna shoved him lightly on his shoulder, “I hope you’re joking.”

“Oh no, I am dead serious, I mean look at me”—he puffed out his chest—“I could have any mare if I wanted to.”

Luna stopped for a second and stared at her coltfriend who was flexing his muscles as hard as he could. After few moments Nova heard something weird and looked over to Luna, who in fact was barely holding her laughter in.

“Oh ha ha ha.”—he moved closer to the Princess of the Night—“The truth is you just can’t stand how handsome I am can you?”

That was it for Luna who burst out in laughter, she barely could stand on her legs as she brought the attention of everypony present around towards herself with her laughter.

Nova just stared at her with grave look on his muzzle, it took few moments for Luna to calm herself down and gather few breaths her lungs needed so much. “Pheew, sorry for that Nova, now we can, Nova?” She raised her head and looked around as her coltfriend was nowhere to be seen, until she finally spotted him near one of the buildings, talking to some ponies, all of them—except the mare who wore a very clingy red dress—were dressed in black tuxedos.

Luna raised her eyebrow and tiled her head slightly, she started to walk forward the group which consisted of four ponies and her coltfriend, as she was getting closer she could finally hear their conversation.

“Look, she’s coming over to us,” One of tuxedo stallions said, “are you sure you don’t know this, uncouth lady?” He asked with his head held high.

“Of course Sir Guldenviel, why would I associate myself with this crazy mare.” Nova answered in the best posh accent he could muster.

Luna stopped, she chuckled and walked forwards towards the group until she finally made it. “Sir Supernova?” She asked, “Are you Sir Supernova?” She repeated.

“Yes indeed, and who are you?” He asked in narcissistic tone.

She bowed before him and continued her speech from her lowered position. “I came with a message from Princess of the Night, shepherd of dreams, ruler of the moon and a star that shines upon—“

“What’s the message?” Nova cut her off, Luna only snorted quietly in response to his lack of manners and continued.

“Princess of the Night awaits you in the Castle of Canterlot Sir Supernova, she said it is a very important task that she prepared for you.”

The whole’s group jaws almost hit the floor once Luna finished her dialogue, Nova barely stifled his laughter but in the end he managed to say his last words being dead serious. “So I must go if my Princess needs me, farewell my friends we shall meet again.”

“W-Wait a moment,” Guldenviel said, “maybe you could meet us with the Princess? And get her to know us?” He asked while rest of his companions nodded.

’I can’t believe they actually fell for that’ Was what Nova thought at this moment, he turned around and shook his head. “Sadly my friends I can’t, I have duties to perform and there’s no time for some loose meetings.” He raised his chin as high as he could and started to leave. “Maybe one day you will be deemed worthy of becoming Princess’s friends, goodbye for now.” And so he and Luna left the place leaving them dumbfounded.

“I don’t really know what was the point of this performance of ours, but I sure enjoyed it.” Nova said.

“Indeed, I know these ponies very well, Guldenviel often comes to mine or Celestia’s court only to whine about how he has to pay too many taxes”—she give a few more laughs and sighed—“I’m glad we could at least make him feel frustrated.”

“And here I thought that our Princesses love and protect everypony big or small.” He said with a smirk on his face, Luna smiled as they walked past another big building which had a bottle of wine curved on its wooden doors.

“We sure do, it’s just that some ponies need to get punished.”

“Now that sounded really dangerous, however”—Supernova leaned in much closer to Luna and whispered to her ear—“do I deserve to be punished?”

Princess of the Night felt shivers going down her spine and through her whole body, she bit her bottom lip and took a deep breath before speaking. “No my dear you’re far from being on that list.” They passed through another corner and headed straight forward.

“Well I tried,”—he shrugged—“so where’s this restaurant you were talking about?”

“Right there Nova.” Luna stopped and so did her coltfriend, his gaze slowly moved from Princess of the Night towards the restaurant.

His jaw fell down and his eyes widened as his eyes saw the outstanding piece of architecture right in front of him. The building wasn’t very wide but it was extremely high, with what seemed like tens of floors, Nova couldn’t even see the top from here. “How did I not spot this thing before?!”

“It’s the second highest building in our city, right after Castle,” Luna started to explain, “however you can’t pretty much notice it from anywhere else aside from what you and your friends call ‘Posh Street’, because of mountains and magic blocking the vision.”

“Magic?” Nova asked confused.

Luna sighed. “That’s a bit embarrassing, but rich ponies decided that they don’t want the poor to watch them eat so the top of the building is covered in special illusion.”

“Now that is that thing.”

Luna cocked her eyebrow, “That thing?” She asked.

“That thing that makes me want to punch those guys.”

Princess of the Night chuckled. “I can see where you’re coming from, but we can’t do anything about it.” She moved closer to Nova and leaned into him leaving her head resting on his shoulder. “Rather lets enjoy ourselves tonight, without anypony interrupting.”

Nova nodded. “You’re right.” He agreed and the duo walked forward towards the doorway of fancy restaurant, waiter who stood at the entrance asked for their reservation, he quickly made sure everything’s fine and called another waiter to guide them to their table.

After Luna and Nova left the scene waiter stood on his post and greeted pony after pony, but then when he was in middle of checking reservation of young couple, he heard somepony speaking from behind him.

“Excuse me, I would like to enter if that’s not a problem.”

Waiter sighed and slowly started to turn around towards the source of the voice. “Well Miss, if you have a reservation then that’s absolutely not a prob—“ Last words didn’t manage to leave his throat as his breath was taken away, he gulped and smiled dumbly. “W-What I wanted to say is, for you there’s always a reservation.”

He moved away from the entrance. “My highness.”

“Thank you kindly.” Celestia said and entered the restaurant, her expression was grave serious and her eyes were full of curiosity. “Well then Mr. Supernova, let’s have a talk.”

Chapter 31 - A for an argument.

Supernova followed Luna into the depths of high-rise restaurant, his steps were visibly shaky and his expression was showing a nervous grimace as his eyes quickly looked around trying to count all the priceless paintings, sculptures and vases that adorned the hallway.

He couldn’t help but notice how every other stallion except for himself was wearing an extraordinary suit, some of them also had a monocle and a top-hat, while the mares that accompanied those rich colts were all dressed in breathtaking dresses, each one of them special and eye-catching.

Nova suddenly became overwhelmed by the world he jumped into. No matter where his eyes went he could always feel being observed by those ponies, judged by those ponies. His ears were ringing painfully with their insults, his vision was slowly crumbling, he wanted to close his eyes and escape from this place as fast as possible.

“Is something wrong?”

Supernova’s eyes opened wide and focused entirely on the mare in front of him, Luna gazed at him with eyes full of concern.

He stared at his marefriend for few moments in silence, he didn’t say anything, he didn’t move or even blink, because he finally realized that this world is the world she lives in, his mind finally comprehended that if their relationship will continue then this is what his life will look like more often than not.

Nova smiled, he finally realized it but it didn’t change anything, with the realization of this new world came another one, as long as she will be with him, no number of rich snobs staring at him and badmouthing him will be a problem.

“Nahh, just my imagination.” He said and smiled.

Luna didn’t want to push the matter and simply smiled back, she once again started to walk towards another stairs which lead them to next floor of this outstanding building.

By the time they finally arrived at their destination, Nova felt a bit out of breath, but it wasn’t because of exhaustion, no it was something entirely different.

If previously the decorations of this place were overwhelming, this time what he saw rendered him simply speechless.

He was used to being high in sky as he was a bat-pony, but the scenery that was visible from the highest floor of this place was beyond his imagination. Nova gazed around as his eyes were taking in vibrant colors of all kind swimming in the air above the mountains, he was sure this was some kind of magic, but he never saw a show quite like this one before.

Sometimes a gentle streak of moonlight gazed through the dancing aurora, saying hello to all ponies safely enjoying their meals this night, when Nova thought that there was nothing better than this, he heard something.

The music.

His eyes quickly searched through the crowd of ponies, it took him a moment but he noticed them, a duo of ponies on the stage.

There was a mare, with white angelic fur holding a violin with her left hoof while gently yet firmly keeping the bow ready in the other. Her partner in music was an old stallion with black fur and gray mane, his hooves were slowly falling down on the keys of his equally old piano.

First notes were played and soon younger mare joined in, her music synchronized in perfect harmony with piano creating almost godly music, calm but firm, fast but not violent, sharp but gentle.

“They’re amazing, aren’t they?”

“W-What?” Nova shook his head, “Could you repeat the question?” He asked Luna.

Princess of the Night chuckled. “I have my answer already, come on let’s sit.”

“Luna can I ask you something?” Nova asked as they passed by a couple of ponies, who visibly were as mesmerized with the music as he was.

“Sure, what is it?”

“How are those lights created?”

Luna stopped and looked up into the sky, her eyes reflected the whole spectrum of colors, making them even more beautiful, she chuckled and turned towards her stallion. “I could tell you in details how are they created,”—she moved few steps towards him—"but don’t you think that some things should stay a mystery?” She said and nuzzled him gently.

"Maybe you're right." Nova said and returned the favor, soon they once again walked towards their table, which was placed right in the middle of this magical restaurant.

When they finally arrived at their reserved place Nova gallantly helped Luna take a seat, and then he sat down himself. “I can’t believe how beautiful this place is, and this music is simply—“ He stopped midsentence and tried to find a good word to use.

“I know what you mean”—Luna chuckled—“those two are really an incredible duet, they are father and daughter by the way.”

Nova whistled in admiration.

“Bonjour Monsieur and Mademoiselle, how can I be of service to you ce soir?” A waiter asked as he suddenly appeared.

“Well uhm, what would you like to eat, darling?” Nova asked and grinned dumbly.

Luna chuckled, “We will have two portions of Crème brûlée, and a red wine.” She said.

“Of course! I’ll be right back with your order Mademoiselle, Monsieur.” He bowed a little and left the scene.

Nova leaned in a bit towards Luna and half-whispered, “Why are waiters in best restaurants always Prench?”

Luna shrugged. “Don’t ask me.”

Nova leaned back in his seat and sighed. “Well then, at least we can finally enjoy some time together.”

Luna smiled. “Indeed Nova, and there’s nothing that will interrupt us tonight.”

Supernova smiled, he gazed deeply into Luna’s eyes and took a deep breath, he opened his mouth, but unfortunately somepony cut into their conversation before he could even say a word.

“Mind if I join you two for a moment?”

Nova’s face distorted into irritation, with his eyebrows lowered and his smile turned upside down, in this state he slowly started to turn around and didn’t notice the pale, terrified look on his marefriend’s muzzle.

“Well actually we were in a middle of a conversation here so if you could—” He didn't finish as he finallyturned around, standing behind him was the Princess of the Sun, protector of Equestria and most importantly, overprotective older sister of his marefriend.

Celestia.

“H-Hello.” He squeaked out.

Celestia stared at them with the not so happy face. “Well then, I suppose we could talk somewhere, less crowded?” She commented motioning with her gaze towards the small crowd that started to gather around.

Without waiting for Nova and Luna’s response her horn shone with magic and soon the trio was gone, leaving nothing but dust behind them.

Disappointed customers went back to their tables, in the middle of the crowd a single waiter made his way forward with two Crème brûlée and a bottle of wine on his tray, when he finally arrived at his destination he could only scratch his head in confusion, as the guests disappeared.

“Was it something I said? I knew this fake accent was a bad idea but nopony listened to me, of course not!”

“That hurt.” Nova commented about his sore head that directly hit the stone floor of Celestia’s chambers they arrived in.

“Are you okay?” Luna asked and quickly jumped towards her coltfriend.

“I’m fine, actually this calmed me down a little.”

“Good, so you can explain now.”

Luna and Nova stared at each other for few seconds before simultaneously changing their attention to Celestia, who still infuriated stood in front of them. “Let us start with simple question,” Princess of the sun added, “are you two in a relationship of some sort?”

Nova felt colors escaping from his muzzle, leaving it in once again in pale and terrified state, while Luna who overcame her initial shock of meeting with her sister tonight stood up.

“Yes my dear sister, we are, do you have any problem with it?” She asked firmly.

“I’m glad you asked, I do have a problem, firstly, why didn’t you tell me?!” She shouted

“Because I knew you would overreact!” Luna shouted back.

“I don’t overreact!”

“Oh sure you don’t, so what do you have in plans for us?”

“You are grounded,”—she motioned her hoof towards Nova—“ he is going for ten years in dungeon, no trials!”

“Are you kidding me dear sister?!”

“All right fine! Twenty years no trials!”

Supernova sit down on the floor and could only stare in both awe and horror on the scene before him.

“I bet ten cookies on Tia, this is so much fun.”

Nova jumped in place and felt his heart almost bursting through his ribcage as suddenly the God of Chaos himself appeared next to him with a bag of popcorn.

“Discord?! What are you doing here?”

“Ohh I got waken up by all those screams and I’m glad I was cause there’s no way I would ever want to miss a show quite like this one!”—he put his paw into the bag and shoved a huge portion of popcorn into his mouth—“Oh wait, where are my manners, you want some?” He asked.

“What?! No! Discord can’t you help me out here? I’m going to be send into dungeon for twenty years!”

“Twenty? Oh don’t be silly, I already heard thirty somewhere in there.”

“What?!” Nova shouted and for a moment looked back at Luna and Celestia, who were screaming at each other, at least for now because for Supernova it looked like they are about to jump at each other and start a fight.

“This is crazy!”

“I know right? Simply incredible.”

Nova gave Discord a quick glance and then he gave up, his limbs became limp and he sat down on his haunches. “Can I have some?” He asked motioning towards the bag.

God of Chaos snapped his fingers and a new bag appeared in front of Nova, he took it with his hooves and started to munch on his snack, watching his marefriend and her sisters as they were about to turn their argument into a bloody duel.

“I wonder how Voids date is going.”

Chapter 32 - I won't show you these.

Author's Notes:

*Might have some bugs here and there.*

“I better get going,”—Void said—“I don’t want to be late tonight.” He picked up his wallet and put it into one of his saddle bags and nodded to himself.

The night guardian left his chamber and made his way towards the entrance of the castle, he walked through the same hallways he patrolled on the nightly basis, but deep in his mind he still couldn’t help but feel awe upon seeing the countless pieces of art, paintings, sculptures and stained glasses presenting most important moments of Equestrian history.

He especially took a liking to one of the pictures, a small wooden frame held an image of his Princess proudly sitting on her throne, thousand years ago, before her banishment.

But tonight he didn’t have time to stop and contemplate about Sun Butts incompetence in stopping her own sister without sending her on forced vacations, which in his opinion took way too long.

Without any complications he arrived at the main gate, from there it was only a matter of few minutes before he would arrive at the meeting place of his date.

Void dove into the streets of Canterlot, quickly disappearing in the shadows of the buildings which hid him from the beautiful light of the moon. He passed by familiar buildings and through streets he knew very well. With few more minutes of trotting he reached his destination where he was supposed to meet with his date, the small restaurant with great view on the Canterlot park, and not so great food.

He chuckled Good thing we aren't here to eat tonight, he walked forward the doors and stopped his hoof right before touching the cold, metal handle.

“Am I nervous?” He asked almost hoping for somepony to answer him, much to his surprise he did feel something weird happening in his stomach, and after checking it also turned out that his heartrate somehow raised.

Void shook his head and took a big breath, “Of course I would be nervous, I am about to go on a date with a mare I banged, but I can’t remember it because I drugged by a pink bartender.” He commented.

“Dude, you had one hell of a night.”

Void’s ears perked up and he slowly turned around, he could literally feel his face becoming red once he saw a young, most likely teenage colt looking at him with awe in his eyes. “High hoof!” Colt shouted and raised his hoof towards the moon.

Void couldn’t quite realize what’s happening, but he raised his hoof and gave him the high hoof, to which colt smiled and trotted away. “Good luck bro!”

Night guardian stood there for few more moments, finally his hoof meet his own face breaking the silence with a hard slap sound.

“I hope Supernova is doing better than me."

“Fifty years dungeon with possibility of meeting him two times a week!” Celestia shouted, her muzzle red with anger, her lips distorted into angry scowl and her eyes burning with animosity.

Her sister, whose expression was similar to her own, gritted her teeth and shouted, “As if our coltfriend could possibly land in dungeons, thy tongue is spouting nonsense sister!”

“Fine, then how about sending him straight to the meeting with guillotine?!”

Nova gulped and raised his hooves to his throat, making sure his head is still connected to his neck.

“So, on a scale from one to ten, how screwed are you?” Discord asked munching another popcorn piece in his mouth.

“It seems that at least fourteen.”

“Or there’s an idea!”—Celestia screamed—“ten years in Tartarus!”

“I would say it’s sixteen.” Discord commented.

“Yeah, I’m sure he’s doing great.” Void said, he shook his head once more. “No more thinking about Nova and Princess, I have my own date waiting for me.

And so, night guardian pushed the handle and entered the restaurant he knew very well, food might not have been the best here but it was cheap at least, but most importantly they always served one of the best drinks in the city.

Spotting the white mare wasn’t so hard, most guests were bat ponies with a dark themed fur, she was sitting at the table near the main attraction of this place, huge window with the amazing view on Canterlot park, it was almost breathtaking during full moons as the lake in the park reflected the moonlight towards the countless flowers, making them shine in the dark of the night.

Void smiled and walked forward the table, however the closer he got to the white mare the more his confidence shrink.

Few meters from his goal he stopped with small blush on his muzzle, “She’s gorgeous.” he quietly said under his nose.

Tonight that mare he always remember with a messy hair and nightshades was sitting in front of him, with her mane flowing from her shoulders combed backwards, while the front of her manestyle was spiky, but not messy.

After few moments she turned towards him, finally noticing him and joining their gazes, Void felt his throat clinch as she looked at him with those red eyes that shone like two rubies illuminated by the strongest light. She smiled and that was it for him, he smirked and shook his head, Is this what you called love at first sight Star? I hope it isn’t, because if it is I am screwed he thought recalling to one of his conversation with Dashing from long ago.

He walked up to the table and nodded his head lightly. “Good night there milady, are you alone here tonight?”

Vinyl chuckled. “Don’t mess with me and sit down already.”—She tapped the menu—“I was holding myself from drinking alone for long enough.”

“Yeah right, so do you like the place?”

“Well the view is magnificent, but—“

“But what?”

She grinned. “Is there a reason almost nopony here orders anything but liquor?”

Void looked around, “I am surprised you noticed it.”

“That wasn’t so hard, I mean there are like two or three ponies at most who actually ordered something to eat.”—Vinyl laughed and grinned mischievously—“But that’s fine with me, so can we get something to drink?”

As if on cue waitress appeared out of nowhere and greeted her clients with a bright smile, Vinyl—still wearing her grin—ordered three shots of tequila for herself.

“I will have a beer.” Void said.

“A beer?” Vinyl asked disappointed. “Wimp.” She added.

“What did you just call me?” Void asked.

“Oh what is it? Did our little princess got agitated?”

Night guardian clenched his teeth and turned towards the waitress. “I’ll have four shots of tequila.”

“I’ll have five.” Vinyl added quickly and gave Void a quick glance.

“I’ll have five as well, and a shot of vodka.”

Waitress nervously gulped and with a smile glued to her muzzle she wrote down the order, changing it one more time after Vinyl also asked for the shot of vodka.

The young mare left the table leaving those two alone, Void stared at the white mare, ready to win the challenge so blatantly thrown at him. Vinyl repaid the favor and stared back at him with, her grin adorning her muzzle all the while.

After few moments Void snorted and finally burst out in laughter, a sight that not many ponies were able to see, Vinyl raised her eyebrow and in asked in confusion, “What’s so funny?”

“Well,”—he took a deep breath, bringing him to his usual calm self—“It was supposed to be a normal date.”

Vinyl chuckled. “A completely normal date would be boring, I mean come on.”—she raised her hoof—“There’s no dubstep and no drugs, just like we wanted.”

“Wanting no dubstep sounds weird when you say it.” Void commented.

“Well, even I need a break once in a while, maybe once in a few years I’ll say.” They both chuckled and Void sighed with relief.

I might enjoy this more than I thought.

Luna and Celestia stared at each other and gasped for air, both of them tired after all the shouting and arguing, after few moments younger sister took one deep breath and looked at her older sister, but this time without any anger in her eyes, this time it was sadness that filled her gaze.

Sun Princess moved a step back surprised by Luna’s stare, younger sister looked back at Nova who at the moment was writing his last will on a scratch of paper then back to her older sister.

“Tia, please understand me.” She said gently and quietly. “After I came back from my banishment,”—she shriveled at the thought of vast, cold moon desert—“almost all ponies were afraid of me, you don’t know how does it feel when your own subjects are terrified on your sight, as if you were some kind of monster.”

Celestia patiently listened to her sister, her heart aching a little. “After some time, night guard was created, they were the ponies who believed in my return, in return of Princess Luna, not Nightmare Moon, the tyrant.”

She sighed. “But that was as much as I could get, there was no way for me to even dream of something more, and then someday out of the blue, he appeared.” Luna took a glance towards Nova and smiled tenderly, Supernova in response smiled as wide as possible.

Luna focused her gaze back to her sister. “He asked me out on the date, can you even imagine what I felt that night?” She asked her sister. “For the first time since I came back I felt that somepony other than yourself wanted to hang out with me, wanted to meet the real me.”

She looked back at Nova. “Wanted to love me.”

Celestia quietly listened to her sister, wanting to hear everything she has to say. After few moments of silence she asked, “Is that all?”

Luna nodded.

Princess of the sun sighed, “I am tired, we’ll talk about this later.” And just like that she turned away and left the room.

Both Luna and Nova stared dumbfounded at the scene, the only one who wasn’t left in confusion was Discord, who gently smiled in the corner of the room, “I get it Tia.”

Celestia walked through the hallways of Canterlot, quickly trotting as far away from her chambers as possible.

“You simply don’t want them to see these, right?” Discord asked quietly.

Princess of the Sun stopped in her tracks and shook her head, she hid her face in her hooves, but that didn’t stop her tears from flowing.

“You’re way too proud to show them your tears.” Her husband added, making sure that those two ponies wouldn’t hear, he snapped his fingers and disappeared, leaving two lovers alone.

Chapter 33 - Denied.

Author's Notes:

Might have some errors here and there, I'll do some proofreading during the day.

“Just give up already.” Vinyl mumbled, her mouth having troubles with speaking more complicated lines, “Like hell you can, you can—“ she stopped and put a hoof to her mouth, stopping herself from showing Void what she had for breakfast.

“As if, you are barely holding up, so what one more drink?” Void asked with a smug smirk on his muzzle, he tried to look as if all the alcohol they consumed had no effect on him, but that was just a bluff.

Vinyl shook her head and pounded their table with a heavy hoof, “If I’m going down, we’re both going down.” She waved her arm at the nearest waitress, who quickly answered their calling.

“How can I help you miss?”

“One more shot of Tequila, for me and my friend.” She said and cursed under horse nose as suddenly she started to suffer from a series of hiccups, visibly struggling to stop herself from barfing each time.

Void on the other hoof couldn’t stop laughing at the scene.

“Excuse me miss, but I think you both had enough?”

“What—“ Vinyl withstood another hiccup and took a deep breath—“what are you talking about?” She continued.

“Maybe she’s right you know,” Void butted in, clearly feeling his limit was breached. “let’s call it a night for now.”

Vinyl opened her mouth to protest, but with another hiccup and another close call she decided to agree with the bat pony, at least for now.

Void paid for their drinks, and without further ado they left their meeting place and journeyed forward into the city of Canterlot.

Maybe forward isn’t a right word, they swayed from left to right into the city of Canterlot.

“Hey Void, don’t you think the moon is beautiful today?” Vinyl asked, her brain cells slowly but steadily refusing to work under the pressure of tequila and vodka.

“It’s always beautiful, this doing of our great Princess,” He stopped and threw his arm into the air, trying to look more dramatic. “Princess Luna.”

“Moonlight is also nice.”

“That’s also doing of our great Princess Luna.”

Vinyl scratched her head. “Isn’t moonlight just a sunlight reflecting from the moon?”

Void stopped in his tracks and with an angry scowl he turned towards Vinyl, “Shut up.” Was all his brain could come up with in this state.

“So, am I going to the dungeon or…?” Nova asked and gently run his hoof over his neck, ensuring himself that his head is still there.

“Quite honestly I have no idea.” Luna answered. “She just left the room all of the sudden.”

Supernova nodded and looked over to his marefriend. After Luna tried to convince her sister to accept their relationship, Nova saw everything in new light.

To say that he was stunned by her speech is an understatement, up till now he didn’t understand why would somepony like her agree to go out, more than once that is, with somepony like him, now everything was different.

Luna needed him and he needed her, that is without a doubt, after her speech one more thing was certain for the night guard, this wasn’t a crush or a simple attraction, he had his doubts but not they were all gone.

He loved her with all of his heart, and he knew that there will be no other mare he will share such feelings with. If Adamant was there right now he would probably tell Nova that he’s doomed, but Nova wouldn’t care, he found his Princess.

And she’s not in another castle.

“Hello? Equestria to Supernova?” Luna said and waved her hoof in front of her coltfriend.

“W-What? Oh I’m sorry I dozed off a little bit.” He said.

Luna chuckled and removed a small bunch of her mane from her face, “I’m sorry Nova, but this whole argument with my sister tired me out, can we—“

“Continue our date another time? Of course.” He said with a smile and looked around, “So, since Princess Celestia busted us anyway, how about catching some Z’s together?” He said with a wink.

Luna blushed for a moment, surprised with a sudden suggestion, but very soon her lips changed into lecherous smile, she turned around and walked up to the doors leading into hallways of the castle.

She turned her head back to confused Nova and with half-lidded eyes she said. “My bedroom, ten minutes.”

Nova stood there for Faust knows how long after his marefriend left the room, completely dumbfounded by Luna’s unexpected boldness.

“I sometimes can’t believe my luck.”

Void and Vinyl lied down somewhere in the park on the cold grass, for a long time neither said anything, they enjoyed a bit of silence while watching the stars on the clear sky.

“Hey,” White mare decided to finally break the silence, “I had a lot of fun today.”

“Did ya?” Void replied. “We kind of spent whole date on drinking and cursing each other.” He chuckled.

Vinyl gave few laughs. “Yeah, but you know, that’s something new to me, aside from the alcohol.” Vinyl turned on the grass towards Void, “Usually right now I would be banging with my date in his house, and here we are watching stars, laying on the cold ground, this is the most romantic thing I ever did with somepony.”

“I didn’t think you like romantic stuff.” He replied, his eyes still glued to the sky, oblivious to the stare pointed at him.

“That might not be my favorite thing but hey, every mare once in a while wants to be treated like a princess.” She laughed. “Wow, that was so lame, I’ll blame it on alcohol.”

Void finally turned towards Vinyl meeting her gaze, it might have been because of tequila in his veins, but he couldn’t keep his eyes away from hers, “Incredible.” A lone word left his mouth.

“What’s incredible?” She asked.

“Your eyes, they are so beautiful.”

Vinyl felt her cheeks get warmer, as her white coat got painted with crimson. “T-Thanks.” She mumbled.

After that no other word was spoken, they lied down in the grass on the cold ground, only stars watched over them as they slowly closed their eyes and started to get closer and closer.

“Pardon me for interrupting.”

Void and Vinyl snapped out of their trance and jumped into standing positions, startled at the sudden voice.

“Hello?” Octavia asked, standing few meters from pair of ponies. “Vinyl, it’s quite late already, shouldn’t you be going home already?”

White mare with a red color still visible on her muzzle nodded to herself and turned towards Void, “Thanks for everything.” She scratched her head, “You think we could repeat this one day, I mean night?”

Void smiled gently and nodded. “Sure.”

Vinyl smirked and trotted towards Octavia, who quickly run towards her friend before she managed to fall down. “You can’t even walk straight.” She commented.

“Aww shut up.” Vinyl replied.

Void watched two mares walk away until they were no longer visible, he gave another gaze towards the sky and then towards his legs, “Well that was something.” He commented and left the scene, swaying from left to right towards the Canterlot Castle.

Chapter 34 - Here again.

Ten days have passed since Void’s date with Vinyl and Celestia finding out about Luna and Nova's relationship, time has been passing by rather calmly for the latter two, as Princess Celestia ultimately accepted her sister and Nova being an item. Or at least decided to not make any hostile moves towards them for the time being.

For Void however these last ten days weren’t easy or calm, he couldn’t figure out what he felt for the white mare, was it real or was it just a delusion created by the atmosphere and alcohol? He didn’t even know which answer does he desire to be true.

Dashing Star and Adamant Sky on the other hoof were doing better and better with each day, the latter one’s face soon healed from the beating he received while his relationship—

“We are not in a relationship!”

What? Hey don’t interrupt the narration Adamant, wait how did you even get here in the first place? Oh whatever get him out of here.

Like I was saying, his face healed from the beating he received while his not-really-a-relationship blossomed, he met with his not-really-a-marefriend more and more often for reasons other than those purely physical. Dashing, who was slowly, and I mean very, very slowly accepting Adamant’s and Twinkle’s relation— I mean not-relationship, could finally once again focus on getting some practice before this years Equestria National Race.

And so, days have passed separately for four friends, but soon they would once again rejoice together over few mugs of cold beer. Meeting after quite some time in their favorite place, the “Prancing Pony” tavern.

Supernova, as usual was the last one to arrive, he pulled the old wooden doors which opened with audible creaking, he walked inside and closed his eyes from the sudden burst of light, while they were adjusting Nova’s nostrils were filled with many different smells mixed with each other, he knew every single one of them.

Old wood under his hooves, smell of beer and slightly burned apples from the kitchen, a weak smell of coffee, and even unpleasant smell of few other customers, he remembered all of them.

After a while he hesitantly opened his eyes and quickly spotted his friends, sitting in the corner waiting for him. Two of them with a big smile plastered to their muzzles, while Void was sitting there with his usual grin.

“Hey, look who finally showed up!” Adamant shouted once he spotted him, Suprnova smirked and quickly walked over to their table.

“Sorry for being late, did you get me my—“

“One Equestrian Pilsner for our future Prince, coming right up.” Adamant said before Nova could finish, he accepted the liquor with a small blush on his muzzle.

“You don’t have to call me Prince you know,” he took a sip out of his mug, with a small shiver that went through his vine once the ice cold liquid filled his throat he added “his majesty is fine too.”

“Sure.” Sky said and drank his own drink, he licked his lips and grinned. “The day you become our Prince is the day I will start a coup d'etat.”

“Hey I would make a great ruler.”

“Yeah right, perhaps if you were an Alicorn Princess.” Sky said and snorted. “Oh my goodness I just imagined you with horn and tiara, welcoming some important guests standing near Princess Celestia wearing a fabulous pink dress,”—he laughed few more times—“you sure would make a great Princess.”

Both Dashing Star and Sky cachinnated and even Void couldn’t help stop himself from giving away few quiet chuckles, Supernova glowered at his friends and took a sip of his beer.

“Oh god, well we had our laugh but here’s the real deal, did you”—Sky looked around for a sec, and lowered his voice—“plow the royal plot?”

Nova scratched his head in confusion. “Well not really, you know I’m not a gardener.”

At that moment if one would listen carefully he could hear three consecutive sounds of hoofpalms, coming from the table in the corner.

“W-What?” Nova asked.

“Maybe I’ll ask more directly, did you help the moon go to bed early?” Sky asked.

“What in the bloody hell are you talking about?”

“Oh my goodness, did you and our Princess performed a rule thirty-four maneuver?”

Supernova still stared at him in utter confusion, this time joined by his other two friends.

“Sky?” Dashing Star butted in, “In all honesty I didn’t get that one either.”

“Screw it, did you and Luna had sex already?”

Nova heard his friend question, but it took him few good seconds to actually comprehend what he meant, suddenly his cheeks changed color to crimson. “Well I uhh…”

“You uhh, what?” Sky asked.

Supernova closed his eyes and took a big deep breath in order to regain composure ‘Buck it’ He thought and grinned.

“We did actually, ever since the night we were busted by Princess Celestia.” He said with pride.

“Woo-hoo, that’s my bro.” Sky turned towards Void and added quietly, “You owe me twenty bits.”

“Hey, enough about me.” Nova said, “How are you and Twinkle doing Sky? I didn’t see her for quite a long time, then suddenly I heard that you two are an item, what’s that all about?”

“Okay first off, we are not an item, we are simply in a open kind of relationship to which terms both of us agreed, Dashing accepts it—“

“I don’t but there’s isn’t much I can do.” Star said.

“Isn’t there something in this whole bro code about having sex with your friends sister?” Nova asked.

“I already executed that.” Dashing said.

“So like I was saying,” Sky continued. “we are both happy as it is, thank you very much.” He said and turned his attention towards Void. “I am curious though, how did your date go?”

Void’s small grin disappeared in a blink of an eye as everyone’s attention got turned towards him, he calmly took a sip of his drink and sighed. “It was fine.”

“Fine?” Sky asked with cocked eyebrow. “Fine?!” He slightly raised his voice and lifted himself on the table using his front legs. “You went out on a date with one of hottest mares out there and all you have to say is ‘Fine’?”—Sky leaned a bit closer towards Void who kept his face completely emotionless—“That’s not how it works sir, you here are going to tell us a story, and stories have beginning, middle and the end, stories where two ponies meet each other and become a lovey-dovey couple by the end of the day?” Sky forced few chuckles. “I don’t buy that kind of stories.”

“So what exactly do you expect me to say?!” Void raised his voice losing a bit of his previous calm composure. “We went on a date, we got drunk as hell and then we said goodbye, beginning, middle the end.” He said and downed his beer to the bottom of the mug. “I’ll have one more please.” He shouted to the closest waitress.

“Oh you won’t get away that easily.”

“I’ll have two more please!” Void shouted again.

“Sky, give it a break.” Nova said.

“Guhh, fine.” Sky mumbled out.

“I must say,”—Void said and took a sip of his new beer—“I wasn’t expecting a need for a whole story of my date from you, I was rather expecting something like, ‘So ya banged her or not?’ kind of thing.” He said making both Nova and Star laugh few times.

“It’s true I am that kind of guy, but you”—Sky pointed at Void with one hoof and slammed his other hoof on the table—“you are not me, so I was curious whether my friend finally found some mare to make him happy or not.”

A silence took over the table as nopony was expecting Sky to reply this way, Void scratched his head and looked away from his friend. “Sorry.” He added.

“Don’t worry, I can’t be offended that easily, you should’ve heard what Dashing called me first few days after me and Twinkle became a cou… a friends with benefits.” He chuckled.

“You what now?” Supernova asked now embarrassed Star.

“Well I can’t deny that I tend to get a bit angry when it comes to my little sister.”

“A little?” Sky asked. “He once said that my birth certificate is an apology from a condom factory.”

Supernova and Void both burst out in laughter while Star leaned back in his seat trying to hide his embarrassment.

“I-I didn’t know this one.” Supernova tried to speak through his laughter. “I didn’t k-know you have it in ya, Dashing, oh my goodness, but how, I imagine he didn't simply walk up to you and said that in your face completely out of the blue?”

“Hey maybe lets leave—“

“We were on a patrol in the garden together,” Sky cut Dashing off midsentence, “and we started talking about Twinkle, and from there he started throwing some minor insults at me, but I just laughed them off, then he told me that I better be careful not to expand my family, and then I said we are using condoms, you know the rest.”

“Oh my goodness.” Nova added.

“Well, I uhh, it just popped into my brain at the moment you know.” Star said.

“Hey! That’s right!” Sky turned towards his friend. “What about you?”

“W-What about me?”

“Oh stop pretending, I can see the way you’re looking at that maid.” He said with a wink.

“What maid, oh you mean Moonlily, I—“

“There, I knew it!” Sky said triumphantly.

“No, we are only fr—“

“Tell me, did ya bang her or not?”

Void almost spit out his beer. “Seriously? He gets the easy question?”

“Hush Void, I’m trying to get some information here.” He turned his attention back to Star. “So how is it?”

“No!” He almost shouted. “We are just friends, really.”

“And you feel nothing towards her?” Nova asked, becoming a bit curious himself.

“No I, well she is pretty, she’s got nice figure, and those eyes that make the sky pale in comparison and—“

“Oh boy, he’s doomed.” Sky commented.

“No I what, what just happened?” Star asked confused.

“What happened my friend? Dopamine, a lot of dopamine, that’s what happened.” Sky answered.

Star wanted to say something in his defense but words never left his throat, instead he sighed in defeat and nodded.

“I knew it!” Sky once again shouted triumphantly.

“But I don’t have time to be in a relationship right now, Equestria National Race is coming and I won’t lose to her this time.” Star said with determination burning in his eyes.

“Her? Oh you mean that rainbow-maned mare? What was she called? Rainbow Crash? Rainbow Bash? Well something like that.” Nova commented.

“Rainbow Da—“

“Don’t mind her name.” Star tried to correct his friend but to no avail as he got cut off by Sky again. “She won’t be competing this year anyways.”

“What?!” Star shouted at the top of his lungs startling not only his friends but also other customers. “What do you mean she won’t be competing this year?!”

“Hey chill out dude, I’m surprised you didn’t know that, everypony even slightly interested in this race knows that last year second place won’t be coming back this year.” Sky said nonchalantly.

“But, but why?”

“Cause she’s expecting.”

Star stared at him in utter confusion. “Expecting what?”

“Oh my goodness what is wrong with you guys tonight?”

“Hey I got it this time.” Nova butted in.

“What?” Star asked.

“She’s eating for two now.”

Star shook his head “No clue.”

“Oh buck it, she’s pregnant.”

Just like Nova before Star needed few seconds to fully comprehend what his friend just said. “What?! But whom, how I mean—“

“I have no idea who, I heard she’s with that one guy from Wonderbolts, Soarin I think, and about how, you are a big boy you should know where babies come from.”

“That’s not what I meant!” He shouted at his friend.

“Dude why are you so mad about this?” Nova asked.

“Because, I was training myself to death in free time since last year just to beat her, and now she’s not coming?!” Star took few deep breaths and massaged his temples.

“Here buddy,”—Sky pushed Stars beer towards him—“take a sip.”

“Thanks.” Dashing did as Sky said. “Well that was unexpected, what’s next Princess Celestia pregnant with Discord?”

“Yeah right, what kind of child would that combination bring?” Sky commented and they all shared few more laughs accompanied by another round of beer, night went on for our friends as they once again reunited in a place where it all began, big old tavern “The Prancing Pony.”

Chapter 35 - Everypony heading for the Gala.

"There's no way I'm wearing this." Supernova said pouting as he threw away multicolored hat of shame as he called it.

"Please Nova," Luna said as she grabbed the said hat with her magic, "it's the newest fashion amongst, well umhh,"

"Sophisticated ponies?" Nova asked.

Luna smiled with a small blush on her muzzle and nodded. "It's not that bad." She said and flew the hat towards Nova who looked at it with disgust, huge yellow material from which the hat was made for some reason reflected every ray of light that dared to touch it, making it look like a shining beacon of embarrassment.

If that already wasn't enough, its top was covered by multicolored streamers and feathers, "It only lacks balloons." Nova thought out loud and sighed in defeat. "Fine, I'll wear it." He said and snatched it from Luna's magic with his hoof. "But only this one time."

Luna clapped her hooves, "Glorious! I am very thankful." She said and chuckled few times, Princess of the Night moved to the big wardrobe and started to search through Nova's small collection of suits. "We need to buy you a new one."

"Again?" Nova asked, "I didn't even have any suits before but you insisted on buying me one, than another one," He looked into the mirror and tried to make use of hats huge size to cover his face with it, "and another one, and another one, and—"

"Fine I get it," Luna said as she finally choose the one proper for occasion, dark-blue suit designed by Prom Ford, "I couldn't let the coltfriend of Princess accompany her to the party without a proper clothing now could I?" She threw the said suit on the bed.

"Sure, but one or two would be enough." He said and sighed in resignation 'There's no way I can make this hat look any less ridiculous'

"I shall leave you for now and finish my own preparations." Luna said as she walked towards doors, she opened it with her magic and raised her hoof to make another step but stopped for a second, she turned around and with a small blush she said "Don't you go chase after other mares during the party."

Nova chuckled. "I'm all yours," he said and bowed, "my highness."

Luna smiled and left Nova alone, in his private chamber.

Private chamber, now that was something, this previously guest room was now all his, after Luna decided that her coltfriend shouldn't live in guards barracks, which caused another fight between her and her sister, but soon enough they came to an agreement.

Void was very against it, but not because he would miss Nova, but as he said 'What if my new roommate will be an ever bigger idiot than you?'

Thanks to Luna Void didn't get new "idiot" and so their old room became all his, much to his delight. It took Nova few nights to get accustomed to new environment but he quickly began appreciating his new room.

He was together with Luna for three months now, and without any exaggeration these were three best months of his life. He still was a simple soldier, but ever since Celestia found out about him and her sister being a couple, Luna started to take him to many different parties and galas, changing their dating from secret to hot topic that newspapers wouldn't shut up about.

Nova preferred when only few close ponies knew about them, but sooner or later their relationship would have to hit the world, Luna thought the sooner the better.

And now another boring party was coming, well maybe this time it wouldn't be that boring, after all it was the Grand Galloping Gala, he worked as a guard on few of these before, but he never was an invited guest.

"Yeah, maybe it won't be so bad." He said to himself with a smile as he looked at himself wearing a suit Luna chose for him, "well at least I won't look bad." He said and frowned as his mind reminded him of the huge hindrance in form of the illuminating hat, laying on the floor.

Luna trotted through the hallways of great Canterlot Castle, chuckling every now and then, the usual silent stone walls were now full of loud hoofsteps of ponies hurrying up with their chores, making sure everything is ready for the Gala that starts in less than an hour from now.

Princess of the Night stopped for a second as she saw a familiar face running past her. "Hello there Moonlily, where are you heading?"

Castle maid stopped in her tracks, almost falling over from all the speed, she forced a nervous smile, "Oh hello Princess, I have to go and quickly change into my dress."

Luna smirked, "How could I forget! You too have a date tonight, don't you."

"Well I, uhh—" She scratched the back of her head nervously and forced another smile. "I have to go." She stated and dashed away, leaving Luna's vision in an instant.

Luna laughed loudly and wiped away a small tear that appeared in her eye, "Poor filly, she's always nervous during these events and now she's has a colt to worry about." Luna turned towards the window and stared at full moon that adored this night's sky.

"Well I should get ready myself." She thought out loud and trotted towards her personal chambers, on her way she met few other familiar faces, but only nodded a greeting this time, soon enough she arrived at her destination and walked inside. She stepped towards her wardrobe and looked through her dresses.

"I think this one will be good," she heard someone say as long, sharp talon motioned towards the obsidian colored dress.

After a second that her brain needed to realize the situation she shouted and turned around startled, only to see the smiling face of her brother in law, "Discord! What are you doing here?"

"Helping you chose the right dress for the Gala, duhh." He said and took the one he motioned before from the wardrobe. "I think this one will work great."

Luna cocked her eyebrow and sighed, she looked at the dress and smiled after a moment, "For once you might actually be right." She said and picked up the dress with her magic.

"Oh please, I'm always right." He said and puffed out his chest, "so, did you, you know do the thing?"

"Did I do what?" She asked.

Discord smirked. "You know, the 'hat operation', did it success?"

Luna smiled, "Oh without any problems." She laughed. "What about 'no-more cake' operation?"

Discord gave Luna thumbs up with a smirk, "Special surprise muffin is ready." He chuckled. "This will be a wonderful Gala."

Celestia, already in her vibrant, teal dress waited in the main hall for the Gala to begin and guest to come in through the huge gate, excited to be greeted by their great Princess. Only pony at her side being her most faithful student, and a fellow Princess, Twilight Sparkle.

"I really hope this Gala will go without any problems Princess." Twilight said with a hint of guilt apparent in her voice, "I'm really sorry for what happened that one time."

"Twilight," Celestia said smiling, "I told you already that it was the most fun I had in years." She said and chuckled, "besides, I'm afraid it's not possible to have no problems with my husband attending it."

Twilight smiled nervously, "Yeah, right." Princess of Friendship looked around, trying to notice any familiar face in the crowd of ponies that swirled around the main hall, maids, guards, waiters all getting ready before the main gates opens.

She was about to give up before she noticed not just one, but two friendly faces, with a small smile she shouted out, "Octavia! Vinyl!"

Two mares carrying their respective instruments, cello and a portable DJ stand, stopped and turned towards the pony who called them, they smiled and quickly trotted to Twilight.

Young alicorn left her teacher's side for a moment and trotted to her old friends from Ponyville, "It's been so long since we last saw each other, how are you two doing?"

"Oh splendidly, thank you for asking, Princess." Octavia said.

"Please, call me Twilight."

"Sure thing Twi." Vinyl added.

"Were you both invited to play this year?" Twilight asked.

Octavia smiled. "Yes indeed, we have worked on combining our music styles together and, I wouldn't like to brag but—"

"It's absolute fire!" Vinyl shouted out. Startling her friends a bit.

Octavia blushed and nodded.

"That's great," Twilight said excited.

"Come on! We're going to be late." Adamant said as he ran towards Canterlot Castle, adjusting his bowtie with his left hoof.

"Oh please, so what?" Void commented but ran after his friend nevertheless, "This stupid thing won't end until dawn anyway."

Adamant stopped in his tracks and turned towards his friend, surprising him, Void barely stopped in time, being only an inch or two from his friend.

"Don't you understand?!" Sky said, not caring about how close to each other they stood, "I have to get there quickly, so I can prepare my hunting grounds."

"Excuse me?"

"Gosh, you guys don't understand anything," he said massaging his temples, "I have to check out all mares before I decide on my prey."

Void stared at him dumbfounded. "Excuse me?"

"Sheesh, I have to make sure I'll hit on the best mare there is, while also checking whether she has a coltfriend or not beforehoof, I need to prepare my hunting grounds." He said making it sound as obvious as possible.

Void stared at him for few seconds, he scratched the back of his head, "Excuse me? Aren't you with Twinkle?"

Adamant roared into the moon, "You guys don't understand anything!" He jumped back into running, "Just hurry up will ya?!"

"Oh for fucks sake." Void commented and ran after his friend.

"Is Dashing Star already there?" Adamant shouted.

"What?!" Void shouted back.

"I asked if Dashing Star is already there?!" He shouted louder.

"He was supposed to meet up with his date, so yeah!"

"Lucky bastard, hitting it off with a hot maid." Adamant commented under his nose.

"What?!" Void shouted.

"Nothing! Just hurry up!"

"What?!"

"Fuck you!"

Chapter 36 - That never happened.

Dashing Star trotted back and forth waiting for his date to leave her room.

"A date." Star said out loud blushing a little, after he and Moonlily first met Dashing never expected that their relationship will ever be beyond calling each other friends, but with tonight it might change.

Amount of courage he had to gather in order to just ask her out to the Gala was outstanding, but he knew that were was no going back the moment he asked Nova for additional ticket.

Star's ears perked up as he heard a quiet squeak behind him, that noise was announcing Moonlily's leaving her room. Star's breath changed from almost stable to rapid, he remembered how nervous he was during his first race many years ago, back then he felt sick from the pressure of all these eyes watching him as he entered a big stage.

This time it was much, much worse.

"Sorry for making you wait."

Star made a quick turn and his jaw dropped down as all of his nervousness was momentarily replaced with admiration.

Moonlily was beautiful, he knew that from the first time he met her as a maid, he especially fell in love with her vibrant eyes that made the night sky look pale in comparison, but right now she looked gorgeous.

She wore a long, navy blue dress which made her light blue fur shine, she had a small necklace with amethyst which shimmered with purple light, same color as her mane. Speaking of her mane, she didn't wear it in usual long and straight fashion, the middle of her mane was going straight until the last few strands on her back that were curled upwards, left and right side were both curled to the right, a few strands of hair cowering her forehead.

"Hello? Star"? She asked gently.

"I....you, I mean I...." Star mumbled out.

Moonlily chuckled and smiled, "I take it that you like it?" She asked as she pointed to her dress and then her mane.

Dashing Star.exe stopped working. Shy colt stared at his date not really believing that this is really happening.

"I'm flattered Star, but we'll be late for the Gala." She said and chuckled a couple more times.

Star mumbled something under his nose and then shook his head rapidly a few times. "Wow, you look..."

She batted her eyelashes and asked. "I look how?"

"I am trying to find anything better than 'outstanding', but I can't think of anything."

Moonlily laughed. "Then don't hesitate."

Star nodded and smiled, "You look outstanding, Moonie."

She blushed a little and with a small confusion asked, "Moonie?"

"You don't like it?" He asked, suddenly feeling embarrassed.

She looked up and rested her chin on her hoof, "Let's see, no I think I like it." She smiled and walked over to Star, she leaned slightly onto him catching him completely off guard. "Shall we go then?"

Star was now crimson red on his muzzle, part of nervousness from before came back as the initial shock of seeing Moonlily was gone. "S-Sure." He managed to say quite clearly.

"By the way Star," She said as they walked side by side towards the main hall, where opening ceremony will be held, "you look very handsom tonight."

Moonlily wasn't just saying that to make him feel less nervous, Star bought a suit especially for this occasion, a black well-fitted, double-breasted suit. His usually messy mane was combed backwards, which looked both official and funny at the same time.

"Thanks." He answered, still feeling uneasy from how close they were.

"Hey Star, do you think that—"

" Holy sh—"

Moonlily and Star looked at each other dumbfounded by the noise that prevented her from finishing her sentence.

"Where did that come from?" Star asked as he looked around.

"I think it was from the outside."

Star nodded and they both walked over to the closest window, after they looked out of it Star looked around the entrance to the castle and noticed two batponies rolling around on the ground, both of them seemed to rub their tongues with their hooves in disgust.

"Are these, Void and Adamant?" He said his thoughts out loud, "The hell are they doing?"

"Who knows." Moonlily commented gaining his attention, "We can ask them later, let's go we're really going to be late."

Star nodded and they left the scene, continuing their walk to the main hall.

"We're going to be late, ohhh we are going to be late!" Adamant shouted between his breaths as he and Void rushed throught the Canterlot City, leaving only dust and surprised faces behind.

"I wonder whose fault will that be!" Void shouted back.

Adamant slowed a bit in order to move closer to Void, who was running behind him, "And what does that mean?!"

"Well, if you didn't take so long to dress up, we would've been there long time ago!"

"Ha, you guys really don't understand anything, if you want to catch the best fish you need to bring in the best equipment!" He motioned with his muzzle to his suit. "Picking out a proper suit out of my collection is a time-consuming and important job, and you know that I can't keep my suits in the castle barracks!"

"Remind me why did I come along?!" Void asked visibly annoyed.

"Cause you didn't have anything to wear." Adamant added.

"Cause I didn't have any mare?! What?!"

"I said 'cause you didn't have anything to wear' how could you not hear that, we are running next to each other for fucks sake!"

Void gritted his teeth, "You know what, screw this next time you're picking up your suit on your own."

"Fine by me. And by the way, you really don't have any mare!"

"Fuck you!" Void remarked as he pushed Adamant with his shoulder as they ran.

"You little..." Adamnt mumbled under his nose and returned the favor, duo of running batponies started to push each other as they were getting closer and closer to the castle gates.

In fact, because of that argument they didn't realize they were already that close to the gates.

"Hey you two! Slow down!" A guard shouted and jumped out of the way of two running stallions, who although finally noticed what was happening, were too late to react properly.

They both started to slow down rapidly, but suddenly Adamant tripped over Voids front hoof and they both were sent flying.

Void and Adamant could only stare as physics were executing their laws, they both turned pale and felt horrified as they realized that their stares were getting closer to each other.

" Holy sh—"

Were the last words that Void managed to shout out before his lips were painfully forced against Adamant's as they both stared at each other in horror.

After few more painful seconds they finally were free from each other, and they both started to roll around on the ground and rob their tongues with their hooves.

After good few minutes of spitting and clearing their mouths with water from nearby fountain they looked at each other and Void said, "This never happened."

"What never happened?"

"Exactly."

Chapter 37 - Something start.

Nova slowly opened the door and carefully sticked his head out in order to look for any passing ponies. Thankfully nopony was coming through this hallway, so with a bit more confidence he opened the door and left the room, in his suit and a shining yellow beacon on his head.

I think the main hall was this way. He thought and quickly trotted forward, he knew that sooner or later ponies will see him wearing this, this thing. But he liked the later version more than sooner one. That's why all colors left his muzzle as he suddenly heard some voices coming from the direction he was heading towards. Seriously?! Gala starts in couple minutes, who the hell is still going around the Castle?

In a state of panic he looked around, not sure what to do he dived in to the closest room he had access to.

He closed the door and stuck his head to the door, with his ear laying on the wooden piece that isolated him from two ponies walking through the hallway he quickly left. He listened carefully until he was sure both voices and hoofsteps were so far away that were almost non-existent. He sighed in relief and wiped his forehead from all the sweat.

He stared at the closed door with a smile on his face, that after few seconds disappeared, he felt as if somepony was watching him. It was a creepy feeling, but just a feeling, so nothing to worry about, he quickly turned around and became completely dumbfounded, as his eyes finally noticed that he in fact wasn't alone in the room, that just happened to be one of many pantrys of Canterlot Castle, this one stored with all kinds of cake, baked and ready to be served on Grand Galloping Gala.

But one pony couldn't resist taking few bites just before the whole party started, the one staring at him was noone other, than Princess Celestia herself, she stared at him holding a piece of cake with her magic, and slowly munching on a bite she took from it.

They stared at each other for few moments, Celestia slowly enjoyed her sweet meal and when she finally swallowed the last bit, she smiled and asked, "Why are you wearing a huge flashlight on your head if I may ask?"

Nova felt his cheeks become red from embarrassment, but he quickly regained his composure and asked, "How is your diet going?"

"Touché." Celestia replied and put down another slice that she was about to eat.

"And if you must know, Luna asked me to wear this, saying how this is the newest fashion amongst you, royal ponies." He said.

Celestia stared at him in confusion for few moments before she added two and two together, and suddenly started to laugh out loud.

"What?!" Nova asked a bit confused and startled as he never saw Celestia laughing this much before.

"Y-You, my dear Supernova, have been, have been—" She stopped for a second and took a big breath, "You have been pranked, oh my." Celestia finally managed to compose herself.

Nova's color once again turned from dark-blue to crimson red, as he grabbed the ridiculous hat and threw it away.

Celestia walked over to Nova and lightly tapped him on his shoulder, "Now now, don't worry it didn't look so bad." She said barely holding her laughter.

"Yeah, thanks." Nova said through gritted teeth.

"Well now, pardon my but Gala starts in few minutes and my presence in the main hall is absolutely required, see you later dear Superno—" She suddenly stopped as a corner of her eye noticed something interesting on one of the shelves, she walked up to it, her stare glued to a small box with writing on it.

She picked it up with her magic and brought closer to her muzzle 'Property of Discord, do not touch', is what the writing said.

Celestia smiled mischievously, finally she was going to somehow annoy her husband and not the other way around. She opened it and inside she found a red muffin.

She levitated it with her magic and licked her lips, Nova watching the whole thing with rising curiosity. Even Discord likes to leave best snacks for later. She thought and took a big bite out of her prey, it was delicious to say the least, flavors of all kind swam through her mouth, as she tasted strawberry, apples, oranges, bananas and a cardboard?

She spit out the last part and stared at it in confusion, she shrugged and took another bite, which this time tasted just like cardboard from the start.

She looked at the muffin completely dumbfounded, Nova walked up to her, and as his curiosity took the best of him he asked, "What's going on?"

Celestia didn't answer at first, but rather quickly picked up another cake and took a small bite.

Her already white fur turned even more pale as a terrifying truth washed down on her, this cake also tasted like a cardboard.

"Hello? Equestria to Celestia."

She finally noticed Nova staring at her, and with her lower lip shivering a bit she mumbled out, "Cakes started to taste like cardboard after I took a bite out of this." She said and pointed to the red muffin, now laying on a floor.

Nova noticed a small box on the floor and picked it up. "'Property of Discord', oh something owned by a god of chaos has unexpected effects? How peculiar."

Celestia gave him an angry stare to which he only smiled, she sighed and sat on her haunches. "I guess we both got pranked."

"At least nopony managed to see me in this stupid hat, you on the other hoof are—" He didn't finish as he noticed a death glare that Celestia was giving him, he gulped and smiled. "Yeah we both got pranked."

Once again a silence took over the room, Princess of the Sun sat there pondering, while Supernova stood nearby, after few moments Celestia stood up with mischievous smile. "Then how about we get them back?"

Nova looked at her in confusion. "What do you mean?" He asked.

"We can get some revenge dear Nova, that's what I mean."

After few moments of thinking over it, his lips formed a sly grin as he nodded, "I must say I do like the idea, how are we going to do that?"

She shook her head, "I don't know yet, but I truly am needed in the main hall, we will meet later, after the opening ceremony." She said and left the room, leaving Supernova alone with his thoughts.

'Maybe at least I will get to know my possibly future sister in law a bit better.'

Void and Adamant entered the main hall, a few minutes before the official opening thanks to the special tickets they received from Princess of the Moon herself, "See, we not only made it in time, we are early." Void said.

"Yeah right whatever." Adamant said.

Void looked around and suddenly his glare stopped at one of the ponies inside the hall, it was a mare with white fur that stood next to Princess Twilight and Octavia.

The moment he noticed Vinyl was also the moment he left the hall in rather quick manner, unbeknownst to him, she also noticed him.

After few minutes, once the musicians and other non authorized ponies left the main hall opening ceremony finally started. One after another ponies entered through main doors and were greeted by the majestic Princess Celestia herself, one baron after another, business ponies and celebrities entered the Grand Galloping Gala.

With the last guest finally making it through, Celestia sighed in relief and walked towards the ballroom, where main party was being held.

Luna took a sip out of her glass of wine, she looked around searching for her coltfriend wearing her illuminating hat, but he was nowhere to be found. With a sigh she picked up one of covers expecting to see a great salad dish, but instead of that she was greeted by Discords head with an apple held in his teeth.

She jumped in place out of initial shock and breathed quickly for few moments, in the meantime Discord's head disappeared and suddenly reappeared along with the rest of his body, next to her.

"What was that about?!" She asked a bit angry.

"Oh come on, can't you take a little joke." He said and lightly punched her in her shoulder, "So how did it go?" He asked.

She shook her head, "He said he would wear it, but I still didn't see him anywhere with it, I'm afraid he could have realized it's only a joke."

"Well too bad, I on the other claw." He said and showed her his red muffin, with bites in it.

"My sister caught the bait? Oh my I didn't expect her to actually fall for that." She chuckled, "At least she will eat a bit healthier for now."

"Indeed."

What the two of them didn't know, was that Celestia watched them from afar, standing near the entrance to the ballroom, after few moments she left and walked into the hallway, with a smile on her muzzle she noticed Supernova, waiting for her near one of the busts.

She walked pass him and Nova followed her, after few moments they walked into one of the rooms that wasn't made available for the party, so they were safe from anypony walking on them while they're making they plans.

Nova closed the doors behind him and quickly asked, "Any ideas?"

"I have quite a few actually, but none of them are good enough."

"Same here, well that's a problem."

Celestia looked into the mirror and let her tongue roll out, she stared at it trying to remember how good cakes tasted, "Ohh Discord will regret what he did."

"So will Luna." Nova added, and in silence two of them pondered and thought about all the possibilities they had, but neither of two could think of anything good enough.

"This is so frustrating," Nova thought out loud, "come on, we need one good plan."

"I've got a plan."

Their ears perked up and they looked at each other simultaneously, realizing how neither of them said that they changed their attention to the only place that this voice could have come from, a big wardrobe.

Nova walked over and quickly opened it, they both looked inside and were put in another confusion as the pony inside the wardrobe was Nova's friend, Void Night.

"Hey Nova, hello your highness sun bu—, Princess." He said.

"Okay, I never thought I will ask this but, what are you doing in a wardrobe?" Nova said.

"Chilling out."

"Chilling out?" Nova repeated.

"Yea, it's quiet here, and all."

Nova stared at his friend in confusion for few moments before giving up, he knew better when to not ask, "So what was that plan you talked about?" He asked completely ignoring the fact that Void was hiding in here, much to Celestia's surprise.

"Well, I think you should do something like this."

Adamant looked around the party, there were many mares, most of them clearly from upper crust, not really his tastes but he knew how to deal with them.

But he had another problem, noone of these great looking mares were good enough. He scratched his head as he couldn't quite place it, but suddenly every mare around was lacking something.

He shook his head 'Come on Adamant, don't be a pussy, you can do it.' he thought and walked over to the nice looking mare, with yellow fur and pink hair, her dress looked like embodiment of spring, with flowers and green color dominating the design.

"Hello there." He started.

"Oh, hi, sorry."

Adamant got a bit confused, "Sorry for what? Well never mind that, I am Adamant, and I couldn't help but notice that a beautiful mare like you stood here all alone."

"Oh, thank you," She said and blushed, "I'm Fluttershy, n-nice to meet you."

"What a nice name, I... oh forget it. Sorry." He said and quickly walked away, leaving yellow pegasus in a state of utter confusion.

Adamant walked outside into the gardens, 'I need some fresh air, he walked forward until he found himself at the center of royal gardens, near huge fountain. He sat down on the grass and sighed.

"Not doing so good with the mares?"

His ears perked up and he looked through his shoulder as Twinkle approached him, she wore a crimson red dress, a slit on both of her hind legs, showing off some of her aspects.

"Damn right, how about you."

Twinkle shook her head. "Can I join?"

"Only if you have reservation, you know this spot is really hard to get."

Twinkle chuckled and laid down next to him, they just stared forward in silence for few moments, maybe even few minutes before they both decided to stop it at the same time.

"You know—" They both said, and started to laugh.

"Ladies first."

Twinkle smiled, "Quite a few stallions already hit on me you know, they were handsome, most of them my type but, there was, something was—"

"Lacking?" He said.

She nodded.

"The same here, these mares just don't have something that I want right now, and I have no idea what I want."

"We will figure it out, don't worry." She said with a smile.

Adamant looked at her and smiled back, his ears caught a quiet but hearable sounds of music, coming from the ballroom, he stood up and offered his hoof to Twinkle.

"Could you give me an honor of dancing with you? That would be awesome."

She grinned and accepted his hoof, "With pleasure."

Chapter 38 - Somethings end.

Dashing Star and Moonlily stood by one of the tables in the main hall where Octavia along with her band was giving a true show of classical music. Star was very nervous and really didn't know what to do, he couldn't even look at his date for too long without averting his gaze.

Moonlily on the other hoof had the time of her life, most stallions were very straightforward and bold, so it was a nice change. She couldn't help but giggle at how nervous he was and how cute it made him look, but soon she decided that she had enough fun and took the first step.

"Hey Star, how about we go for a walk? Find a less crowded place?" She asked.

It took him few seconds to realize she spoke to him, but when it finally hit him he smiled nervously, "S-Sure, where to?" he mumbled out.

She put her hoof to her chin and thought about her options for a few moments, then she came up with an idea, "How about I give you a tour around the castle?"

Star cocked his eyebrow, "You do realize I'm guard in this Castle?" he made a circle in the air with his hoof, "As if in, this castle?"

She chuckled, "Sure you are, but I'm a maid here, and guards are not allowed into all places that we are allowed." She said and winked playfully.

Star wanted to reply somehow but he found nothing, after few moments of looking over pros and cons of the situation, he nodded. "Lets go then."

"Great." She simply said and walked away from their table, Star quickly caught up with her, and they soon were at the door leading to the hallway.

He wanted to open the door for his mare, but as his hoof was about to touch the handle, doors suddenly burst open almost hitting him in the muzzle.

He quickly recognized a pony who walked through them, and with a big smile on his face he raised his hoof. "Rainbow Dash!"

Said mare smiled as well, seeing her rival and raised her hoof towards his, "Dashing Star, didn't expect to see you here." She said as their hooves bumped.

"I could say the same thing, didn't think Gala was your sort of party?"

"Maybe it's not, but that might change by the end of it."

Star suddenly became confused and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, you'll see."

Moonlily stared in silence, confused at first but then recognizing Rainbow, she was well aware of her position as an element of loyalty, at first it was a surprise that Star knew her, but then she added two and two together.

"I take it that you two met on some kind of race?" Moonlily said.

Star suddenly got shot right back to the earth, as for a moment he completely forgot about his beautiful date standing next to him. "Sorry, Rainbow Dash this is Moonlily, Moonlily this is Rainbow Dash, yes we met during a race."

"I totally beat his ass."

"Hey!"

"What? It's true."

Moonlily chuckled, but she suddenly was even more confused, one more pony walked through the doors, Soarin of the Wonderbolts.

"Dashie, how long did you plan on making me hold these doors?" He asked.

"Is, is that Soarin?" Moonlily asked Star quietly, she wasn't some kind of Wonderbalts crazy fan, but she sure knew that pony standing in front of her was a well known celebrity, and an awesome flyer.

"Apparently so, I heard these two got married." He replied quietly.

Rainbow looked at her husband for a moment then back at Dashing. "Hey, you two never met before right?"

Both stallion shook their heads simultaneously.

"All right, you two will get along I bet, sorry Star but my friends are waiting for me, and buffet is waiting for Soarin."

Wonderbolt gave Rainbow an angry glare to which she replied with a smirk.

"Sure thing, oh hey just before you leave, I heard that you're, well, how do I say this—"

"Pregnant?" Rainbow finished for him.

Star felt his cheeks redden as he nodded.

"I sure am, almost two months and counting," she said as she pointed towards her belly, "this filly will one day become the second fastest flyer in all of Equestria, right behind me."

"So it's a girl?" Star asked, "Wait how can you know this early?"

"We don't," Soarin answered, "but Rainbow really wants her first child to be a filly for some reason, she usually gets what she wants."

"Hey, first and only child," she said with a small scowl on her muzzle, "I won't take another eleven months of 'taking it easy', this is so frustrating."

"Dashie,—"

"Don't you 'Dashie' me!" she cut him off, "You can fly all you want while I have to sit down and 'relax', I admit I like taking a nap from time to time but everything has a damn limit!"

Soaring nervously smiled, "Well then, we'll see you two later." He said as he grabbed Rainbow by her hoof and quickly trotted with her into the crowd.

"Wow." Star said.

"Mares can be scary when pregnant." Moonlily said.

Star agreed completely, he shook his head and put his hoof on the handle, he opened the doors and motioned for her to go first.

"What a gentlecolt." She said and walked by him, Star following her into the hallways of Canterlot Castle.

Octavia bowed towards the crowd and swiftly left the scene, leaving her fellow musicians to occupy the audience. She had to go and look for Vinyl, their main act was supposed to start soon.

She entered the backstage and asked few ponies who where handling the instruments, both classical and electronic, about Vinyls whereabouts, but to her surprise her friend left backstage sometime ago.

She went to the toilet and few other places she thought Vinyl might be at, but she was nowhere to be found. Octavia, slightly mad walked through the hallways, asking anypony she met if they saw white mare with pink shades anywhere.

Right when she was supposed to give up, one of the waiters said that he indeed saw her sometime ago, as she entered the room 203.

"Room 203?" Octavia asked confused, "Pardon me, but why would rooms in Canterlot Castle be numbered like in some kind of hotel?"

"It's one of the guest rooms, we number them so it's easier for visitors to not get lost in here." He answered.

"Thank you." She said, and with some irritation still left in her she trotted in the direction waiter pony gave her.

She soon found it, and quickly walked in. But to her dismay Vinyl was nowhere to be seen. She facehoofed and was about to leave, but suddenly a single noise caught her ear.

She turned around and walked towards a big wardrobe that sneezed a moment ago, and as far as she knows wardrobes don't sneeze.

Octavia opened it and to her utmost satisfaction she found Vinyl, with her shades slightly down making a part of her eyes visible, Vinyl's muzzle adorned a dumb smile as she waved her hoof and said, "Sup Tavi?"

"'Sup Tavi'?" Octavia repeated with anger in her voice, "Don't you 'Sup Tavi' me! What do you think you're doing, hiding in here when our show is about to start?!"

"I was preparing for our performance."

"In a wardrobe?" Octavia asked with cocked eyebrow.

Vinyl looked straight into Octavia's eyes and with her voice as stoic as possible she replied, "Yes."

Octavia sighed, she looked at her friend, but not with anger this time, rather than malice her eyes showed compassion, "We both know why you are here Vinyl, but lets face it you two will have to talk it out eventually."

White mare's smile suddenly disappeared, she corrected her shades and nodded, "Yeah I know."

Octavia smiled and offered Vinyl a hoof, "Come now, you were the one that wanted to rock the Gala." While I was, and still am against it Octavia added in her thoughts, as she still was scared about their duo act not meeting with great responses from this kind of audience.

Vinyl accepted her friend's hoof and nodded, "Sure, lets rock it!"

Luna and Discord stood by the buffet, Princess of the Night nervously rubbed one of her hooves while the god of chaos enjoyed baked goods that were displayed in front of them.

"Discord, what if something happened?" Luna asked.

"What do you mean?" He asked as he swallowed another bite.

"Well I, don't know, but Nova still hasn't showed up, and neither did Tia."

Discord licked his claws and chuckled, "Why so serious Luna?" He said, "What possibly could go wrong? We only made two harmless pranks on them."

Even though Discord words were kind of soothing, Luna still couldn't help but worry a bit, especially once she noticed a certain pony running towards her.

"Void Night?" Luna asked, "What happened, why are you in such a hurry?" She asked.

"Princess," Void quickly said, "Supernova is in trouble."

Luna's ears perked up upon hearing her coltfriend's name and word "trouble" in the same sentence. "What happened?" She asked nervously.

"Well, Princess Celestia ate a certain muffin that she at first thought was a prank from her husband, but then it turned out that it was actually Supernova, who possibly tried to poison her."

Luna and Discord looked at each other, "This is ridiculous, where did my sister get that idea from?!"

"I have no idea, your majesty." Void answered.

"Where are they?" Luna asked, her muzzle slowly becoming pale.

"In the dungeon, apparently Princess Celestia has some kind of punishment for him."

Without second thoughts Luna dashed towards the doors to the hallway, Discord, who now was equally nervous about the situation, followed her and quickly caught up.

"We must hurry." She said as she ran.

Discord flew by her side, "Couldn't we just use teleportation spell?"

"Dungeon is created in such a way that unicorns can't get there with teleportation, it's a safety device."

"Sure, unicorn or for that matter, an alicorn can't, but what about a god of chaos?" He asked as he pointed towards himself with his thumb.

Luna stopped and looked at him with an angry scowl.

Discord gulped and nodded, he put his claw on her arm and they both disappeared.

"So how do you like Princess Celestia's private library?" Moonlily asked.

"I'm not really into reading, but this sure looks amazing." Star said as he looked at the biggest number of books he ever saw in his life.

"I'm usually cleaning Princess Luna's chambers, but I get to clean this place from time to time as well." She said, "Well then, since we are already here we can go to the gardens, and from there to the special guest room."

"Special guest room?"

"It's on top of a tower, but it's special because that's the room which Princess Twilight Sparkle used to live in when she visited Canterlot."

Star whistled in awe as Moonlily showed the way, they soon got to the gardens, a place where Star loved to be on duty.

"This is really something." He said, "All of these flowers, trees, it's so quiet here you can hear the wind blasting through the leaves."

Moonlily stopped for a second to admire the scenery, he was right, royal gardens, especially at night had outstanding atmosphere.

They both sat on their haunches next to each other, as their eyes looked into the sky, where a full moon awaited them, with stars twinkling all around him.

"So beautiful."

"I know right? Princess Luna does amazing job with—"

"I didn't mean the sky."

Moonlily looked down and noticed that Star wasn't looking up any longer, he was looking at her, once she realized that her cheeks reddened, "Thanks." was the only thing that she could think of, as his sudden compliment caught her off guard.

They stared at each other with smiles on their muzzles, as night watched over them with nopony else to disturb their peace.

After few moments of total bliss Star finally came to his senses, his cheeks turned crimson as he suddenly realized what he just said.

He was embarrassed, but also happy.

"Well then, what about that special guest room?" Star asked.

"Oh right," Moonlily scratched the back of her head, "it's not far from here."

They stood up and walked forward, Star followed Moonlily, this little moment might have only lasted for a couple of minutes, but for him it left like hours.

What he didn't realize, was that the mare in front of him felt the same time paradox, smiling as she walked towards the famous guest room.

After few more minutes they finally got there, atop of a tower, in front of doors to Twilight Sparkle's old guest room.

"Well then," she said as she slowly opened the door and peeked inside before she let him in, "are you ready to witness the—"

She suddenly stopped, her cheeks once again burned with embarrassment as she quickly retreated and shut the door.

Star looked at her in confusion, "What happened?"

"N-Nothing, after a longer thought there's nothing cool to see here."

"But you said this was—"

"I was wrong! It's a very boring room to visit!" She quickly responded.

"Well , okay then." He said and Moonlily quickly trotted down the stairs towards the bottom of the tower.

"Did you hear that?" Adamant asked as he raised his head.

"Heard what?" Twinkle asked.

"Somepony just opened and closed the door."

"Oh please, as if somepony would come all the way to the top of this tower when there's Gala going on in the main building." She said.

"Well maybe you're right."

"Of course I am, now come here, we are nowhere near done"

Adamant smiled, "You're damn right about that."

"Don't you guys feel that this party is sort of...." Rainbow couldn't find a proper word to finish her sentence.

"Boring?" Pinkie said.

"Exactly."

"Well what did ya except Rainbow?" Applejack asked, "It's the same every year.

Fluttershy took a sip of her tea, "I think it's really nice." She said.

"Well it's nice, just, boring." Rainbow said as her head fell to the table with a loud thud, "How did we make it through all these previous Galas?"

"Well there always was some kind of disaster near the end, but Ah don't see anything happening now." Applejack said with a smirk.

Rainbow Dash looked around at her five friends, all standing near the same table, until her stare stopped at Pinkie Pie, suddenly Rainbow came up with a great idea. "Disaster huh?" She said to herself.

"Hey waiter, can I have a cup of a really strong coffee?" She shouted to a closest waiter pony who nodded in response.

She caught the attention of her five friends as they all stared at her with confusion, once the waiter came back the her order, she smiled and took the cup with her hoof.

She trotted towards one of her friends, and as she did other four mares quickly realized what was she doing. Their muzzles went pale, their eyes were full of fear as Rainbow walked up to Pinkie Pie and said, "How about a cup of coffee?"

Luna and Discord appeared in the dungeons, where after few moments of running around they finally found what they were looking for.

Celestia stood with angry scowl on her muzzle in front of one of the prison cells, as they ran towards her they saw Nova, who sat on his haunches inside.

"Luna!" He shouted, "Please get me out of here!"

Princess of the night quickly ran up to her sister, "What are you doing Celestia?!" She shouted, "Why would you imprison him?!"

"Why dear sister? You ask me, why?" Celestia said, "Because this little rat tried to poison me, thankfully I only ate part of what he prepared, which resulted in me losing my taste, hopefully temporarily."

Luna and Discord couldn't believe their own ears and eyes, as the most stupid scenario was becoming reality in front of them.

God of chaos decided to not take this any further, he walked over to his wife and said, "Darling, listen, this wasn't his muffin it was I who prepared it, it also wasn't poisoned it was only a small joke." He said.

Celestia cocked her eyebrow, "A joke?"

Discord nodded.

"Don't try to cover up for him," Celestia said, "I already prepared propper punishment, he will regret ever being born."

"Mercy!" Nova shouted.

"Tia! Stop this madness, it was just a stupid joke made by Discord, why are you... laughing?"

Celestia couldn't help it, she let out few chuckles that turned into regular laughter, Nova soon followed as he casually left his imprisonment by simply opening the doors to his cell.

"W-What, how, what is happening?" Luna asked as she and Discord became utterly confused.

"What, you don't realize it yet?" Nova said, "The two of us decided to get back at you for your pranking."

"And we did, you should have seen a look on your faces." Celestia said.

Nova raised his hoof towards Princess of the Sun, who hoof bumped him with a smile.

"That was all just a joke?" Luna asked slightly angered.

"Indeed." Nova said.

"But, but I was so worried, you really couldn't come up with anything better?!"

"Well that was the best that we could think of, still it worked well." He said trying hold his laughter.

Luna made few deep breaths and calmed herself down, with a tint of red on her cheeks she said, "Fine, I guess that makes us even."

Nova and Celestia nodded, Discord was about to say something as one of the guards that were on duty tonight ran towards the four.

"Princess ! We have a problem!"

"What is it?" Celestia asked.

"T-The main room of Gala, its, its...."

Discord teleported all five ponies back to the Gala, only to find it utterly devastated. "Holy Faust," Nova said, "what could possibly be the cause of such destruction?"

In one of the corners Pinkie Pie snored loudly, as she had to take a quick nap after she used up all of her energy in these few minutes, in other corner Rainbow was rolling around laughting, while her friends, except for Applejack who was barely holding her laughter, were scolding her.

Suddenly Octavia and Vinyl appeared on the scene, their jaws fell to their hoofs, but the DJ mare quickly composed herself and with a smile on her muzzle she said, "Damn Tavi, these parties of your might not be so boring after all."

Chapter 39 - The Talk.

"Why is it always us doing the cleaning?" One of the guards asked as he picked up another piece of debris. He raised his head and looked around the remains of what used to be the main hall of Canterlot Castle. "When I joined the royal guard I didn't know I'm singing up for the role of janitor."

His fellow guard moved a whole bunch of rubble with his magic and placed it into the wheelbarrow. "I know man, but trust me it could've been a lot worse," he said with a sigh, "this will take a whole night to clean up." He commented

"I can hardly imagine something more boring than taking care of this mess." He said with a spat.

"Perhaps, but at least that monster Riddick is overlooking the evacuation to the royal gardens." He said with a grin.

"True that, man that guy has no soul." Earth pony guard said and clenched his teeth as he struggled with an exceptionally big boulder. "That looks like a head of Princess Luna." He commented as he finally managed to lift the remains of huge statue up.

"I mean if he was here we wouldn't even be able to talk and—" Unicorn guard suddenly froze as he noticed with a corner of his eye a death glare of his said captain. He immediately snapped into saluting position and went completely pale, his fellow guard while confused at first quickly followed suit.

Two unlucky stallions stood there patiently as Riddick walked past by them with nothing more but a single grunt of disapproval. Once he was far enough they loosened up, unicorn guard sighed and said. "Well, we're fucked."

Every guest of the Gala was moved into the royal gardens, where Celestia and Luna were currently in the middle of an apologising speech, well it was mostly Princess of the sun talking as Princess Luna was almost clueless about the event that had transpired in the main hall, while Celestia was fully aware and utterly amused by the outcome.

However not everypony made it to the royal gardens, Dashing Star and Moonlily both decided that it's time to leave as their hangout was getting more and more crowded. In the midst of small chaos nopony even noticed two ponies leaving castle grounds and heading for the city.

With each step Star could feel his hooves shivering with excitement, or was it nervousness? He wasn't sure, but it didn't matter, he knew that it was just a simple date, something ponies do on regular basis, but he felt like tonight was special somehow, he just didn't know why or how.

Moonlily smiled as she once again noticed Star shyness, she chuckled a bit and nudged him with her hoof, "Got any ideas where we can go?"

Star shook his head and nodded vigorously, "Perhaps a club or something like that?"

"Well, I'm not a big fan of loud music that can make me deaf."

Star chuckled nervously and looked around trying to think of a place to go, suddenly his brain stopped as he spotted a pair of ponies he knew very well trotting right in front of them.

He felt the heat rising in his cheeks but it wasn't an embarrassment, he watched them for a couple of seconds, took a deep breath to calm himself and shouted, "Hey! Adamant, Twinkle, wait a moment!"

Just an hour ago halls in the castle were filled to the brim with ponies, waiters and guards making haste to their respective duties, guests of Gala minding their own business. But now these halls were empty, except for two ponies standing in front of a window, watching Luna's moon illuminate the city of Canterlot.

"So, Vinyl." Void started, "I guess we have to talk about this."

"Yeah, I know." She said and took off her glasses with her magic. "But I don't want to."

Void sighed, "Me neither but," he stopped for a second and glanced over to Vinyl who was tossing her glasses around in her hooves. "We can't just, not talk and leave it be."

"I guess we really can't." She said with her voice audibly cracking. "How do we start."

Void shook his head, "I don't know, let's just try to—" He grunted and leant onto the wall. "I don't know."

Both of them just stood there silently, they both tried to hide away and run from this conversation but they knew it will have to happen eventually. Even so it was hard, harder than either of them expected it to be.

"I'll start." Vinyl said finally breaking the silence.

Void nodded and went back to standing on all fours.

"Back then, at the club," Vinyl took a few breaths to calm herself, "when you and me, when we, when I—"

"I know." Void said.

Vinyl nodded and continued. "You were the first stallion that didn't simply want to fuck me," Vinyl visibly cringed a little, "but instead hoped for something more, well that's what I thought back then, I didn't know you were drugged and, you know, we knew each other for quite some time and you said all these things that you don't remember." She said with a small chuckle.

Moment of silence fell upon them as Void simply stood in the same spot, waiting patiently for her to continue, and eventually she did.

"And it happened, then I came to your place, shouted at you and we went on a date, and you know what, It wasn't super cool, or incredible, but it might have been one of best days of my life." She could feel her eyes water slightly, she quickly wiped them off with her hooves. "A-And then, I don't know, you put me in a position where I hoped we could be an item but also I knew that this wasn't going to happen." She sobbed, "I was a mess for a while you know, I couldn't even feel the music, I couldn't feel the beat. I lost myself"

Void stood firmly, his stoic expression didn't show any signs of change, however, he could already feel small drops of water building up in his eyes, he bit his bottom lip in attempt to overshadow the pain that he was starting to feel inside. A pain of guilt.

"But thanks to Tavi I stood up and found myself again." She said and placed herself on all fours on the floor, she looked at him and said, "And here we stand together, and I want to ask you, what are we? Do we even exist for you?" She stepped closer to him. "Or is there no we and only me and you?"

Void closed his eyes and moved his muzzle a bit farther away from Vinyl, he couldn't stand it, the way she looked at him. Her eyes that he expected to be full of anger, were actually full of sadness, he wanted to believe she's simply angry at him, but the truth is she wasn't angry. She was sad, insecure, vulnerable. A complete contradiction of her usually cheerful and strong persona.

Void believed that it was his fault that his friend changed like that, and he hated himself for it, he could feel single tears running down his cheeks as he tried to think of an answer. He had tonnes of them, 'We can start over—', 'We should just stay friends—', but none of them were honest, he knew there's only one way this can be done, no shortcuts and no lies, all in.

He opened his eyes which immediately met Vinyl's red, covered in tears eyes, he took a deep breath and said. "When it all started I, I was drugged, I had no idea what transpired that night, I don't remember what I told you, but I know what I thought about you."

Vinyl's ears perked up, "Strong, independent, maybe even a tad manly." He said and chuckled a couple times, "But also pretty, cute, funny, great to hang out with, be it as a friend or something more." He smiled. "I don't know what I told you back then, but I can tell you that I grew interested in you. I thought that maybe this could work, we would make a good couple." He walked over to the window. "But I bottled these thoughts and put them away because I was scared."

"Scared of what?" Vinyl asked even though she knew, but she wanted to hear it from him.

He becomes silent for a few moments, the only things audible were the weak noises coming from royal gardens and Void's loud breathing. He sighed and shook his head, "I'm afraid of falling in love, obviously, I mean who wouldn't?" He looked back at Vinyl,
"Love is a complicated thing, it is both logical and illogical, it gives happiness and sadness. You see I'm afraid to make that bet."

Vinyl walked over to him and nuzzled his cheek lightly, he could feel wetness on her fur, clearly from her tears.

"Perhaps we should?" Vinyl asked.

Void didn't say anything, he lowered his head and nuzzled her.

"Maybe this is what we need, to take that bet?"

"But I—"

"I know, do you know why are we even talking right now? Because we have more in common than you think." She moved slightly away from him and wiped her tears with her hoof. "I too am scared of taking that bet, I feel that if we'll lose then it's all over for me, but you know what, if on the winning end there's a happy future, a future with us, then I'm willing to take that bet."

She moved away from him and looked him right in the eye. "What about you?"

Chapter 40 - The confession.

Void kept his sight glued to the cold floor, he couldn't stand staring back at Vinyl's impatient gaze. He shifted his weight from left to right and back, he didn't know how to stand or what to do, at this moment he couldn't even think straight.

He was scared, more than he ever was before. He didn't want to understand, but he understood nevertheless that this isn't just another stupid decision which won't change anything, this will change everything.

Void searched through his mind, through his memories and ideas to find something reassuring, something to latch on to. All he wanted was a simple thought that could push him in the one direction or the other, and sure enough, he found it.

His vision was filled with scenes of Nova and Princess Luna, smiling and laughing together, he saw Adamant happily rejecting some hot mare as he walked towards Twinkle with a huge grin on his face.

'They had enough balls to try, and here I am almost pissing myself just by thinking about it?' He wanted to laugh at himself, at his miserable approach, at his cowardice, and mostly at his stupidity.

He finally raised his gaze from the floor and stared back at a mare standing in front of him, waiting for his answer.

He smiled and nodded, "I have a friend who once took a bet, a rather stupid bet." Void chuckled, "Believe it or not this stupid bet changed his life for better, most likely forever."

Vinyl stared at him in confusion as he continued, "If it worked out so well for him then maybe I should try too."

Void couldn't help but smile as he watched Vinyl's face switch from her glum expression to a huge smile, her still wet magenta eyes instantly shone brighter as she heard those words. She blushed a little bit and shifted in place, "That's cool."

"Cool? That's all you have to say?" Void asked with a grin.

"I'm happy, what else is there to say?" She sighed, "I acted all lovey-dovey and sad for far too long you know, It didn't feel like myself. You will have to make it up to me." She said with a wink.

"Fair enough, but there's one thing. Let's start all over again."

"What do you mean all over?"

"What else could it mean? Let's take it up from where it started and let's make sure it will go better this time around." He started moving closer to her as he was explaining, "Let's start this by going out somewhere first, and not by having a drugged sex."

"Sounds good." Vinyl said with a nod.

"Well then miss Scratch, would you like to go out with me?" He stood next to her, all the time keeping his gaze at her eyes.

Vinyl smiled and nodded. "I would love to dude."

"So, you're Star's little sister?" Moonlily asked, "Nice to meet you." She said as she eyed her drink before taking a rather big sip from it.

"Pleasure's all mine, I do wish that we could meet—" She stopped as she pondered the wording of her thought, "under more favourable conditions." Twinkle, on the other hand, observed as her coltfriend and her brother once again argued.

This time, however, they were both drunk.

"Why won't you just give me a rest already, you know I love you, I mean her, I mean," He stopped and took another shot, "I love you too man, you're like, my best friend or something." He said and face planted into their table.

Dashing swayed from left to right while he kept his gaze at their bottle, half empty. "Listen," He said as his gaze switched to another bottle, this one, however, was already emptied of her content. "I can't just, 'give you a rest'." He said while making quotation marks with his hooves. "I'm her brother, and I have to protect her."

"From what mate?"

"We both know that you—" he stopped for a second as he forgot what he wanted to say, with a shrug he took another shot and coughed. "Listen, I can't just 'give you a rest'."

"You already said that!"

"For the love of Celestia!" Twinkle commented.

"Colts, can't live without them, can't bear their stupidity." Moonlily said with a chuckle.

"Okay mate," Adamant started, "Lis—listen here." He moved closer in and put his arm around Dashing's shoulder, "I don't know what is love okay, but—" He moved his muzzle away for a moment and coughed. "But I assure you," he continued. "That I will never hurt her, so let's just stop this stupid thing."

"So, no more arguing?" Star asked.

"No more."

They both nodded and took another shot, "I can't believe it." Twinkle said awestruck. "Did that just really happen?"

"Seems like a problem solved itself." Moonlily said with a smile.

"Seems so." Twinkle said, "About damn time." She added quietly.

"Guys, I think I need some fresh air." Dashing said

"That's a really good idea." Adamant added.

"I know this really cool place, it's like a secret meadow with these flowers." He stopped and put his hoof on his mouth.

"Then let's go!" Adamant shouted as he raised his hoof to the air, only to trip over his own legs and fall straight to the ground.

"Colts." Mares said with a disappointed shrug.

"Where are we going?" Vinyl asked as two of them passed by another set of buildings, "I know you said this will be a surprise and all but aren't we getting really close to the town's gate?"

"That's right."

After few more steps, Void noticed the sudden lack of hoof steps behind him, he stopped and looked around where he saw Vinyl glowering at him. "Seriously dude? For our first date, we're going to do some mountain climbing?"

"Don't worry that's not what we're doing, just follow me." He said reassuringly as he started to walk forward.

Vinyl stared at his back in confusion for a couple of seconds before she resumed her walking, "Maybe I should drug him after all."

"I heard that."

"Just kidding, just kidding."

"This was quite a night, wasn't it?" Luna asked her coltfriend as they walked through the royal gardens side by side.

"I guess, I mean I'm still not sure what happened back in the main hall." Nova commented.

Luna sighed, "It seems my sister was very happy about whatever transpired there." She moved closer to Nova, gently nuzzling the side of his muzzle, "Honestly I thought she would be at least a bit mad about the destruction of the main hall." She said with a chuckle.

"I know right?" Nova commented, "But whatever, we can finally enjoy a moment of peace, just the two of us." He said as he sat down, Luna quickly followed suit and sat next to him, resting her head on his shoulder. For a few moments, they just sat there, alone together in royal gardens, stargazing into the night sky.

"You know," Luna decided to finally break the sweet silence, "when I think about it, isn't this the place where you first asked me out?"

He looked around and smiled, "You're right! It seems so long ago, but—"

Luna looked at him slightly confused and asked, "But what?"

Nova completely froze as he suddenly came to a simple yet terrifying thought, the realisation that after all this time he still hadn't told Luna about how it all started with a bet.

"I—It's nothing really, just a stupid thought."

Princess of the night grew curious, but luckily for him, she decided to not dwell into this conversation, instead she once again rested her head against his shoulder and simply enjoyed the stargazing.

Nova however, couldn't enjoy their time together, not anymore at least as these scary thoughts started to flood his mind. Every time he tried to resolve one problem in his head another one came along, when he stopped fearing for one outcome he suddenly came up with next, more terrifying one.

What if she breaks up with me? I just recently realised I love her I don't want to lose her, not to mention that she's a goddamn Princess so I could even end up on the moon. One after another these thoughts stormed his brain until he came to a critical point.

An imaginary vision of infuriated Princess Celestia, with even more infuriated Captain Riddick standing by her side.

This is where he couldn't handle it silently anymore and he suddenly stood up, startling his marefriend in the process.

"Hey, what gives?" Luna asked.

"I'm sorry but, I—" He nervously looked around as his breathing became faster and faster, "I have to go." He simply exclaimed and dashed away from the scene, leaving the Princess sitting under the starry sky, alone with her confusion.

Supernova ran like crazy through the hallways of Canterlot Castle, he didn't have any particular goal or direction for that matter, he simply run hoping to find someone who can help him, give him an advice. He looked around hoping to see the familiar faces of his friends, but they were nowhere to be found.

And so he run, until he felt his face colliding with something fluffy and hairy, he shook his head and looked up where he saw former Lord of Chaos himself, staring down at him with confusion and amusement gleaming from his eyes.

"What do we have here," Discord commented, "a lost little pony."

Nova stared at him blankly, after a few moments he sighed and while looking at the floor he said, "I guess this will do."

"Excuse me?"

"Discord, listen I really need someone to talk to right now." Nova said, "I would be really grateful if you could give me an advice on, well, rather major problem."

Discord's muzzle lit up as he coiled his snake-like body around Nova, slightly nuzzling him, "Oh my dear Nova, you don't even know how much I would like to help."

"Excuse me?" Nova asked, now with his fears temporarily changed to bewilderment. "That's great, but could you maybe, you know," He pushed him away lightly with his hoof, "Move your muzzle a few inches away from my muzzle."

"Oh, pardon." He said and quickly disappeared in a puff of smoke, making Nova cough a little before reappearing in front of him, this time wearing a brown checkered suit with a black necktie. "So what seems to be the problem?" He asked.

Nova sighed, "It's a rather long story but—" He was cut short as he suddenly began to levitate, only to fall on a red therapist couch a few moments later. He glowered at Discord for a few moments who in turn only shrugged and took out few notes and a pen.

"Then the sooner we start the better!"

This place is incredible.

This simple thought coursed around everyone's mind as the four friends made their way into the secret meadow behind the Canterlot City.

"This is, just—"

"I know, this sight never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times I come here, it always feels like the very first time." Dashing said.

Both girls gave him a confused look, then they looked at each other for a second before Twinkle asked, "Seems like you already kinda, sobered up?"

"Oh, not in the least ladies," Adamant said swinging back and forth, "This dude has like these weird, stages when he's drunk." He said and laid down amidst the flowers. Partly because he wanted to, partly because he had to.

"For next half an hour or something like that he will be super polite and gentlecolty, he will use fancy words and—and" He took a deep breath and laid his muzzle on the floor. "and stuff."

"Will he?" Moonlily asked in disbelief.

"Fear not my lady." Dashing said as he took her hoof and raised it gently to his muzzle, "I would never do anything to disturb your enjoyment of our little rendezvous, not now when we're here in this magical place, with Princess Luna's starry sky watching over us, nor never." He finished his sentence with a gentle kiss to her hoof.

Moonlily simply stared blankly at him for a few seconds before she turned slightly to Twinkle, "You reckon we could make it permanent somehow?"

Twinkle shrugged while Dashing simply chuckled a few times, "Oh my beloved Moonlily, your wish is my command, if it is what you want then I shall make sure to accompany you like this forever." He said and took her hoof with confidence.

She blushed a little and giggled quietly.

"Ye that won't happen."

Both girls turned their attention to Adamant who slightly raised his head from the ground, "Excuse me?" Moonlily asked.

"You heard me, that's just a stage, in half an hour it'll be gone."

She looked back at her coltfriend who only smiled reassuringly, she smiled back to him and quickly turned her attention to Adamant, "What happens after that?"

"I think he will just be drunk again."

Moonlily sighed and quickly smiled, "It's for the best I guess, this is nice and all but I think I prefer Dashing just the way he is."

"Ohh, that's so sweet." Twinkle said with a smile and looked back to her coltfriend with mild disappointment, "Why can't you act all chivalry when you're drunk."

He shrugged and smiled, "I don't know, but I know I love you, and you love me." He looked at her for a few moments before his smiled disappeared and he gave her a questioning look, "Right?" He asked.

Twinkle chuckled and laid down next to him, "Right." She said and lightly nuzzled him.

"Oh boy, I didn't expect this place to be so packed."

Four friends perked up and turned their attention to the new voice coming from the entrance to the meadow, all four of them smiled as they saw Void standing there together with awestruck Vinyl.

"Dude, this is really cool." She commented.

"I told you so." Void said as they walked up to their friends, "Sorry for this crowd, it's rather unexpected."

"Unexpected, but not unpleasant." Vinyl said with a smile.

"We'll see about that."

Dashing was the first to greet the newcomers as he walked up to the new couple with a bright smile and big gleam in his eyes. "I'm so delighted to see you two together, it was my dearest wish for you two to find happiness on this very special day." He said and gently hugged first Void and then Vinyl, confusing the latter.

"Was he always like that?" She asked Void quietly.

"He's probably drunk, it's a thing that sometimes happens to him when he drinks too much." He grinned, "It's really amusing when you get used to it."

Vinyl just nodded and suddenly was approached by Twinkle and Moonlily, who first introduced themselves and then proceeded to ask poor mare tonnes of questions. "A little help?" She whispered to Void.

"I'll leave you to it." Void quickly said and walked over to other colts leaving Vinyl alone in a storm of curious mares.

"Shouldn't you help your lady when she's in such a peril?" Dashing asked.

"I think she can handle herself." He said as he watched Vinyl switching her confused gaze back and forth between Twinkle and Moonlily.

"Hey dude, I'm happy you know, for you." Adamant added down from the floor.

"Thanks."

"Also," Sky took a deep breath and started to sing, "Void and Vinyl sitting in a tree!"

"Really dude?" Void asked unamused.

"I can't help it, I'm drunk."

Void sighed and sat down, "Just carry on then."

"I see, I see." Discord commented as he looked down at his notes where he drew a rather poor looking version of himself with a crown atop of his head. "That certainly seems like a troubling matter."

"I know."

"But I think I have a way out of this."

Nova slightly grinned as he looked at Discord with hope, " You do?"

"Okay Novy, here's the deal." His suit disappeared along with a couch Nova was laying in, which resulted in the said colt's meeting with cold floor.

Nova looked up to see Discord standing in front of flying blackboard with a small plastic stick pointing to the only words written on it, "Tell her the," Discord suddenly turned blackboard around revealing a bright sparkling word written on it, "TRUTH!"

"For Faust sake, if it was so simple I wouldn't bother talking to you." Nova said slightly irritated.

"Oh but it is that simple," Discord said, "don't get me wrong, I cannot predict what her reaction will be, maybe she won't care at all or maybe she will decide that it's the worst thing ever, however." He walked up to Nova and offered him his lion paw, "I know for sure that if you won't tell her now, it will come out sooner or later. She is the Princess of dreams after all."

Discord helped him stand up and lightly brushed him off with a brush he summoned, "And if she finds out by herself then no matter what she thinks about it, she will be hurt."

His words hit Nova like a brick, he knew Discord was right, he didn't expect lord of Chaos to be of much help in this matter, and yet he told him exactly what he needed to hear. Supernova smiled nervously and nodded. "Got it, tell her the truth, thanks Discord."

"No problem, that's what friends are for, right?" Nova looked at him indifferently making lord of Chaos slightly nervous, he moved his face closer and asked again, "Right?"

Nova started to laugh as he realised that Discord was genuinely asking him, "Yes Discord, that's what friends are for, thanks." He said.

"I'm glad then." Discord said and with a smile he waved his lion paw, "I'll leave you to it, I have my own things to do." He said and disappeared into thin air, leaving Nova alone in the hallway. With his decision made up he didn't waste any time and rushed to the royal gardens, hoping that she's still there.

Luna sat down in the same spot they sat together, still confused and mad about her coltfriend's behaviour. She sighed and stood up, I guess he's not coming back.

"Luna! Wait!" A sudden shout stopped her from leaving, she turned around and saw her said coltfriend dashing into the gardens as quickly as he left them.

"Fancy meeting you here." She said glowering down at him, "Can you explain to me why did you leave me here alone, not to mention made me wait this long for you to come back?"

"I know you're mad, and I'm sorry but—" Nova took a deep breath and shook his head, Now or never he told himself.

"But there's something I must tell you."

Chapter 41 - Time to think

"What is it that you want to tell me?" Luna asked, staring down at Nova, after a few silent moments, he took a deep breath and said, "Well the truth is," he stopped for a few moments and sighed, "how do I start?"

"I guess there's no easy way around this." Nova took another breath and continued, "Luna, when I first asked you out, here in this garden." He said as he looked around, "Back then I didn't really expect you to agree to it."

Luna raised her eyebrow in confusion, "Well you did sound very confident back then so I guess that's kind of surprising." She looked down at him with disappointment, "Is that the big truth you wanted to reveal?"

"Well there's more to it, I didn't expect you to agree, but I still did it not because I was brave but because of a—" Nova stopped for a second, his heart pounding on his ribs, threatening to burst through his chest and into the air.

"Because of a bet." He said and glued his stare to the cold floor.

Luna stared at Nova dumbfounded for a few moments, "I don't think I understand, what bet?"

"Well, I was sitting in 'Prancing Pony' with guys and we got a little bit drunk, then Void offered me a bet." Nova looked up from the floor to still dumbfounded Luna, he offered her a weak smile and continued. "He said that I will not dare to ask you out on a date."

Luna stared blankly at Nova as gears in her mind processed the information, she needed a while but everything finally came together and her expression quickly changed as she went from confused deadpan to a horrified scowl.

"Are you telling me that this whole time, all these things were a mere game to you?"

"No!" Nova shouted almost immediately, "Of course not! It was never a game!"

"But you just said—"

"No, wait let me explain!" He said quickly and nervously wriggled in place.

Luna took a deep breath, and after few moments of silence said, "Explain then."

Nova smiled, "The thing is," He said nervously, his mind was in complete chaos right now, he couldn't help but get flustered as he searched through his mind for the right words to phrase his thoughts, "I did ask you out because of that bet right? But—" He said, almost shouting out last word, "Everything, I promise you that everything that happened afterwards, it was genuine."

Luna stared blankly at her coltfriend, her expression reflecting a mix of fear and anger building up inside her, it was only a few seconds and yet for Nova, it felt like an eternity of cold silence before Luna finally spoke.

"I have to think about it."

In this moment Nova froze, he felt his blood leaving his muzzle as he watched Luna's horn shine in vibrant blue colours. "L-Luna I—" He didn't get a chance to finish as his beloved Princess was already gone, leaving him alone in the cold gardens of Canterlot Castle.

"That could've gone better." Discord commented as he watched Luna disappear within blurs of her magic, "But it also could've been much worse, don't you agree?" He asked grinning.

Celestia observed everything unfold along with Discord, hidden behind a combination of natural flora and magic illusions, unlike her husband however her expression was that of an angry scowl. "I agree, it will get worse." She said as her horn started to lit up, only to be stopped by Discord, who put his finger atop of it.

"What do you think you're doing?" He asked.

Celestia didn't answer and simply looked at Discord with deadpanned expression, lord of chaos sighed and said, "You wanted to send him to the moon didn't you?"

"Send him to the moon? Preposterous, it's not something you can do so simply, not to mention he's just a regular batpony." Her deadpan changed back to an angry scowl as she continued, "I was going to send him straight up to the dungeons."

"You can't do that either," He said a little bit irritated, "I swear to Faust, you lose all your composure when it comes to Luna, it's almost like you're a different pony."

Celestia sighed, "I guess I am, but I can't help it." She looked up into the sky, "I lost her for a thousand years because of my own arrogance Discord, if I'll let her suffer again I don't think I'll ever forgive myself."

Discord smiled, he put his soft lion paw on her shoulder and said, "Tia, I know you want to help her but this is not the way and you know it." He gestured with his claw towards sulking Nova, "Look at him, what do you see?"

Celestia stared blankly for a couple of moments before answering, "A scared little pony."

"Exactly!" Discord exclaimed with a small clap, "He fears that Luna will reject all that they have built so far, he cares for your sister, he's afraid to lose her." Discord watched as a small smile was slowly appearing on Celestia's muzzle, "Just like you, he doesn't want to hurt her, and now he probably did, and he regrets it."

"What should I do then?" She asked.

"You know exactly what to do, talk to her, talk to him." He placed his paw on top of her head and lightly directed her stare back to himself, "Help them heal their wounds."

Celestia sighed, she smiled and nuzzled her beloved lord of chaos, "You win."

"I always do." He said proudly puffing his chest out.

"Surely, especially back when you got turned to stone."

"But that's not—"

"Twice."

"Well yes but,—"

"Or that time when you decided to team up with Tirek," Celestia cut him off again, "that didn't end very well for you if I remember correctly."

"I already apologised for that like thousand times." He said crossing his arms on his chest.

"Or that one time when you wanted to play chess with somepony, but everyone was busy so you used your magic to make one of our rugs sentient and you lost."

Discord deadpanned at the comment, "How do you know about that?" He quickly asked.

Celestia giggled and lit her horn slightly, lord of chaos simply stood there confused and dumbfounded as she disappeared in her yellow magic. For a few moments, he stood in silence before disappearing in a puff of smoke with an irritated scowl on his muzzle.

Chapter 42 - Family consultation.

"It's over." Luna said coldly as she stared deeply into Nova's horrified eyes, he shook his head and mumbled out, "W-What are you talking about?"

"You heard me, we're done, I will not waste my time on a joke of a stallion who plays with my feelings." She said and turned around. She started to walk away while Nova felt his heart sank as he watched his former lover leaving him alone, agonisingly slowly.

"Wait! Luna!" He shouted and broke into a run trying to catch up. After few moments of chasing, he noticed that he's not getting any closer at all, he was actually getting further and further away. No matter how fast he ran his former lover's silhouette was slowly moving out of his eyesight.

"What the—" Nova didn't get to finish his sentence as suddenly the floor he was running on disappeared leaving him hopelessly falling down into the dark pit. He tried to use his wings but nothing was happening, after a quick examination of his back with his hoof Nova came to a grim realisation that his wings are gone.

After falling for what felt like many hours, his muzzle painlessly hit the floor, once again surprising him. He looked up only to see cold, stone walls surrounding him, he looked behind and saw Celestia, staring at him with nothing but spite, from behind the iron bars of his cell.

"Any last words you scum?" She asked.

"What do you mean last words? Where the hell am I?" He asked terrified as he leant onto the iron bars.

"Why in a death cell, of course, it's like a normal cell but with death, cause you're on a death row." Discord said suddenly appearing next to Celestia.

"Death row?!" Nova shouted out.

"Yes now put your bloody head on the stone." Captain Riddick exclaimed and pushed Supernova down to his knees.

Nova looked around dumbfounded only to find himself amidst a crowd of cheering ponies, watching his public execution. "Scared you cheating shithead?" Riddick asked as an executioner pony walked up next to him with a sword in his mouth.

"At this point more confused than scared." He said and then looked at his former captain and an executioner standing right next to him, "Never mind that I'm super scared, what the hell is going on?!" He shouted as he tried to wrestle his way out, but for some reason, he couldn't find any strength to fight. Nova observed in horror as heavy blade rose to the skies covering the sun for a few moments, only to finally strike down.

Nova screamed and fell down from his bed, he kept his hooves around his neck making sure there's still a head atop of it.

"What the hell dude, shut up." Void said irritated.

After a few more checks Nova took a few deep breaths and stood up, "Sorry, I had a nightmare."

"I noticed." Void said as he reluctantly stood up from his bed, way earlier than he normally would. "I won't be getting back to sleep after this kind of wake up."

"I'm really sorry." And he truly was, it was four days since Nova told Luna the truth and he still hadn't heard anything from her. He asked Void to let him sleep in their old room in the barracks as he couldn't fall asleep in his royal room given to him by Luna, he would think about her too much.

Luckily for him, Riddick hadn't assigned any new recruit to Void's room yet, and so Nova moved in for a couple of days.

"Perhaps tonight is the night Nova, cheer up." He said with his usual blank expression. "I'm sure she will understand."

"You think so?" Nova asked.

"I hope so." He said as he looked through his wardrobe for his pieces of armour, "I truly do, I mean if she gets super angry about it I might get hit too."

"Thanks for caring," Nova said half sarcastically.

"No problem, are you going somewhere?" Void asked as he noticed Nova walking towards the door.

"I am not going back to sleep that's for sure, I guess I will just walk around." He said and left Void alone in their old room, he sighed and looked back into his wardrobe collecting the last piece of armour. After a few moments of struggling with cuirass, he put everything on and head out for another night of duty. "I hope so." He mumbled under his nose.

Celestia was in her room, going through almost countless letters from nobles, politicians and many others as suddenly her ears perked up upon hearing loud knocking, followed by a squeaking noise of her doors being opened. "Do you have a minute?" Luna asked as she slowly walked into her older sister's room.

"Luna, I always have a minute for you, what's on your mind?" She asked already knowing the answer to that question.

"Well, the thing is, it's about Nova," Luna said and repeated the story she heard from Nova, Celestia already heard it but she had no intention of letting her younger sister know she was eavesdropping on her private conversation.

"I see, so how does that make you feel?" Celestia asked.

Luna moved her stare from her sister down to the floor, and then she let her eyes wander around the room as she thought about a proper way to answer. "I don't really know." She said, "I thought about it these past few days but I'm still confused."

She walked up to Celestia's bed and sat down on her haunches, "On one side I feel like it shouldn't really bother me, I mean the only part of that bet was asking me out, right?" She smiled meekly, "You go out to spend time together and get to know each other, and maybe fall in love later on."

"And that's what happened, he asked me out on a dare, but then we genuinely fell in love." Her smile disappeared as she lowered her head and put it between her hooves. "But there's another thought."

Celestia moved closer and sat down on her bed next to Luna, she gently raised her wing and put it over her younger sister's head as she asked, "What is it? You can tell me."

Luna looked up from her hooves and stared at her older sisters with watering eyes, "What if this whole thing was a bet? A dare? What if when he went back to his friends and told them that he asked me out they offered another bet. And one after that and so on." Few lone tears ran down her muzzle as she nuzzled into her sister's neck.

"What if my love was nothing more than a mere joke for him to play around?"

Celestia nuzzled her back and sighed, she stared down at her sister, so weak and fragile. She didn't know what to do, while she truly believed in Nova she also couldn't straight up tell her sister to forget about her doubts.

Two of them simply sat there, seconds turned into minutes and minutes felt like hours, after a while it was Celestia who finally broke the silence with her gentle voice, "Luna." She said.

"I cannot tell you what to do, I also can't say for sure that Nova was genuine with his feelings or not." Celestia smiled as her younger sister moved her head slightly away and looked up at her. "But what I do know, is that in these couple of years you spent in Equestria you never looked happier than with him."

Celestia gently wiped away Luna's tears with her wings, "It's been four days, go speak to him." She smiled down at her sister, "If all of that was a joke for him, then you will clearly see it now, believe me."

Luna smiled and embraced her older sister in a tight hug, "Thank you." She said and jumped off the bed and onto her hooves. "I'll go look for him."

"You do that," Celestia said and watched her younger sister walk away, as Luna approached the door she suddenly stopped and turned around.

"Is something wrong? Celestia asked.

"How do you know it was four days ago?"

"What?" Celestia asked a bit dumbfounded at a question.

"I told you I thought about it for a past few days, I didn't say it was exactly four." Luna looked at her older sister with one eyebrow raised, "And you just said that it's been four days."

Celestia suddenly froze and nervously chuckled, "Well I," she looked around her room and suddenly pointed behind Luna, "For the love of me, what is that?!" She shouted.

Luna turned around only to see still locked doors, when she looked back to her sister all she saw was a dim yellow light where she stood before.

Chapter 43 - Back there again

Cold stone walls of Canterlot castle carried the quiet steps of a lone batpony, as he aimlessly travelled through the hallways. His gaze focused on the stone tablets under his hooves, while his mind wandered away, Nova tried his best to take his thoughts off the reason of his current state, but to no avail. No matter how much effort he put in, he would always end up going back to her. That endless rollercoaster of merciless thoughts would have undoubtedly led him to insanity, had it not been for the sudden explosion of golden light before him.

Celestia stood before him, covered in a puff of smoke, she looked around and noticed him, staring back at her quizzically, "Good night dear Supernova, the sky is quite marvellous tonight isn't it?" she asked nonchalantly her posture rocking back and forth, Nova simply stared back at her, "Quite." he eventually blurted out, his stare once again finding its way to the floor. "Well then, while I wholeheartedly enjoyed our small talk, I must take my leave as I'm needed somewhere else, farewell." She said and turned away, only to be snatched back after a couple of steps by Nova's suddenly booming voice.

"Wait for a second, please!" He suddenly shouted, his voice reverberating throughout the stone hallway. With her ears perked and wings slightly raised she quickly turned her head. Nova moved back a step, "Sorry, but I actually need to ask you something." another step, "Do you know, if maybe Luna has, I don't know - " his front leg moved to scratch his temples, -"Said anything about me?"

Celestia settled down on her haunches and for a few moments blankly stared at her interlocutor, with her eyes closed she quickly pondered on her options, what answer should she give him? Should she beat around the bush, hope for the best? Or tell him the truth.

What truth

Her eyelids shot open with a realization, she doesn't know what Luna has ultimately decided on, "I believe my dear that even if she were to tell me anything, I shouldn't pass such an information any further without her approval."

His ears suddenly flattened on the sides of his head, "I suppose you're right, I'm really sorry to have asked." He said and resumed his walk, slowly moving down the stone hallway as the Princess of the Sun stared at him with regret, her mouth opened, but no sound came out. She looked down and noticed, her lips were sealed, with a zipper no less.

"I think you've done enough sweetie." A booming voice came out from behind her, she quickly turned around only to boop into the face of the lord of chaos hovering in mid-air, behind her. "Now, don't get me wrong, not telling him anything was the best choice you could've made, as far as I'm concerned at least." She tried to speak up but to no avail, a magical zipper proved to be an unmovable obstacle, irritated she pointed with her hoof towards her mouth as the draconequus continued his speech, completely unswayed.

"But this part requires an approach quite different to what you are used to, well then I'll be off." He said and with a snap of his finger disappeared, leaving Princess of the Sun in the middle of the hallway, her cheeks red with rage and her eyes twitching, had her mouth suddenly opened, this story's rating would have to be changed to mature.

Nova eventually found his way into the royal gardens and wondered through the bountiful flora as his thoughts wandered about, his front hoof suddenly froze in space as he spotted a familiar colour peeking out of the bushes. These dark-blue waves with dazzling dots that outshone the stars themselves, he wouldn't have mistaken it for anything, in a second he broke into a mad dash and crossed the boundaries of the green walls, "Luna!" he shouted as he landed on his feet right behind the bush.

"Nova my love! I missed you so much." Discord sang out as he ran his claw through an extremely detailed wig of Luna's hair.

Supernova stood slack-jawed, staring at the draconequus spread down, in what some would call an alluring pose, right before his eyes. He shook his head, "I could really do without that right now." he said as he turned around, ready to quickly leave.

"Going already?" Discord said as he pressed his face right into Nova's, "I thought you wanted to talk to your beautiful girlfriend." His claw suddenly jumping to Supernova's mouth, sealing them, "So, what will you do?"

"I'm really not in the mood right now." He said as he slowly pushed the claw away, Discord backed off and with a snap of his fingers Luna's hair disappeared into the night, he sighed and with his arm crossed on his chest he said, "Well aren't you a party pooper."

"I'm asking you one last time Discord, please, just leave." Nova said, his left eyelid twitching and his nostrils flaring, "Before I'll lose my patience." He said in between his quickening breath.

"And do what?" Lord of chaos mockingly asked as he levitated around the batpony, "You can't even muster up some confidence to check on your loved one but think you can stand up to me?"

"You!" He shouted, his front hoof shoot into the air, and just as quickly as it had risen it fell down, stomping on the ground, "You don't understand, do you know how much this waiting is killing me, this isn't that simple I-"

"It is that simple." Discord cut in, "It's just that simple, you told her the truth, bravo, everypony come and congratulate our little hero." A small rain of colourful confetti dropped down as the lord of chaos clapped his hands, "Now go and tell her again."

Nova took a step back, he fell back on his haunches and raised his hooves up, after a while his stare went back to Discord, he took a deep breath and with a sigh of relief said, "I will." He dashed off into the gardens, and into the castle, leaving the satisfied draconequus behind.

He travelled through these hallways many times in the past but never had he closed that distance as quickly as tonight, in what felt like mere seconds he was already at the door to his lover's bedroom, with one last deep breath he loudly knocked on the door.

To no avail.

No response, he knocked again, and again. After what felt like an eternity of silence, he gently pushed the door open and walked into the now empty bedroom. Without too much thought he ran out and galloped forward, with a single question flooding his mind, Where are you

Void was on his way to his post for today, he walked by the gardens and, still a bit groggy after the early wake-up, allowed himself for a moment of relaxation, he stared at the breathtaking scenery until his ear picked out a rather worrying noise. He tried to identify the danger, but suddenly he felt his entire body tumble around as his vision went awry.

Once the chaos stopped he could feel pain all over his body, he looked to his side, "You sure do have a way of waking others up, let me tell you that." he said to Nova, who quickly raised back to his feet from the crush and shook his head.

With his vision blurred from the crush, it took Supernova sometime before noticing his friend on the floor, "Have you seen Luna?" He asked quickly.

"That's some enthusiasm, what happened?" Void asked as he slowly pulled himself back up.

"I'll explain later, just please tell me if-" The words stopped dead silent in his mouth as his eyes picked out something in the garden, a sudden idea stroke him like a thunder and as soon as Void rose to his feet, Nova has disappeared, leaving nothing but noise of his hoofs, quickly moving farther and farther away.

Void stared dumbfounded at the place his friend stood in just a moment ago, then looked into the garden once more, trying to find the reason for that sudden outburst. It took him a while but finally, he spotted it, a bunch of white snowdrops adoring the spot next to one of the windows, his mouth raised with a smile as he closed his eyes.

"Good luck buddy."

Short on breath, feeling like a total wreck Nova slowly stumbled around the rocky caves near Canterlot. He wanted to run still, but he couldn't, not because he was tired, but with each step he made he was closer to his dream, but also closer to his possible nightmare. With few last steps he made his way for the exit and stepped into the all so familiar meadow, petals of snowdrops flew with a gush of wind as he stared at a lonely figure sitting right in the middle. He moved a step forward and said,

"Luna."

Chapter 44 - Under the starry sky

Gentle rays of the moonlight illuminated the white petals of snowdrops as they gently swayed back and forth with the rhythm of the wind, in the middle of that secluded place sat a single pony, with her ears perked she turned her head. Nova stood at the entrance, completely stunned, in his ears he could almost hear his heart pumping his blood faster and faster, his stomach was turning inside out as the seconds of waiting were stretched into seemingly endless torture. But he waited, he watched as Luna's breathtaking mane slowly moved away behind her shoulder as she turned to look at him, and once she did, everything stopped. His quickened heart rate, stomach pains, all the nervousness he felt dissipated almost immediately as he saw that one sign he was hoping to see.

A smile.

Luna nodded her head instructing him to come closer, he obliged without a second thought and sat next to her, amongst the many white flowers. "Why does it have to be so hard?" Luna stated, observing the night sky, analysing it as the canvas on top of which she will paint her art, "The relationship stuff, that is." She quickly added, "To think that such an inane thing would give us so many problems."

Nova sat next to her, quietly, he understood that now is not the time for him to speak, now is the time to listen, and accept the judgement of his loved one, whatever it may be.

"When you first told me that this thing that happened to the two of us was a side-effect to a bet, I was confused." She moved her gaze from the sky towards the ground, "I thought that maybe all of this was just a joke to you and that hurt." Nova struggled to keep his mouth shut as he listened, "Who wouldn't want to date the Princess right? Opulence and glory, for a moment I thought that maybe that's what kept you by my side."

Nova clenched his teeth in anger, a frustration that he felt for nopony else but himself at that very moment. A deafening silence filled the space as Nova glued his stare to the ground.

"I'm sorry."

Her words struck him as a lightning bolt, in an instant he moved his gaze towards her, meeting her eyes with his own, and her smiling face radiating with happiness. "Who cares it started because of a game if the thing that said game instigated is more than real." With a gentle shade of crimson heat appearing on her cheeks Luna continued, "I love you, and you love me, and that's what I'll choose to believe."

Nova's jaw hurt as the smile that appeared on his muzzle dared to pass the limits of his physical capabilities, he wiped his watering eyes with his hoof and let out a sigh, "I don't think I know enough words to describe how happy that makes me feel Luna." He moved closer as Luna opened up her wing and gently enveloped his body, nuzzling against each other they basked in the moment, finally being able to relax once more.

"Took them long enough." Discord said as he observed the whole scene through the medium of his binoculars, hovering high above the meadow. "Four days isn't that long." Celestia added with a wide grin spread on her muzzle, "All things considered that could have been worse."

"That was four days? I could swear it felt like two years." Discord said with a straight face as he stared into space, "But never mind that, finally their first serious argument is over."

"That it is," Celestia added with a smile, "Thank you Discord." Baffled by the comment the lord of chaos looked at his wife with one eyebrow lifted, "I heard that you might have had something to do with that little conflict getting to a closure."

Almost as if hit with a punch Discord jerked his head away, "Me? The Lord of chaos helping to solve the conflict? Preposterous, who told you of such nonsense?"

Celestia chuckled, "I'm sorry then, for listening to such lies." She said emphasising the last word, "But thank you anyway."

Discord crossed his arms on his chest and with a snout adorning his muzzle he looked away, "For the record, I had nothing to do with it," he lowered his voice and with a gentle smile whispered, "but you're welcome."

Another gust of wind took the petals of snowdrops into the sky, as the happy couple sat together in the middle, with no worries in the world, "But you will have to promise me one thing Nova."

"Fair enough, what is it?"

"No more bets."

Nova chuckled, "I can't promise that look where that bet led me to," he winked and smiled, "but I'll try to abstain from any bets that include me asking a hot mare out on a date."

"I will accept that, but only if you promise me one more thing, I am really happy that you told me about that whole bet thing by yourself, but if only you didn't wait for so long." She sighed and started to play with the flowers that enveloped her hooves. "Have you told me earlier I don't think this would become such a big thing in the first place, so I want you to promise me, that if you will ever have something to tell me, then you will not hesitate to do so."

Nova's smile disappeared as his gaze returned to the night sky, his stare was fixated on the sky but his thoughts were in some other places completely, Luna continued to play with her flowers, patiently waiting for his response. A confident smile appeared on his muzzle as Nova once more looked back at Luna and nodded. "I can promise that."

She moved her attention back from the flowers and onto her lover and reciprocated his smile, "That being said, I actually do have something to say to you, but to be honest, it's something I just came up with."

With a light chuckle, Luna nodded, "Well what is it then?"

"Will you marry me?"