Princess Luna takes a short visit to Ponyville and there meets a new alicorn in town. She invites him to Canterlot for a meeting with Princess Celestia, and finds herself falling in love.
(Note- This is my first story and I suck at grammar. Please forgive all grammatical and spelling errors. If you hate on me I will cry)
Early one morning I was standing at the watch post searching the skies for Celestia. It was almost dawn. She should be raising the sun by now and reliving me of my duty.
Finally I saw her in the sky followed by the morning sun. I smiled happy to see my older sister.
She landed on the balcony and said “Good Morning dear sister!”
“Good morning” I said back around a yawn.
“Luna could you do me a favor today?”
“Depends on the favor”
“Could you swing by Ponyville today? Twilight says that there is a new Alicorn in town. They say he came from the forest. I don’t know where he has come from before that, and would like someone to see him.”
“Fine. I’ll depart at noon.”
Celestia then flew off and I ducked into my chamber.
My room was dark. I only had one window and that was covered throughout the day. The floor had a large painted moon. The walls were covered in constellations. The bed was a rich blue like the night sky, and the pillows were pure white.
I sank back into them with relish. I was very sleepy and not looking forward to getting up at noon and flying all the way to Ponyville.
After getting up I went to the kitchen for a daisy green sandwich. I ate it hungrily.
Then I went to Celestia’s chambers to tell her I was off. She nodded then went back to her papers.
I flew myself not wanting it to be an official visit.
In Ponyville I landed on one in front of the Library. Twilight came running out.
“Princess! How nice to see you! Would you like a glass of lemonade?”
“Yes please”
I followed her inside looking around. I was wary. My last visit here did not go well.
Inside the library books were piled everywhere. Spike was nervously sweeping the floor.
“Spike go get Thunder. “
He hurried out of the room. Twilight left to go get the lemonade leaving me alone.
I absentmindedly looked at the books on the shelves.
I was just about to pick up the Elements Of Harmony (a reference guide) when I heard a pony approach. I heard the nervous rustle of wings.
I spun around. A white alicorn stood in the doorway. He had a dark grey main and tail. He was taller than average and a little more buff. His cutie mark was of a grey thunder cloud. His wings were splayed showing off the cutie mark. He looked worried.
“Hello, I am guessing you are Princess Luna?”
“Yes I am and you are?”
“Thunder.”
“Well Thunder tell me a little bit about yourself.”
“I know nothing. I only remember a swirling vortex and I was in a dark forest. I found my way out and was met by a purple pony that went by the name of Twilight Sparkle.
“This is more serious than I thought. I’ll have to take you back to Canterlot.”
“Yes. I guess you will.”
I have no idea why but that broke my hard outer shell. I tried in vain to get it back but it didn’t work. Thunder was approaching me. I didn’t back away. He leaned in. I found myself closing the gap. We kissed.
Half of me said no while the other half said yes. Then I heard hoof steps in the hall.
“Hi! I brought lemonade!” Twilight said cheerfully.
She walked in. I dropped my eyes from Thunder and looked at Twilight.
“So Princess did you find anything new?”
“CALL ME LUNA. Sorry Canterlot voice. Still haven’t got over it yet. Call me Luna. No Twilight I did not.” I said flustered. I never used my Royal Canterlot voice unless in a intense situation. Apparently this counted.
Twilight smiled and handed me a glass. I took a sip. It was a sour sweet combination that shocked my senses. It helped me to regain my normal self. I slowly rebuilt my cover.
“Thank you Twilight. I must take Thunder back to Canterlot. The effects are more serious then I thought. We will give him lodgings and a job if he wishes it. Thunders go get your things we will be leaving.
“I don’t have things.”
“ We leave when I am done talking to Twilight.”
“Princess er Luna how is Canterlot? Princess Celestia is doing well I presume?”
“She is doing fine. A lot of papers from the attack. We still keep watch at night and day.”
“The attack caused you a lot of trouble.”
“Yes never before has my sister been defeated. Some of the ponies think that now she is ill and unfit to rule.”
“Unfit to rule! If Celestia is unfit to rule then she is unfit to raise the sun. Then what would the blasted ponies do without a sun!”
“Twilight calm. She has handled it. We have a more urgent matter on hand.”
“Sorry Princess Luna. I didn’t mean to get mad.”
“That’s alright. I think Thunder and I will have to be off.”
Thunder was pacing outside waiting for me.
“Luna, I’m sorry. OK I didn’t mean to.”
“Don’t mention it. Let’s leave.”
I took off and hovered in the sky waiting. It took him a few tries to get in the air.
“Jeeze what took you so long?” I asked when he was finally in the air.
“Out of practice”
I shook my head in disbelief. An alicorn that can’t fly.
I ignored him for a little while and headed for the far off city of Canterlot.
“Doesn’t remember anything. A memory spell might work.”
“I don’t know Luna it might be more serious. Where are you going?”
“Bed.”
She didn’t ask. I ignored both of them and walked down the long hallways to my room.
My room was a comfort. There I was able to lie down and let my brain run on high. “Really. I hardly know the Thunder. Why would I lose myself over a stupid Alicorn? More importantly why would he fall in love with me? I’m just the younger sister of the one person that rules our country. Really I can see why. He is quite handsome. His grey main slightly messed up. The embarrassed look on his face. I think I was falling for him. NO NO NO NO! I was not and refused to admit that I was. Even though I was. UUUUGH no no no. I hated Thunder. He was destroying me. Taking down my cover and then moving in for the kill well I was hopelessly in love. Well his little plan wasn’t going to work.” That was my last thought before safe peaceful sleep.
I awoke to Celestia knocking on my door.
“Luna. You need to get up. It’s well after the sunset. I stayed up to get more information out of Thunder. His mind is not responding to my memory spells. I left the book on the desk in the conference room. Go. Don’t worry about the skies. Shining Armor is taking your shift until we figure out where he came from.”
I groaned not wanting to get up.
“Now Luna.” Celestia left.
I got up and went into the conference room with a muffin. I was hungry. I had forgotten to eat dinner.
Thunder was sitting in a chair in the conference room. He jumped when I came in .
“Luna. Hello. Is that a muffin? Where can I get one I’m starved.”
“Take a right at the end of the corridor. Third door on your left.” I said. A full mind was better than a hungry one.
I finished my muffin sitting on one of the tables . I saw Celestia’s book and magicly brought it over to my table. I didn’t want to move.
Celestia left note saying wich ones she tried. As usual they were the complex spells only she could do. I flipped to the front and found “Simple memory spell. So simple a filly could do it.” I read it over. It was so simple it just might work.
Thunder came back with a basket of muffins and another in his mouth.
“Hungry?” I said eyeing the basket.
“Figured we could share”
I grabbed a muffin. I was really hungry and didn’t want to do magic on an empty stomach.
The two of us finished off the muffins quickly. They were good. We had gotten a new pastry chef that created amazing food.
“Alright. Thunder stand in the corner there I am going to attempt some spells.”
He backed into the corner. I thought the spell in my mind and the spell came to me. My horn glowed and I stepped closer.
I got into Thunders mind. But I could only see from when he arrived. I could see his thoughts. I realized how shocked he was and that he liked me. Too much. Then something went horribly wrong.
The spell had inverted. Instead of me being able to read his memories he could read mine. I tried to cut off the spell but he was in control. I saw all the memories that he saw. Me turning wicked and my time on the moon that changed me. Then he saw the thoughts I had when I met him how much I hated him because I loved him. It was horrible.
Finally he realized what was happening and cut the spell off. But the damage had already had been done.
“Luna. I didn’t know. I am so sorry. I wow. I didn’t know.”
“Know what,” I snapped “That you were reading my thoughts or that I loved you. And hated you for it. WHAT ARE YOU SORRY FOR.” “Both. You love me?”
“YES I LOVE YOU. 120% OK! EVER SINCE I HEARD YOUR VOICE. SAW YOU FLY. And I want nothing more then to find out where you came from. So I can send you back. Because I can’t love you.”
“Why not?”
“It’s not in my nature. The only person I love is Celestia.”
“Join me for coffee tomorrow. 10:00. Know any late night place.”
“The one on the corner.”
“Shall we continue?”
“No. I will tell Celestia. Tomorrow after coffee.”
I left the room. The one try I had had was a total failure. I hated to tell my sister. I could and would man up.
I straitend up and walked into her room. It was bright and cheery. It was painted yellow and blue.
Celestia was sleeping on her desk on top of a mound of papers. I gently shook her.
“What wha? Oh Luna. How did it go?’
I gushed. Told her everything. I even started to cry. Thunder had changed me.
“Oh Luna. Don’t reject him. If you are in love let yourself be. Find a new you with him.”
“But Celest.”
“Don’t but me. Go on the date. For now. Could you handle some of these papers? “
“Yeah Celest. I got them.”
I floated the papers to me and floated them out the door and to my room.
I sat down at my desk and filed through them. I signed several. Threw even more letters away. One was from Twilight. Another lesson on friendship. I put that in a pile for Celestia. I didn’t even read it. I didn’t need any friendship.
The papers were getting boring. A lot of them were from people who were angerd by the attack. I wrote them back in a calm way.
After a while Celestia took her papers back and I collapsed gratefully into bed. Before she left I asked her to wake me up at 9:30.
In sleep I my brain gave me a solution to Thunders memory problem. I dreamed that he was another changeling. But when I awoke in a sweat I realized that Celestia would have known with all the security spells she put on him.
I fell back asleep and Celestia woke me up with a knock and entered with a pale white short gown.
I tried it on and Celestia did my hair in curls.
“Where did you get this?”
“Part of Rarities new line. Sent it as a thanks.”
“Why?”
“Not now.”
I left the room cursing the shoes that went with the dress.
Thunder was in the hall waiting.
“You look nice.”
“Please cut the sarcasim.”
“Didn’t know I was being sarcastic.”
“You were. “
“No I wasn’t I was commenting on how nice you look tonight.”
“Thank you Thunder.”
Outside I took a deep whiff of the night air. It was cooling off and the humidity lowering. I loved nights like these. I usually spent them outside on the terrace.
I could tell that Thunder loved nights like these also.
“Don’t you love nights like these.” Thunder asked.
“ I love nights in general.”
He laughed. So when the sun goes down can I see you bring out the moon?”
“Yes”
“Do you ever laugh.” “Of course. You just have to try really hard.”
“ I swear Luna that by the end of the night I will make you laugh.”
The night was a blast. Thunder got me a cider and a basket of muffins. We ate them and talked about Canterlot and my life at the palace.
“So when you were on the moon. Did you have company?”
“None whatsoever. It was drab walking around on that planet.”
“I am so sorry. Now how was it being Nightmare Moon.”
“It was fun throwing a tantrum and such but when my own sister banned me to the moon. Well to say it nice it made me very angry.For the first century I stalked around sulking. Being mad. Then I started to calm down. It was boring on the moon nothing to do. I did play crater soccor. I can take you to the moon someday so we can play.”
“I couldn’t brethe.”
“I know a spell that can fix that problem.”
“ So that could be our second date.”
“Yeah. I guess.”
“Soo when you were up there what did you eat? Moon rocks?”
“No…”
“Were they crunchy. Tasty. Mmmmm rocks. I should see if they have them here.” That did it. He got me to laugh. I laughed really hard. Like I hadn’t laughed in years. Wich I hadn’t. I was crying and laughing.
Thunder just smiled and waggled his eyebrows. Then he laughed at me.
“You have a wonderful laugh. You should laugh more often.” Thuder said.
“Thank you. Hey you want to go for a little flight. I know some great places.”
“Sure. “
We took off and soared over Canterlot. I headed for the roof of the palace. It was flat and a great place to sit. I was the only one who knew about it.
We landed there and Thunder looked at me. He had grey eyes and largish eyelashes.
“So I memorized another spell. Should we try it?”
“Sure.”
Thunder closed his eyes. I lit my horn and thought the spell. I was inited into his mind. Time went backwards. I got to the swirling pink vortez and realize that this one was working. I was going back into his mind. Then I realized how close I was to him. I had stepped foreward and now our horns were touching. I jumped ending the spell. He looked at me batted his eyelashes and leanded in for a kiss. I kissed him back. His lips tasted like blueberry muffin and the tang of cider. They were slightly salty. I wondered what mine tasted like.
Thunder then leanded back after a mere half minute.
I smiled at him. Then he said “You taste like moon rocks.”
I sat there in stunned silence. The spell had worked. I guess. I needed to tell Celestia . It would work better with her. Thunder just distracted me.
Then I flew away to raise the moon.
I stayed up all night sifting through more and more papers. I also kept watch so Shining Armor could go home to Cadence.
After sunrise Celestia came in.
“Find a spell”
“On the top of the pile.”
“How was the date?”
My answer was a Fluttershy squeee.
Celestia laughed and left.
I fell asleep soon after she left. And dreamt of floating through space with Thunder.
I woke up to Celestia pounding on my door.
“LUNA WAKE UP! YOUR SPELL WORKED!” I shot up and ran to the door.
Celestia handed me a piece of paper. I read it over.
Case: Thunder He was created by humans. They spent years secretly trying to create him. Formulating potions to crate a unicorn. They got more then they bargained for. They wanted to send him home so the sent him to the Bermuda triangle. Case solved. “Celest this is great! I have to go talk to Thunder. “
I ran quickly into Thunders room.
“Luna! This is great I remember everything!”
“Well tell me.”
“I was born as a regular horse in a government testing facility. They analyzed my brain to see if I could handle the tests. I could so they gave me a potion that had been brewing for years. It burned my thought as I drank it. It gave me the ability to speak. Sort of. Then they did unspeakable things to my head. When they had done that and crammed more potions down my gullet they had a unicorn. I could control weather and make it rain I even had a cutie mark. I shocked the first doctor with a lightning strike that put him in a coma. Then they wanted wings. So they did unspeakable things to my sides. Crammed more poitions down my gullet. When they were done they educated me on what I was and put me in a cage. They left me there for the next six years. Then a new man came and insisted I go home. They sent me to the Bermuda triangle and wiped my memory. “ “Oh Thunder.” “It’s solved. That’s all.”
“Well now that it’s solved we can give you a job. And we can continue our dating. Moon soccer tonight?” “Yes. That sounds fun. I’ll meet you on the room”
I met thunder on the roof before Celestia lowered the sun.
Thunder was up there waiting. I lit my horn and concentrated on the moon not him. I raised it and all the stars after it.
I flew off the roof and hovered in the sky waitig. Thunder met me and I cast the spell on his head that created a bubble of air around his head . Then I took off speeding for the moon. Thunder followed.
On the moon I found the soccer ball and set up the goals.
“Ok. You need to hit the ball into that crater or stop me from hitting it into that crater.”
I kicked the ball twords Thunder. He smacked it. It went over my head and into my crater. I got it and threw it in the field. I charged at it. Kicked missed did a face plant. Thunder took the ball kicked it in my crater.
The game ended me 0 Thunder 9. It was so sad. I lowered the moon and went to bed. Exhausted
