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// Canterlot Nights Part B 
// Story: Canterlot Nights, and other tales. 
// by Phoenix Quill 
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"Princess Luna couldn't help but openly laugh at this point. Several floors below the castle in a room that greatly resembled a cave more than a part of the castle, Princess Luna was safe from prying eyes in the privacy of her lair."

That's when she stopped talking out loud and looked up in contemplation. "Wow, I really do sound evil when I put it that way." She then shrugged a wing and went back to humming instead. She stared at the image in her book that recalled the spell needed to summon ponies to her cause, and found it simple enough. She then turned the page and found another spell that let her have multiple copies of anypony she wished for. Not sure if I'll need that one, unless I want an army of Twilights by my side.





"You are on the way to destruction."

Princess Celestia raised an eyebrow at Black Shadows, unsure how to respond. "What you say?"

Celestia cringed slightly when she realized that she had failed to properly structure her sentence, only for the psychologist to respond, "You have no chance to survive, make your time," before bursting out in three short and emotionless laughs. Celestia rolled her eyes as she tried to get comfortable on the couch she was currently strapped to. "Well, I'm glad to know that you're in a good mood."

Black Shadows' smile grew wider, like the canary that swallowed the cat. "Oh I must admit that I am." She got up from her small stool and began to pace the room, adjusting small things around the room with her magic to make sure they were still exactly as they should be. "You see, I've been dealing with Blueblood's butlers and maids for so long, it's easy to forget that I am the royal psychologist. Do you know how awful that nephew of yours is by the way?"

The princess couldn't help but groan at the question, but it didn't seam to matter to the unicorn what Celestia thought of the question as she continued to manipulate small objects in the room. "Now that you've finally cracked, I'm the only one that can save you of course. Such an opportunity is rare, naturally and a tough challenge. One a lesser pony couldn't handle." She then suddenly grabbed Celestia by her cheeks in a sort of squishing face hug. "BUT I'm not a lesser pony, fortunatly for you, you poor poor pony, I'm Black Shadows! I Graduated top of my class and everything!"

"Then surely you know that-"

"Ah-ah-ah," Black Shadows interrupted. "I know what you are going to say, and you're right to worry. I mean how many alicorns had ever seen a psychologist besides your sister, and student, and niece, and well, that makes every single one besides you?"

"No," Celestia said again as she cut the duct tape with her magic. "I need to say this, it's the middle of the night, I'm in the middle of planning a friendly game with my sister, and you've been spying on me... why?"

"Reasons," the unicorn responded just as she slyly spun around a picture of her dressed as she envisioned herself as the new alicorn princess of Equestria. "Just reasons, isn't that good enough? Now, tell me about your fillyhood."





Princess Luna wrote down a final summoning spell onto a flash card and grinned to herself. "At last, with my small army of friends I can surely best my sister! Heh. Mu-ha. MUHAHAHA!" She couldn't help but break into the peals of maniacal laughter, and continued to do so as lightning flashed outside the small window. She stopped after a moment and shrugged slightly at the electrical phenomenon. "I thought I had fixed that problem."

She then took the stack of cards and shuffled most of them, while leaving a select few out in the front of the stack. "Well now what? I don't really want to be carrying these around like this." She looked around for a few moments before spying an old lunchbox. "'Tis probably from some careless guard," she mused before grabbing it. Inside was a sandwich and some oats that she carelessly dumped onto the table before shoving her cards in the tin. "Perfect."

She began to merrily trot with a slight bobbing in her gait, halfway between dancing and walking as she exited the dingy chamber to enter the halls of the castle proper. It didn't take long before she started seeing guards walking towards her, and she gave them her best smile. "Good evening good stallions, how is thine eve?"

The two unicorns looked at each other with a bit of unease before one of them coughed into his hoof. "Begging your pardon princess, but we are under orders to escort you to the east wing of the castle."

Luna stared at the two as if they had suddenly sprouted an extra set of horns. "The east wing? But whatever for? The only part of that wing that's being used at this hour is the medical wards!"

The two ponies grew more nervous as they twitched slightly. "Well, the thing is," one started before the other finished. "The thing is, is that Black Shadows wants you in her office, now."

Luna blinked a few times before smiling slightly. "Very well, let me just get my coat."

The two guards nodded as Luna began trotting along the same direction she started in, when suddenly it dawned on one of them. "Hey wait, princess Luna, you never wear a coat!"

By then it was too late, as she galloped away laughing. "You'll never catch us now! We are much too fast for thee!" She then began to laugh as she rounded the corner, right into a hastily set up unicorn spell blocking gate.





Celestia looked over at Luna in the couch next to her and frowned. "So, what are you in for?"

"Maniacal laughter with lightning, you?"

Celestia shrugged as well as she could with a sigh. "Same thing basically."

She was interrupted with a sudden tapping of a hoof as Black Shadows called for attention. "Excuse me, I didn't bring you here so you can talk, but so you can discuss your feelings. Now, Celestia can you tell me when you started to fear your sister?"

Luna snickered slightly as her older sister gave a look that laser beams should have come out of, but fortunately didn't. "And Luna, why don't you tell me, where did your resentment for Celestia come from? Now don't groan, the sooner we can talk, the sooner the healing can begin."