The Prince of Storms
Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Just bucking around (filler)
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Each new Chapter after this one will focus on the starting point of every girl's 'falling' for Maelstrom. Next Chap: Dash and Pinkie
This is a small filler, sorry if it's shorter than the others.
This the story I have posted in my main account on FF.net, I was suggested to post it here as well, but I am not sure if you all will enjoy this, I am not a great writer (nor is English my main language), but it's worth a try.
Pairing: Naru/Main 6 (minus Rarity, but with Trixie filling the "Empty Slot")
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or My Little Pony and I don't make a profit out of my stories.
Canterlot – Castle – Gardens -
Celestia and Luna were waiting at the entrance of the castle for their guests to arrive, the Moon Princess actually scanning the sky in annoyance at being kept waiting.
“Back in the days when you were given an appointment you used to get there exactly at the accorded time, or at least five minutes earlier...” she said huffing.
“Luna, please don't start giving out those old-mare sayings like 'Back in the days' or 'When I was younger'...things changed a little in the last thousand years, social etiquette has become a little more accepting, but being ten minutes late doesn't mean that they are savages.” the other answered chuckling.
“And I remember you that I was kind of 'indisposed' during that time instead, but I won't abandon my good manners just for this reason,”
“And why then I can't hear you speak anymore with the 'Ye Olde Canterlot speech' booming voice?” Celestia asked.
“Maelstrom kept flinching at every word, once asked why he said that I was turning whoever I met deaf with that...just like his father, if he has to say something he does that without sugar-coating it,” the princess answered sighing.
“That he does...” the Sun Princess answered bitterly.
“You are just angry because he doesn't call you Auntie like he used to...but look at the bright side!” Luna said smiling.
“Which is?”
“Now I am his favourite instead of you, not like in the past where you had stole the scene because he was an easily impressionable colt...oh! Well, that's my bright side at least.” the other answered.
“Tch!”
“We are deeply sorry, your Highness! We had some last-minute troubles to adjust the roster so to have me and few others come here as requested,” A pegasus said as he and two others flew down in front of the Princesses.
“I hope this had not caused too much trouble, General Drill,” Celestia said with an apologetic tone.
“Not at all, your Highness. I was actually curious to personally see how 'the wayward Prince' fights, voices about his exploit in Ponyville had reached even us in the Army...but as you can imagine they got twisted into works of fantasy, like his being made of fire or summoning huge animals of energy! Ah! The imagination of young fillies, it never cease to amuse me.” The general, Nasty Drill, said with an amused chuckle.
“Actually...” Celestia muttered while looking down and ignoring Luna near her preening in pride.
“Really?” an Unicorn that had joined the scene with his two companions asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Princess Luna, Princess Celestia; this is Captain Shining Armour, with him two Unicorns that will also test the Prince's abilities, since he had not been trained the conventional way we will need a wider spectrum of tests to determine if he is really good enough to become a guard...after giving him the right pointers about how our own 'job' works too, of course,” Nasty Drill said.
“Does Twilight knows you are here?” Celestia asked.
“Sent her a letter myself, Princess, she asked me to pay attention and don't get hurt.” Shining Armour answered bowing.
“Good. As I explained to your general, my nephew had been trained in what are known in the Elemental Countries as 'Ninja Arts', and while I personally deemed the details behind his disappearance too personal to disclose, he is open to explain what his abilities are and how they do work should we ask him; as for the voices about his fight against my sister, Prince Maelstrom calls that flaming form 'Sage Mode', and it is another kind of Magic only found where he had been sent to.” the Sun Princess answered.
“Well, now I am curious to get a shot at that as well, but I guess one has to expect this sort of things from the son of Princess Luna AND an Alicorn at least,” the general answered sighing.
“He was an Unicorn when I called him back here in Equestria...he kind of turned into an Alicorn once the spell was done turning him into a pony,” Celestia answered.
“The body had to catch-up with the spirit, Celestia.” Luna answered.
“Sister...” the Sun Alicorn muttered.
“I know, I know...tune-down the gushing or you'll end spoiling him.” she answered.
“Good,” Celestia said nodding.
“...Although...all that bad-flankery you never got from our father DID need to go somewhere, and a mere Unicorn body would have never been able to contain it...nor that or the BOOST he got from being my and his father's son too of course,” the Moon Princess muttered.
“LUNA!” Celestia roared in anger.
“They sure act differently outside from official meetings,” one of the Pegasus muttered and flinching when the general turned to look at him.
“They are still ponies, soldier. That's why we love them, because they are still like us no matter the power at their disposal, they are our benevolent Princesses and yet they try to not make us feel inferior by acting high and mighty in every occasion,” Nasty Drill answered.
“Yes, general!” the soldier answered.
“But this doesn't mean that I won't pick-off every hair of your flanks should you people act like foals! They may have the freedom to act like that, but you have not such privileges! you will be proper, respectful soldiers and follow protocol to the letter or I will have your cutie-marks nailed over my fire-place, understood?” the general asked with narrowed eyes.
“YES, SIR! THERE WILL BE NO PROBLEMS, SIR!” the group answered with rapid nods of their heads.
“Is everything alright?” Celestia asked.
“Just giving my men some last details about how we will work, your Highness” the general answered with his best smile.
“My son is in the gardens, he was going through some warming exercises so to be ready for your test, and I expect you all to be even harsher with him than with normal soldiers; I won't accept favouritisms just because he is a Prince, he himself won't like that, so please remember this when testing him,” Luna answered.
“As you wish, your Highness,” Nasty Drill answered nodding.
Said that the small group marched towards the gardens of the castle, once there Nasty Drill and the others were welcomed by the image of the coat-wearing Alicorn fighting against a thousand copies of himself while few others were either meditating in a corner or balancing miniaturized Rasengan on the tip of their horns.
“What the...hay is happening here.” the General said with wide eyes.
“Kage Bunshin...Shadow Clone Technique, one of his spells able to create physical copies of himself, not only that but everything a Clone experience get transferred to the Original upon dispelling; wonderful for infiltration, information gathering and it cuts down training by a great margin depending on how many clones can be summoned...he is actually one of the very few able to use that particular ability to its full potential, even among the ones that firstly created the technique,” Luna explained.
“Eh! A one-stallion army, I finally got to see one...interesting,” Nasty Drill said with a calculative smirk.
“Learning multiple things at the same time and in a tenth of the time...Twilight MUST NOT know about this...” Shining Armour muttered while shivering in fear.
Meanwhile – Ponyville – Library-
Twilight Sparkle was calmly dusting some ancient tomes when her back went rigid.
“You okay, Twilight?” Spike asked worried.
“My book-worm sense is tingling...the answer to my prayers has finally appeared somewhere...I must find it and make it MINE.” she answered while looking outside with narrowed eyes.
Back to Canterlot -
To their surprise, and Luna's Ultimate Delight, Maelstrom had soon started smiling, always wider until taking-in an huge breath before starting to sing.
“His first song!” the Moon Alicorn muttered with an huge smile.
(Maelstrom singing / Clones singing - if it seems familiar, I used a videogame song as a base and changed the text-)
“Time to get stronger, yes indeed that's for sure,
Da kick punch style remains very secure.
Never pending, always the first, to make a move.
This, time, we get, down nice and smooth.” The Original said.
“Down nice and smooth” the thousand clones answered in the background.
“Kick, Punch, Duck, Turn.” the real Alicorn said.
“Kick, Punch, Duck, Turn.” the clones echoed.
“Because I'm still smooth, with a body oh so new,
I wish everybody had the same point of view.
Here's the former loser, out of Team 7,
As he does his best and takes you to heaven.” Maelstrom said while jumping over an attacking duo of clones.
“Getting Stronger.”
“Face to face.”
“Getting Stronger.”
“Let's get it on.”
“Getting Stronger.”
“You and Me.”
“Getting Stronger.”
“Until you move anymore!” Original and clones sang as one.
“Look up in the sky.
See the stars?
Up there with them.
That's where we are.” the stallion said as with a smirk as he started building energy on his horn to form a Rasengan.
“That's where we are!”
“And so it goes, yes the final chapter,
Liked or not, it doesn't matter!
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday,
24/7, each and every single day.
This is how we do, the ninja lesson,
P-A-I-N, your brand new prescription!” Maelstrom said as he launched the small ball towards a group of clones, closing the song with the deafening roar of the Jutsu's explosion.
The short giggle he heard behind his back had the stallion look back and grow wide eyed at the small audience he could see in there, looking down in embarrassment he dispelled his clones and half-heartedly accepted his mother's hug.
“Very smooth, nice rhythm as well, for your first Heart Song it wasn't bad.” Luna said smiling.
“Got the urge to sing a little, is that normal?” he asked.
“Sometimes, it happens when a certain event strikes deep down. You were happy at having the occasion to show everypony your abilities and get further training, so your heart answered with that little song,” the Moon Alicorn answered.
“It's still strange,” Maelstrom answered sighing.
“You'll get used to it. You have a nice voice so don't be afraid to use it. Okay?” the other answered while nudging his head up with an hoof.
“Okay, mother.”
“Good! That's the spirit!”
“What kind of Pegasus would I be otherwise?” the stallion said smirking.
“It's Alicorn, my dear...” Luna said sighing.
“It is not the same thing? I am still a winged horse,” he said dumbfounded.
“Sigh! It is not the same thing...A Pegasus has wings, an Unicorn has an horn, an Earth Pony has neither and an Alicorn has both wings and horn...you are an Alicorn, pretty much the sum of the first three kinds of pony.” Luna whispered.
“But it's confusing,” her son whispered back.
“Trust me, Maelstrom...it has been more confusing having you refer to yourself as 'Winged Unicorn' or 'Pegasus' up until now...” she answered.
“You okay, Princess Luna? Prince Maelstrom?” Nasty Drill asked concerned.
“Just settling an issue that had been going-on for a little too long, but nothing life-threatening,” Luna answered smiling.
“Good, if the Prince is ready then I think we will be able to start,” The general said.
“I am ready, General Drill.” Maelstrom answered nodding.
“Perfect. Shining! You, Stomper and Buster will be the first, we are gonna Test him on Stamina, speed and agility.” Nasty Drill said.
“Roger!” the three Unicorns said as one.
“Give your best, Maelstrom! they need to see the full extent of your abilities to decide,” Celestia said.
“Okay, I won't hold back!” the blond stallion answered.
“Shining? Why do I have a BAAAD Feeling about this?” Wall Buster asked whispering as the Alicorn charged the three of them with a look of glee on his face.
“Because Princess Celestia forgot to tell him to also pay attention because HE is the Alicorn between the four of us?” Iron Stomper replied whimpering.
“Horsefeathers...” Shining Armour muttered sighing.
“RASENGAN!” the stallion said while summoning the spiralling jutsu on the tip of his horn.
“SHIELDS-UP!” Shining yelled as he summoned a sphere of energy around himself and his two companions with them adding their own magic to it to make the barrier stronger.
Both spell and Jutsu met in a shower of sparks until cracks started forming on the defence.
“NNNNNGH!” Shining groaned as he and the others tried pushing back.
“IT'S USELESS! LET'S EVADE THAT THING BEFORE IT BREAKS THROUGH!” Stomper yelled just in time for the rasengan to blow an hole in the barrier, giving to Shining Armour and Wall Buster a first-row seat on the effects of the jutsu as it atomized the armour of the bulkier Unicorn of the three and launched him back of several meters screaming like a frightened little girl.
“You are not supposed to kill them!” Celestia yelled in shock.
“The Rasengan can drill an hole in pretty much everything, but this time I didn't put enough energy for that so he will be fine...probably...I did pull it back before it touched skin though.” Maelstrom answered with a sheepish smile.
“How are you, soldier?” Nasty Drill asked to the downed Unicorn.
“I can't feel my liver anymore, Sir!...oh, wait! There it is!” Iron Stomper answered with a broken voice from the hole in the wall he was in.
“Keep going, you two! Let's see how good he is at dodging instead of attacking! I want him to be on the defensive! to evade instead of attack!” the general said.
“Sounds easy to say,” Shining muttered with narrowed eyes as they resumed their fighting positions.
“Don't worry, Shining! We still have the numbers on our side! we just need to flank him,” Buster said smiling.
“Kage Bunshin no jutsu!” (Shadow Clone Technique) Maelstrom said summoning three copies of himself behind him.
“Oh! Believe it or not...I kind of...forgot about that... Hehehe!” the slim Unicorn muttered with a nervous laugh.
“Just be quiet, Buster.” Shining said sighing as the grinning Alicorns charged.
The next day – Ponyville – Twilight's library -
The group of the Elements of Harmony's bearers were sitting around a small table on the back that had been submerged in books by the resident egg-head and that was pointing at several passages on each one of them while muttering to herself with a frown on her face.
“Okay! Nothing on chakra here! I admit defeat! There is not a single book that talks about it. Unless I check Princess Celestia's personal library I can easily say that I have nothing on it.” Twilight said with an exasperated voice while slamming closed the book in front of her in a cloud of dust.
“Why you were looking for that, dear?” Rarity asked curious while itching a little away from the dust-cloud her friend just created.
“I was the one that asked, actually.” Dash answered.
“Why?”
“Because it sounds cool! He is a ninja, right? Like in Daring Doo's book: 'Daring Doo and the Emperor's crown', so I wanted to know if our idea of ninja had some sort of similarities to Maelstrom's ones that had not been included in the books. Come on! he can walk on walls and water without flying or spells! it's just too cool!” the Pegasus answered shrugging and flying a little higher to look at the books herself.
“Same ninjas? I don't think so...we were more 'flashy' and less worried about sticking to the shadows compared to those in the books. Nice ones though, gotta read the rest of the Daring Doo series next time I can.” a voice said from the ceiling.
“Eeep!” Dash shrieked as she dropped down on the floor in surprise.
“I hope you have cleaned your hooves...” Twilight asked with narrowed eyes.
“Aye-aye, don't get your fluffy tail in a knot,” Maelstrom said while snapping closed the book he was reading and slowly walking down from the ceiling and walls until he was standing at few feet from the Mane Six.
“We heard that ya had been Tested by tha Royal Guards, how's it?” Applejack asked.
“Pretty neat if I have to say...Shining-san grumbled a little about my 'Lack of self-restraint' but otherwise it went good! Next week I'll have to show how good I am at flying and then I will be able to join both Day and Night Guards,” he answered smirking.
“Giving my brother a black-eye AND almost tearing away a Pegasus' wings it's not lacking self-restrain...it's being violent,” Twilight said with an huff while crossing her front legs.
“Sorry...I just wanted to show them that I was not a pampered brat...colt, but a warrior, and got carried away,” he said sighing.
“At least those soldiers are still fine, but what do you mean by joining both groups? Wouldn't it be tiring?” Fluttershy asked.
“Both Mother and...Celestia...” he said the last name with a snarl. “Wanted me to join their group, so I said I would have followed both,” Maelstrom answered shrugging.
“And what about sleeping?” Pinkie Pie asked.
“Oh! That's not a problem, we studied the rounds and found a way, I got Stamina to spare and can do that with way less problem that one normally would have,”
“Why you are here by the way?” Twilight asked.
“Because I have a debt towards you all, I forced you to resolve a mess me myself gave birth to...and I promised to help you in exchange, so here I am!” the Prince said smiling wide.
“Oh! We were joking about that actually...but it's okay. So? Who's first?” Rarity asked.
“Well, since I am here already...cough! Miss Twilight? I am your humble servant so please, use me until you reach satisfaction, my body and mind are yours to do as you please until I drop down exhausted...although, I have Stamina to spare so don't worry as I can go on for hours without stopping and...something wrong?” Maelstrom said bowing, stopping when once looked up he saw six red-faced mares look at him with wide eyes.
“Sugar-cube? That...was kind of tha worst choice of words possible,” Applejack muttered.
“Want us to leave you some privacy, Twilight?” Rarity said with a weak chuckle and making the librarian get even redder.
“Oh, dear...” Fluttershy muttered while unable to look the stallion in the eyes and fanning herself.
“Man...that was kind of dirty,” Dash added.
“What are you...Oh? Oooh! I-I-It wasn't intentional I swear! I just tried to sound all noble and the like!” Maelstrom screamed as soon as he understood the involuntary innuendo in his words.
“It's okay...It's okay, you can help me by cleaning and cataloguing the books as I said, you girls helping?” Twilight answered once calmed down.
“Sorry, dear. Got some orders that can not wait,” Rarity said shaking her head.
“Ah still got tha help Big Mac at the barn, sorry.” Applejack added.
“Gotta go, still have to help clean the sky of the Everfree, sorry, Twi!” Dash said as she disappeared in a burst of speed.
“I guess this will mean that it's only me, you and Spike?” Maelstrom asked as Pinkie too moved out after waving at the two.
“So it seems, you coming, Spike?” Twilight answered.
“Of Course!” the small dragon said nodding.
“Eh! A pet dragon...that's awesome,” the Prince said smirking.
“Thank you, there weren't dragons in that place?” she asked.
“In the Elemental Countries? Only in myths, but I would have loved to summon one, they are cool!” he answered.
Both shared a laugh at watching Spike puff-out his tiny chest while striking a cool pose, failing miserably once tripped on his steps falling face-first on the floor.
“I saw you use your powers to keep a book up to read, are you really taking lessons from Princess Luna?” the purple Unicorn asked while the two moved through the girl's check-list for each title.
“Pretty much.” he answered.
“How can someone 'pretty much' take lessons?” she asked taken aback.
“I, well, I cheat a little.” Maelstrom answered.
“Cheat?”
“Kage Bunshin!” the stallion answered by creating a clone.
“Give him a book, a random one...come on!” Maelstrom said with an encouraging nod.
“And you?” Twilight asked.
“I'll turn my back and then...then I will surprise you,” he answered while giving his back to her.
“Uhm! This one,” she said while taking an ancient tome and opening it in a random page in front of the clone.
“...Done, Boss!” the Clone said after a short pause of reading before getting dispelled.
“So?” Twilight asked confused.
“It is said that adding energy to a reversely-composed matrix will create a back-lash no-pony with even a shard of interest for one's well being should want to see happen, but I beg to differ...does it answer your question?” Maelstrom said with a knowing smirk.
“That was Starswirl's opinion on warding...how?” Twilight asked with wide eyes.
“Hehehe! A Shadow Clone can send back to its creator every information it has gathered once dispelled, may it be in a fight or from reading a book...I just create few hundreds to study what my mother Luna ask me to, once done I dispel them and go through the practical side, that I usually prefer. Never was a scholar kind of guy, I am more for an hands-no, hooves-down kind of approach,” the Alicorn Prince answered.
“So if you wanted you could...” Twilight asked with a calculative gaze.
“Create enough clones to memorize every book in this Library? Maybe, but why would I want to do that?” he answered shrugging.
“Twili? You okay? You are vibrating,” Spike asked with a worried voice.
The answer was a purple missile tackling Maelstrom and sending both rolling on the floor until the smaller Unicorn was on top of the stallion with both front legs at each side of his head and her face at an inch of his.
“Please teach me?” she asked with her cutest voice.
“You don't have chakra. I can't do that if you don't have that energy inside you,” he answered uncertain.
He didn't know, nor want to know, if she was using some kind of Unicorn Magic he was not aware of or if that it was an Ability she personally had, but her eyes in that instant had practically doubled in size and gained a thin veil of moisture at their extremities. She had even let her lower lip trembling a little.
“Please? Pretty please?” she asked again.
“No chakra. No chakra no Shadow Clones...” he repeated slowly.
Sniff! Her sniffle echoed in the silent library as her unshod tears grew in quantity making her eyes shine.
“Sigh! Dammit...” Kurama growled from the Seal while failing to look away.
“Sigh! Maybe I can temporarily give you enough chakra to try...it would mean that I would have to personally 'refill your reserves' after each try, but if I got details right Hagoromo gave chakra to people with a Jutsu of his. And while I CAN'T do that on a permanent basis, maybe I will be able to give you some for just enough time to summon a clone or two, but not more than that...” Maelstrom said with a sigh of defeat.
“YAY! Thank you!” Twilight said with a wide smile while hugging him, kissing his cheek in her blind happiness.
“Oh!” she muttered once noticed.
“Let's pretend that never happened, okay?” the stallion said in embarrassment.
“Yes...thank you, don't know what got over me,” she answered nodding.
Meanwhile – Canterlot -
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” an horror-filled scream made the castle tremble as Luna entered the Throne Room to look at Celestia with blood-shot eyes.
“What happened, Luna?” the Sun Alicorn asked worried.
“Where is Maelstrom? I had a nightmare and I need to be sure that he is safe and I was not having some sort of premonition,” the Moon Princess answered.
“You are taking this mother thing too seriously, and I am surprised to say such a thing; he is safe and can defend himself, and even then, he is in Ponyville now, he is safe.” Celestia answered.
“Ponyville? Why?”
“He wanted to repay the Element Bearers for the trouble he had put them through during his crisis, if I got the details right he is probably already helping Twilight with her books,” she answered.
“Oh...okay. WAIT!” Luna said while letting out a long calming breath before her wings shot open rigid just like her eyes.
“Twilight? As in Twilight Sparkle?” she asked.
“Yes?” Celestia said unsure.
“As in, Twilight Sparkle the Unicorn?” Luna asked with narrowed eyes.
“Last time I checked she was one, yes,” the other answered with an uncertain nod.
“Twilight Sparkle the FEMALE Unicorn?” the Moon Alicorn said with a strange tone stressing the Unicorn's gender.
“Luna? You are not suggesting that something may happen between the two, right?” Celestia asked, now VERY worried.
“What? Why would I?...they are just two young ponies...alone...in a closed space where no-one would enter and disturb them because probably closed for cataloguing...with one being a gorgeous studly stallion and the other a by-now hormonal teen probably curious about how mating works...why should I be worried...as if...as if she would ever make a move on my innocent son and put her dirty hooves on him so to kiss and then undress him and...and...” Luna answered before she flew out of the window like a bullet of black-blueish energy moving at light-speed towards Ponyville.
“Oh for the love of...” Celestia said groaning before teleporting away.
Half-way towards Ponyville – few seconds later -
“Need to go fast! Need to save son's innocence! Need to stop dirty frolicking! Need to turn evil mare into ugly ornament and banish it in the Everfree Forest!” the Moon Alicorn muttered to herself while gaining even more speed.
When an ethereal hand grabbed Luna to stop her long enough for Celestia to appear in front of her a long, tense silence filled the area as every life-form stood in silence so to not interfere in the confrontation of the two sisters.
“What are you doing, sister dear?” Celestia asked while tapping the hoof of her left hind leg on the cloud she was standing on.
“Oh, you know, just flying around.” Luna answered with as much casualness she could fit in her voice.
“Flying around?”
“Flying around.” the Moon Princess replied nonplussed.
“Over-reacting?” the Sun Alicorn asked.
“Over-reacting?”
“Are you?” Celestia asked with narrowed eyes.
“No.”
“Good, because that would be bad.” the other said nodding.
“How bad?”
“I'd have to put you back on the Moon until you calm down.”
“That's bad.” Luna said surprised.
“Indeed.”
“Listen, I was just planning to check on him a little, that's all.”
“Luna, he is not a colt, he is a young war veteran no matter how WRONG that sounds, let him go have some freedom.” Celestia said sighing.
“Do I really have to?” Luna said with a moan.
“He will soon become a Night (and Day) Guard, once done that you'll have at least a good excuse to keep him close to you all you want, can you at least wait until then?” the Sun Princess said.
“...Okay,” the other muttered in defeat.
“Sigh! Okay! Fine! I GIVE UP! We will give a peak, but just for a minute! And this is a one-time-deal only...let him have his space, you suffocating mare!” Celestia said once saw her sister's downcast expression.
“Hurray! I knew you would have seen reason! You are not evil after all!” Luna said with a wide smile.
Said that both Princesses disappeared in a new flash of teleportation, this time re-appearing outside Ponyville's library to peak through the windows, thing that forced Celestia to once again restrain Luna as for some reason the Alicorn and the Unicorn were touching horns with their eyes closed; unluckily they couldn't hear what was being said, otherwise the thing would have been resolved more easily.
Inside the Library -
“Can you feel it? This is basically how I shape Chakra through Magic to form my clones,” Maelstrom muttered while sending Chakra to his horn so to have Twilight 'sense' it.
“Uhm! This IS a different kind of energy then! And you use your Alicorn Magic to guide it...fascinating,” she said as her smaller horn moved a little up and down his.
“See why I said it was hard to teach then? It took me months during my imprisonment just to re-learn how to shape chakra in a new body,” he said nodding, movement that unknown to them had their heads momentarily move closer and have Luna go full apoplectic in anger.
“It's a pity...maybe you can help me create a spell with similar results then?” Twilight asked as the two broke apart.
“You can do that?!” he asked surprised, this time clearly heard by the two Princesses hidden outside.
“I don't know for certain, but I am sure there should be some book about it to help me...and I never lacked imagination in this sort of things,” Twilight answered smirking.
“Awesome,” the stallion said in awe.
Outside -
“Why you are not leaving me go in there?! She is harassing him with who knows what kind of dirty ideas!” Luna hissed.
“Twilight is not the kind of pony to do that, trust me...and you are not in the right mood to pacifically intervene in anything,” Celestia answered.
“Then why YOU are not in there to stop this travesty?!” the Moon Princess asked.
“Because that would mean leave you unchecked, and I am afraid of the possible implications of that happening,” the other answered.
“Then what?!” Luna roared and forcing both Princesses to duck down so to not be spot.
“We go back to the Castle, you calm yourself by blowing-up something easily replaceable, and once returned to a more princess-like composure we will wait for Maelstrom's return and CALMLY and subtly try to understand what happened...and IF there is something between the two we will see if it is something serious or just a fling,” Celestia answered.
“...Can I banish her should I don't like the answer?” Luna asked.
“We can't just send on the Moon everything and everypony we don't like, Luna.” the Sun Princess answered while shaking her head.
“...I was thinking about another planet...you know? That faint blue dot in the sky our astronomers said was the farthest planet from Equestria?” the Moon Alicorn answered with a nervous smile.
“Let's just go home for now, I will pretend that answer never left your mouth,” Celestia said bitterly before forcefully teleporting the two away.
Back with the two -
“Why I have this strange chill running up my back?” Maelstrom asked.
“I don't know, but I have a similar one,” Twilight answered nodding.
“...Meh!” both said shrugging as they returned to the books.
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