Chapter Six - Luna
Solaris looked down at the mare who was blinking up at him who was no longer yelling at him, just panting a bit as she tried to think things through. He recognized the face from Arty’s dream realm and dear Faust, they looked so much alike and what the bucking Tartarus was he thinking in making out with her sister like that!
“Sire?” Steel Barricade said, taking a step into the room, forcing him to turn his head around to stare at her. “What, what is going on here‽”
“I di-“ He turned to his- what did he even call Luna? His sister from another universe? Oh Faust, that didn’t help things, knowing how much Arty liked her! “Luna, are you okay?”
“Okay‽” she snapped, placing a hoof on his chest, “OKAY‽” She stood up on her hooves which he numbly noticed had swirling pattern socks over them, and she was starting to pick things up in her magical aura. “After what you and my sister did‽” She started to throw several objects at him now; Arty’s crown and helmet hit the floor in front of his skidding hooves, his torc hitting him square in the chest. Solaris was no greenhoof when it came to a mare’s scorn in the morning, and he was already running out of the room when she started to yell at him to get out. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Steel Barricade wrap her arms around the lunar princess? as Arty’s nightstand went sailing over his head, crashing into the floor.
Oh buck him, this was bad.
Solaris sat in his study room, the massive amount of paperwork still on the floor after shoving it off in a fit of pithy rage. His mind continued to go over what he did in Arty’s dream realm, trying to comprehend what he did.
He’d… kissed that mare. Celestial? Celecerine? He couldn’t remember; he just saw how hurt his brother looked, how betrayed he looked, oh Faust why.
He had promised Mother and Father, he promised himself, oh Faust he promised Arty that he would never do anything to hurt his brother.
Yet time and time again, he did something to hurt his brother; opening his mouth to the ponies cheering their victory over Eris, and Arty’s feelings were stomped into the ground due to him taking in the praises too much; doing something nice for his little brother’s birthday, and his self-esteem, self-respect, and pride he had were gone and he’d gained a humiliating fear; try to give him some space after that fuckup, and Arty believed that no one cared about him and his night and tried to bring Eternal Night as Nighterror Knight; promising to behave himself when meeting the first mare Arty had ever shown some interest in since the fuckup, and he broke his word less than minute in and bucking humiliated his brother in the one place that Artemis had complete control over.
And these were only the worst moments he had majorly messed up; knowing there must have been thousands of other times he did something stupid that hurt his brother.
That’s all he ever did, hurt hurt hurt. He should have been banished to the moon, not Arty.
He did not know how long he sat crying at his desk, but it was suddenly cut off when the chair was yanked away, slamming his head into the wood, his crown and helmet rolling to the side. He turned his head to see a furious draconequus glaring at him.
“YOU BUCKING PIG!” Eris yelled at him, slapping him across the face. “I KNOW YOU ARE STUPID, BUT I DIDN’T EXPECT THIS AMOUNT OF STUPIDITY!” She grabbed a thick tome and started to hit him across the head with it, causing the stallion to yelp out in pain, trying to scoot away from her. “I MAY BE THE EMBODIMENT OF CHAOS BUT EVEN I WOULDN’T DO THAT!” She continued to scream at him, kicking his stomach a few times and then grabbed him by his mane. “DO YOU EVEN HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW HURTFUL THAT WAS‽”
“YES!” he bellowed back in the Royal Canterlot Voice, glaring at her, tears still going down his face. “I bucked it up, just like I do everything when I try to help my brother! Every time I try to help him, I end up hurting him in some new way!” Her grip on his ethereal mane loosened up, her eyes opening wide in surprise. “I- he’s the only family I have left and nothing I ever do… Oh Faust,” he sobbed, leaning into his old foe turned friend’s chest, letting out his shame at his countless failures for the one pony he loved above all. He felt her rub his back, but he continued to cry, feeling so ashamed of everything he had done in the last thousand years, all those years he could have been firmer, make sure Arty’s return would have been seen as something good, that blasted festival should have been banned the first year instead of turning the celebration of Nightterror Knight’s fall into a bucking child’s festival! How could he have been that selfish, that weak for his brother! “Why, why do I only hurt him?”
She just held him, rubbing his back out of some reflex. Eris had come in here to beat up Sunbutt for hurting little Lulu, but now she was stuck in this awkward situation. Oh, what would her Butterscotch do?… Besides this emotion thing.
After a few minutes of just sitting there, Solaris pulled away from the draconequus. “E-Eris, I’m going to do the right thing for once,” he took a breath to steady himself. “I’m going to send for the only ponies that have ever helped my brother and then…” He trailed off, clearly afraid to lose this train of thought.
“Y- you go do that Sunbutt,” Eris blinked, floating away from the stallion as he started to write out a letter, the feather shaking in his magical aura. “I’m going to see if Lulu and the gals found any more ice cream.”
Dusk Shine yawned contently, glad to be at Sugarcube Corner and out of his new treehouse although he still missed the old Golden Oaks library.
Not to say he didn’t enjoy his new crystal treehouse-palace of Friendship, but it was a palace, not a library. He was a scholar through and through, and he was still doing his best to regain the lost books so all his friends in Ponyville could enjoy reading again.
Take one of his best friends Rainbow Blitz for example; nose buried deep inside the latest Dashing Dare novel, so much that he didn’t notice Elusive was making great progress on fixing his mane, getting all the colours to flow the right way.
Turning his attention away from the inevitable fight that was sure to come, he looked across the table to see that Bubble Berry was eating another cupcake; how that stallion had not keeled over from any illness was beyond him, just like Berry Sense.
Fighting back the eye twitch that came after he had tried to learn Berry Sense, he saw Applejack enjoying a simple slice of pie, talking with Butterscotch about the local timberwolves, seeing if anything could be done about them.
“Heya guys, mind making some room?” Six heads turned to see Barbara, or Barbs as she liked to be called, had come back from the washroom, a bit crestfallen to see her seat next to Elusive was taken by the bouncing pink earth pony that was Bubble Berry.
“Sure thing squirt,” Applejack smiled, tipping his stetson hat as he pushed inwards next to the other earth pony on the booth. “Saved ya a slice from this greedy creature.” He jabbed a hoof into Bubble Berry’s side, causing the party pony to gasp playfully.
“You eat one too many slices and you never let it go, do you?” he huffed, rolling his eyes.
“It was an entire cake BB.” Rainbow Blitz shuddered from his book, still bit traumatized by how his old friend ate the entire cake in one bite. “A double layer cake.” He put his book down, with the page open to keep his spot and damaging the spine!
No! It would be bad to fix it, Dusk told himself.
“You know our Bubble Berry, if he gets hungry enough, then nothing under Solaris’s sun can stop him.” Elusive’s laughter was carried out by everypony, causing a bit of a yelp of pain from the two ponies with naturally born wings as Dusk’s new wings were far stronger than a normal pegasi’s, and he still hadn’t learned how to not flair his wings when laughing.
“Oi egghead, are you ever going to let me teach you how to use these wings of yours?” Rainbow Blitz spat out a feather, trying to push the wing back to the side.
“Blitz, I’ve been busy getting all the darn paperwork to get books back to Ponyville done, including that Dashing Dare novel you are bending the spine out of place on right now, plus I have to deal with a ton of other work now that I am a Prince.” He sighed, trying to enjoy this outing his friends had forced him on. “Besides, Prince,” he pushed a hoof into the table to correct himself, causing a dent as he had yet to learn to control his newfound earth pony strength either. ”I mean, Solaris is always sending me some new work, trying to get me used to my new title.” He paused for a moment, biting into a cupcake with some thought on his head. “Or some new threat has happened and he wants us to head to Canterlot right away.”
The daredevil pony just sighed and rolled his eyes. “Oh come on, when was the last-”
Burp
All of their eyes turned to a new message sitting on the table, and then to Dusk as he picked it up and started to read it. Applejack thought he could catch some of the words, as his friend did mouth the words as he read, but the frown and then smirk told him everything he needed to know.
“Well guess where we’re going?” Dusk Shine said with a grin, with the ponies leaving the booth to make haste for Dusk to teleport them. Blitz sighed, facehoofing for tempting fate, and then blinked as he looked into the polished table.
“Elusive, you brushed my mane again!”
“RAINBOWBLITZNOSONICRAINBOOMSINSIDEBUILDINGS!” Dusk shouted, terrified as he grabbed his angry friend’s tail with his magic. “Do you remember what happened last time?”
The prismatic pony blinked, and blushed. “Oh yeah,” rubbing his neck as he shook his head to re-ruffle his mane. “Sorry about that barn AJ.”
Solaris watched the letter fly off into the sky with a sigh. Calling in his former student Dusk Shine and his friends was the right call. Even though he had ruined Dusk when he was practically raising him as his own son, the stallion had proven to do something right for Arty, freeing him from that monster Nightterror Knight, and doing so much to save his country and his fat plot time and time again.
He sighed, trying to recall more of his failures when his latest came into his study room. She looked stunning; his guards and Eris had apparently given her a makeover after raiding all the ice cream within two city blocks from the castle. Her ethereal mane and tail were combed perfectly and blowing exquisitely; her coat was rubbed and polished until it seemed to sparkle with its own stars, and her eyes were focused on him.
“Solaris.”
“Luna,” he muttered numbly, his shame rebounded as he saw this beautiful mare, wondering how he could have ever hurt her? He was resigned to the fact he would always hurt his brother: no matter what he did, Arty was always hurt so it was about time he accepted his fate.
“I understand that Eris talked to you, and while I am greatly bothered to say that any action of a draconequus is right, I am glad to hear what she told me is correct.” Luna took a step forward, forcing him to stare at her, seeing Arty in her face, although it was bit off. “You believe that you are a creature that can only hurt your brother.” She stopped until she was practically nose to nose to him. “You may be many things, Solaris, but from what I have observed, while you are a pony that deeply cares for his brother with four left hooves when trying to help, you are certainly no monster.”
She placed a hoof on his mouth when he tried to protest, unlike Arty who would just bowl him over by continuing to talk as if he hadn’t said anything. It was unnerving how easy that worked for Arty as Solaris always found himself tongue tied when he tried it. “I have known heartless creatures and monsters, and they lack what you have. Love. No monster without a heart would be in this much despair if they did not truly love the pony that they had hurt.” She sighed, looking sad herself again. “I suppose it would have been nice to be loved once…”
Solaris stopped her with a hoof over her mouth. “Luna, I am willing to bet anything you once had the Element of Honesty, correct?” She gave him a weak nod. “Then why did you just lie?” He didn’t let her answer, on a roll now. “Luna, you do not know how much it meant to see Arty out of his armor and that close to a mare.” He looked to the floor, wondering how much he should tell. “Long ago, I hurt him badly. To the point that I thought it would take another millennia or so for him to be comfortable enough to be without his regalia when there was another mare in the room.” He leaned down to nuzzle her, his shame of what had happened that night still fresh in his soul. As long as he lived, he would never forgive himself for doing that to Arty.
“He cares deeply for you if he could do that just seeing you once, and that means love in my eyes.” He chuckled a bit, ruffling her mane out of some instinctual sibling reflex. She huffed, rolling her eyes at his actions, trying to swat away his hooves. “And you got everypony to take care of you; I’ve not seen that much devotion since the Royal Wedding when they swarmed Gleaming Shield to make sure she was just perfect.” He laughed, pulling her into a hug with a wing. She giggled at this, seeming to be in better spirits already. “Tartarus, you got Eris to go to your side without any arm twisting from Butterscotch.” He smiled, lifting her head up. She was smiling warmly back at him, clearly holding back some laughter and trying to be still annoyed at him. “Need I say more?”
“Solaris, if I said yes, you would never cease if my assessment of you is correct,” Luna rolled her eyes, taking a step back from him. “You are an incorrigible goof with a heart of gold with a tendency to act before thinking and certainly no monster.” She tapped her chin, as if in thought. “Well, maybe a monster that devours the helpless cakes and sweets.” She tapped her hoof on his chest.
He laughed at that, pulling her into another hug with his arm. She squawked, and then giggled as she tried to escape his hold.
He was confident now; he could fix his relationship with Arty, make things right. For everything he did to his little brother and he knew that meant making sure his marefriend was happy. And she was.
For once everything was just fi-
“Solaris, I’m here like you as-Who is that‽” He blinked, looking to see Dusk Shine and the rest of his friends pour into his study room, with low hanging jaws, seeing him hold the lunar princess close to him.
BUCK!
Wait...why are both Luna and Artemis being ticked off about one stupid thing? I mean seriously whatever you are intending for me to feel right now is something I either lack or you didn't leave enough exposition about it. TL;DR Im confused.
4588477 It's just not one thing, but a long list of things with this being the latest blow. Remember, both Luna and Artemis did have a fall from grace for a reason; Luna's more well known. Artemis's is touch on here.
Solaris looked down at the mare who was blinking up at him, who was no longer yelling at him, just panting a bit as she tried to think things through too. He recognized the face from Arty’s dream realm, dear Faust they looked like and what the bucking Tartarus was he thinking making out like that!
already going to suggest this know
Bubble Berry x Twilight sparkle
Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Blitz
Rarity x R63 Applejack
Elusive x Applejack
and then Eris and Discord get jealous of Butterscotch x Fluttershy
And:
4588534 I'll fix that later
4588527 Like this one too
4588532 hehehe, but Discord and Eris would not get jealous, they would say foursome and dive under the blankets.
4588538 Buck it why not an orgy
4588553 Just don't get Pinkie Pie and Bubble Berry involved. We do not want to have the latter getting the former pregnant. The world is not ready for babies from those two.
4588560 finally someone who gets that we can not let them have foals because i fear the world may never be ready that but for for the love of Faust, Celestia, and Luna, do not get them depressed because we don't need Pinkamena Diane Pie and Bubblini Davinci Berry together in the same universe.
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4588560 sorry messed up the image link just woke up to tired
4588588 try again
4588603 no to tired going back to bed it was just an image of them together berry holding a big ass sword and pinkie holding a butchers knife and on top it spelled out friends
NEED MOAR! NOW!
I have to confess... I don't actually get what the problem was.
So Celestia and Solaris were making out, so what? This deserved an eye roll and a "Get a room, you two", not "HOW DAREST THOU RUIN MY LIFE, OLDER SIBLING FROM TARTARUS!" I mean, seriously, your older sib grabbing tongue with your boyfriend/girlfriend's older sib is not the end of the world, and I'm actually kind of shocked that Discord/Eris are taking Celestia/Solaris to task about it, because it's such an arbitrary thing to get upset over. It'd be one thing if it happened in front of a court of nobles, but it happened in front of the two younger sibs, so there's no good reason for them to be so utterly humiliated since it happened to both of them... I get being embarrassed that your older sibling did something crude in front of the romantic partner you want to impress, but if they did something crude mutually with your romantic partner's older sib, the reasonable response is for the two youngers to go off together and commiserate about their older sibs, or maybe suck some face themselves. I realize Luna and Arty are not the most reasonable of ponies, but Discord/Eris should be finding the overreaction from the moon monarchs hilarious, not chewing out the sun monarchs for making kissyface.
These ponies are not teenagers. They are millennia old. This is the kind of thing teenagers get really, really upset over, but even twentysomethings are more likely to shrug it off, and no one over the age of 30 would see this as worse than tacky unless they have personal issues (which admittedly Luna and Arty have, but it's not in character for Discord/Eris to care about that. If it was objectively bad behavior, yeah, the draconequui might be decent enough beings deep down to care, but the fact that the horror of it lives mostly in Luna and Artemis' head would just make the chaos twins think the whole thing is funny.)
The thing is, if something is not about you, then it's not about you, and Celestia and Solaris making out was not about their younger siblings, so Luna and Arty are really in the wrong to make it such a huge big deal and All About Them. "Your romantic misbehavior is ruining MY LIFE" is not a thing you should ever say about your sibling; your sibling's romantic behavior, mis or otherwise, should have nothing to do with your own life.
what i dont get is that solaris gets called a pig but celestia doesn't get called a whorse what the buck
4588768 i concur and also weren't Luna and Artemis somewhere else
4588902 It's called double-edged standards. Hold a door open for a lady, yer trying to get into her pants, don't and yer a chavanist pig, or something along the lines, anyway, lose/lose.
4588936 yay but still she wanted it to
The suspense!!! I love it. Keep it up.
Forgot a ship in my suggestions list dusk shine x rainbow dash
I really like this story, but I find myself skimming the words when all the italicized words blur together because there's just so many of them and it makes me not want to continue reading.
Please try to minimize using them?
I like this style a bit better. While in these parallel worlds, The same key event occur. I always believed that things should be different. For instance in Twilight's world, Cadence would have been a Bridezilla. While in Dusk's (If everything was still the same.) Then Tempo would have been, a stallionzilla. It just doesn't work as well. So I say keep the dialogue different. Really makes things better. Good luck with future chapters. This is getting good.
I was right....I broke a rib from laughing at the end of these chapters
But the deep emotions from these chapter! OH THE FEELS!!!!!
4588634 Epic picture sounds epic
4588746 Give me some time! ....*runs off*
4588768 If this had been the one thing, then you would be right, but you have to remember that their, both Solaris and Celestia relationship with Artemis and Luna have been strained lately, and this was one more insult to their pride as it was a case of their sibling, the one pony they thought could trust, just break their word to them again. Artemis has more reason to be angry, which will be revealed later, to his brother than Luna, but this is added onto old fights with both siblings.
4588902 I had originally planned for the guards to have a minor conversation and show disapointted they were with her.
4589020 Thanks!
4589050 Nice
4589123 Will try.
4589253 Thank you, and that's adds into a point. In my head, I could not and will not ever write the changling as a 63 male changeling king taking over Tempo as it would feel really wrong.
4589297 Hhehe, sorry about that and thank you
4588936 Trust me, Tia won't get away with this squeaky clean
4589050 Also I can see the DJ's trying to get their Octies together for a group orgy...
4589421
why is it necessary to keep things different, it's a parallel universe, it might seem wrong to us but perfectly normal for them. the wedding would be a male thing and a changling king taking over would have been normal for them. things should happen as is despite being weird as otherwise we wouldn't have a different universe if standards are still set to ours.
4589540 It's personal taste at this point. I would not feel comfortable writing a scene with a male tricking a female into suducing, or marrying, him.
I might write it though, as I should not be afraid of this thing...
4589552
you shouldn't be afraid. as another world we should be looking at it with amazement and puzzlement over how their society plays everything straight despite looking impossible to us. remember that this is a hypothetical inverted world so even if you personally believe it's amoral for such a thing to happen it will continue to be as it's an opposing world.
4589580 True, very true.
I swear to god, if there are ANY more screwups in Luna and Artemis' relationship because of Celestia and Solaris... They will be facing an ironic execution from Monokuma.
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Through and through, not true and true. (It means completely and utterly.)
how that stallion HAD not keeled, and the semi-colon should be a comma. ('just like Berry sense' is not a sentence.)
great chapters! I am once again blown away and awaiting more chapters!
4589919 Thank you, I am working on the beginning one of Arty's.
4589918 thank you, and I'll get to it.
4589800 I think the disapproval looks from their little ponies, which have been like their children to them is warning enough about withholding their urges.
4589508 why not just ponyville on ponyville orgy
4590056 Can someone get me a gif of Helen Lovejoy saying Think of the Children?
I'll see your ponyville and raise you a Canterlot on Canterlot on Heart and Hooves Day with booze orgy
4590119 well played sir but king Metamorphosis queen Chrysalis army's invade in both Canterlot and Ponyville both Elements no were to be found because there in orgy Celestia Solaris are fucking
Artemis and Luna are in the dream realm fucking Shinning armor and Cadence are having a foursome with Gleaming shield and Prince Bolero while Eris and Discord have there foursome with Butterscotch and Flutter shy.
In short every body gets fucked
4590014 can't wait til its out!
me be excited!
4590161 I can top that, and I am glad you played that card, as I would invoke the fact that Luna and Artemis's dream pleasure causes every creature that is asleep to have wet dreams of their soulmate, causing every soulmate to find their other. As the orgy breaks out in the capital and Ponyville, changelings are unable to withhold their natural urges join into it. The Crystal Empire is moved to hump anything that moves due to the outpouring love from the Crystal Hears from the foursome of the two royal couples that once created the biggest love spell. All of this happening with the DJ's are conducting the music while getting attended by their Octives. Top that!
4590165 Glad to hear that and... sorry for what you had to read above....
4590186 I have read WORSE so don't sweat it. *shivers*
4590214 I am both interested and horrified....
4590216 you r rightly so infact. I have stumbled upon some...DISTURBING things...(again I shiver slightly)
4590291 Colour me interested.
4590298 but legite u don't want to witness the unholy horrors I have read
4590311 I might...
4590186 i didn't want to play this card and now you've forced me Fluffle Puff and R63 Fluffle puff (couldn't come up with good name) going at it
4590325 u really want to be scarred don't you?
4590648 I do not know who that is, should I be scared?
4590671 maaaaybe , I don't think so anymore
4590755 Go on to youtube look up pfudor and tell me if you should be scared of the puff
4590907 meeeeeeeeh