This is the reason I hate the Day Court, I sat there as Golden Horseshoe was complaining “Those of high class such as I shouldn’t pay 20% tax on our income.”
I said with a smile “Golden Horseshoe, the reason you pay these tax is to provide a reasonable way of life for all ponies. This tax is why in Equestria all ponies have a roof over their heads and food in their bellies.”
Golden Horseshoe said “But Princess….” In a burst of dragonflame caused a letter to appear, I levitated it into the air. It read:
Dear Princess Celestia
I can assure you that powerful surge of magic that happened earlier was no accident, it came from Discord. I’m worried he’s up to something and so I went to his home but Trixie who has been living with him didn’t let me in, I was instant and she challenged me to a magic duel, she also threatened to banish me to the moon should I try anything. I hope you can provide me some advice on what to do now.
From your former student Princess Twilight
I rubbed my forehead, this could be a national incident. I said as I looked to my personal assistant who had been so quiet nopony else noticed her presence “Raven, I need you to tell everypony that Day Court is closed.”
Raven frowned “I hope this is a serious matter, the nobleponies will complain if you are going on a personal holiday.”
I said stoically “No, tell them if they have a complaint we have a potential national incident on our hooves.”
Golden Horseshoe asked “What am I supposed to do?”
I said with a smile “Go home, I have to prevent a national incident.”
I headed to my sister’s room, the familiar symbol of the moon that was on her door. I knocked on the door loudly “Sister, we need to talk!”
I watched as the door opened revealing my sister, her astral mane drooped over her forehead. She grumbled “Sister, this better be important.”
I frowned “It is, we may have a Discord incident if we’re not careful.”
Luna frowned back “Does this have to do with those large energy surges from Ponyville?” I nodded at her.
Luna frowned “Give me a few minutes to get myself ready, in the meantime you should tell Cadence.” I nodded and entered her room grabbing a quill and parchment
Dear Cadence
We have a matter of National Security involving Discord, me and Luna are going to meet Twilight in Ponyville, I hope you do as well.
From Princess Celestia
I created a burst of flame of my own sending it to Cadence. After I wrote the letter, Luna trotted out her mane done properly, she was also wearing a suit of armour with a sword at her side. I frowned “We’re not going to war, Luna.”
Luna sighed “I know but with Discord anything is possible.”
I nodded “True but we should make haste. A quick teleport shouldn’t be too hard.” We both glowed our horns and with a pop we were outside Twilight’s castle. We saw a pink pop appear in the town square a few minutes later a ragged and exhausted Cadence ran up to us. Luna and I knocked on the door, we watched as Twilight opened the door nervously.
Cadence frowned “Teleporting to Ponyville probably wasn’t a good idea.”
Me and Luna said in unison “Twilight, we need to talk.” We watched as she gulped and we all entered the castle.
I saw the other 5 elements sitting there around the table, I also saw a shadow in the corner. I thought (So Sombra’s here, let’s hope he doesn’t become additional trouble.) We all took seats around the table.
I said “This is a Princess meeting could you please leave us?”
Sombra materialised and said “This is serious, we need to go. The Princesses need to be alone when these meetings happen.”
Spike said “Well I’m going to clean up the castle again.”
As soon as he left I frowned “Twilight, you may have caused a national incident.”
Twilight shouted “But Discord and Trixie could be planning something.”
I sighed “Yes but now they know we know, the best laid plans are made by catching your opponents off guard. You should have come to me with your suspicions.”
Cadence frowned “I don’t know why you suspect he is bad?”
Twilight frowned “She wouldn't let him out to speak with me said he was suffering from power drain. As if he and then she told me this ridiculous story about him giving her all his power.”
Cadence said to Twilight “I can easily see him doing that, if her life was at risk.”
I asked “Why?”
Cadence smiled “He came to me in the Crystal Empire.”
I grinned “Oh, that’s why? He’s never gonna live this down.”
Luna smiled “I agree dear sister.”
Twilight blinked “What’s going on, why are you all joking about this?”
Cadence sighed “Twilight he came to me for romantic advice.”
Twilight asked “So?”
Cadence facehooved “Who has he met in the last few days that has been close to him.”
Twilight eyes widened “But that’s too little time.”
Cadence sighed “Ponies are full of love Twilight, I’ve met ponies who have fallen head over hooves in weeks and have been married for years, heck some of them are already married within the month, Discord and Trixie are going slow. I mean your friendship with your friends was so strong that after one day it was powerful enough to use the Elements of Harmony.”
Twilight asked “But what about the duel?”
I sighed “Twilight as Princess this is something you will need to handle, we will be there to keep you safe though.” Twilight gulped as we left.
Cadence frowned “I wish we could help.”
I sighed “This is her fight, plus she has a lot to learn and this is an important lesson.”
Cadence nodded “I know, still I wasn’t expecting him to pick her, another change in my shipping room.”
I raised an eyebrow “Shipping room?”
Cadence smiled “Um, yeah I gotta to go.” She dissapeared with a pink pop.
I looked at Luna, she asked “Are we going after her?”
I smiled “Of course, we need to catch little miss matchmaker before she pairs us up with somepony.”