"Rainbow! Did you get the towels?" Twilight shouted as she packed the cases for their vacation.
"Geez, Twi! I'm sure wherever we go, they’ve got towels, there!" came the slightly irritated reply from the bathroom.
"But how can you know that for sure? Better twice prepared than once caught unprepared." Twilight stood firm in her resolute conviction to make this the best vacation she and Dash had ever had. For this was quite important to them, it was their very first vacation as a married couple:
Their honeymoon.
In the bathroom, Rainbow rolled her eyes and put two towels into the bag she had put the various shampoo and hygenie articles into; as well as pretty much everything else Twi believed they would need to take wherever they wen. I bet she wants to pack some toilet paper, too. And just then she heard Twi ask if she had packed some rolls of toilet paper, too. The rainbow-maned pegasus facehoofed and fell to the floor. She flew down two flights of stairs, engulfed in the purple light of her newly-wed wife's magic.
"Really, Twilight? Toilet paper?" she complained as she flew back up the stairs before the door to Twilight's bedroom; though now she really should call it “their” bedroom. "I'm sure Luna won't send us to the Pampa. She said, she would give us the best honeymoon ever and I trust her on that. Do you really think she would forget toilet paper?"
She pushed the door open and saw her wife standing in the middle of half a dozen cases, several clothes hanging in the air, three blackbords covered in writing, probably about the dangers and what-ifs of vacation. And then there was a really long scroll filling out half the room in which the princess of friendship and magic scribbled down words on words on words, mumbling and showing the tip of her tongue. She was so highly concentrated that she hadn't heard a word from her just the day before married wife had told her.
Rainbow raised an eyebrow, slightly impressed. After all, it had been only five minutes since she had left this room, and there had been only two cases and one paper list. Where does she keep all that stuff hidden? Rainbow briefly wondered as she pushed her way through the floating clothes and landed next to her wife.with a quiet sigh on her lips. When had the coolest pegasus on Equestria fallen for the nerdiest egghead of Equestria? A long time ago; and I regret nothing. WIth a sly smile on her face she moved closer to the enchanted mare, deep in her thoughts and placed a wing on her back. Surprised, Twilight yelped and turned around and in that moment Rainbow moved her muzzle forward to meet the luscious lips of the pony she loved. Twilight’s eyes widened for a second before they closed in bliss, and she returned the kiss by prying Dash's lips open and allowing her tonuge into her mouth.
Rainbow enjoyed the kiss as much as the alicorn did, years ago she had dreamed day and night what it would be like to kiss Twilight Sparkle, and yet each time she kissed her she felt her stomach doing flip-flops, her heart was fluttering like mad, and the rest of her organs had turned into butterflies while her brain was blank like a white piece of paper. A paper which Twilight's face had been drawn on everytime she kissed her. And each time the image couldn't hold a dime to the original when she opened her eyes and faced her. Same for this time.
Twilight giggled as both mares muzzles moved apart.
"What's so funny, Twi?" Rainbow asked with a smile; she felt her wings twitch and spread apart to show the burning happiness inside her.
"I just remembered our first kiss. Where you tried to kiss me out of nowhere and I almost poked your eye out with my horn," Twilight grinned with rose-tinted cheeks. The usually cheeky pegasus blushed and scratched her head as she remembered one of her less awesome moments.
Twilight had been saying sorry for like twenty minutes after that faux pas while Rainbow just wanted her to kiss her again. A faux pas which Rainbow had told at their wedding party yesterday and which resulted in much delightful laugther amongst the guests, and an ashamed purple princess in a white bridal gown trying to hide behind the huge cake.
"Heh, yeah. I doubt we’ll ever forget our first kiss, if you could call it one. Anyway, I wanted to ask you if we really need to pack toilet paper for our honeymoon, Twilight."
Twilight Sparkle blinked twice before her mouth formed a little “o” and looked through her seventy-hoof-long list. Then, on one of the chalkbords covered in fancy mathematics; again on the list, and then into a book which she summoned out of nowhere. Then, with a big smile she turned to Rainbow; who had prepared herself for some argumentation she wouldn't understand, for the most part.
"Yes. In Wary Hooves' Guide to a Succesful Vacation and Ivory Scrolls’ 1111 Possible Dangers When Going on Vacations- toilet paper is listed among the top ten items you need in many cases of something missing or going wrong. The case of the staff forgetting to put toilet paper on use is only one of them. Did you know that-"
"And I’m going to interrupt you here if you don't mind, love." Twilight blushed madly at Rainbow's interruption, an adorable sight which Rainbow loved to see whenever she called her “love”. Here she intended to get the overprepared mare to use her common sense. The cute blush was a bonus.
"Don't you think that Luna will make sure we will have the honeymoon of our lives? And that she or somepony among her helpers will think of the toilet paper? Geez, she even said she would surpass Celestia's honeymoon gift to Pinkie and Big Mac's wedding, and they were sent on a luxurious tour around the world! Shouldn't that ease your mind a bit?"
Twilight took a deep breath in and out. Her head hung in shame, and Rainbow wondered if she had taken it a bit too hard on her wife.
"You're right, Rainbow. I'm overthinking this, again. I even made a list of what medicines we should take for seasickness, mountain sickness; antidotes against venomous snakes and spiders. Maybe I should have relaxed, and taken this a bit more practically. But I really wanted you to have the most awesome honeymoon ever and how great can a honeymoon be if I get seasick on a luxury cruise or fail at learning how to ski?" Big purple eyes shined up to Rainbow, and the blue pegasus bit her lower lip to suppress the “awww” which threaten to leave her tonuge. By Celestia, I got such a cute wife!
"Aw-em, ah don't worry, love. No matter where Luna sends us, we’ll have the best honeymoon ever; as long as I can spend as much time with you as possible." She cupped Twilight's face with her hooves and kissed her on the tip of her horn; a deep sign of affection among Unicorns. "But really, snake poison? What the hell do you think Luna has prepared for us?"
"Well, to surpass Celestia's honeymoon gift Luna would have to perform quite the amazing feat, so I concluded a couple vacations which in terms of uniqueness and exclusiveness could hold a candle to the world tour. Tartarus is amongst them too, by the way."
Rainbow was left speechless for a second. How long was this mare thinking about and working to plan their honeymoon? Better not comment on the Tartarus one though; that does sound pretty awesome to me. At least it wouldn't be boring. Apropos boring.
"But didn't Pinkie tell us how 'booooooring' the world tour was? Sure, she saw some amazing spots and all, but the tour on the ship wasn't much fun, she said," Rainbow stated, in an attempt to change the topic.
"That's because she exhausted poor Mac every night and he wasn't able to do anything but sleep and eat during the day," deadpanned Twilight. "He came to me asking if I knew some spells too reduce the libido of a mare. Do you know how uncomfortable it is to hear about your friend's sexlife?"
"Uh, yeah. 'Cause I was the one Pinkie told everything about her bed adventures with 'little big Mac'. Also, Mac failed to reduce her libido, given that Pinkie went to Zecora and got tons of a potion she called 'Viagra', which makes you really sex-hungry. AJ told me last week that she caught Mac sleeping in the fields at least twice per day 'cause he was so exhausted."
"You never told me about that."
"You know how uncomfortable it is to hear about your friend's sexlife in all facets?"
"Point taken, distract me with something other than Pinkie and her attempts to not only be the first of us to marry, but also become a mother before the rest of us," Twilight laughed heartily; remembering how their quirky friend had announced to the clique that she was going to marry Big Mac a year ago.
With a huge banner popping from the ceiling declaring her marriage to Big Mac within a couple of weeks. Nopony had known before then that they were even dating. Poor Applejack was so shocked she had to drink two kegs of cider to move her congealed tonuge, before telling her friend that she was happy to have her as a soon to be sister-in-law, and to mutter what she was going say to her brother for keeping this a secret from her. Everypony was all aflutter at that time, and it had been a great marriage. One that led Twilight to consider marrying her marefriend, Rainbow Dash. Said marefriend turned wife, who was now wondering what topic was best discussed next.
"Oh! How's Spike doing? He was pretty down a couple months ago when he got rejected by Rarity, but he seemed fine these last three weeks. Is there something you know that you haven't told me yet?"
"Oh, there sure is. But you didn’t hear it from me, okay?"
"Got it, love."
Twilight felt another blush creeping onto her face. Even after three years of being together, she was still so weak to Rainbow calling her love.
"Well, do you remember who Spike danced with all the time yesterday, or were you too busy stuffing yourself full of the cake and food Celestia's kitchen had preared?" Rainbow blinked, caught by surprise. She really hadn't paid that much attention to her surroundings, yesterday. Most of it had been a blur. The palace, the guests, Princess Celestia and all that. What she could remember were the vows; Twilight's vow to her and the kiss the kiss they shared, and the cheers of their families and friends and everypony else. Her dad had been crying so much that time and kept repeating how happy her mom would have been if she were there.
Rainbow felt a lump closing up her throat. She coughed slightly to ease it up. Thinking about her awesome lovely dad and her late mom always made her a little emotional. When he danced with her on the party after the wedding she had to hide her face in his tuxedo to prevent anypony seeing her tears. Though her puffy, red eyes were clear evidence that she had cried, but neither Twilight nor anypony else asked her about them.
"I was too busy ogling the gorgeous wife I got my hooves on that day, so can I get three lucky guesses?" A shy smile and nod rewarded her compliment, and she put out her tongue while busy trying to pick up a big case and put it on the bed so they could continue to pack. This time without the fear of a meteorite hitting their vacation spot.
"So uhm, Fluttershy?" Rainbow asked, not quite seriously in an attempt to buy herself time to think further.
"I doubt Spike could have pushed his way through all the stallions that tried to woo Fluttershy that evening. Poor dear, ever since it came out that she's the famous Soft Quill who wrote the The Prince of Dawn novel series, she can't seem to get away from all the fans and admirers coming at her from all sides." Twilight hid her sympathic laugther behind a wing. Ever since she became a princess she’d had to deal with many admirers and obsessed fans; many of which were even up to this point still embarressing to her. She couldn't imagine how the shy pegasus must feel with getting hundreds of messages from fans everyday. Then again, it didn't prevent her from continuing to write the series; so she had more determination than many would have given her.
"Yeah, that one where the male you got a harem of sexy mares-"
"Dusk Shine is not a genderbent version of me, Rainbow!" Twilight shouted with a hint of annoyance at her winged wife. Quite a bit of her own fanmail had been about this ineffable “Dusk Shine” and his affairs with the five mares with whom he saves Equestria frequently in every book thus far.
"Suuuure, he just is an alicorn with a purple coat, is totally a bookworm, and-"
"And he has blue eyes. Not me at all," Twilight interrupted once again, as she slammed a cushion on Rainbow in an attempt to make her shut up about Fluttershy's novel career. The books were good, eloquent and had lovely writing, but the way Dusk Shine had five mares, who all resembled mares Twi knew way too well, going after him and how he dealt with them in such a cheeky and cassanova-like way made Twilight blush every time she read one of those books. It didn't helped that they were all rated mature for some really 'saucy' scenes. But they were so romantic and full of heartwarming scenes, so Twilight couldn't bring herself to put them away. She was always the first one to read Fluttershy's newest entries in the series.
"Yeah, that's why Dusk married Prismatic Blitz in the last book, right? Fluttershy told me she's thinking about writing a successor series about the child of Dusk and Blitz." Rainbow’s grin threatened to extend to each of her her ears as she looked at her embarressed wife. A slightly shocked look crossed the purple face as if she had caught Twilight with her hoof in the cookie jar, which made the pegasi cock one of her eyebrows.
"Ugh, I can already see the content of the letters that will be sent to me," sighed Twilight, massaging her forehead to keep said content and other pictures Rainbow teases had put into her mind out of it, as she put some neatly folded dresses into the suitcase. She really didn't need that of distraction on her honeymoon.
Rainbow seemed to have taken notice of that, too.
"Sorry, Twi. You're just so adorable when you get teased, I couldn't stop myself. Anyway, I think I’ve got it now. It was Applebloom, right? Those two would always hang out in the past, and they make quite the cute couple, don't they?" Twilight snorted at how proudly Rainbow had announcedf her deduction.
"Close, but not close enough. I doubt Applejack would take it well if even her younger sibling found a special somepony before she did. You have one more chance, if you're wrong again I'll keep it to myself."
Rainbow's mouth was agape. She concentrated carefully; knowing that Twilight must have given her a hint by now. Didn't she say that she was close? So that means it was one of the CMC, and Applebloom wasn't it; which left Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. Scootaloo had told her last month that she was going out with Rumble, Thunderlane’s little brother, so that left...
"Sweetie Belle! Spike danced with Sweetie Belle yesterday!"Rainbow shouted loudly; pointing a hoof at Twilight.
"Ding-ding! We have a winner!"
"Yes!" Rainbow shouted triumphantly, and allowed herself a litlte salto in the air to celebrate her superior investigation skills.
The alicorn chuckled at the childish display of the proud and boastful mare. She was so cute when she was this carefree and open with herself.
"Yeah. Sweetie Belle had asked Spike out a couple weeks ago, and they’ve gone on quite a few dates by now. She had visited him often when he was in his room; all depressed because of Rarity deciding to put her career before any relationship. He said, he would have had better chances with her if he was a 'boutique in Canterlot, then she would be inside him all day long'." Rainbow cracked up at that point and rolled on the floor laughing.
"Very mature, Rainbow." Twilight rolled her eyes. Some moments her wife was too open and carefree with what she felt. It was still a lovely sight though.
"Hah, sorry Twi. Hey, you did tell him about the birds and the bees, right?" Rainbow asked as she wiped away the tears of her laugther.
Twilight just stared at her. An uncomfortable chuckle left Rainbow before she sat up and tried to act in a more mature fashion again, though she already knew how she would tease Spike when she came back from the honeymoon. This double meaning was too rich not to use.
"So, Spike and Sweetie Belle are going out? Cool! She's a sweet young mare; like her name suggests. In a few years she will be as beautiful as Rarity; if not even more."
"Hm. Spike wasn't all that much into it in the beginning, but I think Sweetie is breaking through his shell and starting to take the place Rarity had held in his heart for so long. I'm happy that he found somepony that can make his life brighter just by being with him. Just like you do for me everyday, sweetheart," Twilight’s eyes twinkled and her smile beamed at Rainbow as she spoke the last word softly and coyly.
Rainbow's wings raised fully and her face went deep-red. The socks in her mouth, which she had tried to put into the case, fell to the ground. Quickly, she fought down the urge to jump on Twilight and make-out with her on the floor. She disliked how easily she became wax in the egghead's hooves whenever she used that tone and nickname on her. Then again she really liked to hear Twilight talk to her that way.
"I still find it interesting how the wings show several emotional stance of pegasi. You're so cute when you're fighting your urges," Twilight teased her wife with a smirk, who fought down her erect wings.
"Don't tease me, Twi! Months after your ascension you still had problems keeping your wings down. I remember how your wings had taken the entire blanket our first night together, it was raised like a tent over me," Dash replied to the now blushing princess, who's wings fidgeted slightly in embarressment at that reminder.
"Careful, Rainbow. Embarassing royality could result in punishment. Do you still want to speak about my wing problems?" Twi challenged Dash in mock anger, a mischivious glint in her eyes.
"Well, I'm Duke of ‘somethingsomething’ now, and I can speak about whatever I want," Rainbow answered the challenge in her best snob act.
"You’re going to regret this, Duke of Windsoir," Twi lowered her horn, magic channeled in it. Her tongue wet her lips, and Rainbow felt another twitch going through her wings, but there was no way she would back down from a challenge. She pawed at the floor; eyes set on her target, already knowing what she would do in a couple of seconds. Just like usual, the alicorn would teleport herself behind or on top of her to bring her down on the ground where she would have to receive her punishment helplessly. But this time she was ready, and Twilight would have to eat her own punishment.
"Make me, princess."
And the next moment Rainbow Dash faced the ceiling. For a second she blinked not sure how her field of vision had changed so abruptly. Then she understood that this time Twilight hadn't teleported herself, but her opponent, and that she was looking at a madly grinning princess; ready to deliever the worst punishment a pony could receive:
"Tickling time!"
And with those words Twilight tickled Rainbow with her wingtips and with a dozen quills summoned from her desk. The pegasus squeaked and exulted in various pitches under the force of the pure, soft feathers and white, grating quills. Her sides and her hooves were under constant attack by the quills, which made her laugh so much that her stomach was a wobbling mass of blue jelly. The worst, though, were Twilight's feather tips under her scapulas where her own wings began, her greatest tickling weak spot. Her quick and rapid movements made it impossible for Rainbow to close her wings and to stop the high-pitched laughing untypical of her. To her misfortune Twilight loved to hear this girly voice out of her.
"Do you give up? Do you give up?" Twilight repeated mercilessly through her punishment and laughed with Rainbow; enjoying every sound she made underneath her. She moved a bit closer to get a better standing for her wings to reach further under her lover's wings.
And suddenly Rainbow grabbed her neck and pushed her hindlegs aside with a swift kick; rolling herself on top of Twilight and leaving the tickling princess on the ground. Now the feathers were mixed anew. With gusto the still cackling Rainbow delivered a tornado of hooves rubbing all over Twilight's tickling places and her wing tips dancing gracefully at her lover's neck. Twilight laughed and giggled so much tears were dripping down her checks. She tried to squirm her way out, but Rainbow's embrace was too strong to escape.
"Say Uncle! Say Uncle!" Dash repeated over and over again; mirth-drunk on the silliness she enjoyed with Twilight.
"Neheheheever!"
And with those words the quills returned to the air and started to tickle the dominant pegasus everywhere the magican could reach. After a couple seconds of helplessly fighting down her own laugther and keeping up with her own teasing on the pony below her, Rainbow went in for the close-body kill. She sweeped the quills aside with her wings and put her forelegs behind Twilight's neck, pulling herself close to her. Both snorting and laughing the two ponies rolled around in the clothes and feathers, wrapping each other’s bodies in purple and blue wings.
When their rolling ended, they laid on their sides, facing each other; chests heavily breathing from all the tickling and laughing.
Twilight snuggled closer, and Rainbow tightened her wings to feel as much of the purple pony as possible.
It should be forbidden to feel so at bliss. But I want to feel that way with you forever. Twilight thought as she closed her eyes and leaned onto Rainbow.
I want this feeling to last as long as we're alive. I will never let it stop as long as we’re together. Rainbow swore silently to herself as she felt purple, velvet lips on her own.
For a whole minute the two of them were basking in the happiness they provided in each other; to feel the warmth, to hear their moans and to taste the other as their tonuges wrestled in-between their mouths.
Slowly they ended the kiss, their heads leaving the contact their lips had hold and could have held for a long time. But time was short, as Luna would be there soon to pick them up for their honeymoon. Blazing stars in purple sky met rose-colored warming sunshine as their eyes never broke contact, just staring into each other’s; not wanting to stand up and pack yet.
So much was spoken by this look of theirs, like it had been done a thousand times before they got together; when they confessed to another and when they decided to be together forever. Twilight could never find all the words she would need to tell Rainbow how much she felt for her, and Rainbow could never show Twilight how much she meant to her, no matter what she would buy or do. Yet such extravagant means and needs were unneccessary, as a few simple words were enough for them to confirm the other's heartfelt living truth.
"I love you." Two charming smiles lit up upon the simultaneous confession.
A quick peck and giggle later, the two wrapped up their packing and put the last pieces of cloth in their suitcase, and cleaned the room of the mess they had made in their loving play.
With a thick book as the last item, Twilight closed the suitcase filled with everything they would need for their honeymoon.
"Another book? Geez, Twi, haven’t you packed enough of those."
"You'll like that one, trust me. Do we have everything?"
"Yeah, we should. Oh, wait. We forgot the most important ones!"
"What?! But I triple-checked the packing list!
"Never mind, I'll get it, Twi."
Quickly Rainbow flew up to their bedroom while Twilight read through her list, trying to figure out which items she had forgotten. When her wife returned with said items, she blushed madly at her omission, having not included those items in her list at all.
"I can't believe I forgot out wedding feathers!" Twilight groaned, covering her face with one of her wings. Rainbow chuckled as she walked over and nudged Twilight to give sight of her head.
"Hey, we’ve only had these since yesterday. Plus, there was the party and all the packing stuff. I’d have forgotten about them too," Rainbow laughed and gave her wife a kiss on the cheek before she put her blue feather on a silver chain around Twilight's neck. Twilight took her purple feather from Rainbow's hoof and put it gently around her blue neck. She stroked it softly and smiled at Rainbow who smiled happily back. Twilight remembered her heartracing yesterday when she had listened to Rainbow's vow; she had spoken her own and then put the feather near to their heart, and received Rainbow's blue feather as well.
"You know, you looked so beautiful in your gown, Rainbow."
"W-w-where did that come from?" Rainbow asked, surprised by the sudden compliment; her cheeks glowed the same color as her eyes. She was still not used to being called beautiful, even despite the happiness such compliments brought her. Especially when they came from Twilight.
"Can't I tell my wife the truth about how she looks?" Rainbow's coat threatened to exchange her sky blue color for a Big Macintosh red. She looked quickly to the ground, scratching her head as she tried to think of what to say in return.
"Not as breath-taking as you, Twilight. When you entered the room, nopony made a sound, even your mom stopped to cry; so mesmerizing was your apperance." Twilight's smile grew and her ears laid back on her head. Embarrassed, her magic played with a lock of her hair, and her forelegs scratched each other.
"You're just saying that. When did my sweetheart learned to say such words without checking a dictionary?" The princess of friendship bit her lower lip slightly, her eyes not leaving Rainbow's. It was a sight that made Rainbow’s throat rather hot and dry.
"Uh-huh, it's true! You were gorgeous, awesome and sexy in one white, tight package. I could have ripped your gown off and taken you right there before Celestia and everpony else, so mouthwatering was your look," Rainbow said; licking her lips in a very exaggerated, nasty way, rolling her eyes and moaning lowly.
"Ugh, and the romance died, choking and drowning. I really believed you had become a well-mannered and well-versed pony just to see that you're still the old you." Her laughing voice belied her words as she went to Rainbow to cuddle with her head on her neck. The rainbow-maned go-getter grinned widely as she put her hoof around Twilight to snuggle closer with her.
"Yeah, you haven't turned the Rainbow Dash into a mushy-wushy romantic yet."
"Yet?"
"I might change my mind since all your Daring Do shipfics with her and Proffesor Ravenhoof are pretty good and fun to read. I could be the awesome and cool Daring Do and you the amazing and smart Professor A. B. Ravenhoof!"
"Sure, you will."
"I'm serious, here."
"That's what I'm afraid of. I’d rather enjoy our life together without Ahuizotl or Major Eisenherz trying to kill us in various gruesome ways, just for us to find a way out and end their evil-doings," Twilight laughed as Rainbow huffed playfully, both snuggling closer and laying down on the near bed to wait till Luna would arrive.
"Are you okay with that? You know, about the Wonderbolts." Twilight stroked Dash's chest softly, as she asked in a quiet tone.
"Twi...," Rainbow started; her voice serious and concerned.
Loud knocks at the door stopped the conversation, and both ponies jumped up from the bed, quickly grabbing the cases and bags for their vacation.
"Let's talk later, love," Dash grinned with a playful wink at Twilight.
"Hm," Twilight nodded, a small smile adorning her face, hiding the concern and worry she felt deep inside.
Both of them flew down the stairs to the library room where the rest of the packs were waiting, sorted neatly. Rainbow went to open the door while Twi had to decide whenever to leave the case in emergency of earthquake and tsunamis, or the case in ermergency of meteroite hits and megadrought. Even if she had promised Rainbow to take things as they came, she wanted to be prepared for at least one possibility. With a shrug she decided that it was more likely she was going to need the earthquake and tsunami case than the other one. With a magical shove, the meteroite and megadrought case disappered behind the couch just the moment Rainbow opened the door and let princess Luna into the treehouse. Immediately the alicorn greeted her subjects the way she was best accustomed to: Using the Royal Canterlot voice.
"Greetings, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle! Princess Luna is here to drive you to the best and most fascinating honeymoon ever held in the history of Equestria! And I'm even most modest with this announcement."
Luna's loud voice made Rainbow roll into Twilight and their cases, knocking down all of them. Apologetic, Luna ran to their sides; helping them up while casting her magic on the cases to levitate them to the waiting thestrals at the doorstep who took them without a word and brought them outside.
"Luna, I'm glad you're here, but could you please keep it a bit more quiet? It's exactly midnight, just the time you wanted to pick us up, so thanks for being so timely, but some families would like to sleep at this hour, so in-door voice, yes?" Twilight shushed the princess quietly.
If she had picked us up during day time, we wouldn't have to be so quiet leaving the library. Rainbow thought, ears still ringing, having been so close to the infamous voice of Luna in full volume.
"I'm so sorry! I was so nervouscited- that's what young folks say nowadays, right? ...about this honeymoon and I had been up all day to oversee the final preparations for your vacation, and Celly teased me that I would be late and... I'm sorry. I didn't want to lay waste to your first vacation as a married couple before it even began."
Luna's head dropped; her eyes clad in gloom, ashamed of her own inability to adapt to new times after all those years and keep her Royal Canterlot voice off when she was excited. Twilight and Rainbow shared a quick glance in response to her strange behavior, before they went to cheer up the depressed princess.
"You didn't ruin anything, Luna. If anything we have to thank you for all the hassle you put yourself through to give us such a gift."
"Yeah, no big deal, princess. Just, you know, keep it down a bit."
Princess Luna lifted her head, happy to hear that her dear guests were not disappointed with her. She still had a chance to give them the best honeymoon ever. And to show a certain big sister which of the two was more romantic.
"Then follow me, I will lead you to a place which is both wondrous and fantastic. I promise you will enjoy this honeymoon much more than your dear friend Pinkie and her mate did with Celly's. I'll show her!" The newly-weds each raised an eyebrow at the same time, not sure if they should be concerned that their honeymoon had become the base for a bet between two immortal princesses or not.
"Well, as long as it's not Tartarus," mumbled Twilight to Rainbow as they followed Luna outside.
"Though that could be an awesome vacation; I doubt it's boring in hell," Rainbow whispered back, laughing internally as she imagined how deeply that particular vacation spot might push Twilight into one of her frenzy modes.
Outside waited an open carriage; pure gold, with ornaments featuring all kinds of clouds and birds adorning its sides. The wheel's spokes were carved pegasi wings. Red cushions that appeared to be particularly soft and fluffy promised a nice and comforting seat no matter how long the travel might last. Four thestrals clad in dark armor and with the usual grim expressions on their faces waited for orders to take off.
Twi closed the door and put the key under the welcome mat. Spike would stay with Rarity for the few days they were gone, so he could return anytime if somepony needed a book from the library. He promised Twilight that he would keep an eye on the books and keep the library clean and tidy. Though she had said good-bye to him and her friends this day, she wished she could give her number one assistant another hug. She walked up to Dash and Luna, who seemed very proud that Dash had called her carriage "pretty rad," though she had a slightly confused smile on her lips; not entirely sure if "rad" was meant as a compliment or not.
Two thestrals had stacked the cases before another less expensive and simple cart which would follow theirs.
Rainbow looked at the cases and saw the one marked with the sticker “Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Case”. She turned and stared blankly at Twilight, who smiled akwardly back, and walked quickly to the carriage; opening the door and bowing before Rainbow like the perfect gentlecolt. The pegasus rolled her eyes and entered the carriage, saying nothing about the emergency case.
"You still haven't told us where our fantastic honeymoon would be," Twilight reminded Luna as she sat besides Rainbow in the carriage.
"Let yourself be surprised, dear friend," Luna smiled brightly as she sat up on the carter place, her loyal guards spread their wings as she took the reins in her hooves.
"Up up, my loyal thestrals! Let us take this happy couple to the honeymoon they deserve!"
Without comment, the thestrals beat their leathery wings and went up into the air; carrying the carriage and its cargo higher and higher. Twilight and Rainbow's eyes grew as large as plates as they saw how directly the carriage flew into the night sky, and they gasped loudly as they saw and guessed right away where they were travelling.
"This is all kinds of awesome..."
"Don't tell me we're going..."
"To the Mooooooooooooon!" Princess Luna shouted in her Canterlot voice for all in Ponyville to hear on this warm evening.
Twilight facehoofed hard and graoned loudly to Rainbow's amusement and Luna's incomprehension.