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// 412. Pickle by Phantom Heart 
// Story: The Sun and the Stars: A Twilestia Prompt Collab 
// by Fuzzyfurvert 
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by Phantom Heart


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The purple unicorn woke up with a yawn, eyes weary and unaware. She nuzzled closer into the arms of her mare friend, Princess Celestia. The regal alicorn put her head around the neck of her faithful student, snuggling her muzzle into the mare’s purple and magenta striped mane. This made Twilight giggle and push the Celestia away from her.

“Wake up Celly, it’s time to raise the sun,” Twilight Sparkle responded to her silly mare friend’s actions, making a moan escape the other mare’s mouth. “But Twily… Can’t you raise the sun today sweetie?”  

This got a laugh out of Twilight. She pushed  the princess towards the balcony where she raises and sets the sun each morning at dusk and each evening for her younger sisters’ moon to rise in the nights sky.

Celestia scowled at Twilight then chuckled, “Okay then, you got me dear.”

The two mare’s got out of bed as Celestia walked towards the balcony, her yellow magical aura surrounding her long alicorn horn, leaving Twilight to make the large bed, fit for Celestia herself, luckily it was big enough for the both of them.

As the purple maned mare turned to the mirror after making their bed, Celestia gasped. But Twilight didn’t hear her mare friend.

“Umm… Twi darling? L-little help please?” the alicorn shouted inside from the balcony. Twilight approached the princess with an steady smile on her face. “What is it princess?”

Celestia hesitated to answer for a second, but she knew her student was an understanding mare, so she explained to her why she needed her.

“I’ve got myself in a bit of a pickle…”

“What do you mean?” the unicorn replied.

She nervously laughed then blurted it out, “The sun won’t rise! My magic is being weird!” she said quite informally to her usual manner of addressing ponies, even Princess Luna at times.

“Well, I suppose I can help you, now can’t I?” Twilight’s horn lit up, as did the regal alicorn standing beside her, as they slowly but surely raised the sun together, the princess’s large wing wrapped around the smaller mare’s body.

“Thank you for your assistance Twilight, I knew you would be able to help me. I love you dear,” she praised her mare friend and most faithful student.

“I love you too, Celly…”