Harmless Shenanigans(?) With Princess Luna

by Bigwig6666

Thirteen - IT'S ALIVE!!!

"Well this is nice." Celestia said as she sipped her tea as she looked at both her guests.

In one of the royal tearooms, Lulu, also known as Luna, human extraordinaire, sat at one end of a long table, Princess Luna, formerly Nightmare Moon, existential terror extraordinaire, on the other. The tension was heavy and the silence was loud, save for the occasional sip of tea from the White One.

Luna's eye twitched. "Do you. Have. To do that so loudly, Celestia?" she snarled through clenched teeth. "It's annoying me."

"Exactly, Luna." Celestia smiled coyly and continued to sip. She smacked her lips together and let out a satisfied sigh as she gently set down her teacup. Lulu grimaced as she watched, and waited for Mount Luna to erupt. She braced herself for it as Luna started to open her mouth.

Suddenly,

BANG

The plates and cutlery shook. The table's legs buckled and quavered but held fast. This was not the first royal spat they had suffered. Nor shall it be the last.

Celestia slammed her front hooves down on the table, her demeanour suddenly becoming something akin to a god of war. Her eyes blazed with the fire of the sun itself as she glowered at the pair of them. "I am getting, sick, of this arguing you two."

Luna turned as white as a dark blue pony could. She started to stammer something out but Celestia simply held a hoof up and silence fell once more.

"You are friends," Celestia continued, now fixing her gaze on Lulu, who squirmed uncomfortably under that piercing, fiery gaze. "More than that, you are, or at least were, romantically involved with each other. You should be ashamed of yourselves for behaving in such a way to one other."

Lulu and Luna's eyes met for the first time since entering the tearoom. They shared a look of pain, and worry. And slight terror.

Celestia noticed the look and softened her face. "Look, you two, I know how it feels to have an argument with someone you love. Believe me, I've been there."

Human and pony both blushed at this. Celestia rolled her eyes. "Oh come on guys, I'm not doing all the talking for you." She stood up and made for the door. "I am going to leave this room now, I will lock the door behind me -I've already locked the windows Luna stop eyeing them up. I've locked the door and will not unlock it until you have both made up and talked to each other." She raised her eyebrows at them both. "I'll come back in 30 minutes, deal?"

Slowly, their gaze met again. "Deal," they said in unison.

Celestia smiled softly. "Progress. See you soon. Behave." The door closed behind her. The lock clicked, and they both heard her hooves moving away from the door.

"She's right you know," mumbled Lulu, sheepishly. "We can't keep arguing."

"I know," Luna said quietly. "I don't want to..."

Silence fell, and the tension grew again. Lulu looked at Luna and Luna looked at Lulu. They both stood up. They both moved around the table, until they were a hairs length away from each other. Lulu could smell Luna's breath. "Hay" she thought and smiled.

Luna could smell Lulu's breath. "Mint," she thought and twisted her nose.

As they looked at each other they started to smile. Lulu put her arms around Luna's neck and gave her a hug. Luna folded her wings around her human and they stood in a silent embrace for a moment. "Okay," Luna said, as she unfurled her wings and took a step back. She gestured to the table and wiggled her eyebrows.

Lulu giggled. "Maybe later, we do really need to talk about this though."

Luna's shoulders fell. "Yeah... I understand. You want to leave." She said, rather coldly.

The human winced. "Not forever, I just want to see my sister and let her know I'm okay. I've been here how long? I've lost count of the days/weeks/months and whatevers." She stood her ground and folded her arms. "I understand you were alone for a long time, but you're not now. I will come back."

The princess snorted. "Everyone leaves."

Lulu felt a great sadness in her voice. "Luna, please. I want to go home for a bit, a bit I will come back I promise. I don't even know how to go back, I got sucked off though a magic portal that came from a computer, that was linked somehow to a dating website," she exasperatedly said, "once we figure out the logistics of that, we could go back and forth. You could come with me even..." she mumbled.

Luna's ears pricked up. "Come with you? And abandon my royal duties?" She furrowed her brow. "Celestia would have to do everything. or pawn it off on Twilight Sparkle or Princess Cadence..." She paused in thought. "I suppose that would not be so disagreeable."

Lulu sighed, at least they weren't arguing about it anymore. But where to go now? "Do you still have your computer?" She asked.

"No. It got... damaged." Luna turned away and grimaced. "We could study some of the arcane books my sister has in her library instead, Twilight is exceptionally gifted with magic, I'm sure she would relish the chance for such a project."

"I mean." Lulu scratched her head. "Magic's new to me, even after this time. You realise Earth, the Earth I'm from, has none of this right?" She gestured to the room. "Sure we have castles, and stories of magic, but they're just stories. Fiction. There might not be any books on how to open portals there." She paused. "Actually there probably is some occult nutter who tries to summon demons every Saturday. They also don't have magical talking ponies, unicorns, pegasi or any mythical creatures."

Luna snorted again. "What a dreadfully boring place. No magic, no ponies, What do you do all day?"

Lulu grinned. "Well actually, I watched My Little Pony a lot. And played video games."

The princess grinned back. "That's alright. Still, I suppose I would have to conceal myself somehow then? I would not want to become a science experiment."

They both grimaced at the thought of this. "You have a point, sweetie," Lulu said quietly. "We need some help with this I think."

Luna nodded in agreement. She turned her gaze towards the window. The sun was beginning to set. "I need to perform my royal duties," she said. "You should get some sleep, we'll start looking for a way to take you home tomorrow."

Lulu couldn't help but worry as she started to leave. "Yeah okay. Don't go overboard tonight will you?"

"No promises." The princess smiled softly. "Good night Lulu." She unfurled her wings and gracefully rose into the air, a silver light emanating from her crest until it enveloped her, then she was gone. Only a cold breeze was left as the moon began to rise.

"Good night Luna," said Lulu as she left the room and started down the hallway.

***

What is love? Some would say a force so powerful that all reason becomes blind to it. Blind to all things... even the truth. Loss of love can make someone desperate... desperate enough to do anything to bury the truth, to hide from its pain.

Luna thought so, in her melancholic state. She knew if she lost Lulu how easy it would be to slip into the Nightmare again. When she returned, she vowed that would never happen again, no matter what. And yet she couldn't help but think about it as she travelled the Dreamscape.

The Dreamscape. Dreamspace. The world between worlds, of dreams and nightmares. Her own realm of Oblivion. From here, Luna could see all of Equestria's sleeping inhabitants, their dreams and their nightmares. A somewhat empty void of night sky and stars, with the moon shining high above at the very centre. Pictures as if a screen floated by every now and then. Windows to a pony's sleep state, doors to some. One such door was currently open.

She shook her head in an effort to quell some bad memories of her own nightmares as she entered a nearby pony's dream. This mare was afraid she was late for school, even though she hadn't been in school for close to eight years now. "Strange what some ponies dream about", Luna thought as she watched the mare run back and forth, clearly in distress. She lowered her horn and cast a quiet spell over the pony, assuming control over the dream and soothing her frayed nerves.

The princess smiled as the mare's dream became one about muffins and pink fluffy clouds. She chuckled to herself as she moved on.

"Overboard... Me? Ha."

Her thoughts turned to Ponyville, and the Everfree forest nearby. And the ruined castle. Her staging ground as Nightmare Moon. Twice. She shook her head again. "Ugh. Why am I thinking about that?" she lamented to herself. "Have I nothing better to do than revisit old memories? Am I that worried Lulu will never come back?" She paused and frowned. "Of course I'm not, I know she'll come back, and even if we find a way to take her home... I could go with her..."

The princess stopped mid-flight. Moonlight gleaming through the starry sky. She looked upwards.

"Lulu called me sweetie..."

She started to laugh. A long, sorrowful yet happy at the same time laugh. Thank goodness she was in her own realm, or else somepony might think she'd gone quite mad. She rubbed a tear from her eye. "Oh I have been such a fool haven't I, old friend?" she asked the moon, an everlasting companion if there ever was one. "Such a fool. An idiot."

Her wings flourished and bristled as she brushed her mane out her eyes. "I must make amends with her. With my sweetie." She smiled softly. "Once I am finished here I shall absolutely start looking for a book on arcane magics. Surely somepony somewhere must have one..." She trailed off, deep in thought.

She recalled strolling through Canterlot months ago, coming across an old bookshop, and an even older pony who ran it. Most of the tomes inside were nothing more than the average book but there was one, she remembered, with gold and silver embroidery on the binding and a symbol of some lost deity on the cover. It struck her as odd, that such a fine book would surely be more welcomed in the royal library, or even in Twilight Sparkle's study, than some dusty old shop. If only she could remember the name of said shop...

"Nevermind, I shall dispatch a servant or two to acquire it, at any price," she resolved to herself. She made a mental note to remember it in the morning. "After all, what's the point in being royalty if you cannot send servants to do your bidding every once in a while?"

The princess of night laughed as she flew off into the Dreamscape once more, in a considerably better mood than earlier.

Author's Note:

Hey guys and gals. Been a while hasn't it? Finally got my life sorted out and with being stuck inside for a while due to current affairs of the world I'm gonna try and keep this going cos I've got some ideas I'd like to try but I'd need your input (to anyone who still reads these ).

I'd kinda like to see how the two Lunas (Tuna) would do with meeting more version of themselves, kinda like Into the Spider-Verse... Luna-verse? But that would involve hopping between realities, perhaps something more stationary? Maybe both?

Also I'm very out of date with the show lol but I am re-watching the whole thing so I'll get there.

Stay safe, stay inside. See you in a bit.

Comments

[Xinrick]

IT'S BACK YAY!
And the cover art looks fantastic

[D3V1L_D09]

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[monkeyXtypewriter]

Only good thing about the corona virus? Quarantine got people bored enough to continue stories from 4 years ago lol

[Bigwig6666]

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Yep

[Sue]

Jesus, an oldie from when i first joined. Love when this happens, especially when the contents good.

[Bigwig6666]

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Thanks man, it does feel good to be writing again