//------------------------------// // Ch5: The Notebook // Story: Darkness within the Twilight // by Mordy //------------------------------// Darkness within the Twilight By: Mordy Ch5: The Notebook Princess Luna trotted into her room and quickly closed and locked the door with her magic. The royal bedroom of the princess of the night was of course adorned with everything in her color scheme with her cutie mark adorned here and there. She loved her midnight blue colors and the room that her sister had gone to great lengths to make it as homey as she could. Luna removed her regalia and placed it on the dark dresser near her bed as she hopped onto the silky sheets. A quick glance around and a double check on her door lock was all she needed to make sure she was alone. Reaching under one of her pillows with her hoof, she pulled out a small blue blanket covered in stars. It was made of the finest silk available and was cool to the touch. One more check to make sure she didn’t have any curious eyes on her before she began to hug and cuddle the silk. “Oh Night Night, did you miss your momma? Because she’s missed you!” Luna cooed to her secret security blanket as she gave it a kiss. “Come Night Night, let us enjoy this morning before we retire!” Reaching under her wing, she pulled out her notebook and opened it up. However, she found something completely different than what she had been expecting. Notes and flow charts featuring ponies’ names were listed in abundance. A sort of crude family tree, but was incomplete as the pony who had been researching this never finished writing down the last few generations after a certain shocking discovery. Luna furrowed her brow in anger until she saw the first name listed, Sunder Shadows. Her rage dissipated as it became replaced with curiosity and she found herself in thought. “Sunder Shadows, there’s that name again. Where have I heard it before?” she wondered aloud. She looked to Night Night for guidance, “Do you remember my love?” The blanket pondered the name deeply as it carefully searched its memories before recalling the pony in question. It was ready to answer Luna, but then it remembered it was an inanimate object incapable of having thought or even a way of communicating and was merely an imaginary friend at best. Thus Night Night sighed or at least if it was capable of doing so it would sigh and remained silent to Luna’s question. Luna pouted at her blanket’s silence. “I thought not. How did I get this notebook anyway?” She didn’t’ have to think long as she recalled how she and Twilight had bumped in the hall. “Oh, Twilight must have... my… ohhhh noooo,” Luna’s eyes shrunk in horror as she held Night Night closer to her bosom. “All aboard for the Crystal Empire!” Twilight heard the conductor shout as she got comfy in her private cabin. She had paid for coach, but got bumped up to first class without even having to ask. She would have argued against the special treatment, but with after how mentally exhausted she was from the past few days she wasn’t up to it. The train began to pull out of the station and make its way around the mountain that Canterlot was nestled in. It was smooth ride, but a big boring. So, Twilight decided to pass the time by going through her notes once more. However, she quickly realized it was not her notebook that she had brought with her. When Twilight opened it up she found that inside was a bunch of sketches. Simple sketches mostly, at least on the first page. Twilight remembered that she had bumped into Luna before breakfast with Celestia and quickly deduced that this was Luna’s notebook. She was worried for a moment that Luna had her notes, but remembered that she hadn’t put any details as to why she was doing the research and she hadn’t put all the connection to her relation to Sunder Shadows. She was especially thankful she never made a mention to Sombra. Needing a distraction, she decided to dive into Luna’s sketches as she made herself comfortable. My, she’s quite the artist. I guess with a beautiful night sky like hers that shouldn’t be surprising. Maybe this is how she keeps up her skill? Twilight then decided to flip to a random page in the notebook, a pleasant smile on her face. She quickly regretted this action and her pupils shrunk to pinpricks. Why did she regret this? Well, considering it was a painstakingly detailed sketch of Luna, Celestia, and the bane of her very existence; tentacles. The two princesses were in a very compromising position with their bodies being violated in every way possible by said tendrils. This was why one should never look at Luna’s art clop collection without at least a fair warning. Thankfully, recent events had steeled Twilight’s will and would prevent this image from being burnt into her… Right click, save to C:\Users\Twilight\Pictures\Clop\Tentacles Folder. …Never mind. Why me? Why now? Why is this happening?! I’ll also save a copy to the incest folder as well… And why in my increasingly perverse mind do I have an incest folder?! Well, where else are we going to keep the hot relative on relative action? You of all ponies should know how important it is to keep things organized. That’s not what I meant! Twilight growled in frustration. Why am I even thinking of such thoughts about others?! Who’s even in there? A question that probably should have been left unanswered. Not many. It’s an unimpressive collection at the moment. If we ever meet Pinkie’s sisters I’ll be sure to get some scene of them in there. As of right now we only have Applejack and Big Macintosh, Celestia and Luna, and of course us and Shiny. It’s a growing collection still in its infancy. There was a quiet pause before Twilight’s brain began to pick up some steam. I’m sorry, but did you just say us and Shiny? Yep. As in my brother Shining Armor? Who else would be? Though, I am planning to add some of us and Gleaming Shield too. Who’s Gleaming Shield? A name she had no familiarity with. Shiny if he was a mare. Twilight wished she had someone to glare at that moment, but the wall of her cabin would have to do. That’s it! I don’t care what you say. I do not have such thoughts about my own– A proof of concept from the abyss of her mind flashed before Twilight’s eyes and she groaned as she covered her eyes trying to rub the image away from them. Why? Why? Why? Why did you have to show me something that also included tentacles?! Because tentacles make everything better! Is there anything in there that doesn’t include fornication involving such appendages? You could have at least showed that instead… Okay, here you go! Wait no! It was far too late, as another image of her and Shining Armor was provided making Twilight hit her head against the wall in a futile attempt to knock the picture out of her mind, but to no avail. It took a few more wall crushing head butts before she finally gave up, sighing in defeat. “This is going to be a long trip,” Twilight groaned out as she lied down and rubbed her aching forehead and horn. We could see what else Luna has drawn? I’m already a fan! You think she takes commissions? Twilight responded out loud, wanting a change of pace for this conversation, “No thanks, I rather just lay here and rest.” Well, I guess I can show you more of our collection then. Let’s start with everything in the incest folder! All 500 images! “However, Luna is very wise and ancient being and such art could merely be more in depth look of her own soul,” Twilight quickly replied with wide eyes as she pulled the notebook in front of her and began to look through everything. Hopefully, stuff that wasn’t nearly as bad as the things that were in her own mind. Luna pouted as she snuggled her blanket. She lost her glorious sketchbook of royal porn and she had nothing to… entertain herself with before she slept the day away. It was then that hope came to her form of a knock on her door. Out of habit, Luna proceeded to hide her notebook only to stop halfway through as she recalled that it was actually Twilights and not hers. With a deep sigh she left Night Night on her bed and dragged her hooves as she went over to her door and opened it with her magic. Standing there was one of the regular royal guards with a wrapped package in his hooves. He cleared his throat as he addressed the princess, “Sorry to disturb you your highness, but there’s some mail for you.” Luna lifted the parcel with her magic, a bored expression on her face as she looked the brown packing over. However, when she saw the address of where it was from her eyes widened and she let out a loud squeal like sound and quickly retreated to her bedroom and slammed the door into the guards face. She probably should have felt bad about that, but hey, wasn’t one of her night guards so she couldn’t care less! Locking the door and recasting her privacy spells she leaped onto the bed and cuddled her blanket as she ripped open her mail. Inside was a thick and colorful paperback book. The sight of it caused Luna’s grin to widen. “Huzzah! Our issue of Tentacle Monthly Informer hath arrived! There shall be much fun tonight!” Now, one might be wondering how a princess such as Luna could acquire such filth unnoticed. Well, first of all her name wasn’t ever addressed on the packages, only her place of residence. Something that wasn’t too uncommon when mail was delivered to residences of the palace. Then there was the fact that the publishers had a very strict privacy policy making sure none of their customer’s information would ever be public. Lastly, the biggest reason no one would ever suspect Luna was that the bill was in her sisters’ name. This begs the question, why didn’t Celestia know about this? Well… Celestia was currently overlooking several bills and expenses involving the kingdom. She then stopped at certain expense that she found unfamiliar. “Raven…” The unicorn mare next to her perked up from looking at the princesses schedule. She adjusted her glasses as she turned toward her ruler, “Umm… yes?” “What is this… TMI bill for?” Celestia pointed out with her golden clad hoof. Raven leaned in and squinted at it for a moment before a bit of realization came to her. “Oh, that must be the monthly report from your Too Much Intelligence group. You know, the spy network?” Celestia hummed to herself before nodding in agreement. “Ah yes, that’s right. Carry on!” They both cheerfully went back to working and that’s why she never found out! Luna’s art journal didn’t just consist of just smut. She would occasionally sketch out beautiful landscapes, the night sky, and other scenery’s. However, more often than not she would reuse those backgrounds in her more dirty pictures. With that notebook Twilight was able to learn more about Luna in that train ride to the Crystal Kingdom than she had since Luna’s return. Too bad what she learned was her wide array of fetishes and kinks. To make matters worse, her other self was just giddy about the whole thing and was having a field day with the information. Strangely though, the one odd thing she found was a very incredibly detailed layout of Canterlot castle with marks and secret passages listed. It seemed to be a very well thought out plan of attack labeled suspiciously as “Equestria Coup D’état 2.01”. The .01 change was the decision to make sure that the plan happened after or was completed before nap time. That should have raised some red flags for Twilight. It really should have. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of turning to the very next page. It was there that she discovered and entirely new fetish that her dearest princess had. Molesting ponies made up pancakes, waffles, and varies other breakfast treats. It was sexy, delicious, and made her a bit hungry. Everything she had seen was forgotten in an instant. The train then began to screech to a halt as it reached the Crystal Kingdom’s station. It took Twilight a moment to realize what was going on before she was able to look away from the dirty clop. She closed the book and found herself feeling… disappointed? No, that can’t be right. She should be happy to not have to look all that filth. Shaking off that thought, she grabbed her bags and began to head off the train to surprise her brother and sister-in-law.