Princess Celestia’s horn glowed as she lifted the bright yellow orb as she did every day. Today was the one day she did not have to file any taxes on the work of many sales ponies or having meetings with her staff for 3 hours or more. No, today was her day to relax. Though the only problem was, today she should be relaxing with her loved one, but she didn’t have one.
Celestia stopped her yellow sparkling glow and looked down to the balcony floor. Her sister, Princess Luna, came in and saw just how sad she was.
“Sister? Why doth thee look so glum? Hath she did something wrong?” you know she cares whenever Luna speaks in her Royal Canterlot voice, thus making Celestia smile a bit.
“Has there ever been a point in your life, Luna, where you think you’ll always be alone?” Celestia said, head still down. Luna looked at her elder sister with surprise,
“When hath she come up with these thoughts?” Luna could see the realization in Celestia’s face. The sadness she could see of being alone, making her think of just how empty it was when she was banished to the moon. “No, I didn’t, but if you want to know why it’s because I always have you. I know it was hard for you when my… problems occurred. But I assure you, it will never happen again.” Luna held Celestia as they slowly slid onto the floor embracing each other's warmth.
“How about this, we see if anypony in the royal chamber has a certain eye for you, then we will see who you can spend the day with,” Luna said in determination to get her sister happy.
“I don’t mean to displease you Luna, but I bet anypony in the castle would want to be with royalty,” Celestia said, making Luna think once again and sparking an idea. “But I bet not one admits they have always had a feeling since the beginning of their time.”
Celestia looked at her sister of the night. It was true, not one of the ponies who worked there could lie to the princesses. And if they do then the two would figure it out fast for their spell of telling the truth to others. Suddenly the doors burst open and a royal guard came out walking regally towards the princesses.
“I am sorry princesses, but I am afraid we are having a crisis in the royal kitchen, some of the bakers believe their cake is better than the other.” Celestia raised high and mighty, though inside she was regretting having to deal with the problem. Today was the day not to do normal princess stuff, yet here we are.
“I will be back Luna, in the meantime, take care of some of the ponies in the corridor and see what you can do to help us… proclamation” Celestia said to Luna winking slightly making sure the guard could not see
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Many of the colts in the palace came by just to see what the “proclamation” was all about. Some were worried their benevolent princess was in tragedy. While others were eager to see what the announcement was. Or there were others, who didn’t really care what it was and just wanted to get out of the little spaced and warm room. They saw their princesses, both walking in with high praise as the group all bowed down and got back up. Luna was the first to speak.
“It has come to my understanding that my sister is in a predicament,”
The guards had on worried glances making Luna think that was a wrong choice of words.
“Do not fret ponies, it is a trifling affair that hath not been discussed before until now.” this made the ponies confused at what she was trying to say, the princess of the night slumped down to try a new technique. Only thinking of one more.
“THOU SHALL PAY ATTENTION WHILE THEE SPEAKETH. THOU WILL UNDERSTAND THEE TO…” she could feel a hoof on her shoulder. Looking to see a smiling Celestia, Luna looked at her subjects who had scared glares making her think of one awful nightmare night that was helped by a new lavender princess that was now in the Crystal Empire.
“Hath I went too far?” Luna whispered to her equal.
“I think I can take over Sister, you did a fine job,” Celestia whispered back. Luna looked happily to her sister, it was always like her to cheer her up with kind words. It made her wish the same thing for her sister. She deserves somebody who can take care of her. Luna went to the side to let her sister speak.
“It has come to my attention that I have not thought about a loved one for a while,” the guards looked dazed at Celestia wondering why she would think of a ‘loved one’ for her when she had her sister to keep her company. Many were also blushing largely as she continued to speak.
“Yes, I know what you are thinking, ‘why is our beloved princess thinking these predicaments?’ Well, I shall tell you… a long time ago…” The guards' faces turned from fear to relief and boredom from her tales of her loneliness and woe from her sister being gone. Even Luna was rolling her eyes saying in her mind “here we go again” but smiling as she thought of the care of Celestia.
“I had to banish someone who was so dear to me and felt the loneliness like no other. Restless nights were spent thinking of our good times and what I could have done to help her out. But I was also comforted by many of you colts who said it would all be okay. And it made me feel pleased that you would care to leave aside your duty to help me out. Soon after she came back I was not lonely anymore, but there was still a placed hole in my heart. Now I understand that I require a love life to keep me sane from these thoughts. So who of you would want to volunteer to be with me… at least for a day?” Many of the stallions ran out of the room by pressure, but there was still a good amount who stayed in but blushed massively. Now it was time to see if they really wanted to spend time with Celestia, or if they just wanted to spend time with royalty. Either way, it would be a good and focused day.
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Luna’s aurora glowed as she cast her truth spell onto the first guard.
“Now you will tell us how you feel about going out with the princess of the sun!” she said forcefully to the scared guard.
“Luna you could at least try to be more official, you’re scaring one of the royal guards,” Celestia said quietly to her sister as they tried to get the truth from the guard.
“What another way could I get out of him rather than force? Tis the way I used to speak before using the spell.” Luna said quizzically.
Back then before Luna grew jealous of her sister when there was a problem the sisters had to solve around Equestria, they learned that a few ponies were just saying those things just so they could see royalty. So they decided to come up with a way to know if the subjects were telling the truth or not. With their teacher, Starswirl the Bearded, they made a spell to cast onto the subjects. He trusted Luna with the job because he knew Celestia would just sweet-talk to all of the subjects and get nowhere, but Luna wouldn’t be afraid to stand up to any of the ponies who lied. So she always used force to get the ponies to tell the truth before she cast the spell.
Celestia just looked at Luna with annoyance. That was over 1,000 years ago, but she was an understandable mare. She raised her hoof to let her sister carry on with what she was doing. They both looked back to the guard who was silent the whole time, waiting for the time to talk, he finally got that he should and said.
“I never implied to ‘go out’ with the princess, but if I am to be chosen I would be honored.” The guard smiled brightly thinking of being a loved one to royalty. Luna looked skeptical and saw Celestia who looked the same, they kept the guard up while they turned around to talk.
“Do you think he is telling the truth sister?” Celestia whispered making sure the guard couldn’t hear.
“I am not certain, he sounds like he is faking it, but we are to see what he is to say soon,” Luna whispered back.
They looked back at the stallion who was looking uncomfortable. Luna sparked more of an aurora from her horn, getting ready for a loud truth.
“I FEEL LIKE I’LL BE USED IF I GO OUT WITH THE PRINCESS!” the guard shouted.
Even though she had improved the spell, Luna never could get rid of anypony yelling out there truth. She experimented it many times on herself but could never say her truth quietly. And it also led to many embarrassing things she mentioned, such as the crush she had on one of the royal bakers, or her many problems with Starswirls’ essays. She eventually gave up and just let anypony shout while using the spell.
Luna slowly put the guard down and thanked him for his time and looked at Celestia who looked saddened.
“Do not worry sister, that was just one of many stallions who said no. There will be many more to go through” Luna said. Her words were confident enough to let Celestia continue as Luna went to another guard.
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After many more shouted truth tellings of not wanting to go out with the princesses and other ones that included something about their butts, Celestia had lost faith, they were down to at least 4 out of the 50 that were in the room, and poor Luna could only continue for so long, they finally decided that this would be the last one.
“Now… tell us if you want… to go out with… the princess.” The moon princess said, panting of the tiredness she felt. The guard, white coat and yellow hair, as all the others were, kept quiet and Luna sparked the last bit of the spell she could contain.
“I THINK PRINCESS CELESTIA IS GORGEOUS AND WOULD LOVE TO BE HER LOVED ONE.” the stallion shouted making both princesses smile with glee. They had found their stallion.
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“So what do you think we should do first, Silver Armor?” Celestia said looking at her guard, his name reminded her of a certain stallion in the Crystal Empire with his loved one. Silver Armor shrugged as he looked at the beloved princess he has known for years. It was true what he had said before, she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen when he first became a royal guard. And now with the feeling becoming more mutual. He was almost at the ridge of kissing her at first glance, but now he has an excuse for being with the princess.
“I guess we could go for a stroll in the center lot gardens, or we could eat a simple meal at the royal bakery, you can decide.” Silver Armor said; he didn’t know if he could speak for the princess when she was the highest part of Equestria’s royalty.
“Silver Armor?” Celestia asked
“Yes,” Silver Armor said, hoping this wasn’t over already.
“I want to ask you to do a favor for me,” Celestia said shrinking her body down at the worried stallion.
Silver Armor always could see how tall the princess was from him, but when she leaned down to him he almost thought she was kissing him. She stopped face in front of his and said quietly.
“treat me like one of your people,”
Silver Armor was dazed at her comment, “I’m afraid I don’t understand, princess” he said. Celestia could see his face and thought of a better choice of words.
“What I mean is, don’t act like I am a princess, act like I am a pony. A pony who is meeting you for the first time.”
Silver Armor looked at Celestia with astonishment, never had she said such a favor before, and he was glad to provide it for her.
“As you wish.” the guard bowed down but got back up quickly realizing he just broke his promise.
“Uh, what I meant was… hello, my name is Silver Armor, pleased to meet you,” he corrected as he held out his hoof for greeting. Celestia took the hoof and shook it.
“Pleased to meet you as well, my name is Tia,” Celestia said smiling as she remembered her name before Celestia.
They both laughed as the meeting was over. Soon they both were walking down to the garden talking about Silver Armors' life as a guard and Celestia coming up with her own story.
“I was born in Manehatten with a beloved family who supported me the whole way, when I went to college to get a carrier for my magical abilities I got full straight A’s and went on to Canterlot to fulfill my destiny for raising the sun, then I finally learned the spell to raise the sun in which our founded princess “foustlestia,” made me an alicorn and I became a special mare ever since.”
Silver Armor looked at the princess with amazement, never had he heard a story so made up it sounded like it happened.
“Did you just come up with that? Because it sounds like it happened!” he said, trying to be calm about this.
Tia looked at Silver Armor, making him remember that he was supposed to be acting. He apologized and was okayed by the princess as they continued their walk.
“I must say though, you make some fascinating stories about your life, I almost believed you!” Silver Armor said in excitement.
They went out of the garden when Silver Armor’s stomach grumbled, making Tia laugh.
“I see that you are getting a bit hungry, shall we go to the royal bakery and eat a nice and delicious lunch?” They both went inside as the greetings from the bakers were heard all around the bakery, along with many expecting waves from the princess, Silver Armor couldn’t help but stare, she always looked so graceful when addressing other ponies, smiling and waving was one of many things he liked about her, but he also saw a bit of tiredness from her immortal face. They both found a seat while looking around. Silver Armor couldn’t help himself when he was curious about things he didn’t know. It was that which got him into the royal guard. He remembered like it was yesterday. He was just in the position of waiting at the door when the princess needed help with a case for who stole a royal artifact. He was the only one curious enough to find out what was going on, and with the help of a few friends he found out who the culprit was and was joined to become Celestia’s royal guard.
“Prince-err… I mean, Tia, may I ask princess Celestia something?” Silver Armor said.
“Why yes you may Silver,” ‘Tia said grinning of the catching on he was getting at.
“While waving at the royal bakers, I realized that you looked quite, and forgive me for saying this, tired. Is there something you need to say?” Silver Armor looked away from the princess, not wanting to see her face of surprise. Tia was caught off guard by the question, she didn’t know how to answer the curious soul, her mind wandered off to think of the question.
“Yes, my mortal, yes I am tired.”
“Of what, your majesty?”
Celestia sighed and brought her face with a frown, “Just, everything. The loneliness of being immortal. The many problems I have to face. The fact that I’ll be doing all of this alone!” Celestia stomped her hooves on the table and made the guard jump. He had never seen his beloved princess act so differently. He should have felt bad, but he felt joyous that the princess trusted him to talk to, instead of the royal therapist.
‘Honestly, they have too many positions in this castle, I’ve been in that room and I didn’t even see the degree in psychology’ Silver thought to himself. He looked to see that Celestia had calmed down, quietly drinking her water provided of her. He needed to say something, but what? What do you do for a Princess!
“Silver?” the princess spoke before he could do anything
“Yes,”
“I sometimes wish I could be mortal, just to see what a normal pony does. It would just be for a day, but it would probably be the best day of my entire life,” her face fell as Celestia looked at the floor. She wanted to cry but her princess manners were telling her otherwise. And Silver Armor could see this.
“Princess, if I may, I don’t think you’re lonely. You have so many royal positions for ponies who couldn’t believe they could have the privilege. You aren’t doing anything alone. You have them, princess Luna… and you have me.” Silver Armor blushed at her reaction, but instead of surprised, all he saw was a smile. Not just any smile, but a real smile that he had never seen on the princess. He thought she looked so beautiful he was completely red in the face.
“Well, if our talk is over, I would like to bring back Tia so we can continue our date,” Celestia said, still having the smile on her face. She got up, showing her royal posture and exiting the royal building. Silver Armor got up as well and was behind her, he couldn’t help himself when he looked at her bottom side. He smiled as he continued. But soon bumped into the butt and turned to her front,
“What is it… Tia?” Silver Armor said getting closer to her face, he looked at her gaze and saw a beautiful flower out in the royal gardens, Tia’s face looked at the flower with much interest. Realizing this, Silver Armor decided to go closer to the flower. Now close up, he sees how beautiful the flower is. The red mixed with blue and green along with tainted purple on the petals, with a gorgeous stem running down to the ground, it was so beautiful he almost was crying. He didn’t even notice Tia was behind him, and he jumped when she spoke
“This flower was planted when Starswirl was here, he said that in time of our greatest day, it will bloom with so much beauty. He called it ‘the flower of tears’ because he said only the tears of joy will make it bloom. My sister and I never thought it would bloom, but when she came back, I went over to this flower and cried for joy of having her back. And now it seems like the time has come for it to bloom for all to see.” Silver Armor was still looking at the beautiful flower while listening to Tia’s story. He now understood why he wanted to cry of beauty. But the fact that it was tears of joy, made him all the more want to cry. Although he refuses because he is too honored to cry.
“This should be kept in a glass case, it looks too valuable to just be in a garden,” Silver Armor breathed out.
“I agree,” Tia said, glowing her horn and picking the flower from its ground. They walked to a convenient glass that was on a marble display. It reminded Silver Armor about a certain story regarding a beast with a beauty. Although for him it was a timberwolf and a pony. Nonetheless, it was a beautiful story. Tia put the flower of many colors inside and backed up to see the display. It was still beautiful just as it was on the ground.
“I don’t think I have ever seen such a beautiful thing in my life,” ‘Tia’ said admiring the prismatic flower.
“I have,” Silver Armor said, still staring at the beautiful flower. Tia looked at Silver Armor with wonder in her face, he blushed as he continued.
“You, you have such an amazing and beautiful face that every time I see it, I just feel a waterfall of emotions. It’s a feeling I have never felt before in my life. And it’s all because of you.”
Tia smiled at his words and blushed; she never heard these words to her except… her thoughts drifted off to Luna, how she helped her so much with everything. She felt remorse about how lonely her sister was, but ate that feeling aside as she remembered she was on a date.
“Shall we be off then?” ‘Tia’ said, breaking her moment with Silver Armor. He went out of his trance and answered her with a yes and they were off. Onto the next part of their date.
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Luna glowed her horn to do her duty of the night, it was a big day to Luna to help her sister all she can, she was the one who helped get her sister date, and she also told the bakers to greet Celestia with tons of pride, but most of all she cried the best tears of joy for her sister and her newly found date for today. It thankfully was a lot of pride because she cried enough to open just in time before her sister and Silver Armor could see it. Now she wanted tonight to be a huge full moon with tons of romance within every corner of Equestria. She looked at her sister now walking with Silver Armor around the corridors of the castle and seeing the happy face Celestia bared. They came over to talk to Luna. she felt nervous about talking to someone that her sister was dating, she thought she couldn’t speak to Celestia about it now, so she came up with an excuse.
“Hello there dear sister,” Tia said with tons of cheer.
“Hello sister, I would love to chat, but I am needed to be in the royal chamber to talk to some regal doings, but I will do my best to talk later,” Luna said walking off in her royal walk she always did when exiting a building.
Tia looked at her sister, ‘why did she fake-out that royal chamber talk and not talk to me? Is she jealous I am not spending time with her? Why would she! She is my sister for my sake!’ she thought. Silver Armor saw her face and was worried. And he knew exactly why.
“Cele… I mean, Tia ?” he asked
“Yes Silver Armor,” ‘Tia said, not fully paying attention to her date.
“I was thinking, maybe we should stop this,” Silver said sadly. He knew if his gorgeous princess was feeling bad about abandoning her sister, then he shouldn’t stand in between them. If it meant his princess being sad, then he wanted nothing to do with it.
“Why would you say that?” Tia said not understanding Silver Armor, she thought he was having as much of a blast as her but now was completely confused as to why stopping now.
“Because you have another to take care of,” Silver Armor said sadly. “You have somepony else who requires your love, and that isn’t me.”
Celestia was now very confused, who else needed her love, she only had two people who would love her and that was him and… Luna. Celestia now understood what he meant, now understood why Luna did all of this for her, now understood that she didn’t need a stallion to help her find happiness. And she hated herself for not finding out sooner, her sister just wanted Celestia's happiness with her. She was probably now sitting down and thinking of her happier times with Celestia right now, and that made her want to be near her sister even more.
“I am sorry that it didn’t work out. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself, this is my fault. But you’re right, somepony else does need me, and I should be there now, thank you for understanding Silvey,” Celestia said with happy tears streaming down her face.
“Thank you… princess Tia” Silver Armor said with a wink.
Celestia went out of the room and went to find her wonderful sister. After much searching, she finally found Luna, though she was curled up into a huge ball and sleeping in front of a fire. Celestia loved seeing her sister relax and sleep for once on a night like tonight. Though she probably will have to do her duty soon so she couldn’t miss this perfect opportunity. Celestia crouched down to rest next to her sister, she loved just relaxing next to her loved one.
“I love you sister,” Celestia said, before closing her eyes and almost sleeping, but not before a strange thought entered her mind, “I wonder how my subjects' hearts and hooves went.”