Princess Celestia and Princess Luna Have A Staring Contest
By Magicman123
Inside of Celestia's room in the palace, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna sat across each other. Every few seconds they would pass a single sheet of paper back to each other. When Luna passed the piece of paper back to Celestia, the sun princess quickly scanned the paper again before groaning in frustration.
"How could you possibly win again?!", Celestia exclaimed. "You have to be cheating! There is no possible way that you could have won again!"
Luna smirked condescendingly at her sister. "Maybe, dear sister, it's just that you emit a foul stench at Tic-tac-toe."
"What?! How dare you!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, would you kindly remind me of how many points I have now."
Princess Celestia looked at the score sheet that sat between them.
"Ugh... Fifty-two....."
"And how many points have you claimed in this trial of wits, dear sister?"
The older sister snarled at her before saying in a low voice, "Zero."
Luna brought a hoof up to her right ear and said, "I'm sorry. I didn't catch that! What was your score again?"
She could practically hear her sister grind her teeth together in frustration. She would remember this moment for the rest of her life. Celestia sighed a breath of hot air and said, "Zero, nada, zilch, the big 'o', the number that comes before one!"
She leaned back and crossed her front hooves together with a pout on her face.
"There! Happy?"
"Very much so", Luna replied with a happy smile on her face.
Silenced filled the room as neither of the sisters spoke a word to each other. Both sisters just stared at one another competitively. A few more seconds passed by before Celestia finally broke the silence.
"Wanna play again?"
"I apologize, I fear that your constant failure at bringing me a challenge has led me tired and bored of your attempts at victory."
Celestia frowned at her, one of her eyes twitched in annoyance.
"... How about Hide and Seek?"
"Tia. Aren't you a little afraid that your large posterior would give away your hiding spots?"
The sun princess just shook a hoof at her in anger.
"Hmm... How about a game of Card Wars?", Luna asked.
"That game's so boring. It has way too many rules", Celestia said in reply.
"How dare you besmirch the name of that amazing game!", she shouted.
Celestia whispered to herself, "Amazing my flank."
"What was that?!"
"Nothing", she quickly replied.
"You're just jealous cause I'm the cool one."
They continued staring at each other again. Thinking of more games and activities that they could possibly play together.
A moment had passed before they both smirked at each other competitively. They leaned towards each other, their muzzles just a couple centimetres away from each other before Celestia said, "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Oh I do believe I am", Luna replied.
"Staring contest!", they both said at the same time.
"Okay! What are the rules?", Luna asked.
"No use of magic and no touching of any kind. Especially around the eyes! Remember what happened last time?"
"Oh please, that hairbrush didn't even graze an eyelash!"
"Yeah, cause it got me in the eye!"
"Accidents happen, sister!"
"From all the way across the room?!"
"Please sister, will you just let bygones be bygones and forget about that whole incident?"
"I was blind in my left eye for over a week!"
"Well was it really as bad as the time you accidentally fractured both of my legs, leaving me in a wheel chair for a month?"
"..... Point taken."
It took a second before both sisters calmed down from their heated argument.
"Okay", Celestia began, "Are you ready to start or what?"
"I am always ready! Now prepare to have your flank beaten once again!"
"Bring it on!", Celestia shouted.
Silence filled the room once again. Both princesses glaring at each other. Sweat beading from their foreheads, nostrils flaring and their eyes trained on one another in a heated battle of the unblinking.
Then there was a knock at the door.
Celestia then turned her head for a second towards the door and shouted, "What is it?!"
The door opened slowly, revealing a white maned grey unicorn. He had a black suit on and monocle on his left eye.
"Erm. Princess Celestia? Am I interrupting something?"
"No it's fine. Please, go ahead", Luna said.
"Uh, I'm afraid that you're needed in the royal courtroom, your highness."
Just then, realization hit her. Her eyes grew wider than they already were as her mouth opened up in shock.
"Oh no! I completely forgot! Luna, I'm afraid I'll have to put a hold on our competition?"
Luna gave a sinister smile.
"Oh really? Well I'm afraid that our little game won't be ending so easily."
"What? What do you mean?", Celestia looked at her questioningly.
"I'm saying, that you can go."
"Thank you sist-."
"IF. You admit that I am better than you!"
Celestia's face hardened as she glared at Luna.
"NEVER!."
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The hoof of an old stallion hit the top of the courtroom table causing both Celestia and Luna to wince slightly at the sudden noise, still staring at each other.
"And that horrible horrible noise! By the gods, the laughter of those families! Them having a good time! Blergh! Makes me sick!"
Celestia and Luna sighed in unison. This stallion wouldn't stop talking for the past few hours, complaining about everything around him that would normally put a smile on a pony's face. From the flowers in his garden that overtook his weeds to the laughing of foals playing together.
Luna took a glance at the clock and when she realized what time it was, a smile broke open on her face. She poked Celestia on the shoulder with a hoof and pointed towards the clock.
"I'm sorry Mister Tightwad but it seems that this meeting has come to an end", the solar princess said with a smile.
"Ah! It seems so. Well, I shall be taking my leave then. I do hope you take my order of kicking the residents around my home out into consideration, Princess Celestia!", the old pony said as he placed a sheet of paper in front of her before heading towards the door.
"Yes Mister Tightwad, I will look into it deeply", she said as she crumpled the piece of paper and tossed it into the nearest trash bin.
"Now. Where were we?"
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Celestia and Luna continued staring into each others eyes. Their eyes we're bloodshot and circled with dark rings. Their eyes had long since dried out, leaving behind a crusty substance where there would normally be liquid.
Luna's horn glowed as she magicked a bottle of eye drops towards her. As it drew nearer a pillow that glowed gold crashed into it. Sending both items flying out a window.
"Tia!", Luna shouted.
"No eye drops", was all Celestia said.
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A few more hours went by and the two sisters were still at war with one another. They were in the dining room eating dinner. Both Celestia and Luna glared at each other as they ate their salads. The staff around them just stood around awkwardly as they watched their beloved leaders butt heads with their eyes.
"Are you going to quit yet Luna?! It looks like you're getting tired."
"Oh you'd like that wouldn't you?!", Luna spat back causing pieces of Lettuce to fly out of her mouth.
They growled at each other before continuing on with their meal.
"Psst!", one of the waiters called out to a maid.
When he got the attention of the mare he asked, "Uh, should we be worried about them?"
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They were back in Celestia's bedroom. Both of them were dead tired and both of their eyes were threatening to close shut.
"Hey... Tia", Luna panted.
"..... What?"
"Are you... Ready to lose yet?"
"Not... In a million..... Years!"
Suddenly, to their dismay, the desire to yawn overcame them.
"Oh no...", they both said at the same time.
An unseeable force caused both of their mouths to open. They struggled to keep them shut but were failing.
"How about we call it a tie?", Luna spat out quickly before she could no longer pronounce words properly.
"Why... Are you afraid to lose?", Celestia retaliated before her words had started becoming all garbled up.
"Eeyah!", Luna said with her mouth almost fully wide open.
"Aineh!", Celestia finally conceded.
Then they both yawned, which caused there eyes to shut.
After a couple seconds, they opened their eyes and looked at each other. Before they both collapsed onto the carpet floor and began screaming in pain.
"Ahhhh! My eyes! They burn!!!", Celestia screamed.
"My eyes feel like they've been ripped wide open!!! The horror!!!", Luna wailed.
And that was the last time Celestia and Luna ever had a staring contest.
THE END
I loved this story defiantly a favorite!
4037746
Thank you for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I LOVED this story! There are a couple of mistakes in there, in one instance you used 'your' instead of 'you're', some lack of commas, and in some instances, there are no periods at the ends of sentences. Great job!!!!!!!!
4037891
Eeeh...
Yeah sorry, this was written on an iPad so please forgive me for some of the mistakes made. Also, thanks for reading the story! I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
4037895 Oh, please, the mistakes are fine! I couldn't have written anything like that in two hours! It's taken me four days to write on chapter in my story!
4037902
Thanks a lot for the heads up on the errors. I think that I have managed to fix all the problems mentioned by you, along with some grammar and spelling mistakes (Except the commas, I will deal with those later).
4037953 You're welcome!
Loved the play between the two, bravo!
Toplel, scrubs can't handle yawning.
Pic related:
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This was the most amazing thing /i have ever read in my whole existence EVER! AMAZING!
4038372
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
4038898
Lol!
4039268
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
It's been done.
4039986
My bad.
I didn't know that fic existed.
I cannot believe that this got on the popular stories list
To be honest, punctuation was horrendous. You're supposed to put punctuation within the quotation marks, and even then you often had two ending punctuation marks in the same sentence. And to be nitpicky, this:
doesn't make sense, since Luna is a quadruped.
But this was a very enjoyable story. It's earned a like and a fav from me.
4041179
Yeah sorry
I don't know why I keep doing that. I know I'm wrong but I keep doing it for whatever reason. I hope I fixed the punctuation problem and I also I fixed that sentence... :P
Thanks for the help and for reading this thing I wrote. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
4037754
This deserves to be on equestria daily, great job on writing this!!!! Also no problem this was one of the best stories ive read for ages. :)
4041641
Thanks for the compliment!
4040168 Done already or not, you wrote and interesting story and that's what matters.
4042513
Thanks for the support!
4042515 You're welcome. I'm supportive of pretty much any idea, even ones that have been done before, as long as you can make it interesting.
4039986
THAT'S where I recognized this from...
4041271 Like I said, it's good. Don't let my comment bring you down!
as far as this old school janitor is concerned there are far too few cute funny awesome stories like this. done before mayhaps done like this in your style? only just now.
liked faved and epic.
4044696
Thanks a lot! I'm glad that you enjoyed this story enough to think that it's awesome!
4044269
Your comment didn't really bring me down. It's more like you helped me improve the way I write!
And victory goes to time again!
Well... It was interesting, although I'm not sure I like it.. So take a Rainbow instead.
4047843
As long as you gave it a chance
Ah nice and simple the way I like it .
4051905
Glad you liked it!
Yikes! Talk about competitive siblings, sounds like a painful game. Good story!
4056418
Thanks!
4056471
You're welcome!
....."bursts out laughing"
4041179
Wow.
I didn't read one word of that comment.
Except "horrendous"
You are the only other person I've ever seen use that word, besides me.
You are awesome
So yeah.
Good day
4117079 That's just me!
By the way, nice profile picture.
4117106
Haha, thanks
I asked my brother to find me a new avatar/profile pic or whatever
and he found this one
Pretty funny 9.14/10
4302306
That is a very specific decimal number.
yes very specific
uh...
4318169
Yes?
Brilliant !!
4320981
Thanks!
Maybe I liked it for an even reason, rather than odd, did you ever think of that?