The Power Vested in Me
No no no no no no, this can’t be happening! Yes it can. It is! No, this shouldn’t be possible. It has to be a Prince or a Princess and I’m not a Princess. I’m just a unicorn. Just an egghead librarian unicorn. Whose sister in law is Princess Cadance, Ruler of the Crystal Kingdom. But that’s by marriage, and it doesn’t count, does it? Of course, my brother was Captain of the Canterlot Royal Guard, and now Prince Shining. Or is it Prince Armor? Aaauuugh! Concentrate, Sparkle! Still doesn’t count. I’m not a Princess. Not a noble. So this can’t happen. Can’t be happening. Right now.
The nobles will never accept this. There will be a revolt. Equestria will be sundered, the land torn by strife and… what am I saying? Think, Luna! It does not matter what the aristocracy believes. I am a Princess and my word is law. If I declare that she need not be Royalty, then so it shall be. Until the revolution. No, no, no, that is not right! She is the Bearer of the Element of Magic, hoof-picked personal student of my dear sister, savior of Equestria many times over – that should be enough for any pony. But it is never enough for tradition, is it? We are doomed.
This will never work. She’s immortal. Ageless, undying, never ending, synonym, synonym, thesaurus, and you’re rambling to yourself again, Twilight. I’ll be old and grey and she’ll be old and blue. Well, eons old but young-looking, and really more indigo than blue. Rambling again! Why would she want to watch me grow old? I don’t even want to watch me grow old! Note to self: achieve immortality. Looked it up already. Side effects… unpleasant. No, no, forget it, this will never do.
She is so young! I am ancient. She could never want a decrepit old mare like me. I am older than the hills. No, really, I am older than the hills. I should know, I made them. Ah, focus, Luna! You know this is impossible. You have watched more ponies pass away from the ravages of age than there are stars in your precious sky. She will grow old, and frail, and she will leave you. And still these will be the best decades of your endless life. No, the pain will be too much, too soon. I cannot do this to myself. To us.
Luna can’t live in a tree. I already live in a tree. With a dragon. She’s too tall to live in my tree – our tree. With the dragon. And Ponyville can’t handle a Princess! They can barely handle a couple of parasprites. As it is, every time Celestia or Luna visits, the town shuts down from all the bowing and groveling. And I can’t go to Canterlot, not constantly. Great libraries, great food, great Princesses – no, no, it just wouldn’t work! I have to be near my friends. What if there’s an emergency only the Elements of Harmony can deal with? I’d be too far away in Canterlot! So we can’t go forward with this. It’s a matter of National Security! Right?
I cannot ask her to come to Canterlot. I cannot make her leave those whom she has worked so hard to befriend. Nor can I leave my post. Accursed bureaucrats! Can they not run a nation without my guiding their every decision? But Celestia managed to hold the world together without me for a thousand years. Surely she could handle a century more? No, listen to yourself, Luna! You could never abandon your responsibilities after leaving Equestria and your sibling for so long. There are always days when the Night Court is out of session, and each month there is a New Moon when my services are less critical… No, still I.. No. It is not right. Responsibility, that is what I must adhere to, true? Nothing else. Or – no.
Celestia will never forgive me. I know what she said, I know what she proclaimed to the nation, to our friends, to the crowd, in letter after letter. Surely she couldn’t have meant it! This is her sister, after all! I’m a sister-stealer. That’s it, I’m a goner. It’s the moon for me. Maybe she’ll send us both… Ack! What am I saying? I was supposed to study friendship. She probably thinks I’m a dismal failure, because this is way, way beyond friendship. This is over the hills and far away from friendship, and there aren’t enough Friendship Reports in all Equestria to cover this. This is amazing, and wonderful, and so very, very not what Princess Celestia had in mind when she sent me to Ponyville. Why did she have to let me stay in Ponyville, knowing that’d be the first town to host Nightmare Night after Luna came back? Well, there’s still time. The moon’s up – looks kind of cozy. She could still exile me. Maybe. Hopefully.
Celestia has never lied to me. So why would she begin now? Her blessing, her approval, her encouragement – surely she could not have meant all those things she said. She must harbor some secret disapproval, some deep resentment. I have stolen her most favored pupil, her favorite student, her confidante and surrogate daughter. Will she banish me again for my treachery? Or will her repressed rage at my perfidy turn her heart cold and enrage her, bringing forth the cruel Tyrant Sun? Perhaps I’ve been reading too much into current popular fiction. In any event, there are too many risks to go through with this. There is still time to call this off. For the good of all ponies, I must abstain. I must!
Okay, why can’t I breathe? You’re hyperventilating, Sparkle! Keep it together! You’re becoming a nervous wreck. I can’t do this. It’s too… too… too everything. Someone’s asking me a question, I think, but I’m shaking so much I can’t hear them clearly. Do you really want to go through with this, Twilight? Do I really want to be Luna’s shaking, hyperventilating, nervous wreck?
My sister is speaking but I hear nothing. Have I gone deaf? All I can hear is my heartbeat. I have never heard my own heartbeat before! Why can I not focus? Why have my senses abandoned me? What has this mortal mare done to me? Is this your truest desire, Luna? Do I wish more than anything to be an unfocused, flustered Princess, deaf to all but my own heart?
“I do.”
“I do.”
“Then by the power vested in me as Princess of the Sun, I hereby pronounce you, Princess Luna, and you, Twilight Sparkle, to be Mare and Wife, to have and to hold, until the end of time. May you follow in the hoofsteps of joy and may your hearts know only Harmony!“
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As expected, the d'awww is strong with this one.
Also, props for pulling off an all-dialogue chapter. They're interesting to work with.
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Let's check . . . yep, my diabeetus went up to type 3.
i was dying the whole time. hilarious. pretty good twiluna too
Internal thoughts raging intensly
Yeah, those two are meant for each other - they even have neurotic episodes and nervous break-downs in harmony!
She forgot to say 'you may kiss the bride.'
Well now, this is sweeta' a Mint Julep in July. I confess that I'm looking fo'ward to the next instah'ments.
I think I shall use a quote from one of my favorite Twiluna stories to describe how I feel. Sweet Celestia's privates this is a good story. Will we Sec more of the actual ceremony or is this it for the wedding? Not that I'm complaining
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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Thou should be proud of thee
we Liked it and Demand More
Well, there goes the world. Gravestone will read: "Here lies the World. Destroyed by a massive tactical D'aaawww strike."
Too good. Can't breath.
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Amen. My body wasn't ready for this amount of D'awwww. Do i have another new type of diabeetus? Eh, worth it.
*crazy ramblings* On the other hand, if we could weaponize this kind of D'awww, it definitely would give new meaning to the term, WMD.
I will admit, i saw the title, and it intrigued me. I dove right in without thought (or reading the description)... wondering as to why it seemed odd, and now i can say, i don't care that i jumped without looking. Once i started reading this, i literally (i don't mean figuratively, i mean literally) could not stop until i had read it all. I almost say add the comedy tag, but that would be a bit odd for just the first couple chapters, eh?
LastBrunnen, you caused this, and i can totally blame you. I don't think you would want to avoid taking credit though.
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I'm very happy with these snippets of pony happiness. Some of the cutest TwiLuna I've read. And I've read a lot of TwiLuna...
Ok, normally I don't comment on stories, but this story is worth it.
When I first read the description I thought to myself: "Meh, another TwiLuna ship, gonna read it but I'm not expecting much."
Though I didn't expect this! All the chapters were really well written and the endings always got to me. It wasn't cliche, never boring and although you didn't wrote an ongoing storyline, everything was nicely closed off in itself.
Can't wait to see more of this. Here is a deserved like and fav from me.
Oh wow, TheLastBrunnenG. Your TMP collection made top of the featured box. Congrats!
seriously, chapter length. It's not fun seeing a story you like get updated, only to find out it did so by 1000 words
Will you write one about what Twilight and Nightmare Moon/Luna were thining about each other during and after the first two episodes?
Time for me to do another 'Vignettes' story - maybe we could collaberate? I got good stuff, you got good stuf...
I'll reply to everyone's comments later tonight, but for now I offer my deepest heartfelt thanks to everyone whose faves, thumbs up, visits, kind comments, and great advice helped land this story in the Featured Box. Hats off and a round of applause to all of you!
Also, I would be remiss if I didn't credit Thirty Minute Ponies again. All chapters here were originally written for TMP story prompts, and if it weren't for TMP's creative prompts, kindly moderators, and great little flash-fic community, I'd never have made it this far. Give them a visit!
So, you're missing a few characters in earlier chapters. I understand that Dash wasn't in the first one--gossip isn't really her thing. But with the camp fire, you could have still had Flutters there, just not saying anything. She's normally quiet anyway. So I would suggest you do that, because I know it threw me, at least.
Another thing is the random RariJack. Don't get me wrong, I sail that ship, but just randomly having it there like that was very...odd. It pulled me from the story a bit, just like 'Shy not being in the camp fire chapter.
And other than that, this story is very cute. I absolutely loved the first chapter. I was like...Twi sure can travel...and then the ending was just perfect. I was glad to see this said 'non-cloppy' because that made it even better-just adorable moments. The second chapter was nearly unbearably cute. This is a great story, and I can't wait to see what TwiLuna goodness you have to post next.
so totally the Second Act of Our Town but with ponies
are these all one-shots or do they go together? like chapters of one story?
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He could have, but I think it would have been the wrong choice. Making the story all about the internal doubts simply wolks.
Now, that's not to say I wouldn't mind a chapter partnered to this that shows the scene from the outside.
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Thanks! "Power Vested" was all about their internal dialogue, so it worked here.
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Well, Ah do declare!
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This might be it for the wedding ceremony itself. Weddings are all pretty much formulaic rituals (unless there's a changeling invasion), which is why I wanted to show their inner turmoil instead of the stoic faces they'd be wearing on the outside.
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Goal: achieved! Exactly the reactions I was hoping for. Thanks!
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Sorry! I barely have time to write for Thirty Minute Ponies as it is, so I'm lucky I can fire off 1000 words on a good night. Maybe when I run out of TwiLuna material from TMP, I'll start adding original material.
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Actually, that's coming up. I wrote some post-Nightmare Night scenes for TMP, and after I edit them, they'll be added here.
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Missing characters were dropped mainly due to time constraints, each of these chapters having originally been separate stories written for Thirty Minute Ponies. At some point I may add in the missing scenes.
The random RariJack ties into my other story collection, The Rustic and The Romantic, though it was hard to make the connection here in what was really a totally separate piece.
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These are all connected, though they're not necessarily in sequence.
1660305 I don't really think they need their own scene so much as to just be included in the number? I mean, I can't imagine why Fluttershy wouldn't be with her friends, or that she wouldn't be hurt to not be invited. The story's themselves are fine, I really don't think you need to add anything to them. Just...tweaked, to include everypony.
It's just a suggestion, anyway.
It just makes it really weird when reading, is all.
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That's actually the way I had it written originally. The stories mentioned "the six friends" and so forth, but I only ever depicted five of them (or "the five" and only showed four), so it looked like I couldn't reliably count past three. Maybe I'll find a happy medium: mention all of them but drop in a sentence or two about why Fluttershy / RD (depending on the story) never spoke up.
Mr. President! The Dawwwww Contingency has been activated. Our enemies will be defeated, we however will die from cuteness overload as well.
<happy 
<happy
<tears of joy
I pray to God we have done the right thing...
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If you gotta go - go with a smile!
What a rare little TwiLuna Gem was submited to the TwiLuna Group and yet it shines the brightest.
Unbelievable the sheer ammount of dawwwww this Story has and to think I had my doubts cause of the lenght.
Full Score from me.
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Many thanks! I learned from TMP that 1000-word stories can have depth and character aplenty if they're done right. I hope I've done that here, especially while stringing together a series of otherwise separate stories.
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MOAR, indeed. Give me a day or two and I'll have more of these to tack on.
awesomeness
I cant help but laugh when I read a romance-y story and the ad on the bottom says "free shipping"in large bold letters.
So much effin cute!
Set phasers to maximum d'aaaaaaw.
Manliest of tears.
I am going to read this simply because the Lexx theme is stuck in my head and I hate you.
Oh My god that was adorable
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Here, have this one instead:
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This means a lot to me, it truly does. To see this story sitting in the Featured box still amazes me. I took screenshots when it hit the Popular Stories sidebar and did a happy dance because I never imagined it would go any farther. Nor, by the way, did I know that TMP was your idea. And a good one it was! I'm only sorry now that I didn't know about it sooner. All for the best, though. Today or tomorrow I'll submit my 50th TMP prompt, which will rank only slightly behind this in my list of proud writing accomplishments.
1658885 That would be weaponized cuteness.
this fic is number 69 on my read later list... that made me laugh
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And oddly, it's clop-free.
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Awesome. Awesome!
This is TurboWAFF
And thus delightful.