//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 // Story: The Moon's Special Star // by lightningflare1 //------------------------------// The Moon’s Special Star Twilight slowly opened her eyes, her face pressed against a navy-blue fur, she felt two hooves pressed against her back with a head nuzzling against hers. A smile appeared on the purple mare’s face glancing at the dream realm’s night sky. A soft mixture of purples, light blues, and small white orbs floating around them. A soft chuckle left her mouth as she felt her lover nibble the tip of her ears before a light blush appeared on her cheeks. "Times up, Luna" Twilight said looking up at her lunar princess. The blush on mare’s cheeks turned another shade of red, she leans over and gave her lover a quick peck on the lips, "You’re going have to let go." "Already?" Luna asked and sighed deeply, she closed her eyes and slowly removed her hooves from around the lavender mare. The princess of the night sat up and back away from Twilight, ensuring she was at a safe distance. "Unfortunately," Twilight said sighing as well, missing the warm embrace she had gotten so used to, "We’ve been searching for this curse for two days already.... and still nothing. Tirek said it was lost to time, and he was the only one who knew about it" "Just leave this to me, love," Luna said walking closer to beloved marefriend. She stopped in front of Twilight and kissed her on the lips before parting from her once more. Twilight simply turned another shade of red, as Luna returned to a safe distance, "I’ll make him talk." "Luna…. Just be careful, alright?" Twilight said seeing Luna’s horn lit up in a white glow, "Tirek tricked me…. He could do the same for you." "I'll be careful, love, promise," Luna said and smiled at her with her ears pinned back, "Don’t worry about me. Once I talk to Tirek, we’ll be able to hold each other once more in the waking world. And I’ll never let you go from my hooves ever again." I can still make her blush like a school filly, Luna smiled at her and could fell her heart beating ever so slightly at the sight of her beauty. She laughs softly seeing Twilight become all flustered and trying to hide her obvious red face. "I should go, love…. I can't make Tia wait any longer or I might get an earful again," she said. She took one last look at Twilight before returning her to the waking world. Luna opened her eyes and looked around her room, she glances over at the window and saw the sun rays in the horizon. Guess its time to lower the moon…. I should probably get some rest, but I want to get to Tirek as soon as possible. I need to think of a plan though. "Good morning, princess," a servant said bowing his head slightly. He brought over a tray with Red rose tea, a plate with eggs and toast with a side of jam, and today’s newspaper, "Princess Celestia is waiting for you at the balcony." "Thank you, Golden," Luna said and taking the tea in her magic’s blue aura. She took a sip of her tea and brought over the newspaper, her eyes reading over the headlines. "Do you need anything else, prin-!" the servant let out a yelp when he suddenly received hot tea all over his face. He shouted from the burning pain and ran out of the room before hitting face first into a wall. He groans as he fell to the ground. "Wha…. No…." Luna, wide eye, read over the headlines repeatedly, "Princess Luna and Princess Twilight are fillyfoolers?! Disgusted by this…. Princess Twilight has placed a curse over her heart?!" Luna opened her mouth slightly with her right eye twitching. Celestia yawned softly and placed her teacup down on a small side table. She walked over to the balcony and glance at the Twilight sky, "Luna… late again," she said with a sigh. She picked up her tea with her magic’s grip once more and brought over to her lips, "It seems Luna needs another talk." "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Celestia yelp and drop her teacup to ground, taken back at the sudden scream of her sister. She quickly ran out of her room and saw, two guardspony and a few servants running away from her sister's wing. She raised a brow seeing the servants were covered in tea or food; not to mention the poor guard ponies sporting new black eyes. "What the…. What in Equestria is going on!" Celestia shouted trying to figure out what could enrage her sister this badly. She quickly teleported to her sister’s room, when she reappeared a teapot was suddenly flung towards her. She let out a gasp and quickly dodge it from striking her head. Celestia looks back and looks down at the broken teapot before turning back to her sister. "Luna! What's going on!" the elder sister shouted, seeing her sister throwing things around her room. I haven’t seen Luna act like this in decades…. What could be going on…., Celestia stop when her eyes noticed the half-torn newspaper, the headlines in big bold letters was the only answer she needed. "Oh, no…. how could…. Who would…. How…." Celestia said unable to form a proper phrase. "THEY DARE OF ACCUSING TWILIGHT OF THIS CURSE! CALMING SHE’S DOING THIS TO GET AWAY FROM ME!" Luna shouted with her royal Canterlot voice, smashing her hooves against the floor and ignoring the cracks forming on the walls. "WE SHALL NOW ALLOW THIS ANY LONGER! WE ARE GOING TO FIND THE PONY RESPONSIBLE!" Luna yelled quickly turning to a table and blasted it away with a powerful magic ray. "Luna," Celestia said standing in front of her, "Calm down before you destroy the castle," "NO! WE SHALL NOW ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE ANY LONGER! ONCE WE FIND THIS PONY! WE SHALL ELIMINATE IT THEM!" Luna shouted with Celestia’s mane flowing back from the royal Canterlot voice. "Sister," Celestia said placing her hoof on Luna’s shoulder, "We’ll get to the bottom of this, I swear. We’ll see the editor in chief and find out who leaked this information to the press. Once we know the culprit, we’ll hold court tomorrow and comfort them." "We won't allow a soft punishment, sister! This pony must be severely punished!" Luna said and stomp a hoof against the floor, "And I’ll personally oversee their punishment!" "Let’s head to Canterlot Express," Celestia said "Dear, have you seen he newspaper?" Nightlight asked walking around the kitchen, "I want to see if my ad was placed." "It should be outside!" Twilight Velvet yelled from the living room. "Oh," Nightlight went outside and picked up the newspaper with his magic. He brought it closer and read the latest headlines, "Uh…. Wh…. My daughter is in what…… TWILIGHT!" the stallion yelled, rushing back inside of the house. Twilight sat on her throne with her friends around her. She looked down at the many newspapers from across Equestria, all of them sharing the same story. Her relationship with Princess Luna was out for the world to read and are claiming she cursed her own heart because she was disgusted to be around Luna. How could ponies say such things? "How did… ponies find out about Luna and me?" Twilight said lowering Ponyville free press before taking another paper from the Crystal Empire, "This one says… Luna forced herself onto me? None of this is true!" "You don’t even want to read the one from Cloudsdale," Rainbow said throwing the paper into the trash. "Who would do such a thing?" Rarity asked moving the paper she had to the side, "I mean…. I love gossip but this? This is way too much even for me." "I didn’t know ponies could be this cruel," Fluttershy said pushing a paper away from her, "They’re being so mean towards you and Luna." "But how did they find out? The only ponies who knows about us is you guys and the princesses." Twilight said but faceplate against the table. "Well, we sure didn’t tell anypony, Twi," Applejack said with everyone nodding. "Of course, she knows this," Starlight said as she placed a comforting hoof on Twilight’s shoulder, "Either way, somepony discovered the truth and sold it to the press." "What pony could have so much hate against two princesses of Equestria?" Spike asked A court was quickly held, all the nobles were summons with the two regal princesses present. Eyes glaring at the noble ponies, knowing which one leaked the information about Luna’s relationship with Twilight. At Celestia instance, Luna reluctantly agreed to allow the guilty culprit to admit it his crime. "Princess Luna, well this is a surprise," Moneybags said sitting down at his seat along with the other nobles. "Why are we grace with your presence this morning?" He asks. He did all of this! Just because he doesn’t approve of fillyfoolers?! And all he got in return for the leak was a few bites? I'm going to kill him, Luna didn’t reply and simply glared at him. Sensing the rising tension in the room and knowing her sister wouldn’t be able to hold back her anger any longer, she broke the silence. "I’m sure you’re all aware of this morning newspapers," Celestia said placing a wing around Luna, trying to calm her down. "The claims that Princess Luna and Princess Twilight are fillyfoolers? Who are in a relationship and this curse?" Blueblood asked looking at his fellow nobles, "I do hope you punished those reporters, auntie. They should be imprisoned for spreading such false rumours about royalty." "I’m sure those rumours are false," Moneybags said looking back at Luna, "Right Princess Luna? The idea of two mares being together in a romantic way.... quite scandalous. I mean.... if I was in Princess Twilight’s position, being courted by another mare! I would curse my heart to ensure this.... mare wouldn’t go near me ever again." Oh.... this isn’t going to end well... Celestia slowly removed her wing from Luna’s side, and back away slightly. "But those rumours are certainly false," Moneybags said and looked back at the two princesses. "You sure do know a lot about this, Moneybags," Blueblood said looking at him with a suspicious look. "I agree... what aren’t you telling us?" Another noble asked. "Me? I’m just going off from what the newspaper's claims," Moneybags said in his defence. "Moneybags, we’ve spoken with the editor in chief of the Canterlot express. And he told us who gave him, the information about my sister and former student." Celestia said stepping down from her throne with Luna in tow. "He told us it was you, Moneybags, who gave this information. What do you have to say for yourself?" The solar princess demanded, eyes glaring down at this stallion. "I should have paid him to stay quiet," Moneybags simply replied. "So! You admit of spying on us, leaking sensitive information at an inappropriate time, and claim false accusations?" Luna asked as she slowly walks towards him. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t," he said and smirk, "Fillyfooler." Luna growled and suddenly slam Moneybags against the wall, shocking everypony around them from the sudden outburst. Her eyes turn bright white, glowing in fury, "My, my, not very princess, Luna," Moneybags said and grunted. "DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH FILLYFOOLERS?" Luna yelled using the royal Canterlot voice as she held the noble up with her forehoof, "BECAUSE I HAVE NO PROBLEMS OF ENDING YOUR MISERABLE LIFE!" "You. can’t. do. this. to. me! We. are. nobles. we. control. the courts!" Moneybags managed to say with his throat being pressed against. "MY SISTER AND I HAVE RULED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS! AND WE SHALL RULE FOR ANOTHER THOUSANDS MORE AFTER YOUR WORTHLESS LIFE ENDS! DO NOT BELIEVE YOU CAN CONTROL US!" Luna yelled and crushing pushing against his throat. "I CAN END YOUR LIFE WITH A SINGLE SPELL! DO NOT TRY TO CONTROL OUR LIVES! IF YOU EVER INTERFERE WITH MY RELATIONSHIP WITH TWILIGHT AGAIN! I MAKE SURE YOU REGRET IT!" "Luna!" Celestia shouted pulling her sister back with her magic, "I’ll make sure he's punishing! Please calm down," "NO! SISTER! NO PUNISHMENT IS ENOUGH FOR THIS FILTH!" Luna yelled slamming her hoof against the floor once more, with cracks once more appearing on the wall. "Just watch me, sister," Celestia said. She walked over to Moneybags, who was currently coughing and holding his throat. "Disgraceful! This won't be ignored!" he shouted rubbing his neck, "You shall pay for this!" "Raven," Celestia called out as she stepped in front of him. "Majesty?" she asked "I, Princess Celestia! Declare that the unicorn stallion, Moneybags. Will accord his entire wealth towards the Equestrian charity!" Celestia said glaring at him. "What?! You can’t do this!" Moneybags shouted before being interrupted. "Furthermore! His title of nobility will be strip from him along with his family’s assets! Moneybags! For threatening a royal princess of Equestria, leaking secretive information, and admitting your role in corruption! You shall be brought in front of a judge for your crimes against the crown!" Luna simply smiled as she watched her sister acting as a ruler. She had heard and seen many times, how the nobles ruled the court with an iron hoof. Believing they were more powerful than an eternal alicorn ruler! They were finally being set into their place. "And let this be a lesson for all of you nobles! I establish this court to have your opinions on upcoming laws, not to establish laws to your own greed! And before you, nobles say a thing about my actions! We are the rulers of Equestria! We have protected this land long before either one of you was born! We know what is best for Equestria! And we’ll have no issue to remove the problem! Do I make myself clear!" Celestia yelled with a slight hint of the royal Canterlot voice. The nobles all started to shake and frantically shook their heads in agreement. They quickly bowed down in front of the two princesses, "Yes, your majesty!" they cried out. "Guards! Take Moneybags to our cells!" Luna said turning towards him, "And ensure he follows my sister’s ruling!" "Yes, your highness!" the guards said saluting. They grab Moneybags and drag him away with his shock expression over what had just occurred. "Court dismiss!" Celestia said unfurling her wings. The court quickly emptied out, leaving only the two sisters alone. "I’m so sorry this happened, Luna." Celestia said sighing deeply, "I allowed the nobles to use me for so long…. Allowed them to place laws that weren’t for the wellbeing of Equestria. Could you ever forgive me?" she asked. "It's not your fault, sister," Luna said quickly taking Celestia’s into her hooves, hugging her tightly as she buried her muzzle into her face, "Thank you…."