Written by: Pearple Prose
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"Okay... How about now?"
Twilight peered up at the night sky through her telescope, her eyes dancing back and forth between the constellations and the star maps by her hooves. After a few moments of terse silence, she nodded. "Yep. Everything checks out." Twilight ticked off her checklist.
Luna sighed in relief, wandering over to a nearby cushion and collapsing onto it. "I am glad! Always a bother getting the stars back a certain trickster god messes with them like that." Luna glanced up at Twilight, who was idly clearing up the star charts and getting ready to turn in for the night. "I thank thee for thy help, my love."
Twilight chuckled, walking over to her lover and curling up next to her on the seat. Luna wrapped her wings around her and rested her head in the curve of her neck. "No problem, Luna. Though, I'm kinda curious; does moving the stars drain you at all?"
Twilight felt Luna's contemplative hum against her neck. "The actual magic itself does not draw from a mana pool, like unicorn magic does. Rather, alicorn magic flows from the world itself. Some old-fashioned types called it "witchcraft". I suppose you could say that it is a mechanism of the world, and that we are the ones who maintain it."
Twilight hummed. "So what else can you do? Moving the celestial bodies is one thing."
"Well, there is one thing..."
"What is it?"
Luna didn't reply. Instead, Twilight heard her hum. The hum slowly got louder, and she started whispering words in a forgotten language under her breath.
"Look at me." Luna commanded, her words thrumming with power. Trembling, Twilight turned to face her.
Then Luna booped her on the nose.
"See? It makes you look cuter."
Twilight glared at her. "You're a real witch, you know that?"
Indulge in the fluff now and then Pear. It's good for you.
But don't let it make you weak!
Take those ponies. Take them. And make them cry.
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Let the fluff flow through you.
And yes, I take perverse enjoyment in ruining the day of my favourite pones. I'm a meanie.
I think I prefer the dark version. But this is too cute to deny existence.
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Yeah, I do too. I think I may expand on it sometime, because the concept really intrigues me.
Perhaps a story set back in time, with a young Celestia and Luna just beginning to learn the scope of their destinies?
Along with plenty of horrible torture, because I can.
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I hack up fluff so much you wouldn't believe. My own writing has been turning a touch darker lately. I wonder why
Show us the dark one.
NOW.
~Skeeter The Lurker
I want to see the dark.
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Your wish is my command.
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Oh shit... 3436387, what have we done?
~Skeeter The Lurker
3437319 We have opened the great gates of Tartarus and released the beasts from within and the carnage they shall bring will be the greatest piece of art ever wrought. The fires shall rise high and burn bright and I will dance in the light of the flames, with the screams of the dead my music.
IT WILL BE GLORIOUS!