Right now you wish you were still asleep in the chariot. The ride back from Las Pegesas seemed to take forever. After a farewell to your parents, and not telling them your current predicament, it didn't seem to stop. Maybe it was the Guards, maybe it was just how things went, maybe Luna herself did it herself just to ease the anxiety. Either way you dozed off pretty fast and thankfully no weird dreams this time. Even if you had any, Dash woke you back up before anything could set in. From there you and Luna agreed to do the right thing: Tell your new Sister-In-Law about her new Brother-In-Law. So far, that hadn't gone over to well. From the muffled sound of it, the two were arguing over it to the point even the Guards posted outside broke their eternal gaze and looked back confused. You meanwhile just rested on a balcony nearby waiting for one of them to stick there heads out and yell at you or something when Rainbow Dash walked up with Twilight in tow. You acknowledged them both with a nod of your head as Twilight instantly went on the questions. You really wish she wouldn't do this and decided to shoot down anything that she would launch.

“We were drunk, it was Las Pegasus, we're married, Rainbow Dash isn't a Princess, I don't know why it just is, and yes it was I who blew up your water bill. I left your faucet on downstairs. My bad.”

Rainbow's mouth literally hit the floor while Twilight stood there speechless. Eventually, Guards were looking at you bewildered having connected the dots from where they were standing. You standing there thinking and come up with the best way to break the silence. Fortunately, Twilight breaks it for you.

“How did that even happen!?”

“You'd be surprised what you can accomplish in that city.” Rainbow tells her.

“No, I mean, why were you even in Las Pegasus?”

“I told you I was from there remember!? Like three times I think! Besides we were visiting my parents.”

Twilight looked at you bewildered and wishing she was dreaming: “Wait, you were visiting your parents!? And you married her instead!”

“No we visited my parents. Then we started drinking. Then... I don't remember much after that. Although it did involve the White Chapel on Las Pegasus Boulevard. It's what the certificate says.”

You would have shown Twilight, if Luna hadn't taken that paper you'd show her. Of course looking at her frozen state right now you don't think she would be able to read it.

“So, you guys want to be Bridesmaids for another wedding?” ending it with a half-hearted smile.

The attempted joke to lighten the mood was in poor taste to start with. What else could you do? Twilight's pupils shrank as three strands of her hair suddenly popped out of place. She wobbled around for a few seconds before falling over onto the ground with a sigh.

How did I know she was going to faint?

Rainbow poked her for a few seconds before the sound of a heavy hinge opening and the Guards armor clanking as they went to attention interrupted her. Stepping out was Celestia not exactly looking as pleased as usual. She scanned the hall for a second before drawing her gaze towards you. By some spell or she just had that affect you froze where you stood, gripped with fear. Even Rainbow Dash bowed down at Celestia's presence. Stepping towards you, she glanced down to a collapsed Twilight, then back at you.

“She did that. Wasn't me.” you quickly speak.

Celestia sighs, knowing her student probably couldn't take it all in at once. Twilight may be a amazing Unicorn, but she sometimes did get easily overwhelmed at times. Looking back to you the princess spoke in a calm, yet icy voice.

“Come, we have much to discuss.”

The tone was easily reminiscent of Luna's on your first date with her. Somewhat emotionless, demanding respect, yet calm with no anger anywhere. Of course with your current situation what else did you expect? You alone probably just committed one of the biggest scandals in Equestrian history! That wasn't going to go over well anywhere in this Empire, or this planet. You quickly entertain the thought of what would happen if this ever got out, but shove it from your mind as the two of you walk away.

“I'll, uh, I'll help out Twilight here.” volunteers Rainbow Dash.

I'll give it two more minutes.

I'll give it three.

Huh? What!? Oh, I forgot you can do this as well. Wait, why are you doing this?

One thing you notice is her thought's aren't holding that icy chill to them. In fact, it's how they normally are. Wasn't she just in a fight with her sister? Wasn't she angry at you or something for causing a outrage on a royal scale? Literally!? What is going on here!?

Aren't I about to get banished or something?

By the heavens no! Why would you think that?

I don't know? I just drunk-married your sister!

She giggled a little as the doors shut behind the both of you gently before she spoke again: “As I said, we have much to discuss.”

“Okay...?” you say nervously.

Before you is what appears to be a study of sorts. Luna's face is buried in a pillow, her rear high in the air. This is not playing out how you would expect at all. You'd expect Celestia to be ready to banish you to the Moon, Luna looking sad and sullen but accepting of your fate, and probably that dick Guard Sergeant who always seems to be following you around. Celestia walks over to a small table and picks up a scroll and starts reading it along with looking over at what you can determine is the marriage certificate that would probably cause an uproar in half the country. Looking around nervously you whistle a little before confronting the elephant in the room.

“Soo... when's the divorce?”

You play it off with a smile as Celestia looks to you confused. There comes a shuffling from the other side and Luna raises her hand, albeit head still buried in the pillow.

“There shall be no divorce!”

“Huh?” you quickly ask your “wife”, “Wait, is the certificate invalid or something!?”

You hold on to that small sliver of hope seeing the ramifications of what you did, but with Celestia's attempt to look away and Luna's own silence, that hope fades.

“The certificate is legal, valid, and binding. It looks like you've officially become Prince Gray Flames of Equestria.”

Just how I wanted to enter the history books.

We hardly believe that.

Sarcasm must not be your second language huh?

Now is seriously not the time for that kind of talk.

Hey! I'm used to my mind being private! I'mma think what I think regardless!

And I will comment on it regardless!

Both of you stop this argument. There are more pressing matters to attend to right now!

You stop and look to Celestia, who is standing there annoyed at the mental arguing between you two.

Not even a day and already you two are bickering!

“Hey!” you and Luna both shout.

Celestia laugh's at her own joke and grabs the certificate off the desk: “When I asked Twilight to help you Luna go out and meet friends I didn't think that in this short time it would lead to this yet.

I know! We haven't even had sex yet!

This was met by a barrage of pillows slamming into your face all at once. You crash to the floor with a thud too stunned to get back up. From the angle, it had to be Luna.

“Okay! I deserved that one!”

Celestia chuckles a little before helping you up. For the ruler of an entire nation, she was pretty laid back when it came to these kind of things. Even your big mouth or marrying her sister wasn't enough to send her over the edge.

“Okay, so what happens to me now?”

“Well, until we can get this all sorted out, you two shall remain married until further notice. Apparently the minister in Las Pegasus is in a coma but keeps repeating over and over “Nightmare Moon.”

You turn to Luna, who looks as guilty as ever.

“As for you Gray Flames, you may return home for now. We'll send a messenger when something comes up.”

You look over to Luna, who is sitting awkwardly on the couch. You just put her through this whole mess, as bad as it was for you, you didn't even want to imagine what it would be like for her at this moment. Celestia must've known how bad it was since she kept her upbeat demeanor, but right now it seemed like it was mocking you instead. You find yourself staring at her, feeling awful right down to your core. Ashamed at your actions last night, thoughts creep into your mind thinking this might be the end of your friendship with Luna.

“I'm sorry Luna.” you say disgraced.

Luna says nothing but stares at you as well. Feeling alienated, standing there between Luna and Celestia, you turn to the door and head for the exit. Luna tries to stop you by calling your name, the Guards at the door confused whether to stop you or not.

“Gray Flames! What happened!?” came Twilight, wanting answers.

You say nothing. You leap over a window sill, and free fall, using your speed gained to rocket off toward home. Tonight you were going to need one very hard drink. Or a very long one. Which ever came first.

“And that's how I ended up here.” you tell Octavia..

“Moral of the story is alcohol is bad for you?” she asks on the barstool next to you.

“I'm still drinking it!” you defiantly say.

You sat at the counter of the Broken Trough, one of the few actual bars in town. Still, this is Ponyville and despite it's advertising, it's still more a restaurant than an actual bar you'd find in Manehatten and Baltimare, or even the under clouds of Cloudsdale. On the way to your house, you ran into Octavia who was just out for a stroll while Vinyl worked on some of her new music styles. Seeing you in this state she decided to accompany you just in case. For the past hour you've been telling her the whole story. Bringing the count up to about six people who know about this? Either way Octavia reacted a little shocked at first, surprised even, but oddly enough, understanding.

“It can come as a shock. I mean, I haven't done that, but I know what you're going through. You should have seen me when I first made out with Vinyl. I didn't come out of my room for ten days! Not even for class! I nearly failed that semester.”

“I don't know how that helps in my situation. I mean I married...her! That's not supposed to happen! That's not how it works!”

“Well look at me! Did you ever expect me to be with Vinyl?”

“I'm still surprised by it.” you chuckle.

“Exactly! To this day the mere sight of us together is enough to turn statue’s heads! We were never made for each other yet we made it work! In Equestria 1000 year old legends can be true, villains can become good guys! Nothing here is set in stone on how life works!

“Did you not just here what I did!?” you shout before lowering your voice to avoid others from hearing in on your conversation: “I got her drunk enough to marry her!”

“There's no one to blame. If I recall, you both were drunk and she frightened the Minister half to death in order to do so. So she knew what she was doing. Apparently you both love each other deeply. So much so when impaired you two's best idea was to marry each other, Celestia knows why!”

“I can actually say she doesn't.” you chuckle.

“Regardless! You may have both made this mess, but staying here won’t fix it!”

“So your saying I should march back up to the palace and-”

“No! What I'm saying is stop feeling sorry about this whole situation! You can clean this mess up the best way you know how, or you can hide in your room and watch it fall apart right in front of you! You know what choice you have to make!”

“But what if she doesn't want to? You know? There's two people is this dance here.”

“Didn't you tell me that Luna said there would be no divorce?”

“Yeah.”

“You think Celestia made that decision?”

“Well no, but...”

You think on it for a few seconds. There was no way Celestia would force such an act on her sister. Prank or not that was just cruel by any standards as a lesson to be learned. If Luna made that decision herself that meant!

“Thanks Octy. You always did know what to say.” you thank her.

“That's why I'm here!” she cheerfully replies.

“Although I still don't get what you said.”

“Think on it for a second.” Octavia laughed.

You tell the bartender to get two more drinks when there came a commotion from behind. A few shouts and hollers of someone barging in and making there way past people with no care in the world. What was odd was how fast the calls stopped as if whoever it was held more power than the average person. Octavia looked back and gasped in shock and horror, you meanwhile not wanting to look behind you not wanting to know what was about to happen.

“Gray you may want to turn around right now.”

“Nope!” you say taking another drink.”

“No, I really think you'll want to turn around. These Guards do not look friendly!”

Great. Just great!

With great hesitation you turn around, laying eyes instantly on three Guards, who drop to their knees. The lead stands up, head still bowed, hand resting on his sword. From his wings, crossbow strapped to his back, to his blue hair it was that same Guard Sergeant you've been running into ever since you started dating your wife.

Was wondering when he was going to show up.

He raised his head and looked at you with a mix of concern and anger: “Sir, I will need you to come with me. Right now.”

Author's Note

Yep. For Better or worse I'm back and so's the story. I know this chapter is shorter than my previous ones, but I needed something to get me rolling again