Interlude VII
“Are you sure about this Cadence? I can always send a few pegasus guards with you,” Shining Armor asked his marefriend as he removed his captain’s helmet.
“For the last time, YES, Shiny. I’ll be lucky if she doesn’t catch me trailing her as is and, well, that armor isn’t exactly subtle,” Cadence said as she tapped Shining’s golden plate mail.
“But why do you need to follow her?”
Cadence sighed and rolled her eyes at her coltfriend’s overprotectiveness. “Because she needs my help. Look don’t tell anypony but my aunt said that her and Luna never had any romantic relationships before. She would have no clue what to do on a midnight rendezvous even without being stuck a thousand years in the past.”
“Then why don’t you just talk to her before she leaves?”
Cadence couldn’t keep a devious grin from her face as she answered, “I may want to see her make a fool of herself as payback for snubbing a certain coltfriend of mine.”
“THAT!?” Shining quieted himself after a glare from Cadence. “Cadence that post would have been a step down and I would never have seen you. She did me a favor passing me over,” he continued in a harsh whisper.
“But she wasn’t a bit nice about it and you’re not the only one that gets to be overprotective,” Cadence said in a tone that meant this discussion was over.
“Fine,” Shining said with a defeated sigh, “just be careful okay?”
“I will,” Cadence promised. She gave Shining a quick kiss before she took off to follow the night princess.
Shining watched the pink alicorn until he could no longer see her from the castle battlements.
“Coward,” he berated himself as he pulled an engagement ring from his armor, “You should have just asked her but you always have to hesitate don’t you. You big dumb idiot.” Shining gave a dejected sigh and leaned his head against the cool stone of the battlement. “It’s just moving so fast, it seems like just yesterday she was Twiley’s foalsitter.”
Shining gasped as he remembered a letter sitting on his desk, buried and nearly forgotten under the mountain of paperwork his position came with. He had meant to tell his little sister about everything that had happened but he could never find the right words. Now he was about to propose to her foalsitter and only real friend(except him) growing up and he hadn’t even figured out how to tell her they were dating, or that he had been promoted, or anything from the last two years of his life. Determined he pushed himself off the wall and made his way to his office. It may take all his off time this week but he would finish that letter to his sister.
***
Luna had flown high and steady only a few miles of her journey. Cadence had used the opportunity to think about Shining. His nervous behavior, that little telltale box he thought she didn’t see in his armor. She already knew her answer, she nearly squealed it again and again every time he looked like he was reaching for it, but she would wait for him to ask.
Cadence was panicking. Once out of sight from Canterlot Luna shot off with a burst of speed Cadence had never seen. Now Cadence was stuck over the blurry line between the Whitetail Woods and the Everfree Forest trying to spot a midnight blue alicorn in a midnight sky.
Something hit her wing from below. It broke off easily leaving a patch of numbness behind but as she broke off one five more struck her leaving patches of unresponsive muscle. She couldn’t flap; she couldn’t stay in the air.
“HELP!” she cried out before crashing through the forest canopy.
The soft earth of the forest floor could only do so much to cushion her fall. In the corner of her fading vision she saw a flash of green fire the she saw…herself? No that wasn’t possible.
“Ah Princess Cadenza,” her doppelganger spoke in a voice that buzzed and hummed like a hive of angry bees, “Don’t you worry I have a feeling your life will become just perfect.”
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So, in a strange way, it was all Luna's fault in the end? Destiny does love her jest...
An unexpected and intriguing turn of events. Plus two points.
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In an off the wall way, it's the fault of three. Luna for going on a late night gaming run, Cadence for trying to stalk Luna and meddle in her love life, and finally Shining for not sending guards with Cadence anyways.
Hmn, so Shining's eventual proposal (the first one, I presume) isn't even to Cadance?
Oh good, for a second I was worried that you may turn this into a ship fic, but that's taken care of now... Too bad Cadance had to be captured and imprisoned by the changelings, but hey it's a pretty good theory.
And so..... it begins!
That is, the canon wedding which ppl have been mentioning every so often.
From Luna adjusting to her new life in the first chapters, to the Canterlot wedding..... I never expected that.
And about time you got featured!!
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Cadence was already engaged to Shining before she was kidnapped. How do we know? Because when she was rescued, she referred ti Shining Armor as her fiancee....
4773840
Interesting catch. Although I take it the author is altering events. In any case, he was planning on it and may yet propose to Chrysalis (which would be ironic),
Interesting idea. Princess Cadence can be a bit of a fool sometimes.
Ah, there it is. I was wondering when we'd finally get to this.
Also, I have to wonder now if Chrysalis didn't let that changeling get caught in order to distract Luna's forces into keeping to the borders while the real threat slipped through unnoticed.
4773840
Not necessarily. There's no reason to believe Chrysalis didn't visit Cadance in the caverns to announce the news and gloat. Also, it's entirely possible that Chrysalis – clearly aware of the love between them – outright told Cadance exactly what she was going to do just to let the knife twist a little.