~~~ Last Time ~~~
Just then he saw one of his sisters guards so he walked up to that guard. "Excuse me, do you know where my sister is? I would like to speak to her about something."
"I'm sorry your Majesty, but Princess Luna Twilight and four of Luna's guards went into the city. Something up about what Luna helping Twilight find some presents for Hearth's Warming."
At hearing this Solarium nodded his head and asked the guard to let his sister know that he wished to speak with her as soon as possible. Then the two parted ways.
~~~ Meanwhile... ~~~
Luna and Twilight were just heading back to the Castle. They had gotten everything they needed for the presents, and Twilight needed to get to the kitchen as soon as possible so she could bake Solarium a cake. They had just reached the Castle when the guard that Solarium had spoken to told Luna that he wished to speak with her. She thanked him and told him that she would, after she dropped her things off in her room of course. She also offered to take all of Twilight things as well, except for the cake ingredients, which Twilight gladly accepted. With a quick see you later they parted ways. Luna went to her chambers first and as soon as luna set their things down in her bed chambers, she went to her brother’s chambers. Meanwhile Twilight was busy baking the cake. When Luna got to Solarium's bedroom she knocked on the door and entered. "Hello Solarium, could you please tell me why you have called me here?"
"Hello Luna. The reason why I called you here was because something happened when I was getting the presents from those mares."
"Oh, and what that might that be. "
"Well, they asked about Twilight. I told them that she was from someplace far away, that she was visiting and the fact that she is not related to us. And they started behaving like Twilight did during breakfast today. One of the guards told me that they were all jealous of Twilight. On top of that, he stated that it was more than likely Twilight was jealous of them. Do you think by chance that this is true?"
"I do not know, she said that she was angry because she was nervous that didn't have yours and some other ponies Hearth’s Warming presents, so we went shopping for them. The only way to know if what she stated was true would be for me to get her really nervous, I could see if that is true as soon as I leave seeing as Twilight’s been making your present since we got back. I could tell her that she is running out of time, see how she reacts."
"Oh all right, let me know what you find out as soon as you can."
"Will do."
And with that the two parted ways.
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Luna had made her way to the kitchen and entered. Upon looking around she saw that Twilight was done baking the cake and just needed to decorate it. So she walked over to Twilight, "I see that the cake is coming along nicely."
At hearing Luna's voice Twilight turned towards her and smiled. "Yes. It turned out nicely. Now I just need to make the icing add the color to two different bowls of icings and decorate it."
Luna decided this was the best time to test Twilight to see if she would get nervous when she found out she was running out of time. "Yeah about that, the reason why Solarium wanted to speak to me is because we need to start heading to Canterlot castle now."
At hearing that Twilight left ear began to twitch. Twilight's right eye soon joined in on the twitching as well, becoming dilated. Her mane and tail started curling up in some places. Soon after her wings started twitching about. "You're joking right?"
At seeing this Luna started to think that Twilight did indeed lie to her about the reason why she was so angry during breakfast. But just to be certain. She kept going, "I'm dead serious, we got to go, now."
That made Twilight snap. "But then I-I-I-I'm TARDY!"
She started frantically running around the kitchen. This made Luna worried that Twilight might destroy the cake that she had worked so hard to make, so she grabbed Twilight in her magic. Trying to tell her that she was just joking, but Twilight was too deep into a panic attack to listen to reason. So Luna turned to the cooks. "Place Twilight's cake in a container, and then place it in the fridge for now. You can leave the icing ingredients out. If there's anything that has to be in the fridge, put it in the fridge as well. Don't forget to label it as Twilight's and please make notes of where her other supplies are at. Then clean the tools that she used to make the cake. Twilight will return as soon as she can to finish her cooking project, but for now I need to get her to calm down."
All the cooks nodded their heads and began to do what Luna had instructed them to do; and with that, Luna ran out of the kitchen with Twilight still in her magical grasp and headed to her brother's bed chambers. When she reached them she didn't even bother knocking, barging right in. "LUNA! what are you doing here? And why didn't you knock?"
Before Luna could answer, Twilight finally was able to get out of Luna's magical grip. Being able to frantically run around the room while screaming "TARDY!" Seeing this Solarium slowly turn to his sister with a look of pure rage on his space. "What happened to her Luna?"
Seeing the look on her brother's face, as well as hearing his angry tone, Luna chuckled nervously. "Well, you see Twilight was working on your present and I told her that you told me that we all needed to start heading to Canterlot castle right at that moment... And well... This happened."
At hearing this Solarium was shocked. He wanted to be mad at Luna, but it was partially his fault since he gave her the okay to test to see if Twilight was telling the truth or not about her behavior at breakfast. Which, now that they had their answer they needed to figure out a way to calm her down... Just then Solarium remembered that Twilight had calmed down when he had hugged her. So he grabbed Twilight in his magic and levitated her towards him. As soon as she was next to him, he placed her down and held her in a wing hug. The moment he did so Twilight stopped trying to run around. But she was now trembling. It broke Solarium's heart to see her like this, so he started stroking her mane with one of his hooves while giving her some reassuring words. This ended up doing the trick as she began to calm down and eventually her trembling stopped. Twilight began to wonder what was going on. As well as where she was that was until she heard Solarium's voice, which made her nervous all over again. So she looked up towards him. "I'm so…"
But before Twilight could finish Solarium interrupted her. "I'm so sorry that Luna pulled that prank on you."
At hearing that it was a prank, she calmed down even more. She wasn't even mad at Luna, since she knew that Luna had a unique sense of humor. But as she started calming down, she became more and more tired as her adrenaline began to wear off from her panic attack, along with the energy she used during breakfast. The stress of it all had just made her very tired. She began to yawn and started leaning towards Solarium. Before she closed her eyes she mumbled out, "Thank you Solarium."
Wondering why Twilight sounded so tired he looked down towards her, only to see that she has fallen asleep. Which made his heart flutter, at least until he heard his sister chuckle. Which he looked up towards her, only to see that she had a mischievous smile upon her face with a glint in her eye. "Ah that's so cute! Where's a painter when you need one! This should be a portrait!"
"Not funny Luna. You made her so worried that she exhausted herself, so when she finally calmed down she passed out. Speaking of that what are we going to do? I don't think we could get her into your room without waking her up."
At hearing this Luna chuckled nervously once more. "You're right. I'm sorry but it's probably not a good idea to move her all that much. Hmm... Why don't you just make Twilight and yourself comfortable and just take a nap with her!"
Solarium was about the protest when he realized that there was really no other option at the moment, so he sighed in defeat. "You're right."
With that Solarium began levitating some pillows while Luna left his bed chambers. He placed one of the pillows underneath Twilight's head. Then placed another one in front of him and got her and himself in a more comfortable position. Once he'd done so Twilight began snuggling even closer towards him and gave a contented sigh. At this Solarium could not help but smile and feel the warmth in his heart. Solarium hoped that someday both he and Twilight could do this on a regular basis, and not only when she had a panic attack. So Solarium placed his head on his pillow and closed his eyes.
~~~ End of chapter 8 ~~~