No More Nightmares

by ABadger


A Long Talk

Luna had been following Celestia for what felt like an eternity. They had stopped flying quite a while ago, opting instead to walk in silence. The castle was eerily quiet, with only Celestia's and Luna's hoofsteps filling the air. Suddenly Celestia stopped walking, causing Luna to bump into her. Celestia didn't seem to react to the disturbance, since she just continued to stare at the door in front of her.

"We're here," Celestia simply stated.

Celestia swung the door open and pointed inside with her front hoof, her face, while still scowled, seemed to be more relaxed than it was at the beginning of their journey. Luna promptly went inside, avoiding eye contact with her sister as much as possible. Celestia followed Luna into the room. Celestia turned around once in the room, closing the door softly before turning around to Luna. Luna scanned the room, noticing a bed in the center. The bed had sun patterned blankets, and a Bright Fluffy pillow laid right on top. A Trash bin remained right next to the bed. A bookshelf stood on the opposite side of the bed, clean and pristine with each book arranged neatly and orderly. They were clearly in Celestia's room.

"Luna. What in Faust's name was that," Celestia said, rubbing her temples with her hooves.

Luna turned away bashfully. She paused a moment, thinking, before answering, "The mess in the hallway?"

"NO! THE GIANT EXPLOSION FROM THE THRONE ROOM," Celestia shouted as her face snarled up, a glare in her eyes.

"A firework sister,"

"HOW DID YOU GET A FIREWORK INTO THE THRONE ROOM."

"Discord did it, not us."

"HOW ABOUT THE BUFFET THAT IS CURRENTLY DECORATING THE HALLWAY,"

"Also Discord,"

"THE CONSTANT SHOUTING"

"Okay so that was us,"

Celestia walked over to her bed, and threw her body onto it. She shoved her face directly into her pillow. She then proceeded to scream into it.

"AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Luna stared at Celestia as she screamed, and continued screaming... and continued screaming.

"Um, Sister?" Luna asked, walking over to Celestia, and poking her once.

"WHAT," Celestia shouted as she pulled her head out of the pillow and turned to glare at Luna. Luna promptly shut her snout, deciding it would be best if she simply stared at Celestia instead. Celestia slowly moved her head back into her pillow as she began to scream once more.

"I'M GOING TO MURDER DISCORD, NO QUESTIONS JUST DEATH"

"Please, We beseech thee not to kill him,"

"FINE, I'M GOING TO KILL LUNA, MY TRAITOROUS SISTER WHO WOULD DARE PROTECT HIM,"

"Thats just quite rude of thou,"

"NO EVEN BETTER, I'M GOING TO KILL THEM BOTH,"

"Now thou art just being unreasonable."

Celestia pulled her head out from the pillow panting before she looked over to Luna. Luna, to her credit, kept a very solemn frown as she looked at the disheveled mare with food in her body and in her hair.

"Luna," Celestia said with a sigh, "I had to calm down the entire castle staff, they thought we were being attacked Luna."

Luna nodded once, "We're sorry sister."

Celestia looked at her, "You're a princess, and I know its still somewhat new to us, but we have a certain image to maintain."

Luna sighed and rolled her eyes, "Yes, Yes we know. Do remember most of it was Discord."

"I know that, and please," Celestia said still on her bed, "Tell Discord to stop with the whole waking-up-the-entire-castle-with-one-of-my-jokes thing. The staff is bound to quit if this keeps up."

"He is the living embodiment of Chaos,"

"I know that, but if anyone can get him to AT LEAST quiet down," -Celestia pointed at Luna,- "it would be you."

Luna blushed slightly before she sighed, looking up she used her magic to take a piece of cabbage out of Celestia's hair and threw it over to a trash container at the side of Celestia's room. Luna then looked back at Celestia and nodded, "We can try."

Celestia made a small smile, "Thank you. You know you can't encourage his behavior."

"What does thou mean," Luna inquired, her head tilting sideways in confusion.

"Luna, sometimes you just have to not engage in his games," Celestia said with an apologetic look now on her face, "I know you don't have much too do, but escalation is a real fear."

Luna looked away as she held her head down solemnly, "I-"

Celestia grasped Luna's chin and brought it to face her, Luna in turn looked at her sister's face directly. Celestia then softly said, "I'm not saying you can't have fun, but I don't want other ponies talking about you more than they already do."

Luna smiled a bit before nodding, "Of course dear sister, We, I love you."

Celestia smiled, "And I love you too sister, and I must apologize."

Luna raised an eyebrow and turned her head while still looking at Celestia, "Apologize for what, dear sister?"

"Why, Interrupting you of course," Celestia said with a smile.

"Interrupting?" Luna said inquisitively.

"Well you had Discord pinned down," Celestia said with an innocent smile, "I figured you finally worked up the courage to confess to him."

And with that, all Tartarus Broke Lose.

"WHAT?"

"Well I mean forgive me if I made a mistake but,

"WHAT?"

"You just seemed so confident,"

"WHAT?"

"And he was right under you."

"WHAT?"

"Well am I wrong?"

"WE WERE PLAYING TAG!"

"You don't pin people in tag Luna,"

"IT WAS REVENGE FOR WHEN HE PINNED ME,"

"He pinned you? How scandalous"

"CELESTIA I SWEAR,"

"I can't believe my sister was pinned, oh this is so exciting."

"WE SWEAR SISTER, WE WERE ONLY PLAYING TAG"

"Oh I get it you were playing Tag, Wink WInk"

"DID YOU JUST SAY 'WINK WINK'?"

"You know I can't actually wink,"

"CELESTIA, I SWEAR ON MY HONOR NOTHING HAPPENED,"

"But did you want something to happen?"

"T-T-THAT'S IR-IRRELEVANT"

"Oh I think it's quite relevant dear sister."

A beet red Luna, grasped Celestia's pillow, directly from Celestia's arms, and levitated it over to herself. She then shoved her face into the pillow, and began to scream into it.

"WE'RE GOING TO KILL OUR SISTER"

"Who's being rude now," Celestia said before she shook her head and walked over to her bookshelf.

"You can't fool me Luna," Celestia said grabbing a book off of her bookshelf, "I can tell how you feel about Discord. Actually, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure everyone except for Discord can tell,"

"CURSE HIS OVERLY DENSE HEAD"

Celestia plopped herself onto her bed and to began read her book, while Luna screamed into her pillow. Luna then abruptly stopped screaming and pulled the pillow away as she began to pant. After panting for a short while, Luna began to scan the pillow in front of her.

"Celestia," Luna said pointing to the pillow, "Thou pillow is covered in food"

Celestia looked over to the pillow. After looking at it for a short while, she realized that it was, in fact, covered in food. She also realized that the pillow was mostly covered in cabbage. She sighed, dropping her book as she grasped the pillow with her magic, once more bringing it close to her face. Luna, knowing where this was going, began to walk out her sister's room.

"Once again, We apologize sister for our earlier actions. We will be at our tower if you need me."

"AHHHHHHHHH"

And with that, Luna left the room, leaving Celestia to her screaming.