//------------------------------// // Chapter Twelve: When Ponies Plan Parties // Story: That One Time: Celestia and Luna Married the Mane Six // by TheCrimsonDM //------------------------------// The Benefits of Marriage Chapter Twelve: When Ponies Plan Parties Written by TheCrimsonDM There was a knock at the door and Luna quickly opened it to reveal the pink alicorn mare with whom she and Pinkie were both very familiar with. Cadance stared at them, her lips curling up into a sly smile. Luna looked at Pinkie noticing the stains of black lipstick left upon her cheeks and neck. A quick glance into the nearby mirror revealed that Luna’s face and neck were in a similar state only with pink lipstick instead. Cadance’s voice took on a playful tone as she said, “I see you two are having fun getting to know one another.” Luna’s horn lit up and both she and Pinkie were instantly cleaned of any incriminating evidence. “We have no idea what-“ Pinkie waved a hoof and spoke, “Nah, we were just making out, touching each other, and doing normal married pony stuff.” With a defeated sigh Luna added, “Pretty much, yeah…” Cadance walked in and closed the door to Pinkie’s chambers behind her. “Oh come on you two, I’m not nearly so stuffy as Auntie Celestia. I’m happy you two are taking the time to explore now. What would happen if you went through with the marriage only to find out you weren’t sexually attracted to each other? Oh my the horror.” As much as Luna wanted to go into details about how ferocious and wonderful a kisser Pinkie Pie was her mind was otherwise preoccupied with the details of their upcoming wedding. The pony who was going to be responsible for most of those was sitting right before them. Luna made her way to the table and took a seat in front of it, Pinkie Pie bounced over to join by her side and snuggled in as Luna wrapped a wing around her. A moment later Cadance had joined them her horn glowed as a set of folders landed on the table. Cadance explained. “Since this time I’m in charge of planning the royal wedding, the reception, and hopefully only one party, I want to get some advice from the number one party pony, and make sure everything is up to standards.” Pinkie Pie blinked. “Wait… I don’t get to plan the party?” “Well… um…” Pinkie’s mane deflated a little and her ear twitched. “But, I’m the number one party pony.” *** Sweet Apple Acres was generally speaking, a fairly quiet place yet today seemed somewhat odd. There was a giant apple tree, at least fifty feet tall growing out of the field somewhere near the house. Spike was sure he hadn’t seen such a monstrosity of a tree before. Sweetie Belle seemed to be interested as well making for the two of them almost running towards it in excitement. Once at the base of it Spike was only mildly surprised to see Derpy there. She was sitting in front of the tree and petting it as though it could feel her. Off to the side was the stallion who always seemed to be with her, the one known as the Doctor despite his cutie mark being an hourglass. Some had given him a much more normal name of Time Turner, unfortunately it didn’t stick. Walking up to Derpy Spike gave a low whistle. “What happened here?” Derpy shrugged. “I just don’t know what went wrong.” The Doctor trotted over and beamed. “Nothing is wrong, we simply made a slight miscalculation and instead of shrinking the tree to a one hundredth of its normal size, we grew the tree by one hundred times its size.” Sweetie Belle chimed in. “Why were you trying to shrink it?” The Doctor replied. “Why for science of course. If we could shrink the tree, it would make for planting apple trees across Equestria far easier than ever before.” Derpy added. “And now we’ve accidentally solved world hunger instead.” The Doctor laughed, it was a warm hearty laugh that had a strangely calming effect on those around him. Even Spike felt it, though he always thought the fact it was so effective was a little creepy. “Oh, my faithful assistant, world hunger was solved ages ago. Of course the problem came to politics. Not very many other countries are trusting of a group of small colorful horses and their god queen of a ruler. You know most countries have mortal leaders that change every so often.” Spike scratched at the back of his head. “Weird, must be hard remembering who’s in charge.” The Doctor put a hoof to his chin and thought. “Now that is an odd thing to think of. They never seem to have any problem remembering but for a creature living with a single ruler for over a thousand years it would be confusing. I suppose the best equivalent is, do you get confused by the addition of Twilight and Luna to the royal hierarchy or is that easy to remember?” “Considering that Twilight is literally my mom, no.” Sweetie Belle raised her hoof. “Oh, oh!” The Doctor pointed a hoof at her. “And you Sweetie?” “I get confused all the time, I didn’t’ even know Princess Cadance existed until long after the royal wedding!” The Doctor laughed. “Well, I suppose that could be our case study for-“ Derpy interrupted. “Doctor, I don’t mean to interrupt but I think those apples up there got bigger as well.” The Doctor laughed. “Nonsense, what harm could larger apples-“ A loud thud sounded as an apple half his size landed right next to him imbedding itself a foot into the earth. “-do… ah, gravity… my old nemesis.” He walked over to where a doctor’s bag sat and brought out a potion in his mouth. The liquid inside was a bubbling green color. He walked over to the tree and poured the liquid out on the base of the tree.  Spike watched in awe as the tree began to shrink. It continued to shrink until it was more or less the size of a normal apple tree once more.  Big Mac, Applebloom and Granny Smith appeared from the woods nearby just as the tree finished shrinking. Applebloom was pointing with a hoof saying, “This is where Ah saw the giant tree!” Big Mac smiled around the piece of hay in his mouth, his eyes met the Doctor’s and they passed each other a knowing look as if some kind of secret code was being sent. Granny Smith looked around. “Well the ground sure is torn up, but Ah don’t see no giant tree.” Big Mac smiled. “Nope.” Spike had to stifle a laugh as he watched Applebloom attempt to get them to believe that there really was a giant apple tree here. Soon she started to question her own logic and fell silent soon after that. The poor filly was going to think she was hallucinating for the rest of her life. Spike jumped up. “Oh hey! I have to drop off Sweetie Belle with you guys.” He and Sweetie walked over to where the apple family was. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom hugged while shrieking, “SLEEP OVER!” Granny Smith smiled at them then looked at Spike. “What’s the occasion this time? Another monster?” Spike waved his hand. “Nah, nothing too serious. Luna and Celestia just declared their intentions to marry the elements of harmony and so they're up in Canterlot getting ready for what I am pretty sure is going to be a secret wedding.” Granny Smith nodded. “That’s good to hear… wait… did you say they were marrying the elements of harmony, as in…” Big Mac added. “All of them?” Spike nodded and couldn’t hide a giggle. “Yep, it’s an eight-way marriage.” Granny Smith swallowed. “Ah knew sometimes ponies might join a herd but this is absurd.” Big Mac sat down. “All of them?” The Doctor and Derpy were nearby enough to hear the conversation. Derpy added thoughtfully, “Oh wow! From what The Doctor says Princess Celestia hasn’t had that much action in a thousand years.” The Doctor chuckled. “Ah yes, back when the royal harem still existed. It was quite the spectacle. There were bananas and whipped cream raining from the sky, Luna’s tentacles grabbed any mildly interested mare, and beds were catching on fire, quite literally. Rumors suggest this was how Queen Chrysalis was born.  “Needless to say there is a good reason the harems themselves were disbanded. A marriage though should prove far less tempting but perhaps more stable. I’m sure Celestia and Luna will love them all.” Derpy put a hoof to her chin. “I don’t know how that can work. I can only fall in love with one pony.” Big Mac was still sitting there stunned. “All of them…” *** Cadance felt bad for Pinkie Pie. Twilight had been right, Pinkie was not pleased with the revelation that she could not in fact plan her own royal wedding. It was against the rules, if this had been a normal wedding sure, but a royal wedding required a dedicated wedding planner. Aka, Cadance. Luckily she did have a plan for it. “Pinkie, you planned my wedding and it was so great. I want to be able to give back to you as well and make a wedding for the eight of you that will be just as good. Besides, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if you planned it yourself now would it?” Pinkie’s ear twitched again. Her mane bounced and she smiled. “Now that makes sense! Okie Dokie Lokie, I don’t like not planning parties but I do like surprises and you're right. If anypony should plan my wedding, why not you!” At least Pinkie was willing to allow her the chance. She was terrified maybe the pink pony had a secret evil form locked away. She imagined Pinkie losing her mind, laughing hysterically as her pupils shrank and her hair went completely straight. She’d talk to random inanimate objects as if they were real ponies. Following that she would kidnap random ponies, lock them in her basement and use surgical tools to remove wings, horns, and eyeballs to make party accessories from them, the rest of the pony becoming a delicious new cupcake treat in Ponyville… No, that was too extreme. It wasn’t like Pinkie pie was as scary as Twilight. She’d probably just get sad and cry… oh no, that sounded even worse. Cadance stood up. “I swear I will make it the best party you’ve ever had!” Pinkie Pie giggled. “I’m not mad, I’m excited! Nopony ever plans parties for me, and when they do they don’t tell me. So I’m happy you’re telling me ahead of time.” Cadance let out a sigh. “Oh thank goodness.” Pinkie Pie let out a quiet sigh. “I also have read up on how the parties for a royal wedding work. They're not as flexible as I need… not as flexible as me anyway.” She gave a knowing wink to Luna. Cadance watched as Luna’s tail wagged and her cheeks turned a brighter shade. Was she blushing? Could Luna blush underneath that dark coat? It was just too cute to imagine. It also meant that Luna couldn’t be left alone with Pinkie too long… otherwise… Cadance rose to her hooves. “I’m sure you two have plenty to do later on, but for now I fear I need Luna’s help with some of the plans. Ones that will be a surprise for you.” Pinkie groaned. “Awww, but I was just barely getting a taste, and I wanted to try finding out if the moon was really made of cheese!” Luna blinked. “Cheese… well… parts of it, might be.” Pinkie gasped. “REALLY!” “When you are stuck on the moon for a thousand years, one comes up with the strangest hunger for cheese.” Cadance smiled as she wrapped her aura gently around Luna tugging her slightly toward the door. “Come now, Auntie. We have plans to discuss.” She noticed that tail rising again and instantly dropped the aura. Right, rule number one of Luna, no magic on her unless you want to give her an instant orgasm, again.  Luna shook her head and walked toward the door. “Of course, plans and things, we are good at both.” As they left Pinkie Pie pleaded. “Please come back soon!” The door closed behind them and Cadance let out a sigh of relief. She had heard the rumors of what it was like when Luna beds a pony, she feared the collateral damage could only be dealt with after the wedding. Before hoof would be a challenge. As they walked away Cadance realized Luna’s tail was still swishing playfully. It was good to see her happy, now she did have an actual topic to discuss with Luna and it was going to be a fun one. Cadance glanced over at her as they passed a yellow door that was cracked open. “Now, what kind of sexy lingerie are you planning to wear on the night of the wedding?” Luna looked at her. “Lingerie? I did not think I needed such things.” “Oh, Luna, you’re marrying these fine beautiful ponies, some of which have never been intimate before, I’m sure you want to make their wedding night the best night ever. Don’t you?” Luna nodded. “Yes, of course. What should I wear then?” Cadance nearly jumped for joy at that sentence. “Let’s dress you up and find out. Oh and we should drag Celestia along too, maybe even Twilight!” Luna beamed. “Capital idea! They will enjoy the sexy attire I am sure!”