//------------------------------// // The Tour // Story: The Forbidden Night Love // by xXCrossArrowXx //------------------------------// Luna sighed with relief as she entered her room's door. Her door was not opened yet, and her bed sheets were not moved. "Maybe sis thought I needed some extra rest after what happened yesterday..." Luna said to herself, as she landed inside her room. As she sat down in bed, she blinked sleepily, it was a long night last night, with Thunderlane. She let out a loving sigh, "Thunderlane..." She fell onto her back on her bed, thoughts of him ran threw her mind. His voice was all she could hear, his face was all she could see, and his lips is what she could feel. Hugging her pillow she dreamed about him. "Hey Luna guess what?" The loud shout of Celestia's excited voice made Luna jump out of bed, her sheets and pillows falling onto her body. Stumbling up, she pulled the sheet off her head and looked at her sister angrily. "Tia! don't ever do that, especially when I'm sleeping!" she shouted at her hyped up sister, knowing she was lying. Celestia giggled a bit, and went over to flatten her sisters mane. "Sorry, I just had some good news." Celestia said, taking her hoof back, smiling at her sister. Luna looked at her strangely. "What?" Celestia's horn glowed and a paper was removed from behind her. Handing it to Luna, Luna glanced at the paper. It read "Tour the Canterlot castle for a day, with Princess Luna! Meet in Pony Ville, and write your name down on a slip, and put it into a bucket. And maybe, you will be the lucky winner!" Luna raised a brow at her sister, who was still smiling. "Tia, I never agreed on anything like this..." She said, handing the paper back to her sister. Celestia frowned and lowered her head back down to her uneasy sister. "Oh come on! It will give you a chance to hang with one pony personally alone for a day, and show them around. Then when that pony goes home, they will tell all their friends about how nice you were." Luna was about to protest when she stopped. She thought something, what if the pony who won...was Thunderlane. She could make him win, then she could spend a whole day with him alone! Luna grinned, and hopped up with joy. "Sure Tia, I'll do it!" Celestia was drawn back by Luna's reaction. "Uh ok... really?" Luna nodded and bounded up to her sister, "It's a great idea!" Celestia sighed with relief, "Good, because I already had the guards putting them up first thing this morning." Luna stopped hopping and looked at her sister weirdly, but she didn't care, she finally had a way to be with Thunderlane! ____________________________________________________________ Luna's heart raced as she looked over the crowd of ponies that had gathered around the stage. So many had signed up for this event, she couldn't believe it. Celestia was busy working on her speaking voice behind the curtains, and show time didn't take place for another five minutes. "Sis, I'm pretty nervous to go on, can I go out to get some fresh air?" Luna asked, pretending to pant, and look unsettled. Celestia looked over at her and nodded, and went back to her voice testing. Luna grinned, and trotted out from the curtains, looking upon the crowd, she tried to find Thunderlane. "He has to be here..." Then she caught sight of a light blue mohawk among the crowd, and as some ponies scrambled around, she saw his face. "How can I get his attention?" At first she waved her hooves up, but ponies blocked his view. She snorted, and thought of many spells in her mind. She remembered a spell if you had a strong connection with a pony, you could read each others minds by performing it. Taking a deep breathe, she concentrated, passing threw all the different barriers of thoughts and minds of the ponies, until she reached Thunderlane's. Pushing past the mind wall she called out to him. "Thunderlane, its me Luna, can you here me?" Luna waited, and couldn't hear anything. "I can hear you Luna, wow how is this working?" Luna smiled at the sound of his thoughts in hers. "Good now I can talk to you, its about this contest, I want you to win it, but how?" Silence fell between the two as they thought of plans. "I got it, when you draw the name from that bucket, lie, call out my name no matter who's is on it" Luna grinned, it was a bad idea. A very good bad Idea. "This could work...ok then we can spend some great time together..." "I look forward to it..." Thunderlane said. With that, there thoughts ended, and Luna breathed heavily from the force of the spell. "Hello ponies of Equestria!" Celestia's royal voice rang over the crowd, and they cheered loudly. Luna's eyes widened, snapping back to reality, she raced behind the stage, and waited behind the curtains, waiting for her cue. "Now, we all know our beloved Princess Luna, has returned, and she would love to speak with a pony for a day to catch up on things, plus give them a tour of her place and where she lives!" The ponies cheered, and pegisi flew into the air, getting a better look at the stage. "Now, lets all meet our Princess of the Night, Luna!" Luna gulped, and sighed, thinking calm thoughts. "You'll be with Thunderlane...you will be with Thunderlane!" With that she flew from the curtains and into the view of the crowd. Cheers and tiny yelps from the crowd was heard, and ponies stomped the ground. Luna smiled nervously, and walked next to her sister. On a tiny table was a bucket, filled with hundreds of pony names. "Now, my dear sister shall pick the name out of this bucket, and hand the paper to me, and give you all the name of our winner." Luna froze. If Celestia read it, how could she get Thunderlane. Celestia turned to Luna smiling. "Now go on and pick." Luna grinned, trying to hide her nervous feeling and looked into the bucket. So many names were below her, which one could possibly be Thunderlane's? She had to think of something, and quick. Closing her eyes, her horn glew, and instead of picking up a name with her magic, she used a spell to find what she was looking for, the magic went over every name, then stopped on the Thunderlane one. Luna grinned, and changed it to the levitating spell, picking up the tiny paper. She happily walked over to her sister, who took the note and unfolded it. Speaking clearly into the microphone, she called out the name. "Thunderlane." Every pony turned to the dark colt, who blushed a bit, but inside was bursting with joy. He slowly made his way to the stage, and stood next to Luna. "Congratulations Thunderlane." Celestia said to Thunderlane, he smiled and waved at all the ponies in the crowd, who cheered for him. Going back stage, Celestia got a necklace. "Wear this Thunderlane," she ordered, placing the necklace around his head. "Its a guard's chest piece, that way the royal guards I have will know you are at the castle, as a honored guest." Thunderlane nodded a thanks, and bowed to the Princess. As Celestia trotted towards the carriage, Luna looked down at him, winking, and giggled. Thunderlane smiled, and walked into the carriage with her, sitting next to her, they took off, heading for the castle. Luna silently went back into each other's thoughts and talked to him all along the ride home. "Wow this is so exciting Thunderlane, now you get to see where I live, and what we do, and we have it all to ourselves!" Thunderlane nodded in his agreement, "Yeah, and maybe we can go out to eat somewhere fancy." Luna titled her head back, imagining what the next nine hours would be like. "Just you and me..." "We will make it magical, with our love..." Thunderlane thought to her, looking at her adoringly. As they kept on thinking to one another, they were lost in a train of thought as they neared the castle. Celestia turned back, and raised a brow at the two just starring at each other, not one made a single peep on the way to the castle, yet they seem to understand one another completely. "So uh... ponies, we have arrived." Celestia informed them, turning back around. Snapping out of the thoughts, Luna looked over at her sister, "Really? It has felt like one minutes to me..." Looking around, the carriage flew under a bridge, coming into a open court yard, where the guards flew the carriage to a stop. Celestia flew out and turned to speak to Luna and Thunderlane, "Now guys, you go off and-" She stopped talking and saw Luna and Thunderlane were already gone. Looking around, she shrugged, and pulled out a banana from a bag, and walked into the castle munching it quietly. ______________________________________________________________ Luna trotted over the bridge there carriage had flown under, and looked over the side of it, at the land below. "Wow, you can see almost every city from up here!" Thunderlane shouted, as he looked around excitedly. Luna turned to look at him, the wind was blowing in his mane, and his upper shoulder muscles tensed as he held onto the bridge. She scooted next to him on the bridge ledge, looking out at the land with him. He slowly moved closer to her, pretending to yawn, lifting his hooves up, and he placed one around Luna's shoulders. She giggled and looked at him. "You don't have to use that trick on me." She teased him, leaning her head on his. "Well there's no fun in that now is there?" He said playfully, and he nibbled her ear. Luna giggled and lightly punched him, "You are so naughty." She left his embrace, and walked down the bridge, "Now come on lets go eat, I'm starving, and I know the perfect place." Smiling Thunderlane skipped after Luna, following her off the bridge. _______________________________________________________________ Thunderlane's eyes widened as he looked around the royal kitchen, it was the size of a barn, and one long table able to hold about fifty ponies was in the middle of the large room. The chairs and table were made of diamonds, and the chandelier made of rubies and sapphires hung from the ceiling. "Hmm...did I die and go to the pony heaven kitchen, or am I dreaming of the perfect room for my perfect date?" Thunderlane said, nudging Luna as they walked up tot he table. "Very funny hot shot, but hard to say most rooms are just like this one." Pulling out a chair, Luna sat down, and Thunderlane sat across from her. It seemed only moments after they sat down, the waiters burst threw the kitchen doors, pens in there mane, and notes in their hooves. "Madam Luna, what would you and your..." The waiter pony stopped at got a glance of Thunderlane, who grinned shyly, "Acquaintance like to order?" "Curly noodle hay spaghetti please, with lots of oat balls." Luna said, setting down the menu, and looking at Thunderlane with a smile. The waiter quickly wrote down the order, and bowed to the princess, and then made his way to the kitchen, followed by the other ponies. "Are all the ponies around here so...stuck up like that?" Thunderlane complained, due to the behavior the waiter had shown towards him. Luna frowned and nodded, "Afraid so, they only respect the rich and proper, which I think is just stupid." Thunderlane played with his fork, "Yeah, why can't we all just be treated the same, like how you treated me, and I treat you." Luna smiled, Thunderlane was such a caring and honest pony, how could no one like him. Then the kitchen doors flew open, and steam rose out from the doors. Two waiters approached the two ponies, and held silver trays. Opening the lid, steam form the hay spaghetti was released, and they set down the plates. Thunderlane licked his chops, and started to drool. The waiters bowed, and returned to the kitchen, leaving the two ponies alone to eat. "This food looks amazing!" Thunderlane exclaimed, eyeing the noodles and sauce. "I thought the clover sandwiches at home were good." Grabbing his fork he reached into the pile of noodles, and picked up a huge pile, shoving it into hid open mouth, and his cheeks were filled, as he chewed it thoroughly. Luna laughed, "You sure know your manners." Luna levitated her fork, and put it into her food, twirling it and getting a good amount of noodles on it. She carefully put it in her mouth, and chewed it quietly. Thunderlane gulped down the huge chunk and gasped, "Wow, this food is great, I could eat it all day." "You could if you didn't finish each one in two gulps." Luan teased, looking down at the almost half empty plate of Thunderlane's spaghetti. Thunderlane shrugged, and took another chunk out, and repeated the process. Luna ate half the plate, occasionally wiping her mouth off with a napkin. Thunderlane soon finished his plate, and burped loudly, it echoed threw out the dinning room. Luna looked up and giggled at his sauce covered face. "You going to eat the rest of that?" He asked, eyeing her noodles. "Not really, we can finish it together." Luna said pushing the plate into the middle of the table for them both to reach. Thunderlane reached over and took a couple of noodles, and put them into his mouth. Luna reached in and put in a couple too. As they ate it came down to the middle, and they both had the same noodle. Thunderlane grinned, and ate it until he reach Luna's lips, kissing her. Luna kissed him back, and giggled a bit, pulling back she looked at him, "You sure know how to get the ladies smooth guy." Thunderlane grinned, and laughed a bit, and they both went back to continue eating. _______________________________________________________ With full bellies, the two ponies left the kitchen room together. Leaving the waiters to clean up there plates. "I'm so full... I don't think I'll ever taste something good like that again..." Thunderlane joked as they walked down the stairs and into the main halls. "Yeah, our waiters sure know how to cook a meal." As Luna spoke she looked over her body. Some stains of spaghetti sauce were on her chest and front hooves. "Well I sure made a mess of myself, I need to go clean up." Luna turned down the hall that would lead to the bathing room. Thunderlane pretended to look himself over, and he nudged Luna, "I also need one too." Luna grinned as laughed at him, "You really are a ladies man aren't you?" Thunderlane smoothed his mohawk back, "Its a gift." Luna rolled her eyes, and walked into the bathing room door. As she entered she removed her crown and necklace, placing them down onto the floor, and she slipped off her glass slippers. She noticed Thunderlane looking at her and she asked "What?" "I've just never seen you this open, I think you are simply beautiful." Thunderlane said, scooting over and rubbing his head against hers. Luna blushed a bit, and cuddled him for a moment, before heading over to the bath nozzle. She turned it on letting the warm water pool into the tub. She climbed into it and settled down, and looked over at Thunderlane. He smiled, and removed his guard's chest piece, laying it down onto the floor next to Luna's clothing, and climbed into the tub with her. He cuddled next to her, like her sister would, and he wrapped his hooves around her shoulders. Luna rested her head on his, cuddling closer to him. Thunderlane rubbed his head against hers and moved his lips toward hers, and kissed her. Luna smiled and pulled him close to her as they kissed. Luna was so happy, to finally be with him alone and in private, and to feel there wet bodies press against each other, she didn't want to ever leave this moment, she wanted it to last forever. Thunderlane stopped kissing her and took his hooves, and smoothed her hair down until it was fully wet. "Wow, your hair looks pretty when its flat." He said, moving his hoof threw her wet mane. Luna grinned, and moved water threw his own mane, but it kept its up right look, and just spiked up a bit. "Woops, looks like I got your mohawk wet, ops my bad." She said teasingly, and laughed. Thunderlane shook his head, "Luna you are one crazy princess, that's why I love you..." Luna smiled, and hugged him. "Now, why don't we wash up." Thunderlane said, looking down at Luna's chest and under belly. He put his hooves against her chest and started to rub them, washing off all the stains. Luna smiled and closed her eyes, letting him wash her belly as he lowered his hooves down. Luna took in a deep breathe, feeling a ticklish feeling. "As Thunderlane, that tickles, don't do that..." Thunder looked up at her and grinned, "What you mean this?" Then he started to tickle her belly. Luna giggled and laughed, and grabbed her stomach, trying to pull away from Thunderlane's tickling hooves. He soon stopped, and let Luna calm down. Luna laughed a bit more, before leaning onto his chest, looking up at him. He smiled and kissed her, wrapping his hooves around her belly. Luna kissed him back, pulling his face closer to her with her hooves, and holding his face. Thunderlane slowly moved his hooves down her belly, until reaching her flank. He put each hoof on her cutie mark, and held her close to him, pressing her back against his under belly. Luna reached into his thoughts, to talk to him. "Should we..." Luna asked shyly, for this could be the moment. "If you want to, cause I will for you, I love you..." Thunderlane replied, and pulled her closer to him, and kissed into her more deeply. "Yes Thunderlane..." Luna replied, and kissed him more deeply. With that Thunderlane turned Luna around, where there chest pressed close together, holding her hips, he pulled them close to his under belly. Luna's heart raced, and she didn't know what would happen next. "Princess Luna!" A voice called from outside the door, in he halls. Luna and Thunderlane froze, and stopped kissing immediately. It was a guards voice, they were looking for her. "Oh no, we better get out!" Luna's said in a loud whisper, and flew out of the tub, grabbing a towel, and quickly drying her fur. "What about me, what will the guard think is I come out of a bathing room with you?" "Just um stay in here and get your chest piece back on, I'll say I just got done with a bath and your taking one." Thunderlane nodded and stayed in the tub, and Luna put on all her clothes, and headed out the door. Peeking around the corner, she saw the guard walking down the hall. She went out quickly, and got a serious look on her face, and made her way up to the guard. "Is something wrong sir?" The guard looked up at the tall princess. "Princess Celestia is looking for you, she wants to know how your tour is going." He stopped to look around, "Where is that colt anyway?" "He is cleaning up, we just had supper." The guard nodded, "Good enough, after that is done, go see the Princess Celestia." With hat the guard bowed, and turned down the hall. Luna gave out a sigh of relief, and went back to the bathroom door. "All is clear, my sister wants us to go meet her and she wants to know what we did today." Thunderlane stepped out of the tub, and put his chest piece on, and headed to the door, following Luna down the hall in the direction of Celestia's throne room. "That was too close..." Luna stated. "Yeah, stupid guard interrupted our perfect moment." Thunderlane said walking next to her. Luna smiled, and turned her direction back tot he hall. "So close yet so far..." Holy molly! that was a long chapter, hard to write too, but It has to be one of my favorite chapters so far. Hope you enjoy it!