The Princess of Chaos

by Foal Star

First published 10th of April, 2019

After making a bet with Discord, Princess Celestia must keep her new chaotic powers in check for one week. Seems simple enough

This story takes place after the events of the episode "Keep calm and flutter on."

After Discord's reformation, he decides to have a bet with Princess Celestia. Wanting to see her chaotic side, a bet was made between the two. For one whole week, Celestia will agree to become a draconequus, to see if she can control the powers of chaos itself. Celestia agrees on the condition that should she win, she gets to transform Discord into whatever she wants for a week in turn. However, Celestia has many secret desires and it doesn't take long for her to start abusing her new chaotic magic...

Editor: The Fan without a Face

Cover artist: hikariviny

Prolouge: Day 0: A Deal with a Chaos Lord

It was a peaceful evening at Canterlot Castle, as both Discord and Celestia sat together in the palace garden. The two former enemies having a surprisingly pleasant evening tea with the stars shining down and the moon out.

The evening itself was also rather quiet, as outside of a few royal guards and a single gardener going about their duties, the two immortals were otherwise alone. Though despite the somewhat calming atmosphere, if one were to look at the duo, they could pick up the faintest hint of tension between them, mainly from rainbow maned, alicorn ruler, quietly sipping her tea whilst the Lord of Chaos sat across from her.

“I must confess, I was surprised you were so willing to agree to this meeting Discord.” She took another sip of her tea before looking at her guest with a critical eye. “Unless your reformation is simply a ruse and I’ll wake up tomorrow in a clown costume.”

The draconequus simply crossed his arms with a smirk. “Well, seeing you in a clown costume would be something to behold.” A large thought bubble appear just above his head, depicting Celestia in especially colorful attire, only to quickly pop just as soon as it fully formed. “But I would rather not turn back into stone, and I would hate to disappoint Fluttershy after she was willing to give me a chance.”

Princess Celestia continued to sip her tea, still looking at the draconequus with suspicion. “Yes, well. I’m glad you decided to come around, even if it did take a little more convincing than I’d originally predicted.”

Discord eyed her curiously. “You know, that’s something I’ve been wondering for a while now. Why the interest in reforming me?” The chaotic creature quickly pulled a book seemingly out of nowhere and started flipping through it. “I mean in our entire sordid history we’ve never had what you’d call a pleasant relationship.” He flipped the book forward to reveal the moment Celestia and Luna imprisoned him.

The Princess looked down at the cup of tea in her hooves. “Yes, that is true, I won’t deny it. However, despite our antagonistic past, I’ve always felt there was at least some good inside of you.”

Discord however, didn’t look convinced, if anything he looked more offended than anything else. “Oh, don’t start with that old cliche. If you truly believed that you wouldn’t have left me in stone for over a thousand years.” The image in his book began to repeat the moment of his transformation to stone, before it crumbled away in his hands.

Celestia looked up with an angry expression printed on her face. “Hm, well I find it funny that you act as though you’re completely blameless! Do I need to remind you what you did to those poor ponies a thousand years ago! Compared to to the likes of Sombra or Tirek, being turned to stone would be seen as getting off easy.”

Discord burst into a fit of laughter, his body almost literally falling to pieces as he bellowed. “What about you! You used to be so much more fun before you decided to become such an uptight princess! I mean honestly, when was the last time you had fun in the last thousand years...you know, besides banishing friends and family.”

Celestia’s eyes narrowed with anger as as she struggled to maintain her composure. “Careful Discord, you’re treading on dangerous ground right now.”

Discord however, didn’t look intimidated and instead stretched his neck until he was right in the Princess’s face. “I’m supposed to believe you saved me? That little experiment of yours was just another test to see if your faithful student and her gaggle of friends could reform me. And it was one that almost failed. The only reason Equestria hasn’t been returned to it’s frankly more appealing chaotic state is because…”

He stopped mid-sentence as Celestia looked up with a knowing smirk and asked, “Because of what? Because of Fluttershy? I had to admit, I suspected she’d be the one to get you to come around, but I was still surprised you cared so much about her.”

Discord turned away with a growl as he grumbled, “Don’t be ridiculous. She just reminds me of how you were before you became a princess. And quite honestly, I prefer her to the pony you’ve become.”

That got a surprised reaction from Celestia, whose facade continued to crack, replaced with slowly growing anger, her voice containing an almost razor’s edge to it. “And what’s wrong with the pony I am now? I don’t regret the choices I made and I have no regrets!”

Discord crossed his claws with an unconvinced smirk on his face. “Oh, really? Funny, I seem to recall whenever we pulled a prank on old Starswirl you were always the one who would try to weasel out halfway through. Truly, behavior befitting of one of royal stature don’t you think?”

Celestia’s cheeks flushed with red as she sipped her tea and whispered, “That was a long time ago.”

Discord quietly listened as he made the tea flow out of the pot like a small river, before landing it in his cup. “Maybe for you, for me it feels like only twenty years ago.” His face grew a harsh sneer as he started to suck up the steam from the tea, rather than the tea itself. “Of course, considering my extended imprisonment, it pretty much was only twenty years for me.”

Celestia finished her tea and gently placed her cup down on the table. “Well, in any case, I’ve grown, and I can’t just go off and do whatever I want anymore.”

Discord crossed his arms and scoffed, “Well, if that’s the case tell me. If you could, would you give up being a princess and enjoy having a little chaos? Even if it was only for one day?”

Celestia looked up with an angry glare and snapped, “What do you mean? You think I have to give up my position just to have fun?”

Discord smirked and sat back as he sipping the color from his cup of tea. “I honestly doubt it. I bet a thousand years living as a boring princess, going to fancy parties and boring meetings, you’ve never had time for yourself.”

Celestia paused with a flustered look on her face unsure of what to say or think. ”So what...is this some sort of test? A reverse of what I did to you?”

Discord finished his tea and zapped it with magic as he explained. “Normally, I hate being so transparent, but yes, this is a test. And it’s one I bet you're going to fail miserably. You see, I know that despite your stuck up attitude, deep down you want to go back to how things were when we were kids.”

Celestia squeaked as Discord teleported behind her and whispered, “Don’t you remember when we replaced Starswirl’s quills with exploding ink pens, or when we had Luna wake up and think the moon disappeared. Wasn’t that just so much fun?”

The alicorn princess gave a deep, almost tired sigh as she looked up into the sky, for a moment almost looking as old as she actually was. “We did have a lot of fun, no worries, no stress…”

Discord floated back into his chair and asked, “So how about it? Want to go back to those long, lazy days.”

The princess stared down the chaos god, as she contemplated what to do. “Well, I suppose after my test this would only be fair. Though what exactly did you have in mind? Are you going to take away my cutie mark, or perhaps turn me into a clown?”

Discord poured himself another cup of tea, letting the beverage flow from the spout of the teapot as he snickered. “Oh, as entertaining as either of those options are, and they are quite amusing.” He quickly snapped his fingers, causing a book with the title ‘Future Chaos,’ to appear and open, with a floating pen quickly scribbling her suggestions down before vanishing again. “However, in this case, I think it would be more interesting if I transformed you into draconequus.”

Celestia, caught by surprise, quickly started coughing and spitting her tea all across the table at Discord’s suggestion. “Transform me? Into a draconequus? Is that even possible?”

Discord gave a nod as he raised a claw, now with seven fingers. “I assure you it’s quite simple. How about for a week? Sound good to you?”

The princess shook her head, quickly dismissing the idea.“I cannot. Ignoring the issue of who would maintain Equestria in my absence, the notion of you wishing to turn me into a draconequus seems more than a little suspicious.” .”

Discord couldn’t help but smile as he gently sipped his tea. “I don’t see what you’re getting so defensive about. I’m serious when I say there’s no catch. I’ll turn you into a draconequus, and you can do whatever you want. No strings of any kind.”

Celestia crossed her hooves and gave him a stern glare making Discord sweat a little as he threw his claws in the air and proclaimed, “Alright, you got me! There’s a catch!”

The princess smirked triumphantly and responded curtly, “I knew it.”

Discord grumbled lightly into his tea cup. “Try not to fall over with that swelled head of yours.” His tea finished, he snapped his claw and teleported over to Celestia. “It’s just a small matter my dear Celestia. Put simply, I want to make a bet.”

Celestia eyed the draconequus as she asked in a suspicious tone, “What kind of bet?”

Discord slowly strolled came over and explained, “Well, I’ll leave you as a draconequus for a week. During that time, you’re welcome to use Chaos Magic as you wish, with the condition that no matter how tempted you might be, you’re not allowed to lose control of your magic. No matter what happens?”

Celestia continued to eye him curiously, though a look of confidence was quick to emerge on her face. “So, all I have to do is become a draconequus and not abuse Chaos magic like you’ve done in the past?” Hmph, seems simple enough.”

Discord crossed his claws and scoffed, “Oh please, with all that power I doubt it. I’d be impressed if you lasted a single day.”

Celestia, now intrigued thought to herself for a moment, before her smirk returned. “Very well. Then, if I win, you’ll agree to transform yourself into whatever I want for a week.”

Discord played with the small beard that came down his chin as he debated on his answer. “Fine, I’ll accept your terms.”

The princess then held out her hoof and chirped, “Then it’s a deal.”

Discord gave the hoof a shake as he replied, “Wonderful. Let’s get started shall we?”

Celestia and Discord both strolled through the garden to a secluded spot, away from prying eyes. The draconequus couldn’t help admire the alicorn stroll through the garden,her mane glimmering in the starlight. Though he was quick to banish such thoughts from his mind as they moved further inward.

Eventually, they found themselves deep in the luxurious castle garden, with the trees towering over, and noises of various animals THAT could be heard in the distance. A location as secluded as one could get on the palace grounds.

Celestia turned to Discord, a taking a breath to calm herself as she brought back her smirk. “So, shall we do it here?”

The draconequus couldn’t help but snicker. “Well, we’re turning you into a draconequus, so I guess this will do.”

He then went over to her hooves. “Now then. First these need to go.”

He snapped his claw, and Celestia's hooves slowly turned into paws, though unlike Discord’s lion paw, hers had white fur with black stripes, not unlike a tigers.

Celestia was stunned at the change, momentarily flexing her new appendages, only to quickly groan as she felt her body start to elongate, her bones snapping while her muscles popped in each direction.

The mare looked down to see that her fur near the bottom half of her body was falling off in clumps, showing a new, soft, tender, tan colored fur that came down over the bottom half of her body, while the top half fluffed up like a griffin’s bosom. Celestia then noticed that on one of her bottom hooves grew out a bit and had an elegant stream of fur coming from below while the other had a light green, ethereal magic flowing around it.

She quickly let out another groan as she felt her wings shift in her back, with the bones snapping as they grew outward, whilst her mane slowly turned into a long piece of hair flowing from her head.

The sounds of bodily modification continued for several more seconds, before it finally ceased, allowing Celestia could to breath in relief that her ordeal was over. “Was all of that really necessary? Couldn’t you just change me instantly like you do everything else?”

Discord merely offered her a half hearted shrug. “Eh, maybe, but you never specified that I had to. Probably should be more clear next…..”

His words immediately died in his throat as Celestia finally uncurled herself and stood up straight, the moonlight allowing Discord to get a proper look at her. And needless to say, the sight left, the normally fast talking Spirit of Chaos, speechless.

Shaking out some stiffness in her new joints, Celestia finally made eye contact with the draconequus, and found herself puzzled by his lack of a remark. “So, is that all?”

Discord gulped as he crossed his hind legs and stammered, ”Ye...yes that’s all...I think we’re done here.”

Celestia, now taking a good look at herself, giggled as she twirled about in her new body and squealed, “My, this is certainly a new feeling.” Taking a moment to examine her new features, including her hands and wing, she felt a great sense of giddy excitement. “Oh, this does feel quite wonderful, I can see why you like it so much. I practically feel like a new mare.”

Discord, finally shaking away his stupor, held out a claw to calm her down. “Yes, well, I’m glad you can appreciate the wonders of being like me, but you might want to get used to your new body before you do anything drastic.”

Celestia however, seemed to ignore him as she flew towards the fountain in the middle of the garden, and she held out a paw. Discord quickly came over and whispered, “Be careful, Chaos Magic is unstable, and it might not always do what you want.”

Finally coming down from her excitement high, the princess gulped, uncertain as to what to do. Regardless however, she slowly held her paw out and snapped her fingers, causing a flash of magic to hit the fountain, forcing her to close her eyes. When she reopened her eyes she gasped at the sight before her.

Where once there was a large fountain of elegantly carved marble, now stood a giant, pink frosted, three-layered cake. The bulk of the cake itself was painted with white icing around the edges and on the top was a statue of an alicorn wearing a tutu, with a thick, bubbly, liquid pouring out of her mouth and around the edges of the cake.

Celestia strolled over, with Discord handing her a small cup he’d created and filled it with some of the liquid, before quickly draining the cup. She smacked her lips and squealed “Oh my goodness! It’s a strawberry milkshake!”

Discord burst into fits of laughter. “Hm, not bad for your first try. A little spit and polish, and you’ll get the hang of it in no time.”

Celestia turned around and smirked, quickly refilling her cup. “Well, wait to pay up in a week because I think I'm going to have some fun!” She then snapped her paws and teleported away in a puff of pink smoke. Discord looked upon it with a wide-eyed expression and brushed back his hair.

He could only stare at where Celestia was and whisper to himself. “I think I might’ve made a mistake.”

Author's Notes:

I can't believe that my story was Featured. Thank you so much!

Chapter One: Day One: How To Use Chaos Magic?

Celestia found herself waking the next morning and yawned as she stretched her new arms in the air. The mare groaned as she looked to see the moon lowering outside her window. Muttering out another annoyed grunt, she slowly rolled around in her bed knowing that she was going to have to raise the sun soon.

However, her annoyance quickly turned to mirth as she noticed two things. The first being her transformed state, something she’d forgotten in her tired stupor, and two, she noticed how truly odd her limbs felt as she pushed them through her sheets. However, despite the odd sensation, she actually found the appendages rather appealing.

“I must admit, I was a little apprehensive of this little affair and going from hooves to arms is certainly an adjustment. However, it shouldn’t be too much trouble to get used to.”

Giving her new digits a few quick stretches, she wrapped her new hands around her bedsheets and removed them, taking a moment to marvel at the ease the task was accomplished.

“Well, if I can say anything about this change it’s moving things with your hands is far easier than with your mouth. I can only imagine how relieving this would feel for an earth pony.”

True, Celestia as an alicorn typically would levitate whatever object or item she needed, but she was no stranger to the somewhat awkward task of having to hold or move something with her mouth on occasion. Yes, ponies had been doing that for centuries, but that didn’t make it any easier.

Quietly shaking off her new appreciation for hands, the transformed mare, now out of bed, took a moment to scan her darkened room, finding her to be the only one present, allowing her a momentary sigh of relief.

A quick glance at a nearby wall mirror serving to remind her again of how differently she looked. “And now comes the matter of informing everypony about my current state. Hopefully they won’t react too hysterically to this.”

Her monologue was interrupted the lights in the room came on, and the princess spotted a pink coated, pegasus maid coming walking into the room, a small pile of sheets obscuring her view and explaining why she wasn’t immediately freaking out at the Princess’s new form.

“Forgive me for waking you Princess Celestia, but I felt it was time to change the sheets on your bed.”

A slightly mischievous smirk appeared on the Princess’s face as she plotted her next course of action. She was stuck like this anyway, so might as well enjoy it.

“Oh, it’s no problem. I was already awake anyway and I wouldn’t mind some fresh sheets. Do you need any help by chance?”

Though her face was obscured by the rather large pile of linens, the Princess could still make out shake of refusal from mare, who struggled to keep the pile steady as she shook. “Oh, please don’t trouble yourself your highness. I have everything under con…..AH.”

Her words were cut short as she took a step forward and her hoof getting caught on a nearby rug, sending her body falling forward and the sheets flying.

She braced to hit the ground, only to hear a loud snap ring throughout the room, and her descent halted.

The maid slowly opened her eyes, and finding her jaw slowly drop. Looking down she could clearly see the floor, roughly a foot or so away from her face, yet despite not feeling her hooves on the ground, she wasn’t falling.

Looking around she found to her shock, she was seemingly frozen in place, not levitating, but outright frozen. More eye catching however, were the sheets she’d been carrying.

The once neatly folded cloth was now open and spread in every direction, not unlike a pair of wings, yet they weren’t fluttering in the open air, they, like her, were frozen in the air.

Now utterly confused and more than a little freaked out the maid struggled to let out a word, only to be silenced by the sound of mirthful chuckling echoing throughout the room.

“Oh, ahahaha, I do apologize for that. I just couldn’t help myself. Are you alright?”

Hearing the Princess’s voice managed to snap her out of her stupor. “Oh, Princess Celestia, I’m fine, but what exactly is….going…..on?”

Her words immediately died as she turned to speak to Celestia, and finally getting a proper look at the monarch’s new body. The maid, now completely stunned at the sight of the rather majestic draconequus could only return to stammering as she tried to speak, “Prin...cess C..C...Celestia? What in Equestria happened to you?”

Celestia, still smiling at her surprise, tried to regain some of her usual composure to avoid further terrifying the poor mare. “I know this is shocking and I promise you there is a reason for why I’m like this. However, perhaps we should discuss this while only ground level hmm?”

With a snap from her paw, the maid found herself gently falling back to the ground, her hooves landing with barely a sound. Another snap sounded and the sheets, which had also regained its momentum, appeared once again in a folded pile next to the maid, as if they hadn’t even been dropped. Celestia’s grin grew brighter as she admired her little display, though she quickly recentered her focus on the matter at hand. “Now than, regarding my current state.”

The maid, now able to process what was going on, immediately went into a panic. “Princess! This is serious! We need to inform your sister, or Twilight immediately!”

The Princess however, still maintaining her somewhat aloof demeanor, causally floated onto her bed as the maid was now on the cusp of hyperventilating.

“Now, now, there’s no need to be concerned. Honestly, you’re starting to sound like my mother?”

Without realizing it, Celestia unconsciously snapped her claw, causing tendrils of magic to wrap around the maid. With a bright flash of light the mare started shifting in appearance. Her mane began to flow outward, her horn growing through her forehead while both her body and wings increased in size. The simple pegasus maid was now transformed into a tall, graceful alicorn with a white apron strapped around her midriff as she came over and spoke in a reassuring tone. “Yes, I am your mother. Now tell me what’s happened?”

Celestia blinked in surprise, her jaw momentarily opening before blushing in slight embarrassment at her mistake. “Okay, guess I need to be a little more careful with what I say until I get a better grasp on this.”

For a moment she debated whether to simply undo the spell she’d just cast, but her mischievous side opted instead to have a little fun with this unique scenario. That was the point of this after all.

So, taking a moment to contemplate her response, before finally responding to her mother’s question...in a tone not unlike a young teenage mare. “Oh it was nothing, I just had a wonderful time last night with Discord!”

The transformed alicorn chuckled as she lit her horn and began to fix Celestia’s bed. “Oh, that’s lovely to hear dear. I’m guessing he’s the one to thank for your new look?”

Celestia rolled her eyes at the mare’s tone, almost sounding like she was being interrogated over a boyfriend she’d just gotten. “Well, I did technically have a bit of a hand in this. I guess you could call it a friendly wager between old acquaintances.”

The maid merely continued with her work, fluffing the princess’s pillow while humming a little tune. “Well, as long as it doesn’t keep you from your responsibilities as princess, then it shouldn’t be a problem.”

The draconequus quietly brushed off the comment and levitated over to a nearby mirror, getting a more detailed look at herself and realized something. True her new appearance was...eye catching, but it lacked the regality and elegance of her alicorn form.

“Hmm, perhaps I should put on something formal before I reveal myself to everypony. Help ease the public into it, if only a little bit.”

Drifting off to her closet, again enjoying the benefits of hands, she opened it up and examined her wardrobe, only to immediately remember something vital. None of her current attire would fit seeing they were all designed specifically for alicorns.

Feeling a sense of annoyance start to form, she tried to calm herself with a quick breathing exercise. “Okay, so not everything about this is going to as smooth as I’d hoped.”

Her eyes shifted from her wardrobe to her paws before a smirk returned to her face. “Well, looks like I’m going to have to change out my wardrobe for the week. Shouldn’t be too difficult.”

However, a quick glance at her still transformed maid reminded her of how easily her new powers could work against her. So, taking another breath to focus herself, she held her hand towards the dresses.

“Just concentrate Celestia, think of nice gowns that’ll fit me.”

The princess gulped, shutting her eyes tight as she snapped her claw. Another snap rang out in the room, though this was followed by an odd, poofing sound. “Oh, that didn’t sound comforting.”

Slowly opening her eyes, she almost immediately regretted her decision, finding her rows of once elegant gowns and dresses, designed by some of the finest seamstresses in Equestria….had been turned into a collection of what could only be described as blindly colorful, frilly monstrosities designed by a group of school fillies.

Celestia could only pick up her jaw and groan at her latest blunder. “Ugh! How in Equestria does Discord control this and make it look so easy!? I feel like newborn filly just starting her first magic lesson.”

Letting out another annoyed groan, the Princess quietly floated in the air, tempted to try and make a chair, though restrained herself out of fear of what would happen.

As she continued to sulk in the air, she failed to notice the motherly alicorn slowly walking up behind her. “Oh, stop that now, you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself. This is just something you need a little time to get used to that’s all. After all, if an oaf like Discord can handle this, you should have no trouble whatsoever.”

The Princess’s face softened as a smile returned to her face, enjoying having a supportive shoulder to lean on...even if the circumstances were a little odd when taking context into account. Still, didn’t mean she wouldn’t play along for a little while long.

“I appreciate the confidence, but I'm still not especially confident. I’ve only had this magic for a few hours and so far things have been….” Her glance focused on the motherly mare still trying to comfort her. “Unpredictable.”

The alicorn mother merely scoffed at Celestia’s reply, using her own magic to bring the Princess back to ground level. “Well, one thing you might want to consider is not relying on it so much. Try to use it in small ways until you get a better handle on it, and with a little practice you’ll have it down pat.”

Taking a moment to shift her attention to Celestia’s attempt at fixing her wardrobe, her demeanor became slightly more strained. “As for that little debacle, let’s forget about magic of any kind for now. I’ll contact a tailor to try and salvage what we can so you have some proper attire for the week. However, for now we need to get you prepared to raise the sun.”

Celestia couldn’t help but feel a little bit of childish glee at being patronized, having grown so accustomed to everypony speaking to her with reverence, it was quite a refreshing change. “Very well, thank you mother.”

Almost immediately she slapped her paw over her mouth, her entire body turning red in embarrassment. “I am so sorry about that, it just slipped out….”

The new alicorn, herself equally colored red with embarrassment merely gestured the princess to not speak, trying to process what was said. “It’s fine, after all, this is what you wanted to happen when you used your magic earlier.”

“Right….probably should do something about that shouldn’t?”

Celestia prepared to snap her fingers again, only for the alicorn to quickly grab the paw and push it down, a strained smile barely holding her face together. ”While the gesture is appreciated, let’s wait until you’ve got a better hold on your magic shall we dear? After all, we don’t know what exactly will happen.”

The pair shared another glance at Celestia’s wardrobe before the Princess nodded. “Yes, that probably would be the wisest course of action.”

The two stood roughly in silence for a moment as they contemplated what to do next. “Well, I suppose we should just treat this as normal I suppose. Though, what should I call you...other than...you know.”

An embarrassed blush came over Celestia’s face as she was reminded again of her little slip of the tongue, only for the alicorn to chuckle in response.

“Please, don’t worry about that. Honestly, I don’t mind you calling me that if it makes you comfortable. Though if you prefer you can call me that in private. As for while we’re in public, just call me Feather Duster. That is technically my actual name”

Celestia debated the compromise for a moment before offering a slightly hesitant nod. “I suppose that should be alright. After all, it’s only for a week anyway, so we should be fine.”

The alicorn giggled as she brushed Celestia’s mane. “Though, if I’m going to be your mother Celestia, than technically that makes me Luna’s mother as well. I don’t suppose we could let her in on the joke as well could well?”

After working out the details of the new arrangements Celestia opted to freshen herself up and had just finished exiting the bathroom, only to turn and see Princess Luna, who wasn’t in the best of moods. Beyond the angry scowl on her face, there were some noticeable bags under her eyes, which were also partially red and bloodshot. Add on the shaking and she looked to be somewhere between exploding in anger and passing out. Though for now she seemed to go with the former.

“Oh, good morning dear sister. How are you this lovely morning? I’m fine by the way, I just finished lowering the moon an hour ago and have been patiently waiting for you to raise the sun.”

Luna, likely due to her half crazed/half awake state had yet to even acknowledge her sister’s new appearance and merely continued on with her rant while her sister listened on.

“Oh, and I forgot to mention, several ponies have been oh so kind as to voice some of their concerns with me regarding the sun. It does feel so wonderful to converse with my subjects, I mean normally I’d be sleeping at this time, but really who needs eight hours of sleep anyway?”

By this point Celestia could barely keep herself from laughing out loud at Luna’s rather poorly concealed jabs at her, with her eye twitching rapidly all the while. Were she not restraining herself from using Chaos Magic, she could think of all manner of ways to make this situation more amusing.

However the fun came to an end when Luna, having finally taken a breath after her little tirade, finally got a long, good look at her sister.

“Ce...Celestia? Is that you?” The Princess of the Moon asked, before quickly holding her head and trying to stay on all four hooves. ”I know I was somewhat jesting with my earlier remark, but perhaps I am in need of more sleep than I realized.”

Celestia quickly swallowed a laugh that threatened to burst from her mouth as she placed her paw on her sister’s shoulder. “While I agree you do tend to overwork yourself dear sister, I do assure you, this isn’t a dream or a hallucination. I have become a draconequus.”

Luna took a moment to rub her eyes clear, just to make certain she wasn’t hallucinating before doing her best to massage away her growing headache. “May I be correct in assuming Discord had a hand in this?”

“Yep.”

Letting out another sigh, the Princess of the Moon finally sat herself down, too exhausted to yell, scream or freak out. “All right, then dear sister, may I ask why Discord has done this? And explain to me why I shouldn’t immediately be concerned.”

“Oh, it’s rather simple. We made a bet is all.” Celestia said, matter of factly, like it was no big deal.

Luna however, didn’t seem satisfied, her still bloodshot eyes twitching as she remained seated. “A bet?”

Her sister continued to smile, still floating in the air, and now doing a casual backstroke as if she were in a pool. “Mhm. All I have to do is stay like this for a week and not lose control of my magic. Simple enough.”

Luna, taking a single glance at the alicorn mare in the room with them, and currently fluffing Celestia’s mane while still airborne, didn’t look convinced. “Really, and I’m assuming she’s an example of you keeping yourself in check?”

The alicorn immediately turned her attention towards Luna and was quick to scold her. “Excuse me young lady that was rather rude.”

Luna’s jaw immediately dropped, stunned at being talked down to, though she quickly recovered and immediately snapped back. “I beg your pardon! I don’t know what insanity my sister has caused, but I will not be talked to like a child, especially not by some mare who isn’t even my mother!”

Feather Duster glared harshly at Luna, making the princess step back, fearing some kind of corporal punishment. Celestia, finally deciding to return to the ground, and formed a barrier between the two with one of her hands, now the size of a small wall.

”Alright, that’s enough from both of you. Luna I know you’re tired and this situation is a lot to take in, but you are still a princess of Equestria and should behave accordingly. As for you... mother, still weird getting used to that, you don’t need to get angry at Wuwu. She’s just cranky is all.”

At hearing the nickname, Luna face erupted into a blush, before stomping her hooves not unlike a child and practically whined like one to. “Don’t call me that! You promised you’d never call me that again when we were still children.”

“Indeed I did. So just behave and I won’t have to.”

Floating over to her still pouting sister, she offered her a few simple pats on the head, which only served to make the princess pout harder.

“Now then, you listen to Mother and be a good filly. Now if you’ll excuse me,” she then looked up at the night sky and sighed at her good mood being shattered. “I have a sun to raise.”

Luna however, still wasn’t amused, eye twitching and hooves stomping harder into the floor, looking about ready to leave hoof marks in the polished wood. “Stop treating me like a baby.”

Celestia simply ignored her and headed towards the balcony, picking up her phoenix, Philomena before flying out the window. This left Luna in the care of Feather Duster, who’d quickly taken her by the hoof and started leading her towards the door. “Well, now that all the excitement has been handled let’s get you something to eat and finally put you to bed. A good day’s sleep is important for a healthy mare and will brighten your spirits in no time”

Luna grumbled a little, but for some reason, the princess begrudgingly followed the strange alicorn. With all that happened, she was too exhausted and drained to care anymore, content to just play things by ear for now.

“Hopefully once I’m rested I can better deal with this situation. Besides, it’s only one day and Celestia is a responsible mare. How much trouble can she possibly cause in a single day?”

While Luna was being babied by her new “mother” Celestia was slowly coming down from the sky and landed before a crowd of ponies all eagerly waiting for her arrival, her pet phoenix by her side. As to be expected, when they saw, not the regal form of their princess but some strange, patchwork creature with Celestia’s head attached to it, there was a share of gasps of surprise and shock….along with a few ponies screaming hysterically and one outright fainting.

Celestia looked among her astonished subjects, quickly adopting her more serious royal tone and raised her claw, which thankfully managed to calm them somewhat.

“Citizens of Canterlot, I know that this may be strange to all of you. However, rest assured that your eyes do not deceive you, I am Princess Celestia and I am currently a draconequus. Do not be alarmed as this is merely a temporary arrangement I have made with Discord, and I shall return to normal by the end of this week. As such, I would like for things to proceed as they normally would. I’ll still hold court, go about my other engagements, the meeting over the tax deal will be completed still. As will the party at the end of the week which I'll be hosting at the palace. If there are any questions or concerns, I’ll take them one at a time in my throne room.”

The mare smirked as she raised her surprised pet phoenix in the air. “For now it is time to raise the sun!”

She then took Philomena and raised her in the air, before lifting her claw up and snapping, releasing tendrils of magic that wrapped around the phoenix, who looked more than a little concerned with the strange action. She had but a moment to squawk before blinding flash of light replaced the fiery bird, with...an equally fiery rooster.

Everypony looked on in stunned silence at the odd display, though Philomena looked the most stunned, her head twisting and checking every part of her new body. A foul glare quickly appeared in her eyes, directed at Celestia, who only chuckled at her pet’s anger.

“Oh please, this is hardly any worse than the way you teased poor Fluttershy back in Ponyville. And it’s only for a little bit. So, stop being all huffy.”

The former phoenix remained unamused, but swallowed her pride and turned to the sky. A look of shame appeared on her face, before she reared her head back and let loose a loud.. “Cock a Doodle Do!”

As the call echoed across the land, the sun slowly began to rise making everypony around look up with astonishment and confusion at the most bizzare sunrise anypony had likely witnessed in a thousand years...save for when Discord ruled that is.

Of course, while the ponies were still distracted by the strange celestial rising, they didn’t notice Celestia practically giggling herself silly, hugging her rooster close to her chest before flying off back to the palace and squealing with laughter. “Haha, that was amazing ! Did you see the look on those stuck up nobles faces!”

The former phoenix however, didn’t laugh instead pointing her wing at her face, a deep frown etched into her beak like a piece of marble.

“Oh come on, it’s not that bad. I personally think you look lovely Philomena.”

The rooster/phoenix immediately started furiously squawking in protest, flapping her wings, trying desperately to fly into her owner’s face with little success.

Undaunted, Celestia finally ceased her mirth and offered a pat to her pet’s head. “Yes, yes, alright I’ll change you back. Though, I honestly do think you look quite dashing as you are now.”

With a snap of her claw, the rooster immediately burst into a large fireball, before spreading her wings out, dispelling the flames, revealing the again proud and powerful phoenix she was originally.

Restored she offered an annoyed squawk to the draconequus ruler, who quietly brushed it off. “Oh, calm down. It was a simple, harmless prank. Stop making such a big deal of it.”

The phoenix, again didn’t look convinced, which only served to annoy the Princess further. “Well, fine, be that way. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the gardens for breakfast. And I’m rather excited to see what Mother has prepared.”

Philomena now perplexed at the mention of a ‘mother’ sadly couldn’t get another sound in as Celestia teleported with a quick snap, leaving the phoenix alone to mull over the trouble her owner was likely to get into.

Celestia immediately appeared in the kitchen with a flash, and took a moment to look herself over. “Well, even if I still have trouble with some of the more complex way to use Chaos magic, nice to know teleportation is still relatively simple...now then.”

Her expression turned to childish excitement as she turned her attention to the plate that the motherly alicorn made for her. It contained all manner of fruits, including strawberries, oranges and grapefruit along with some scrambled eggs and a simple mug of coffee on the plate.

Celestia’s previous look of excitement immediately deflated like a beach ball, practically moaning in disappointment. “Ugh, what an utterly boring, healthy looking breakfast.”

Taking a seat and quietly poking the large pile of produce, she groaned loudly. “I suppose I should’ve expected as much. I did essentially turn her into a perfect mother, and keeping her child healthy is probably the most motherly thing she can do. That being said.”

With a grin returning to her face as she took a quick scan of the room. “Today, I’m feeling more in the mood for something a bit sweeter.”

Hesitating for a moment, she raised her claw and with a clear picture in her mind, she snapped, transforming the large fruit platter into a giant, chocolate covered, fruit cake, adorned with various strawberries and oranges. Her eggs disappeared completely, while her coffee turned into a huge, frothy frappuccino with 2 cinnamon straws, a hefty topping of whip cream and caramel drizzled on top.

Celestia squealed at the sight of her new breakfast, clapping her claws eagerly in delight. “Oh this looks just amazing and I did it without any misfire! Good Job Celestia.”

After patting herself on the back….literally just for fun, she began to dig into her meal, taking a moment here and there to take a long, cinnamon laced sip of her frappuccino.

As Celestia continued to indulge in her favorite vice, Discord saw fit to appear in a flash, eyes literally rolling out of his sockets at the sight of Princess’s sugary banquet.

“Well, if this isn’t a lovely image. And here I’d thought you’d have a little more self control than this? At this rate, I’d be impressed if you lasted before half the week was up.”

Celestia, taking a moment to wipe away some crumbs from her cheeks and take a more, refined sip of her drink, merely smirked at her adversary’s claims. “Come now Discord, I figured you of all creatures would understand the need to have a little fun with Chaos Magic.”

“Oh I do, believe me.” With a snap of his fingers he pulled up a photograph of the earlier sunrise. “And I must say, that little stunt you pulled earlier was a nice showing for a first timer.” He quickly flipped the picture over to reveal a scorecard with an 8.0 on it.

“Well then, what seems to be the issue here?” Celestia took another sip of her drink, only to find it empty. So, she quickly snapped her fingers, causing a portal to who knows where, to open above her cup and more coffee to flow into it before she snapped it shut again.

She leaned in to take a sip, only for Discord’s claw to pot out of the cinnamon straw and stop her. “That right there is what I mean. You just got your magic yesterday and you’ve practically used it nonstop...and that’s all without me getting into the whole ‘mother’ situation you created for yourself.”

Celestia had the decency to blush over her slip up, but refused to back down. “Oh come now Discord. All I’ve done is use my magic in relatively harmless ways. Hardly what one would call, losing control...minus that little mishap this morning.”

Discord sighed in annoyance at how stubborn the Princess was being, sliding his hand down his face...and actually peeling it off as he did, planting it on the floor. “Oh sure, you say that now. It starts out small and harmless, but you’ve already seen how easy it is to misuse this magic. And I’d rather hate to see you hurt yourself just because you decided to bite off more than you can chew.”

The Princess, having lost interest in her drink, wiped her mouth clean and stood up, quickly snapping the dirty dishes and utensils into the sink. “You’re concern is greatly appreciated Discord. However, despite a few bumps here and there, I’m more than confident I can handle things.”

Quietly making her way to door leading to the throne room, she offered the Spirit of Chaos a parting glance. “Now then, I have more than a few important matters to attend to. Though, you’re more than free to stay around the castle as much as you like….I’d hate for you to not be around once I win out little wager after all.”

With a smug smile and a flash of light she was gone, leaving Discord alone. “My, my, seems like somepony’s starting to get a little full of themself.”

Fishing around inside his ear, the mischievous spirit produced a small hand mirror, the reflection of which showed Celestia now in the throne room. Pulling a lounge chair out of thin air and sneezing out a box of popcorn Discord took his seat. “Might at well enjoy the fireworks while I can, and see just how far she falls.”

Celestia slowly wafted into the throne room, mildly perturbed at Discord’s lack of confidence. As she sat on her throne, she looked around and saw that many of the guards and other staff were still somewhat put off by her being a draconequus.

She looked around with a sigh as she tried her best to look professional. “Please listen everypony. I understand this is a bit of an adjustment, but as I said, this is only for the week and then I’ll be back to my usual self. So, the best we can do is continue on as normal. Let’s start the day as normal.”

The majority of guards only offered few blinks here and there, never breaking their role, while the few attendant ponies offered a hesitant nod or smile, which only earned a frown from the Princess.

“Well it’s not like I didn’t anticipate some minor resistance. Hopefully my next few appointments will go a bit smoother.”

They didn’t.

From dawn to midday, many a number of different ponies, from nobles, to officials to ordinary citizens met with Celestia and each had their own...unique reactions to her change. Sure, at first it was a little amusing, but after it happened for the tenth time or so, it’d already long worn out it’s welcome and the day only continued to drag.

The Princess’s most recently appointment was a rather dull grey pony in a standard black suit, mainly interested in discussing various forms of budget information...and it was taking all of Celestia’s willpower not to groan out loud at how painful the entire experience was.

“Ugh, he hasn’t stopped talking for the last forty minutes. What I wouldn’t give for a distraction right now. Maybe I’ll get lucky and some monster will pop out of the Everfree Forest and give me an excuse to leave.”

She immediately banished that thought for her mind, she shouldn’t be hoping for potential harm to her subjects, just to get out of a meeting. “Still, this wouldn’t be so bad if he wasn’t so...bland. Do only drab looking ponies take on career paths. A little splash of color wouldn’t kill him that’s for sure.”

Immediately an image came to Celestia’s mind...it would be really funny if the stallion was wearing a dress. Without realizing it, she snapped a claw and the suit the stallion was wearing transformed into a flowing, golden gown. The stallion gaped in horror as Celestia squeaked in surprise at what happened.

“I...I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean for that to happen.”

The stallion slowly stepped back with an embarrassed look on his face. “It’s..quite alright your highness. I understand you're still getting used to your new powers and all that... I’m just going to go home and change. We can finish this meeting at another time….preferably when you’re in a less chaotic state.”

He’d whispered that last part, but either through some side effect of Chaos Magic or some other force, Celestia was easily able to hear it.

Many of the ponies snickered as Celestia scoffed, “Now, now. There’s no need for that. I’m perfectly capable of fixing this minor misstep. If you’ll just hold still for a moment.”

She sighed and breathed slowly. “Think about a suit..suit…” She snapped her claws turning and the elegant gown was gone in a flash...now replaced with a red and white striped clown costume complete with big red shoes, an orange bow tie and baggy pants. As the noble stumbled about in his squeaky red shoes. Everypony around burst into even more laughter.

Celestia, stunned and embarrassed by her latest magical misfire, quickly held her flaw out again.”Forgive me, let me try again!”

Celestia narrowed her gaze on the now panicking and growled, "Come on Chaos Magic, turn it into a normal suit!” She snapped her claws and the clown suit now shifted into a pair of white swim shorts around his waist with Celestia's cutie mark printed all over the fabric. He also had inflatable sun floaties on his arms and a sun styled inflatable ring around his abdomen. As everypony snickered Celestia was now fuming...literally as there was steam coming out of her ears and one of her horns appeared to be on fire, along with her eyes.

Looking ready to explode, she readied another snap, only for the stallion to hold both his hooves up, almost like he was trying to surrender. “Your highness. I greatly appreciate your attempts, but it’s unnecessary….I’m perfectly fine with what I’m wearing. I was actually planning to go to the beach later this week anyway.”

Celestia could easily tell he was lying to spare her feelings, but gave a long exasperated sigh and nodded in agreement. “Very well, though I do hope you’ll accept my apologies. I didn’t mean for this to happen.”

The stallion, with a blush on his face, stepped back and replied, “Oh, there’s no need for that Princess, it’s fine. Now then, if you’ll excuse me I’m needed elsewhere...tata!”

The stallion quickly bolted out of the throne room, leaving a visibly exasperated Celestia to slouch in on her throne, a small hand fan appearing to help cool her off. ”Alright, I believe that’s enough meetings for now and I’m sure we could all do with a little lunch break. We’ll reconvene in an hour!”

Everypony nodded and quickly dispersed as three fancy looking unicorn mares entered the throne room. One of the mares Celestia recognized Fleur de Lis, who was quick to greet the Princess after offering a customary bow.

”Princess Celestia, a pleasure to see you again. We heard about your predicament and wondered if you were still going to join us for tea in the garden.”

Celestia gave a smile, seeing an opportunity to relax a little chirped excitedly, “Of course I am! After everything that’s happened so far today, aa relaxing lunch in the garden sounds positively heavenly.”

Celestia sat with her fellow mares drinking tea together in the garden. Things were relatively silent as the mares occasionally gave Celestia odd looks. The princess, trying to enjoy the peace sighed as she lowered her cup.”Well I know my appearance is something to adjust to, I’d like to try and enjoy our time together, so can we shift focus to something else?”

Fleur offered a quick nod while the two other mares silently mumbled into their cups, who Celestia turned her attention to..”

“So, I know who Fleur but I don’t believe I’ve ever had the pleasure of either of your company? May I have your names?”

One of the two, a blue coated pegasus with glasses blushed at being called out, but managed to whisper a response. “My name is Rainbow Quill and I’m the head librarian at Canterlot’s Royal Library. My friends just all me Quill for short.”

The second mare, a white coated earth pony and clearly the move confident of the two, offered a smirk and head bow to the princess. “And my name is Snowflake, I’m a curator for Canterlot’s Grand Gallery.”

Celestia bowed her head in turn, a smile on her face. “Well, it’s wonderful to meet you two. Actually, I was discussing the fact that many ponies think we should have decreased funding for the gallery and library, though I’m hesitant to do so. Though, if you could get your individual reports on the matter to me by Friday, I should be able to work out the details and hopefully convince the other nobles to continue funding these endeavours.”

Snowflake gave a nod, taking a bite of one of the crumpets on the table before replying. “Rightly so, thank you for your cooperation Princess Celestia. My report has been finalized and is ready for review.”

Quill also bowed and replied, “Yes, that goes for me as well. My review is complete and is ready for your approval.”

Celestia blinked and burst into laughter. “Well, if that’s all the business we need to discuss what are we going to do for the rest of our lunch break?”

The three mares all blushed and gave each other embarrassed looks. Fleur then turned around towards the princess and whispered, “Well..to be honest we actually rather enjoyed your little performance when you raised the sun this morning.”

Snowflake actually started chuckling and needed to take a sip of tea to keep from choking on one of the pastries she’d been eating. ”Oh yes, it was amazing. Though, the three of us were wondering, if it’s not too much trouble. Could you perhaps use your Chaos Magic to fulfill a little fantasy of ours.”

Celestia eyed them cautiously, noting that Fleur and Quill were equally invested in this idea. “I’m not sure, I’m still getting the hang of it and I’m worried about what might happen. What is this request?

Quill quietly looked down at the grass below, but still managed to eek out a response. “Um...could you turn us into fillies for an hour?”

Celestia blinked in surprise as Fleur nodded eagerly “Yes, please! It would be a dream to relive our foalhoods for a little bit. We always had tea parties when we were young and they were so much fun. Sadly, it's not the same when you're an adult.” The elegant mare looked at the Princess with glistening and pleading eyes, practically begging without saying a word.

“Will you do it. please?”

Celestia sighed as she explained solemnly, “Look… while I would love to grant such a request and it’s well within my power, my Chaos Magic isn't the most stable at the moment and I’m afraid of what might happen.”

Snowflake’s previous enthusiasm dried up instantly., “Oh, well that’s alright. It was stupid idea. Besides we don’t need magic to have fun right?”

Fleur and Quill offered half hearted nods, but even a blind pony could tell they were just a hair's breadth from devastated.

Celestia felt her resolve immediately crumble.”Oh, what’s the harm. It’s not like age spells are something I couldn’t do before. So it should be fine, right?”

“Fine, I'll try, but if something goes wrong please understand that it was an accident and not intentional.”

The trio, though excited, gulped nervously as Celestia raised a claw and slowly whispered, "Think of little fillies, come on a little filly tea party.”

She snapped a claw sending a burst of energy through the area,transforming the table, making a small tea fountain appear where the pot was. The porcelain cups turned a bright pink while the plates of small sandwiches turned massive, filled with all manner of delicious looking pastries. The mares sitting there had tendrils of magic slowly wrap around them, before a flash of light revealed them to be transformed into little fillies, each wearing light blue dresses, white bonnets tied around their heads, with white stockings and black mary jane shoes placed on each hoof.

Celestia couldn’t help but giggle as the fillies looked down at their dresses with blushes growing on all their faces. The princess cooed, “Oh just look at you little fillies, now go on and play tea party. When your ready to turn back into adults just let me know.”

All three fillies squealed, “Okay!”

Seeing things going smoothly the princess fell back into her chair, sighing happily in relief. “Oh, thank goodness it actually worked this time!”

Her moment of relief only last a second before she felt someone tapped her on the shoulder, and she then turned around, only to squeaked surprise upon seeing one of the servant ponies now dressed as a giant bunny in a waistcoat.

She barely was able to react to the odd occurrence before he spoke. “Princess, I’m sorry to interrupt but I must say I’m feeling a little strange right now and I feel that I’m late for an important date. Please tell me, am I?”

Celestia groaned and dragged a claw down her face, but then she quickly formed an idea. “Yes you’re late for our tea party. Can you stay here and watch the fillies while I go?”

The butler bunny took a paw and saluted. “Of course princess! I will perform my duties with honor!”

The big bunny then hopped over to little tea party and started to serve the little fillies, much to their delight. Celestia sat back and smiled watching the fillies giggle, talking about embarrassing facts about their husbands as the princess sighed. “Well I almost got it...a little misfire here but not as bad as I thought. Now that just leaves the question of whether I can turn them back without incident.”

Later that afternoon, Celestia, having been pulled away from the fillies due an apparently urgent matter, had to wait until the day was practically over before she could return to the transformed fillies, now in her room along with the alicorn mother and rabbit butler.

Feather Duster turned around and asked, “So are these three fillies staying for the night?”

Celestia sighed as the fillies sat quietly, no longer enjoying their self imposed youth. “No, I'm going to try to turn them back to normal. But...I’m still a little concerned over what might happen. Everytime I try to do something even a little complex it almost always goes wrong.”

Her musings were interrupted as she felt Snowflake tugging at one of her legs. ”Please hurry, if you don't mind. As fun as this was I do have a meeting tomorrow with some famous artists.”

Both Quill and Fleur eagerly nodded, wanting to get back to normal promptly, only adding to Celestia’s concern.

Seeing no choice, she took a deep breath and concentrated, “Alright, calm myself and think about what I want.”

She raised her arm towards the fillies. “Mares, think of them as grown mares.”

She snapped a claw and they were all transformed back into mares….extremely elder mares currently sitting in rocking chairs.

Celestia groaned in frustration, glaring at her paw angrily. “Come on Chaos Magic, just work!”

As Celestia contemplated getting a new arm, Discord poofed into the room, snickering loudly at the frantic and frustrated princess who could only scoff at the trickster. “Ah, Discord. I was wondering when you’d show up. What are you doing here?”

Discord smirked. “Well, enjoying the show for one. You’re ceaselessly entertaining to watch.” A snap of his fingers revealed a large projector, which turned on a played a highlight reel of every mistake Celestia made over the course of the day, much to her annoyance.

Angry now, Celestia immediately snapped her own hand, causing the projector to explode in the Chaos Gods face, though he was quick to shake the soot off.

Celestia’s glare returned to her paw. “Oh, so now you decide to work.”

“You're concentrating too hard my dear princess.” Discord, now clad in a professor’s attire, snapped a chalkboard into existence along with a pointer he was quick to use. “Chaos Magic is all about freedom and unpredictability. The more you try to control it the more chaotic it's going to be. Understand?”

Celestia scoffed as Discord returned to his usual look.”So, how exactly does that help me? I’m just supposed to snap my claws without thinking, and everything will turn back to normal?”

Discord only offered a half nod. “Eh, either that or it might turn everything into cotton candy, pillows and acid spewing wombats. It is unpredictable after all.”

Now more nervous than ever, Celestia closed her eyes and did her best to empty her mind, trying not to think about anything at all.

“Don’t think, just do it. Don’t think about anything. Just clear my mind and...”

A loud snap echoed through the room, and Celestia hesitated for a moment before finally opening her eyes. To her amazement the old mares had finally been transformed back to their normal ages, much to the trio’s great joy.

“Thank you, Celestia!”

“Yes, that was fun...in spite of everything.”

“Indeed, we should maybe do it again….or not.”

The three quickly ran out of the room as Discord clapped his claws together, while another pair of arms held up a scorecard with a 10 on it. “Well done Celestia! Bravo! Bravo!”

Discord then turned to the big bunny thumping his foot on the ground and smirked, “Oh, looks like you missed one.” The scorecard quickly changed to a 9.0

She sighed and casually snapped a paw turning the rabbit into a penguin with a bow tie. Discord burst into laughter as Celestia rolled her eyes and snapped a claw, finally turning him back to his normal pony form.

Finally back to normal he nervously bowed. ”Um...thank you Princess. If you need anything else please don’t hesitate to call...somepony else.”

The butler then quickly ran off as Discord came over landed next to Celestia. “Well, that was quite the day you had. A little bumpy near the end but hey, now that you have the hang of it I'll leave you alone and watch from a distance.”

Celestia turned towards, visibly drained, but a small smile on her face. “Well, don’t get too comfortable. When this week ends, you’re mine.”

Discord smirked as he snapped his claw and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Celestia, finally able to relax, immediately fell back on her bed, moaning in exhaustion as if she’d just teleported all across Equestria. “I thought this was going to be easy. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Thank Equestria the day is finally over.”

A soft cough caused her eyes to open and her to sit up, spotting Feather Duster not too far away. “Oh, right, sorry about that. I’m guessing you’d like me to turn you back to normal as well?”

The mare merely shook her head in the negative. “I had originally, but after seeing how much stress you were under today, I think it would be in everypony’s best interest if you had somepony to lean on during this whole affair. Plus, it’s only for the week so I don’t mind.”

The motherly smile she offered the tired Princess almost caused her to weep with joy, recalling memories of long ago of her own mother for a moment before returning the smile.

“Thank you.”

“It’s honestly not a problem. Now, why don’t you get ready for bed. I have to find Luna and make sure she’s ready to raise the moon.”

Celestia couldn’t help but giggle and nod as she made her way to the bathroom, feeling the smallest bit better despite all that had happened today.

Chapter Two: Day Two: Welcome To Sun Butt's Daycare for Gifted Youngsters

Princess Celestia awoke once again to the call of the "motherly maid" she’d unintentionally transformed into an alicorn the previous. And as before, she was still regretting it.

"Good morning sweetheart, it's time to raise that sleepy head of yours."

It took a moment for the bed to even stir as the princess’s head peeked from under the sheets, still feeling groggy from the previous day. Slowly, she rose up, rubbing a paw over her head as she groaned.

“Strange, I’m never usually this tired in the morning.”

A fun little perk of being the Pony of the Sun, you’re always up and ready in the morning...or atleast that’s usually how it works. Celestia found herself pondering this change as she rubbed sand from her eyes while struggling to get out of bed, wanting nothing more than to just curl back up in the sheets.

“I’m beginning to wonder if this transformation is affecting more than just my magic.”

This only earned her a chuckle from the motherly alicorn as she proceeded to take the claw of the princess draconequus to the washroom.

Celestia could only yawn again as she was all but dragged from her bed before being seated as her overprotective maid assisted in combing her long, flowing mane and tail, cooing all the while, much to her chagrin.

"Oh, I know you don’t feel especially well right now, but I think after a little time up and about, you’ll feel right as rain.”

Without even stopping the brush she was currently levitating, Feather effortlessly brought Celestia’s daily schedule over, peering at it with one eye while keeping the other trained on Celestia.

“Now then, you have that inspection of the Royal Guard and a meeting with the nobles this morning."

Celestia only responded with a loud groan, followed by practically dragging her claw down her face.

"As if I wasn’t feeling bad enough as it is. True inspecting the Royal Guard typically isn’t too much trouble but I can barely stand meeting with nobles when I’m my usual self, much less as I am now. At this point, I’d rather fight Sombra again."

The motherly alicorn merely offered a comforting smile as she continued to brush. "Be that as it may, I think you're going to do just fine. After all, you’ve managed to lead this entire kingdom all but flawlessly for over 1000 years. I’m sure you can handle things.”

Finally putting the brush away, the new alicorn casually opened the nearby closet and started scanning the various outfits within. “So, now we just need to get you something appropriate to wear. Would you like me to pick it out for you?”

The draconequus shook her head and snapped, “No, that won’t be necessary. If I’m being honest, I’d rather keep things low key today. No need to dress up.”

Finally managing to shake off the last bits of grogginess, the princess quickly brushed her teeth, along with applying a minimal amount of makeup, she gave herself a once over in the mirror.

Overall, despite the lack of attention she’d opted to give herself, Celestia was quite stunned at how cute she looked.

However, her literal self-reflection was cut short by a shiver running down her spine, thinking about Discord looking her over. Without even snapping her fingers, her eyes shifted colors, now taking on a technicolor appearance as they scanned the entire room, even stretching out of her head and peering behind her, thankfully finding nothing.

“At least I can take solace in the fact Discord decided to keep his distance today. Draconequus or not, there’s only so much of his antics I’m able to tolerate.”

The princess gave a deep sigh and stared back into the mirror. "Just remember, no matter what happens, you're still the ruler of Equestria, and you have duties to perform."

She stepped out of the bathroom and turned her gaze towards her motherly alicorn.

"Once again, thank you for your assistance Feather Duster, I truly appreciate it. However, I need to go raise the sun now. Perhaps you could go and tend to Luna. She has developed a bit of a bad habit of not eating before she goes to sleep."

Duster offered her usual smile and bowed in response. “Of course, I wouldn’t want poor little Luna to feel left out. Though, would you like some breakfast before you raise the sun? It is the most important meal after all."

Celestia chuckled seeing how the alicorn she created out of a maid was staring down at her with those loving, caring eyes, just worrying about her. True, it was more than a little awkward how overly affectionate she could be and she definitely would have to turn her back soon. However, she was enjoying the attention for the moment, it was something she’d missed for...she didn't know how long honestly

"Certainly, some breakfast would be nice right about now."

The alicorn narrowed her gaze and snapped, "Then, I will go and prepare a healthy breakfast when you return. But you better not turn it into the cake and sweets, your pudgy enough as is."

Celestia’s smile immediately shattered like a rock as she had to bite back the yell forming in her mouth, made harder when Feather decided to poke her stomach just to emphasize her point.

“Must you constantly bring up my weight? I’ll have you know I’m in excellent shape and I’d appreciate it if you keep comments like that to yourself.”

The alicorn scoffed, "Don't you snap at me, young lady!"

Celestia prepared to shout back but managed to restrain herself, not wanting to potentially make a scene. “Forget it, it’s not worth the effort. You’re just fortunate I have more important things to worry about right now or I’d change you back to how you were. Goodness knows I could do without the constant hover parenting.”

Feather could only look on stunned at the blatant show of rebellion from the transformed ruler. "Such manners and from you of all ponies. You keep this up, you'll be grounded from going to the ball this weekend!"

Celestia only responded with a blank stare, before holding up her hand. “You know what, you’ve been working so hard these last few days, why don’t you have a nice, relaxing spa day ...in Ponyville.”

Before her overbearing, self-appointed parent could yell a retort, she was gone in a flash, allowing Celestia to finally relax if only for a moment.

“Ugh! What was I thinking turning one of my maids into an alicorn ...oh right I wasn’t, it was just a slip of the tongue."

Deciding to not dwell on that particular misstep too much she flew out of her room and into the hallway.

“Once she returns from her trip, I’ll make sure to change her back and finally put an end to this mishap. For now, I’ll just focus on my day. Here's hoping Luna is at least in a better mood than I am right now."

Everypony in Canterlot was nervous and curious, hearing the rumors about what happened yesterday when Celestia raised the sun, with some hoping for a repeat performance. The princess flew out in her draconequus form, shimmering and glowing above them, quickly taking notice of the noticeably larger than usual crowd of ponies.

The princess sighed, knowing for well why there was such a large crowd today. “Can’t exactly say I blame them, raising the sun the usual way has gotten a little stale these past few centuries, even I have to admit it’s a little dull.”

Almost immediately a lightbulb appeared beside her head as an idea formed, which she was quick to notice.

“Is that going to be a common occurrence ...no matter, just as long as I don’t go too overboard this shouldn’t be a problem.

Taking out a paw causing everypony's gaze followed it, she snapped, causing a giant frying pan to suddenly appear in the sky.

After enjoying the sound of a few surprised gasps from the crowd, she took out a few eggs, cracked them and held the pan above for everypony to see. The citizens watched with a mix of curiosity and anticipation as the princess flipped it up and down with the pan glowing red and the eggs were started sizzling before throwing the big egg into the sky.

Like a water balloon against a wall, the Egg splattered across the sky, with the egg continuing to cook until it fully formed into the sun.

The crowd below cheered and applauded the display, prompting Celestia to take a bow before flying back off into the palace with a big smile on her face she gave a deep sigh of relief.

”I needed that, and it was a lot easier than I originally thought. Pity that the rest of my schedule won’t exactly allow something so grand scale. Oh, well.”

Letting off another sigh, she flew over the castle and landed near the barracks, spotting the new Captain of the Guard waiting for her.

The pony in question he was a white-coated pegasus with a blue and gold striped mane with dark blue eyes, clad in the decorate purple armor of his position. He quickly offered a salute to the princess, which she was quick to respond with a bow.

"Good morning Princess Celestia, I trust you’re having a pleasant day.”

Celestia was mildly impressed that he wasn’t reacting with more shock at her appearance, but compared to Shining Armor, Bronze Helm if she remembered correctly, had a more professional air about him and rarely ever broke his composure.

“Indeed, it started a little rough, but I think everything should work out alright.”

“Glad to hear it, your highness. Now, shall we commence with the inspection?”

The princess looked out among her guards, her lack of enthusiasm barely masked. "Certainly, let’s get this taken care of."

She slowly walked among her guards and checked their armor, making sure each was in perfect condition, which thankfully they were, though that only made the task more uneventful. This was ironically one of those instances where you almost hoped something would be out of place just to mix things up a bit.

Thankfully, to Celestia’s surprise, and brief excitement, she saw one guard needed help with his armor straps. Without a word, she flew directly in front of him, and with a single quick snap, readjusted the belts leaving the stallion stammering at the direct attention.

"Oh,...uh thank you...your majesty."

The princess gave the usual smile she’d long practiced to the guard.

”It’s no problem, just make sure you get this fixed before the ball this weekend. We need to make sure all guards are properly equipped."

The stallion snapped to attention with a salute and shouted, "Yes, Princess Celestia!"

With a nod, Celestia continued on her way, eventually spotting one of the guards whose entire body was shaking, with tears about to leak from his eyes.

Her smile shifted from practiced to sympathetic as she approached him and asked, "My dear guardspony, is something troubling you?"

The stallion tried his best to maintain his rigid composure, desperately trying to get his tears to recede. “N-no...you’re highness ...everything....is fine.”

Celestia only frowned at the obvious lie and got closer to him. “Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s something I can help you with. After all, if I couldn’t help my own guards with their problems, I won’t be much of a ruler now would I?”

The stallion’s rigid posture went slack, leaving him to only cry and whimper as he spoke. "I'm so sorry princess! But...but...I broke up with my mare friend last night!"

The other stallions chuckled at the somewhat mundane concern, only to immediately shut up as Celestia’s head literally turned 180 degrees before snapping at them with a glare.

“That’ll be enough of that. Even if this is just an inspection I expect all of you to maintain your professional decorum! Is that understood?"

All the guards quickly returned to their original position, refusing to so much as blink, more than a little horrified by what they just saw.

Satisfied, Celestia turned her head back to the crying guard and quietly offered a comforting paw on his shoulder, causing him to look up and see her, in spite of his water-filled eyes.

“I understand this must be such a hard thing to bear right now. But I know, in time things will get better and you’ll move on. Even when we feel at our lowest, we must continue to push forever, lest we remain trapped in the past forever. Try to remember that.”

The guard, finally let his tears flow freely from his eyes as he nodded, the princess gave him a brief hug, which he graciously accepted.

Sadly, the moment of serenity didn’t last as magic tendrils erupted from Celestia’s back, and quickly wrapped around the guards, starting with the one she holding and eventually catching the rest, even Bronze Helm.

Celestia could only watch as her guards started to transform them one by one, their bodies shrinking in size before a single flash of light.

Now, where once there was a squad of Canterlot’s elite guard, stood a small herd of young colts, clad in plastic armor, carrying various foam toys.

Under any other circumstances, the sight would’ve been fairly adorable, but was immediately drained of any enjoyment as the colts all began to whimper, with some even outright crying.

Celestia remained stunned as the various guard colts fell into a mixture of panic and slight glee at their situation. A solid minute passed before Celestia’s mind finally processed what had happened and decided to respond accordingly.

"OH DEAR FAUST, NOT AGAIN!!”

Looking at her claws she felt the urge to rip her eyes out, growing stronger. “How could I let this happen again? The mishap with Feather Duster was bad enough, but now I’m managed to send most of my guards back to Magic Kindergarten.”

Taking a moment to calm herself, even using a breathing exercise Cadence had taught her, Celestia looked back at her claw.

“Okay, just calm down Celestia. It’s not like this is something you can’t handle. After all, you could do age spells without Chaos Magic, so it should be a breeze to reverse right.”

Turning back to the de-aged battalion of soldiers, Celestia raised her claw and prepared to snap ...only to stop herself before she finished it.

“Then again, doing something like an age spell was much easier when I had better control over my magic. If I’m not careful, I might turn them into infants or make them so old they won’t even be able to stand up, much less guard the castle.”

Suddenly what little confidence Celestia had immediately burned away as her panic quickly set back in, made worse by the still crying colts and growing louder.

Feeling as though her mind was slowly losing its grip the princess let loose a loud, “QUIET,” amplified by the Royal Canterlot Voice.

Thankfully that managed to get the colts to stop crying and zero in the princess, having relaxed a little after her outburst.

“I apologize for that and for what’s happened to you, this transition has been more difficult than I’d originally thought. While I’d like nothing more than to change you back, I’m not confident in my skill with Chaos Magic to try at the moment. For now, I believe it would be best if you take the day off, while I do what I can to get a better handle on this and hopefully return you to normal.”

Some of the de-aged guards attempted to retort, though, possibly as a result of the sharp change in age, now seemed more interested in play fighting with their toy weapons. The sight honestly, would have been possibly the most adorable thing ever were circumstances different.

Still, that left Celestia with another problem. “Okay, now I just need to find someplace to leave all these colts until I figure something out.”

Thankfully, Celestia didn’t need to concern herself too much about what action to take as another one of the castle's staff with an auburn mane and a dark grey coat named Morning Breeze came over with a blush on her face.

"Hello, Princess Celestia. I hope you don’t mind but I was watching what happened and I think I can help if you would like.”

Princess Celestia’s smile got so wide that a literal beam of light shot out of it that blinded a nearby pegasus, sending him crashing into a nearby tower. “Oh I don't mind, it wouldn’t be too much trouble?”

”Of course not, some of the maids here have children and we wouldn't mind keeping an eye on them until you managed to figure out how to change them back safely."

Celestia’s elation only seemed to increase from the smile the maid offered her. “I don’t know who this pony is, but I’m going to make sure she gets a raise when this is all over.”

Offering another nod of thanks the princess turned back to the small band of colts. "Alright my little colts, I’m having you all stay in the main hall today while I finish my meeting. Once I’m done I'll find Discord and have him turn you back to normal. Till then, please stay safe.”l.

However, before she could leave another thought entered her mind as she watched the small band continued to grow rowdier. “It probably wouldn’t be a wise idea to just let them run around, even if they are supervised ...Oh I know, I just hope it works!”

A plan now ready, she made sure to form a clear picture in her mind of what she wanted to happen before snapping. Thankfully, this effort proved successful as in the middle of the grand hall, a giant play place appeared with a full jungle gym with swings, slides, and tubes in every direction appeared, now sitting on a green plush carpet with rocking horses and seesaws.

It looked so out of place compared to the rest of the polished marble and stone of the castle, almost like it literally sprung up out of the ground. Regardless, it did the trick as the colts immediately ran to it and began playing happily.

Her efforts successful, Celestia turned to speak to the maid. “Are you sure you’ll be able to handle this? I imagine they will be quite a handful, even with other maids on hand.”

Morning Breeze gave Celestia a bright smile and reassured her. "Don't worry your highness, we can handle this. I'll have some make peanut butter jelly sandwiches for the little ones and then we can set up a place for nap time. Trust me I have two youngsters at home, this isn’t anything I haven’t dealt with before."

Celestia's arms immediately stretched like rubber around the mare, pulling her into a tight hug. "Thank you so much! Believe me, you'll be well compensated for this."

With a final wave and a flick of a claw, Celestia disappeared.

Sadly, while Celestia was happy for the brief respite from her latest magic blunder, she was quickly reminded of something she’d forgotten...she HATED dealing with nobles.

It hadn’t been but ten minutes since she arrived and already she was bored again, taping a claw on the long conference table among the dozens of nobles, all talking about taxes and laws that they were looking to implement. Was it important, absolutely, did that make it interesting, no!

Celestia did what she could to at least pretend to look invested, but she could feel herself barely holding on, and it was about to get worse. For whatever reason and beyond her notice, her magic started to seep out again, and before she could even react, there was another flash of light, resulting in the conference room now being filed with fillies and colts, tangled up in expensive clothes that no longer fit.

The sudden jolt snapped Celestia back to reality, part of her feeling like she was about to have a Twilight style freak out, while the other half found the mere sight of the high class, refined elite of Canterlot, reduce to a group of infants now more interested in spinning around in the chairs and the table snacks then taxes.

Celestia blinked seeing Fancy Pants was now a small toddler trying to read his notes stumbling on his words and doing a potty dance. It was a sight that while amusing, was quickly ruined when the former stallion raised his hoof and asked, "Uh, I'm done P...Princess Celestia! Can I go, potty please?"

The other foals giggled and snickered while the Princess, having already dealt with this situation early, just decided to roll with it and nodded,

"Certainly Fancy Pants. We’ll wait here for you. Just don't be gone too long."

The little colt quickly rushed off down the hall, leaving his wife, Fleur, to take and look over his notes, picking up where he left off.

"So, now that is settled, I'm gonna move onto the next item on the agenda. Do we want to give funding for ta library, museum and other areas of arts and literature."

Many of the foals whined, and some cried, "Nah! Libraries are boring! Why dun we put funding in a new Wondewbowt stadium!"

One filly, who was now clutching a doll, quickly snapped at the suggestion "I wanna stop taxes on dwessies! I want ta prettiest dresses eva for less money!"

One colt scoffed as he took a sippy cup and suckled on it with a smug grin and asked, "So what about suits? I think that it's not fair that dresses get a tax cut and not our fancy suits."

Fleur stomped a hoof and whined, "that's not what this meeting is about! We’re gonna discuss all that later! We need to decide on the i..imp...important stuff first!"

Fancy Pants finally returned, waddling over to his wife's side and shouted, "My wife is right! Ya all missing the point here!"

He slammed a poster of a terribly drawn graph with the arrow going down with silly drawings of faces, rainbows scribbled all over the chart.

"This is the trend on what we are spending right now! There's been wots of tax money being spent on stupid stuff we don't need, and it's making everything worse. Sowie but we gots to cut some stuff."

The filly with the doll squirmed in her seat and sighed, "Fine, we dun need mowe dwessies or silly stuff like tat."

The colt, who mentioned the suits nodded. "Yeah ya, wight! we dun need to put more tax breaks on fancy suits."

Fancy Pants nodded as he placed up against a pie chart which was sloppily circle made of marker and cover in hoof paint.

"Now ya see this! I divided what we spending the most on and what we can take out. Take a look at the chart and if ya wanna make a change let me know."

The foals all struggled to comprehend the chart, while Celestia surprisingly, was able to read it perfectly, even though the spelling was terrible and the hoof writing was nearly impossible to make out. It left her to pose a thought.

“Does being a Draconequss also allow me to understand bad grammar and handwriting because of how chaotic it is? Because if so, that...would make perfect sense now that I think about it. I should run that by Discord when I see him again.”

Turning back to the graph, focusing in on it, in spite of its obvious juvenile level of quality, she noticed something odd.

"So we get rid of some of the spending and stop giving companies tax breaks and things should look good. But, why am I seeing something is missing."

Fancy Pants plopped his hooves down onto the table, grabbing everypony's attention as he shouted, "That's right! I think somepony has been embezzling funds! Not only that they've been doing it for years!"

Fleur nodded, "Right! We dun think it's any of ya, but he or she has stolen thousands of bits from ta citizens of Equestria. We gots to find ta culprit and take ta money back!"

The nobles all nodded in agreement as Celestia's eyes went wide at this apparent revelation "Embezzling funds? How long has this been going on and why didn’t somepony tell me sooner?”

Fancy Pants, rather adorably, twirled in his chair to face to Princess. “But princess, I mentioned I was going to bring this up last week. Don’t you remember?”

The sound of something breaking like glass could immediately be heard as the Rule of Equestria expression shifted to embarrassment, making it apparent to even the still young ponies that she’d forgotten. “Well, regardless of that, I trust this is a matter we can resolve quickly.”

Fancy Pants shook his head and sighed, "Nope. It’s gonna take wots of work and research. Not to mention, my bedtime is at seven, and I need a nap at twelve."

“I don’t suppose it would be possible to work around that? If somepony truly is embezzling Canterlot’s funds, I’d prefer to nip it in the bud as soon as possible.”

Fancy Pants took a quick sip from his cup as he ran through the information in his head. “Well, if we take out my twelve o’clock nap, we might at least be able to get the bulk of the research done. Is everypony okay with that?”

The rest of the assembled group all gave nods before one colt raised a hoof,

"Um, can we have a potty break!"

Celestia, satisfied that things had atleast been handled for the moment, thought up her next course of action.

“Actually, I have a better idea. There is currently a wonderful little play place set up in the castle. Why don’t you all go and relax for a little while before we tackle this. Wouldn’t want you to fall asleep before bedtime after all.”

The foals squealed in delight as they ran off down the hall, leaving Celestia to literally melt into her seat, her head being the only somewhat solid thing there, her eyes barely able to take a look at a nearby clock.
“Dear Faust, the day isn’t even half over and I’ve already had to correct two disasters of my own making. I’m not sure how much more of this I can take.”

"Oh, don’t be so melodramatic! Frankly, I think you’re doing far better than I originally believed.”

Celestia needed to only look up to find Discord, currently seated in a recliner with a bucket of popcorn at his side, looking as smug as always. “If I’m being completely honest I didn’t think you’d make it through the day without turning all of Canterlot into a madhouse. So congrats for that.”

Another snap and a colorful banner reading ‘Good Job Celestia’ appeared above him.

Celestia upon seeing Discord rolled her eyes, though was content to stay rooted to her chair.

"Discord, I’d figured you’d been watching me this entire time."

The Lord of Chaos shrugged could only chuckle as he tossed some popcorn down his throat. "I mean, can you blame me? Your antics these last couple of days have been so hysterical, I couldn’t help myself."

The princess gave an irritated sigh before responding, "I’m glad I’ve kept you so amused. However, if I ‘ve learned anything today it’s that controlling Chaos Magic is more challenging than I believed. Which is why I’m asking for your help?"

Despite maintaining her normal confident tone, Discord could tell she was all but begging for him to step in, which only brought a smile to his.

"Oh, you mean with your little foal sitting problem? Not as confident in your ability with ages as you thought I see...Oh, I suppose I could lend you a hand this once, could be good for a laugh...but.”

Immediately Discord suddenly changed into a referee, completely with a whistle around his neck, which he was quick to blow, before pulling out a yellow card. “However, you are going to be penalized for needing my help. Though don’t worry too much, I promise it will be just so much fun.”."

Celestia gulped feeling that Discord had planned this from the start. But she didn't have a choice she couldn't risk her Chaos Magic causing any more problems...especially since if things kept up, she’d need to turn all of Canterlot Castle into a daycare.

“Very well, I accept these terms as part of the original wager. Though, I do hope we’ll keep things relatively low key. I will not allow any of my little ponies to be tormented or embarrassed for your amusement.”."

Discord crossed his heart with a claw with a loud huff. "No need to get all defensive, I swear it'll be harmless fun. Trust me you'll love what I have planned."

Reaching down his throat, he pulled out a set of tickets and gave them to Celestia. She looked down at them with a suspicious look reading Sun Butt's Daytime Daycare for ages 1-6.

"These are enchanted with a spell that'll revert the foals to their normal ages once they’re picked up."

Celestia's eye started to twitch. "Picked up? You mean we’re turning the castle into an actual daycare!"

Discord crossed his claws and chortled, "Of course. You think I wasn't going to take advantage of the situation and have some more fun! Oh, you naive little pony!"

With a snap of a claw Celestia had a pink apron wrapped around her midriff with a big smiling sun on it.

Celestia wanted to argue but begrudgingly kept quiet, considering she did ask for this to happen. "So I'm assuming that you gave the families and friends of those regressed a ticket to have them picked up?"

The Lord Of Chaos smirked. "Indeed I did. They’ll be here at seven, which means you still have a few hours to entertain those little disasters!"

Before Celestia could manage out another word Discord snapped himself out of existence...save for his mouth for a brief moment.

“Good Luck.”

After being left by Discord to effectively manage the remaining fall out from her earlier actions, Celestia spent the next few hours watching and entertaining the man foals she helped create. Thankfully, true to his word around seven o’clock, the many spouses and family members of the regressed guards and nobles appeared in the grand hall of the palace with their eyes open wide, and their mouths dropped.

The grand hall was now a giant play-place with a gargantuan pink and white-colored jungle gym, complete with slides, ball pits and tunnels filled with dozens of foals running around, screaming and laughing. Celestia had also placed a giant pink fence around the entire room with many maids standing by to assist the children in finding bathrooms, giving out food and generally just keeping an eye on the kids. The princess was sitting ata desk, struggling to maintain a fake smile as she waved a claw.

"Hello! Welcome to Sun Butt's Daytime Daycare! I see you all came by to pick up your little rascals!"

The faces of the family members were a mixture of s slack-jawed shock, along with outright confusion, which lasted for several seconds before one purple coated unicorn mare who couldn’t stop herself from stomping forward and looking at the princess with a surprisingly harsh glare.

"What is the meaning of this Princess Celestia. Why exactly is my husband a toddler now!"

Celestia shrunk back at the harsh tone, not being used to being called out by somepony, but quickly shifted back to some level of composure.

“I’m afraid that was my fault. I didn’t have as firm a grasp on my Chaos Magic as I thought. But, the tickets I gave you to claim your kids have an enchantment on them. Once you claim your foal or foals they'll turn back to normal."

The mare didn’t seem wholly satisfied with the answer but opted to simply seek out her husband and spotted him quickly.

" Bronze Helm, get back here this instant and give me back my foam sword!"

The colt squealed upon seeing his angry wife's glare and squealed, "Uh... L...Lo...Lovely Heart!?"

The mare stomped over with her cold gaze stared down her husband. "Indeed, now you’re coming home with me this instant and we’re putting this entire affair behind us."

She lifted the colt and began to carry him away, much to the amusement of the other ponies present

Bronze Helm could only respond by whining and crying the entire time. "Stop it Lovely! You're embarrassing me in front of my fellow guards!"

The other colts came over near the fence and poked their hooves at the captain, quickly laughing loudly at his display.

Lovely Heart turned around at the colts and shouted, "Hey! The next colt to laugh at my husband will be in timeout! I’ve had a stressful day and am not in the mood for this. Don't test me!"

The colts all shut up immediately as they stood there, quivering and whimpering in fear."O...o..okay."

Her husband now in hoof, Lovely Hearts quickly made her way out of the makeshift daycare. "Now then, come we're going to go get some dinner, and then it's straight to bed with you. Hopefully, everything will be back to normal by tomorrow."

Bronze Helm could only continue to squirm as he held out a hoof in desperation."Save me!"

The other colts just continued to snicker as one by one were picked up and thankfully transformed back into full-grown stallions in a puff of smoke. The process continued for some time until every foal was finally converted back to their original age, save for two.

As if on time a unicorn butler slowly walked up to Celestia and asked, "I came here to pick up Ms. Fleur and Mr. Fancy Pants."

The draconequss gave a nod as she turned around to see the two toddlers and chirped, "Alright you two, it’s time to go home now!"

The two groaned seeing as they’d been playing a fun game of tag but waddled over as Celestia helped them over the fence. "There you go one Fleur and one Fancy Pants."

The butler gave a nod and bowed before he took the hooves of the two foals. "Now, come on! We have to get you two back to normal."

He gave Celestia his tickets and in a single flash, both Fleur and Fancy Pants were instantly transformed into adults. Both, taking a moment to process all that had happened, were more than a little embarrassed over the whole ordeal, though any Pants was able to pose a question to Celestia,

"So...I trust we can continue the discussion about the embezzler later?"

Princess Celestia, starting to feel the exhaustion of the day catch up with her, managed to a simple nod "Of course, but you two should go home for now. I’m so sorry about all the trouble my magic caused today."

Fancy Pants, ever the gentlecolt, merely waved the apology off. "Oh, it wasn’t too dreadful an experience. Honestly, I rather enjoyed reliving my colt years for a few hours. Still, it is good to be back to normal."

Celestia sighed, seeing every foal she regressed, she snapped a claw, causing the entire playground in a puff of smoke., "At last it’s finally over. I think I might just turn in for the night after all that happened now."

Sadly, Celestia would have to halt her plans as a very livid Luna stomped over with a glare.

"Good evening sister. I hope it was pleasant, I had a rather interesting start to my day Why there I was just enjoying some breakfast when I’d heard about how the nobles and your guards had suddenly become foals and the royal palace was suddenly transformed into a child’s playpen. Is that a correct summation of what’s been happening so?”

“Well, I wouldn’t put it in exactly those words….”

The Princess of the Night quickly cut her sister off, her anger on full display for all to see. “What were you thinking Celestia? Do you have any idea the potential havoc you could have wrought? Clearly, something must be done as it’s apparent you have no control over your magic.”

Celestia, while agreeing with her sister, still felt the need to offer a retort. “Forgive me for being blunt dear sister, but do you think it wise for you of all ponies to lecture me on losing control?”

Now it was Luna’s turn to be offended, stomping her hoof loud on the ground, barely keeping herself from reverting to the Royal Canterlot Voice. "Oh, so you think that me becoming Nightmare Moon is the same as you being a draconequus on purpose?”

Celestia paused and realized her lapse in how she phrased her retort. "I'm so sorry Luna, I didn't mean it that way."

The Princess of the Night’s hostility slowly dropped as she let out a tired sigh. "Sister, you need to end silly contest now, before things get out of hoof!"

Celestia however, didn’t seem convinced. “Oh come now, Luna. Isn’t that a bit much? I admit there have been a few accidents as of late but…”

Luna immediately broke out into the Royal Canterlot Voice.

"ACCIDENTS?! Sister, need I remind you of the alicorn maid who currently thinks she's our mother! How exactly does that qualify as an accident?"

Celestia’s eyes began to narrow as she stared down her sister. “That’s hardly a world-ending concern, and I was planning to change her back tomorrow anyway.”

“Why are you being so stubborn about this Celestia. Is your pride that important to you? Honestly, when did you start acting like such a child?”

That proved to be the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back, as Celestia was now positively livid. “A child? If anypony has cause to be called a child, it’s you...in fact.”

Before Luna had a chance to say another word, Celestia raised her claw and snapped, shrinking the nightly alicorn till she was reduced to the age of an infant.

The tiny blue eyes of the little alicorn widened in shock as she cried out in embarrassment, both at her new size and the fact Celestia had seen fit to place a diaper on her bottom, complete with her cutie mark printed on. She tried to shout at her sister, but only incoherent gibberish poured out of her mouth.

Celestia just gave her sister a smirk and picked her up within a bubble of magic. "There, now you can relax for a little while I raise the moon."

Luna still angry, cried and shouted, kicking about in the magic sphere to little success. Celestia simply drifted the trapped filly to her room and stuck the baby alicorn in a crib too large for her to climb out of.

"There now, you stay put and be a good little filly while I go raise the moon."

The little dark blue alicorn stuck her tongue out and shook her head with a loud humpf Celestia just snickered as she walked off with a strut in her step.

Author's Notes:

Im sorry this took so long to make Ill do my best to make the next update be out within a month or two.

Chapter Three: Night One: Luna's New Moon

Celestia looked longingly towards the sun slowly setting in the west with the sky cast in a warm orange glow. The princess was feeling lost and unsure of herself, reflecting on her usage of chaos manage up to this point, and tons of questions of what happened were going through her mind. Why did she transform Luna into a foal? It wasn't like her to suddenly lose control and let her raw emotions take over? The mare knew what she did to Luna was inexcusable, and what she said to her sister was much worse. The princess of the sun groaned just thinking about her actions and feeling a pang of regret as she rubbed a claw down her face and cried out, "I can't believe I turned my sister into a foal what was I thinking?! I must be seriously losing my mind."

The princess of the sun then took a bunch of her mane in a claw and pulled at it with frustrated with herself and screamed out. "What's wrong with me! Why can't I control myself!" The princess slowed down and took a few deep breaths trying to calm herself. After regaining her composure. The female draconequus gave one long final deep breath and looked up to the sky catching the last glimpses of her sun setting in the west with a depressed look on her face and gave a deep, exasperated sigh. "The least I can do is raise the moon seeing Luna can't do it now. But it has been a while since I had to do this."

The princess then slowly raised a claw, and for some reason, before she snapped her claw, a funny thought entered her mind thinking how ridiculous it would be if her sister's butt rose up from the horizon instead of the moon. Then just as if what she imagined instead of the moon rising over the horizon, it was Luna's giant rump! Celestia gasped in horror as her sister's thick dark blue coated rump slowly rose in the air showing it off to Equestria in its full glory with her sister's big crescent moon cutie marks printed on each side of her "sister's" thighs. Despite the scene being quite embarrassing, it was also quite amusing with the princess of the night's sparkling dark blue tail flowing in the wind. The princess found this so hilarious that she had to place her claws over her mouth, trying to stop herself from bursting out laughing. But, that could hold out for so long seeing her sister's butt jiggling in the sky made the princess start laughing hysterically at sight, and after gaining some composure, she exclaimed. "Oh my Faust! I can't believe I'm actually considering just leaving the moon like this!"

After Celestia shook her head at the thought and gave a small chuckle. She realized that leaving the moon like this would embarrass her sister even more than it probably already has and quickly sent a wave of pink tendrils filled with chaos magic straight at the "new moon." However, this only caused the giant rump to start swaying from side to side as if to show off her enormous flank. This only made Celestia place a claw to her face again as another bout of laughter was going to come over her. The princess then sent some more pink tendrils of chaos magic at the large tush. But this only caused the rump to grow plumper with fat. The large tush was now even thicker than usual, and it was still swaying with sass from side to side. Celestia burst into even more laughter, holding her belly and doubling over, unable to contain herself. But chaos magic tendrils then suddenly turned the giant butt back to a typical silver-colored crater filled moon. Celestia gave a big sigh of relief, seeing that the moon was back to normal and whispered meekly to herself. "Oh my Faust that was crazy, I hope nopony actually saw that."

"Nice work with raising the moon! But, Luna's rump was nowhere near as big as your tush." Discord commented suddenly as he appeared out of nowhere in a giant puff of smoke with his claws crossed across his chest with a smug grin.

Celestia rolled her eyes, recognizing the voice of Discord, knowing the draconequus only came here to mock or mess with her. The princess turned around to face Discord with an unamused look, not really wanting to endure more of the lord of chaos's antics and scoffed out. "Haha, you're hilarious; thanks for the help, but seriously, you're the last pony I wanted to see, I just want to be alone right now alright?"

Discord didn't heed Celestia's demands at all, seeing the former alicorn princess looking quite depressed and had a look of loneliness, giving him the feeling that she needs somepony to talk to. The draconequus simply flew over towards Celestia's side anyway and asked, "it looks like to me you need some help controlling your chaos magic. I think that it would be best if I gave you some one on one training."

"Does that mean I lose the bet?" Celestia responded in deflated tone, looking down at the ground with an angry look on her face feeling quite bitter for failing to control herself and having to admit defeat to Discord.

Discord did feel like gloating a little, seeing he did technically won the bet. But the lord of chaos saw that Celestia was looking quite downtrodden if this were only a few months earlier, he wouldn't have cared. But for some reason, the lord of chaos didn't want to make Celestia feel even more depressed than she was feeling now. The draconequus turned away as he reluctantly replied, "we can put a pin on the bet for now. I'll give you a free day to help you with your chaos magic tomorrow."

"You would actually do that for me!" Celestia replied back with a blush glowing on her cheeks, feeling both confused and also grateful for Discord's offer.

The lord of chaos was now feeling unsure of how to feel seeing Celestia with her face now a bright red. Discord turned away, attempting to hide his own blush trying to hide his emotions through a demeanor befitting the lord of chaos. "But don't think that you're getting away with just return. We get to have some fun with it deal?"

"Sure, that sounds fine with me. I actually need to go out tomorrow and go taste testing some cakes for the gala this weekend." Celestia chirped out, feeling a bit better at the idea of Discord, helping her get control of her chaos magic.

Discord clapped his claws together, seeing that this excursion would be excellent to not only teach Celestia about using her chaos magic but to have some fun with the princess as well. It's been over a thousand years since the two were able to actually talk and hang out with each other like this. The draconequus rubbed his claws together and exclaimed, "Excellent! I would love to go do some cake shopping!"

"You can meet me outside the castle tomorrow morning after I raise the sun, ok?" Celestia responded with a smile on her face feeling quite happy and excited for hanging out with Discord tomorrow.

"Alright! just don't go turning the sun into your giant rump." Discord snickered as he snapped his claws and disappeared in a poof of smoke once again. Just as Celestia gave the dissipating smoke, a glare not trusting the draconequus as she grumbled under her breath. "I wonder what he means by fun? I hope he won't go overboard with his chaos magic."

Not long after raising the moon, Celestia returned to her room and found Luna still giving her the stink eye for turning her into a foal. Luna did look quite cute using her stubby hooves to stand (with her clearly struggling) in her pink barred crib, showing off her pudgy body and thick diaper with her cutie mark printed on the padding. Celestia dawwed and then took out a baby bottle filled with formula out of thin air with Luna's cutie mark on it and snickered, "I bet your hungry huh cutie?"

Celestia slowly picked the foal up in her pink aura of magic and watched as Luna waved her hooves and flapped her wings angrily, wanting to get back at her sister for turning her into a foal. But the baby alicorn was powerless only able to kick about in her diaper and babble incoherent gibberish. The princess of the sun then slowly laid herself on the bed and let her sister nuzzle into her side. Celestia then plopped the bottle gently into her sister's mouth and watched as she suckled on the bottle methodically. Luna still glared at her older sister despite actually enjoying the sweet and creamy formula going down her throat. The female draconequus chuckled, seeing her sister's cute pout and decided to tease her little sister as she responded in a snarky tone. "Oh, hush, don't act like you don't want this. We haven't been pampered like this in over a thousand years."

Luna did like being babied just a little, but she was still angry at her older sister, it didn't take long for the foal's instincts began to take over as she whined and kicked some more. But the warm creamy milk went down her gullet and she couldn't but feel comfortable and relaxed feeling her sister's warm body pressed to her's. Celestia brushed the baby alicorn's mane and sighed, "I'm sorry for doing this to you and even trying to say that me becoming a draconequus and you becoming Nightmare Moon were the same thing. I know we both had a lot of stress on us since we were crowned princesses of Equestria and... I...I'm sorry."

Celestia started to tear up, and this caused Luna to start feeling worried as her foalish instincts took over as she whimpered as she began to tear up as well. The female draconequus squeaked, seeing her sister started to get fussy kicking about and wailing. The princess started to rock the baby alicorn foal nestled in her claws and shushed her trying to calm the foal down. When Luna started to settle down, becoming gentle and quiet. Celestia felt a bit guilty for making her sister get so fussy and apologized, whispering under her breath. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean for you to get all fussy."

She then removed the bottle with a cute audible pop and gently placed the foal over her shoulder and patted Luna's back until she spat up a little. Celestia giggled, not even phased, but the puke running down her back and slowly placed Luna back down in the crib while tickling the foal's exposed belly with a claw. This made the baby alicorn squirm kicking about in her diaper making it crinkle while giving out an adorable laugh and blowing bubbles from her mouth.

"Oh, you're so cute!" Celestia exclaimed out loud, unable to contain her excitement seeing her sister being so giddy as a foal.

Then all of a sudden, another mare came through the door. It was Feather Duster, the pink coated alicorn that Celestia turned into from a maid, and she was looking even more beautiful than before. The motherly looking alicorn was wearing a pink colored sparkling apron encrusted with gems, the alicorn's mane flowed around her body like a waterfall, and her horn and hooves sparkled gleamed in the light being perfectly polished and manicured. Feather Duster strolled into the room and went about starting to babble on about her day not unlike a teenager coming back from a date. "Oh, thank you for sending me to the day spa in Ponyville. I met with this lovely mare named Rarity, who was such a lovely spa companion showing me the wonders of being pampered."

She gasped upon seeing Luna as a baby kicking about in her fresh and crinkling diaper. The motherly alicorn stomped a hoof and shouted in anger. "Celestia! how could you turn your sister into a foal!"

The draconequus was quite surprised and nervous, suddenly feeling like a foal being scolded by her mother as she whimpered nervously. "W..well...I have to say that it was on accident-"

"And not tell me! Do you have an idea of how long I've waited to care for a foal!" The motherly alicorn exclaimed as she rushed over to Luna's crib and picked the squirming and blushing foal up and into her magic. Celestia had to hold back her laughter once again as the motherly alicorn nuzzled the filly against her cheek, making the foal kick and whine. This only caused the former maid's maternal emotions to come over her like a wave as she pinched Luna's cheek and cooed. "Oh look how cute and chubby you are! I can't resist pinching those cute chubby cheeks!"

Luna gave the motherly alicorn a death glare being entirely unamused by Feather Duster's antics. All the while, Celestia tapped a claw to her chin as an idea was forming in her mind. A thought then suddenly popped into her mind why didn't she just have Feather Duster watch Luna tomorrow. Her little sister could be cared for until she got control of her chaos magic. The princess turned to Feather Duster, nuzzling Luna, with a smirk on her face as she replied, "You know what? How about you take the foal and be her caretaker for the night and tomorrow? I have an important date with Discord, and after he teaches me to control my chaos magic, I'll transform Luna back to normal."

"Of course, that sounds amazing!" Feather Duster chirped out in excitement, unable to wait to care for a foal. The mare walked off, lifting up the fussy Luna in her magical aura as she cooed in a sweet motherly tone. "Come on lulu, I can try some new parenting techniques I've been teaching myself."

Luna tried to escape flapping her wings and kicking about in frustration but yet again was powerless to escape from Feather Duster's magical grasp. Right after both her sister and Feather Duster were gone Celestia plopped into her bed as she chuckled to herself just thinking of Luna being babied for a full day and turning the moon into a giant butt.

"I wonder how Luna is going to feel after I turn her back to normal? Hopefully she won't be mad at me for turning the moon into her butt." Celestia snickered as she snuggled under her blankets and slowly closed her eyes. As the princess drifted off she couldn’t help but to continue to giggle as she thought about her sister's thick rump peering through the night sky.

Author's Notes:

So, If you've read my blogs I've been put on a night shift at my job for the past 2 months and its been exhausting making it hard for me to give this story adequate attention. Again, I apologize for the wait and this was actually part of a much bigger chapter but I was hitting around the 8,000 word mark and its going to be a while until the rest of it is edited and polished up so I decided to publish this portion at the very least to show the story has not been abondoned. So, thanks again for all the likes and comments I hope you enjoy the chaos to come.

Chapter Four: Day Three: Truth or Dare?

The next day eventually came as Celestia slowly woke up, stretching her claws and giving out a loud yawn. The princess lazily rolled from her bed and gradually strolled down the hallway, still feeling the rather foreign sensation of morning exhaustion still trying to get used to her new body. Upon entering the kitchen, she was mildly surprised to see of all ponies, Feather Duster dotting over baby Luna, currently seated in the highchair babbling and blowing out bubbles from her mouth.

Despite the surprise of seeing her still transformed pseudo mother again, Celestia couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of her now pint-sized sister happily chugging down a baby formula making cute suckling noises to Duster's continued amusement. Though the moment didn't last as Luna quickly took note of her sister's presence turning her smile in a frown, with a glare added for effect.

While the act was more adorable than intimidating, it had the added effect of alerting Feather Duster to Celestia's presence. However, if she was angry at all about the previous day, she did an excellent job of not showing it in her facial expression or body language.

"Oh, good morning Celestia. I was so busy attending to dear little Woona that I didn't even see you there." She cooed seeming to be loving ever second caring for the baby alicorn.

Celestia had to bite back a chuckle at the frankly adorable nickname the pseudo mother had given her sister, the lunar filly's angry babble, only making it harder to hold back her laughter. Of course, she still had more than enough composure to conjure a camera and taking a few snapshots of the scene.

Satisfied, she stored the device away for another time as she made her way to the table. "It's no problem Feather, I'm more than familiar with how much of a handful wittle Woona can be." Another loud and possibly profane screech came from the pint-sized princess rippled through the kitchen as Celestia sat down.

"By the way, Feather, I hope you aren't upset over yesterday. I admit it was a little harsh on my part, I just felt you were a little...overbearing is all."

Celestia paused, expecting the mother mare to descend into a parental tirade. Yet, while her expression did shift slightly, Duster otherwise showed little reaction, at least in the way of anything negative.

"Oh, that's alright, dear, the trip was actually quite relaxing. And, if I'm honest, you're right that I was getting a little overzealous. You're an adult, after all, and every parent needs to give their child their space."

Celestia felt a twitch come on at Feather, still looking at her as if the princess were her flesh and blood, but at least she was showing more restraint than before. Still, even so… "It's about time I finally reversed this spell and let Feather go back to the pony she was."

For a moment, Celestia contemplated just doing the act now and getting it over with, but she was brought to a halt as Feather promptly dropped a plate of food in front of her face.

"You should probably eat something, you've got quite a busy day on your claws, and we can't have you falling asleep on the job now can we?"

Feather's tone was practically dripping with affection as she laid out some utensils, napkins, and a cup of juice along with the food before turning her attention back to Luna, giving the tiny ruler a warm hug as she pulled the foal from the high chair, much to her giggling delight.

"Perhaps I'll leave her like this for one day longer. I do still need some pony to look after Luna, and Duster is more than willing to take the job."

Taking a quick bite of her pancake, the princess could only smile at how happy Luna looked compared to earlier, enjoying the parental attention for all it was worth. Perhaps leaving her in Feather's care for a day would do her some good, she had seemed a bit stressed as of late.

Her decision made, Celestia decided to speed through breakfast, transforming her mouth to a size comparable to a teenage dragon's and gulping down the food in one sitting.

"Alright, Feather, I'm going to leave Luna in your care for today. And Luna, make sure to behave for Feather while I'm gone."

The motherly alicorn looked positively delighted at the decision. At the same time, Luna blushed a little feeling more conflicted, but Celestia didn't bother to pay either of them a second glance as she snapped herself outside.

Once outside, the princess found a rather broad audience of Canterlot nobles, all waiting for her to raise the sun.

Celestia looked up at the still clear terrestrial sky, pondering on how she should raise it this morning, yet at the moment, all her mind seemed intent on focusing on was some of the cake she'd planned to eat today.

"What in Equestria is wrong with me. Has raised the sun to become so monotonous that I'm more interested in satisfying my cake cravings than performing my most treasured of duties.

As if to answer her, an all too familiar snap sounded, earning a worried flinch from Celestia and a collective gasp from the collection of ponies that surrounded her.

Briefly hesitating, Celestia looked upward, finding that once again, her Chaos magic had opted to act up, now replacing her sun was a giant cake, coated in white frosting, with pink icing outlined each layer with her cutie mark decorated in the center.

"Part of me what's to say, I'm shocked that this happened, but after these last couple of days, I think I'm just numb to it."

If Celestia was completely honest with herself, she wasn't sure if she could call this a bad thing or not. True, the sun was essential to Equestria's survival and was a true masterpiece of nature that commanded respect from all those bathed in its warm glow....the massive cake in the sky looked quite delicious and more a small part of her wanted a slice.

"Oh my, turning the sun into a giant cake. I'd figured that would've happened on day one, but no, you made it all the way to day three. Points for subverting my expectations again, little Sunbutt."

Floating just above her head Discord hovered once again, a telescope in hand to get a better view of the celestial confection.

Celestia tried to speak, only to find her mouth quiet literally zipped shut as Discord was now looming over her like a disappointed parent. "While I do so enjoy our little back and forths, my dear, let's just skip the formality and get right to me fixing yet another of your messes, shall we?"

With a casual snap, the sun returned to its shimmering state, allowing the massive pack of political ponies to return to whatever they were doing, leaving Celestia with Discord, her mouth still zipped.

"Well then," Discord said while dusting off his hands, "After this little fiasco, I trust you're keen to start your first lesson in Chaos Magic?"

He waited for a response only for Celestia to flatly point at her still zipped up mouth, though Discord wasn't so quick to respond, somewhat enjoying the situation. "Maybe we should keep you like that for now, a little incentive always goes a long way in motivating somepony to learn. Plus, it's such a good look for you."

That earned him a growl from the muzzled mare, whose entire body seemed to turn progressively redder with each passing second, even causing the nearby temperature to rise.

" My, somepony's a little hot under the collar," Discord, now holding a frying pan near the princess's head, using her heat to make popcorn. Another glare and point back to the zipper caused him to finally relent. "Happy now?"

"Not exactly, but thank you regardless, Discord," Celestia's body quickly returned to its natural color as she straightened herself out, "I'm ready to learn all you have to teach me. However, I still expect you to maintain a proper level of decorum. No mischief of any kind is that understood?"

She looked sternly at her hopeful instructor, who looked ready to gag at the notion.

"My goodness, you are such a stick in the mud. But fine," he quickly pulled his left claw off and proceed to cross his heart with it, "I solemnly swear I will not be up to no good. Happy?"

His claw quickly poofed back to its original spot, leaving a satisfied looking Celestia. "Yes, thank you, Discord."

"Well, now that everypony is happy and all that fun little nonsense, we can start," with another flash the draconequus was now clad in a traditional black instructor robe, complete with glasses and a floating blackboard, "Hello class, I'm Professor Discord, and this is Chaos Magic 101. So let's get started by opening your textbooks to page 22."

Another flash and Celestia was seated in an airborne chair and desk before a yellow and black textbook landed right in front of her. A glance immediately brought a look of annoyance at the words CHAOS MAGIC FOR DUMMIES written on the cover, made more anger-inducing by the added, 'specifically Celestia' in small text in the left-hand corner.

Discord's knowing smirk only added to her annoyance as the spirit levitated a piece of chalk up to the board and had it start writing.

"Now then, today, we will be discussing the most fundamental rule relating to Chaos Magic. Can anypony tell me what that rule is?"

In an instance, Celestia found herself surrounded by copies of Discord, all clad in various forms of clothes and school bags, all excitedly waving their raised arms around in an attempt to get their...teacher's attention. Sadly for them, it was clear he only had his eyes on one person in the room.

"Celestia, care to take a crack at this problem. Please don't be shy; there are no wrong answers."

Celestia felt hesitant, knowingly Discord was more than likely baiting her somehow. Yet, she had asked him for his help, so might as well throw caution to the wind.

"I….I suppose it would be learning how to control."

"WRONG!"

A loud buzzer that threatened to rupture her eardrums howled through the room, with a massive neon sign forming the word Wrong hanging over Discord's head.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, my dear, but not only is that answer wrong, but it is also so incorrect of an answer that as punishment, you now need to wear this."

Another snap and a big pink dunce cap suddenly appeared atop Celestia's head, earning a mass of laughter from the many Discords sitting around her.

Satisfied by the now furious looking Celestia, Discord carried on. "The most crucial and basic thing to know about Chaos magic is that you don't control it. Control goes against everything Chaos magic stands for; it is chaos after all."

As if to emphasize his point, Discord casually allowed his lion's paw to shapeshift into an ice cream cone, a dragon's head, a chair leg, a unicorn horn, and...was that Pinkie Pie's head for a moment, before reverting to its original shape.

"See that, totally random. Chaos magic will typically do what you want but not if you try to force it. The harder you try to rein it in and the more out of control it will become."

As he continued to teach, Celestia, having gotten the cap off, found herself processing every word her instructor was saying, comparing it to everything that's happened to her up to this point.

"It does at least seem to match up slightly with my past experiences. Yet that still doesn't offer me much help in regards to avoiding future mishaps like earlier."

Deciding to humor Discord, Celestia opted to raise her hoof and play along with the classroom scenario he'd cooked up. "So then, if we can't control our magic, how do we make it work without causing it to just activate randomly?"

"Oh, I'm so happy you asked my dear student...oh, bet you never imagined somepony saying that to you."

Taking his hand to the chalkboard, he quickly flipped the board to the other side to reveal the words JUST DO IT, leaving Celestia more than a little unsatisfied.

"...is this supposed to be some kind of joke Discord?"

In response, Discord was now dressed up as a clown in a purple suit with green hair and a painted-on smile. "Well, I don't doubt you could use a good laugh right about now my dear, you're so serious all the time, it's almost painful,"

He immediately changed back to his normal appearance as he got right in her face. "However, I'm quite serious here. Chaos magic, at its core, is as simple as it gets, you want something to happen, just think about it and do it, that's all there is to it.

"It can't possibly be that simple?"

"Oh, what exactly were you expecting, some overly elaborate magic equation full of symbols, numbers of text no sane pony would ever try to translate."

Another flip of the board showed such an equation, one that would look right at home in Twilight's lab.

"Listen, Celestia, it really is that simple. The thing you need to remember above all is that normal magic has rules. Hence it has limits to what it can or can't do. Chaos magic has no rules, the fact you can do literally anything you want without restriction is what makes it chaos. So if you want to do something..."

Discord once again shifted, this time being clad in a black t-shirt, jeans, a wristwatch, and a short black beard. "JUST DO IT!"

The princess looked slightly unconvinced, staring now at her hands, trying to wrap her head around this new information.

"I see you don't believe me quite yet," Discord said, hanging appearing right over her shoulder, smiling all the way, "Well then, the best way to learn is through trial and error, so let's have ourselves a trial filled with all sorts of errors."

With another loud snap, the pair found themselves transported to the massive castle kitchen, earning a bit of a jolt from some of the staff whole immediately went back to work, unbothered by the sudden appearance.

"Exactly how long is this lesson going to take Discord?" Celestia's eyes couldn't help but drift to a nearby clock, and a literal thought bubble appeared above her head, showing a long piece of paper with the words schedule printed in bold red letters, "I don't feel I need to remind you. I have more pressing matters to attend to today."

"Right, important," Discord let out a raspberry as he casually brushed away the thought bubble, "I'm certain all those frankly overdressed and overpaid ponies you're always dealing with can go an hour or two without crying to you over every minor inconvenience they have."

"It's not that simple Discord. We're hosting an important banquet tonight, and I need to make sure everything is ready. I can't waste too much time on this."

Discord paused, casually stroking his beard as he thought for a moment, "Well, if you're that worried about it, then we can just multitask, something you should be more than familiar with by now."

Without even snapping this time, a large table appeared out of nowhere, with a book containing a picture of a cake in the center. "I'd planned for something like this anyway. Might as well start simple, and making cake is about as simple as you can get."

"You want me to make a cake with magic?" Celestia asked with a look of uncertainty on her face.

"Given earlier this morning, you've already gotten a head start, though try to keep it to the size of this room, please." Discord snickered secretly hoping a cake that size would suddenly explode out from the princess's magic.

Celestia looked ready to dismiss the idea outright, still afraid of what might happen. In a way, it was odd that she felt so nervous about the mere idea of doing something so simple. Yet these last few days had shown her just how much trouble she could cause if she wasn't careful. At this point, it was a surprise she hadn't ended up in a near-hysterical state similar to Twilight during the Smartypants debacle.

"Get a grip, Celestia, it's just cake. Just think and do it, that's all. Stop hesitating."

Without a moment's pause, Celestia formed a picture in her head and immediately snapped, staring down at what she'd created.

"Hmm, well it's an improvement over earlier, but…"

On the table, there was currently a large white cake covered in pink icing, which wasn't the inherent problem. No, that was the large mouth filled with teeth seemingly made of hardened blue icing and a pair of eyeholes illuminated by candles. All the while, the carnivorous confection growled and bit in every direction, icing leaking from its mouth.

Discord took a moment to trap the cake until a large glass cake server, looking over the treat with amusement. "You know, I think serving these would make for a more enjoyable experience then bland old normal cakes. Goodness knows it could get those stuck up ponies to liven up for a change."

A quick glance at Celestia revealed her sulking in the corner, a tiny black cloud hanging over her head as she tried to curl into a ball.

"Oh, come on, you don't need to be so melodramatic. Compared to this morning, it's an improvement, sure it's a little." another growl and the sound of something smacking against glass interrupted him, "bitter, but you're starting to get the hang of it."

Celestia, however, only seemed to curl in further, the cloud getting larger with mini lightning bolts and rain for added effect.

At this point, Discord's half-hearted smile fell from his face at the pitiful sight of the usually confident and powerful ruler. Without any prompting, he immediately reached into his face and pulled out a new mouth before smacking the cloud away.

"Okay, this has officially stopped being funny. Clearly, you're not in your right head at the moment and need to get a little air. So, we're just going to go out for a little while and get you away from all this negativity."

Celestia finally pulled herself out of her state of self-compression, pondering on the notion before nodding.

"Perhaps taking some time off would do me some good, but we're only going to be out for a few hours. I still need to test the cakes for the banquet tonight and make sure they are up to the proper standard of quality."

"Which I bet are quite high considering your love for cake." Discord chimed in.

Celestia reared her head at Discord and snapped back. "These banquets are host to the most prestigious ponies from all across Equestria. As such the food must be up to a certain standard. The fact I just happen to have high standards when it comes to confections is a benefit, if anything."

Discord stepped back, seeing how angry his fellow draconequus was getting and replied, "Ah, ah-ah, temper. I'm more than confident in your capability to critique the quality of countless culinary confections, but do remember to keep your emotions in check. One thing Chaos magic has in common with normal magic is that emotions have a big impact on how much power you produce, so try to keep calm."

Celestia gave a deep breath and calmed herself. "Right, sorry, let's just head out. There are at least two shops I need to visit, and I'd prefer not to rush."

The two floated down the cobblestone streets, eventually making it to a quite extravagant looking bakery. A glance in the front window showed a massive ten layer wedding cake, which even Discord himself had to admit looked quite appetizing.

Celestia paused before looking at Discord with a critical eye. "Remember Discord, we're simply here to test the cakes for the banquet; as such, I expect you to be on your best behavior.

Discord quickly shifted into an angel outfit, complete with glowing halon and equally glowing smile, earning him a dismissive eye roll from Celestia.

The draconequus calmly strolled in, making Celestia squeak out in surprise as she quickly followed suit. Upon entering the bakery, the pair were then hit with an aroma of fresh cake, melted sugar, chocolate, and a lovely looking baker's mare with a cream-colored coat and a warm, loving smile.

"Oh, hello there, welcome to Sweet Hearts, one of the finest bakeries in all of Canterlot. My name is Cream Heart, tell me, are you looking to buy a wedding cake?"

Celestia's face immediately turned red at the implication, while Discord looked more amused than embarrassed.

"Well, while I'll admit my companion here is certainly a catch, especially now, I'm afraid we're here for a much more mundane reason."

Celestia, further embarrassed by the veiled compliment, took a few steps away from Discord as she quickly explained, "We're just here to inspect the cake for the banquet this weekend."

Sweet Cream, upon taking a closer look at Celestia, immediately recognized the monarch, becoming mildly embarrassed herself. "Oh, Princess Celestia, my apologies, I'd almost forgotten about that! Please, just wait here for a moment, I just baked a fresh cake a few minutes ago, anticipating your arrival."

The mare then skipped off quickly, being quite excited to show the princess her best cake yet, leaving the pair in somewhat awkward silence.

Discord turned to Celestia and whispered in her ear. "Certainly, I know I said we'd take a little break, but why not take another crack at some Chaos magic I can't exactly imagine you being nearly as stressed out here?"

Celestia didn't say anything, seemingly trying to focus on some of the other cakes in the store to avoid speaking to Discord.

"Oh, don't tell me you're still bothered by her little misunderstanding? Does the idea of us as a couple bother you that much?"

Celestia refused to make eye contact, "Can we please not discuss this."

Discord was tempted to press further but decided against it, not willing to risk a possible outburst from the still volatile princess. Thus instead…

"Then how about we play a game instead."

Celestia's perked at the suggestion, looking warily at her companion. "And what kind of game did you have in mind?"

Discord's smile grew, his long fang nearly sliding across his other teeth. "Think of it as a simple practice exercise for your magic. Once the cake comes in, we change it around a little bit to see who can come up with the most...chaotic effect."

Celestia immediately prepared to shut the idea down only for Discord to beat her to the punch.

"Listen, I'm not asking you to reinvent the wheel here. Just keep to something simple and if worst comes to worst I can fix it in a literal snap. You do want to control your magic, don't you?"

Celestia debated for several moments before, reluctantly agreeing to the proposal.

Thankfully, the pair didn't have to wait too long before the baker mare came back and presented them with the cake.

"Alright, here it is!"

The cake was quite beautiful mixed decorated with swirls of pink and blue frosting, which only made it more appetizing to Celestia, almost making her regret agreeing to tamper with it. Yet, they had agreed, and the sight of the cake had caused an idea to form in her head.

A mischievous smile across her face, the princess pictured the effect she wanted in her mind and immediately zapped it without taking a moment to question her decision.

In a flash, the cake's decorations were now split down the middle, completely blue on one side and pink on the other. While the baker looked shocked, Discord seemed less than impressed.

"Well, you managed to not cause a scene, though I was hoping for something a little more impressive than a simple color change."

Celestia's smirk quickly grew, earning a curious look from Discord. "Oh, I've done more than change its color. I've added a sort of transformation charm to it. If you eat the blue side, you turn into Shining Armor while the pink sider turns you into Princess Cadence," the now proud princess puffed out her chest with pride at Discord who offered a light clap in response.

"Hmm, that's a bit more creative I'll give you. But we still need to check and see if it works."

Celestia, however, quickly remembered where exactly they were and turned to the still stunned baker. "I hope you don't mind this, but we're having a bit of a magic competition. If it's too much trouble, we can leave."

To her surprise, Cream Heart rapidly shook her head, "oh, it's no trouble at all. If anything it sounds like it could be quite exciting. Please feel free to continue. "

Thus with little room to argue, the two then started to eat the cake, with Discord slowly transforming into Cadence, though with a dark brown coat, a long yellow and light brown mane. Meanwhile, Celestia became a Shining Armor clone with a similar white coat, but with a mane comprised of dark and bright pink.

They were surprised and laughed as they looked over their new bodies as Celestia looked over herself with a smirk on her face." Well, this is certainly different. Though after being turned into a draconequus, it's nice to be a normal pony again," she paused and took a moment to look at herself in the nearby window. Her face turned bright pink, looking at her reflection, seeing how muscular she looked and responded in a surprised tone, "I must say, I cut quite an impressive figure as a stallion."

Cream Heart nodded rapidly, stars visible in her eyes, "Oh yes your highness, if I may be so bold you look very handsome," her eyes shifted to Discord, looking at him equally starstruck, "And Discord, you look positively breathtaking, the picture of eloquence and beauty."

Discord offered a half-hearted chuckle, brushing the mane out of her eyes and looking into another window admiring his new body. It was thin and graceful not unlike Cadance's and was quite bashful waving the compliment off with his new hoof. "Oh, stop, you're gonna make me blush." Discord's entire body turned completely red, though it seemed more he was simply humoring her than being done out of actual embarrassment.

Celestia eyed Discord, finding the momentary distraction somewhat calming as if the pressure she'd been feeling earlier was lessening. "Well, as enjoyable as this is, it's a tad limited as far as possible challenge options are concerned, so how about a new game Discord."

Discord, still in his Cadence form, stretched his ears like rubber right over to Celestia, "I'm all ears, Celestia what did you have in mind?"

"Nothing too elaborate, just a simple game of Truth or Dare."

Immediately Discord's excitement dropped, "Have you been reading some of Twilight's old books again," Afterwards, he poofed up the book with the title Slumber Party 101, "Because I'm pretty sure we've already visited this particular scenario."

Celestia rolled her eyes, "Oh, stop being so negative, it'll be fun," Discord didn't look convinced, prompting Celestia to up the stakes.

"Very well, then how about this, as a rule, if you refuse to do either Truth or Dare, then you must eat another piece of the cake. That should make things a little more exciting, don't you think?"

Pausing as he weighed the options, Discord offered a shrug, "Well, it's not my usual game, but putting a little chaotic spin on it could make things more exciting. So I'm in, I suppose."

Sweet Cream rose a hoof and exclaimed with a big smile on her face. "Oh, I wanna go first!"

"Okay, Sweet Cream, you can go first?" Discord scoffed, rolling his eyes, being a bit agitated and wanting to get this game over with.

Sweet Cream turned her attention to the princess, blushing, seeing how hot she looked in her stallion body she gulped and stammered, "um..C...Celestia truth or dare?"

"Hmm, why not dare?" The princess of the sun responded, wanting to see what this baker had in store.

"I want you to kiss Discord!" The mare chirped out, clapping her hooves together.

"What!" The princess and Discord squeaked out in surprise with big wide eyes.

"Oh, come on! You two are the royal couple I need to at least get a picture of you two kissing!"

The two looked at each other with their faces both a bright pink and both considering not going through with the dare.

"Look, I'll do this dare only as long as you know we're not actually going to get married." Discord snapped with an embarrassed look on his new face feeling quite conflicted about kissing the princess.

"Just shut it, and let's get this over with." Celestia squeaked out feeling just as conflicted. But they slowly move their faces together both sweating a bit and as they puckered their lips the two gave each other a quick peck on the lips. As Sweet Cream snapped a few pictures. "Oh, that was so cute! You should've held it!"

Celestia sat back, coughing a bit, and immediately responded, "So, I think I'll go next...Discord truth or dare?"

Discord eyed Celestia, stubbornly refusing to play, especially after having to kiss her...but finally after being glared at by his chaotic partner in crime, snapped, "Alright, fine... I'll go with truth I have nothing to hide?"

The princess, however, despite requesting the game, didn't seem especially happy, practically looking at him with a harsh glare. "Very well then, tell me? Do you wish I could stay a draconequus forever?"

Discord's confidence immediately evaporated as his whole body paled, "Uh...well, that is…"

"You have to answer, it's the rules, and you agreed, now answer me."

Discord shivered at the force behind her tone, making it clear this wasn't a request but a demand, and he'd be wise to answer. "F-fine, yes, I do wish you'd stay like this."

"I'd say that I'm surprised, but I'd be lying. Though, now I'm curious to know more."

Discord, however, immediately raised a massive stop sign in response. "Uh uh, I answered my question, so let's give someone else a chance."

Celestia huffed angrily at being denied, but an idea quickly formed in her head, and she immediately pulled Sweet Cream to the side, who'd been sitting there simply enjoying the show.

Discord tried to hear what the two were whispering about but found himself unable to. His suspicion grew as Sweet Cream seemed to nod excitedly, before focusing her eyes on Discord.

"Why do I get the feeling something excruciatingly painful is about to happen?"

"Well, I believe it's my turn now," Sweet Cream snickered with a suspicious smile on her face, "And I chose you Discord. Truth or Dare."

"Wait a minute, I just went, you can't make me go twice in a…."

Celestia immediately cut him off mid-speech. "Technically, when we started, we never established any specific rules outside of asking Truth or Dare along with the cake rule. As such, it's perfectly fine for more than one person to ask somepony twice. Besides, it's more...chaotic this way, and I know you just love that, don't you Discord?"

Discord could feel every part of his body twitching angrily as he quickly realized the hole he was currently dug into. Yet, he begrudgingly relented.

".....Fine, I'll pick truth again. Honestly, that seems like the safer option here."

Sweet Cream quickly cooed in excitement. "Alright, do, you have feelings for Celestia!?"

He squeaked as Celestia blushed, turning towards him. He crossed his claws, "That's not a fair question, ask another?"

Celestia scoffed, "According to the rule, you have to answer the question, or you have to eat another piece of cake."

The draconequus scoffed, "fine, I'd rather turn back into a male anyways! No insult to you mares, but I prefer being my gender."

The mare cooed, "oh? Who said anything about turning back into a stallion? Eat another pink piece of cake."

Discord rolled his eyes, seeing little reason to argue as it was not like it made too much of a difference as he ate another piece of cake. He squeaked, feeling a graceful looking wedding dress poof around her body, It was complete being fitted to the waist and the fabric flowed naturally to the floor, along with a white wedding veil flowing down Discord's head. Hearing snickering she turned around with a glare at the pair annoyed.

"Really? A wedding dress?" The lord of chaos grumbled under his breath.

The two laughed as Cream Heart exclaimed, "My goodness Discord you look great in that dress? Are you sure you don't want a wedding cake!"

"Oh Cadance you just look lovely? Maybe we should get married here?" Celestia joked with a smirk on her face feeling good that she was able to make Discord feel embarrassed.

The lord of chaos looked away feeling bashful about his new outfit and because how Celestia in Shining Armor's form was staring at him with lustful eyes.

Celestia turned to Discord. "Alright, my turn, truth or dare?"

Discord snorted through his nostrils. "Is anyone else going to get a turn, or am I the only one being humiliated through this silly game? Cause I feel as though I've more than earned my turn here."

Both Celestia and Sweet looked at each other, gave a nod, and turned back to their fellow player.

"Very well, Discord, it's your turn." The two chimed in unison.

"Finally," The draconequus jumped for joy as he immediately pointed the finger at Sweet Cream. "Alright, baker, I'll start with you. Truth or Dare."

"What? You just want to get me back for earlier!?"

"That's right!" Discord snickered evilly as he loomed over the helpless baker, "So choose your answer wisely because I promise you won't like what I have in store for you if you choose wrong."

The baker panicked, sweat being to pool around her forehead, fearing what horrors awaited her should she make the wrong choice.

"....I...I...I CAN'T choose. I'll just try a piece of the cake."

She immediately felt regret, as Discord's smile grew dramatically. "Oh, I was so hoping you'd choose that option, and since turn about is fair play, we never established any guidelines about cake consumption. So I want you to eat a slice from each side, at the same time!"

She froze, staring down at the cake, wondering what exactly would happen if she tried such a thing. Yet, she knew there was no way she could refuse, especially not after how she'd helped humiliate Discord before.

Thus, without pause, she scarfed down both pieces of cake and found herself covered in a magic glow that threatened to blind all those present. In a flash of blue and pink, the baker mare found herself now replaced with a baby, alicorn filly with swirls of pink and light blue for a mane and tail, giant white feathered wings and big wide bright blue eyes babbling incoherently.

Discord and Celestia shouted out, "WHAT?"

"How on earth did that happen. How does eating something that supposed to make you male and female at the same time turn you into an alicorn of all things?" Celestia asked as she scooped up the pint-sized princess crawling babbling and cooing in her hooves.

"What part of Chaos Magic do you not understand. It's supposed to be random," Discord argued, before going over the alicorn filly with a magnifying glass, "though even as random chaos is, this is a new one. Hmm, maybe this is what Cadence and Shining Armor's child would look like."

Celestia immediately looked at Discord like he was completely insane...or more insane than he already was, "That's your explanation for this. How in Equestria did you arrive at that conclusion."

Discord started to pull out another blackboard that contained another overly complicated equation only for Celestia to throw the rest of the cake at it, "Never mind. What's important is changing her back to how she was before. Bad enough I turned Feather into an Alicorn, I'd rather not this become a trend."

"You sure?" Discord asked, wiping the cake off his blackboard, having returned to his original form, "You still don't exactly have the best track record when it comes to transformations."

Celestia, now transformed back to her draconequus form with a snap of a claw. "How was that!? I think I'm getting the hang of this."

"You're getting better but do you think you can fix Sweet Cream?" Discord asked eyeing Celestia still being unsure of the princess's capabilites.

"Well, I had only a few hours of experience as of right now, so no, not really. But, I still have to at least try to turn her back to normal, leaving Sweet Cream like this would be irresponsible after all." The princess snapped back as she now held the cooing alicorn foal in her claws. The foal was acting quite adorable waving its hooves uncontrollably, flapping her wings and blowing bubbles through her mouth.

Celestia stared down at the foal with a worried look on her face as she slowly held out a claw and with a quick snap another burst of light, the pair found that the alicorn filly had been changed...into an older, seemingly teenage version of the same alicorn. Needless to say, Celestia didn't exactly look thrilled at her latest attempt while Discord held up a scorecard with a "4" on it.

"Well, you made her older, at least, but she's still an alicorn, so not your best showing dear."

Sweet Cream meanwhile seemed to be looking over her transformed state, puzzled at her new giant wings and rubbing her new horn as she asked, "Oh, wow, that was weird!? Huh? Why do I think my name is Flurry Heart?"

"Why do I feel so energetic!" She chirped out, bouncing up and down in excitement.

Flurry Heart started to flap her wings and fly around, only for an oversized paw to immediately pull her down to ground level and keep her from flying away. "Okay, I think we've met our hijinks quota for this chapter. So let's wrap things up, shall we?"

"Let me go! I wanna go fly!" Sweet Cream snapped being quite bratty in her teen form.

Celestia stood over the teenager and scolded her. "You stop it right now young lady."

"Your not my mom! You can't tell me what to do!" Flurry Heart whined stomping about and shot magic out of her horn at Celestia dodged the blast. With a loud BOOM! one of the cakes in the shop exploded sending pieces of frosting and smashed cakes to splatter all over the walls.

Celestia turned to Discord with smashed cake all over her body and shouted in anger. "Are you going to stand there or are you going to help me get her under control!"

"Jeez, calm down it's not like were actually her parents." The lord of chaos snapped a claw as Sweet Cream was turned back into her normal self again and the cake being restored, magic free as well.

The princess immediately began apologizing to Cream for all that happened, only for the baker to calmly laugh it off.

"There's no need for that your highness. Truthfully, it was actually pretty enjoyable, and after everything else that's happened in Canterlot these last few years, being made into an alicorn for a few minutes is just a drop in the bucket!" The baker's mare replied happily as she seemed to secretly want to stay as an alicorn. Celestia simply smiled sadly, still feeling she hadn't been able to have a grip on her new chaos magic.

The pair left the shop, Discord having teleported the cake back to the castle (despite not noticing two pieces were missing), as Celestia being too afraid to even attempt such a thing as the two continued on to the next stop on their travels. As the two left the cake shop, Sweet Cream placed the two pieces of enchanted cake away in a cupboard with a crazed look in her eye. "Oh, I can't wait to be an alicorn again!"