//------------------------------// // Peanut Butter and the Stormy Night at Night Court (Editing) // Story: The Life and Adventures of Peanut Butter // by FlufferNutters //------------------------------// As the sunsets on Equestria, Luna is already awake as she looks down at her sleeping son before gently moving off her bed and going to her balcony outside her room to raise the moon. She sees that the sky full of clouds and turns her head towards Peanut Butter as her horn lights up as the moon rises behind the clouds. She turns around and closes the doors to the balcony and locks them shut before the rain starts. She goes to the bed and looks down towards her son who is starting to wake up. His little hazel eyes looking up at his mother with joy and happiness along with sleepiness. "Well good evening my little Peanut Butter." Luna says with a smile and a happy tone in her voice as she levitates her son and nuzzles him gently making him giggle while she places him on her back before heading to the bathroom to take a bath and give Peanut Butter his bath. She enters the bathroom as Luna's horn glows to turn the nob to turn the water on and gets some bath toys for Peanut Butter to play with. She brushes her teeth as Peanut Butter wiggles around on her back still waking up. After a few minutes Luna gets Peanut Butter's tooth brush while levitating Peanut Butter in front of the sink with his toothbrush near his face. He moves his mouth away from it with Luna moving the brush towards his mouth with the same result. "Now now sweetie, you have to brush your teeth." Luna says. Peanut Butter turns his head away again, "No!" "Don't you want your mouth feel good?, if you don't brush your teeth you can't eat apples." Peanut Butter gasps and takes the toothbrush and brush his teeth. The tub is full and Luna places him in the tub before getting in herself to clean him up. Peanut Butter giggles as he feels a bubble from the soap Luna is using land on his muzzle and pops causing his eyes to go big as his mouth is shaped as an 'O'. Luna sees this and smiles as she cleans Peanut Butter's mane. "What was that Peanut Butter?" Luna playfully asks. "A bubble." Peanut Butter says. "Yes it is, such a smart colt." He giggles as Luna looks at him as she rinses his mane and tail and lathers them up and rinses them before putting in conditioner and letting him play while it soaks in his mane. Peanut Butter plays with his toys and splashes around in the tub while Luna finishes washing her mane as he turns the rubber sea pony around and pretends to be a sea monster as he raises his head and roars. Luna watches as he plays and decides to play along. "Oh no a sea monster, it's gonna eat me." Luna says with a silly tone in her voice. Peanut Butter jumps and clings to Luna. "Raar nummy." Peanut Butter says as he continues to pretend to be a sea monster. "I guess the sea monster ate my little Peanut Butter, which means more blueberry pancakes for me." Says Luna as she and Peanut Butter get out of the tub and wraps herself and Peanut Butter up in their own towels. Peanut Butter starts whimpering as Luna comforts him by nuzzling him as he looks up at her with his brown eyes as she finishes drying him off causing her to smile softly. She giggles while he stares at her with his brown eyes and quivering bottom lip. "All clean now my little pony." Luna says as she dries him off with his towel. Peanut Butter giggles as he is dried off with the towel. A few minutes later they head to the kitchen as Peanut Butter looks towards the windows of the hallway and sees the rain hit the windows with a small tap as it hits the window. He gives a small smile and sighs happily. Through out the walk to the kitchen he stares at the windows watching it rain and listening to all the tapping of the rain until Luna turns to enter the kitchen and sets him on a chair before she starts to get everything together for the blueberry pancakes. Peanut Butter just watches the rain hit the window in the kitchen. Suddenly there is a flash of light followed by a roar of thunder a second later. The next thing she hears is crying, a small screech and the falling of a couple chairs. she feels Peanut Butter on her back pressing the side of his head on her neck trying to hide hearing a muffled whimper from him. Luna turns her head and nuzzles his head gently trying to calm him down. "Shhhh it's ok, it's only thunder it won't hurt you." Luna says doing what she can to reassure the frightened colt. "Pwomise?" Asks Peanut Butter still on the verge of crying as his eyes are still full of tears clinging to Luna tightly. "Promise." Luna responds in a cheery voice. This calms him down a bit though he still is clinging onto her. Once the pancakes are finished Luna places Peanut Butter in his chair and gives him his plate of blue berry pancakes is in front of him. The sweet smell of the pancakes hits his nose he starts to smile as Luna uses her magic to tie a napkin around his neck knowing he'll make some sort of mess. She puts a small amount of syrup on his pancakes before allowing him to eat. After about five minutes he looks at her with crumbs of pancake on his muzzle and the napkin and giggles. Luna smiles before it fades away to her slanting her lips to one side he is eating as he is already half done with his pancakes. "Slow down Peanut Butter or you'll get a tummy ache." Luna warns Peanut Butter. "Otayths mahmah" He says before swallowing his food. "Don't talk with your moth full either. You need to be on your best behavior today since you will be joining me at night court today after the incident with Ocean Shine." Luna says before she drinks a bit of her tea. "Do I has ta?" Peanut Butter whines as he gives her the puppy dog eyes and sticks out his bottom lip for extra cuteness. "Yes you do and that cute trick won't work on me. I invented it little one." Luna says seeing right through his tactic. His responds by pouting before finishing his breakfast. After ten minutes they finish their breakfast and Luna takes a damp napkin and wipes Peanut Butter's muzzle clean before taking off the napkin around his neck and setting him on the floor as he follows her out of the kitchen and towards the meeting hall. On the way there Peanut Butter tries to mimic Luna's posture and walking pattern. Luna turns her head around to make sure he didn't run off and sees this and giggles softly as she continues walking down the hall. Luna's horn glows as the doors to the room open and she enters with her son right next to her now hiding under her as he hears other ponies in the room as well. It's a huge room covered in shades of blues and bits of white and gold with a large round glass dome above to light the room. Luna sits on her throne in a box seat put at eye level with the other nobles with the throne being slightly higher as she has Peanut Butter sit right under her. A silence falls in the room when he is visible. A cough is heard as one of the nobles speaks up. The noble is another bat pony like Peanut Butter though his coat is blue and his mane silver and looks more regal in appearance with fancy clothes and slicked back mane. "Good Evening your highness. I see you brought young prince Peanut Butter with you." He says in a regal sophisticated accent. "Yes I did. It will keep him out of trouble." Luna says with a soft giggle. She whispers to a near by guard. He leaves the room. After a few more comments about Peanut Butter most of them saying how handsome or how cute he is makes him start to blush and hide under his wings. Luna smiles and nuzzles him before beginning. It's been only half and hour until Peanut Butter is bored and tries to sneak out to play. Luna notices his attempt and uses her magic to put him back under her. Peanut Butter pouts and looks up at her. "But mama I bored." Peanut Butter whispers with a whining tone in his voice. "You brought this on yourself little one. Maybe you shouldn't have ran from your foalsitter." Luna whispers back somewhat scolding him. He just pouts and looks down. The brown colt is bored out of his mind and wants out. About two hours later he sees an opening as a servant enters with a cart with a cloth over it with lunch on it. He quietly sneaks on it before it is wheeled away. What he didn't take into account is his tail sticking out. Even though he tries to hide a lot of the time he usually forgets to tuck his tail in. Luna notices this and lifts his tail up with her magic and lets the cart wheel away from the throne. Peanut Butter hit the floor with a soft thud as the cart wheeled away. He turns around and looks up at Luna who is very unhappy with what he did as her face shows it. He knows he's in trouble. "Big Twuble?" He asks. "Yes my son. Very big trouble." Luna replies with a stern look on her face and her voice nearing royal Canterlot voice. He looks down and whimpers. Luna fully lifts him up with her magic and has him look right at her. "You had your chance to behave. Now you're in trouble for trying to sneak off. No desert for a week and no toys as well." Luna says sternly before setting him under her with her magic and uses it to keep it there. Peanut Butter starts crying not wanting to be grounded. To a colt it's worse enough not having dessert for a week. But no toys made it even worse. "I'm sowwy mama." He says and looking up to her with tears in his eyes trying to get out of his punishment. "While I accept your apology you are still punished." Says Luna before lunch is over and work resumes. Another hour passes and Peanut Butter is now fast asleep from his crying while night court continues. Luna checks on him every once in a while by tilting her head down. As much as she hates to punish him she had to he won't learn if she didn't. Luna has one of the servants get Peanut Butter's blanket. Five minutes later the servant comes back with it and gives it to Luna. She puts it on top of him while she listens to one of the nobles as the sound of rain is heard in the background. After another hour Luna feels movement under her and looks to see her son facing her rubbing his eyes. She smiles at how cute he looks when he is just waking up. "Hi mama." Peanut Butter says groggily still waking up. "Did you have a good nap?" Luna whispers while two nobles argue in the background. He nods as he turns over and sees a book in front of him. "That is for you to start reading. If you need any help just ask me and I'll help you when I'm not busy. Besides if I didn't teach you Aunt Twilight would get mad at mama and teach you herself and trust me you don't want that." She whispers. Peanut Butter remembers the last time Aunt Twilight was over. While at first it was fun after about three hours of non stop reading he wanted to run as far away as he could. Though being as little as he was at the time it wasn't very far. He cracks open the book and practices on his pronunciations while the rest of the night court goes by smoothly besides a couple of debates here and there. Just as night court is about to end a loud crash of thunder is heard in the hall. Next thing that is heard is a loud screech of a certain brown bat pony and the slamming open of a door. Luna looks down and sees Peanut Butter is missing. With a sigh Luna gets up and calls the night court to a close and tries to find her son. Even though he ran off this time she isn't mad at him since thunder does scare him. Peanut Butter has been running in the halls trying to get to one of his hiding spots which this time is a small part of the library in the castle that Luna setup for him. He dashes into the library and goes to his little corner full of daring do books and other books of brave ponies fighting monsters and in the middle is a large soft cushion. Though one thing is missing from his spot. His daring do plush. He looks around for it trying to find where it could have gone. He starts to cry again and remembers why it's missing. He's always has had Daring Do with him while Luna reads to him since at times the stories got scary and had Daring Do around to make him feel brave. Another crack of thunder is heard. Peanut Butter screams again while crying scared out of his mind trying to hide from it. He feels something soft wrapping around him it feels like feathers. He looks up and sees Luna. He clings to her as she sits on the nearby cushion and uses her magic to grab a near by book. "There there Peanut Butter mama is here. How about I read you a story? Will that make you feel better?" Luna asks looking at her son who is still clinging to her tightly. He nods while his head is still buried in her coat still crying. "Ok I'll read you a story." Luna says as she cracks the book open and starts reading. Through out her reading she still hears the sobbing from her son though it has slowed down and softened. By story's end it's silent in the library as Luna sees Peanut Butter sleeping soundly. Luna shuts the book quietly and puts it away before using her magic to hold the sleeping bat pony close to her as a way to not wake him up. She gets up and leaves the library to head back to her bedroom to lower the moon. As she makes her way back Luna runs into Celestia in the hallway. "I see you had a busy night Luna." Celestia says looking at her nephew. "He was a hoofful today sister. He tried sneaking off a couple times so he's punished for a week. But I also found out he's terrified of thunder. There was a loud crash just before I was done for the day and he darted off scared senseless. I found him in his reading corner though. You should have seen the look on his face. Pure terror and fear. I almost cried at the look at his face. Thankfully reading him a story worked." Luna says. "I see. Just to let you know I received a message earlier from Twilight. She and her friends will be visiting in a couple weeks. Don't tell Peanut Butter though. They want it to be a surprise. Especially Pinkie Pie. Knowing her she has a plan for him." Celestia says in a whisper. "Thank you for letting me know. You have a good day Celestia." Luna says before continuing her way to her room. "You too Luna." Celestia says before continuing her way to her throne room. Luna enters her room and sees that it's a lot cleaner without all the plush toys around. She goes to the doors leading to her balcony and opens the curtains to lower the moon. It's still raining out as she uses her magic to lower the moon and then closes the curtains and settles down on her bed as she pulls Peanut Butter close to her as she puts a blanket over them both before she falls asleep with her son.