//------------------------------// // The Wedding, Take Two // Story: Mother's Return // by GNGFan21 //------------------------------// The time passed fast as Canterlot was readying for the royal wedding again. Faust gladly helped her adoptive "third daughter" as she had started to refer to Cadance from time to time. Cadance had asked Faust to help with the wedding's food since she had heard stories of the treats she had cooked for her two fillies in the past. Faust promised to make some little cakes and buns and nothing else since she really hadn't cooked in almost a thousand year. On the side of preparing for the wedding, Faust also taught the royal guards the detection magic which specializes to detect changelings. To her surprise the first room she had reserved for the teaching was way too small for the number of unicorn guards that attended, so she moved to teach in the throne room after some wordy fighting with nobles. Even all of her three daughters attended which brought a smile to her face since the last time she had taught her fillies was when they were just that, fillies. Even the star pupil of her daughter Celestia, Twilight Sparkle attended the lessons whenever thought she would see somepony who was that interested in magic like herself. Always asking questions and possibilities to apply to different kinds of shapeshifting species. Finally, all of the unicorns in royal guards had learned the way to detect changelings and they could focus more on the upcoming wedding. Fluttershy had received the job of music with her bird friends, Rainbow was asked to perform Sonic Rainboom after the couple had been officially wedded, Applejack promised to take care of catering, Rarity was asked to design an outfit for Faust while repairing Cadance's wedding dress, Pinkie was asked to bake her famous party cakes while also helping t take care of the music department with Vinyl Scratch also know as her stage name DJ-Pon-3 and lastyl Twilight helped to organize every small detail to perfection. At last, the great day had arrived "again" as Celestia and Faust were helping Cadance to finalize her mane while making sure the dress was looking perfect on her while the white long dress adorned with sapphires on Celestia swung in the warm summer breeze. "You look absolutely gorgeous Cadance. How is the bride holding?" Celestia asked while combing her niece's mane. "Excited and also terrified. This still feels like a dream... Am I dreaming auntie?" Cadance asked while looking herself at the mirror as Celestia finished combing her mane. "Giggle... I'm pretty sure you aren't. So are you ready to have the finishing touches?" Celestia asked as Faust gave the crown to Celestia that she had given to Cadance. Celestia placed the platinum crown on her head carefully so as not to destroy the mane she spent almost an hour perfecting. "You look perfect. I'm sure Captain Armor will be the happiest stallion alive. But I should go now and make ready." Faust said and walked towards the door. "Faust... Could I talk to you in private?" Cadance asked without looking away from the mirror. "What's on your mind?" Faust answered and Celestia left the room, leaving the two. "Would you do the honors and walk with me and escort me to my new husband since... since my real parents aren't with us anymore." Cadance asked as she got up and took the wedding flower bouquet onto her hands. "I... Of course, it would be my honor to do so Cadance." Faust said and offered her hand so she could walk her to her new husband. Cadance smiled as she took hold of the hand and they started to walk towards the hall where the blessing would be held. Soon the two reached the big doors and Faust used her magic to open the golden doors as Fluttershy's birds started to sing "Here Comes the Bride" as they walked through the aisle all the guests who were all standing and watching them pass while flashes of light from cameras were coming all over the hall since it was a royal event so the press was there too. As they reached Shining who was waiting in the middle Faust handed over her "third daughter" to her new husband. "Take care f her Shining or I'm going to show just how angry I can be." Faust said laughing a little bit and Shining just gave a knowing nod. As the two reached the stage where Celestia was standing and smiling they took a knee in front of her. "Mares and Stallions! We gather here today to witness the wedding of these two loving ponies." Celestia began. "Again..." Cadance said and giggled a little which in turn made her husband laugh. "Hush... Captain of the Royal guard who met his love princess Cadance when both were young the love bloomed and now we all are here to witness them tying their love for each other." Celestia said while everyone was watching closely and Twilight Velvet cried that her "little colt was all grown". "Shining Armor, the day I saw you for the first time with Cadance filled my heart with happiness and I just knew you two would join together at some point. So do you Shining Armor promise to take this mare as your wedded wife and love her in good and bad, in the uphills and downhills you two will experience until death... death do you part?" Celestia said with a somber voice. "I do princess. I do." Shining said. "My little Cadance I did know you were seeing a stallion behind my back but I decided to keep it to my own knowledge and not to interfere when you started dating since I saw how much happier you were with Shining." Celestia said letting Cadance in on her little secret from her teenage years which made her blush madly as her auntie teased her yet again. "So do you Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, take this stallion as your wedded husband and love him in good and bad, in the uphills and downhills you two will experience until death do you part?" Celestia asked. "I'm pretty sure you already know the answer auntie, but yes, yes I'll take this adorable stallion as my husband." Cadance said and laughed a little. "DIf somepony has something against this marriage should speak now or stay silent forever." Celestia said and waited for a moment before nodding towards Spike who brought rings to them. Celestia handed the golden rings which both had sapphire embedded into them. "These rings are to show all the love that binds you two together." Celestia said as first Shining placed a ring on Cadance's ring finger and then Cadance did the same to Shining. "By my power as a princess of Equestria I pronounce you stallion and mare you may kiss the bride." Celestia said and the newly wedded couple kissed each other a booming sound could be heard as Rainbow performed her signature trick and Rainbow appeared in the sky while the birds started their singing once again. "Thank you all, and next we move to the Canterlot garden where we have the wedding banquet, but first..." Cadance said turned around and threw the wedding flower bouquet from her hand and it landed directly on Luna's hands who in turn started to blush madly. Cadance turning around to see this had a teasing smile on her face. "Seems like we know who is the next princess to get wedded." Cadance said and started walking through the wedding quests leading them towards the royal gardens where the wedding banquet was going to take place. As they arrived at the gardens and took their seats to enjoy the meal that was made by Canterlot's bests chef had cooked Faust was looking at the wedded couple as Shining was feeding some food to Cadance who was giggling happily before eating the food from the fork which brought memories of her own wedding back to her mind, the way Sun Aegis pronounced his love to her and promising to protect her and their future kids. The happy moment of discovering she was pregnant with her little Tia for the first time... "Mom? You alright?" Celestia asked as she sits next to her mother with Luna. Hearing her daughter's voice brought Faust back from her memories. "Yes... I'm alright just... having some fond memories..." Faust said letting out a sad-sounding sigh. "I see... You want t talk about something specific?" Luna asked as waitresses brought some food for them. After a moment of silence, Faust opened her mouth to speak. "I was just... remembering your father... I miss him greatly, even more so after meeting him again." Faust said. "Meeting dad? But how I thought he died in the war..." Celestia said. "I promised to tell you where I was when you fought against Chrysalis... I was dying down inside the caverns. I don't really know did I meet my Sun back there or if was it just a vision of my brains acting near the doors of death to give me the boost I needed to survive, but there are theories about the afterlife and reincarnation, but nobody has confirmed any of them... But it felt so real..." Faust explained while looking at her platinum wedding ring that had two amethysts and a ruby embedded into it and the words "In Saecula Saeculorum" written into it. "Always and forever. So do you want to talk about father?" Celestia asked. "Not today my dear. Maybe some other time." Faust said, before Celestia or Luna managed to answer anything upbeat music started to play as Vinyl entered the nearby stage full of audio equipment and the loud voice of a certain party pony could be heard from the speakers. "Fillies and Colts! The one and only DJ-PON-3 wanted to play the music for our lovely couple now onto the floor you two! Dance! Dance! Dance!" Pinkie yelled and soon all quests started to slap their hands in the rhythm of the upbeat wedding dance song as Cadance and Shining entered the dance floor in the middle of the garden and started to dance some modern version of the wedding waltz. After the music was over and the wedded couple had finished their dance loud applause was given by everypony. "And now! All stallions and mares go and get a new partner for the next track! You have two minutes! Tick Tock!" Pinkie's loud sound was heard from the speakers. And the guests started to go and ask different ponies to partner up to dance. Soon the floor was full of different ponies dancing together as the party moved forward with different tracks for faster dancing and some slow dancing. Different nobles were chatting with Celestia while Faust was dancing with Luna and laughing with her like any other pony and having the best time she could have. As the night started to approach the party and the last of the dances were performed and most of the food was eaten it was time for the newly wedded couple to leave for their honeymoon. Some left gifts for the couple as both of them thanked these kind ponies. Faust handed over a dark purple package that had dark purple silk lace printed into it to Cadance. "Here's the item we talked about Cadance. Happy honeymoon you two." Faust said smiling and Cadance gave a hug to the old mare. "Thank you, Faust. Stay safe we'll be back in a couple of weeks." Cadance said and entered into the carriage and sped off to their married bliss. "So what did you give Cadance's mom? I and Tia got them the best hotel in Saddle Arabia for a week." Luna said. Faust summoned a catalog of "Blissful Silk" a well-known mare underwear design house. Showing the rather revealing black lingerie set to her daughters. Seeing the set made both mares blush madly. "Something she is going to need for the coming week. I'm pretty sure that stallion isn't going to get to sleep this night." Faust said with a teasing smile on her face as she remembered all the rather kinky things she did with her husband on her wedding night. Hearing this all of the elements blushed madly. "Mom!! Don't you have any decency?" Luna yelled while Faust just laughed as she ported herself away from the group. "I don't get it. Why wouldn't Shining sleep this night." Spike asked while munching down some gems. Twilight just looked at the young drake. "I'll... Tell you later..." Twilight said as she left to get some food for her library. Far away in the north near where the ancient city of Crystal Empire was located a storm was brewing. It was not only a raging blizzard but also dark purple lightning hitting the ground. Hard. The lightning hit multiple times on the same spot and soon a dark black mist started to rise up from the small holes the lightning had left on the earth.