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Of the Moon and Stars, A TwiLuna Tale
A MLP; FiM Fan Fiction
Written By: The Boisterous Brony
Chapter 1; “Oh, Faust help us…”

In the majestic palace of the Crystal Empire’s vibrantly blue private dining hall/conference room, quite a strange scene was unfolding, one with two Alicorn mares beginning to dine together, with a certain Draconequus waiting just outside…

“Get a hold of yourself, woman!” thought the younger, purple alicorn “just accept the fact that you’re–”

BUT ALAS, just then her lunch companion had to brake her trance-like state…

“TWILIGHT!!!” shouted Princess Cadence “are you alright? You’ve just been standing there staring wide-eyed and muttering something to yourself.”

After hearing this the purple mare snapped back defensively, “Well, why the hay didn’t you do anyt–”

That was the last straw for the ruler of the Crystal Empire, who had already spent a good deal of time trying to return Twilight to the realm of the living, and had already burned through her metaphorical fuse, didn’t have patience necessary to do this, would not stand insults, snapped back at her sister-in-law with a vicious look “I DID! I’ve been calling your name trying to get your attention for twenty-three minutes!”

And with that Twilight’s mouth snapped shut as she flushed red from embarrassment, “Oh… Sorry.”

“No, no, I’m the one who should be sorry, I shouldn’t have been able to lose my temper with you that easily, now, back to business, why did you request to see me?” replied Cadence, having calmed down. As she said this, Twilight grew increasingly uneasy.

“Well, I-I need your help with… well, something…” said the purple princess, shuffling on her hooves, who was beginning to slightly tremble from her nerves…

Cadence’s ears perked up a bit after hearing this, “and…” she pressured gently.

With that all of Twilight's mental and emotional preparedness broke "oh, I can't do it!" she stated, collapsing to the floor, covering her muzzle with her hooves, and started whimpering.

“Ah, of course” replied the older alicorn, a smile of understanding beginning to grow across her muzzle. “Who is he?” she asked softly, laying down next to her sister-in-law, draping her forearm over Twilight’s withers in a protective manner.

Twilight looked up from beneath her hooves, “w-what?” she sniffled.

“I said who’s the lucky stallion?” repeated Cadence softly, to which Twilight hid her face again, and lightly groaned.

“Twi?” asked Cadence, who was beginning to grow concerned for her younger sister-in-law.

“Mare” muttered Twilight, her words muffled by her hooves.

“Pardon?” said the puzzled Cadence.

Finally, Cadence and Twilight rose as Twi started to speak slowly “I said, MARE!” (thank Faust for the sound-proofing spells around the room…) now bracing for the inevitable shout of “YOU’RE GAY!!!” from her sister-in-law. Instead, all she heard was Cadence lightly whisper to herself, “Shiny! You owe me 50 bits!” then Cadence returned her attention to the smitten mare “Now, who is she?”

Twilight flushed a deep, dark red “Princess Luna” she said in the smallest voice she could.

“Pardon me?” Cadence questioned, slowly raising an eyebrow.

Twilight took a DEEP breath as she got the most determined, serious expression ever, “Swear by everything in the multiverse that you won’t even subconsciously think about breathing a word of what your about to hear to ANYONE, even Shining! Swear!!”

Cadence furrowing her brow in a questioning manner, weighing her options, whinnies indignantly, and submits, nodding her head, “Fine! I swear, now please just tell me!” Twilight, apparently pleased, took another deep breath as she confessed the biggest secret she has EVER had, “Now i-it’s, well, it’s… Princess Luna…,” after hearing this, Cadence was at a loss for words.

“U-uh, whe-what? You, ‘Princess Twilight Sparkle,’ have the hots for Princess LUNA!!” she coughed, putting a hoof to her mouth to stop herself from laughing, as her face began to turn a light purple from holding in said laughter.

Twilight was now becoming somewhat ticked-off, not to mention embarrassed, “Well, gee! Do you think ANYPONY in Equestria DIDN’T hear you!?” she grumbled “Anyway, I need your help getting a-a date. And–”

At that, the pink alicorn could no longer contain herself any more, and started laughing so hard, she lost her balance and fell onto her back, and just lay on the crystal floor, clutching her stomach, all the while DYING of laughter.

“You finished?” whinnied Twilight indignantly.

After a few more moments, the Love Regent regained her composure “I SWEAR I’m not judging you. I just wasn’t expecting you to fall in love with Luna, Celestia maybe, heh but Luna!” she said, having recovered from her laughing fit, “mhmm!” she coughed, before asking “When did you fall for her?”

“Well, ever since she came to Ponyville for Nightmare Night” said the purple alicorn who was now blushing profusely, “I mean, I always had feelings for Celestia, but when Luna came that night, and as I spent more and more time with her, the more attracted to her I became. Eventually, a long time later actually, I came to realize that the feelings I had towards her were of a much deeper and very different nature than that of how I felt towards Celestia, that’s when it hit me; I admired Celestia as a mentor and a friend, but I loved Luna, not to mention I had a crush on her. This feeling was confirmed back during the Tantabus incident- I'll explain later- because, and do please try not to laugh at this, when she entered my room, I almost- actually it'll be better for everypony if you don't know, so let's just say it was almost an extremely awkward situation" And with that Twi breathed a sigh of (partial) relief, surprised by the fact of how good it felt to be able to tell somepony this stuff, and not have to be afraid of being shunned or judged.

Cadence seemingly sensing Twilight's feelings, chuckled quietly to herself, and smiled at the smaller, love-struck alicorn “As long as you truly love her, nopony will shun you. Also, that’s the most realistic claim to love I’ve heard in some time. Usually it’s something like ‘I saw him/her and I just knew it was destiny…’ or something even more cliché.” She said as she rolled her eyes, then her eyes widened as she seemed to remember something important “oh, Uh… does Celestia know?” Cadence asked.

Twilight shuffled on her hooves a bit, “Well… I never told her…” Cadence just looked at her with a semi-judgmentally incredulous expression, Twilight looked at her hooves as she said “Okay, okay… I honestly have no clue whatsoever! But I guess I’ll have to tell her if I wish to know more about Luna and her fa-”

But, she would never be able to finish that sentence, because at that moment she was interrupted by the sound of somepony teleporting, or should I say some Draconequus, because Discord had just decided to, quite literally, pop in on their conversation, which caused an unpleasant outburst from Cadence who said, more-so screamed, “Discord, how dare you!? You know the rules about barging in unannounced! Do you want my help or not!?”

Discord, not fully caring about she was saying, simply retorted “well excuse me, Princess, hehehehe, always wanted to say that, I’m here to help Twi, that is, IF she can help me.” He paused, turning his attention to Twilight, “Twilight, err, princess, I can help you because I, er, well, I dated Luna. Granted, I never loved her as much as I should’ve, come to find out it was because I actually loved Celestia, but that’s beside the fact, what? You didn’t know?” he paused, having just noticed Twilight’s gaping mouth “yes, I’m in love with your mentor, well, ex-mentor, but still, big deal! Oh, yeah right, it is actually a big deal, so, how about this- I’ll keep your secret IF you keep mine, deal?”

“S-sure Discord, uh, how can you help me?” asked a slightly skeptical Twilight “also were you just acting polite, or should I say, sincerely polite?”

Discord blushed, and I mean BLUSHED, and then began to speak, “y-yes, w-well, uh, you see, I’m practicing proper etiquette for when I meet up with Celestia, but that’s not the point! The point is that I know the answers you’re seeking; her favorite things. But where to begin! Oh, yes. That’ll do, so…”

MEANWHILE;

Deep in the heart of the Canterlot Palace, within the blue bedchambers of the Princess of the Night, a few, shall we say, issues were arising between the two Alicorn sisters…

Celestia was pacing in front of the door to Luna bedroom, calling to her sister. “Luna just answer the door! It’s 13 minutes past time for you to lower the moon! I get sleeping in, even for eight or nine minutes, but thirteen is long enough” she shouted, growing angry with her sister, but still giving one more chance and waiting just a couple more minutes, but then she decided to actually listen to her own words,

‘thirteen minutes is long enough, indeed, I shouldn’t have given her another four!!!’

“THAT’S IT, I’m coming in, like it or not!!!” she called out as she teleported into the middle of the room, only to have a pillow slam into her face, and get stuck on her horn. “OW!!” she exclaimed, trying to remove the pillow, which just so happened to be absorbing her magic, until she noticed Luna emerging from a one-way force-field, saying simply,

“If you had listening, you would’ve heard me tell you that I was still in the process of getting out of bed, I had only just woken up.”

This definitely piqued Celestia’s curiosity, “well, well, what could’ve possibly been soooooooo important as to keep you in bed, hmm?”

As Luna made excus- I mean, explained what it was, Celestia sensed she was trying to hide something, why else would she try to contain Celestia, but she kept up the conversion with her sister a few more moments...

Mainly because, she was only talking to distract her sister as she dispelled the force-field bit by bit, immediately wishing she hadn’t…

Luna could do nothing but look on in sheer terror as Celestia broke the containment field, and when Celestia saw what Luna was hiding she became seemingly frozen from shock and disbelief, and stood staring wide-eyed, mouth gaping, and as Luna followed the gaze of her petrified sister to the massive, crescent moon shaped bed, specifically the center of said bed, where an… object lay, revealing the, in Luna’s opinion, beautiful facial features of a certain lavender mare, and covered in an incriminating blue-black substance…

“WHEREFORE DOST THOU HAS’T AN IMAGE OF MINE PUPIL LAYING IN THE CENTRE OF THY SLEEPING CHAMBERS- AND COVER’D IN THY LIPSTICK!?!? WHAT, PRAY TELL, IS THE MEANING OF THIS, DEAREST SISTER??” screamed Celestia falling into the Old Equestrian dialect, something usually only her sister had a problem with, until she saw Luna was trying not to cry, then it hit her as hard as if Applejack and Big Mac had just simultaneously kicked her straight in the face!!! “Uh, Luna? Are you in love with Twilight? Well, judging from the lipstick stains, that would be a yes… but why didn’t you tell me?”

Luna just glared in response, “why, WHY!? Because I was afraid, afraid of what you’d do if you knew, afraid of how you’d see me, afraid of h-” but just then she was cut off by a golden-clad hoof being pressed to her lips, but she just pushed it away and continued, ignoring her sister’s futile attempts to interrupt, “and based off of what I just witnessed, I wasn’t wrong to fear.”

Celestia winced at her sister’s choice of words, specifically the phrase ‘afraid of what you’d do’ because, with their past, this was like daggers of burning ice and freezing fire carving into the deepest recesses of her heart and soul, but her love and compassion for her sister was stronger than her pain and sorrow, and she knew just how to respond, she did, after all, have a thousand years to chose her words... “Luna, listen to me! Above everything else, you are my sister, I drowned in my own sorrow and guilt for thousand years because of what I had to do to you, and I knew that, under Nightmare’s control, every second of every day you spent on the moon, you’d feel nothing but bitterness and hate towards me, so now that you’ve been restored, I would rather forfeit my position, free will, and even my life, to spare from any more bitterness, you’re all I got left; mom, dad, everypony we grew up with, they were destroyed during Discord’s rule; I can’t lose you as well, I love you too much!! So, if you’ve fallen in love- congratulations on who you chose by the way, she’s definitely perfect for you- anyways, if you’ve fallen in love, then I would feel nothing, NOTHING, but happiness for you, and I would support you through it all!!! And, I could even find reasons for you to visit her, oh, I can teach you how to send her private scrolls; that way Spike won’t see them, even some of her favorite thi- oomph!!!” she was cut off by a hug from Luna so strong, it tackled her to the floor,

“OhmyFaustCelestiaThankyouIloveyousomuch!!!!!” Luna said all at once.

Celestia reciprocated the embrace, then continued, “On ONE condition; No. More. Secrets. About. Sparkle! Understood?” to which Luna nodded, then she saw a teensy-weensy, little problem with her wording, and semi-hastily added “unless it’s something I really don’t need, or want, to know...”

Luna looked at her with an expression of semi-disapproval, as she stated “what you mean to say is ‘I don’t want to hear you two talking about how she is in the bed’ or at least something along those lines, right?”

“Yes, well, anyways, now that I know about your feelings, I can help you. I am- was, WAS her teacher after all! I now her favorite places to eat, to drink, to party, etc.!!” Celestia exclaimed with a smile on her face.

“ohthankyouthankyouthankyou!! Celestia, you’re the best sister EVER!!” Luna said gleefully, her joyousness returning twofold, hopping in circles around her sister…

All Celestia said in response was, “Alright, all we gotta do now is prep you for your date with Twilight!!”

Luna froze mid leap, “Say what now!?” was all she said before her body remembered that it was still a servant to the laws of physics, and came crashing to the floor in a crumpled mess

Celestia smiled a devilish smile “you heard me, I. Am. Getting. You. A. Date. With. Twilight!!!”

Luna's eyes went wide with fear as she audibly gulped “oh, hehe, righ…” was all she managed to say just before she blacked out…