Grin

by Dradavar

The sun, the moon and .... blackouts

Chapter V: The sun, the moon and .... blackouts

Well...

Who wouldn't want to wake up like this?

Let me tell you.... I wouldn't want to wake up like this right now.

I open my eyes. I'm still lying on the floor. But I don't remember that I had layed down right in Lunas arms. Lunas warm belly pressed against my back. I blush. I never thought Luna could be this... grabby while asleep, she is using my neck as a pillow, her warm breath streaking over my chest. Her right foreleg under mine, I'm resting on her left foreleg. She had sprayed her right wing over us to keep us warm. Compared to her I almost look like a doll.

"Hmmm" she sighs, I blush even harder, wishing right now I was a unicorn so I could just teleport out of her grasp. We both lie directly in a bright ray of sun that makes it impossble for me to use my power. There are simply no shadows to dive in.

Lunas eyes are slowly opening, as fast as I can I'm closing mine in hope I won't get yelled at again.

'Please, please, please' I think. I can feel her heartbeat at my back. She shifts her position and her grab hardens, she is now almost suffocating me, but apparently she is still asleep.

.....

What was that? Sounded like a door that opened...

'Oh no' I think panically.

I hear hoofsteps getting closer.

'This is bad, very, very bad.'

"An interesting sight, I have to admit" the intruder, a mare, says, the humour in her voice is unmistakable.

"Ahh!" Luna gasps, lifting her head off my chest and untighten the grab around my chest, making it able for me to breath normally again, "Sister-, I... I can explain..." Luna stutters.

'Of course it's Celestia' I mentally facehoof.

"Oh there is nothing to explain" I can hear Celestias smirk, "the nights get cold and lonely, nothing to be embarassed."

"Tis-, this... is not what happened!" Luna was still stuttering. I can hear Celestia giggle. I growl.

"Morning" I mumble and try in vain to get out of Lunas embrace, yes I just said that, I want to get out of it.

"Oh" she answers with a blush in her face, "morning" she lifts her wing and her leg, making it possible for me to actually stand up.

"Good morning my little pony" Celestia is practically beaming, I blink a few times... and then I start to giggle, earning a confused look of both princesses.

'Damn I'm totally not a morning pony, I should be ashamed for that pun' I think to myself.

"Princess" I say between the giggles and lower my head in a deep bow, still shivering in a vain attempt to stop my snickering.

"Why are you laughing?" Celestia askes curiously, she doesn't look mad or something like that, just curious.

"Oh" I start, "nothing, just a bad pun I just came up with" I quickly explain.

"Oh I love puns" Celestia replies, still smiling.

'Of course she does' I sigh.

"Well this whole mess right now" I point at Luna and back at myself, "you looked so happy so I thought you were beaming" Celestia still looks curious, still smiling, apparently waiting for me to finish the joke. Meanwhile Luna is shivering and snickering trying her best not to fall to the floor or to laugh out loud. I clear my throat, "ähm... like the sun, get it? Beaming? Like the sun?"

Luna falls to the floor laughing, her laugh is cute I admit and maybe if I weren't in acute danger of being send to the moon I might admire her laugh. I take a careful look at Celestias expression, she still doesn't look mad no far from it, she grins, rising her left hoof she starts to giggle and finally she also starts to laugh and even she, the mighty princess, falls to her haunches, holding her belly in the vain attempt to stop her laughter. I also start to laugh now.

The sound of both princesses laughing, let me tell you, you never heard something so melodical, something so beautiful, it was like their laughs could vanish every evil in Equestria, turn every beast into a pet, every devil into an angel. In that moment I wished I could listen to that sound for the rest of my life.

And then that moment was over.

Celestia was the first to reclaim her attitude, she was still giggling and still sitting on her haunches, but she was the first to actually speak up again.

"You should be ashamed for that pun" she giggles, wiping her eyes, a few tears had managed to escape in her laughter.

Luna was still gasping for air, between her laughter you could hear the short attempts of her body to force some air into her lungs. I wasn't better, I was also gasping.

After a few moments we all somehow managed to get back onto our hooves, even though we were all shivering and snickering. We all took a deep breath, all opening our mouths-

Celestia was the first to speak again.

"So Luna, why don't you introduce me to this funny little stallion?" she asks, still smiling, still snickering. Luna gave her a half-hearted stern look.

"Well that is..." she now looks at me, tilting her head and trying to remember my name. Of course she can't introduce me, I never told her my name.

"I'm Grinning Sun" I finish for her.

"Grinning Sun?" Celestias curious look was resting on me, "a very interesting name you got there my little pony."

"Thank you very much princess" I answer with a bow. Celestia was still looking at me for a second before she sighs.

"Well I planned to ask you" her gaze wandered over to Luna, "if you want to have breakfast but apparently you are occupied" she finished with a warm smile. Luna was blushing again.

"It's not like that!" Luna exclaimed, her voice was highpitched. Celestia smiled even wider now.

"Of course it's not like that" she winks. I facehoof mentally again. Time to clear this mistake.

"It's really not what it seems to be" I say, "the reason why she was holding me like this, is simply she was asleep. Apparently she gets a little bit grabby in her sleep."

"And why" Celestia asks with a smirk, "were you close enough to her so she could actually pull you into a intimate embrace?" I'm stunned. I facehoof, this time for real. Celestia snickers again. I look over to Luna and notice the deep crimson blush in her face.

"It's not like that!" Luna whines, "he was close enough to me because..." she looks at me, now with confusion, "well, why were you so close to me anyway?"

'Oh oh, not good' I try to put up a sheepish smile, well let's say it won't look very confident.

"I was so close because..." I try to find a way to explain that in a way that might not send me into the dungeon or on the moon.... or into the sun, I sigh. There is no way to explain that without punishment and anger.

"I-was-so-close-because-I-needed-to-link-our-bodies-in-a-physical-matter-so-the-spell-would-work" I speak fast, and burr.

"Come again?" Celestias expression changed, she looks rather curious now, but not in the good way from before. She looks now cautious. I sigh.

"I was so close because I needed to link our bodies in a physical matter so the spell would work" this time I really articulate the sentence. Lunas eyes widen. She remembers finally.

"What spell?" Celestia asks, the tone of her voice changed rapidly, from warm and motherly to harsh and almost angry.

"Well-, ... ähm... I..." I stutter, I look at Luna with a pleading look in hope she might help me.

And she does.

"Let me explain" Luna begins, "I brought this pony back here last night. I had noticed a disruption in the dreamrealms and wanted to know who was responsible for that" Celestia nodds.

"So after I looked if you might be the one manipulating the dreams, which you weren't, I teleported into the Everfree, close to the ruins of our old castle. There, on a glade close to the ruin, I found seven ponies, cultists" Celestia gasps.

"One was hurt, lying on the floor with cut hamstrings, one had overtaken his place on a podium and five more were listening the one on the podium. He told them to go home and to forget about Nightmare Moon when I interrupted him. The five cultists that were still able to move tried to flee but with the help of Grin I managed to capture all, all six."

"Six?" Celestia asks rather confused now, "I thought only five tried to run" Luna nodds.

"Yes but I also said that there were seven clutists, the one on the floor unable to run, the one on the podium and the five that tried to flee" Celestias face now showed more confusion then ever before.

"Grin was one of those cultists I captured last night" Luna finally explains.

Celestia disappears in a flash.

I blackout.

I can't open my eyes, the pain in my head hurts too much.

"...t really necessary?" I hear someone talk angrily.

"Why of course it was necessary Luna!" I remember that voice. It's Celestias, "You don't know what these cultists have tried all those years that you were gone. The all try to bring back Nightmare Moon, to overthrow me or even worse."

"But he won't!" Luna exclaims.

"How can you tell!?" Celestia replies.

"I was in his dream."

"Dreams can lie."

"Do you really think a non-unicorn could change his own dream so much that he could tell the untruth in them?"

"Yes! Yes, I believe that! You know why? Because all cultists are trained to be able to do that. They all now how to manipulate the dreamrealm."

"But h...-"

I blackout again.

I open my eyes, slowly. I feel pain throbbing in my head.

"Oh what happened" I whisper.

"Well" Luna answers sitting close to the bed that I'm lying in, "Celestia and the cultists are.... how should I explain..." she tips her chin with one of her hooves.

"Like fire and water?" I offer.

"I wouldn't explain it that simple but let's go with that for now."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well she kinda, threw you into the wall."

"She did what!?" I try to sit up but the soft hoof of Luna stops me.

"Easy" she smiles, "don't worry, you are fine. The doctors already checked you up. They say you have a concussion and a bruised skull. It hurts but should be okay otherwise" I look at her in disbelieve.

"And you call that fine!?" I exclaim, Luna nodds.

"Well considering that she is able to desintegrate you in a very instant, yes, yes i think a concussion and a bruised skull is perfectly fine" she looks down at her hooves.

"I'm sorry for that" she explains quietly, "but" she looks up again and smiles, "I managed to explain everything to her and she agreed to meet Nightmare Moon so she can assure herself that Nightmare Moon really changed and...-"

I could listen to that voice forever, but not right now.

Damn you Celestia...

I blackout.