Amethyst Throne
“Mercy, oh Princess Twilight, mercy!” Rarity wailed, dragging herself across the mosaic floor of the Evening Court. “We beseech you, you whose beauty defies all description, you whose brilliance shines forth from beneath the heavy crown you so magnanimously wear on our behalf!” She collapsed to her side, chest heaving, and held a snow-white hoof to her brow. “Though I dare not look upon your radiance, I beg you to hear the supplications of your humble servants! Our poor village suffers without your guidance and your benevolent presence.” Great tears spilled down her muzzle as she collapsed to the unforgiving floor and keened, “Please, Princess, but look upon our unworthy hamlet once more, and our hearts shall be forever lifted!”
Luna leaned close to the sighing Princess occupying the Amethyst Throne and whispered overloudly, “Methinks these supplicants are – what is the modern phrase? Ah, yes, ‘laying it on a bit thick’, I believe. ‘Tis to be expected whenever a new ruler ascends the throne.”
Applejack stepped forward, hat in hooves, her eyes downcast, and bent low. “Beggin’ your pardon an’ forgiveness an’ all that, Twi. Uh, I mean, Princess Twilight. We ain’t seen hide nor hair o’ your Royal self for right ‘bout half a year now.” She ran an orange hoof through her mane and continued, “It don’t seem right that our esteemed monarch ain’t toured her realm nor set a darn hoof outside this here castle the whole time. It, uh, probably ain’t my place to say so, an’ I’m hopin’ y’all don’t smite my farm or nothin’, but we’d be mighty appreciative of a Royal visit every now an’ then. Ma’am.”
The purple Alicorn shook her head as Luna hummed nearby and muttered, “Do not take it personally, Twilight. The entire Night Guard battalion queued up to accost me on my absence upon my return.”
Launching herself into the air in a flutter of azure wings, Rainbow crossed her hooves and scowled.“What gives, Miss High and Mighty? Cadance had to rebuild the entire Crystal Kingdom after the fight with King Sombra, and she’d toured her whole Empire within a week of getting crowned! This is definitely not awesome, Empress Egghead.”
Something yellow and cowering squeaked behind her. “Um, to be fair, Rainbow, the entire Crystal Empire is half the size of New Hoofshire.” Fluttershy’s eyes grew wide and she shrank behind her mane. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend the Crystal Ponies. Or New Hoofshire. Eep!”
“Too bad! Just because she,” Dash snarled, pointing a hoof at the cringing Twilight, “has to sit on the Royal Throne for a few months doesn’t mean she can just ditch her pals. I mean, look at Pinkie!”
Below, the pink pony sat on her haunches, mane flat and dull, and held up a hoofwritten sign reading “I has a sad nao.”
Dash waved her hoof and wrinkled her muzzle. “You bail on one little Alicorn Party, and look what happens. See, Your Majesty? Ignoring your friends is completely uncool.” Looking furtively side to side, she whispered, “Or your friends’ requests for magical Alicorn-powered speed-boosting flight suits, 'cause that would be a totally awesome way to be all benevolent and generous and stuff.”
Twilight’s star-jeweled crown echoed as it banged repeatedly on the arm of her gemmed throne.
Spike looked around at the kneeling ponies. “What?” he shrugged. “I’ve got no problem if Princess Sparkbutt wants to shack up here! She left me with a sweet bachelor pad, no curfew, and a Royal stipend that buys me unlimited ice cream. No complaints here!” He turned for the great double-doors at the Evening Court’s entrance and made half a dozen strides before he froze and began to quiver. Suddenly he rocketed to the dais below the Amethyst Throne and threw himself around the hooves of the Princess of Magic. Clutching tightly, he sniffled, “But if you… you know, wanted to come back and visit, I’d… I’d be okay with that. Please? It gets awfully lonely back home, and between you and me, Owlowiscious really creeps me out. Please, just for a while?”
Twilight shook her head and smiled as she picked the trembling dragon up and cradled him in her lap, stroking his scales gently. “Girls,” she laughed, “if you wanted me to come back to Ponyville more often, you could have just asked.”
TMP Prompt # 275. The Prompt: A change in management.
Retrospective and extended Author's Notes:
* Not many authors go for New Hampshire - never been there myself, actually - so why not pony-fy it?
* It took me 2 years of re-reads to catch my own unintentional joke where Rainbow rags on Twilight for "sitting on the Royal Throne."
* Luckily when Spike said Twilight "left me with a sweet bachelor pad" he didn't say it was the old Golden Oaks tree, so this can still be slipstreamed into the show, assuming Twilight left Castle Friendship to Spike for a few months so she could sit court in Canterlot (alongside Luna) to gain some first-hoof experience.
* AJ calls Twilight a Monarch. Technically Equestria is a Triarchy (Twilight being a Ruling Princess, not just a Princess in title only), though in practice it's a Diarchy. Applejack's not the fancy type to remember that and Twilight was in no mood to correct her.
* Again I ran out of time for the TMP prompt and wrote off Fluttershy and Pinkie instead of giving them any real dialogue. No, they're not Worst Ponies.
I take it back, I did get fan art for Luna's Librarian - sort of. For Pinkie's 'I has a sad nao' sign I made this:
Yes, I forgot her cutie mark. But then Jondor made me this:
I'll take it!
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Am I the only one who thinks weird that Twi wouldn't have visited her friends in six months?
Other than that, nice chapter!
Oh god, this was hilarious!
Commence read.
Got to make time for the friends.
Yeah, but where would the fun be in that? I'm pretty sure that their 'petition' was the most fun they've had in months!
Pinkie Pie's sign... it made me laugh. Does that make me a terrible person?
For a minute there, I thought Twilight and Luna took a six-month vacation and told nopony. "um, well, see, we were..."
In any case, amusing anyway.
I loved the Pinkie Sign.
And I like how Twilight is all "You want me to come visit every second day? Why didn't you just ask?"
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I get the feeling they exaggerated quite a lot with everything and with that I feel that the 6 months are probably more like 6 weeks if even that.
But I don't know, that's just the feeling I get from it.
// Sphex
...wow, talking about being melodramatic uh?
2314543 I don't thin that it would had been even six weeks... MY BET IS THAT IT WAS JUST SIX DAYS!
Just goes to show that you can be Princess of whatever you want, but there will only ever be one true (Drama) QUEEN!
Yeah six months is a bit heavy I woulda bet this to have happened in six days
Loved this when it was on TMP, glad to see it here though. Rarity is really the Drama Queen but still everyone's reactions was hilarious.
That focused my fears with the current Show development perfectly and then smashed it with glorious humor and a pinch of Twiluna. Well done.
This actually makes me feel kinda sad. Twilight shouldn't be separated from her friends for so long.
I guess i am a bit evil because i near fell out my chair laughing ...
If that aint a gif then it really should be.
These "chapters" are really short.
I'm curious to see if they can each tell a complete slice-of-life story while carrying an over-arcing theme in such a limited number of words. I'll be following this. 
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For you! Five minutes with Paint Shop Pro, Google Images, Pony Creator, and MLP Vectorclub (bg by xpesifeindx):
i46.tinypic.com/akeova.jpg
This story wins more than Charlie Sheen.
Emperors Egghead! That's Twilicorn's name now. I'm using that for my Twilicorn story by the way, you will get credit though.
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Thank you!
I has it saved on a mem stick .. for posterity.
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Glad y'all liked it!
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Big question I think is, does Twilight actually have something to do? If she's "spare Princess #2" and nothing more, then no, she's either got no excuse for not visiting, or it really hasn't been 6 months and they're all just ribbing her. My headcanon says she's Princess of Magic, and... well, something else too. I'll get into that in a later chapter. Because that does give her a "real job" then I'm thinking she'll be neck deep in Princesshood for the first few months. Her friends no doubt came to see her more than once, and I'm sure she made an official state visit to Ponyville, but she might not have had time to come back to Ponyville just to sit for a night or three and just hang out. So, to recap: she's a real Princess with real Princess things to do, and it really has been six months or more, but it's not like she hasn't seen them at all - they're having the kind of fun with her that only Luna, Celestia, and the Elements could get away with.
And of course all of this will get Jossed by the Season 4 opener.
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For you, too:
i46.tinypic.com/akeova.jpg
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A Winningverse reference, here? Perish the thought!
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Go ahead! Sure you don't want to borrow "Princess Sparkbutt" instead?
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Glad you're giving it shot!
2315279 When taking Royal, government, time to make some jokes?
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You're welcome!
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If you liked that, then you'll love it when Rainbow and Spitfire enlist with the Peacekeepers! Wait, no, I was just dreaming that part.
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Under Luna's tutelage and guidance, of course.
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BEGONE, PEASANTS!
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If it does,, I am equally terrible.
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Annnd I am laughing again.
Yep, terrible, terrible person...
2315430 Good times then.
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Have one better, though no background:
thedwarfers.net/otherstuff/random/ponies/sad_nao_pinkie.png
Pinkie vector is from here. The hoofwriting is my own plus some perspective skewing.
Ok... You've officially given me a reason to approve TwiLuna. Because man, I really did enjoy myself in reading this. The only thing that would have made this even more awesome was if it was humanized, but you know that's just me.
Argle flargle, the damned Owl. I'm sorry but the spelling on that name has started to make me insane.
Aloysius (Al-Oo-Ish-Us) is a real name. It oughta be Owloysius.
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I defienetly agree with you, that and she mostly learned how to answer petitions the very same way Princess Celestia taught her
Should I feel bad that the whole "staying in Canterlot" thing is becoming a bit of a pet peeve of mine by now?
(Yes, I do realize that this may not be strictly the case for your story.)
I mean... I'm really enjoying this, but it's this little tick that's not leaving me alone after all of the confirmations of her staying in Ponyville.
Still, it's not detracting from enjoying your story, so I can deal. Great chapter.
Rarity is the best pony for this chapter, i couldn't stop laughing imagining her dramatic.
dat meme!
I think you tried too hard on this one.
I think my favorite line was when Spike said Owlowiscious was creepy. Or sparkbutt. Definitely the owl statement.
I laughed way too hard at Sparklebutt.
Aww, marathon's over...
What madness is this? I have to wait for chapters now? Seriously?! WHAT KIND OF SITE IS THIS!? I DEMAND MORE CONTENT NOW!!!!
Really though, awesome work. This is the one shipping story that I really like, just so many hilarious moments!
"Princess Sparkbutt"
I hereby decree that this shall be Twilight's new title from now on
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I think that was the idea, actually.
Happy neeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!ss
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Aren't we all.
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Hey, someone with artistic talent - get to it! Let's see Nightmare Cheerleader Twilight!
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Totally. Her favorite brand? Foalgers.
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Nice - thanks!
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Glad you liked it!
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Happy you enjoyed it! No humanized for me, story-wise, though I do love some anthro art. 4KOand such.
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You'll find a few of those sprinkled around. No Magikarp, though.
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So glad you decided to give it a read-through beyond the first "meh" chapter!
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They all did.
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I have to look him up on the MLP Wiki every time I try to spell his name. Drives me batty.
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"Night of a Thousand Texts". Heh! Reminds me, I need to write a sequel to that chapter.
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Her Majesty, Sundown Empress and Moonrise Queen, Mistress of Magic, Princess Twilight Sparkbutt.
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Thrilled you enjoyed it! Stick around!
2323141 Or, to save time, look on the character list for the site. It's what I do.
2315279The writers have stated that twilight will still be living in ponyville. that however, can be ignored because LOL.
I just read this entire story, and it leaves me with one thing to say: Haha, the daw has been doubled!
With the possible exception of certain excerpts from your Twitavi story I just finished, this is the best damn line I've read all night. Well done, sir.