//------------------------------// // Chapter Two: Coming Out // Story: Solar Child: Burden of the Crown // by Bakmah Genesis //------------------------------// "Do I really need to wear the dress?" asked Rainbow as Twilight helped her into Rainbow's dress she wore for the coronation. "Sadly, yes. The nobles are very picky, as well as pricks, and you need to impress them more than Luna does. I would much prefer you in that saddle I keep in the closet but they seem to charge us with public indecency." said Twilight as she finished tying the laces. "Though, nothing is wrong with us using it later tonight." She giggled as Rainbow turned a deep crimson. "How is it that I chose the naughty librarian that happens to be a princess?" asked Rainbow, a smirk on her face. Twilight leaned forward and kissed her. "You just know how to pick them." "My parents will be saying the same, along with 'Why the buck have you not told us our future daughter in law is the princess of Equestria?'" said Rainbow, using a mock voice of her mother. Twilight giggled and kissed her on her cheek. "I will just have to be convincing then. Though I think it's a good thing we have an ambulance at the ready. We don't need any heart attacks from parents finding out that their daughter was engaged to one of the princesses on top of learning that two of them are dating each other." "My parents should be alright, I hope. We just have to hope we don't have a mob. Thankfully the girls are here to help." "They need to know too." "True." Rainbow looked up at the clock and sighed as she saw that it was almost time. "Let's just hope we can make it through this possible shit storm." Twilight smiled warmly at her. "Don't worry. We will get through this." Her smile faded a little. "Though I think we may have to banish a certain noble by the end of the day." ______________________________________________________________________________________ Celestia stood with Luna, waiting for all the reporters to be seated in the hall. She scanned the crowd and sighed. She hasn't been this nervous since the coronation. But now she was coming out with the fact that she is dating the mare everyone thought as her sister and is engaged to her. She couldn't wait to see their reaction when she walks in after a few months with an enlarged belly. "All this stress is starting to make me feel old and I'm an alicorn." she said as she turned to her fiancé, "I think it's because we are old. Your daughter will feel the same." said Luna with a smirk. She looked over the crowd and spotted the nobles off to the side. "Though I'm not excited to deal with the nobles." "I agree." said Celestia as she turned her attention to Blueblood. The snobby prince kept his head high and had an expression that screamed he had a silver spoon up is ass. "I'm not excited to listen to my 'nephew' yell at me and demand this to be some sort of twisted joke we all decided to play." "If this is a joke then I must be the goddess of jokes then goddess of night." said Luna with a snort. Celestia sighed. "They're ready. Lets get this over with." Celestia motioned for Twilight and Rainbow to follow them. Upon seeing the three princesses, the crowd went into an respective silence. Whispers soon drifted as ponies took notice to Rainbow stood back behind Twilight. She kept her confident form but was internally fighting back the urge to crawl away. "Filly's and Gentlecolts, we have called this press meeting to correct some 'facts' that ponies of today believe. Firstly is the relationship between me and Princess Luna. I still don't why ponies think this, but me and Luna are not sisters." This was met with whispers and the scratching of quills. "Five hundred years before Nightmare Moon, me and Luna met in an orphanage where we became close enough to be called sisters. We were them adopted by an alicorn that ruled before us, making us sisters in a sense. "Two hundred years later, she died of a disease only alicorns are vulnerable to. We were then just best friends that ruled though ponies still believed us to be sisters. Twenty years later, me and Luna did something that has never been told publicly before. We dated." There was a loud audible gasp along with a very loud "What?!" from Blueblood. Celestia resisted the urge to roll her eyes at the prince. "We have rekindled this after Luna's banishment and now after three years we are proudly engaged." This was met with much muttering. "Now I will turn the spot over to my daughter." She stepped back to let Twilight make her speech. She glanced back at Rainbow who nodded slightly. "Over the past year, I myself have found a special somepony. We have been through a lot, one of the times including my rise to the crown. She has been with me every time I needed her." She took an intake of breath to collect herself. The next part will change the full out look of the royal family. "I am proudly engaged to Rainbow Dash, the element of Loyalty." Muttering and another shout from Blueblood filled the room. "Oh, this will be fun." muttered Rainbow Dash. _____________________________________________________________________________________ "I demand this to simply be a joke!" shouted Blueblood, slamming his hoof on the marble flooring. The white unicorn stallion was not accepting the idea and it was amazing that none of the princesses threw him out of the throne room. "It's not a joke. I can give you the tape for three hundred bits." said Luna. "Why three hundred bits?" asked Rainbow who sat next to her fiancé. "Two reasons. One, it includes princesses. Two, extra content not appropriate for foals." replied Luna with a smirk. Her and Rainbow shared a small laugh. "No, they actually are real." "I'm going to need a copy for science." "When were you interested in science?" "When it became a sex tape." "Can we get back to listening to my cousin bitch so we can get on with our day?" asked Twilight, fed up with her cousin's bickering since he walked into the room. "Fine." grumbled Rainbow, crossing her hooves. "I can't believe you picked a dirty commoner like her." said Blueblood, glaring at Rainbow in disgust. "I can choose who I want. There is no law that states that I need to marry nobility. I checked. Twice." said Twilight, keeping her composure despite the remark. "And what about you, auntie? It says in the Celestian Bible that you hate filly foolers!" "Ninty percent of the stuff in that book is fake. I never once said that in my life. I believe I made that clear in the meeting." said Celestia, glaring at the prince. The stubborn stallion kept his ground and continued to build a pyramid over his grave. "Filly foolers are the scum of the earth and yet you accept it and become one!" "I'm sorry if you weren't aware but Twilight has no father, only mothers. I have not once slept with a stallion. Your sources need work." "I refuse to accept that my own aunt and cousin are filly foolers and sleep soundly knowing they rule this country." said the stallion, raising his head in defiance. "Fine. For defying the crown you are here by arrested and sentenced to five months in public prison." said Celestia. She beckoned for the guards. "What?! You can't do that!" shouted the stallion as he was chained. "Yes I can. You perfectly stated that you will defy me. For that its usually three years but knowing how full of yourself you are I will give you only five months in public. They will simply love you there." said Celestia with a smirk. The stallion was dragged out, screaming and whining as he was brought down to the public prison. "Finally. I can't believe he is my cousin." moaned Twilight, sinking into the throne. "Yes, well, when I took on him and Cadence, he was so easy to handle and was nowhere as much of a pain as he is now." said Celestia, leaning into Luna for comfort. "I remember when he was nice for once." Cadence walked into throne room with a smile on her face. "Cadence!" shouted Twilight. She jumped up and ran up to her. "Sunshine Sunshine, Ladybugs awake. Clap your hooves and do a little shake!" Te two finished and embraced, giggling the whole while. "I think it got easier when we became the same height." said Cadence, laughing as the two broke apart. "And congrats to both you and Rainbow Dash." She looked past Twilight and up to Celestia and Luna. "Same to you two." "Thank you, Cadence. Sometimes it's hard to believe you are even remotely related to Blueblood." said Celestia as the pink alicorn walked towards them "Yes, well, I can't change that. Kinda stuck with him." She looked back at her wings. "Well, for another eighty years, that is. Unless he finds a alicorn of his own, I'll out live him." "Kinda of the reason why I wanted to marry Rainbow. Not exactly found of losing her in another eighty years." said Twilight, nuzzling her fiancé and giving her a peck on the cheek as she sat down. Rainbow turned a shade of crimson, causing the other mares in the room to giggle. "Well, the others are already waiting for us in the dining hall." said Cadence as she turned around and began to lead then. The others stood and followed.