Luna looked down on the valley below as she and her sister flew in a carriage pulled by two winged male soldiers. She was amazed at how many towns had been built, and how the ponies changed as well. As they flew over the land, she was buzzing with excitement to help her sister with meeting ponies. They were going to Pony Ville Today, to check up on the heroes who saved her, and fix up the town hall after what Nightmare moon did. Luna sighed knowing it was her fault that it was broken, but she knew deep down, it wasn't really her.
"Sis, were here." Snapping out of her thoughts, Luna looked down upon pony Ville. As they drew closer to the ground, she still saw ribbons, and trash from yesterday's party celebration.
"The city hall isn't the only thing we will have to clean up..." Luna said as the carriage landed onto the ground. "I'm afraid so." Celestia replied stepping out of the cart.
"Princess Celestia, Princess Luna!" a familiar voice called out, and the two princesses turned to see Twilight Sparkle galloping up to them, she stopped in front of her teacher.
"Good morning Princess, and hello Luna." Twilight said smiling. Luna could sense something different about her, she wasn't like the other ponies, she felt comfortable around her.
At least she is kind enough to accept me... Luna thought as the Celestia hugged her student.
"Well Twilight, I am here to help with repairing town hall, and also maybe clean up the streets as well."
Twilight nodded, "Oh, of course, sorry we didn't clean it up for your arrival, all the work ponies are fixing the town hall and-"
Celestia leaned down to her, "I understand Twilight, now come on lets go see what's been done so far."
Twilight bowed and turned leading the two royal ponies into the town. Around them, ponies were cleaning up, and sweeping the streets off the left over party supplies. Luna never thought ponies could party so hard. She remembered a pink pony who had thrown they party, she smiled at the memory of the party pony dancing on tables, and diving into the desserts, no shame at all. No shame, Luna wished she didn't have that...She blinked the thoughts away as they arrived inside the town hall. The top platform was split in half from her using the evil magic. Ribbon decor had been burned, and chunks were scattered on the floor. Luna saw the ponies turn to look at them. They smiled warmly at her sister, but when they turned to see her, there smiles grew larger, and fake, Luna could tell they were afraid, and uneasy around her. She ducked her head down a little, hiding herself away from the shame of there looks.
"Good work every pony, its looking good as new again." Celestia called out into the large room. "My sister and I will be staying here for awhile to help, and then we must leave to go home."
All the ponies nodded with praise and thanks, but all seemed to be for Celestia, Luna stood there, shuffling her hooves. Two pegisi flew in setting down two pillows for the princesses to sit on, one dark blue one with a light blue mohawk looked at Luna smiling. Luna assumed it was a fake smile, but she caught a glimpse in his eyes, something different. Then they both flew away back outside the room. Luna watched as her sister gracefully trotted over to the pillow and sat down on it. Following her sister's moves, she repeated the sequence and sat down on the pillow.
"You're becoming quite the princess." Celestia teased.
Luna stuck her tongue out at her, and went back to watching the ponies work. A purple pegisi lifted a plank up to the plat form, holding it in place as a orange mare nailed it into place.
"Whew we! This platform is looking mighty fine. What do yawl think princesses?" Luna recognized the voice, it was the farming mare who had helped save her.
Celestia nodded, "Very well done Applejack, looking better then ever with your help."
Applejack smiled and turned to a male stallion hammering next to her. "Ya here that Big Mac, she loves our work!"
Big Mac turned to Applejack, replying, "Eeyup."
As the two work ponies went back to building, a light blue mare approached the princesses with cups of tea. "For you your highnesses." Celestia nodded, and took the tea cup, sipping it. Luna did the same. The mare seemed to flinch as her magic flowed around the tea cup, and pulled it off the tray.
"Thank you." Celestia said, and the mare bowed and walked away. Luna looked into her tea cup and into her reflection. What was wrong with her... Then she whipped her head as a crashing sound was heard, a grey pegasus was against the wall trying to hold up a bunch of planks.
"Oh my, here let me help." Luna said, flying quickly up to the flying pony. The colt looked at her, struggling to keep a happy look on his face.
"N-no thanks...I g-got it."
Luna flied closer to him, "No really I could help."
The colt backed away a little, "No really I'm f-fine!" With that he hit the wall behind him, and he collapsed under the weight of the planks, falling to the ground with a thud. Luna gasped and flew down using her magic to lift the wood off him.
"Are you alright sir!?"
The colt looked up at her with fear, "Please just go."
Luna heard the fear in her voice, and threw the planks aside, and she stomped away. Celestia stood up and galloped to her sister.
"Luna, it was an accident, lets just-"
Luna turned to face her sister, "No! They hate me... just leave me alone!" Luna's horn glowed and she burst into a orb of blue light. Celestia wanted to go find her sister, but she had royal duties to tend to, and she had to help the pegasus who fell. Turing away, she sighed.
"Oh Luna..."
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Luna laid on top of a hill looking down upon Pony Ville. All those ponies, they trusted her, they looked up to her...but today she failed them.
"How could I be such a idiot!" Luna screamed, using her magic to take her crown off, she threw it down the hill, watching it bounce down to the bottom. Tears bubbled in her eyes, and she collapsed down, crying softly into her arms, letting them flow and drip onto the grass below her. She then heard the sound of wing beats approaching her, and she turned away from them. "Not now Celestia, I don't want to talk to anyone, nothing you say will make me feel better."
"Well at least you can have your crown back." Said a males voice.
Luna turned and looked up at the stallion in front of her. It was that dark blue one she saw who brought her a pillow, the wind blew in his mane as he stood looking down at her, her moon crown in his mouth. Luna whipped her tears, and got up.
"Thanks...but I didn't need it back." Luna took the crown and set it aside, "You don't need to waste your time flying up here just to give me back something I'm not worthy of..."
The stallion tilted his head, starring her face, "Well its not a full waste of my time... I got to talk to you didn't I, I mean, who doesn't want to talk to the princess of the night?"
Luna turned and looked at the pegasus with a bit of shock, and looked into his golden eyes. She saw no fear, or hate in them, only sorrow and caring for her instead.
"I saw what happened, with the planks, don't fret, Milky Way isn't very strong, he's always dropping stuff and..." He stopped talking as he saw Luna's eyes filling with tears, and she looked down crying.
"I just cant take it anymore!" She yelled, falling to the ground crying. The stallion looked at her and kneeled down to her. "No pony likes me, even though I've changed, they still don't trust me..."
The stallion put his hoof under her chin and lifted her face up to look at hers. Luna looked into his golden eyes, and hers widened and she stopped crying, but still sobbed. "Luna, that is not true, they are just shocked to see you are back, excited, that they don't know how to treat you properly cause they haven't gotten to see how you act or what you like." Luna got up and looked at him, still unsure about the ponies. "But I can tell you one thing, not everyone is nervous around you, I mean, look at me, do I show any fear for you at all."
Luna looked at the stallion, he starred at her calmly, and held her face softly in his hoof. Luna smiled and hugged the Pegasus, he warmly hugged her back. "Thank you for listening and helping with my problem...um."
"Thunderlane." He said standing back.
Luna smiled and blushed a it, "Thank you Thunderlane..."
Thunderlane smiled at her, then turned to fly off, Luan quickly stopped him.
"Wait!" He turned back to look at her. "Um... could we meet again? It was nice having someone to talk to other then my sister about my problems, maybe we could meet here, tonight?"
Thunderlane smiled and nodded. "After sunset, its a date." He then flapped his wings and took off flying.
Luna sat there blushing, and looked at her hooves, "Its a...date."
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As the sun started to set, Luna walked back into Pony Ville, and saw her sister saying goodbye to Twilight Sparkle and hopped into the carriage, about ready to take off. She saw her and gave out a loud squeal.
"Luna!" She fly out of the cart and ran up to her sister, hugging her. "I was so worried, I didn't know if you would come back, or where you went and-"
She calmly put her hoof on her shoulder. "Tia, I'm fine, really, after going away... I thought about it, I'm fine now," and Luna happily trotted to her cart. Celestia and Twilight both looked at her strangely, as if she acted the incident never happened.
Celestia shrugged and turned to Twilight. "Good luck on fixing the rest of the city."
"I will princess." Twilight bowed, and waved as the two princesses were flown off back to the direction of the castle. Luna sat on the edge of the carriage, looking back at pony Ville, sighing lovingly, thinking about Thunderlane.
Celestia looked over at her confused, "You look surprisingly happy... are you sure you're alright?"
Luna just titled her head more replying, "Oh I'm ok...just fine."
Celestia raised a eye brow, and turned back to the direction of the castle.
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Luna looked out over the land from her balcony, watching the sun set over the horizon.
Celestia was by her side, watching seriously, "Now are you sure you remember how to raise it..."
Luna snorted at her sister. "Oh come on Tia, I might have been gone for 1000 years, but I'm still the princess of the night."
As the last red and orange disappeared over the valley's peak, Luna sighed, focusing her power, she flew up high, starring at the blank night sky ahead of her. She closed her eyes, letting the magic flow threw her body, and into her horn. Her eyes shot open glowing as the magic burst out into the sky, beaming over the whole area. Slowly the moon rose into the sky, big and bright. Then she spun around, and the sparkles in her hair seemed to fly off and hit the sky, creating stars that glittered every where. With the sky decorated, and moon risen, Luna flew back down to the ground, and her eyes stopped glowing, and she starred at her work. Everything seemed perfect.
Celestia came next to her, looking up at the sky admiring her work,"You did a amazing job tonight sis, lets get to bed."
"Luna secretly grinned, and turned, pretending to yawn. "Alright goodnight."
She walked inside her room and fell into her pillow filled bed, doing some fake snoring. Celestia smiled and quietly went out of her room closing the door. Luna peeked her eyes open, and saw she was gone. Grinning, she flew out of bed and pushed the balcony door open. Flying out she headed out to the direction of Pony Ville, to the hill where she would meet Thunderlane. Her heart danced and she smiled warmly as she flew on threw the night sky.
Yay chapter 2 done! Don't worry, things are about to get good, more love scenes coming up!