//------------------------------// // Celestia and Letter // Story: Honey(on the)moon // by James Rye //------------------------------// Evening hold way in Equestria as princess Celestia hold a letter from her former student and her newly-wed wife. She wondered how Twilight's and Rainbow's vacation on the moon had been. She must admit it was a good idea of Luna to plan their honeymoon up there on one of the most romantic heavily bodies, inspiration for many love poems and songs, but she also knew the lack of interest this place could hold for the studious alicorn and her adventure-hungry pegasus lover. if she had planned the honeymoon, it had been somewhere south, with jungles to track through and old temples to explore. With luxury hotels to relax from adventures and explorations and a little island with a nice, comfy home for the days the two wanted to spend in intimate togetherness. Her planned honeymoon for Pinkie and Big Mac wasn't as much of a success as she had hoped for. Pinkie got bored of the new places in the world quickly and the world was not ready to handle Pinkie Pie's "Pinkieness", she had to pay her out of several jails for indecent behaviour and Pinkie couldn't understand why others wouldn't like to hear a "smile, smile" song in a holy temple or why it's a bad idea to fire a party cannon on a marketplace. Big Mac on the other hoof got seasick and when he wasn't sick he had to fulfill his husband duties to his wife who awaited those moments greedily. He had come back a few kilos lighter than he started the cruise. But it's not like a honeymoon on the sun would have been much better, right? thought the white alicorn to herself. Then she opened the letter and read Twilight's description of her honeymoon till now. Dear Celestia, I write you from the moon, but I guess you know that already. But I doubt you know how much has changed up here on Luna's domain. Luna and the moonies, that's the name of the moonfolk though I'm sure you know that already just wanted to point it out in case you don't, have rebuilt the ruins of the palace and its city and even built a super luxus hotel with lots of bedrooms, a huge dinner hall, an own casino and bar, many pools, massages rooms and saunas and they even have a library with many many books! Books I've never seen before! And they have planned to integrate rooms for fillies and foals to play in and a big adventure playground. But we haven't used much of those offerings because we're too busy to explore the moon and its wonders. On the first day after our arrival we went to a huge festival of the moonies and we had tons of fun and before that we got some beautiful dresses from Luna's wardrobe called yukata and then Rainbow won the joust and she said before everybody- Sorry, Celestia. I'm was getting too far ahead. Anyway,the festival was for the time the moonies were freed from Nightmare Moon's influence and became their old true selves again. There are many stands with food and games and a black dragon which gets followed by children who try to tease him till he spits out delicious candy. Buffy has given some to me which she had collected earlier so I can tell they're really yummy. Right, I forgot to tell you about Larry, Jerome and Buffy. Larry had been the leader of the nightmare shadows when Nightmare Moon was gone and the mastermind behind Rarity's ponynapping and transformation. He's now the mayor of the moonies and well-liked by his people. Jerome was the shadow creature who was our warden in our prison on the moon. He was the first to be changed back into his real form. Buffy was the rabbitbat baby Fluttershy had found and taken care of on the moon, she had given her to Larry and Jerome and both raised her as their daughter. She helps out in the hotel and is a very adorable girl. I love her to pieces. Looks like somepony is getting into the *I want children*-phase, smiled Celestia to herself. A couple years ago the princess of the sun had been afraid that her student might stay a studious wormbook forever, caring more about books, science and spells then about friends, other ponies and one day having a family on her own. But all those fears faded the more and more she saw the little filly grow into the wonderful pony she was today and she had her friends to thank for that. And Rainbow deserves the double amount of thanks to capture her heart and hold on it. She continued to read. But the best on the festival were not only the stands and people and games, but there was also a joust hold by Luna's thestrals guards and it was breathtaking,so intense was every fight. Rainbow entered the tournament for what I thought was the need for an adrenaline kick. I knew she was good but I didn't expected her to not only do so well against pros but also to win the tournament in the finals against Luna's guard captain who had been undefeated in every fight till then! And then when Luna wanted to hand over the prices, she refused them: Land, title and even the possibility to kiss Luna.You remember the hard time we had before the wedding because of some old laws that anypony I marry has to become nobility and that no noble pony could be a Wonderbolt for reasons of a past age? (I still think those laws needs some changes) "You'd be surprised how stubborn politicians can be, dear Twilight," chuckled the white alicorn, remembering the time before the wedding, it hadn't exactly been a stressless one for her former student. Anyway, Rainbow told me before half of the townfolk that she didn't give up her dream to become a Wonderbolt, I became her dream. I was so happy. "Smooth, Rainbow Dash, smooth." Doesn't mean, she gave up flying for me and I wouldn't want that either. We talked about creating our own aerobatic flying team and who knows, the Wonderbolts might get some might competition from the Lightdashes. But that was during the dance of the bonfire, the ending part of the festival, before that we watched a huge fireworks with the others and tossed our masks into the fire. I'll tell you about the symbolism in pony, just so much I missed and the next day I wondered what would have happened if I had hit instead. But that wasn't everything. The next day we went to the beach, a real beach with sand and a sea and tropical warmth on the moon, and we had tons of fun there with everybody till something happened I should have seen coming a mile ago. You see, Luna had warmed up everything significantly with her spells and instruments so that the moon would turn into the warm and bright place she wanted to draw ponies from Equestria to the moon. However the moon wasn't made for a tropic weather, the warmth let the ice melt and create that big sea but before that the ice had hold the continental plates together which rifts the water was extending the past months. It happened what had to happen, the plates awoke of their slumber and moved again, causing the first moonquake the moonies had ever experienced. And said moonquake caused a tsunami which was one hundred metres high. "Whaaaat?!" shouted Celestia loudly, causing two guards to charge into the room ready to defend their princess before any danger. As they saw as the perpetrator was just a piece of paper they apologized and left the royal bedroom as quickly as they had entered it. Celestia had never heard of earthquakes and tsunamis on the moon, natural disasters which even the weather and season changing ponies of Equestria could do nothing against. The princess felt worry cross her heart as she readed the next sentences, hoping for the best and fearing the worst. I wasn't quick enough to do anything against the moonquake but I was able to stop the tsunami just in time thanks to the "Earthquake and Tsunami" emergency case I had packed together with some of my own modified spells. I have to show them to you later! All in all we were really lucky as nobody had died. Rainbow and I worked the rest of the day helping Luna, the moonies and thestrals to look through the destroyed buildings and casted our spells on those which weren't destroyed yet to make them moonquake-safe. Moving away the rubble, getting everybody out of the debris of their houses and treat the injured took the whole day but with our combined power we managed to did all of that in a single day. The moonies and thestrals are as helpful and great as the ponies in Ponyville and Equestria. A relieved sigh escaped the white muzzle of Celestia, it had gone out well. And that Twilight was able to stop a tsunami was something she couldn't remember even Starswirl could vaunt of. Those spells of her will be most certainly very helpful in the future. She smiled as she readed through the last sentences again, showing the humble side of the newest princess of Equestria. Hopefully many ponies will take Luna's offer and see for themselves that their fears and doubts are unfounded, consented Celestia with Twilight's observation. We then got sent on a picnic on a mountain on the dark side of the moon, where we watched the starry space and ate some sandwiches. It was a really beautiful sight, more breathtaking than any stargazing done on earth. I had never seen so many stars and figures even with my telescope on earth. By the way, earth looks gorgeous from the moon, am sure many ponies will love that sight. Anyway, that calm and private moment with just the two of us let me be honest with Rainbow about something I didn't had the courage to tell her yet because I was afraid it would hurt her or she would dislike what I started to long for the past weeks ever since I proposed to Rainbow. You see, I had acted quite weirdly around her on the moon after seeing Larry, Jerome and Buffy. And before that on earth too on occasions though there I didn’t quite understood myself why yet. It was about founding your own family. Even though I knew I could trust Rainbow with everything, I couldn’t tell her that I wanted children on my own. To be fair, I didn’t have this wish before the wedding and before another of Pinkie’s possible “I’m pregnant!”-confession. I hope you're ready to become a godmother because Rainbow and I decided we will get children and have already done some steps to make it happen. You should really put a more awake librarian in place of guarding the "Experimental Adult stuff" section. Even an amenable to suggestions filly could have entered the place and read books not befitting her age. Not like I did anything like that, just saying. "Oh-uh." Celestia decided to have a serious word with Dusty Scrollkeeper about sleeping in working hours. First Sunset Shimmer who read about the mirror and other world behind it and now Twilight who had looked into books about explicit spells. What's with me and having students reading books behind my back which they weren't for ready yet?, wondered Celestia head-shaking. Her eyes wandered back to the letter's last paragraph. Oh, and I should deliver to you from Luna that she had the idea to change the moon into a winter vacation hotspot which I believe will be way less risky than a tropic one. The cold will keep the ice in the rifts between the plates and instead of snow, the fine white moon sand can be used as snow. Rainbow will test the lanes on the mountains and I will help Luna to plan this through to keep all possibilities and dangers this idea might have in mind. Thankfully the hotel only had minor damages, so they don't need to rebuild everything. The guests from earth can do so much here besides skiing and ice skating just like Rainbow and I have so much to do before we return home! Imagine it, I'm writing you just minutes away to ride on some meteorites! And we still haven't tested the pools and the massages and the casino and the bar in the hotel or the theatre and casino and restaurants in town or the hikes on the moon! Jerome wants to show us a cavern system where there are “dreamstones”, the only place on the moon where you can find them! I and Rainbow have some great and exciting honeymoon up here and we will definitely return with our friends here on our next vacations. Hopefully you can find the time too to come with us. Yours truly, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash PS: Haha! I won, Sister! Luna racks! I await the usual on what we bet when I return. “It's called rocks." Celestia grinned at another modern stumble of her vintage sister. She felt a bit peeved that she had lost the bet, but she was happy that her Luna had a good time. For this she could survive a month on no sweets while being forced to watch Luna eating all the ice cream, donuts and cakes till her belly bursted. It gonna be a torture for the white alicorn. She readed through Twilight’s letter another time, before she looked envious through her balcony at the shining moon. "I wonder if Luna will give me a discount."