Sunset looked way too smug for her own good.
I raised my eyebrows at her, “It just mean I have to get better. Guess who I will be practicing with.”
Sunny blinked at me and suddenly didn’t look so smug anymore. Mission accomplished.
Luna grinned and nuzzled at my ear, “You did well. You can’t blame anypony else. You did get in a magic contest with Twilight Sparkle.”
“Might not have been the smartest thing in the world,” I sighed and shot a small glare across Sunset at said alicorn.
Twilight stuck her tongue out at me.
“I’ll get you next time, Sparkle! Next time!”
That sent Sunset into a fit of giggles, “Realy Page? Dr Claw?”
“Quiet you,” I said and poked her with my wing before I sighed and leaned against Luna’s side “Luna?”
She hummed and looked down at me, “Yes?”
“Luna, I want a vacation. You, me, somewhere far away from Canterlot,” I said, “Before you protest, yes you can spare a couple of weeks. If your sister could, so can you.”
Luna looked thoughtful before she nodded, “We could,” she admitted and sighed softly before nuzzling at my ear, “That does sound wonderful. We’ll make it happen.”
Awesome!
Somewhere nice. Under illusion and transformation after all. A tropical island sounded nice but I wanted civilization and that meant doing what Celestia had done.
Sunset sighed softly, “Vacation away from everything sounds wonderful. Twi?”
Twilight nodded, “It does,” she agreed “But with everything I have to do, it’s going to be a while until I can get away. I have to get back to Ponyville tomorrow and then go to Stalliongrad.”
“Not exactly a vacation spot,” I commented and leaned against Luna's side.
Twilight nodded, “Mmm. But I need to go anyway, there is trouble among the nobles there and… well, Princess of Friendship,” she said and shrugged her wings before she brightened up, “Oh! Sunset can go with you!”
Wat.
“Oh, that’s a brilliant idea!” Luna exclaimed, “It would be nice to get to know you better, Sunset Shimmer.”
Sunset and I shared a ‘what the fuck’ look.
She turned to Twilight, “…Twi why would I be coming with Page and Princess Luna on a romantic vacation?”
Twilight looked at her in surprise, “So you get to spend more time with Page and get a nice vacation. You don’t want to go?”
I, on the other hoof, blinked at her, “Twilight have you been drinking? I’m with Luna, not Sunset.”
“You are not involved with Sunset?” Luna looked slightly surprised.
... What?!
"Someponies are confused here," I rubbed my eyes "And I think it’s all of us,”
Luna frowned, “Oh dear. I was mistaken it seems. I thought for sure you were with Sunset”
I frowned at her in turn, “ That Sunset and I were romantically together?”
She nodded, “I hardly minded My Page. If anything I encouraged it. She’s an unicorn after all and if you are in love I would want you to spend as much time with her as possible.”
Sunset and I shared a look before I turned back to Luna, “Without me telling you?”
“We have discussed similar matters before," Luna reminded gently "and I thought you simply wanted to keep things discrete because of your cultural inclination. I’m sorry for that.”
I gaped at her. I wouldn't have done anything like that.
“Oh,” Twilight said softly and Sunset and I both turned to look at her. She cringed slightly and flicked her ears to the side, “Now I feel even worse.”
Sunset blinked, “Why?”
Twilight frowned and sighed, “I felt bad that I couldn’t spend as much time with you as you deserved. So knowing you were with Page and not feeling lonely in our castle made me feel better.”
“Without telling you!? Even if you think that Page for some reason wouldn’t talk about it why wouldn’t I….” Sunset exclaimed and then facehoofed, “…you know what, I’m going for a walk. When you stopped being crazy, I’ll be back.”
Cadence walked in at that exact moment with Flurry Heart and then paused as she looked at us for a second.
I turned to her, “Cadence! You are the expert here! Tell them Sunset and I aren’t in love!”
She looked at us for a moment and then looked back at Flurry Heart, “Come on, sweetheart. Let’s get you in bed somewhere away from the stupid ponies,” she said and turned to walk back out, Sunset following her.
“See! She agrees with me!” I said and motioned towards the closing door before I sighed, “Luna, even if I was involved with Sunset, there is no way I would have done ANYTHING without telling you first. I thought you knew me better than that! You know what, I think Sunset had the right idea. I’m going to take a flight, we’ll continue this later.”
AGH!
Oh my. Twi x Sunset X Page X Luna is best ship!
Lol, that's not even a triangle anymore.
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No no love triangle's hear bad bad you are bad and you shood feel bad
Oh my.
...OH MY.
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But it's not a triangle! It's a wonderful beautiful square.
Please make this a thing!🙏
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Her being a unicorn matters because she is mortal. So he should not squander what time he has. A relationship between him and Twilight could be put off for a few centuries but thats not an option with Sunset. If you find love embrace it pursue it and hold onto it and all that jazz.
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its not the multiple partners thing, its the fact she thought he would not talk to her about something like this before doing it and just assumed that he was without asking. As for the unicorn thing its more of a mention of sunset's mortality and that she one day will die while the two of them are immortal.
Lol
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He's aware polygamy is a thing since the very first story, before he ever met Luna and he's had discussion with Luna on the subject. Mainly along the lines that he's not going to begrudge her having other lovers considering how long they're going to live. He himself isn't entirely comfortable with the idea though. Presumably Luna assumed he wanted to be discreet about it because of this discomfort.
Pretty sure she just means that as a non-alicorn the potential time he can spend with Sunset is a hell of a lot more limited then the time he can spend with her, so she wants to encourage him to actually take that time.
Oh, my Celestia! "Page you wanna go and f*ck some unicorns? Sure, go ahead and have fun, honey!" ; " Sunset I felt better knowing that Page is f*ucking you in our basement." You know what? I am not even surprised anymore :) Go, go, open relationships!!!
This is the best twist I have seen in a long time XD So simple yet it made me laugh so much XD great chapter
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Mare A: Pass the Page, it's my turn!
Mare B: You just had your turn! It's C's turn!
Mare C: B is right!
Page: Don't I get a say?
Mares A, B, and C: No!
Page: What have I gotten myself into?
Oh Man, that part right there took me back to Inspector Gadget, I just LOVED it, maybe you should have Page get a chariot designed to look like the Mad Mobile.
BAm! Hahahahaha, that was both painful and awesome to watch. Like a derailed train heading your way.
Because I ship you two. Wasn't that obvious?
... *reads a few more lines*...
That was supposed to be a joke!
Is the Equestrian royalty made solely out of Shippers?
That's apparently a yes...
Hilarious work, keep it up.
So... this is a love Quadratic Equation?
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dat vast phun
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In this case, it may help to consider it as a fourth dimension love polyhedron.
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love rhombus
I know there are critical thoughts to be had, but fuck. I found this situation adorable
I actually d'awwd at twilights guilt and her previous "at least sunset has page" thoughts before that illusion shattered. She cares, even if she is a dunderhead with Luna right now
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Herrrrrrddddddddd
Hum. At first I thought Page and Sunset are overreacting a bit, but they apparently would never have left monogamous status without telling their partners. The fact that Luna and Twilight assumed something was going on implies that they would...
Cadance is like "nope, not even going to touch this with a ten-foot pole. Your denial is too stronk."
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"Is the entire Equestrian royalty made out of shippers?"
YES.
I mean, c'mon, living for thousands of years has to make you pick some hobbies. And if you're gonna live that long anyway, what better hobby than eugenics? Oh, sure, it's a passive style, less "do this or else" and more "oh, have you met this stallion? I think you two might hit it off." Which increases the difficulty of breeding the right traits, but if you've got time to kill you don't need to be heavy-handed and ignore free will. That just makes the game more interesting and all the more fun when you "win", so to speak.
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And Twilight embraced the hobby FOR SCIENCE!
static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gaslamp-fantasy_gg_2560.jpg
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It's a love parallelogram!
next story; diary of a thousand year old swinger
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That was very unclear.
Sunset: Can you believe them?
Page: I know! What the hell! Your culture is messed up! A guy can’t have a female best friend?
Sunset: Right?! I had loads of guy friends in the past and nopony said jack!
Page: I’m sure you did. Did anyone think you were sleeping with them?
Sunset:...that’s not important. The thing is how could they think that about us?
Page:....Well...to be fair we do hang out a lot.
Sunset: We have a lot in common.
Page: We do tease about it enough.
Sunset: I have had to glare down a few mares who were checking you out.
Page: I suppose it is rather-wait what?!
Sunset:....you wanna make out? To prove how wrong they are?
Page:That...you...yeah sure...
Should be "when you have stopped" or "When you stop"
HAREM FLAGS! HAREM FLAGS EVERYWHERE!
Now I'M confused. Weren't Twilight and Sunset dating? I can't remember if Twilight and Page actually had an attraction or if it was more other ponies saying they did and they just said "Eh maybe. Maybe later." Especially after Sunset made her intentions towards Twilight known, so...
Also I got the impression that Cadance was more talking about Page when she said 'stupid ponies"...
Big conference between all alicorns and Sunet is in the future to unsnarl THIS knot.
LOL, that was hilarious!!!!
https://goo.gl/images/o9yisy
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Indeed!
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several weeks later
"page im pregnant, your the father"
*page faints*
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Maybe, but at the same time they may just have been waiting for Page/Sunset to take the initiative and tell them to avoid making things awkward. After all, even if the open relationship thing is understood, it's very easy for Luna/Twilight to accidentally come off as accusing if they ask about sleeping with another pony.
Just going to post to say I don't ship it.
I friendship it something awful, but I don't ship it.
Also, Hiver, your writing has successfully dragged me through every single prequel over the past month or so, along with your star trek stories, so congratulations, you have yet another avid reader following your work. Eagerly awaiting more.
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He wakes up in a dream.
“Page?”
“Luna? I’m so glad to see you, Sunset is pregnant!
“She is not the only one.”
Man, she going to be waiting a long time.
i feel about as confused as page right now.
I approve of the shipping! ...Also while we are at it...can we make Sunburst/Celestia a thing too?? Celestia needs a lover~!
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"Fidjzygjfjgjdkgbgkfkvlckgh"
".............Page? Are you ok?"
"IM NOT READY FOR THIS"
Your chapters are usually pretty polished, which is why the slip in quality in terms of spelling and grammar mistakes in the past few chapters have been noticeable.
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And she never returned...
Aaaww shit, please don’t interfere with the Page x Luna ship!
*Later, Luna and Twilight meet with Cadance*
Cadance: "...and I thought for sure that spreading those rumors would get you four all together. What went wrong? "
Twilight Sparkle: "What if Luna and I were seen making out?"
Cadance: "No...that would never work."
Twilight & Luna: "And just why is that!?"
Cadance: "If thousands of bronies couldn't convincingly set that ship to sail, how the fuck can I? I'd have better luck at getting you each in incestuous relationships with Shining and Celestia!"
Luna: "♪♫"
Twilight: "♪♫"
Cadance: "Wait...what's that supposed to mean!?"
Eh, I can see it. Why not just make Sunset an alicorn why don’t ya? You already got three.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!
I approve! I so approve! Sunny and Page work well off each other so well.
Flirtatious yet caring. The best of friends. Oh the teasing to be had!
I hope they give it a try after everyone talks it out.
I eagerly await more!
I knew something about Sunset and Page was coming, but I didn't expect this. Fun times ahead.