Chapter 22
Luna were looking out over the jungle as I moved up next to her,
“Bit for your thoughts?” I said, looking up at her.
She blinked and then looked down at me as the sun rose at the horizon behind us, she had just finished lowering the moon, “What?”
“You’re thinking deeply about something,” I said, looking up at her, brushing my wing against hers.
“Just…” Luna said and looked out over the forest away, “This place. It’s amazing that you have managed to build it.”
“I didn’t. Everypony that calls it home did,” I said and leaned softly against her as her wing shifted to settle across my back, “I only showed them that they could.”
Luna smiled sadly down at me, “I think you have done more than you think here,” she said, “You gave these ponies hope.”
I flicked one ear.
“But through all that,” Luna continued, “I still wish you were coming back with us.”
“Me too,” I admitted, “You know the worst thing about being here? Or rather pretty much the only really bad thing? Being so far away from you.”
Luna sighed softly, “I wish I could stay,” she said softly, “But I… I couldn’t do that to my sister.”
“Maybe…” I started before I shook my head, “No… asking if Midnight would move wouldn’t even work. Because that would mean getting Tempest to leave and good luck with that.”
Luna nodded and hugged me close with her wing, “It wouldn’t be fair to ask Midnight either,” she said with a small smile, “We all have our duties.”
“We do,” I agreed before looking up at her firmly, “But we’re not waiting two years until we do this again.”
We’re so sneaking up to Canterlot to surprise her for Hearts and Hooves. Could have told her about it, but they surprised us here, so nah.
Turnabout is fair play.
“Agreed,” she said and bumped her nose softly against mine before she frowned, “What happened earlier with the Rexosaurus…”
“Yes?”
It had moved on after a couple of hours, not bothering anypony in the town.
“How often does that happen?” she asked and looked out towards the brightening forest. Ponies down in the village could be seen getting ready for the day, stalls at the marketplace setting up and such.
“That is the seventh time in two years,” I said again, “So not that often. Sparks and Midnight has some ideas though and this time next year we may be able to keep them out of a large area of the jungle. Would let us do some ground construction.”
If we could afford it.
Luna nodded, “Anything planned this morning?” she asked with a small smile.
“Actually,” I admitted with a small sigh, “I should probably at least have a look at the reports and such that has been piling up for the last couple of nights. I have delegated as much as I can, but I have been getting a couple of disapproving looks from Flower Rain lately.”
Luna smiled and noses at my ear, “Well, best keep your assistant happy, My Page. Makes life significantly easier.”
“Couldn’t have done this without her,” I admitted and leaned against her side for a moment before I sighed, “It shouldn’t take more than an hour.”
“It’s fine,” Luna said and gave me a firm cuddle, “Sunset and Twilight should be back by then.”
I nodded, leaning against her for a second before pulling back and heading for the outer room, finding Flower Rain on one of the couches, sipping on a glass of ice tea.
“Your Majesty,” she said, giving a small bow after setting down the glass.
“Hey Flower,” I said and moved up to her, “Sorry about keeping you waiting, what do we have?”
“Mostly summary reports,” she said and scooted to give me room on the couch, “A few items that need your signature. A guard report from the recent Rexosaurus encounter.”
I nodded and jumped up, picking up the first item in my magic, “Let’s have a look then.”
“...I’m sorry for interrupting your time with Princess Luna,” Flower Rain said after a couple of moments of reading, “I know it’s been a long time.”
I gave her a small smile, “It’s fine. Things still need to be done. How’s Miss Glimmer working out?”
Flower motioned towards the report in my magic with her wing, “She’s doing just fine. She’s been summarizing the reports for today.”
“I thought I recognized the hornwriting,” I admitted and continued reading the Rexosaurus report. In summarizing the summary, it walked in from the west, passed by the village, took a drink from the river and then headed off north. Paid no attention to us.
I couldn’t help but wonder if Glimmer wrote things for fun too, stories or poetry. She had that kind of writing style, which made it easier to read. Something to look into, such things should be encouraged.
“Anything else going on that I need to know about?” I asked as I set it down.
“The train is ready to leave,” Flower said and leaned against the back of the chair, “Whenever the Equestrian delegation is ready to leave.”
I glanced at her, “We’re still part of Equestria, Flower,” I reminded her gently.
She flinched slightly, “...I know,” she admitted and shifted her wings, “It just doesn't feel like it. And they don’t want us anyway.”
I switched reports, “Flower, you know as well as I do that without the support of the rest of Equestria, not only would we be out of Bits in three months, but soon we would have some very hungry ponies on our hooves. We don’t have anything even approaching enough agriculture going yet. If nothing else our diet would get pretty boring with no grain or flour.”
“...I know…”
Sighing softly, I looked at her, “I know some ponies don’t like the rest of Equestria,” I told her gently, “But we’re not going to become what they were to you. To us. There are Day Ponies in Nocturnis too, don’t forget that.”
That sort of sentiment could not be allowed to spread.
Flower flicked her ears, looking a bit embarrassed, “...Yes your majesty,” she said as she nodded, “It’s just…”
“I know,” I said and sighed, “But we just have to do better, won’t we?”
She nodded firmly.
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Cue the beginning embers for the rising Lunar Rebellion for independence
Finally,finally after two months I have caught up with this series
MWAHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHAAHAHAHA
prepare yourself comment section cause I am about to make you all fall out you chair laughing
HAHAHAHA HAHAHA
(atleast I hope so...............…...............................................nah I probably won't)
This is one of the best series to read on this site
10940289
"Celly?"
"What Page?"
*Blam*
"....didn't work did it?"
"No. Now please tell me while I'm getting the soot out of my mane what that was about."
"Well some of the ponies back home sort of maybe possibly want to try and maybe declare independence, and I sort of maybe came to an agreement that if they could come up with a way to hurt you they can try."
"Well at least they're making strides, it took the nobility of Canterlot two hundred years before the first assasination attempts were made."
"By the way they baked you this cake. I think its full of poison."
"Sssshhh, you're not supposed to warn me."
Dispelling racism at the start, very good, hopefully it doesn't linger too hard
Oh dear, Flower that sort of independent colonial thinking is how bad stuff happens...
Page is right to try and nip this in the bud and if he's wise he'll start looking out for such sentiments among the common populace too.
Double grammar jackboot today, for the plural errors of plural and temporal nature:
'Luna was looking out over the jungle'
'smiled and nosed at'
10940459
I wouldn't necessarily call it racism... Yet. But better stamp out that ember while it's still smouldering
10940392
you should totally do a small thing based on this!
Oh shut up you only disagree because you are a noble/married to Luna so you would lose more while bat ponies would gain.
Money is not from Equestria but from Celestia, nobles wouldn't want to give it.
If they want they would just choose to leave Equestria , just like they didn't want Summer Sun Celebration
10940289
Not really "Lunar" if they want to be independent from Equestria because Luna would just stay in Canterlot
It would be more bat pony/Nocturnis revolution
Page better cuddle and snuggel & give Luna heaven on earth
Nice
Are you not also one of the ponies calling this home?
10940534
not yet it isn't, but separation will only let those feelings grow, considering pages guiding hoof it shouldn't get bad though.
Starlight: Sure I could have included in the report that I quietly magic stomped a draconequus and a rodent from ringing a Rexasaurus dinner bell. However I won't...because it isn't going to happen again...RIGHT?!
*a beaten Discord and Angel Bunny cowering in a corner*
Discord&AngelBunny: ...yes unicorn lady...
Starlight: GOOD!
10940641
Economically it isn't viable even in the (mortal) long term. They're a tiny, brand new colony in a jungle full of pony-eating monsters. Even if they could scrape out a living, they'd have basically no amenities, be living on subsistence-level agriculture and have effectively no option for relief if say, there was a monsoon that could set them back to square one, or worse, if someone decided to invade. In the latter scenario, from a population of about two thousand they simply wouldn't have the ponypower to levy an effective fighting force, even if they have a handful of potent spellcasters (who can be disabled by a prepared opponent by any number of means).
Give them a few centuries and a lot of immigrants and investment, then maybe it could be talked about from a political/ethnic perspective, but right now they're totally dependent as Page has made abundantly clear.
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Yes if in the future, if they are not happy.
That's why I called out Page on doing Celestia ( not that way
And it is confirmed! Luna still has NMM inside her! Classic case of MPD.
Discord: "Page, since you like girls with multiple personalities so much, let me introduce you to my mommy--Tiamat!
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Page: "Uh--why are there two of them!? And the heads don't match up with what the records say. The green head is with the purple and orange, while there's a yellow head where the green is supposed to be. And what's up with the other two heads with different shades of gray?"
Discord: "Oh, don't worry about that. That's partly intentional--the family hires a good PR firm to keep the myth about there is just one body with five heads going. And partially incidental--most folks who find out the reality never live to tell about it.... Just remember, she's got ten heads, each with its own personality, so it's extremely important to keep them all happy!--she has two bodies (you'll like that feature)--but there's ONLY ONE Tiamat!! NEVER FORGET that! She's always a little touchy if someone thinks otherwise!"
10940353
Meh... I read it 15 times so far. Love how it dont get worse refreshing it from time to time.
Only problem is tje girst two storys need editing.
XXX need to be replaced with:
10940360
Indeed. But i can recommend a lot others that are not that short.
10940392
Assasins are the new court jesters? Neat...
10940459
I think they need a least 2-3 decades. Still a lot faster than humans...
10940534
Its well founded fear. Visiting Canterlot shows that its quite activly to found there still...
Foals steps i guess?
10940641
You probably have a point...
Time for the unification to get renewed in 2-3 decades perhaps?
Than again i think they need some centuries to get back to stable numbers...
10940701
I guess the plan is:
- Build dedicated Thestral village/city ( all other tribes have one )
- Population growing/cultivation
- Build there own culture
- Mix and match via a new-reunification
- Education of the rest of Equestria
10940712
Why not timetravel back a hour or two and tell them to behave...
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Discord: Imaged a Girlfriend with then individuals...
Blank Page: Sounds like my ex on earth...
one of the very few series that i also go through the comment section completely to read the extra side stories. keep it up everypony.
So, the Rexosaurus attack was a non-starter. :-P Still waiting for the equine fecal matter to impact with the rotary cooling device.
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