* Chapter Two - Part 2 *
Ten motionless minutes had passed in which no one said anything or dared to move until Twilight awoke from her freeze and made a quiet, frustrated comment.
"Buck!"
Knowing what had just happened, both sisters looked into each other's eyes worried. Neither with no Real idea how to proceed further from this point. Celestia then gestured to Luna, to please take over the situation, motioning to Twilight with her head.
Knowing for sure that she would have to be calm and choose her words carefully in order to talk to Twilight, Luna sat down on her hindquarters and began to speak in a slow, gentle voice.
"Twilight? Twilight. Please, I really sympathize with how you may be feeling right now. But you need to put the stars in the sky."
Visibly peeved, Twilight's aggressive answer came directly after Luna had stopped talking. Meanwhile Twilight had spread her wings, probably in motion of pouncing Luna, or as better option, simply fleeing the situation. So far, she just stood there angry. "NO! No, you possible couldn´t. You've never been in a situation like I am right now. And really why should I set the stars?! I'm in absolutely no mood to do anything remotely right now." Twilight finished with a hard ramming of her right hoof into the ground, heavy sparks of earth pony magic flying free from it.
Luckily for the ponies on the ground below the balcony, the same wasn't just a normal concrete construction. It was reinforced with Tritanium like many of the truly important things in Equestria. Tritanium itself was only second in hardness and stability to Alicornite. But lacked the indestructibility of the former. It was also a lot more cheeper and recurrent in quantity. Still it had its price, and was only used when needed.
Inwardly slightly rolling her eyes but for now not adding anything further to Twilight's statement, since it had by far nothing to do with the current problem. Luna proceeded to talk to Twilight in low voice. "Please! It's your sole duty this evening and our little ponies will worry and panic if the stars don't appear in the sky soon."
Visibly weighing her answers in the head and letting go of her fight stance, Twilight looked up at the sky and about 30 seconds later her answer followed. Still somewhat unpleased, but at least not truly angry anymore. "For all I care, but only because I don't want to plague our little ponies with fear. Because as sad as I'm at the moment, I wouldn't whish them any harm."
Also enlightening her horn, the light and spell shaking considerably due to emotions, Twilight placed the stars up in the sky. However, there were extremely few of them and even those were so dark that they were almost not visible at all in the firmament. To make it all worse, there was not a single decent constellation or comparable order in the stars to be seen. Merely a loose jumble.
After the job was done, Twilight collapsed on her front hooves and started crying and babbling uncontrollably. Rivers of tears again running down her cheeks. She mumbled so quietly in fact, that Luna and Celestia had even difficulty understanding what she was saying. "...no sense...; ...no way out of this...; ...have to try...; ...no I can't possibly do that to the girls...".
Visibly unsettled, Luna turned to her sister. Looking her older sister square into the glistening eyes, one or two tears in her eyes as well.
"Sister, whatever you revealed truly must have been incredibly tormenting. I've never seen Twilight so scared and desperate. It pains me to my very core, seeing my dear friend in such a hearth broken state."
Wrinkling her nose, shacking of the whole body, red eyes and a more than panicked approach in her voice, Celestia mouthed silently. "I know. But I have no idea how to resolve the situation! I don't believe that Twilight is currently willing to listen to me in any way. WHAT! SHOULD! I? DO?"
Putting on a pitying look, as Luna couldn't truly hate her sister, nevertheless how much she thought that Celestia probably had bucked up. She placed her hoof over Celestia's hips and tried to assure her.
"Then let me help you. Maybe I can help."
Turning to Twilight, Luna stepped closer to the lavender mare, bent down to Twilight‘s face, and began to speak softly to her. In hope of encouraging her in any way possible. Meanwhile she used her wing to urge Twilight to rise.
"Twilight, dear! Would you please stand up and come inside with us? Here´s not the place to discuss this whole mess."
Reluctantly, Twilight rose from the cold, smooth stone floor of the balcony and let Luna lead her back inside. The latter had placed one of her wings over Twilight's hips to calm her further. After they all were inside the room and Celestia had closed the doors, she invited Twilight to lie down on one of the large white pillows.
"Here, why don't you lie down? I'll bring you a cup of tea. I'm confident that will calm you for sure."
While Twilight dropped onto the pillow with an audible plop, not carring how un-princess like she behaved right now, Luna reached with her magic for a fresh cup and the tea kettle. However, when she poured the tea slowly into the cup and then smelled it to find out what kind it was. She wrinkled her nose at the smell in disgust. Whereupon she gave Celestia a more than disapproving and angry look. Her eyes almost succeeding in killing Celestia.
"SISTER!! Is this another one of your overly funny and honorable moments? Or what is the meaning of this? EXPLAIN AT INSTANCE!"
Visibly caught, Celestia took a step backwards from Luna and then hastly tried to explain herself. "I- I've actually wanted to tell Twilight all this for a while now. But the moment never seemed right for me. That's why I came up with the whole tea idea. I wanted to point it out to Twilight later as a good joke. In order to have an acceptable start to our conversation."
With an inexpressive scowl, Luna couldn't look her sister in the eyes after Celestia said that.
"Congratulations...I hope you realize how well your idea worked out so far - honestly, how do you plan to get out of this one?" Luna's expression said all that there was to say.
About to defend herself, Celestia jumped at the voice of Twilight as she was interrupted by her. In her Panic she had completely forgotten her younger college was also with them. Twilight was still looking at Luna in confusion with strongly broken emotions in her eyes.
"Luna? W-what do you mean by that? Where's the problem? - I don't understand?! Celestia has assured me that she let it brew a little too long and therefore it´s a little bitter. Nothing bad, that a few pieces of sugar couldn't solve we guessed."
Slitly scowling internally, about the good faith and trust of Twilight in Celestia. Luna almost screamed at her sister, with an even furior temperament.
"REALLY NOW SISTER?!"
"Luna? What's wrong with the tea? Tell me!" Still confused, Twilight stopped her foot energyly on the floor and reached with her magic for the cup Luna had held out to her until just now. Luna instantly tried to pull the cup away, but unfortunately for all present, she wasn't fast enough and Twilight's Magic let no room for arguments as the cup was snatched from her grip.
The cup now gripped in purple magic, Twilight brought it to her snout and nostrils to smell the tea and figure out. Why the hell everyone did make such a big fuss. As she had brought it there and took the first sniff, she noticed an odd but strangely familiar odor.
"Wait a minute! There is something familiar about that smell." Twilight took a moment to think about the familiar taste; she thought back to her years as a seasoned scientist. She remembered being constantly on the lookout for new materials to work with, conducting fierce experiments with every chemical she could find.
Celestia and Luna held their breaths, both knew with the known interlect the young purple alicorn had, it would only buy them some second until the mare had her answer.
"Hmm…that kind of smells like almond and metal.“
„Wait a minute, that's C13H16ClNO (ketamine), cyanide and even Parathion.“
„Why the HELL is there NEUROTOXIN AND DRUGS IN MY TEA?"
„CELESTIA? DID YOU HAVE THE INTENSION TO KILL ME? JUST TO NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO ME THAT ALICORNS ARE IMMORTAL?", the pure venom in Twilight's voice was literally piercing.“
She had also spread her lavender wings, activated her magic, and snorted as she jumped up and took up a fighting stance.
"Twilight please. Listen to me you're getting something completely wrong. Also I couldn't, that wouldn't work on us."
Celestia carefully tried to calm Twilight down, so she could explain the situation to her. However, it seemed that Twilight was currently far too furious to listen to her old mentor and supossed friend - although Celestia couldn't blame her in any way right now. After all she herself pretty much bucked it up in the worst way possible. Twilight was in the believe, that she had to see her dearest friends start to get old, wither and die of high age. Whilst she stayed young for eternity. A truly cruel faith for the princess of friendship. Celestia tried to gather her thoughts, dropped onto her rump and began massaging her temples.
Meanwhile Twilight had gotten even furior. "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO GET WRONG ABOUT AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT?" WHAT!!!?
The antipathy and betrayal could be heard deep in Twilight's voice, her cheeks
puffed out and flooded with rivers of tears. "YOU TRIED TO KILL ME, I TRUSTED YOU! YOU WERE THE PONY I LOOKED UP THE MOST, MY PARADIGMA. THE ONE I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE WHEN I WAS LITTLE!!!"
Twilight's eyes began to lose their colour as they became whiter and whiter. Her Horn flaring with untold powers, inscribing massive, highly potent runes into the environment. As a tornado of energies, sparks, and dangerous-looking spell fragments swirled around her horn, spiraling farther and farther away from the long accessory with every passing moment.
Tendrils of magic started to erode the protective spells surrounding the room with a crackle of furious Alicorn magic. And Celestia secretly wasn't sure how long the spells would last under the rage of Twilight. She could already feel, some of the spells were starting to weaken and others were almost nearly destroyed.
Lightning bolts danced across the whole surface of Twilight’s wings and from the outermost feathers of Twilight’s wings, hundreds of tiny, colorful sparks of some unknown energie discharged. The sky in front of Celestia's window already darkening considerably and a every second heavier getting wind rattled against the glass panes.
Lastly the ground in Twilight’s immediate vicinity began being ripped apart, merciless, thanks to furious rage combined with earth pony magic, by an ominous glow of almost deep black waves of magic, that, with each successive burst of Twilight's magic, ate further and further through the ground.
The whole display of power probably eluding Twilight, in her currently not very delighted state, and the shocked state of Celestia and Luna. As none of them seemed to notice the more than odd locking phenomena of power. As Unicorn, or alicorn magic in all aspects, was the only kind of magic, that normally could excide an visible effect of various lights and shapes into the real world. And even that only, if the magic was off high level. Never before was it herd that earthpony- or pegasus magic, had an visible inpact on the world.
Luna as well as Celestia nervously took a step back from Twilight and looked at each other, deeply frightened.
"Tell me sister. Do you also have a master plan for: "The Alicorn of Magic feels betrayed by the pony she looked up to the most on every imaginary level, has also unknowingly started to take control of all the magical power available to us alicorns, and due to her young age is not yet 100% as capable of using her maximum powers as an experienced alicorn!?"
Luna's gaze wandered anxiously between her sister and the enraged alicorn of Magic as she voiced this. For currently there was only cold rage and the terrible, terrible retribution of a mare once known far and wide as the most powerful unicorn to ever grace the land of Equestria.
But now she was more than that.
Twilight was far more than the Princess of Friendship now, she was more than Celestia's former pupil, she was more than any unicorn, even any normal alicorn.
Her sister had her sun, Luna herself had the moon, Cadance had the power of love, but Twilight....
Twilight was literally magic. Known as personification and wielding protector of all kinds of magic. And that - was more than terrifying in it's own regard.
Meanwhile, while Luna had been lost in her thoughts, several white cracks had formed around Twilight, through it fragments of space-time could be seen. Her eyes had also changed. The calm, intelligent amethyst was gone, replaced by the scorching, unforgiving white glow of the unleashed element of Magic. Whisps of white magic also waving from the corners of her eyes in a steady flow.
Being pressed down more and more under the sheer force emanating from Twilight. Celestia still tried to calm the alicorn she had been betrayed. Deepest guilt in her eyes, but now mixed with considerable fright and a respect, not seen prior. Respect for a manifestation of power like she had never seen before, in her long live.
Yes, she had known for a long time, that the astral plane, the wellspring of all alicorn magics, was infinite - well almost, but who cared about the difference between infinite and infinite minus one anyway? But even when creating her sun, by fusing billions of hydrogen nuclei, to helium-4 nuclei, and thus creating a endless cycle of reactions - passively fueled by her own magic to uphold the bright, golden ball of fire. The power of said sun was triffled by the concentration of power that was starting to accemble around their youngest fellow alicorn.
Starting one last attemp to calm Twilight, Celestia, under heavy struggles, even if an alicorn was way physical stronger than any normal pony, addressed the Mare in front of her and extended a hoof in hopeful forgiveness. "Twilight, please hold on. It's not what you may think. Will you please listen to my sister and me? I'm genuinely sorry. I shouldn't have let it come to this point. Please, don't let my failure be your weeping occasion."
For a brief moment, it appeared as if Twilight was regaining control. However, the moment lasted only very briefly and she rose up on her hind hooves to deliver the final blow.
"ENOUGH!"
Quickly reaching for Celestia with dark magic, Luna pulled her sister to her and clutched the mare in her arms through streams of tears.
"Sister! It was nice knowing you!" Luna and Celestia, didn't even try to interfere and mealy held each other's embrace while Twilight's hooves hit the ground with a furious beat.
"RAWWWWR!!!"
Following the beat, more and more white cracks formed, from the point of impact, finally fully ripping reality apart and the entire universe disappeared forever into an endless void of white.
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THE END!
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"HEY! What the hell is this shit?," I got yelled at from the far distance, but it still freaked me out like it came right behind me. As it might have been far away, but wasn't silent in any regard.
Pausing my Heavy metal/rock music and turning to the source of the voice I address the mare standing behind me.
"Hey Twilight! How can I help you?"
The lavender coloured Alicorn in royal regalia, with her unshorn fetlocks, lighter colored fluff at breast and belly and her six pointed star cutiemark, surrounded by five smaller stars, on her well defined butt, in front of me was with her just over 6 feet by far not yet fully grown. But seriously. A 6 feet tall horse with a currently 17 inch long and very sharp horn, that didn't even had the prime task to impale someone - even if it would have been perfectly suited for doing so. Giant iridescent wings, shifting in color throughout the day. Constaltions of several galaxies and other universal bodies reflecting in tail and mane of said mare. As well as a constant aura of godly powers, the pure, constant energie output from that easily enough to uphold industry on the whole planet earth, just by standing there and doing nothing more. And lastly a more than determined look on her face, giving you death chills or the highest feelings of protection, depending on her current mood, conditional of course to your actions. Just sends a shiver down your spine. No matter how cute Twilight was.
"Hey, what was that about cute just now? - and as I'm in actually a good mood, I will overlook the comment about my rump", the Mare behind me frowned, with said look. Accidentally almost killing me, as my heart refuses to beat for a few seconds in shock.
Ah dammit, she can read my mind. Since when can alicorn´s do that?
"I didn’t read your mind you moron. But you're writing here", I got my answer from Twilight with an expressionless face and a face-hoof towards me.
"Yeah well true." I admitted with a laugh, while scratching the back of my head. "And could you quit your look, please? One of us both actually needs his heart to stay alive."
Putting on an less serious look Twilight continued to me.
"You call that a good ending to the story? I can't help but laugh at that. That was pathetic."
*scratching my head once again*
"Uhhhh- You think? Yeah okay, maybe I should have picked some other music to write to after all. It seems to have a high influence on me and my overall writing style."
*Oh shit, now I seemed to have made it even worse for myself. As I got a very pissed off and expressionless look from Twilight. With her front hoof sticking out in my direction to indicate how stupid my statement just was.*
"Nah, for real now or what? I may have been a little out of control at the time. But I don't destroy reality just because something doesn't please me. Do you know how damn hard it is to undo that and how long it takes?" Twilight obviously awaited an answer from me.
*scratching my chin and pushing my luck even a bit further - simply hoping to survive it I reply to her.*
"Hard? I'd guess a special spell and the thing stands - duration? 60 seconds if you don't stress."
*KABOOM! And there I go flying through my apartment wall, with an truly impressive variot of colors and sparks...or maybe it's just my imagination as I had just got burst through a 1 feet thick, steel enhanced wall in less than a tenth of a second...Well at least Twilight was nice enough to cast a protection spell on me, so I only bruised and maybe dislocated my shoulder...Still hurts as hell - OUCH!
"Ow! Geez was that really necessary?"
Staring unphased throw the hole in my outer appartement wall I got a serious frown from Twilight. "Definitely, for that statement I should have actually left the protection off right away."
*expressionless look on my part, but not very confident as I'm actually the one that tried to mess with an alicorn deity. So I should be lucky that I ONLY got hurt so hard.*
"Well…thanks!...At least admit that I'm right."
*Still slightly annoyed, but now at least smiling mischievously again I got my affirmation from Twi.*
"Yes, yes. You're right.", she assured me with a dismissive hoof. "But if you asked me, I was actually in the middle of something, when I noticed you writing your, pardon my language" crap" here. So I have to go again."
*Simply walking through the wall, as it even wasn't there in the first place. Yes, willy-nilly phasing through it and pressing her gold gildet hoof firmly into my chest with each word.
"And YOU make sure this story has a proper ending from now on. Got it?!"
"Yes your majesty!", came in salute from me" - am I still invited to your castle for tea this afternoon?" I nevertheless asked hopefully afterwards. Please, don't let my bad comment two minutes ago not be the reason I can't have tee with the other girls. That would be devastating.
*Sticking out her tongue and raising her right front hoof, in a manner that let her look even more regal - if that's even possible, Twilight grinned imperiously, but in a friendly manner.*
"You may be permitted to linger in your majesty's presence."
*Lifting my eyebrow I bowed jokingly dismissive.*
"Thank you your high majesty, it is my distinct honour".
Turning around Twilight was on her way to leave afterwards. But just before she went back through a self-created portal to Equestria, however, she turned to me once more. A mischievous grin on her face.
"And you should think of a better computer password by the way, I found some very interesting folders there..."
*Visible embarrassment was seen on my face. Oh shit did she find my collection of embarrassing pictures, I had taken and got send through the years, from parties? Oh no! Or even worse she found out I had a secret crush on her? - Ah shit, if she didn't know yet, she surely does now.*
Trying not to let on, I smiled back at her and pretended everything was okay.
"F-! My password was already 16 digits!"
"It still only took me 9 seconds.", Twilight laughingly remarked to me.
"Woho, Ok! Now let's be honest Twilight, sometimes your brilliance scares me quiet a bit, that you just throw around every day so seemingly easy. Honestly, you could take over the world before lunch if you felt like it.
*Short glance at the clock. 10:40! Yep, that could still work!*
Chuckling with a held out hoof the lavender Mare assured me. "Thank you for your confidence, but I don't feel like it at the moment - I'm going to get a coffee now, see you later."
"How generous of you, your royal highness...", I deadpanned.
Twilight just shrugged and then grinned wide across her entire snout. “I´m a nearly omnipotent immortal goddess. If I can´t change it, I embrace it and don´t lie around the point not to be who I am.
“Always in touch with the soil…”, I whispered in a monotone voice even if I knew well that the alicorn could hear me without problems no matter how silent I would try to speak.
“Says the guy that just insulted an alicorn goddess…”, Twilight smirked back to me and extended her wings at the same time from her sides to flap them and bring the point home more.
I remained totally calm. “I know for a fact you won´t hurt of kill me. Alicorns are incredibly peaceful, if not the most kind creatures to exist”, I shot back with a broad and cheeky grin to the lavender alicorn princess. Rather confident I had to upper hand here. Unfortunately for me I seemed to have miscalculated, for Twilight remained grinning without breaking her smile. A second later she showed me, that she still had the upper hand – sorry hoof.
“We are! Yet that doesn´t mean I could just rewrite your destiny and make your life hell.” Now I was facing a mischievously grinning alicorn and since I was never the overconfident type, I still attempted my best by smiling mischievously at Twilight.
„Ha ha, a good one”, I said with a fake laugh. Twilight´s expression didn´t change and my confident bleeded away rather fast. “ – you´re joking right?”, I asked a little uncertainly.
Twilight leaned her head to the side. “Am I?”
Ok, now I was more than terrified.
Luckily for me a second time some seconds later Twilight winked at me as her horn began to show in her characteristic light of her magic. The last I saw of the alicorn princess was her ever kind and comforting smile.
*Pop, and with that the portal, through which Twilight had stepped, disappeared out of sight.*
Laughing with relief, I added to myself in thought. " Lucky me. Honestly, if you're going to write a fanfic about OP Alicorns, make sure they like it too or it's going to hurt. So where was I..."
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"RAWWWWR!!!"
Following the impact, several more white cracks formed through reality, the edges of said cracks had frightening dark purple edges to them. The dark purple corners falling away continuely and fading into particles of nothingness. Inside these tears absolute nothingness could be seen, like there wasn't anything there and probably it also wasn't. Fortunately, however, existence withstood the rage of the enraged alicorn of magic so far.
Still breathing heavily with aftereffects of rage, Twilight stood with her white eyes amidst the cracks. Some tears still visible on her face and also dripping to the ground. However, it looked like she had recovered from her initial shock and was now trying to regain control. Even if she still trembled with a sensation of rage, that by the second became more and more a feeling of fright. All of that a seemingly impressive feat for someone so young and overwhelmed with such tremendous power.
Seizing her opportunity, Celestia released her sister and rose to face Twilight. The power from Twilight emmiting still great, but not as much as it had been before. So she managed to stand almost without trouble. Celestia, as well as Twilight, also still had tears in her eyes and was trembling violently.
"Tw- Twilight! Please s- slow down and just l- listen to me. You are completely on the wrong track, but that’s not your fault - in any regard. This is solely my failure to explain the situation to you fairly. So please stop being grieved. There is no need for that at all."
Though srill enraged, Twilight still twitched her ears and remained exactly where she was. Here and there once slightly unconsciously, spreading one of her wings, or shifting weight for balance, to effectively fight the slight nausea. The effect triggered by the high concentration of magic in her own system. That all an innate skill of every pegasus pony and deeply rooted back to pegasus magic, or that of an alicorn in her case. They combined all the aspects of pony kind and obviously had wings too. Even if these were considerably lager.
"U-and how s-should I know that you're not a-lying to me the next time we´re talking?
Putting one of her hoofs to her chest, the shoe previously fallen of in the heat of the Situation, Celestia spoke. "Please Twilight. You just have to trust me this one more time. I'll even make you a pinkie promise that I won't keep anything from you anymore. Ever again! I shouldn't even have started in the first place. But I always assured myself there were reasons to do so until now. Fortunately, I finally have the affirmation they're obsolete."
"W-really?"
Performing the all-too-familiar gesture, Celestia gave Twilight her promise.
"Yes! Cross My Heart, and Hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my Eye!"
While visibly not one hundred percent convinced, yet willing to listen, the colour of Twilight's eyes slowly changed from white back to her normal eye colour. Meanwhile, she sat down on her haunches in place, and afterwards swhised with her hoof through one of the cracks, looking absently at its rippling behavior and feeling a slight cold, whenever she touched the infinitely bright white.
Now that Twilight was no longer actively yanking on the concept of reality, the cracks began to close slowly with little, cracking motions of lightning. Like someone had wieved a endlessly thin needle and string through the borders of nothingness and simply pulled the reality back together. First the smallest ones, furthest away from the hooves of Twilight closed. Then every second nearer to the positon of the lavender mare.
In all that time, Twilight remained completely untouched by the holes and cracks in the time-space continuum. The warps simply ending directly in front, or under her, not even trying to interact with the alicorn, not an inch away from them.
The one where Twilight was stirring with her hoof even remained until the said alicorn had pulled her foreleg out of its center.
Celestia, meanwhile, waited patiently at a reasonable distance for Twilight to be ready to listen to her. Swishing her hoof slowly through one of the cracks as well. Interestingly complementing about the strange sensation in her mind.
A nod from Twilight about 2 minutes later indicated to Celestia that the younger alicorn was now ready to listen to what she wanted to say prior, so she prepared herself to continue.
Celestia was just about to start to clarify the situation, when Twilight suddenly hectically jumped up from her spot 4 meters away from Celestia and ran straight towards her, sobbing loudly with bloodshot eyes. Her wings were wildly stretched and trembling, the iridescent color in them sparkling with uncontrolled behavior. While she snuffled her nose several times.
Absolutely overwhelmed with the situation, Celestia just spread her front hooves and waited until Twilight ran into her; the impact was so powerful that Celestia was almost knocked over backwards. But luckily she managed to stabilize herself by unfurling her wings about halfway in automation and involuntary using her thousands of years worth of innate Pegasus agility.
As Twilight sobbed the same excuse over and over again, Celestia lovingly put her two white wings around Twilight in a warm cocoon and gently patted her on the back. She pressed her wings stronger together to additionally help Twilight calm down faster. The warmth of both cuddling mares helping each other in return.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to do that. It- Me- l- just couldn't be c- controlled."
Visibly wracked with guilt, Celestia almost couldn't answer Twilight herself. However, after a few attempts, she managed to do so with shaking voice.
I- I'm really sorry Twilight. That was absolutely not very tactful of me. I should have known how you would react to this news, as close as you are to your friends - Besides, I should have known better to choose my words."
"For all that my promise is worth. If ever again I withhold something so elementary from you, I give you my word that I will abdicate and leave the Regent's Crown to you. Maybe even forever, if I cannot forgive myself for what I did then.
"N-no, I would never be able to ask that of you." Twilight quickly replied to Celestia as she looked up at her former mentor, with still slightly red eyes, using her own lavender wings to cling to her desperately.
Celestia was smiling motherly and booped Twilight in the snout with her hoof. "And yet I would do it for you without any doubt and clear conscience!", interrupted Celestia the younger alicorn, before Twilight could say anything else.
Both then embraced each other again, swelling in the other's warmth.
However, not ten seconds later, there was a knock at the door to Celestia's chambers.
"Your Highnesses?"
"Is everything all right? We heard screams and everything was shaking until just now."
Currently being the only one able to answer. Luna raised herself and turned towards the door, to reassure the two guards on the other side.
"It's all good. I just had to tell my sister that the raspberry pie for breakfast tomorrow is unfortunately no longer available at the castle. You may go back to your posts. And please inform the other guards and servants in the castle that all was taken care of."
Probably slightly bowing the Guards assured Luna they understood the command. "As you wish your Highness, good night!"
Even though Celestia wasn't really in the mood to talk right now, she still had to ask her sister.
"Sister is it true about the cake?" Slightly setting up a frown. "And wow really - That was all it took to ensure them everything is fine? "
Giggling quietly into her own hoof, Luna gave her answer to Celestia. "No, don't worry your raspberry pie for tomorrow is safe."
Carefully running her front hoof over her forehead so as not to bother Twilight, Celestia exhaled in relief. "Whew, lucky me. I was worried I'd have to miss the most important meal of the day tomorrow."
Luna's subsequent expressionless expression would have theoretically said it all nethertheless she voiced her thoughts.
"Sister, sometimes I wonder why you have such more than well-formed hips. Your an alicorn, our race litteraly can't put on or loose any weight at all. Yet still you managed to do just said. Then I remember moments like this and everything becomes clear."
Completely scandalized, Celestia reprimanded Luna. "Luna, please, that is absolutely not true. I'm in perfect shape!" In response, she put on a pouty face.
"Whatever you say...", gave Luna well knowing that she was going to hit a wall with this discussion anyway.
Then she smiled mischievously. "The rhubarb pie still ran out this morning, though."
"Damn it!!!"
~~~ End of Chapter Two - Part 2 ~~~