That One Time: Two Princesses Enjoyed Their Harem Honeymoon

by TheCrimsonDM


Chapter Twenty Eight: Of Spooky Maze and Rainbow Haze

Chapter Twenty Eight: Of Spooky Maze and Rainbow Haze

Written by TheCrimsonDM

Fluttershy had woken up and was ready for the day. It was finally her day with Celestia. Which meant their honeymoon was starting to come to an end, but she could finally, at long last, just enjoy some alone time with the princess. Of course there was a little bit of a problem here.

Celestia was not exactly 'her' princess.

The two of them had gone to a nice little cafe where Fluttershy decided to try something daring. A cup of coffee with caramel cream.

Celestia was busy drinking her coffee, black.

Celestia smiled down at her. "So, Fluttershy, how are you enjoying the honeymoon so far?"

Fluttershy thought about it for a moment. "It's nice. The home is amazing, and Luna is amazing, and oh, I went on an adventure with Pinkie Pie. We stopped an evil cult and then Twilight picked up two students."

Celestia giggled. "Ah, yes, I've heard of your daring tale of adventure and friendship."

"We were like super spies." Fluttershy giggled. "It was fun, but a little scary."

Celestia nodded. "And now we have Twilight, whose spell still hasn't worn off."

"Does it have to?" Fluttershy asked.

"Not unless she wants it to, I suppose."

Fluttershy took a sip of her coffee. It was sweet but still had a little bitterness to it. "So what are we going to do today?"

"What would you like to do?"

Fluttershy only offered a playful smile. After a moment she realized that Celestia was not quite getting it. "You said, um... there was a petting zoo?"

Celestia grinned. "Oh, I thought that perhaps you'd have changed your mind on that plan. Given how exciting this adventure has been for all of us."

Fluttershy smiled warmly. "I love animals, petting their soft heads, rubbing their warm bellies, so cute! "

"Oh and what about me?"

"I love you too, but um, it might be awkward to pet you."

Celestia giggled. It was a warm musical sound that seemed to fill the air around her. "I'll accept that."

Going forward the rest of the coffee break was nice. Though Fluttershy still felt a bit weird about being around Celestia so much. She'd have to get used to it eventually, right.

Their goal was a simple one. The petting zoo. Where Fluttershy found herself, surrounded by soft, fluffy animals. Being cuddled by rabbits, cats, and dogs. Even getting to see some of the more exotic beasts. However, as much as she loved this, it was dawning on her that Celestia kept a certain distance from the animals.

Fluttershy had to go up to her and ask, "What’s wrong?"

Celestia shook her head. "Nothing, they're adorable. Tiny, fragile, and adorable."

A rabbit nuzzled into her leg and Celestia froze solid. Only after the rabbit left did Celestia relax. Fluttershy frowned. "They’re not going to hurt you."

"No... but I might hurt them by mistake. It's happened before. First with my pet rabbit, I hugged him too tight and... well. Then my cat, which slept in my bed until I rolled over on her. Then my dog, who was just fine until I was sunbathing one day and my temperature rose so high that she..." Celestia shook her head violently. "There's a reason I chose an immortal phoenix for my pet. She can survive my existence."

Fluttershy was not at all sure how to feel about that revelation. It was absolutely terrifying, but at the same time utterly heartbreaking. To think Celestia was scared of her overwhelming god-like powers harming such tiny and cute critters.

This wasn't a good place for Celestia. It was also... maybe a bit tame for Fluttershy too. After all this was no different than her own home. Which was going to have to be made Celestia proof eventually.

"Okay, um, Celestia, h-how about we leave?"

"Oh no, did I ruin this for you? I'm so sorry."

Fluttershy shook her head. "It's quite alright. I live with a lot of friendly cute animals so it's not that exciting. It's just a safe hobby, but... well... we didn't come here to be safe right?"

Celestia raised an eyebrow. "What do you have in mind?"

Fluttershy glanced over her shoulder. "Um... well... there's this thing at the castle today."

Celestia's eyes widened. "Surely you jest. You speak of the Spooky Crystal Maze Game?"

Fluttershy nodded. "Only c-couples can join right? And um... it sounds fun?"

Celestia bit her lower lip. "I did want to join... but your animal cuddles?"

"I'd rather go on the spooky Crystal Maze thing with you."

Celestia nodded. "Then it's settled. We shall go join the game, and we shall win. No Rainbow Dash and Applejack to ruin it this time."

Of course once they got there, and entered in, they found out that Twilight and Luna had joined as well. 


Celestia was glaring at Luna. "Sister."


Twilight was staring at Fluttershy. "Fellow wife."


Fluttershy glanced over at Luna. She felt like she'd rather be on Luna's team, but it was too late to change teams, not to mention how much that would have hurt Celestia. So Fluttershy lowered her head. "H-hi, Luna, Twilight."


Twilight smiled. "You two are entering the Spooky Scary Crystal Maze Game?"


Celestia grinned. "isn’t it wonderful. Fluttershy came up with the idea all on her own!"


Fluttershy nuzzled into Celestia's side, feeling a little sheepish now. She didn't like attention being placed on her, or the idea that this event had both the words spooky, and scary in the title. Even if from her understanding it wasn't really supposed to be spooky or scary, it made her feel weird to be a part of this.


The rules were simple. Couples entered a different part of the maze together, and then had to find their way to the exit. Whoever made it to the exit first would win. No cheating with magic. Well Fluttershy didn't have to worry about that. The only real issue she had was that the maze was a labyrinth that was built underneath the crystal kingdom castle. So there was no telling how large it was. The idea of being lost forever was a little scary, but Celestia looked so excited.

Well, it wasn't even a half-hour later and Fluttershy was one hundred percent certain this had been a bad idea. The walls of the crystal maze stood up all around them, the ceiling reflected their images as they looked up. Every now and again there were spooky plastic spiders, cobwebs, or at one point, a sign that popped out of the wall.

These had... not been effective against Fluttershy.

They rounded a corner and saw a pumpkin with a spooky face on it. Celestia stuck a wing out. "Oh, don't look, it's scary."

Fluttershy gently grabbed Celestia's wing and pushed it aside. "It's a pumpkin. I could eat it."

Celestia frowned. "You're... not scared of anything in this maze are you?"

Fluttershy shrugged. "I just wanna win."

They rounded a corner and then came across Luna and Twilight. Twilight was studying one of the paintings that looked half-melted. "Hmm, this is a fascinating image. Don’t you think so, love?"

Luna nodded. "It sure is. Do you think they used some kind of oil to make it look like that?"

Twilight shrugged. "Perhaps some gentle form of acid? I would like to practice this style myself."

Luna grinned. "Let's do so together."

Fluttershy felt her heart skip a beat. They were having so much fun together. She didn't like that. Looking behind her Fluttershy saw another plastic spider hanging from the ceiling. She whipped her tail out, cutting the string on it. The spider fell onto her rump and Fluttershy gave a loud shriek as she ran toward Luna.

Fluttershy jumped into the air and over Luna's back, covering her face with her hooves and wings and shaking. "This p-place is so sc-cary. I wish L-Luna could rescue m-me!"

Luna looked over. "Oh my, Fluttershy, how did that get on there?" The plastic spider was lifted off of her rump. "There, there, it's just a toy. It's not real."

Fluttershy whimpered. "I'm so scared. Please take me home."

Luna frowned. "Sister, do you think perhaps this maze was too much for her? Fluttershy's so easily frightened."

Twilight snapped. "Celestia, this is no place for Fluttershy. She needs to be safe and cuddled next to a fireplace."

Celestia stammered. "This, this was her idea!"

Fluttershy was shaking. "It's f-f-fine. I w-wanna stay. With you."

Luna bounced her back and Fluttershy was lifted up into the air and then landed on Celestia's back. "Come now, Fluttershy. My sister can keep you just as safe as I can."

Fluttershy shot a glare at Twilight, quickly adjusted it before Twilight saw, and bit her lip. "But, w-what if we all stick together?"

Luna grabbed Twilight with a wing, and began leading her down a different path. "If we did that, we wouldn't win. I'll see you later, Fluttershy. Wish you the best of luck."

They waited in silence for several minutes. Fluttershy let out a defeated sigh. "Great."

Celestia looked back at her. "Fluttershy..."

A plastic spider fell on Fluttershy shoulder, she pushed it off. "Ugh... this place is not as fun as I thought."

Celestia's horn lit up, picking up Fluttershy and then depositing her on the ground. "I'd prefer it if you don't try and stay on my back right now."

Fluttershy looked up at her. "I'm sorry. It was fun until Luna showed up."

"No, Fluttershy. It was not. You just pretended to be scared for my sister’s sake. You're not scared of things like this at all are you?"

Fluttershy shook her head. "No... but..."

"But if the others think you're scared they'll pay attention to you?"

Fluttershy stood up and began walking down the hall. "I don't wanna talk about it."

Celestia followed her. "Well you don't have a choice. You hurt my feelings."

Fluttershy stopped. "I-I did?"

"You would rather be spending time with Luna than with me. You want her attention, not mine. I'm... I'm nothing to you."

Fluttershy gasped. "That's not true. You mean the world to me. I just..."

"Just what?"

"I don't know how to... connect with you. I'm sorry. With Luna it's easy. There's the fun Princess of the Night parts, there's the loving adoring parts, there's the manga weeb parts. But with you, you're super smart, and mature, and beautiful and I don't know what to do... I thought you'd have more fun because this sounded like something you'd like. I'm sorry I ruined it."

Celestia shook her head. "You didn't ruin it. I, I understand. It's harder to connect with me. We have tea though right?"

"We do."

Celestia began walking along. "I don’t really care for winning anymore. If you want to go home I can just teleport us there."

Fluttershy followed her. "No. I want to try. For you."

They walked along in silence for a little while. The mood wasn't as bad as it could be, but Fluttershy felt horrible for hurting Celestia's feelings. She also realized that she may have just lost her most powerful manipulation tool. "Um, Celestia. C-can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure."

"Don't tell anypony about how I'm not as scared as they think I am."

"I won't. I don't want to accidentally create a filly who cried wolf situation."

Fluttershy nodded. "Thank you."

"Just don't manipulate us too much, you hear?"

"I understand."

Around one corner they saw one of the crystal walls had a loose panel on it. For a moment the two of them just looked at it. Fluttershy shrugged, things couldn't get much worse. She went to the panel, grabbed it and yanked it off revealing a hidden space behind it.

"Fluttershy!"

Fluttershy looked back at her and gave a wry smile. "S-sorry, sometimes I'm a little... not nice. Um, when nopony is looking, that is."

"Oh, a bad filly are you? Celestia smiled. "What's next?"

Fluttershy climbed into the space. It was dark and it was warm. "Can you come in?"

Celestia followed, her horn lit up with a golden light. There were a few chairs in here to lounge in, a few empty cans of Adult Beverage! The worst beer imaginable. Even a few empty bags of cheesy poofs.

Fluttershy found a light switch and flicked it on. There was a metal door going to the maintenance areas but it was shut. She looked back at the entrance she'd created. "Close that. Not too tight, but enough."

Celestia did as instructed. "Okay, now we're shut in here. Do we break something else? Oh, or spray paint something? What should we do?"

Fluttershy grinned. "Neither of those things, at least not today." She pulled a small bag out of her mane with rainbow colored powder in it. "I stole this from Pinkie's room in the castle. I was thinking, to make up for my behavior, we could just chill."

Celestia's smile only grew. "Fluttershy, you speak my language."

A half hour later the room was filled with rainbow colored smoke. It reminded her of a talking caterpillar from a foal’s fictional story about a girl going down a rabbit hole. Though, perhaps more fun.

They'd found plenty of extra unopened cheese poofs, and Celestia teleported in some water bottles for them. Needless to say they were having fun.

Celestia was grinning. "And that's why this stuff works on me but alcohol won't. Because one is just poison, the other is a spiritual uplifter that brings you closer to the Celestial Plain."

Fluttershy giggled. "My parents loved it too."

"You don't talk about your family much. Are me and Luna going to meet them soon?"

That soured the mood a little but Fluttershy answered. "I hope not. Growing up they were too busy."

"Doing what?"

"Rainbow's parents. Or spending time with them I mean, or I dunno, it's weird and I hate it. They always shoved me, Rainbow, and my brother into the same room saying we had to get close to each other because we're all family."

Celestia swallowed. "So... wait, does that mean Pinkie is right?"

Fluttershy groaned. "I hope not. I mean, I guess it's too late to fix it either way, me and her have been an off again, on again thing since high school. My parents were upset about it at first, but not because we're both girls. They refused to tell us why, saying that we grew up together so it was weird."

Celestia nodded. "I see... so you're probably half-sisters."

"I... don't know."

Celestia shrugged. "Eh, not like I'm any better. In fact, I'm probably far worse."

Fluttershy groaned. "I hate this."

"Will I get to meet your parents? I want to."

"Sure, they're a bit on the um... uh..." Fluttershy forgot the word. "Hippies. their hippies."

"And what about Rainbow's. Can I meet them?"

"Can you time travel?"

Celestia blinked. "No, well yes, but I shouldn't. Why would I need to do that?"

Fluttershy's mood soured. Her heart sunk thinking about it. Still it was going to come up sooner or later. She swallowed. "It happened a few years ago. Rainbow Blaze and his wife... they... I uh..." It suddenly hit her like a ton of bricks. "They're gone."

Celestia sat up right. Sobriety kicking in like a cat getting into a fight. "Fluttershy?"

"Oh my, they might have... Rainbow Blaze could be my... and he's gone. I-I won't get to know him now. I can't ask him if he's really my..." Fluttershy closed her eyes shut tight. "Pinkie was wrong, my mom never cheated, they all loved each other. They were all a happy herd. And now I can't get to know him."

Celestia moved over to Fluttershy's side, and wrapped her up in her wings. "Shhh. Don't worry. I, I can take us back in time, then you can talk to them yourself. How's that?"

Fluttershy looked up at her. "You’d really do that?"

Celestia nodded. "Of course. When’s the last time they were seen?"

"F-four years ago."

"Good," Celestia's horn lit up. "This might be a little confusing."

Celestia vanished. This left Fluttershy alone for several long minutes. Eventually she began to wonder if Celestia even planned to return.

Finally there was another golden flash of light and Celestia appeared. By her side were two ponies that Fluttershy never thought she'd see again. Rainbow Blaze, and Rainbowshine. Rainbow Dash’s parents.

Celestia grinned. "There, now they're here and are no longer missing."

For some reason Fluttershy was positive that there was a problem with this. Something about... how they might have gone missing in the first place... as if they had just been picked up and taken away... leaving Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Fluttershy's parents distraught for many years...

Well she couldn't quite put her hoof on why this felt weird, but who cares, they were here now. Fluttershy flew out and hugged them. Rainbow Blaze rubbed the back of Fluttershy's head. "Whoa, hey there little filly, you've grown real big."

Celestia smiled. "There, problem solved. I am god after all."

Needless to say, they lost the Spooky Maze Game, and hard. When they were eventually found by Cadance and Shining Armor themselves, there was no denying it. Fluttershy had found a way to connect to Celestia and it was amazing. Of course now they had Rainbow’s parents to figure out what to deal with... explaining this marriage was going to them be a nightmare.