//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: A new life // Story: Moonshine's confused love // by MoonShine //------------------------------// MoonShine’s confused love “Moonshine?” Twilight asked Rainbow Dash whilst holding a hoof to her chin. “I can’t say I have.....NO, wait. Isn’t she the princess’ commander of the Equetorian guards?” she questioned and pointed at Rainbow. “Yes” Rainbow replied with a proud smile. “But she isn’t any more” she Dashes forward towards Twilight who is sat on a cushion and almost fell back. Rainbow then slowly backs away, Twilight then sitting herself upright. Once twilight got herself comfy again she tries to think of why Moonshine wasn’t the commander anymore. Just as she went to ask Rainbow, Rainbow turns her back to her and points out of Twilight’s bedroom window towards the sky. “It was about two years ago, when that star fell into the Everfree forest, do you remember that?” she looks over shoulder to look at Twilight who nodded back at her to answer her question. “Well, it fell through the cloud that I was happily sleeping on. I thought it was somepony trying to be funny with me. So I jumped up and went to follow it but by then it had hit the ground....” she takes a deep breath as she takes a pause, she looks over again, “You are listening, right?” Twilight then looks over to her and just nods. “Well.........where was I?....Oh yeah!..As I was saying. It hit the ground and I decided to take a look down there. As I got closer I saw a pony get up in the smoke. I hid in the nearest tree top hoping the strange pony didn’t see me. The pony then looked around, I was expecting an alien or something but then she walked off as if nothing happened. I then followed her.” She then turns to Twilight and before she could say anything, Twilight asked... “Wait. You just said you decided to follow HER, yes?” rainbow nodded. “Well, how did you know it was a mare?” Twilight’s arms coming up beside her as she shrugged her shoulders. Rainbow’s eyes then widened as she tried to think of an answer, she then raises a hoof remembering what was next. “Well, she flew up above the tree line which I then tried to hide in the tree but she looked straight at me as if she knew I was there and.....” Twilight interrupts her by waving her hoof in a circular motion in front of her as if to say ‘c’mon skip ahead’ so Rainbow then looks up with her eyes and was thinking about what happened. “Is this actually real or are you making it up?” Twilight asks whilst narrowing her eyes. Rainbow then shook her head. Twilight sighed hoping that the story will end soon because it was late and she wanted to go to bed. Just as Rainbow went to continue there was a loud bang on the library door causing the two of them to jump. “Who could that be?” she asked curiously to Rainbow who had fallen off the bed and was rubbing her head. Twilight then opens the door to her bedroom, walks down to the main door and looks through the spyhole to see a pony looking straight into the spyhole as if she could see Twilight. Twilight then steps back and calls for Rainbow to come down and take a look, another bang on the door made Twilight jump again and rub her ear. Rainbow then arrives, looks through the spyhole, she backs away, her eyes wide and pupils slightly smaller than normal. Twilight tried to understand why Rainbow was scared of the pony on the other side of the door. “Hello?” a mysterious voice called from outside, “Is anypony in? I know it’s a bit late but I’m just looking for some books to read....please?” the voice called again. Twilight then went to open the door for Rainbow to grab her hoof, shaking her head. Twilight sharply pulls her hoof regaining control of it, pushs Rainbow back who then went and hid. Twilight then opens the door to see a pony that was stood out in the cold night, shivering, teeth chattering and wings wrapped around herself. The pony then put on a small smile at Twilight, “Please? Just a few books? It’s very cold out here. I’m not used to this.” She pleads to Twilight who steps aside to let the pony in. Twilight scanned the pony with her eyes as she had never seen this pegasus before. The pegasus entered, Twilight shut the door and the new pony turned to look at the vast amount of books. The pegasus was a very light lavender colour with a straight candy pink mane with sky blue stripes running the whole length, her tail matching but was curled like Rarity’s, her eyes were a matching pink to her hair, her hooves and leading edge of the wings had a deep black colour on them. The pegasus then turns to Twilight, “Do you have anything on Equestrian history?” her quiet voice asked. She then put a hoof to her mouth and her eyes widened, she removes her hoof. “One apologises. I am sincerely sorry. I must have left my manners back at Canterlot.” Twilight’s ears prick right up as she realises she was in the presence of a pony from Canterlot. The pegasus approached Twilight and looks her up and down. She mumbles which Twilight didn’t quite catch. “My name is Moonshine.” Twilight’s face suddenly changed to a shocked expression. “Are you alright?” she pats on Twilight’s face with her hoof, Twilight shakes her head, nods then raises her hoof to shake hooves with Moonshine. “I’m new here. I was the Commander of the Equetorian guards but after little...incident, the other guards kicked me out. Now I have nowhere to live and nothing to live for.” Moonshine looks down with her eyes, Twilight quickly thinks about what Moonshine just said, looks up at her, puts a hoof on her shoulder and smiles. “It’s ok. You can live here with me. I have a spare room upstairs.” Twilight then leads Moonshine upstairs. Rainbow Dash hears what Twilight just said, darts up only to knock her head off the roof. Moonshine hears the noise more easily than Twilight due to her training up at Canterlot and charges upstairs to the spare room door with Twilight following, “Moonshine! It’s ok.” Just then Moonshine knocks the door open. “Freeze criminal!” she pounces at Rainbow pinning her to the ground, “How dare you intrude on this fine mare’s property.” Moonshine angrily shouts out whilst applying more pressure onto Rainbow’s legs. Twilight then enters, runs up and pulls at Moonshine’s tail with her mouth. Moonshine instantly shouts out in pain, gets off Rainbow and turns to Twilight. “What is wrong with you? Do you not realise this criminal has trespassed on your property?” Moonshine barked at Twilight, looks at her mouth, Twilight releases the tail which Moonshine then looks at with a face of disgust, “Now I’ll have to get that washed.” “NO!...oh, sorry about your tail....you can’t hurt Rainbow, she’s my friend.” Twilight explains. Moonshine realises and looks over at Rainbow and apologises. She helps Rainbow back up. “I did not know. I am sincerely sorry for my actions.” She looks away hoping that Rainbow forgives her but she was wrong, Rainbow immediately shouts at the mare... “YEAH?! Well I’m not sorry for mine!” she stamps on Moonshine’s hoof causing Moonshine’s leg to bend backwards breaking the bone, Moonshine then screams out in agony, Rainbow barges past and flies out of the library. Moonshine flies to the front door but stops to watch an angry filly fly off into the night. Twilight teleports next to Moonshine with a splint and bandage, using her magic to unravel some of the bandage and starts to wrap it round Moonshine’s hoof without her even realising. Twilight then applies some pressure to the splint; Moonshine instantly jolts with her hoof and yells out in pain which echoes through all of Ponyville, Twilight quickly put some of the bandages over Moonshine’s mouth to muffle the screams almost gagging her. As Twilight applies more pressure the bone in Moonshine’s leg cracks back into place causing her to scream at the top of her voice which manages to pierce through the cloth in her mouth letting out another echo across Ponyville. Twilight closes the door with her magic then continues on the wound, now and then bashing her flank against Moonshine’s as she pulls at the bandage. Moonshine stops screaming and looks back at Twilight. ‘Is she hitting on me already......well she is helping me with my hoof and she’s pretty. No, no. I will not be like that. That’s what got me kicked out of the guards.’ Moonshine though to herself, looking down at Twilight with an affectionate look on her face as she gets the wrong impression about Twilight and assumes that Twilight now loves her. Twilight finishes the bandage with a knot, raises her head up to look at Moonshine who immediately gives Twilight a little peck on the lips. Twilight froze in place trying to process what just happened. “Thank you. That’s just what it needed.” She looks at Twilight who was still frozen in place. Moonshine moves her head forward towards Twilight’s and squeezes her lips again for another kiss, then another, soon getting longer kisses, then adding more depth into the kisses, she pushes herself towards Twilight causing them to lose balance and the both of them then fall to the floor with both of them kissing at each other, the two of them both getting hotter as their breathing becomes heavier and sweat forms on their coats. ^=^=^ Over in the observatory on the outskirts of Ponyville, there is a unicorn called Dr Atom Discharge, he’s a maroon stallion, black hair with a single white stripe in it, he wears glasses and his cutie mak is an atom. He’s always studying the stars and physics but whilst he is looking through his telescope and a clipboard floating by his side he hears Moonshine’s scream, he drops the clipboard, lifts his head from the eyepiece, uses his magic to put his glasses on and walks over to the balcony. He looks down at Ponyville searching for the source of the screaming. Moments later he hears the second scream, he sharply points his head towards Twilight’s to see a pony figure disappear as the door closes. “Twilight!” he shouts to himself as he runs out of the observatory towards the library. This is my first story everypony so please, if there is anything wrong with it please do tell me.