Bonus! Epilogue: The Second Day
The much requested "sequel" is here! Well... I say sequel... 
I do have an idea for making an actual sequel, but it's going to take some time. Please, be patient until then.
Also, about those who say that I'm not doing Celestia correctly. I mean to ask you then, what exactly do you think Celestia's role should have been. I mean, not to be too snobby, but if I made her out to be the always clever, always right Celestia, then it would never be as cute as I had hoped for, and if I did make it in the opposite direction, making the alicorn into one of the many, many sub-personalities, such as molestia, trollestia, or a lesser known one like blonde-Celestia (no offense to those with blonde hair. I could not find another term to get my point across without being dreadfully blunt) I highly doubt that it would have recieved the same amount of attention that it is now.
Hopefully I got her right this time though... 
Princess Luna walked through the halls with her spirits at a low. She knew how much of a chore Courtship Day was for her sister. Even before her imprisonment, Celestia always despised the day. The alicorn of night couldn't understand why. The lunar princess enjoyed the Courtship day and relished in the days after it. Perhaps she should loan Celestia a few of her stallions today... just to cheer her up. Any would do, except for Seabiscuit. That stallion was hers and no one else could touch him... Ever!
She approached her sister's room, and braced herself for the worst. If she knew Celestia, she would be half buried in ice cream cartons half buried in blankets and her face face shoved into a sickeningly sweet, but cheap romantic novel. If not, well... She could still prepare for the absolute worse.
"Sister?" Luna called with a knock upon the door. "May I come in?" No answer. "Tia, I'm coming in..." When Luna opened the door, she found that the large bed before her was neat and spotless. The room overall was spotless as well and devoid of any comforting dairy product containers. This worried Luna. If her sister was not here, then where could she be? Was Celestia's depression worse than she could have anticipated? Was she passed out at some bar in town, drunk off her rocker and in possible danger of the press taking pictures and making up stories? Luna shuddered and slowly began to panic.
Her fears died away as quickly as they surfaced however. She could hear the sound of running water from her sister's bathroom... Was she singing? Although it would've been amusing any other day, on this day Luna found herself completely shocked. Celestia usually would normally be too absorbed in her self-wallowing to do anything beyond groan and sigh.
A few moments later, the door to the bathroom opened revealing the sun princess humming and smiling happily. She had a certain bounce in her step and an air that was not entirely lost on Luna.
"S-sister?" Luna stuttered while reaching out to Celestia to make sure it was not a delusion.
"Hello Lulu," the chipper sun princess greeted as she sat before her vanity. "Is it not the most wonderful day you have ever seen?"
"I-I suppose..." Luna stammered while the gears in her head began to click. "Yes, it is a wonderful day."
The Lunar princess approached her sister just as she began to brush her mane. "Methinks the day of Courtship was a success."
"Indeed it was, Luna," Celestia replied while continually stroking her hair with the brush.
"So..."Luna drawled impatiently. "Art thou going to spill thy guts? The anticipation is murder!" To this, Celetia simply laughed. "Come now, Tia. How many did you choose? Are they quite strapping and handsome, or-"
"I did not start a harem," Celestia stated before Luna went too far.
"We were jesting, dear sister," Luna chuckled. "We know of thy tastes. Thou prefers to have a monogamous relationship, but we still want to know the juicey small bits. Details, sister, details! Tell us of the stallion!"
"Mare."
"... what?" Luna asked, her train of thought grinding to a halt.
"She's a mare," Celestia clarified. "And she is... just wonderful."
"And thou say we have odd tastes..." Luna murmured to herself. "Nevertheless, we art happy that thy are well. Now, you best hurry. The day is nearly gone and you have yet to address today's tasks."
"Oh, I'm afraid I cannot go to work today," Celestia stated casually while making final checks in the mirror. "I'll be spending time with my special somepony."
"Oh..." Luna said in somewhat shock. "Well... it shall be no different for us then... We are used to covering you on the day after Courtship."
"Thank you, Lulu," Celestia said with gratitude. The sun princess grabbed he saddle bag and paused at her nightstand. After a little thought, Celestia took a book from the nightstand and depostited it into the bag. Celestia then walked over to the balcony to make ready to take off.
"Sister!" Luna called carying Celestia's tiara in her grasp. "Do not forget this!"
"Oh, I won't be needing it today," Celestia said with a smile before she leapt off the balcony. In her mind, she planned on making just a quick stop to the kitchens. Luna was left at the balcony with a nostalgic expression. Before the sun alicorn was out of sight, however, she called out, "Have fun storming the castle!"
"Ah..." she sighed, turning over the tiara in her grasp. "Young love..."
Derpy flew at a swerving pace. She always found it difficult to fly, but wasn't completely sure why. She had one eye on the sky and the other watching the ground.That way, she ran no risk of running into anypony in the sky or the ground. Nevertheless, she had a great day planned out for herself. After all, she'd get to see her new friend!
There was only one flaw to her plan. She couldn't exactly remember where Celestia lived. She said to look for the biggest building in Canterlot, but tp the grey pegasus, they mostly looked the same. She checked a lot of the taller buildings, but they were mostly hotels, and Derpy didn't recognize any of the rooms there. Derpy thought for a moment that she should try the castle, but quickly dismissed the idea. There was no way that anyone lived in castles anymore. They were mostly tourist attractions nowadays, and sometimes used for parties.
"Hello, Derpy," a familiar voice called from far above her. Derpy tried looking up that far, but decided it be easier to just to turn around.
"Celestia!" Derpy cried joyfully as she flew upside down. "It's nice to- woah, Woah!" Derpy felt her world beginnig to spin around her. She tried to steady herself by flailing her arms, but ended up falling into a mid-air tumble. Derpy knew the feeling of falling all to well. She knew it would be over quickly and that the best thing to do was let it take it's course. Suddenly, though, she found herself feeling weightless... and the spinning stopped.
"Derpy, are you alright?" Celestia asked with worry as she held the pegasus in her magic.
"Yeah," Derpy said while trying to focus her eyes on Celestia. "I'm okay. No need to worry..." Derpy tried hiding a small blush. Truth of the matter was that no one really bothered to help her like this. It was... weird, but the good kind of weird.
"Thank Faust," Celestia sighed. "I'm going to let go now, so..."
"Yeah, I got it..." Derpy said sheepishly. She righted herself to a hover and finally had one eye on Celestia. "So what do you wanna do today?"
"Well, I thought we could just see where the wind takes us," Celestia answered brightly.
"Sounds like a plan to me!" Derpy answered. With that, the two airborne equines followed the current of the jetstream.
Derpy was absolutely happy. She could not be any happier, or at least she didn't think she could. They had found a small lake in the middle of a hilly meadow. The grass was tall enough to tickle her underbelly, and there was a soft breeze that made the grass bend and wave like an ocean of deep green. Celestia had suggested they have a small pinic under a single tree near the top of a hill overlooking the lake. Derpy agreed to this. Celestia herself packed the picnic, but she insisted that it wasn't to repay her for lunch yesterday. Currently, she lies next to the alicorn. At first she felt a little awkward about being that close to another mare, but she actually began to lean against her.
Derpy was comfortable with Celestia, but she felt something nagging at the back of her head. It was doubt. What if she accidently said something wrong, or what if she accidentally causes the grass to catch fire? Such things might seem preposterous, but when it came to Derpy and her luck, anything was possible.
Celestia's wing suddenly covered Derpy's comparitively smaller form. This caused the mare to blush and look down at her hooves. She didn't know why, but... she felt really scared, but she was happy at the same time. It felt as though she had swallowed a breezy by accident and it was fluttering around her belly like no tomorrow. Her face also felt really hot. In fact, most of her body felt like it was on fire. Celestia's feathers were cool against her back, and each time she breathed or moved, she could feel a few brush against her, sending tiny shivers down her coat.
"Derpy?" the larger mare said softly.
"H-hmm?" Derpy hummed, her motuh becoming very dry for some reason.
"I meant to ask you yesterday," Celestia began with caution. "But... I wasn't exactly myself, so... "
"Wh-what is it?" Derpy asked, finally looking up at the princess and finding her voice somewhere.
"You... you do know who I am?" Celestia asked directly. "Right, Derpy?"
"Of course I do!" Derpy queaked, before looking away in embarassment of her sudden outburst. "Your Princess Celestia..."
"Then," Celestia said while mentally holding her breath. "Why didn't you bow down, or grovel like any other citizen?"
Derpy was silent for a moment before she found her eyes drawn to a particular patch of grass... well, one of them found it interesting. "W-well... I guess I knows what it means to be treated seperately from anypony else," Derpy said. "I mean, being princess is a big job and just being treated like that all the time... all those ponies staring at you, expecting you to do what they think... not even giving you a chance to do anything different... always assuming..." Derpy forced herself to stop. "I'm sorry princess."
"You have no need to apologize," Celestia said in a comforting tone. She leaned in and softly nuzzled the top of Derpy's head. "I am sorry for ever asking. I should have trusted you."
Derpy felt the tips of her wings tingling as she felt Celestia's gentle touch. Her heart was beating so fast, but she strangely felt calm. She hesitatnly looked back up to Celestia, and, for maybe the first time, both eyes focused on her. Celestia's smile was so soft and yet so enchanting to the grey pegasus. For a fleeting moment, she imagined kissing her... However, the expression upon the majestic alicorn was soon replaced by a shocked expression, as Celestia saw the small miracle of Derpy's eyes. The look on her face caused Derpy to snicker slightly as it was a little silly. At this, Derpy's concentration slipped and caused her eyes to become wonky once more. Celestia chuckled at this causing the other to laugh harder. It quickly devolved into a funny face contest, with the two going back and forth to see who could make the other laugh harder. Celestia knew the pegasus had an advantage, but wasn't willing to give in. After a few minutes in though, Celestia found herself with no options left, and had to resort to other tactics.
"Wh-wha-? Hey!" Derpy giggled as Celestia's plush feathers descended down upon her. "That's cheating!"
"Is not," Celestia replied with a slight chuckle. "It is using one's resources."
"Raaaahhh!" Derpy cried out with intense mirth. She managed to break through the blockade of feathers and tackle Celestia. The sudden charge was enough to knock the princess onto her back as Derpy began to use a most dastardly and ancient technique... Blowing razzberries. Almost immediately, Derpy found her opponent's weakness. She planted a barrage of funny sounding buzzes upon the sun princesses neck.
"Had enough?" Derpy asked triumphantly, quickly resorting to a combination of razzberries and tickles from her own wings this time.
"Alright! Alright! I s-surrender!" Celestia finally relented. To this, Derpy rolled off Celestia, recovering from a fit of giggles just as the white alicorn did the same. The two soon gradually stopped and settled into one another's company. They began to look up at the sky. Celestia looked over to Derpy, watching her with a pleasant idleness. She wasn't thinking about work tomorrow, or even anything at all related to the welfare of Equestria. She was happy, just like the mare next to her was. After a while of sitting in this way, the two mares decided to finally unwrap Celestia's lunch she had brought with them.
"What's this?" Derpy asked as she pulled a well worn book from the saddlebags.
"Oh," Celestia chuckled with a happy feeling washing over her. "That happens to be my favorite book in all of Equestria. I thought that you may like to take it with you."
"R-really?" Derpy asked. She looked down with surprise at the tome. "Th-thank you... but..."
"But?" Celestia echoed. "What's wrong?"
"It's a nice gift, and I'm really happy, but..." Derpy's eyes attempted to focus on the mare before her once more, failing and furthuring her next point. "I can't read very well."
"Oh..." The alicorn's eager mood seemingly deflated. Then, a sudden thought of absolute brilliance struck her. "Would you like me to read it to you then?"
"Would I?" Derpy gasped with joy. "I'd love to!"
Celestia almost faltered at hearing that, but maintained her composure. Was she really...?
"Here," Derpy said as she snuggled up with the satchel of various foods. "You can read it while we eat, all right?"
"Of course," Celestia answeed, gently levitating the book over to her.
"What's the story called?" Derpy asked while she fished out some very appetizing looking sandwhiches.
"The Princess Bride..." Celestia said. Perhaps, in her mind, she wished that things could have gone differently today. She wished that maybe instead of sitting here by the lake she would be lying next to an open fire. Laying next to he was the mare beside her now. Then again, she didn't wish anything to change from this very moment. There would always be time for love and sweet romance later. The last thing she wanted to do was to rush anything with Derpy. Despite this thought, she had a hard feeling in her gut, telling her that it would never work out the way she wanted. Rarely anything went the way Celestia had planned it to go, despite many thinking the opposite. To be honest, it was her fault for not getting rid of Sombra the first chance she had or predicting the seeds of disharmony planted by Discord all those years ago. Hay, she didn't even see the changeling queen, Chrysalis, kidnapping her niece, brainwashing the captain of her royal guard, and having that same queen overpowering her, the mighty bringer of the dawn. She attempted to quell these thoughts, but alas; she consigned herself to a final thought on the matter.
"Nothing isn't entirely inconcievable..."
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I... I love it. So... So adorbes!
YES! PRINCESS BRIDE IS BEST MOVIE! INCONCEIVABLE!
Simply adorable. Thanks for the new chapter. It's finally complet---MOAR MOAR SEQUEL PLZ MOAR--ahem. finally complete. Yeah
Kidding, kidding
Good chapter, thank you!
Awww I want it to work so bad!!! Derpy is so cute and amazing and deserves the best!
...For some reason my brain instantly chimed in with the cry of a Piplup.
5333337 *tosses it onto his pile of Internets* I got a million of em already.
Princess Bride, huh? Never read the book, only heard good things about it though. The movie was good, but it's bad to judge books by their movies.
Awesome story though, I love it.
THIS WAS AWESOME!!!
as a student taking a logic class, this is an incredibly vague and noncommittal statement That I will probably spend the next half hour converting to a more easily understood format and finding the logical implications of.
But anyway great addition and I look forward to the sequel when it gets put up!
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... I'm sorry. I'm missing something, aren't I? What exactly do you mean?
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is a double negitive, so is Nothing a thing or is Is the thing that is bein negated.
to be inconceivable no one is able to conceive of such a concept, yet the concept is entirely inconceivable, so does that mean that only the entire concept can't be conceived and any lesser part can be easily, or does this mean something else.
Now add in the fact that if we consider that 'isnt' negates this, and nothing, is a negitive for something.... or is it?
Well now, this is a very sweet little fic right here. A few problems with use of the present tense here and there, but nothing that bad. All in all, quite the lovely fic you've got here Paton Pendeng, and always glad to come across fellow bronies who love Derpy as much as I do!
So awesome. Ignoring most of the grammar etc, you simply must fix the last sentence since it closes to story:
Nothing IS entirely inconceivable.
Otherwise the double negative just kills it.
You're awesome. =))
i have not much time right now, so i just say good one, i liked that.
An interesting continuation, it's nice to see Celestia doubt herself.
It requires more kissing.
SEQUEL!!!!
Um, if thats ok with you.
This was cute.
Good story. There are a few grammar errors, two of which stick out to me more than the others: the last sentence, which has been pointed out already, and this one:
"Thy are" should be "thou art". "Thy" in modern English translates to "your", as in "I like your outfit". Otherwise, you've done a fairly decent job with the Olde English, which is more than most people can claim.
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Ah! Well, It's sort of a second nature to me I guess. When you speak it enough times, you tend to choose the easier flow than the other.
That and when considering Luna's transition from Olde English to Modern, it would make sense that she would say that.
Could someone please shoot me a message when and if the sequel comes out? I have a lot of irons in the fire so to speak but this is a really good story so far and I wouldn't want to miss a continuation simply because I'm busy.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/236733/the-marriage-of-derpy
Here ya go you silly boop!
6352691 Thank you. That was honestly much quicker than I usually expect replies.
I just finished reading this, thinking there was no sequel, so i was sad
Then I saw on the right that there was infact a sequel! now i am not sad
The first chapter was very good. Nice & endearing it didn't really go anywhere, but it didn't have to.
The second chapter however, seems to have tried to capture lightning in a bottle a second time, and as with many such endeavors it kind of fell flat. The relationship never really felt natural in the second chapter and that really hurt the story overall.