Luna Eclipsed, Part 3
Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 2
By TDR
Luna Eclipsed,
Part 3
[Ponyville]
Rainbow Dash smirked as she looked down at the crowd below her from her cloud. Pinkie Pie, Rahs, Spike, the Crusaders and Twilight were below her in perfect position. Fluttershy would be hiding and Rarity would probably be asleep. This would be a perfect test for her pranking this year, well perfect test on more than one pony, she had already gottten Applejack earlier and made the farm mare fall into her apple bob tub. She had put together a Shadowbolts costume from the memory of how it looked with Fluttershy's help. Her friend was scary good when it came to sewing, almost on Rarity's level in fact, though she didn't have the drive for it like the fashionista did.
The suit was a bit tighter than she liked, reminding her of some of the older costumes she had worn.
Rainbow Dash frowned, out of the group, the only one she was talking to was Fluttershy. Well and Rahs and Spike, but it wasn't as if she understood the big lug any way without some pony or dragon translating for her
Still a little prank would be the start to making them a bit even. Rainbow Dash was starting to rather miss the interactions they had. She was maddest at Twilight and AJ for what parts they played and what they had said to her, so she almost felt a bit bad for scaring everyone along with Twilight.
Almost.
Rainbow Dash dipped a bit lower with her cloud getting closer to the group bit by bit , staying over them and in the shadows as she approached. She readied the mini thundercloud to spook the lot of them with a thunderous explosion of light and sound. They were near one of the wagons holding a bunch of carved pumpkins that the school had set up earlier in the week. The foals had all carved pumpkins resulting in some rather mangled looking gourds, though she was a bit flattered Scootaloo had tried to carve her face, even though the pumpkin looked more like Tank's head then hers. Sweetiebelle was showing Twilight the one she made.
“I wouldn't do that if I were you.” A mare's voice quietly stated from near by Dash.
Dash blinked, and lifted her head from the cloud to look around, not seeing any pony in the sky with her. She shook her head thinking she was imaging things.
“Well don't say I didn't warn you.” The voice sounded again with a small chuckle as Rainbow Dash readied the thunder bolt. Once more she paused to look around before shrugging again and striking the cloud, the thunderbolt making the area flash with light as the boom reverberated off the surrounding buildings.
The reaction was just as perfect as she could have predicted.
Pinkie Pie let out a scream,that sounded like a chicken's bawak, of course, and took off like a shot leaving a cloud of feathers in her wake.
The crusaders did much the same, shooting off in random directions, with Spike tearing off after Pinkie Pie like he was chasing a real chicken.
Rahs yelped and dove under the pumpkin cart with a crash and scuttle of claws, the shadows of the cart hid the big scardy fully save the points of light on his ears.
Twilight though, she had jumped at the boom but she didn't run or hide like the others, instead she glanced to where the Cutie Mark Crusaders had run off to and then to Rahs under the cart before her gaze lifted skyward towards Rainbow Dash.
At this point Rainbow Dash realized two things.
The first was that this was NOT Twilight Sparkle.
The second was that Princess Luna's wings were hidden under the fake turtle shell quite well making it an excellent costume.
Oh crap.
“ABORT! ABORT!” Dash shouted her wings fanning rapidly as she sought to climb into the air with her thunder cloud.
Princess Luna's horn glowed, the effect surrounding the cart Rahs was under and the pumpkins in it. A moment later all the Jack o lanterns turned as one to look up at Dash, their flames now a soft blue color as the leering and badly carved faces grinned and shifted before the lot of them took off into the air at her screaming and laughing madly as they shot up at her leaving trails of light behind them as they spiraled into the sky, the blue fire leaking out of their eyes and their mouths as they snapped at her racing after the pegasus mare.
By the time they smashed through the thundercloud, Dash was gone. They barely took a moment to reorient before streaking off after the pegasus quickly gaining ground on her.
Princess Luna sighed and glanced down at Rahs who grumbled as he crawled out from under the cart.
“Was that too much?” Luna questioned, now a bit worried.” They won't hurt her, but there will probably be a mess.”
Rahs shrugged not too concerned about what Dash brought on herself this time, he was more concerned about recovering his dignity after diving under the cart.
“I did warn her.” A Night Guard mare chuckled from the shadows above them.
Prince William Blueblood was not a happy pony. Ponyville was not a small town, though despite that he had covered most of it in the hour since he had left the Sparkle's home. He had seen neither hide nor hair of Rainbow Dash in that time however he had encounted a number of ponies that had fallen victim to her pranks. It seemed this year she was favoring a storm cloud surprise thunder boom, the early warnings gave him what he needed to look for.
He smiled at hearing about her prank this time, recalling in their first encounter her friend had set up a number of tricks in the party before getting caught and making the daring exit.
His parents still whined about all the bathrooms being filled with bubbles that year.
Still he kept his eyes to the sky looking for an out of place cloud and was rewarded instead by nearly getting trampled by a screaming pony dressed as a chicken.
He was starting to think coming here in costume instead of simply tracking her down directly was a bad idea. So far he had nothing to show for it save a lot of walking and getting run over by a giant chicken.
Still he was not ready to give up yet and as if by the will of the gods he was rewarded for his perseverance when his target tore past him in the air above, screaming her head off.
Despite the black costume covering her, the rainbow mane and tail she had was impossible to mistake.
Of course it was also hard to miss the two dozen or so madly laughing blue flamed pumpkins chasing her through the sky.
“Ahh there she is.” Prince smiled before he turned to follow. The feel of the pumpkin's magic was easy to identify and as he raced through the night after her, he made a mental reminder as well to thank his aunt Luna later.
After a short time rounding up the Crusaders and Spike, none of whom had run far, and giving up on finding Pinkie Pie, who had kept running, the group continued along with Spike's plan. After a hour or so of candy raiding Rahs finally decided to bring something up he had noticed about Luna.
“Woof?”
“Hmm? No nothing is wrong.” Princess Luna protested as if to try and wave off the question, only to note Rahs was simply staring at her from behind his half mask, his amber eyes narrowed as he glared at her.
Oddly the look was making her nervous.
“Fine.... Tis all .. this.” Luna gestured with a hoof. “A holiday centered around making our failure into a foals lark. Tis not even any warnings about the dangers of falling to the darkness. Tis little more than a gimmick to sell costumes and candy. We do not approve.”
Luna let out a small sigh. “We were not aware of the celebration the first year, every pony forgot we had no clue what it was and went about setting it up at the castle without explaining the decorations. Moon Dancer explained it when we asked at our next class after the event and we fear that afterward we were ready to let our hooves have a few words with Tia.”
“Bark?” Rahs questioned.
“Indeed that is one reason we have not done anything. Tis one of the favored holidays of foals and we have no desire to cause a scene that would upset that many simply for our own selfish issues with our image. It does not mean however that we enjoy this very much. Particularly when our cursed visage is part of so many of the decorations. Or at least a mockery of such.”
“Ruff?” Rahs smirked.
Luna chuckled a little. “ Yes we do have to agree that taking out our aggression on a pinata in Nightmares likeness would be quite therapeutic. Perhaps it is best that we got out, sulking in our room like we planned would not have been healthy. We shall get over this, but that was not what we consider a good time in our life and to see it used as such gives us mixed feelings on if this is the proper way to recall Nightmare. Still tis a good thing Sweetiebelle wished her 'big sister' to join her this year or we would have never left Canterlot.”
Rahs frowned a little at that, something Luna noticed. “Worry not, we are not attempting to usurp Rarity in Sweetiebelle's heart, but she needs to make an effort as well to win back her little sister. Stalking us from the shadows is not doing much for her case to show she cares for Sweetiebelle.”
Rahs and Princess Luna both turned to look back at the bushes behind them as a mare dressed in what amounted to a black body suit that looked as if it had started as a one piece bikini with a hood attached and black stockings capped in bright blue bands quickly ducked out of sight, the bright blue bunny ears on top of the hood all that was visible sticking out of the bush. Well the ears and a Royal Guard that was following Rarity, looking far less than thrilled at his charges attempts at stealth.
“Bark?” Rahs asked as Luna sighed.
“Our Guard are just good at what they do, Cadence and Tia's use variations of the 'Nothing for you to see here, move along, ' spell. NYSHMA, we think it was called.” Luna smiled turning back as they group.”She is clearly upset by what we are doing, but we do not plan to falter unless she confronts us or wins Sweetiebelle back. The ball as they say is in her court.”
Any further questions were cut off as both of their ears perked at the sound of screaming. Screaming that was getting closer.
The Gathered Guards seemed to appear around the Princess and Rahs,both of whom had moved protectively among the Crusaders.
“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,*breath*,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” Rainbow Dash screamed as she tore down the street above them barely pausing as she flew past the group crashing into the bush where Rarity was hiding. She quickly grabbed the mare, likely having seen her when she pranked the group earlier, and launching herself back into the air still screaming. Her voice however was now accompanied by a panicking Rarity who was carried off into the night.
The entourage blinked as one as the scream faded back into the night, heading towards the Carousel Boutique before finally going silent. The Guards assigned the pair grumbed heavily before following after.
“Well that was a thing that happened.” Spike finally offered.
“Wonder what Dash was screaming about?” Scootaloo questioned.
“Where did all these Guards come from?” Sweetiebelle asked.
“Is everything gonna try an stop us from getting candy!?” Applebloom pouted.
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Wow, it appears that bluey was bold and just told her she was the mate he was looking all these tears, wow, lets ser how things goes.
New Years Kiss! New Years Kiss! New Years Kiss!
The S.S. BloodBow requires more speed. Someone get out and push!
Happy new year
I don't ger why they haven't just apologized to RD yet, given they know Fluttershy is still on good terms with her. Do they not want to be wrong, and wish ti have her come back to them asking forgiveness for not letting them humiliate her? I just don't get it.
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Dash has been avoiding them, the only one who could get to Dash, Pinkie, thinks she has to do something major as an apology.
Especially since I'm hoping the word you meant is sulking.
9378288 yeah its not Cadence after all
I eagerly await the next chapter.
Happy New years, by the way
Ahhh the magic version of a giant note... I take it it works just as well too
https://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/11/20/episode-355-undercover/
Well... that's gonna make things complicated for BB
Indeed
This means more for me to take!
Yeah, part four will be BB finding and confrounting Dash about their meeting years ago.
The answers to these and more on the next episode of TGAP-Z
Is Rarity wearing the same suit that Sourcy's ponysona wears?
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Its the 'stealth' costume she made for fluttershy to escape ponyville
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She would be if pride was the motivation behind all of her actions. She has always been driven by revenge.
I explained here how her actions against Twilight were motivated by revenge.
Here’s how everything prior to Twilight knocking her down a peg is driven by revenge.
It all can be traced back right to Sunburst. When they were foals, Sunburst and Starlight were the best of friends. They experienced the magic of friendship in the same way that Twilight and her friends do. The same friendship that Twilight is the princess of.
However, those two were both Blank Flanks when they were friends. When Sunburst got his Cutie Mark, that friendship ended very badly. He left for Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns and Starlight never saw him again. The loss of that friendship hurt Starlight deeply, so much so that she never wanted to feel that way again.
Sunburst hurt her when he got his Cutie Mark and left. Her friendship with Sunburst hurt her. Her friendship with Sunburst was encouraged by the very founding principles of Equestrian Society itself.
Starlight resolved she would never be hurt by friendship again. To accomplish that goal, she would take Society, tear it down, and rebuild it into something she can control. She would do this so she could change and control friendship.
Her friendship with Sunburst was destroyed when he got his Cutie Mark. Well, the easy way to fix that is to completely remove all Cutie marks from her new world order. After all those things can’t cause any problems if no one has them. And yes the fact she kept hers does make her a hypocrite, but that goes hand in hand with the type of society she was trying to create.
For historical reference, please see the Soviet Union.
Sunburst hurt her when he left. Well, that will be easy enough to remedy. once her new world order has expanded across all of Equestria and his Cutie Mark has been taken away, Sunburst will be her friend again. On her terms. According to her whims.
Starlight is reacting to a failed friendship. Moondancer is also reacting to a failed friendship which ended the exact same way Starlight’s friendship with Sunburst did. They were both in extreme pain caused the actions of friends.
To avoid ever feeling that pain again, Moondancer cut herself off from society. By contrast, Starlight decided that friendship as it stands right now has got to go and to do that she is going to remake society from the ground up.
If it were an element in the set TDR has laid out, Starlight would be wrath.
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Ah, I forgot about that. It really sounded like Sourcy's costume. I apparently need to go and rewatch that episode.
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Revenge or not, people’s actions don’t have to be motivated by pride for hubris to become an issue down the line. In fact, your claim that everything Starlight did that led up to ‘Our Town’ was revenge against something (I’m confused, are you saying it was revenge against Sun Burst, Cutie Marks, or Equestrian Society?) doesn’t t mean she isn’t a prideful individual, in fact the lengths she’s willing to go, and the scale of her ambition all in the name of keeping from being in that position again speaks highly of self-importance.
It gives the impression that because of Sun Burst’s cutie mark supposedly took him away from Starlight (in reality Sun Burst’s mother was too ambitious in response to a cutie mark for magic), Starlight felt that Equestria owed her the world. Unless I’m just missing what hubris is, this fits pretty well.
Revenge may have been the motive, but how the revenge seeker views themselves is a big part of what they consider a worthy retribution. I won’t deny wrath is a viable vice for describing Starlight’s actions, but none of the human vices can exist in any meaningful capacity without other vices also playing a part. The characteristics are too vague, and the lines too blurry for that.
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It was revenge against all 3.
And you are right, other vices do play into it. HOWEVER the key to wielding the element of Pride is that it needs to be the core of the weilder’s being.
Pride is not the core of her being. Wrath is.
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Element? You mean like the Elements of Harmony? Did I miss something? When was it established that Madness, Envy, Lust, Magic, Greed, and Pride from the prophecy were Elements? From the first mention of the prophecy my thought was that the terms spoken were merely indicators of the driving force behind the events being foretold. That doesn’t necessarily mean those ideas have to be what has always driven the instigators of the foretold events, just that they’re the catalysts of the events themselves. If they are Elements, what do they collectively represent? Even if they don’t follow all the same rules the Elements of Harmony, they would have to share some nexus of existence in order to be categorized under the same term.
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Oh boy.........
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*swim/pushing madly*
THIS. SHIP. WILL SAIL!!!!!!!
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Bluedash on a rough road... Poor Blueblood...
Hm... Rainbowdash screaming her head off?
It must be a Tax collector behind her... Or ...
Zephyer proclaiming his love for her
i really wonder if a fleeing chicken triggeres some predator instinct in his DNA.
Chicken-Chicken-Chicken ♤
Next chapter:
You never see that one coming...
But you love to see them going away~♡
Ahhh, Prince must have talked to her