30 minutes before Celestia sent her letter...
There, between the two royal sisters lay a very dead Lunar Drake, and a sleeping captain of the royal guard. The scene almost looked comical to Celestia, but to Luna this meant war.
Silver Fang was always her favorite, and she had seen him crush entire legions of enemies before him. Griffons? No problem! Diamond Dogs? Crushed like ants. But apparently ONE single guard could accomplish what entire armies could not. This was more than just a battle to Luna now, What had started out as a simple quarrel, had led to this. There was no way Celestia was going survive what Luna had planned for her.
"Sister?" Celestia said grinning. "Are we going to fight, or are you going to surrender?"
No. Luna was not going to let her tease her like this. For more than one thousand years she had been waiting for this moment, and there was no way she was going to turn a chance like this down. A fight with her sister the winner taking rule.
"We Shallst Battle!" Cried Luna over the sound of her Lunar Drakes burning carcase.
This definitely gave Celestia the upper hand over Luna. The light from the fire of the now dead body shone bright in the middle of the battle field. Illuminating everything around her. Seeing as Celestia was the princess of the sun she could see better in the light, and Luna could see better in the dark. And this field was now BRIGHT.
Celestia took to the air, lunging towards her opponent, with speed that could rival Rainbow Dash, or the Wonderbolts. Definitely not in dexterity though, seeing as how Luna simply conjured a brick wall , and Celestia smashed right into it.
There was a loud crunch, and then another After her second blow to the brick wall, it had been destroyed.
Luna suppressed a giggle seeing a large chunk of brick stuck at the base of Celestia’s horn. It certainly looked silly. 'No. This is serious, she is my enemy and I can’t let her win. NOT AGAIN' She screamed in her mind. "THOU SHALST LOOSE THIS BATTLE SISTER!" "THINE'S CAPS LOCK IS STRONGER THEN THOU REMEMBERS!"
Luna let out a mighty roar, Celestia was stopped in her tracks, literally by the powerful wave of Luna's voice. She tried to reply in kind, but it had been a long time since Celestia had used the royal caps lock. At least that what they liked to call it. Ponies around Equestria had taken to calling it the royal Canterlot voice, so they called it that when other ponies were around.
Her voice came out more like a squeak, As Luna laughed manically. "THOU ART OUT OF PRACTICE SISTER!" But Luna was quickly silenced by a telekinetic slap, forcing her to regain herself.
This gave Celestia the chance she needed, rushing up to Luna with all her might, Celestia gave Luna a swift kick to her ribs, and then shot at her with her magic. Celestia knew she needed to stay as far away from Luna if she were to win this, Luna was the superior flyer, and always has been. But that didn’t mean she was better at magic than she was.
Luna recoiling from the kick she received from her eternal sister, and just dodging the magic shot her sister sent her way, knew she needed to get the offensive back. That meant it was going to be up close and personal.
Flying at top speeds towards Celestia, Luna gave Celestia a good whack with her wing, and already had her pinned to the ground.
What came next was an assault of tickles from her magic, and her goddess feathers. Yes tickles.
"Oooh hahaha Luna stop that! That’s not fair!" Celestia squeaked, between gasps of air. But the onslaught of tickles just kept coming.
"THOU SHALT FEAR THY TICKLES SISTER!" Luna countered. "THOU HAST BEEN DESERVING FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS! WE SHALL NOT RELENT OUR TICKLES, UNTILL YOU GIVE US THE RIGHT TO RULE!"
Celestia could hardly breathe, there was no winning this, and she knew it. She had been ticklish since she was a filly, and that was over TWO THOUSAND years ago. Admittedly she missed her sisters tickles, but this was too much.
"AHAHAHA" squawked Celestia. "I, eee, SUB, ahahah, I SUBMIT!"
Luna now satisfied that she had won the battle, had relented on her assault of tickles. "YES SCORE ONE FOR US!" Screeched Luna as she hoof pumped in the air. "THINE TICKLES SHALL ALWAYS BE SUPERIOR!"
"Yes, yes that very nice." Giggled Celestia. As old as the two sisters were, they were still like foals at heart. "Now help me out of this Dreamscape."
With a flash of magic the two sisters were back in the Royal Battle Simulation Station. Every warrior in the simulation was there, Drinking and congratulating each other on a good 'battle'. We’ll all except for Silver Fang. He had died a long time ago, During the actual war. The Lunar guard needed a captain for the simulation and he fit the bill.
Each side cheered for their Princesses alike, Even though the solar guard had lost, they were still in high morals.
Shining Armour approached the two sisters as they laughed along with their soldiers, each with a large pint of cider now in hoof. "That was some battle huh?" asked Shining Armour.
''AWE YEAH!" Replied Luna. "Now Celly has to live up to her end of the bet!" Luna Smiled deviously.
"What might that be?" Grinned the now curious Guard. Apparently it appeared that a group of guards Lunar and solar alike were now very curious themselves.
"I now own the banana factory, and Celly has to wear a frilly dress covered in muffins all day in Ponyville, yelling I have submitted to Luna’s royal tickles!" Said the now hysterical Alicorn. The Guards had burst into laughter at the thought of their eternal princess having to do something so embarrassing. "I cant wait to see Twilight's face!" Roared Shining. "Oh! That reminds me, you have received two letters from Twilly they are both in your chambers."
Celestia glad to hear that she had another message from Twilight, rushed to her chambers. This was her favorite part of the week. And she was about to spend more time with her, regarding the letter she was about to send.
Luna watched her sister run off to her chamber like a little filly, who was just asked to the prom, and was going to tell her friends. She knew she missed Twilight Sparkle very much. And anyone who was eternal or close to being so, needed something to cope with their past experiences. Right now for Celestia that was Twilight.
For Luna it was bonding with the guards. They had really taken a liking to Luna when she started pranking after Nightmare Night. They could still remember the prank they set on one of their superiors...
Luna's first big prank...
A few Lunar and Solar guards were hoof picked by Luna in secret. She had been looking around and had seen that the posts that they were stationed at were almost always never used by the public. Plus she could see the guards needed some fun, that station had to be the most boring thing next to being banished to the moon for a thousand years. She seemed like she needed to get to know her guards better. When they told her about their ass of a Lieutenant, she just had to have some fun with him. She offered the particular bored looking guards, a chance to "Get back at thou ass." As she put it.
They snuck into his quarters, and found his armour. Getting the Lunar guards to stand watch, and the Solar to give her the supplies she had given them earlier.
"How big is this ass you speakest of Sergeant Steel Wing?" The Lunar princess whispered.
"Princess, he is an ass beyond the moon." retorted the guard.
"Heh we get it" Smirked Luna. "EXTRA ITCHING AND SNEAZING T'IS!"
This broke every guard's steadfast scowl, and replaced it with a look of revenge and humour. Tonight’s Royal checkup was going be priceless.
Later that night...
Celestia looked around the barracks, the mess hall, and the training grounds. It was a two hour long inspection, and Lieutenant Wide Spear was more than shaking in his armour. He was like a pebbel during an earthquake. Luna could be heard from the clouds laughing her feathers out. This soldier felt like he was dying.
"THOU SHIVERS LIKE A BUZZARD!" Snorted Luna. "DOST THOU FEAR THE WRATH OF THY SISTER?"
All the Lieutenant could do was shake. He knew there was no way to get back at her. She was after all, royalty. This was going to be a long night.
Celestia was thrilled to have received not one message from her faithful student, but two! It had to be a long message on something. 'Oooh maybe a crush?' Celestia thought to herself like a school filly. What she read was a shock. Not only was the first letter from Spike and not Twilight, it was regarding her having aggressive night terrors.
Curious Celestia ripped the seal to the next letter. 'Was Spike over reacting?' No Spike only sent letters out to the princess in emergencies, and in times of great need without Twilight's permission.
The second letter had not only confirmed her fears, but had also listed that the rest of the Elements were experiencing the same night terrors. Identical ones. She had read the bottom note obviously by Spike and respected his request. 'He should come too...' She thought to herself. This isn't good. This isn't good at all, her previous excitement and joy was now replaced, with worry, and irritation.
No one or thing was going to harm the Elements especially Twilight. Something had to be done. And with Twilight and her friends new 'training' that they knew nothing about was a great time to talk to them about this.
With great haste she wrote back to Twilight. Not only did she miss her student she was now worried for her.
The mane six decided that they should have a sleep over at Twilight's and leave first thing in the morning. But this sleepover. was not filled with the normal 'fun antics' like her last sleepover. Whenever Twilight received a message like this she was picked up by carriage. And it would be easier for them to all be in the same place at the same time.
No sleep had found Twilight Sparkle or the rest of her friends that night. 'What was so important to the princess that she needed to talk to all of us tomorrow? What was the private matter she had to speak to Spike about?" The facts chewed at her, for many hours, until sleep had finally located her at five in the morning.