//------------------------------// // A Day at the Library [Edited] // Story: The Eternal Nightmare // by Twilight Star //------------------------------// Celestia slept peacefully in her purple and gold bed with the fireplace on, making it light up the room and bring warmth to the princess while she slept, even though she didn’t feel it in her sleep. She slowly opened her eyes, lifted her head from the pillow and stretched before going to the balcony to raise the sun. She opened the purple balcony door with her yellow magic and went over to the backer to start raising the sun. She closed her eyes, and started to fly while using her magic to raise the sun. The sun began to appear on the horizon as the sky changed from dark blue to pink and then to light blue. As soon as the sun reached its highest point, she landed on the floor, opened her eyes and watched her work with a smile, before leaving the balcony and the room to go eat. Celestia started to think about Luna. What has Luna been doing these past few nights after she had dinner? Did she stay in her room playing video games like the nights when her younger sister hadn’t regained her power over the moon, or was it taking a flight? But of course she was just curious, since if Luna did something more than one of these things, she wouldn’t judge her. She then opened the heavy door with her magic and noticed that Luna hadn’t arrived yet. This did not surprise her, since she usually arrived before Luna. Knowing that Luna would be arriving soon, she came over and sat at the table, waiting for the food and Luna. After a few minutes, she heard the sound of a door opening and looked at where she heard the sound and saw that the door that opened was the dining room. Celestia smiled when she saw Luna. “Good morning, Luna!” Celestia greeted Luna with a cheerful smile. “Good morning, sister.” Luna greeted her back with a smile, sitting on Celestia’s left side. Celestia decided to ask, “So, Luna, what have you been doing these last nights?” “I’ve been spending time with Twilight,” Luna replied smiling. “What were you two doing together?” asked Celestia curiously with a playful smile. “Talking and reading books.” Celestia laughed lightly before asking, “And I suppose you’ve been having a lot of fun?” “Yes, and these are the best times I’ve had since my return,” Luna replied dreamily, thinking about their future, in which they would be together forever, but her smile soon fell. “I would love to confess to her, but just thinking about the rejection makes me nervous, and even heartbroken just imagining Twilight really rejects me even if I confess to her how much I love her.” The older sister’s smile fell with Luna’s last sentence, she decided to hug Luna with a wing. “Luna, I’m sorry that you’re still feeling this way. Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?” “I don’t think so, sister. I plan to go to the library today to see if I can find a book that says how to confess,” Luna replied. “Okay, Luna. I was just offering my help.” Celestia assured Luna, as she stopped hugging Luna with her wing. Then, they heard the kitchen door open and saw the cooks and waiters bring and put the two pancakes on the table. Luna’s pancake had raspberry and blueberry, and Celestia’s, as always, had a happy face. They both started eating their pancakes. After a few minutes, Luna and Celestia finished eating the pancakes and went to different places: Celestia intended to go to the throne room, at the request of a royal guard, and Luna would go to Ponyville to read a book on how to confess. But one thing she knew: as much as she was going to read the book, she intended to practice before she actually confessed, since she wanted her confession to be good and not result in rejection. She smiled wickedly at the thought of her and Twilight together forever as marefriends and doing several things together: being reading a book or watching the stars on the balcony, or just hugging, or kissing. Of course, some of these activities she already did with Twilight, but she did some of these activities as friends and not as marefriends. One of the things she was excited to perform was to kiss the unicorn’s soft lips. She wondered what her lips tasted like. Was it as sweet as a strawberry? Or else hot as a pepper? Luna opened the door to her room, entered, closed the door and went to the balcony to spread her wings to fly to Ponyville. After a hour she landed in Ponyville, and noticed that there were few ponies on the streets, this made Luna happy, but she would not be distracted from her main task. She started walking on the streets of Ponyville. The ponies that were close by or saw the Princess of the Night from a distance, smiled and bowed. But Luna didn’t seem to notice or care about it, since her thoughts were on Twilight. After a few minutes of walking, she saw the library in front of her, and it wasn’t the Golden Oka’s Tree Library she was talking about. She opened the door and went inside, and saw that there were few ponies in the library, but also, it was still early. The princess looked at the shelves that spoke the genres of the books it had on each shelf. Until, she found the shelf that had books with the theme Romance. Smiling, she started looking for a book that talked about how to confess. After about five minutes, Luna found the book she wanted to read and took it with her turquoise magic, and went it to the library table to start reading. She opened the book and started reading it. As she read, ponies started to enter the library. Luna didn’t seem to realize that, since what was important to her at that moment was to read the book to know how to confess. Meanwhile, at Golden Oka’s Tree Library, Twilight was eating a pancake with whipped cream and blueberries, while Spike was eating a normal pancake. Twilight started thinking about everything that happened, and she couldn’t help noticing that a few months was going to have the Grand Galloping Gala, and she was excited to see her mentor, even though she knew the last gala was a disaster, she hoped the gala of this year everything went well. After finishing eating, Twilight got up from the chair, took her backpack and put the book she had reviewed and read with Luna on the balcony during one night. She opened the library door and left, closing the door behind her. Twilight decided to read the book that she would return, even though she knew she wouldn’t be able to finish reading it on the way. She oppened her backpack, picked, oppened the book and started reading. As she knew the way to the library, she wouldn’t be unlucky enough to get lost. As soon as she arrived at the library, she opened the door and entered, closing the door behind her. She approached the librarian mare and handed over the book. “I came to return this book.” The mare nodded. “Very well! I see that you delivered it on the right day. You can now borrow another book to read.” Twilight approached the shelves and started to think about what kind of book she should read. Choosing a book genre to read has always been a difficult thing for Twilight, as she liked all genres. But after a few minutes, she made up her mind and picked up another Harry Trotter book. She approached the table and started to read the book with a smile and hooves on her cheeks. After ten hours, Twilight finished reading it and got up to go to the mare to be able to borrow the book, but she was surprised to see Luna in line for the library owner to stamp the book. She decided to wait for her turn instead of talking to the princess, since libraries must be quiet. Luna soon took the book from the table and left the library. Twilight stepped forward and handed the book to the mare. “I’ll take this one,” she said. The mare took the stamp, put ink, opened the book on the last page, stamped it and handed it to Twilight. “Very well! Don’t forget to return it next week.” Twilight nodded as she put the book in the backpack. That done, she opened the door and left the library. She couldn’t help but agree that she was loving to read and review this series of books, mainly because of having magic, school and spells. She opened the door of her library and went inside, placing her backpack on the table where the yellow statue of a unicorn mare was and took out the book. As she did so, she smelled food and looked into the kitchen from a distance and saw Spike come out with a plate of spaghetti and a straw and put them on the table. Twilight sat down at the table as soon as Spike had left the kitchen and placed the food on the table. She smelled her food before levitating her fork, taking some of the pasta and starting to eat. She looked with a smile at the book she had left on the table where the statue was, and she was excited to do her review of the book after the dinner. Spike looked at Twilight as soon as he finished chewing and swallowing the straw to say, “So Twilight, how’s your astronomy studies?” Twilight looked at Spike when she heard the question and replied, “They’re doing well, Spike, and I even have a company during the night.” Spike smiled at what Twilight said. “Who is this night companion? Is it somepony I know? Are one of your friends?” “It’s not one of my friends, Spike. My studies usually start very late at night, and my friends are already asleep at this time of night,” Twilight replied. “So, who is?” asked Spike, having no idea who that night companion was. “It’s Princess Luna.” Spike was surprised by Twilight’s response. “Does she keep you company during your astronomy study nights?” “Yes, but it’s not just during my studies, it’s also when I’m reading a book or writing a book review,” Twilight replied. “When did she start spending time with you?” “Since our first Nightmare Night.” Spike, still surprised, said, “Wow. She seems to enjoy spending time with you.” Twilight had to confess: she would never have imagined that she would have Luna as a company during the night since she helped Luna in the Nightmare Night, but even so, the princess’s company has made the purple unicorn feel very good and comfortable. “Yes, and i enjoy spending time with her too,” said Twilight with a smile before return to eat. After she finished eating, Twilight got up, went to the yellow statue’s table, took the book with her pink magic and went to her room to organize her things to write her review. She went to her desk and got an ink, quill and parchment, and went to the balcony. She first placed the ink and quill on the right side and parchment in the middle on the balcony before sitting on her stomach and picking up the red quill, dipping it in the ink and starting to write her review. Until she heard the sound of flapping wings and stopped writing on the paper to see that it was Luna, who was smiling at her. “A good night for you, Twilight Sparkle.” Luna greeted, landing on the backer and closing her wings. “Good night, Luna.” Twilight greeted back. Luna landed on the balcony floor and noticed a written scroll. “What are you writing on the parchment?” “It’s a review of a book I borrowed from the library today,” Twilight replied. Luna can feel her heart beat fast when she hears the last six words. “D-did you go to the library today?” “Yes, Luna, after all, it had been a week and I had to return the book,” Twilight replied. “But did you know that I saw you at the library today?” “D-did you see me at the library? B-but when?” asked Luna, now almost blushing. “When you were in line to borrow a book,” Twilight replied. “But what kind of book did you borrow to read?” Luna then felt her heart beat faster than before, because she feared that Twilight would ask the book’s title, but she replied nonetheless, “Romance.” “Hum… is romance one of your favorite genres?” asked Twilight, now curious. “Actually, my favorite is Terror.” Luna confessed, now a little calmer, knowing that Twilight did not ask which was the book’s title. “And do you have any favorite horror books?” Luna started to think and remember the last books she had read with the Terror theme. Until she looked at Twilight and replied, “Honestly, Twilight, I don’t have a favorite Horror book, since all the books I’ve read on this topic I liked.” “Well, then it looks like we’re kits,” said Twilight. “Don’t you have a favorite horror book, too?” asked Luna to be sure, now surprised by what Twilight said. “No, since I like all genres of books.” A smile soon appeared on Luna’s face. She never imagined that she was so much like Twilight. I mean, she knew it was: they both had dark colored mane and fur, Cutie Marks related to the night and the two liked the night, but she would never imagine that she would look like Twilight when it came to books too. “Would you like to see me write the review and then read a book with me?” Twilight invited Luna with a friendly smile. “Sure, Twilight,” Luna replied. Twilight watched Luna approach and sit next to her before picking up her quill and continue to write her review. Luna was still surprised and started to reflect on what Twilight just said to her now. “This can only be a dream! Me and Twilight are more alike than I imagined…” the dark blue alicorn soon smirked wickedly as she looked at her future marefriend, writing in the parchment. “Twilight, this is just proof of how we were made to be together forever. Maybe you don’t realize it, and you don’t even notice that I’m in love with you, but now, I borrowed a book that will help me how to confess to you. This is a matter of days before I come to you to confess what i feel for you ... and then, I will finally have you just for me.”